I remember that first term bump of trump's presidency. I also remember on message boards and in the deceptive media people were saying trump/ the President had nothing to do with it. Trouble now, trump/the President has everything to do with it. Checks out. Border secure. Border/flight invasion of (mostly) Losers is OVER. Most people are poor, most don't have $1000 for an emergency let alone any money in the stock market.
Not sure how something that obvious could be interesting. But OK.
The mistake that I keep making is to assume Trump has hidden and somewhat cohesive plans for what he is doing. As if the childish petulant reasons we see publicly are to hide something more elaborate, intelligent and future goal oriented.
You are right. You would never lose money betting that Trump strictly does things based on raw and immature emotion of a sycophant, narcissist.
So yeah, Americas new global foreign policy and the lives of hundreds of millions of people now depend on which leader makes Trump feel good about himself at the moment.
Not sure how something that obvious could be interesting. But OK.
The mistake that I keep making is to assume Trump has hidden and somewhat cohesive plans for what he is doing. As if the childish petulant reasons we see publicly are to hide something more elaborate, intelligent and future goal oriented.
You are right. You would never lose money betting that Trump strictly does things based on raw and immature emotion of a sycophant, narcissist.
So yeah, Americas new global foreign policy and the lives of hundreds of millions of people now depend on which leader makes Trump feel good about himself at the moment.
does explain the anti-canada absurdity. Trump doesn't like trudeau personally, so now Trump is out to wreck Canada. Of course, Trump hasn't like Zelenskyy since the first impeachment, so Trump is out to wreck Ukraine. Trump likes Putin so he is now on Russia's side.
Pretty simple, really.
How do you explain the saber rattling with Canada otherwise? Calling Trudeau 'governor' and threatening to cancel treaties on borders and annex their nation? It's insane if you try to rationalize it. It's just that we elected a crazy uncle to be king and he's got some personal feuds to settle. Using us as cannonballs.
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Trump is selling one on one meetings for $5M. Remember, this is going to him, not the treasury.
Musk bought the Presidency for $250M and got an all access pass to the govt. to shut down all investigations into him and his companies. He is getting contracts for Tesla and Starlink that were already in process contracts with other companies.
Trump fired all the Inspector Generals and hasn't even made the pretense of replacing them with obvious loyalists. Removing oversight is the goal of any corrupt organization.
Not a single response. Instead, a bunch of complaints about some talk show host who is not part of the US government or the democratic party that seems to prove to maga that democrats are despicable. Trump's blatant corruption gets a full pass.
If you haven’t noticed, most Trumpers have stopped even trying to defend the indefensible. If you were in their position how would you defend Trump’s 5 million dollar price tag to have dinner with him?
Instead we are at the brilliant reply stage of “cope more” and “move if you don’t like it”..
The Democrat Party is controlled by the woke Left and one seismic election loss isn’t going to change that. Right now, they are in chaos and looking for ans...
does explain the anti-canada absurdity. Trump doesn't like trudeau personally, so now Trump is out to wreck Canada. Of course, Trump hasn't like Zelenskyy since the first impeachment, so Trump is out to wreck Ukraine. Trump likes Putin so he is now on Russia's side.
Pretty simple, really.
How do you explain the saber rattling with Canada otherwise? Calling Trudeau 'governor' and threatening to cancel treaties on borders and annex their nation? It's insane if you try to rationalize it. It's just that we elected a crazy uncle to be king and he's got some personal feuds to settle. Using us as cannonballs.
Yes. Trudeau insulted Trump and zelensky campaigned for Democrats. So therefore Trump won’t help zelensky.
does explain the anti-canada absurdity. Trump doesn't like trudeau personally, so now Trump is out to wreck Canada. Of course, Trump hasn't like Zelenskyy since the first impeachment, so Trump is out to wreck Ukraine. Trump likes Putin so he is now on Russia's side.
Pretty simple, really.
How do you explain the saber rattling with Canada otherwise? Calling Trudeau 'governor' and threatening to cancel treaties on borders and annex their nation? It's insane if you try to rationalize it. It's just that we elected a crazy uncle to be king and he's got some personal feuds to settle. Using us as cannonballs.
