What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

https://apnews.com/live/trump-tariff-news-updates-8-7-2025#00000198-8686-d3dd-addd-97ded0060000

Dean Cain, former TV Superman and Trump backer, will be sworn in as honorary ICE officer

Dean Cain wants to join the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. In an interview with Fox News, Cain said he has already spoken to the agency, which is responsible for the president's mass deportations agenda.

Homeland Security spokesperson and Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said Cain will be sworn in as an "honorary ICE Officer" in the coming month. McLaughlin referenced Cain's 1990s role in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" in saying, "Superman is encouraging Americans to become real-life superheroes."

Earlier this week Cain posted a video encouraging others to join ICE, which aims to expand hiring after a massive infusion of cash from Congress. Cain, 59, told Fox News he was already a sworn deputy sheriff and a reserve police officer.

It was not immediately clear what his duties as an honorary officer would entail.

Cain has been outspoken in his conservative viewpoints and endorsed Trump in three elections.

[Syt]

https://apnews.com/article/air-force-transgender-no-early-retirement-e6a4da806f2cc2bdc05f49438cbd26fd

US Air Force to deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Air Force said Thursday it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to retire early and would instead separate them without retirement benefits. One Air Force sergeant said he was "betrayed and devastated" by the move.

The move means that transgender service members will now be faced with the choice of either taking a lump-sum separation payment offered to junior troops or be removed from the service.

An Air Force spokesperson told The Associated Press that "although service members with 15 to 18 years of honorable service were permitted to apply for an exception to policy, none of the exceptions to policy were approved." About a dozen service members had been "prematurely notified" that they would be able to retire before that decision was reversed, according to the spokesperson who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal Air Force policy.

A memo issued Monday announcing the new policy, which was reviewed by the AP, said that the choice to deny retirement benefits was made "after careful consideration of the individual applications."

All transgender members of the Air Force are being separated from the service under the Trump administration's policies.

The move comes after the Pentagon was given permission in early May by the Supreme Court to move forward with a ban on all transgender troops serving in the military. Days later, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a policy that would offer currently openly serving transgender troops the option to either volunteer to leave and take a large, one-time separation payout or be involuntarily separated at later date.

A Pentagon official told reporters in May that they viewed the policy as treating "anyone impacted by it with dignity and respect."

However, in late July, transgender troops told Military.com that they were finding the entire separation process, which has included reverting their service records back to their birth gender, "dehumanizing" or "open cruelty."

Shannon Leary, a lawyer who represents LGBTQ+ people in employment discrimination cases, says she expects lawsuits to challenge Thursday's decision. "It seems quite arbitrary on its face and cruel," she said. "These military members have dedicated their lives to serving our country."

Normally, Leary said, when early retirement is offered in the military, it's available to all members who have served over 15 years. She said she expects other service branches to follow the Air Force's path.

Logan Ireland, a master sergeant in the U.S. Air Force who has 15 years of service, including a deployment to Afghanistan, is one of the airmen impacted by the policy. "I feel betrayed and devastated by the news," he said.

Ireland said he was told that his retirement was being denied on Wednesday when his chain of command, "with tears in their eyes," told him the news.

Officials have said that as of Dec. 9, 2024, there were 4,240 troops diagnosed with "gender dysphoria" on active duty, National Guard and Reserve. Pentagon officials have decided to use the condition and its diagnosis as the main way to identify troops who are trans.

However, the two are not an exact match — not every transgender person has the condition. As a result, there is an understanding that the actual number of transgender people within the military's roughly 2 million troops may be higher.

Under the latest policy, active duty troops had until June 6 to voluntarily identify themselves and receive a payout while troops in the National Guard and Reserve had until July 7. Pentagon officials previously told reporters that they plan to lean on commanders and existing annual medical screenings to find any transgender service members who do not come forward.

[Josquius]

As if any more proof was needed, thus confirming it's not about women's safety or anything of the sort, but purely about punishing those guilty of wrong-being.

Superman guy - a few months ago I first heard of him for the first time in years.
First Kevin Sorbo now this. Lucy Lawless better not go next!

[garbon]

As if any more proof was needed, thus confirming it's not about women's safety or anything of the sort, but purely about punishing those guilty of wrong-being.

Superman guy - a few months ago I first heard of him for the first time in years.
First Kevin Sorbo now this. Lucy Lawless better not go next!

Dean Cain has been a dick for a long time. He supported Rick Perry before joining the Trump train.

Meanwhile, Lucy Lawless has been a long time champion of human rights and has been sounding off on Sorbo over time.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/08/09/kevin-sorbo-twitter-uk-riots-lucy-lawless/

[celedhring]

Xena was always the best show out of that bunch, anyway.

[HVC]

Despite his fall from grace I always liked Hercules more.

[garbon]

Despite his fall from grace I always liked Hercules more.

Sad.

[HVC]

I think Andromeda sucks if that makes you feel any better

[The Minsky Moment]

The essence of the mode of governance of the Trump administration is the idea that acting like a bunch of assholes and the sadistic pleasures of inflicting pain on others substitutes for and replaces the qualities of competence and principled resolve.

[Grey Fox]

So grifters? What they've been their entire life.

[Tonitrus]

A Biff Tannen-ocracy, if you will.

[garbon]

I think Andromeda sucks if that makes you feel any better

I think my husband had mixed feelings when my copies of those two on the right moved into his flat. 

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Joxer the Mighty!

*hums the song*

[Syt]

I think Andromeda sucks if that makes you feel any better

I think my husband had mixed feelings when my copies of those two on the right moved into his flat. 

[Josquius]

I think Andromeda sucks if that makes you feel any better

I really liked the first series. It was a fun pulpy adventure.
But then it totally lost the plot and I just failed to follow.

Though yes. Xena was always much better, though at around the same time it amped up teh gay it's quality also dropped as it got into weird new agey takes on eastern mysticism and a bit up it's own arse.
I think it was the early but not first series that was best there.
And I really hope joxer isn't a nazi