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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 4:49 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Not sure exactly where this belongs, but I believe that, try as hard as he might, there are a few things Trump can't change.

One is the extreme wealth gap that's only gotten bigger under ALL recent Presidents, including Clinton, Obama, and Biden*. If history shows us anything, Clinton, Obama and Biden* were favorable to banks, finance, pharma/tech/MIC, and globalism (Clinton ending Glass Steagall, promoting China trade and NAFTA, Commodities Futures Trading Act; Obama choosing a Wall Streeter for Treasury and flooding banks with $$$, TTP, TTIP; Biden* vaccine mandate, flooding USA with money, neocon foreign policy).

Not sure who MAGA Republicans are beholden to, but since it costs SO much money to run for office, I'm sure there's some big donors in the background.

Anyway, point is, in order to rebuild American productivity, somebody's gonna have to make some INVESTMENTS. And to improve the avg American std of living, wealth is gonna have to flow downwards, not upwards.

SECOND posted somewhere about capitalism, said that "producers control prices".

NOT TRUE.

UNDER CAPITALISM*

BUT WE DON'T HAVE CAPITALISM*, WE HAVE MONOPOLISM AND OLIGOPOLISM. (And an oligarchy to go with it.)

What would be required for a reset?

Well, getting rid of the deep state, and embedded bureaucracy which will attempt to impede any change.

Aggressive enforcement of anti-monopoly laws, requiring broadband media to provide equal primetime to national candidates, restoring Glass-Steagall, requiring higher capitalization rates for banks, rewriting business tax code, infrastructure rebuild ... there's a lot to do. It's a multi-decade project.

Fortunately, there are so many OTHER things that globalists and their political handmaidens fucked up that Trump (and, later, Vance?) like 'wokeness" and DEI and the southern border, that MAGA Republicans should be able to keep throwing red meat to their constituency, which will give them time ....IF THEY SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY... to do something real with the economy and improve people's situations.

*Under capitalism, competition between producers will keep prices down as they attempt to undercut each other. Clearly, that's not happening

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 5:22 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Yeah...

The worst thing that could happen for America right now is if financial conditions worsen long-term under Trump.

Though it does appear that at least some of the Democrat party are realizing how many of their bad policy positions ruined their party and are trying to retreat from them now, a prolonged period of even worse financial situations for average Americans after the 4-year shitshow we just went through could flip everything right back to Democrats.

And like I said in one of the threads yesterday, Republicans need to keep their hands off of Food Stamps, Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security and drop the Abortion issue altogether.

Fucking with any single one of those could still be enough to turn things right back over to the Democrats. Fucking with a combination of them all at once would virtually guaranty Republicans lose everything.

I already told my old man yesterday that if they take millions or tens of millions of people off Medicaid that all of those people will vote Democrat in 2028.

And I included myself on that list too. I will vote Democrat in 2028 if I lose my health insurance at any point over the next 4 years.

That's a guaranty, and I expect that Second and Ted will hold me to it if it plays out that way.



EDITED TO ADD: https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medicaid-and-chi
p-enrollment-data/report-highlights/index.html

79 Million American people were enrolled in Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Programs as of October of last year.

Neither candidate saw 79 Million votes in total.

Don't kick that bear, Trump. It is a trap and a guaranteed loss for Republicans going forward if you fuck with it.

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 7:50 PM

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Don't lose your mind now, boy.

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Trump is crazy and if you don't see that, you too have lost touch with reality. Eight Presidents have been shot, including Trump, and 4 died. If Trump keeps going crazier, he'll make the 4 into a 5, although I'm not sure what he could do to appear crazier. Maybe prancing around in the nude as in The Emperor's New Clothes folktale? That would raise Trump's insanity ratings a notch.

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Trump calls for Canada to become 'coveted 51st state'

By Kateryna Riabovol | Feb 2, 2025

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-calls-for-canada-to-become-covet
ed-1738516511.html

He again addressed Toronto on his social network Truth Social, calling on Canada state to become the 51st US state.

"We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have," he writes.

In his post, the American president said that the United States has unlimited energy, that the United States should produce its own cars, and that the country has more wood than it will ever use. Canada, for its part, cannot exist without subsidies from the United States.

"Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!" Trump summarized.

While talking to journalists at the White House, US President Donald Trump confirmed that he was going to impose tariffs on goods from the European Union.

"Will I impose tariffs on the EU? Do you want an honest answer or a political answer? Absolutely. The EU has treated us terribly," he said.

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 8:25 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

Don't lose your mind now, boy.

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Trump is crazy and if you don't see that, you too have lost touch with reality. Eight Presidents have been shot, including Trump, and 4 died. If Trump keeps going crazier, he'll make the 4 into a 5, although I'm not sure what he could do to appear crazier. Maybe prancing around in the nude as in The Emperor's New Clothes folktale? That would raise Trump's insanity ratings a notch.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Why don't you just take a few breaths and relax buddy.

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 8:28 PM

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Originally posted by second:
Trump calls for Canada to become 'coveted 51st state'

By Kateryna Riabovol | Feb 2, 2025

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/trump-calls-for-canada-to-become-covet
ed-1738516511.html

He again addressed Toronto on his social network Truth Social, calling on Canada state to become the 51st US state.

"We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have," he writes.

In his post, the American president said that the United States has unlimited energy, that the United States should produce its own cars, and that the country has more wood than it will ever use. Canada, for its part, cannot exist without subsidies from the United States.

"Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!" Trump summarized.

While talking to journalists at the White House, US President Donald Trump confirmed that he was going to impose tariffs on goods from the European Union.

"Will I impose tariffs on the EU? Do you want an honest answer or a political answer? Absolutely. The EU has treated us terribly," he said.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



One thing we know for sure.

We're not going to be asking ourselves what happens when somebody theoretically does all of this stuff anymore.

We will have an answer.


Good luck everybody.

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Sunday, February 2, 2025 9:09 PM

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USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department


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Sunday, February 2, 2025 9:37 PM

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USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department


Yanno... When I'm being a dick to the dummies I might bloviate otherwise from time to time, but I'm a fuckin' dummy. I can't be expected anymore than any other American to keep in my head what the meaning of every Alphabet Agency the Government cooks up is supposed to mean.


They know that. That's why they always choose acronyms that mean whatever they want you to think about an agency, rather than what that agency does.


Since both the short-term and long-term future of healthcare is on everybody's mind right now, and I'm sure that a lot of people are thinking about words like Medicare and Medicaid, and in California and the SouthEast Coast they're all probably still thinking about Emergency Aid, and what will come of that.


