Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Fugus]

I had no idea what those were, but the computers and tablets piqued my interest.

Yeah. Those are tape drives. Only good for long term storage. To restore from them requires you to play back the tape and takes a while.

Each tape holds 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and up to 6.25 TB of compressed data.

So, even if it is all uncompressed and they only used 2TB of the space and didn’t bother using the whole space. That would still be 10TB of information. Even if it was 4K HDR videos with 6 speaker surround sound, that would still have a run time measured in days.

[postman1782]

Yeah. Those are tape drives. Only good for long term storage. To restore from them requires you to play back the tape and takes a while.

Each tape holds 2.5 TB of uncompressed data and up to 6.25 TB of compressed data.

So, even if it is all uncompressed and they only used 2TB of the space and didn’t bother using the whole space. That would still be 10TB of information. Even if it was 4K HDR videos with 6 speaker surround sound, that would still have a run time measured in days.

I remember seeing somewhere that they found some over 260 hours of tapes. But I can't find the link.

[Fugus]

I remember seeing somewhere that they found some over 260 hours of tapes. But I can't find the link.

Well, those 5 tapes are potentially around 12.5TB. And given most home cameras or security systems are typically 1080p or lower. Especially ones from 20 years ago. He could have definitely had that much on just those tapes easy.

Let alone all the thumb drives, external hard drives, and stuff like that he had.

And the fact those tape drives are only good for cold storage back up and restores. Those were likely blackmail material he didn’t want to risk losing and a lot of it. So likely a lot of repeating stuff he had on the other drives.

Edit: And if those tapes really were terabytes of blackmail material, we all can be pretty much guaranteed that Trump was hoping to use it as soon as he figured out how to make sure they couldn’t be used against him as well.

With a good chance an “accident” will occur with much of it should they be required to release them. And they will magically disappear or be destroyed before the public can see them.

[Breccia]

I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE, and have money left over,

Yeah...that's not how it works, and even Trump knows this.

First of all, he shut down the government, and because he shut down the government, there's no money.

Second of all, Trump seems to have this idea that companies will magically sell to individuals the same or better coverage for less than what they get on the ACA market. That's not how capitalism works. Trump himself boasted that he could get drug prices down for Medicare patients due to buying in bulk, so he knows that's not how it works. And I somehow doubt we'll see a lot of specific examples demonstrated by Team Trump demonstrating how this happens. "This is the same plan but it covers more and cost less" isn't going to fill up the news cycle, because if that was the case, the ACA would just, you know, buy those.

Third of all, a mass exodus means a bunch of Trump voters getting back on non-ACA compliant plans, which means they can be kicked off for pre-existing conditions or hitting their maximum.

Fourth of all, Republicans seem pretty keen on saying "if you give a homeless man money they'll just use it to buy drugs". Well, imagine taking someone who has so little money that they're on the ACA, take away their health coverage, then give them some cash instead. Are they going to buy health care? Or are they going to buy food and make their mortgage payment, get sick, get medical debt, and go bankrupt?

And fifthly,

In other words, take from the BIG, BAD Insurance Companies, give it to the people, and terminate, per Dollar spent, the worst Healthcare anywhere in the World, ObamaCare

Other countries are less expensive because they have public health care. Total US health care costs have been increasing nearly linearly for decades, the ACA did not spike them. And they've been flat as a % of GDP since the ACA. Barring COVID, just to be clear.

If the free market worked for Americans and health care, we wouldn't have needed the ACA in the first place. It doesn't.

If the USA had health care for all, we wouldn't have needed the ACA in the first place, either.

Trump is willfully lying because his tariff rebate isn't going to happen. He's promised the money to too many people, and SCOTUS isn't looking like the ally he needs right now. He knows his ideas aren't working and he knows his polls are tanking. While relaxing in his golf course or the solid fake gold ballroom he's designing, desperate to figure out why poor people don't love him, and wondering why his aides keep linking the definition of "empathy" lying around, Trump is resorting to what works for Trump: money. He genuinely thinks raising people's expenses then giving some of the money back is a net win for him.

Because he's a sociopath.

Who raped children.

[En Sabah Nur]

Trump's TruthSocial feed is a complete mess today, but I'm just picking this out. For reasons.



If nothing else, I guess we at least finally got his replacement for the ACA after a very long two weeks lol Shame this is his solution.

[PfeffermintShake]

Grats to any MAGA voters flying out trying to fly out of Newark this morning. Touch the hot stove nitwits.








Trump make this year's holiday travel into a Die Hard 2 simulator. "Stack em. Pack em. And Rack em."

[Dontrike]

Grats to any MAGA voters flying out trying to fly out of Newark this morning. Touch the hot stove nitwits.


