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dukeman92
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Yes, but with everything else he is doing to collapse the economy, you trust a weakened FDIC to be able to respond? Also technically the FDIC is independent, they are just capitulating ahead of time.
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Trump got what he wanted with Colombia. But his tactics could come back to bite him.
Stoking confrontations to show strength, the president risks alienating allies and aiding China.“… But it could backfire in the long run, further destabilizing an already tenuous global order and even pushing would-be partner countries closer to Beijing.
“People in Latin America are extremely worried,” said Jorge Heine, the former Chilean ambassador to China.
For South America “the message is that it’s not a good idea to be very closely interlinked with the United States, because you might pay a heavy price,” continued Heine, who is now a professor at Boston University. “And as a result of that, China’s prospects for stronger ties have been enhanced.”
As tensions between Washington and Bogota simmered Sunday afternoon, China’s ambassador to Colombia posted an overture to China on X, reminding followers that Colombia’s foreign minister visited Beijing last year and described the bilateral relationship as the “best moment” in 45 years.
Colombia is hardly the only country reeling from Trump’s confrontational style. Of greater concern to allies, he’s continued to express his determination to wrest control of Greenland from the Danes, to “take back” the Panama Canal from Panama, to impose major tariffs on Mexico, Canada and Europe and to continue suggesting Canada’s simplest way to avoid tariffs is to become America’s 51st state.
Given the economic and military superiority of the United States, Trump almost always has the upper hand as he applies pressure on leaders of Canada, Denmark and now Colombia, all steadfast allies with a history of working closely with Washington.
But after four years in which former President Joe Biden prioritized multilateral coordination with key allies, Trump’s aggressive moves, all carried out with characteristic bluster on social media, have come as a shock even to leaders who felt more ready for a second term than they did his first. …”
dukeman92
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Warren insinuated the FDIC owed us an explanation. They're just following orders.
Edit to say, hell no. I don't trust any of this shit.
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Just following orders, eh?
ChileG
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You dumb TDS-inflicted libtards don’t understand that US businesses losing customers, rising inflation, and rising interest rates are all part of Trump’s “negotiation strategy.”
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joins immigration enforcement operations in NYC
She witnessed both criminal and civil enforcement operations, sources said.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joins immigration enforcement operations in NYC
Kristi Noem joined the operations just days after she was confirmed by the Senate to lead the Department of Homeland Security.
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Whatever you think about the policies, the Trump Administration is effectively feeding COPS style reality TV red meat to their base, who, for now, can’t get enough.
It took the GOP until the Summer of 2009 to figure out an approach to oppose Obama after his landslide victory, with the emergence of the Tea Party that eventually consumed the party (with MAGA). Obama was criticized by the GOP for being omnipresent those first 6 months as the Administration was in crisis mode over the Great Recession, but it took some time for them to nurture that resentment into a political response.
Right now, Dems seemed paralyzed in the face of the lightening speed and quantity of performative executive orders, tweets and actual massive policy changes (in blatant violation of law in many cases already — firing IGs and ignoring the TikTok ban, for example) — unable to mount a counter narrative to anything because there is so much flooding the zone, much less actually implement any resistance.
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration understands that their immediate wiggle room is the pace of most litigation will be agonizingly slow as the GOP controlled Congress has made clear they will do nothing to respond to illegal actions taken by this Administration. Only their most egregious EO (purporting to override birthright citizenship by Executive Order) has been stayed by courts so far.
And note how many of the most extreme actions are being taken by temporary agency heads and implemented by temporary appointees. They seem to be targeting as much destruction as possible in the first 130 days and take their chances on the pace of litigation ever catching up.
It took the GOP until the Summer of 2009 to figure out an approach to oppose Obama after his landslide victory, with the emergence of the Tea Party that eventually consumed the party (with MAGA). Obama was criticized by the GOP for being omnipresent those first 6 months as the Administration was in crisis mode over the Great Recession, but it took some time for them to nurture that resentment into a political response.
