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2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Anything related to inflation stopped mattering to Trump and his followers on 11/6/2025.

It's really as simple as that.

From JVL today

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/oh-dear-look-at-the-price-of-eggs?utm_campaign=email-post&r=45wcm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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Voters were sincere when they cared about the price of eggs then. And they’re sincere in not caring about the price of eggs now. Because they are capricious and unserious.

Voters never actually cared about the price of eggs. That was just a rationalization used to explain a blunt fact: They wanted Trump. They wanted him affirmatively. They wanted the J6 pardons and the grift. They wanted the lies and the excitement. They wanted the mean tweets and the oligarchs. That they have gotten all of those things but the price of eggs increased while Trump’s popularity increased has revealed this preference. Electing Trump was never about the price of eggs any more than it was about bringing back factory jobs.

There is some as-yet-unrevealed mechanism that will cause voters to care about the price of eggs again in the near future. The problem is that Trump hasn’t been in power long enough for it to stick.² Or that people have other, more pressing concerns right now. Or Democrats haven’t done a good enough job in communicating. Or . . . something?

 

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14 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

If push comes to shove, CA can afford it, Tx can afford it,  how will all those other Red gulf coast states? Even FLA couldn't.

Red states will get their aid. Book that.

 

14 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Along with that money comes the coordination of relief efforts as well.

I really do not understand how getting a rid of FEMA and letting the states entirely handle all disaster relief "Makes America Great Again".... taken to it's logical end, it seems like it would end causing more pain and suffering

States' rights. Small first step to go back to the past.

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On 1/22/2025 at 7:05 AM, Tigeraholic1 said:

The right wing extremism group ADL has already weighed in. 
 

 

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a nonprofit focused on combating antisemitism, defended tech billionaire Elon Musk’s “awkward” gesture during a Monday celebratory event which some critics panned as a fascist salute. 

“This is a delicate moment. It’s a new day and yet so many are on edge. Our politics are inflamed, and social media only adds to the anxiety,” the ADL wrote in a Monday post on Musk’s social platform X. “It seems that @elonmusk made an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute, but again, we appreciate that people are on edge.” 
 

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5097676-elon-musk-defended-salute-criticism/amp/

 

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State's rights already exist in emergency response support from FEMA. The entire system is designed to be handled at the lowest level possible. If the local municipality or county is overwhelmed, they engage the State for support. If the State becomes overwhelmed by the response (or it exceeds their capability/capacity) they can either appeal to EMAC (basically asking other states for help) or seeking a Federal disaster declaration that allows FEMA to come to the table with additional resources, or both simultaneously. Even once FEMA is engaged because a declaration has occurred, they still cannot act unilaterally and must receive a request from the State to provide support for each requirement. 

 

Now, if we want to have a conversation about a lowering of the bar or an increased willingness to issue Federal disaster declarations, that would be a interesting discussion. I've been doing this long enough to remember some requests for declaration being denied because they didn't meet the threshold....I haven't seen one denied in about ten years, though; basically since Sandy. If the goal is to actually push the States to be more self-sufficient in the wake of an event, then let's talk about the threshold for declaration....but we all know it's not actually about creating increased self-suffieciency, but rather being punitive.

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14 minutes ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

So nothing new to report.

Oh dear, try to keep up.

Musk is following up his Nazi salutes with Holocaust jokes. Not sure who raised you not to know this, but that  - like grabbing 'em by the pussy, walking in on teen girls undressing, or digitally penetrating a woman - is always wrong.

Posted
5 minutes ago, pfife said:

Imagine choosing to come here and defend a nazi.   Whats even gained by doing so?

Makes him feel like one of the bros.  Not woke.  

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Only the best people. Oops! That was last time around. Deplorable
 
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BREAKING, via The Seattle Times: Trump's executive order to restrict birthright citizenship is blocked for at least the next two weeks by a Reagan appointee in Seattle who eviscerated the Trump lawyers present defending the order. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
Senior U.S. District Judge John Coughenour on Thursday was blistering in his criticism of Trump’s action as he granted a temporary restraining order that blocks Trump’s executive order from taking effect nationwide.  “I’ve been on the bench for over four decades, I can’t remember another case where the question presented is as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order,” Coughenour, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said from the bench. “There are other times in world history where we look back and people of goodwill can say where were the judges, where were the lawyers?”  Coughenour interrupted before Brett Shumate, a Justice Department attorney, could even complete his first sentence.  “In your opinion Is this executive order constitutional?” he asked.  Shumate said, “it absolutely is.”  “Frankly I have difficulty understanding how a member of the Bar could state unequivocally that this is a constitutional order,” Coughenour said. “It just boggles my mind.”
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24 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

Oh dear, try to keep up.

Musk is following up his Nazi salutes with Holocaust jokes. Not sure who raised you not to know this, but that  - like grabbing 'em by the pussy, walking in on teen girls undressing, or digitally penetrating a woman - is always wrong.

My grandmother was a Holocaust survivor. I also do not think Musk is a Nazi, this is just my opinion.

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3 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

boundless, aggressive stupidity has returned quickly, like a pervert barging into the Miss Teen USA dressing room.

so dumb; so unconstitutional; and no one really cares

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This kind of ****'s gonna be so common that the Supreme Court's gonna be on speed dial for at least the next four years.

Posted
3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

Another earnest question: how does rescinding employment to medical professionals help improve the VA or "Make America Great Again" more broadly?

By keeping precious, limited healthcare away from people of modest means who can't afford to pay what it's worth? Just spitballing here.

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3 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

My guess is that funding will come with more conditions... certain types of research will be banned if it doesn't fit the current regime's agenda in some way. We've already seen scopes of research become narrower since about the mid 90s (must study acute forms of disease, etc) but we might see (I hope I'm wrong) certain types of study banned or given strict limits on what they can or can't do.

If I were another country's government, I'd be looking to take advantage of this-by recruiting talented scientists and their studies/discoveries that might otherwise have worked in the US.

I hadn't even considered that as a way to keep all those super dark brown subcontinent Asians from coming to America and taking all those great-paying doctor jobs, but yeah, makes a little more sense now.

Posted
2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

I think you are probably right.  They might threaten to cut all NIH funding, but I imagine  hundreds of thousands of people losing their jobs wouldn't look great for Trump.

Oh, I don't know ... what kind of people are we talking about here?

Posted
2 hours ago, oblong said:

You just have to put yourself in the mindset of a bigoted person who complains about "woke" and figure out what they think is "woke" and if the research can be deemed "woke" then it won't be given funding.  So if it helps minorities or foreigners...

 

... and if it involves book larnin ' ...

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2 hours ago, Kacie said:

I'm getting way too much pleasure trolling my Magat family members.  They knew who he was, what he did, how many people he would hurt and voted for him anyway.   Now the leopard is eating their face and I'm pouring on the gravy. I'd burn in hell if I wasn't an atheist.

You might still burn in hell whether or not you are or are not an atheist, since MAGAs believe the wrong kind of believers are going to hell regardless, but hey, at least you didn't waste your time in some church along the way.

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