Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Icky Mettle said:
The problem is— as you said— there will be long term ramifications. I’m not so sure there will be many noticeable short term ramifications. So the average American probably doesn’t even realize that those ramifications that emerge down the line were a result of Trump’s actions. They’ll blame whoever is in power at the time and assume a Trump-like figure can fix it.
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I am fairly certain if the army started shooting protesters as Trump wanted them to do in 2020 that these would be viewed with "noticeable short term ramifications."
Trump did pay a political price for Covid. How would his government handle a new pandemic while being out of the WHO and with RFK Jr and Dr Oz handling federal government health care oversight?
What about launching tactical nukes? Or invading Panama? Or launching air strikes against targets in Mexico?
What about putting Cheney in front of a "firing squad" - as he said during the campaign he thought warranted?
What about a major inflation spike due to all of his beautiful tariffs?
"it's just talk and bluster" - ok.
 
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The immigrant crackdown has begun. Its first target might surprise you.​

Trump is not just going after foreigners who break the law.

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"Given the context, Trump seems poised to exercise this authority as part of his trade wars (against Chinese nationals in the United States, for example). Some have speculated that he’ll deploy it against people from the European Union and other countries that have agreed to a global minimum tax on multinational corporations. To be clear, this agreement was brokered by the United States — at least until Trump pulled out of it a few days ago. If Trump is reckless enough, his executive order will empower him to double taxes on every random British, Japanese or Canadian national (or, for that matter, Americans who have dual citizenship with such countries) working lawfully here."
 
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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altmin said:

Canadian, Mexican steel mills refusing US orders.
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I’m not sure I believe that the American steel company owner is just going to accept tariffs on steel from his newly acquired Canadian steel company because MAGA, but it is what he says. I suspect by accept it, he means lobby hard to get exemptions for import of steel from an American owned steel mill in Canada — which might make sense depending on the intent of the tariff.

Is it to force more jobs into the USA or punish Canada for some policy?
 
nycfan said:
I’m not sure I believe that the American steel company owner is just going to accept tariffs on steel from his newly acquired Canadian steel company because MAGA, but it is what he says. I suspect by accept it, he means lobby hard to get exemptions for import of steel from an American owned steel mill in Canada — which might make sense depending on the intent of the tariff.

Is it to force more jobs into the USA or punish Canada for some policy?
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I admire that you think there's a coherent strategy with these tariffs.
 


"Effective management of nearly 3 million military and civilian personnel, an annual budget of nearly $1 trillion, and alliances and partnerships around the world is a daily test with staggering consequences for the security of the American people and our global interests.

"Mr. Hegseth has failed, as yet, to demonstrate that he will pass this test. But as he assumes office, the consequences of failure are as high as they have ever been."
 
JCTarheel82 said:


Some weirdo recorded himself losing $300k of his grandpa's money (inheritance?) in real time on DJT calls.

America is busting at the seams with easy marks.
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I wonder if he had another account where he bought puts at the same strike price to offset some of those losses.
 
aGDevil2k said:
The Denali McKinley whiplash is stupid as hell

It's just going back to Denali again in the future. Fuck McKinley
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And, probably no one who has climbed it in the last 20 years and who will climb it in the future will call it McKinley.
 
Paine said:
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Germany’s Reckoning With the Past Is No Longer a Model

In the 1980s, German institutions began to seriously confront their country’s past. For historian Enzo Traverso, German reactions to the destruction of Gaza show that they failed to draw the right lessons.
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I would cut Germany some slack here. Because of their history, too much criticism of Israel would likely be counterproductive.

That doesn't mean they have to support Israel but there are other world powers better situated to holding Israel accountable.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
I would cut Germany some slack here. Because of their history, too much criticism of Israel would likely be counterproductive.

That doesn't mean they have to support Israel but there are other world powers better situated to holding Israel accountable.
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Well, that’s kind of the point of the piece. I’d encourage you read it in full.

A full reckoning with their past would involve repudiation of their colonial legacy, which hasn’t happened. Instead, there was a narrow focus on the Holocaust as a singular historical event. The result of this is viewing Israel as the sole representative of the Jewish people. Thus they have aided and abetted another genocide through this narrow focus.
 
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