Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Corvus]

Trump is now saying pharmaceuticals will not stay except from tariffs. Enjoy an even more expensive medical system.

[Teriz]

How much of a coward do you have to be to not be pushing articles of impeachment right now in congress?

[NED funded]

Just as a side note, dont glorify factory work in industries like the textile industry. These type of work is not glorified even in the countries where its performed. Ive seen a lot of commentary trying to glorify that sort of stuff as a gotcha towards liberals who maybe want higher value stuff

[Doomcookie]

You presume it takes a lot of focus to fire a DoJ lawyer, who forgot that resigning in protest usually involves a resigning step. Sheesh. Next up, a disgruntled former employee tells her story of intimidation to a sympathetic reporter. Over the delivery of a letter. Right.

I hope the administration does a better job of deporting people correctly. SCOTUS just affirmed timely notice and judicial review, while reminding lawyers that forum-shopping class-action-APA injunction-masquerading-as-TRO is nonsense calvinball.

Of course, Trump hurting his own policy agenda through chaos and mismanagement and ineffective deputies and policy advisors is predictable. It's up there in good reasons to not vote for him, and you already know I didn't, so I guess you're just throwing comments out there. You really should recruit some pro-Trump forum members, because the demand is not keeping up with the supply.

We already know you did. Youa re lying, and your old comments showed you voted for him.

[Breccia]

Trump is now saying pharmaceuticals will not stay except from tariffs. Enjoy an even more expensive medical system.

So, if you get your life-saving medicine through Medicare...and it gets tariffed...does the US pay itself?

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Well it's been a quiet 10 minutes without a Trump-esque fuckup. About time we got a-

Acting IRS Commissioner Melanie Krause to resign

Of course.

Yeah, days from April 15 and the head of the IRS says "I don't exist".

Then, the acting head of the IRS says "I don't exist either".

"Could this be a prelim to Trump unilaterally removing income tax?"

No. He can't do that. He could pardon everyone who doesn't pay taxes, but he can't remove income tax because he feels like it. The GOP might want it gone, but they know the parliamentarian can't remove the massive income that it provides, nor can they accept tariffs covering it because (a) no they can't and (b) tariffs can be removed at the flick of a pen.

This is just someone seeing the worst is yet to come, and fleeing.

[PhaelixWW]

"Could this be a prelim to Trump unilaterally removing income tax?"

More likely to unilaterally remove income tax refunds instead.

[NED funded]

As a sidenote, I am glad we gave a shot at populism and anti liberalism on Trump. He is so incompetent I hope people realize liberalism is cool

[Elder Millennial]

Just when I thought we hit peak unhinged ...I see this ...

https://x.com/micah_erfan/status/190...5yxSucYdQ&s=19

We're fucking done man. This country is done. It's over.

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As a sidenote, I am glad we gave a shot at populism and anti liberalism on Trump. He is so incompetent I hope people realize liberalism is cool

Just watch the thing I linked.

[PhaelixWW]

Just when I thought we hit peak unhinged ...I see this ...

https://x.com/micah_erfan/status/190...5yxSucYdQ&s=19

We're fucking done man. This country is done. It's over.

This isn't a new phenomenon.

[NED funded]

Just when I thought we hit peak unhinged ...I see this ...

https://x.com/micah_erfan/status/190...5yxSucYdQ&s=19

We're fucking done man. This country is done. It's over.

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Just watch the thing I linked.

Oh yeah I gave up on MAGA people a while ago. A good 20% of the population will be forever Trump in this cult. What is needed are those 5% in swing states and you are good. Hopefully normal people can see that the GOP is a cult or not. Who knows Trump managed to win after trying to coup the government,

[Paranoid Android]

IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants' tax data to ICE, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

https://bsky.app/profile/msnbc.com/post/3lmdxsvm4cc2h

So wait immigrants do pay taxes?

They are cross referencing addresses looking for undocumented I guess who Ya Know, pay taxes

Also once more the projection of big bad IRS doing nefarious things when Ya Know, Trump uses the IRS to do dirt.

[Breccia]

WaPo reports a few things, but one of them is

The technology issues have been particularly alarming for some of the most vulnerable Social Security customers. For almost two days last week, for example, many of the 7.4 million adults and children receiving monthly benefits under the anti-poverty program known as Supplemental Security Income, or SSI, confronted a jarring message that claimed they were “currently not receiving payments,” agency officials acknowledged in an internal email to staff.

Yep. Many American SSI recipients were told, incorrectly thankfully, that they weren't getting their taxpayer benefits.

