Trumps Presidency 2025

[Tigerbomb13]

Jesus. You can’t make this stuff up. 

Edited December 5 by Tigerbomb13

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, ewsieg said:

https://news.sky.com/story/releasing-epstein-files-could-jeopardise-my-appeal-claims-ghislaine-maxwell-13479622

Guess who just guaranteed her eventual pardon?

I don't know, pardoning Ghislaine could be a bad look for Trump. I know we all assume he's bulletproof, but as we have seen, not even Hitler was that.

[chasfh]

3 hours ago, RatkoVarda said:

truly stunning that a guy who regularly does psychdelics, with a dead worm lodged in his brain, who has pumped over a gallon of heroin into his body, is working with non-medical kooks to kill and maim a lot of American children, and it barely registers a shrug; no hep vax for kids = a lot more dead kids

 

The eventual best part isn't that they are withdrawing vaccination recommendations and leaving it up to personal choice, pr parent's prerogative. The best part will be when they outlaw vaccinations in the United States entirely, and criminalize people who obtain vaccinations in other countries.

[ewsieg]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

I don't know, pardoning Ghislaine could be a bad look for Trump. I know we all assume he's bulletproof, but as we have seen, not even Hitler was that.

They have a Quid Pro Quo worked out.  She argues this will affect her appeal, he pardons her at the end of his term.   It's clear Trump will pardon anyone that gives him something or at least says something nice about him, he doesn't care about the blowback, but you are right with Maxwell, she's the only one that he is hesitant on, hence why I think he's asked her to just hold off a little longer. 

[chasfh]

5 minutes ago, ewsieg said:

They have a Quid Pro Quo worked out.  She argues this will affect her appeal, he pardons her at the end of his term.   It's clear Trump will pardon anyone that gives him something or at least says something nice about him, he doesn't care about the blowback, but you are right with Maxwell, she's the only one that he is hesitant on, hence why I think he's asked her to just hold off a little longer. 

To your implication, he can't pardon her until the Epstein threat is way into the rear-view mirror, probably at the end of his regime, is there ever is an end.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[smr-nj]

Jeez. 

[Mr.TaterSalad]

Here is the Department of Defense Chief of Staff completey wasted during the middle of the day in an interview with alleged sexual trafficker Matt Gaetz of OAN. Only the very best people. 

 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Tigermojo]

5 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Aren't the tariffs also decimating small businesses? 

[smr-nj]

Excerpt From Heather Cox Richardson - 
(you can go to her Facebook page to read the full daily synopsis that she provided for Friday, December 5.)

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December 5, 2025 (Friday)

Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America. It did so quietly, although as foreign affairs journalist at Politico Nahal Toosi noted, the release of the NSS is usually accompanied by fanfare, as it shows an administration’s foreign policy priorities and the way it envisions the position of the U.S. in the world. 

The Trump administration’s NSS announces a dramatic reworking of the foreign policy the U.S. has embraced since World War II. 

After a brief introduction touting what it claims are the administration’s great successes, the document begins by announcing the U.S. will back away from the global engagements that underpin the rules-based international order that the World War II Allies put in place after that war to prevent another world war. The authors of the document claim that the system of institutions like the United Nations, alliances like the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and free trade between nations that established a series of rules for foreign engagement and a web of shared interests around the globe has been bad for the U.S. because it undermined “the character of our nation.” 

Their vision of “our country’s inherent greatness and decency,” requires “the restoration and reinvigoration of American spiritual and cultural health,” “an America that cherishes its past glories and its heroes, and that looks forward to a new golden age,” and “growing numbers of strong, traditional families that raise healthy children.”

Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and “fourteen words” to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan. 

To achieve their white supremacist country, the document’s authors insist they will not permit “transnational and international organizations [or] foreign powers or entities” to undermine U.S. sovereignty. To that end, they reject immigration as well as “the disastrous ‘climate change’ and ‘Net Zero’ ideologies that have so greatly harmed Europe, threatened the United States, and subsidize our adversaries.”

The document reorients the U.S. away from traditional European allies toward Russia. The authors reject Europe’s current course, suggesting that Europe is in danger of “civilizational erasure” and calling for the U.S. to “help Europe correct its current trajectory” by “restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.” Allowing continued migration will render Europe “unrecognizable” within twenty years, the authors say, and they back away from NATO by suggesting that as they become more multicultural, Europe’s societies might have a different relationship to NATO than “those who signed the NATO charter.”  

In contrast to their complaints about the liberal democracies in Europe, the document’s authors do not suggest that Russia is a country of concern to the U.S., a dramatic change from past NSS documents. Instead, they complain that “European officials…hold unrealistic expectations” for an end to Russia’s war against Ukraine, and that European governments are suppressing far-right political parties. They bow to Russian demands by calling for “[e]nding the perception, and preventing the reality, of NATO as a perpetually expanding alliance.” 

In place of the post–World War II rules-based international order, the Trump administration’s NSS commits the U.S. to a world divided into spheres of interest by dominant countries. It calls for the U.S. to dominate the Western Hemisphere through what it calls “commercial diplomacy,” using “tariffs and reciprocal trade agreements as powerful tools” and discouraging Latin American nations from working with other nations. “The United States must be preeminent in the Western Hemisphere as a condition of our security and prosperity,” it says, “a condition that allows us to assert ourselves confidently where and when we need to in the region.”

