President Donald J. Trump (for Trumper supporters)

So what?

He's posting a video clip. That's not plagiarism.

And he is a rapist.

And he's not in jail why?

Name one of those 34 "felonies" and honestly tell me if you think those deserve imprisonment. And did those "felonies" even exist before the trial???

I get it. Facts you don't like are fake or AI just because you claim it into existence. Are you a sorcerer?

The left's ability to debate any and all topics summed up in four words.

The left's ability to debate any and all topics summed up in four words.

How are you coping with taking so many L's? Do you need a hug?

Rapist

Itt Christians love rapists.

I've watched several local pols in just recent years go to jail for very similar stuff.

Activity on political social social media is about 50% bots, the headlines are made by influencers motivated in large part by money, and machines decide what to spoon-feed users, their logic dictated by how you can keep people scrolling, steal personal information and expose them to as many ads possible.

And you're a grown man who spends his time echoing tweets and memes from this unhealthy loop on a politics forum. In the process you seem to have left any notion of free thinking or personal opinion behind.

You can object to this as much as you want, but at this point you're a case study.

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Id say if someone cant figure out fake news on social media then there is no way they can figure it out with legacy media.

right CNN is famously not motivated by money I guess.

A lot of people, particularly but not only younger people, do appear to do this. Which may explain a lot.

I work for a non-profit that's 70% funded directly and indirectly by the government. Once Trump won the election we revised our entire budget knowing that in 2026 we were going to see a reduction in funding because we lost funding during Trump's first term and subsequently restored under Biden.

Over the past few weeks we have had to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how much of our funding we are going to lose now. It's been chaotic to say the least and that's definitely affected our ability to provide the services that we provide. That's wasteful and it's 100% on Trump. If we lose it all we will let over 50% of our staff go and the dozens of rural communities we serve (mostly red) will be directly impacted.

Most non-profits have terrible indirect costs and it's not because they are grifting the system it's because of the immense amount of overhead required for reporting, especially to the government. Our indirect is at 28% and we've worked our asses off in the past five years to reduce it from nearly 35%. Every serious funder asks us what your indirect costs are and it's in our best interest to have it as low as possible as no one wants to pay for indirect costs. Our accounting department is twice as big as it should be and it's wholly because of reporting. We can't keep anyone who isn't dedicated to our mission because we can't pay more than 75% of what a private sector job pays.

By the way, non of our programs have anything to do with all of Trump's anti-woke, trans and whatever other boogeymen that they want you to fear. Our government funding mostly provides math and English help for elementary school kids and a ton of social support for rural communities.

So, instead of actually trying to solve the problem by attempting to reduce the regulations regarding reporting and actually lower our indirect costs, they're just cutting the indirect funding which will lead to worse outcomes for everyone and you and everyone else are cheering.

As a side note, 25 years ago my wife was a grant accountant at a major research university and managed their $400 million NIH grant. One of her main goals was to audit all of the department's requests for equipment and cut the excess **** the research scientists wants to get, which was a lot. It wasn't to reduce the $400 million, it was so they could do more with it. At the time my best friend's dad was one such scientist and was used to ordering whatever the **** he wanted and my wife put a stop to it. Not knowing she was my wife, he cursed her out and told her that he was going to get her fired. Knowing she was doing her job, my wife took it in stride and when word got back to him about who she was he called an apologized.

NGO should get absolutely 0 money directly or indirectly from government.

NON GOVERNAMENTAL, it's in the ****ing name.

It should be absolutely, no exception illegal for the government to fund NGOs domestically or abroad, directly or indirectly.

If the government wants to fund "math and English in rural communities" it should do so directly, with government employees (hint:it shouldn't at all, it is not something the federal government should ever have anything to do with).

Media companies had to pay trump for claiming this live (NBC iirc).

We are all well aware of your position.

Here is factual evidence of TRUMP being a GOOD HUMAN.

I agree, but like, why is he taking time out of his busy schedule to personally greet the dude who tried to bring a half ounce of the sticky icky into ****ing Russia when his response to the worst aviation tragedy on US soil in the last 20 years was "what am I gonna do, swim? (with the dead bodies)"

Its like the brittney griner thing, I dunno, maybe don't be a moron when visiting the fascist adjacent country with a notoriously shitty justice system

But giving tax dollars to Catholic schools and charities instead of FEMA and public schools is A-Okay.

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Because he freed him while being in office for only a few weeks. The guy you probably voted for couldn't do anything for 4 years. There's also more coming home from Russian today.

And just to put into context what you're trying to say about the DC crash, reporters kept asking him if he was going to visit the crash site, which is at the end of a runway in a major airport next to water. The reporter kept pressing him after he said he didn't have plans to go there, but he instead said he was going to visit the families and the people who got hurt (doesn't that make more sense? I know if he said "yes I'm going to the crash site", she would of said "what do you mean, why aren't you going to visit the families?!?!?! (typical lost libtards).

Why is it that the libtards do these things on a regular basis, they find one thing and take it out of context to try and make "orange man" look "bad".

And furthermore, he's been dealing with a hostile liberal press his whole political career but at least he talks to the press unlike your hero Sleepy ice cream joe who never said more than two words to them in 4 years.

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Joe might as well be dead. You are beating a nearly dead horse harping on Joe.

Sleepy ice cream joe lol

Corruption in government runs deep.

The judge who ordered Trump to restore USAID funding is married to someone who was a direct beneficiary of the USAID funding.