So we have ourselves an agency that just went dark in these scary times, and the name of that very agency is USAID.

Oh Fuck. Not now. Any time but now! You're going to shut down US aid NOW!!??????


........

....

...


Wait a minute. Let's not lose our minds here and see what this is all about.

Hey Siri. What department does USAID stand for?

"The USAID is short for the U.S. Agency for International Development."


Thank you Siri. I feel much better now. I love you, and I for one can't wait to welcome our new robot overlords.



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Monday, February 3, 2025 8:14 AM

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How Trump’s tariffs blew up the price of washing machines seven years ago

Wondering what tariffs might do to you? Here's what happened to washing machines and dryers after Trump tariffed them in 2018:



Three years later they were 20% more expensive instead of continuing a trend that would have made them 20% less expensive. Now multiply that by everything and you'll get a sense of what Trump's latest tariffs are going to do to us.

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-how-tariffs-blew-up-the-price-of-wa
shing-machines-seven-years-ago/

Price of Laundry Equipment Before and After 2018 tariffs
https://www.google.com/search?q=Price+of+Laundry+Equipment+Before+and+
After+2018+tariffs

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Monday, February 3, 2025 8:24 AM

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Why Has Trump Gone Soft on China and Hard on Canada?
National interest? Or personal interest?

By Paul Krugman | Feb 01, 2025

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-has-trump-gone-soft-on-china

The tariffs Donald Trump imposed during his first term were mainly aimed at China. There were a few exceptions, like a tariff on Canadian aluminum, supposedly to protect national security (which was crazy.) But China was, rhetorically and practically, the big trade enemy.

And Trump’s talk about trade during the campaign seemed to point to a continuation of this pattern, with pledges of a 10 percent tariff across the board but 60 percent on China.

But now we have the first big tariff announcement from Trump 2.0, and it’s 25 percent tariffs on Mexico and Canada but only 10 percent on China.

True, those original China tariffs of around 19 percent are still in place. But this still means that Canada is now facing tariffs comparable to those imposed on China. And you should also bear in mind that Canada is far more dependent on exports to the United States than China is:

Source: World Trade Organization

So basically this is a slap on the wrist for an autocratic regime that is a dangerous rival and even potentially a military foe, versus a body blow to a democracy that is arguably our best ally.

Wait, it gets worse. China runs a large overall trade surplus, which isn’t always a bad thing but in this case does reflect China’s attempt to export its way out of the failure of its domestic policies. Canada runs roughly balanced trade:

Source: World Trade Organization

It’s true that Canada runs a bilateral trade surplus with the United States, selling more to us than it buys. (Trump, however, routinely overstates the size of this surplus by a factor of two or three, and calls it a “subsidy,” which makes no sense at all.) But this surplus is entirely caused by Canadian energy exports, mainly oil to the U.S. upper Midwest:


How is that a bad thing?

Bottom line: I can’t think of a reason punishing Canada with tariffs, let alone treating our neighbor far more harshly than Trump is treating China, is in the national interest. Trump’s spokesperson says that it’s because of the fentanyl pouring across our northern border, which wouldn’t justify tariffs even if it were happening — which it isn’t.

But who says that these tariffs have anything to do with the national interest — as opposed to the personal interests of the people calling the shots?

My guess is that Trump is imposing steep tariffs on Canada and Mexico just to show that he can — that it’s essentially a dominance display. And the many people pointing out that it’s a terrible idea probably only reinforced his determination to show that he’s in charge and smarter than anyone else.

What about letting China off easy? We know that Elon Musk has strong business reasons for wanting to treat China gently. Back in November Politico Europe wrote:

The reelection of Donald Trump is threatening to tip U.S.-China relations into a downward spiral of trade tariffs and escalating international spats, with Europe stuck in the middle.

But China thinks it has an ace in its back pocket that could help keep Trump’s more robust policies in check: Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose company depends on good ties with the Asian country.

It sure looks as if the Chinese judged that correctly, doesn’t it?

And then there’s the matter of Trump’s self-dealing, especially through the $Trump and $Melania tokens, which clearly have no intrinsic value. Who bought these tokens? Were they grifts aimed at red-hatted MAGA fans who don’t know better?

Well, a significant number of small investors did buy them. But Chainalysis found that 94 percent of the tokens were purchased by around 40 “whales,” large buyers holding more than $10 million worth of the coins.

We don’t know who these whales are. But it’s not unreasonable to guess that they were individuals or entities seeking to buy influence, rather than looking for a good investment.

Could some of the whales be effective proxies for the Chinese government? Could China have, in effect, bought itself lower tariffs by enriching Trump personally? To be clear, I have no evidence that this happened. But in making this conjecture, isn’t this a plausible explanation?

And let me make a broader point: If a nation’s leaders are personally corrupt, autocracies like China will have an advantage over democracies where rule of law prevails. To wit, Canada can’t buy itself favorable trade treatment by bribing foreign heads of state. To do so would be a huge scandal and provoke parliamentary inquiries. But China certainly can. Although once again, we don’t know whether it did.

Anyway, the fact remains: Trump is imposing destructive (and self-destructive) tariffs on an ally that has done nothing wrong, while handling a rival and potential enemy with kid gloves. It is hard to believe that sheer stupidity — although there’s plenty of that going on — can explain it.

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Monday, February 3, 2025 8:34 AM

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Trump rips ‘always wrong’ Wall Street Journal for criticizing his tariffs

By Tara Suter – 02/02/25, 5:31 PM ET

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5121945-trump-rips-always-wrong-wal
l-street-journal-for-criticizing-his-tariffs/

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

The "Tariff Lobby," headed by the Globalist, and always wrong, Wall Street Journal, is working hard to justify Countries like Canada, Mexico, China, and too many others to name, continue the decades long RIPOFF OF AMERICA, both with regard to TRADE, CRIME, AND POISONOUS DRUGS that are allowed to so freely flow into AMERICA. THOSE DAYS ARE OVER! The USA has major deficits with Canada, Mexico, and China (and almost all countries!), owes 36 Trillion Dollars, and we're not going to be the "Stupid Country" any longer. MAKE YOUR PRODUCT IN THE USA AND THERE ARE NO TARIFFS! Why should the United States lose TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN SUBSIDIZING OTHER COUNTRIES, and why should these other countries pay a small fraction of the cost of what USA citizens pay for Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, as an example? THIS WILL BE THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA! WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!). BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID. WE ARE A COUNTRY THAT IS NOW BEING RUN WITH COMMON SENSE — AND THE RESULTS WILL BE SPECTACULAR!!!

