Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
And that includes MAGA. They didn't even last through Trumps first year in office before they were at each other's throats. Before they realized Trump was full of shit and fucking them. As a voting bloc, they're done.
Jack acts as though the democrat's low approval means Trump and the republicans will win in the mid-terms. Nope, they're just disappointed in the democrats' job performance. They hate Trump and have already shown in 2025 how they will vote. When it's time to go to the ballet box again, the republicans will be destroyed. The democrats will make sure of that. The independents will make sure of that.
In the 2024 elections, a third voted democrat, a third voted for Trump and a third didn't vote at all. Think about that.
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Donald Trump has already spent $70 million of taxpayer money on golfing in less than a year as president. If this pace keeps up, he will spend $300 million playing golf by the time his second term ends.
HuffPost reports that the president on Wednesday made his sixteenth trip this year to his Mar-a-Lago estate and went golfing. Each trip carries a $3.4 million bill in travel and security costs. If Trump decides to go to Mar-a-Lago twice more before the end of the year, he will have spent a total of $75 million on golf, which, repeated each of the following three years, would result in $300 million spent on the trips.
That’s nearly double the $151.5 million in tax dollars Trump spent golfing in his first term as president. Trump spent a third of 2017, his first year as president, hanging out at his private clubs. This time, Trump has also made nine trips to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, spending $1.1 million on each trip. He also went to Aberdeen, Scotland, in July to promote a new golf course at his resort there, spending close to $10 million on the trip.
The security costs Trump incurs on his Florida trips can get pretty high, with machine gun–mounted patrol boats manning the nearby Intracoastal Waterway and the Coast Guard patrolling in the vicinity in the Atlantic Ocean. Using Air Force One costs $273,063 per hour to fly to Palm Beach International Airport, meaning that one four-hour round trip to Mar-a-Lago costs the taxpayer $1.1 million.
In 2016, before Trump was elected, he mocked President Obama’s work ethic, claiming that he was “worse than Carter” for how often he golfed. In the end, Obama only spent $85 million of taxpayer dollars in his eight years as president on golf.
Meanwhile, Trump has not only eclipsed that in his nearly five years as president, he’s shaped his presidency around golf. He has promoted his golf business on the White House social platform and even decided to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., because he hated seeing homeless people on his way to play golf.
Last month, Trump took dirt from his White House demolition and sent it to a golf course he’s taking over in Washington. It’s a fitting act for his presidency: taking something from the taxpayer and putting it toward playing an expensive game that he appears to cheat at.
https://newrepublic.com/post/203739/trump-golf-tab-taxpayer-money
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Donald Trump has already spent $70 million of taxpayer money on golfing in less than a year as president. If this pace keeps up, he will spend $300 million playing golf by the time his second term ends.
HuffPost reports that the president on Wednesday made his sixteenth trip this year to his Mar-a-Lago estate and went golfing. Each trip carries a $3.4 million bill in travel and security costs. If Trump decides to go to Mar-a-Lago twice more before the end of the year, he will have spent a total of $75 million on golf, which, repeated each of the following three years, would result in $300 million spent on the trips.
That’s nearly double the $151.5 million in tax dollars Trump spent golfing in his first term as president. Trump spent a third of 2017, his first year as president, hanging out at his private clubs. This time, Trump has also made nine trips to his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, spending $1.1 million on each trip. He also went to Aberdeen, Scotland, in July to promote a new golf course at his resort there, spending close to $10 million on the trip.
The security costs Trump incurs on his Florida trips can get pretty high, with machine gun–mounted patrol boats manning the nearby Intracoastal Waterway and the Coast Guard patrolling in the vicinity in the Atlantic Ocean. Using Air Force One costs $273,063 per hour to fly to Palm Beach International Airport, meaning that one four-hour round trip to Mar-a-Lago costs the taxpayer $1.1 million.
In 2016, before Trump was elected, he mocked President Obama’s work ethic, claiming that he was “worse than Carter” for how often he golfed. In the end, Obama only spent $85 million of taxpayer dollars in his eight years as president on golf.
