President Trump

FogBlueInSanFran said:
Blaming the system is effectively absolution for the bad actors.
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Perhaps the ones who should be policing and strengthening the guardrails should be in the firing line. Oh no, sorry, that's the same people who are smashing through them with monotonous regularity.

Washington is a melting pot of corruption. Alex Guiness said it best when he uttered the famous line "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious".

The system is f**ked, but it's been failing for years.
 
BobKowalski said:
BRICS was formed in 2009.
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The BRICS group is a whole seperate topic but suffice to say it was formed as a bulwark against American hegemony. Sooner or later Americans were going to elect a Trump or Trump like President imo.
 
Hgblue2 said:
The BRICS group is a whole seperate topic but suffice to say it was formed as a bulwark against American hegemony. Sooner or later Americans were going to elect a Trump or Trump like President imo.
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Agreed. For these countries the financial crash brought home the need for a world trading system outside of the dollar and controlled by the West.

Trump is now accelerating that process. China has established CIPs as an alternative to SWIFT, Morgan Stanley has become the first US institution to issue a Panda bond. Trump has ceded the lead to China in clean energy tech. It is the purposeful diminishing of an economic Empire in real time.
 
Hgblue2 said:
The naysayers who were chirping about the stock market a few months ago have gone remarkably quiet recently, and I suspect Trump is going to do it to you all again.
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Would that be the Dow that’s at a similar level to when Trump took over or the SP500 that’s up just 5%.
Meanwhile the main European markets are up 15%.
Early days but US outperformance seems to be history now.
 
Hgblue2 said:
What you're witnessing at the moment is the warm up act, in boxing terms, the undercard. Trump knows he can slap these trading partners around, because their countries are heavily reliant on America for it's export markets and defence.

The real fight is the one with China. Trump is pissed that previous Presidents have put him in a position of relative weakness by exporting American manufacturing and leaving him in a position where he is dependent on China. I suspect he will negotiate some temporary deal until he feels he no longer needs Chinese imports. Then it's game on. I also suspect China knows this, hence the formation of the BRICS.

I should clarify that when I say China I'm referring to the Chinese government and not the Chinese people. Most Westeners have massive respect for Chinese culture and the people, but there is an inevitable battle coming, hopefully not violent, between the capitalist America and communist China.
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"Not relying on the U.S. market" has always been one of China's goals. We don't want to become an export-dependent economy like Japan or South Korea. This issue is actually quite complex. Overall, I believe the U.S. has misjudged the threat posed by China (exaggerating it), but at the same time, they can't do much about this perceived threat. China and the U.S. are two very different countries—they're not even in the same race. Compared to Trump, Biden is widely seen as even worse. What's more concerning is the ideologically driven, almost fanatical anti-China mentality of America's neoliberal establishment.
 
Seems obvious to me that the Dems didn’t release details because “high echelon” Dems would be implicated (wouldn’t surprise me if Slick Willy was one of them, there seems to be plenty of evidence to point that way). Similarly, the GOP don’t want to release details because “high echelon” Reps would be implicated…it’s the only way it makes sense…whether he’s involved or not (and I highly suspect he is) is another reason nothing has been released. All allegedly of course…
 
Delboy352 said:
Seems obvious to me that the Dems didn’t release details because “high echelon” Dems would be implicated (wouldn’t surprise me if Slick Willy was one of them, there seems to be plenty of evidence to point that way). Similarly, the GOP don’t want to release details because “high echelon” Reps would be implicated…it’s the only way it makes sense…whether he’s involved or not (and I highly suspect he is) is another reason nothing has been released. All allegedly of course…
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The USA is either a nation of laws, or it isn't.

Being a 'high echelon' politician or public servant of any level or party affiliation (including POTUS) is not a valid reason to be allowed to get away with sexually abusing children. Absolutely nobody should be above the law.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
The USA is either a nation of laws, or it isn't.

Being a 'high echelon' politician or public servant of any level or party affiliation (including POTUS) is not a valid reason to be allowed to get away with sexually abusing children. Absolutely nobody should be above the law.
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Being a 'high echelon' politician or public servant of any level or party affiliation (including POTUS) is not a valid reason to be allowed to get away with deliberately writing a bad check. Absolutely nobody should be above the law.

"He who saves his country violates no law."
Donald Napoleon Trump.
 
Some context:

The Qatar Amiri Flight, which manages the royal family's aircraft, still retains a fleet of similar planes. One of the two other 747-8s appears inactive, and a similar jet was gifted to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in 2018 after failing to sell.

John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told Forbes that giving the 747-8 to the U.S. would allow the Qataris to avoid maintenance costs that were only getting higher—with the 747 fleet shrinking worldwide and fewer mechanics available who know how to work on them.

“Update: I offered the amendment,” he said. “Not to refuse acceptance of the Qatari jet; just to prohibit Trump from taking it with him when he leaves office – after the taxpayers spend $1 billion to retrofit it.

