What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[HVC]

Yeah the rights been pushing a wife beater narrative

[Syt]

[crazy canuck]

Of all the executive abuses that have occurred over the last few months, this is the least of them. But it might be the thing that costs him the most votes in the long run as it dawns on his supporters that he is destroying their net worth.

[crazy canuck]

The it's ok the play footsie with fascists movement is growing.

I have left my country of birth to avoid living under fascists so don't try that on me it won't stick.

I had a good laugh when you thought BB was being empathetic.  He is the one that took the position the Conservatives should play "footsie with fascists" in Canada to defeat the LPC. As I recall he was quite critical of my saying they shouldn't - going so far as to accuse me of being a Progress Conservative.  I am not sure I have recovered from the mental distress of having that label attached to me.   

I don't think it was meant so much as a burn as bad political advice.

I mean the Whigs were generally nice people from what I understand.  But whiggism was a political dead-end.

And don't put "footsie with fascists" in quotes.  I used the word "footsie" in dealing with Canadian Trumpists IIRC.

Your defence of the Conservatives playing footsie with Canadians who support American fascism is precisely what I am condemning.

[Valmy]

Doom

[HVC]

Getting rich on tariffs? I still don't know if the demented old fool doesn't know how tariffs work and who pays them or if he's just lying like normal.

[The Minsky Moment]

Meanwhile Pam Bondi on Fox "News": Abrego Garcia's wife and child are "safer" tonight now that he is held in El Salvador "where he belongs"

So Pete Hegseth will be on the next plane?  Safety first after all.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Getting rich on tariffs? I still don't know if the demented old fool doesn't know how tariffs work and who pays them or if he's just lying like normal.

Not even sure if they are being collected. But, if they are, then they are a massive tax increase on Americans and will raise lots of money for the federal government  USA!  USA!  USA! 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Getting rich on tariffs? I still don't know if the demented old fool doesn't know how tariffs work and who pays them or if he's just lying like normal.

[The Minsky Moment]

Also doesn't know how the Fed works, if the economy is really booming as he says, why would the Fed cut rates?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Also doesn't know how the Fed works, if the economy is really booming as he says, why would the Fed cut rates?

I'm wondering if he is going to try and repeat Erdogan's mistakes with interest rates of a couple of years back? If he can get rid of Powell that is.

[Valmy]

I'm wondering if he is going to try and repeat Erdogan's mistakes with interest rates of a couple of years back? If he can get rid of Powell that is.

That's the plan. And quite a few people on this board called it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Yeah, that is what we in England call a "cunning plan", as in a Baldric plan.

[Valmy]

Yeah, that is what we in England call a "cunning plan", as in a Baldric plan.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society

NEW HAVEN, CT — Calling such concern for linguistic precision a clear indicator of a thriving country, a panel of historians from Yale University issued a statement Thursday announcing that quibbling over the exact definition of a concentration camp was a sign of a healthy society. "Studies of the past tell us that nitpicking the particular semantics of the term 'concentration camp' as they pertain to a place the government is actively sending people with no criminal history is highly associated with national stability," said historian Kristen Boyd, who added that the more pedantic one's reasoning for a facility not fully satisfying the criteria for a true concentration camp, the better that bodes for a country's future. "Time and time again, history shows us that caveat-laden arguments about what is or isn't a concentration camp only occur in countries with sound political systems. When people are splitting hairs over the specific methodology and intent behind mass detention and human rights abuses, that's when you know you're looking at a vibrant, civilized society. It's as true today as it was a hundred years ago. Civilizations are healthier when citizens are raising trivial objections to the use of the term 'concentration camp' on the grounds that their neighbor's rendition to an oversight-free mass prison still technically exists within a legal framework, at least on paper." Boyd went on to state that blindly insisting that anyone who wound up in a concentration camp must have done something wrong to get there has historically always been a sign of a healthy conscience.