The Trump Presidency 2.0

[Atocep]

MAGA trying to come to grips with the Trump/Elon falling out and trying to get on the same page on a narrative is entertaining.

So far:

1.) It's a chess move of some sorts between these two brilliant men
2.) There's no way Trump is in the Epstein files. Ya know, because it's unthinkable that a guy that called Epstein a great friend would be in them.
3.) They're just two strong personalities that worked very closely together for 6 months and need to blow off steam.
4.) They're two men of god that need to pray and come back together to put the country first.

It's insight into just how unreachable these people are as voters.

[dubb93]

Two men of god is the most ridiculous take on that list.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by dubb93

Two men of god is the most ridiculous take on that list.

According to white nationalist nuts, they are "godly men." Which is defined as only concerned for themselves, their power, and hating anyone not like them.

[flere-imsaho]

Just like Jesus!

[RainMaker]

Abolish the party please.
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/0...ward-democrats

[Thomkal]

Surprise Surprise a lawsuit in Rockland County NY is going forward over the 2024 Presidential and Congressional elections:


LAWSUITS

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by Edward64

Unfortunately, I don't think there is enough people, GOP politicians (they're up this cycle) willing to fight to reduce the bleeding (e.g. budget deficit) and overall debt at this time. Defense, Social Security, Medicare are the big ones and cutting those will get politicians fired. But I sure hope I'm wrong.

Unlikely it will succeed but love to see Musk fund a viable third party and build momentum on this.

Totally agree. 10% of loonies on either side and the 80% are not accommodated for.

The Musk hatred on this forum is bizarre. Any other country would be so grateful for a guy bringing so much wealth to a country via his businesses and trying to fight tooth and nail to stop the U.S. going bankrupt. Political brain washing has stopped intelligent people from seeing the world as it is. Especially those who spend so much time with like minded people who continue to reinforce each other's opinions.

Probably a good few decades before we see this play out. The only way out for the U.S. is enormous GDP growth led by AI and robots perhaps. Wonder who could help with that lol? That could happen, although my gut instinct is whatever the country makes, they will always spend more. That only ends one way.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by Hammer

The Musk hatred on this forum is bizarre. Any other country would be so grateful for a guy bringing so much wealth to a country via his businesses

I agree with this circa early days. But he's turned out to be an ass. Jobs & Gates were also reportedly asses (and probably any billionaire needs to be cut throat) but he's up there. Currently, especially the past 3-4 months, I would say his cons > pros.

... and trying to fight tooth and nail to stop the U.S. going bankrupt.

Honestly, I don't think this is true. He overpromised and under delivered. His own official tracker said < $200B. Far less than the $2T he first committed to and then the $1T he revised to. And we know the big $ savings opportunities are in Defense, Social Security & Medicare. He bailed pretty early before even touching those. I don't disagree with overall goal of reducing deficit/debt but for his once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, his execution was terrible and the resistance grew. IMO this was more a platform for his "brand" than true desire to cut deficit/debt.

Now, if he does start this 3rd party for the middle-class and/or fund like minded politicians to reduce deficit/debt, I'll gladly admit I was wrong.

Political brain washing has stopped intelligent people from seeing the world as it is. Especially those who spend so much time with like minded people who continue to reinforce each other's opinions.

There's definitely echo chambers ... on both sides.

Probably a good few decades before we see this play out. The only way out for the U.S. is enormous GDP growth led by AI and robots perhaps.

IMO the first step is to stop the bleeding. Get back to near/deficit neutral budgets which will require painful cuts in benefits, increased taxes and/or cuts in people & programs. Then work on the $36T+ debt.

[thesloppy]

Good Lord, please save us from any kind of extended conversation between you two dipshits.

[Edward64]

@Hammer

I’m game if you want to see how long we can stretch this discussion out. Still lots of “both sides” to talk about

[dubb93]

Musk’s companies exist to suck up government money.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by Edward64

@Hammer

I’m game if you want to see how long we can stretch this discussion out. Still lots of “both sides” to talk about

Maybe you guys can summon Brian Swartz and form some kind of "classical liberal" Voltron that desperately gives itself flowers over and over and over again.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Maybe you guys can summon Brian Swartz and form some kind of "classical liberal" Voltron that desperately gives itself flowers over and over and over again.

Sure.

It'll be the right wing, centrist/moderate version of you progressive "cancel culture" bros.

[thesloppy]

Pick out whatever cloak appeals at the moment, what's important is that you keep endlessly braying about how open minded you are.

[JPhillips]

There's no realistic way to get to a sustainable budget number without tax increases. So long as you want to cut taxes further, you aren't being serious about a balanced budget. It's all just performance for gutting entitlements and fucking over the elderly.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Pick out whatever cloak appeals at the moment, what's important is that you keep endlessly braying about how open minded you are.

You do the same on "free speech" (for me and my bros, but not for thee)

[RainMaker]

You would think the world would have gotten a short reprieve from the sycophantic Musk stuff after he spent the past few months exposing himself as a drug addled conman. How can we survive without throwing hundreds of billions at a guy to blow up rockets and sell shitty overpriced EVs?

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by JPhillips

There's no realistic way to get to a sustainable budget number without tax increases. So long as you want to cut taxes further, you aren't being serious about a balanced budget. It's all just performance for gutting entitlements and fucking over the elderly.

