Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Tech614]

Does the US only have two kinds of milk?

In Denmark we have 4 different fat variations, I've included the direct translations from Danish, lol

Whole milk: >3.5%
"light milk": ~1.5%
"mini milk": 0.4-0.5%
Skimmed milk: typically 0.1%

I don't think many people use whole milk these days except maybe for food or coffee.

(UHT milk is not used much here at all)

Whole Milk, 2% reduced fat Milk, 1% reduced fat milk and skim milk are the 4 you find in pretty much any US grocery store. And this is just cow milk, not gonna talk about all the other weird milks you can find.

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You know this Whole Milk campaign that the administration is pushing feels really weird. Why whole milk? It has more saturated fat and more cholesterol than low fat milk which has all the other nutrients in it as well.

There are scientific merits to whole milk being more beneficial. However to the average american that is already either pushing heart disease or already has heart disease? Yea their asses should be on 2% if not 1%.

[Gabriel]

I choose to believe it's a weird-ass dogwhistle referencing Homelander's freak weirdo shit about milk, because these same chucklefucks somehow didn't realize Homelander was a villain until like Season 4 somehow? Despite him constantly being mocked as he does fascist shit? Somehow, his girlfriend being a literal Nazi named "Stormfront" didn't twig them?

No, they understood it all the time. They side with Homelander because he's an insecure dipshit who wants a mommy to love him. He speaks straight to their Nazi values.

And that's why they're obsessed with milk.

Is this ridiculous and probably incorrect? Sure. I'm believing it anyway because these absolutely cringe dipwads don't deserve any better.

They push milk because they view lactose intolerance as a non-white racial trait.

[Edge-]

They push milk because they view lactose intolerance as a non-white racial trait.

i'll have to tell my extremely white brother who is extremely lactose intolerant that he's no longer white

[Captain N]

Nothing official but there's whispers (rumors?) of a leak that Trump plans on invoking the Insurrection Act tomorrow. On MLK Day....this is no coincidence if it is indeed true.

[Gabriel]

i'll have to tell my extremely white brother who is extremely lactose intolerant that he's no longer white

Nobody is ever white enough.

[postman1782]

Copied from Greenland thread.

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/us/d...el-peace-prize

Posted an hour ago, Trump wants to go to war over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace prize. Cuz nothing says peace like declaring war.

[Dontrike]

Eric, being the absolute genius that he is, thanks Biden for reducing fentanyl deaths.

[thilicen]

This is just.. I don't even fucking know where to begin.

[alach]

And here I thought it was because they were the worlds #1 producer of wind turbines.
But nope, it's way more stupid and petty than that.

Truly, dumbest reason to risk a world war in any imagination of any timeline.

We could be facing a nuclear winter because someone messed up his Big Mac combo meal.

[Dontrike]

Trump takes dollar.

The greenback dropped while precious metals rallied Sunday as financial markets started reacting to President Donald Trump’s new tariff threats.

The dollar sank 0.31% against the euro to $1.16 and tumbled 0.32% against the yen to 157.58. Meanwhile, gold rose 1.95% to a fresh record of $4,684.30 per ounce. Silver jumped 5.66% to $93.53, also a new high.

Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday on Monday, U.S. stock and bond futures were inactive.

On Saturday, Trump said Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland will be hit with a 10% tariff starting on Feb. 1 that will rise to 25% on June 1, until a “Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”

The announcement came after those countries sent troops to Greenland this past week, ostensibly for training purposes, at the request of Denmark.

Trump has refused to back down from taking over Greenland, even keeping military options on the table, while the administration has also left open the possibility of buying the island.

At the same time, the European Union is weighing options for retaliation, including the bloc’s anti-coercion instrument that has been described as a “trade bazooka” for its scope and severity.

Not only do Trump’s latest tariffs pose an existential threat to the trans-Atlantic alliance, the fallout could threaten the dollar’s dominance and so-called exorbitant privilege.

“The dollar’s reserve-currency status allows us to live beyond our means. Soaring debt, tariffs, and military threats jeopardize that status,” Peter Schiff, chief economist and global strategist at Euro Pacific Asset Management, warned on X. “When it’s lost, economic collapse will follow.”

And the EU holds significant leverage over Trump as European countries own $8 trillion of U.S. bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined, according to George Saravelos, head of FX research at Deutsche Bank.

America’s vulnerability in global financial markets was not lost on Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., who reacted to Schiff’s post.

