Andy1

Yea, I’ll be labeled TDS. On the larger issue, why isn’t anyone asking why?

Other than some empty words about being tough on Russia, he has acted consistent with the interests of Putin. All his staff with personal contact with Russians, his many private calls with Putin, meetings with Putin surrogates, dismantling US cyber security, firing people involved in cyber defense of our elections, etc. That’s all not by some odd random chance of coincidence. If it acts like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s an orange traitor duck.

I absolutely agree with this point. Republicans will never agree to a Dem proposed plan to solve this problem. So they should put their cards on the table and show us their proposal to solve this forever problem. Both sides claim to support legal immigration so let’s make it a workable legal process. American businesses need legal immigrants for many jobs and more people will be paying taxes. Crack down on businesses hiring illegals, more courts to process immigrants, provide a pathway to citizenship, increase support from the Hispanic community, etc. Problem is, other than tax cuts, Republicans can’t or won’t propose anything to solve any complex issue. I hope they prove me wrong.

So Trump sent 50 LEGAL immigrants to a hell hole prison with no charges against them, no prison term sentence, no future. Even murderers and drug cartel leaders get better treatment than that. It’s as if America is the kidnapper sending innocent people to rot in a country that’s not even their own.

How many people in the Clinton, Bush, Obama or Biden administrations had personal ties to Russia? With Trump, it’s almost like a pre-requisite for qualifying to interview for a high level position. No one can explain why.

If Obama had accepted that jet from Quatar, republicans would have gone ape s@#t bonkers and claimed it as proof he is a traitor and not American. They would demand impeachment. Trump does it and his flock of sheep are silent.

Remember the months of debate about Obama Care? Republicans protesting and all their hoopla. Now they are just fine with ramming through this which will have a big negative impact on health care for millions. Still waiting for the big beautiful Trump Care plan he has repeatedly promised.

All this Biden news about his mental and physical health is why we need an age limit of about 70 to run for President. It’s pretty clear people around Biden were managing his mental decline, limiting his speaking appearances. With his prostrate, either they have known he has had the cancer (without telling America) and has been secretly receiving treatment all along and the treatment hasn’t been effective, or he has refused treatment while knowing he has it allowing it to advance (which seems unlikely), or for some stupid reason they haven’t tested for it because they/he didn’t want to know if he had it. It’s all bad. Hopefully he has plenty of days ahead of him to enjoy with his family and friends.

It’s all stupid. Instead of using ambiguous code terms people should just say what they mean. “Vote the bum/idiot out” is all anyone needs to say. There isn’t any context in current society where violent language desired in our politics. Convince people with reason over threats. 10-10

My Dad went through some dementia before he passed. He had good days and bad days and you didn’t know what to expect. Trump will go through the same. Father Time is undefeated. Many say Trump is already in a state of mental decline from years ago as his speech patterns have changed. So when Trump starts to slip up more, will he step down for the good of the country he lives so much? Who will be making the decisions then? Will his supporters want him to step aside? Of course the answer is no and so it is.

Sounds about right. Keeping the coalition of various subgroups together is always a challenge for the Dem leaders.

What’s CBC? Never heard that abbreviation. Never mind. First google gave me complete blood count🤷🏻‍♂️. Further digging found congressional black caucus.

I’m not so sure about that. Trump is a low bar to clear. The Biden team did no favors in helping Harris. If he declined to run a second time, they could have had a better process to choose the nominee. Still doesn’t mean that person would have beaten Trump. Voters were pissed about inflation and the border and that was a Dem problem.

I agree. And deception of supporters happens on both sides as we are seeing with regret of many Trump voters.

Clearly he was in mental decline. Reagan also may have had some age decline while President. Same issue with senators on both sides. We will watch time catch up to Trump as he will be older than Biden by the end of his term. We definitely need an age limit to run for office at the Federal level, yet politicians won’t address that issue. Biden and his advisors betrayed the Democratic Party by concealing his decline and trying to run a second time. He said he was going to be a one term bridge, then his ego got too big.

