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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 40478
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Alex Y. wrote: The Canadian and Mexico tariffs feel like a bluff that will be lifted by Monday, similar to Colombia situation, where Canada and Mexico’s promises for border security will be enough to lift the tariffs. Do we think these border tariffs will truly actually happen? I think he might do the tariff but with "minor" stuff only Hopefully I don't get screwed too bad after years of fake American-ing lol
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11604 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
I am also hoping it is a bluff. It seems like the logic here is to bully other countries like Canada and Mexico into giving America what Trump wants, but we shall see.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Shack wrote: DP is a weird mix of being insane but having somewhat common Trump derangement views. I shouldn’t have to essentially repeat myself that your opinion is essentially irrelevant. I’m well aware that Trump is a symbol and symptom of America and what it represents: which is fundamentally, definitively, and absolutely unsustainable. A land of promises of counterproductive, cynical, complicit, irresponsible, corrupt, insidious, and superficial “progress”. So it’s not my suicide; it’s an American suicide. Your self-serving, self-righteous system tries to take advantage using unsustainable “success” as part of what can only be objectively judged to essentially be a ponzi or pyramid scheme. Your shortsighted exploitation is based on opportunistic pursuits of your limited perspective, assumptions, epistemology, and self-congratulatory point of view and experience. In irresponsibility you also always try to blame others for the consequences, results, and outcomes of your failures and negligence. The only truly rational or sane conclusion is that you have no sustainable options or future whatsoever. You should try to save yourself if you can rather than make it worse. Also your opinion about weirdness is obviously subjective, arbitrary, and relative. You’re interested in your expectations, desires, taste, and feelings of differences, rather than any objective or potentially mathematically valid notion of beauty, harmony, grace, elegance, symmetry, or style.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Alex Y. wrote: The Canadian and Mexico tariffs feel like a bluff that will be lifted by Monday, similar to Colombia situation, where Canada and Mexico’s promises for border security will be enough to lift the tariffs. Do we think these border tariffs will truly actually happen? Colombia agreed to take the migrants.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
FYI, if you’re wondering. I’m not bluffing on the things I’ve said.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
I don’t think Trump really bluffs either. But he does approach many things in life like real estate, and will compromise if it’s in his interests. Otherwise he won’t change his mind unless he has no choice, sees his strategy as unworkable, or no longer expects it to help him reach his goals.
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Cynosure
The Dark Knight
Joined: Sun Apr 12, 2015 7:30 am Posts: 766
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
He'll switch back as soon as his tariffs start having an impact on inflation.
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Sat Feb 01, 2025 8:30 pm |
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 40478
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
RFK, Gabbard and Patel are all 95%+ to be confirmed on polymarket.
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 25334 Location: Classified
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
RIP Department of Education.
But yeah, everythings fine, all that Project 2025 stuff was just fearmongering.
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Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:33 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11604 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
I mean you have to just focus on yourself right now. Life still continued for the average person under Nazi Germany and the Roman Empire. It was inevitable that America would turn to a dictatorship
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Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:39 pm |
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Darth Indiana Bond
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Joined: Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:43 pm Posts: 11604 Location: Wouldn't you like to know
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Darth Indiana Bond wrote: I mean you have to just focus on yourself right now. Life still continued for the average person under Nazi Germany and the Roman Empire. It was inevitable that America would turn to a dictatorship Probably being a bit over dramatic. Realistically we are more likely going to be like modern Russia or Hungary. We will have the appearance of elections, but they will be wildly unfair for whoever the oligarchs want to win.
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Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:48 pm |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 21541 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Why do we need the dept of education?
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Darth Indiana Bond
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Helps to evenly distribute financial assists to states that have poorer education funding, mostly states in the south and create a universal standard of education. That way if a kid moves from a state with poor education like Mississippi to a state with higher quality education like New Jersey they won’t be hopelessly behind. It will basically allow students in states with bad education not fall desperately behind. Of course if you are rich and can afford private education then none of that matters and of course the people making these decisions are rich people.
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Libs
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Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:38 pm Posts: 48677 Location: Arlington, VA
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
I need the inevitable public breakup between Trump and Musk to accelerate faster because I cannot deal with Elmo hacking his way into the government and ruining everyone's lives.
