All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

[Thumpalumpacus]

It's like every decision he's taken in this second term is premised on the question, "What will harm America the most?"

Kill trade? Why not?

Abandon allies? What the problem is?

Maybe we should cut soft power, it doesn't blow up enough stuff.

Speaking of blowing up stuff, let's demand fealty rather than competence from our military leaders. That worked out for Hitler, by gum.

And so on, and so on ...

[Svartalf]

Yeah, we might want to take bets as to what state the USA will be in when the next administration takes over... and I'm actually assuming there WILL be a next administration, and the frump won't have sufficiently destroyed the system to ensure he can get a 3rd term, or maybe nominate his own successor

[macdoc]

The penguins will defend

Marco Foster
‪@marcofoster.bsky.social‬

I stand with the penguins of Heard and McDonald Islands

[Brian Peacock]

Trump appoints Dr Oz as Administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

(not the onion)

[macdoc]

https://www.threads.net/@ms_rozzie_rebe ... yayc/media
comments are wonderful

The Emu war is a true event in Australias history.
The "Emu War" was a bizarre, short-lived military operation in 1932 in Western Australia where the Australian military attempted to control a large emu population that was damaging crops, but ultimately failed due to the emus' speed and agility.

[Tero]

Roreigners! Keep them out! We don't need no tourist money:
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ARX1j ... tid=wwXIfr

The catalyst? The Trump administration’s order, in a classic case of euphemistic American-speak, to subject more foreign visitors to the process of “enhanced vetting” of travellers at its borders.

One Traveller reader has vowed never to return to the US after he was detained last month for eight hours at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, while his laptop and smartphone were examined by US border guards. He was finally deported back to Australia.


His “crime”? Taking a more circuitous route to the US to save on his airfare, though he stresses he was not accused of any actual “wrongdoing”.

“I feel like returning to the US under the current administration would be the equivalent of going back for your hat after escaping a devastating house fire,” says the reader, an Australian citizen who asked not to be named. “I have no wish to be burnt again.”

[Tero]

About time
https://theonion.com/trump-assures-wall ... ople-soon/

[Joe]

What gets me is how the GOP, the party of lower taxes, is largely sanguine about this big old tax hike.

[Brian Peacock]

What gets me is how the GOP, the party of lower taxes, is largely sanguine about this big old tax hike.

Surely business and income taxes will fall in short order. This might shift the tax burden more in favour of the wealthy, but it would be a good hand to play at the mid-terms. Then again, we know how predatory the US financial sector is, with c.90% of gains being returned to investors - so liberating wealth at the top is not going to end up being reinvested in the people at the bottom is it?

[Joe]

What gets me is how the GOP, the party of lower taxes, is largely sanguine about this big old tax hike.

Surely business and income taxes will fall in short order. This might shift the tax burden more in favour of the wealthy, but it would be a good hand to play at the mid-terms. Then again, we know how predatory the US financial sector is, with c.90% of gains being returned to investors - so liberating wealth at the top is not going to end up being reinvested in the people at the bottom is it?

They may come up with some cuts, but midterms are a future thing where the tariffs are right now. I think many of the rank and file supporters just haven't twigged to the fact that a tariff is a tax. Maybe when whatever part of the tarrifs the importers can pass on fall on them, but I doubt many of them will make the connection. It will be inflation then.

It will probably be the Democrat's fault, in any event.

[Brian Peacock]

Undoubtedly. Inflation is always the democrats fault!

[Tero]

[Tero]

No more cheap metal for appliances.

https://www.threads.net/@inda.pendent/p ... 2V_Pgtr0ag

[Tero]

Kiss the ring!
https://www.threads.net/@christopherkau ... mF-m-ooEkA

[macdoc]