Trumps Presidency 2025

[Tigermojo]

31 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

in one alternate reality, the 2007 writer's strike never happened, so The Apprentice never happened, and Trump was killed by the Russian mob because he skimmed off the top of the money laundering at Trump properties to pay Melania's divorce settlement.

 

[CMRivdogs]

A bit off track but I found out today that folk singer Woody Guthrie had a song called Old Man Trump in his repertoire.  The song describes Fred Trump's racist practices as a landlord. Woody rented an apartment at Trump's Beach Haven Apartments. I don't think he ever recorded the song but did sing it often. There are versions on YouTube

Here is an AI updated version on his son

Quote

I suppose

Young Man Trump knows

Just how deep

Division grows

When you trade

In bitter lines

And dress hate up

In stars and signs.

 

He tweets in caps

While justice burns,

He rewrites truth

In sharp U-turns.

He built his towers

On shifting sand—

The law bends strange

With power in hand.

 

He learned the game

From Old Man Fred—

Keep out the poor,

Keep fear well-fed.

But Woody sang

Of better days—

Of union songs

And workers’ praise.

 

Now Beach Haven’s

Long since sold,

But the ink is fresh,

The tale still told.

From Brooklyn roofs

To D.C. walls,

That color line

Still loudly calls.

 

Oh, Young Man Trump,

The times have changed—

But you play old chords

On strings deranged.

This land is ours,

From shore to shore,

And hate won’t rule

Forevermore.

 

[ewsieg]

Thinking about this a bit on a much nicer dog walk this evening after we got some rain today and regime change is a must, am I wrong?  If our intel, not Israel's, but what is being reported about our Intel, that 1) they weren't looking to create nuclear weapons and even if they were, they were years away and 2) that we likely only sent them back 3-6 months, then the best thing for the current power structure in Iran to do is to bow to Trump and let him take his victory lap as he tries to claim he brought world peace.  Meanwhile, they have already discussed and determined that now is the time to go full speed ahead on a weapon, right?  That gives them 3 years under Trump to get it while he ignores it because ignoring it will make his base feel it's not an issue.

And don't get me wrong, I was extremely hesitant of any action in Iran because of Iraq.  Yes I used to have grandiose ideas of what great things could come out of Arab Spring, but I've seen the results.  This just seems like such a bad spot for the world.  Please someone tell me I'm wrong...I want to be wrong.