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Trump's Second Term

Andy_Ross said:
Don't worry, all those deals will appear over the next 72 hours.

BASH: Trump's 90 day pause on tariffs ends in three days. What happens on Wednesday?

BESSENT: We'll see. We're gonna be very busy over the next 72 hours ... I think we're gonna see a lot of deals very quickly.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941851390839488623
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Schitler's bluff has been called and it's time to show the cards.
 
BBC News has gone full MAGA by suggesting that Trump is a foreign policy genius (as opposed to a childish buffoon and bully with the most potent military and economy in the world).

www.bbc.co.uk

How Trump is using the 'Madman Theory' to try to change the world

Political scientists have a term for the tactic, that has been used by some leaders including Nixon, to persuade adversaries that they are temperamentally capable of anything, to extract concessions. But can it work in the long term?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
 
The Don said:
BBC News has gone full MAGA by suggesting that Trump is a foreign policy genius (as opposed to a childish buffoon and bully with the most potent military and economy in the world).

www.bbc.co.uk

How Trump is using the 'Madman Theory' to try to change the world

Political scientists have a term for the tactic, that has been used by some leaders including Nixon, to persuade adversaries that they are temperamentally capable of anything, to extract concessions. But can it work in the long term?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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#notacult
 
Mike! said:
Why would you put anything in a place KNOWN as 'Flash Flood Ally'?
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Planigale said:
Because the land is flat and cheap and next to the river. The valley where I grew up was a good example. The cheap land next to the river was bought by building developers and housing built, at that time significant floods were predicted as a 1:100 yr event. Now with global warming they are more common. All the old villages are placed halfway up the valley sides out of the flood plain.
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To clarify, the part of the Texas hill country that's known as "Flash Flood Alley" is mostly not flat at all. That's why it's known as the Texas hill country.

Much of the hill country land that's flat enough to farm or to build on lies within narrow river valleys. If those valleys had wide flood plains, the rivers wouldn't rise so high when they flood. If the hills weren't so hilly, rain wouldn't drain off of them as fast, and the rivers wouldn't rise so quickly.

In the western half of Texas and some other parts of the southwest, there's an old joke that goes like this:
Man from elsewhere: Is it always this hot?
Local: No. It probably won't be this hot come January.
MFE: Is it always this dry?
Local: No. Most years, we get about 18 inches of rain. You don't want to be out and about on the day it falls.
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There's a lot of truth in that joke. Unfortunately.

Biden didn't cause this flood, and Trump didn't either, but Trump's Destroyers of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may deserve some blame.
The two Texas NWS offices most closely involved in forecasting and warning about the flooding on the Guadalupe River — Austin-San Antonio and San Angelo — are missing some key staff members, but still issued a slew of watches and warnings about the flood danger.

The question is whether the warnings reached who they needed to reach.

Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the NWS employees’ union, told CNN that while he believes the offices had “adequate staffing and resources,” the Austin-San Antonio office is missing a warning coordination meteorologist — a role that serves as a crucial, direct link between forecasters and emergency managers.

This vacancy in the Austin-San Antonio office, along with other key roles, were the result of early retirement incentives offered by the Trump administration to shrink the size of the federal government, a NOAA official told CNN.
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Furthermore, Trump has proposed a budget that
seeks to eliminate all of NOAA’s weather and climate research labs along with institutes jointly run with universities around the country. The entire research division of NOAA would be eliminated under the proposal....One of the NOAA labs slated to be shut down is the National Severe Storms Lab in Norman, Oklahoma, which works to improve flash flood forecasting among other hazards from severe thunderstorms.
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Jack by the hedge said:
Everybody just has to get a job with good healthcare benefits. Simple. What could be more obvious?

So all the jobs with ◊◊◊◊◊◊ healthcare won't get done any more. I wonder how many jobs that is. I also wonder why there are jobs with ◊◊◊◊◊◊ healthcare.
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Healthcare is the carrot. I predict that the US farms are soon going to be populated by the destitute, the aged, the infirm and the debilitated who cannot get (how to describe it…) “first world” jobs.

