Trump's Second Term

Also with the on/off tariffs at this point the US economy is going to tank because yet again whatever trump does today might be completely reversed tomorrow.
 
Safe-Keeper said:
Hey, that's an insult to squirrels. They're incredibly bright, graceful, and resourceful creatures and any one of them would've made a better King than Dump I. Can you imagine him trying to navigate anything like this obstacle course (if one was to make it Drumpf-sized, of course)? Even with a whole stack of hot hamberders with extra ketchup at the end he wouldn't have made it halfway.



(lol, now I'm imagining Dump in one of those ninja obstacle courses they race through on TV. It's giving me some hilarious mental images.)
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Now make it a bit more Squid Gamey.. Now THAT'S entertainment my friend!
 
thaiboxerken said:
"Despite all the evidence that I'm Putin's bitch, I've always been Putin's bitch..."
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As is pointed out in this clip, it doesn't really matter given he's acting exactly as he would if he was a russian puppet anyway. It's like a YouTuber taking two minutes during his video to promote Squarespace. He might just be doing it because he's a big fan, but then he might as well just take an actual sponsorship.

He could just be doing the work of a russian puppet for free, without actually getting anything in return (be it actual rewards or putin withholding harmful kompromat), but that doesn't rhyme with the Dump I know.

 
P.J. Denyer said:
Probably because he doesn't want them to blow up the rare earth minerals he doesn't understand a thing about.
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"Raw earth", it's raw earth he's interested in.
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There was a segment on A Closer Look that made fun of Trump mistaking "rare earth" and "Raw earth". He makes that mistake multiple times.

See: A Closer Look (approximately 6:30 minutes into it)...


(Seth Myers suggested they could use that mistake to trick Trump. "We aren't going to be getting any of those precious minerals but instead every American will receive an egg-sized rock from Ukraine".
 
It will all be better after we get over terrible Bidenomics and terrible Medicaid and terrible Social Security.

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More or Less looked at the "$500 billion" worth of rare earth elements, and concluded it was nonsense, for several reasons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0028kz7

There hasn't been a proper geological survey done, possibly since the Soviet era. Even if the elements are there, there is no guarantee that they would be worth extracting. China is the major source of rare earth elements, and can effectively set the prices; that makes the required investment of a billion dollars or so, plus the time to set things up, a huge gamble. And, to put things into perspective, the annual value of the market in rare earths is about $2 billion, so it's unlikely there's $500 billion's worth in Ukraine (even if we're talking about rare elements in general, not specifically rare earth elements).
 
None of that matters - once the deal is signed, Trump will look for ways to snatch up Ukrainian properties in the US. And use the deal as a ways to justify releasing Russian accounts "in exchange".
 
Trump on the US competing against Canada and Mexico at the World Cup amid a possible trade war: "I think it's gonna make it more exciting. Tension is a good thing."
 
I think it's important that everyone read this.

There is no magical way out of this — there will be blood | Opinion

It would be helpful if we stopped pretending this terrible chapter in American history won’t close without bloodshed …

It would be helpful if Americans, and our feeble Democratic politicians in particular, stopped implying by their comatose actions that Democracy is some damn American right and has no end date.

America very well might be arriving at hers, because, yes, it really is that bad right now.

Rather than bringing Ping-Pong paddles and groovy, little signs to a fascist hate-fest disguised as a State of the Union speech, it would be helpful if our meek, out-of-touch Democratic politicians at least pretended they understood the perilous moment we are standing in right now.

We are in deep, deep trouble, and now would be a wonderful, necessary time to step in front of your favorite mirror and honestly ask yourself what you are willing to do to fight for our country’s survival.

We are but six-plus weeks into the repulsive, wannabe-king’s second term and the damage he and his party are causing are already at catastrophic levels.

Our air, water, earned benefits, peace, public safety, civil rights, and human rights are all under immediate threat. Worse? This is only the first course of many that will be served by the vindictive, orange madman, and his pathetic party of supplicants.

The insults, the attacks, endless provocations, and thrashing of our Constitution will continue daily. All this carefully planned evil will be aimed at exactly one thing: breaking us.

Everything he is doing is designed to pound us into submission, and he’s having a grand damn doing it.

This was entirely his aim when he and his pet mutt, JD Vance, double-teamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the behest of Boss Putin in the Oval Office on Friday. The idea was to publicly humiliate the man who has done more to defend America’s interests across the globe than any Republican in memory.

Because Zelenskyy has tasted gun powder and breathed the odious smell of death on the battlefield, he wasn't about to be pushed around by some morbidly obese, 78-year-old yacht club bully and his toady, who think swinging a sand wedge to free a golf ball from some bunker is dangerous business.

