Trump's Second Term

TragicMonkey said:
They're going to destroy the dollar by playing games with crypto. That will take most of the world's economy down right there. It won't take years or months, they can do it in...two weeks.
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And if confidence in the stock market continues like it did today, there should be a run on the banks by next week.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Tuberville: "Zelenskyy's gonna play hardball, but you know what? He's not even in the game. It's gonna be Putin and President Trump and the people on our side that will end up making this decision for the future of Ukraine."
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The "people on our side"? That's Putin, and even he just sees you are useful idiots. There's nobody on your side. You are the baddies.
 
shemp said:
I doubt it will take anywhere near that long.
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The stock I found when organizing my mother's estate has lost 5.75% of its value in the last two weeks (most of it today). I'm wondering how much will be left by the time the court confirms me as executor and I can sell it.
 
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Are you fkn kidding me?!! Donald Trump just seized all funds to Ukraine, and he’s literally collapsing the federal government, and you’re still going to the state of the union and bringing guests?!! WTAF 🤬 This is your last Senate term bro! I’m so done with men like you! Zero guts! And clearly...
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Are you fkn kidding me?!! Donald Trump just seized all funds to Ukraine, and he’s literally collapsing the federal government, and you’re still going to the state of the union and bringing guests?!! WTAF 🤬 This is your last Senate term bro! I’m so done with men like you! Zero guts! And clearly no focus on US and what is happening HERE right now! 🤦🏻‍♀️
 
Posting on line rants from people whose only claim to fame is having is a social media presence does not impress me.
ANd, frankly, fighting among themselves is the last think Anti Trump people need.
Yes, walking out is a big dramatic gesture, but in the end that is all it is, big dramatic gesture.
 
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LiteBright said:
#1 I don't care. The US isn't discriminating about who it hurts here so why should we make an effort to discriminate who is affected there?
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The US is hardly a monolith. Hurting states and people that voted against the Traitor-in-Chief can actually be considered rewarding the Party of sabotaging the US. Of course, if that hurt actually mostly affected Trump voters, that would be more justified.
 
They are decimating the General Services Administration tonight.

Tonight as in...tonight. Not today; they are sending out notices after hours, because of course they are. Can't be professional and actually deal with people during workings hours, gotta get everyone freaked out and worried even when they are not at work. Fear is not a byproduct, it is the point.

This time they are using a legal authority called "Reduction in Force", which is different from the way they illegally fired the probationary staff. Normally Reduction in Force takes a long time, as it is done based on seniority, veterans status and a bunch of other criteria. But they are avoiding that by picking out specific departments within the agency and eliminating them entirely. That way they don't have to go employee by employee, position by position as was done during the Clinton-era RIFs.

This tells me that either DOGE is getting better at this, or that we are shifting from DOGE initiated actions and into Project 25 initiated actions based on planning they did while waiting for Trump to get re-elected. I am seeing, for example, a 30% disabled veteran with 29 years of service getting RIFed, that person would normally be immune to all but the most extreme downsizing,
 
I went this weekend to protest at a Tesla dealership. I think that might actually be more effective than big protests in the blue city's downtown at the capital building of my Blue state. Damage Musk's bottom line.

That said, a boycott and divest movement is needed. That could include boycotting and divesting from not just Musk's businesses, but businesses that do business with Musk's companies or that own stock in them. Include getting divestment from big endowment funds owned by churches and charities. This is a thing that could maybe get University students involved. Similar movements target Israel (with success that is limited at best) and were used against the South African apartheid government (with some success).

The movement (starting to call itself the 50501 movement)(50 states, 50 capitals + D.C.) seems pretty old and white, at least at the two protests I have been to so far and among the pics I see of others. It's going to be critical to get younger people involved and People of Color, both groups are largely sitting things out so far, at least as far as organized protests go.

I think there might be about a 50/50 chance that on March 14th I will learn that I will get laid off/RIF'd. Mark your calendars.
 
