Trump's Second Term

[Resume]

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He did that!

Yes, he did.

Assuming the individual cuts are extended for the full 10 years, the Trump tax cut law will add not $1.5 trillion or the revised estimate of $1.7 trillion to our national debt, but about $3 trillion. Add in increased military spending, and the additional debt will soar to nearly $4 trillion–a more than 25% increase from when Trump took office.

 

[Planigale]

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Snicker.

The young Trump was ... So Hot!

 

[Armitage72]

Curious, what are the actual numbers to support this? How much debt from 2017 through 2020?

Debt in 2016: $19.573 trillion
Debt in 2020: $26.945 trillion, $7.372 trillion added
Debt in 2024: $35.464 trillion
Current Debt: $37.23 trillion, $1.766 trillion added

$9.138 trillion total added.
9.138/37.23 = 0.245 = 24.5%

Sarcasm: Don't exaggerate. It's less than 25%.

U.S. National Debt by Year

The U.S. national debt is the total of what the federal government owes creditors. The U.S. has always carried debt, but the total has expanded rapidly since 2008.

www.investopedia.com

Fiscal Data Explains the National Debt

Check out @FiscalService Fiscal Data’s new national debt page! #NationalDebt

fiscaldata.treasury.gov

 

[grunion]

Please don't call him that. Many of us like cheese. He's a ◊◊◊◊ brain.

Why must you disparage ◊◊◊◊ like that? It has its qualities.

 

[Hercules56]

Debt in 2016: $19.573 trillion
Debt in 2020: $26.945 trillion, $7.372 trillion added
Debt in 2024: $35.464 trillion
Current Debt: $37.23 trillion, $1.766 trillion added

$9.138 trillion total added.
9.138/37.23 = 0.245 = 24.5%

Sarcasm: Don't exaggerate. It's less than 25%.

U.S. National Debt by Year

The U.S. national debt is the total of what the federal government owes creditors. The U.S. has always carried debt, but the total has expanded rapidly since 2008.

www.investopedia.com

Fiscal Data Explains the National Debt

Check out @FiscalService Fiscal Data’s new national debt page! #NationalDebt

fiscaldata.treasury.gov

Eh.... Under President Obama the US debt doubled. This may not be something about Trump we want to flaunt around. 25% increase vs 100% increase is ewwwww....

 

[Andy_Ross]

◊◊◊◊ Congress, just do it.

REPORTER: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department

TRUMP: We’re just gonna do it. I’m sure Congress will go along

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960073337184333991

 

[Andy_Ross]

It's up to $950 billion now. Soon be a trillion!

Trump on his trade deal with the EU: “They pay us $950 billion”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960073977365135540

 

[Hercules56]

◊◊◊◊ Congress, just do it.

REPORTER: It requires an act of Congress to rename the Defense Department

TRUMP: We’re just gonna do it. I’m sure Congress will go along

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960073337184333991

We should totally let Trump charge the name to Kriegsministerium. Really fits.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump: "The Department of Defense...It didn't sound good to me. It didn't sound good. Defense? What are we defense? Why are we defense? It used to be called the Department of War and it had a stronger sound...Defense? I don't want to be defense only. We want defense but we want offense too."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960003570708648060

 

[Resume]

This makes zero sense, so it fits.

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[Hercules56]

This makes zero sense, so it fits.

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The FBI just scrapped its decades-old bachelor’s degree requirement for recruits—and slashed academy training from 18 weeks to 8.

Dilanian also reported that the FBI would be reinstating a requirement that all agents be able to perform one strict pullup — a requirement that Durbin warned could deplete the number of women agents by 30 percent.

So, they want FBI agents who are less educated, less trained, but more buff.

Great.

 

[Jack by the hedge]

Trump wants to be more offensive. No kidding.

 

[Aridas]

Eh.... Under President Obama the US debt doubled. This may not be something about Trump we want to flaunt around. 25% increase vs 100% increase is ewwwww....

Only a tiny bit of context, though, is needed to show how misplaced that "ewwww" is. For both Obama and Biden, a huge proportion of that spending is directly attributable to the massive Republican economic disaster that they had to work to clean up. The Republicans that caused those disasters, of course, received the economy in good condition from the Democrats.

 

[Aridas]

This makes zero sense, so it fits.

Ehh, conceptually, I think it makes perfect sense, honestly? It's just a problem of your assumptions. What they claim is pretense, not principle, after all. Their actions have long shown that you can't trust their words on their face, but their actions are somewhat predictable and "sensible" nevertheless. That the sensible angle requires a much more... unpleasant paradigm to work from than one would prefer to espouse in polite or moral company is another matter.

 

[Hercules56]

Only a tiny bit of context, though, is needed to show how misplaced that "ewwww" is. For both Obama and Biden, a huge proportion of that spending is directly attributable to the massive Republican economic disaster that they had to work to clean up. The Republicans that caused those disasters, of course, received the economy in good condition from the Democrats.

Wasn't it Democrat Clinton who removed the Glass-Steagall banking restrictions?

 

[Armitage72]

Only a tiny bit of context, though, is needed to show how misplaced that "ewwww" is. For both Obama and Biden, a huge proportion of that spending is directly attributable to the massive Republican economic disaster that they had to work to clean up. The Republicans that caused those disasters, of course, received the economy in good condition from the Democrats.

As I recall, a lot of President Obama's debt was President Bush's war-related debt, that didn't get put on the books until after he was out of office. I believe the term often used is paying for the war on the country's credit card.

 

[Trebuchet]

Murdered in DC!

Trump: "You come here from Iowa, you come here from Indiana, you come here from Idaho because you're so proud of your country and then you get murdered ... see the media? You get murdered."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1959992988194496762

So, if you come from a state which starts with another letter you are OK?

Clearly "I" is the most important letter to Trump. I wonder why?

 

[bruto]

My birthday is tomorrow. You know what I want? What I really want? I want someone to go down to DC. I want someone to wake him up from his slumber on Pennsylvania Ave and bring him here. And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-ass, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed sack of monkey ◊◊◊◊ he is.

Hallelujah! HOLY ◊◊◊◊.

where's the whiskey?

Got the rhythm going pretty well there. Been reading Shakespeare?

 

[stanfr]

Clearly "I" is the most important letter to Trump. I wonder why?

I assume cause it is his best all-round descriptor: Idiot, Ideologue, Insane, Inane, Impervious, Impotent, Ill, Irresponsible, Icky, Ignoramus, Insufferable, Immature, Ignorant, Incoherent....

 

[shemp]

The FBI just scrapped its decades-old bachelor’s degree requirement for recruits—and slashed academy training from 18 weeks to 8.

Dilanian also reported that the FBI would be reinstating a requirement that all agents be able to perform one strict pullup — a requirement that Durbin warned could deplete the number of women agents by 30 percent.

So, they want FBI agents who are less educated, less trained, but more buff.

Great.

Probably opens the ranks to a bunch of Proud Boys and other scum.