OFFICIAL LRC President Donald Trump SECOND TERM Thread

One way ticket to El Salvador?

I spent a bit of time looking at the study in more detail. Turns out I understood it correctly. Since you’ve posted nothing to refute the study, I’ll chalk this up as another area when you have zero credibility.

A recession and $4.5T in tax cuts outta help clear up that debt in a jiffy.

We’re on pace to spend $500 million on Trump’s golf this term. If you think they give a sh*t about the debt or deficit, you’re even dumber than I thought.

More 4D chess!

Leavitt: There will be 104% tariffs going into effect tonight on China at midnight”

Trump Failure Blotter

The most extreme clinical case of Trump Derangement Syndrome was closest to truth.

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Consumer confidence is sliding as Americans' view of their financial futures slumps to a 12-year low
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Remember Trump's promise of no more endless wars and slashing the defense budget by 50%? So much for that. Trump is asking for a record 1 trillion defense budget and has more B2 bombers deployed to the Persian Gulf theater (Changos Islands, which is a hop and a skip away from Iran for a long range bomber like the B2) than at any other time in US history. I have said it from the beginning of Trump's term. He is going to go to war with Iran.

dailymail.co.uk

US deploys six stealth bombers to Chagos for possible Iran strike

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Six stealth bombers flew in to the U.S. airbase on Diego Garcia from Missouri last week in the 'largest single deployment in US history'.

Link:www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14582...

dumb m'agas should read this. It's an account of a convo with trump, asking him why he thinks americans want manufacturing jobs instead of easier work. Trump will have none of it. He insists the dream of americans is to work on assembly lines. Insanity. Congress must take power back from this mad king.

"He is going to go to war with Iran."

You have a problem with that?

Iran is a terrorist nation hell-bent on killing Americans.

The bombers being deployed is showing our strength. Bombing Houthis in Yemen ensures peace through strength by taking them out.

Maybe we could begin amassing planes in India if that'd be possible as well. India knows the threat of radical islam very well and would be amenable to help stop it.

Professional goal post mover

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Of course, any number of people can be skeptical about the veracity of a story. You can imagine that Trump supporters would be skeptical of an account by Woodward (there’s a lot to say about how to work through reasonable skepticism or how anyone confronts information that clashes with their views, but we’ll set that aside).

There’s enough video of Trump speaking about various topics to establish a number of characteristics.
— the steadfast, unyielding view that he is right
— the unwillingness to relent no matter what. His supporters love this in the sense that if they agree with him or feel as though he is fighting for them, he will never give up. But because no one is correct about everything 100% of the time, it’s a trait that necessarily becomes a liability when the person is eventually wrong.
— the apparent lack of genuine self-reflection about what he thinks
— the difficulty he almost always has in linking clear, concrete facts to his reasoning (that are true: I mean, there are lots of times he makes a point and just throws some kind of BS “fact” as its ostensible justification).
— the evasiveness he often shows when asked for details

So he has a view. He doesn’t have to explain the logic of the view. He doesn’t have to reconsider the view. But he will keep digging in his heels and maintaining that it’s true, no matter how much evidence to the contrary.

I mean, this was even apparent enough to be a pretty likely character flaw back in 2015 (and, of course, even before). There are people who try to act as though disliking or distrusting Trump arises from some kind of gullibility in believing a biased media, or in suffering from groupthink within one’s political party.

For many of us, the evidence has always been there, long before Democrats had any reason to consider him a political opponent, long before there was any substantial media commentary about his views, and no matter where on the political spectrum we find ourselves.

It’s always been right before our eyes. You just have to listen to the guy talk.

I’m sure he is also for religious based genial mutilation.

Trump said "in the vicinity" of a trillion. The existing budget is already in the vicinity of a trillion.

But by all means please lose your mind over it ...

Iran can't be allowed to have nukes. He's literally in talks with Iran right now. The bombers are a show of strength. Israel already destroyed Iran's air defenses.

Parking the B2's next to Iran and making it known that the GBU-57's are ready to go is leverage.

Trump is much much much smarter than you.

If Trump thinks he can successfully bully the Chinese

He'd better think twice.