“As the dollar’s reserve currency status diminishes, so does our ability to tax the world by creating more money,” he wrote. “When reserve status is lost, maintaining current spending levels and servicing the debt will be even more painful for Americans who will bear the full inflation tax.”

[Kaleredar]

Eric, being the absolute genius that he is, thanks Biden for reducing fentanyl deaths.

He’s in line with all of the Trump supporters thinking COVID was Biden’s fault because COVID started in 2020 and the 2020 election is the one Biden won.

Because Remember, if you win a presidential election, you take credit/blame for everything in the year that you were elected, not the one you took office… apparently.

[Mayhem]

He’s in line with all of the Trump supporters thinking COVID was Biden’s fault because COVID started in 2020 and the 2020 election is the one Biden won.

Because Remember, if you win a presidential election, you take credit/blame for everything in the year that you were elected, not the one you took office… apparently.

Unless it's bad for you and you're a republican than over a year into your term it's still not your economy, but if it's good, then it is.

[Corvus]

Copied from Greenland thread.

https://www.gbnews.com/politics/us/d...el-peace-prize

Posted an hour ago, Trump wants to go to war over Greenland because he didn't get the Nobel Peace prize. Cuz nothing says peace like declaring war.

The Norwegian prime minister confirmed it was real and he received it.

Just mind blowing that this level of insanity is on display and republicans are comfortable with it.

[Malkiah]

Just mind blowing that this level of insanity is on display and republicans are comfortable with it.

i have to be honest with you, i really don't see why republicans would be uncomfortable with this, other than the remnant of the old guard finding it distasteful to be this blatant about it US imperialism.
i've been saying since 2017 that the trump admin was unique in its bravado but not in its policy, and that every single thing trump ever did was bog standard GOP governance shit just with the mask off and "acting how they always wanted to" instead of trying to be coy about it, and even with this greenland shit i still think that holds true.

the US was founded on a bunch of rich white men wanting to be richer white men and looking at land that wasn't expressly agreed by all to be owned by them, and then genociding their way into everyone agreeing that they owned the land.
i bet you this sort of shit would have been happening left and right after WWII if the US hadn't been so completely up its own ass about how it was the noble protagonist of the world and this sort of land-grab colonialism was now rather frowned upon, but... well i mean i know it's cliche but this is literally just homelander's arc from the boys.
a psychopath that was leashed by his desire to be seen in a very specific kind of positively, and then circumstances shifted and his leash changed hands and now he's full blown fascist.
that's the US in a nutshell - well, that's the "US" as an entity, like if you can assign a sort of vibe or personality to a country, rather than assigning said values to its populace.
only 50% of US people are death cult psychos, so there's at least that.

[Iphie]

The Norwegian prime minister confirmed it was real and he received it.

Just mind blowing that this level of insanity is on display and republicans are comfortable with it.

I'm not sure all republicans are comfortable with it, I mean there's been pushback already and this might just tip the scales.

[Malkiah]

I'm not sure all republicans are comfortable with it, I mean there's been pushback already and this might just tip the scales.

is the push back sounding like "we strongly condemn this insane behavior and will utilize our legislative power to stop this madman", or is the push back more "we disagree with trump's wording and really wish he'd be more subtle about this"?

genuine question btw, i don't engage with social media whatsoever outside of this forum so i have no idea what "people say" about most anything, so i'm not trying to twist words i'm legit asking what you're seeing.

[Darththeo]

The Norwegian prime minister confirmed it was real and he received it.

Just mind blowing that this level of insanity is on display and republicans are comfortable with it.

The issue it isn't enough or vocal enough.

Most Republicans are too afraid to speak out against Trump at all for fear of their own re-election.

[Gorsameth]

The issue it isn't enough or vocal enough.

Most Republicans are too afraid to speak out against Trump at all for fear of their own re-election.

Not just re-election. Remember a Trump induced mob charged the Capitol calling to hang the Vice President for refusing to overturn the constitution.

A bunch of them (rightfully) fear for their life.

[Elder Millennial]

I'll reiterate the question for the 900th time.

"Congress, what the fuck are you guys doing? Republicans have a majority of like 1. You can't fucking drum up 50 Republicans to vote on a single specific piece of legislation that would expressly bar the President from pursuing the acquisition of Greenland or the use of the tariffs for coercing Denmark or European allies?"

Like, fucking do something?

Are you really just the Russian State Duma now?

Like at least fucking force a vote on this.

[Gorsameth]

Are you really just the Russian State Duma now?

Yes

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