The fake outrage is crazy. This term is a long way from meaning assassination that Trump and company want you to think. It was still stupid for Comey to post it though. 8646 Tshirts were sold to the MAGA crowd in 2024. Eighty-six is slang meaning "to throw out," "to get rid of," or "to refuse service to." It comes from 1930s soda-counter slang meaning that an item was sold out. https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/eighty-six-meaning-origin

Ok here is the quote: “Let's put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels shooting at her. Let's see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face." Are seashells worse than that? Go ahead and debate the semantics. Can we all just agree that violent language in politics is all bad and don’t support it no matter who says it?

Has everyone forgotten about Trump musing about putting Liz Cheney in front of a firing squad? Excusing that and being upset about seashells is wild, unless people are too dumb to see the hypocrisy.

That is sick. Nothing else needs to be said.

The Constitution prohibits federal officials from accepting things of value, or “emoluments,” from foreign governments without congressional approval. “This is a classic example of what the founders worried about,” said Richard Painter, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and former White House ethics chief under Bush. “But I don’t think the founders anticipated it would get this bad.” In his second term, Trump’s family business has been very busy overseas. In December, it struck a deal for two Trump-branded real estate projects in Riyadh with a Saudi firm that two years earlier it had partnered with for a Trump golf resort and villas in Oman. And in Qatar, the Trump Organization announced last month another Trump branded resort along the coast. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/will-the-new-air-force-one-be-secure-qatars-gift-to-trump-raises-questions#:~:text=The two planes currently used,design of his personal plane. Does everyone here think there is no ethical conflict with Trump and family and the Saudis or Qatars? For all the justifiable outrage about Hunter Biden, republicans just ignore Trump and family deals. What a cult. Rule #1: You can never criticize the Great Orange Leader.

I get why people will support this EO. I just wonder if it is really legal. I’m no attorney so have no insight on that issue, but if it is legal, it would suggest that the President can order other private companies to lower prices too, just because he can with an EO. Why doesn’t he sign an EO ordering phone manufacturers and cell phone companies (or any other product) to lower prices 25%, or whatever he wants? That would also benefit everyone. It all sounds like a big nothing for distraction as they try to cut Medicare/Medicaid.

In my opinion, EOs should only be used to respond to respond to extraordinary crises or emergencies like 9/11, Covid, etc. Presidents on both sides have used them to avoid governing through congress and congress has obliged since they want to avoid responsibility and ownership for anything. This isn’t the democratic process as envisioned by those guys back in 1776. Governing should be hard. That is what forces compromise and moderation in practice which is what we need more of.

No hate here. My comment was just leaning into the fact that the entire Trump 2.0 presidency is about executive orders. Republicans own all three branches, yet congress seems to be sleep walking, letting Trump issue order after order with no enactment of law to implement his agenda. What’s Mikey doing these days? I remember the Republican outrage about executive orders when Biden or Obama issued them, but not a peep now. For reference, in eight years Bush signed 291 and Obama did 277 EOs. In four years Biden issued 162 EOs while Trump 1 issued 220. In a bit over 100 days Trump 2 has already signed 146.

If he has a great plan to lower prices, then Republicans should make it the law, as Biden did with drug prices in the Inflation Reduction Act. These executive orders have no sticking power.

Thanks much for the clarification. I see your point now. You have better knowledge of economic theory than myself. The one thing I’m confident about is that a group of corporate elites will mightily enrich themselves along with Trump during his term. Lower income Americans will struggle due to the various impacts of the Trump tax. During this period and after, there will be a battle of ideas on what to do differently and those wealthy elites will push their corporate propaganda on the public and through the halls of Congress to prevent change. Here is the chart I think you are referring to. One of Trumps advantages (?) is that he speaks at a fourth grade level. He does not speak about logical, rational, realistic solutions to issues. He does not explain complex issues. Instead his speech connects to many people’s emotions. Immigrants are rapists and murderers, Mexico will pay for the wall, America is getting ripped off by other countries, tariffs will force other countries to pay us billions and billions of dollars, we will be richer than ever before, etc. His message is unconstrained by reality. Trump has proven that a lot of the undecided Americans, who do decide elections, believe these types of emotional messaging. Dems need to find a simple message and a messenger who speaks below college level language, to connect with the common, uninterested voters. They shouldn’t fall into the trap of campaigning on rational programs for real problems (CHIPS act was that) as the voters who decide elections don’t care about that. Their message needs broad appeal and drop the group identity politics. Given the nature of their supporters, that will be a challenge.