Trumps Presidency 2025

[CMRivdogs]

3 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 Because going after drug gangs and terrorists is not a sexy as rounding up illegal "aliens" 

 

Here is the real answer

 

[chasfh]

18 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Dell Cameron

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Trump just disabled the oversight board that was created specifically to make sure US presidents don't illegally surveil Americans:

This has always been the end goal: controlling ordinary, everyday people utterly and completely. What they are allowed to do, what they are not allowed to do, and just as importantly, what they must be compelled to do. The new regime can't achieve its goals without knowing exactly what each and everyone else of us are doing at all times, and they can't do that without ubiquitous surveillance. And not just electronic surveillance, either, although that will be a large part of it. They will also rely heavily on the word of snitches on the inside of various institutions: local and state government, media, academia, civic institutions, unions, private employers, charities, utilities, social media forums, all of it. They are already pushing for that inside the government today—my guess is that media will be next. Nothing will be too small for them to root out we they call Marxists, which will eventually encompass anyone who did not vote for Trump, and that includes most of us.

 

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

as usual, totally unclear what the MAGA moron thinks he is doing and/or is doing. Unconstitutional, illegal, and stupid.

Nope. Red state red hats will not band together with their neighbors and rise up against MAGA overreach by the government. They will simply turn on each other to eliminate local rivals, and then look for opportunities to plunder what's left behind. That's how it has always worked throughout history.

It may be unconstitutional and technically illegal, but what it's not is stupid. They know what they're doing, and they have help architecting the whole thing from benefactors who have 800+ years experience in doing the same thing.

[Tiger337]

Reaction to overreach is our best way out this  The deep red states are hopeless, but there are plenty of states that will turn blue in the mid-terms if things get ugly.  

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

Owning the libs by *checks notes* freezing infrastructure projects.

They couldn't give less of a shirt about infrastructure projects. Letting everything go to seed keeps our money in their pocket and reduces our morale. Driving down the quality of everything and getting us used to it is a goal, because the less we have, the less we'll demand.

Edited Tuesday at 04:56 PM by chasfh

[CMRivdogs]

Put your elementary youngsters to work at fast food restaurants and such. BTW since the Oligarchs and the World Wide Web have completely demolished things like local newspapers there are no longer many viable jobs for 10, 11, 12 year olds. 

 

[chasfh]

29 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

"Nice" to see Trump golfing while people are suffering in California through devastating wildfires and its after effects. People died, homes were destroyed, and he's out there like George Bush. Now watch me hit this drive. 

Hey, man, he's letting them eat cake. Get over it. 😏

[mtutiger]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

They couldn't give less of a shirt about infrastructure projects. 

In my conservative industry, this just isn't true at all.

[mtutiger]

Just incredibly bad...

[chasfh]

22 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 Because going after drug gangs and terrorists is not a sexy as rounding up illegal "aliens" 

 

It's not a nationwide scandal because Trump is employing a strategy that can be alternately called "the fire hose" and "shock and awe": flood us with so much terrible stuff on so many fronts all at once that we can't possibly unite to focus on what to fight back on or even object to. There are too many things in too many areas going on for us to unite and push back on any single one. And any time there is traction on any one issue, they merely introduce a new outrage into the system, and we all chase that like dogs after a squirrel. And so our attentions are fragmented and nothing controls for very long, because with every new outrage—and there will be at least one new outrage every day—we leave the old outrages behind, no more attention is paid to them, and the regime can complete their work on those. And this strategy totally working, because it has always worked. That's why it's not stupid, even as its unconstitutional and (for the moment) illegal.

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

In my conservative industry, this just isn't true at all.

I'm talking about the Trump government. Who are you talking about?

[mtutiger]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I'm talking about the Trump government. Who are you talking about?

Trump voters

[chasfh]

27 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Here is the real answer

 

It's true that a third of the people love the theater, but the other two-thirds who would normally object to it are getting too distracted by too many outrages all at once.

[mtutiger]

Amateur hour

Edited Tuesday at 05:09 PM by mtutiger

[chasfh]

Just now, mtutiger said:

Trump voters

Then both can be true. It's not the Trump voters freezing the infrastructure projects.

[CMRivdogs]

Harry Litman

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Orwellian quote of the week: "A spokesman said the DOJ is committed to advancing the new administration’s goals, including “upholding the rule of law, ensuring the security of the American people, restoring the public’s trust in the justice system, and ending weaponization of government.”

January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM

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[gehringer_2]

4 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Amateur hour

yup - they are about to learn that nothing is that simple, and that there are people at the end of all these line items that they have persuaded themselves just disappear into the ether.

Edited Tuesday at 05:13 PM by gehringer_2

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, CMRivdogs said:

Harry Litman

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Orwellian quote of the week: "A spokesman said the DOJ is committed to advancing the new administration’s goals, including “upholding the rule of law, ensuring the security of the American people, restoring the public’s trust in the justice system, and ending weaponization of government.”

January 28, 2025 at 11:57 AM

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They misspelled "enabling" at the end there.

[Tigerbomb13]

3 hours ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

She is on the ground with them. America is so back

To the 1800s

[Tigerbomb13]

15 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Amateur hour

Who woulda thunk installing loyalists instead of people that know what they are doing wouldn’t be working out so well?

[mtutiger]

2 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

yup - they are about to learn that nothing is that simple, and that there are people at the end of all these line items that they have persuaded themselves just disappear into the ether.

The most complimentary interpretation (which is by no means complimentary) is that they wrote to exempt individual benefits, but in reality these benefits are initially handled by groups prior to payout to individuals

It's all terrible, but it's also a case where they completely bungled the writing of the statute, and the result is massive chaos and uproar

[mtutiger]

Woah, hold the phone....

So it was what are eyes told it was after all, Rich???

[romad1]

4 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Woah, hold the phone....

So it was what are eyes told it was after all, Rich???

Of all the former center-right intellectual souls lost to Trumpism, Rich Lowry's is the one i really think saving would make the least difference. 

[mtutiger]

So states are now unable to access Medicaid....

Owning he libs by *check notes* demolishing the finances of American hospital systems 

[mtutiger]

3 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Of all the former center-right intellectual souls lost to Trumpism, Rich Lowry's is the one i really think saving would make the least difference. 

One thing that the slip shows is that Lowry doesn't deep down believe any of this crap, just going with the flow