Trump 2.0

[Garpal Gumnut]

gg

 

[The Triangle]

You just don't care do you ? Or don't believe it ? Or don't think it matters.

There is no mystery about what Trump is doping ? He ain't hiding in the shadows. The old boy is an upfront righteous dude who has made totally clear what he will do.

1) Make a xucking truckload of money using his office as President instituting corruption as a Right of Office
2) Destroy every piece of policy instigated by Joe Biden regardless of practicality, impact on the economy , destruction of society and
3) Destroy every person and institution that might challenge his power to decide exactly what will happen in his fiefdom

Your good with that ? Fine. You have plenty of company. Knock yourself out . It will be a wild ride.

Um...well...Yes correct. I don't believe the echo chamber TDS Doom pr0n and if it was all true - I wouldn't care because it has limited impact on my life right now. What impact does this all have on your life? I'm happy to deport scumbag citizens. I'm happy to rip families apart and destroy their lives if they're in any country illegally.

1) All politicians abuse the system. Trumps no different except that he's a billionaire already. Where are the court cases that he's abusing power for money?

2) everyone reverses their predecessors rules in western politics. Don't pretend otherwise. Economy is just as messed up today as it was 30 years ago. Is Trump wrecking it? No. Is he making it better? Hmmmm. Jury still out.

3) a tad hyperbolic? Who was destroyed? Swamp critters?

I'd rather better than trump, but I'll take Trump over career political hacks like Joe and kamala.

 

[basilio]

Um...well...Yes correct. I don't believe the echo chamber TDS Doom pr0n and if it was all true - I wouldn't care because it has limited impact on my life right now. What impact does this all have on your life? I'm happy to deport scumbag citizens. I'm happy to rip families apart and destroy their lives if they're in any country illegally.

That is the impact Trump is having on our country.

The fact that he has managed to persuade you to support arbitrarily deporting citizens. The fact you support the mass deportations that Trump wants to do across the US.

 

[IFocus]

Its a big relief that gun silencers will get tax relief now the GBBB is passed.....

You cannot make this stuff up.

 

[basilio]

x

 

[JohnDe]

Never a dull moment.

Shortly after speaking about Mr Musk, Mr Trump posted further comments on his Truth Social platform, saying, "I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks."​

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"The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!" the president's post said.​

Donald Trump calls Elon Musk's formation of a third US political party 'ridiculous'​

United States President Donald Trump has labelled Elon Musk's plans to form a new political party as "ridiculous," in a fresh barb launched at the tech billionaire months after he formally departed the White House administration.

In his remarks on Sunday, local time, Mr Trump also said that the Musk ally he once named to lead NASA would have presented a conflict of interest given the SpaceX founder's business interests in space.

A day after Mr Musk escalated his feud with the president and announced the formation of a new US political party, Mr Trump was asked about it before boarding Air Force One in Morristown, New Jersey, as he returned to Washington DC upon visiting his nearby golf club.

"We have a tremendous success with the Republican Party. The Democrats have lost their way, but it's always been a two-party system, and I think starting a third party just adds to confusion.

"It really seems to have been developed for two parties.

"Third parties have never worked, so he can have fun with it, but I think it's ridiculous."

Shortly after speaking about Mr Musk, Mr Trump posted further comments on his Truth Social platform, saying, "I am saddened to watch Elon Musk go completely 'off the rails,' essentially becoming a TRAIN WRECK over the past five weeks."

"The one thing Third Parties are good for is the creation of Complete and Total DISRUPTION & CHAOS, and we have enough of that with the Radical Left Democrats, who have lost their confidence and their minds!" the president's post said.

Mr Musk announced on Saturday that he is establishing the "America Party" in response to Mr Trump's tax-cut and spending bill, which the billionaire said would bankrupt the country.

"What the heck was the point of @DOGE if he's just going to increase the debt by $5 trillion??" Mr Musk wrote on X on Sunday, referring to the government downsizing agency he briefly led.

