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  • edz
    edz Posts: 696 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 8

    @Deadstroke said:

    @edz said:

    @genareddog said:

    @silvermouse said:

    Donald J. Trump

    @realDonaldTrump

    Robert Mueller just died. Good, I’m glad he’s dead. He can no longer hurt innocent people! President DONALD J. TRUMP

    Politics aside, what kind of person says something like this. Disgusting.

    He may of had a right to feel it, but saying that is very harsh. To be honest I have to check it out more, but if he did, and seems he did, it was not appropriate for sure.

    I like how you get flagged for saying it was inappropriate and harsh lol That being said I think @genareddog was right it is 100% disgusting and very unpresidential.

    LOL, flagged for that, have to love it. To be honest, I feel that being flagged for that was a little harsh.

  • edz
    edz Posts: 696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Vision said:

    @edz said:

    @Vision said:

    @Deadstroke said:

    @Amos_Umwhat said:
    Well, when I get a little time later I'm going to have to look up James Hetfield, name's not ringing a bell right now. Later is probably going to be tonight or tomorrow, I hope.

    He is the lead singer for Metallica, definitely not a politician

    Trump is no politician and look where he is….

    Along with the talk show host, movie actor or George Washington.

    You just likened Trump to George Washington … a proven leader. Now I’m being trolled…..

    No sir, that was not my intention. Simply saying that Ronald Regan got a C in economics, made B rated movies with a chimp and became President. This comment is not for about any specific office being held, but there are probably some folks that would do good in the political arena that are not in politics.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    “Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.”

    — Thomas Sowell

  • NorthSideSmoke
    NorthSideSmoke Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 12

    Trump Mobile released their new terms, the 600,000 MAGA geniuses who plunked down $100.00 each ($60 million) have been told that $100.00 was just a fee to hold a place in line if Trump Mobile ever does release a phone, it was not a down payment and is not refundable..

    There is also a notice of where they can stand in line to bend over and take it even deeper next time...
    As of the latest that line is already filling up fast because as we all know, MAGA loves bending over and taking it up the a**... AKA "I love some of his policies"

  • silvermouse
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    there were two sides to this issue, now there is just one.

    "The Trump administration on Monday said it would repeal a Biden-era rule that allowed public lands to be leased for conservation purposes, abandoning an effort to protect millions of acres from both industrial development and the effects of climate change.

    The rule, issued by the Bureau of Land Management, had prioritized the use of federal lands for conservation, recreation and renewable energy development. Since returning to office, though, President Trump has championed their use for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, logging and livestock grazing.

    The regulation applied to roughly 245 million acres of public lands overseen by the bureau, which make up about one-tenth of the country. It did not apply to national parks, which are overseen by the National Park Service."

    more here:
    https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/climate/public-land-rule-repeal.html?unlocked_article_code=1.h1A.U5r2.fcdADzP-TZpN&smid=url-share

  • Vision
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    edited May 12

    President Donald Trump said Americans' financial situation was "not even a little bit" of a motivating factor for him reaching a deal to end the war in Iran, despite a new report that inflation rose for a second consecutive month and hit a three-year high.

    Trump made the comment on Tuesday as he took questions from reporters as he left the White House for a high-stakes trip to China.

    "Not even a little bit," the president said when asked to what extent Americans' financial situations were motivating him to make a deal with Iran, as the war stretches into its 11th week.

    "The only thing that matters when I'm talking about Iran, they can't have a nuclear weapon," Trump continued. "I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That’s all."

    What an out of touch rich ****….. MAGA 🤮 More like Make Donald Rich Again….

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's funny that you pay attention to what he says.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    It's funny that you pay attention to what he says.

    I don’t get my news from Fox. I pay attention because I actually care about my country.

  • silvermouse
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    “Let me be clear: this is not a golden calf,” said an evangelical pastor at the U.S. president’s golf course in Doral, Florida, where he unveiled a 22-foot golden statue of the president that had been bankrolled by crypto investors.

