Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Edge-]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1...gle-app-stores

Tiktok is back.

Why am I posting that here?

But on Thursday, Apple and Google received a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi informing the companies that the Trump administration will not prosecute them for supporting TikTok, according to sources familiar with the matter who were not authorized to speak publicly about it.

The assurance from Bondi that President Trump would not fine the companies was enough for Apple and Google to bring the app back.

So...basically the exact same assurances the Biden DoJ gave them before they decided to shut down anyways.

Honestly, fuck all these fucking companies.

[AntiFascistVoter]

Hey kids, still thinking about how Trump crash airplanes, Trump crash huge airplane boat? Hold that thought in your head....

Donald Trump is firing 300 people of the 1800 in the National Nuclear Security Administration. This is not good?



NNSA's primary missions is to maintain the safety, security and effectiveness of the United States' nuclear weapons stockpile.NNSA manages the nuclear weapons complex. That includes Los Alamos, Livermore, and Sandia National Laboratories, the Pantex assembly plant, the Nevada National Security Site, and, I think, a few other sites having to do with weapons component manufacture.

The ancestry of the organization, going back to the Manhattan Project and the Atomic Energy Commission.


Ya'll have a good nights sleep.
God Bless.

[PACOX]

There's no major opposition media in this country. Lil X clearly told Trump to STFU (well to shush which stings even more). Fox News would have been playing it 24/7 if it happened to a Democrat.

[NED funded]

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/nx-s1...gle-app-stores

Tiktok is back.

Why am I posting that here?



So...basically the exact same assurances the Biden DoJ gave them before they decided to shut down anyways.

Honestly, fuck all these fucking companies.

I am starting to suspect this is what Trump is going to do. Instead of negotiating a deal he will simply refuse to enforce the law, basically rendering congress and the senate even more useless. Centralize all that power into one person. This is obviously the basis of 249 years of republic.

[Rasulis]

The public focus has been on the price of eggs. But it's not a good metric on inflation, since there are unique factors impacting egg prices right now. If a farm gets 1 chicken with bird flu in the US, every chicken at the farm is culled. So supply and demand, that's lead to higher egg prices. The concern shouldn't be $11 eggs (because it's not due to normal inflation), it should be *why* eggs are $11, as in what happens if that jumps to humans especially with the CDC, etc. gutted. I'd be cautious about getting distracted by the lesser concern on eggs. So unless RFK Jr.'s homeopathic remedies can cure bird flu in chickens, eggs aren't going to get cheaper in the US anytime soon.

The price of eggs is a small piece of the puzzle. Department of Labor most recent report gave us a larger view, and the view is pretty ugly.

Inflation went up 0.5% in January. The largest increase since August 2023. Core prices up 0.4%. The most since March 2024. Grocery up 0.5%. Eggs up 15.2% in January.

Car insurance up 2%. Hotel prices 1.4%. Gasoline 1.8%.

Good prices, excluding energy and food, up 0.3%. US wholesale prices (Producer Price Index) up 0.4%. These indexes have been flat or falling after the pandemic supply chain was fixed. Yet now they ticked up even before the implementation of any tariffs.

There is nothing good in the report.

[Kaleredar]

The price of eggs is a small piece of the puzzle. Department of Labor most recent report gave us a larger view, and the view is pretty ugly.

Inflation went up 0.5% in January. The largest increase since August 2023. Core prices up 0.4%. The most since March 2024. Grocery up 0.5%. Eggs up 15.2% in January.

Car insurance up 2%. Hotel prices 1.4%. Gasoline 1.8%.

Good prices, excluding energy and food, up 0.3%. US wholesale prices (Producer Price Index) up 0.4%. These indexes have been flat or falling after the pandemic supply chain was fixed. Yet now they ticked up even before the implementation of any tariffs.

There is nothing good in the report.

Are you perhaps saying that...

Things were cheaper under Biden?

[Polgara]

Are you perhaps saying that...

Things were cheaper under Biden?

