President Donald Trump

President Donald Trump

I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?

So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at

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28 April 2019 at 04:18 AM
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Good ol’ Donnie the Dove just stoppin wars!


by chezlaw k

'welfare state', better or worse isn't going anywhere

The rest ....

The rest, regulations are here to stay by the most part. Even if trump manages to cut some of them, even if SCOTUS is sympathetic to all or part of rigthwing judicial philosophy about non-delegation and so on, it's basically impossible to think regulations would even go back to the 70s of the 20th century, nevermind the actual low-regulation framework of 1 century+ ago.

So welfare isn't going away, regulations at most will be trimmed at the margins.

Housing won't be fixed, at most at the margins again in some areas that are willing to do something to ease the pain a bit. But by and large desirable urban areas in the USA and the EU won't see massive increases in housing supply no matter what.

So the structural forces that shape current society economically, the hardship to get on the housing ladder for newly formed couples (or immigrants), the massive suffocating welfare state that imposes present costs on working age people to guarantee a good life for pensioners, and regulations that make it hard to set up your own business, or grow it properly in many sectors, or increase productivity for already mature sectors, are going nowhere.

Stifling low growth while guaranteeing rents to incumbents are going to be the rule of the land as it was 5, 10, 20, 30 years ago. Nothing of substance is going to change economically.


by chillrob k

I think that most parliamentary systems are better.

The US system gives more power to people who live in some places than to those who live in others, based on arbitrary state lines and the legacy of slavery.

Why do you think having the executive and parliament connected more than in the USA is better? it makes it easier for power to be centralized and reduces the checks and balances.


Because the infamous checks and balances are doing so well.


by Luciom k

The rest, regulations are here to stay by the most part. Even if trump manages to cut some of them, even if SCOTUS is sympathetic to all or part of rigthwing judicial philosophy about non-delegation and so on, it's basically impossible to think regulations would even go back to the 70s of the 20th century, nevermind the actual low-regulation framework of 1 century+ ago.

So welfare isn't going away, regulations at most will be trimmed at the margins.

Housing won't be fixed, at most at the margins a

Geopolitcs, stability, inequality, aspiration, status, democracy ...

Sure we will continue to play with the deckchairs. And denial will reign supreme even as the people not quite sure what is going on will vote for/ succumb to increasingly desperate answers


I doubt anyone is surprised, but this push against "DEI" is no more than an excuse to wipe out the accomplishments of anyone that isn't white.

In recent weeks, the Pentagon appears to have focused on removing any webpage that it deems to be “DEI”. The webpages that it has taken down mostly have to deal with women or decorated service members who were not white.


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The government you elect is the government you deserve - Thomas Jefferson


by jcorb k

The government you elect is the government you deserve - Thomas Jefferson

yep


by biggerboat k

I doubt anyone is surprised, but this push against "DEI" is no more than an excuse to wipe out the accomplishments of anyone that isn't white.

I just read about this website taking down Ira Hayes's information. As well as Charles Rogers.

Here's what happened to Maj Gen Rogers page:

The Defense Department "has restored the Medal of Honor story about Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers," a spokesperson told NPR in an email, adding, "The story was removed during auto removal process."

I'd love to know what the parameters and/or which code words were inputted to complete this process.


According to David Shor analysis, higher turnout would have been even worse for democrats in the 2024 election. The tables have indeed turned on that

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https://x.com/EricLevitz/status/19019904...


that tracks

the likelihood of supporting kamala over trump and not voting far less common than supporting trump over kamala and not voting


by rickroll k

that tracks

the likelihood of supporting kamala over trump and not voting far less common than supporting trump over kamala and not voting

According to Shor, Trump did exceptionally well with people who didn't vote in 2020



by Jimmy Proffett k

I just read about this website taking down Ira Hayes's information. As well as Charles Rogers.

Here's what happened to Maj Gen Rogers page:

I'd love to know what the parameters and/or which code words were inputted to complete this process.

Pretty sure they are banning any word that contains enola.


by Luciom k

Why do you think having the executive and parliament connected more than in the USA is better? it makes it easier for power to be centralized and reduces the checks and balances.

That isn't a main reason I have to prefer a parliamentary system, but it does prevent a bizzaro personality like Trump from taking over the executive (and by now all three branches of government).


by chillrob k

That isn't a main reason I have to prefer a parliamentary system, but it does prevent a bizzaro personality like Trump from taking over the executive (and by now all three branches of government).

Berlusconi became prime minister of Italy several times. Italy has possibly the strongest parliamentary system in the world (the executive is the weakest there is in the first world. Prime minister can't even fire ministers)



this is Berlusconi in 2009 when a russian journalist asked him if he was going to divorce soon, at a joint press conference with Putin in Sardinia (Anna Politkovskaya had been killed 3 years before this)



Ah yes the TDS = mental illness bill senator in Minnesota. It's always the ones you most expect.

"Minnesota Sen. Justin Eichorn was arrested on March 17, accused of soliciting a 16-year-old girl for prostitution in Bloomington."


by jchristo k

Ah yes the TDS = mental illness bill senator in Minnesota. It's always the ones you most expect.

"Minnesota Sen. Justin Eichorn was arrested on March 17, accused of soliciting a 16-year-old girl for prostitution in Bloomington."

I smell a pardon coming.


He's not wrong about TDS though.


by Brian James k

He's not wrong about TDS though.

Just wrong about which side has it


It's his thing to parrot since the hilarious 'Let's Go Brandon' died out.

Just waiting on the great right-wing comic minds to come up with the next zinger!


David Shor is one of the most embarrassing failures within the Democratic Party (and there's some steep competition there); one of the main people responsible for the monstrously stupid Harris campaign, why the hell would anybody, ever, listen to this shameless grifter/hardcore ketamine addict?


by Brian James k

He's not wrong about TDS though.

mf you are deranged over HILLARY CLINTON

at least Donald Trump has some influence and power to tilt against


by Karl_TheOG_Marx k

David Shor is one of the most embarrassing failures within the Democratic Party (and there's some steep competition there); one of the main people responsible for the monstrously stupid Harris campaign, why the hell would anybody, ever, listen to this shameless grifter/hardcore ketamine addict?

Wtf? Shor had been fully canceled by the democratic party by the time Harris was the candidate.

How was he responsible for her campaign? Are you drunk?

You are showing your antisemitism here with the unproven accusations at the end


by thethethe k

It's his thing to parrot since the hilarious 'Let's Go Brandon' died out.

Just waiting on the great right-wing comic minds to come up with the next zinger!

They are trying to bring back "make sure to get your boosters!" as an insult they are so desperate.

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