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Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:47 pm |
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 21541 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Darth Indiana Bond wrote: Helps to evenly distribute financial assists to states that have poorer education funding, mostly states in the south and create a universal standard of education. That way if a kid moves from a state with poor education like Mississippi to a state with higher quality education like New Jersey they won’t be hopelessly behind. It will basically allow students in states with bad education not fall desperately behind. Of course if you are rich and can afford private education then none of that matters and of course the people making these decisions are rich people. Is there any evidence this department has actually done this? I constantly see it cited that educational outcomes have worsened since its introduction. Is that false?
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am Posts: 40478
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Make Gaza into Biff Tannen land?
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 25334 Location: Classified
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
zwackerm wrote: Why do we need the dept of education? So public schools can exist? Or should we just teach science and history out of the bible and call it a day?
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Flava'd vs The World wrote: zwackerm wrote: Why do we need the dept of education? So public schools can exist? Or should we just teach science and history out of the bible and call it a day? They will ultimately lose this war, not because biased politics condemns them, but because objective, and uncaring reality will defeat politics.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Flava'd vs The World wrote: RIP Department of Education.
But yeah, everythings fine, all that Project 2025 stuff was just fearmongering. “Dictator on Day One”, (which I took much more seriously than you guys, and much more seriously than “project 2025”), is not the same thing as “Project 2025”. He never disavowed his “Dictator” comments, and anyone who knows anything about history or current events knows that he won’t stop being a dictator the next day. Like I said, he’s going to do everything he can to force intelligence agencies, the FBI, the courts, the military, and election officials to do what he wants. This is far more serious than “Project 2025”, and always was. That’s what happening. You were underestimating the threat and distracting by talking about “Project 2025”. I wasn’t concerned about “Project 2025”. I was concerned about war.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Darth Indiana Bond wrote: Darth Indiana Bond wrote: I mean you have to just focus on yourself right now. Life still continued for the average person under Nazi Germany and the Roman Empire. It was inevitable that America would turn to a dictatorship Probably being a bit over dramatic. Realistically we are more likely going to be like modern Russia or Hungary. We will have the appearance of elections, but they will be wildly unfair for whoever the oligarchs want to win. No it won’t, because you’ve already been defeated much worse, and with much more finality than you think. Any Trump loss will just be a further loss for America. American “progress” has never been anything but suicidal. You represent the very problems you claim to fight against. JD Vance will probably be the Republican candidate in 2028; he represents essentially a compromise between Musk’s or Trump’s politics. He’s part of the “PayPal mafia”, which could be considered to have more common with Trump generally than “the oligarchs”. They may each agree somewhat with the Wall Street Journal editorial board, but mostly in opposition to political influence in economics.
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
Darth Indiana Bond wrote: Darth Indiana Bond wrote: I mean you have to just focus on yourself right now. Life still continued for the average person under Nazi Germany and the Roman Empire. It was inevitable that America would turn to a dictatorship Probably being a bit over dramatic. Realistically we are more likely going to be like modern Russia or Hungary. We will have the appearance of elections, but they will be wildly unfair for whoever the oligarchs want to win. If you want to talk “bullshit”, your legacy, morality, and politics are complete “bullshit”.
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zwackerm
Hold the door!
Joined: Sun Jun 01, 2014 10:26 pm Posts: 21541 Location: West Chester, Pennsylvania
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Flava'd vs The World wrote: zwackerm wrote: Why do we need the dept of education? So public schools can exist? Or should we just teach science and history out of the bible and call it a day? Public school existed for over a century before the department of education
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Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:26 am |
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DP07
The Thirteenth Floor
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 2:26 am Posts: 15553 Location: Everywhere
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
zwackerm wrote: Flava'd vs The World wrote: zwackerm wrote: Why do we need the dept of education? So public schools can exist? Or should we just teach science and history out of the bible and call it a day? Public school existed for over a century before the department of education You could say something similar about essentially any institution.
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Wed Feb 05, 2025 8:42 am |
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Flava'd vs The World
The Kramer
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:36 am Posts: 25334 Location: Classified
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 Re: The Trump 2.0 Era
I guess it is much easier to indoctrinate people into your cult if they don't get a proper education. Insane that we've got here. Guess the teachings of Jesus don't really fit with modern Christians and thus they had to find a new messiah. "Hate thy neighbor."
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Darth Indiana Bond
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The Department of Education isn’t going anywhere as Congress would need 60% vote to support its dismantling. Which won’t happen in today’s climate. Of course unless by the next midterms you have a Russian style election where Trump and Musk predetermine the winners in key races
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