Re: Understanding the US - Again
Posted: 15 Jan 2025 01:35
Trump announces an ‘External Revenue Service’

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INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT: TRUMP AND MUSK VS. KAMALA HARRIS AND BRITISH LABOUR
The gloves are off. War Declared.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared "war" on Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer's Labour Party, accusing them of orchestrating an illegal transatlantic alliance to meddle in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The Allegations:
Labour operatives, led by Sofia Patel, allegedly sent Britons to swing states like North Carolina, Nevada, and Pennsylvania to campaign for Harris, offering travel assistance and housing.
Labour’s dark tactics, including their strategy to “kill Twitter” through regulatory pressure and shaming advertisers, mirror their playbook for boosting Starmer’s leadership.
The Trump campaign alleges “illegal foreign national contributions” and coordination between Labour and Harris’ campaign, including shared messaging and resource strategies.
The Fallout:
Labour’s Head of Operations, Sofia Patel, has nuked her LinkedIn profile, but erasing evidence doesn’t undo the alleged wrongdoing.
Trump’s legal team has filed a formal FEC complaint, demanding an investigation into this unholy alliance.
Elon Musk, infuriated by Labour’s efforts to destroy Twitter, has thrown his weight into exposing Labour and Harris’ collusion.
What’s at Stake:
“The Labour Party apparently wants a like-minded U.S. president,” said Susie Wiles, a senior Trump strategist.
Labour’s actions have been labeled a “perfidious plan” to undermine Trump and bolster Harris through foreign interference.
The Bigger Picture:
This isn’t just about an election—it’s about sovereignty. Allegations of illegal cooperation, shared messaging, and even Starmer’s strategists meeting with Harris’ team raise serious questions about Labour’s role in the U.S. election.
With 7 days until President Trump reclaims the Oval Office, this scandal threatens to engulf Starmer, Harris, and their teams in a diplomatic firestorm.
This is more than meddling—it’s a full-blown transatlantic conspiracy. Justice is coming.
vijayk wrote: ↑15 Jan 2025 04:35 https://x.com/JimFergusonUK/status/1879246034494435834
Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK
INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT: TRUMP AND MUSK VS. KAMALA HARRIS AND BRITISH LABOUR
The gloves are off. War Declared.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk have declared "war" on Kamala Harris and Keir Starmer's Labour Party, accusing them of orchestrating an illegal transatlantic alliance to meddle in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.
The Allegations:
Labour operatives, led by Sofia Patel, allegedly sent Britons to swing states like North Carolina, Nevada, and Pennsylvania to campaign for Harris, offering travel assistance and housing.
Labour’s dark tactics, including their strategy to “kill Twitter” through regulatory pressure and shaming advertisers, mirror their playbook for boosting Starmer’s leadership.
The Trump campaign alleges “illegal foreign national contributions” and coordination between Labour and Harris’ campaign, including shared messaging and resource strategies.
The Fallout:
Labour’s Head of Operations, Sofia Patel, has nuked her LinkedIn profile, but erasing evidence doesn’t undo the alleged wrongdoing.
Trump’s legal team has filed a formal FEC complaint, demanding an investigation into this unholy alliance.
Elon Musk, infuriated by Labour’s efforts to destroy Twitter, has thrown his weight into exposing Labour and Harris’ collusion.
What’s at Stake:
“The Labour Party apparently wants a like-minded U.S. president,” said Susie Wiles, a senior Trump strategist.
Labour’s actions have been labeled a “perfidious plan” to undermine Trump and bolster Harris through foreign interference.
The Bigger Picture:
This isn’t just about an election—it’s about sovereignty. Allegations of illegal cooperation, shared messaging, and even Starmer’s strategists meeting with Harris’ team raise serious questions about Labour’s role in the U.S. election.
With 7 days until President Trump reclaims the Oval Office, this scandal threatens to engulf Starmer, Harris, and their teams in a diplomatic firestorm.
This is more than meddling—it’s a full-blown transatlantic conspiracy. Justice is coming.
I thought that is what the Customs department is for. Trump can create ERS and transfer all the staff from IRS and claim he reduced the wasteful expenditure of the Fed Govt.
