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Trump’s Dumbest Order Is Hiding His Most Dangerous Rule Change Yet
Donald Trump snuck an insidious change into an executive order on showerheads.
By Edith Olmsted | April 10, 2025/10:42 a.m. ET
https://newrepublic.com/post/193852/donald-trump-dangerous-rule-change
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Buried within Donald Trump’s executive order “undoing the left’s war on water pressure” was a shady phrase to help the president fast-track his deregulatory crusade.
Excellent.
California has yet to begin rebuilding a single house that burned down.
YOUR party is responsible for this.
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Trump needs to stop running around like a man with his hair in fire, and start making intermediate and long term plans. And that includes doing well enuf to get Vance in the WH. Bc, TBH, I think Vance is more logical and systematic. Plus, he needs to get better advisors.
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Well.
Trumpis doing some things right, especially about illegal aliens.
I wish he had the same laser focus on the other things he's trying to accomplish, but he's making hash of his opportunities.
He seems to think he has to ... and can ... solve everything in 100 days. He acts like he has way more leverage than he does. And promising every day that "a deal" is just around the corner .... how stupid does he think we are?
Ukraine.
There's a long bad history of the west screwing with Russia: breaking promises, creating a color revolution, blowing up pipelines, torpedoing negotiations, waging covert war etc. Many reasons for Russia not to trust us. And Trump is in a no-win situation, because NO MATTER WHAT HE DOES, RUSSIA IS GOING TO WIN. So Trump isn't gonna get a cease fire in 1000 days, no matter how much he blusters and bullies. What Trump should do is just stop supporting Ukraine. Right now.
Ending globalization and tariffs.
I think tariffs are an essential part of remaking our economy. But not the ONLY part, and - again- it's not gonna happen in six months, or a year, or even two years. I think Russia did an EXEMPLARY job rebuilding its economy, from being a basket-case kleptocracy in 2000 to being a resilient nearly self-sufficient economy able to withstand everything the west could throw at it - militarily, economically, and financially, in 2022. BUT IT TOOK 22 YEARS TO GET THERE.
China has spent every year since 2008 trying to unhitch itself from the USA market... 15 YEARS. Can it survive an all-out trade war with the USA? I don't know. But CHINA IS A LOT MORE PREPARED THAN WE ARE.
So. Igniting a full-on trade war with China?.
Counterproductive.
Oh BTW... I dont give a fuck what happens to the stock market. Its been one big speculative bubble that the Fed refuses to let pop for over 20 years.
Saving money
The one thing that DOGE uncovered is that nobody really follows any sort of accounting practices. YOU CAN'T SAVE MONEY UNTIL YOU KNOW WHO IS BEING PAID, AND FOR WHAT. So until accounting practices have been followed for at least six months, it's hard to determine what to cut. Also ... a TRILLION DOLLAR DEFENSE BUDGET?
'If Trump breaks the economy he owns it... but if he fixes it, he owns that too' Problem is, NOBODY can fix an economy in two years.
If Trump breaks the economy, he'll lose Congress in two years. Fuck up bad enough, and Vance will lose the WH, and there will go our best chance at a rational national economic strategy. It's not just about Trump.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Trump needs to stop running around like a man with his hair in fire, and start making intermediate and long term plans. And that includes doing well enuf to get Vance in the WH. Bc, TBH, I think Vance is more logical and systematic. Plus, he needs to get better advisors.
Keep in mind that it is only April 11th. We're not even 100 days in yet, even though Democrats can't stop talking about the 2026 midterms they're going to lose every day.
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Peevish Trumptards Take Revenge!
Pentagon fires Greenland base commander for refuting JD Vance’s remarks
A Pentagon spokesperson suggested that Col. Susannah Meyers “undermined” Vance when she praised the unity of the base’s multinational staff in an email.
By Clarissa-Jan Lim | April 11, 2025, 11:36 AM CDT
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/greenland-base-commander-fire
d-jd-vance-rcna200820
The Pentagon has fired the commander of its base in Pituffik, Greenland, after she refuted remarks that Vice President JD Vance made during his contentious visit to the semi-autonomous Danish territory last month.
On March 31, three days after Vance’s visit, Col. Susannah Meyers wrote an email to the multinational staff at the Pittufik Space Base in which she struck a far more unified tone than the vice president did in his speech.
“I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the U.S. administration discussed by Vice President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base,” Meyers wrote in her email, which was first reported by Military.com.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/04/10/space-force-commander-g
reenland-sent-out-email-breaking-vance-after-his-visit.html
“I commit that for as long as I am lucky enough to lead this base, all of our flags will fly proudly — together,” she added. (Under a 1951 defense agreement with Denmark, when the installation was known as Thule Air Base, the flags of the United States, Greenland and Denmark are required to be flown on the base.)
