Donald J Trump - Predsjednik USA All About

[izvrsni direktor]

Ima li habera, sta ce nam nasi dragi FGR projektni menadzeri pri USAID-u i nizu USAID-ovih okota u vidu "NVO projekthana"?

Sreca pa minimalac izadje na hiljadarku. Ima posla ko hoce da radi.

tipican primjer sda-ovca, ni obraza ni srama ni stidja...ma ni djon

[jeza u ledja]

Opinion
The Ezra Klein Show

Don’t Believe Him

If you want to understand the first few weeks of the second Trump administration, you should listen to what Steve Bannon told PBS’s “Frontline” in 2019:

Steve Bannon: The opposition party is the media. And the media can only, because they’re dumb and they’re lazy, they can only focus on one thing at a time. …

All we have to do is flood the zone. Every day we hit them with three things. They’ll bite on one, and we’ll get all of our stuff done. Bang, bang, bang. These guys will never — will never be able to recover. But we’ve got to start with muzzle velocity. So it’s got to start, and it’s got to hammer, and it’s got to —

Michael Kirk: What was the word?

Bannon: Muzzle velocity.

Muzzle velocity. Bannon’s insight here is real. Focus is the fundamental substance of democracy. It is particularly the substance of opposition. People largely learn of what the government is doing through the media — be it mainstream media or social media. If you overwhelm the media — if you give it too many places it needs to look, all at once, if you keep it moving from one thing to the next — no coherent opposition can emerge. It is hard to even think coherently.

Donald Trump’s first two weeks in the White House have followed Bannon’s strategy like a script. The flood is the point. The overwhelm is the point. The message wasn’t in any one executive order or announcement. It was in the cumulative effect of all of them. The sense that this is Trump’s country now. This is his government now. It follows his will. It does what he wants. If Trump tells the state to stop spending money, the money stops. If he says that birthright citizenship is over, it’s over.

Or so he wants you to think. In Trump’s first term, we were told: Don’t normalize him. In his second, the task is different: Don’t believe him.

Trump knows the power of marketing. If you make people believe something is true, you make it likelier that it becomes true. Trump clawed his way back to great wealth by playing a fearsome billionaire on TV; he remade himself as a winner by refusing to admit he had ever lost. The American presidency is a limited office. But Trump has never wanted to be president, at least not as defined in Article II of the U.S. Constitution. He has always wanted to be king. His plan this time is to first play king on TV. If we believe he is already king, we will be likelier to let him govern as a king.

Don’t believe him. Trump has real powers — but they are the powers of the presidency. The pardon power is vast and unrestricted, and so he could pardon the Jan. 6 rioters. Federal security protection is under the discretion of the executive branch, and so he could remove it from Anthony Fauci and Mike Pompeo and John Bolton and Mark Milley and even Brian Hook, a largely unknown former State Department official under threat from Iran who donated time to Trump’s transition team. It was an act of astonishing cruelty and callousness from a man who nearly died by an assassin’s bullet — as much as anything ever has been, this, to me, was an X-ray of the smallness of Trump’s soul — but it was an act that was within his power.

But the president cannot rewrite the Constitution. Within days, the birthright citizenship order was frozen by a judge — a Reagan appointee — who told Trump’s lawyers, “I have difficulty understanding how a member of the bar would state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order. It just boggles my mind.” A judge froze the spending freeze before it was even scheduled to go into effect, and shortly thereafter, the Trump administration rescinded the order, in part to avoid the court case.

What Bannon wanted — what the Trump administration wants — is to keep everything moving fast. Muzzle velocity, remember. If you’re always consumed by the next outrage, you can’t look closely at the last one. The impression of Trump’s power remains; the fact that he keeps stepping on rakes is missed. The projection of strength obscures the reality of weakness. Don’t believe him.

You could see this a few ways: Is Trump playing a part, making a bet or triggering a crisis? Those are the options. I am not certain he knows the answer. Trump has always been an improviser. But if you take it as calculated, here is the calculation: Perhaps this Supreme Court, stocked with his appointees, gives him powers no peacetime president has ever possessed. Perhaps all of this becomes legal now that he has asserted its legality. It is not impossible to imagine that bet paying off.

