Trumps Presidency 2025

[Tigeraholic1]

2 hours ago, pfife said:

Thanks Slump, TigerLOLic1  and Starchy

https://www.mlive.com/news/2025/09/grocery-retail-giant-to-lay-off-nearly-1000-employees.html

 

Sounds like a savy corporate move. Can't take credit for that.

 

According to a company memo cited by Reuters, the grocery giant’s cuts will not impact the staff working in stores, manufacturing facilities or distribution centers. Instead, the cuts are being directed at corporate-level employees.

[Edman85]

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Edited September 12 by Edman85

[pfife]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

Sounds like a savy corporate move. Can't take credit for that.

 

According to a company memo cited by Reuters, the grocery giant’s cuts will not impact the staff working in stores, manufacturing facilities or distribution centers. Instead, the cuts are being directed at corporate-level employees.

Thanks again 

[chasfh]

I don't see how Trump and MAGA precipitated the Kroger cuts? Looks like the same thing that would have happened under any president. Or am I missing something in the story?

[1776]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I don't see how Trump and MAGA precipitated the Kroger cuts? Looks like the same thing that would have happened under any president. Or am I missing something in the story?

Remember, everything has to have a political ingredient. Everything. Including a grocery chain headcount reduction. 😉
 

 

 

[Tigeraholic1]

52 minutes ago, pfife said:

Thanks again 

No problem Chief. 

[chasfh]

15 minutes ago, 1776 said:

Remember, everything has to have a political ingredient. Everything. Including a grocery chain headcount reduction. 😉
 

 

 

Yeah, well, I don't know, maybe I'm a little ****ed up here, but, I tend to seek out the logic in arguments. 😏

[pfife]

Imagine trusting any criminal accusations from the unified reich 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed-governor-cook-declared-her-atlanta-property-vacation-home-documents-show-2025-09-12/

[HighOPS]

13 minutes ago, pfife said:

Imagine trusting any criminal accusations from the unified reich 

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fed-governor-cook-declared-her-atlanta-property-vacation-home-documents-show-2025-09-12/

The Supreme Court will allow her firing with an unsigned opinion. Kavanaugh will write a concurrence misapplying Herring and Heien  because Trump honestly believed Pulte. 

 

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, HighOPS said:

The Supreme Court will allow her firing with an unsigned opinion. Kavanaugh will write a concurrence misapplying Herring and Heien  because Trump honestly believed Pulte. 

 

This reads like a joke Dennis Miller would put his audience to sleep with.

[pfife]

Remember a few years ago when someone hit Miller with a good burn and he as like gimme till Wednesday to come up with a comeback?   Hes the worse than drake hashtag one job

[pfife]

I remember when Lolic said Doge was gonna be the best thing trump does.

 

Thanks Slump, Lolic, and Archief

From the oh no **** desk:

 

Exclusive: Musk got DOGE's mission "backward," Lutnick says

Elon Musk got DOGE wrong by focusing on firing people instead of on slashing government waste, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Mike Allen in the premiere episode of "The Axios Show."

 

To the extent DOGE keeps functioning, Lutnick said, its cuts will be aimed at costs, not headcount.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/12/doge-elon-musk-howard-lutnick

 

[chasfh]

8 hours ago, pfife said:

I remember when Lolic said Doge was gonna be the best thing trump does.

 

Thanks Slump, Lolic, and Archief

From the oh no **** desk:

 

Exclusive: Musk got DOGE's mission "backward," Lutnick says

Elon Musk got DOGE wrong by focusing on firing people instead of on slashing government waste, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Mike Allen in the premiere episode of "The Axios Show."

 

To the extent DOGE keeps functioning, Lutnick said, its cuts will be aimed at costs, not headcount.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/12/doge-elon-musk-howard-lutnick

 

Musta saw too many white people getting caught up in the ****canning. 

[Tigermojo]

I was browsing the conservatives sub on Reddit and a lot of the comments are almost exactly what we comment here. Change a couple words and it could be a discussion here. Does that mean we're not that far apart? Does that mean we're all being manipulated and pitted against each other?

[romad1]

so, I was forced by a family function to be near my Trumpie brother.  He started to engage me about how sad the Charlie Kirk death was and I shared my son's joke:  "well at least he died doing what he loved, instigating campus shootings."

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, Tigermojo said:

I was browsing the conservatives sub on Reddit and a lot of the comments are almost exactly what we comment here. Change a couple words and it could be a discussion here. Does that mean we're not that far apart? Does that mean we're all being manipulated and pitted against each other?

there is often an appearance of agreement on objectives, but the disagreement about what is true - or alternatively - who can be believed,  is pretty deep and I don't know how you paper that over easily. When the traditional cultural sources of credible knowledge (e.g. news networks and newspapers that reported straight and that everyone trusted) began to fail in the digital age, I had thought it wouldn't take that long for new trusted, authoritative sources to emerge. Man - was I wrong about that. I don't see any sign at all that any person, place, or thing is emerging to fill the chasm in the US market for trustworthy news. And of course that may be because neither side cares if one does. In the US we can usually get anything we are willing to pay for.