During his hourslong trip to the Arctic island, Vance accused Denmark of failing the people of Greenland and said they would be safer under U.S. rule. Vance and second lady Usha Vance had a frosty reception from the territory’s residents, who have largely made it clear that they do not want to be a part of the United States.
On Thursday, Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell posted a statement on X announcing that Meyers had been let go “for loss of confidence in her ability to lead.” His statement suggested that Meyers had behaved in a partisan manner, despite the fact that her email explicitly dismissed politics.
“Actions to undermine the chain of command or to subvert President Trump’s agenda will not be tolerated at the Department of Defense,” Parnell wrote in his post, which linked to the article on Military.com.
Meyers is not the first to be punished for displaying less than total fealty to Team Trump. The White House has also purged the Justice Department of career lawyers and replaced them with loyalists. Just last week, a DOJ prosecutor was suspended from his post — two weeks after his promotion — for telling a federal judge that the government had deported a Maryland man to El Salvador by mistake.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Peevish Trumptards Take Revenge!
Nobody wants to hear it when you retards are out destroying everyone's cars and having other destructive temper tantrums.
We should just send you all to Cecot.
You love illegal criminals so much I'm sure they'd welcome you with open arms.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Trump needs to stop running around like a man with his hair in fire, and start making intermediate and long term plans. And that includes doing well enuf to get Vance in the WH. Bc, TBH, I think Vance is more logical and systematic. Plus, he needs to get better advisors.
Keep in mind that it is only April 11th. We're not even 100 days in yet, even though Democrats can't stop talking about the 2026 midterms they're going to lose every day.
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SIX, think before posting.
There are SOME things ... purely political ... that can be solved with a Trump decision or a negotiated settlement. For example, allow Biden's "draw down" weaponry to flow into Ukraine but commit to not providing any more money or ISR, starting right now.
Restore diplomatic relations with Russia, give back the diplomatic property that Obama stole, and start negotiating an intermediate range missile treaty with Russia.
But Iran??
WTF??
Trump, when you're trying to put out fires, STOP SETTING MORE.
"Maximum pressure" tactics won't against Russia, China, OR IRAN.
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Energy Secretary Hints At Military Action Against Iran's Global Oil Exports
Friday, Apr 11, 2025 - 05:45 AM
Amid Trump's anti-Iran 'maximum pressure' and the current climate of the White House telling Tehran to negotiate a new nuclear deal or else bombs could fly, fresh statements from US Energy Secretary Chris Wright just added fuel to the fire.
Jeezus, no shit.
Trump thinks he can push nations around like in New York real estate deals. It doesn't work that way. Iran says it doesn't want a nuclear weapon, and Trump and Putin say the same thing. So.... what's the problem???? The only thing to negotiate is how to verify, which is a technical issue. So, once that's dine, release sanctions on Iran and lower oil and gas prices. Everyone will be happy (except SECOND).
BUT THE ECONOMY IS DIFFERENT.
Fixing an economy is a 15 year (or more) effort.
CHINA is not our problem, our financial globalists are our problem who thought the USA could guve up production and reign as the supreme financial power. Dtarting with NAFTA (giant sucking sound"), accepting China into the WTO, and ALMOST signing the TTP/TTIP. If Trump wants to reverse this he's going to have to go head to head against a very powerful set of oligarchs.
So, what's with the military action?
And then there's Trump going around the world, shaking down every nation or land area he can find (Gaza, Panama, Greenland/Denmark, Canada, Taiwan, and every nation that he can tariff) looking like so much as a man frantically digging thru couch cushions looking for a quarter.
I'm all for what Trump is trying to do, but how about .... improving the economy sector by sector, replacing an entire supply chain to ... make automobiles, for example?
AND OUR BUDGET DEFICIT IS AN INTERMEDIATE-RANGE PROBLEM.
It can start heading in the right direction, but won't be eliminated for at least 5 years. And first, the WH needs to know who is getting $$, and for what. Aside from just stopping money waste, entire programs need to be re-evaluated, and it needs to be considered whether ending a program would ultimately cost more $$ than it would save.
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If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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Quote:6ix, you are out of your fucking little mind with your talk of Democrats Destroying America. Trumptards have done more harm to America just by their over-eating, smoking, drunkenness, tax-cheating, shirking-of-work, incompetence-at-work, spending-rather-than-saving, and abandoning their families than all Democratic politicians have done by being in office. Trumptards are fucking dirtbags and that harms the nation and themselves.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If we had 200 years to get things done like China was, great Sigs.
Trump has 2 years to do it. If he breaks anything we need that can't be fixed by mid-terms, he loses. If he can't get his agenda done in 2 years, we all lose. We don't have time for sector-by-sector. Even if another Republican is voted in in 2028, they won't be Trump, and there's a very good chance they end up being another Establishment NeoCon or somebody in line with them. We already know that most of our Government is not pro-America and doesn't give a shit about America's future.