But Trump’s odds are bad. So what if the bet fails and his arrogations of power are soundly rejected by the courts? Then comes the question of constitutional crisis: Does he ignore the court’s ruling? To do that would be to attempt a coup. I wonder if they have the stomach for it. The withdrawal of the Office of Management and Budget’s order to freeze spending suggests they don’t. Bravado aside, Trump’s political capital is thin. Both in his first and second terms, he has entered office with approval ratings below that of any president in the modern era. Gallup has Trump’s approval rating at 47 percent — about 10 points beneath Joe Biden’s in January 2021.

There is a reason Trump is doing all of this through executive orders rather than submitting these same directives as legislation to pass through Congress. A more powerful executive could persuade Congress to eliminate the spending he opposes or reform the civil service to give himself the powers of hiring and firing that he seeks. To write these changes into legislation would make them more durable and allow him to argue their merits in a more strategic way. Even if Trump’s aim is to bring the civil service to heel — to rid it of his opponents and turn it to his own ends — he would be better off arguing that he is simply trying to bring the high-performance management culture of Silicon Valley to the federal government. You never want a power grab to look like a power grab.

But Republicans have a three-seat edge in the House and a 53-seat majority in the Senate. Trump has done nothing to reach out to Democrats. If Trump tried to pass this agenda as legislation, it would most likely fail in the House, and it would certainly die before the filibuster in the Senate. And that would make Trump look weak. Trump does not want to look weak. He remembers John McCain humiliating him in his first term by casting the deciding vote against Obamacare repeal.

That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.

The flurry of activity is meant to suggest the existence of a plan. The Trump team wants it known that they’re ready this time. They will control events rather than be controlled by them. The closer you look, the less true that seems. They are scrambling and flailing already. They are leaking against one another already. We’ve learned, already, that the O.M.B. directive was drafted, reportedly, without the input or oversight of key Trump officials — “it didn’t go through the proper approval process,” an administration official told The Washington Post. For this to be the process and product of a signature initiative in the second week of a president’s second term is embarrassing.

But it’s not just the O.M.B. directive. The Trump administration is waging an immediate war on the bureaucracy, trying to replace the “deep state” it believes hampered it in the first term. A big part of this project seems to have been outsourced to Elon Musk, who is bringing the tactics he used at Twitter to the federal government. He has longtime aides at the Office of Personnel Management, and the email sent to nearly all federal employees even reused the subject line of the email he sent to Twitter employees: “Fork in the Road.” Musk wants you to know it was him.

The email offers millions of civil servants a backdoor buyout: Agree to resign and in theory, at least, you can collect your paycheck and benefits until the end of September without doing any work. The Department of Government Efficiency account on X described it this way: “Take the vacation you always wanted, or just watch movies and chill, while receiving your full government pay and benefits.” The Washington Post reported that the email “blindsided” many in the Trump administration who would normally have consulted on a notice like that.

I suspect Musk thinks of the federal work force as a huge mass of woke ideologues. But most federal workers have very little to do with politics. About 16 percent of the federal work force is in health care. These are, for instance, nurses and doctors who work for the Veterans Affairs department. How many of them does Musk want to lose? What plans does the V.A. have for attracting and training their replacements? How quickly can he do it?

The Social Security Administration has more than 59,000 employees. Does Musk know which ones are essential to operations and unusually difficult to replace? One likely outcome of this scheme is that a lot of talented people who work in nonpolitical jobs and could make more elsewhere take the lengthy vacation and leave government services in tatters. Twitter worked poorly after Musk’s takeover, with more frequent outages and bugs, but its outages are not a national scandal. When V.A. health care degrades, it is. To have sprung this attack on the civil service so loudly and publicly and brazenly is to be assured of the blame if anything goes wrong.

