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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Why should it be up to the post office where I buy things?
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It shouldn't be but they are linked with customs and excise in regard to the importing of goods and the correct taxes being paid, the likes of Temu take advantage of a loophole that shouldn't exist.
dann said:
Like Theresienstadt?
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Or perhaps a more final solution, I mean who wants to return from paradise?
 
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Darat said:
It shouldn't be but they are linked with customs and excise in regard to the importing of goods and the correct taxes being paid, the likes of Temu take advantage of a loophole that shouldn't exist
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So it's up to customs and excise laws to be tightened up, not the post office to refuse to deliver things.
 
It should be no problem to clear the inhabitants out of Gaza, the USA managed to clear 25 million out of an entire continent.
 
Andy_Ross said:
So it's up to customs and excise laws to be tightened up, not the post office to refuse to deliver things.
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The "laws" have been tightened, that is why they can't accept any new imports from China under the previous terms and conditions.
 
Somebody enterprising in, say, the Philippines might be able to make some money collecting and forwarding packages from China to the US. Better start doing it before Junior’s Parcel Service starts up.
 
That said, how about independent companies such as Amazon and Fed Ex. Can they take parcels from China? If so, pretty big loophole.
 
So, now the Gaza strip has been destroyed, we get full ethnic cleansing, and somehow the land now belongs to the USA, allowing the building of the enormous and gaudy Trump Riviera Resort* where MAGA rapture fans can flock every time someone thinks Jesus is about to appear, and the Palestinians can something something.

*<edit> "Gaza-lago" as suggested on the Scrutable forum.
 
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By coincidence, it's the 140th anniversary of Leopold II annexing the Congo as a personal possession.
He claimed this was for philanthropic and humanitarian reasons and to bring economic development.
20 years later 50% of its population was dead and their land looted.
 
Let's see, Trump has threatened to take over Panama, Greenland, Canada and now Gaza. This is in two weeks. Trump, the Chaps King.
 
Time for Trump to start some rallies. Only time he really likes being president. He will leave the chaos soon to Bannon and Musk, signing the occasional thing.
Today, 538 is unveiling a new polling average for President Donald Trump's job approval rating. Based on the 11 polls released since his inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump's average approval rating starts off at 50 percent, while 43 percent disapprove of the job he is doing as president. You can find a constantly updated estimate of Trump's approval rating on 538's polls page.
Pardoning the people who unlawfully entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and committed acts of violence is decidedly unpopular, for example, with just 21 percent of adults in favor, according to that AP/NORC poll.
Americans are also mostly not confident, according to the same AP/NORC poll, that Trump will be able to bring down the price of goods and services, such as groceries and health care. This is notable, as it's likely the biggest issue that convinced moderates to vote for him in the 2024 election. And there is only middling support for enacting tariffs on imports, with 29 percent in favor of a tax on all goods entering the U.S.

Finally, Trump goes up against an apparent gravitational force that pulls down on approval ratings as time goes on. Presidents tend to enjoy their best net approval ratings at the start of their terms. Then, as policies are passed that shift the effective ideology of the U.S. government away from the ideology of the average voter, and as the president inevitably marginalizes members of his own constituency by focusing his political capital on other policy domains, voters leave the president's side and his approval rating dips. This has been a consistent pattern for the last 80 years, barring events in foreign wars or attacks on the homeland.
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abcnews.go.com

Once again, Trump starts a term with a weak approval rating

Introducing 538's new average of President Donald Trump's job approval rating.
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Most Americans opposed ending the nation’s longstanding practice of granting citizenship to children born in the US even if neither parent has legal immigration status, the poll found. About 59% of respondents – including 89% of Democrats and 36% of Republicans – said they opposed ending birthright citizenship.


A federal judge last week temporarily blocked the Trump administration from making changes to birthright citizenship, but the White House has vowed to fight on.

Seventy per cent of respondents oppose renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, an action Trump ordered on his first day in office. Only 25% of respondents supported the idea, with the rest unsure.

About 59% of respondents, including 30% of Republicans, opposed Trump’s moves to end federal efforts to promote the hiring of women and members of racial minority groups. When asked specifically about Trump’s order to close all federal diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, offices, respondents were more evenly divided, with 51% opposed and 44% in favor, largely along partisan lines.

Support for expanding fossil fuel drilling – another early policy change in the new administration – was highly concentrated in Trump’s party, with 76% of Republicans backing the easing of drilling restrictions and 81% of Democrats opposing it. About 59% of respondents said they opposed the United States pulling out of the Paris climate accords.

Public views also split along partisan lines for the billionaire businessman Elon Musk, one of Trump’s most prominent allies. While 75% of Republicans in the survey said they had a favorable view of Musk, 90% of Democrats said they had an unfavorable view.
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www.theguardian.com

Trump’s approval rating dips after rush of executive orders, poll finds

Poll shows disapproval of immigration policies and Gulf of Mexico renaming
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When will Donald make the marxist, muslim, America-hating, limp-wristed, man marrying, illegal alien release his fraudulent birth certificate?
 
Cassidy drops his objections.

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D.
@SenBillCassidy

I’ve had very intense conversations with Bobby and the White House over the weekend and even this morning. I want to thank VP JD specifically for his honest counsel. With the serious commitments I’ve received from the administration and the opportunity to make progress on the issues we agree on like healthy foods and a pro-American agenda, I will vote yes.
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All that is left of the USAID website is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home.

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The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire staff to bring the agency in line with Trump’s agenda,

The Wall Street Journal reported that even though the CIA was exempt Director John Ratcliffe personally decided he wanted the agency to participate and told the White House to extend the same offer to employees within the CIA, hoping it could pave the way for "a more aggressive" agency, an aide told the Wall Street Journal.

He has emailed the Office of Personnel Management and asked for a process that would enable the CIA to email its workforce and offer the same opportunity.

Ratcliffe also chose to offer the option of early retirement to long-tenured officers, while also halting on bringing on any officer offered a job late during the Biden administration to ensure their position aligns with the Trump administration's priorities.
 
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