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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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You paying attention, John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett? Where do you think he got the idea that he was a king?

If you let him have impoundment authority, you'll make it so.

And if we have to overthrow a king, you can expect heads to roll, literally. Kings don't get deposed and live, and neither do their enablers. Or their families.
 




They are going to launch strikes in Mexico and Central and South America, aren’t they?
 
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The Power of Myth

The Centrality of Narrative in Contemporary Politics
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“This mythic nature of these notions makes the liberal attempts to fact-check or dispute their contents piecemeal a futile exercise. The positivistic approach of liberal pundits, as expressed most characteristically in the unimaginative vox.com mentality, is completely out of its depth when it tries to deal with the policy merits or demerits of these new right-wing myths.

Such an approach is even counterproductive in that it helps try to rationalize and make more palatable to rationalistic liberals what is inherently—by design—irrational. The facts are secondary to the story that they are being woven into. In contemporary right-wing usage, ‘DEI,’ ‘CRT’ or ‘Wokeness’ do not refer to any particular suite of policies that can be rationally assessed. No, they are signifiers that are meant to conjure images of the ideological unsoundness, mental unworthiness, and racial impurity of vast swaths of federal and private employees. In like manner, ‘IQ’ might seem like the most scientistic concept available: but it is not, it’s a myth that suggests an intrinsically worthy but unrecognized mass, held back by a fake meritocracy that unfairly privileges women and minorities.

Trumpism itself is a mythic conception: a pragmatic, no-nonsense businessman who will ‘clean up the mess’ of American government.”
 
ZenMode said:
'Why don't you try again, and ditch the whole "functional minimum wage" stuff? Try a different approach."

Pass. This started as a simple question to cford and has morphed into something that is not worth continuing.
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Fine. But when you say that the market clearing wage is functionally a minimum wage, you come across as silly and unserious. Because those are literally opposite concepts. Well, maybe not pure opposites, but almost.
 
Liberals: do not take the bait. Do not oppose those designations. They are trying to bait you into reflexively defending gangs as part of a commitment to rule of law.

The proper response: cool, but please do not drone strike into territory controlled by other countries, especially our allies.
 
altmin said:
25% price hike on a Lexus or an Audi, etc should be fun.

www.cp24.com

Trump to introduce 25% tariffs on autos, pharmaceuticals and chips

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he intends to impose auto tariffs 'in the neighbourhood of 25 per cent' and similar duties on semiconductors and pharmaceutical imports, the latest in a series of measures threatening to upend international trade.
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"He did not provide a date for announcing those duties and said he wanted to provide some time for drug and chip makers to set up U.S. factories so that they can avoid tariffs."

LOL. I wonder how long it takes to set up a chip factory in Trump's mind.

What will happen instead is that manufacturers who use chips will relocate outside the US.
 
Patb78 said:
This is what I think. I feel that after Trump is gone they won’t be able to hold together. People will be coming out of the woodwork claiming to be his heir and they are the trumpiest politician there is. There has already been plenty of fighting among the factions in MAGA and the GOP. With him gone, there will be no one to coalesce around.
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Trump has plenty of children, I really wouldn't be surprised if Don Jr. ends up as the candidate in 2028 if Vance stumbles. Frankly, they've setup their family to dominate politics for decades and decades so you might as well drop the hopium here. If you thought the Kennedys were a dominant political family you haven't seen anything yet. They've taken their model and amplified it by a factor of 100, since the Kennedy's still were always reliant on New England poltical dominance to help them at the Federal level. Trump has basically covered the entire nation with base support moving forward, its not going away anytime soon. Even if the kids don't become candidates themselves, they'll be kingmakers in perpetuity for whomever the GOP nominates when Donald goes to the grave.
 
Note that mere designation as a terrorist organization does not actually make them "eligible" for drone strikes, whatever that's supposed to mean.
 
nycfan said:




They are going to launch strikes in Mexico and Central and South America, aren’t they?
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If mexico won't do anything about the cartels, trump said during the campaign he would. I'm just very interested to see that if he did attack a cartel with a drone, how many on here would be sympathetic to the cartel.
 
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