Ironically, Trumps # 1 arch enemy on the campaign trail was Mexico. But it appears that President Claudia has intelligently duped the orange doofus and he seems to like and respect her. So he has calmed down on Mexico.
does explain the anti-canada absurdity. Trump doesn't like trudeau personally, so now Trump is out to wreck Canada. Of course, Trump hasn't like Zelenskyy since the first impeachment, so Trump is out to wreck Ukraine. Trump likes Putin so he is now on Russia's side.
Pretty simple, really.
How do you explain the saber rattling with Canada otherwise? Calling Trudeau 'governor' and threatening to cancel treaties on borders and annex their nation? It's insane if you try to rationalize it. It's just that we elected a crazy uncle to be king and he's got some personal feuds to settle. Using us as cannonballs.
Yes. Trudeau insulted Trump and zelensky campaigned for Democrats. So therefore Trump won’t help zelensky.
and do you think a national foreign policy based on who the president likes personally or not is wise? Is that what you voted for? and if you even start down the 'all presidents do that' I swear to god....
I would argue the big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is the cabinet and who he chose to surround himself with.
I may not have agreed with the policies of some of Trump 1.0's cabinet, but I could admit that many were qualified. And they weren't going to destroy the country.
Trump 2.0? Not so much. Marco Rubio seems qualified. Doug Burgum, ok. But then you get to someone like Hegseth, who is not at all qualified.
The adults in the room kept Trump 1.0 in check. The people in the room for Trump 2.0 are all enablers.
Today's big thing on the morning news shows was that tariffs are a "drug war" not a trade war. Ok. The trade war tariffs apparently start in April. Let's see how that goes...
does explain the anti-canada absurdity. Trump doesn't like trudeau personally, so now Trump is out to wreck Canada. Of course, Trump hasn't like Zelenskyy since the first impeachment, so Trump is out to wreck Ukraine. Trump likes Putin so he is now on Russia's side.
Pretty simple, really.
How do you explain the saber rattling with Canada otherwise? Calling Trudeau 'governor' and threatening to cancel treaties on borders and annex their nation? It's insane if you try to rationalize it. It's just that we elected a crazy uncle to be king and he's got some personal feuds to settle. Using us as cannonballs.
Yes. Trudeau insulted Trump and zelensky campaigned for Democrats. So therefore Trump won’t help zelensky.
only m'aga thinks that going to thank workers at a munitions plant is 'campaigning for democrats.'
ma'ga logic:
Zelenskyy should be more grateful!
but
Zelenskyy should not go to a munitions factory to thank the workers!
I would argue the big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is the cabinet and who he chose to surround himself with.
I may not have agreed with the policies of some of Trump 1.0's cabinet, but I could admit that many were qualified. And they weren't going to destroy the country.
Trump 2.0? Not so much. Marco Rubio seems qualified. Doug Burgum, ok. But then you get to someone like Hegseth, who is not at all qualified.
The adults in the room kept Trump 1.0 in check. The people in the room for Trump 2.0 are all enablers.
Today's big thing on the morning news shows was that tariffs are a "drug war" not a trade war. Ok. The trade war tariffs apparently start in April. Let's see how that goes...
yeah the difference is that trump is a lame duck and has learned the levers of power. He has learned how to do all the stupid he wants. Last time he talked about the stupid...this time he can do the stupid.
I would argue the big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is the cabinet and who he chose to surround himself with.
I may not have agreed with the policies of some of Trump 1.0's cabinet, but I could admit that many were qualified. And they weren't going to destroy the country.
Trump 2.0? Not so much. Marco Rubio seems qualified. Doug Burgum, ok. But then you get to someone like Hegseth, who is not at all qualified.
The adults in the room kept Trump 1.0 in check. The people in the room for Trump 2.0 are all enablers.
Today's big thing on the morning news shows was that tariffs are a "drug war" not a trade war. Ok. The trade war tariffs apparently start in April. Let's see how that goes...
It may well turn out that Trump hiring incompetent people is the only thing that allows America to emerge from Trumpism with any semblance of a democracy that still respects the rule of law.
