President Trump 2.0: The NEW one and only politics thread

[micropolitan guy]

Those aren't levels and after yesterday the markets are only slightly down from early November.

Trump wasn't making policy in early November. He had no power. Compare them to what they were on Jan. 20, when he actually took power and started forking things up.

 

[BTExpress]

Lest we forget: Olympics in LA in 2028. A potential display of excrement not seen since 1936.

Worldwide boycott would be sweet.

 

[justgladtobehere]

Trump wasn't making policy in early November. He had no power. Compare them to what they were on Jan. 20, when he actually took power and started forking things up.

So the run up that started in early November had nothing to do with expectations of a Trump presidency? Sure.

And I was originally correcting the claim the markets are at their lowest levels in years, which isn't true.

 

[BTExpress]

Possibly. "Expectations" being lower regulation, lower inflation, lower taxes, etc.

Reality has proven quite different.

 

[Cosmo]

Sorry all, that third pint of cask ale had kicked in when I posted.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Senate Democrats getting ready to save to Republican fake CR. Useless as ever.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Trump: Electric cars are a scam and I'm pulling chargers out of all Federal properties.

Also Trump: I'm buying an electric car because you're mean to my boss, Elon.

 

[WriteThinking]

Something really does need to be done about Trump and Musk, or Social Security and Medicare will be in trouble.

MSN

The richest man in the world is trying to convince the American people that they all deserve less.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Elon Musk spread debunked lies about Social Security and Medicare to justify eliminating them.

"The waste and fraud in entitlement spending … that's the big one to eliminate, that's the sort of half trillion, maybe six or seven hundred billion a year," Musk said.

"That is also a mechanism by which the Democrats attract and retain illegal immigrants by essentially paying them to come here, and they're turning them into voters. This is why the Democrats are so upset about the situation," he added, unsubtly echoing a white nationalist, Great Replacement theory talking point while Larry Kudlow nodded along. "If we turn off this gigantic money magnet for illegal immigrants, then they will leave. And they will lose voters."

Trump has said he won't touch Social Security or Medicare, but Musk's entitlement math makes it clear that both those programs, as well as Medicaid, are on the chopping block. Millions of older Americans—many of them red state Republicans—will lose the vital benefits they rely on. And the millions of younger Americans who've been having those benefits taken out of their paychecks for years will never see the fruits of that.

Musk's lies continued. "Why are there 20 million people who are definitely dead marked as alive in the Social Security database?" he asked. "Why were hundreds of millions of dollars of Small Business Administration loans given out to people aged 11 & under? We have an enormous number of people marked alive who are 160."

This has been long-debunked.

"The reported data are people in our records with a Social Security number who do not have a date of death associated with their record. These individuals are not necessarily receiving benefits," acting Social Security commissioner Lee Dudek said in February.

 

[Della9250]

Copped from Facebook:


In Canada if you are flying to the USA, you usually go through U.S. customs at the airport. Same for some flights into Canada. Usually in mid March, a lot of college students in Canada fly to AZ or Florida for the week.
This is the U.S. customs hall at Pearson airport in Toronto on Saturday. I've been telling you how damaged the USA Canada relationship is now for three plus weeks. Here is proof.

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a story yesterday said Canadian leisure flights to us were down 40 percent

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

Senate Democrats getting ready to save to Republican fake CR. Useless as ever.

Holy fork. I'll say this - the cliche about the libs being a bunch of eggheaded limpdicks is totally true.

 

[Shelbyville Manhattan]

Holy fork. I'll say this - the cliche about the libs being a bunch of eggheaded limpdicks is totally true.

Also true:

 

[Neutral Corner]

Can you say "Whiplash"?

I knew that you could. Who says that blackmail doesn't work?

US resumes military aid and intelligence sharing as Ukraine says it is open to a 30-day ceasefire

https://apnews.com/article/russia-u...saudi-arabia-ca9630cdccb0a8b904a77d6e134690b6