So, when will the Epstein files be released? The client list was just sitting on AG Bondi's desk a few months back and apparently 1000 agents have already combed through the materials. You'd think Trump would be ready to fulfill his campaign promise to release the files?
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We should be seeing inflation cooling significantly as GDP growth has cooled and labor markets are also showing signs of slack. Also, energy prices are very low and worker productivity has continued to climb. US wage growth has also cooled to the 4% range after being up in the 5-7% range for the post pandemic period. This should have been the perfect soft landing for the economy to allow the Fed to pull back on being an inflation hawk and lower interest rates. Had Trump come into office and just railed against trans women in sports for the past six months, the economy would be in a great position to see sustained growth and low inflation. Instead, inflation from Trump's tariffs is going to cause inflation and keep the Fed from being able to make any real moves on interest rates that would help stimulate the economy.
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Dazzy wrote:
Why did Pedo Gaetz abandon his seat in Congress too avoid the evidence being released that his trafficked underage girls across state lines? The guilty flee. The non-guility don't.
Proverbs 28:1--The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
Fleeing all the way to Alaska, maybe?
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ehre. wrote:
Dazzy wrote:
Why did Pedo Gaetz abandon his seat in Congress too avoid the evidence being released that his trafficked underage girls across state lines? The guilty flee. The non-guility don't.
Proverbs 28:1--The wicked flee when no man pursueth.
Fleeing all the way to Alaska, maybe?
Alaska doesn't have any borders with U.S. states. So trafficking little girls by state lines would no longer apply to Gaetz.
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Trump the Great wrote:
Any luck yet figuring out why Tesla is down 20% since Trump took office?
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Nnonequals wrote:
I'm no lawyer, so I can get out of my depth real quick. But a few random thoughts:
- A law against me stopping at stop signs doesn't depend on me acting in the nation's best interests. Ditto murder, tax evasion, and a few thousand other things. Violate them, and you are stopped and/or punished. That simply doesn't seem to be the case for great number of things that Trump is doing. We think that there are laws against a president being openly corrupt. In at least some cases, there certainly are. And yet...... Sure, some hope that some of this is still playing out in the courts, but.....at least in the case of destroying executive branch organizations, the destruction is already done.
- My guess is that there are a LOT of new laws that need to be written to TRULY constrain the behavior of a future Trump.
- My guess is that there are a LOT current laws that need to be RE-written to render them as immune as possible to courts (up to and including the SC) deciding that they don't really mean what they were intended to mean.
So, yeah, I'm guessing - and REALLY hoping - that a better, much more airtight system CAN be developed, that most certainly DOES NOT rely on the good will of leaders (or citizens).
I am quite confident that there is no such airtight system that does not rely on the good will of leaders and citizens.
Violating a the law against stopping at a stop sign does not get you stopped and/or punished. There must be an actor (a policeman, a judge, a jury,...) who stops the violator. Without the actor using his/her legitimate powers of enforcement, you would not be stopped in any of your violations.
Congress has every power to stop a president from doing many of the things this president is doing. Presidents have been impeached for "high crimes and misdemeanors" which didn't rise to 1% of what this POS is doing.
Same with with SCOTUS.
But the actors in the system (primarily congress and SCOTUS) have chosen to act in their own perceived self interest rather than in the nation's best interests.
There is no system that acts by itself - at least not yet. If and when there is we might all wish we had been more careful in what we wished for.
First, a minor point. I said more airtight, not airtight.
The good news is that we're nowhere near a situation analogous to where no cop who sees me blow off the stop sign doesn't stop me (because I bribe him, or because we're on the same team, or whatever).
The bad news is that there were and are LOTS of people trying to stop Trump - during 1.0, his 4 years out of office, and in the last 6 months - and it doesn't seem to be working very well.
You can't chalk that all up to a cowardly GOP in Congress and/or SCOTUS and/or a significantly supportive populace. There MUST be other shortcomings in our system that allow Trump to get away with far too much. I presume that at least some of them are fixable. Or at least I sure as hell hope so.
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Trump the Great wrote:
Nnonequals wrote:
I'm not on the left, nor are tons of other Trump haters, and it's not "intolerant" at all to know that Trump says "Swallow!" and you guys say, "Yes, sir!"
Using gay as an insult. Not woke at all - need reeducation.
I'm torn between:
- Incels simply don't have enough first-hand experience to know that women do that, too?
- We know that we're talking to homophobic Trumpers, so we always know that making you sound gay will bother you. No homophobia on our part required.
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Nnonequals wrote:
Trump the Great wrote:
Using gay as an insult. Not woke at all - need reeducation.
