Today in Trump

[TitoFan]

https://apnews.com/article/trump-opp...ad3a2fbc0df1c1

"The few Republicans who still oppose Trump gather in search of a path to oppose him"


There's a saying in the States. Don't know whether it's the same saying in the UK.

A day late and a dollar short.

On a side note.

It is the Associated Press, normally considered a centrist news media, that is suing the Trump administration over getting banned from White House press conferences.

The reason?

AP refused to entertain Trump's childish lunacy in wanting to rename the Gulf of Mexico into the Gulf of America, thus wasting thousands and thousands of taxpayer dollars.

[Spicoli]

Fuckin Traitor

[Beanz]

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[Kirkland Laing]

Fuckin Traitor

You've joined the Axis of Evil!



Sorry. Bloody awful isn't it. Seen the new Deputy Director of the FBI? Some podcast host who terrifies his listeners that the world is about to end so he can sell them survivalist gear. Looks like a tinned ham covered in vaseline. He's now deputy to the Fifth Amendment guy.

Elon is sacking federal workers to save America. Sack every single federal employee and that cuts the deficit by about fifteen percent. Not government spending, just the deficit. Federal payroll is eight percent of the budget and most of it is the military. So he's going after three percent of the budget while the GOP are about to add somewhere between four and eleven trillion to the deficit over the next ten years in corporate tax cuts. I can see this being controversial when the public realise what's happening. They're likely to slash Medicaid spending to help ameliorate the trillions in extra debt from the tax cuts. This is what Medicaid covers:
Medicaid covers: - 21% of Americans nationally - 83 million low-income Americans - 4 in 10 children - 1 in 4 adults with disabilities - Nearly 50% of kids with special needs - 41% of births nationwide - 5 in 8 nursing home residents - 32% of people in Mike Johnson's home state



Zelensky is coming to America to sign his Don King contract. It's going to be years before America actually sees any kind of revenue from it, half a billion is never going to happen and while there are no security guarantees maybe it means America still sends weapons. Maybe it's political cover for Trump to do that. It probably isn't worth the paper it's written on though, Trump signed a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico five years ago and he's about to rip it up although maybe it's yet another tariff bluff.

Same with Europe. He definitely wants an economic war with Europe to try and sunjugate them but he's already sailing close to the wind with recession risks. If he does go ahead with his various tariffs and trade disruption he's staring down the barrel of a recession coupled with high inflation.

America's new chairman of the joint cheifs of staff:






The acting director of the Consumer Financial protection Bureau, or whats' left of it, did this:

https://x.com/mikulaja/status/1893739173812592894



And last but not least this hints at some of the stuff happening in the financial world right now:

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/2...eep-in-the-fed

I will have more to say at some point. Right now I'm pretty sure it's a matter of time before I have to retire. I don't want to but I can't do my job properly anymore.

[Kirkland Laing]

The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/1895272963282477308

The SEC is America's most powerful financial industry regulator. Some people are alleging that there is significantly more stuff like this happening in the last few weeks for some reason and some people are speculating that it could get even worse.

By the way, this is the situation at the SEC right now.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...ys-2025-01-20/

It's being run by an acting crypto guy who will eventually be replaced by the guy Trump has nominated for the job, a guy called Atkins. This guy Atkins previously held the job of SEC head, America's chief financial regulator, from 2000 until 2008. Of course things were plain sailing in the financial world in that time, especially around the 2007-8 period, so this guy Atkins looks like an excellent appointment. Of course now he's a crypto guy too. Really worth a look at his career to get some perspective on this whole thing.

[Master]

Trump is lining his pockets as President and securing a nest egg when he leaves after his term. The next President should immediately arrest him and take back his assets.

[Kirkland Laing]

Trump is lining his pockets as President and securing a nest egg when he leaves after his term. The next President should immediately arrest him and take back his assets.

I wish that was all it was.

[NoSavingByTheBell]

Trump absolutely fucking SODOMIZED zelensky bwahaha ha

[TitoFan]

You still support that chump??

WTF am I asking... of course you do.

[Master]

Trump and Vance were disgraceful and really shown up for stupid arrogant bullies that they are. Zelensky was respectful despite being cornered by these two clowns who repeated Putin lies. They are ball deep with the Russian dictator and the West is truly screwed.

[Beanz]

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[TitoFan]

The whole of Trump's presidency to date has been one HUMONGOUS double standard.

[Master]

The whole of Trump's presidency to date has been one HUMONGOUS double standard.

Ukraine have always wanted peace and were the victims of Putin. Trump is only asking for concessions from one side. It is easy to make peace giving away another countries rights and taking their resources.

[TitoFan]

Trump absolutely fucking SODOMIZED zelensky bwahaha ha

Seriously.

This isn't to pick on Brock. But this is totally symbolic of what the MAGA crowd is made of. Here we're seeing a 50-some year-old man celebrating what some of us consider to be a shameful televised spectacle in the White House, between the President of the United States and the leader of another country.

Forget what was said, which is basically Trump ignoring the plain facts that Ukraine was invaded by Russia who is clearly the aggressor in this case.

This a grown man, leader of a country, throwing the concepts of civility, dignity, class, and humanity completely out the window. And the MAGA crowd celebrates it. Brock isn't the only one. ALL of MAGA world celebrates it.

What this basically illustrates is that we've reached a new low in our standards.

Just when you think Trump can't possibly do anything worse... he goes ahead and does it.

In any case, I'll just keep repeating this quote... probably for the umpteenth time during Trump's unfortunate term.

[Kirkland Laing]

The whole of Trump's presidency to date has been one HUMONGOUS double standard.

Ukraine have always wanted peace and were the victims of Putin. Trump is only asking for concessions from one side. It is easy to make peace giving away another countries rights and taking their resources.

Trump just wants the war over so he can get on with what he really wants to do which is get close to Russia. China as well at some point I'm sure. America currently does about eleven billion dollars a year with Russia and I'm not sure American CEOs will be queing to set up any kind of operations over there with the amount of people who keep falling out of windows, the general corruption and danger and so on, not to mention the lack of money over there in their piddling kleptocratic economy.

Europe on the other hand does one point six trillion dollars a year business with America, you'd think he would want to encourage new business in a part of the world where America is already established and the economy is bigger than America's but apparently not, it looks like as soon as he can get the Ukraine thing sorted out with European troops keeping the peace he's going to start a trade war with Europe.

It's all just an incoherent mess.