  • Deadstroke
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    interesting bill, most members don't need the money but at least it is some form of incentive to get **** passed. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/5637

  • ShawnOL
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    Won't pass.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Deadstroke
    Deadstroke Posts: 635 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ShawnOL said:
    Won't pass.

    It seems to have support from both sides of the isle, I think it might actually have a chance. But a politician will talk one way and vote another so who knows

  • silvermouse
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    edited May 13

    power has its privileges

    The FBI has assembled a team, internally called the “payback squad,” made of agents willing to pursue political targets of President Trump. — NOTUS

    Eric Trump has joined his father on the state trip to China as the Trump family explores a deal to build data centers in the US with a Chinese chip maker that members of Congress warn has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. — FT

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What a corrupt grifting ****. MAGA Trump lovers are eating this spoon fed bullshït up. Enjoy MAGA!

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 15

    potential proceeds from the 10 billion dollar lawsuit against the IRS where Trump is both the defendant and the prosecutor.

    Trump Administration Weighs $1.7 Billion Fund for Allies Investigated Under Biden
    Critics denounced the highly unusual plan, which has yet to be finalized or approved, as a vast political slush fund financed by taxpayers.

    --NYT

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    MAGA at its finest.

  • Amos_Umwhat
    Amos_Umwhat Posts: 10,380 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What the mind dwells on eventually consumes it.

    "If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed.  If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." --  Mark Twain
  • silvermouse
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    even bad examples are instructive

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What we don't know can't hurt us?

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @silvermouse said:
    What we don't know can't hurt us?

    This!

  • peter4jc
    peter4jc Posts: 18,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    But having an opinion, and (in many or most cases) voting, is a futile endeavor anyway. Nobody in this thread is changing their mind when it comes to government or politics. The difference we imagine we're making is no more helpful than burying our heads in the sand.

    "I could've had a Mi Querida!"   Nick Bardis
  • edz
    edz Posts: 696 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @peter4jc said:
    But having an opinion, and (in many or most cases) voting, is a futile endeavor anyway. Nobody in this thread is changing their mind when it comes to government or politics. The difference we imagine we're making is no more helpful than burying our heads in the sand.

    Many years ago George Carlin said this in a far more descriptive way. Agree

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17

    A grift that keeps on grifting

    Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) — bearing actual receipts — called out Eric Trump on social media Friday after the president’s son insisted that the assets of his father are in a blind trust that doesn’t buy or sell individual stocks.

    “Outright lies,” Beyers wrote Friday on X. “Trump’s assets aren’t in a blind trust, and he bought and sold individual Nvidia stock in 15 separate transactions totaling millions of dollars. That’s what Trump’s financial disclosure - which has his signature - says. See for yourself.”

    The Virginia Democrat then linked to a disclosure form that confirms Donald Trump purchased up to $1 million in Nvidia stock this year — mere days before the company was granted permission to sell advanced computer chips to China.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/outright-lies-house-dem-posts-receipts-after-eric-trump-denies-family-investments/ar-AA23lXOg?ocid=nl_article_link

  • ShawnOL
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    The rich are going to get richer. Such is life.

    Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.

  • Vision
    Vision Posts: 10,619 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17

    @ShawnOL said:
    The rich are going to get richer. Such is life.

    Such is life?!?!!???! If this was a Dem you would be losing your shït, blaming liberals. What a MAGA thing to say. Such is life…. My god you all love this guy huh? Dems make money on stocks and you MAGA lose your mind yelling “they should be arrested!!” They get richer, you get poorer. With everything getting more expensive, did you get a raise? Nope. But your orange god did.

  • silvermouse
    silvermouse Posts: 25,136 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 17

    seriously misguided in my opinion

    Hegseth mentioned his Pentagon worship services at a gathering of Christian broadcasters in February: “We mostly do it because I need it more than anybody else.”

    “We hear a lot from the ‘freedom from religion’ crowd. They hate it,” he said. “The left-wing shrieks, which means we’re right over the target.”