Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Belize]

These two groups ALWAYS complain about slow sales. This is coming from someone who has started this business as a side hustle a few years ago. The loudest people complaining about this are the ones shouting as they flounce from the markets.

I am personally up this year about 5%. I'd like to be up higher but I've had a lot of stuff going on in the beginning of this year. I plan to do some things to supercharge my sales over the next 3 months because I want to get myself into a more stable spot should there be some sort of emergency in the future.

I don't specifically sell MTG cards. I will sell anything that is worth the time/effort to sell for a profit. However, specifically as CCG goes, Pokemon is the REAL hot thing right now and it's probably sucking some of the air out of the room from MTG.

That's a fair analysis, I honestly hadn't thought of other TCGs eating MTG's lunch.

[postman1782]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arli...s-website-dei/

Trump has now removed notable graves of women, black and hispanic from the Arlington cemetery website along with some Medal of Honor winners.

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Fuhrer Trump is now calling the media that report negatively on him as "Illegal". He literally said he wants to put them in prison.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/trump-c...al-1236327237/

[Draco-Onis]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arli...s-website-dei/

Trump has now removed notable graves of women, black and hispanic from the Arlington cemetery website along with some Medal of Honor winners.

He's simply removing the woke DEI American heroes, they clearly didn't deserve it and their act of heroism only count if they are white.

[Poopymonster]

He's simply removing the woke DEI American heroes, they clearly didn't deserve it and their act of heroism only count if they are white.

If they were heroes they wouldn't have died, remember?

[Edge-]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arli...s-website-dei/

Trump has now removed notable graves of women, black and hispanic from the Arlington cemetery website along with some Medal of Honor winners.

Without women and people of color there is no modern United States military.

Donald and Republicans are more and more overtly white supremacist with every passing day.

[Draco-Onis]

Without women and people of color there is no modern United States military.

Donald and Republicans are more and more overtly white supremacist with every passing day.

I think the multiple Nazi salutes during the inauguration and CPAC made that pretty clear.

[Shadowferal]

'Self-inflicted wounds': New data shows even MAGA's hardcore is souring on Trump's antics

Not expecting much...

'Oh what a difference!' Trump blames all the world's problems on his 2020 election loss

[Xath]

'Self-inflicted wounds': New data shows even MAGA's hardcore is souring on Trump's antics

Not expecting much...

'Oh what a difference!' Trump blames all the world's problems on his 2020 election loss

This summer is going to heat up the difference is this time he not only has a handpicked crony in charge of defense he has replaced basically the entirety of JAG with handpicked cronies.

[gondrin]

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/arli...s-website-dei/

Trump has now removed notable graves of women, black and hispanic from the Arlington cemetery website along with some Medal of Honor winners.

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Fuhrer Trump is now calling the media that report negatively on him as "Illegal". He literally said he wants to put them in prison.

https://deadline.com/2025/03/trump-c...al-1236327237/

He has been saying that for decades. He even wanted the law changed so he could sue based on that.

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In a repeat of his first go around with this but this time it will be bigger and worse than before, travel bans have come back into play. Instead of a handful of countries, it is pretty much mostly south american, central american and african countries. There are some Asian or SE Asian countries and ME countries.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/new...b25d8db0&ei=10

Officials familiar with the matter told The New York Times the administration has a list of recommendations for proposed travel bans that classifies countries into one of three colors: red, orange and yellow.

Residents of countries with a red designation would receive a flat travel ban to the United States, according to the report. That list contains 11 countries: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Venezuela and Yemen.

Countries with an orange tag would see their visas "sharply restricted," though not cut off entirely. People traveling on immigrant or tourist visas would be barred, but business travelers would not, and these citizens would have to face in-person interviews to receive a visa. This includes 10 proposed countries: Belarus, Eritrea, Haiti, Laos, Myanmar, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan and Turkmenistan.

The yellow tier includes 22 countries. These countries would be given about two months to address perceived deficiencies, such as failing to share with the United States information about its travelers according to the report. If they do not, they'd be moved to the orange or red tier.

The yellow list includes: Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gambia, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Vanuatu and Zimbabwe.

[Breccia]

Pam Bondi: "If you're gonna touch a Tesla, go to a dealership, do anything, you better watch out, because we're coming after you.

Oh, for what federal crime? She did say what federal crime was involved, right? Because, otherwise, no she isn't.

[gondrin]

Oh, for what federal crime? She did say what federal crime was involved, right? Because, otherwise, no she isn't.

Look, if it is for people vandalizing the dealerships, local police will have it covered along with local sheriffs.

However, this is probably the best prank I have heard of in a long while. Yes, it is vandalism at its core but it is still a prank.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news...d=BingNewsSerp

New local reporting by League City, Texas' KPRC-TV has uncovered an unusual heist in which thieves pilfered 44 tires from 11 unsold Teslas sitting in an Amazon warehouse parking lot over Valentine's day weekend. At least two tire lifts were attempted, though only one of them was successful.

[Breccia]

Look, if it is for people vandalizing the dealerships, local police will have it covered along with local sheriffs.

I mean, obviously. You don't need to be the top federal lawyer to know that. But she suggested it was some kind of federal crime to touch a Tesla, specifically a Tesla. I'm curious what crime that might be. It's been a while since I never went to law school, but I'm fairly sure federal crimes don't include privately-owned dealerships.

[gondrin]

I mean, obviously. You don't need to be the top federal lawyer to know that. But she suggested it was some kind of federal crime to touch a Tesla, specifically a Tesla. I'm curious what crime that might be. It's been a while since I never went to law school, but I'm fairly sure federal crimes don't include privately-owned dealerships.

