The Trump Presidency 2.0

[SirFozzie]

Saw that "GOP Senator fears "decimation" over tariffs" was running as a story.. And I hope he meant figuratively, because as much as picking 1 out of every 10 GOP and killing them may be funny in theory, in practice, it'd be the worst massacre in history.

[QuikSand]

not enough audience for "obscure literal meaning of word" jokes, man

[Ksyrup]

Too bad, I thought it said defenestration.

[Atocep]

We're back to Trump wanting a military parade for his birthday. Last time the estimated taxpayer cost was $100 million and he was talked out of it. This time, without adults in the room, it's likely to happen.

[Lathum]

I just called my GOP congressman and got a staffer. Ask them his stance on what is happening, if he is going to issue a statement or do a town hall, and if he or anyone else in the GOP is going to stand up to whats going on.

[BYU 14]

Putin and Kim get Military parades, so why not, it's the authoritarian thing to do.

[cuervo72]

Bluesky

START BUYING OUR SHIT, VIETNAM. WE KNOW 100 MILLION OF YOU HAS THE EXACT SAME BUYING POWER AS 340M OF US.

[SirFozzie]

A judge appointed by that well known commie liberal Ronald Reagan in his opinion affirming the decision to make the government bring back a man they mistakenly sent to an El Salvadoran gulag:

"Wilkinson: "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.""

[JPhillips]

Originally Posted by Lathum

I just called my GOP congressman and got a staffer. Ask them his stance on what is happening, if he is going to issue a statement or do a town hall, and if he or anyone else in the GOP is going to stand up to whats going on.

Who is your rep? Kean?

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Who is your rep? Kean?

Chris Smith

[JPhillips]

SCOTUS overturns Boasberg. Detainees must file habeas petitions in the district where they are detained.

Problem is their lawyers/families don't know where they are detained.

[GrantDawg]

So, due process is dead.

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[JPhillips]

SCOTUS did say that detainees need to be given time and notice to file, but we'll see how much the admin gives a damn about that.

[JPhillips]

dola

What in the absolute fuck is this?

Trump: "I said to [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany."

[Atocep]

Elon was streaming POE2, died to the tutorial boss, and quit his stream. This is the guy that was trying to convince people he was one of the top Diablo and POE players in the world.

[RainMaker]

$6 billion handout to Elon.

https://www.spaceforce.mil/News/Arti...3-lane-2-cont/

[wustin]

Who wins, Trump vs Disney?

China plans six retaliatory measures against Trump tariffs in escalating trade war - CHOSUNBIZ

[RainMaker]

50% added on to the tariffs on China bringing them up to 104% starting at midnight.

[Ghost Econ]

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[GrantDawg]

While trying to cut Social Security and Medicare, Trump is now promising a trillion dollar defense budget. Priorities

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[Fidatelo]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

While trying to cut Social Security and Medicare, Trump is now promising a trillion dollar defense budget. Priorities

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That will look like a drop in the bucket once the US starts WW3.

[Mota]

Nintendo should announce that they are not shipping any Switch 2 into the USA until the tariffs are fully lifted. There will be a global shortage at launch, so why sell to any territory where it is less profitable?

And then make a press release. Trump prevents Switch 2 from launching in USA.

[Ksyrup]

Democrats are so shell-shocked (or shaken) by losing to Trump that they can't help but keep making, "I understand Trump's motivation for doing X, and I agree..." statements. The latest is Whitmer. Call me crazy, but perhaps the better argument is to make your own case for how to achieve certain goals instead of being afraid of Trump. Jesus crispies.

[JPhillips]

They don't need a counter-argument until 2028. Right now it's enough to say this sucks, Trump sucks, and the GOP sucks. They need to resist the urge to get into the policy and just be the opposition.

[Passacaglia]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

Trump: "I said to [the former hostages], was there any sign of love? Did Hamas show any signs of, like, help or liking you? Did they give you a piece of bread extra? Did they give you a meal on the side? Like what happened in Germany."

God this pisses me off so much

[Ghost Econ]

I think you meant

God: This pisses me off so much.

Trump: Who are you?

[JPhillips]

GOP loves their new time doesn't pass trick and are going to make it impossible to revoke Trump's tariffs until at least the fall. No days pass until September 30, 2025, so no ability to end the national emergency after X days.

[JPhillips]

dola

...the states are just an agent of the federal government.

Not a peep from the GOP regarding this from Trump. Literally none of their principles matter.

[JPhillips]

double dola

The Senate budget resolution is astonishing.

5.3 trillion in tax cuts
517 billion in net new spending

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

double dola

The Senate budget resolution is astonishing.

5.3 trillion in tax cuts
517 billion in net new spending

But but but, Doge is going to save us money? They are actually cutting the budget this time, unlike the other billion times they promised they would but didn't, right?

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by GrantDawg

But but but, Doge is going to save us money? They are actually cutting the budget this time, unlike the other billion times they promised they would but didn't, right?

Other than calling Navarro a retard Elon has been pretty quiet since the people of Wisconsin showed how much they hate him

[Fidatelo]

Did you miss his failed video game live stream a couple days ago?

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by Fidatelo

Did you miss his failed video game live stream a couple days ago?

haha. I heard about it.

He's such a tool.

[JPhillips]

The plan for tariffs is a doomsday machine.

You don't get it, this is just a threat to get other countries in line. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, he's tariffing Canada and Mexico.

You don't get it, this is just a way to get free money so we can cut taxes. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, he's tariffing the whole world.

