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Trump's Second Term

3point14 said:
It's not, is it.

The point is to ensure people can't discern truth from ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊. The USA has moved from covert to overt propaganda and the full might of the billionaire machine can now be applied to ensuring people do not have the time, resources and education to see through the bollocks.

I think it would serve the rest of the world very well indeed to begin disentangling themselves from the USA in every regard, economically, militarily and culturally, so that the infection doesn't spread (which it's viruses and bacteria are trying to do) and so the effect it lessened when Putin finally declares that the CCCP have won the cold war.
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I think your whole Trump is a tool of the evil capitalist theory just does not hold water, given the way Trump is srecking the economy.
And so your solution if for the rest of the world to simply pretend the USA does not exist. Foosd luck with that. And good luck tithe cultural angle. You propose banning US movies and TV shows from the reast of the world?
And I get the impression, even before Trump, you did not the USA very much, probably because it is pretty much a market diveing nation, and you don like the free market very much.
 
dudalb said:
I think your whole Trump is a tool of the evil capitalist theory just does not hold water, given the way Trump is srecking the economy.
And so your solution if for the rest of the world to simply pretend the USA does not exist. Foosd luck with that. And good luck tithe cultural angle. You propose banning US movies and TV shows from the reast of the world?
And I get the impression, even before Trump, you did not the USA very much, probably because it is pretty much a market diveing nation, and you don like the free market very much.
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Please explain what the bolded and underlined words mean. Thanks.
 
Leavitt on Trump's motivations for installing massive American flags at the White House:
"Look, the president is a real estate developer at heart, and he's always looking for ways to improve the White House complex. Not for him, but for future generations, for future presidents. He has some fun ideas."
 
Every demographic now has more people disliking Dump than liking him, according to the Economist.

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Also, the boost he got from the younger crowd seems to have completely disappeared. I seem to recall that not too long ago the "under 30" bracket was over the black line, now it's at the bottom. Might just be faulty memory, though. My fellow white (biological) men have finally dropped below the treshold, too.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Leavitt on Trump's motivations for installing massive American flags at the White House:
"Look, the president is a real estate developer at heart, and he's always looking for ways to improve the White House complex. Not for him, but for future generations, for future presidents. He has some fun ideas."
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Really, "fun ideas"?!? Huge flags aren't "fun ideas", they are car dealership down the road ideas. For fun ideas try some horseshoe pits, a pool, barbeque pit, dirt bike track, ect.... Nixon already got the bowling lane taken care of.

ETA: 'Less fun than Nixon' wasn't even a bar I'd considered, yet he still crawled under.
 
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Just in case someone runs into yet another right-wing "think of the children" argument...

The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.

Some examples -

The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so that babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The federal office that oversees the enforcement of child support payments has been hollowed out. Head Start preschools, which teach toddlers their ABCs and feed them healthy meals, will likely be forced to shut down en masse, some as soon as May 1. And funding for investigating child sexual abuse and internet crimes against children; responding to reports of missing children; and preventing youth violence has been withdrawn indefinitely.
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The previous Trump Administration waged war against the kids, too, of course, so this is not surprising to the people who were paying attention then. Not that it ever stopped the willfully blind and dishonest from pretending that the Democrats are the real villains on that front, generally by invoking trans kids.
 
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Safe-Keeper said:
Every demographic now has more people disliking Dump than liking him, according to the Economist.

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Also, the boost he got from the younger crowd seems to have completely disappeared. I seem to recall that not too long ago the "under 30" bracket was over the black line, now it's at the bottom. Might just be faulty memory, though. My fellow white (biological) men have finally dropped below the treshold, too.
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Under 30 men might have been over the bracket for some time there. But it seems that some youth social media influencers who were in for Trump are souring on him because they aren't rich enough to take advantage of his crashing the market. They might come back in line if dropping the tariffs works out, but there is a strong chance it won't.
 
kookbreaker said:
Under 30 men might have been over the bracket for some time there. But it seems that some youth social media influencers who were in for Trump are souring on him because they aren't rich enough to take advantage of his crashing the market. They might come back in line if dropping the tariffs works out, but there is a strong chance it won't.
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In other words, parasites. They can go choke to death on vomit... somebody else's vomit!
 
dirtywick said:
counter point is his entire cabinet is made up of billionaire donors that he owed favors for helping him get elected
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Countepoint to that is what kind of BIllionaire downers. They don't seem to be of the Wall Street type, which is where Trump is making enemies.
Of course I in a minority here because I am not a "Anti Capitalist".
 
