I made a prediction that no matter what evidence would come out, Trumpers would never admit that the Minnesota shooter was a right wing Trumper supporter.
How did I do on that prediction?
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formerly present wrote:
~trump2028! wrote:
I think a nice Trumpphone would be a great gift for El Runkin.
Is this really so normalized that people can't see how entirely inappropriate it is for the President of the United States to engage in this kind of huckstering?
The Trump supporter is a one dimensional creature who only hears and cheers the last thing Trump said/did, never questioning the impact on them or the motive (hint, it is ALWAYS profit for him).
"Tax the rich" Heck. Yea! Make 'em pay!
"We must give a tax cut to the rich" Heck, Yea! Rich people are our benevolent givers!
"We have to stop tech companies from collecting our data." Woohoo!
"I'm giving Palantir all government data on all Americans to build a giant surveillance database." He's a Genius!
"On top of that I'm gonna start a cell phone company for profit. Like Alexa it may record all of your conversations. It may eventually be the official communication platform for the US government. " What an incredible businessman!
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
I made a prediction that no matter what evidence would come out, Trumpers would never admit that the Minnesota shooter was a right wing Trumper supporter.
How did I do on that prediction?
It is almost as if you had a crystal ball that sees the future!
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Cowboy Corkyyyyyyyyyyyy wrote:
Noyankee wrote:
The only problem with that theory is that the liberals are not a fight. No longer. They have been beaten into the ground. They have played every card they have for a decade and MAGA has swatted them like flies. They are finished. While they continue to foam at the mouth, we are looking ahead to more serious elements in this World. MAGA no longer considers them a threat. Rubio will SMOKE anyone they challenge him with. If not Rubio, Vance, Noem Bondi…u name it. The World is ours to take care of now and the Workd needs us. They do not need fkn lunatics giving directions.
I am pretty moderate but I am tired of it. Kamala Harris - seriously?
Harris' IQ is 76. That's disturbingly low. She inherited that from her Indian genometry. There are over 800,000 illegal immigrants from India roving around the country committing the crimes you would expect from 76 IQ individuals.
A lot of reports coming in regarding Trump's parade. Consensus is that it was mediocre and poorly put together. Not just that disaster with the port-o-pottys, but the whole military aspect of the operation. Not enough ordinance, one humvee ran out of gas, no Tomahawks, out of cadence, no psy-ops mobile units, $9 Bud Lights. And the C n' C guest star seemed bored with the whole thing and is even rumored to have slept through the M4 Sherman tank portion. WTF is with that?
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
I made a prediction that no matter what evidence would come out, Trumpers would never admit that the Minnesota shooter was a right wing Trumper supporter.
How did I do on that prediction?
The interesting thing is they appear to know right from wrong. In this case, they know killing an elected politician for their beliefs is wrong.
But, whenever Trump violates ethics, laws, decency, they say the democrats did it first. In other words they know it is wrong, but are compelled justify it for him / their side. Rarely do they even make much of attempt to refute that Trump did unethical, indecent, and illegal things.
This holds true for right wing extremists also. Examples: Charlottesville white supremacists, Jan 6 cop beaters, Whitmer kidnap plotters, Minnesota shooter. They either claim the other side is responsible against all evidence or did the other side did something worse and that makes it ok.
Cult.
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The wars Trump promised to end on day one have gotten worse, and Trump has armed and emboldened Israel, now attacking Iran and trying to drag the USA in. ICE isn't making the roundup quotas, and Trump knuckles under to the pressure of protesters and suddenly allows farm workers, hotel workers, etc, to stay. Prices haven't come down, even gas is going back up. Failed promise after failed promise. The Big Beautiful parade was barely attended, while 5 million protest in hundreds of cities and towns nationwide. As the tank squeaks by a dour Trump, troops purposely shuffle by out of time to protest the parade. Today, Trump decides to start selling cellphones.
Winning.
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Wouldn't it be great, if Trump could appear on an International stage; without lying and making himself look like an enormous Fool ?!? This is from this morning, in Canada, at the G7:
"For the third time, he falsely claimed that Russia had been “thrown out by Trudeau” — who at the time had no power to do so — and argued that the then-Liberal Party leader had “convinced one or two people, along with Obama” to go along with removing Russia from the G8 even though all seven remaining leaders had collectively decided to suspend Russia and not attend the Sochi summit.
“He [Putin] was thrown out, and he's not a happy person about it. I can tell you that — he won’t speak to the people that throw him out, and I agree with him,” Trump added."140 -
RossiCheated wrote:
Oldrunningguy wrote:
Trump: “They didn't do too well, the weather people.”
