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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
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US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more.- US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID- $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes.- Food stranded in Houston- Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

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That's perfectly okay as long as no trans people get to play sports.
 
dudalb said:
RFK is going to be the new HHS.
Welcome back, Polio and Smallpox.
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Well, fortunately smallpox has been eradicated and there's no chance of that coming back unless some idiot vandals who don't know or care what they are doing just completely throw out the samples from the BSL-4 labs.

With Musk in charge, that must be about a 50-50 proposition right now.
 
It's gonna be a great four years.


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The Chairman at the moment is David M. Rubenstein. He has a hell of a resume

David M. Rubenstein is Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Carlyle, a global investment firm that manages $447 billion. He is Chairman of the Boards of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Council on Foreign Relations, the National Gallery of Art, the Economic Club of Washington, and the University of Chicago; a Trustee of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Constitution Center, the Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum; and a Director of Moderna, Inc., the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Rubenstein is also Chairman, CEO, and principal owner of Major League Baseball’s Baltimore Orioles.

Rubenstein is an original signer of The Giving Pledge, a significant donor to all of the above-mentioned non-profit organizations, and a recipient of the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy and the MoMA’s David Rockefeller Award, among other philanthropic awards.

Rubenstein is a leader in the area of Patriotic Philanthropy, having made transformative gifts for the restoration or repair of the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, Monticello, Montpelier, Mount Vernon, Arlington House, Iwo Jima Memorial, the Kennedy Center, the Smithsonian, the National Archives, the National Zoo, the Library of Congress, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Rubenstein has also provided to the U.S. government long-term loans of his rare copies of the Magna Carta, the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment, the first map of the U.S. (Abel Buell map), and the first book printed in the U.S. (Bay Psalm Book).

Rubenstein is the host of The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations on Bloomberg TV and PBS, Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg TV, and Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories with David Rubenstein on PBS; and the author of The American Story: Conversations with Master Historians, How to Lead: Wisdom from the World's Greatest CEOs, Founders, and Game Changers, The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, How to Invest: Masters on the Craft, and The Highest Calling: Conversations on the American Presidency.

Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke University, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from the University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.
 
What m akes me mad is I think most of the GOP senators know RFK is a terrible choice, but will vote tor him bease of fear of the cultist in their home states.
That isa major reason I am so big on Term Limits for COngress. If they knew they would not be there for that long..maybe 10 or 12 years..and could not make a lifetime career out of elected office..something the founding fathers never intneded...tehy might be more willling to do the right thing instead og doing anything to get reeelected.
 
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thaiboxerken said:
www.nbcnews.com

Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction

On social media and web forums, users called for jurors, judges and prosecutors to be killed after the former president was found guilty on 34 felony counts.
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This isn't really what I was looking for. If we start down jury dox attempts plenty of blm related cases are going to match, same with college doxxing and the 2010's. I was more looking for threats to elected officials which seems to be more public examples for Republicans but i did find some in wasn't familiar with like Chris Murphy, Tanya Chutkan, Letitia James, and Arthur Engoron.

Doesn't really change my perception that this has been more extensively used against Republicans but there are good examples to point to on both sides.
 
dudalb said:
That isa major reason I am so big on Term Limits for COngress. If they knew they would not be there for that long..maybe 10 or 12 years..and could not make a lifetime career out of elected office..something the founding fathers never intneded...tehy might be more willling to do the right thing instead og doing anything to get reeelected.
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The one issue i grapple with on this train of thought is that incentivizes short term thinking and no longer term accountability. Kick back jobs after office for favorable treatment. Handouts to public unions due to being out of office before the brunt of the cost is felt. Can't guarentee it would be worse than what we experience now but would be different incentives, and that will have its own negative reverberations.
 
Trausti said:
It's gonna be a great four years.


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The important part is "who do not share our Vision". Why should only the POSOTUS' "vision" matter? What about the majority who didn't vote for the POSOTUS?

The govt. owns the physical building and pays for the maintenance and upkeep of the building, but the entertainment productions are financed entirely by ticket sales and private donations.
 
Trausti said:
It's gonna be a great four years.


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What a fantastic scheme. Trump can install a mud wrestling ring and an animatronic Trump that delivers a pre-recorded speech taken from youtube. He'll finance the whole thing with someone else's money (likely the taxpayers) then quadruple ticket prices. For any visiting MAGAs, in town for one insurrection or another, it would be a must see while in DC.
 
LiteBright said:
What a fantastic scheme. Trump can install a mud wrestling ring and an animatronic Trump that delivers a pre-recorded speech taken from youtube. He'll finance the whole thing with someone else's money (likely the taxpayers) then quadruple ticket prices. For any visiting MAGAs, in town for one insurrection or another, it would be a must see while in DC.
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If it makes you care about saving taxpayer dollars from waste, I'm for it.
 
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