kookbreaker said:
Under 30 men might have been over the bracket for some time there. But it seems that some youth social media influencers who were in for Trump are souring on him because they aren't rich enough to take advantage of his crashing the market. They might come back in line if dropping the tariffs works out, but there is a strong chance it won't.
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Nah, I think it was the influencers thought that Trump's "Macho Tough Guy " image would go over big with the young males. That seems to have worked for a while, but will not work anymore.
I alos think Trump benefited from a "anti establishement" atitude that is so preveleant among the under 30's. Problem with that is when he became the POTUS for the second time he became "The Establishment". Yes, I think blind being blindly against whoever is in office is very stupid, but that is the way a lot of young males think, sadly.
And I am just not buying this whole "Crashing the stock market was part of a scam" theory. I think Trump simply underestimated how much his tariffs did damage. He expected some, not much. I honeslty think Trump really has bought into the idea of tariffs being the answer to all out economic problems.
 
China has sent back planes it ordered from the US in its latest retaliation over Trump tariffs, the boss of aircraft maker Boeing has said.

Kelly Ortberg said two planes had already been returned and another would follow after trade tensions between the two countries escalated.

Boeing's chief executive told CNBC that 50 more planes were due to go to China this year but their customers had indicated they will not take delivery of them.

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China sends Boeing planes back to US over Trump tariffs

Boeing's boss says it's looking to sell 50 more planes China has on order to other countries.
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Trump's 'attack' on the IRS could cost the government $1 trillion, former Treasury Secretary says

  • Ex-Treasury Secretary Larry Summers said Trump's IRS cuts could cost the government $1 trillion.
  • A Yale economist told BI that his estimate is conservative, and actual losses could top $2 trillion.
  • Trump has ordered sweeping cuts at the IRS to increase "efficiency and effectiveness" at the agency.
On Tuesday, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said that Donald Trump's "misguided, wanton attack on the IRS" could cost the government $1 trillion over the next decade.

As part of his aggressive cost-cutting strategy, Trump has ordered sweeping cuts at the Internal Revenue Service to increase the agency's "efficiency and effectiveness." These layoffs include a 75% reduction in the IRS's Office of Civil Rights and Compliance, which is responsible for investigating complaints of discrimination against taxpayers.

The statutory body has also experienced repeated leadership shake-ups since Trump took office. Five different people have held the role of acting commissioner since January, including three different people during tax week alone.

Summers, who served as Treasury Secretary under Bill Clinton's administration, told Bloomberg's David Westin that Trump's efforts to cut IRS staff are "threatening the basis of our tax system, which is based on voluntary compliance" and described the president's approach in leading the agency as "raw incompetence."

"I'd be surprised if we're not on a path to sacrificing more than $1 trillion of revenue over the next decade because of this misguided, wanton attack on the IRS," Summers said.

Natasha Sarin, the president and cofounder of the Budget Lab at Yale, told Business Insider that Summers' estimate is conservative, and the losses may top $2 trillion.

"The reality is that we have a very large gap in this country between taxes that are owed and taxes that are collected," Sarin said, estimating that this year there will be about $700 billion in taxes that are owed but won't be collected, due to filers failing to report or under-reporting their taxes.
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alfaniner said:
Ever notice when he makes a statement like this he always says it three times?
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The belief in this techniques is that the repetition helps the message stick with the audience’s memory.
The belief in this techniques is that the repetition helps the message stick with the audience’s memory.
The belief in this techniques is that the repetition helps the message stick with the audience’s memory.
 
dudalb said:
I think your whole Trump is a tool of the evil capitalist theory just does not hold water, given the way Trump is srecking the economy.
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I think it's entirely possible. And I think it's entirely possible he has more than one master.

dudalb said:
And so your solution if for the rest of the world to simply pretend the USA does not exist. Foosd luck with that. And good luck tithe cultural angle. You propose banning US movies and TV shows from the reast of the world?
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Not pretending it doesn't exist. Just safeguarding against a lunatic in the white house, unconstrained by the, apparently impotent, checks and balances by not having vital trade and military interactions with the USA. I accept that it would probably be impossible to avoid american entertainment, yes. But it's a nice thought.

dudalb said:
And I get the impression, even before Trump, you did not the USA very much, probably because it is pretty much a market diveing nation, and you don like the free market very much.
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I think you've missed a word there.

And no, you can't read my mind.

However, I have, and have always had, massive admiration and distain for the USA. It has been both an amazing boon for the world and a massive problem. The foreign policy of the USA has been a problem for years. As for capitalism, I think it's a superb tool. The free market is an amazing thing, but to treat it as practically a religion is not wise and the free market requires regulation or you end up with too much wealth at the top of the tree, leading to too much power in too few hands, leading to the richest man in the world purchasing the president.
 
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