Democrats will go right back to destroying America in 2 years if things aren't better, and that's because we still haven't put IQ minimums on voting, and 75% of the retards on social media get all their news from reading headlines and passing them along without anyone bothering to read the articles.
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump’s favorite trick is blowing up in his face
He thinks chaotic behavior gets him better deals. Instead it’s gravely harming the US economy.
By Andrew Prokop | Apr 11, 2025, 1:00 PM CDT
https://www.vox.com/politics/408319/trump-tariffs-madman-theory-bonds-
treasury-yields
For many years, Donald Trump has viewed unpredictability as one of his greatest negotiating assets.
He believes deliberately acting “crazy,” as he reportedly told aides in 2017, is a highly effective way to win concessions in advance of a deal. As I’ve written, this is akin to what President Richard Nixon dubbed the “madman theory” — that if he convinced foreign leaders he was willing to do unthinkable things, they’d back down out of fear.
The problem was that savvy observers like investors and foreign leaders caught on to this game. So during Trump’s first term, conventional wisdom set in: Trump may say scary things, but he’s typically bluffing. In the end, he is rational, knows when to step back from the brink, and does not want a truly destructive outcome. Often, there was seemingly good reason to believe this: The pre-pandemic economy remained strong, Trump avoided major new wars, and he didn’t pull out of NATO.
Now, in his second term, Trump has decided to blow up that assumption by imposing chaotic, impulsive, and bizarre tariffs that shake the global economy. He’s not just threatening anymore: He’s actually implementing his destructive and dangerous ideas. (At least for a little while — he did back off some of them on Wednesday amid market turmoil, though others remain.)
It is entirely possible — likely, in my view — that Trump’s hoped-for endgame for his trade war remains a series of “big, beautiful deals,” with details flexible and to be determined and, that in his own mind, all he’s doing is trying to increase his leverage. That is: He’s still trying to implement madman theory.
Even regarding China, where the trade war is most intense, it could well be that Trump will settle for something far short of the massive disruption that truly decoupling our economy from theirs would entail — that the endgame is a deal.
But even if all this is true and Trump’s end goals are not as unreasonable as his current behavior reflects, he’s still doing grave and potentially long-lasting damage to the United States and its reputation and position in the global economy.
Trump is shredding the US’s economic and business reputation
It turns out that trying the madman schtick, not just with individual foreign leaders but with the entire global economy all at once, is far riskier. And it turns out that by actually following through on his threats and putting giant tariffs into effect, Trump crossed an important line. He exploded investors’ conventional wisdom that he would, in the end, back down. So they’re responding — by ditching US bonds and currency.
Now, Trump’s team did anticipate that the trade war might drive the dollar down — some of them even wanted that because it would help make US exports more competitive. They did not, however, anticipate the ominous spikes in US Treasury bond yields. In fact, Trump advisers had previously said they were trying to drive bond yields lower.
US Treasury bonds are typically viewed as an extremely safe asset — they mature with interest after a set period. The interest rate, or “yield,” fluctuates based on market demand. Basically, when investors become more eager to put their money in US bonds, the interest rate drops. But when investors prefer to put money elsewhere, the interest rate goes up (demand for bonds is lower, so a higher interest rate is necessary to make it “worth it” for investors).
Typically, a crisis drives investors to the safe asset of Treasury bonds. But now a Trump-invented crisis is doing the opposite and driving them away. This is a major problem both because US interest payments on its debt will rise and because it heightens the risk of a financial crisis.
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HE CAN'T GET HIS "ECONOMY" AGENDA DONE IN TWO YEARS, PERIOD.
Steel mills, textile mills, chip fabs, metalworking and fabrication plants, heat treating, CNC machines, pharma production, specialty chemicals... dood, you think those are all going to appear by magic, just bc Trump wants???
EVEN IF other nations saw the error of their ways and starting investing in production facilities TOMORROW, they wouldn't be up and running in two years.
THE FISCAL PROBLEM WILL TAKE A FEW YEARS TO SOLVE. And if he's counting on a revived economy generating more revenues ... well, that'll be a long wait!
And constantly announcing that a "new deal" is just around the corner, or YUGE! waste was suddenly discovered is no substitute for RESULTS.
There are some things he can get done right away: Ukraine, Russia.
Stop setting fires with China and Iran.
Stop sending $ to Israel.
Stop trying to shake down nations for spare change (He wants NATO nations to pay us $350 billion for services rendered. Well, so do I but it's not gonna happen.)
He has to future-proof his program by building on success, not making wild promises and taking radical counterproductive actions.
10% tariffs across the board, OK. Higher tariffs on certain products (eg automobiles) OK. Virtual embargo on China-USA trade? Not OK.
Take a deep breath and focus.
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