How were people to know it was going to get worse? It's not like Trump already served an abysmal term anyone had access to learning about...

[Breccia]

So I think Canada is going to be a very serious contender to be our 51st state

-Trump, today

Trump is not joking. He actually means it. Therefore, so do Trump supporters who have not said otherwise, and I feel justified in quoting them as such.

[Kaleredar]

How were people to know it was going to get worse? It's not like Trump already served an abysmal term anyone had access to learning about...

But trump first time price lower than Biden price! Must mean Trump good at economy! Me pay less for egg under first Trump than Biden!

But now... me pay... MORE for egg under Trump than Biden?!

Must all be part of 5-Dimensional economic chess. No way Trump take advantage of stupids to line own pockets while lying about prices. Sure, he done nothing but line pockets since taking office, and prices not go any lower, but...

but...

[Breccia]

but...

With Trump signing all those Executive Orders, they're desperate for something, anything, they can point to as a win for themselves. They'll keep claiming they're okay with paying higher prices for Trump's agenda, and conveniently not mentioning they voted for Trump for lower prices. They haven't forgotten, but they would rather die than admit they made a mistake. And considering what's happening to everything from the CFPB to Medicaid to SS, they'll be able to demonstrate that.

[PACOX]

-Trump, today

Trump is not joking. He actually means it. Therefore, so do Trump supporters who have not said otherwise, and I feel justified in quoting them as such.

I want just one journalist, just one, to ask Trump how a state gets added to the Union. I don't need Trump to answer the question, I just want to goofy ass face he would make as he struggles between not knowing the answer and anger towards the journalist.

[Moralgy]

canada becomes the 51s state, gets another california level EC votes. ya know, i support this now, it would save america but destroy canada xdd /s

[Endus]

-Trump, today

Trump is not joking. He actually means it. Therefore, so do Trump supporters who have not said otherwise, and I feel justified in quoting them as such.

He means it, but it's never gonna happen. Canadians are rallying across political divides against this bullshit, Trump would have to use military force, and the moment he rolls a single tank over the border, the rest of NATO is going to stomp his balls in.

Not to mention the likely internal civil war it'd provoke in the USA and no country being willing to trade with the USA any more, leading to complete ecoomic collapse.

It's not that I don't think Trump's that stupid. It's that I think it's so stupid an idea it will inevitably fail terribly even if he does try to pull it off.

[Tech614]

canada becomes the 51s state, gets another california level EC votes. ya know, i support this now, it would save america but destroy canada xdd /s

Yea the only people that benefit from Canada as a 51st state are

1) Dem party who would get a free ride to control at all levels of government while doing nothing and continuing to be neo liberal fuckwits.

2) Donald Trump gets written in history books as the president who added the 51st state

That's it, that's the list. Canadians see a massive decrease in their healthcare and consumer protections, Americans get no real benefit out of the deal. So is Trump secretly in cahoots with Chuck and Nancy on this idea? Def not, but it would be the only explanation that makes sense rofl.

[alach]

In honour of America's newest head of the Health Services, I present this...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AYdrU6H0qu4

Its crazy how far these once sensible people have fallen. I knew he was a Dem, but preaching about the very things he is now a part of. What does trump command over these folks? Its not blackmail, they have proudly admitted to some shameful acts. Its not money, most of these fellows are already more wealthy than most of us. Its not that they suddenly woke up one morning and admitting to liking trumps policies, or heard he is a really loving and kind man.

I sure hope one day in the future we find out that what made people like RFJ Jr, JD Vance, and all those others flipflop into loving trump and give up not their souls, but their very idealogies and principles.

ps. Why aren't videos embedding?

[Tech614]

I sure hope one day in the future we find out that what made people like RFJ Jr, JD Vance, and all those others flipflop into loving trump and give up not their souls, but their very idealogies and principles.

They had nothing going for them to get popular on their own merits so the grifted to the easiest source of popularity if you kiss Trump's ring. MAGATs will like anyone Trump tells them to like.

