Breaking: U.S. President Donald Trump has slapped 25 per cent tariffs on all steel and aluminum — including Canada — according to Reuters.
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— Karen Pauls (@karenpaulscbc.bsky.social) 10 February 2025 at 22:50

Here we go again, Lol.

Now dozens of countries need to find a fake win to give Trump, something they were already planning on doing but can now slap Trump's name on, to boost his ego, Lmao. Or just stop because he's going to keep pushing anyway. Trump starts the fires then puts them out then pretends he's a hero for saving everyone from the fire.

Judge Rules That Trump Administration Defied Order to Unfreeze Billions in Federal Grants

Hamas negotiators said U.S. guarantees for the ceasefire were no longer in place given a plan by President Donald Trump to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, and mediators postponed talks until a clear indication of Washington's intent to continue the phased deal was received.

Amazing...Trump has put the Gaza-Israel ceasefire (that Israel has been breaking anyway) at risk.

Now the Pro-Peace President is threatening war again.

Trump says that if all hostages in Gaza are not released by 12pm on Saturday, the ceasefire should be cancelled and "let all hell break loose" Trump said that the decision is ultimately up to Israel, not him but he thinks the ceasefire should be cancelled Saturday if all the hostages aren't released.

So is this the excuse for Israel to go back to genocide? "Let all hell break loose" JFC.

REPORTER: What about the Palestinians who just won't leave?

TRUMP: They're all gonna leave

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 10 February 2025 at 23:54

Maybe if you want peace, stop talking about ethnic cleansing the entire region.

Yeah, because conservatives are never condescending to liberals. They never call them libtards, cucks, snowflakes, social justice warriors.

No conservative has ever seen someone doing something stupid and thought "must be a liberal". 

No conservative has ever said "If You Are Not a Liberal When You Are Young, You Have No Heart, and If You Are Not a Conservative When Old, You Have No Brain" - to say that liberals are inexperienced and brainless. 

Never! 

I'd be able to take you a lot more seriously if you were more honest about conservatives and conservatism. Personally I have no love for how a lot of left wingers + liberals conduct themselves. I'm not going to pretend like you that my "side" is perfect.

Conservatives play pretty much the same game of condescension. I think they probably play it differently. 

The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers.
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— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) 10 February 2025 at 23:57

Trump is now threatening Jordan and Egypt, Lol.

President Trump said on Monday that he could cut aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused his demand to permanently take in most Palestinians from Gaza, substantially increasing the pressure on key allies in the region to back his audacious proposal to relocate the entire population of the territory in order to redevelop it. “If they don’t agree, I would conceivably withhold aid,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office a day ahead of a meeting with King Abdullah II of Jordan.

Trump Says He Could Cut Aid to Jordan and Egypt Over Gaza Development Plan - The New York Times

Let me get this straight, America, the country currently screaming about immigration into its own country, is threatening other countries and trying to pressure them into taking in immigrants from other countries, though in a far more sinister manner considering this is an ethnic cleansing and they're trying to displace an entire region and force others into accepting the entire community.

Then the inevitable happens and Americans get killed in Gaza because a bunch of greedy Americans have decided to build on top of the corpses of slaughtered women and children and kicked out people from their homeland all to build fucking hotels and we get dragged into another "War on Terror" and destroy the Middle-East even more.

America now offers foreign aid but only if you help them ethnically cleanse a region...

It's as if Trump wants these big victories of peace and reconcilliation, but he jumps in and tries to make a decisive move that could cause more problems.  Everyone in the state dept, his own administration and even the GOP congressmen have to kiss his ass but they all probably are privately worried.  I can also guarantee that many on his own side are probably shaking their heads quite frequently at some of the things that have gone on already.  

Cut the crap. State the legal code being broken. Failure to do so proves that you are just talking bullshit and in turn nullifies the first two sentences of your post.

Meanwhile while Trump is distracting everyone, Israel is turning the West Bank into Gaza. Over 40,000 people displaced already, infrastructure destroyed, houses burned down, bombed. All in the name of fighting 'terrorism' and making Israel 'safe'.

Forced displacement in West Bank ‘escalating at an alarming pace’

The UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says Israel’s “Iron Wall” offensive in the occupied West Bank has nearly emptied several refugee camps in the territory of their residents.

The operation, now in its third week, is the “single longest in the West Bank since the second Intifada”, it said.

The campaign began in the Jenin refugee camp on January 21, and has now expanded to the Tulkarem, Nur Shams and Far’a camps, UNRWA said. The four camps were collectively home to some 76,600 Palestinian refugees, it said.

The agency said the forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is “escalating at an alarming pace” and that the development is the “result of coercive and dangerous living conditions”.

“The use of air strikes, armoured bulldozers, controlled detonations, and advanced weaponry by the Israeli Forces has become commonplace – a spillover of the war in Gaza. Such militarised approaches are inconsistent with the law enforcement context of the occupied West Bank, where there have been at least 38 airstrikes in 2025 alone,” it added.

In an earlier update, the agency said that the Israeli offensive has already displaced some 40,000 people in the occupied West Bank.

And Rubio is indeed already defending 'owning' Gaza

US secretary of state backs Trump’s Gaza ‘take over’ plan

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended President Trump’s suggestion that the US will “take over” and “own” Gaza while expelling more than one million Palestinians from their land.

“Someone’s got to go in … you’ve got to clean it up.  You’ve got to clean all that out of there even before you begin the process of removing rubble and debris and rebuilding housing, like permanent structures.  Who’s going to do that?” Rubio said in a radio interview.

“Right now, the only one who’s stood up and said I’m willing to help do it is Donald Trump. All these other leaders they’re going to have to step up.  If they’ve got a better idea then now is the time,” he added.

“We’re still waiting for more countries to step forward and say here’s what we’re willing to do. And right now, they’ve not been willing to do anything – or at least anything concrete.”

UN expert says Trump’s ICC sanctions erode the ‘never again’ legacy of Nuremberg

Margaret Satterthwaite, the UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, says she is “gravely concerned” by Trump’s executive action authorising sanctions on the International Criminal Court, its staff and people who cooperate with it.

“By hindering investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity—including those committed against women and children—the US undermines judicial independence and emboldens perpetrators of atrocity,” she said.

“This order strikes at the very foundation of international justice, eroding the ‘never again’ legacy of Nuremberg and possibly violating Article 70 of the Rome Statute,” she added.

She was referring to the Nuremberg Trials held in Germany to punish those responsible for crimes committed by the Nazis during World War II, including the slaughter of more than six million Jews.

Those trials are seen today as the forerunners of tribunals like the ICC, which has prosecuted politicians and soldiers for their crimes against humanity.

Trump’s executive order on Thursday accused the ICC of “illegitimate and baseless actions targeting America and our close ally Israel”.

I am gravely concerned by the U.S. President’s Executive Action authorizing sanctions on the @IntlCrimCourt, its personnel, and those who cooperate with it.

By hindering investigations into war crimes and crimes against humanity—including those committed against women and…

— Margaret Satterthwaite (@SRjudgeslawyers) February 10, 2025

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974

https://www.gao.gov/products/095406

And while this judge didn't state the legal code he was thinking of (from this article at least) he decided that the audit was not being done legally:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/07/trump-musk-government-efficiency-attorneys-general-lawsuit/