Trump Administration Part 2

I can’t speak for simp, sabo, or anyone else, but I don’t mind the piling on. I post what I think and if I can’t defend it, then I probably deserve it

What I definitely don’t like however, is when the mods show double standards. Seems that any time I go eye for an eye and meet rudeness with rudeness, I get a warning and my post gets deleted while theirs stay up. Pretty sure if I posted an unprovoked content free and brainless “fuck off” in response to someone, it gets deleted and I hear from the mods (as just the most recent example)

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There’s drama in an internet forum?

Shocker.

Can we not do RFK talking points here?

I’m very confused on Tucker Carlson’s current views and influence. I saw this article on my feed:

https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-tucker-carlson-cabinet-pompeo-683d9150?siteid=yhoof2

Followed by a link to an interview he made with Jeffrey Sachs, who I admit i don’t know enough about, but the majority of the geo-political interview was far to the left of Bernie Sanders or anyone on the squad. Including a very strong pro-Iran and China stance that Tucker seemed to agree on. So confusing.

There isn’t a single confusing thing you said.

Russia/China/Iran are all allies. (china/russia only officially a soft one cause USA buys too much china stuff) It’s pro authoritarian which far left/right agree on.

4 posts were merged into an existing topic: About Moderation

I think technology can reach a point where humans no longer ever have to work. But until we get over that hump, it’s gonna suck. We just happen to be living in that niche time frame.

I may disagree with Cactus but I have never once thought he was posting in bad faith. I didn’t agree with his covid takes and i didn’t agree with his Trump prosecution takes. It turns out he was partially right and partially wrong in both cases(as was I) if I am remembering correctly. And the wrong parts he wasn’t afraid to take ownership of and/or discuss later rather than pretend they didn’t happen.

In short Cactus is a good poster.

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Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.), leading big group of Republican co-signers, lays out roadmap for where Rs go from here:

  1. Pass an immigration bill that completes border wall, and “remove migrants” who entered illegally. Offset with mandatory spending cuts.

  2. Then pass a second bill to extend Trump tax cuts, paid for by repealing Dems’ clean energy tax credits & $2.5 trillion in DOGE cuts (Big TBD here on what this is)

Editors note: It will not be paid for

https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1869403222013854193

paid for by not money but the joy of sweet sweet liberal tears

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Shocking that they will undo Biden’s MOST PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENCY IN HISTORY within weeks of him leaving office.

Serious question but how much of the big climate/infrastructure bill money has been spent? Hopefully they were smart enough to require spending most of the money prior to 2025?

I’m sure they’ll start by raising SS/Medicare eligibility ages by 5 years across the board and cutting benefits in half. Time to normalize working until you’re dead like we did throughout most of history.

The generation that is about to collect that were the ones who voted for him. Zero sympathy.

Was about to say they’ll probably sunset it in a way that protects most boomers, but last I checked my very own Gen X is largely a bunch of MAGA dipshits too, so fuck us all I guess.

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Anyone care to opine on the likelihood they could actually abolish the fdic or is this just another appeal to fear?

It was designed to do most of the spending within 5 years.

As of May 2024, they had spent about 40%

But, they were picking up the pace, and the fact that fiscal year 2025 actually started in October let them push out another big chunk.

https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/investing-america-biden-harris-administration-sends-62-billion-states-bipartisan

I’ve heard some podcasts talk about one of the big goals of Sec Pete and the other transportation people is to try to spend as much of the 2025 money before they leave, so, if I had to ballpark, maybe 70% of overall funds will be out the door before Trump comes in.

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That’s pretty good actually. Way better than I would have guessed.

Whenever the question is “Can Trump do that?”, ask yourself “Who will forcibly stop him?” and you’ll have your answer.

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supposedly doing that requires congressional action

Obviously getting rid of FDIC wouldn’t be a good thing to do, so they probably will try to do it

Or bribe him.