Trump's Second Term

shemp said:
View attachment 59433
Click to expand...


That was fake.


Claim: A Twitter screenshot from 2012 shows U.S. President Donald Trump once posted, "If the Dow drops 1,000 points in two days the President should be impeached immediately!"
Rating: Fake
...
An unknown user altered the text of a genuine Trump tweet to create the fake post.
Click to expand...
 
dudalb said:
Trump has also played bigtime to Evangelical Christians. Of course he had no relgiious beliefs of any time before he ran for President...................

Also, on cable and stremaing, you can find no lack of TV channels which are pretty damn critical of Trump. MSNBC comes to mind.
Put if people want to get their news from Fox and the like, there is really not much you can do about it.
Click to expand...
There’s no lack of ice cream flavors. Vanilla comes to mind.
 
As of the close of the day on March 10, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -261.

10 March 2025
-1: Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 2.1% in one day, down 890 points, and down 1,971 points since March 3
-1: Headline: Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program (Ars Technica)
-1: Headline: DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers (CNBC)
-1: Elon Musk calls US senator and Air Force veteran Mark Kelly a traitor for visiting Ukraine

9 March 2025
-1: Trump says he will be going after a lot of "very dishonest" law firms [72]
-1: USA only country to vote against a UN resolution declaring a day of hope and "International Day of Peaceful Coexistence"
-1: Kevin Hasset, senior economic advisor to Trump, claims without evidence Canada is covering up a big drug problem

References

72. Trump: "We have a lot of law firms that we're going to be going after, because they were very dishonest people. They were very, very dishonest. We have a lot of law firms that we're going after."

73. Kevin Hassett suggests Canadian authorities are covering up major fentanyl operations: "I can tell you that in the situation room I've seen photographs of fentanyl labs in Canada that the law enforcement folks were leaving alone. Canada's got a big drug problem."
 
dudalb said:
Exteremlty simplistic. It totally ignroes the "Lesser of two evils" voters who did not like either candidate, but flre Trum pwould be the lesser ot two evils.
We need to understand what is going on here, and, franly simplistic "They are all a bunch of idiots" does not work. I amnot dying the die hard cultitst are idiots, but they do not make up all or maybe not even a majority of Trump voters.
Click to expand...
The actual article says:

There are two kinds of people who voted for Donald J. Trump in 2024. The first group was conned—they bought the sales pitch, got burned, and are just now starting to realize they were used. Veterans who lost their jobs, farmers who went bankrupt, blue-collar workers whose towns never saw the economic boom Trump promised—they’re pissed off, and rightfully so.
Click to expand...

They are the "lesser of two evils" people.

However, I personally find it hard to respect people for being surprised that a man whose whole life has been behaving as a self-centred con-man, whose many business failures have often been discovered to be scams in which he didn't pay people for their work, and who tried to overturn an election because it didn't go his way, turned out to be a bad egg.

There was no evidence that he would do much else but cause chaos in the country and the world in general.
 
angrysoba said:
However, I personally find it hard to respect people for being surprised that a man whose whole life has been behaving as a self-centred con-man, whose many business failures have often been discovered to be scams in which he didn't pay people for their work, and who tried to overturn an election because it didn't go his way, turned out to be a bad egg.
Click to expand...
No politician ever lost an election by underestimating the stupidity of voters.
 
shemp said:
Dow Jones -890.01 (-2.08%) today. Tommy T. says "Let the good times roll!"
Click to expand...
I think it was at this point that the British press started comparing Liz Truss's longevity as Tory party leader with that of a lettuce. Pity US political parties don't have a similar mechanism by which a clearly bonkers leader can be removed and replaced with a relatively sane one.
 
Pixel42 said:
I think it was at this point that the British press started comparing Liz Truss's longevity as Tory party leader with that of a lettuce.
Pity US political parties don't have a similar mechanism by which a clearly bonkers leader can be removed and replaced with a relatively sane one.
Click to expand...
I mean there are mechanisms by which a clearly bonkers president can be removed from office, but unfortunately for it to work, Congress cannot be half-full of spineless sychophants in thrall to said clearly bonkers leader or clearly bonkers themselves.
 
angrysoba said:
I mean there are mechanisms by which a clearly bonkers president can be removed from office, but unfortunately for it to work, Congress cannot be half-full of spineless sychophants in thrall to said clearly bonkers leader or clearly bonkers themselves.
Click to expand...
Exactly!

The UK could not have been rid of Truss unless a significant number of Conservative MPs were willing to vote against her in a no confidence motion.

If they had been as spineless as the GOP she would have easily outlasted the lettuce.
 
Pixel42 said:
I think it was at this point that the British press started comparing Liz Truss's longevity as Tory party leader with that of a lettuce. Pity US political parties don't have a similar mechanism by which a clearly bonkers leader can be removed and replaced with a relatively sane one.
Click to expand...


Prime Minister Boris Johnson succeeded by Prime Minister Liz Truss


And other times it even works...
 
The Don said:
The UK could not have been rid of Truss unless a significant number of Conservative MPs were willing to vote against her in a no confidence motion.
Click to expand...
What? The party can't dump a PM without voting in a no confidence motion in Parliament?
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top Bottom