The only way it would ever go into federal crime level is if they can show it was a national gang of hooligans going around specifically terrorizing Tesla dealerships as it would involve interstate stuff. Otherwise, no federal crime has been committed.

Unless they are trying to say Tesla dealerships are now considered federal property on federal land which means that they just usurped land from a LOT of states.

[Breccia]

12 rushed to hospital as emergency landing plane catches fire-

"You can't keep blaming Trump for plane crashes!"

I absolutely can. If Trump wants to make the FAA political, he gets to be blamed for every accident his FAA could possibly have stopped. Hey, at least this time, Trump's FAA didn't kill anyone.

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Otherwise, no federal crime has been committed.

I mean, you say that, and I'd normally say you were correct. But there's that Bondi statement. Are you saying you're more skilled at law than Trump's top federal lawyer? And also, how do you feel about leading the witness?

[gondrin]

12 rushed to hospital as emergency landing plane catches fire-

"You can't keep blaming Trump for plane crashes!"

I absolutely can. If Trump wants to make the FAA political, he gets to be blamed for every accident his FAA could possibly have stopped. Hey, at least this time, Trump's FAA didn't kill anyone.

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I mean, you say that, and I'd normally say you were correct. But there's that Bondi statement. Are you saying you're more skilled at law than Trump's top federal lawyer? And also, how do you feel about leading the witness?

I mean, they have this big issue with the court system at the moment where they are complaining that anything the judges do is unconstitutional but to find someone guilty of something requires going in front of a judge. And any lawyer would be able to get this bumped down to a state level charge because I only know of a handful of federal judges that would even consider judging this case as their jurisdiction.

If this were SpaceX, that could actively be argued since they contract out to NASA and NASA does use their rockets. Otherwise, sorry Dumb Bondi, no lawsuit for you.

[Breccia]

“AT THIS VERY MOMENT, THOUSANDS OF UKRAINIAN TROOPS ARE COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY, AND IN A VERY BAD AND VULNERABLE POSITION.

I have strongly requested to President Putin that their lives be spared.

"Where is this he's talking about?"

Oh, he's lying. Actually, Putin is lying, Trump is just echoing it. As the NYTimes reports, this claim is disputed by pretty much everyone who isn't Putin or Trump. Ukraine isn't exactly blitzing into Moscow, but their forces are not "completely surrounded".

It seems like an odd lie to tell, because of course Ukraine knows the truth. Quite frankly, so do most countries. The only people that have proven willing to believe this are the ones that believe Trump about everything else, including blatant obvious falsehoods like "egg prices are down, by the way, has anyone in the EU got any spare eggs please?"

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Trump tries something new: admitting he was lying on purpose.

They’re dying, Russians and Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. And I’ll have that done — I’ll have that done in 24 hours.

-Trump, May 2023

That is a war that’s dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president. If I win, when I’m president-elect, and what I’ll do is I’ll speak to one, I’ll speak to the other. I’ll get them together.

-Trump, during the debates

Well, I was being a little bit sarcastic when I said that. What I really mean is I’d like to get it settled and, I’ll, I think, I think I’ll be successful.

-Trump, today

"I'm not breaking a campaign promise. I was just being sarcastic when I made it."

It's a bold move, Cotton. It sure will be fun quoting Trump supporters as saying "Trump lied to America and he did it on purpose". I wonder what else that would work on? "Your Honor, when I said I would pay my taxes, I was being sarcastic."

[Edge-]

"I'm not breaking a campaign promise. I was just being sarcastic when I made it."

We can add "sarcasm" to the long, long list of things Donald doesn't understand.

[Cthulhu 2020]

The only way it would ever go into federal crime level is if they can show it was a national gang of hooligans going around specifically terrorizing Tesla dealerships as it would involve interstate stuff. Otherwise, no federal crime has been committed.

Unless they are trying to say Tesla dealerships are now considered federal property on federal land which means that they just usurped land from a LOT of states.

This is what I mean when you said you guys are too obsessed with the legal details. "That is illegal!" "This isn't illegal and can't be punished!"

We've already had Palestinian protestors thrown in jail without charges being issued, and one is being deported and having his legal residency revoked. Nobody is stopping Trump from doing things that aren't legal for him to do. Nobody is holding him accountable. Sure, a judge may declare certain actions illegal or unconstitutional, but have you heard ANY follow up to those rulings? Doubt it, since it's the executive that has to implement/follow those rulings.

The rule of law is gone as we once knew it. If you're not forming local communities to help rely on each other in the impending national crisis, you'll be left alone in the rain of injustice.

[PhaelixWW]

We can add "sarcasm" to the long, long list of things Donald doesn't understand.

I'll just remove it from the much more manageable list of things he does.

[gondrin]

This is what I mean when you said you guys are too obsessed with the legal details. "That is illegal!" "This isn't illegal and can't be punished!"

We've already had Palestinian protestors thrown in jail without charges being issued, and one is being deported and having his legal residency revoked. Nobody is stopping Trump from doing things that aren't legal for him to do. Nobody is holding him accountable. Sure, a judge may declare certain actions illegal or unconstitutional, but have you heard ANY follow up to those rulings? Doubt it, since it's the executive that has to implement/follow those rulings.

The rule of law is gone as we once knew it. If you're not forming local communities to help rely on each other in the impending national crisis, you'll be left alone in the rain of injustice.

Thing to differentiate between what is going on at the Tesla dealerships and the protesters is the Tesla dealerships are actively being vandalized. That is a crime the last time I checked. Whether federal or state level charges are put out there, that is what is being discussed. However, those who are doing it are actively committing a crime and would be charged as such.

The protesters have committed no such crime and is a far worse issue and should be a bigger outrage than a bunch of Tesla dealerships being vandalized and those who vandalize them going to jail for committing said crime.