Thread In Which We Discuss Trump Admin Policy & Give Trump Props

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farce© said:
Does anyone know what he hopes to accomplish with these tariffs beyond dangerous posturing? What is the goal?
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Me big strong mobile boss in charge... grunted in my best ape voice.
 
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Ramrouser said:
Look, I just want the most qualified individuals hired to be ATC and they need to be fully staffed. Why limit or restrict any quantity of any race or sex from consideration.
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That's my point we shouldn't limit based on those terms, but you post came across as the opposite. You appear to be saying that white people should get first shot at the jobs and if they don't it's because of DEI.

If these positions are going unfilled they should be filled. And I agree that qualified people should be hired.

But that's not the point of a DEI program for people who are already employed to be inclusive of all coworkers and understand the culture of their coworkers, so they can better relate, better communicate and be more productive.
 
I will give Trump huge props if he lowers the deficit.
But I’m not going to give him props for saving $1B (I’ll just pretend Musk isn’t full of shit here) and then increasing the deficit by a trillion with his bullshit.

Let’s wait until we see the bottom line before we decide if it’s a W or an L. Announcements don’t mean shit.
 
ZenMode said:
I'm all for punishing criminals. A year of probation for trespassing.... that seems excessive.
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At the capital, during an insurrection, seeing how the officers were assaulted to gain access...

This was not simple trespassing.

Additionally, their are laws that attribute harsher penalties to people who are simply present while other crimes are committed.

Had I been there that day, when the rush and the police assaults started I would have left and skipped the Capitol tour.

It's ridiculous to conclude they were simply walking around admiring the sites and ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Federal spending was 5.31T in 2019 (prior to COVID) and last year it was 6.16T. We can easily save 1T if we just go back to pre COVID 2019 spending levels. The birthrates are down so the population isn't really any greater than 2019 (other than illegal immigration). If Elon is correct, we've already knocked off 1B just in a couple of weeks simply by cancelling DEI contracts. This should be a piece of cake.
 
Ramrouser said:
Apparently, there have been a lot of near misses at Reagan so it may be that they've been lucky.
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Lotta qualifiers in there. "Apparently," "a lot," "near misses," "may be." The fact is there hasn't been a major in-air mishap that was due to air traffic controller error in forever, not just at Washington National but nationwide. Nobody is that "lucky"...
 
ChileG said:
So, Trump is fucking me with high interest rates, he wants to fuck me with higher taxes, and now he is fucking my investments.
Can’t wait until the republicans raid my social security and Medicare.
Oh, but ladifuckingda Mark Zuckerberg canceled DEI initiatives. Who gives a flying crap, for real.

Tell me again why Trump is good for me and my family? Anyone? Bueller?
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I was wondering what Trump "ducking" you would look like.

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Ramrouser said:
Federal spending was 5.31T in 2019 (prior to COVID) and last year it was 6.16T. We can easily save 1T if we just go back to pre COVID 2019 spending levels. The birthrates are down so the population isn't really any greater than 2019 (other than illegal immigration). If Elon is correct, we've already knocked off 1B just in a couple of weeks simply by cancelling DEI contracts. This should be a piece of cake.
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1. An aging population means SS and Medicare expenses are higher than they were in 2019, and are likely to continue to get higher. The peak birth rate of the Boomers (I believe peak in US history) was 1957. People of that age were just hitting retirement in 2019. Now they are mostly retired. All the boomers' medical expenses are up.

2. Note that, per your numbers, federal spending increased 15% between 2019 and 2024. That's considerably less than inflation, so actually we are spending less. It's really funny how you guys are so selectively interested in inflation. It's almost as if you operate in bad faith.

3. That $1B is not an annual sum. Even if it was correct, it's almost certainly spread out over 5 years because that's how budgetary projections work. So, let's see, it only takes 2000 similar cuts to get to $1T. That would be 10 a day this year. Instead, we've gotten one such cut (again, if real) in 10 days. Literally work needs to get at least 10x faster.

And that's before Trump **adds** to the budget for his various moronic initiatives.
 
Ramrouser said:
Federal spending was 5.31T in 2019 (prior to COVID) and last year it was 6.16T. We can easily save 1T if we just go back to pre COVID 2019 spending levels. The birthrates are down so the population isn't really any greater than 2019 (other than illegal immigration). If Elon is correct, we've already knocked off 1B just in a couple of weeks simply by cancelling DEI contracts. This should be a piece of cake.
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Um, mandatory spending will increase as we age as a nation. $650B of the $850B in additional spending is on social security, Medicare and interest payments on the national debt. The first two are programs that Trump has taken off the table for cost reductions. Tariffs and tax cuts will make it harder to lower interest rates. Your solution is not a serious one, and $1B is both chump change and also conveniently impossible to prove.
 
with rising interest rates due to Trump, we will spend more than that $1B easily in no time just in the difference between what rates are and what they would be on the debt without all the dumb tariff talk.
Great job, dipshits!
 
ZenMode said:
Yes.

The most famous of which, at least on the far right, Ray Epps, was convicted despite never actually entering the Capitol or crossing the police barriers.
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That's like saying the person who hired the hit man isn't guilty of murder because they didn't actually kill anyone. Was he found guilty by jury who considered the evidence and the law?
 
ChileG said:
with rising interest rates due to Trump, we will spend more than that $1B easily in no time just in the difference between what rates are and what they would be on the debt without all the dumb tariff talk.
Great job, dipshits!
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What? Fannie May, the Mortgage Bankers Association and Wells predict mortgage interest rates to decline in 2025 from 7% down to 6.1% - 6.3% by the end of the year.

Of course, the Dems have no room to talk since, under their inflationary spending spree, interest rates went from 3% to 7% during their four years in office.
 
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