Meanwhile, Trump has not only eclipsed that in his nearly five years as president, he’s shaped his presidency around golf. He has promoted his golf business on the White House social platform and even decided to deploy the National Guard in Washington, D.C., because he hated seeing homeless people on his way to play golf.
Last month, Trump took dirt from his White House demolition and sent it to a golf course he’s taking over in Washington. It’s a fitting act for his presidency: taking something from the taxpayer and putting it toward playing an expensive game that he appears to cheat at.
https://newrepublic.com/post/203739/trump-golf-tab-taxpayer-money
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Everything Trump does proves MAGA and others who voted for him are complete morons.
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Originally posted by THG:
Everything Trump does proves MAGA and others who voted for him are complete morons.
You keep saying that as if anybody had any alternative to vote for.
There is a reason that Democrats are drowning in low 30% approval, and it's not because Kamala lost.
It's because when Kamala lost, it was the beginning of the end of the Legacy Democrats and Legacy Media working in tandem to literally CONTROL WHAT YOU THINK, which Joe's wife Mika told you flatly was her job.
Was anybody going to vote for 4 more years of 9% inflation? No.
Was anybody going to vote for an additional 10 million illegal invaders let into the country by the mid-terms? No.
Was anybody going to vote for more DEI policy that saw more than 90% of rehires at Fortune 500 companies after the Covid job losses intentionally all being anybody except for white males? No.
Was anybody going to vote for more "defund the police" on top of all the illegals allowed in and the fact that it's pretty much not safe for women and children to walk outside anywhere except for the whitest, richest neighborhoods without a male escort? No.
Your party is incompetent, and out of touch. They've grown even more incompetent and out of touch with every year that passes, and losing that election in November as bad as they did despite throwing a 90-day, $1.4 Billion party has done nothing at all to get them to seriously re-evaluate their strategy and ideological stances going forward.
And, quite frankly, the Democrats and their policies are dangerous. It is why women going on a bus or a subway in 2025 now have to stress over the idea that they might be stabbed or lit on fucking fire if they're not practicing 100% situational awareness every second they're out in public.
The Democratic Party simply does not want to change at all, and they will continue to burn down their own party because they are wrong on nearly every issue that matters to The American People, even as we reach December of 2025.
You want to beat Trump and/or his successor?
Fucking do better then.
If you even can at this point. It may really be over for the Democratic Party for good now. Your only other option to vote for by midterms could very well be actual Socialism via candidates that don't even hide the fact they're Socialists anymore. Many of those candidates coming from foreign countries. You can pretend not wanting this outcome is racist all you want, but nobody with a working brain gives a single shit about your insults anymore. We simply can't afford to anymore even if we could. You've inoculated everyone from that over the years besides, just like I said you were going to do. Congratulations. Another pat on the back for you.
With where Trump is at right now, Democrats should be up on Republicans by 20 points. That's where they would be at if we were still living in the world that hasn't existed for more than a year and the world which will never come back.
If you want people to vote for your Party, give them a reason to even consider it for 5 seconds.
You don't have a single issue that the Democratic Party is in line with the desires of the people. Not a single one.
It's why you're seeing both Trump and the Republican Party losing support on one side, but nobody is seeing the Democrats get a bump from this on the other side. They're all fence sitting. And shit is bad enough for them to be doing that after the last 5 years and it's why they haven't immediately gone and defected for the Democrat hills like you would expect in a usual election cycle.
All you're doing is making more Independents at a time when Republican support for Trump is still at 87% like it was on day one. He's still got his 42%-43% approval rating that he floated with for most of his entire first run as President. He hasn't lost any of his core following. And if Democrats have no meaningful platform by el
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Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008
Trump’s cronies are undermining financial stability
By Paul Krugman | Nov 28, 2025 at 5:39 AM
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/getting-ready-to-party-like-its-200
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Ten years on, the Fed's failings on Lehman Brothers are all too clear,
On Sept. 15, 2008 Lehman Brothers failed. Within weeks the whole U.S. financial system was caught in the downward spiral of a massive bank run, on a scale not seen since the 1930s. Yet there was an important difference from the 1930s bank runs: in 2008, the panic mainly resulted in flight from “shadow banks,” nonbank institutions that performed bank-like functions. Conventional banks were largely immune from the 2008 panic because deposit insurance and federal regulations – a consequence of the 1930s bank runs – protected them.
