Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Gorsameth]

Congressman launches investigation into Nigel Farage's travel to US to attend Trump rally

Rules for thee, but not for me.


On a different note, Mr "I only hire the best people" is pretty much just attacking Bolton today:


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If this man kept his fat fingers off his phone, his staff might actually be able to form a cohesive narrative on this topic. But, nope.



Can he actually apply this retroactively?

It was already illegal to do back when it happened, he is just telling the FBI (i assume?) to actually make work of arresting people.

so yes he can do that.

[Belize]

Going to be very interesting at work tomorrow with the news that came out regarding H-1B suspension. Pretty sure my company was in the process of hiring a senior programmer for a specific language and he would've started next month and I'm guessing that isn't happening now. I saw this quote in the article I was reading and it rings 100% true in my company's case:



I had overheard the lawyer and my boss discussing the salary because my boss was apparently deaf and had his phone volume up to 200% while I was in his office. And this is 100% true.

This is the thing Conservatives and Trumpkins don't understand when they whine about immigrants taking their jobs.

No one im Billy-Joe's family, who none of the members have ever left their hometown, went to college because it's for LiBrUlZ. A story you can repeat across large swathes of the population. Thus there is a shortage of skilled workers in America.

Where I work, half of us in technical positions/management are from abroad (including myself). We simply can't find Americans to do the job.

[Draco-Onis]

This is the thing Conservatives and Trumpkins don't understand when they whine about immigrants taking their jobs.

No one im Billy-Joe's family, who none of the members have ever left their hometown, went to college because it's for LiBrUlZ. A story you can repeat across large swathes of the population. Thus there is a shortage of skilled workers in America.

Where I work, half of us in technical positions/management are from abroad (including myself). We simply can't find Americans to do the job.

Well it's easier to blame brown people instead of funding job training programs and free colleges because something something socialism.

[Belize]

Well it's easier to blame brown people instead of funding job training programs and free colleges because something something socialism.

That's the problem though, it's not about funding. It's about a cultural unwillingness to learn new skills.

It's the same problem the Rustbelt has, where there were incentives to re-train factory workers as IT tech or coders, but they wanted their easy manual labor instead and declined training. We have the same problem with our operators on-site where out of the 120~ shift operators, I can count the number of them who've taken the advance training courses that we offer on one hand. They could all do it, but most chose not to.

[Rokom]

Can he actually apply this retroactively?

It's a law from 2003, but it only applies if the destroyed monument commemorates the service of someone in the U.S. armed forces, so I don't think it would apply to any of the Colombus or Confederate statues.

[Levelfive]

Yeah. Like I said, it's something, but not much. "How could I have known that rolling my baby's stroller into traffic was a bad idea?!!"

I'd just caution people against rooting for this sort of thing too much, considering that regardless of the results of the election, they're going to right back to supporting the same regressive policies that Republicans have been espousing for decades.

This, 100%. These guys have been happy participants in the Republican machine for decades (these are people who worked for or with Giuliani, Dick Cheney, Ann Coulter, Matt Drudge, etc., etc., etc.). They are part of the reason Trump isn't an accident but a logical consequence, so yeah, I'm loving it for now with full awareness that they'll be turning this shit on Democrats again as soon they can. I'm just hoping by then they'll be Magneto: You never learn, do you, and we'll be Wolverine: Actually, we do.

[Odinfrost]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1275381670561095682]Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!

If this man kept his fat fingers off his phone, his staff might actually be able to form a cohesive narrative on this topic. But, nope.

I am seriously starting to believe that Trump thinks that less testing means less people are infected.

[some guy]

I am seriously starting to believe that Trump thinks that less testing means less people are infected.

He knows what less testing means. Less cases makes it looks like he is doing something. The fat orange fuck thinks everyone is as stupid as he is.

[Felya]

He knows what less testing means. Less cases makes it looks like he is doing something. The fat orange fuck thinks everyone is as stupid as he is.

Not everyone... just his base... Remember, Trump rips off his followers, more than those that fight him. From Trump University to Coronapalooza, Trump is ripping off his base, because he can easily get away with it.

[Thekri]

Can he actually apply this retroactively?

It is unclear exactly what he is doing here, so it isn't exactly something that can be done retroactively, because it isn't anything in the first place.

He authorized the federal government to enforce a federal law that was already enforced. He might as well have authorized Burger King to sell Hamburgers.

The law specifically says up to 10 years in jail, so that didn't change, in fact the tweet says literally nothing. Oh, and that particular law only covers statues of the US military, so it isn't relevant for most of them. It might cover quite a few confederate statues though, since a very large number of them were in the US Army before the betrayed it and fought against it. Anyway, it is a stupid, useless tweet that authorizes a law that already exists. So I guess he is going to retroactively authorize Burger King to make all the burgers they already made as well.

[Paranoid Android]

Cases are going up in the U.S. because we are testing far more than any other country, and ever expanding. With smaller testing we would show fewer cases!

