Trumponomics

I just heard on the American news, that Trump wants to buy and own the Gaza strip, and wants all the Palestinians to move somewhere else to a beautiful place? What beautiful place? Where? He's Insane! He said he wants to clean it up, and develop it, and let some nice people move in. He didn't mention the Israeli's, but who do you think he's has in mind?
So he's cutting cost, by stopping food aid to Millions! Making enemies of the closest neighbor's, cutting education at home, want's to eradicate all records of the January 6th, Take over of the Capitol building, free 1500 violent criminals that stormed the Capitol! The list goes on and on.
He definitely wants to be another Putin. If he survives these upcoming four years, he'll probably try to stay President indefinitely, and figure out a way to make Elon his Vice President!
 
Shadrach said:
free 1500 violent criminals that stormed the Capitol! The list goes on and on.
He definitely wants to be another Putin. If he survives these upcoming four years, he'll probably try to stay President indefinitely, and figure out a way to make Elon his Vice President!
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Speaking of freeing criminals, I'm just curious if you supported Biden pardoning 2,500 interstate drug traffickers as well as giving unconditional pardons for ANY actions to his son, family members and some of his staff as well. Unprecedented actions that undermine the constitution as much as anything Trump has done. Don't you agree? Who would have guessed that Biden would have pardoned his son before Trump decided to pardon one of his kids? Very easy for Trump to do the same thing now when his term is up. It's a race to the bottom and neither side has any moral ground left to stand on. At least Trump is taking on government waste. Who is the last president to do that?
 
Hawk256 said:
Speaking of freeing criminals, I'm just curious if you supported Biden pardoning 2,500 interstate drug traffickers as well as giving unconditional pardons for ANY actions to his son, family members and some of his staff as well. Unprecedented actions that undermine the constitution as much as anything Trump has done. Don't you agree? Who would have guessed that Biden would have pardoned his son before Trump decided to pardon one of his kids? Very easy for Trump to do the same thing now when his term is up. It's a race to the bottom and neither side has any moral ground left to stand on. At least Trump is taking on government waste. Who is the last president to do that?
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Quite right. The entire presidential pardoning system needs an overhaul. As for trump eliminating government waste, eliminating entire government agencies is not eliminating waste, it is eliminating government only later to be restaffed with loyalist to trump who will give their orders. That is not dealing with waste, that is building an authoritarian controlled government. Trump takes his lead from the world's authoritarian leaders and dictators that he praises openly along with their ways of governing.
 
Hawk256 said:
Speaking of freeing criminals, I'm just curious if you supported Biden pardoning 2,500 interstate drug traffickers as well as giving unconditional pardons for ANY actions to his son, family members and some of his staff as well. Unprecedented actions that undermine the constitution as much as anything Trump has done. Don't you agree? Who would have guessed that Biden would have pardoned his son before Trump decided to pardon one of his kids? Very easy for Trump to do the same thing now when his term is up. It's a race to the bottom and neither side has any moral ground left to stand on. At least Trump is taking on government waste. Who is the last president to do that?
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Sorry, I am unaware of the interstate traffickers you speak of. Please show this information. As to pardons. They have been around forever, and used and abused by many Presidents. Leaving office. Remember Nixon? I am not aware of any serious crime Hunter Biden did. I do recall when Trump was President before, how His daughter and husband got away with huge deals with the Middle East and made $ millions! This was legal?
As to his taking on government waste, culling a program that Aids starving people, and letting HIV, and other crucial medicines spoil without refrigeration seems inhumane. Blocking tons of food aid to millions of hungry people is a cruel way to cut waste if you ask me. It hurts the farmers, and the people needing this food.
Allowing Elon Musk access to the financial system which provides payments to Social security, veteran's benefits and health care, medicaid, government employees, etc, seems like putting the fox in charge of the henhouse!
The saddest thing I see happening in all of this is, the lack of compassion, love, and understanding, and putting anger and hatred and the love of money and power, above all else! 😪
 
Hawk256 said:
You can say non violent but keep in mind that these are the charges they were convicted of not what they were changed with and to get federal drug charges, you aren't a small fish and had to cross state lines with your crimes.
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Yes I do support what Biden did compared to what Trump did. Biden pardoned people that had been overly charged for a non violent drug offense. Trump pardoned violent criminals that stormed the Capitol building and violently attacked Police officers, and threatened to Hang the Vice President and the Speaker of the House? Now they are out free to do it again. This sets a precedent for Trump's supporters to think they can commit violent crimes and Trump will pardon them again.
 
