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Trump's Second Term

He sounds like someone you wouldn't want to share a lift with...
Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) got a little too specific when he attempted to describe Donald Trump’s body odor while speaking to Jimmy Kimmel this week.

“What did it smell like specifically?” Kimmel asked.

“So, if you take, like, armpits, ketchup, makeup and a little butt, it’s probably like that, all mixed up,” he said.
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From here.
 
I'd feel bad for him if he weren't such a horrible person. And I use 'person' generously.
 
Tero said:
full diaper at Notre Dame.
Vance will be taking over by a year from now
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America will be an embarrassing third or fourth-rate country.
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I've been trying to confirm the authenticity of this video, and am having little success. Of course there is a good chance the lily livered press is refraining from the obvious as so often happens these days, but for the moment, the video you've cited seems like the only one, and though, again, one can't be sure, it looks a little as if the difference in depth of field between Trump and his neighbors is suspicious. While I am inclined to believe the report and would gladly find it true, I must confess I'm a bit dubious.
 
I wish the media covered this ◊◊◊◊ (literally) the way they covered Biden's gaffes and alleged cognitive decline. Also too, every, and I mean every one of Trump's gaffes, slips of the tongue and confused blatherings.
 
Resume said:
I wish the media covered this ◊◊◊◊ (literally) the way they covered Biden's gaffes and alleged cognitive decline. Also too, every, and I mean every one of Trump's gaffes, slips of the tongue and confused blatherings.
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That's what he wants - all the cameras. Trump is so uninhibited that he would reach into his diaper and fling it about in Notre Dame if it got him more TV coverage.
 
Trump's cabinet is a clear sign the USA has fully matured into crony capitalism, in this case a mix of Oligarchic and Big Firm capitalism. The intent is to sweep away all legal and regulatory restraints on this cabal, free them of all obligation, and thereby transfer more wealth to them, encouraging the naked pursuit of self interest without regard to social or environmental consequence, or even long term economic health.

Americans, by and large, have been trained since 1980 to love and admire this rising form of feudalism while learning to distrust the fair rule of law that might restrain it. This certainly dovetails nicely with the Calvinism baked into the nation's culture, now spiced with the haughty taunts of "winners" over their exploited, but nonetheless willing, admiring subjects.

By February, just what Americans tossed into the rubbish bin and burnt will become nastily apparent. They prefer security over freedom, and shall have neither. Bottom line: Propaganda-driven fear and loathing of others is the ideal nose ring to tug Americans into the abyss, as Goebbels before them well knew. Sig heil!!

An aside: One poster in particular likes to complain I do not like Americans. By what standard should they be judged, if not by their own words and deeds? By the international law they so duplicitously have promoted when it suited them? The USA has ceased to be what it was; it is now something entirely different, as the incoming military and security apparatus will show, to the beat of falling bombs on ever more civilians. A nation and people wholly dedicated to violence for the last quarter century, now actively and eagerly engaged in genocide, and immune to all accountability deserves nothing but disdain. Well, and schadenfreude. ;)
 
David Leonhart in NYT (it's an email for me, the morning letter). The Chaos Cabinet

Jonathan Swan: I think economic policy will be influenced less by Bessent and more by how the markets respond to tariffs and mass deportations. The stock market is one of the few guardrails that might hold back Trump.

In his first term, Trump viewed the stock market almost like a poll, and he was anxious to avoid doing anything that would cause the S&P 500 to fall. Trump’s corporate-friendly advisers used this knowledge to manipulate him, telling him that if he went with maximalist tariffs, then markets would tank. C.E.O.s would use the same tactics to steer him away from some hard-line immigration policies.

Not too much has changed. Bessent is someone who has bought into much of the MAGA nationalist vision but who is also reassuring to Wall Street.
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Hlafordlaes said:
Trump's cabinet is a clear sign the USA has fully matured into crony capitalism, in this case a mix of Oligarchic and Big Firm capitalism. The intent is to sweep away all legal and regulatory restraints on this cabal, free them of all obligation, and thereby transfer more wealth to them, encouraging the naked pursuit of self interest without regard to social or environmental consequence, or even long term economic health.

Americans, by and large, have been trained since 1980 to love and admire this rising form of feudalism while learning to distrust the fair rule of law that might restrain it. This certainly dovetails nicely with the Calvinism baked into the nation's culture, now spiced with the haughty taunts of "winners" over their exploited, but nonetheless willing, admiring subjects.

By February, just what Americans tossed into the rubbish bin and burnt will become nastily apparent. They prefer security over freedom, and shall have neither. Bottom line: Propaganda-driven fear and loathing of others is the ideal nose ring to tug Americans into the abyss, as Goebbels before them well knew. Sig heil!!

An aside: One poster in particular likes to complain I do not like Americans. By what standard should they be judged, if not by their own words and deeds? By the international law they so duplicitously have promoted when it suited them? The USA has ceased to be what it was; it is now something entirely different, as the incoming military and security apparatus will show, to the beat of falling bombs on ever more civilians. A nation and people wholly dedicated to violence for the last quarter century, now actively and eagerly engaged in genocide, and immune to all accountability deserves nothing but disdain. Well, and schadenfreude. ;)
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Sounds like South Korea, a country de-facto run by 'Chaebols', large companies with enormous influence. Only with fascism thrown into the mix.
We saw when the Sewol sank how well such governments seem to operate. Fascism would make it even more dysfunctional, of course.

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Resume said:
I wish the media covered this ◊◊◊◊ (literally) the way they covered Biden's gaffes and alleged cognitive decline. Also too, every, and I mean every one of Trump's gaffes, slips of the tongue and confused blatherings.
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I literally cancelled my newspaper subscriptions during the US election campaign. The way both American and Norwegian media made such a massive deal out of Biden's health, while almost completely ignoring Dump's episodes as well as both Project 2025 and the SCOTUS ruling on presidential immunity, was just infuriating. ◊◊◊◊ them. They don't deserve my money.
 
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