Trumps Presidency 2025

[CMRivdogs]

1 minute ago, chasfh said:

We got a dust storm here in Chicago that we were warned about maybe an hour before it hit. I feel like pre-DOGE we would have been warned hours or even days beforehand.

I remember possible siege warnings on Lake Michigan when we lived there in the '90s. Also a couple when we visited the Indiana Dunes in the early '60s. You need ample warning for such things these day. It's not the 1800s anymore as Trump and Company want us to relive. (Of course they would never survive those days in reality)

[CMRivdogs]

Another day another rant from the Toddler in Chief. Such a Drama Queen, and I do mean Queen

 

[Tiger337]

22 minutes ago, chasfh said:

We got a dust storm here in Chicago that we were warned about maybe an hour before it hit. I feel like pre-DOGE we would have been warned hours or even days beforehand.

Climate is woke and socialist and weathermen get it wrong every night anyway.  No need to spend any money on that.  

[CMRivdogs]

How about a discussion about whether the current Regime is capable of doing it's Constitutional Duties instead

 

 

[chasfh]

24 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Another day another rant from the Toddler in Chief. Such a Drama Queen, and I do mean Queen

 

So, so ****ing presidential.

He, of course, wants to distract us from the fact that it's going to cost the taxpayers at least a billion dollars, to completely disassemble and then reassemble that gift jet from Qatar to ensure that it is secure enough to carry the president of the United Shaysh.

Edited Monday at 03:27 PM by chasfh

[CMRivdogs]

Colonoscopies as well

[Tigerbomb13]

2 hours ago, chasfh said:

We got a dust storm here in Chicago that we were warned about maybe an hour before it hit. I feel like pre-DOGE we would have been warned hours or even days beforehand.

I was in Chicago with some friends, and the dust storm came right when we got to our AirBnb. We got the alert on our phones just before we got to the Illinois/Indiana border. It was eerie. 

[Tigerbomb13]

The politics where cruelty is the point continues on

[gehringer_2]

28 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

The politics where cruelty is the point continues on

exactly. These people apparently have black holes where their souls should be. People will dump on the court again, but I'm not sure how much choice the court has in terms of law. Hard to tell the exec it can't end something it created by its own actions. That's a problem with policy that end-runs Congress no matter which side makes it. But the larger moral point being that even if there is a reasonable policy reason to end such a program (which I'm not arguing either way here), you  know this admin will opt for the most needlessly unnecessary draconian methods it can in implementing the change.

[romad1]

52 minutes ago, Tigerbomb13 said:

I was in Chicago with some friends, and the dust storm came right when we got to our AirBnb. We got the alert on our phones just before we got to the Illinois/Indiana border. It was eerie. 

weather reporting has been crap this season.  

[CMRivdogs]

Another win got the people (for now)

 

[chasfh]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

exactly. These people apparently have black holes where their souls should be. {snip}

This is true, but it's even worse than that, because ironically, the cruelty they visit upon whom they consider their lessers has been ordained by God to be within their purview. It's not in the Bible—at least I don't think so?—but their pastors do ratify this thinking practically every Sunday from the pulpits of perhaps as many as a couple hundred thousand churches scattered throughout all fifty states.

[CMRivdogs]

I saw this meme today and approve of its message

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It would be such a shame if Taylor Swift & Bruce Springsteen held a free concert in DC on the same day little Donnie expects everyone to come to his big-boy birthday parade.
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[Motown Bombers]

 

[GalagaGuy]

Oh cool, now my tax dollars are going to paying off the family of a domestic terrorist. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-5-million-ashli-babbitt-jan-6-rioter-who-was-killed/

[CMRivdogs]

31 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

Let me get this straight. Those assaulting  police officers in a Federal Building on 1/06/21 is pardonable. But showing up and demanding due process at an ICE Facility is now a felony.

Too bad our resident TRUMP VOTERS (You Know Who You Are) are too CHICKEN ago show up and defend the REGIME's actions.

[ewsieg]

To preface this, I need to reiterate that I don't think Trump is a smart man.  That said, what if he is backing into a good position with these tariffs?  Here me out.

As I've noted before, I think Trump is a democrat.  Anytime he speaks about the economy he reminds me of the democrats I grew up with.  Granted they didn't sound as dumb, but overall he thinks the gov't should have a bigger role in the economy (at least when he's in charge), has lots of trouble with trade, thinks only blue collar work is real work (except for his cronies and himself as they eat on gold plates), likes tariffs, and doesn't care about the budget, etc.

