I confess to back pedaling into Trump territory when I wanted to leave discussions about him in the garbage can. My thread on the read-only break room site has 9,600 replies so I thought I'd bring up a new one.
He's not going away.
Haberman's book is out based on interviews. I won't read it, but the excerpts are interesting. Especially what he says about McConnell, a description that's against the Terms of Service here, but I actually don't disagree with. LOL
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“At one point, Trump made a candid admission that was as jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising. ‘The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had it to do again, would you have done it?”’Trump said of running for president. ‘The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.’ … Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.”
The thing Trump and Musk value most of all is money. Their entire regime is best understood as a criminal junta whose end goal is to redirect the wealth of the nation into their own pockets. They are running a kleptocracy, and they've figured out that facism is actually the quickest path to riches.
I'm not certain that this continues to be true about money being most valued. Both Musk and Trump had money in obscene amounts before their pursuit of immense political power. Having said that, they are using fascism to steal the country's money.
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If you understand the thievery that underpins this entire administration, you'll understand that Trump's recent executive order aimed at destroying independent regulatory agencies is an essential part of the overall plot. Independent regulatory agencies are things like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Elections Commission. These institutions were set up by Congress and are made up of commissioners appointed by the president. They are authorized to promote regulations over the industries and business sectors they oversee. They are the parts of the federal government most businesses interact with. They are the only real day-to-day check on unrestrained capitalism in our system of government.
The Trump voters are still to engaged in gloating about winning to actually pay attention to what the fascists they elevated are doing. Some of them are still very concerned about Biden rather than paying attention to the felon and his billionaire buddy and the constitutional crisis they are building. Do you think it's propaganda that has them talking about other things or are the Trump supporters independently looking away from the corruption and incompetence?
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Trump's executive order is aimed at incapacitating these governmental crossing guards, for the obvious reason that they are the only things stopping the owner class from making even more money. The tell that this order is all about making these rich people even richer is the one exception to the order: It excludes the Federal Reserve Board. The Fed is in charge of monetary policy (interest rates, mainly), which means it has a lot of say about the value of money itself. Taking away the independence of the Fed would, likely, send the markets into a spiral. That move would cost Trump and his donors money. And so he says the Fed will be spared.
"Following the money is the only way to square this circle."
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The only body that would have standing to sue over this executive order is... Congress. Congress set up the independent agencies, and it is the entity that is harmed when the president does not let them function. Unfortunately, as you might have noticed, Congress is currently run by a group of Republicans with their heads so far up Trump's *** they can taste his Big Macs. There will be no lawsuit coming from this Congress to protect its constitutional powers, at least not in the next two years.
Trump the fascist had traitors already in positions of power in Congress to assist in the destruction of the republic. That's something that the historical fascists that we read books about didn't have when they took power. Those traitors are currently trying to forward legislation that gives the chief executive a bunch of their authority and power.
President Donald Trump's "Liberation Day" is fast approaching, and stock markets from Wall Street to Wellington, New Zealand, are falling Monday in advance of it.
In New York, the S&P 500 was down 0.4% following one of its worst losses of the past couple of years on Friday. It's on track to finish the first three months of the year with a loss of 5.5%, which could make this its worst quarter in nearly three years.
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At Goldman Sachs, economists expect Trump to announce an average 15% reciprocal tariff. They also raised their forecast for inflation and lowered it for U.S. economic growth for the end of the year.
Altogether, they now see a 35% chance of recession in the next year, up from an earlier forecast of 20%, "reflecting our lower growth forecast, falling confidence, and statements from White House officials indicating willingness to tolerate economic pain,” according to Goldman Sachs economist David Mericle.
I wonder if the voters who said they preferred Trump's economic policy are following this news or if they are committed to maintaining ignorance of Trump's incompetence? What do you think? Are Trump voters too busy worrying about Biden to attention to current events in Trumplandia? Maybe that's what the right-wing media prefers.
After telling NBC News that he's "not joking" about the possibility and that there are "methods" that would allow him to serve a third time, Trump declined to confirm to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that he's planning to leave the White House after his second term ends on Jan. 20, 2029.
What a distraction. People are saying if he gets to run a third time Obama should run against him, an idea Trump apparently welcomes.
Recently, Fox 2 News reported on the Trump Administration's new move, which involved taking money that had already been approved. According to the Michigan Department of Education:
The Trump Administration has pulled back more than $40 million in pre-approved projects that Michigan school districts were told they would be reimbursed for. The state superintendent said the U.S. Department of Education moved the deadline for requesting reimbursements to March 28, sending the email after changing the date
They also highlighted which school districts would be most affected by this move:
27 school districts, including in Flint, Hamtramck, Lincoln Park, Pontiac, and Woodhaven-Brownstown, are impacted.
According to MDE, that money would have been going to heating, ventilation, windows, air conditioning, and other building infrastructure. One of the school districts affected is Battle Creek, which had $3,389,571.43 promised to them.
Sloppy and unreliable, that's Trump's leadership style.
Now that I've heard the "third-term" audio, the news coverage is again ridiculous imo. He was surmising out loud off the cuff after being asked a dumb hypothetical question. He could have answered differently to quash the idea, but he didn't.
The "long live the king" comment was dumb and he and his supporters would be better served if he didn't say such stupid things.
Pretty sure Trump is trolling again. And once again it's working perfectly.
Of course he's trolling. Yet, along with his statements about the third presidency is it any wonder that people are including this in their discussion.
If it professional Presidential behavior to behave in such away? Since you say it's okay to bring up past Presidents and change the subject, remember when it was controversial that Obama wore a tan suit and how unpresidential it was? Now the President is in your words "trolling again" and it's owning the libs.
Now that I've heard the "third-term" audio, the news coverage is again ridiculous imo. He was surmising out loud off the cuff after being asked a dumb hypothetical question. He could have answered differently to quash the idea, but he didn't.
The "long live the king" comment was dumb and he and his supporters would be better served if he didn't say such stupid things.
I don't think it was a dumb question. I think he was being asked because he himself has brought it up albeit not in a serious way in a self-serving speech (wouldn't you love to see me stay as your president? or something like that), and people like Bannon have been talking about it.
It's a reasonable question to get his thoughts and rather than give the constitutional answer he's deliberately vague to continue the discussion.
It's the idea of his actually running for a third term (or as Bannon says winning this 4th election) as proposed by Bannon et al that is a dumb hypothetical situation.
I don't think it was a dumb question. I think he was being asked because he himself has brought it up albeit not in a serious way in a self-serving speech (wouldn't you love to see me stay as your president? or something like that), and people like Bannon have been talking about it.
It's a reasonable question to get his thoughts and rather than give the constitutional answer he's deliberately vague to continue the discussion.
It's the idea of his actually running for a third term (or as Bannon says winning this 4th election) as proposed by Bannon et al that is a dumb hypothetical situation.
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I'm not certain that this continues to be true about money being most valued. Both Musk and Trump had money in obscene amounts before their pursuit of immense political power. Having said that, they are using fascism to steal the country's money.
The Trump voters are still to engaged in gloating about winning to actually pay attention to what the fascists they elevated are doing. Some of them are still very concerned about Biden rather than paying attention to the felon and his billionaire buddy and the constitutional crisis they are building. Do you think it's propaganda that has them talking about other things or are the Trump supporters independently looking away from the corruption and incompetence?
"Following the money is the only way to square this circle."
Trump the fascist had traitors already in positions of power in Congress to assist in the destruction of the republic. That's something that the historical fascists that we read books about didn't have when they took power. Those traitors are currently trying to forward legislation that gives the chief executive a bunch of their authority and power.