What Trump wants you to see in all this activity is command. What is really in all this activity is chaos. They do not have some secret reservoir of focus and attention the rest of us do not. They have convinced themselves that speed and force is a strategy unto itself — that it is, in a sense, a replacement for a real strategy. Don’t believe them.

I had a conversation a couple months ago with someone who knows how the federal government works about as well as anyone alive. I asked him what would worry him most if he saw Trump doing it. What he told me is that he would worry most if Trump went slowly. If he began his term by doing things that made him more popular and made his opposition weaker and more confused. If he tried to build strength for the midterms while slowly expanding his powers and chipping away at the deep state where it was weakest.

But he didn’t. And so the opposition to Trump, which seemed so listless after the election, is beginning to rouse itself.

There is a subreddit for federal employees where one of the top posts reads: “This non ‘buyout’ really seems to have backfired. I’ll be honest, before that email went out, I was looking for any way to get out of this fresh hell. But now I am fired up to make these goons as frustrated as possible.” As I write this, it’s been upvoted more than 39,000 times and civil servant after civil servant is echoing the initial sentiment.

In Iowa this week, Democrats flipped a State Senate seat in a district that Trump won easily in 2024. The attempted spending freeze gave Democrats their voice back, as they zeroed in on the popular programs Trump had imperiled. Trump isn’t building support; he’s losing it. Trump isn’t fracturing his opposition; he’s uniting it.

This is the weakness of the strategy that Bannon proposed and Trump is following. It is a strategy that forces you into overreach. To keep the zone flooded, you have to keep acting, keep moving, keep creating new cycles of outrage or fear. You overwhelm yourself. And there’s only so much you can do through executive orders. Soon enough, you have to go beyond what you can actually do. And when you do that, you either trigger a constitutional crisis or you reveal your own weakness.

Trump may not see his own fork in the road coming. He may believe he has the power he is claiming. That would be a mistake on his part — a self-deception that could doom his presidency. But the real threat is if he persuades the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.

The first two weeks of Trump’s presidency have not shown his strength. He is trying to overwhelm you. He is trying to keep you off-balance. He is trying to persuade you of something that isn’t true. Don’t believe him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opin ... -read.html

[SmokingMan]

I want to point out, he is the king of nothing, but slave of his vanity

[Prpa.ba]

Valja izdrzati jos koju sedmicu i predosjecam pad aktivnosti na forumu, dok isteknu rezidualna sredstva, a menadzeri i menadzerice ne izadju na biro.

[Altsa]

[Maliodmene]

Nego jel realno da nema nekih napada demokrata zbog ovog ponasanja ili ne mogu doc do izrazaja zbog budale

[Truba]

ne mogu se probiti od bombardiranja vijestima kad je trump mrdno obrvom

u pm ispratio sam nekoliko predsjednika u svom životu nikad ovoliko odluka nije bilo promatrano lupom
i drugi su imali i većih skandala

jedino što mi pada na pamet da za vrijeme monike levinski i napada na irak nije bilo ovoliko razvijenih internet medija i youtuba i ostalih sokoćala

[Bosanski_kralj]

Da su bivši predsjednici Amerike radili ovo što Trump radi, Amerika danas ne bi bila ovo što jeste.

Nekako vjerujem da će se sve ovo najviše obiti o glavu samim Amerikancima

[pici]

Pustili su tVumpa da izmješa karte i pokaže šta ima... blefer ce se posjest na štokrlicu kada ovi sto ga podrzavaju, osjete njegove poteze na svojoj koži.
Da li ce biti kasno, pojma nemam al da ce biti tVusno, bit ce sigurno.
Ja se uvjek hvatam one devize, lako je stvoriti neprijatelja al prijatelja e to je umjetnost.

[sinuhe]

Zato bi trebalo riješiti ono što se može riješiti. Otkud nekome da se granica može prelaziti ilegalno i da su djeca ilegalnih imigranata automatski državljani?
Ne treba te stvari prepuštati Trumpu.