Shadrach said:
Now they are out free to do it again. This sets a precedent for Trump's supporters to think they can commit violent crimes and Trump will pardon them again.
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Why not? Pardons don't have much of a meaning anyway when haded out by the thousands. And it was Biden that set that precedent not Trump. Trump only did so after Biden gave out pardons like party favors. How many more dangerous drugs like fentanyl are back in circulation now? What do we need prosecutors and courts for if the President can just decide that it doesn't mean anything? I imagine those that lost a family member to drug addition took Biden's move as a slap in the face and rightfully so. Today Trump signed an order to ban men from competing in women's sports. Is he wrong there too?
 
Hawk256 said:
Why not? Pardons don't have much of a meaning anyway when haded out by the thousands. And it was Biden that set that precedent not Trump. Trump only did so after Biden gave out pardons like party favors. How many more dangerous drugs like fentanyl are back in circulation now? What do we need prosecutors and courts for if the President can just decide that it doesn't mean anything? I imagine those that lost a family member to drug addition took Biden's move as a slap in the face and rightfully so. Today Trump signed an order to ban men from competing in women's sports. Is he wrong there too?
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About men in women's sports? This should not be something a President should be passing orders on. It should be dealt with by the proper sports associations!
And losing a family member is tragic, no matter what the cause. Presidential pardons have been happening for far longer than either of these two men. From what I'm hearing on the news recently. The current President is making many actions, that are bypassing the congress and the courts. Allowing Musk and young students access to peoples Social security numbers, medical information, stopping food and medical aid to millions, is outrageous! This President has to be kept in check and follow the Constitutional rules. And now the latest fiasco saying he wants to kick out all the Palestinians from Gaza, so he can turn it into as he said, a Riviera of the Middle East! Is he blind to all the images of almost every building demolished, and people's suffering?
He cannot just decide for all the countries over there to take in these people.
 
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Shadrach said:
About men in women's sports? This should not be something a President should be passing orders on. It should be dealt with by the proper sports associations!
And losing a family member is tragic, no matter what the cause. Presidential pardons have been happening for far longer than either of these two men. From what I'm hearing on the news recently. The current President is making many actions, that are bypassing the congress and the courts. Allowing Musk and young students access to peoples Social security numbers, medical information, stopping food and medical aid to millions, is outrageous! This President has to be kept in check and follow the Constitutional rules. And now the latest fiasco saying he wants to kick out all the Palestinians from Gaza, so he can turn it into as he said, a Riviera of the Middle East! Is he blind to all the images of almost every building demolished, and people's suffering?
He cannot just decide for all the countries over there to take in these people.
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The reason he had to get involved is because the sports bodies aren't making those decisions or if the are they are making the wrong ones. Ask the female high school student who has permanent brain damage from a spike that was delivered by a genetic male. Does someone actually need to die before we take a sensible stand?

I might suggest you do a little research on your own instead of just reading the headlines. The media is biased and you almost never get the full story. Their job is generate clicks and outrage people, nothing more, nothing less. I'm sure you don't believe a word Fox News says so maybe realize that the others are no better.

If the President is breaking the rules, then it will come back on him. He is not King. As skeptical as I was about this second term, so far all the actions I have seen have a purpose in actually changing things instead of just accepting that things will never change.

Tump is not buying nor invading Gaza, he is using rhetoric to strengthen his negotiating position. It's a pretty common practice but Trump is a little bolder than most. Biden is the one that gave Israel the weapons and the money to carry out the destruction that they perpetrated. Would have saved a lot of lives if someone had put their foot down earlier like the UN wanted to do but the US vetoed every action they suggested.
 
Hawk256 said:
The reason he had to get involved is because the sports bodies aren't making those decisions or if the are they are making the wrong ones. Ask the female high school student who has permanent brain damage from a spike that was delivered by a genetic male. Does someone actually need to die before we take a sensible stand?

I might suggest you do a little research on your own instead of just reading the headlines. The media is biased and you almost never get the full story. Their job is generate clicks and outrage people, nothing more, nothing less. I'm sure you don't believe a word Fox News says so maybe realize that the others are no better.

If the President is breaking the rules, then it will come back on him. He is not King. As skeptical as I was about this second term, so far all the actions I have seen have a purpose in actually changing things instead of just accepting that things will never change.

Tump is not buying nor invading Gaza, he is using rhetoric to strengthen his negotiating position. It's a pretty common practice but Trump is a little bolder than most. Biden is the one that gave Israel the weapons and the money to carry out the destruction that they perpetrated. Would have saved a lot of lives if someone had put their foot down earlier like the UN wanted to do but the US vetoed every action they suggested.
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Yea you're right about the news. All of these things going on, are absolute madness! Unfortunately, the US has been supplying The Killer Jews weapons for much longer than Biden, and now Trump, will continue the genocide. And they say the Germans were Bad?
 