Feb 02, 2025, 9:09 AM

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Monday, February 3, 2025 11:31 AM

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Quote:
Originally posted by second:
How Trump’s tariffs blew up the price of washing machines seven years ago

Wondering what tariffs might do to you? Here's what happened to washing machines and dryers after Trump tariffed them in 2018:



Three years later they were 20% more expensive instead of continuing a trend that would have made them 20% less expensive. Now multiply that by everything and you'll get a sense of what Trump's latest tariffs are going to do to us.

https://jabberwocking.com/raw-data-how-tariffs-blew-up-the-price-of-wa
shing-machines-seven-years-ago/

Price of Laundry Equipment Before and After 2018 tariffs
https://www.google.com/search?q=Price+of+Laundry+Equipment+Before+and+
After+2018+tariffs

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two



Kevin Drum only reserves that graph for the stupidest people.

If nobody put tariffs on washing machines in 2018, they'd basically have been free by 2030.

That no good Trump!

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Monday, February 3, 2025 11:33 AM

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Anyway, the fact remains: Trump is imposing destructive (and self-destructive) tariffs on an ally that has done nothing wrong.


Canada has done everything wrong under Justin.

He won't be a problem for much longer.

The world you thought you were living in 6 months ago no longer exists.

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Monday, February 3, 2025 12:58 PM

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On Friday night, reports emerged that Elon Musk’s aides had tussled with Office of Personnel Management and Treasury staffers while demanding access to troves of information about federal employees. And on Sunday, it was reported that Musk had ousted top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development for refusing him access to classified security and personnel information.

Those of us within the ranks of the federal workforce looked on in horror at all of this. Those outside the federal government might not understand the gravity of this situation. Think of OPM and the Treasury’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service as the valet sheds of the federal government. They’re not flashy or big, but they hold all the keys. OPM maintains the private information of federal civil servants—bank codes, addresses, insurance information, retirement accounts, employment records. The Treasury’s system processes every payment to everyone from grandmothers waiting for their Social Security check to cancer researchers working to crack the cure. Now there’s a ham-fisted goon in an ill-fitting valet attendant’s coat rummaging in broad daylight through all of the keys — all of that private information, previously given in trust, handled with care, and regulated by law.

Now is the moment to act. We should not be waiting until the perps are driving off with every Bimmer in the lot. This information demands careful management, and transparency around its collection and use. Its inadvertent disclosure could irreparably harm millions of American families. And it’s being taken by people that still can’t figure out how to send an email from within the government without having it flagged as a likely phishing attempt.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-us-aid-social-se
curity-data-heist-trump.html

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Monday, February 3, 2025 1:47 PM

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Did the Trump prosecutions backfire?

The Trump prosecutions were supposed to save democracy. They may have imperiled it further.

By Andrew Prokop | Feb 3, 2025, 5:01 AM CST

https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy

Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will mark an end to eight years of his critics’ hopes that he could be taken down through the legal process.

The Russia investigation, four criminal prosecutions, and a conviction at trial on 34 felony counts ultimately did not dissuade voters from handing Trump another term in November.

So what did all those investigations and prosecutions of the president-elect amount to?

Some would argue that the answer is: nothing. Because voters ultimately shrugged off Trump’s legal woes, he won the election. This will let him end the two federal prosecutions of him and avoid consequences for the two state ones. Meaning: He’ll get off scot-free.

The outcome may even be worse than that. For years, many in the country’s liberal and centrist elite argued that these investigations were righteous attempts to hold a corrupt figure accountable for his rampant lawbreaking. They argued that Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy and that the best way to defend the rule of law was by thoroughly investigating and prosecuting him.

And yet the most salient legacy of the Trump cases may be that they’ve helped trap the country in a destructive tit-for-tat spiral of politicized lawfare, or legal warfare.

Trump now will take office far more embittered with the Department of Justice that indicted him — and perhaps more determined to weaponize that department against his opponents — than ever before. The investigations did not make Trump a corrupt person: He was pledging to send the DOJ after his political rivals before he was even elected in 2016. But his personal peril may have focused his resentment, so that he’ll be more hell-bent on making sure the department serves his whims.

Perhaps more consequentially, he’ll now have much more cover from the GOP. Republicans at all levels of the party have increasingly accepted Trump’s argument that he was being unfairly persecuted by Democrats and a politicized “deep state.” They’ve become polarized and radicalized against federal law enforcement institutions — and perhaps more likely to confirm nominees who would have seemed unthinkably extreme a few years ago.

It is far from clear that investigators could have followed some alternate path that would have avoided this outcome completely. A confrontation between Trump and the rule of law was likely inevitable as soon as he was first elected — he is who he is.

Investigators were regularly faced with the no-win choice between ignoring potential Trumpian wrongdoing, and thoroughly investigating in a way sure to invite attacks and reprisals. Letting real malfeasance, like Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, go unpunished would have been galling.

But, as the saying goes, if you come at the king, you best not miss. They missed — and now the country will reap the consequences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The threat to democracy: It’s time for some game theory

• A confrontation between Trump and investigators was probably inevitable

• Trump was actually prosecuted for specific things. Were those prosecutions justified — or overreach?

• The New York case is the least defensible

• Is there any way to get out of the spiral?

Much more at https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy

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Monday, February 3, 2025 2:44 PM

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The Treasury’s system processes every payment to everyone from grandmothers waiting for their Social Security check to cancer researchers working to crack the cure....
... to corrupt or hostile foreign entities, to incompetent departments like HUD, to MIC contractors getting paid for defective or unuseable weapons, to programs like setting up EV stations, to NGOs and semi-attached regime-change organizations like USAID ...

And here is one such payment processed by the Treasury.

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Trump To Suspend Funding To South Africa Over Land Expropriation
Monday, Feb 03, 2025 - 08:45 AM

Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times,
President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he would suspend future U.S. funding to South Africa in response to the country’s new controversial expropriation law, which allows land seizures by the state.


Oh, there's a lot of hardworking government employees working in legitimate (and often underfunded) offices ... like Social Security... but I'll bet there are also a lot of legitimately puckered managerial butts.

TIME FOR SUNSHINE.

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Monday, February 3, 2025 3:13 PM

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Did the Trump prosecutions backfire?

The Trump prosecutions were supposed to save democracy. They may have imperiled it further.

By Andrew Prokop | Feb 3, 2025, 5:01 AM CST

https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy

Donald Trump’s return to the presidency will mark an end to eight years of his critics’ hopes that he could be taken down through the legal process.

The Russia investigation, four criminal prosecutions, and a conviction at trial on 34 felony counts ultimately did not dissuade voters from handing Trump another term in November.

