OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

All of Trump's policies have been--to one degree or another--inflationary.
War: inflationary
Deficit: inflationary
Tariffs: inflationary
Politicizing the Fed/loose money advocacy: inflationary
Immigration: inflationary
Cuts to renewables: inflationary
Corruption: inflationary

SCOTUS gave Biden immunity. He didn't hold back embarrassing/illegal things about Trump and his followers for the trivial legal reasons you list above (Rule of Law? Whatever). No, he didn't release them because there was NOTHING embarrassing or illegal in there about Trump. Simple.

Straight shooter Trump on gas prices:

”I mean, I think so. It could be, it could be, or the same, or maybe a little bit higher, but it should be around the same.”

ELDER ABUSE ALERT!

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“The most f*cked up aspect of this is the "DoorDash grandma" t-shirt she's wearing, and the implications of this: I checked and this is a pre-organized PR stunt between DoorDash and the White House (they boast about it on their website: about.doordash.com/en-us/news/das…).
The lady - Sharon Simmons, "a grandmother of ten" who has "completed more than 14,000 deliveries" - isn't even from DC, they brought her over from Arkansas as a prop for this.
Think about just how uniquely rotten things need to be in order for this to happen.
She is literally a grandmother relying on gig work because she can't afford healthcare for her husband's stage-3 cancer. She doesn't even get paid a living wage and needs to rely on tips. And as an "independent contractor," she gets no benefits, no healthcare, no retirement.
Which means she is an almost perfect illustration of the failure of the American social contract on almost every level: healthcare, labor rights, retirement, wages, etc. Any decent human being looking at her story - let alone policymakers - should feel only one thing: shame.
Yet DoorDash and the White House looked at this woman and saw a photo op. They flew her from Arkansas, branded her "DoorDash grandma" and used her as a mascot for a tax tweak - no tax on tips - that wouldn't even begin to cover her husband's chemo sessions.
Watching the actual video of her "delivery" to Trump (pbs.org/newshour/polit…) is almost unreal. Trump opens up by saying, smiling at the camera, "who says it looks staged? It doesn't." They immediately proceed to do a joint press conference to a bunch of journalists who were conveniently standing right there.
None of the questions that follow during the next 15 minutes are related to Simmons' situation who just stands there. Journalists, the President, and cameras all obsessing over culture wars and the actual war in Iran, while the walking embodiment of the country's deepest structural failures - healthcare, labor, retirement - stands silently in a corporate t-shirt, unmentioned and too uncomfortable to confront.

But Sally told me Trump brought prices down. Are you saying she was lying?

I noticed she stopped posting in this thread. I hope she’s okay. With a degree from a third-tier community college, she could be really struggling in the Trump economy.

Oh, the generations of hearty laughter that Trump has gifted to historians.

A silver spooner businessman who got by by lying, cheating, stealing, and criming.

He becomes president, and........

First Tuesday in November. Rural Trumper loser who never voted before Trump and has to drive 30 minutes to vote. Get in the car and vote for some Republican they've never heard of, or save on really expensive gas?

Looking good, GOP !!!

remember, the political christians elected this man president twice. I think their judgment as a voting bloc should be called into question.

Piggie's week in the Devil's pilot chair:

It began on Easter, when Trump threatened to bomb Iran's power plants and bridges in a profanity-laced Truth Social post, and signed off with "Praise be to Allah."

Two days later, he warned Iran that "a whole civilization will die tonight" — appalling some of his closest former allies, including Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones and Candace Owens

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On Sunday night, Trump attacked Pope Leo XIV — the first American-born pope — as "WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy," furious that Leo had condemned his threats against the people of Iran.

Within the hour, Trump posted an AI-generated image of himself as a Christ-like figure — healing a bedridden man, flanked by bald eagles and the American flag.

Pope: War is bad, innocent lives need to be spared.

Trump admin: the audacity of this pope is outrageous! He needs to stay in his own lane.

How the hell is reducing immigration inflationary? And don’t give me $hit about illegals picking crops - labor is roughly 2-4% of the cost of produce. Lowering the demand for certain goods (eg housing) will lower the cost - rent has fallen to the lowest level in 4 years

Pope Leo knows nothing.

And to all the panicans: the World Cup will go off without a hitch.

https://www.the-sun.com/sport/16221330/fifa-gianni-infantino-donald-trump-ice-world-cup/

Boomers love Facebook

it's so true.

"our leaders should not lie and set terrible examples for our youth!'

and they respond

"stop with the TDS!"

just say a basic true and good thing and it's automatically seen as a criticism of trump. We used to elect presidents we admire.

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(trump decided that the illegal farmworkers can stay illegally despit being criminals. they aren't being booted, because farmers vote for him and are on the dole. I guess you all don't really mind illegal immigrants - you only care if they are in cities.)

as for how lower immigration can be inflationary:

if a bunch of companies lose their workers and have to pay more to get legal workers, they'll have to raise their prices to cover those higher wages. Those costs will be passed on to their customers. That's the definition of inflation.

But there are deflationary aspects of limiting immigration too, as you say.

It is very likely Sally can't spell rendezvous.

"If my people who are called by My name humble themselves, and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land." -- 2 Chron. 7:14 (Synod ver.) --

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