Trumps Presidency 2025

[mtutiger]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Once a hick always a hick

Every so often when I hear his name in the headlines, I think about how he wrote the book as one version of JD Vance and, when faced with his political ambition and the need to pivot, conveniently uninstalled that version from his hard-drive and installed a version 2.0.

Just one of the phoniest human beings alive.... no core convictions, no beliefs, no personality. 

[Motown Bombers]

8 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Every so often when I hear his name in the headlines, I think about how he wrote the book as one version of JD Vance and, when faced with his political ambition and the need to pivot, conveniently uninstalled that version from his hard-drive and installed a version 2.0.

Just one of the phoniest human beings alive.... no core convictions, no beliefs, no personality. 

You just described most Republicans. 

[mtutiger]

Putin needles U.S. by giving Trump envoy an award meant for CIA official whose son died fighting for Russia

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Washington — Russian President Vladimir Putin gave President Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff an award to pass along to a senior CIA official whose son was killed in Ukraine while fighting alongside Russian forces, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The award, the Order of Lenin, was meant to be handed off to Juliane Gallina, whose 21-year-old son, Michael Gloss, was killed in 2024.

Gallina is currently serving at the CIA as deputy director for digital innovation. It could not be immediately determined what was done with the award.

Multiple sources told CBS News that Putin gave Witkoff the award during his trip to Russia this week, which a Russian official said the U.S. initiated, to discuss ending the Ukraine war.

The gesture by Putin, known for mind games and attempts to expose adversaries' points of weakness, was likely meant to raise unhelpful questions and highlight that a CIA official's son fought for Russia in the war.

So not only are we letting that war criminal come onto US soil to embarrass us, this happened apparently.... 

[CMRivdogs]

I just hope Putin goes back to Russia without the deed to Alaska

[Mr.TaterSalad]

They really believe this bull**** too. I genuinely believe that what is shared in this video are Pete Hegseth's actual views on women being able to vote. 

 

[Motown Bombers]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

I just hope Putin goes back to Russia without the deed to Alaska

I hope he does. Get rid of Murkowski and the path to taking over the senate gets easier. 

[Edman85]

36 minutes ago, Mr.TaterSalad said:

They really believe this bull**** too. I genuinely believe that what is shared in this video are Pete Hegseth's actual views on women being able to vote. 

 

I came across an Artie Kendall video (The ghost crooner from Conan who used to be in the studios in the 30's and sings offensive songs of his time.) It was amazing how, 20 years later, they are less funny, because things like this are just flat out spouted by the GOP these days.

 

[chasfh]

11 minutes ago, Edman85 said:

I came across an Artie Kendall video (The ghost crooner from Conan who used to be in the studios in the 30's and sings offensive songs of his time.) It was amazing how, 20 years later, they are less funny, because things like this are just flat out spouted by the GOP these days.

 

That they keep recycling the same music hall tune is itself a hilariously sly joke.

[Tigerbomb13]

Such white trash this family is

[Mr.TaterSalad]

4 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Such white trash this family is

WOMEN'S ATHLETICS! WOMEN'S ATHLETICS! They care about transwomen playing in women's sports . . . until they don't. When the women want equitable pay, that's not something the right wants to standup for.

[Motown Bombers]

Apparently people are throwing dildos on the court of WNBA games. Supposedly it was to draw attention to some crypto company. 

[Tiger337]

2 hours ago, Motown Bombers said:

Apparently people are throwing dildos on the court of WNBA games. Supposedly it was to draw attention to some crypto company. 

crypto company's probably have as much value as green dildos.  I think this push for crypto is going to **** over so many people.

Edited Saturday at 11:04 PM by Tiger337

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

crypto company's probably have as much value as green dildos.  I think this push for crypto is going to **** over so many people.

It's not going to **** me over—unless they pass a law forcing a conversion of all our dollars to crypto. Then it's definitely going to **** me over.

[Tiger337]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

It's not going to **** me over—unless they pass a law forcing a conversion of all our dollars to crypto. Then it's definitely going to **** me over.

Oh, I know.  I am not touching it myself.  A lot of people are going to sold on the idea though.  