Right now, Dems seemed paralyzed in the face of the lightening speed and quantity of performative executive orders, tweets and actual massive policy changes (in blatant violation of law in many cases already — firing IGs and ignoring the TikTok ban, for example) — unable to mount a counter narrative to anything because there is so much flooding the zone, much less actually implement any resistance.
Meanwhile, the Trump Administration understands that their immediate wiggle room is the pace of most litigation will be agonizingly slow as the GOP controlled Congress has made clear they will do nothing to respond to illegal actions taken by this Administration. Only their most egregious EO (purporting to override birthright citizenship by Executive Order) has been stayed by courts so far.
And note how many of the most extreme actions are being taken by temporary agency heads and implemented by temporary appointees. They seem to be targeting as much destruction as possible in the first 130 days and take their chances on the pace of litigation ever catching up.
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yep everything with don the con is for show. give it a few weeks and he will be back on the golf course daily.
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Plenty of reasons to criticize the Dems right now, but I think the Lay Low strategy is intentional, and it's not necessarily a bad one. There's no way to compete with what's coming out of the White House right now, both in volume and in prurience. Rather than toss words into the void, I think Dems are trying to let this first massive wave of Trump initiatives roll out, identify the ones that are least popular and most harmful to ordinary Americans, and then pound the shit out of him once people start feeling the pain (which shouldn't take long with some of these actions). If Dems are still quiet in April, I'll be concerned. But for right now, I'm willing to let Trump hog the limelight.
EyeballKid
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Except this show has genuine real-life consequences and will hasten the destruction of our democracy. Tune in to the next episode of As The World Burns, or Nero on The Back Nine.
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As I noted, it took the GOP time to find their footing in opposition to Obama. And Dems are aware that the widespread protest resistance to Trump in 2017 probably wouldn’t be the most effective response yet.
But if the paralysis lasts too long it will further demoralize supporters who oppose the Trump agenda or just his illegal and other questionable methods. But that is the goal.
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drama much? im 1000 times more concerned with the constant doom and gloom from both the red and blues, revenge politics and the constant division both sides are desperately searching for instead of working together.
EyeballKid
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Yeah, you’ve made your stupidity and bosiderism well known.
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Republicans decided way back in Newt Gingrich’s time that their policy was “no compromise.” Parties work with each other by compromising and when one party declares they will not compromise it is a stalemate.
You can’t work with people who have no interest in working with you. Of course you know this but it doesn’t fit your narrative of nihilism.
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Letting Trump punch himself out is a sound strategy, until you realize rightwing media setup the fight, are refereeing the fight, are scoring the fight, are working Trump's corner and legacy media is in the other corner looking like Glass Joe getting ready to get knocked out in round one. I mean, how many times since 2016 should Trump have punched himself out?
For Trump to punch himself out, it's going to take a crowd that can see through all the bs. And if his entrance into the the 2024 election ring didn't do it, then I don't know what will (maybe crashing the economy).
Carville: Democrats need to let Trump ‘punch himself out’
Democratic strategist James Carville said Democrats need to let President Trump “punch himself out.”
In remarks on MSNBC on Friday, Carville recalled Muhammad Ali, noting he would go six or seven rounds before coming in and “launching bombs.”
“What we have to learn is, Democrats: Just let him punch himself out,” Carville said in the interview with MSNBC’s Katie Phang.
Carville argued it’s difficult to let Trump hurt himself politically as he continues to highlight “distractions” such as acquiring Greenland.
“But you just got to keep bobbing and weaving and bobbing and weaving,” he said. “And then, in due course, you’re going to be able to come in.”
Carville said Trump’s biggest problem is going to be following through on something he campaigned on: lowering the costs facing Americans.
“Of course, eggs are $4 and something a dozen,” Carville said. “And he keeps distracting us and we keep getting distracted.”
“But we’ll come back, and we’ll all straddle this target and get it in writing before long, I think,” he conclude
Trump touted his economic agenda and the price of gas and eggs on the campaign trail. He now must follow through on those promises, Carville said
tallheel95
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I feel somewhat skeptical about advice from Carville these days.