OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

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How many American lives lost to narcoterrorists is acceptable to you?

Decades before Joe became Sleepy, this is what he said about the drug cartels:

The amount killed from narcotics bought on Silk Road. I am definitely good with that amount, oh and the amount killed by the Sackler family too.

This amount, same as you.

That's your OWN reflection in the mirror, my libs!

No amount is acceptable but it’s a supply AND demand problem. What has Trump and his administration done to decrease demand? They’ve cut funding for rehabilitation programs, that’s what they’ve done. Additionally, most lives are lost to fentanyl and opiates, not cocaine. What are those boats transporting? It’s not fentanyl & opiates.

This administration really is not concerned about saving lives of drug addicts and neither are you. Your main concern is is the optics and the show and making it seem as if something really is being done to save lives. It’s all just smoke & mirrors for Trump, KegsBreath, and company.

remember that cocaine doesn't really kill people, but that's what we just blew up illegally.

if we broke laws to blow up a fentanyl factory then I could at least understand it.

this is just stupid. Breaking laws to kill cocaine smugglers?

it's all obviously to destabilize venezuela so the US can make money off its enormous oil reserves. Not about drugs.

With a subplot to get the military used to obeying illegal orders and killing civilians. Just in case Trump orders US armed forces to start playing police around election time.

Would you be enthusiastic if he’d deploy the national guard in blue cities in swing states to depress Democrat turnout?

Would be better if the Trumper that made it knew how to spell CAPTCHA (and no Democrat wants to log on to your computer and see your child porn).

If a bunch of hicks in West Virginia want to overdose on fentanyl, I say "let them!"

your boy piggie pardons the silk road guy and the chief drug kingpin of Honduras and then you dare imply Dems are ok with drug deaths? What's your damage?

Trump tests his 'affordability' message in a midterm battleground district
Trump said Americans are already seeing "lower prices" and "bigger paychecks" while frequently expounding on issues like windmills, trans people and Somalia.

Simon Bazelon: The share of voters who identify as liberal has gone up by a little bit since 2012—about 3 or 4 percent. The problem is that the Democratic Party has moved to left more quickly than the electorate has.
This slight increase in the liberal share of the electorate is not nearly enough to offset big declines among voters who identify as moderate and conservative. Gallup finds that 71 percent of Americans identify as either moderate or conservative.
As the party becomes more liberal, you argue, it’s spending a lot more time talking about the issues that matter to the base versus the issues that are of concern of the electorate at large. Can you drill down about the particular issues you’re talking about? We’re not hearing that much anymore about defunding the police or reparations, but are there other issues that are coded as “too liberal”?
Simon Bazelon: I think the big issues here are immigration and public safety. Obviously, the mainstream of the Democratic Party does not endorse defunding the police, but that doesn’t mean voters think we’re in the right place on crime. Democrats no longer endorse decriminalizing border crossings, but that doesn’t mean voters think we’re in the right place on immigration.
It’s not just about being out of step in terms of our positions. It’s also about being out of touch in terms of our priorities. One thing we looked at was comparing the 2012 Democratic Party platform to the 2024 Democratic Party platform. We analyzed the frequency with which a variety of words appeared in those two documents. What we saw was really striking. For example, the phrase “middle class” declined by 79 percent between 2012 and 2024, “economy” was down 49 percent, “economic” was down 51 percent.
On the flip side, words like “Black,” “white,” and “Latino” were up 1,000 percent, “LGBT” was up 1,000 percent, words like “equity,” “hate,” “justice,” “reproductive,” “democracy,” “criminal justice,” “environmental justice,” “climate,” “guns,”—all of these words increased dramatically in frequency. I think that’s pretty telling of a party that has shifted our priorities away from some of those working class issues that used to define us and towards these more abstract cultural concerns that are higher priorities for Democratic elites.
The share of voters who say that Democrats are “out of touch” has gone from about 50 percent in 2013 to 70 percent in 2025. It’s going to be pretty hard to win any election when 70 percent of voters think that your party is out of touch.

I wonder why they are going to do this

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US plans to start checking all tourists' social media

The potential social media mandate being proposed by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) would apply to anyone visiting, whether they require a visa or not.

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Trump approval going up. MAGA

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Ulbricht was the victim of a ton of lawfare. And the Honduras president was a force for MAGA / MHGA values in the region. Do you agree with Biden pardoning Hunter?

you literally are saying that if you are a trumper national leader you can sell all the drugs you want to Americans.

Good god man your brain is rotted.

Yes, Joe was right to pardon hunter. We've seen trump order DOJ to persecute people, which is what Joe knew would happen to his family.

And yet he didn’t pardon Jill or Kamala, or anyone else who could be the target of a vindictive prosecution…