Trump's Second Term

Hercules56 said:
Trump revealed his Achilles Heal yesterday. China could decide to threaten to sell all their US Treasuries and stop buying more, if Trump doesn't kill all the recent tariffs. Not good to show all your cards like that. Master Negotiator, my ass.
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Canada and Japan have the same option.
I think it was Japan dumping that caused the reversal.
 
TellyKNeasuss said:
I am neither a lawyer nor an owner of a white whig, but I won't let that stop me from posting my interpretation. As I read the EO, it appears to require a certain group of govt. agencies, most of which have a role in regulating environmental protection and safety (e.g., Environmental Protection Agency, US Fish and Wildlife Service), to include a "sunset" (aka expiration) date in all new regulations and inserts a default "sunset" date of 1 year in all existing regulations. If this interpretation is correct, it enables the removal of environmental regulations without the need to take affirmative action to remove the regulations. With an honest administration, I might agree with your '0' score, but I see the _____ Administration as using it as a way of removing environmental regulations without attracting public attention.
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Yeah, that one is a negative 5.
 
Hercules56 said:
Trump revealed his Achilles Heal yesterday. China could decide to threaten to sell all their US Treasuries and stop buying more, if Trump doesn't kill all the recent tariffs. Not good to show all your cards like that. Master Negotiator, my ass.
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He's already suggested he might default on some Treasury bonds. They 'walked it back', but we know what his memory is like. The fact that it would be a disaster would stop anyone sane from even considering it, but sanity is in short supply right now.

theguardian.com

Forget Trump’s tariffs, the president’s bond market threat is worse | Heather Stewart

Elon Musk’s crazed takeover of America’s financial plumbing risks shattering confidence in US institutions and in turn global financial stability
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“We’re even looking at Treasuries,” the president told reporters. “There could be a problem … It could be that a lot of those things don’t count. In other words, that some of that stuff that we’re finding is very fraudulent, therefore maybe we have less debt than we thought.”

The suggestion was that opening up the US Treasury’s data to Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” team had identified a money-saving wheeze: why not walk away from some of America’s debt obligations – a “selective default”, as economists call it.
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alfaniner said:
That's a lot of work you do every day and I admire that. I never read it, but keep it up for the people who do.
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Agreed, it's valuable to have record-keeping of this time, lest we forget 99% of the horrible things he does and says.
 
Musk did nothing to cut much spending, other than cripple the IRS. Where are the trillions coming from?
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Mike Johnson: "We're gonna protect the essential programs for everyone who is eligible to receive those ... we'll be looking for $1.5 trillion in savings."
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Mike Johnson: "We're gonna protect the essential programs for everyone who is eligible to receive those ... we'll be looking for $1.5 trillion in savings."
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You can't keep up with all the bull ◊◊◊◊ that is the Trump administration.

Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wiped out by President Donald Trump are entitled to a refund of restitution payments they made to cover damage to the Capitol, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The department’s determination could result in hundreds of payouts from the federal government intended to cover the cost of repairing about $3 million in damage to the Capitol from the riot on Jan. 6, 2021.
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The administration revealed its position in a filing to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is weighing one defendant’s request to be repaid the $500 in restitution he sent to the Architect of the Capitol after his conviction on misdemeanor charges.




The defendant, Stacy Hager, argued in February that he should be reimbursed now that his conviction has been erased as part of President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to more than 1,500 people charged in the attack.

The Justice Department did not respond until Tuesday.

“The government agrees that Hager is entitled to the return of those funds,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Adam Dreher wrote.

Most defendants convicted for their roles in the Capitol attacks were required to pay restitution to the Architect of the Capitol, the congressional office responsible for the maintenance of the building. Those convicted of felonies typically paid $2,000 and those convicted only of misdemeanors typically paid $500Pard
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As if pardoning the ◊◊◊◊ smearing "tourists" wasn't enough.
 
additionally there was a tweet that triggered a bump in the market the day before the tariff pause saying trump was considering a 90 day pause that they called fake. well that was true.

was it that his insiders hadn’t poised themselves to buy the dip yet and the word got out early?

this is a ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ scam. no surprise there
 
shemp said:
This ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ idiot played 10 years in the NFL. Took way too many hits to the head.
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Yes, he's very much part of the running joke that is Utah's congressional delegation. He got elected pretty much because his lips are permanently attached to Donald Trump's backside and because he belongs to the state's dominant religion. In Utah, a turnip with those qualifications could be elected to Congress.
 
Of the people, by the people, for the people . . .

Donald Trump is taking aim and city- and state-led fossil fuel accountability efforts, which have been hailed as a last source of hope for the climate amid the president’s ferociously anti-environment agenda.

In a Tuesday executive order, Trump instructed the Department of Justice to “stop the enforcement” of state climate laws, which his administration has suggested are unconstitutional or otherwise unenforceable.


The president called out New York and Vermont, both of which have passed “climate superfund” laws requiring major fossil fuel companies to help pay for damages from extreme weather.
“These State laws and policies are fundamentally irreconcilable with my Administration’s objective to unleash American energy,” the executive order says. “They should not stand.”
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ETA: When hearing of this, my wife said "He can't do that!" I asked her who's gonna stop him?
 
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Semething tells me he didn't actually say "buy now" so his friends can buy. He said it so his friend can sell higher today.
Let's see if he un-pauses the tariffs tomorrow ..

PS: just kidding, he has no friends ..
 
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