So what did all those investigations and prosecutions of the president-elect amount to?

Some would argue that the answer is: nothing. Because voters ultimately shrugged off Trump’s legal woes, he won the election. This will let him end the two federal prosecutions of him and avoid consequences for the two state ones. Meaning: He’ll get off scot-free.

The outcome may even be worse than that. For years, many in the country’s liberal and centrist elite argued that these investigations were righteous attempts to hold a corrupt figure accountable for his rampant lawbreaking. They argued that Trump posed an imminent threat to democracy and that the best way to defend the rule of law was by thoroughly investigating and prosecuting him.

And yet the most salient legacy of the Trump cases may be that they’ve helped trap the country in a destructive tit-for-tat spiral of politicized lawfare, or legal warfare.

Trump now will take office far more embittered with the Department of Justice that indicted him — and perhaps more determined to weaponize that department against his opponents — than ever before. The investigations did not make Trump a corrupt person: He was pledging to send the DOJ after his political rivals before he was even elected in 2016. But his personal peril may have focused his resentment, so that he’ll be more hell-bent on making sure the department serves his whims.

Perhaps more consequentially, he’ll now have much more cover from the GOP. Republicans at all levels of the party have increasingly accepted Trump’s argument that he was being unfairly persecuted by Democrats and a politicized “deep state.” They’ve become polarized and radicalized against federal law enforcement institutions — and perhaps more likely to confirm nominees who would have seemed unthinkably extreme a few years ago.

It is far from clear that investigators could have followed some alternate path that would have avoided this outcome completely. A confrontation between Trump and the rule of law was likely inevitable as soon as he was first elected — he is who he is.

Investigators were regularly faced with the no-win choice between ignoring potential Trumpian wrongdoing, and thoroughly investigating in a way sure to invite attacks and reprisals. Letting real malfeasance, like Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, go unpunished would have been galling.

But, as the saying goes, if you come at the king, you best not miss. They missed — and now the country will reap the consequences.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• The threat to democracy: It’s time for some game theory

• A confrontation between Trump and investigators was probably inevitable

• Trump was actually prosecuted for specific things. Were those prosecutions justified — or overreach?

• The New York case is the least defensible

• Is there any way to get out of the spiral?

Much more at https://www.vox.com/politics/393285/trump-prosecutions-investigations-
failed-threat-democracy

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This is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.




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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk



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Putin claims European politicians will stand at Trump's feet and "wag their tails"


The end of Uncle Sugardaddy.

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“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon Musk



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Putin claims European politicians will stand at Trump's feet and "wag their tails"


The end of Uncle Sugardaddy.

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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA




Yup.

Now let's see how long everyone's free healthcare worldwide lasts once they wake up and realize they all have their own military to fund and they've let in the first and second wave of combatants while clothing and feeding them until it was time.



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This is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.
This is sadder:

Trump's Maybe/Maybe Not Trade War

Trump folded. OK, supposedly the tariffs are only on hold for a month, but some wags are already joking that “tariff month” will become the new “infrastructure week.”

Supposedly both Mexico and Canada made some concessions in return for the tariff hold. But there’s really nothing there; neither country is doing anything it wouldn’t have done without the tariff threat. The U.S., on the other hand, agreed to crack down on weapons shipments to Mexico. Trump will spin this as a victory; low-information voters and some intimidated media outlets may go along with the lie. But basically America backed down.

So is Trump the classic bully who runs away when someone stands up to him? It definitely looks that way.

Let’s be clear, however: this isn’t a case of no harm, no foul. By making the tariff threat in the first place, Trump made it clear that America is no longer a nation that honors its agreements. By caving at the first sign of opposition, he also made himself look weak. China must be very pleased at how all this has played out.

The now ever-present threat of tariffs will have a chilling effect on business planning, inhibiting economic integration and damaging manufacturing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-infrastructure-we
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Yup.

Now let's see how long everyone's free healthcare worldwide lasts once they wake up and realize they all have their own military to fund and they've let in the first and second wave of combatants while clothing and feeding them until it was time.
The Pentagon can't protect anybody because Trumptards are Fat, Weak and Stupid
(Which is Why Trumptard Civilians Don’t Prosper in America)

By Dexter Filkins | February 3, 2025

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/02/10/the-us-militarys-recruit
ing-crisis

At Fort Jackson, in South Carolina, the U.S. Army comes face to face with America’s youth. One recent morning, at the Future Soldiers training course, hundreds of overweight young men and women hoping to join the service lined up to run and perform calisthenics before a cordon of drill sergeants. Some were participating in organized workouts for the first time. Many heaved for breath when asked to run a half mile; others gave up and walked. A number hobbled around on crutches. At a weekly weigh-in, dozens of young men stood shirtless, revealing just how far they had to go.

When prospective recruits were asked to drop and do five pushups, many groaned and struggled, unable to complete the task. Some, their faces crimson, could barely hold themselves up.

“You thought you’d join the Army without being able to do a single pushup?” Staff Sergeant Kennedy Robinson barked at a recruit whose arms were twitching in agony.

“Yes, ma’am!” he said. To an extent that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago, he may have been right.

The Future Soldiers program was created, in 2022, to help marginal but willing recruits find their way into the military. Its efforts include not just prodding kids to slim down but also helping them pass the armed forces’ aptitude test—even if that means lowering long-established standards. The course is part of a series of extraordinary adaptations that America’s military is making amid one of its greatest recruiting shortfalls since the draft was abolished, more than fifty years ago.

In 2022 and 2023, the Army missed its recruitment goal by nearly twenty-five per cent—about fifteen thousand troops a year. It hit the mark last year, but only by reducing the target by more than ten thousand. The Navy has also fared badly: it failed to reach its goals in 2023, then met them in 2024 by filling out the ranks with recruits of a lower standard; nearly half measured below average on an aptitude exam. The Army Reserve hasn’t met its benchmark since 2016, and the ranks are so depleted that active-duty officers have been put in charge of reserve units. Some experts worry that, if the country went to war, many reserve units might be unable to deploy. A U.S. official who works on these issues put it simply: “We can’t get enough people.”

At the end of the Second World War, the American military had twelve million active-duty members. It now has 1.3 million — even though the population has more than doubled, and women are now eligible for armed service.

According to a Pentagon study, more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are ineligible because they are overweight, unable to pass the aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental-health issues. In other words, Trumptards and their children are sad losers. That explains why they struggle to prosper in America.

