Trump's Second Term

turingtest said:
I'm sure it's a "MAJOR POLICY" to this guy, but is it a major policy change? Has it ever been against Federal rules for religious workers to express their religious preferences in their workplace? This is the memorandum from OPM (Office of Personnel Management) announcing the policy, and even it suggests this is really, at bottom, nothing new, since it's based on Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I don't think the most staunch advocate for SOCAS has ever suggested that it's against that principle for religious people to take part in government, only that they not obtrude their religion into it in a way that makes its beliefs or strictures incumbent on people who may not share it.

This, however, may be their out for disallowing Korans in the workplace-



I would not, in light of the present political insanity that seems to have infected the US, put it past TrumpCo to decide that Islam should be defined as just a "social, political, or economic philosophy" and move to exclude its expression on that basis.

So all this really boils down to is that it's the same sort of thing as when Trump crowed about how, thanks to him, people could finally say "Merry Christmas" again when nobody was ever told they couldn't.
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I would have thought they'd have gone the other way, allege that christianity is not a religion but a personal relationship with the baybee Jeeeeeebus and thus is allowed. It's a common reich wing christian refrain after all.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
I would have thought they'd have gone the other way, allege that christianity is not a religion but a personal relationship with the baybee Jeeeeeebus and thus is allowed. It's a common reich wing christian refrain after all.
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You call it a relationship, but he never writes, never calls.. Too busy hanging out with his fancy apostle friends. Even if you go round his house he's never there, just one of his wired mates in their black clothes and funny collars. It's like he's joined a cult or something.
 
"God Ted, I've heard about those cults. Everyone dressing in black and saying Our Lord is going to come back and judge us all."
"No... No, Dougal, that's us. That's Catholicism you're talking about."
 
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US collects $29B in tariff revenues in July, setting new monthly record
 
Andy_Ross said:
Do they actually believe this?

Ungar-Sargon: Are you guys not psyched that he raised a hundred billion in tariffs?

Sellers: Who paid the tariffs?

Ungar-Sargon: The vast majority of the tariffs have been paid by foreign governments and corporations.
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Opinions, they say, are like ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊. And this ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ is no exception - he also has an opinion. His claim will soon enough be proven true or false by the financial statistics. At least we can rely on the numbers. Phew. There's no way the government can just, I dunno, sack people who compile statistics they don't like and replace them with compliant and willing liars. That would be absurd.
 
Mary Trump, trump's niece, and others have observed, trump has stopped coloring his hair and also stopped using his 'fake tan' facial makeup. See recent photo below:

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I'm beginning to get the feeling trump is not going to last for the full four years of his presidency. That'll probably be the end of maga. It is a cult, most definitely, and there's no heir apparent. Once trump goes his sycophants will start fighting over the scraps but none of them have the draw with the magamutts the way trump does (or did).

Hope so anyway. :thumbsup:
 
newyorkguy said:
Mary Trump, trump's niece, and others have observed, trump has stopped coloring his hair and also stopped using his 'fake tan' facial makeup. See recent photo below:

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I'm beginning to get the feeling trump is not going to last for the full four years of his presidency. That'll probably be the end of maga. It is a cult, most definitely, and there's no heir apparent. Once trump goes his sycophants will start fighting over the scraps but none of them have the draw with the magamutts the way trump does (or did).

Hope so anyway. :thumbsup:
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It is my opinion that Jnr. will attempt, at some point, to copy what trump has done, and will fail. The only reason I say 'at some point' is because he wouldn't immediately be able to step into the breach while the current cult adherents in the administration fight among themselves for influence.
I just don't think there is anyone as shameless as the current guy. There's nobody who has spent his whole life lying to himself and to others the way he has. Without him to threaten them, more moderate Republicans will see opportunities and maga will dissipate.
 
TofuFighter said:
It is my opinion that Jnr. will attempt, at some point, to copy what trump has done, and will fail. The only reason I say 'at some point' is because he wouldn't immediately be able to step into the breach while the current cult adherents in the administration fight among themselves for influence.
I just don't think there is anyone as shameless as the current guy. There's nobody who has spent his whole life lying to himself and to others the way he has. Without him to threaten them, more moderate Republicans will see opportunities and maga will dissipate.
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Junior will get utterly swallowed up by all the Trump-wanabees when Trump dies. The problem is as we saw in the 2024 primaries is that nobody has Trump's "it" factor where he keeps followers by being a rude, crude jerkass off a candidate. All of them try to be like him but fail is some obvious way.

Very few modern cults survive the death of the cult leader. The only exception would be Scientology but they had years of their leader being alive but in exile to set up the cult to survive him.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Donald approves of the Gerrymandering in Texas because he's entitled to five more seats.

Trump: "We have an opportunity in Texas to pick up five seats ... I got the highest vote in the history of Texas as you probably know. And we are entitled to five more seats."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952710614926651401
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He clearly doesn't know how or when elections work. Not a clue. Electoral seats are not limited-set Nobel Prizes to be distributed by the state governor. They don't get given retroactively. You have to earn them at an election...

What am I saying!

Trump doesn't know how the whole USA works. He just wants what he wants when he wants it, no matter how ridiculous that desire is. Because nobody has kicked him in the balls and stood over him and made him pay.
 
So after lowering them 1500% he will now triple the prices?

Trump: "We'll be putting an initially small tariffs on pharmaceuticals. But in one year, one in a half years maximum, it's gonna go to 150% and then it's gonna go to 250%, because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952706835523178827
 
Andy_Ross said:
So after lowering them 1500% he will now triple the prices?

Trump: "We'll be putting an initially small tariffs on pharmaceuticals. But in one year, one in a half years maximum, it's gonna go to 150% and then it's gonna go to 250%, because we want pharmaceuticals made in our country."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952706835523178827
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Numbers are magic. The bigger the numbers, the more magical they are.
 
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