But good or bad (you know my opinion), he can captivate and make changes that could be considered unthinkable and laughable days before.  Like the fact that we're pretty much settled in with 10% tariffs across the board and 38% on China and everyone is like 'whew, at least it wasn't where he started'.

So let's look at Walmart this week coming out and saying that they will be passing on the tariff costs to consumers and Trump comes out and tells them to eat it.  This is the exact post:

"Walmart should STOP trying to blame Tariffs as the reason for raising prices throughout the chain. Walmart made BILLIONS OF DOLLARS last year, far more than expected,"

As we all know, these tariffs are a tax.  Throughout history, these taxes were passed on to consumers.  He's telling corporations to buck up and pay the tax.  Granted he can't force them to do so, but look at Tesla and how buyers fled from Elon.  Heck, some socially conscious people were so put off on Elon that they went back to gas powered cars.  

So what if Walmart does choose not to pay the tax that Trump says is for them to deal with?  How much damage can Walmart handle if Trump blames Walmart and his followers start to boycott?  (another thing that was traditionally a democrat thing)  Unlike Tesla that likely had some help from anti-EV folks that decided Tesla is now awesome, I can't think of too many democrats that would be supportive of Walmart passing that tax onto consumers to the point that they would start going out of their way to go to Walmart.  In short, could Walmart be forced to accept that their tax rate went up?

Granted for this to work Trump can't buckle when Walmart deposits 50 million in his ****coin.  Plus even if it worked in year 1, you're essentially granting the power of determining the tax rate on the business itself.  Eventually they would start chipping into that tariff tax.  The pressure on Walmart would have to be significant too for it to work with them and spur the same with others.  But hey, we've seen crazy things with Trump.  I get this is crazy talk, but I guess I'm just searching for some hope that 1) we will recover from Trump and 2) it won't be as painful as I imagine.

[ewsieg]

12 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Let me get this straight. Those assaulting  police officers in a Federal Building on 1/06/21 is pardonable. But showing up and demanding due process at an ICE Facility is now a felony.

Too bad our resident TRUMP VOTERS (You Know Who You Are) are too CHICKEN ago show up and defend the REGIME's actions.

Never a Trump voter (clarifying as I can't believe I'm about to defend Trump/GOP twice in a row (well last post was kind of a fiction tale), and will admit I only saw one camera angle, but it looked like a tense situation and the protestors were inside of the gate at one point with law enforcement agents telling them they can't come in and for the 30 seconds or so I saw, they weren't listening and leaving.  I definitely would be interested in full length body camera footage though.

I saw a friend of a friend argue that Comey should be arrested for posting the 'seashells 8647' because some person was arrested and jailed for a meme/joke on Twitter.  Apparently some influencer had a following on Twitter and told people to vote for Hillary by texting a number and it was determined that was election interference.  She was outraged that a person would be sent to jail for a joke and there is an argument that if you want to vote, it's your duty to learn how to vote.  Getting fooled because your ignorant shouldn't be an excuse.

The above is the same to me.  I don't want to live in a world where we all agree 1 side did something wrong, so now the other side gets to be wrong too.  How about we all agree 1 side did something wrong, learn from it, and just not do it again.

[oblong]

I get what you are saying.  He's a populist. There was always an element among people on the right and the left who are populists. I remember when NAFTA was done.  Trump is Pat Buchanan.

And I asked the question before.... what happens if things don't go to **** with these tariffs? 

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

[CMRivdogs]

OK MAGAs Defend This

It's only the foundation on which our country was founded on, as well as all civil democracies 

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The Magna Carta, Latin for "Great Charter," is a historic document signed by King John of England in 1215. It limited the power of the monarch, established the principle that everyone, including the king, is subject to the law, and guaranteed fundamental rights like the right to justice and a fair trial. Essentially, it was a peace agreement between King John and rebellious barons, who were seeking to protect their rights and privileges against what they perceived as a tyrannical king

This is exactly why MAGAs want to destroy public education, it has nothing to do with DEI or LGBT or any of their crazy ideas

[CMRivdogs]

 

[ewsieg]

5 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

I mean.... I'm just sayin'    😉

[romad1]

18 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

OK MAGAs Defend This

It's only the foundation on which our country was founded on, as well as all civil democracies 

This is exactly why MAGAs want to destroy public education, it has nothing to do with DEI or LGBT or any of their crazy ideas

I was just coming here to comment on this.   Chthuga take the wheel.