“Failed 14-15. Every single Republican voted to allow Trump to take the jet.”

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Senate Republicans Vote to Allow Trump to Keep Gifted Qatari Jet After Leaving Office

Republican on the House Committee of Appropriations voted against an amendment prohibiting President Donald Trump from keeping the Qatari plane after his term.
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Who is going to be on the hook for maintenance costs? If Trump is "gifted" this, does it pass to his estate or revert to the govt.? If it does pass to his estate, are American taxpayers expected to pay for costs so long as some Trump entity has legal title? How much time would that be?
 
Mexico tariff deadline extended for 90 days. This mean the existing tariffs remain, not the higher tariffs that were threatened. US car makers losing billions and not happy. EU leaders not thrilled and discrepancies are starting to leak out as they did with other countries. EU says it is a non binding set of ‘political commitments’ not a deal. Other differences are:

‘Where the US statement says the EU "will" purchase $750bn (£568bn) in US oil, liquefied natural gas (LNG) and nuclear energy products, the EU says only that it "intends" to do so as it weans itself off Russian gas and oil.
Not only is it unclear whether the US can even provide such amounts to the EU, says Cinzia Alcidi, but the EU cannot decide purchases on behalf of the private sector.
Similarly, the US says the EU will invest $600bn by the end of Trump's second term – but the EU states simply that "companies have expressed interest" in investing that sum by 2029. As Brussels cannot force private firms to invest in the US, there is technically no guarantee that amount can or will be reached.
According to the US, the EU has "agreed to purchase significant amounts" of US military equipment. There is no mention of this in the EU statement.’ @BBC

I am sure we all know how this nonsense works by now, and I’m starting to get bored of it anyway.

Long story short. Everyone can work with the 15% tariff and US consumers can pick up the tab. Everything else is hot garbage until a deal is inked, if indeed a deal is ever inked.

Thank you for your attention to this matter :)
 
"“We can say, without any hesitation, that the Committee found absolutely no evidence that then-candidate Donald Trump or his campaign colluded with the Russian government to meddle in the 2016 election.

“What the Committee did find however is very troubling. We found irrefutable evidence of Russian meddling. And we discovered deeply troubling actions taken by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, particularly their acceptance and willingness to rely on the ‘Steele Dossier’ without verifying its methodology or sourcing. " -
Senator Marco Rubio

acceptance and willingness = confirmation bias meets too good an opportunity to miss?

This isn't going away.
 
President Donald Trump celebrated another multimillion dollar settlement with an Ivy League school on Thursday.

The settlement, which was first reported on Wednesday evening, will result in Brown getting rid of many of its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, promise not to “engage in unlawful racial discrimination in admissions or university programming,” agree to the definitions of “male” and “female” adopted by the Trump administration, and pay out $50 million in grants to workforce development programs in Rhode Island, where the school is located.

The agreement with Brown follows last week’s deal with Columbia, which saw the New York City-based school...
...pay $200 million directly to the federal government, as well as send an additional $21 million to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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‘Woke Is Officially DEAD’: Trump Celebrates New $50 Million Concession From Brown University

President Donald Trump celebrated another multimillion dollar settlement with an Ivy League school on Thursday, declaring "Woke is officially DEAD" there.
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“Why any outlet gives Michael Wolff any column inches in 2025 is BEYOND me,” mused Republican operative Steve Guest, who also shared a graphic of a wide variety of people from across the political spectrum denouncing Wolff.

“Turns out Michael Wolff might not be reliable. Who could have seen this coming?” mused Aaron Blake of CNN.

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‘Not a Serious Publication’: The Daily Beast Brutally Mocked for Publishing Michael Wolff Claim About the Trumps and Jeffrey Epstein

The Daily Beast is taking its medicine after publishing a story amplifying an incendiary claim about Donald and Melania Trump's connection to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Username Required said:

Newly Declassified Appendix to Durham Report Sheds Additional Light on Clinton Campaign Plan to Falsely Tie Trump to Russia and FBI’s Failure to Investigate;​


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Newly Declassified Appendix to Durham Report Sheds Additional Light on Clinton Campaign Plan to Falsely Tie Trump to Russia and FBI’s Failure to Investigate | U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) today is making public the...
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Ah, the Durham report. This is like replaying all the old hits :)

Very naughty of Hilary, but then politics is a rough old game. Is any of this illegal though? Struggling to see what crime has been committed.
 
jrb said:
Millions of Americans live in poverty and on the streets, and Trump is spending $200mill on a White House extension and a ballroom.

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White House announces new $200m ballroom - a longtime Trump wish

Donald Trump has been calling for the White House to build a new ballroom for nearly a decade.
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Many of those Americans don’t quite understand that they are poverty stricken and continue to believe that they’re not the ‘ones’.
 
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