As an example, Trump could legally slash 75% of the federal government. Yet these dopes are doing it lawlessly and eventually they will lose in court.
Which brings up another question. If Trump controls the house and the Senate, why doesn’t Trump pass permanent laws to accomplish his goals?
It’s almost as if the Trump admin is so incompetent that they wouldn’t know where to start in creating policy that could be written into law. So we get hundreds of hare-brained executive orders. Trump 2.0 is executive order palooza.
I would argue the big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is the cabinet and who he chose to surround himself with.
I may not have agreed with the policies of some of Trump 1.0's cabinet, but I could admit that many were qualified. And they weren't going to destroy the country.
Trump 2.0? Not so much. Marco Rubio seems qualified. Doug Burgum, ok. But then you get to someone like Hegseth, who is not at all qualified.
The adults in the room kept Trump 1.0 in check. The people in the room for Trump 2.0 are all enablers.
Today's big thing on the morning news shows was that tariffs are a "drug war" not a trade war. Ok. The trade war tariffs apparently start in April. Let's see how that goes...
It may well turn out that Trump hiring incompetent people is the only thing that allows America to emerge from Trumpism with any semblance of a democracy that still respects the rule of law.
As an example, Trump could legally slash 75% of the federal government. Yet these dopes are doing it lawlessly and eventually they will lose in court.
Which brings up another question. If Trump controls the house and the Senate, why doesn’t Trump pass permanent laws to accomplish his goals?
It’s almost as if the Trump admin is so incompetent that they wouldn’t know where to start in creating policy that could be written into law. So we get hundreds of hare-brained executive orders. Trump 2.0 is executive order palooza.
the sad answer to why isn't trump signing bills he ushered through congress is that part of trump's mission is to grind congress to hamburger under his golf cleats. Make it irrelevant so trump can just do whatever he wants. He's an autocrat, remember.
Trump's model is a small family business where he makes all the decisions. That's what he wants. Congress does not work in that model.
Sadly, that's what m'aga wants too. Terrible Americans.
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Maybe be because Muslim terrorists were attacking all over the world and they bombed the Trade center in 1993?
Nostradumbazz.
Or the more realistic scenario, Israel was already planning 911 in 1995
Water under the bridge, Newmaine. America and Israel have reconciled their differences. Accord and satisfaction. Our solution to the Gazanian Question is now harmonized under Trump. You need to let go of the incidentals of the past. You want to relitigate WWII as well?
I would argue the big difference between Trump 1.0 and Trump 2.0 is the cabinet and who he chose to surround himself with.
I may not have agreed with the policies of some of Trump 1.0's cabinet, but I could admit that many were qualified. And they weren't going to destroy the country.
Trump 2.0? Not so much. Marco Rubio seems qualified. Doug Burgum, ok. But then you get to someone like Hegseth, who is not at all qualified.
The adults in the room kept Trump 1.0 in check. The people in the room for Trump 2.0 are all enablers.
Today's big thing on the morning news shows was that tariffs are a "drug war" not a trade war. Ok. The trade war tariffs apparently start in April. Let's see how that goes...
It may well turn out that Trump hiring incompetent people is the only thing that allows America to emerge from Trumpism with any semblance of a democracy that still respects the rule of law.
As an example, Trump could legally slash 75% of the federal government. Yet these dopes are doing it lawlessly and eventually they will lose in court.
Which brings up another question. If Trump controls the house and the Senate, why doesn’t Trump pass permanent laws to accomplish his goals?
It’s almost as if the Trump admin is so incompetent that they wouldn’t know where to start in creating policy that could be written into law. So we get hundreds of hare-brained executive orders. Trump 2.0 is executive order palooza.
Writing bills and passing them into law is hard work. That is for suckers and the woke. Much easier to scribble your name on a big piece of paper with a Sharpie.
Trump on X today. And we let him run our country !?!
Trump on two astronauts stuck in space: "Maybe they'll love each other, I don't know. But they've been left up there. Think of it. And I see the woman with the wild hair. Good solid head of hair she's got. There's no kidding. There's no games with her hair."
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