You don't get it, he's just lowering interest rates to refinance the debt. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, he's tariffing penguins.

You don't get it, he's got to close all the loopholes. Art of the Deal.

Oh no, the bond market is cratering.

You don't get it, this is just China trying to bully us because it's about to give up. Art of the Deal.

Oh, he's pausing most of the tariffs. What was the fucking point?

You don't get it. Now we know who our allies are. Art of the Deal.

We still have 125% tariffs on China and 10% or maybe 25% or possibly 35% on Canada and Mexico. Oh, and 10% on everyone else. That's really bad.

You don't get it. These tariffs will lead to a new golden age of American manufacturing. Art of the Deal.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by Lathum

Other than calling Navarro a retard Elon has been pretty quiet since the people of Wisconsin showed how much they hate him

He was surprisingly right on that take. Navarro is an utter moron.

[Mota]

We were scrambling to hold some shipments from Japan today which would have cost us 180K in tariffs. And then BOOM, another rule change. What's to stop the next thing from happening tomorrow? I'm pretty sure they're working on a new tariff for softwood lumber for Canada right now. The worst thing for business is uncertainty, and a lot of companies are just going to avoid doing business with the USA right now as their government is not trustworthy and they are unreliable.

[JPhillips]

Yeah, things are much better than yesterday, but much worse than last week.

[Mota]

It's not done.

There's still a 10% tariff globally.

25% on steel and aluminum
25% on cars
Likely 25% on softwood coming in the next few days

This is just the BS trade deficit calculation tariff that has been removed. Once people figure this out, stock market to start going back down again.

[Atocep]

We've been working with Cerner to get our MHS Genesis equipment replaced since our hospital was the first site to deploy it and that equipment is now 7 years old. Talking to Cerner yesterday I found out that a decent chunk of our replacements are manufactured in China. We have a budget that we have to work within and Just our do ument scanners along have seen the price go from $900 last week to $1300 today and are expected to go to upwards of $2500 next month. When were trying to replace over 400 of them that's a significant amount of money that's not in the budget. So our options are to either buy maintenance kits for the existing scanners and let them limp along until prices come back down or someone comes up with the money to eat the additional cost. Either way, we're paying significantly more and the scanners are just a fraction of what we're trying to replace.

[RainMaker]

Reports that the EU are negotiating with China to eliminate tariffs on Chinese EVs. That would crush American car companies and it'd be interesting to see if Canada follows suit. China makes better EVs than anyone right now and they're cheap.

[bhlloy]

Originally Posted by Atocep

We've been working with Cerner to get our MHS Genesis equipment replaced since our hospital was the first site to deploy it and that equipment is now 7 years old. Talking to Cerner yesterday I found out that a decent chunk of our replacements are manufactured in China. We have a budget that we have to work within and Just our do ument scanners along have seen the price go from $900 last week to $1300 today and are expected to go to upwards of $2500 next month. When were trying to replace over 400 of them that's a significant amount of money that's not in the budget. So our options are to either buy maintenance kits for the existing scanners and let them limp along until prices come back down or someone comes up with the money to eat the additional cost. Either way, we're paying significantly more and the scanners are just a fraction of what we're trying to replace.

They will be made in Kentucky by October, just stay cool and stop complaining

[MIJB#19]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

Reports that the EU are negotiating with China to eliminate tariffs on Chinese EVs. That would crush American car companies and it'd be interesting to see if Canada follows suit. China makes better EVs than anyone right now and they're cheap.

Don't be silly. Chinese products are already much cheaper than stuff from the USA, there's no need for the EU to negotiate with China about anything. The only reason products from the USA were still in the market is the perception that stuff from China has lower quality, combined with slightly less fear for electronic devices containing spyware. Trump's stupidity is the best advertisement the Chinese market could have ever wished for.

[JPhillips]

We are the big dog with 25% of global GDP, but the rest of the world can beat us if they work together. A China/EU trade partnership would blow a huge hole into the SS USA and all for no reason other than people got bored with being comfortable.

[JPhillips]

dola

RFK Jr. said that by September we'll know the cause of autism so we can eliminate those exposures.

Get your kids vaccinated while you still can.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by MIJB#19

Don't be silly. Chinese products are already much cheaper than stuff from the USA, there's no need for the EU to negotiate with China about anything. The only reason products from the USA were still in the market is the perception that stuff from China has lower quality, combined with slightly less fear for electronic devices containing spyware. Trump's stupidity is the best advertisement the Chinese market could have ever wished for.

EU had a 45% tariff on Chinese EVs. It was done at the behest of America who I believe had a 100% tariff on them.

China makes the best EVs so opening the door to them would be great.

[RainMaker]

More fraud found although I have a feeling this one won't be investigated.

Tulsi Gabbard declared her residency in Texas. Then she voted in Hawaii | CNN Politics

[Ksyrup]

Kash Patel apparently fired for failing to show up to work? Is that legit news? If so, LOL.

[JPhillips]

BLM nominee pulled because she said the 2020 election was legit.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Kash Patel apparently fired for failing to show up to work? Is that legit news? If so, LOL.

Just as acting ATF head. I guess they are fine with the FBI director not showing up.

[bronconick]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

Kash Patel apparently fired for failing to show up to work? Is that legit news? If so, LOL.

Thought I read a while ago that he "moved" his offices to his Vegas place because DC sucks. I like to imagine that DOGE didn't receive a response to his "Return to the Office" memo that everyone got.