John indonesia said:
A pattern is emerging.
Trump threatens tariffs and or invasions, then the victim country caves and not much happens.
Trump, love him or hate him, has been successful in quite a lot.
However, bullies tend to come crashing down sooner or later.
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Agree but he will not change when his current method is getting results and as long as those results are a net positive for the US, he doesn't need to.
 
Shadrach said:
Yea you're right about the news. All of these things going on, are absolute madness! Unfortunately, the US has been supplying The Killer Jews weapons for much longer than Biden, and now Trump, will continue the genocide. And they say the Germans were Bad?
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Both sides are equally bad and neither party has the moral high ground anymore. Genocide is a terrible thing but most every country has some blood on their hands. It should not be continuing in this day and age but here we are. The UN tried in vain to stop this but you see where they ended up. It's all a farce. They are big club and you aren't in it.
 
You are so right about all of this, you would think that in this modern age we would have learned how to live in Harmony, and take better care of the Planet. I thought about my reactions to what I see on the news, and I realized I was taking the bait and letting this madness get to me. I was getting angry and starting to say things with an angry tone. It is unbelievable that a man like Donald Trump could become President. His rhetoric about Gaza is just cruel, plain and simple. You cannot just wipe off the surface, clean it up, and turn it into ( The Riviera of The Middle East).
He has zero compassion for the people living there.
This problem has gone on far too long, and all the World should put a Stop to it. I was not educated much about this area of the planet. I don't know the history of the Palestinians, or the Jewish people that lived in that area long ago. But it's obvious the Palestinians were already there, when Israel was created in 1958, or whatever year. At that time, there should have been a clear defining line where the Palestinians would live, and the Jewish would live. And thats that!
From what is presented on the news, it seems there is the Gaza strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. Was giving to the Palestinians. I apologize if I am incorrect. And the center part for the Israel's. Slowly, Slowly, the Israel's kept taking land, and building settlements, on these lands designed for the Palestinians.
How could this even have gotten started? If it was wrong, it should have been stopped immediately! Also from what I've seen, it seems the US and others have been supplying the Israel's with lots of money, and weapons. Did this also happen with the Palestinian's?
If not, then that is the root of the problem, and like an infected tooth, it should be removed. I'm not saying remove people, just the imbalance of what is provided for each group.
On the American news, they portray the Israel's as the good guys, and the Palestinian's as militants! How could this situation be allowed to happen? Where were the Governments of the modern world when this all started, and continued?
I must control my emotions, and not get angry from I hear anymore about this conflict. I am not anti Semite, or anti Islamic, or anti anybody! I am against violence from any country, or group, that does not respect others basic Human rights, to Life, Liberty, and Happiness!
 
Hawk256 said:
Agree but he will not change when his current method is getting results and as long as those results are a net positive for the US, he doesn't need to.
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Who is to determine what is a net positive? That could be seen in different ways!
 
Shadrach said:
Who is to determine what is a net positive? That could be seen in different ways!
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www.al.com

Donald Trump latest approval ratings: What Americans think about the job president is doing

Most of the polling numbers show Trump fairing better during his second term than at the same point in his first.
www.al.com www.al.com

Polls are tough as they are a bit all over the place but according to this from 2 days ago his approval rating is up suggesting most Americans think its a net positive.

Im sure this will change as he gets more crazy ideas.
 
Trump's Riviera of the Middle East! 🤪
an American takeover of Gaza that would involve expelling the Palestinians living there and turning the contentious place into “the Riviera” of the Middle East.
 

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The Borowitz Report



Musk’s Team Receiving High School Credit for Running Government
FEB 06, 2025

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Elon Musk revealed on Thursday that the team he assembled to run the federal government are receiving high school credit for their efforts.

Treyson Parlow, 16, said he was “pumped” to learn that he would accrue class credits for serving as Secretary of the Treasury under Musk.

“Messing around with trillions of dollars has been sick AF,” the sophomore said. “Pretty soon, though, I’m gonna have to quit and take driver’s ed.”

Musk extolled the energy and enthusiasm of his young proteges, telling reporters, “There haven’t been this many high school kids involved with the government since Matt Gaetz was in Congress.”
 
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Ruserious said:
I hope you know that its satire.
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Hence the problem of either reading headlines alone and/or not researching even a little of what you just read. People are so quick to believe something just because it fit's with their belief of the situation no matter if it's true or not. The real media is misleading enough. Add in a couple of satire sites and you have the perfect storm.
 
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