Trumps Presidency 2025

[guy incognito]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

He's going to want her buried alive with him in his sarcophagus. 

I can picture him doing the whole Dr. Phibes bit with the organ and everything.

 

[Tigerbomb13]

The outright corruption is breathtaking and will be studied for decades to come. 

[guy incognito]

“Because it is such an open sewer of an arrangement, this is the most soul-sucking, despicable, and scandalous transaction ever conducted by a head of state not named Borgia. It dwarfs all the scandals in this country’s history—Whiskey Ring, Crédit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran–Contra. It puts in the shade all the grifting and double-dealing and outright theft that democracy is heir to. Boss Tweed was a piker compared to this guy, and John Mitchell was a Franciscan monk.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71341893/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement-anti-weaponization-fund/

Edited 15 hours ago by guy incognito

[pfife]

No government handouts for convicted criminals!!

[Tiger337]

7 minutes ago, pfife said:

No government handouts for convicted criminals!!

Weak on crime.  

[Motown Bombers]

 

[chasfh]

12 hours ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

The outright corruption is breathtaking and will be studied for decades to come. 

So adorable you believe there will be decades to come … 😉 

[chasfh]

6 hours ago, guy incognito said:

“Because it is such an open sewer of an arrangement, this is the most soul-sucking, despicable, and scandalous transaction ever conducted by a head of state not named Borgia. It dwarfs all the scandals in this country’s history—Whiskey Ring, Crédit Mobilier, Teapot Dome, Watergate, Iran–Contra. It puts in the shade all the grifting and double-dealing and outright theft that democracy is heir to. Boss Tweed was a piker compared to this guy, and John Mitchell was a Franciscan monk.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71341893/trump-irs-lawsuit-settlement-anti-weaponization-fund/

Today: “Trump’s latest scheme will go down as the most disgusting in American history.”

Next month: “What was that thing again he did last month that we thought was the most disgusting thing ever? Remind me …”

[gehringer_2]

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Today: “Trump’s latest scheme will go down as the most disgusting in American history.”

Next month: “What was that thing again he did last month that we thought was the most disgusting thing ever? Remind me …”

well we are due for some new craziness from Trump in the next day or two. The market has been sliding for several days and West Tx Intermediate is almost at $104.

[CMRivdogs]

He's actually more concerned about his $1.776 Billion payoff to January 6 felons than how gas prices affect law abiding folks

 

[gehringer_2]

7 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

He's actually more concerned about his $1.776 Billion payoff to January 6 felons than how gas prices affect law abiding folks

 

I just love how the public falls for these non-sequitor arguments. *if* you actually could prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon with all this noise, they you could argue about the value of that vs gas prices. But the premise is false. We couldn't prevent Pakistan from developing a weapon, we couldn't stop India from developing a weapon, we couldn't even stop N. Korea from developing a weapon. If a country as large and well educated and financial sound as Iran wants a weapon, they will get it. They could already have had one by now it they had really wanted a program that was more than a bargaining chip for them.

The objective truth is the only real way to stop Iran from eventually developing a weapon is for them to decide they don't need one - that the costs aren't worth the payoff. You sure as heII don't accomplish that by attacking them constantly.

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[chasfh]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

He's actually more concerned about his $1.776 Billion payoff to January 6 felons than how gas prices affect law abiding folks

 

I legitimately wonder how much of this will go toward the establishment of a nationwide militia answerable only to him, for which they will have ready-to-go recruits who are at least somewhat battle-tested.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, gehringer_2 said:

I just love how the public falls for these non-sequitor arguments. *if* you actually could prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon with all this noise, they you could argue about the value of that vs gas prices. But the premise is false. We couldn't prevent Pakistan from developing a weapon, we couldn't stop India from developing a weapon, we couldn't even stop N. Korea from developing a weapon. If a country as large and well educated and financial sound as Iran wants a weapon, they will get it. They could already have had one by now it they had really wanted a program that was more than a bargaining chip for them.

The objective truth is the only real way to stop Iran from eventually developing a weapon is for them to decide they don't need one - that the costs aren't worth the payoff. You sure as heII don't accomplish that by attacking them constantly.

Another objective truth is that we already had Iran in a box, severely limited in the ability to enrich the uranium for use in a nuclear weapon and subject to regular inspections to ensure compliance, and this Putin acolyte completely let them off the hook for all of it, or at the very least, helped collapse the deal’s restraints and transparency regime.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, guy incognito said:

Will they be vetted for competency in militia participation? I'm guessing yes. Next will be Russians.

[gehringer_2]

48 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Another objective truth is that we already had Iran in a box, severely limited in the ability to enrich the uranium for use in a nuclear weapon and subject to regular inspections to ensure compliance

exactly - there was a system of carrots and sticks that made it in their interest to just string the development along without actually going there. The incentives at that time made a half completed program more advantageous to them than a completed one as it brought the carrots. Take all that away and there is no advantage to not completing the program.

[Tigerbomb13]

 

[gehringer_2]

26 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

 

can somebody please go sit on Fetterman? Or maybe break the arm he votes with?

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