Trumps Presidency 2025

[chasfh]

17 hours ago, mtutiger said:

It's really been a blackpill for me to see how much Trump has done to alienate a large majority of the American public, only to see elite circles try to downplay it all. It's enough to make me think they're fine with all this BS

That's what dump trucks filled with money does to people.

[chasfh]

10 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

I don't know if this story will get traction or if the American public is totally somnolent at this point, but our inability to defend our bases should be a huge story.

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

"CNN confirmed" it, but they don't have anything about it on their main page? 

The media need access to the regime, so they'll keep the story contained to the nether regions of the media ecosphere. 

Edited yesterday at 03:51 PM by chasfh

[gehringer_2]

2 hours ago, Tiger337 said:

"CNN confirmed" it, but they don't have anything about it on their main page? 

I was able to watch the full video report from the regular CNN homepage yesterday.

[gehringer_2]

3 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

Woof

immigration is still toxic for the Dems.

So here is the thing. Most people believe AI is going to lead to big unemployment. I'm less worried about that - at least long term. Historically, new techs have displaced workers but created more net activity. The best example is mechanization of agriculture. That eliminated the work of a far larger % of the population than AI will, but the Industrial Revolution that came with it easily absorbed all those workers. The thing is, we don't see where the new work is yet, so we tend to take the worst case view. However, short term, one thing that will be worse is the speed of adoption. Things move much faster today so the short term displacement can still be bad.

In any case, that real fear over job losses in the economy, whether correct or not, certainly drives a lot of people who are not particularly evil to want immigration to go to/stay at zero. So they may vote against the kind of gratuitous cruelty of this admin, but any reform proposals with things like an expanded H1-B program are not going to go over well in an environment where the predictions are flying that millions of jobs are at risk.

Edited yesterday at 04:24 PM by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

5 hours ago, LaceyLou said:

I'm curious-does he consider things like the Epstein files and talk of the online rape academy distractions? Sounds like the ultimate example of the tangled web we weave when we try to deceive.

interviewer never went there. His complaint about distractions started when the interviewer started asking about Fuentes. Carlson said he regretted the interview because people overestimate the reach of people like that who have no power and sucks all the attention from what the people who have power are doing.

While I would says he's being more than a little disingenuous there, I'd say he's still correct about the basic fact of the elevation of immaterial over the material - even if guys like himself are a big part of that immaterial.

Edited yesterday at 06:37 PM by gehringer_2

[Motown Bombers]

 

[pfife]

Link to cnn report

https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/01/world/video/us-military-bases-iran-strikes-images-invs-digvid

 

[guy incognito]

[pfife]

Nice lowering prices on day 1.

[chasfh]

5 hours ago, guy incognito said:

Maybe the pilot is in the same place the first Trump assassin is—what’s his name again?

[chasfh]

We have heard this here and there in bits and pieces, but to hear it all at one time is pretty remarkable.

https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/2050989308815818823/video/1?s=61

 

Edited 10 hours ago by chasfh

[gehringer_2]

58 minutes ago, chasfh said:

We have heard this here and there in bits and pieces, but to hear it all at one time is pretty remarkable.

https://x.com/mtgreenee/status/2050989308815818823/video/1?s=61

 

The only problem (OK - not the *only* problem) with MTGs epiphany is that if she were a more serious person she would have stayed in the House and kept up the opposition. But it points up  how hard it is for the blue side to actually move these people to their side. Trump is losing support among people like Green who have come to oppose him on an issue, e.g. Green on Epstein, Carlson on Iran, but who still support too much of the remaining RW agenda to ever actually vote on the blue side. A couple of generations ago, when political difference weren't so culturally conditioned, it was a lot easier to get people to change parties over policy issues. Today getting a person across the divide is tied up in personal identity issues as well as policy preferences.

Edited 9 hours ago by gehringer_2

[gehringer_2]

In anticipation of meeting with Trump later this month, the Chinese have promulgated a series of rules  aiming to nullify US sanctions on Chinese refiners.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/chinas-rare-defiance-of-us-sanctions-sparks-showdown-over-banks-021410787.html

[romad1]

This plus a media that isn't 1000% hostile would do wonders for restoring some semblance of the rule of law. 

 

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This plus a media that isn't 1000% hostile would do wonders for restoring some semblance of the rule of law. 

 

maybe the Dems are learning that if you are going to be a 'reform' party, you actually have to be in favor of reform.

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

This plus a media that isn't 1000% hostile would do wonders for restoring some semblance of the rule of law. 

 

the other thing is that the single biggest reform that could be made, which is to stop corporate campaign funding, will 100% hit the television industry-since that is where 95% of those $ are spent. So the video press, who all work for the entertainment industry,  and who might otherwise be at least somewhat positively disposed to reform, stay away from this issue like it's the plague.

[Motown Bombers]

55 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

maybe the Dems are learning that if you are going to be a 'reform' party, you actually have to be in favor of reform.

This is the gerrymandering issue. Dems are unilaterally disarming themselves. Republicans aren't going to stop taking PAC money. People are then going to complain about getting flooded with texts and emails to donate. 

[antrat]

So, when Rudy croaks, you think Obama will tweet out that he's glad he is dead? Now he can't hurt anyone else?

No. Of course not. Only assholes would do that.

[chasfh]

4 hours ago, romad1 said:

This plus a media that isn't 1000% hostile would do wonders for restoring some semblance of the rule of law. 

 

The tricky balance here will be successfully merchandising to the voting public this as an effective response to dirty dark money in politics without having the effect of unilaterally disarming themselves in the money system as currently constructed.

[romad1]

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

The tricky balance here will be successfully merchandising to the voting public this as an effective response to dirty dark money in politics without having the effect of unilaterally disarming themselves in the money system as currently constructed.

Hard to do with hostile media at every turn.  

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

7 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Why does this guy insist on coming across as the president of preschool? 

[mtutiger]

8 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

The only problem (OK - not the *only* problem) with MTGs epiphany is that if she were a more serious person she would have stayed in the House and kept up the opposition. But it points up  how hard it is for the blue side to actually move these people to their side. Trump is losing support among people like Green who have come to oppose him on an issue, e.g. Green on Epstein, Carlson on Iran, but who still support too much of the remaining RW agenda to ever actually vote on the blue side. A couple of generations ago, when political difference weren't so culturally conditioned, it was a lot easier to get people to change parties over policy issues. Today getting a person across the divide is tied up in personal identity issues as well as policy preferences.

Midge knows which way the winds are blowing...

I'm all about infighting, but it's definitely all about opportunism

[mtutiger]

1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

The last time he told the story (three days ago), they were three different animals.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

[RatkoVarda]

and some people bragged about voting for this pedo turd