Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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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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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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Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't lose your mind now, boy.
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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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Originally posted by second:Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Don't lose your mind now, boy.
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Why don't you just take a few breaths and relax buddy.
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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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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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USAID Website Goes Dark As Trump Reportedly Plans To Shift Agency Under State Department
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Quote:... 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 ...
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....
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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Originally posted by second:
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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
This is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.
The bell tolls for thee, Vox.
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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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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could have gone to some great parties. Did that instead.” — Elon MuskQuote:
Putin claims European politicians will stand at Trump's feet and "wag their tails"
The end of Uncle Sugardaddy.
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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.
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Quote:This is sadder:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
This is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.
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
ek.html
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Quote:The Pentagon can't protect anybody because Trumptards are Fat, Weak and Stupid
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
(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.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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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-Af
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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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Quote: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:
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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.
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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Quote: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.)
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
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
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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
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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.
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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Quote: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.
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.
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
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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.
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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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.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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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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Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
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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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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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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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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
le-agency-transitions-to-a-records-system-not-subject-to-foia/
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Quote: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.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
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 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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Originally posted by second:Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
"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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Quote: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.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
What do I care about income taxes?
On the rare occasion I do work I hardly ever make enough to have to pay any.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-rapid-safety-upgrades-air-traffic-contro
l-elon-musk-2026875
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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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Quote:The Musk-Trump administration is ripping apart old agreements and promises with the world. The many examples include:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
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 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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Wonderful.
Thanks, Joe Biden*. Couldn't have done any of this without you.
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Trump ran for office on the premise of non-intervention and resolving global military conflicts peacefully, not more American adventurism.
Trump just openly committed American arms, honor, and credibility to forcibly expel Gaza’s Palestinian population and redevelop the territory into a glittering tourist hub. It may torpedo any remaining hope of an enduring Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. It also hands every Islamist militant group an airtight propaganda victory: proof, in their eyes, that the United States is indeed the 'Great Satan.'
One of the most telling reactions to Trump's Gaza proposal came from his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, a longtime GOP strategist with a reputation for whipping those around her into ruthless discipline; she looked on at Trump, her eyes bulging and her expression astonished.
The widely photographed look on Susie Wiles’s face spoke volumes.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-gaza-riveria-34619
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The winds of change are indeed blowing:
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What Donald Trump really looks like without his hair and fake tan
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-hair-transplant-34
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Winds of Change are Blowing his hair away
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The duty of stating the obvious
Trump’s proposal for the US to “take over” Gaza and expel its inhabitants is, like nearly everything else Trump has said and done over the past two weeks and indeed the past decade, completely batshit insane. As with countless other Trump proposals, I don’t see that it will actually happen — both because most Gazans will refuse to leave, and because Arab countries will refuse to take them.
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8636
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Of course it’s a coup
Miss the obvious, lose your republic
Timothy Snyder | Feb 05, 2025
https://snyder.substack.com/p/of-course-its-a-coup
. . . The ongoing actions by Musk and his followers are a coup because the individuals seizing power have no right to it. Elon Musk was elected to no office and no office would give him the authority to do what he is doing. It is all illegal. It is also a coup in its intended effects: to undo democratic practice and violate human rights.
In gaining data about us all, Musk has trampled on any notion of privacy and dignity, as well as on the explicit and implicit agreements made with our government when we pay our taxes or our student loans. And the possession of that data enables blackmail and further crimes.
In gaining the ability to stop payments by the Department of the Treasury, Musk would also make democracy meaningless. We vote for representatives in Congress, who pass laws that determine how our tax money is spent. If Musk has the power to halt this process at the level of payment, he can make laws meaningless. Which means, in turn, that Congress is meaningless, and our votes are meaningless, as is our citizenship.
If Musk controls these digital systems, Republican elected officials will be just as helpless as Democratic ones. The institutions that they voted to create can also be “deleted,” as Musk puts it.
President Trump, for that matter, will also perform at Musk’s pleasure. There is not much he can do without the use of the federal government’s computers. No one will explain this to Trump or to his supporters, of course.
A coup is underway, against Americans as possessors of human rights and dignities, and against Americans as citizens of a democratic republic. Each hour this goes unrecognized makes the success of the coup more likely.
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Oh, puhleez!
More overwrought analogies and handwringing?
Nobody that's getting fired or suspended was elected to that office.
NOBODY.
So who gave them the authority to decide foreign policy, collect info on us all in the first place, autopay terrorists, and lawfare public figures? Where does this authority derive from, Constitutionally? AFAIK they serve at the pleasure of the only person in the entire appx 1.7 million employee executive branch, and that's the President.
The President's power is limited by legal review and separation of powers. As long as what Trump is doing falls under legal review, it's not a coup, bc a coup by definition is ILLEGAL usurpation of power. And if ultimately it is Trump authorizing these activities, then it's not Musk taking control of the government.
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What Trump said about Gaza was not only horrific, if implemented it would be as self- serving as anything Biden did.
What he said
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I’m delighted to welcome Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu back to the White House. It’s a wonderful feeling and a wonderful event. We had fantastic talks, and thank you very much, with your staff.
“I want to say it’s an honour to have you with us. Over the past four years, the US and the Israeli alliance has been tested more than any time in history, but the bonds of friendship and affection between the American and Israeli people have endured for generations and they are absolutely unbreakable.
“I’m confident that, under our leadership, the cherished alliance between our two countries will soon be stronger than ever. We had a great relationship. We had great victories together four years ago, not so many victories over the past four years, however. In my first term, prime minister and I forged a tremendously successful partnership that brought peace and stability to the Middle East like it hadn’t seen in decades.
“Together, we defeated ISIS [ISIL], we ended the disastrous Iran nuclear deal, one of the worst deals ever made, and imposed the toughest ever sanctions on the Iranian regime. We starved Hamas and Iran’s other terrorist proxies, and we starved them like they had never seen before, resources and support disappeared for them.
