All Things Trump: The Return Of The King

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[Tero]

PANDEMICS AHEAD. WILL THE US SURVIVE TRUMP?
NO MORE BRIDGES FOR MINNESOTA. THE US IS NOT YOUR PIGGYBANK. GET YUOR OWN FUNDS

social_security_works
17h17 hours ago
"One first acts of the Trump Administration is telling the government to stop finding ways to lower people's prescription drug prices.
That is a very clear indication of the path forward that this Administration is going to take." - Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works

social_security_works
17h17 hours ago
"One first acts of the Trump Administration is telling the government to stop finding ways to lower people's prescription drug prices.
That is a very clear indication of the path forward that this Administration is going to take." - Alex Lawson, Executive Director of Social Security Works

rbreich
13h13 hours ago
Abolish bank regulators. “Delete” the CFPB & IRS. Gut Social Security and Medicare.
The Trump administration’s plots all boil down to the same thing: swindle working people, funnel money to the ultra-rich.

amyklobuchar
18h18 hours ago
President Trump’s executive order to suspend funding for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is not good for MN or our economy. Dems and Reps worked together to provide funding to fix roads, bridges, and water systems across the country.
We need to continue this work, not stop it.

[Tero]

My tax hating Finnish "friend" shared a pdf that is a guide to dismantle the administrative state. Will need to google. It was a long pdf. He never gave the proper link.

[Tero]

NYT

The stock market is one of the few traditional restraints that matter to Trump, as my colleagues Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman have noted. Trump sees stock prices as a report card on his presidency. And he knows that much of Wall Street worries that tariffs could hurt economic growth by raising prices in the U.S. and by sparking retaliatory tariffs elsewhere.

Some new tariffs are still likely because of Trump’s passion for them. Trade policy is a rare issue on which he has expressed consistent views for decades. (Immigration is another.) The uncertainty involves the form that the tariffs will take.

Bessent’s third category was leverage with other countries: “Tariffs can be used for negotiations,” he said. Trump this week threatened Russia with tariffs unless it agreed to a reasonable cease-fire in Ukraine. His planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico are partly an attempt to force concessions on border policy and a trade deal.

Speaking to political and business leaders in Davos yesterday, Trump vaguely threatened new tariffs on European countries. He has long criticized Europe for not buying more American products and not spending more on their militaries. They might be willing to make some changes if the alternative is economically damaging tariffs.

Bessent’s third category was leverage with other countries: “Tariffs can be used for negotiations,” he said. Trump this week threatened Russia with tariffs unless it agreed to a reasonable cease-fire in Ukraine. His planned tariffs on Canada and Mexico are partly an attempt to force concessions on border policy and a trade deal.

Speaking to political and business leaders in Davos yesterday, Trump vaguely threatened new tariffs on European countries. He has long criticized Europe for not buying more American products and not spending more on their militaries. They might be willing to make some changes if the alternative is economically damaging tariffs.

[Tero]

The FGA above
How to destroy government for the people. Leave only the frameeork for corporations.
https://thefga.org/

[Tero]

Those numbers, I looked at the state level jobs, are wrong. I know from talking to locals that the state government does not pay higher wages than the private sector.

[Brian Peacock]

Again, I'll refer you to the Wikipedia articles on Supercapitalism and Corporate Capitalism.

[Tero]

4 more years of crazypants
just for that, tens of millions are waiting for him to die
jefftiedrich
18m18 minutes ago
from today's post:
"what was supposed to be a speech about economics quickly devolved into a litany of Donny’s well-worn grievances about 'the transgenders,' and all the other crazypants shit that pinballs around his worm-ravaged brain — and it was incoherent as fuck.
hey, did you know that bullets are bad? or wait, maybe it’s not the bullets that are bad — maybe it’s the flat ground. listen to this clip, and tell me if you can make any sense of it."

al_truistic1
18m18 minutes ago
When donnie was supposed to talk about economics, he instead did his famous “weave”, which he says is a sign of his intelligence.
Since when are symptoms of senility a sign of intelligence?

[Brian Peacock]

If his brain is 'worm-ravaged' then perhaps he should try ivermectin? I hear it's good for that.

[Tero]

No voter ID, no FEMA

"I want to see two things in Los Angeles. Voter ID, so that the people have a chance to vote, and I want to see the water be released and come down into Los Angeles and throughout the state. After that, I will be the greatest president that California has ever seen."

"In California, millions of gallons of waters are waiting to be poured down through already the half pipes that are already built. I mean, they've been up for 40 years and about 20 years ago they turned off the water. And it's the water that comes from the Pacific Northwest."

"We're looking at the whole concept of FEMA. I like, frankly, the concept when North Carolina gets hit, the governor takes care of it. When Florida gets hit, the governor takes care of it. Meaning the state takes care of it, I'd like to see the states take care of disasters."

[Tero]

aaron.rupar
1habout an hour ago
Trump: "I would love to see Canada be the 51st state. The Canadian citizens, if that happened ... they'd have much better health coverage."
mikezack
43m43 minutes ago
You know what? Fuck it.
Shut it all down. Lumber, oil, gas, electricity. All of it.
It will be chaos inside of a week. Then we can talk.
Fuck him.

danwentzel1
28m28 minutes ago
Telling Canadians that they could trade universal health care for medical bankruptcy and having doctor-prescribed lifesaving treatments denied by an algorithm so that an overpaid CEO can get a bigger annual bonus isn't the "sell" that Donald Trump thinks it is.

[Sean Hayden]

If he lives, I bet we get him for another 8. He’s going to die more popular and loved than Reagan. He’ll even have all the never Trumpers before it’s over.

[Tero]

A little more detail on NIH

Confusion and anxiety is rippling through the US health-research community this week following Donald Trump taking office as the 47th US president. His administration has abruptly cancelled research-grant reviews, travel and trainings for scientists inside and outside the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public biomedical funder. Adding to the worry: the Trump team appears to have deleted entire webpages about diversity programmes and diversity-related grants from the agency’s site.

The cancelling of meetings and travel is part of a pause in external communications issued on 21 January by the NIH’s parent organization, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Researchers who spoke to Nature say that although a short, daylong pause in communications at US agencies has occurred in the past when new administrations have started, to reorient strategy, the reach and length of the Trump team’s — it is set to last until at least 1 February — is unprecedented.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00231-y

[L'Emmerdeur]

For three times the price, the pharmaceutical multinationals might consider taking over. It'd improve government efficiency and that's what everybody wants.

[Tero]

The world knew he was going to be sworn in, and this was not a shock in that. But Trump maximized the impact. Now he has fallen back to babbling about fire and trees.

"Trump’s biggest Davos surprise was the call for nuclear disarmament — and a revelation that he had begun this effort in his first term. “I can tell you that President Putin wanted to do it,” he said, and “China would have come along.”

"This was Trump’s week, in Washington and Davos. Many of his domestic proposals strike me as abominable, but the global agenda has many positives. For good or ill, Trump will never be stronger than he is now, with the world in stunned submission, and I hope he puts his best diplomatic initiatives on a fast track."

www.washingtonpost.com
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/24/politics ... index.html