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I have very good college friends going back and forth on social media about how refreshing it is that we have somebody back in office who can answer questions from the press while signing EO’s at the same time since there’s no way Biden could do that.


Hate that I actually have to agree with them on this.
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4 minutes ago, Ted Lange said:

WUT

 

Yep.  Because if there's one thing we know, conservatives are chronically unbanked.

This will be taken as true, and will be inscribed in stone as truth, because Trump said it.  That's it.  That's the sole test for whether something is a proven, undeniable fact: did Trump say it?  If he did, it's a fact.

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3 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:

I disagree to the extent that this is the end of even lip service to federal characteristic based affirmative action (other than disability).  This has a tremendous upside despite the potential short-term pain, primarily by allowing the left to avoid an increasingly difficult argument.  And to focus on color blind economic disparities.  

I'm not saying there the legacy of discrimination isn't with us.  I'm saying that the debate, as structured around affirmative action and reparations is unwinnable.  

If the Left had taken the lead on this - a similar executive order with an economic-based replacement -- over the last two decades they could have accomplished something, and really solidified their political appeal, just like they could have with tailored solutions to immigration and climate change.  

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2 hours ago, gernblansten said:

I needed to buy a car next August, so I went ahead and bought it last month because of this possibility.

Same. bought a truck because I feared the prices will skyrocket with tariffs (also, january is the best month to get a good deal as the market floods with hand-to-mouth buyers who rely on tax returns starting Feb and going into summer, in case anyone was looking).

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2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Seriously, did someone with a windmill not kiss his ass? Why are windmills such a pariah to him other than because he's an f'ing moron. 

There is no "other."  Full stop.  He's a complete fucking moron.

We happen to have created and bolstered a system that allows amoral/immoral complete fucking morons to accumulate incredible wealth.  THEN, we decided as a society that "has wealth" means "you are a good, decent, and smart person who we should trust with our lives."  We created a society meant to be dominated by evil morons, and supported by morons who vote.  We are the Republic of Morons.

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1 hour ago, pacman said:

Don't forget removing all ethics requirements for government officials (what little we did have).

First admin showed these were just there for show.  It resulted in pesky questions, so better to just get rid of them.  What's the use if (a) they aren't going to be enforced and (b) only make tfg look bad  worse in press conferences.  

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2 hours ago, Pig Bellmont said:


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there is no doubt that the President now has full control over the prosecutorial discretion of the DOJ and is immune from all criminal conduct for it - just as John Roberts wanted. This is Roberts’ legacy and this is what people voted for. 

It’s just going to be a daily deluge of poisonous bad news, getting progressively worse. How can we possibly address yesterday’s atrocities when tomorrow’s will be even worse? That’s how they’ll get away with it—vile overload.

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2 minutes ago, Constant said:

It’s just going to be a daily deluge of poisonous bad news, getting progressively worse. How can we possibly address yesterday’s atrocities when tomorrow’s will be even worse? That’s how they’ll get away with it—vile overload.

The first casualty will be the GOP's House majority.

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27 minutes ago, mdmost said:

Seriously, did someone with a windmill not kiss his ass? Why are windmills such a pariah to him other than because he's an f'ing moron. 

Pretty sure it's because some rich people with ocean front property who think the offshore wind farms would ruin their property value/their view got in his ear/promised "big big" donations of Donald got rid of the windmills...

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On 1/8/2025 at 6:52 PM, David Dennison said:

Yes. I think it matters in the United States. A lot, actually. I also think you're going to start seeing more and more Republicans blow him off.

As long as the Cult votes the way he says, no GOP elected official would knowingly get on his bad side. I hope I’m wrong.  But I don’t think I am.   The left that is currently numb is going to start resisting in every way possible, and nothing about this term is going to make the great political divide any less bitter and divisive.    

As long as his base says, “ if you disagree with orange man, I hate you!”, I do not see any spines growing in a GOP Congress.

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15 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

As long as the Cult votes the way he says, no GOP elected official would knowingly get on his bad side. I hope I’m wrong.  But I don’t think I am.   The left that is currently numb is going to start resisting in every way possible, and nothing about this term is going to make the great political divide any less bitter and divisive.    

As long as his base says, “ if you disagree with orange man, I hate you!”, I do not see any spines growing in a GOP Congress.

I don't disagree because members have to run in primaries, but this is a perfect recipe for losing your majority in the House of Representatives.

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5 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

I don't disagree because members have to run in primaries, but this is a perfect recipe for losing your majority in the House of Representatives.