“I recognised Israel’s capital, opened the American embassy in Jerusalem and got it built. We got it built. It’s beautiful, all Jerusalem stone right from nearby and it was – it’s something that’s very special.
“And recognised Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, something that they talked about for 70 years and they weren’t able to get it. And I got it. And with the historic Abraham Accords, something that was really an achievement that was, I think, going to become more and more important because we achieved the most significant Middle East peace agreements in half a century.
“And I really believe that many countries will soon be joining this amazing peace and economic development transaction. It really is a big economic development transaction. I think we’re going to have a lot of people signing up very quickly. Unfortunately, for four years, nobody signed up. Nobody did anything for four years except in the negative.
“Unfortunately, the weakness and incompetence of those past four years, the grave damage around the globe that was done, including in the Middle East, grave damage all over the globe. The horrors of October 7th would never have happened if I were president, the Ukraine and Russia disaster would never have happened if I were president.
“Over the past 16 months, Israel has endured a sustained aggressive and murderous assault on every front, but they fought back bravely. You see that and you know that. What we have witnessed is an all-out attack on the very existence of a Jewish state in the Jewish homeland. The Israelis have stood strong and united in the face of an enemy that has kidnapped, tortured, raped and slaughtered innocent men, women, children and even little babies.
“I want to salute the Israeli people for meeting this trial with courage and determination and unflinching resolve. They have been strong. In our meetings today, the prime minister and I focused on the future, discussing how we can work together to ensure Hamas is eliminated and ultimately restore peace to a very troubled region.
“It’s been troubled, but what has happened in the last four years has not been good.
“I also strongly believe that the Gaza Strip, which has been a symbol of death and destruction for so many decades and so bad for the people anywhere near it, and especially those who live there and frankly who’s been really very unlucky. It’s been very unlucky. It’s been an unlucky place for a long time.
“Being in its presence just has not been good and it should not go through a process of rebuilding and occupation by the same people that have really stood there and fought for it and lived there and d
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Quote:The authority comes from Congress, not the President.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Where does this authority derive from, Constitutionally? AFAIK they serve at the pleasure of the only person in the entire appx 1.7 million employee executive branch, and that's the President.
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SIX, this for you
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"This Is Where The Big Money Fraud Is Happening": DOGE Dives Into Medicare Payment Malarkey
Wednesday, Feb 05, 2025 - 08:00 PM
Representatives of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - who just obtained security clearances, have been embedded at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) this week, gaining access to critical payment and contracting systems, according to the Wall Street Journal, citing multiple individuals familiar with the situation.
The DOGE representatives have been on site at the agency’s offices this week, the people said, and they are looking at the systems’ technology as well as the spending that flows through them, with a focus on pinpointing what they consider fraud or waste. DOGE representatives are also examining the agency’s organizational design and how it is staffed, the people added.
Musk confirmed his interest in CMS oversight in a social media post, writing on X: "Yeah, this is where the big money fraud is happening."
The White House and DOGE officials declined to comment on the matter. In the last week, Musk’s DOGE team has been moving swiftly to gain access across multiple federal agencies, including the Treasury Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to uncover fraud, abuse, and excessive spending.
A CMS official told the Journal that the agency has assigned “two senior agency veterans who are leading the coordination with DOGE," and that leaders are "taking a thoughtful approach to see where there may be opportunities for more effective and efficient spending in line with meeting the goals of President Trump."
CMS sits at the heart of the nation’s healthcare economy, managing a budget of approximately $1.5 trillion in fiscal 2024 - roughly 22 percent of total federal spending. The agency employs around 6,710 people and administers Medicare, Medicaid, and other healthcare programs vital to millions of Americans. Many of its employees have spent decades navigating the complex regulatory and operational framework underpinning the healthcare system.
Among the systems DOGE representatives have accessed is CALM, the CMS Acquisition Lifecycle Management system, which contains contract data, sources said. However, they noted that DOGE personnel have not yet gained entry to databases containing personally identifiable health information of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. They also have not accessed HIGLAS, the Healthcare Integrated General Ledger Accounting System, a key accounting platform for CMS payments.
One person familiar with DOGE’s work at CMS emphasized that the current level of access is "read-only," preventing Musk’s team from making modifications to the systems.
The intervention has raised concerns among CMS veterans and healthcare policy experts. The agency’s payment structures are notoriously complex, involving multiple layers of contractors and private insurers, especially within Medicare. Medicaid, jointly administered by federal and state governments, follows different financial pathways, with federal funding typically flowing to state agencies.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/where-big-money-fraud-happening-do
ge-dives-medicare-payment-malarkey
One thing I see on my EOBs is that actual healthcare providers don't seem to be getting paid enough, at least not for an expensive region like southern California. Many no longer acceot Medicare insurance. If there is fraud, abuse, and waste occurring, and it's wrung out of the system, that could preserve funding for legitimate health care.
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Quote:Signym, you are full of shit: In 2024, 1,912 active physicians in California opted out of Medicare, out of a total of 114,238 active physicians.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
SIX, this for you
One thing I see on my EOBs is that actual healthcare providers don't seem to be getting paid enough, at least not for an expensive region like southern California. Many no longer acceot Medicare insurance. If there is fraud, abuse, and waste occurring, and it's wrung out of the system, that could preserve funding for legitimate health care.
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+many+doctors+in+california+do+not+
accept+medicare
Nationwide: How Many Physicians Have Opted Out of the Medicare Program?
By Alex Cottrill, Nancy Ochieng, and Tricia Neuman
Published: Jan 17, 2025
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/how-many-physicians-have-opte
d-out-of-the-medicare-program/
Nationwide, the numbers are not much different than California. There will always be American doctors who would let you die rather than accept even $1.00 less payment. In other countries, such doctors would be kicked out of the profession and then pissed in the face by their former colleagues.
