Trumps Presidency 2025

[romad1]

26 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Click on the post for all the screenshots... But Lutnick literally begging Doug Ford for an offramp...

My favorite part is Lutnick talking about how comments by Canadian politicians are being taken as personal attacks... Especially given Trump calling Canada the 51st State and referring to PM Trudeau as "Governor"

They really don't get how they are coming across.  Well, get ready for elbows up.

[Motown Bombers]

MAGA totally overestimates the power of the US. They think the US can just get Canada to capitulate. They probably think that because they themselves capitulate so easily. Canada would rather burn itself to the ground than give in to the US who started an unprovoked trade war. 

[romad1]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

MAGA totally overestimates the power of the US. They think the US can just get Canada to capitulate. They probably think that because they themselves capitulate so easily. Canada would rather burn itself to the ground than give in to the US who started an unprovoked trade war. 

PARTICULARLY during an election season.

[Tigermojo]

Is it shocking to people in the US that not everyone on the planet wants to live by their rules?

[romad1]

10 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

Is it shocking to people in the US that not everyone on the planet wants to live by their rules?

the ignorant ones

[Hongbit]

30 minutes until the LiarsFest begins

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Motown Bombers]

Are we going to go through this every month where tariffs are placed on Canada and then boom boom bossman saves the day by caving? 

[casimir]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

I have no idea if the pullback is real or not, but can somebody explain what we are getting out of any of this?

I’m going to trademark Yo-yo Tariff Policy.

[HighOPS]

I know the broader market seems to move 2-4% on based on 25% tariffs. But, there are probably some specific stocks that move a lot more giving a great opportunity for graft if you know the timing of the announcements.

[Tigerbomb13]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

I have no idea if the pullback is real or not, but can somebody explain what we are getting out of any of this?

Boom boom boss man involved

[pfife]

Woof

[mtutiger]

46 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

MAGA totally overestimates the power of the US. They think the US can just get Canada to capitulate. They probably think that because they themselves capitulate so easily. Canada would rather burn itself to the ground than give in to the US who started an unprovoked trade war. 

Using the parlance of the online right, they see the rest of the world (or allies anyway) as "NPCs"... And they are so blinded by their arrogance that they have not understood that other nations have pride and will defend themselves when attacked.

In the context of this trade war, I'd argue that the unity of Canadians and Mexicans, having been attacked, has always been an underrated factor. Pushing back is a 85+% issue for their leaders, whereas for Trump, most Americans don't even support these tariffs.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

And, what was the point of delaying the tariffs a month? 

So he could time it with the speech tonight. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Yeah, America looks real affordable now. What a ****ing moron. 

[CMRivdogs]

Rewatching Wolf Hall tonight, much better that the Orange Man Damien Lewis as Henry VIII is much better than anything Donald Trump could ever say. Mark Rylance is an under rated treasure as Thomas Cromwell. 

Edited Wednesday at 02:41 AM by CMRivdogs

[Motown Bombers]

13 minutes ago, chasfh said:

So he could time it with the speech tonight. 

This would have been a good time for Ontario to cut power to the US. 

[chasfh]

9 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

Democrats need to be messaging in-terms of the Lord Farquaad approach that the average voter understands. I think it would be effective to hit Republicans with some version of a "sure that where be pain, job losses, income loss, and higher prices, but that's a sacrifice Trump is willing to make that will hit you and your family hard." Trump's whole game is the economy and if Democrats can make that house of cards fall he's politically in deep ****.

Honestly, I’m wondering how much longer the Democrats are for this world. 

[Hongbit]

Is there anyone with a more hittable face than JD Vance? 

[casimir]

1 minute ago, Hongbit said:

Is there anyone with a more hittable face than JD Vance? 

Trump.

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Have these people lost their minds?

I like how she got the last word on this with facts. 

[CMRivdogs]

5 minutes ago, Hongbit said:

Is there anyone with a more hittable face than JD Vance? 

Musk, Trump's sons...

MTG...

 

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, romad1 said:

This is a bad move for them.  The ones who do maintain their connection to their voters will survive. 

They planning to shove so much bad **** up our asses that we’re not even going to remember there was even such a thing as town halls. 

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

If we'd be willing to have an honest conversation about capitalism and it's modern failures this would help a lot more too. Capitalism in its current form is an unsustainable business model. You can't have less than 1% of people own 30% of wealth and obtain over 40% of all new wealth generated. I'm not going to acknowledge the benefits of NAFTA until we start to talk about things that reign in and regulate modern capitalisms excesses. NAFTA was apart of those modern capitalist excesses. NAFTA did what corporations wanted it to do. It provided for a new, cheaper labor force in Mexico.

We need to be discussing major reforms like like workplace democratization, electing corporate executives by a vote of the companies workers, allowing workers a vote/say in major decisions that impact a business, ending at will employment (or at least make firing an employee harder), maximum compensation regulations, and more.

We’ve moved way way up the field away from socialist revolution. We should probably be thrilled just to get back to 2024.