President Trump: Making America Great Again...

[BlueK]

Probably should ban it for being too woke or DEI

Yup, the only part of the Constitution you need to understand is where it says President Trump's authority is totally unlimited.

[Northwestcoug]

Imagine how other despots have strung him along:

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[BlueK]

Imagine how other despots have strung him along:

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Such an idiot

[Maximus]

They detained one the Israeli hostages since the database wasn't updated. Maybe Google the name. Dumbasses

[myboynoah]

On this day when many of us will visit the graves of our dearly beloved that have passed before us, especially those that, as Lincoln put it, "gave the last full measure of devotion" in defending our country, I pass this along.

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[PaloAltoCougar]

So presidential, statesmanlike, and inspiring. Trump is a repugnant human.

[falafel]

Imagine how other despots have strung him along:

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"Something happened to this guy!"

Putin used to be so sweet and kind. What the hell happened?

[Maximus]

too many foreigners at harvard
lol

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[chrisrenrut]

I rest my case.

actually, you are kind of proving his case

[BlueK]

too many foreigners at harvard
lol

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The evidence is pretty clear Trump hates foreigners, as do many of his idiot followers.

[LVAllen]

too many foreigners at harvard
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Premise: Harvard undergrad enrollment is approximately 6,973. Source: Harvard's webpage.

Premise: Harvard Undergrad tuition is about $60k.

Assumption: 31% of the undergrads are foreign, and thus likely to be paying full tuition.

Conclusion: Trump wants to eliminate $130 million from the economy of Massachusetts in undergrad tuition alone. Harvard law would be another $48M, Med would be $25M, other grad schools are $80M.

Secondary conclusion: Trump is shit on the economy.

[frank ryan]

Premise: Harvard undergrad enrollment is approximately 6,973. Source: Harvard's webpage.

Premise: Harvard Undergrad tuition is about $60k.

Assumption: 31% of the undergrads are foreign, and thus likely to be paying full tuition.

Conclusion: Trump wants to eliminate $130 million from the economy of Massachusetts in undergrad tuition alone. Harvard law would be another $48M, Med would be $25M, other grad schools are $80M.

Secondary conclusion: Trump is shit on the economy.

It's almost like Trump is a moron, unparalleled anyone else to occupy the White House, including Biden, at the height of his cognitive decline, and surrounded by amoral scumbags who just wants power and weirdo ideologues who aren't intent on breaking the "administrative state."

[Maximus]

Big rautiful bill. 3.1 trillion in debt in 10 years


https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...ump-unserious/


Meditate on this: When I call it “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” I’m not mocking the president by mimicking his habit of speaking in dopey Trump-ese. I’m using the official name given to the bill by House Republicans. American government has become so self-consciously unserious that it’s now advertising that unseriousness in how it refers to its own policies.
A fiscal and political travesty.


Handed total control of government last fall, the best the GOP could do in the House this week was move a package that will produce another $3.1 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Other estimates are more pessimistic.) The United States is currently on pace to reach its highest-ever level of national debt as a percentage of GDP by 2032, exceeding the benchmark set 80 years ago when it was borrowing like mad to fund the biggest war in history on two fronts. Incredibly, a House bill written and passed by Republicans will accelerate that timeline.

And this can’t be stressed enough: $3.1 trillion is the best-case scenario.

That number is based on assumptions of steady economic growth and low-ish interest rates in the U.S. over the next decade. Such things can no longer be taken for granted after the president started the dumbest trade war in history, raising the risk of a global recession and spooking bond markets. It is insane that the House would respond to spiking anxiety about America’s fiscal stability by piling on even more debt, knowing how investors were bound to react. But it has.

A few days ago, economist Jessica Riedl noted that if interest rates settled at 4.5 percent over the next 30 years instead of the 3.6 percent assumed by CBO, our country would be on the hook for an additional—deep breath—$40 trillion in interest payments during that period.

Once upon a time, an argument on the right for elevating Trump was that he would throttle the RINOs who were forever promising to balance the national books before wilting when given the chance. Making America great again would require making America solvent again and he was just the man to do it. The reality this week was precisely the opposite: Fiscal conservatives, not RINO spendthrifts, were the ones muscled into compliance by the president.

[frank ryan]

Trump wants to end all federal funding to Harvard. I remember all the kvetching from the right when Alex Jones got banned from social media for spreading hateful libel.
Unsurprisingly, Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Matt Walsh etc are mute now.

[All-American]

Big rautiful bill. 3.1 trillion in debt in 10 years


https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...ump-unserious/


Meditate on this: When I call it “The One Big Beautiful Bill,” I’m not mocking the president by mimicking his habit of speaking in dopey Trump-ese. I’m using the official name given to the bill by House Republicans. American government has become so self-consciously unserious that it’s now advertising that unseriousness in how it refers to its own policies.
A fiscal and political travesty.


Handed total control of government last fall, the best the GOP could do in the House this week was move a package that will produce another $3.1 trillion in deficits over the next 10 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Other estimates are more pessimistic.) The United States is currently on pace to reach its highest-ever level of national debt as a percentage of GDP by 2032, exceeding the benchmark set 80 years ago when it was borrowing like mad to fund the biggest war in history on two fronts. Incredibly, a House bill written and passed by Republicans will accelerate that timeline.

And this can’t be stressed enough: $3.1 trillion is the best-case scenario.

That number is based on assumptions of steady economic growth and low-ish interest rates in the U.S. over the next decade. Such things can no longer be taken for granted after the president started the dumbest trade war in history, raising the risk of a global recession and spooking bond markets. It is insane that the House would respond to spiking anxiety about America’s fiscal stability by piling on even more debt, knowing how investors were bound to react. But it has.

A few days ago, economist Jessica Riedl noted that if interest rates settled at 4.5 percent over the next 30 years instead of the 3.6 percent assumed by CBO, our country would be on the hook for an additional—deep breath—$40 trillion in interest payments during that period.

Once upon a time, an argument on the right for elevating Trump was that he would throttle the RINOs who were forever promising to balance the national books before wilting when given the chance. Making America great again would require making America solvent again and he was just the man to do it. The reality this week was precisely the opposite: Fiscal conservatives, not RINO spendthrifts, were the ones muscled into compliance by the president.

I wish I could understand the justification for this bill. I'm just not seeing it.

Some Republican Senators are at least suggesting they won't be able to suppress their misgivings. Here's hoping-- it would be nice if there was anyone left in Washington that actually cared about the deficit.