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This happened to Trumptards because they are fat, weak and stupid:

In 2020 RAND released a study which found that if economic growth from 1975-2018 been distributed as equitably among the US population as it had been from the Second World War to 1974, that “the aggregate income for the population below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion (67%) higher in 2018” and that the difference in aggregate income across 1975-2018 would have been $47 trillion dollars. These numbers so large as to be abstract. Instead, take a look at the income distribution for Full-Year Full-Time Prime-Aged Workers in 2018 versus their estimates under this counterfactual, in 2018 inflation adjusted dollars.


Adapted from Price, Carter C. and Kathryn A. Edwards, Trends in Income From 1975 to 2018. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2020, Table 2.b

Under this counterfactual, over 95% of the population would have benefited and the median worker would be making nearly twice as much today as they actually are. This upward redistribution of wealth is what inequality is actually about, not the size of Jeff Bezos’ yacht.

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2025/02/what-was-so-great-about-
america-again.html

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Trump the “Peacemaker” Ramps Up America’s Forever War in Somalia

By Nick Turse | Feb 4, 2025

https://theintercept.com/2025/02/04/trump-airstrike-somalia/

President Donald Trump took office last month touting his commitment to ending wars. “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker,” he announced in his recent inaugural address. For years, in fact, Trump has touted his antiwar credentials and boasted about ending “endless wars.”

On Saturday, Trump ramped up America’s longest-running war, carrying out a strike in Somalia that killed an unspecified number of people. “These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies,” Trump posted on social media. “The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians.”

Trump asserted that the airstrike killed a “Senior ISIS Attack Planner” that the Biden administration failed to strike, despite a yearslong military targeting effort. “The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that ‘WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!’” Trump announced.

U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, noted that the strike was conducted “in coordination with the Federal Government of Somalia” but a Somali government official, speaking to The Intercept on background because he was not authorized to talk with the press, said very little advance notice was given.

AFRICOM did not confirm Trump’s assertions that the attack involved a cave complex, that the “Senior ISIS Attack Planner” had been targeted for years, or that there was any indication that those struck were planning to harm Americans. “We do not have any additional information to provide,” AFRICOM spokesperson Kelly Cahalan told The Intercept.

The Trump administration also refused to provide any additional clarification or comment. “We have nothing for you beyond POTUS’ truth & the DOD press release,” a White House spokesperson told The Intercept by email.

AFRICOM echoed Trump, stating that “no civilians were harmed” in the Saturday strike.

A 2023 investigation by The Intercept determined that an April 2018 drone attack in Somalia killed at least three, and possibly five, civilians, including 22-year-old Luul Dahir Mohamed and her 4-year-old daughter Mariam Shilow Muse. At the time, AFRICOM announced it had killed “five terrorists” and that “no civilians were killed in this airstrike.”

The Intercept’s investigation revealed that the strike was conducted under loosened rules of engagement sought by the Pentagon and approved by the Trump White House, and that no one was ever held accountable for the civilian deaths. For more than six years, Luul and Mariam’s family has tried to contact the U.S. government, including through an online civilian casualty reporting portal run by AFRICOM, but did not receive a response.

The United States has been conducting attacks in Somalia since at least 2007, with airstrikes skyrocketing during Trump’s first term. From 2007 to 2017, under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the U.S. military carried out 43 declared airstrikes in Somalia. Under Trump, AFRICOM conducted more than 200 air attacks against members of al-Shabab and the Islamic State group. The Biden administration conducted 39 declared strikes over four years.

ISIS–Somalia is a tiny organization that operates primarily in the Golis Mountains of the Bari region in Somalia’s semiautonomous Puntland state. There is no evidence the group has the capability to target the United States.

On Wednesday, Trump tweeted out video footage of Saturday’s airstrike. The footage, from an aircraft high above the target area, shows crosshairs fixed on what appears to be a hilly patch of land. Within seconds, the blinding flash of a bomb is followed by a billowing cloud.

Despite his propensity for airstrikes there, Trump has previously expressed deep skepticism about the U.S. forever war in Somalia. At the end of his first term in office, Trump ordered a withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Horn-of-Africa nation. The Pentagon slow-rolled Trump and, despite a showy operation, U.S. forces never fully left. Even after the withdrawal, an AFRICOM spokesperson, Col. Chris Karns, admitted that troops, albeit a “very limited” number, remained.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud thanked the United States for the Saturday airstrike. “I extend my deepest gratitude for the unwavering support of the United States in our shared fight against terrorism,” Mohamud’s office said in a statement, specifically praising Trump. “Your bold decisive leadership, Mr. President, in counterterrorism efforts is highly valued and welcomed in Somalia.”

The presidential praise for Trump comes in the wake of Somalia signing a one-year $600,000 agreement with the Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm BGR Group amid fears that the Trump administration might scale back military cooperation with that nation. In paperwork filed with the Department of Justice, BGR says that it will “provide government affairs services by engaging and facilitating communications with the relevant officials and decision-makers in the U.S.”

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According to a Pentagon study, more than three-quarters of Americans between the ages of seventeen and twenty-four are ineligible because they are overweight, unable to pass the aptitude test, afflicted by physical or mental-health issues. In other words, Trumptards and their children are sad losers. That explains why they struggle to prosper in America.


No Child Left Behind was Democrat FUBU.

I know you hate black people and never had an actual discussion with one in your life and you don't know what FUBU means, so Google it.

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No Child Left Behind was Democrat FUBU.

I know you hate black people and never had an actual discussion with one in your life and you don't know what FUBU means, so Google it.
6ix, do yourself and America a favor and make room for your replacement by somebody not so diabetic and lazy, perhaps a healthy hardworking immigrant saved by USAID:

Tens of thousands of people will die if Trump’s war on USAID continues.

By Dylan Matthews | Feb 4, 2025, 6:00 AM CST

About two and a half months ago, I wrote a piece about what foreign aid might look like in the second Trump term.

At the end I included this nugget:

If Trump fully usurps the power of the purse from Congress, then any hope for foreign aid premised on the bipartisan congressional coalition behind foreign aid spending becomes hollow. Trump could simply overrule the Lindsey Grahams and Mario Diaz-Balarts of the world. Then we’d be in an incredibly dark reality indeed.

We are now in that incredibly dark reality. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) became one of the first targets of the Trump administration, starting with an Inauguration Day executive order freezing aid programs for 90 days. This was impoundment in action, the usurpation of the power of the purse from Congress. Pushback from Congressional champions of foreign aid like Graham and Diaz-Balart became formally irrelevant.

Now, Elon Musk and his DOGE team appear to be preparing for the agency to dissolve entirely. “USAID is a criminal organization,” Musk told followers on X, adding on a late-night X Spaces discussion that he and Trump agreed it had to go.