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There’s No Magic Solution To The Slowdown In U.S. Output Growth
Trump's assumptions about U.S. oil’s fungibility and supply elasticity are flawed.
By Alex Kimani - Feb 05, 2025, 7:00 PM CST
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Theres-No-Magic-Solution-To-The-
Slowdown-In-US-Output-Growth.html
An executive order signed by President Trump titled ‘Unleashing American Energy’ signed on 20 January detailed oil’s importance in restoring U.S. economic and military security. The executive order describes oil as an abundant low-cost resource that has been held back by regulations, and that can now be freed to fuel a renaissance in manufacturing thanks to the cost advantage of cheap oil.
Commodity analysts at Standard Chartered have pointed out that Trump’s view of U.S. oil hinges on several assumptions: that oil is fungible and hence, for example, substitution between foreign heavy crude refined in Illinois and light sweet Permian Basin crude is easy, and the supply curve for unconstrained U.S. oil is highly elastic with a low marginal cost. StanChart says these assumptions are flawed, arguing that the U.S. oil supply curve is likely to remain stubbornly high and steep rather than low and flat.
StanChart has predicted that the dramatic slowdown in U.S. oil production growth that we witnessed in 2024 will continue over the next two years. (That is exactly the opposite of Trump’s predictions.)
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How Trump Lost His Trade War
By David Frum | February 5, 2025, 1:42 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-tariffs-mexico
-canada/681579/
Round one of Donald Trump’s trade war has come to an inglorious end. The United States has suspended its threats against Canada and Mexico in return for border-enforcement measures that Canada and Mexico either were doing anyway or had done before without making much difference in the flow of drugs. What can Americans and others learn from this costly episode—other than not to repeat it? The following:
1) American tariffs hurt Americans.
President Donald Trump has always insisted that tariffs are paid by foreigners, that they put free money into the U.S. Treasury. Trump’s week-long tariff war confirmed that nobody else in the U.S. government or in American business believes him. The National Association of Home Builders published a letter to the president predicting that his tariffs would raise the cost of housing construction. Automobile stocks slumped because investors expected Trump’s tariffs to add thousands of dollars to the cost of each new vehicle. The senior Republican in the Senate publicly pleaded for potash to be exempted from tariffs so as not to increase fertilizer prices for his farm constituents, belying Trump’s claim that the higher prices would be paid by the exporters.
2) Tariffs beget retaliatory tariffs.
When Trump paused tariffs on Canada and Mexico, those countries halted their retaliatory actions. But China is proceeding with a range of tariffs against U.S. exports, reserving more retaliation for later. Americans are already paying for previous rounds of Trump trade actions against China. In the first Trump presidency, China cut its purchases of U.S. soybeans by 75 percent over a single year in 2018. Brazil in 2018 overtook the United States as the world’s largest soybean producer. During the campaign of 2024, the vice-presidential candidate J. D. Vance lamented that the United States had become a net importer of food. He omitted to mention that a reason for this status was precisely the harm done to U.S. farm exports by Trump’s first-term tariffs.
3) There’s not much point in negotiating trade treaties with the United States.
Trump renegotiated NAFTA during his first term, replacing it with his USMCA deal. Now, in his second term, he has reneged on that. Trump’s version of NAFTA offered a range of legal ways to terminate the agreement; he did not use any of them. He did not even pretend that Canada or Mexico had somehow defaulted on their end of the bargain. He simply ignored the deal and proceeded with his tariffs under a series of contradictory excuses.
Days earlier, Trump had issued a flurry of threats against Colombia, which also has a trade agreement with the United States. Again, Trump ignored all the legalities of the treaty; again, he used trade as a weapon to resolve nontrade disagreements.
Mexico and Canada have oriented their economies to the U.S. under first NAFTA and then USMCA. That probably will not alter even after Trump’s episode of blackmail. But other countries, farther away, may wonder whether there’s any point in signing deals with such a bad-faith partner as the United States has become.
4) “Friend-shoring” is a fiction.
As relations have worsened between the United States and China, many in the U.S. government have looked to friend-shoring as a way to keep most of the benefits of free trade. The idea is to redirect U.S. purchasing power away from hostile China and toward more trustworthy partners. The assumption behind the term is that those partners will gladly trust the United States.
Trump, Vice President Vance, and their allies in Congress have threatened unilateral military action against Mexico; Trump himself indulges in speculation about the forced annexation of Greenland from NATO ally Denmark and about absorbing Canada as a 51st state.
Maybe that’s all just a lot of ugly talk. But the president has made clear that so-called friendship with the United States does n
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Oh, David Frum.
Another neocon with an axe to grind.
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Quote:Trump and Trumptards were described: "Trump is a uniquely emotionally needy president, prone to impulsive vindictiveness." Those three character flaws: emotionally needy, impulsive and vindictiveness have caused Trumptard divorces, financial failures, and other suffering.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares about your propaganda.
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I became aware of doctors dropping out of Medicare when I found the allergist/immunologist I was referred to no longer accepted it. AFA your figures... you are correct. Altho California is ranked in the 2nd highest category of non-participating physicians, 98% accept Medicare as payment in full. With the recent bout of inflation, this is a figure that bears watching. Fortunately, its being watched.
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I already posted extensively about oil, and the problem that our light sweet crude poses for our refineries. I concluded that altho we could continue to export oil, since we can't use it exclusively we would be advised to import heavy oil from some place convenient, like Venezuela.
Furthermore, oil recovered by fracking drops off by 95% in 5 years (according to one study) and must constantly be "restimulated". Fracked oil is necessarily more expensive to recover than conventional oil.