“Today is a sad and scary day for meteorology,” Grant Tosterud, a meteorologist for KRQE in Alburquerque, New Mexico, said in a Feb. 27 Facebook post. “These NOAA and National Weather Service employees are critical to public safety and weather forecasting. These agencies are already understaffed and these cuts will put (people’s) lives at risk.”
I’m wondering how much NOAA would be targeted if the president hadn’t made the ill-considered decision to doctor a hurricane map and double-down his comments about the likelihood of Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama — and, of course, if an NWS staffer hadn’t issued a statement contradicting President Trump’s remarks and if news outlets hadn’t published internal NOAA emails expressing concern about keeping politics out of science.
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That tool is not the sharpiest bulb wrote:
RossiCheated wrote:
“Today is a sad and scary day for meteorology,” Grant Tosterud, a meteorologist for KRQE in Alburquerque, New Mexico, said in a Feb. 27 Facebook post. “These NOAA and National Weather Service employees are critical to public safety and weather forecasting. These agencies are already understaffed and these cuts will put (people’s) lives at risk.”
I’m wondering how much NOAA would be targeted if the president hadn’t made the ill-considered decision to doctor a hurricane map and double-down his comments about the likelihood of Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama — and, of course, if an NWS staffer hadn’t issued a statement contradicting President Trump’s remarks and if news outlets hadn’t published internal NOAA emails expressing concern about keeping politics out of science.
Yes. That likely played a role. But I believe the True motivator for Trump is that he hates going into natural disasters and pretending that he cares about people. So what better way to never have to give a sh!t about natural disaster victims than to cut FEMA, NOAA and "Send it back to the states". This way Trump can blame governors when disasters happen and wash his hands of the whole thing.
And the cherry on top is that Trump can use disaster relief to extort states and governors to bend the knee.
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Nancy L. wrote:
The wars Trump promised to end on day one have gotten worse, and Trump has armed and emboldened Israel, now attacking Iran and trying to drag the USA in. ICE isn't making the roundup quotas, and Trump knuckles under to the pressure of protesters and suddenly allows farm workers, hotel workers, etc, to stay. Prices haven't come down, even gas is going back up. Failed promise after failed promise. The Big Beautiful parade was barely attended, while 5 million protest in hundreds of cities and towns nationwide. As the tank squeaks by a dour Trump, troops purposely shuffle by out of time to protest the parade. Today, Trump decides to start selling cellphones.
Winning.
Wait, but he at least brought back manufacturing, right? I heard we're making Chevy Caprices in Deetroit again, correct?
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Really ? wrote:
Wouldn't it be great, if Trump could appear on an International stage; without lying and making himself look like an enormous Fool ?!? This is from this morning, in Canada, at the G7:
"For the third time, he falsely claimed that Russia had been “thrown out by Trudeau” — who at the time had no power to do so — and argued that the then-Liberal Party leader had “convinced one or two people, along with Obama” to go along with removing Russia from the G8 even though all seven remaining leaders had collectively decided to suspend Russia and not attend the Sochi summit.
“He [Putin] was thrown out, and he's not a happy person about it. I can tell you that — he won’t speak to the people that throw him out, and I agree with him,” Trump added."Nature/Nurture Lying Theory:
1) Born to be a liar.
2) Learned from father and father's buddies to be a liar.
3) Stay safely in family business whole life being the boss that can lie without resistance.
4) Watch nothing but Fox News.
5) Especially in Trump 2.0, completely surround yourself with people who will applaud your lying.
#1 alone might have been enough, but the rest probably helped.
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
That tool is not the sharpiest bulb wrote:
I’m wondering how much NOAA would be targeted if the president hadn’t made the ill-considered decision to doctor a hurricane map and double-down his comments about the likelihood of Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama — and, of course, if an NWS staffer hadn’t issued a statement contradicting President Trump’s remarks and if news outlets hadn’t published internal NOAA emails expressing concern about keeping politics out of science.
Yes. That likely played a role. But I believe the True motivator for Trump is that he hates going into natural disasters and pretending that he cares about people. So what better way to never have to give a sh!t about natural disaster victims than to cut FEMA, NOAA and "Send it back to the states". This way Trump can blame governors when disasters happen and wash his hands of the whole thing.
And the cherry on top is that Trump can use disaster relief to extort states and governors to bend the knee.
As previously, I love the theory that Trump avoids situations where he has to pretend to care about other people. And will even engineer government to this end.
Empathy pretending probably has a Kryptonite-like effect on him.
