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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Centerpiece said:
So if we let a small family from Guatemala stay with us in our house, essentially letting them “hide out” here… would we be shot and killed like the French farmer in the beginning of the 2009 movie “Inglorious Basterds”?
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Don’t rule it out.
 
ZenMode said:
Sure, there are R voters would take away the right for LGBTQ to marry. Those are people who are "confused" on what it means to have rights that can't be infringed upon by the government. There are legit racists, homophobes, transphobes, etc, but I don't think for a second there are 74 million or even half that and the broad-brush painting of all Trump voters (different than supporters) as being deplorables or garbage or a just a bunch of uninformed racists, xxxphobes, etc is why the Dem party is losing, IMO.
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And yet the broad brush painting of all Dem voters as woke libtard communists doesn't seem to hurt Pubs. In fact, I think it is demonstrably true that it helps them.
 
Lando said:
And wholly unsurprising. If Republicans believed differently they would elect different leaders.
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Maybe, but Trump hasn't taken an "evangelical" position on abortion, gay marriage or really anything that is important to Christians, has he?
 
Lando said:
The judges he appointed sure have.
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It is? You can say that they opened the door to states fully banning it, but they also opened the door to states being even more liberal in allowing it, haven't they?
 
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nycfan said:
Trump’s sense of humor seems out of whack (even more than usual) on the Canada as a state thing.

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That's insulting to call PM Trudeau Governor of a state. Our nation will be led by a clueless boor in 2025.
We will be Ugly Americans to the rest of the world. Except those nations where Trump has economic ties. God help us all.
 
ZenMode said:
It is? You can say that they opened the door to states fully banning it, but they also opened the door to states being even more liberal in allowing it, haven't they?
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We will see why he proposes a national ban. Maybe he can call it a heartbeat law, even thought the heart hasn't yet formed.
 
UNCatTech said:
We will see why he proposes a national ban. Maybe he can call it a heartbeat law, even thought the heart hasn't yet formed.
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That would be a much different story, though it would have no chance of getting through Congress.
 
If you're worried about getting deported probably best not to publish your immigration status in a free article in the New York Times.
 
Centerpiece said:
So if we let a small family from Guatemala stay with us in our house, essentially letting them “hide out” here… would we be shot and killed like the French farmer in the beginning of the 2009 movie “Inglorious Basterds”?
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If you ask ZZLers, I suspect most would say yes.

It will never happen, but that's irrelevant.
 
ZenMode said:
That would be a much different story, though it would have no chance of getting through Congress.
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Why would it have no chance? He has the house and the senate, correct?

Noticing the wording changes and talking points over these last two years, they will try it.
 
altmin said:
As we are in week three of a postal strike / lockout here in privatized mail Canada, not sure your average rural American will handle their Christmas stuff going undelivered, let alone pay checks etc etc. Tell you who is not going to bother opening a distribution hub and armpit lick Idaho, Trump's best friend Bezos.

But yeah privatize away.
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I'm legitimately curious. I truly think I get a piece of mail I care about about once every other month and that is a mail order prescription. There are brick and mortar alternatives, And I think I could easily go without mail service for weeks and possibly several months. I'd probably prefer it as my garbage cans would be less full of junk mail.

But I get Amazon packages from Amazon, UPS, FedEx and even the US postal service several times a week. I live in the Raleigh-Durham area. Is the lack of a postal service in Canada an issue just for the rural folks? If you are having an issue yourself, how close are you to a population center of say 50,000 people or more? What types of postal delivery are you lacking?
 
nycfan said:


“…Previous attempts to do so have faltered. Daylight Saving Time was first introduced during World War I to assist with the nation’s industrial productivity during the Great War – not, as popular rumors frequently suggest, to give farmers more day time during harvest.

Daylight Saving Time was kept permanent during most of World War II, also for reasons to do with industry and energy. During the gas crisis in the 1970s, the country once again tried making Daylight Saving Time permanent, only for public approval to plummet after complaints of children being hit by cars while waiting for the bus at night. [I assume they mean in dark morning] …”

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Trump says GOP will try to eliminate Daylight Saving Time | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump said on Friday the Republican Party would try to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, calling it “inconvenient” and “costly.”
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But the key may be that this is one of the few things that Musk/Ramaswamy can actually get done fairly easily.

To the extent it’s debated, Businesses have usually indicated a preference to make Daylight Saving Time permanent (to have more daylight after school and work hours), BTW.
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They should do this.

In a 24/7 world, this practice cost us billions in programming cost alone. There are also studies that show an increase in medical needs on the day we spring forward and lose an hour sleep.

It's a stupid idea and should go away.
 
nycfan said:

Trump eyes privatizing U.S. Postal Service, citing financial losses​

Trump feuded with the mail agency in his first term. Privatizing it could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains.

“President-elect Donald Trump has expressed a keen interest in privatizing the U.S. Postal Service in recent weeks, three people with knowledge of the matter said, a move that could shake up consumer shipping and business supply chains and push hundreds of thousands of federal workers out of the government.

Trump has discussed his desire to overhaul the Postal Service at his Mar-a-Lago estate with Howard Lutnick, his pick for commerce secretary and the co-chair of his presidential transition, the people said. Earlier this month, Trump also convened a group of transition officials to ask for their views on privatizing the agency, one of the people said.

Told of the mail agency’s annual financial losses, Trump said the government should not subsidize the organization, the people said. …”
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I could have sworn that I read that the postal service is actually doing much better financially, utilizing last mile delivery for most of the major carriers, since they have a monopoly on mail boxes that those carriers cannot utilize.

Of course, I'm sure all the people in very rural areas are going to love this.

Not sure which way I fall on this topic.

Speaking of subsidies, our government shouldn't subsidize religious organizations or trumps properties either.
 
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