Donald Trump’s top U.K. ally Nigel Farage will attend the incoming U.S. president’s inauguration, despite a public spat with Trump pick Elon Musk.
Reform U.K. confirmed Tuesday that Farage — who leads the right-wing populist party — will be present at Trump’s second inauguration as president on January 20.
Farage is a longstanding ally of Trump, having first lent his support during the 2016 presidential campaign. He endorsed Trump again in both 2020 and 2024.
Trump described the Reform U.K. boss as “handsome” during a rally last year, and has given rare interviews on British television to Farage’s GB News program. Farage also attended Trump’s inauguration in 2016.
Speaking on LBC Tuesday, Farage said he will be in the U.S. for four or five days over the inauguration — and that while there he intends to speak with billionaire Trump ally Elon Musk, after a fall-out sparked by their differing views on the far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
Farage insisted too that Trump will remain his ally, despite his war of words with Musk.
“I’ve been a friend of Donald Trump’s for a decade, I’ve been very supportive of him, he’s been very supportive of me,” Farage said.
“I can’t see that changing for a moment,” he added.
The U.K. government is yet to confirm who will attend the inauguration on its behalf, though typically Britain’s ambassador to the U.S. — currently Karen Pierce while Peter Mandelson waits in the wings to take over — would attend for the British government.
Let's see. Promiscuous citizenship arrangements between the USA and UK mean plenty of people hold both passports. It would not be unusual or foreign interference if they sponsored dual citizens to help in USA elections.
saip wrote: ↑17 Jan 2025 21:06 Now that tik tok is banned in the USA, I suppose they will not be able to lecture India or others about free speech rights. Their argument is Chinese govt controlling the company and that affects US national security. True that. National security should always trump (even if Trumpy does not like it - he wanted to negotiate about the ban) free speech whether it is in the USA or India. Few years ago when I was in China, there were always warnings in Hotels when I used the internet, that they are REQUIRED to report all our activity to the Govt. Google search hid lots of stuff (it showed different results in expat community or when I used remote desktop).
With TikTok facing a potential ban in the United States, more than 700 million users have shifted over to REDNote, another Chinese video-sharing app that resembles ByteDance’s TikTok. Some creators are also flocking to Lemon8, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels, which also offer a TikTok-like vertical video scrolling interface.
While REDNote has already secured the number one app spot on the Apple App Store, the problem with the app is that several UI elements are still in Mandarin, and the majority of content on the platform is created by Chinese users, albeit with a few exceptions.
Capitalising on the trend, Duolingo announced it is launching a new AI-powered video calling feature for Android phones that helps you learn Mandarin. In a recent post on X (previously Twitter), Duolingo said that the app has seen 216 per cent growth in new Mandarin learning in the United States, which can be attributed to US users trying to learn the language to use REDNote.
How do you have 700 million users in a country with less than 350 million people?With TikTok facing a potential ban in the United States, more than 700 million users have shifted over to REDNote....
With TikTok facing a potential ban in the United States, more than 700 million users have shifted over to REDNote, another Chinese video-sharing app that resembles ByteDance’s TikTok. Some creators are also flocking to Lemon8, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels, which also offer a TikTok-like vertical video scrolling interface.
+101 .. the East India company might have gone, these buggers are now after the resources of other countries .. esp Ukraine to start with
Land of Milk & Honey or Land of CON men!!chanakyaa wrote: ↑19 Jan 2025 00:04 Is the good old game of institutional money laundering back in the land of Milk & Honey? As if there was shortage of crypto digital currencies, a new digital cryptocurrency/coin ($TRUMP) *allegedly* tied to new el prezident went live recently, few days before inauguration. Prices ran from few cents to approx. $30 in very short span of time taking the valuation to approx. $6 billion.
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/18 ... 2168249386
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/0 ... s-in-hours
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/
Is it possible to buy influence in the incoming administration by buying some of these coins?![]()
The planned orders include declaring a national emergency to deploy military personnel to the border, suspending refugee resettlement and ending birthright citizenship
Sir, I do not know the source of your information, here are some of publicly know facts:AkshaySG wrote: ↑21 Jan 2025 01:16 Looks like Vivek R has gotten a talking to, Since his stand for H1Bs the wignats have been seething and he's having to take a little bit of a break from the spotlight. Wondering if it's a momentary break or has trump been spooked enough to sideline him.