Hey, somebody will need to harvest all those things that migrants used to.

/s
 
The Don said:
BBC News has gone full MAGA by suggesting that Trump is a foreign policy genius (as opposed to a childish buffoon and bully with the most potent military and economy in the world).

www.bbc.co.uk

How Trump is using the 'Madman Theory' to try to change the world

Political scientists have a term for the tactic, that has been used by some leaders including Nixon, to persuade adversaries that they are temperamentally capable of anything, to extract concessions. But can it work in the long term?
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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It's reimagining TACO as a positive rather than a negative. What if Trump wasn't just throwing up absurd tariffs? What if he wasn't just abandoning NATO and Ukraine? What if he wasn't just slashing vital jobs in government services to make short-term cash savings? What if he doesn't intend to conquer friendly neighbouring countries? Maybe 4D chess Trump just wants everyone to think he's a walking disaster so they'll flatter him and give him what he really wants, to avoid him thinking up some crazy notion to try out on them?

Well, sure, there might be an element of his acting outrageously to make people jump before he backs off a bit, but even if he ends up getting what he wants, that doesn't mean what he wants is smart. For example, it has suited US defence policy very well for generations that NATO can defend Europe against Russia but only with America included. It stops Russia expanding and becoming a greater threat, but also stops Europe becoming self-reliant and rising to become another potential peer adversary. It's not clear that 4D Trump can see any further than "Why are we paying for any of this?" let alone see as far as or beyond that actually being the cheaper option.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Grassley: "I'm going to make sure that everybody is exposed and the documents prove it for the eight years that they opposition was trying to put President Trump in prison."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1940908308602253648
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Translation: 91-year-old fossil rants and rails against the clouds, screams at Dems to get off his lawn.

Isn't it about time you dropped dead of something, you old ◊◊◊◊? Oh, I forgot, you have excellent health care that keeps your decrepit corpse alive, while millions of children you just stole it from can go die for your evil god's insane whims.

Isn't it about time we had age limits and term limits on Congress? The only sane answer is "YES!!!"
 
shemp said:
Translation: 91-year-old fossil rants and rails against the clouds, screams at Dems to get off his lawn.

Isn't it about time you dropped dead of something, you old ◊◊◊◊? Oh, I forgot, you have excellent health care that keeps your decrepit corpse alive, while millions of children you just stole it from can go die for your evil god's insane whims.

Isn't it about time we had age limits and term limits on Congress? The only sane answer is "YES!!!"
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Tell that to a turtle.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Of course he can't it's a lie.

JIANG: You mentioned tariff letters that will start going out to countries tomorrow. Can you tell us who will get them and what they will say?

HASSETT: I can't

https://twitter.com/x/status/1941870641197584674
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So, Mr. Treasury Secretary and Fathead ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊, are you saying it's a secret, or that you just ◊◊◊◊◊◊◊ don't even know??? I wouldn't be surprised if it's the latter.
 
EvilBiker said:
Healthcare is the carrot. I predict that the US farms are soon going to be populated by the destitute, the aged, the infirm and the debilitated who cannot get (how to describe it…) “first world” jobs.

Hey, somebody will need to harvest all those things that migrants used to.

/s
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Don't forget states like Florida that are revising their child labor laws so kids/young teens can do more agricultural work.
 
EvilBiker said:
Healthcare is the carrot. I predict that the US farms are soon going to be populated by the destitute, the aged, the infirm and the debilitated who cannot get (how to describe it…) “first world” jobs.

Hey, somebody will need to harvest all those things that migrants used to.

/s
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Nope. Costs less all round to just let the food rot. Health care is communism!
 
One of the starkest differences between Trump 1 and Trump 2 is that when he said something crazy during his first term senior members of his administration would try to minimize it or claim people misunderstood. This time they either double down on the crazy or attack those asking them awkward questions, or both.
 
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