To be clear, the president cannot legally refuse to spend money that Congress has directed the government to spend. USAID has been authorized by Congressional statutes that the president is obliged to uphold. He cannot legally dissolve it.

But as lawbreaking goes, it may be a canny example. Foreign aid has never been popular, and while some of that is perhaps due to misunderstandings of what “foreign aid” means, most Americans just generally don’t like helping people in other countries. (It doesn’t help that past surveys have shown that the average American thinks the US spends a quarter or more of its total budget on foreign aid — the real figure is less than 1 percent.)

A poll last year found that by a 51 to 33 percent margin, Americans thought the US should provide less economic aid to countries abroad. If Musk and Trump wanted to move fast and break stuff without a lot of opposition, they picked the right set of stuff to break first.

More at https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/397992/trump-usaid-foreign-aid-pepf
ar-musk-doge

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So far it's been glorious watching your devolution into insanity.

Week 3 has hardly even started.


It must really suck to be you right now.

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So far it's been glorious watching your devolution into insanity.

Week 3 has hardly even started.


It must really suck to be you right now.
6ix, you only know a few Trumptards because you don't get out much or move around far from home. I know thousands of Trumptards and have experienced their inane way of life for decades, some from childhood to their death. Nothing bad can be a Trumptard's fault because it is all the fault of Democrats. (I know for a fact that Trumptards are the cause of their misery, but they can't understand where the real source of their trouble comes from, which is inside their head.)

Trump's Theory of Tariffs Makes No Sense
We can tax our way to prosperity, Trump claims, but we'll just…not do that, I guess?

Eric Boehm | 2.3.2025 3:00 PM

https://reason.com/2025/02/03/trumps-theory-of-tariffs-makes-no-sense/

For weeks, President Donald Trump has been telling Americans that his plan to impose high tariffs on the country's top trading partners would usher in an era of prosperity not seen in well over 100 years.

"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." The president has been using variations on this same argument for months (for years, actually). They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year on the campaign trail.

This is bullshit, by the way. The high tariffs that America imposed during the late 19th century did not make America rich and did not make American manufacturing strong. It's also absurd to claim that the country was at its wealthiest in an era when most people did not have access to indoor plumbing, electricity, or modern medical care—and when the average person was, objectively, much poorer.

But leave all that aside for a moment. Let's assume that Trump sincerely holds this belief: that tariffs are a wealth-generating tool, and that their implementation will return the country to its proper place as the wealthiest, most successful, most respected nation on the planet.

If all that's true, then how to explain what Trump did this morning?

"President Donald Trump held off Monday on his tariff threats against Mexico for one month of further negotiations after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum agreed to send 10,000 members of her country's national guard to the border to address drug trafficking," the Associated Press reported.

Wait, what happened to endless prosperity and success? If tariffs are as great as Trump says they are, he should be implementing them no matter what the leaders of any other silly little countries say or do. We can tax our way to prosperity, Trump claims, but we'll just…not do that, I guess?

That's the problem with Trump's theory about tariffs. Either tariffs are an inherently good and prosperity-generating policy that enriches America, or they are a threat to get other countries to do as Trump says. Both things can't be true.

If the former, then why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico agreed to make a few small changes to how it polices the border? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime, so we'll just forget about that idea.

If the latter, then tariffs are something to be feared—a stick with which to compel the behavior of other, smaller countries—that comes with some pain for Americans, as Trump admitted in a post on Truth Social over the weekend. But if that's what they are, and they can be removed as soon as those other countries comply with Trump's wishes, then it seems like the tariffs were never intended to produce the prosperity that Trump promised.

In short, Trump is either a bad dealmaker or a liar.

That's not a conclusion that's drawn by reviewing the piles of available evidence about the effectiveness or the cost of tariffs. It's not a conclusion based on the opinions of the scores of economists who say Trump's trade war is a foolish, counterproductive move.

It's a conclusion drawn solely from the contradictory arguments that Trump is making as he threatens to start a continent-wide trade war.

Intellectual consistency is obviously not one of Trump's strengths, but his advisors and the media should demand an answer: Does the president sincerely believe that tariffs are a pathway to prosperity, as he has been claiming for months? Or was all that a lie, because tariffs are actually a punitive, destructive tool of foreign policy?

They cannot be both.

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Feel the winds of change. Blowhard Trump has a stupid plan for Gaza.

This Trump Plan for Gaza Is One of the Craziest Things I’ve Ever Heard

By Fred Kaplan | Feb 04, 2025, 9:00 PM

At a news conference Tuesday night, President Trump unleashed the craziest remarks about the Middle East that any American president has uttered in history.

He proposed not only that the roughly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza leave their homeland—because, he said, it’s “a hellhole” and always will be—but that the United States take it over, “own it” (he dropped that phrase a few times), and develop it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

Yes, he really said that.

Will the Palestinian people, who Trump wants to have evicted from the old Gaza, be allowed to come back and live in this new wonderland he envisions? Well, Trump replied, it will be “an international city,” with people from “all over the world” coming to live there. Maybe some Palestinians, too—but in the meantime, while Americans rebuild the “demolition site” of Gaza, those people will be taken in by Jordan and Egypt.

Yes, he acknowledged, the leaders of Jordan and Egypt insist they want no part of this forced displacement—they certainly don’t want the instability of bringing almost two million Palestinian refugees into their own crowded cities. But Trump said he is confident they will “open their hearts” and make warm peaceful places for them to live out their lives away from the violence that Hamas had forced on them.

Or, Trump mused, maybe the Palestinians can be resettled in “one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, 12 sites, or one big site”—it doesn’t matter, as long as they “live in comfort and peace. … We’ll make sure something really spectacular can be done.”

These were not careless, spontaneous remarks. Trump repeated the lines several times. He said he’d been thinking about it for a while. He said he’d proposed the idea to leaders in the region who thought it was a “wonderful idea.” (He didn’t identify the people who pulled his chain, if indeed anyone said this at all.)

He made these statements during a news conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the two held private talks for more than an hour. A reporter asked Netanyahu what he thought about Trump’s idea. He seemed as surprised by it as everyone else, though he tried to be polite.

More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/trump-gaza-strip-us-take-o
ver-israel.html

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So far it's been glorious watching your devolution into insanity.

Week 3 has hardly even started.


It must really suck to be you right now.
6ix, you only know a few Trumptards because you don't get out much or move around far from home. I know thousands of Trumptards and have experienced their inane way of life for decades


As you have proven countless times before today, you are a terrible judge of character.

Nobody cares about your opinions or your judgements. Go cry to your mom about it.



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As you have proven countless times before today, you are a terrible judge of character.

