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Amazing. Haven’t heard a peep about it since Jan 20, or even earlier. Guess Trump has been too busy putting the hammer down on:
Canada
Mexico (loved the photo op of Schumer holding up a Corona, a lime, and an avocado. What a tool!)
Panama
Colombia
Venezuela (who knew there were American hostages before they were released today?)
Greenland/Denmark
ISIS in Somalia
Hamas
Illegal alien criminals
USAID (good lord, the crap we’ve been funding globally is stunning)
DEI (and yes, it contributed to the tragedy at Reagan)
And that’s just two weeks in. When his appointees get cleared, Katy bar the door!
Great stuff!
And one negative, not a fan of all the pardons for Jan 6. Could have done it a bit differently for those who assaulted cops. . . .
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Indeed.
Trump accomplishes in a day what other politicians accomplish in a year of back and forth.
None of this stuff is as complicated as the people who get paid to prolong and delay it would have you believe.
I agree with you on the J6 pardons. He went too far when pardoning the folks who were convicted of assaulting officers. I don’t know how many there were, and they did serve time, but it’s a bad decision.
If there is anything project 2025 stated that has been proven true over the past week, it’s that a Republican president can’t get much done with a vast Democrat civil service. I fully believe that the Medicaid portal was shut down last week in an act of malicious compliance with the funding pause mandate.
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Amazing we both read the same news and you guys think it’s the dawn of greatness.
It may be apocryphal, but I’m reminded that Mussolini got the trains running on time. Xi built an amazing high speed rail system, among many things.
I’m astonished intelligent people can look at what Trump is doing and celebrate.
i wish I had time to write more. Suffice to say, I think you guys have lost your minds. I always wondered how a well educated country like Germany could fall into madness in the 1930s. I never thought it would happen here. I’m not saying we are turning into a Nazi country, but it’s hard to find the right analogy. Maybe Spain in the 1930s? They suffered repression and stagnation until reforming 70 years later. Maybe a bit of Chinese Cultural Revolution with massive disinformation on social media, lobotomizing the country. A bit of Venezuela over the last 25 years, implementing insane economic policies.
We are our own unique case. There’s no perfect analogy. I’m sure some of it will look ok on the surface, at the expense of our civil society, democracy, rule of law, etc.
We have entered a dark chapter in American history. I am astonished you guys don’t see it. But it was obvious to most people who before the election who weren’t balls deep into Twitter and right wing propaganda. And it seems obvious now as it’s happening.
Maybe I’m the one who is too deep in my own news echo chambers. But I don’t think so. I hope one or two of you who consider yourselves informed and intelligent will have an epiphany one of these days and see the dismantling of our great country. We weren’t perfect. But you don’t throw away the whole system. It’s apparently easier than I thought, though , to break the whole thing. It’s not so easy to rebuild it.
NO MALARKEY
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I think there is some good and some bad happening. Some of the USAID projects were wasteful, and others were dumb. If we can get some alignment there it will return the leverage that was intended, and/or save some money. Conversely this tariff stuff is darned distracting and wasteful in the near term, and potentially recessionary in the long-term.
I guess I would also like to make sure the executive branch does not over-step its bounds and stays in alignment with the other 2 branches. That may be the most concerning possibility
THings will obviously continue to play out . . .
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Reducing almost any government spending is recessionary. It’s a big reason it’s so hard to do.
as to BTD: there will be some good / some bad (the Gaza comments sound bad to me), but there’s more transparency in the first two weeks than we had for the last 4 years. The comparisons to fascists are overdone: Trump has pretty consistently acted out in the open and has if anything worked against entrenched interests. Fascists capture them.
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Reducing almost any government spending is recessionary. It’s a big reason it’s so hard to do. as to BTD: there will be some good / some bad (the Gaza comments sound bad to me), but there’s more transparency in the first two weeks than we had for the last 4 years. The comparisons to fascists are overdone: Trump has pretty consistently acted out in the open and has if anything worked against entrenched interests. Fascists capture them.
Not trying to be funny, but Fascists sound like present-day Democrats and Antifa.
Audaces fortuna iuvat
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I too laugh at the fascism comments. But for the most part, it’s the Shadow Government the left is screaming about. The funny thing is, that Trump is openly trying to rid us of it, and the left claim Elon is it. Musk may be lots of things, he’s not a shadow. The shadows were those running the government the last four years.
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