President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[Cosmo]

I just saw his post on Tesla. My forking God. If I didn't have my cats, I'd stay over here forever. It's been remarkably sane.

 

[Neutral Corner]

How Trump is reshaping reality by hiding data

Curating reality is an old political game, but Trump's sweeping statistical purges are part of a broader attempt to reinvent "truth."


WaPo free link
https://wapo.st/4iCmMtn

 

[Slacker]

A long but important read from The Atlantic about the rise and spread of Putinism, particularly to Trump. (You can't miss the paragraph about how many ways Trump has screwed over Ukraine, and why).

The Tragic Success of Global Putinism

Post the relevant paragraph, please. I'm not searching through another long link.

Also, it's paywalled. Another big reason why we excerpt the good stuff here.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Post the relevant paragraph, please. I'm not searching through another long link.

Also, it's paywalled. Another big reason why we excerpt the good stuff here.

I clicked and the article was a gift from a subscriber.

 

[garrow]

More replacement theory shirte from apartheid tech walker


Musk: "The waste and fraud in entitlement spending -- that's the big one to eliminate. That's the half trillion, maybe 600 or 700 billion a year. That's also the mechanism by which Democrats attract & retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here & then turning them into voters."

 

[Slacker]

I clicked and the article was a gift from a subscriber.

True that. ... But tl/dr anyway.

Excerpt the main thrust or a best passage of all these long "must-reads."

 

[Justin_Rice]

Stocks are still higher than a year ago and about the same as early November. The levels aren't the worst in years.

For sure. This is all normal, and I know you're enjoying it.

51st state!

 

[FileNotFound]

If this was a movie, nobody would have watched it. Too ridiculous. Implausible.

shirtting on Canada. FFS.

 

[Cosmo]

I'm starting to agree with Gee here. I think the World Cup gets pulled and pulled soon. Having spent a week here now, everyone is fine and sympathetic to the everyday American but the American government has pissed everyone off in Europe to a stunning degree. We are viewed on par with Russia. I hope it happens. Maybe, maybe, that wakes people up. It feels increasingly and hopelessly desperate and the only hope seems to be actual physical violence against Musk, Miller, Trump, etc., to stop it.

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

It was a movie. Indeed, hardly anyone watched it.

If this was a movie, nobody would have watched it. Too ridiculous. Implausible.

shirtting on Canada. FFS.

 

[kickoff-time]

Stocks are still higher than a year ago and about the same as early November. The levels aren't the worst in years.

Stock market today: Dow sinks 900 points, Nasdaq plunges 4% in worst day since 2022

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I'm starting to agree with Gee here. I think the World Cup gets pulled and pulled soon. Having spent a week here now, everyone is fine and sympathetic to the everyday American but the American government has pissed everyone off in Europe to a stunning degree. We are viewed on par with Russia. I hope it happens. Maybe, maybe, that wakes people up. It feels increasingly and hopelessly desperate and the only hope seems to be actual physical violence against Musk, Miller, Trump, etc., to stop it.

As long as the money is flowing, FIFA ain't moving the World Cup.