And you can't cut your way to a surplus without cutting defense.

[thesloppy]

Originally Posted by Edward64

You do the same on "free speech" (for me and my bros, but not for thee)

Congratulations on making it to page 2 of the Stale Libertarian Guide to Sucking Yourself Off in Public.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

And you can't cut your way to a surplus without cutting defense.

Absolutely, and instead they increase it by 10-12% every year. It's insanity.

[cuervo72]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Congratulations on making it to page 2 of the Stale Libertarian Guide to Sucking Yourself Off in Public.

Seriously. Free speech is the ability to say something and not have the government take action against you for it. It is not being forced to listen to an opinion (hello mute button) or pretend it isn't shitty (hello post button).

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Congratulations on making it to page 2 of the Stale Libertarian Guide to Sucking Yourself Off in Public.

Love it.

You win, you are much more creative sexually than I am.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Seriously. Free speech is the ability to say something and not have the government take action against you for it. It is not being forced to listen to an opinion (hello mute button) or pretend it isn't shitty (hello post button).

Fair enough.

Keep on ignoring me. I don't attack first.

[flere-imsaho]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Any other country would be so grateful for a guy bringing so much wealth to a country via his businesses

LOL. I'm 100% sure that Musk's various companies have sucked up far more government funds than they have contributed back in GDP, never mind taxes.

[GrantDawg]

"...bUt he's a gEnIuS...."

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[sovereignstar v2]

You guys would feel different if you had chosen the red pill!

[kingfc22]

Originally Posted by thesloppy

Good Lord, please save us from any kind of extended conversation between you two dipshits.

Wins thread.

[Edward64]

Originally Posted by kingfc22

Wins thread.

Great that you are back.

Still waiting for below. Just for easy reference, I'll put in a counter until you answer.

Reminder #1

Originally Posted by kingfc22 View Post
Amazing how a guy who posted 20 times a day saying this wouldn’t happen is now a ghost once proven wrong over and over again

[JPhillips]

Miller and Hegseth sure sound like they are working to invoke the Insurrection Act.

[PilotMan]

For supposedly making everything great again, we're supposedly having one "emergency" after another. Sounds a lot more like we're in total crisis instead.

[RainMaker]

Feels like they're crashing out. Trump likely fuming about his friend exposijg him as a pedophile and Miller upset his wife ditched him for Elon.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by RainMaker

Feels like they're crashing out. Trump likely fuming about his friend exposijg him as a pedophile and Miller upset his wife ditched him for Elon.

This is just a continuation of the authoritarian playbook. Things going poorly? Time to crack down on citizens.

The people cheering this on eventually become the targets as more people start to see through the bullshit.

[RainMaker]

Also pretty funny that the QAnon folks screamed about pedophiles running the country and suddenly got silent when Trump is exposed as one.

[Ksyrup]

Suddenly?

[Atocep]

Immigration is also the only issue Trump is polling positively on (barely). He's underwater on every other issue so they're going to dig their heels in on this and keep it in the media as much as possible.

[flere-imsaho]

Things would be so much worse under Biden, though. Glad we didn't re-elect that guy.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by flere-imsaho

Things would be so much worse under Biden, though. Glad we didn't re-elect that guy.

It would also be bad to have a President with dementia in power. You guys act like these were the only 2 options.

[Ghost Econ]

Did Marco Rubio really pretend to stumble after Trump stumbled getting on a plane?

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

Did Marco Rubio really pretend to stumble after Trump stumbled getting on a plane?

It wasn't even close to a believable fake stumble. These guys are so weird.

[Ghost Econ]

Like, what grown adult would willingly do something like they? Like I'll take stumble to make a kid laugh, but to curry favor with my boss?

It's insane people worship this group of weak people.

[Danny]

I mean whoever was making the decisions for Biden would be better than Trump but Biden was a terrible candidate for this election. Ultimately he gave the election to Trump.

[RainMaker]

Originally Posted by Ghost Econ

Like, what grown adult would willingly do something like they? Like I'll take stumble to make a kid laugh, but to curry favor with my boss?

It's insane people worship this group of weak people.

All their alpha stuff is massive projection. Weak people who are submissive to others. To some it's probably a kink.

[Passacaglia]

You don't want to be the guy close to the dictator that the dictator doesn't like.

[dubb93]

Marines mobilized.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by dubb93

Marines mobilized.

Who needs a Constitution?

[Ghost Econ]

The fact that the news is covering it as something he did as opposed to an unconstitutional thing he's doing is insane.

If the US survives, these Marines and their leaders need to be tried for treason when this is done.

[dubb93]

Lost in all of this is the fact that RFK Jr. fired the entire vaccine advisory committee. Can’t wait to see who he decides should be deciding our countries vaccine schedules.

[RainMaker]

All because his friend exposed him as a pedophile.

[Atocep]

Originally Posted by dubb93

Lost in all of this is the fact that RFK Jr. fired the entire vaccine advisory committee. Can’t wait to see who he decides should be deciding our countries vaccine schedules.

All they have to do is remove a vaccine from the recommended vaccines list and insurers will no longer have to cover it, which means most people won't get it. The damage will be done.

[GrantDawg]

They helping Gavin Newsom rebuild his image that has taken a beating in the last couple of months.

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