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Trump's Second Term

turingtest said:
"You make it sound so bad" is quite the message to be sending to those Americans, and I hope all Americans will remember it when it comes time to send their own messages back later next year. I do not, unfortunately, think they will- Americans seem to have the political attention span of a five-year-old child, and I think that Trump and Co. have plenty of distractions planned for between now and then, like UFC cage fights on the White House lawn.

(I'm not a fan of UFC stuff, but, what the hell, to each their own. But on the White House lawn? C'mon man. I've seen some ads for UFC fights, featuring clips from various movies that I guess are supposed to emphasize the "action" aspect of the sport. One clip is from Gladiator, the bit where Russell Crowe is shouting to the crowd "are you not entertained?" I'd bet that, when it comes to having a cage fight at the White House, the Trumpkins would never get the actual point of the quote).
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dirtywick said:
they're not very good when it comes to media literacy
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Of some relevance to this is, again, right-wing control of what far too many actually hear -

But Kowalski does address how American farmers became hostages to the “captured media” that corporate rightwing conservative corporations own. In other words, for over 35 years, American farmers have literally only heard one side of the political story.
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Kowalski also lays out the damage that Trump and Republican policies have done to rural areas and the viscous cycle it creates that reaffirms the thinking of American farmers and rural voters that Democrats suck. Once again, Americans farmers have only heard that the 2018 trade war with China was — wait for it — a success. And it’s true that is the lie promulgated by conservative media.

That imbecile Caleb Ragland of the American Soybean Association still believes that the failure of Trump’s first trade war with China was all Biden’s fault. And it’s because Fox, rightwing radio and podcasts have stated this lie repeatedly. It’s also why even though Ragland has lost over a $100 per acre of land that Ragland still has confidence that Trump has hammered out a soybean trade agreement with China, when there is no such agreement on paper.
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Andy_Ross said:
...Trump: I've made a lot of money and been very successful and I think my role should be at least that of recommending...
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In reality, you've LOST billions upon billions of dollars and no one in their right mind wants you anywhere near the Fed when they're making important decisions that can have huge consequences for the economy.

Remember?

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dirtywick said:
www.foxbusiness.com

Trump says he will 'think about' eliminating tax on gambling winnings

Trump says he may eliminate federal taxes on gambling winnings, expanding his administration’s push for new tax cuts.
www.foxbusiness.com www.foxbusiness.com

trump to consider removing taxes on gambling winnings to help ease the tax burden lol

well they better hurry before he ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ dies
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You know why he suggests this? There is no need to record or declare large transfers of money if there are no taxes. A great way to launder money.
 
acbytesla said:
You know why he suggests this? There is no need to record or declare large transfers of money if there are no taxes. A great way to launder money.
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he already has crypto for that.

i think it's because he's getting into prediction markets. actually, all the rich guys are now. and gambling apps, and gambling within other apps, and so on and so forth.

www.wired.com

Donald Trump’s Truth Social Is Launching a Polymarket Competitor

As crypto-based prediction services attract a flood of attention and capital, the US president’s social media platform has announced plans to muscle in.
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The Great Zaganza said:

Trump wants to make absolutely sure that no foreigners, including allies, will come as Tourists to the US ever again.
For the new tourist visa application, what you have to submit is:

....<snip space where crazy stuff was>

that for a few weeks vacation in the US ?
No one will bother to come.
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This sounds like one of those utterly unenforceable rules that basically allows the authorities to pull out an unbiased looking excuse for biased behavior. Because it's unlikely anyone on earth who actually uses a telephone could possibly provide every single number they have called in the last five years. The only way to get in, if you're not a hermit and probably from some place that's already on the banned list, will be to lie.
 
No more buring 37 dolls! Trump cuts trade deficit to a 5 year low.
Google AI explains:
  • Zero-Sum Game Trump treats international trade as a zero-sum game, similar to a business's or household's finances. A deficit means more money is going out than coming in, which he equates to "losing" money and jobs.
  • Cause: Unfair Practices He attributes the deficit not to macroeconomic factors like national savings rates or the value of the U.S. dollar, but to other countries' government policies, currency manipulation, and high tariffs on U.S. goods, which he collectively calls "cheating".
  • Solution: Tariffs and Renegotiation His primary policy tool to fix the deficit is imposing steep tariffs (taxes on imports) on a wide range of goods from virtually all trading partners.
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acbytesla said:
You know why he suggests this? There is no need to record or declare large transfers of money if there are no taxes. A great way to launder money.
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He didn't suggest this. A reporter simply put it out there and he said he think about. Probably not gonna happen.
 
What a surprise

Thailand-Cambodia fighting continues after Trump says countries agree to ceasefire

Fighting between Thai and Cambodian forces continued early on Saturday hours after US President Donald Trump said the two countries had agreed to a ceasefire.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said he told Trump a ceasefire would only be possible after Cambodia had withdrawn all its forces and removed landmines.

He wrote on social media: "Thailand will continue to perform military actions until we feel no more harm and threats to our land and people. I want to make it clear. Our actions this morning already spoke."

Both sides reported continued bombing and artillery exchanges across the border on Saturday.
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www.bbc.co.uk

Thailand-Cambodia fighting continues after Trump says countries agree to ceasefire

Thai PM says he told US president a ceasefire is only possible after Cambodia had withdrawn all its forces.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
It seems the Fifa peace prize has soothed his ego for now as he's been remarkably quiet about the injustice of him not winning the Nobel peace prize (and of course all the other Nobel prizes).
 
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