.....and/or, there was already a chapter/section/paragraph in Project 2025 that said to get rid of the woke, green, lib, climate change radicals at NOAA.
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Nnonequals wrote:
Oldrunningguy wrote:
Yes. That likely played a role. But I believe the True motivator for Trump is that he hates going into natural disasters and pretending that he cares about people. So what better way to never have to give a sh!t about natural disaster victims than to cut FEMA, NOAA and "Send it back to the states". This way Trump can blame governors when disasters happen and wash his hands of the whole thing.
And the cherry on top is that Trump can use disaster relief to extort states and governors to bend the knee.
As previously, I love the theory that Trump avoids situations where he has to pretend to care about other people. And will even engineer government to this end.
Empathy pretending probably has a Kryptonite-like effect on him.
.....and/or, there was already a chapter/section/paragraph in Project 2025 that said to get rid of the woke, green, lib, climate change radicals at NOAA.
DISCLAIMER to above: Trump knew NOTHING about Project 2025 until long after he was elected, of course. JUST like he claimed.
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Nnonequals wrote:
~trump2028! wrote:
What is your problem with this?
Sometime no later than his teens, I'm guessing, Trump decided that talking about "deals" was cool and sophisticated and powerful.
60+years later, he still hasn't grown out of that. Like so many other things.
Would we be a LITTLE better off if some friend or girlfriend had mockingly said to him, WAY back then, "Don, give the 'Deal!' stuff a rest" ??
The answer, of course, is "No" (unfortunately). Donald has been VERY rightfully mocked his whole life, and he's 100% immune.
But hey, at least half of America didn't vote for him.
His "deals" made him a billionaire. I'm glad to have a successful businessman in the WH.
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Cu.ckz to be you wrote:
And you wonder why you can’t any woman to go out with you
Coming from a kid living in mommy's basement.
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mr nesnith wrote:
Ghost of Disco Gary wrote:
Deporting illegal aliens who had jobs contributed to the unemployment.
Do tell.
Crickets
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But but but he’ll drain the swamp and rid us of corruption once and for all.
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First Marelli now At Home Goods. Trump's tariffs are starting to exact a toll on the economy. At Home Goods is a cautionary tale because it shows a parallel potential crisis of corporate debt. At Home Goods was already in a pickle due to a heavy debt load. The tariffs sent the company over the edge.
Oil prices have stabilized around $72 a barrel on hopes that Israel and Iran just continue to lob missiles at each other and the Straits of Hormuz and Iran's oil infrastructure will not be targeted. Israel did target a refinery and a natural gas facility. But these serve Iran's domestic market and do not affect exports. Any change in this, and oil prices will be ready to jump significantly. $120 a barrel is almost a certainty if Iran blocks the Straits of Hormuz or Israel targets Iran's oil export terminals.
I did see my first concrete evidence of tariff related inflation in the grocery store. Our favorite canned seltzer was about a buck more expensive for a 12 pack. This is obviously related to the aluminum tariffs. It is a regional brand that is probably more sensitive to price shocks as it does not have the finances to hoard inventory prior to the tariffs.
July is going to be very tense. Shipments from China in April stopped cold with Trump's Liberation Day tariffs. The drop in imports from China was several times worse than at any point during the COVID shutdowns. The resumption of shipments from China after Trump partially caved (for now?) just started leaving port in June. So, there is going to be about a two month disruption in supplies of all sorts of consumer goods coming to the US. We will know in July whether inventories will hold up until the resumed shipments hit US shores. If they do, then we will have dodged a major bullet. If they don't, buckle up as there will be shortages and price spikes. The problem is that the retail sales data is delayed by a few months. So, we will not know whether demand in April and May were enough to deplete inventories until it is too late.
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We're probably closer to 2M Illegal aliens who have been deported when looking at the total thus far.
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Oldrunningguy wrote:
I made a prediction that no matter what evidence would come out, Trumpers would never admit that the Minnesota shooter was a right wing Trumper supporter.
How did I do on that prediction?
Trump must deflect because the guy had a fake police outfit, and he works for a security firm with no known client ... funded by dark money. I thought that just the ICE agents were fake cosplayers, and that the police might be real but off-duty. This guy fits the mold of the police who show up to protect ICE kidnappers.
This guy might sing and reveal he is protected by Trump and can kidnap people for deportation because this is his non-government, non-traceable, job. They wear masks and have fake faces (like this guy) so people can't see who they are.
I know believe he is one of Noem's & Miller's immigrant kidnapping team working the fake police side. No one is allowed to know that this guy, and others (pardoned Jan 6ers) are part of Trump illegal private army.
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