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Trump make this year's holiday travel into a Die Hard 2 simulator. "Stack em. Pack em. And Rack em."

If anyone has any plans to fly for Thanksgiving don't. Cancel the flight, get as much money back, and tell your family that it's Trump's fault. There's no reason to attempt to go anywhere that isn't within driving distance.

[Rasulis]

Trump Admin Demands States ‘Undo’ Full SNAP Payments; Wisconsin Gov. Evers Says ‘No’

Good for the cheese state.

[fwc577]

Trump claims Democrats aren't doing their jobs while literally on the golf course.

The lazy do-nothing Democrats aren’t in Washington doing their jobs!

Now watch this drive!

[Draco-Onis]

Bad News Chuck the cuck Schummer is folding like the cheap lawn chair he is

Deal to end government shutdown in reach

"The deal would include a December vote on a Democratic proposal to extend ACA tax credits for one year, multiple sources said. It would take 60 votes to pass."

He is caving for a laughable pinky promise on a vote in December.

[Dontrike]

And Trump looks to harm our troops even more as many grocery stores on military bases will be shutting down due to Republicans trying to protect pedophiles.

Some military leaders are telling their troops to prepare for their on-base commissaries to close by early December if the government shutdown continues. As many as 168 locations at bases across the continental U.S. could be affected.

But officials with the agency that runs the military-only grocery stores insisted to Task & Purpose this week that the stores will be open through Thanksgiving.

“Our stores will be open to serve our customers through Thanksgiving,” Kevin Robinson, a spokesperson for the Defense Commissary Agency, or DECA, told Task & Purpose.

While DECA officials have been planning for the closures since at least last month, military leaders began telling troops this week to plan for December closings. Task & Purpose obtained two emails sent this week by leaders of two large military units that advised troops that DECA is likely to begin cutting back on restocking inventory at the military-only base grocery stores on Nov. 14, with plans to close nearly all stores in the U.S. by Dec. 3. Both emails cited updates the leaders received earlier this week from DECA.

The emails appear to be updates on a system-wide shutdown plan that two senior DECA officials laid out in an Oct. 24 webinar. DECA Chief Executive Officer John Hall and Acting Executive Director of Sales, Marketing and eCommerce Jim Flannery said on that webinar that if the shutdown persists into late November, virtually all commissaries in the U.S. could be closed, outside of a handful in particularly remote areas.

Both emails sent to troops this week cite Dec. 3 as the latest date stores might close, though Hall cited Dec. 5 in the webinar.

Commissaries overseas would stay open longer, Hall said in the meeting. The webinar was hosted by the American Logistics Association and first reported by Military Times.

The news comes just weeks before Thanksgiving. In one email, a Marine colonel advised his unit leaders to remind their Marines that commissary closures “may impact their plans for Thanksgiving/holiday meals.”

But in last week’s webinar, the DECA officials said that “normal” Thanksgiving service was a top priority.

“My definition of ‘normal’ is full sales,” Hall said. “We want to continue to place these orders to ensure full shelves and serve our patrons for the Thanksgiving period. That means we start curtailing orders, shipping orders on or about Nov. 14.”

“We are thinking in terms of we are sprinting through Thanksgiving,” Flannery said. “So business as usual, meeting the needs of our patrons, let them enjoy the Thanksgiving gathering that they normally would, and then right after Thanksgiving, the first part of December, start winding down.”
Stores overseas will stay open

DECA operates 235 commissaries on military bases worldwide. Commissaries provide discounted groceries, toiletries, and other household goods to military families, retirees and Defense Department civilians who work on post. The systems served over 1.7 million families every month in 2024, with annual sales of close to $5 billion, according to the agency’s 2024 annual report.

The agency subsidizes its prices, particularly in remote locations where local food prices are far higher, with Defense Department funds. The agency received $1.5 billion in federal money in 2024.

But with the government shutdown, those funds are unavailable and the agency has been funding operations with cash reserves and previously-allocated funds, both DECA officials said during the webinar. But those stop-gap measures, Hall said, will soon dry up, leading officials to plan for post-Thanksgiving closures, if no other funding scheme — or an end to the shutdown — emerges.

While U.S. stores will close, Hall said in the webinar that officials believe they can keep stores overseas, or OCONUS, open through December but would run out of money to ship fresh inventory to those far-flung stores around New Year’s Day.

“Unless we get some cash from the Department [of Defense] or some other source, we won’t be able to ship goods to OCONUS locations after Dec. 31,” he said of overseas bases. “We project that those stores could remain open only until about mid-January.”

