Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[s_bushido]

So, it is rumored that Musk with the DOGE squad is starting to target NOAA and locking out workers there.

Don't remember if it was part of Project 2025, but I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about them planning to do this anyway.

It smacks of the same """rationale""" behind shutting down CDC reporting: No one can know how bad things are if you just don't give them literally any information. Hurricane season is going to be fun for as long as these fuckers are in power. Especially alongside their blanket denial of climate change and its effects.

The most baffling part is that this will disproportionately effect red states. Very populous red states (FL and TX), to boot...

[gondrin]

Don't remember if it was part of Project 2025, but I'm pretty sure I remember hearing about them planning to do this anyway.

It smacks of the same """rationale""" behind shutting down CDC reporting: No one can know how bad things are if you just don't give them literally any information. Hurricane season is going to be fun for as long as these fuckers are in power.

Oh man, I can't wait to hear DeSantis complain that "We didn't see this coming.". I mean, there was something that did allow you to do this. Elon, Trump and the rest of the GOP decided that they had to shrink down the government so things like weather satellite tracking(sounds too much like it would tie into climate change so it must go) and the like weren't needed.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

So Trump said "I deserve the Nobel peace prize but they'll never give it to me" - what a self absorbed moron.

I mean he’s brought peace in our time and it will go just as well as last time so he deserves it!

[gondrin]

In another example of Republicans hating science, they are now targeting the National Science Foundation. You know, the agency that actually awards grants to further scientific research and to pioneer engineering advancement. Because nothing says dumbing down of America then Republicans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...5494a8e7&ei=33

[hellhamster]

I think he's just shitposting at this point.

If he was being serious, he would demonstrate his plan in order to appeal to broader audiences, no matter how asinine it may seem. Say for example: yes the US will do a Marshal Plan v2.0, and have Palestinians live there.

You can't just drop a bomb like "Gaza belongs to Israel now" and expect the world going with it.

But then again he met Netanyahu, maybe it was to get approval from the Israelis and Jews in the US while doing nothing in the end.

[gondrin]

I think he's just shitposting at this point.

If he was being serious, he would demonstrate his plan in order to appeal to broader audiences, no matter how asinine it may seem. Say for example: yes the US will do a Marshal Plan v2.0, and have Palestinians live there.

You can't just drop a bomb like "Gaza belongs to Israel now" and expect the world going with it.

But then again he met Netanyahu, maybe it was to get approval from the Israelis and Jews in the US while doing nothing in the end.

This was literally done and announced to the whole world via their actual meeting. This wasn't done as a Truth Social post and the like.

[Dontrike]

Rapes of Wrath thinks that high speed rail is dumb because plane tickets are $2, shortly after throating President fElon. You know, those planes that keep ending up in accidents since he took office after he fired a bunch of people.

Trump replied that his billionaire donor has “done a great job” and slammed the United States Agency for International Development, which distributes tens of billions in foreign aid each year. In his answer, Trump pivoted to California’s rail project.

“And one of the things I want to investigate rapidly – because I’ve never seen anything to this extent – the train that’s being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is the worst managed project I think I’ve ever seen,” Trump said. “And I’ve seen some of the worst.”

The president went on to allege that high-speed rail would be a less efficient and more expensive alternative than air travel, which in his estimation, costs $2.

“We’re gonna start a big investigation on that because it’s– I’ve never seen anything like it,” he said. “Nobody’s ever seen anything like it. Nobody has ever seen anything like it. The worst overruns that there have ever been in the history of our country. And it wasn’t even necessary. I would have said, you don’t buy it. You take an airplane – it costs you $2. It costs you nothing. You take an airplane. But this got started. And if you have to, you drive, you can drive.”

[Rasulis]

https://archive.is/KNV0J

archive link

a few bits



I've seen a lot of mixed reactions to Donald from the Indian community in my neck of the woods, including fair bit of support. I'll be curious to see how many folks in the community react to this news, since I don't think Donald has singled out Indians for deportation specifically, yet.



That, I didn't know.



That...sounds like server understaffing for 30,000 prisoners at the concentration camp.

You have never been to a dry cleaner in Dublin? Also, cricket has overtaken football as the most popular sport in the Bay Area.

[gondrin]

Rapes of Wrath thinks that high speed rail is dumb because plane tickets are $2, shortly after throating President fElon. You know, those planes that keep ending up in accidents since he took office after he fired a bunch of people.

I literally wonder when the last time Trump actually had to pay for a legit flight and not fly in his own jet. The last time airtravel was $2 was when getting into a theater cost a nickel and soda shops were a thing.

I love how though he can claim he can investigate something a state is funding and doing on their own. Once again, California may just go tell Trump to go fuck off.

[Edge-]

Rapes of Wrath thinks that high speed rail is dumb because plane tickets are $2, shortly after throating President fElon. You know, those planes that keep ending up in accidents since he took office after he fired a bunch of people.

so they don't know the price of

eggs
milk
crudite ingredients
airline tickets

boy we jumped a few steps, here.