[gondrin]

With Trump signing all those Executive Orders, they're desperate for something, anything, they can point to as a win for themselves. They'll keep claiming they're okay with paying higher prices for Trump's agenda, and conveniently not mentioning they voted for Trump for lower prices. They haven't forgotten, but they would rather die than admit they made a mistake. And considering what's happening to everything from the CFPB to Medicaid to SS, they'll be able to demonstrate that.

The big irony, and I do mean BIG irony, is he could literally get everything he wants passed through Congress right now instead of doing everything illegally. The Senate most definitely would have no issue removing the filibuster to give Trump what he wants. And everything that DOGE and his EOs are doing could easily be done officially. And there would be nothing the Democrats could do about it as they do not actually have any means to stop it if the filibuster was removed.

But Trump, like a lot of criminals, just love to do things illegally for the sake of doing them illegally. Because doing things illegally is far easier than doing them legally. Especially in this case.

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He means it, but it's never gonna happen. Canadians are rallying across political divides against this bullshit, Trump would have to use military force, and the moment he rolls a single tank over the border, the rest of NATO is going to stomp his balls in.

Not to mention the likely internal civil war it'd provoke in the USA and no country being willing to trade with the USA any more, leading to complete ecoomic collapse.

It's not that I don't think Trump's that stupid. It's that I think it's so stupid an idea it will inevitably fail terribly even if he does try to pull it off.

Don't worry. Give it a few months and the US will probably be on its way to a Civil war anyway if SCOTUS rules against him and he decides to ignore them and Congress does nothing.

I will personally go march on DC to demand Congress to be removed if they do that as, at that point, I will demand nobody pay their salaries as they are no longer needed as the US Constitution is invalid. I will demand DOGE to cut them out seeing as they abjugated their core responsibilities to the Executive. Why have a Legislative if the Executive can decide what laws to follow or not? At that point, they are no longer laws, they are suggestions. And I won't be the only one.

At that point, I figure California will demand their independence from the country as, once again, the US Constitution is invalid. And the US Constitution is the thing that is the basis of what constitutes the Federal Government and governs how they function. Same with Texas as they have always been wanting to leave the US for a long time now.

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In honour of America's newest head of the Health Services, I present this...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AYdrU6H0qu4

Its crazy how far these once sensible people have fallen. I knew he was a Dem, but preaching about the very things he is now a part of. What does trump command over these folks? Its not blackmail, they have proudly admitted to some shameful acts. Its not money, most of these fellows are already more wealthy than most of us. Its not that they suddenly woke up one morning and admitting to liking trumps policies, or heard he is a really loving and kind man.

I sure hope one day in the future we find out that what made people like RFJ Jr, JD Vance, and all those others flipflop into loving trump and give up not their souls, but their very idealogies and principles.

ps. Why aren't videos embedding?

Well, because somewhere down the line, they delved into the conspiracy black hole. Doesn't matter what conspiracy it is. The moment you go down that hole and start to believe in any part of them, it tends to cause a brain rot which then causes them to lose objective judgement over things. And, because people like Vance are opportunists, they will latch onto anything that will give them power. Even if it means their "morals" are no longer a thing.

[PhaelixWW]

There are times I think the US would have been better off if the South had been allowed to secede.

[Calfredd]

There are times I think the US would have been better off if the South had been allowed to secede.

Or if the North didn't give them the equivalent of a slap on the wrist when punishing the South.

[Tech614]

There are times I think the US would have been better off if the South had been allowed to secede.

Eh lets be clear on one thing, while the north was the "good guys" by slightly having more human rights than the south it was still full of racist assholes who practiced segregation well into the 50s. The main goal of the civil war from the north was putting the south in their place, they didn't really care about the black people that much.

So no, I don't think much would be different at all and the north is still full of Trump voting morons and tbh the north could of ended up even worse if the south didn't lead the charge of civil rights protests mid century.

Country was founded by racists, and in the grand scheme of things very little has been done to solve this over the nation's life the north or south doesn't really matter.