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Quote:Canada accounts for a staggering 61 percent of all imported oil to the US. Canadian crude is heavy and from tar sand. Trump, knowing nothing about oil refineries, was going to place tariffs on crude oil.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I already posted extensively about oil, and the problem that our light sweet crude poses for our refineries. I concluded that altho we could continue to export oil, since we can't use it exclusively we would be advised to import heavy oil from some place convenient, like Venezuela.
Which country sends more heavy crude to USA?
https://www.google.com/search?q=which+country+sends+more+heavy+crude+t
o+USA%3F
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I just found out that only 1.5% of Japan’s population is Christian and I’m heartbroken.
https://www.threads.net/@camillecardonaa/post/DDJ8tkepy-K?hl=en
Hi. Japan's homicide rate is 0.7 cases per 100K. United States homicide rate is 5.7 cases per 100K.
Japan's unhoused population in 2024: 2,820. United States unhoused: 653,104.
Japan also has one of the highest food security rates in the whole big world. Meanwhile, in the US, 18 million people are food insecure.
Maybe this Sunday you can ask the Christians what their bible says about poor people and murder. Sorry about your heart.
JoeJustice @JoeJustice
Japan has one of the lowest murder rates, lowest crime rates, and highest longevity rates. Difficult to measure, but arguably the most polite and considerate of others. But only 4% of the population believes in God or a supreme being. So, how does it work? It’s called Dotoku, a class in all grades, modeled by teachers, and supported by all public services. It teaches how to act and respond in many different situations for a harmonious society.
5:31 AM · Jan 25, 2025
https://x.com/JoeJustice/status/1883115588752716076
America compares poorly to Japan because Trump and his Trumptards behave disgracefully. Democrats cannot fix what is wrong with people psychologically opposed to decency.
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@camillecardonaa 12/04/2024
I just found out that only 1.5% of Japan’s population is Christian and I’m heartbroken.
https://www.threads.net/@camillecardonaa/post/DDJ8tkepy-K?hl=en
Hi. Japan's homicide rate is 0.7 cases per 100K. United States homicide rate is 5.7 cases per 100K.
Japan's unhoused population in 2024: 2,820. United States unhoused: 653,104.
Japan also has one of the highest food security rates in the whole big world. Meanwhile, in the US, 18 million people are food insecure.
Maybe this Sunday you can ask the Christians what their bible says about poor people and murder. Sorry about your heart.
JoeJustice @JoeJustice
Japan has one of the lowest murder rates, lowest crime rates, and highest longevity rates. Difficult to measure, but arguably the most polite and considerate of others. But only 4% of the population believes in God or a supreme being. So, how does it work? It’s called Dotoku, a class in all grades, modeled by teachers, and supported by all public services. It teaches how to act and respond in many different situations for a harmonious society.
5:31 AM · Jan 25, 2025
https://x.com/JoeJustice/status/1883115588752716076
America compares poorly to Japan because Trump and his Trumptards behave disgracefully. Democrats cannot fix what is wrong with people psychologically opposed to decency.
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Japan has a completely homogeneous culture.
You're comparing apple to a cornucopia.
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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
by Andrew Prokop | Feb 6, 2025, 11:05 AM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/398618/elon-musk-doge-illegal-lawbreaking
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David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School, recently told the Washington Post that so many of Musk’s moves were “so wildly illegal” that he seemed to be “playing a quantity game, and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”
I reached out to Super so he could walk through this quantity game — so he could take me on a tour of all of the apparent lawbreaking in Musk’s effort so far. A transcript of our conversation, condensed and edited for clarity, follows.
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You guys see Karoline Leavitt today?
When telling everyone that men can no longer play in women's sports by law, one of the reporters asked "what do you have to say to schools who don't comply?"?
"Well... They should, because (looks down at watch) it's going to be federal law in about an hour and a half."
Democrats are so fucked.
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All the ways Elon Musk is breaking the law, explained by a law professor
There are a lot of them.
by Andrew Prokop | Feb 6, 2025, 11:05 AM CST
https://www.vox.com/politics/398618/elon-musk-doge-illegal-lawbreaking
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David Super, an administrative law professor at Georgetown Law School, recently told the Washington Post that so many of Musk’s moves were “so wildly illegal” that he seemed to be “playing a quantity game, and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once.”
I reached out to Super so he could walk through this quantity game — so he could take me on a tour of all of the apparent lawbreaking in Musk’s effort so far. A transcript of our conversation, condensed and edited for clarity, follows.
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Nobody cares.
I wonder when we're going to dig up the money that was being funneled by the Democratic Party into Vox's payroll.
Tick Tock
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Quote:Lincoln slaughtered his enemies who said nobody cares about the equality mentioned in his Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.
Most Democrats cannot remember what Lincoln learned over the years to win the Civil War. Even Lincoln forgot, which was why he was shot in the head. Hint for Democrats: Kill Musk’s people by execution in the style of Lincoln’s assassination. What did Musk do that is tyrannical?
Quote:If Musk is defying the US Code, Democrats should avoid taking him to court. Instead, take him outside and shoot him in the head, execution style.
Trump and Musk are trying to disband USAID and move it over to the State Department. This seems to be blatantly defying the face of the congressional statute creating that agency, right? Is it any more complicated than that?
It really isn’t. Section 6563(a) of Title 22 of the US code says, there is a USAID. It doesn’t say there can be. It doesn’t say, “If the president wants to.” It says, there is a USAID. So to close it down means to defy that statute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/6563
It is fast. It is easy. And the Supreme Court can’t overrule a bullet in Musk’s brain. Musk is depending on Democrats not doing what Lincoln did to the Confederates. Musk is probably safe because Democrats don’t believe they can stop a tyrant like Musk by simply executing him based on the Second Amendment to the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment to not admit to killing Musk.
