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Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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nycfan said:
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That NDA is not enforceable anyway. California has banned NDAs for sexual assault claims since 2006 (and banned again in 2017). She can talk to her heart's content if she wants -- even if Rick Scott thinks it would be a bad idea.
 
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Surely he cannot get confirmed behaving like this?
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Of course he can. The GOP can afford to give up 4 votes. Murkowski might vote against him, and maybe Tillis, although he's likely facing what could be a tough GOP primary in a couple of years if he pisses off Trump too much. Collins will likely furl her brow, say she's concerned, and vote for him anyway. Hegseth actually fits what the party has become perfectly.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Of course he can. The GOP can afford to give up 4 votes. Murkowski might vote against him, and maybe Tillis, although he's likely facing what could be a tough GOP primary in a couple of years if he pisses off Trump too much. Collins will likely furrow her brow, say she's concerned, and vote for him anyway. Hegseth actually fits what the party has become perfectly.
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Hegseth is already DOA.
 
Surprised this dropped to the second page. They go after social security and that will F a lot of people! Not sure the price of eggs will matter much at that point.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
Surprised this dropped to the second page. They go after social security and that will F a lot of people! Not sure the price of eggs will matter much at that point.
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They’ll go after Medicaid first. Social Security Disability payments will be next. EBT. We’ll see rampant claims about fraud….especially “illegal immigrants” getting freebies.

Then we’ll hear claims that Obamacare is stealing from Medicare to fund healthcare for “illegal immigrants” and transgender sex change surgery, especially for convicted felons and “illegal immigrants.” So, Medicare cuts. The Trumplicans facing lack of coverage and care will blame Democrats.
 
Zoo_View said:
They’ll go after Medicaid first. Social Security Disability payments will be next. EBT. We’ll see rampant claims about fraud….especially “illegal immigrants” getting freebies.

Then we’ll hear claims that Obamacare is stealing from Medicare to fund healthcare for “illegal immigrants” and transgender sex change surgery, especially for convicted felons and “illegal immigrants.” So, Medicare cuts. The Trumplicans facing lack of coverage and care will blame Democrats.
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There are an awful lot of Trumpers that are on Medicare and Medicaid. Elon is incredibly naive about how government budgeting works. Cutting entitlements is basically politically impossible, especially with a two-vote majority in the House.
 


Ernst was an obvious easy pick for this appointment but I guess now she proves why she wasn’t picked — 99.8% loyal to Trump is not good enough.
 
“
Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project.

While Trump’s national popular-vote margin was just under 1.5%, his margin in news deserts was massive. He won these counties by an average of 54 percentage points. In the few won by Harris, her margin was a comparatively slim 18 points, the analysis shows.

The findings are based on results from 193 of the 206 counties Medill has identified as news deserts, in states where county-level election results are currently available. The third annual State of Local News report, released by Medill’s Local News Initiative in October, documented the continuing decline of local news across the country, as measured by the number of newspapers, circulation, frequency of publication, employment and readership.…”

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu

In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide

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But they aren’t propaganda deserts, they just are professional local news deserts. These places have Fox and OAN and Joe Rogan and the entire “citizen journalist” info-sphere at their fingertips.

The old truism that “All politics is local” is collapsing in the post-truth era.
 


“… The fear is that a flood of Chinese exports would be pushed to Europe by an insurmountable U.S. tariff wall. …

Europe’s concerns are justified … up to a point. EU countries would indeed feel the heat of a trade war with China, which would depress trade and growth at a time when Germany, its largest and most export-driven economy, is expected to suffer its second year of negative growth.

Yet, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Europe would actually be hit less hard than other regions. Gross domestic product would fall by 0.14 percent in the first year of a Trump trade war, and by 0.2 percent in the longer term, the think tank estimates — far less than the decline that the two main antagonists would suffer.
 
The defense against this stupidity is, “Trump isn’t actually going to do it.”
But when campaigning, whenever asked how he would fund his various promises (like his hilarious answer about his plan for childcare), he would claim the tariffs would pay for everything.
Now, maybe Trump was just lying about his plans, which wouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone, even his supporters.
But I think it is more likely he just doesn’t know what he is doing, and his acolytes will sane wash whatever happens.
 
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