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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Not a cult

Lutnick: I have to tell you, the strength and power that comes from my president.
President XI showed him so much respect, so much respect. It was impressive…
It was a masterclass on how to be classy, elegant, the most powerful politician in the world.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984052285140611101
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Somebody should ask Nutnik how much TACO gave a way to get the square root of Sweet Fanny Adams he got off China. They were literally laughing at him during the dinner.
 
Expansion of power

Rep. Adam Smith: "This country has not agreed to have the death penalty for drug smuggling. If we want to have that policy conversation, we can have that policy conversation, but the president has unilaterally decided that lethal force is going to be applied. It's an enormous expansion of power."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984243977399246995
 
Andy_Ross said:
How does one man get to decide this?

He's in a bind of his own making. If the House is in session then there will be a vote on Epstein.

Mike Johnson says he will not bring the House back in session until the government reopens

https://twitter.com/x/status/1984237127744315694
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The government has to open eventually. People will only work for so long without pay. People can only go hungry for a while without protesting. The Republiscum strategy of blaming the Dems is already failing. It will keep failing even more.
 
But is it failing? the Reddit for Leopards Ate My Face shows a lot of quotes from Trump voters, who blame Democrats almost universally even as they pray to Trump for relief from what he and the GOP are doing to them.
 
Flo said:
Definitely never had to buy groceries, cook, plan for meals, neither has he any idea of what actually needs to be in a pantry in order to properly feed and keep a family in decent health.
Besides, like all politicians the world over who love to blame the poor for their poverty, he's carefully avoiding the elephant in the room, i.e. how comes there are so many people in need of food assistance in the richest, most powerful, "best planet on earth" ?
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According to Wikipedia, "Higgins is the seventh of eight children...The family raised and trained horses." So, probably not. The problem here is that, even if he had been from a needy family and worked his way up from that, it's still no justification for assuming that anyone who hasn't and still needs some assistance must only be in that position because, wow, crack (which I, as someone who has been in that situation, find to be the most actively cruel and deliberately offensive part of the post). But then politicians like him are not looking for real answers to problems, only easy ones that they can use to get elected.
 
Donald is Laser focused

Not a cult

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
@SecScottBessent
President Trump has been laser focused since the day he came into office on rare earths.

He recognized this sector as a strategic vulnerability for the United States. China controls about 70% of mining and 90% of refining.

The Trump administration is determined to fix this by taking control of our supply chains as part of his America First agenda.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1983927374975791545
 
Pixel42 said:
Surely "Why are there 22 million households in the world's richest (and, of course, best) country that are so poor they can't even afford to put food on their tables?" is the question he (and every voter) should be asking.
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Well, the measure of greatness is things like White House ballrooms, tanks in the streets, no trans, media control and the Gulf of America, not this pussy communist ◊◊◊◊ like food, shelter, education and vaccines.
 
Resume said:
He also gets a per diem $80 meal allowance.
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Well, he understand a bit about keeping to a budget then.

He could probably advise the families on, what is it, about $11.50 a day, with some tips on how to make their money go further. Like, be sure you stick to the more modest end of the wine list. Not the second-cheapest though, that's always the worst. Helpful stuff like that.
 
newrepublic.com

Mike Johnson Accidentally Lets Slip Why He Won’t Fund Food Stamps

Mike Johnson accidentally gave away his whole game.
newrepublic.com newrepublic.com

House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted Thursday that feeding the hungry would mess up his political game.

CNN host Dana Bash asked Johnson why he wouldn’t consider moving money around to fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which will stop receiving federal funds at the start of November. The House speaker accidentally revealed Republicans are using the program as leverage to end the government shutdown.

“Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire government, Chuck Schumer and the radicals over there will continue to play games with people’s paychecks, their livelihoods,” Johnson said. “And if you do just part of this, it will reduce pressure for them to do all of it, to do their basic job, and that is reopen the government.”
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It seems clear that Democrats aren’t the ones playing games with people’s livelihoods, but instead it is Republicans who are holding SNAP benefits hostage from 42 million Americans in order to make the opposition bend. And SNAP is a hostage Republicans are more than willing to kill—they’ve already voted to gut nearly $300 billion from the program through 2034.

Earlier Thursday, Johnson claimed that President Donald Trump had already done everything he could to mitigate the harm. But in fact, the Trump administration turned back on its own policy by claiming without precedent that it cannot legally use SNAP contingency funds to keep the essential program afloat during a government shutdown.
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Wait, Schitler thinks the law is important. The man who says "I am the law!" The man who routinely breaks the law is afraid of a law? ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊!!! You just want to let millions go hungry in the belief that they'll rise up against the Dems! That millions will sell away their health insurance for a pot of porridge!
 
turingtest said:
According to Wikipedia, "Higgins is the seventh of eight children...The family raised and trained horses." So, probably not. The problem here is that, even if he had been from a needy family and worked his way up from that, it's still no justification for assuming that anyone who hasn't and still needs some assistance must only be in that position because, wow, crack (which I, as someone who has been in that situation, find to be the most actively cruel and deliberately offensive part of the post). But then politicians like him are not looking for real answers to problems, only easy ones that they can use to get elected.
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I've never been in such a situation but I've known quite a number of people who were, here and in the USA. I also find it extremely offensive, be it from someone well off from the start or someone who got out of it, if only because the vast majority of the latter did so with some help and assistance, despite pretending otherwise.
 
Trebuchet said:
So, (rule of), is any nation other than North Korea actually testing nuclear weapons? And I haven't even heard of them doing it for quite a while.
Trump, of course, isn't going to be satisfied with doing it underground. Nope, he'll want the whole nine yards, airburst, mushroom cloud, and fallout.
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Show him that old Tom Petty video and tell him it's a live feed.
 
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