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[Mephistopheles]

You know what-

 

I am probably in the wrong here.

 

to get arrested she needed a warrant signed off by another judge.

 

so, nothing wrong here.

 

 Admitting it loud and clear.

 

 

still doesn’t change my view that Trump is a fascist 

[hillfronter83]

11 hours ago, dwy000 said:

What does it say that China says they're not negotiating, Trump says they are negotiating, and everyone believes China. 

 

There is a Chinese saying "无招胜有招“. So they are still negotiating when they are Not negotiating, .

Edited April 26, 2025 by hillfronter83

[cwericb]

11 hours ago, dwy000 said:

What does it say that China says they're not negotiating, Trump says they are negotiating, and everyone believes China. 

 

Well of course. Everyone knows that Trump would never lie as he has a fine reputation for always telling the truth.

 

People get to live with the reputation they build.

[Ulti]

https://www.molsonhart.com/blog/america-underestimates-the-difficulty-of-bringing-manufacturing-back

[John Hjorth]

Google Translate is just awesome, however I think I need to report bugs [more like missing features, actually] to Google, -I can't get it translated from simplified Chinese to Morse code or Braille. 

 

[cubsfan]

12 hours ago, dwy000 said:

What does it say that China says they're not negotiating, Trump says they are negotiating, and everyone believes China. 

 

What happens if India, S Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia start to strike deals?

[John Hjorth]

Russian-Ukrainian war, Saturday April 26^th 2025 :

 

TASS - tass.ru [April 26^th 2025] : Putin declared his readiness to negotiate with Kiev without preconditions.

 

Original website, in russian language and text.

 

- - - o 0 o - - -

 

Bloomberg [April 26^th 2025] : Zelenskiy Hails Potential Historic Outcome After Trump Talks.

 

- - - o 0 o - - -

 

To me personally, this is really great news, in stead the existing deadlock. I confidently speculate the POTUS has been pressing two belly buttons other than his own quite hard as of lately, and the results of doing so at least seem starting to surface.

 

I really respect the provided efforts for at least trying at ones very best to contribute a sustainable solution. The cause is noble.

 

I personally cheer for the best, while really fearing the worst : European havoc.

[dwy000]

1 hour ago, cubsfan said:

 

What happens if India, S Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Australia start to strike deals?

Nothing happens. Most of those countries already had free trade deals with the US (Australia actually has a trade deficit with US).  Nothing to do with China

 

The point was that people trust the word of a Communist opponent over our own president because he lies so much 

[John Hjorth]

Pretty awesome morbid humor, if you ask me, on the frontpage of the coming weeks edition of the Economist, if you can take it : The American Eagle just a bit and temporarily down on maintenance, repair, service and inspections, but not in any way out the game.

 

[Blake Hampton]

I'm in shock:

"Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said last week that the administration would begin interviewing candidates for the Fed job this fall. Leading contenders include Kevin Warsh, a former adviser to President George W. Bush who was a Fed governor from 2006 to 2011, and Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council. Bessent is also seen as a possible contender for the job by some Fed watchers."

Kevin Hassett is seriously a contender for next Fed Chair. He's a joke.

[Blake Hampton]

[Sweet]

3 hours ago, John Hjorth said:

Russian-Ukrainian war, Saturday April 26^th 2025 :

 

TASS - tass.ru [April 26^th 2025] : Putin declared his readiness to negotiate with Kiev without preconditions.

 

Original website, in russian language and text.

 

- - - o 0 o - - -

 

Bloomberg [April 26^th 2025] : Zelenskiy Hails Potential Historic Outcome After Trump Talks.

 

- - - o 0 o - - -

 

To me personally, this is really great news, in stead the existing deadlock. I confidently speculate the POTUS has been pressing two belly buttons other than his own quite hard as of lately, and the results of doing so at least seem starting to surface.

 

I really respect the provided efforts for at least trying at ones very best to contribute a sustainable solution. The cause is noble.

 

I personally cheer for the best, while really fearing the worst : European havoc.

It would be wonderful if something worked out.  Hopefully it does.

[cubsfan]

4 hours ago, dwy000 said:

Nothing happens. Most of those countries already had free trade deals with the US (Australia actually has a trade deficit with US).  Nothing to do with China

 

The point was that people trust the word of a Communist opponent over our own president because he lies so much 

 

If that is the case, why are they all negotiating with the administration for new deals?

 

If they fall, the others will come running, including the European Union.

[dwy000]

58 minutes ago, cubsfan said:

 

If that is the case, why are they all negotiating with the administration for new deals?

 

If they fall, the others will come running, including the European Union.

Seriously?  Because Trump put tariffs on them!  What exactly is being negoatiated?  To remove tariffs that weren't in place before?  What exactly do you mean by "if they fall"?  You mean if they agree to go back to the very positions they had a month ago before this started?  