Critics have said the bill will damage the US economy by significantly adding to the federal budget deficit.

Mr Musk said his new party would in next year's midterm elections look to unseat Republican politicians in Congress who backed the sweeping measure known as the "big, beautiful bill".

The move comes after he spent millions of dollars underwriting Mr Trump's 2024 re-election effort and, for a time, regularly showed up at the president's side in the White House Oval Office and elsewhere.

The pair's disagreement over the spending bill led to a falling out that Mr Musk briefly tried unsuccessfully to repair.

The president has said Mr Musk is unhappy because the measure, which was signed into law on Friday, takes away green-energy credits for Tesla's electric vehicles.

Mr Trump has threatened to pull billions of dollars Tesla and SpaceX receive in government contracts and subsidies in response to Musk's criticism.

Trump takes aim at NASA lead appointment​

In his social media comments about Mr Musk, the president also said it was "inappropriate" to have named an ally of the billionaire, Jared Isaacman, as NASA administrator considering Mr Musk's business with the space agency.

In December Mr Trump named Mr Isaacman, a billionaire private astronaut, to lead NASA but withdrew the nomination on May 31, before his Senate confirmation vote and without explanation.

Mr Trump, who has yet to announce a new NASA nominee, on Sunday confirmed media reports he disapproved of Mr Isaacman's previous support for Democratic politicians.

"I also thought it inappropriate that a very close friend of Elon, who was in the Space Business, run NASA, when NASA is such a big part of Elon's corporate life," the president said on Truth Social.

"My Number One charge is to protect the American Public!"

Mr Musk's announcement of a new party immediately brought a rebuke from investment firm Azoria Partners, which said on Saturday it will postpone the listing of its Azoria Tesla Convexity exchange-traded fund because the party's creation posed "a conflict with his full-time responsibilities as CEO".

Azoria was set to launch the Tesla ETF this week.

The company's CEO, James Fishback, posted on X several critical comments about the new party and reiterated his support for Mr Trump.

"I encourage the Board to meet immediately and ask Elon to clarify his political ambitions and evaluate whether they are compatible with his full-time obligations to Tesla as CEO," Mr Fishback said.

Reuters

 

[basilio]

Who were the 1575 people pardoned by Donald Trump for storming Congress in January 2020 and attempting to stop the election of Joe Biden ? What were their convictions ? This mural details everyone in Red White and Blue. The article goes on to examine the Trumps relentless war on reality.

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump​

A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

David Smith in Washington
Mon 7 Jul 2025 13.11 EDT


Audrey Southard-Rumsey pushed a flagpole into a police officer’s chest. Ralph Celentano shoved an officer over a ledge. Pauline Bauer accused Democrats of stealing an election and trafficking children and demanded: “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that ducking bitch.”

These are just three of the stories told on the Wall of Shame, a public installation by artist Phil Buehler that launched on 4 July in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. The giant red, white and blue mural aims to document and highlight the stories and alleged crimes of more than 1,575 people involved in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol who were pardoned by Donald Trump.

The project is the third in what might be called Buehler’s art against autocracy trilogy, a series of collaborations with the non-profit Radio Free Brooklyn. It began in 2020 with the Wall of Lies, a 50ft mural displaying more than 20,000 lies told by Trump during his first term in office. The second installation, the Wall of Liars and Deniers, was a mural displaying the 381 Republican politicians running in the 2022 midterm elections who denied Democrat Joe Biden’s legitimacy as president.

.. The Wall of Shame is a 50ft-long, 10ft-tall outdoor mural featuring the pardoned Trump supporters, colour-coded to distinguish their actions: violent rioters appear in red, those who damaged property are shown in blue, and the remaining individuals are depicted in white. The combined effect resembles a Star and Stripes that has imploded.

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump

A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

www.theguardian.com

 

[Garpal Gumnut]

Trump may not be guilty of paedophilia but many close to him and many in the Democratic and Republican parties were too close to Epstein to be innocent.

gg

 

[sptrawler]

Well he has been in office for 6 months.