I'm torn between:
- Incels simply don't have enough first-hand experience to know that women do that, too?
- We know that we're talking to homophobic Trumpers, so we always know that making you sound gay will bother you. No homophobia on our part required.
first-hand experience = that all incels have, their own first-hand
homophobic Trumpers = trapped in the closet but the door is ajar
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BillionairesForHire wrote:
Nnonequals wrote:
Right, but I was specifically asking about the Supreme Court justices, just them. I PRESUME that Amy and Brett and others don't want or assume that we've entered the Trump monarchy. I assume that they think that there will be future liberal presidents. WHY would they be willing to make future liberal presidents all-powerful?
I would not presume that. They were vetted for ideology and probably party / personal loyalty. They would likely change their rulings of executive power if a democrat were in office. They knew Biden would follow ethics and the law so granting immunity for official acts was easy. For Trump, anything will be ruled "official". For a democrat, the bar will be much higher. Minority rule by rigged lifetime appointments.
While I guess that I finally realized within the last year or two that Thomas and Allito might be WAY more like the average idiot red-hatter at a rally than I thought, I still held/hold out somewhat more hope for the others. That's eroding fast, I guess, but perhaps I'm not yet quite where you are regarding them.
But if what you write above is their plan, it's awfully shaky and dangerous (for them). They DON'T know who's going to die/retire when, and they DON'T know who's going to win future POTUS elections. And if that doesn't go their way, a liberal president could easily "get away" with a lot of stuff before either: a) a still-conservative court has the opportunities to change a bunch of rulings, or b) (even worse for them, but probably not soon) a newly-liberal court eventually cycles back to "conservative."
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BillionairesForHire wrote:
\'trump2028 30 wrote:
And, lately, his most successful ventures are real estate (go look at the Trump golf courses in Qatar and Vietnam) and crypto - just look at the resounding success of World Liberty Financial and his own memecoin.
Oh, yea, and thanks for the link showing he is using government web pages for personal business promotion and spreading false information.
RealObvi, this is a good, if quite minor, example of what I'm talking about. Pre-Trump (especially 2.0), many of us silly Americans would have thought that a president could be stopped from "using government web pages for personal business promotion." And yet, many non-Trumper politicians and/or lawyers and/or citizens might try to stop this, and yet fail - LONG before getting to TrumpSCOTUS, and without any involvement of the GOP Congress.
I just didn't know it was so easy to be Mussolini.
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dfgdsfs wrote:
So, when will the Epstein files be released? The client list was just sitting on AG Bondi's desk a few months back and apparently 1000 agents have already combed through the materials. You'd think Trump would be ready to fulfill his campaign promise to release the files?
He might be distracted by his failures in Gaza, Ukraine, and the grocery store.
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Nnonequals wrote:
Trump the Great wrote:
Using gay as an insult. Not woke at all - need reeducation.
I'm torn between:
- Incels simply don't have enough first-hand experience to know that women do that, too?
- We know that we're talking to homophobic Trumpers, so we always know that making you sound gay will bother you. No homophobia on our part required.
1. I don’t think any regular poster on this thread is female. So that won’t hold
2. I have great respect for the lgbt community but you used it as an insult. And I just responded in kind
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Dazzy wrote:
first-hand experience = that all incels have, their own first-hand
homophobic Trumpers = trapped in the closet but the door is ajar
I think your first point is off - sometimes it’s alternating hands. Please be more accurate in the future. And please don’t be ableist as well - what about people without hands?
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Trump the Great wrote:
Dazzy wrote:
first-hand experience = that all incels have, their own first-hand
homophobic Trumpers = trapped in the closet but the door is ajar
I think your first point is off - sometimes it’s alternating hands. Please be more accurate in the future. And please don’t be ableist as well - what about people without hands?
So, you are ambidextrous? You can switch from right to left without missing a stroke.
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Trump the Great wrote:
1. I don’t think any regular poster on this thread is female. So that won’t hold
How dare you! I’m totally a woman, and totally a long time Democrat!
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Trump would deserve a prize if he did something that stopped or even slowed the Gaza and Ukraine wars. But he keeps doing things that make the wars worse.
He opened weapons floodgates to Israel with no restrictions. They have used them to do ethnic clensing/ genocide without a single action by Trump to prevent it.
In Ukraine Trump has sided with Russia over and over, undermining Ukraine & Zelenskyy both in media and by cutting off weapons.
I will make the bold prediction that the Alaska talks will result in nothing tangible and Trump will make a statement effusively praising Putin. A massive Russian drone strike will hit Ukraine within days. Trump will impotently do nothing. I hope I am wrong.
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