Trumps Presidency 2025

[romad1]

7 hours ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

 

Where is DOGE to call out the waste, fraud, and abuse of Trump's alleged $92 million military parade???

The military parade will make it easier for them to shoot protestors.

[CMRivdogs]

16 minutes ago, romad1 said:

The military parade will make it easier for them to shoot protestors.

I'm in favor of a boycott. 

[romad1]

1 minute ago, CMRivdogs said:

I'm in favor of a boycott. 

those troops need to be deployed or training for war with China and Russia.  NOT being used to intimidate Americans.

Edited April 8 by romad1

[CMRivdogs]

Just now, romad1 said:

those troops need to be deployed or training for war with China and Russia.  NOT being used to intimidate Americans.

Besides huge military parades are generally used by oppressive regime leaders to compensate for tiny mushrooms.

I'll stick with the local fife and drum corps march up DoG Street. Those kids deserve the recognition  

[Motown Bombers]

[Motown Bombers]

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[gehringer_2]

39 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

LOL - the other similar example is that you have a  100% trade imbalance with your barber - same idea.

It's a little bit of false analogy though because if you step back and look at all countries together (the equivalent of looking at your whole household budget) the US still has a huge trade deficit. There are other economic factors that make some part of that fine, but the argument is how much of it. The real problem is that China and its billion people have refused to run an 'ordinary' economy for the last several decades. They have structured their economy in such a way that they can't consume themselves enough of what they have to produce to keep their people employed and the net result is they run their economy by importing other country's industrial jobs (mostly ours AAMOF)- and sooner or later everyone else is going to get (has gotten)  tired of it. Right now they are setting up to dominate the worlds automotive industry next. That is what is at the core of what is happening here. Adding the rest of world to his grievance list is just gravy for Trump since he hates everyone anyway - the argument is 95% over China. 

Since Bill Clinton the Dem position on this has been "well it will all work out because we can all become knowledge workers" but it turns out knowledge jobs are just as easy to export. That's a big piece of why the democrats economic message has failed  - it's as much a failure as trickle down.

And I also think there is a level at which the Dems are OK with what Trump is doing; first because he is doing it badly which helps their future prospects, but two, because if they get back into power Trump will have done some of the 'dirty work' for them they would have done but couldn't figure out how to do themselves.

Edited April 8 by gehringer_2

[RatkoVarda]

18 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

If Hillary makes a move, I doubt 50 agents could stop her. As I understand it from MAGA, she has the most confirmed kills of any living assassin.

[romad1]

31 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

Certain directors of other agencies have had inside-the-building security details.   You have to be a total ass hat and all the internal direct messaging systems must be pinging off keywords that indicate mortal danger to the principal involved to require this level of internal fear, though. 

[Tiger337]

1 hour ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

I remember a friend was practically begging me to watch a Dan Bongino video because he thought it was the greatest thing ever.  Within 5 seconds, I knew he was a con man.  

[chasfh]

Well, you can't say he's not getting his money's worth. 

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[Edman85]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

Well, you can't say he's not getting his money's worth. 

 

Was surprised to see Kagan among the 7.

[smr-nj]

[Tigerbomb13]

Anyone else wonder if stanpapi’s 401k is back to being the best ever?

[CMRivdogs]

You can tell he's never done a lick of work around a coal furnace. I blame coal for at least part of my ILD

 

[CMRivdogs]

It's hard to do but JD has become a bigger asshole than DJ 45-47

 

Edited April 8 by CMRivdogs

[Tiger337]

8 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Anyone else wonder if stanpapi’s 401k is back to being the best ever?

He's got a fund which is unavailable to the rest of us peons.  It has gained 20% so far this year.  

Edited April 9 by Tiger337

[romad1]

Trump thinks he was being spied on when they recorded his impeachment call with Zelensky. 

[pfife]

7 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

He's got a fund which is unavailable to the rest of us peons.  It has gained 20% so far this year.  

Its all invested in $10k steaks

[pfife]

48 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Trump thinks he was being spied on when they recorded his impeachment call with Zelensky. 

He publicly released the transcript of the call.

[Tigerbomb13]

26 minutes ago, pfife said:

Its all invested in $10k steaks

And $15k vacations 

[Tigerbomb13]

Who’da thunk that having people completely unqualified to run major parts of the government could have potentially disastrous consequences. 

[romad1]

that right there is some frightening language.  

Marisa Kabas: "“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”" — Bluesky