Zelenskyy punched back and wasn't having it. He told the truth, and didn't back down. The future of his country is on the line right now, and he acted like it.

And therein lies the playbook for dealing with this sadistic bastard — if only the cautious, too-clever Democratic Party and their weak leaders, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, bothered paying attention.

While Rome burns, they dither.

They act as if we have all the time in the world, when time is something that is not guaranteed right now. They seem to somehow have no idea how bad things are about to get, or most certainly will be when elections they seem to be pinning their hopes on roll around next year.

Everything changed on November 5th, but by the looks of it, very little has changed in the Democratic Party.

This country will never be the same, and the sooner we come to grips with that, and start acting accordingly the better.


What would you do if everything you had and everyone you loved was threatened? Would you act like Zelenskyy or Schumer?
One of the big mistakes of Joe Biden’s presidency was this notion that everything was going to be OK, and that his idea of America matched the actual circumstances of America.

If I had a dollar for every time he said this, I’d fold up shop and move to Tahiti:

“We are the United States of America – there's nothing we can't do if we do it together. We just have to remember who we are.”
It was a noble statement and magical thinking that would have worked great pre-2016, when we could still believe without being laughed at that our two parties could work together in a crisis to protect America.

When we were attacked by the terrible human being who is now somehow leading us January 6, 2021, that magical thinking needed to go out the nearest window.


Instead, our Justice Department twiddled its thumbs and allowed the America-attacker to build himself back up, so that WE would have to deal with him AGAIN.

I seethe just thinking about this, but it is where we are right now, and the sooner we all understand this the better.

The clock is ticking. The bomb is in place.

Which brings me back around to my original premise: At some point, he will do something so heinous … so anti-America … so dangerous … that the people who truly love our country will be forced into the streets to take a life-or-death stand. Sadly, this is actually the best-case scenario, because the worst case is we just go quietly into the dark, gloomy night and become an authoritarian country, where we have zero rights or say in how we are governed.

Yesterday under the cover of his blankets, the America-attacker shared this with us:
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Now read the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES."

He is telling us what he thinks of America and silly things like the Constitution. Kings don’t pay attention to that kind worthless drivel.

And, really, end of the day, it not him who we have most to fear. It’s the stupid, goddam Republicans who are stubbornly in all of our lives. These are the people who have illustrated there is no known pain or sacrifice to our civil liberties or pocketbooks that they won’t absorb just for the satisfaction of watching some poor kid of color going without something they didn’t think she should have.

So the choice is yours: You can continue thinking there is some magical way out of this, or you can begin to take the threat to everything you hold dear seriously, and ACT accordingly.

D. Earl Stephens is the author of “Toxic Tales: A Caustic Collection of Donald J. Trump’s Very Important Letters” and finished up a 30-year career in journalism as the Managing Editor of Stars and Stripes. You can find all his work here, and follow him on Bluesky here.
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One thing that's particularly galling is Trump and Vance, particularly Vance, claiming that a minerals deal is effectively a security guarantee for Ukraine, since if American businesses are in there then the US government will have an interest in stopping a further Russian takeover.

That probably sounds to him as if he's making logical sense but if it was even faintly sincere and he was really thinking about it rather than just grasping for excuses then he would be able to see its fatal flaw. Russia has already proposed there could be a deal for America to get mineral rights in the Ukrainian lands it has invaded and occupied. So it doesn't matter to the US whether some piece of land is liberated or occupied, they can still exploit it. Thus it doesn't matter a damn to Trump if Russia puts the whole country to the sword, so long as they're willing to pay Trump off for letting them do it, and it certainly looks as if they are willing.

Zelensky would have been out of his mind to sign that deal.
 
Because Zelenskyy has tasted gun powder and breathed the odious smell of death on the battlefield, he wasn't about to be pushed around by some morbidly obese, 78-year-old yacht club bully and his toady, who think swinging a sand wedge to free a golf ball from some bunker is dangerous business.
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It's hilarious that maga-idiots, and trumpologists think that Donnie Bonespurs and J.D. Maybelline were the tough guys in that situation.
 
Resume said:
It's hilarious that maga-idiots, and trumpologists think that Donnie Bonespurs and J.D. Maybelline were the tough guys in that situation.
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Many of them didn't see it that way until they were told to by Fox.
 
Andy_Ross said:
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You're not supposed to be asking that question... that's enough" -- Trump gets mad at and shuts down a reporter who tries to ask him about reported clashes between Musk and Rubio

https://twitter.com/x/status/1898103880686485860
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Why not, ◊◊◊◊ face? This should have been the follow-up question by the very next reporter, then the original question until he answered it, or threw a fit and ◊◊◊◊ himself. Then, ask him what's that smell.
 
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