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Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

Elixir said:
unapologetic said:
Just claim victory to the lucky ones
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I got the advertisement /letter too.
What a POS, and what a POS this fat ugly presidunce is.
I sure hope he dies very soon (of natural causes of course) so that some vestige of American democracy might survive.
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I hope the same for several Supreme Court Justices. Biden should have packed the court when he had the chance.
 
As Trump continues to shit on the entire planet, it has become obviously clear that Trump can't make deals. And that doing 90 trade deals in 90 days is umm... harder than it sounds... but to be fair, it sounds impossible.
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After President Donald Trump paused his “Liberation Day” tariffs in April, his trade adviser Peter Navarro promised that the administration would deliver “90 deals in 90 days.”

But that deadline came and went Wednesday with the White House 88 trade deals short.
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They don't know what they are doing. They can't even set lofty goals. Instead they create this illusion of accomplishment and then let deadlines float on by. That seems to be Trump's deal making. He creates the illusion of making deals, but nothing.

To make matters worse, Trump's talk on Putin is worrisome.
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“I’m not happy with Putin, I can tell you that much right now, because he’s killing a lot of people,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting. “We get a lot of bulls--- thrown at us by Putin. You want to know the truth? He is very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.”
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Is he playing the fool (that'd be bad) or is he just starting to get Putin doesn't give a fuck what Trump says (also bad, but not as bad). I feel like, with the delay in the Ukrainian arms shipment, Trump is acting and doing the prior. Why hold up on arm shipments if you think Putin can't be negotiated with?
 
Elixir said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
They don't know what they are doing.
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Part & parcel.
These clowns not only don’t know what they’re doing, THEY DON’T CARE.
Incompetence isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. This is how they destroy democracy.
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The actual day-to-day government in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, and Fascist Spain and Italy was always a total shit-show of incompetence, grift, corruption, and incompetence.

It seems to be a characteristic of dictatorship; Nobody cares about the details, because the dictator only cares about the big grand gestures and declarations that make him look and feel important; And the rest of government only cares about keeping the dictator mollified.

The actual detail of policy and its implementation gets ignored; Even those lowly government employees who just try to keep on doing their part as effectively as possible, find themselves blocked from doing so by the constant contradictory and top priority demands of the toddler in chief and/or his insane clown posse of toadies, lackies, and hangers-on.

Government is boring. Dictators hate being bored, so they don't care if government crumbles away. Particularly when so much of their bureaucracy just keeps banging on about such trivial and tedious things as how the latest initiative is "unconstitutional", or "breaks international treaties", or "will kill millions". Yawn.
 
Our scumbag insurrectionist-in-chief is threatening to punish Brazil with huge tariffs for putting the former president of Brazil on trial for clearly having tried to overturn their 2022 elections that he lost.

One right-wing treasonous insurrectionist trying to help another'


 
Wouldn't it be sweet if our MAGGOTs here could acknowledge, as Jen Psaki makes evident, that "on any given day, Donald Trump has no earthly clue what is going on around him."

No way, of course. The MAGGOTs want only to read the re-Truths from Donnie or re-tweets from Xlon Xusk. Even Faux News has gotten too librul for the hard-core MAGGOTs.

And while on the topic of "Can Trump and Musk admirers ever get back in touch with reality?" what do our MAGGOTs -- cone on, you know who you are -- think of Musk's ChatBot:

"We have improved @Grok significantly," Elon Musk wrote on X last Friday about his platform's integrated artificial intelligence chatbot. "You should notice a difference when you ask Grok questions." Indeed, the update did not go unnoticed. By Tuesday, Grok was calling itself "MechaHitler"

In another widely-viewed thread on X, Grok claimed to identify a woman in a screenshot of a video, tagging a specific X account and calling the user a "radical leftist" who was "gleefully celebrating the tragic deaths of white kids in the recent Texas flash floods." Many of the Grok posts were subsequently deleted.
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So I had been reading that Trump and Vietnam had agreed to a 10% tariff. Now Trump jumps in with 20%. Surprising the fuck out of Vietnam.

And Trump is now, out of the blue, saying Canadian goods will get a 35% tariff.

And Trump is claiming that a letter from him = a deal? He's so full of shit.

Who would ever want to have a trading relationship with the US when Trump just changes things on a whim?

What a fucking moron and a fucking asshole


 
bilby said:
Elixir said:
Jimmy Higgins said:
They don't know what they are doing.
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Part & parcel.
These clowns not only don’t know what they’re doing, THEY DON’T CARE.
Incompetence isn’t a bug, it’s a feature. This is how they destroy democracy.
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The actual day-to-day government in the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, and Fascist Spain and Italy was always a total shit-show of incompetence, grift, corruption, and incompetence.

It seems to be a characteristic of dictatorship; Nobody cares about the details, because the dictator only cares about the big grand gestures and declarations that make him look and feel important; And the rest of government only cares about keeping the dictator mollified.

The actual detail of policy and its implementation gets ignored; Even those lowly government employees who just try to keep on doing their part as effectively as possible, find themselves blocked from doing so by the constant contradictory and top priority demands of the toddler in chief and/or his insane clown posse of toadies, lackies, and hangers-on.

