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Trump's Second Term

arthwollipot said:
No, progressives are saying "only a chud would imagine that everybody would want to be part of America".
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I have relatives that live in British Columbia. Burnaby, Vancouver, Surrey etc. I've joked about Canada becoming part of the US for decades. A kind of good natured ribbing. But I know damn well their feelings about this. They don't want that at all.
 
Leopards, meet Kansas sorghum farmers. Kansas sorghum farmers, meet leopards.

Without USAID's Food for Peace, Kansas grain elevators have no market for sorghum

Kansas farmers and grain elevators could be left without a market for last year's sorghum crop after President Donald Trump dismantled a federal foreign aid program.

Trump and billionaire Elon Musk have shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID. It housed Food for Peace, which used America's agricultural surpluses to fight world hunger, expand international trade and advance foreign diplomacy.

Shutting down the food aid program could adversely affect the Kansas agriculture industry, which has an overabundance of sorghum, also known as milo.

"Right now, there's no export market for it, and there's no domestic market," said Kim Barnes, the chief financial officer of the Pawnee County co-op in Larned.
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I wonder how many of them voted for Trump. I wonder how many of them wish they hadn't.
 
If he had decided to rename it "Gulf of the Americas" I could have gotten behind that because it's inclusive both (North and Central). But inclusion is not his thing, unless you're already on the inside.
 
arthwollipot said:
sciencebasedmedicine.org

DOGE vs. the NIH: Say goodbye to the greatest engine of biomedical research ever created

Friday, the Trump administration slashed indirect costs associated with NIH grants. What does this mean, and why could it be so disastrous for biomedical research?
sciencebasedmedicine.org
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Ah, that clears things up substantially. From the article :—
I can tell right there that “siphoning” off is a misunderstanding, whether intentional or disingenuous, meant to make it sound as though universities are taking up to 60% off the top for themselves. In reality, indirects are in addition to the direct costs of the grant. If you have an indirect rate of 60%, that means that if your university is awarded an NIH grant for $1M, the university actually gets $1.6M. That means that, of the total grant, a 60% indirect cost rate is really only 37.5%. (See Musk’s deception there?)
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So much for Elon Musk being a "numbers guy."
 
CNN reported, "President Donald Trump removed the head of the Office of Government Ethics from his post, the agency said Monday – the latest example of Trump acting against a government watchdog. The agency’s director, David Huitema, was confirmed to the post by the Senate in November and officially began the job in December. He had been nominated by President Joe Biden but had languished for more than a year in the Senate before lawmakers confirmed him by a 50-46 vote during a post-election lame-duck session." I cannot keep up.
 
arthwollipot said:
sciencebasedmedicine.org

DOGE vs. the NIH: Say goodbye to the greatest engine of biomedical research ever created

Friday, the Trump administration slashed indirect costs associated with NIH grants. What does this mean, and why could it be so disastrous for biomedical research?
sciencebasedmedicine.org
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"There is no evidence that I can find that either Elon Musk, DOGE, or anyone in the Trump administration has applied anything resembling through to this budget cut."

More generally if Musk were interested in rooting out waste or fraud, he would have hired forensic accountants, not programmers, as was pointed out elsewhere.
 
I hadn't seen this before: Trump when asked on Fox whether he saw JD as his successor in 2028: "No..."
He doesn't even think about it, it is a quick no. I wonder how JD is scheming through all of this...he must have nightmares of nooses

Trump on Vance
 
theprestige said:
Please elaborate. What threats?

Progressives: America was built by immigrants, you chud.

Also progressives: Only a chud would imagine that people would want to be part of America.
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Are you really that desperate to blind yourself?

Jack by the hedge said:
You seems to think I doubt anyone wants to emigrate to America, which is odd and misses the point. Let's see if we can clarify: I appreciate that people can and do emigrate from their home country to other countries, including the US, and that's completely fine by me. My question was about Trump seeming to indicate that he believed a large proportion of the people of Greenland and Canada wanted their entire countries to become US territory. Do you think he actually believed that?
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I'm reminded of how Putin may have actually believed that Ukraine would welcome the Russian invaders with open arms. In Putin's case, there was a culture of vranyo and great corruption excuse, in short. It sucks as an excuse, but it's at least plausible. Trump doesn't even have anything close to that.
 
