YouTube/Ascendents Net (Jan-20) shared (210 videos, updated: May-3), "2025 Trump's Second Administration: First 100 Days - Ascendents.net News — videos from and related to the start of Donald J. Trump's second term as U.S. President." Playlist for YouTube (includes: The Wall Street Journal, PBS News Hour, Forbes, CNN, CBS News, and others).
"President Donald Trump 2025 Official Presidential Portrait," CNBC asc.cool/?gW and The White House asc.cool/?57
EVERYTHING THAT SOUNDED GOOD — first day in office — a swamp: Trump launched an agenda by signing roughly 200 executive orders, CBS News (Jan-20) reported. The Washington Post (Jan-20) added, Trump claimed there was party unity, even though headlines repeated (e.g. USA Today, Politico, Al Jazeera, and Local 3 Chattanooga TN) that the Republican Party was more divided than ever: X] typical Republican politicians, Y] MAGA Nationalists, Z] Neo-MAGA Oligarchs. Trump's second administration (struggling with the reins to point the elephant in the right direction) was bringing back memories and echoing the chaos/disorganization of his first administration.
"President Trump began his second term Monday with a sweeping order aimed at reversing dozens of former President Biden’s top priorities, from regulations aimed at lowering health care costs, to coronavirus outreach, Affordable Care Act expansions, and protections against gender-based discrimination,"STAT (Jan-20) reported.
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President-elect Donald Trump (Jan-19) held (video) a pre-inauguration rally. "The purpose of the rally was intended to be clear, but the music suggested a far messier — and still unresolved — truth underneath,"New York Times had noticed contradictions. Trump spoke, "...and he (Elon) knows those computers better than anybody. All those computers, those vote-counting computers... And we ended up winning..."
(Nov-14) YouTube/Ascendents Net - playlist: 2024 U.S. Presidential Transition - Ascendents.net News, "documentaries about the first U.S. Presidents, America's Founding and the Constitution, Immigration, Foreign Policy, Democracy, WW2, 2024 updates, and more..." (61 videos, updated: Jan-24)
"Photograph of Harry S. Truman and Robert Kennedy at the Harry S. Truman Library, 24 September 1960, photograph by Alex Petrovic (courtesy Harry S. Truman Library, photograph #77-4108)" via U.S. National Park Service asc.cool/?x(2024, Jul-19) (Compared to Truman) "How popular/ unpopular is Joe Biden? An updating calculation of the president's approval rating, accounting for each poll's recency, sample size, methodology and house effects," via FiveThirtyEight asc.cool/?gM
During July 10th's NATO 75th anniversary, Biden quoted (to the, "Secretary-General, Allies, and friends):" 33rd U.S. President Harry Truman's idea behind the Alliance, "we hope to create a shield against aggression, the fear of aggression, and to permit us to get on with the real business of creating government and society... For 75 years, our nations have grown and prospered behind the NATO shield. Today, we’re stronger than we’ve ever been." In the 1948 election, Truman vs Dewey: Brittanica wrote, "Dewey was widely tipped by pollsters to win the election easily. Indeed, the New York Times considered it over and Life magazine had already declared Dewey the, next president of the United States."Brittanica continued, "in early September 1948 (2 months before the election) Elmo Roper, of Roper Research Associates, reported that Truman trailed Dewey by about 13 percent in the polls... Truman refused to believe he stood no chance." After Truman won by more than 2 million people and getting over 100 more electoral votes, Dewey said, "I was just as surprised as you are." July 18th, as RNC events unfolded, CNBC reported, Biden was in Delaware recovering from Covid-19, "showing mild symptoms with no signs of a fever."
YouTube/Ascendents Net (Jan-9) shared (playlist), "2025 January L.A. Fires," playlist for YouTube (includes: MSNBC, CNBC Television, NBC Chicago, NBC 10-WJAR, Sky News, BBC News, AXN News, Teleport.camera, and others).
(2025-Jan-9 12:44am) PowerOutage.us California (2025-Jan-8 afternoon) NASA Worldview, asc.cool/?sY
Democrats suggested the fires were caused by climate change. Republicans on X blamed California's leadership and called for resignations. The wildfires caused temperature variations amplifying extreme winds, creating more fires. Some arsonists used the opportunity as a cover to start more fires.
(1917) "Wake up America! Civilization calls every man, woman and child!," by James Montgomery Flagg via U.S. Library of Congress asc.cool/?g
Being so driven and determinedto play a show with local band, The Dandy Warhols, The Ascendents' drummer Timmy and bassist Josh had given away their souls to the Dandy Warhols."THEY GAVE THEIR F---ING SOULS TO THE DANDY WARHOLS!" Kyle commented with extreme contempt and disappointment, "other past Ascendents souls also were lost to the Dandy Warhols," and referenced an earlier Ascendents' drummer from long, long ago.
(1918) "Don't talk, the web is spun for you with invisible threads, keep out of it, help to destroy it--spies are listening," via U.S. Library of Congress shorturl.at/jBUDu
Kyle added, "we are the better band, are they going to headline us? By the way, for that kind of style: compared to The Dandy Warhols, The Brian Jonestown Massacre sounds more--" a fight interrupted.