Hall said stores would also stay open in Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and bases in the continental U.S. considered “food desert locations.” Those locations include Kodiak, Anchorage and Fort Greely in Alaska; Los Angeles Space Force Base, Fort Irwin and Naval Air Station Fallon in California; Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah; and Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington.
Congress unlikely to help with ‘piecemeal’ funding

It is unclear if Congress will address commissaries without a larger agreement on the shutdown. In a statement to Task & Purpose, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, indicated that Congress was unlikely to address commissaries without a larger agreement on the shutdown.

“If commissaries are forced to close, it will create serious hardships for our military families, who rely on them for a steady and reliable source of food. President [Donald] Trump stepped in to make sure our troops haven’t missed a paycheck yet, but there are so many other problems facing service members and their families — from access to nutrition, to dental services, to grounded flights — that we can’t address each one piecemeal.”

Robinson, the DECA spokesperson, said the agency is “working on an update that addresses our contingency operations in the event of a shutdown,” but did not specify if that included new funding.

[Kaleredar]

And Trump looks to harm our troops even more as many grocery stores on military bases will be shutting down due to Republicans trying to protect pedophiles.

Back in WW2 the military worked to move heaven and earth to deliver thanksgiving meals to troops in active service, including in actual combat zones.

Trump can’t deliver thanksgiving to troops in peacetime while controlling all three branches of government.

[Breccia]

I will say this: If you look at affordability, which they campaigned on, they lied. Because they talked about, ‘Oh, prices are up.' No, no. Prices are down under the Trump administration. And they're down substantially.

-Donald Trump

Grocery prices are down significantly under Trump… People are right to feel stretched but we're making progress… Inflation is under control and the economy is booming. We understand why people are still hurting because we haven't made up all the room that was lost under Joe Biden.

-Director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett

Once again, Team Trump has left themselves no option but blatant objective lying.

[Rustedsaint]

I feel like trumps trying to beat hitler for amount of economic crimes committed during his rule.

[Breccia]

Trump reacted to the headline "DOGE halts yearly payment of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for “royalties linked to Obamacare.’ " on his Truth Social platform, posting "WOW!" in all caps and sharing the article.

"Wait, Obama was getting royalties?"

No, The article was satire and labeled as satire. If Trump's WH did anything remotely like this, why would he need a headline to tell him? Either Trump was so senile and so retarded as to take that headline which conflicted with reality and common sense yet believe it on site, or, he was lying to his followers to rile them up. Neither trait is redeeming.

[Dontrike]

Taking a break from bitching about Obamacare, lying about Obama getting money in royalties due to it, and keeping the government shutdown Trump went to a football game. He was of course boo'd bigly, but the thing of note is that while he was saying something that they gave him to say he goes "I am state your name," instead of saying "I am Donald Trump," because he's that stupid.

[We are covfefe]

I mean he wants a stadium named after him, so it checks out.

[Captain N]

I mean he wants a stadium named after him, so it checks out.

I mean it's not the worst idea. I mean he likes to brag about his stuff with younger women....maybe it could be Tampax Stadium. It might take pulling a few strings to get it done though.

[gondrin]

-Donald Trump


-Director of the National Economic Council, Kevin Hassett

Once again, Team Trump has left themselves no option but blatant objective lying.

I would love to see what prices are down. Absolutely see this. Seeing as I literally see the price changes directly as, and I want to emphasize it, I work in the grocery business.

Prices are not down from a year ago. Hell, they are actively higher from 6 months ago. Coffee? Still going up and will continue to go up over the next year or so because of the fact that there was a massive harvest issue along with tariffs. Canned goods? Tariffs causing the cost of the cans to go up. Toilet Paper? Price going up due to the material being used to make the actual product being tariffed.

I mean, I can go on but I see the price changes directly. Outside of sales, prices are going up.

The only places where prices aren't going up as fast are companies like Aldi's which specifically sell only private label and very few name brands. And even then, most of their stuff is going up.

So Hassett, which prices are down? Because I can literally pull up prices from multiple years from 1000s of products and can show the exact price increases and almost down to the day when they went up.

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Trump reacted to the headline "DOGE halts yearly payment of $2.5 million to Barack Obama for “royalties linked to Obamacare.’ " on his Truth Social platform, posting "WOW!" in all caps and sharing the article.

"Wait, Obama was getting royalties?"

No, The article was satire and labeled as satire. If Trump's WH did anything remotely like this, why would he need a headline to tell him? Either Trump was so senile and so retarded as to take that headline which conflicted with reality and common sense yet believe it on site, or, he was lying to his followers to rile them up. Neither trait is redeeming.

Best part is, the website is called the Dunning-Kruger Times.

[Twdft]

I would love to see what prices are down. Absolutely see this. Seeing as I literally see the price changes directly as, and I want to emphasize it, I work in the grocery business.

The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

- some dude in a book