Trump's Second Term

Gulliver Foyle said:
Anything only done to promote racism is at least a minus 5.
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Not by his scoring. With that said, I'd say that it should likely be -1.

The order allows government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding to choose whether to continue to offer documents and services in language other than English.

It rescinds a mandate from former President Bill Clinton that required the government and organizations that received federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
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It immediately raises concerns about Republicans adding yet more voting hurdles to ESL citizens that speak English poorly, for example.
 
bignickel said:
SO many weird takes in one screenshot. And the one that jumped out to me: "his Keynesian spending plan"... I mean, did anyone else remember the job Paul Volker did with the early 80's economy trying to control inflation with monetarism? Businesses going under with nary a concern from the fed.... until the banks were threatened. And then it was "Pull back! Whoa!"
I'd recommend Williams Greider's "Secrets of the Temple" for anyone wanting a time machine look back.
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There's a lot of idiots (also known as economists) out there who don't understand why monetarism doesn't work and Keynsianism does.
 
dudalb said:
Stocks just tumbled big time after Trump announces tariffs to go into effect.
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trump announced that 25% tariffs go into effect tomorrow on Canada and Mexico, the United States' two biggest trading partners.

Investors dumped stocks on Wall Street late Monday after President Donald Trump said his threatened tariffs on Canada and Mexico would go forward as planned early Tuesday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped about 800 points, or 1.8%. The S&P 500 fell 2.1% and was set for its worst day of the year. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 3%, weighed down by a separate issue affecting Nvidia, which was already down more than 9%. NBC News article link
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What I don't get is Canada. Why is trump picking a fight with them? Mexico I understand, I don't agree, but I understand his thinking. Kind of. But Canada?

Worse, does it just depend solely on what trump wants/thinks? Congress has no voice? The electorate isn't consulted?
 
Nothing happened in Trump I. Now...in 4 years...all the factories are coming back here.
We are setting record now. "Apple is going to be building all their plants here." And 40% in one signature does somthing. And Reagan was bad on trade.
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you can watch the stock market tank in the bottom corner of Fox's broadcast as Trump talks about tariffs
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newyorkguy said:
trump announced that 25% tariffs go into effect tomorrow on Canada and Mexico, the United States' two biggest trading partners.



What I don't get is Canada. Why is trump picking a fight with them? Mexico I understand, I don't agree, but I understand his thinking. Kind of. But Canada?

Worse, does it just depend solely on what trump wants/thinks? Congress has no voice? The electorate isn't consulted?
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Meanwhile in London FTSE 100 hits all-time high as defence stocks soar.
 
From a previous citation: "[Republical Representative] Don Bacon of Nebraska said it was "a bad day for America's foreign policy." Ukraine wants independence, free markets and rule of law. It wants to be part of the West. Russia hates us and our Western values. We should be clear that we stand for freedom," he said in a statement."" See also the quote from this link. "“Ukraine is the victim,” he added. “I think Putin has made clear he wants to reestablish his old borders, and that’s not in our national security interests … it’s also a moral issue.”"
 
It's always a democrat that is making all of the bad things happen. It is never Trump or his Nazis.
 
American farm exports were worth $179 billion in 2022.

Now Trump says farmers should sell it inside the USA and '"have fun"

Why does anyone still think he has even a basic grasp of business or economics?
 
Andy_Ross said:
American farm exports were worth $179 billion in 2022.

Now Trump says farmers should sell it inside the USA and '"have fun"

Why does anyone still think he has even a basic grasp of business or economics?
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I'm going to eat 100 zucchinis every day to save our farmers! Who's with me?
 
ginjawarrior said:
I'm guessing building a national stockpile of crypto coins to replace all the gold missing from fort Knox...
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"We're going to save money bigley, we don't need Fort Knox anymore as the the entire Federal Reserve is on this USB stick here. Umm, this.. USB.. Stick.. Here.. Elon Have you seen my Batman USB stick anywhere?"
 
dudalb said:
Stocks just tumbled big time after Trump announces tariffs to go into effect.
Wall Street Journal, hardly a liberal paper, tore Trump a new one on his foreing policy
But a new GOlden Age in America is c oming...
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i’m sure they’re feeling confused as to why he did the thing he said he would do when they thought it was supposed to be one of the things he said he would do but wouldn’t actually do
 
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