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You have never been to a dry cleaner in Dublin? Also, cricket has overtaken football as the most popular sport in the Bay Area.

I don't venture out towards Dublin much, so nope. But I'm familiar with the growth of cricket in the Bay and I'm here for it. I still have never looked into the first thing about the sport, don't understand a thing, but fit fascinating all the same. I fear actually learning the rules would ruin the mystery of it, I view it like Casey Jones.

[Mayhem]

I think he's just shitposting at this point.

If he was being serious, he would demonstrate his plan in order to appeal to broader audiences, no matter how asinine it may seem. Say for example: yes the US will do a Marshal Plan v2.0, and have Palestinians live there.

You can't just drop a bomb like "Gaza belongs to Israel now" and expect the world going with it.

But then again he met Netanyahu, maybe it was to get approval from the Israelis and Jews in the US while doing nothing in the end.

Because Trump has a track record of coming up with a plan to appeal to the broader audience?

[KrayZ33]

"the train that’s being built between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is the worst managed project I think I’ve ever seen,” Trump said. “And I’ve seen some of the worst.”

Well, I'm gonna be honest, he's probably an expert regarding poorly managed projects, having all the experience.

[gondrin]

Ok, so, and there is no way anyone could make this up, the SBA(Small Business Administration) is now going to be lead by Musk acolyte, Edward Coristine, that goes by the nickname of "bigballs". Yes, this is real. I swear we are in the parody timeline.

https://x.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1886498251609665917

[hellhamster]

Every day is like a Kinder Surprise, you never know what you're gonna get!

Any bets on tomorrow's headline? I'm betting it will have something to do with Greenland and Denmark.

As a Euro, I was like "thank you for pumping my bags mr Trump" when he got elected, as did everyone who dabbles in equities, but now this situation is getting a bit too unhinged.

[Edge-]

Ok, so, and there is no way anyone could make this up, the SBA(Small Business Administration) is now going to be lead by Musk acolyte, Edward Coristine, that goes by the nickname of "bigballs". Yes, this is real. I swear we are in the parody timeline.

https://x.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1886498251609665917

we're giving the government to literal children roflmao

[gondrin]

we're giving the government to literal children roflmao

I am telling you, the movie Idiocracy was literally telling the future. Pretty soon we will have someone in the government keep adding on "Brought to you by Carl Jrs." and the top movie for the past X amount of years will be the movie Ass.

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Every day is like a Kinder Surprise, you never know what you're gonna get!

Any bets on tomorrow's headline? I'm betting it will have something to do with Greenland and Denmark.

As a Euro, I was like "thank you for pumping my bags mr Trump" when he got elected, as did everyone who dabbles in equities, but now this situation is getting a bit too unhinged.

Getting unhinged? It went unhinged Jan 6th, 2021. The door that was attached to those hinges basically got spartan kicked Jan 20th, 2025. Here in a few weeks, the metaphorical house might not even exist anymore.

[Rasulis]

so they don't know the price of

eggs
milk
crudite ingredients
airline tickets

boy we jumped a few steps, here.

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I don't venture out towards Dublin much, so nope. But I'm familiar with the growth of cricket in the Bay and I'm here for it. I still have never looked into the first thing about the sport, don't understand a thing, but fit fascinating all the same. I fear actually learning the rules would ruin the mystery of it, I view it like Casey Jones.

Indians are now minority majority in most East and South Bay cities. Most small businesses in cities like Dublin are now Indian owned. Although I am not keeping track, the statistic did not surprise me. In some cities, they may have overtaken Chinese. For sure in Dublin.

[s_bushido]

I am telling you, the movie Idiocracy was literally telling the future. Pretty soon we will have someone in the government keep adding on "Brought to you by Carl Jrs." and the top movie for the past X amount of years will be the movie Ass.

The government in Idiocracy gets a bad rap. From what I remember, they found the smartest guy in the country and actually listened to what he had to say...

[Corvus]

Trump really is desperate to make the US biggly huger isn't he. Maybe someone needs to tell him the moon is open real estate for the first to get there and we can dump him and Musk on it with a one way trip.

[KrayZ33]

The government in Idiocracy gets a bad rap. From what I remember, they found the smartest guy in the country and actually listened to what he had to say...

Heh, that's true.
Even among the trash that was left, the current president in that movie had the highest IQ (before the main character arrived) if I remember correctly. So we are basically just worse than they are. Great.

Ok, so, and there is no way anyone could make this up, the SBA(Small Business Administration) is now going to be lead by Musk acolyte, Edward Coristine, that goes by the nickname of "bigballs". Yes, this is real. I swear we are in the parody timeline.

https://x.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1886498251609665917

holy shit, the profil picture of that account is just peak.