Aridas said:
The US is hardly a monolith. Hurting states and people that voted against the Traitor-in-Chief can actually be considered rewarding the Party of sabotaging the US. Of course, if that hurt actually mostly affected Trump voters, that would be more justified.
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I don't disagree and in a perfect world, I would prefer to precisely target our retaliatory measures against the people who really deserve it, ie the ones who voted for and enabled this mess.

But this is not a fair fight. We are being attacked by the preeminent nation on earth and we only have so much leverage. We have to do what we can to fight this.

There are good people in Russia too but I don't feel horrible when a Ukranian missle lands there.
 
Democrats invite fired federal workers to attend Trump’s address to Congress

Workers fired in Donald Trump’s mass purge of the federal government will attend his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday at the invitation of Democrats seeking to display the human costs of the president’s radical policies.

Senior Democrats, including the party’s leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, have invited laid-off military veterans as their guests in an attempt to embarrass Trump over the unbridled assault on the federal bureaucracy spearheaded by Elon Musk and his so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) team.

“What the Democrats are showing with our guests is that it’s the American people who are being hurt by the actions of Elon Musk and Donald Trump,” Brad Schneider, a Democratic member of the House of Representatives from Illinois, told the New York Times.

The invitations have been extended by some Democrats in lieu of boycotting the event, as some prominent lawmakers are doing, including Chris Murphy, a Senator from Connecticut who has emerged as a leading voice in critiquing Trump’s policies.

Schneider said he would attend with Adam Mulvey, an army veteran who was fired from his job as an emergency management specialist at a federal health centre in Chicago.
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Re: Ontario plans to cut electricity exports to U.S.
LiteBright said:
I can see a couple of minor problems with that strategy...

- Some of the areas that would be affected by cutting off electricity voted Democrat (such as New York). Seems a bit... counter-productive to harm them. (Other retaliatory measures, such as tariffs on agricultural products, make more sense because they are more likely to harm the MAGAchud.)

- Not sure how cutting off power will work when some of Ontario's power is generated by nuclear. Now, nuclear is great for base-load generation, which can make it a challenge about what to do with surplus power at times of low demand.
As far as your points go...
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#1 I don't care. The US isn't discriminating about who it hurts here so why should we make an effort to discriminate who is affected there?
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I think there are pragmatic reasons to want to not hurt "blue states"...

By not hurting states like NY, you keep them economically stronger than red states. This may give them more political power in the United States. Plus, if/when the Democrats do get power again, they would want to have at least some allied states. (Better that than to have EVERY state hostile Canada.)
#2 Although the baseload is Nuclear and Hydro, there is plenty of wind and gas power that is easily ramped down
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The problem is, Ontario generates roughly half its power via nuclear. Not really sure if the ability to ramp gas power up and down will be enough to handle Ontario's variable power demands.
 
My guess is that Trump and MAGA can’t spare a molecule of a ◊◊◊◊ over fired workers attending the address to Congress.

Really, Democrats. Your actions thus far have been, to use one of Trump’s “best words,” sad.
 
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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He wants to put massive economic pressure on Canada to force it to become the 51st state. Trump has said that. Again, he's being a bully.
 
dudalb said:
Why do I get the feeling that poster in question has allways,,even pre Trump......hated the United States"
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I think it's time you retired this. This used to be your refrain whenever certain intrinsic flaws in the American socio-political milieu were highlighted. All this wringing of hands since Trump's first tenure began to fail, you still believed in the robustness of the "checks and balances" that you thought you had? Well, many of us looking from the outside suspected how most of those were just paper tigers way back during the latter part of the Reagan administration and more or less confirmed during the Bush administration. Now you have the orange lard bucket back on the throne picking away at all your so-called fail-safes against an authoritarian regime like a dried-out scab. We were afraid it would only be a matter of time before you ended up with someone like Trump and all these checks and balances that you thought would just prove to be like a cobweb trying to hold back a jet plane.
 
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shemp said:
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There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.
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Since this BOI reporting is part of the work that I do (in South Africa) in order for our country to comply with international standards and to avoid sanctions, does this mean that other countries like this will be able to suspend this as well? This is designed to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.
 
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