The primary purpose of the Second Amendment is to ensure that should a tyrannical power overtake the Nation, Americans will be able to defend themselves; because this danger always exists, gun control should be prohibited.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/limits-gun-ownersh
ip-may-result-tyranny-gun-control-p-123-130-1992
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Quote:Lincoln slaughtered his enemies who said
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.
Well then go dig up Lincoln and send him my way.
Go fuck yourself.
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Quote:Lincoln slaughtered his enemies who said nobody cares about the equality mentioned in his Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.
Most Democrats cannot remember what Lincoln learned over the years to win the Civil War. Even Lincoln forgot, which was why he was shot in the head. Hint for Democrats: Kill Musk’s people by execution in the style of Lincoln’s assassination. What did Musk do that is tyrannical?
Quote:If Musk is defying the US Code, Democrats should avoid taking him to court. Instead, take him outside and shoot him in the head, execution style.
Trump and Musk are trying to disband USAID and move it over to the State Department. This seems to be blatantly defying the face of the congressional statute creating that agency, right? Is it any more complicated than that?
It really isn’t. Section 6563(a) of Title 22 of the US code says, there is a USAID. It doesn’t say there can be. It doesn’t say, “If the president wants to.” It says, there is a USAID. So to close it down means to defy that statute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/6563
It is fast. It is easy. And the Supreme Court can’t overrule a bullet in Musk’s brain. Musk is depending on Democrats not doing what Lincoln did to the Confederates. Musk is probably safe because Democrats don’t believe they can stop a tyrant like Musk by simply executing him based on the Second Amendment to the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment to not admit to killing Musk.
The primary purpose of the Second Amendment is to ensure that should a tyrannical power overtake the Nation, Americans will be able to defend themselves; because this danger always exists, gun control should be prohibited.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/limits-gun-ownersh
ip-may-result-tyranny-gun-control-p-123-130-1992
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Wow, a whole lotta unresolved anger there, SECOND!
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RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbarf have been recommended by committee for approval.
Yay!
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RFK Jr and Tulsi Gabbarf have been recommended by committee for approval.
Yay!
Almost there.
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My prediction at this point, as long as the economy doesn't tank and WWIII doesn't start between here and now, that Trump will be seeing 55% approval rating in the aggregate by the end of his first year. It wouldn't surprise me if it flirted with 60%.
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Quote:Wow, a whole lotta unresolved anger there, SECOND!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Lincoln slaughtered his enemies who said nobody cares about the equality mentioned in his Gettysburg Address: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Nobody cares.
Most Democrats cannot remember what Lincoln learned over the years to win the Civil War. Even Lincoln forgot, which was why he was shot in the head. Hint for Democrats: Kill Musk’s people by execution in the style of Lincoln’s assassination. What did Musk do that is tyrannical?Quote:If Musk is defying the US Code, Democrats should avoid taking him to court. Instead, take him outside and shoot him in the head, execution style.
Trump and Musk are trying to disband USAID and move it over to the State Department. This seems to be blatantly defying the face of the congressional statute creating that agency, right? Is it any more complicated than that?
It really isn’t. Section 6563(a) of Title 22 of the US code says, there is a USAID. It doesn’t say there can be. It doesn’t say, “If the president wants to.” It says, there is a USAID. So to close it down means to defy that statute. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/6563
It is fast. It is easy. And the Supreme Court can’t overrule a bullet in Musk’s brain. Musk is depending on Democrats not doing what Lincoln did to the Confederates. Musk is probably safe because Democrats don’t believe they can stop a tyrant like Musk by simply executing him based on the Second Amendment to the Constitution and the Fifth Amendment to not admit to killing Musk.
The primary purpose of the Second Amendment is to ensure that should a tyrannical power overtake the Nation, Americans will be able to defend themselves; because this danger always exists, gun control should be prohibited.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/limits-gun-ownersh
ip-may-result-tyranny-gun-control-p-123-130-1992
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Am I angry when I kill a deer? Looking back, it is pretty cold situation for me. The deer has to die for dog food. But what about that 2nd Amendment argument about guns being for killing tyrants? I think the 2nd Amendment has NEVER been used in such a fashion. Trumptards use the anti-tyrant argument but history says the 2nd Amendment only prevented an Abolitionist majority in Congress from taking the guns of cotton planters hunting for runaway slaves/freed slaves. In the Supreme Court case United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1875), the defendants were white men who had killed more than sixty black people in what was known as the Colfax massacre. The Supreme Court said it was okay for whites to kill blacks because of the 2nd Amendment. Also, anti-Ku-Klux-Klan statutes are unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court decided it was legal for whites to kill blacks:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Co
nstitution#United_States_v._Cruikshank
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Quote:Really? The Confederates predicted they would conquer American, and for a long while it looked like it would happen, but then Lincoln found some generals who murdered Confederates, unlike General George B. McClellan. McClellan was not very helpful in defeating Confederates because he spent most of his time thinking of ways to defeat Lincoln and to be kind to Confederates:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
My prediction at this point, as long as the economy doesn't tank and WWIII doesn't start between here and now, that Trump will be seeing 55% approval rating in the aggregate by the end of his first year. It wouldn't surprise me if it flirted with 60%.
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Incumbent President Abraham Lincoln of the National Union Party easily defeated the Democratic nominee, former General George B. McClellan, by a wide margin of 212–21 in the electoral college, with 55% of the popular vote.
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
By Janus Rose | Feb 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/
If there’s one thing I’d hoped people had learned going into the next four years of Donald Trump as president, it’s that spending lots of time online posting about what people in power are saying and doing is not going to accomplish anything. If anything, it’s exactly what they want.
. . .
We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.
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Over a hundred Indian nationals were deported from the US on a costly military flight. The operation underscored the Trump administration's commitment to cracking down on illegal immigration, with each deportee's journey amounting to over $10,000 due to the high cost of military transport.