Meanwhile Hamas is calling for stop to the hostilities, that it initiated.
Russia is looking less and less like a threat and are obviously looking for a way to save face.
Iran is still wondering what hit them.
Europe has finally pulled on a pair of big boys pants and said they are going to beef up their military, so that Russia stops pulling their pants down.
And the RBA has shocked everyone, by actually making a decision that the media didn't predict.

I would say Trump has done pretty well in a short period of time, at least it has changed the trajectory of most issues, which had the West sleep walking over a cliff.
Europe being in no position to defend itself, while Russia backed by China and North Korea, were bashing down the back door.
Gaza being torched by a completely out of control Israel, due to hamas atrocities.
Meanwhile the U.S and Western countries debt situation, has been brought to a head and is being actively talked about in the open. Which just wasn't happening pre Trump, now we have Musk even talking about a new political party due to the unsustainable debt issue.

So considering it has only been 6 months, hey buy more popcorn, sit back and enjoy.
There is still 3 1/2 years to go.

 

[sptrawler]

Who were the 1575 people pardoned by Donald Trump for storming Congress in January 2020 and attempting to stop the election of Joe Biden ? What were their convictions ? This mural details everyone in Red White and Blue. The article goes on to examine the Trumps relentless war on reality.

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump​

A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

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David Smith in Washington
Mon 7 Jul 2025 13.11 EDT


Audrey Southard-Rumsey pushed a flagpole into a police officer’s chest. Ralph Celentano shoved an officer over a ledge. Pauline Bauer accused Democrats of stealing an election and trafficking children and demanded: “Bring Nancy Pelosi out here now. We want to hang that ducking bitch.”

These are just three of the stories told on the Wall of Shame, a public installation by artist Phil Buehler that launched on 4 July in Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York. The giant red, white and blue mural aims to document and highlight the stories and alleged crimes of more than 1,575 people involved in the January 6 2021 attack on the US Capitol who were pardoned by Donald Trump.

The project is the third in what might be called Buehler’s art against autocracy trilogy, a series of collaborations with the non-profit Radio Free Brooklyn. It began in 2020 with the Wall of Lies, a 50ft mural displaying more than 20,000 lies told by Trump during his first term in office. The second installation, the Wall of Liars and Deniers, was a mural displaying the 381 Republican politicians running in the 2022 midterm elections who denied Democrat Joe Biden’s legitimacy as president.

.. The Wall of Shame is a 50ft-long, 10ft-tall outdoor mural featuring the pardoned Trump supporters, colour-coded to distinguish their actions: violent rioters appear in red, those who damaged property are shown in blue, and the remaining individuals are depicted in white. The combined effect resembles a Star and Stripes that has imploded.

‘Don’t forget’: mural brings attention to the January 6 rioters pardoned by Trump

A giant new mural, titled Wall of Shame, has launched in Brooklyn, New York, to remind people of the alleged crimes committed by more than 1,500 Maga loyalists

www.theguardian.com

Just keeping the status quo rolling along Bas.

Biden granted more acts of clemency than any prior president

Former President Joe Biden granted 4,245 acts of clemency during his four-year tenure in the White House, more than any previous president on record.

www.pewresearch.org

 

[sptrawler]

Trump's tariffs 'actually good' for Australia, Productivity Commission finds

The federal government's economic think tank says Australia will likely be a winner from Donald Trump's tariffs if it does not retaliate and that we would be better off by removing more of the nation's remaining tariffs.

www.abc.net.au

In short:​

The Productivity Commission says Australia will benefit from Donald Trump's trade tariffs, because some global capital flows will be redirected towards Australia.

It says Australia should also keep lowering trade tariffs, especially "nuisance tariffs" that cost more to enforce than they generate in revenue.

What's next?​

Productivity Commission deputy chair Alex Robson says the Albanese government should also move cautiously with its Future Made in Australia program.

