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Trump's Second Term

welshdean said:
Trump has previously referred to wholesale prices when claiming that egg prices have decreased by large percentages. The wholesale price is what retailers pay to farmers and other egg producers to procure eggs to sell in their stores.
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That makes sense. The chart I posted is probably for wholesale prices, given the $1.50/dozen value back in June 2024. They lead the shelf price by some period of time. The shelf price is likely to come down in May, but whether they reflect the large drop in wholesale remains to be seen.
 
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Blue Mountain said:
As of the close of the day on April 23, my positive/negative score on the Trump administration stands at -529.

There was a bumper crop of seven executive orders today. Most I scored as zero simply because I don't want to take the time to analyze them closely. One I scored at +1 because a quick reading doesn't raise any red flags. The order titled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy I scored as zero, but a subsequent headline from the Daily Kos indicates it could be dismantling a crucial part of the 1964 Civil Rights act, and item that has a -1 score.

23 April 2025
+1: Executive Order: Preparing Americans for High-paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future
0: Executive Order: Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities
0: Executive Order: Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education
0: Executive Order: White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities
0: Executive Order: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth
0: Executive Order: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy (but see Daily Kos headline below)
-1: Executive Order: Reinstating Common Sense School Discipline Policies (-1 for “common sense”)
-1: Headline: ‘Devastated’: GOP governor begs Trump to reconsider disaster aid (Raw Story)
-1: Trump lies yet again about eggs coming down in price [164]
-1: Headline: The Trump Administration’s War on Children (ProPublica) [165]
-1: Headline: China sends Boeing planes back to US over tariffs (BBC)
-1: Headline: Trump’s ‘attack’ on the IRS could cost the government $1 trillion [over the next decade] (Business Insider)
-1: Headline: Trump administration looking at $5,000 ‘baby bonus’ to incentivize public to have more children (ABC News) [166]
-1: Headline: Trump Warned by Walmart, Target, and Home Depot CEOs that Disastrous Tariff Policy will Lead to ‘Empty Shelves’ (Medialife)
-1: Headline: Wife of wrongly deported Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia forced into safe house after government posts address online (The Independent)
-1: Headline: US FDA suspends milk quality tests amid workforce cuts (Reuters)
-1: Headline: Trump signs executive order to dismantle the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Daily Kos)

References

164. Trump: “You know, the cost of eggs have come down like 93, 94% since we took office. They are pretty much normally price now… Groceries have come down. It’s all coming down”

165. ProPublica: “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.”

166. See #165 about gutting agencies that help children, and the fact Republicans are against paid maternity leave, publicly funded daycare, school lunches, and better wages
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L +1: Executive Order: Preparing Americans for High-paying Skilled Trade Jobs of the Future is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ as the dictatorship is doing everything to destroy the educatio system
0: Executive Order: Transparency Regarding Foreign Influence at American Universities is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ as it's solely a means to curtail and punish any spe3ch Trampy doesn't like.
0: Executive Order: Reforming Accreditation to Strengthen Higher Education is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ as it's only going to be used to strip untermenschen of accreditation and punish opposition to the dictatorship
0: Executive Order: White House Initiative to Promote Excellence and Innovation at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ as he's destroying anything that doesn't promote his brand of nazism.
0: Executive Order: Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ for the same reason as my first line
0: Executive Order: Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy is ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ because the eo is nazism.

Remember, everything Trampy and the dictatorship does is designed to destroy the US. None of it good, or even neutral.
 
thaiboxerken said:
It is amazing how he tries to gaslight everyone. He believes that vranyo will work in the USA like it does for Putin in Russia.
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Do you have evidence that it doesn’t ?
Obviously the half of Americans that didn’t vote for him, don’t fall for it, but what about his MAGA supporters, and his congress majority where he is still a cult figure?
 
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ended the service of all committee members on DOD advisory committees.

Hegseth thanked the members for their work but said changes are needed to align with the department’s new goals and to use resources more effectively.
 
Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth

The brand-new “NATIONAL DEFENSE AREA” is now operational at the border. We’re going down to see our troops ON MISSION.
We will fully SEAL the border & REPEL all illegals attempting to cross.
Feels good to seal OUR OWN BORDER, not somebody else’s.
 
Lawless courts stopping the will of the people

JD Vance
@JDVance

We’re seeing a consistent pattern.

1) Biden administration does something the American people elected Donald Trump to undo.
2) A lawless district court judge substitutes his or her policy preferences for the will of the People.
This is not consistent with the Constitution.
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Carrot Flower King said:
But, but, but...You just don't understand the masterful genius at work here, how he wraps his message in such a way as to enable it to subliminally slide into your brain without you consciously knowing that The Great Trump has communicated deeper meanings to you which you will only gradually realise as those incredible meanings, the best meanings, gently permeate your thoughts and you will inevitably became as one with The Donald...
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You are quite right. Trump’s brain is so preoccupied with the 5-dimensional chess game that he is playing with the world that he sees the essence of things rather than the two-dimensional stuff that we mere mortals are aware of. If we could see into that godly brain, we would realise that trees actually explode after 18 months!
 
Another Judge arrested, New Mexico this time.
It says 'former' but he just stepped down a few weeks ago.

Fox News
@FoxNews

Former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife were arrested after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home. They face charges of evidence tampering amid allegations they harbored an alleged illegal immigrant who is also believed to be a member of Tren de Aragua.
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Andy_Ross said:
Pete Hegseth
@PeteHegseth

The brand-new “NATIONAL DEFENSE AREA” is now operational at the border. We’re going down to see our troops ON MISSION.
We will fully SEAL the border & REPEL all illegals attempting to cross.
Feels good to seal OUR OWN BORDER, not somebody else’s.
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Old man yells "Get Off My Lawn!"
 
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