This idiots logic is amazing. Trump believes this is a solid argument.

Seriously, I can't believe people follow this idiot.

[Felya]

This idiots logic is amazing. Trump believes this is a solid argument.

Seriously, I can't believe people follow this idiot.

Dude... This is the same people that toss around Trump Derangement Syndrome, while believing that Democrats are part of a satanic cult that eats children. That’s why they believe Trump no mater what... you’d have to be deranged to not do what ever Trump asks to stop these satanic cannibals.

[Zan15]

He will wait until he absolutely has no choice. Few people realize the true economic damage this pandemic did to Texas. The state was hit by a double whammy.

Wasn't Tx bragging about how easy it would be to form an independent nation of TX because their finances, corporations, oil and govt was all superior to all those silly lubral costal states.

[zorkuus]

This idiots logic is amazing. Trump believes this is a solid argument.

I wouldn't count on it. Maybe he knows what he's doing, his base will swallow anything he says.

[Omega10]

What Yahoo article? Even the oil majors are in trouble. Exxon is one nudge away from falling off a steep cliff. Occidental is shit deep in debts. BP is in survival mode. Chevrons is the only one with plenty of cash on hand, and they don't know what to do with that cash. No new offshore drilling. SA is spending their sovereign funds like mad to stay alive. Oil & gas R&D is dead in the water. China's oil industry is in big trouble - China’s Offshore Defaults Top $4 Billion as Oil Firm Joins List. Dallas and Houston commercial real estate market will be in depression mode for at least several years. Anything to do with oil & gas is in deep trouble right now.

Well here are some of the headlines.

5 Oil & Gas Stocks That Have Shown They Can Grow Safely
Oil futures trade at highest level since March as Trump assures market China trade pact remains intact
Russia’s Huge Oil Cuts Help Drive Up Physical Crude Prices

Here is a quote from the last article:

“The market looks to be in full recovery mode,” said Eugene Lindell, senior analyst at JBC Energy GmbH. Output cuts from major producers and a demand rebound are “just what the market needs to draw down storage and re-balance.”

There have been a constant flow of articles about how important the oil industry is, how resilient the oil industry is, and how optimistic things are for the oil industry going forward. One had a prediction of $70 a barrel by the end of the year, which presumably would completely revive the oil industry.

My assumption for the reason that oil companies have such an optimistic future is that they got such a big bailout from the Fed that they don't really need to sell any of the oil they are drilling for. The money from the Fed gives them enough cash to make a hefty profit regardless of the price of the product. After all the non politically connected oil companies go under, well that means that the politically connected ones would have a monopoly.

The expectation going forward is: non politically connected oil companies will go bankrupt, and the politically connected ones will get their assets for dirt cheap without having to deal with any of the debt that the non politically connected ones have amassed. The Fed will continually provided them the necessary cash to thrive until prices go back up.

This sounds VERY promising for the US oil industry.

[kaelleria]

Just Trump desperately looking for credit for (eventually) doing something from the media, while complaining that someone else is looked upon favourably.

Faucci and Redfield are testifying on the Hill today.

[Draco-Onis]

That's the problem though, it's not about funding. It's about a cultural unwillingness to learn new skills.

It's the same problem the Rustbelt has, where there were incentives to re-train factory workers as IT tech or coders, but they wanted their easy manual labor instead and declined training. We have the same problem with our operators on-site where out of the 120~ shift operators, I can count the number of them who've taken the advance training courses that we offer on one hand. They could all do it, but most chose not to.

The problem with the rust belt is decades and decades of politicians like Trump telling them jobs will come back and scary brown people are responsible for their problems. The people there also want to believe it but the constant brain washing certainly does not help. We have romanticized the blue collar worker lifestyle and the rust belt way too much throughout American history.

[Zan15]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...rtan-ntp-feeds

‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing


I guess when his administration tries to "what he really means"......they really are the fake news cause he means what he means.

[Nellise]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...rtan-ntp-feeds

‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing


I guess when his administration tries to "what he really means"......they really are the fake news cause he means what he means.

I bet the word "Biden" comes out of anybody's mouth who said Trump was just joking within 10 words when asked about this. (meaning deflector shields set to maximum power)

[swiftowner]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...rtan-ntp-feeds

‘I don’t kid’: Trump says he wasn’t joking about slowing coronavirus testing


I guess when his administration tries to "what he really means"......they really are the fake news cause he means what he means.

Oh man, this interview didn’t age well

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/polit...s-joke-vpx.cnn

"Why yes, the president does joke about over 100,000 Americans dead and tens of millions of unemployed people. But not, that's not disrespectful at all and you are just too serious. Why can't you have a laugh over dead and suffering Americans?"

A summary of the exchange in the link, just cutting through some of the bullshit of that chucklefucks response.

Remember that time Obama joked about Americans dying from Ebola? I don't either.