The flight, a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III, landed in Amritsar on Wednesday with 104 deportees aboard. The C-17 aircraft is a US military transport plane that is significantly more expensive than both first-class and chartered flights typically used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for deportations.
Military flights are considerably more expensive than civilian ones. According to documents released by the US Air Mobility Command, the cost of operating a C-17 aircraft for transport is $28,562 per flight hour. After more than 43 hours in the air, the flight landed at Amritsar Airport.
The total cost of the flight, factoring in the return journey to a US air base, is estimated to be over $1 million, or more than $10,000 per detainee. By contrast, a commercial one-way ticket from San Francisco to New Delhi typically costs around $500, or $4,000 for business class.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/donald-trumps-deportation
-push-how-much-did-it-cost-us-to-deport-104-indians/articleshow/118008634.cms
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Autogolpe
What’s really happening beneath the Musk/Trump chaos
By Paul Krugman | Feb 07, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/autogolpe
For those writing or talking about what’s happening, it is important not to get distracted by Trump’s bright, shiny objects. No, Trump isn’t going to take over Gaza, annex Canada, try to retake the Panama Canal or seize Greenland. Trump’s bizarre announcements are a distraction.
Until a few days ago I thought a gratuitous trade war would actually happen, since tariffs have been a Trump obsession for decades. But his ignominious climbdown over tariffs on Canada and Mexico suggests that I may have taken the distraction all too seriously.
The alliance between Musk and Trump, two men with giant but obviously fragile egos, could break down. Musk’s meddling at Treasury and the assault on federal workers may lead to some highly visible disasters. Voters may eventually realize that Trump’s claims of success are smoke and mirrors and wonder what happened to his promise to make groceries cheaper. And at some point the American people may notice that Russell Vought, the father of the immensely unpopular Project 2025, is actually making policy.
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Donald Trump campaigned against consensual reality and won. Every plank of his platform – from the economy to immigration to abortion – was based on easily provable lies.
Despite Trump’s bombastic assertions to the contrary, inflation is down, growth is up, illegal border crossings are down, crime is down, and vaccines work great. Tariffs are taxes on imports and American companies say they’re planning to raise prices.
Delusion strongly predicted a vote for Trump. An Ipsos poll in the final weeks of the campaign found that voters who falsely believed that we are living through a record-breaking violent crime wave favored Trump by 26 points, while those who knew the truth broke for Harris by 65 points. Those who knew that the inflation rate is back to the historic average favored Harris by 53 points. Respondents who knew that illegal border crossings are down favored Harris by 59 points.
CBS correspondent Leslie Stahl once asked Donald Trump why he constantly attacked the press. “I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you,” Trump replied.
Trump also discredits the government as a source of information. When the latest statistics showed that crime was down, Trump accused the FBI of making them up. When the jobs report was revised, Trump accused Harris of faking it.
Trump’s followers reinterpret his 34 felony convictions as evidence of the plot against him, rather than evidence of his terrible behavior.
Once you dismiss any evidence that clashes with your prejudices as part of the conspiracy, you are free to create your own reality.
This is why social scientists have been warning about the link between conspiracism and totalitarianism for a century. Care for an example? There was never any evidence that the Jews secretly controlled the world – but it didn't matter because lack of evidence was proof that the Jews controlled the press, and the universities, and science and the arts. Jews in pre-war Germany didn't control any of those things – but no evidence to the contrary could penetrate the conspiracy theory. And the complete absence of evidence for their hegemony was just proof of Jewish total domination of Germany.
If everything you don't like becomes evidence of your opponent's plot to destroy you, you can't discuss anything rationally. Care for a more recent example than Nazi Germany? Human-caused climate change is a fact. But conspiracism takes the debate out of the realm of evidence and into the realm of character assassination of scientists and their supporters. It paints them as hoaxers and saboteurs. Vaccines have saved hundreds of millions of lives, but instead of debating their merits based on evidence, anti-vaxers portray their opponents as agents of a nefarious coverup to kill children. And it's completely irrefutable within their conceptual framework. When scientists or the government or journalists come forward with evidence that vaccines save millions of lives and prevent untold suffering, the conspiracist answer is: Well, that's what conspirators to kill our children would say.
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/the-one-belief-that-predi
cted-trump-voters-with-scary-accuracy/
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Law Professor Flags Trump 'Doomsday Scenario' That'll Cause 'Real Constitutional Crisis'
"A lot of lawyers are worried about" it, warned New York University's Ryan Goodman.
By Lee Moran | Feb 7, 2025, 03:49 AM EST
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/law-professor-donald-trump-doomsday-sce
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What happens if Donald Trump decides he will not abide by a court ruling?
Simmons suggested “we’re in a real jam” if Trump simply tells the Justice Department to ignore any court orders that prohibit him from carrying out his agenda.
Goodman agreed.
“That’s right. I think that is the doomsday scenario,” he reiterated.
Goodman pointed out that it “hasn’t happened yet” that the Trump administration has refused to abide by a court order, despite it possibly appearing to some people that they are.
“But what happens come the day that they do lose at the Supreme Court?” he asked. “Because I think some of these cases are just losers. And if they really want to push it, we’re in a real constitutional crisis.”
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Co-President Elon Musk's Tesla is having sales trouble in Germany because of his Nazi salutes -- "Sieg Heil, mein Führer Trump!" (We are not Nazis say Nazi Trumptards)
In January of 2025, only 1,277 new Teslas were registered in Germany, according to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. This marks a 59.5% drop in sales from January of 2024. However, the German EV market has grown over 50% year after year. As a result, Tesla's market share dropped from 14% to 4% in the country containing the company's only European manufacturing plant, reported Financial Times.