And another FB 'friend' just blocked me when I pointed out their hypocrisy on DOGE and Musk. This 'friend' is an uber self-proclaimed Christian so when he accused me of being jealous of Musk (who got his wealth through hard work and innovation of course) I told him he was probably one of those 'Christians' who find ways to distort and reinvent Biblical verses (like Mathew 19:24) to suit their brainwashed needs. He apparently did not like my response. Moral: Do NOT give in to these bullies and sycophants--call them out on their lies!
 
After Kash Patel and Tulsi are approved, Trump is dictator. What are the limits of his rule. He can shut down all the cabinets. Can he steal money for himself?
 
shemp said:
Leopards, meet Kansas sorghum farmers. Kansas sorghum farmers, meet leopards.

Without USAID's Food for Peace, Kansas grain elevators have no market for sorghum



I wonder how many of them voted for Trump. I wonder how many of them wish they hadn't.
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Practically everywhere in the state, barring the capital, the majority was for the republicans

2024 Kansas Election Results | AP News

Live results and county maps for the 2024 Kansas general elections for president and U.S. House.
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As of the close of the day on February 10, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -102.

10 February 2025
+1: Trump orders the Treasury to stop minting pennies (minimal savings)
0: Executive Order: Eliminating the Federal Executive Institute (impact unknown)
0: Elon Musk claims, without evidence, that FEMA sent $59M to luxury hotels to house illegal migrants. [22]
0: Trump on Ukraine: "We're gonna have all this money in there, and I say I want it back."
-1: Trump fires the Board of Visitors at all 4 US military academies (see note)
-1: Trump fires the director of the Office of Government Ethics (see note)
-1: Executive Order to impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imported into the United States
-1: Trump repeats his desire to own the Gaza Strip
-1: Trump wants to ethnically cleanse the Gaza strip and deny the Palestinians right of return [23]
-1: Trump threatens to cut off aid to Jordan and Israel if they don't resettle Palestinians from Gaza
-1: Trump claims that without the US, Canada is not a viable country [24]
-1: Asked about the CPFB, Trump instead insults Elizabeth Warren [25]

I added a -1 line to February 9:
-1: Executive Order: Gulf of America Day, 2025 (-1 for "silly")

Note: I've adopted a policy that any report of Trump firing someone is a negative, since such actions should go through due process and not simply be at the president's whim, even if he has the authority to do so.

I will re-score the Elon Musk claim about $59 million being spent on luxury hotels to house illegal migrants to -1 if his comment is confirmed to be false or exaggerated.

Footnotes:

22. Musk: "The @DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants. Sending this money violated the law and is in gross insubordination to the President’s executive order. That money is meant for American disaster relief and instead is being spent on high end hotels for illegals! A clawback demand will be made today to recoup those funds."

23. BAIER: Would the Palestinians have the right to return to Gaza?
TRUMP: No, they wouldn't.

24. Trump: "We’re making our country larger, we’re making our country stronger. And in the case of Canada—if this should happen—I don’t know how they can do it without us. Because without the U.S., Canada really doesn't have a country. They do almost all of their business with us, and if we say we want our cars to be made in Detroit, with a stroke of a pen, I can make that happen. And other things, in addition to that, would not allow Canada to be a viable country. "

25. Asked about the CFPB, Trump rampages on Liz Warren: "Pocahontas. The fake. The faker … she's a fake. Just like she said she's an Indian … she's a nasty woman. She's a really nasty woman."
 
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stanfr said:
And another FB 'friend' just blocked me when I pointed out their hypocrisy on DOGE and Musk. This 'friend' is an uber self-proclaimed Christian so when he accused me of being jealous of Musk (who got his wealth through hard work and innovation of course) I told him he was probably one of those 'Christians' who find ways to distort and reinvent Biblical verses (like Mathew 19:24) to suit their brainwashed needs. He apparently did not like my response. Moral: Do NOT give in to these bullies and sycophants--call them out on their lies!
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But, but...that's how Democrats lost, remember? If you had been nicer to your Christian friend, they would have voted for Harris instead, and she would have won!
 
stanfr said:
I hadn't seen this before: Trump when asked on Fox whether he saw JD as his successor in 2028: "No..."
He doesn't even think about it, it is a quick no. I wonder how JD is scheming through all of this...he must have nightmares of nooses

Trump on Vance
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Trump probably told Vance he would be the "face" of the ticket, while failing to mention that he and Musk were the leopards.
 
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