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Trump's Second Term

AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%.

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be "ripped off" by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration.

AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
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dirtywick said:
yeah, it's kind of remarkable. shouldn't someone do something? why isn't anyone doing anything?
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We're frogs being boiled. This particular day is only slightly crazier than yesterday was, just as that day was only slightly crazier than the day before. We're waiting for a sudden abrupt change, that'll trigger a spring to action! Yeah. Then we'll do it. Later on, when the time is right.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Gibberish

Trump: "People come in from Iowa and from Indiana and great places and they end up calling their parents -- 'your son has been killed.' It doesn't happen anymore. Washington DC is a very safe city. We put our National Guard there. They're all central casting. We won the case on merit based on merit from the Supreme Court."

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009497928637817115
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Uh, this is an old quote from some time last year. Is Aaron Rupar on a "greatest hits" tour?
 
Segnosaur said:
It should also be noted that the national deficit went up EVERY YEAR that Trump was in office in his first term. (Not just during the Covid years, when you might expect an increase due to emergency spending, but even during the 'good years'.)

It almost seems like republicans don't ACTUALLY care about the debt, but they just want to use it as a political tool to destroy stuff they "don't like".
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Exactly. Also, remebmer that during the Obama years, the national deficit decreased by 75%. It went from $1.2 trillion / year, down to something like $350 billion. And that was after the Bush administration took a an actual SUPRLUS, and turned it into a $1.2 trillion deficit in his 8 years of office.

I am just completely and utterly baffled by the Republican base that constantly keeps supporting the very party that's doing exactly what that party keeps complaining about, in order for them to get elected. Its completely bonkers.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Street

Trump: The people of Venezuela are going wild over this. They named a street after Trump. What do you do, you attack a country in the named a street?

https://twitter.com/x/status/2009733576053731465
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There are definitely people in the streets in Venezuela. But they're not going wild in support for your antics, Donny. Quite the opposite. I suspect Miller has told you more fibs.
 
Some comments about the Venezuelan oil.

1) The tankers being intercepted would appear to be empty, or near empty. So the value of any cargo, i.e. the oil they were pirated for by the USA, is effectively zero. Certainly the old rust-bucket tankers themselves would have value only by being scrapped on the beach in Bangladesh. They are not worth money spent by the US to illegally seize them. Trump has turned the US Navy and Coast Guard into a bunch of bumbling, failing pirates - a laughingstock.

2) The original major buyers of Venezuelan oil - Russia, Cuba and China - are on Miller's naughty list of socialist commie countries. So what is going to be the priority for Don? Not selling the oil and sticking to Miller's naughty list? Or selling to them, thereby looking hypocritical (no problem for Trump personally), and also helping further Russian, Cuban and Chinese influence and prosperity at home and abroad? I'm betting he will sell. He really covets the money more than anything.

3) Would Russia buy oil from the USA when it has ample reserves of its own, and reasonable infrastructure to extract and process it? Would Pootie do Donnie a favour? Sure he would! All Donnie has to do is...anything Pootie asks of him! ;)

4) The Venezuelan oil is not really going to be very valuable because it has to be transported to the USA to be processed. That takes time and money. And it's a low-quality product suitable only for asphalt, and the main customers for asphalt are not the USA. Exxon have just said that it probably won't be worth them investing in that whole shemozzle.

5) Exxon also said there's no viable infrastructure in Venezuela for further oil extraction, or it's so outdated it is unprofitable. It would require billions of dollars investment from scratch to re-establish any economical extraction, and they aren't up for that just now. So the supply is going to run out and production dry up soon (for wide values of "soon"). The Trump invasion simply killed off an ailing, crumbling, low-profit operation.

Summary: Everything Trump touches turns to ◊◊◊◊. The Venezuelan debacle is just the latest, on a global scale.
 
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