In its annual trade and assistance review, modelling by the Productivity Commission finds that Donald Trump's "liberation day" tariffs — as well as sector-specific tariffs on aluminium, steel and automobiles and parts — could lead to a 0.37 per cent increase in Australia's economic output, as measured by real Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Paul Ashworth, the chief North America economist with Capital Economics, says he does not anticipate major economic fallout within the US, even if these threatened tariffs are implemented on August 1.

"If none of these 14 countries manage to seal a preliminary trade deal (and assuming Trump doesn't delay implementation for another month) then the effective tariff rate on US imports would rise from 15.5 per cent to 17.3 per cent," he wrote in a note.

"That would push it even further above 20th-century norms — it was 2.5 per cent last year — but given the very muted impact of tariffs on US consumer prices up to now and that the tariff revenues are now being recycled thanks to the Republican mega-bill that Congress just passed, the fallout should be manageable," he wrote.

Time will tell, as we say.

 

[DB008]

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[basilio]

I appreciate that many posters on ASF want to believe that while Donald Trump may be aggressive and disruptive, he is not all bad and that perhaps better things will come. Certainly a number of fellow posters publicly state either nothing seriously bad can happen in the US or alternatively whatever happens it won't be "bad".

The Big Beautiful Lie Bill has many implications. One of the most critical and dangerous elements is the expansion of ICE to become the dominant police force in the country. Where will that take the US ? Check out this analysis. Or not.

The American Police State Is Here​

ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.​

Jonathan V. Last
Jul 09, 2025





Federal agents threaten protesters during a protest over federal immigration enforcement raids at Delaney Hall Detention Facility on June 13, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Andres Kudacki/Getty Images)

1. ICE > Medicaid
​

While most people spent the budget fight fixated on health care policy, I suspect that in a year we will consider this legislation to be the moment that Trump created his own internal security apparatus: His goal is to have ICE supplant the FBI in national law enforcement.

This is a big deal. Because the FBI is a professionalized organization with strict standards and a well-defined mission while ICE is more or less a national brute squad.

The Trump administration realized that corrupting the FBI would be a tall order. So while they’re certainly trying to do that, they put most of their chips on a different number: Reinventing ICE as the primary instrument of internal state power.

To understand this transformation, we’ll have to talk about both budgets and culture. Starting with the FBI.

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For more than a hundred years the FBI has been the only significant federal law enforcement branch because criminal law enforcement happened mostly at the state and local levels. As such, the FBI concerned itself with interstate crimes—wire fraud, organized crime, kidnappings. The feds showed up when crimes crossed state jurisdictions.1

The FBI has long been the gold standard for law enforcement, worldwide. Why? It starts with the agents. If you want to be an FBI agent, you need a college degree and often a graduate degree, too. Lawyers, accountants, Ph.D.’s with language skills—those are your stereotypical FBI agents.

Then there’s the training. After being accepted to the FBI, new agents go to Quantico where they live, eat, and breathe training for twenty weeks. These aren’t forty-hour work weeks—it’s total immersion. Kind of like Basic Training in the Army. Except that Basic is only a ten-week course and the FBI keeps new agents for double that.

Finally, there’s the management structure. The FBI is nested within the Department of Justice, but it is a separate entity led by an independent director who in important respects operates outside the executive branch’s chain of command. While presidents nominate and the Senate confirms FBI directors, the position is not a normal political appointment—the FBI director is more like the chairman of the Fed. The director’s term is ten years, designed to span administrations, creating continuity and independence.

All of which combines to make the FBI as good as (or better than) any law enforcement organization anywhere in the world. And explains why it will be hard for Trump to corrupt.

He’s trying, obviously. But he’s clearly got a backup plan. In addition to trying to corrupt the FBI, he’s going to supplant the FBI with ICE.

2. ICE Also Does Catering​

Before we get to ICE, I want to level-set on the size of the FBI: Its annual budget typically lives around $11 billion, which supports 13,662 special agents, 3,215 intelligence analysts, and 20,435 professional staff. To give you a sense of scale, that’s about a quarter of the entire budget for the Department of Justice each year.

