Trumps Presidency 2025

[Tigermojo]

I'm proposing a new slogan to tourism Canada.

Visit Canada, less than 2% Nazis

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

I'm proposing a new slogan to tourism Canada.

Visit Canada, less than 2% Nazis

Better hurry, because it won’t be long before Trump bans Americans from visiting Canada as long as they are their own country. This will be concomitant with a ban on European travel by Americans.

Could never happen? Tell me why it can’t.

[Tiger337]

3 hours ago, Sports_Freak said:

75%? I don't think so.

My estimate is 1/3 support him strongly, 1/3 hate him. 1/3 don't know what's going on.  

[Sports_Freak]

34 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

My estimate is 1/3 support him strongly, 1/3 hate him. 1/3 don't know what's going on.  

Yeah, the 30% who were too busy to vote allowed democracy to be destroyed by MAGA. I wonder what had them too busy? The Price is Right, followed by The View?

[Sports_Freak]

53 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Better hurry, because it won’t be long before Trump bans Americans from visiting Canada as long as they are their own country. This will be concomitant with a ban on European travel by Americans.

Could never happen? Tell me why it can’t.

People think the tarriffs are going to cripple the auto industry? A heads up, they're going to destroy the entire economy. Perfect time for the rich to buy everything up for pennies on the dollar. 2 classes in America, the ultra-rich and the masses in poverty. So, eat the rich? 😅

[chasfh]

58 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

My estimate is 1/3 support him strongly, 1/3 hate him. 1/3 don't know what's going on.  

I might tweak this to be a little closer to 1/3 support, defend, and celebrate his perceived divinity; 1/3 hate him and everything he represents; 1/6 bull**** themselves into supporting him because they see him as a tax-cutting business-first Republican with unfortunate behavioral ticks they can overlook because it hasn't affected them directly yet; and the remaining 1/3 don't know and don't care what's going on because it hasn't affected them directly yet.

[chasfh]

24 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

People think the tarriffs are going to cripple the auto industry? A heads up, they're going to destroy the entire economy. Perfect time for the rich to buy everything up for pennies on the dollar. 2 classes in America, the ultra-rich and the masses in poverty. So, eat the rich? 😅

They're crashing the economy so they can game the markets along the way.

[HighOPS]

18 minutes ago, chasfh said:

They're crashing the economy so they can game the markets along the way.

Plus, by breaking the government they can restore the services people demand. Of course the restored services will be privatized, be more expensive due to profit, have higher fraud because the contracts will be structured on service delivery numbers, and pay the workers delivering the services less. 

It's Russia in the 90's. Hopefully, we won't get even more Germany in the 30's to go with it. 

 

[chasfh]

28 minutes ago, HighOPS said:

Plus, by breaking the government they can restore the services people demand. Of course the restored services will be privatized, be more expensive due to profit, have higher fraud because the contracts will be structured on service delivery numbers, and pay the workers delivering the services less. 

It's Russia in the 90's. Hopefully, we won't get even more Germany in the 30's to go with it. 

 

Or worse, Germany in the '40s.

Ours will also become a bribe- and kickback-based economy, in which companies doing business with the Trump regime, or even we the taxpaying suckers, will have to pay someone a little sumpin' sumpin' for things like getting on the schedule in the first place, getting a place on some wait list, having someone actually show up for the job after we contract for it, maybe even to receive our income tax refund check at all. Won't that be a hoot. We are already seeing the beginnings of this as Republican congressmen engage in special pleading to protect government assets in their particular districts from being gutted.  

 

[Tigermojo]

Scary stuff. Extreme right and left are both equally bad and often lead straight to each other.

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[Tiger337]

3 hours ago, chasfh said:

I might tweak this to be a little closer to 1/3 support, defend, and celebrate his perceived divinity; 1/3 hate him and everything he represents; 1/6 bull**** themselves into supporting him because they see him as a tax-cutting business-first Republican with unfortunate behavioral ticks they can overlook because it hasn't affected them directly yet; and the remaining 1/3 don't know and don't care what's going on because it hasn't affected them directly yet.

That comes out to more than 100%!

So maybe 1/3, 1/3, 1/6, 1/6

[Dan Gilmore]

Being 7/6 is what makes us exceptional. 

[casimir]

1 hour ago, Dan Gilmore said:

Being 7/6 is what makes us exceptional. 

Dan Gilmore always brings 110% to his posts.

[gehringer_2]

21 minutes ago, casimir said:

Dan Gilmore always brings 110% to his posts.

Or even 116.6%

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

That comes out to more than 100%!

So maybe 1/3, 1/3, 1/6, 1/6

I know what I said. 😁

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

Or even 116.6%

Hey, man, don’t cheat Dan out of that 2/3 of a tenth of a point.

[chasfh]

How about we guess at a few more Executive Orders?

• EO mandating all federal elections, starting with the 2026 midterms, be administered by the federal government and not the states, under a newly constituted federal agency named along the lines of the National Elections Administration.
• EO decreeing that all foreign national students from a list of certain countries be immediate expelled from universities that receive federal funds.
• EO designating God Bless America as an official second national anthem.

Come on, everyone, join in! It’s so super fun! 💩

[oblong]

The national anthem will be that horrible Lee greenwood song 

[Tigerbomb13]

Up is down and fire is cold 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Up is down and fire is cold 

Crashing the economy is on purpose. 

 

[chasfh]

You do see how this works, right? First Trump "jokes" about gunning for a third term, then congressmen submit bills to allow Trump and only Trump to enjoy a third term, then Trump starts saying he's serious about a third term, then the pundit class seriously and earnestly discuss the pros and cons of Trump enjoying a third term, and by the time the courts bulldoze the Constitution it becomes clear that Trump will be installed for his third term, the American people simply shrug and say, well, everyone did say he would serve a third term, it's not like we didn't know it was going to happen. 

 

[Tiger337]

14 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Crashing the economy is on purpose. 

 

Much of the working class can not afford to invest, so they are not affected as much by a stock crash.  I think what the rich look for is middle class investors panicking and getting out of the market  as it crashes.  That's where the wealthy investors clean up.  I don't that is their primary goal though.  Their goals are deregulation, gutting the government and privatizing everything.  

Edited Sunday at 06:13 PM by Tiger337

[chasfh]

7 minutes ago, Tiger337 said:

Much of the working class can not afford to invest, so they are not affected as much by a stock crash.  I think what the rich look for is middle class investors panicking and getting out of the market  as it crashes.  That's where the wealthy investors clean up.  I don't that is their primary goal though.  Their goals are deregulation, gutting the government and privatizing everything.  

It's not because they own stocks that the working class is hurt by a recession .

[chasfh]

By a couple weeks from now, that percent of Republicans saying using Signal to discuss military plans will be at least 60%, a new horror will be dominating the news cycle, and everybody will be like, "what's 'Signalgate'"? 

 

Edited Sunday at 06:21 PM by chasfh

[Tiger337]

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

It's not because they own stocks that the working class is hurt by a recession .

I was responding to stock market "crash" which is not necessarily the result of a recession.