Musk made the same comments but he's white so the leash is much much longer.
America will have only two genders-Male and Female, announces Trump
President-elect Donald Trump will sign executive orders to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and recognize only two sexes, male and female, upon taking office.
These orders will also stop federal funding for gender ideology promotion and transition medical procedures, indicating imminent further actions on similar topics.
thats one good thing !! .. the lgbtq non sense has reached ridiculous proportionschetak wrote: ↑21 Jan 2025 02:51 ‘Gender is unchangeable’: Donald Trump expected to sign an executive order defining sex as either ‘male’ or ‘female’
America will have only two genders-Male and Female, announces Trump
President-elect Donald Trump will sign executive orders to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and recognize only two sexes, male and female, upon taking office.
These orders will also stop federal funding for gender ideology promotion and transition medical procedures, indicating imminent further actions on similar topics.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ne ... s?from=mdr
A one-minute google search gives the true figure: about 170 million TikTok users in the US. About 100 million are active users as of Dec 2024.
Well now he's officially out of DOGE https://apnews.com/article/vivek-ramasw ... ce=TwitterVinodTK wrote: ↑21 Jan 2025 02:22Sir, I do not know the source of your information, here are some of publicly know facts:AkshaySG wrote: ↑21 Jan 2025 01:16 Looks like Vivek R has gotten a talking to, Since his stand for H1Bs the wignats have been seething and he's having to take a little bit of a break from the spotlight. Wondering if it's a momentary break or has trump been spooked enough to sideline him.
Musk made the same comments but he's white so the leash is much much longer.
VR wants to run for the governership of Ohio
The campaign will kick off in couple of months
He will be focusing on state issues to win the race
If he focuses on H1B in Ohio the Dems will eat him alive and that would be the end of his political carrear
As for "gotten a talking to" who would do that?
Musk also got his ass chewed out by the rightwing crowed
Believe me VR is not the type who will step away from spotlight (right from his high school days in Cincinnati, Ohio).
It's really not a "good thing". The excesses of "LGBTQ+" policies/activists definitely must be curtailed, and yes some of the DEI policies have been pretty "out there".
I thought Chatur - consummate brown-noser that he is - would get to hang around Trump much longer than Musk...but it does look like he has been quietly removed from DOGE and asked to run for OH governor in 2026...that is pretty risky since he may not even win the GOP primary. He has no base in OH as far as I know. He was also not picked to get Vance's vacated senate seat.
KL Dubey wrote: ↑21 Jan 2025 04:56I thought Chatur - consummate brown-noser that he is - would get to hang around Trump much longer than Musk...but it does look like he has been quietly removed from DOGE and asked to run for OH governor in 2026...that is pretty risky since he may not even win the GOP primary. He has no base in OH as far as I know. He was also not picked to get Vance's vacated senate seat.
Looks like the racist MAGA "mini-war" on X over Indian H1Bs has claimed both Chatur and Laura Loomer (another Trump hanger-on).
From what I hear, the amount of abuse heaped on Indians by white MAGA people was really something.
Meanwhile I understand that "a flood" of lawsuits against DOGE will begin to be filed tomorrow in federal courts. I see that 3 suits have already been filed. It will be an interesting battle, including the public spectacle of governance chaos.
I doubt if Chatur had much of a choice in the matter. Its likely the Trump team is making this look like a "chanakyan" move to cover up/distract media attention from the already squabbling MAGA factions.
KL Dubey wrote: ↑21 Jan 2025 06:42I doubt if Chatur had much of a choice in the matter. Its likely the Trump team is making this look like a "chanakyan" move to cover up/distract media attention from the already squabbling MAGA factions.
I find it harder to believe that he declined the senate seat due two only 2 years term, but instead was happy to be in DOGE which itself claims its work would be completed by July 2026 and will be wound up then.
They just made their first efficiency "cut" - Chatur