The document calls for “closer collaboration between the U.S. Government and the American private sector. All our embassies must be aware of major business opportunities in their country, especially major government contracts. Every U.S. Government official that interacts with these countries should understand that part of their job is to help American companies compete and succeed.” 

It went on to make clear that this policy is a plan to help U.S. businesses take over Latin America and, perhaps, Canada. “The U.S. Government will identify strategic acquisition and investment opportunities for American companies in the region and present these opportunities for assessment by every U.S. Government financing program,” it said, “including but not limited to those within the Departments of State, War, and Energy; the Small Business Administration; the International Development Finance Corporation; the Export-Import Bank; and the Millennium Challenge Corporation.”  Should countries oppose such U.S. initiatives, it said, “[t]he United States must also resist and reverse measures such as targeted taxation, unfair regulation, and expropriation that disadvantage U.S. businesses.” 

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[Motown Bombers]

They were literally surrendering. 

 

[chasfh]

11 hours ago, Tigermojo said:

Aren't the tariffs also decimating small businesses? 

Tariffs are supposed to decimate small businesses. That’s the point of the whole thing.

Large businesses can absorb tariffs to some degree and for some time. Small businesses can’t. So when large tariffs get implemented, large businesses can bide their time and wait out small businesses who struggle to keep going under the new tariff economy until they to get to that critical decision point: will they declare bankruptcy and go out of business, or will they sell off to a large company? It all depends whether they have any desirable business assets they can package into a sale, assets large companies determine are better to pay for and obtain now versus investing resources into developing some equivalent later.

Either way, their small business ends and that clears the landscape for large businesses and their oligarch owners, the people who give the most money to Trump and his crime family, and thus the economy is managed with the intent of benefitting only them, and relegating the rest of us to becoming mere labor widgets. That’s the goal, anyway.

Not for nothing, this is also the whole idea behind killing off Obamacare, never mind even considering implementing a single-payer Medicare-style healthcare system. If the only place to get an even halfway-decent medical discount plan (which, if you think about it, is what health insurance has evolved to) is through a large employer, that keeps people showing to those jobs toiling their lives away for The Man, instead of striking out on their own and opening their own business that might compete with The Man.

IOW, if we had single payer, a person could start their own business and not have to worry about the healthcare part of it. Make them worry about their healthcare, though, and it keeps them from going out on their own and keeps them on someone’s payroll, until that person is separated from their job at the employer’s behest and not at their own—which is as Gilded Age God intended.

Trump’s entire economic policy is explicitly designed to concentrate the entirety of the economy into the hands of an established billionaire class that they are actively working to close off to new members as much as they possibly can.

Edited Saturday at 01:49 PM by chasfh

[romad1]

17 hours ago, chasfh said:

I don't know, pardoning Ghislaine could be a bad look for Trump. I know we all assume he's bulletproof, but as we have seen, not even Hitler was that.

That was pretty funny to me as an upper-midwest war dad. 

[gehringer_2]

18 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Tariffs are supposed to decimate small businesses. That’s the point of the whole thing

as per Axios 3 days ago:

• Subchapter V filings, which allow firms to shed debt faster and cheaper, are up 8% from last year, Bloomberg reported, citing data from Epiq Bankruptcy Analytics.
• Chapter 11 filings — a process used by larger businesses — are up roughly 1% over the same time frame.

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

You’ll forgive me if I don’t take a hyperbolic post from somebody who calls themself “scary lawyerguy” at its word. 

[Motown Bombers]

12 minutes ago, chasfh said:

You’ll forgive me if I don’t take a hyperbolic post from somebody who calls themself “scary lawyerguy” at its word. 

You'll forgive me if I don't take a hyperbolic post from somebody who calls themself "chasfh" at its word. 

[chasfh]

I don't see how that makes any contextual sense, but OK.

[Tigeraholic1]

22 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

June 14th is Flag day….

[Netnerd]

Interesting how Flag Day's visibility grew once Donald was president. Convenient that he happens to share that day with his June 14 birthday.

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, Tigeraholic1 said:

June 14th is Flag day….

From the Dept Of Interior website

Quote

The Department also highlighted resident-only patriotic fee-free days for 2026: 

• President’s Day (February 16, 2026)
• Memorial Day (May 25, 2026)
• Flag Day/President Trump’s birthday (June 14, 2026)
• Independence Day weekend (July 3–5, 2026)
• 110th Birthday of the National Park Service (August 25, 2026)
• Constitution Day (Sept. 17, 2026)
• Theodore Roosevelt’s birthday (Oct. 27, 2026)
• Veteran’s Day (November 11, 2026) 

Notice it does include Flag Day but makes mention of DJT's Birth Anniversary. Historically the NP has not had free admittance on Flag Day. Makes you want to say mmmmm

Prove Me Wrong

 

Edited Saturday at 10:46 PM by CMRivdogs

[oblong]

I’m trying to figure out what Juneteenth and MLK Day have in common.
 Can someone help me out?