OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

But Trump monkey Bessent said that wouldn’t happen.

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Bessent dismisses concerns Europe could dump US Treasuries in retaliation for Greenland takeover push | The National

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US Treasury Secretary says speculation about mass sell-off of American assets is ‘media hysteria’

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This is Sally.

I have reported that name to the mods several times. They allow the impersonator to continue posting. That makes the fake name look like it is being protect. Others have received permanent bans for spoofing names, but not Sally.

I gotta say. That Bessent guy puts off such a smug condescending vibe with a cheesy game show host smile as he vomits out bull sh!t. This might work on Fox News with the rubes but on the international stage I’m surprised someone doesn’t clean his clock.

Yeah. Jeffrey Blehar writes piece after piece over the years excoriating Democrats for their painful and obvious shortcomings, and his readership overwhelmingly loves it. He turns that same critical eye on Trump’s painful and obvious shortcomings and, well, you can imagine the results:

”The piece I wrote in reaction to the sordidness of it all has proven exactly as unpopular with readers as I expected it to be. … But I knew I didn’t have to respond to the naysayers; all I had to do was wait, and Trump himself would say or do something that would prove my argument beyond all rational doubt. (You work a gig long enough, you learn a few tricks.) And since Thursday, Trump has done this several times, as he pounds the table with ever more bilious rhetoric, demanding that the entire Western alliance allow him to extort Greenland from Denmark.”

“Who knows if Trump will actually go through with it; half of what he writes on Truth Social is bloviation, but the other half is deadly serious, and given this, the only safe thing to do is to take him at his word. But I have no time for those who blithely wave off this sort of wildly destructive behavior as ‘dealmaking.’ It is no such thing; it is outright megalomania. There is no other way, no more ‘neutral’ a term, to describe a president who now mutters about his personal right to ‘a sacred piece of Land’ …”

“Because yes, that’s where Trump is at now rhetorically, and if you didn’t see the tie-in coming from a mile away, you need to update your Unified Theory of Trump.”

”To paraphrase the verdict of Cormac McCarthy in Blood Meridian, what’s wrong with Donald Trump is wrong all the way through him.”

So that’s Blehar’s take in brief. I mean, I would think that a lot of this was something you could see more than a mile away. By the mid-1980s, the guy had provided a clear enough public picture of who he is, and it was a sad and alarming picture. In all the years since, a few ticks in the “pro” column have done nothing close to offsetting the snowballing accumulation in the “con” column.

As ever, the whole piece is worth reading.

A not very surprising result of Dump's tariffs is that China's trade surplus has skyrocketed. Other countries have switch purchase to any place except the U.S. to protect themselves from IQ47. Much of Europe will soon switch over to any place except the U.S.

Bessent is another rich guys who proves is lucky and not smart at all.

Do you also report posts who name call and insult other posters here?

Image a bully being protected by bodyguards since before the bully entered elementary school.

The problem is that Fred Trump hired bodyguards to protect his bully child from kids who would have beaten the krap out of little Donny in elementary school. Several good beatings would have solved many of the problems back in the early 1950s.

^ Looks like I reported Sally under a spoofing name. That explains who is protecting the name, Sally itself.

Deer Sally: DO NOT wear your moderator's cap when trolling this thread. Thanks.

FYI: Note how fast Sally is to defend itself. Sally it rarely checks this thread. Maybe three times a week ... LOL.

Why don't you report posts when Liberals call others terrible names? Does that not bother you?

I have never engaged in name-calling or other bad acts. I am only here for honest discourse. Report your brethren.

Lets set aside the content of the Canadian Leaders speech and get nostalgic about how nice it used to be to have a president that spoke in complete sentences and was not a blithering idiot that said the same repetitious offensive garbage over and over.

Carney:
“On Arctic sovereignty, we stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland's future. Our commitment to NATO's article 5 is unwavering, so we're working with our NATO allies to further secure, the alliances northern and western flanks including through Canada's unprecedented investments in over-the-horizon radar, in submarines, in aircraft, and in boots on the ground. Canada strongly opposes tariffs over Greenland.”
"American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

On X, Frank J. Fleming makes a point similar to ones I’ve seen here and on social media over the years: ”People who don't understand Trump just focus on how bad he is. To really understand Trump, you have to focus on how bad everyone else is that made him the better option.”

I have long agreed, at least generally, more or less, about “how bad everyone else is.” I have long disagreed that he has ever been “the better option.” So I wouldn’t grant that point.

But for the sake of argument, I can see at work from another’s perspective about thinking in an individual general election that he is “the better option.”

But I believe that misses the point, because it forces us into a situation where he is the “better option,” when in fact, it seems clearer that one could, at best (again, granting a point for the sake of argument) refer to him as the second-best option — in cases where he really shouldn’t have been an option at all (i.e., the Republican Party never should have considered him a possibility as a standard-bearer).

In any case of considering him a “better option,” his party basically gets no good policies and/or actions they wouldn’t have gotten with a DeSantis or a Rubio, and for the most part even Haley.

A further issue is that they would have gotten those things without all of Trump’s worst policies and first-tier corruption and chaos.

But the more important thing is that they would have gotten those things without breaking Democratic norms, sowing additional division domestically, and dissolving trust internationally.

(for those who want to dismiss the importance of “Democratic norms”: the norms are a major reason you can’t just write a constitution, have elections, and automatically turn any country on the planet into a stable, functioning Democracy).

“You made us choose Trump” is incredibly weak reasoning from that perspective.

Pay attention, troll: I reported a NON-REGISTERED name that has been spoofing a REGISTERED name for many days now. LRC has not banned that poster. Why?

Now tells why my reporting someone using an IP that seems to be protected has made you so bigly angry?

Why don't you report posts naming name=callers and people who call other idiots?

Why are you not even registered. It is YOU who is hiding stuff.

Deer Grammer Troll Sally: Tell us ... least you become even more angrier. (SIC intentional)

The majority of your posts are under unregistered names. YOU are hiding a lot of stuff.