Tesla owners in Germany are reportedly attempting to distance themselves from Musk as much as possible, with one artist and designer becoming overwhelmed with orders for a bumper sticker he created reading, "I bought this before Elon went crazy." The designer, who is from the south-west state of Baden-Württemberg, said he received 2,000 orders for the sticker in one weekend.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/tesla-sales-plummet-as-experts-bl
ame-musk-s-government-overhaul/ar-AA1yxQwu
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Co-President Elon Musk's Tesla is having sales trouble in Germany because of his Nazi salutes -- "Sieg Heil, mein Führer Trump!" (We are not Nazis say Nazi Trumptards)
In January of 2025, only 1,277 new Teslas were registered in Germany, according to the German Federal Motor Transport Authority. This marks a 59.5% drop in sales from January of 2024. However, the German EV market has grown over 50% year after year. As a result, Tesla's market share dropped from 14% to 4% in the country containing the company's only European manufacturing plant, reported Financial Times.
Tesla owners in Germany are reportedly attempting to distance themselves from Musk as much as possible, with one artist and designer becoming overwhelmed with orders for a bumper sticker he created reading, "I bought this before Elon went crazy." The designer, who is from the south-west state of Baden-Württemberg, said he received 2,000 orders for the sticker in one weekend.
Yeah. There's a lot of woke and white guilt still in Germany.
We'll fix them.
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I wonder how much USAID money people like Kevin Drum have been getting.
I wonder how much longer people like Kevin Drum will be making his brainless little graphs for his brainlet readers when he's not being paid to do so anymore?
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Quote:6ixStringJack, you are on Medicaid for diabetes and your little brother is receiving SSI after being dropped on his head by a bipolar mommy -- wasteful Federal spending. https://www.ssa.gov/ssi
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
I wonder how much USAID money people like Kevin Drum have been getting.
I wonder how much longer people like Kevin Drum will be making his brainless little graphs for his brainlet readers when he's not being paid to do so anymore?
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Meanwhile, Kevin Drum got rich by working, unlike the angry poor white trash who are Trumptards. All the Trumptards I know tell me they are very important people who are entitled to success in America despite being without achievements. No Trumptard is entitled to better than being kicked in the head. Not long ago, America was more than the sum of its parts. Now, it is less. Around World War II, we were proud as a people but modest as individuals. Fewer than two people in ten said yes when asked, Are you a very important person? Today, more than six in ten say yes. All Trumptards say yes. Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Drum
Why do bad things happen to 6ixStringJack and family? For simple reasons:
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The difference between Kevin Drum(you) and I is that I don't live my life complaining about everything. People actually enjoy my company.
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Quote:Trumptards enjoy Trump's company. The difference is that I have tackled and punch unconscious a white guy who ran out of Home Depot with an armload of power tools. I beat up assholes like Trump, by which I mean criminals. Criminal Trump Ordered to Pay $83.3M in Sexual Assault Defamation Case
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The difference between Kevin Drum(you) and I is that I don't live my life complaining about everything. People actually enjoy my company.
https://www.voanews.com/a/jury-begins-deliberations-in-trump-sexual-as
sault-defamation-case-/7458971.html
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Quote:Scumbags and rapists enjoy Trump's company. Military freezes sexual assault prevention training after Trump executive order
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The difference between Kevin Drum(you) and I is that I don't live my life complaining about everything. People actually enjoy my company.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-07/military-freezes-a
ll-sex-assault-training-in-response-to-trump-executive-order
Rapists like to hang around Trump, who cancelled rape prevention training, because he is a rapist. Donald Trump sexual misconduct allegations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegatio
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Not much new here, except the revelation how long DOGE has been preparing. An excellent summary, well written.
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Friday, Feb 07, 2025 - 01:20 PM
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
"They never prepared for algorithms that could map everything. For personnel pre-positioned everywhere. For a president who counts every week like it's his last." - VP JD Vance
If you wondered since 2016 how come the blob and the Democratic Party were aligned so exquisitely in their operations to destroy populism (personified by Mr. Trump) and to permanently entrench single party power in America for all time to come, it’s because an endless font of taxpayer money was streamed into countless non-governmental orgs creating a shadow civil service of Democratic Party activists that melded seamlessly with the big policy-making agencies.
The money was laundered through manifold layers of these orgs and their sub-orgs to pay for an ongoing “color revolution” in the USA — lawfare, election fraud, propaganda, censorship, career cancellation, medical fuckery, open borders, and other totalitarian ploys — while enriching political players at all those manifold layers from multi-millionaire congressmen and senators to thousands of NGO officials making six-figure salaries to street hustlers like Patrisse Cullors of Black Lives Matter and “anti-racism” racist Ibram X. Kendi and his $50-million Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University (recently axed) — and, of course, ultimately the former Potemkin president “Joe Biden” and his family.
It was all this money that drove eight years of sponsored insanity. Mainly, it kept the hands of the Democratic Party firmly on the levers of power so that nothing could be done about the insults and injuries they were inflicting on our country. So, is it a mystery now that nobody was prosecuted for burning the cities in 2020, or for magically creating millions of extra “Joe Biden” votes out of nowhere that year, or setting up the kickback machine from Ukraine to Congress, or forcing millions to get a janky vaccine?
Pam Bondi is going to be a busy girl.
The DOGE has uncovered a government racketeering operation of which the USAID scandal is but one cog in a colossal engine of grift. What the public, including you readers, may not appreciate is how much planning went on over the past year to mount the DOGE effort, and how comprehensively the work of its many hundreds of computer techies (not just six whiz-kids) has laid bare the money-trails out of previously impenetrable government computers. Their algorithms have pierced firewalls, revealing decades of fraud and deceit.