Nobody cares about your opinions or your judgements.
It is not judgment. Rather it is an estimation exactly the same as a person's weight. Funny how easily normal weight people can spot fat, but fat people don't see themselves as morbidly obese.
https://www.cdc.gov/bmi/adult-calculator/

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It is easy for a normal person to spot an incompetent person, but the incompetent can't do the same. The incompetent can't even reliably recognize normality:

Donald Trump Makes A Cost Estimate That Reflects The 'Fairy Tale World' He Lives In

The president appeared grossly out of touch in talking about the price of transportation.

By Ron Dicker | Feb 5, 2025, 06:05 AM EST

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-airplane-two-dollars_n_67a
32c98e4b01fe567fb0626

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Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

As you have proven countless times before today, you are a terrible judge of character.

Nobody cares about your opinions or your judgements.
It is not judgment.


No. It is judgement.

Go fuck yourself.

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USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department


Yanno... When I'm being a dick to the dummies I might bloviate otherwise from time to time, but I'm a fuckin' dummy. I can't be expected anymore than any other American to keep in my head what the meaning of every Alphabet Agency the Government cooks up is supposed to mean.


They know that. That's why they always choose acronyms that mean whatever they want you to think about an agency, rather than what that agency does.


Since both the short-term and long-term future of healthcare is on everybody's mind right now, and I'm sure that a lot of people are thinking about words like Medicare and Medicaid, and in California and the SouthEast Coast they're all probably still thinking about Emergency Aid, and what will come of that.


So we have ourselves an agency that just went dark in these scary times, and the name of that very agency is USAID.

Oh Fuck. Not now. Any time but now! You're going to shut down US aid NOW!!??????


........

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...


Wait a minute. Let's not lose our minds here and see what this is all about.

Hey Siri. What department does USAID stand for?

"The USAID is short for the U.S. Agency for International Development."


Thank you Siri. I feel much better now. I love you, and I for one can't wait to welcome our new robot overlords.



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USAID announces nearly all direct hires will be placed on administrative leave

The agency said all direct hires, “with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions,” would be placed on administrative leave.

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The U.S. Agency for International Development announced Tuesday night that almost all direct hires around the world will be placed on administrative leave this week.

The move was announced on the organization’s website after days of attacks by the Trump administration, including President Donald Trump himself.

The announcement says that beginning at 11:59 p.m. Friday, “all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for mission-critical functions, core leadership and specially designated programs.”

Those expected to keep working will be notified by 3 p.m. Thursday, the announcement said, adding that the government is working on a plan to return workers who are not in the country back to the United States if contracts are “not determined to be essential.”

It ends with: “Thank you for your service.”


So far, this has been the greatest Presidency of my lifetime.



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Wednesday, February 5, 2025 10:55 AM

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Pam Bondi is now the USAG.

Looks like besides Gaetz, every single one of Trump's picks have gone through so far.



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Take a look at this fake-ass USA Today article. They don't even wait for the 2nd sentence to destroy their own headline. All they care about is that low-IQ Democrat voters read the headline...

Mexico and Canada outsmarted Trump in his trade war. He still thinks he won. | Opinion by Elvia Diaz

Mexico and Canada have outsmarted Trump by bolstering border security with measures already underway or that can easily be carried out.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/05/canada-tar
iff-paused-mexico-delayed-trump-played/78219839007/

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It’s not clear whether Mexico and Canada played President Donald Trump in his tariffs war, but it sure seems so – at least, temporarily.


Go. Fuck. Yourself. Elvia.


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"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year.

Why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, so we'll just forget about that idea.

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'Moving the goalposts of crazy': Trump adviser astonished by president's message

By Travis Gettys | February 5, 2025 8:41AM ET

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-gaza-2671100153/

One longtime adviser suspects he might be enacting his "madman theory" of diplomacy.

"He's moving the goalposts of crazy," the adviser told Axios. "This time around, he's not intimidated by headlines or pundits: He's gonna throw out there whatever he feels like throwing out there."

It's like threats of trade tariffs against Canada and Mexico — all-consumingly controversial, yet instantly ephemeral.

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"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year.

Why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, so we'll just forget about that idea.


Who said he's forgoing tariffs?

He just put the leadership of Mexico and Canada on notice, and they both folded like lawn chairs in record time.

This isn't over. I've already told you this isn't over. The piddly little offer they made to get their 30 day stay on tariffs is only the beginning. And the fact that both of them came running to Trump to kneel and kiss the ring means that they have a hell of a lot more they'd be willing to offer.

You are a short-sighted idiot, and nobody believes you have any idea how to run a company, let alone own one.

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"He's moving the goalposts of crazy," the adviser told Axios. "This time around, he's not intimidated by headlines or pundits: He's gonna throw out there whatever he feels like throwing out there."


NOBODY gives a fuck about your headlines or your pundits anymore. They are trusted less by the American people than the Politicians are at this point.

Any good will you used to have is now gone. You did this to yourselves.

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Elon Musk controls the check-writing of the US government. An unelected, very powerful, very wealthy person is exerting great control over the government.

https://www.vox.com/politics/398366/musk-doge-treasury-sba-opm-budget

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"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year.

Why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, so we'll just forget about that idea.


Who said he's forgoing tariffs?

He just put the leadership of Mexico and Canada on notice, and they both folded like lawn chairs in record time.

This isn't over. I've already told you this isn't over. The piddly little offer they made to get their 30 day stay on tariffs is only the beginning. And the fact that both of them came running to Trump to kneel and kiss the ring means that they have a hell of a lot more they'd be willing to offer.

You are a short-sighted idiot, and nobody believes you have any idea how to run a company, let alone own one.

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Trump said tariffs would replace income taxes and also make America wealthy. I want Trump to collect those tariffs without delay so that I can cancel my taxes and so that little people such as 6ixStringJack can become wealthy. If I were 6ix, I'd be concerned that Trump is delaying collecting tariffs because he is also delaying making 6ix more prosperous.

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I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


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Elon Musk controls the check-writing of the US government. An unelected, very powerful, very wealthy person is exerting great control over the government.


As opposed to ... unelected, faceless bureacrats?



From what I gather, money was just hemorrhaging out of that payment system.

Another group of people who deserved being gotten rid if are the Inspectors General. Using the DOD as an example, if the Inspector General was really doing his job, why has the DOD failed every audit ever conducted on it?

It is not Musk doing this all by his lonesome and on a whim. He has a team of outstanding geniuses working to understand and ferret out government waste. If anyone can work their way thru arcane software systems, it's them.