And of course, anyone trying to contact what's left of SS after the layoffs probably found a disabled website.

Naturally, Vance responded by lying.

You look at people who are 150 years old who are fraudulently collecting Social Security payments. You see our Social Security system — 40 percent of the people who are calling are actually committing fraud. That means the 60 percent who need their Social Security checks are waiting in line.

"Whoa! Forty percent are committing fraud!"

No, Vance lied. Or he's a fucking moron. Pick one.

As for Vance’s claim that 40 percent of the people who are calling Social Security are committing fraud, that is an absurdity on its face — the kind of twisted logic that turns up at the end of a long game of telephone tag. Vance echoed a statement made by billionaire Elon Musk, when he was campaigning on behalf of a conservative judicial candidate in Wisconsin on March 30. Like Vance, Musk said 40 percent of the calls to Social Security were fraudulent.

In a March 28 interview on Fox News, Aram Moghaddassi, a DOGE engineer, had given a slightly more nuanced version: “At Social Security, one of the first things that we learned is that they get phone calls every day of people trying to change direct-deposit information. So when you want to change your bank account, you can call Social Security. We learned 40 percent of the calls that they get are from fraudsters.”

But here’s what the Social Security Administration actually said on March 12: “Approximately 40 percent of Social Security direct deposit fraud is associated with someone calling SSA to change direct deposit bank information.” As a result, SSA said it would begin requiring people to change bank account information either in person or with two-factor authentication on the Social Security website.

"Okay, but why are so many people changing their direct deposit?"

Because Trump told them to. This Executive Order says Social Security will stop sending checks by September.

So to recap: Trump says checks are being halted, people call in to what's left of Social Security's office to set up for this, and they are immediately called fraudsters by JD Vance.

No, there is not 40% fraud at the Social Security phone line. That is false. Only completel fucktards believe that.

[Bwgmon]

Between how hard Social Security is getting fucked up and the news that Trump is in fact stupid enough to target medicine with his tariff bullshit as well, I'm convinced that my father isn't going to survive the next four years unless Trump gets removed.

[Gabriel]

How much of a coward do you have to be to not be pushing articles of impeachment right now in congress?

Teflon Don is immune to impeachment, so why would anyone bother?

[NED funded]

How much of a coward do you have to be to not be pushing articles of impeachment right now in congress?

Scratch impeachment if Congress and/or Senate opposed Trump they could strip his emergency powers right now

[Kaleredar]

Teflon Don is immune to impeachment, so why would anyone bother?

I mean he was impeached twice, it’s the removal that he’s immune to.

Thanks to republicans.

[DarkTZeratul]

I mean he was impeached twice, it’s the removal that he’s immune to.

Thanks to republicans.

Especially Mitch McConnell, who I hope is haunted every day for the rest of his life by the knowledge that he could have stopped this by indicting Trump after January 6th, when he was already out of office.

[Muzjhath]

Just as a side note, dont glorify factory work in industries like the textile industry. These type of work is not glorified even in the countries where its performed. Ive seen a lot of commentary trying to glorify that sort of stuff as a gotcha towards liberals who maybe want higher value stuff

On this, that very much depends on the nature of the part of the industry.

Big "industrial" scale sowing machine lines for Lee branded jeans?
Yeah, no. Not work to glorify.

Craftsman level artisan jobs as done by Hermes for their bags? For European fashion houses for their haute coutre lines? (Most of which are hand-sown in Europe).
Very different story

[Tech614]

As a sidenote, I am glad we gave a shot at populism and anti liberalism on Trump. He is so incompetent I hope people realize liberalism is cool

liberalism is a fucking blight that led to this fascist fuck in the first place.

We need actual leftist populism, not liberal bullshit. Not sure when you libs are going to learn that the lesser educated turned to fascism because the liberal agenda was doing nothing to help them. Not excusing them for that poor choice mind you, they fucked up but if we had an actual leftist party trying to make lives better for the everyday american it would have never come to this.

[Muzjhath]

liberalism is a fucking blight that led to this fascist fuck in the first place.

We need actual leftist populism, not liberal bullshit. Not sure when you libs are going to learn that the lesser educated turned to fascism because the liberal agenda was doing nothing to help them. Not excusing them for that poor choice mind you, they fucked up but if we had an actual leftist party trying to make lives better for the everyday american it would have never come to this.

NED is the typical right-wing Liberal.
Political rights for polite upstanding causes but don't you dare block traffic while doing it, cheerleading the fascist regime in Israel and the genocide in Gaza. Transphobic. Etc

Extremely much the core Democratic value barometer.