While the U.S. economy was already in recession when Lehman fell, the financial crisis pushed it off a cliff into a deep recession. Despite frantic efforts to stabilize the financial markets, including large bailouts and huge lending by the Federal Reserve, America lost 6 million jobs in the year following Lehman’s fall. Total employment didn’t return to pre-recession levels until 2014. The share of prime-working-age adults with jobs remained depressed until the late 2010s:
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The clear lesson of 2008 is that effective financial regulation is essential. For three generations after the great bank runs of 1930-31, America avoided “systemic” banking crises — crises that threaten the whole financial system, as opposed to individual institutions. This era, which Yale’s Gary Gorton calls the Quiet Period, was the result of New-Deal-era protections — especially deposit insurance — and regulations that limited banks’ risk-taking.
But post 1980, finance was increasingly deregulated. In particular, the government failed to extend bank-type regulation to shadow banks that posed systemic bank-type risks. And the crisis came.
In a way, the laxity that made the 2008 crisis possible was understandable. By the 2000s nobody in government or the financial markets remembered what a real financial crisis was like. And no, watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” on Christmas Day doesn’t count.
But here we are in 2025, and 2008 wasn’t that long ago. Many of us still have vivid memories of the gut-wrenching panic that gripped the world when Lehman fell. Yet Donald Trump’s allies and cronies are now moving rapidly to dismantle the precautionary regulations introduced after 2008 to reduce the risk of future financial crises. I say “allies and cronies” advisedly. There’s no indication that Trump himself has any idea what’s happening on his watch. But key players in Congress, within the administration, and, alas, at the Federal Reserve, are apparently determined to make a 2008 rerun possible.
The MAGA war on financial stability is being waged largely on two fronts. First, there’s an ongoing effort within some parts of the Federal Reserve to drastically weaken bank supervision — oversight of banks to prevent them from taking risks that could threaten the financial system.
The Fed has multiple roles: in addition to setting interest rates, it also has primary responsibility for bank supervision.
The Fed is supposed to be quasi-independent, and so far it has preserved its interest-rate-setting independence in the face of intense pressure by Trump to cut rates. Yet a Trumpian agenda is attempting to overtake the Fed’s bank supervision operations. In June, Michelle Bowman, a Trump appointee, became the Fed’s vice-chair of supervision. She is in the process of reducing staffing at the Fed’s supervisory and regulatory unit by 30 percent, while hiring new staffers drawn from the banking industry.
Bowman is expected to substantially loosen capital requirements. Capital requirements – requirements that a bank’
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Quote:Except for a few outliers like Marjorie Taylor Greene, every lunatic who voted several times for Trump is NOT pushing back against Trump. Once Trump is dead, those tens of millions of lunatics will find another Trump to screwup America in exactly the way they screwup their own lives.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
If you want people to vote for your Party, give them a reason to even consider it for 5 seconds.
You don't have a single issue that the Democratic Party is in line with the desires of the people. Not a single one.
It's why you're seeing both Trump and the Republican Party losing support on one side, but nobody is seeing the Democrats get a bump from this on the other side.
6ixStringJoker, I am not kidding when I call you are a lunatic. Read your words: http://fireflyfans.net/mthread.aspx?bid=18&tid=67234&mid=12346
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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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Navigating Reindustrialization in a Deglobalized World
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Quote:Trump Is In FAR Deeper Trouble Than I Anticipated | Paul Krugman
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Everything Trump does proves MAGA and others who voted for him are complete morons.
You keep saying that as if anybody had any alternative to vote for.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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According to ALWAYS WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING Paul Krugman.
OH NOEZ!!!! THE WALLS ARE CLOSING IN ON TRUMP AGAIN!!!!
Loser. You're a loser.
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Be Nice. Don't be a dick. 
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