Okay, now let’s move on to ICE.

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Unlike the FBI, ICE is a relatively new agency. It was created in 2003 in the post-9/11 rush to centralize various federal functions and nested under the new Department of Homeland Security. It was, like many of those initiatives, poorly conceived and grandiosely funded.

Up until last year, ICE operated with an annual budget of $8 billion supporting roughly 20,000 employees.

The BBB represents a step change: The operational budget for ICE is projected to go to $11.29 billion in 2026 with an additional $29.85 billion layered on top of that spread out over the next few years for personnel expansion and then another $45 billion for ICE to spend on detention facilities. To put that in perspective, ICE’s annualized budget won’t just be bigger than the FBI’s. It will be bigger than the budget of the Israeli military.

The goal is 10,000 new ICE agents in three years.2

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The money and the organization tell the story.

The FBI is made up of highly educated professionals who operate independently, but under the general auspices of the Department of Justice which, at least in theory, is run by officers of the court.

ICE is made up of cops, military veterans, and whoever can be rounded up at the local bus station. (See Garrett Graff’s piece below.) It is run out of the mission-ambiguous Department of Homeland Security. It is headed by a political appointee who answers directly to another political appointee3—and none of these people have any separate allegiances to laws or codes of ethics.

Within months, ICE will have twice as many agents as the FBI and will have its own huge and growing prison system (which it operates independently) as its masked and un-uniformed officers continue to snatch people off of the streets and mete out violence as they see fit.

These are competing law enforcement organizations. One of them is relatively committed to liberalism and the rule of law. The other is less scrupulous and more malleable.

And that’s the one which will be dominant in America just a few months from now.

What do you think is going to happen?

It is not an accident that at the same moment that Trump is turning ICE into our national secret police, he’s also creating new classes of “illegals.” For instance: The administration is trying to terminate “Temporary Protected Status” for immigrants from Nicaragua and Honduras, which means that it is trying to turn thousands of law-abiding immigrants who have been here since 1999 into undocumented criminals who must either self-deport or risk being arrested, detained, and possibly shipped to Sudan.

You do not have to squint to see 1930s Germany.

3. Worse Than You Think
​

Please read Garrett Graff’s excellent piece about what happens when LEO’s do rapid expansion:

“With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined,” says Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, who is a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council and I think the smartest immigration watcher on social media.

History shows us what a disaster this will be.
What happens when a law enforcement agency at any level grows too rapidly is well-documented: Hiring standards fall, training is cut short, field training officers end up being too inexperienced to do the right training, and supervisors are too green to know how to enforce policies and procedures well.

I spent nearly five years reporting heavily on the decade-long epidemic of corruption that paralyzed the Border Patrol after its ill-conceived Bush-era post-9/11 hiring surge— including interviewing every single person who had served as commissioner of CBP, visiting detention facilities, and even doing ride-alongs on the southern border by truck, boat, and helicopter. The Border Patrol’s hiring surge doubled the size of the force in just a few years, from about 9,200 to 18,000, a move roughly equivalent to (but still less than!) what we’re about to see happen with ICE.

Back then, my Border Patrol reporting was titled “The Green Monster.” Today, we’re creating something even more dangerous to the country: A masked monster of a law enforcement agency, one uniquely unsuited for its new power, authority, reach, and funding levels.

As CBP’s then-commissioner, Gil Kerlikowske, told me back in 2014, “Law enforcement always regrets hiring quickly.” Anyone familiar with policing can rattle off the police hiring surges that inevitably led to spikes in corruption—including mistakes like the 1980 Miami police hiring surge and the infamous Washington Metropolitan Police class of 1989, when Mayor Marion Barry tried to increase the police force by nearly half in a single year. Both agencies saw widespread corruption problems that took years to fix.
All of this happened with the Border Patrol. CBP and the Border Patrol hired cartel members and even a serial killer—and put them out in the field with inadequate training and supervision.