Mr. Trump’s cabinet officers have started the job of dismantling the machine by getting rid of the employees who set it up and worked for it. By Thursday, Secretary of State Rubio, fired all but 300 of the 10,000 people working for USAID. CIA Director Ratcliffe offered the agency’s entire workforce a “deferred resignation” option that will allow them to bail out and still collect their salaries until September. Look for straight-up firings to ensue. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove ordered the acting FBI director to terminate eight senior FBI officials and asked for a review of up to 5,000 involved in J-6 investigations (including, presumably, agents who engaged in abusive SWAT-team deployments).
Many lawsuits have been mounted by blob-adjacent attorneys to make all this stop. But one big problem for them is that their gigantic legal fees — hundreds of dollars an hour on the meter multiplied by x-hundreds of lawyers— were previously paid by exactly those NGOs that are getting shut down now. So, perhaps you see exactly how those levers of power worked. The money will have to come from somewhere else, and I doubt that Silicon Valley billionaire blob-supporter Reid Hoffman wants to piss away the rest of his fortune on this.
Some actual persons
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How could the new Trump administration affect the rest of the world?
Consider specific policy issues directly raised by the new Trump administration:
• If the United States scales down its role in NATO, or exits altogether, how long can the stability Western Europe has experienced since World War II last? Will Germany rearm and develop nuclear weapons? Will historic European animosities reemerge?
• If the United States commitment to East Asian alliances starts to wobble, will Japan rearm and nuclearize? Would South Korea similarly go nuclear? And how would China react?
• If the United States, the world’s largest economy, abandons any interest in climate action, how much will other countries follow suit? What will the consequences be for warming around the planet?
• If the United States begins imposing significant tariffs on other countries, other countries will assuredly retaliate. Yet a baseline level of free trade has been essential to global prosperity — being a key reason why the 2008 financial crisis did not end up looking like the Great Depression. Will escalating trade war set the stage for global calamity?
https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/396661/trump-us-president-global-
world-politics-china
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trumptards enjoy Trump's company. The difference is that I have tackled and punch unconscious a white guy who ran out of Home Depot with an armload of power tools.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
The difference between Kevin Drum(you) and I is that I don't live my life complaining about everything. People actually enjoy my company.
No you didn't.
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I beat up assholes like Trump
No you don't.
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Criminal Trump Ordered to Pay $83.3M in Sexual Assault Defamation Case
Will be appealed and thrown out.
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Originally posted by second:
How could the new Trump administration affect the rest of the world?
Consider specific policy issues directly raised by the new Trump administration:
• If the United States scales down its role in NATO, or exits altogether, how long can the stability Western Europe has experienced since World War II last? Will Germany rearm and develop nuclear weapons? Will historic European animosities reemerge?
• If the United States commitment to East Asian alliances starts to wobble, will Japan rearm and nuclearize? Would South Korea similarly go nuclear? And how would China react?
• If the United States, the world’s largest economy, abandons any interest in climate action, how much will other countries follow suit? What will the consequences be for warming around the planet?
• If the United States begins imposing significant tariffs on other countries, other countries will assuredly retaliate. Yet a baseline level of free trade has been essential to global prosperity — being a key reason why the 2008 financial crisis did not end up looking like the Great Depression. Will escalating trade war set the stage for global calamity?
https://www.vox.com/explain-it-to-me/396661/trump-us-president-global-
world-politics-china
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Maybe you should have reserved your criticism for serious issues instead of being the party of Men in Women's Sports and Bathrooms, or Wide Open Borders and Everyone Except for Citizens Gets a Free Ride, or Hire Anybody As Long as They're Not White Males, or Lets Give Billions in Reparations For Shit That Happened Centuries Ago.
Maybe you Second, SPECIFICALLY, shouldn't have been posting a dozen articles screaming about one thing or another every fucking day and never sticking to a single gripe you had for more than 2 hours before you moved on to the next gripe.
Nobody cares.
And soon Vox will be bankrupt without that USAID money, so you will no longer even have their idiocy put to print anymore.
R.I.P. Democrats.
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Quote:I am sorry that I am biased against your beliefs. I have never met you. How dare I have uninformed opinions about you? On the other hand, every Trumptard I know should be in a straitjacket. Their behavior is that crazy. (Specifically: the ways they handle financial problems, health problems, work problems, family problems, even lawn care, are absolutely crazy. Correction - I meant stupid. The crazy part is they never learn a better way.) I've probably let that color my understanding of your mental problems. Again, I apologize for treating you as if you are a hallucinating lunatic.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Maybe you should have reserved your criticism for serious issues instead of being the party of Men in Women's Sports and Bathrooms, or Wide Open Borders and Everyone Except for Citizens Gets a Free Ride, or Hire Anybody As Long as They're Not White Males, or Lets Give Billions in Reparations For Shit That Happened Centuries Ago.
Maybe you Second, SPECIFICALLY, shouldn't have been posting a dozen articles screaming about one thing or another every fucking day and never sticking to a single gripe you had for more than 2 hours before you moved on to the next gripe.
Nobody cares.
And soon Vox will be bankrupt without that USAID money, so you will no longer even have their idiocy put to print anymore.
R.I.P. Democrats.
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You have nothing to apologize to me for.
I don't care about you. I would never accept any apology from the likes of you. You are a disgusting human being, and everyone who has ever known you is worse off for it.
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Quote:This evening I photographed the Trumptard's car parked across the street and sent the pictures to the family. The passenger side of the windshield was smashed in. The hood crushed. The front bumper plastic cover was half detached on that side. The right side mirror was folded back. But there wasn't any blood, so just another stupid thing a Trumptard will shrug off as if nothing consequential happen, exactly like they shrug at every dumb-ass thing Trump does. What's the big deal? I don't see a problem with Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You have nothing to apologize to me for.
I don't care about you. I would never accept any apology from the likes of you. You are a disgusting human being, and everyone who has ever known you is worse off for it.
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Nobody cares. Go tell your mom.
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