Trumps Presidency 2025

[Motown Bombers]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

I would be surprised if Louisville didn't have a higher murder rate than San Diego.... 

San Diego is one of the safest major cities in the US. Its murder rate is half that of the US and significantly less than Louisville. San Diego recorded only 35 murders in 2024. Louisville recorded 143 and Louisville is half the size. Even most property crime in San Diego is below the US average. Keep in mind this is a border city on the busiest border crossing in the western hemisphere. 

[mtutiger]

Just now, Motown Bombers said:

San Diego is one of the safest major cities in the US. Its murder rate is half that of the US and significantly less than Louisville. San Diego recorded only 35 murders in 2024. Louisville recorded 143 and Louisville is half the size. Even most property crime in San Diego is below the US average. Keep in mind this is a border city on the busiest border crossing in the western hemisphere. 

Sounds about right.... it's been over 10 years since I've been in San Diego, but it's about as safe and desirable a major city as there is in this country.

[guy incognito]

2 hours ago, mtutiger said:

 

It’s COVID redux. News is making the King look bad? Nothing for it but to kill the messenger.

[mtutiger]

7 minutes ago, guy incognito said:

It’s COVID redux. News is making the King look bad? Nothing for it but to kill the messenger.

The thing is that, politically, so much of how people view the economy runs off of vibes anyway... and like Biden before him (who never could outrun 9% inflation in 2022 despite many good jobs reports), his vibes are in the toilet. 

Also similar to COVID as well.... people built an impression of him, and he never did outrun it (even with Operation Warp Speed and some other successes).

Edited yesterday at 09:06 PM by mtutiger

[GalagaGuy]

Thump basically threatens to nuke Russia and it gets pretty much zero coverage.  Wild times we're living in.  

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

Too easy

 

[chasfh]

7 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

“Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences.”

That’s ****ing rich.

[mtutiger]

2 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Thump basically threatens to nuke Russia and it gets pretty much zero coverage.  Wild times we're living in.  

In a more sane world, he'd be 25th'd out of there... just seems like he's decomposing in real time

[gehringer_2]

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

“Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences.”

That’s ****ing rich.

When your fans won't hold you to any kind of logic or consistency standard at all, you are embarrassment proof.

[Sports_Freak]

8 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

San Diego is one of the safest major cities in the US. Its murder rate is half that of the US and significantly less than Louisville. San Diego recorded only 35 murders in 2024. Louisville recorded 143 and Louisville is half the size. Even most property crime in San Diego is below the US average. Keep in mind this is a border city on the busiest border crossing in the western hemisphere. 

Huh...I always thought Detroit-Windsor was the busiest border crossing?

[gehringer_2]

43 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Huh...I always thought Detroit-Windsor was the busiest border crossing?

I think when the auto industry was cooking between Southern Ont and MI, Detroit-Windsor was busiest in term of $ value going back and forth.

[Sports_Freak]

6 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I think when the auto industry was cooking between Southern Ont and MI, Detroit-Windsor was busiest in term of $ value going back and forth.

Yeah, I read it was #1 in trade crossings but as low as #9 in total crossings. I"m not sure how old this is but it's probably less now;

 

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-busiest-border-crossings-in-the-united-states.html

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

When your fans won't hold you to any kind of logic or consistency standard at all, you are embarrassment proof.

Because the fans’ intellectually capacity is under the control of a sophisticated media apparatus that’s unmatched in its ability to disseminate propaganda and, fortuitously, in an environment that’s basically self-hermetically-sealed by its own target audience.

IOW, Fox News and their fellow travelers have the luxury of being able to tell anything they want to their audience, who will believe anything they hear because they refuse to obtain any information from anywhere else—in fact, it is by now considered practically disloyal to do so.

The American RWM learned from the best in the business.

[chasfh]

The most alarming thing about this is that, apparently, it is impossible to stop it.

1 big thing: Trump authoritarian streak

Photo illustration: Natalie Peeples/Axios. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

A five-alarm fire tore through the economic establishment yesterday after President Trump ousted the government's top labor statistician, accusing her — without evidence — of "rigging" a weak jobs report. Why it matters: It's just one glaring example from a week that bore many authoritarian hallmarks — purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition and demanding total institutional loyalty, Axios' Zachary Basu writes. Vast swaths of society are falling in line. The Washington Post revealed this week that the Smithsonian quietly removed references to Trump's two impeachments from its presidential exhibit. 🔭 The big picture: The overwhelming, all-consuming nature of Trump-driven news cycles makes it difficult to discern partisan hysteria from true democratic backsliding. But apply any of these five developments to a foreign leader — or even a past U.S. president — and it reads like an authoritarian playbook: 1. Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner Erika McEntarfer, a 20-year government veteran, after BLS announced massive downward revisions for job growth in May and June. "We're doing so well. I believe the numbers were phony. ... So you know what I did: I fired her," Trump told reporters, without explaining why he believed past jobs reports were credible when they were positive. Larry Summers, Harvard professor and Treasury Secretary for President Clinton. Screenshot via X William Beach, who led the BLS during Trump's first term, blasted the firing as "totally groundless." 2. Eager to shift scrutiny from his handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, Trump demanded his Justice Department prosecute former President Obama for "treason" over the 2016 Russia investigation. Top Trump aides are engaged in an all-out effort to rewrite the history of "Russiagate" and exact revenge on Obama-era intelligence officials, including through criminal referrals. 3. In his crackdown on liberal power centers, Trump has extracted more than $1.2 billion in settlements from at least 13 of the most elite players in academia, law, media and tech, according to an Axios tally. The Trump administration is reportedly eyeing up to $500 million from Harvard and $100 million from Cornell, paving the way for a cascade of other universities to follow suit. 4. Dozens of Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador's notorious CECOT megaprison say they were beaten, sexually assaulted and denied access to lawyers or medical care, a Washington Post investigation found. 5. Trump's months-long campaign to oust Fed Chair Jay Powell, or at least pressure him to cut interest rates, is still lingering. White House response: "President Trump is holding the federal government and elite institutions accountable for their political games, longstanding corruption, and terrible incompetence," White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers said. With regard to CECOT, a White House official told Axios: "These are criminal terrorist illegal immigrants and the American people are safer with them as far away as possible." Trump's consolidation of power comes at the same time he's attempting to unilaterally reset the global trading order — with tariff rates set to his personal whim. Brazil now faces 50% tariffs — among the highest rates of any country — due to its prosecution of former President Jair Bolsonaro, which Trump has denounced as a "witch hunt." The stakes of Trump's centralized command were accentuated yesterday, when he ordered two nuclear submarines repositioned in response to saber-rattling by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. Share this story.