American Politics 4.0 - Orangeyou Glad He’s Back?

[afc wimbledon]

Orange Monday trending as the name for tomorrows unholy collapse.

Telsa has lost 8% overnight, Musk is getting close to margin call levels

[puffnstuff]

Ken Jennings
This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

https://bsky.app/profile/kenjennings.../3lm6oqv6vks26

[WhiteTiger]

Originally Posted by Johnny Makarov

My son is heading to Dallas in early May and I'm giving him my old cell phone. Started to delete FB, Instagram and my CP shortcut.. lol

Prob better just to wipe the entire phone.

If you want your old info gone, a wipe and a reformat is the way. There are a LOT of ways to recover data these days, and "just deleting it" isn't good enough to make sure that it's actually really irretrievable.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

This one at least admits he cost them money & more work.
I don't think most Trumpers are even there yet.

It would be funny if it weren't actually terrifying, but with Trump everything is a loyalty test. He tells you the sky is green? Yell "GREEN SKY" and buy a shirt that says you believe him in order to prove that you're the Trumpiest Trumper, you're the most loyal.

Well, here's the new version. Your 401K evaporated and you're paying twice as much for all your living expenses? It's now a battle between "I believe that this will work! Give it time, he knows what he's doing, we'll all be richer in the end! Go Trump!" and "I don't even care about my money, he's doing what's best for the country! Go Trump!"

This is now an ideologically motivated moral community whose sacred value is "I pledge loyalty to whatever Trump says". It's no different from the people who believe the literal word of the bible to be true. It's a flaw in the way human brains operate.

[Senator Clay Davis]

There's some of that for sure, but MAGA has always been driven primarily by hatred of, punishment of, the "others". So as long as the libs bleed just as much as the cult does it's all good. Once the libs start to benefit more than the cult, well, also nothing will change because these people are far too deep down the cult hole. Hopefully, cult deprogramming is gonna be an in-demand position soon.

[ResAlien]

Oh no my stonks!

[puffnstuff]

This keeps up and they wont be able to 'own the libs' probably only afford to rent them

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

There's some of that for sure, but MAGA has always been driven primarily by hatred of, punishment of, the "others". So as long as the libs bleed just as much as the cult does it's all good. Once the libs start to benefit more than the cult, well, also nothing will change because these people are far too deep down the cult hole. Hopefully, cult deprogramming is gonna be an in-demand position soon.

Tend to think the libs are better resourced than the MAGA. If you are college educated and tend to consume news, you are most likely better at your finances than people who think Trump is a business man because they watched him on TV.

You are also more likely to vote Democrat.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

Hopefully, cult deprogramming is gonna be an in-demand position soon.

Killing them off is probably cheaper and more efficient than deprogramming them, so hopefully the new civil war starts soon.

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by WhiteTiger

If you want your old info gone, a wipe and a reformat is the way. There are a LOT of ways to recover data these days, and "just deleting it" isn't good enough to make sure that it's actually really irretrievable.

Just buy a new phone, put in a burner card, use it for the week or so then sell it to a Yank for twice what it cost you to cover the cost of your trip

[flames_fan_down_under]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

Killing them off is probably cheaper and more efficient than deprogramming them, so hopefully the new civil war starts soon.

Preventable disease will take care of that for you.

[Erick Estrada]

Trump has to realize that things aren't going to turn around quickly at all right? It's only been a week and I think he may be underestimating the patience of his supporters.

[puffnstuff]

Corporal Bone Spurs wants a parade...again

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-military-parade/

Trump pushed for a grandiose military parade through the streets of D.C. during his first term but was forced to back down over the costs, but a D.C. source with knowledge of the plan said commandeered June 14, the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army and his own 79th birthday for a four-mile parade

[calumniate]

How's his golf game going today?

[puffnstuff]

Originally Posted by calumniate

How's his golf game going today?

He is rambling about baseball today.

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.s.../3lmacsyk5q22y

Trump: When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy— they had great arms but they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular and pitchers I guess you could say, really particular

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by puffnstuff

He is rambling about baseball today.

https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.s.../3lmacsyk5q22y

Trump: When you ran out the healthy arms, you ran out of really healthy— they had great arms but they ran out. It’s called sports. It’s called baseball in particular and pitchers I guess you could say, really particular

Frick, he sounds like Peter Gammons! He must really love baseball...

[TrentCrimmIndependent]

Hearing his base grasp at straws to justify his actions in spite of losing their own money has brought me great amusement.

Hysterical hearing them squeeze out phrases like "I love his policies" even though their grimacing facial expressions say the opposite lol.

Nothing quite like watching the chickens of their stupidity coming home to roost.

[FlamesAddiction]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...-trump/682297/

Last month, Nicholas Gilbert received a delivery of grain for the 1,400 cows he tends at his dairy farm in Potsdam, New York, 20 miles from the Ontario border. The feed came with a surprise tariff of $2,200 tacked on. “We have small margins,” he told me. “I had a contracted price on that grain delivered to my barn. It was supposed to be so much per ton. And they added that tariff right on top because it comes from a Canadian feed mill.”

Gilbert cannot increase the price of the milk he sells, which is set by the local co-op. He cannot feed his cows less food. He cannot buy feed from another supplier; there aren’t any nearby, and getting it from farther away would be more expensive. When he got the delivery, he stared at the tariff for a while. Shouldn’t his Canadian supplier have been responsible for paying it? “I’m not even sure it’s legal! We contracted for the price on delivery! If your price of fuel goes up or your truck breaks down, that’s not my problem! That’s what the contract’s for.”

[puffnstuff]

The leopards are gonna be soooo fat before this is done

[FlamesAddiction]

It amazes me how many Americans think their president is so powerful that he can apply a tax onto Canadian jurisdiction. Canada isn't charging this to them, it's their own government charging it to the importer.

This was mentioned so many times when tariffs came up, but they just stuck their heads in the sand.