The new Trump Federal Commission on elections and banning voting  machines from Venezuela will make sure that doesn’t happen. Maybe. 

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22 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Has Dennison been right about a single prediction he's posted in the past 10 years?

Nope. 100% whiffed on the last election, like @Js1and @BamaATL. All their number crunching and research did them absolutely nothing.  Meanwhile I called it to a tee (no bullshit, I had the closest EV map in the call your shot thread to the final result). Guys like them don’t have a finger on the pulse of the country like I do, they’re way too deep in their own bubbles to know what’s really happening. It’s probably the greatest benefit of being a centrist in todays age, you get a true 360 degree view of a world the two sides are only seeing 180 degrees of.

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31 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Has Dennison been right about a single prediction he's posted in the past 10 years?

He's a card-carrying democrat and one of the ones who repeated the talking points that marginalized bernie and the progressives in favor of Hildog, if memory serves. So, long way of saying, your point checks out.

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18 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

Same here. I prefer to have a female doctor for the same reason. I find that the temperament and ability to do their job with more compassion is better than that of their male counterparts on average. We obviously have some male doctors on this board who are people I would trust, but overall women have been the best doctors I have had in my own experiences.

aaand their fingers are smaller!  

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1 hour ago, mdmost said:

Seriously, did someone with a windmill not kiss his ass? Why are windmills such a pariah to him other than because he's an f'ing moron. 

Not

1 hour ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

Pretty sure it's because some rich people with ocean front property who think the offshore wind farms would ruin their property value/their view got in his ear/promised "big big" donations of Donald got rid of the windmills...

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52 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

His golf course in Scotland. Two decades ago there was to be a wind farm near where he owned land and wanted to place a course (Aberdeen). He went ahead and built the course several years later and attempted to delay the wind farm with, what else, a court battle and complaining. The windmills went up sometime around then while the lawsuit was going on. He lost the suit and its appeals and ramped up the rhetoric about windmills.

It's personal because of course it is.

Ding Ding Ding. My anecdotal note here is we went to Aberdeen for a buddy of mine's bachelor party...at this point, had to be around 2010 or 2012. We rented a van and a driver to take us all around some scotch distilleries. On the very scenic drive, we were driving past said wind farms and I guess were somewhere near his golf club. The driver starts telling us about what a fucking clown Trump is, and how he was trying to sue to take down all the windmills out in the sea because he thought it ruined the views from his golf course. The locals all thought he was a stupid POS. 

A few years later, we elected him president, and he hates fucking windmills. 

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7 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Nope. 100% whiffed on the last election, like @Js1and @BamaATL. All their number crunching and research did them absolutely nothing.  Meanwhile I called it to a tee (no bullshit, I had the closest EV map in the call your shot thread to the final result). Guys like them don’t have a finger on the pulse of the country like I do, they’re way too deep in their own bubbles to know what’s really happening. It’s probably the greatest benefit of being a centrist in todays age, you get a true 360 degree view of a world the two sides are only seeing 180 degrees of.


 

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39 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

Has Dennison been right about a single prediction he's posted in the past 10 years?

 

28 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

Of course, mainly the layups like midterms and speakerships.

This is so wierd, I basically view both of you as the same person

 

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10 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Nope. 100% whiffed on the last election, like @Js1and @BamaATL. All their number crunching and research did them absolutely nothing.  Meanwhile I called it to a tee (no bullshit, I had the closest EV map in the call your shot thread to the final result). Guys like them don’t have a finger on the pulse of the country like I do, they’re way too deep in their own bubbles to know what’s really happening. It’s probably the greatest benefit of being a centrist in todays age, you get a true 360 degree view of a world the two sides are only seeing 180 degrees of.

Credit where credit is due. Blind squirrel and all that. 

But if dumbshits like you truly have their finger on the pulse of America, we're all fucked anyway. So congrats.

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24 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:

He's a card-carrying democrat and one of the ones who repeated the talking points that marginalized bernie and the progressives in favor of Hildog, if memory serves. So, long way of saying, your point checks out.

I voted for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020.

You must be thinking of someone else.

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31 minutes ago, Helobious said:

Nope. 100% whiffed on the last election, like @Js1and @BamaATL. All their number crunching and research did them absolutely nothing.  Meanwhile I called it to a tee (no bullshit, I had the closest EV map in the call your shot thread to the final result). Guys like them don’t have a finger on the pulse of the country like I do, they’re way too deep in their own bubbles to know what’s really happening. It’s probably the greatest benefit of being a centrist in todays age, you get a true 360 degree view of a world the two sides are only seeing 180 degrees of.

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