[GalagaGuy]

Why is there almost no news about the head of the IRS getting canned?  There has to be something there and I'm guessing it has to do with Trump wanting access to something and being told no.   

[ewsieg]

37 minutes ago, GalagaGuy said:

Why is there almost no news about the head of the IRS getting canned?  There has to be something there and I'm guessing it has to do with Trump wanting access to something and being told no.   

Rumors are he had to OK any decision with Bessent and he didn't like it.  Bessent was the one that put him in the position as well.  Guessing Bessent just wanted a puppet.

[1984Echoes]

12 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Why is there almost no news about the head of the IRS getting canned?  There has to be something there and I'm guessing it has to do with Trump wanting access to something and being told no.   

11 hours ago, ewsieg said:

Rumors are he had to OK any decision with Bessent and he didn't like it.  Bessent was the one that put him in the position as well.  Guessing Bessent just wanted a puppet.

 

More than that.

Trump and the ICE wanted IRS records to track down legal/illegals that they didn't like so they could deport them and... the IRS head refused.

So he got canned.

And Bessent will, obviously, hand over the records to the ICE.

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 03:56 PM by 1984Echoes

[casimir]

On 8/9/2025 at 11:32 AM, Tigerbomb13 said:

Such white trash this family is

I hope the original poster of this thread is still proud of his decision.

[Tigermojo]

Protect them whether they like it or not, unless they are unattractive, then attack, belittle and degrade.

[oblong]

Trump and his peoole and his supporters  have no class.  They are putrid peoole.  

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

Trump and his peoole and his supporters  have no class.  They are putrid peoole.  

And his public loves him for it. I saw a children's book the other day - just an ordinary heavy cardboard cover, two sentence on a page, illustrated 1st grade kind of book about a kid being a pain at home. It was full of the 'F' word. Completely normalized as how children and their parents should talk to one another. 

We're doomed.

[romad1]

21 hours ago, GalagaGuy said:

Why is there almost no news about the head of the IRS getting canned?  There has to be something there and I'm guessing it has to do with Trump wanting access to something and being told no.   

seems impeachable 

[romad1]

NOOOO!!!!

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-private-equity-retirement-plan-risk-401k-retail-investor-warning-2025-7?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

[mtutiger]

49 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

And his public loves him for it. I saw a children's book the other day - just an ordinary heavy cardboard cover, two sentence on a page, illustrated 1st grade kind of book about a kid being a pain at home. It was full of the 'F' word. Completely normalized as how children and their parents should talk to one another. 

We're doomed.

Regarding the Book, I'd be curious to know what it is to keep my first grader away from it.

But to your first sentence, I don't think the majority of the public loves him for it. It's way too big a number that does, and it speaks poorly that character didn't matter at all when evaluating the decision who to vote for (or whether to vote at all), but his character issues weren't the specific reason why he won the election. 

He won it on the economy and on the perception that he would make life more affordable for people. Obviously he campaigned on doing he opposite of doing all of those things just on policy, but whether it was not paying attention or just flat out lying to themselves that he wouldn't do all of the things he was going to do, that was enough. Anecdotally, it's been shocking how many people in my own life (even people who voted for Harris) have admitted to thinking he wouldn't do various things he campaigned on.

I push back hard here because at a time when his popularity has dropped considerably on the back of policy and his own character (ie. Epstein, corruption, etc), just writing off the public and just saying "they all of love this" is inaccurate and counterproductive 

Edited Monday at 01:34 AM by mtutiger

[1776]

20 minutes ago, romad1 said:

NOOOO!!!!

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-private-equity-retirement-plan-risk-401k-retail-investor-warning-2025-7?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

This is a pox on average investors. The great majority of workers that contribute to 401k plans know little to nothing about what they’re invested in. Far too many are auto enrolled because they won’t do it themselves. They’re the ones that will likely suffer the most. They’re not financially literate enough to follow their accounts and police them. 
These folks are going to get rolled. The fees will cost them bigly. They won’t know the difference. 
I am so glad we are retired. Prior to this destructive move, I have always suggested folks get their retirement account into a personal brokerage account when leaving a job. Don’t leave it with an employer.