[tramvajtrojka]

Zato bi trebalo riješiti ono što se može riješiti. Otkud nekome da se granica može prelaziti ilegalno i da su djeca ilegalnih imigranata automatski državljani?
Ne treba te stvari prepuštati Trumpu.

zato sto je to americkim ustavom zagarantirano pravo svake novorođenčadi u USA a ne naglabanje hodajuce naranče

[Haris.ba]

Zato bi trebalo riješiti ono što se može riješiti. Otkud nekome da se granica može prelaziti ilegalno i da su djeca ilegalnih imigranata automatski državljani?
Ne treba te stvari prepuštati Trumpu.

Zato sto kad predjes ilegalno granicu mozes zatraziti azil, a o tome odlucuje federalni sudija. Kada milioni ljudi ti ulaze, nemas dovoljno sudija da obrade sve zahtjeve. Podnosenjem zahtjeva za azil mozes ostati u Americi (imaju ti neki programi gdje mozes iz Meksika to odraditi, ali nebitno za poentu).

Trenutno je skoro svako dijete rodjeno u Americi po njihovom ustavu drzavljanin Amerike (mislim da su izuzeci potomci diplomata).

Malo sam pratio situaciju u Iranu. Podnesena je tuzba protiv potpredsjednika Irana od njegovih politickih protivnika jer je dobio djecu u Americi dok je bio na studijima (ili nesta slicno). I valjda to pravi probleme njegovom polozaju.

[SmokingMan]

This may hurt....

U.S. and Canadian aerospace supply chains are highly integrated. Canada ranked second (after France) among the top U.S. Civil Aircraft, Engines, and Parts Export destinations and received US$8.99 billion worth of exports between May 2022 and April 2023. Canada exported an estimated 57.38% of goods from the Aircraft, Engine, and Parts Manufacturing industry to the United States in 2022.

....


Several U.S.-Canada agreements make it easier for U.S. aerospace companies to do business in Canada, such as the U.S.-Canada Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement (BASA), which facilitates airworthiness approval by Transport Canada of FAA-approved aerospace products. Multilaterally, Canada is a signatory to the WTO’s Trade in Civil Aircraft Agreement, thereby ensuring a level playing field between U.S. and Canadian aerospace companies. Additionally, the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) offers direct access to the US$432 billion North American market that represents 59% of the global market, creating optimal conditions for cooperation between the Canadian and the U.S. aerospace companies.

[Vitezanin]

Ima li habera, sta ce nam nasi dragi FGR projektni menadzeri pri USAID-u i nizu USAID-ovih okota u vidu "NVO projekthana"?

Sreca pa minimalac izadje na hiljadarku. Ima posla ko hoce da radi.

Znaš li možda za koje pare i pod kakvim ugovorima rade prosječne, obične NVO u BiH, koje su dobivale podršku od USAID-a npr? I drugo, znaš li šta ti ljudi rade? Znaš li kako se pravdaju te pare i kako se dobivaju i pod kojim uvjetima?

Ja bih rekao da ne znaš.

[SmokingMan]

Svaka se marka mora opravdati. Primjerice, I mi smo poslje dodijele sredstava od opstine centar za nase radioice morali priloziti hrpu poptpisanih papira, fiskalne racune. Nije se marka smjela uzeti (niko od nas za casove nije naplatio nista, novac je otisao za organiziranje prevoza, repromaterijala), na kraju od 4.cifrenog broja od odijeljenih sredstava je ostalo 1.700 KM koje se moraju vratiti, sto cemo i uraditi. Nama je u interesu da i za naredni ciklus iz budzeta dobijemo opet novcanu podrsku za nase radionice.

[Vitezanin]

Evo za ekipu koja veli da FGR samo mlati pare od USAID-a, par primjera gdje država ne radi ništa pa onda NVO "uhljebi" moraju uletjeti da ličimo koliko-toliko na normalnu zemlju:
- https://capital.ba/usaid-pokrece-novi-p ... oru-u-bih/
- https://turizambih.ba/
- https://balkansmedia.org/bs/mea
- https://dijaspora.mhrr.gov.ba/usaid-ov- ... -sredstva/
- https://business-magazine.ba/2024/07/09 ... 80-000-km/
itd. EU sredstva da ne spominjem.

