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02-14-2025, 03:53 PM
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It's pretty ridiculous that American voters continue to think that the GOP is better at managing the economy. There is no shortage of information describing the exact opposite, with economists overwhelmingly having data to support the Democrats' stronger economic track record.
And then in light of Trump's continual stream of tariff policies, it is even more ridiculous that American voters still think the GOP is better at handling the economy.
Makes me keep coming back to this saying -- Brains are awesome. I wish everybody had one. 
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02-14-2025, 03:59 PM
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02-14-2025, 04:29 PM
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#8278 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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What can Dems say or do? They literally have no power and not a single Republican will back them up. Trump owns America right now and he can do whatever he wants.
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02-14-2025, 04:44 PM
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Serious question, is everything Trump doing with the tariffs etc going to put the USA in the dump economically or not? If it is then great, I'm sure the Republicans won't win next round if everything just gets way more expensive for them.
Worst case is it is only moderately bad for them but cripples other countries like us.
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02-14-2025, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by noclue Im waiting for an RS user, who owns a model x & cybertruck to defend elon musk and tesla. Would love to see his insight how the nazi salute is a good thing, like how tesla got rid of the turn signal and shifter is a good thing too. | Many people probably have Tesla stock in their portfolio and I doubt most here are ethical investors. It's all about the returns. Quote:
Originally Posted by MarkyMark Serious question, is everything Trump doing with the tariffs etc going to put the USA in the dump economically or not? If it is then great, I'm sure the Republicans won't win next round if everything just gets way more expensive for them.
Worst case is it is only moderately bad for them but cripples other countries like us. | Trump has already started socializing short term pain and there are enough people who will believe anything that he says. There will be pain for sure, but will enough companies want to move their manufacturing back to the States? The administration wants to eliminate income tax, which is why they're gutting the federal bureaucracy and threatening tariffs to balance the books. I doubt the math works in the end, but who knows?
When the prices of gas, cars, and food go up, he'll put the blame on Canada and say that we're posing a threat to their national security. After that, who knows? All bets are off.
Dark times for sure.
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02-14-2025, 07:41 PM
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We're all going to fucking die because of this ass clown Quote:
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say
Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter.
Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.
An Energy Department spokesperson disputed the number of personnel affected, telling CNN that “less than 50 people” were “dismissed” from NNSA, and that the dismissed staffers “held primarily administrative and clerical roles.”
The agency began rescinding the terminations Friday morning.
Some of the fired employees included NNSA staff who are on the ground at facilities where nuclear weapons are built. These staff oversee the contractors who build nuclear weapons, and they inspect these weapons.
It also included employees at NNSA headquarters who write requirements and guidelines for contractors who build nuclear weapons. A source told CNN they believe these individuals were fired because “no one has taken anytime to understand what we do and the importance of our work to the nation’s national security.”
Members of Congress made their concerns about the NNSA firings known to the Energy Department, a Hill staffer told CNN. A person with knowledge of the matter told CNN that senators visited Energy Sec. Chris Wright to express concern about the NNSA cuts.
“Congress is freaking out because it appears DOE didn’t really realize NNSA oversees the nuclear stockpile,” one source said. “The nuclear deterrent is the backbone of American security and stability – period. For there to be any even very small holes poked even in the maintenance of that deterrent should be extremely frightening to people.”
NNSA has a total of 1800 staff at facilities around the country. The only probationary staffers exempt from the Thursday-night firings were those who work at its Office of Secure Transportation, the office in charge of driving or otherwise transporting nuclear weapons around the country securely, one person familiar told CNN.
“There is strong support on the Hill for NNSA in nuclear modernization writ large,” one source told CNN. “Clearly, NNSA is a critical agency. There have been lawmakers with concerns.”
The agency made the about face Friday morning; during a meeting, acting NNSA administrator Teresa Robbins said the agency had received direction to rescind the termination of probationary employees. Probationary workers have typically been employed for less than a year, or two years in some cases, and have fewer job protections and rights to appeal.
Robbins added on Friday that if probationary NNSA employees had not yet been fired, their jobs were now safe and all NNSA employees whose access to the agency’s network and internal IT systems was shut off would be turned back on, one source told CNN.
The source said Robbins added, “There is a good probability that most or all probationary employees who were fired could return.”
Another source cautioned the situation was extremely fluid and said “we don’t know” how many people will be returning.
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02-14-2025, 08:15 PM
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He's also screwing his MAGA supporters... Quote:
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Friday that Trump rebuffed a request from Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp to allow cities more time to apply for relief. This despite the Peach State reeling from what the University of Georgia estimates to be roughly $5.5 billion in damage to its agriculture and forestry industries alone. Kemp's request was specifically limited to debris removal and emergency protective measures
"Based on our review of all the information available, it has been determined that the increased level of funding you have requested ... is not warranted," acting Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) administrator Cameron Hamilton wrote in a letter to Kemp.
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02-14-2025, 09:31 PM
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#8283 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Originally Posted by Traum It's pretty ridiculous that American voters continue to think that the GOP is better at managing the economy. There is no shortage of information describing the exact opposite, with economists overwhelmingly having data to support the Democrats' stronger economic track record.
And then in light of Trump's continual stream of tariff policies, it is even more ridiculous that American voters still think the GOP is better at handling the economy.
Makes me keep coming back to this saying -- Brains are awesome. I wish everybody had one. | It's like common sense. You realize that it's not actually that common once you start working and meet real people.