Read the whole thing.

1
After 9/11, the FBI’s focus shifted abruptly as counterterrorism became its top priority.
2
The Congressional Budget Office believes ICE will have trouble meeting this goal because even though they are advertising (on buses and mass transit) and paying recruiting bonuses, there tends to be a problem with new recruits passing a polygraph test.
Instead of recruiting a higher caliber of agent, DHS’s response has been to try to relax the polygraph standards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
3
The “director” position at ICE used to be just an “assistant secretary” position. That’s how subservient it is within the executive branch org chart.

The American Police State Is Here

ICE is about to eclipse the FBI as America's most important law enforcement agency. That's bad. Super-duper bad.

www.thebulwark.com

 

[basilio]

ICE in action.

Video: ICE agents drive SUV through protesters at S.F. immigration court

Immigration agents clashed with protesters, who were trying to stop an arrest, in San Francisco’s most violent ICE encounter of 2025.

missionlocal.org

 

[basilio]

This is ICE in action. Please read it and consider whether this action x millions makes the US a better place .

Remember the stated intention of ICE was to find and deport the " violent criminals, gang members, worst of the worst" ect.

US immigration officials release Iranian woman nabbed from her home’s yard​

Mandonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian was taken a day after US bombed Iran, but her community rallied for her freedom

David Hammer of WWL Louisiana in New Orleans
Tue 8 Jul 2025 16.43 EDT


Federal immigration officials have released an Iranian woman whom they allowed to stay in the US without legal status for the last 47 years, until agents in tactical gear and unmarked vehicles suddenly nabbed her in front of her New Orleans home on 22 June – the day after American forces bombed Iran.

A letter-writing campaign extolling decades of community service by Mandonna “Donna” Kashanian, 64, and care for her neighbors in the quiet Lakeview section of the city helped get her case in front of Steve Scalise, the Republican US House majority leader, and then top Trump administration officials, Kashanian’s neighbor and longtime friend Connie Uddo said.

“We got a little over 200 letters in just a week,” Uddo said. “People were calling constantly.”

US immigration officials release Iranian woman nabbed from her home’s yard

Mandonna ‘Donna’ Kashanian was taken a day after US bombed Iran, but her community rallied for her freedom

www.theguardian.com

After 47 years in the US, Ice took this Iranian mother from her yard. Her family just wants her home

Donna Kashanian, 64 and a community service volunteer, arrived in 1978 on a student visa and has no criminal record

www.theguardian.com

 

[basilio]

ICE holding a record 59,000 immigrant detainees, nearly half with no criminal record, internal data show

ICE is holding around 59,000 detainees in facilities across the country, likely setting a record high, according to internal government data obtained by CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[JohnDe]

 

[DB008]

She needs to go

​

 

[JohnDe]

I wonder how those frothing from the mouth about Trump's policies are going to react to the Australian government, following Trump's lead on universities.

Anti-Semitism plan: universities, artists to be stripped of funding​

​

The plan would also see standards introduced for festivals and cultural institutions to ensure “efficient termination of funding where the institution or festival promotes, facilitates or does not deal effectively with hate or anti-Semitism”.​

​

“Funding agreements or enabling legislation should be drafted to ensure that public funding can be readily terminated where organisations or individuals engage in or facilitate anti-Semitism,” the plan said.​

Universities and arts bodies will lose government funding if they fail to combat anti-Semitic bigotry from staff, students and artists, as part of a new strategy to combat the wave of attacks against Jewish Australians.

Under the wide-ranging plan to tackle anti-Semitism announced on Thursday by Anthony Albanese, Home Affairs Tony Burke and special envoy on anti-Semitism Jillian Segal, Australian Border Force officials would be trained to spot and deport anti-Semites.

Ms Segal’s plan to tackle anti-Semitism in the streets, in classrooms and in the arts has also advised that all parts of society would be pushed to adopt a national standard definition of anti-Jewish bigotry as part of a new strategy to combat the wave of attacks against Jewish Australians.