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Elon Musk is hiding information so that he can't be sued for what he is doing

Employees working for the agency now known as DOGE have been ordered to stop using Slack while government lawyers attempt to transition the agency to one that is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

. . . under Elon Musk’s leadership, DOGE is actively taking steps to make sure its communications and records are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, a records transparency law commonly used by journalists and lawyers to hold government accountable. Instead, DOGE is asserting that rather than reporting up through the Office of Management and Budget as the United States Digital Service did for years, it is reporting through the Executive Office of the President and to White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Under OMB, it was generally subject to FOIA. Under the White House Chief of Staff, records it creates are generally not subject to FOIA.

This would make DOGE a Presidential Records Act entity, meaning records it creates are not FOIAble until years after a president leaves office rather than a Federal Records Act entity, which would make its records FOIAble now.

https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-whi
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Elon Musk controls the check-writing of the US government. An unelected, very powerful, very wealthy person is exerting great control over the government.


As opposed to ... unelected, faceless bureacrats?



From what I gather, money was just hemorrhaging out of that payment system.

Another group of people who deserved being gotten rid if are the Inspectors General. Using the DOD as an example, if the Inspector General was really doing his job, why has the DOD failed every audit ever conducted on it?

It is not Musk doing this all by his lonesome and on a whim. He has a team of outstanding geniuses working to understand and ferret out government waste. If anyone can work their way thru arcane software systems, it's them.
Musk had $50 billion in government contracts, but he can now pay himself far more than that. As a matter of fact, Musk can pay himself however much he wants. It is the ultimate case of Embezzlement by a bookkeeper.

Musk could theoretically be caught for Embezzlement by the Freedom of Information Act. But Musk will very soon not be required to answer pesky questions about his Embezzlement: https://www.404media.co/doge-employees-ordered-to-stop-using-slack-whi
le-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/

Elon Musk won't be limited to $400 billion in wealth when he can steal from the Federal Treasury. Musk will be the first $Trillion-aire in history with Trump's help.

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Look at Donald Trump’s two big tech-related proposals — a strategic cryptocurrency reserve and a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment. From the point of view of the national interest, the first makes no sense at all; the second might conceivably have merit, but sits oddly with the Trump administration’s attempts to unravel all the Biden administration’s efforts on behalf of strategic technology, let alone green energy.

But suppose that we think of these proposals not in terms of the national interest, but in terms of who would get the money. Who holds a lot of cryptocurrency that the government would buy up? Which companies do you think would receive the lion’s share of subsidies for AI?

There are some clear similarities between the 90s tech bubble and recent AI fever. But this bubble may end, not with a pop, but with a giant tech-bro bailout.

Trump orders administration to evaluate potential for 'national digital asset stockpile'
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/markets/trump-bitcoin-digital-asset-s
tockpile-strategic-reserve-cryptocurrency-rcna188921

Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/21/tech/openai-oracle-softbank-trump-a
i-investment/index.html

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"The tariffs are going to make us very rich and very strong," Trump said Friday. "They don't cause inflation. They cause success." They are "going to make us rich," he said in December. "In the 1890s, our country was probably the wealthiest it ever was because it was a system of tariffs," he said last year.

Why would Trump forgo all those billions of dollars that could be collected off Mexican imports simply because Mexico's president said she would make a few border guards work overtime? We were going to offset the income tax with tariffs, Trump promised. But now? Nah, so we'll just forget about that idea.


Who said he's forgoing tariffs?

He just put the leadership of Mexico and Canada on notice, and they both folded like lawn chairs in record time.

This isn't over. I've already told you this isn't over. The piddly little offer they made to get their 30 day stay on tariffs is only the beginning. And the fact that both of them came running to Trump to kneel and kiss the ring means that they have a hell of a lot more they'd be willing to offer.

You are a short-sighted idiot, and nobody believes you have any idea how to run a company, let alone own one.

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What do I care about income taxes?

On the rare occasion I do work I hardly ever make enough to have to pay any.



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What do I care about income taxes?

On the rare occasion I do work I hardly ever make enough to have to pay any.
President Elon Musk said on Wednesday that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be making "rapid safety upgrades to the air traffic control system." This announcement follows two deadly aviation crashes last week. The winds of change are blowing today.

https://www.newsweek.com/doge-rapid-safety-upgrades-air-traffic-contro
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I'm still wondering what you're complaining about.

Trump and his team are doing great.

Love watching you flop around like a fish in the meantime though.



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Oh...

And how many more Democrat voters do you suppose you're going to lose by 2026 when word gets out that the DNC went so far left they fell off a cliff?

I'd worry more about cleaning your own house. You're going to waste another 4 years if you keep doing what you're doing.

And by that point the DNC's target demographic is going to be 18 to 26 year olds that are too stupid and naive to realize that a Democratic Party vote is a vote against themselves.

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Oh...

And how many more Democrat voters do you suppose you're going to lose by 2026 when word gets out that the DNC went so far left they fell off a cliff?

I'd worry more about cleaning your own house. You're going to waste another 4 years if you keep doing what you're doing.

And by that point the DNC's target demographic is going to be 18 to 26 year olds that are too stupid and naive to realize that a Democratic Party vote is a vote against themselves.
The Musk-Trump administration is ripping apart old agreements and promises with the world. The many examples include:

• The illegal dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, outsourced to Elon Musk and his frighteningly young cronies, which is already cutting off needed aid to poorer populations and undercutting American trustworthiness.

• The obstruction of PEPFAR, which was supposedly allowed to keep funding HIV and AIDS treatment in Asia and Africa, but has in reality been effectively blocked from doing that lifesaving work.

• The revamp of the State Department under Secretary Marco Rubio, which is already agreeing to send convicted U.S. citizens to brutal prisons in El Salvador, appointing white nationalists and Capitol insurrectionists to key positions, and all but scuttling necessary foreign aid.

• Trump’s latest threat to stop sending money to South Africa because of racist conspiracy theories about the supposed disenfranchisement of white Afrikaners.

• The withdrawal from the Paris Agreement, an expected but still frustrating backtrack that’s occurring as vulnerable nations continue to suffer the worst effects of the climate crisis and require assistance from richer nations.

• The withdrawal from the World Health Organization, plus the demand that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention immediately stop working with the group and allow public health data to be censored on ideological grounds.

• Trump’s conditioning of further military support for Ukraine on the embattled country’s willingness to send over more of its rare earth materials.

• The ongoing destruction of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which is already deleting urgent public data on carbon dioxide emissions and weather patterns.

• Trump’s call for the U.S. to “take over” the Gaza Strip, all but endorsing the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population while once again cutting off needed aid.

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