[mtutiger]

11 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

there is often an appearance of agreement on objectives, but the disagreement about what is true - or alternatively - who can be believed,  is pretty deep and I don't know how you paper that over easily. When the traditional cultural sources of credible knowledge (e.g. news networks and newspapers that reported straight and that everyone trusted) began to fail in the digital age, I had thought it wouldn't take that long for new trusted, authoritative sources to emerge. Man - was I wrong about that. I don't see any sign at all that any person, place, or thing is emerging to fill the chasm in the US market for trustworthy news. And of course that may be because neither side cares if one does. In the US we can usually get anything we are willing to pay for.

The credible news angle is only part of the issue - the other part is that people find themselves seeking out "news" that confirms their worldview. And in a world where "news" isn't he the basic reporting of facts, it's a commodity that is marketed to people based on what they want. Which ultimately leads to the destruction of any shared truths.

As much as we blame the news media, and boy oh boy do they deserve it a lot of the time, especially in a capitalist system, they are just giving the people what they want. We collectively deserve blame for that.

Edited September 13 by mtutiger

[mtutiger]

"Pro Life"

[gehringer_2]

27 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

The credible news angle is only part of the issue - the other part is that people find themselves seeking out "news" that confirms their worldview. And in a world where "news" isn't he the basic reporting of facts, it's a commodity that is marketed to people based on what they want. Which ultimately leads to the destruction of any shared truths.

As much as we blame the news media, and boy oh boy do they deserve it a lot of the time, especially in a capitalist system, they are just giving the people what they want. We collectively deserve blame.

This is true. Maybe is was never all it was cracked up to be, but originally you had to pledge to operate in the public interest to get an FCC license to operate a broadcast radio or later, TV transmitter. And there was a certain level of noblesse oblige that remained at work pretty much right up to the birth of cable. I think 20/20 hindsight tells us the the Reagan admin's and general GOP resistance to bringing cable TV under the jurisdiction of the FCC was the original sin for a lot of what is wrong the US media today. Because if cable had been brought under the FCC with a public service mandate, the precedent would have been set for the internet to have been as well.

If there is one thing I really despair about it is that American voters don't understand that rules matter. They're always looking for the result in relative ignorance that it's the rules that produce the results. But of course rules debates generally don't work as soundbites.

Edited September 13 by gehringer_2

[Mr.TaterSalad]

19 hours ago, pfife said:

I remember when Lolic said Doge was gonna be the best thing trump does.

 

Thanks Slump, Lolic, and Archief

From the oh no **** desk:

 

Exclusive: Musk got DOGE's mission "backward," Lutnick says

Elon Musk got DOGE wrong by focusing on firing people instead of on slashing government waste, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Mike Allen in the premiere episode of "The Axios Show."

 

To the extent DOGE keeps functioning, Lutnick said, its cuts will be aimed at costs, not headcount.

https://www.axios.com/2025/09/12/doge-elon-musk-howard-lutnick

 

Code word, we can't do anything or run government departments because DOGE fired too many people. Oooopppsss!

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

there is often an appearance of agreement on objectives, but the disagreement about what is true - or alternatively - who can be believed,  is pretty deep and I don't know how you paper that over easily. When the traditional cultural sources of credible knowledge (e.g. news networks and newspapers that reported straight and that everyone trusted) began to fail in the digital age, I had thought it wouldn't take that long for new trusted, authoritative sources to emerge. Man - was I wrong about that. I don't see any sign at all that any person, place, or thing is emerging to fill the chasm in the US market for trustworthy news. And of course that may be because neither side cares if one does. In the US we can usually get anything we are willing to pay for.

Mainstream media is as trustworthy as news as it's ever been. It's simply that the landscape has shifted underneath it.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, mtutiger said:

"Pro Life"

Babies are innocent. Once they grow past the baby stage they are guilty as hell.

[mtutiger]

16 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Babies are innocent. Once they grow past the baby stage they are guilty as hell.

It's a very small detail from the week that was which been overlooked, but the way that Steven Crowder moved quickly to rebrand as the "#1 Conservative Daily Show" after Charlie Kirk was murdered kinda says a lot about the culture of life on that side, doesn't it?

Edited September 14 by mtutiger

[CMRivdogs]

 

[mtutiger]

42 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

This is what happens when you outsource everything to AI....