Strani plaćenici?! Sure. Samo na biro. Ne treba im dati ništa kad rade protiv države.

[Tvrtko II Kotromanić]

ma normalno da ne zna
nastranu neki pojedinci koji su karijere poceli kao prevodioci kod unprofora pa presli odmah na pocetku nvo zivota kod nas u sisu USAIDa, evropskih i drugih donatora, privatnih fondacija pa se tako na tudjim budzetskim sisama obogatili, imas stotine uposlenika kojima ce plata sada doci u pitanje a samim tim i maltene citav zivot (isplata kredita, djeca, racuni itd itd)
i to ne govorim o nekim bogatasima vec obicnim ljudima
mene licno, u smislu mojih primanja, hvala Bogu ovo ne dotice, jer vec neko vrijeme ne radim u nvo sektoru, ali znam masu ljudi koji se sada, sa pravom, brinu za svoj normalan zivot

pritom, nastranu jedan SOC npr koji fura svoju ideologiju i na konto toga dobija novac donatora, ali imas desetine organizacija koje sprovode projekte kakve drzava (pritom mislim na sve nivoe vlasti) ni dotakla nije
od podrske povratnicima, zenama, turizam, zdravstvo, poljoprivreda, zanati pa do tih famoznih seminara koje neki ovdje pljuju iako su desetine hiljada mladih ljudi iz citave BiH pa i regije u zadnjih 20tak godina od USAID-a kao haman glavnog donatora imali priliku i putovati, i uciti svasta nesta (ne fgr ideologiju sta god to bilo u vizuri malih nepismenih zelenih) od prakticnih stvari za posao pa bgm i do historije, ratnih zlocina itd itd



ali dzaba homo balkanikusu koji nadrogirano vuce neku balkan info (ili slicnu) propagandu

[Prpa.ba]

Znaš li možda za koje pare i pod kakvim ugovorima rade prosječne, obične NVO u BiH, koje su dobivale podršku od USAID-a npr? I drugo, znaš li šta ti ljudi rade? Znaš li kako se pravdaju te pare i kako se dobivaju i pod kojim uvjetima?

Ja bih rekao da ne znaš.

Ja bih rekao da me ne zanima. Era perfidne kupovine podrske interesima americkog rezima zavrsava, a lokalni agenti te strane vlade idu na trziste rada.

Naravno, zao mi je i ponekog gradjanina koji je, kad se sav kajmak vec skine, stvarno i dobijali odredjenu novcanu podrsku za konkretne stvari, ali nasi ljudi su sposobni i snaci ce se i na druge nacine, ili jos bolje, poceti traziti konkretnije stvari od svojih vlastitih vlasti.

ps
Na ljudskom nivou mi je zaista zao u slucaju da promjena kursa americkog rezima pogadja tebe ili nekog tebi bliskog u smislu direktnog finansijskog interesa.

[caros]

Lik je jedan od najodurnijih forumaša još od izborne noći.

[Tvrtko II Kotromanić]

fuj

[JovicSA]

Znaš li možda za koje pare i pod kakvim ugovorima rade prosječne, obične NVO u BiH, koje su dobivale podršku od USAID-a npr? I drugo, znaš li šta ti ljudi rade? Znaš li kako se pravdaju te pare i kako se dobivaju i pod kojim uvjetima?

Ja bih rekao da ne znaš.

Ja bih rekao da me ne zanima. Era perfidne kupovine podrske interesima americkog rezima zavrsava, a lokalni agenti te strane vlade idu na trziste rada.

Naravno, zao mi je i ponekog gradjanina koji je, kad se sav kajmak vec skine, stvarno i dobijali odredjenu novcanu podrsku za konkretne stvari, ali nasi ljudi su sposobni i snaci ce se i na druge nacine, ili jos bolje, poceti traziti konkretnije stvari od svojih vlastitih vlasti.

ps
Na ljudskom nivou mi je zaista zao u slucaju da promjena kursa americkog rezima pogadja tebe ili nekog tebi bliskog u smislu direktnog finansijskog interesa.