Government is boring. Dictators hate being bored, so they don't care if government crumbles away. Particularly when so much of their bureaucracy just keeps banging on about such trivial and tedious things as how the latest initiative is "unconstitutional", or "breaks international treaties", or "will kill millions". Yawn.
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There is also the issue of consolidation of power. Under such systems there's only one path of authority, an underling has no ability to do anything about a problem above him.

Thus we see a lot of such things even when the leadership does care about making things work: China.
 
Could Trump's stupidities (and more specifically Kristi Noem's stupidities) have operated so quickly as to affect the Texas disaster? Perhaps yes, according to a CNN interview of the former FEMA Administrator.

Noem swaggered into Washington announcing that the problem with FEMA was the time wasted by controlling emergencies from Washington. (Do you know how many days it takes for a stagecoach to make its way from D.C. to Texas?) So, to "solve" this problem I suppose, Noem mandated that any expenditure of $100,000 or more had to be approved by her personally. This rule takes away the agility to move fast.

Almost by definition FEMA gets involved only with major emergencies, for which $100,000 is chicken-feed. Sources inside FEMA are telling CNN that officials were ready to get urban search and rescue teams into position when the water was starting to rise on Friday. But the new rule required Noem's personal sign-off before deployment could begin. She must have had weekend plans because that sign-off didn't come until Monday, 72 hours later.
 
Swammerdami said:
Could Trump's stupidities (and more specifically Kristi Noem's stupidities) have operated so quickly as to affect the Texas disaster? Perhaps yes, according to a CNN interview of the former FEMA Administrator.

Noem swaggered into Washington announcing that the problem with FEMA was the time wasted by controlling emergencies from Washington. (Do you know how many days it takes for a stagecoach to make its way from D.C. to Texas?) So, to "solve" this problem I suppose, Noem mandated that any expenditure of $100,000 or more had to be approved by her personally. This rule takes away the agility to move fast.

Almost by definition FEMA gets involved only with major emergencies, for which $100,000 is chicken-feed. Sources inside FEMA are telling CNN that officials were ready to get urban search and rescue teams into position when the water was starting to rise on Friday. But the new rule required Noem's personal sign-off before deployment could begin. She must have had weekend plans because that sign-off didn't come until Monday, 72 hours later.
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The above was via the "centrist" CNN. For a better look at how utterly contemptible and incompetent Kristi Noem -- famous for killing her baby puppy -- is, and how Trumpist malfeasance cost dozens of lives in the Texas flood Tune in to MSNBC.

Kristi Noem, head of Homeland Security and therefore of HHS subsidiaries like FEMA, has an extremely important position often faced with the need for urgent decisions. But she focuses her time on being a social media "influencer", and spends much of her day dressing up (as fireman, gunslinger, whatever) for photo ops.

A fact I missed earlier is that the $100,000 limit beyond which ANY action must have Noem's personal approval applied to ALL HHS operations, not just FEMA's. This deliberate constipation of all funding chains has been described as "ludicrous", "absolutely nuts" and "stupidest decision I've ever heard of." -- the order, now PROVEN to be stupid, has NOT been rescinded. For the floods which left almost 300 Texans dead or missing, massive local search and rescue operations were already in progress while FEMA stood back, unable to operate or even to move into position, waiting for Noem to finish her schedule of photo ops or whatever. On Sunday, for example -- with FEMA unable even to send its teams to Texas -- the puppy-killer was addressing her admirers on Instagram, asking for help picking a photogenic portrait of herself.

Complaining about "red tape", and mandating MORE red tape to address the red tape problem has been in the Republican "Starve the Beast" play-book for decades. The late Lewis Lapham wrote a brilliant essay on the topic.

Trump was asked about this dreadful show, "didn't know anything about it," but did mention that Kristi "was the first face" he recognized on TV.

A dreadful "punch-line" to the affair is that Noem's edict included a five-day minimum for approval of requests, so by her standard approval in less than 4 days was haste! But had Monty Python or The Three Stooges proposed, ten years ago, a slapstick comedy similar to Noem's response to this emergency, Hollywood would have rejected it as unrealistic.

Has Noem learned a lesson? She told the Texas Governor that infrastructure is needed to improve disaster warnings ... and then canceled a $3 million program to do just that. (In her favor, I suppose, is that the canceled program might have been specific to New York, a blue state.)

The Acting Administrator of FEMA has not been heard of since the disaster. Is there a Missing Person report? This Acting Administrator, it will be recalled, did not know there is a hurricane season.
 
Swammerdami said:
Almost by definition FEMA gets involved only with major emergencies, for which $100,000 is chicken-feed. Sources inside FEMA are telling CNN that officials were ready to get urban search and rescue teams into position when the water was starting to rise on Friday. But the new rule required Noem's personal sign-off before deployment could begin. She must have had weekend plans because that sign-off didn't come until Monday, 72 hours later.
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I am reminded of the wehrmacht failure to commit panzers to oppose the D-Day landings, because Hitler required that they could only be moved by his personal order, and nobody dared wake him.
 
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