OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

I voted for neither.

I had thought a ton about voting for RFK or Chase Oliver but ended up voting for Trump. Not that my vote matters though because of where I live (blue). Glad I ended up pulling the trigger though as Trump won the popular vote

yeah well 'paying the piper' means making payments on the debt, not paying it back.

and we can pay it back in our own currency, in dollars we can print ourselves and of course raise taxes to pay. And of course our national bank can buy the debt too.

it's bad, but be careful about talking about catastrophe. It's only really bad when you borrow in other currencies and then devalue your own.

But don't misunderstand - our politicians are failing us by making this worse every year.

and an inflation rate of 2.6% and a 10 year yield of 4.6% are not problems at all and do not suggest a problem. And that's what we have.

Although there are many measurements of inflation and that's just one of them.

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Trump warns ‘all hell will break out’ if Gaza hostages aren’t released before his inauguration | CNN Politics

MJ Lee, Elise Hammond

President-elect Donald Trump warned that if the hostages whom Hamas is still holding in Gaza are not released by his inauguration on January 20, “all hell will break out in the Middle East” – offering one more stark indicatio...

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Lol. What's he going to do?

In unrelated political news, here are Trump pardon odds for first 100 days (via Bovada):

J6 protestor: -2000

Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road): -300

Steve Bannon: +175

Eric Adams: +200

Assange: +425

Snowden: +450

Trump Sr: +700

Bankman-Fried: +1900

Young Thug: +1900

Diddy: +5000

I might bet on Bannon or Adams but that's it (I think they're the only ones with +EV). He pardoned Bannon before and he may do it again. And Trump knows that Adams has been targeted by Biden's weaponized DOJ because he spoke out against migration, and him being from NY won't hurt either

yeah boomer, I was showing you how it is done.

Geez you guys are slow. No wonder you have zero critical thinking skills

Is this real?? 😳

Why does he have the power to just pardon criminals WTF!!

CNN —
President-elect Donald Trump warned that if the hostages whom Hamas is still holding in Gaza are not released by his inauguration on January 20, “all hell will break out in the Middle East” – offering one more stark indication of how much the incoming president would prefer to avoid inheriting the Israel-Hamas war as he prepares to take office in less than two weeks.
“It will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone. All hell will break out. I don’t have to say anymore, but that’s what it is,” Trump said in remarks at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida on Tuesday, adding that “there should have never been” the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas on Israel.
Steve Witkoff, Trump’s pick to serve as the special envoy to the Middle East, struck an optimistic note about the state of negotiations to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that would secure the release of the hostages, saying negotiators are “making a lot of progress.”

Trump's policy of peace through strength (and peace through unpredictability - countries will never know how he'd react) would have made the Palestine / Israel and Ukraine / Russia conflict have never happened in the first place

Hi Fvck,

weird that supposed anti-war people like you are now applauding trump's war threats.

yeah you anti-war isolationists are going to pivot to pro-war interventionists right quick in around a month.

trump is telling you he is going to be all over the globe with US forces, like we were during his last term. Listen to him. And note we are a nation not at war right now.

I hope you read it in the newspaper

C’mon bro… we may not be “directly” at war, but we sure have enabled and encouraged multiple proxy wars around the world these last few years. Good God.

You sound like Obama asserting that we are not at war in Libya because we went around Congress, still took out Khaddafi, and put NATO troops in instead of US troops exclusively to “observe” the peaceful transition, which of course completely unraveled into a Civil War that indirectly killed tens of thousands of lives through a dam break. The Bush/Obama doctrine. Got it.

Trump may be serious about Greenland if Greenland is wiling to have a suitor, but is he really going to go “take” Canada and the Panama Canal, or is it just tough talk and bluster to force some concessions from two trading partners whose militaries we essentially subsidize and whose international and monetary commitments are generally lacking…?

obviously war is a spectrum. But I think it's obvious that right now we are as far as we've been in a generation from 'nation at war' status. Proxy wars are just that. We are not at war right now, for the first time in a long long time. Others are doing the fighting, not US troops.

As for whether we want, as you say Trump is, a president who speaks loudly and carries no stick, destroying the country's future trustworthiness by threatening things and then not carrying out anything...well ok if that's what you want vote for it. Seems really bad to me and will bite us when we have to threaten someone in the future for a just reason and they don't believe our bark anymore.

But if you think Trumpo is speaking loudly AND carrying a big stick, ready to back up his threats with guns... you are a pro-war neo-con. Not what I heard from m'aga on what it wants in the WH.

Some really great ideas at Trump's press conference.

Pressing for further American involvement in the Middle East: “If those hostages aren’t back … by the time I get into office, all hell will break out in the Middle East — and it will not be good for Hamas and it will not be good, frankly, for anyone."

He wants the Panama Canal back: “The Panama Canal is a disgrace, what took place at the Panama Canal. Jimmy Carter gave it to them for $1, and they were supposed to treat us well. I thought it was a terrible thing to do."

Want to rename the Gulf of Mexico: “We’re going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring. That covers a lot of territory, the Gulf of America — what a beautiful name. And it’s appropriate."

Hates offshore windmills: “The windmills are driving the whales crazy, obviously,” “We’re going to try and have a policy where no windmills are being built."

Not a fan of low flow toilet: “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once.”

Those are BRILLIANT ideas! Some say the best ideas ever.

I don't know . . . Some say.

I mean, who the heck is in favor of toilets that you have to flush 15 times?!?

If you or Trump have to flush that many times, the problem is you guys

Unfortunately, your 2 sentences share a LOT in common.

A Kiwi can know America. It's not hard. And currently, it's not good.

I don't mean to be rude, but before we move on to that, can you let us know how the Biden impeachment is going?

I read a summary, too (written by actual journalists). You think that you can no longer be surprised, and yet....

Sure, 30-40% of America is lost. But it would be nice to tie down the remaining 10% of Trmp voters and make them read a summary or transcript, or watch a video. You just voted for this. It seems most likely that most of that 10% doesn't really understand that. Too late, of course, by PERHAPS a modicum of satisfaction in seeing at least a few really wide eyes.

"Gee, MAYBE I should follow a LITTLE reliable news before I cast my next ballot?"

'mericuh.

1) Something stupid and ineffective. Or,

2) Nothing.

And the Trumpers will LOVE him, either way.