A da te pitam, haj malo razmisli tom glavom pa pogađaj tri puta ko će ispuniti taj vakum kada razjebu USAID generalno i ne samo u BiH?

[caros]

Oni koje je njegov guru Zahiragić predložio, i Huti.

[jasko_ba]

zelena botina na zadatku

[Vitezanin]

Znaš li možda za koje pare i pod kakvim ugovorima rade prosječne, obične NVO u BiH, koje su dobivale podršku od USAID-a npr? I drugo, znaš li šta ti ljudi rade? Znaš li kako se pravdaju te pare i kako se dobivaju i pod kojim uvjetima?

Ja bih rekao da ne znaš.

Ja bih rekao da me ne zanima. Era perfidne kupovine podrske interesima americkog rezima zavrsava, a lokalni agenti te strane vlade idu na trziste rada.

Naravno, zao mi je i ponekog gradjanina koji je, kad se sav kajmak vec skine, stvarno i dobijali odredjenu novcanu podrsku za konkretne stvari, ali nasi ljudi su sposobni i snaci ce se i na druge nacine, ili jos bolje, poceti traziti konkretnije stvari od svojih vlastitih vlasti.

ps
Na ljudskom nivou mi je zaista zao u slucaju da promjena kursa americkog rezima pogadja tebe ili nekog tebi bliskog u smislu direktnog finansijskog interesa.

Zanimalo te ili ne, samo bi bilo fer da u javnom online prostoru iznosiš činjenice koje možeš pritom prikazati i brojem i slovom. "Uhljeb", "FGR", "NVO okoti" nisu nikakvi argumenti nego naprotiv, pokazuju da suštinski o međunarodnim razvojnim agencijama (uključujući USAID) i kako uopće one rade na terenu, ne znaš ništa (osim što imaš poziciju da su to uhljebi u službi ostvarivanja stranih interesa, ili kako Dodik veli, "strani agenti"). Ali i ako NVO jesu strani agenti, opet moraš dati argumentaciju, but whatever.

[Vitezanin]

Znaš li možda za koje pare i pod kakvim ugovorima rade prosječne, obične NVO u BiH, koje su dobivale podršku od USAID-a npr? I drugo, znaš li šta ti ljudi rade? Znaš li kako se pravdaju te pare i kako se dobivaju i pod kojim uvjetima?

Ja bih rekao da ne znaš.

Ja bih rekao da me ne zanima. Era perfidne kupovine podrske interesima americkog rezima zavrsava, a lokalni agenti te strane vlade idu na trziste rada.

Naravno, zao mi je i ponekog gradjanina koji je, kad se sav kajmak vec skine, stvarno i dobijali odredjenu novcanu podrsku za konkretne stvari, ali nasi ljudi su sposobni i snaci ce se i na druge nacine, ili jos bolje, poceti traziti konkretnije stvari od svojih vlastitih vlasti.

ps
Na ljudskom nivou mi je zaista zao u slucaju da promjena kursa americkog rezima pogadja tebe ili nekog tebi bliskog u smislu direktnog finansijskog interesa.

A da te pitam, haj malo razmisli tom glavom pa pogađaj tri puta ko će ispuniti taj vakum kada razjebu USAID generalno i ne samo u BiH?

Da dodam, Rusija na primjer već polu-legalno već godinama radi u BiH, podržavajući pojedine organizacije koje su u talu s političkim strankama u RS-u. Ne znamo koliko para, kako je uplaćeno, money flow nije jasan, kome i za koje potrebe. Suštinski, to bi se moglo nazvati strani agent.

USAID i EU raspišu poziv, objave strateški plan (zašto i koga žele podržati), objave ko je dobio, koliko, organizacije upravljaju budžetima, šalju interim izvještaje i sl, vidiš gdje su pare, koliko, kome itd.

Ali džaba objašnjavati.