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02-15-2025, 06:20 AM
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#8284 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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Holy shit that was fast. 400m supposedly is going to the state department to buy cyber trash
Bitch ass Elon says he doesn’t know about it. Ha !!! How can the American public stand for this kind of bullshit. There should be a riot in capital hill like Jan 6
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02-15-2025, 07:55 AM
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Originally Posted by MarkyMark Serious question, is everything Trump doing with the tariffs etc going to put the USA in the dump economically or not? If it is then great, I'm sure the Republicans won't win next round if everything just gets way more expensive for them.
Worst case is it is only moderately bad for them but cripples other countries like us. | I think this is a big reason why a lot of Dems are staying quiet besides fallout from within and post election loss blues… dude is so bad at policy he’s literally digging his own future grave with voters.
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02-15-2025, 10:31 PM
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02-15-2025, 11:25 PM
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#8287 | | linguistic ninja
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Originally Posted by 68style I think this is a big reason why a lot of Dems are staying quiet besides fallout from within and post election loss blues… dude is so bad at policy he’s literally digging his own future grave with voters. | Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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02-15-2025, 11:50 PM
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#8288 | | I subscribe to the Fight Club ONLY
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Originally Posted by CivicBlues Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
| Given the response I am seeing from Americans so far, I'm not sure if the audience -- ie. general American public -- is viewing what Trump and Musk are doing as "mistakes"...
There are decidedly people (Americans) who are disgusted by what they are seeing. At the same time, it also feels like the (American) Trump supporters are louder and greater in numbers. At least, that's the impression I am getting online.
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Originally Posted by westopher The whole world has gone down a road no one can recover from, and it's nothing to do with governments, it's because so much of the general public is so fucking stupid. | | |
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02-16-2025, 06:15 AM
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Yah the comments online are like drunk people at a party wooooo what a ride fire everybody killl everyone fuck everybody USA USA USA
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02-16-2025, 11:28 AM
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#8290 | | Rs has made me the woman i am today!
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Originally Posted by noclue Im waiting for an RS user, who owns a model x & cybertruck to defend elon musk and tesla. Would love to see his insight how the nazi salute is a good thing, like how tesla got rid of the turn signal and shifter is a good thing too. | Something about struggling like Elon in Argentina, something about his rich dad teaching him how to hustle like Elon, something about how they call the Heil the "Five Finger Hello" in Argentina, something about how the Libs are too sensitive, Elon was probably joking, and if you just hustled harder you'd get his humor.
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02-16-2025, 11:33 AM
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It's very strange, something has to be said about how the dumbest people in your circle/timeline seem to be the most vocal about their political views on their social media.
The people I respect and who take a measured and educated approach with their thoughts never post about politics on their feeds.
I'm sure most of us are the same way and only come on here to talk political slop online, far away from the socials.
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02-16-2025, 12:47 PM
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What kind of online forums are you hanging out in where people are siding with Trump?
In my echo box bubble wrapped lib-fest it's pretty much anti-Trump all the time
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02-16-2025, 01:19 PM
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#8293 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Originally Posted by 68style Yah the comments online are like drunk people at a party wooooo what a ride fire everybody killl everyone fuck everybody USA USA USA | Never underestimate how many bots there are out there. Holy, the number of times I see "I think it would be good for Canada to be the 51st state" with perfect grammar is certainly a dead giveaway that it's a bot or copy-and-paste troll.
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02-16-2025, 08:51 PM
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#8294 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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A lot of those freedumb fighters would join the US to get rid of JT.  
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02-17-2025, 07:25 AM
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That guy should have never been able to walk out of that arena on his own 2 legs
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02-17-2025, 09:47 AM
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Not sure if it should go in the Palestine thread or here
But an Israeli American in Florida got out of his car and shot at two people 17X hitting each of them once, he said they looked Palestinian... as if that was a valid excuse
The victims were in fact Israelis, a father and son, and the father was on Facebook calling for death to Arabs, blaming them for being shot
Seems like a trumper/palestine thread collab https://wsvn.com/news/local/miami-da...-hospitalized/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish...-palestinians/ https://www.cair.com/press_releases/...an-shoots-him/ | |
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02-17-2025, 04:20 PM
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#8297 | | y'all better put some respeck on my name
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We live in dangerous times...  | |
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02-17-2025, 04:28 PM
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Ordinary lefties and righties are starting to realize that the billionaires are the enemy; not each other
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02-17-2025, 04:52 PM
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That doesn't seem all that dangerous. People focusing on killing billionaires instead of elementary school students seems like the best thing that could ever happen to the safety of the general population.
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02-17-2025, 05:25 PM
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Priorities... Quote:
US President Donald Trump’s administration has pressured Romanian authorities to remove travel restrictions on Andrew Tate and his brother, according to a report.
Controversial influencer Mr Tate and his brother Tristan have been accused of various allegations in Romania, including criminal charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women.
When President Trump's special envoy Richard Grenell met with the Romanian foreign minister at the Munich Security conference in Germany, he then brought up the subject once more, multiple sources told the Financial Times.
A request was made to return the brothers' passports so they could travel until the court procedures were over, another source told the publication.
Mr Grenell has previously shown support for the Tate brothers on social media. He posted on X at the beginning of February that Romania was the “latest example” of how “USAid programs were weaponised against people and politicians who weren’t woke”.
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