Trump's Second Term

The Great Zaganza said:
that's fine with the world - who would want to go to the US if there is any alternative?
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Mrs Don and I would rather like to attend our nephew's wedding in June.

Whether it will be safe or advisable to do so is a good question. Germany has already issued a travel warning.
 
The Don said:
Mrs Don and I would rather like to attend our nephew's wedding in June.

Whether it will be safe or advisable to do so is a good question. Germany has already issued a travel warning.
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As well as the ICE issue, I'd also be wary of the quality of the air traffic control.
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
Spot on. I think most of this is theatre for the masses. Keep us talking about crazy ◊◊◊◊ while our remaining wealth and power are drained away. Before you know it we'll be renting fresh air (CO2 < 1000ppm) from trillionaires so we can breath without experiencing brain fog.

100% of our focus should be on curtailing the power and excesses of the ultra-wealthy. My preference is a 100% tax on wealth over 10 million to be put into sovereign wealth funds. 5% interest on 10 million is 500k/year. I think that's quite a generous retirement income, particularly for the likes of Musk and Trump.

All safety critical systems have hard-coded limits designed into them. For some reason we don't treat the economy as a safety critical system. Instead the delusion of exponential growth forever rules.
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For federal taxes, I'd prefer something along the lines of multiples of an annualized $15 federal minimum wage (52 weeks x 40 hours x $15 = $31, 200), while raising the cap on deducting state taxes, often a multiple of the federal tax, to $100,000.


Single payer:
  • Income exceeding $312,000 (10x), minimum 35% (almost same rate as now, difference is that it is a minimum rate)
  • Income exceeding $3,120,000 (100x), minimum 50% (> 37% current rate, prior to deductions)
  • Income exceeding $31,200,000 (1,000x), minimum 75%
  • Income exceeding $312,000,000 (10,000x), minimum 90%
If I had a solution to ensuring that retained earnings are distributed, say, within 24 months, then I would prefer to eliminate corporate taxes while denying private enterprise any voice at all in the form of campaign contributions, monetary or otherwise. Their owners and employees already have all legal rights and thus a full voice. No Hobby Lobby or Citizens United rights pertain to companies at all. Liberties are individual.

I would also make all properties and securities not eventually traceable to individual taxpayers be subject to 100% confiscation; no more legal anonymity. Finally, all penalties for violation of national environmental laws, or any international laws, would fall directly on all shareholders, no liability limit whatsoever. That'd make for some beefy and compliant Boards of Directors, finally.
 
I am ecstatic about the coming reverse brain drain. No one in their right mind and cognizant of the news should be thinking of making a life in the USA, particularly if they have or are planning to have a family. That's good news for everyone everywhere else, as the many PhDs and patents issued each year in the US to recent immigrants will be finding their way elsewhere in future.

I anecdotally know of a least one pitch deck (with included patent application) that has been withdrawn in order for that venture not to be exposed to the US's now highly dubious legal regime, and gone elsewhere. Of another US immigrant who has done very well already, but who is now pitching his next big venture back home in India, not the US.

When you go banana republic, everyone peels out.
 
Migration is/was the one critical advantage for the US, the rest of the world providing it with the skilled labor its own education system fails to produce.
 
TellyKNeasuss said:
President _____ is reportedly planning to sign an executive order closing down the Department of Education tomorrow.
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Awesome.
Shut. It. Down.

More bureaucracy is not the answer to kids who cannot read. Kids are worse off now than ever.
Giant waste of money that never improved anything in terms of results.

Next: get rid of California's Teachers Union. A selfish grift that harms the kids.
Offer vouchers for school choice. Let parents decide.
 
Trump apporval is running 44-47%. Ignore the partisan Rasmussen. Unless they lose their job (could come soon), MAGA will support Trump solidly for 6 months. But they are only 20-30% of those polled.
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Trump apporval is running 44-47%. Ignore the partisan Rasmussen. Unless they lose their job (could come soon), MAGA will support Trump solidly for 6 months. But they are only 20-30% of those polled.
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The Republicans dont have the votes to impeach & convict any judges. But they can impeach, and haul their ass before the Senate and House via subpoenas, and that may have a very big deterence affect on other judges to suspend his executive actions, whether lawful or not.
 
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Andy_Ross said:
Pumping Tesla!

US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Fox viewers to buy Tesla stock

https://twitter.com/x/status/1902518050353770527
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Well I guess (putting aside the fact Govt shouldn't shill for corporations) this could be seen as good news. Get the Rednecks to support EVs (maybe they'll even buy one*) leaving democrats to buy EVs from other companies, net gain in greening the planet.

*And if they don't, well when the stock collapses they may learn not to listen to Republican politicians...**
**Ah, who am I kidding, they'll just blame Democrats for not buying them whilst continuing to run their own petrol guzzlers
 
Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊—about five months too late!

"You're going to have a heart attack with this hysteria, but too bad, we are cutting your access to healthcare anyway."

www.msnbc.com

House Republican repeatedly booed for defending Musk at Wyoming town hall

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) was booed for expressing support of the Donald Trump and Elon Musk agenda in her very red district. Rep. Andrea Salinas
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Andy_Ross said:
Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊—about five months too late!

"You're going to have a heart attack with this hysteria, but too bad, we are cutting your access to healthcare anyway."

www.msnbc.com

House Republican repeatedly booed for defending Musk at Wyoming town hall

Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) was booed for expressing support of the Donald Trump and Elon Musk agenda in her very red district. Rep. Andrea Salinas
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When she was asked what she would do to protect the rights of trans and non-binary people, she said "I don't even know what that means" and moved to the next question.

Just like every other Republiscum in Congress, she is a worthless scum-sucking piece of ◊◊◊◊!
 
Fast Eddie B said:
I read both “The Fountainhead” and “Atlas Shrugged” in the early 1970’s, along with a collection of her essays called “The Virtue of Selfishness”. At the time they seemed to make a lot of sense, though I wonder if her world view would match mine now.
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difference between on paper and in practice. instead of virtuously greedy heads of industry forging a brave new world, you got unscrupulous greedy people taking everything for themselves. which, in retrospect, the existence of virtuously greedy people may be a flaw in her premise.

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often a criticism of communism as well. a political philosophy masquerading as economic theory.
 
Harriet Hageman also happens to be the person who defeated incumbent Liz Cheney in the primary election for Wyoming's sole House seat in 2022. Cheney found out what happens when you go against the Trump cult and tell the truth.
 
Don't forget to mark April 2 on your calendar. That's the day that the new round of Trump tariffs go into effect (unless he pulls back like he has before).

Trump says April 2 tariffs will bring ‘liberation of America’

President Donald Trump believes by implementing reciprocal tariffs beginning on April 2, he will bring the “liberation of America.”

“We’ve been ripped off by every country in the world — friend and foe,” Trump told Fox News's The Ingraham Angle in an interview that aired on Wednesday. “On April 2, I call it the liberation of America. We’ve been the fat, dumb, foolish country that allowed everyone to rip us off.”
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Well, if anyone's an expert on being fat, dumb and foolish, it's certainly him!

“For years we’ve allowed our country to be raped and pillaged,” Trump told Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday, arguing the United States has been unfairly treated in economic relations with other countries, even allies.
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Another area where his expertise shines through.

P.S.: Yes, I've linked to MSN. I refuse to link to the Washington Examiner, a notorious right-wing rag. If you don't like it, oh well, too bad.
 
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