The two rival West Coast "psychedelic" rock bands had somehow polarized/split The Ascendents' fanbase(A.K.A. the entire human race). Kyle shouted, "I demand 10 million-billion dollars (contribution) from each and every one of them!"Everyone was out and in it for themselves. Reaching to the highest ground, Kyle had exclaimed, "whatever happens, I hope that it is my best!" Timmy had replied, "actually, I hope that too, lol!" From Josh, no comment was provided (classified). Kyle had pushed the narrative that Josh's soul was probably too busy being tortured while trying to get through The Dandy Warhols - The Best Of The Capitol Years: 1995-2007 album.
"S & H green stamps," by artist Andy Warhol, "exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1965." via U.S. Library of Congress shorturl.at/ayR5A
Eventually, as the years passed, it became more obvious (via Reddit) that the BJM (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) actually was a lot more-preferred than the Dandys, but even through the year of 2024, Josh and Timmy were still overly committed and possessed, all day and every day, fantasizing and thirsting, for the possible dream, of one day, playing a "show"... with the Dandy Warhols. They wouldn't come down. Their poor, unfortunate, and blinded "Dandy-sipping" souls didn't care about their own band, only the Dandy Warhols. Instead of pushing for the next Ascendents album, Josh and Timmy prioritized going to Dandy Warhols concerts: to be top #1 Dandy fans, to maybe see someone top-less, and to try talking about that great shining "dandy" gig on the horizon. Kyle shared a link, "340 minutes (80 songs) of Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre." He summarized, "their hunger for power was over. It wasn't a bed of roses or a pleasurable cruise. It was like getting sand kicked in my face, but we didn't lose. This is a victory for all of the free world." Then, Kyle shared a special (Raw Sessions) version of Queen's "We Are The Champions."
"Rifts of The Ascendents" YouTube Playlist by Kyle Keith - (28 videos) Play all | Shuffle — "Timeless full albums and songs out of Portland, Oregon, the West Coast, the United States of America, and more... Includes music from: The Ascendents, Michael Jackson, Queen, Guns N' Roses, The Doors, Milli Vanilli, INXS, Earth Wind & Fire, Black Box, The White Stripes, Iggy Pop, Hüsker Dü, Everclear, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Dandy Warhols, Dead Moon, Ween, and Minutemen. Read the full article at Ascendents.net News."
On December 22, The Wall Street Journal reported, "during the 2020 presidential campaign, Mr. Trump once stated “nobody gets hacked” in an apparent attempt to minimize concerns about possible Russian interference in the election." President-elect Joe Biden responded, “cyber threats are among the greatest threats to our global security in the 21st century,” he added, “I believe we have to treat them with the same seriousness of purpose that we treated threats of other unconventional weapons.”
From the ashes of Donald Trump's white-hot administration, and of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the United States of America has discovered its information systems have been hacked to the point where major departments have given away sensitive information/intelligence and where industries have been turned upside-down, The Wall Street Journal continued, "the president-elect blamed Mr. Trump for an insufficient focus on cybersecurity, noting the elimination two years ago of a White House cybersecurity coordinator position and another effort to downgrade cybersecurity efforts at the State Department. Last month, Mr. Trump fired Chris Krebs, the top cybersecurity official at the Department of Homeland Security." According to the Associated Press on December 20, "Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, blasted Trump for putting the U.S. at continuing risk." He also urged, "an immediate response and calling cyberspace the warfare of the future.”
When in Wilmington, Delaware asked if it represented an act of war, Biden replied, “I see no evidence that it’s under control. I see none. Heard of none. Department won’t even brief us on many things. So I know of nothing that suggests it’s under control,” and, "enough’s enough. In an age when so much of our lives are conducted online, cyber attacks must be treated as a serious threat by our leadership at the highest levels. We can’t let this go unanswered. That means making clear and publicly who was responsible for the attack and taking meaningful steps to hold them in account."
While competition has been using America's lack of security and failed oversight against it, the U.S. president-elect said it is unknown, "the full scope of the breach or the extent of the damage it has caused. But we know this much, this attack constitutes a grave risk to our national security." Reports have suggested the hacks are coming from Russia, however; a greater understanding reveals the country's information technology/cyber systems are being exploited by anyone who can gain an advantage (see also: Bloomberg - China's Economy Set to Overtake U.S. Earlier Due to Covid Fallout). Biden said hackers have been, "setting the landscape to compromise our systems, scraping up sensitive information from our world-class tech sector and from private businesses and from United States government agencies." On December 20, The Wenatchee World's Simon Lewis reported, "Ron Klain said Biden was mapping out ways to degrade the capacity of foreign actors to engage in cyber attacks against the United States."
Leading up to Biden taking office on January 20, Joe said he is consulting, "with experts to plan for the steps that my administration will take in order to secure our systems, improve our cyber defenses and to better withstand future attacks that we know will come and to impose costs on those who conduct them," and also that, "we have to work with our allies to establish clear international rules and mechanisms to enforce them, and consequences for those countries that violate them" -- he referenced the previous administration where he served as vice-president, "as President Obama and I, and our administration talked about, we need international society, international rules of the road on cyber security. We have to bring along our allies and our friends, so we hold everyone accountable who breaches any of these basic fundamental rules" (more from this series: Ascendents.net - November 11, Intellectual Property Theft).