The strategy comes after a series of alleged anti-Semitic attacks in Melbourne last weekend, and in the midst of longstanding criticism that Labor has failed to tackle anti-Jewish hate in Australia since the October 7 massacres in Israel and the ensuing war against terror group Hamas in Gaza.

Ms Segal said anti-Semitism was once “marginalised” but had increasingly become a “mainstream threat, challenging national values and public safety”.

“Jewish parents fear sending their children to school. Holocaust survivors face renewed trauma,” she said.

“Professionals report unjust scrutiny of their loyalty to Australia. Creatives who were doxxed find themselves ostracised. Once unthinkable discussions among Jewish Australians about having a ‘Plan B’ – ie, emigrating elsewhere in the event that Australia becomes an intolerably hostile environment – reflect the insecurity many of them now feel.

“Anti-Semitism is evident within schools and universities, and has become ingrained and normalised within academia and the cultural space. We need to resolve this urgently. We are on a dangerous trajectory where young people raised on a diet of disinformation and misinformation about Jews today risk becoming fully fledged anti-Semites tomorrow.”

The plan would also see standards introduced for festivals and cultural institutions to ensure “efficient termination of funding where the institution or festival promotes, facilitates or does not deal effectively with hate or anti-Semitism”.

“Funding agreements or enabling legislation should be drafted to ensure that public funding can be readily terminated where organisations or individuals engage in or facilitate anti-Semitism,” the plan said.

Ms Segal also recommended that institutions that promote “speakers or engage in conduct that promotes anti-Semitism” should be stripped of their charity status.

In a bid to make the education sector accountable for addressing anti-Semitism, universities also face being stripped of public funding if they fail to address the scourge.

“The envoy will work with government to enable government funding to be withheld, where

possible, from universities, programs or individuals within universities that facilitate, enable or fail to act against anti-Semitism,” the plan said.

“Working with government and grant authorities, the envoy will, where possible, establish that all public grants provided to university centres, academics or researchers can be subject to termination where the recipient engages in anti-Semitic or otherwise discriminatory or hateful speech or actions.”

Universities will also have their progress graded on a “report card”, which will be “assessing each university’s implementation of effective practices and standards to combat anti-Semitism, including complaints systems and best practice policies”.

If “significant problems” continue into the start of the next academic year, then a judicial inquiry should be launched to “address systemic issues”.

Ms Segal said her office’s research had shown anti-Semitism was more prevalent among younger Australians, and she urged governments to work with her to refute anti-Semitic views, particularly on social media platforms.

She also made a veiled reference to the ABC, saying “publicly funded media organisations should be required to uphold clear editorial standards that promote fair, responsible reporting to avoid perpetuating incorrect or distorted narratives or representations of Jews”.

The strategy adopts many points the Executive Council of Australian Jewry has pushed the Prime Minister to adopt since the Sky News Anti-Semitism Summit since February.

 

[IFocus]

I wonder how those frothing from the mouth about Trump's policies are going to react to the Australian government, following Trump's lead on universities.

Anti-Semitism plan: universities, artists to be stripped of funding​

​

The plan would also see standards introduced for festivals and cultural institutions to ensure “efficient termination of funding where the institution or festival promotes, facilitates or does not deal effectively with hate or anti-Semitism”.​

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“Funding agreements or enabling legislation should be drafted to ensure that public funding can be readily terminated where organisations or individuals engage in or facilitate anti-Semitism,” the plan said.​

Taking the politically argument / tribal / cult whatever positions out of it the massive funding of ICE, ICE running around masked up etc is unprecedented in US history and unnecessary. Add the behaviour of the DOJ aggressive language aimed at the judiciary, threatening language towards criticism (media / law firms) I am genuinely surprised at the acceptance from the conservatives here on the forum.
These are all massive threats to democracy/ free speech/ rule of law and yet silence.