The Refried Presidency: Trump Hateful Machine/Fossil Fuel Boogaloo or Whatever Continuation

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  1. Kryptonite

    Kryptonite Guinness

    Apr 10, 1999
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    So the party of "I'm voting for the convict" is now denying he's a convicted felon?

    I'm not sure they should be speaking about anything related to law and order.
     
  2. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

    Chelsea
    Jul 30, 2007
    Detroit
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    Yes but according to some Dems were just as bad on Palestine.

    Fvcking idiots. Hope Tlaib's happy.

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  3. taosjohn

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  4. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    "Melania would love to 86 me...oh boy would she. And not the restaurant kind. Like stuff-me-in-the-ground kind. Why do you think I always eat McDonald's?"
     
  5. Val1

    Val1 Member+

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    Mar 12, 2004
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    The people I most want to scream at are people who voted for Trump because they thought he'd be better for Palestinians. Unless, deporting a couple million Palestinians is actually what they wanted.

    The Palestinian plight, even if you're pro-Israel, ought to engender sympathy. And Shithole-country Trump has amply demonstrated he's got none.
     
  6. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Brown furriners are like chess pieces to Trump. And we know he doesn't have a clue how to play chess.
     
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  7. Kazuma

    Kazuma Member+

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    #482 Kazuma, May 16, 2025
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    For me, it’s people like Rashida Tlaib (and the pro-Palestine movement) who bitched about not endorsing Dems. And then she throws a fit when Trump gets elected when he does the things she was warned about. Then her and the rest of her ilk are dead silent when Trump does this, but will happily go protest Dems. It’s why I hope Tlaib gets primaried. And it’s why I hope Dems start punching left a little bit. Because quite honestly, they’re bad for the Dems and get in the way of what needs to be done.
     
  8. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    The other story is that it's an address of a bar in the Village and cops during Prohibition would tip off the owners when there was about to be a raid by telling them to "86" the customers.
     
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  9. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    I love things like this where the etymology is debated. Like the phrase "6s and 7s."
     
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  10. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Thought Elmo DOGEbag was apposed to fix our deficit :thumbsdown:

    Moody’s Ratings cut the United States’ sovereign credit rating down a notch to Aa1 from the Aaa, the highest possible, citing the growing burden of financing the federal government’s budget deficit and the rising cost of rolling over existing debt amid high interest rates.

    “This one-notch downgrade on our 21-notch rating scale reflects the increase over more than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns,” the ratings agency said in a statement.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/business/ec...it-rating-increase-government-debt-rcna207385
     
  11. roby

    roby Member+

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    Feb 27, 2005
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    I was 86'd a couple years ago. Me 'n Scouse are going for the double aughts! :whistling:
     
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  12. spejic

    spejic Cautionary example

    Mar 1, 1999
    San Rafael, CA
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    Trump wants cheap dollars and low interest rates. The problem is that it's kind of a "have the cake and eat it too" situation. If you make dollars cheaper, then foreigners who hold US bonds are losing money on the exchange rate and want to get rid of them. When you sell the bond for less, the effective interest rate goes up, and if the US Government wants to sell more bonds into that market it has to match that effective interest rate to get people to nibble. The effective interest rates on 30 year bonds is now about 5%. It hasn't been that high since 2007.
     
  13. song219

    song219 BigSoccer Supporter

    Apr 5, 2004
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  14. Knave

    Knave Member+

    May 25, 1999
    Why would Joe Biden do this!?!?!

    :rolleyes:
     
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  15. Unimane

    Unimane Member+

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    Trump received due process and an extraordinary amount of leeway which would have never been granted to regular citizens. There wasn't a conjuring of charges against Trump and he was given an offramp every time, yet chose not to take it, most notably with the documents case. The fact he will not receive any sort of accountability for what he did in Georgia, despite being caught red handed, should render any MAGA claim of a weaponized DOJ as empty rhetoric.

    But, let's be real. It doesn't matter what Trump did. He will always be above the law to the MAGA cohort and his defenders will manipulate the narrative towards his victimization at every turn. Thus, the false narrative gives cover for any authoritarian action of the Trump Administration and DOJ.

    Just like every other abuse, corruption, illegality, incompetence, etc., the response every single solitary time isn't to defend innocence, but to use an argument I wouldn't have accepted from my children when they were 5: "What about them?!!?!".
     
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  16. Naughtius Maximus

    Jul 10, 2001
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    There are as many, if not more, people on the right who are harmful to the interests of the democratic party. People like Tlaib are just politically clueless and lack the ability to recognise context. Some of those on the right have removed the reasons to vote democrat... tacit support for Israel's genocide in Gaza being one.
     
  17. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Always have to check it's The Onion
     
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  18. roadkit

    roadkit Greetings from the Fringe of Obscurity

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    Jul 2, 2003
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    I asked Grok (I used Grok because I felt it important to use Elon's toy for this particular query) -- based on actuarial data, and considering Trump is obese, unhealthy, consumes drugs and junk food, and clearly has signs of dementia, how long can he be expected to live.

    Grok said 2-3 years max. So there's that.
     
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  19. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    "They like sand. They like heat. What's the big deal?"
     
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  20. Cascarino's Pizzeria

    Apr 29, 2001
    New Jersey, USA
    Damn. Can we get another AI to spit out 6-12 months?

    I think all the hate is making him stronger
     
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  21. Deadtigers

    Deadtigers Member+

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    I think he is more a working class Beefeater Gin guy.
     
  22. yossarian

    yossarian Moderator
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    Agree with your overall point, but I'd add DOJ didn't have anything to do with the Georgia prosecution, which was purely based on state law. So that can't even be counted as "DOJ weaponization" if we want to keep using that stupid term.
     
  23. taosjohn

    taosjohn Member+

    Dec 23, 2004
    taos,nm
    That's the Chumley's one. Chumley is recorded in Damon Runyon's Broadway stories as "Good Time Charley," I think...
     
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  24. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    I wonder if they really thought Trump would be better or, like Nader 2000 voters, wanted to “heighten the contradictions.”
     
  25. superdave

    superdave Member+

    Jul 14, 1999
    VB, VA
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    DC United
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    I think Vance would be worse. At least if Trump were to die relatively soon…if it’s like Christmas 2027, Vance will immediately go into “moderate for the general” mode. But if it’s Christmas 2025, he’ll be competent MAGA because he won’t want to get primaried in 2028.

    A poll on that would interesting.
     

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