Trumps Presidency 2025

[Mr.TaterSalad]

We were told that Donald Trump would be a peacetime President and that no new wars would be waged on his watch. We were told that the wars in Ukraine and Gaza would have never started had he just been the President at the time. Now, we're either about to get heavily involved in a war with Iran or at least be a sideline partner, approving of and funding Israel's invasion of and war with Iran. I guess we can start calling him George W. Trump.

[romad1]

From a coming Blue Wave perspective...not sure if VA dem Primary last night tells us a lot but the more Prog candidate won LT Gov and the guy I picked as a bulwark voter won as AG.   Not by a lot in either case.  Turnout was mild which tells you that its June. 

[Tigerbomb13]

I don’t know how anyone with a straight face can say this is who should be running our country. 

[smr-nj]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

Plus he just wanted to kill it because it was an Obama thing - if you recall he tried to de-Obama-fy everything he could. It was his big motivation early  in his 1st term.

His motivation then and his motivation now has been and is always a retribution style rule. There’s no “policy” involved.
 

I don’t remember exactly when during his first term we heard about him questioning his generals about using a nuclear option. He always wanted to use it. I believe he asked them something in the vein of “ we have them. why can’t we use them?”

He’s gonna do it at some point. He’s just itching to do it.

How people put those nuclear codes back in his hands a second time just defies logic.

You should always want someone in that position who will want the option of using nuclear weapons as the absolute last thing they would choose to do. Instead, we have someone who will use it on impulse because he’ll think that will make him look big and strong.

Totally insane.

[romad1]

pffft

Drunk Hegseth and Orange Julius Cesar are letting this guy do his thing. 

Hegseth defers to general on Pentagon’s plans for Iran - POLITICO

[Motown Bombers]

21 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I don’t know how anyone with a straight face can say this is who should be running our country. 

I want to know how Dems were able to rig the election when he was in power, but not in 2016 or 2024 when Dems were in power. 

[antrat]

21 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I don’t know how anyone with a straight face can say this is who should be running our country. 

If this were a movie, it would be the funniest movie ever made. But when you are living it, it is a mother fracking horror show.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[ewsieg]

1 hour ago, oblong said:

He's not.  But he's also not stupid.  He was playing a role all these years on Fox.  But if you go back to his early crossfire days he wasn't like that... plus there's the whole thing where he was playing nice with Hunter Biden back when his kid needed something. It's a game to Tucker.  But he knows the reality. He doesn't deserve respect or the benefit of the doubt but he is capable of being correct when he wants to portray that.  Why he's doing it now, who knows.  Motivations are fair to question when he's had the career he's had.

You are 100% spot on with Tucker.  For the "why" question, I think Tucker and others similar like Bannon are somewhat principled.  I'm not saying that in a good/bad way, but that they have a specific direction they want to see followed.  The error in their ways though is that they think they can influence Trump, so they curry favor by supporting him, but then think they are smart enough to get him to do their bidding.  Trump props them up when it works for him, and blows them off when it doesn't.  Ultimately they have no additional influence on Trump than your MTG and Laura Loomer, which I'm sure behind closed doors both would scoff at being compared to them.

Edited Wednesday at 03:07 PM by ewsieg

[pfife]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

I promise you someone is getting good and paid on this horseshirt. I don’t know the details—I only know it’s happening.

Jrs buddy's brand new security company 

[romad1]

Trump ‘just kind of down on Tulsi Gabbard in general,’ senior official says | The Independent

You know the DNI is a cabinet position and it was established by congress.  Clown does clown things.  

[Motown Bombers]

 

[pfife]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

They're not.  Try reality.

[CMRivdogs]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

From a coming Blue Wave perspective...not sure if VA dem Primary last night tells us a lot but the more Prog candidate won LT Gov and the guy I picked as a bulwark voter won as AG.   Not by a lot in either case.  Turnout was mild which tells you that its June. 

The fact that Stony didn't do well in his own backyard (Richmond) had to say something. I voted for Rouse in that race, the fact that the GOP candidate has been dissed by many of his own party (Trumpkin wanted him to drop out) tells me a lot.

The other two races may be interesting. A lot depends on what happens west of Richmond

[romad1]

14 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

The fact that Stony didn't do well in his own backyard (Richmond) had to say something. I voted for Rouse in that race, the fact that the GOP candidate has been dissed by many of his own party (Trumpkin wanted him to drop out) tells me a lot.

The other two races may be interesting. A lot depends on what happens west of Richmond

Expect Sears to have her doors blown off.  

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[CMRivdogs]

1 minute ago, romad1 said:

Expect Sears to have her doors blown off.  

Good article in the WP about the Spanberger, Slotnick, Mickie Sherrill (NJ Democratic Gov nominee) connection

https://s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?trackId=596a3f5dae7e8a0ef33bbfbf&s=685290f49627ca1008df44d5&utm_campaign=wp_power_up&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&linknum=5&linktot=60

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They were both first elected as House members in the 2018 Democratic wave that swept the party into control. They are both mothers andnavigated Washington as a duo, as roommates in the nation’s capital and often as centrists at odds with Republicans and the more liberal wing of the Democratic Party. And both have national security backgrounds: Spanberger at the CIA and Sherrill as a Navy helicopter pilot.

But the most striking thing about the duo may be that in a town known for countless fake friendships, the ascendant Democrats are, in the words of Spanberger, “actually real friends.”

 

[RatkoVarda]

neither of the people I voted for in the VA dem primary won, and i don't care.

Spanberger will win in a blowout and hopefully carry any other 2 dems across the finish line.

[romad1]

3 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

neither of the people I voted for in the VA dem primary won, and i don't care.

Spanberger will win in a blowout and hopefully carry any other 2 dems across the finish line.

This is exactly how I feel.  Someone not crazy who can be generic non-MAGA candidate is what I was looking for.  The minimum requirement is they do not fumble the ball.   "Dem candidate for AG in Virginia, costs them the majority in the House and Senate and dooms democracy because of this stupid mistake" would be the headline I dread. 

Edit: then again any number of GOP mistakes just like that have been made since 2015.  

Edited Wednesday at 05:08 PM by romad1

[Motown Bombers]

18 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Expect Sears to have her doors blown off.  

You win some you lose some. 
 

I’ll show myself out. 

[romad1]

They have something else in common don't they

These centrist women on a group chat are leading Democrats in 2025

[CMRivdogs]

 

[romad1]

22 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

she did really well there. 

[mtutiger]

3 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I don’t know how anyone with a straight face can say this is who should be running our country. 

Jake Tapper, call your office

[Motown Bombers]

Slotkin is one of my dark horse picks for president.