[Xerxes]

What are these Republicans, like Kennedy, yapping about someone else sovereign land 

make up your mind

 

are you retreating behind a big beautiful golden dome or the global project continues 

 

 

[Spekulatius]

On 4/24/2025 at 11:53 AM, changegonnacome said:

 

I dunno - I dont think you give him enough credit if anything the old man has shown a lot of flexibility over the years to do 180's on issues and claim it was always so. I think Trump has a lot of ideas loosely held as Munger would say.....he is not fundamentally anchored to a political philosophy (outside accumulating money, attention & holding on to power) he has IMO a lot more mental wiggle room than most traditional politicians who are slavish idealogous. 

I think this is correct take. I think he will blink when he sees that he drives the economy against a wall for example. Maybe he even is slowly learning that Putin is the problem not so much Zelensky regarding Ukraine.

[Blake Hampton]

I would say that one of the biggest red flags I’ve seen throughout all this chaos is the near-constant resignation of career civil servants. My jaw was on the floor for nearly 30 minutes when I read about what happened at the Treasury with Musk — forcing themselves in like that, and then forcing out a 36-year official who was trying to keep them out as acting Treasury Secretary. That is fucking insane.

 

I read multiple newspapers every day, and there is story after story after story of the same things happening all over government. It’s honestly quite scary.

 

 

Edited April 27, 2025 by Blake Hampton

[james22]

3 hours ago, Blake Hampton said:

It’s honestly quite scary.

 

It's glorious.

[Gregmal]

3 hours ago, Blake Hampton said:

forcing out a 36-year official who was trying to keep them out as acting Treasury Secretary. That is fucking insane.

Agreed. Totally insane. Imagine freeloading to a presumably upper middle class or better lifestyle off the taxpayer rather than getting a real job your whole career? Good riddance! 

[Gregmal]

There really should be like 10 year max limits to any person collecting a check from taxpayers. It’s so dishonest how they label it a “civil servant” position….its basically a super safe, cruise controlled journey through life. Or if they really want to be “servants” cap total compensation, including all those great benefits and insurance plans at $75k annually. 

[dwy000]

9 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

There really should be like 10 year max limits to any person collecting a check from taxpayers. It’s so dishonest how they label it a “civil servant” position….its basically a super safe, cruise controlled journey through life. Or if they really want to be “servants” cap total compensation, including all those great benefits and insurance plans at $75k annually. 

It should be the exact opposite!  The problem with civil servant jobs is that they are seen as cushy, secured, low paid positions relative to industry. And they therefore get people who are attracted to that. If you remove pay caps, encourage promotion and advancement and see it as an aggressive career you will people who want that.  Capping pay and kicking them out after 10 years gets only the worst employees who can't work elsewhere and now you have to hire 3x as many to get the job done. 

[changegonnacome]

13 hours ago, Spekulatius said:

Maybe he even is slowly learning that Putin is the problem not so much Zelensky regarding Ukraine.

 

Yep Trump dropped a tweet yesterday saying "makes me think that maybe he (Putin) doesn't want to stop the war, he's just tapping me along, and has to be dealt with differently, through 'Banking' or 'Secondary Sanctions?'"

 

You think Donald? You think maybe your approach of dunking on Zelensky helped that maybe?

 

Trump's initial capitulation strategy re:Putin was always a terrible maneuver to end the conflict.....all it did was ultimately provide encouragement to Putin that all he needed to do was stay the course and the Americans would drop out.....clear now IMO that the correct thing was to escalate to later de-escalate (maybe we still do that)......a side on the ascendency on the battlefield, as Russia is, has little incentive to get to the negotiating table and even if they do come they are likely to have outrageous demands as is the case now.

[cubsfan]

3 hours ago, Blake Hampton said:

I would say that one of the biggest red flags I’ve seen throughout all this chaos is the near-constant resignation of career civil servants. My jaw was on the floor for nearly 30 minutes when I read about what happened at the Treasury with Musk — forcing themselves in like that, and then forcing out a 36-year official who was trying to keep them out as acting Treasury Secretary. That is fucking insane.

 

I read multiple newspapers every day, and there is story after story after story of the same things happening all over government. It’s honestly quite scary.

 

 

 

It's not insane at all when you saw how the career bureaucrats worked so dishonestly to sabatoge President Trump's first term, for no reason other than they thought they ran the country, not the people's elected President. They earned this housecleaning.

[Gregmal]

1 hour ago, dwy000 said:

It should be the exact opposite!  The problem with civil servant jobs is that they are seen as cushy, secured, low paid positions relative to industry. And they therefore get people who are attracted to that. If you remove pay caps, encourage promotion and advancement and see it as an aggressive career you will people who want that.  Capping pay and kicking them out after 10 years gets only the worst employees who can't work elsewhere and now you have to hire 3x as many to get the job done. 

Nah that’s preposterous. Government exists solely to serve the people. It should not be a mechanism for enrichment. For all the hollow whining about Trump basically just managing the family real estate portfolio into a billion dollar business…I hear virtually no pushback or outrage that folks like Biden have waterfront mansions because of “public service”, or guys like McConnell or Paul Ryan are millionaires many times over despite doing nothing but exploit politics.

[dwy000]

14 minutes ago, Gregmal said:

Nah that’s preposterous. Government exists solely to serve the people. It should not be a mechanism for enrichment. For all the hollow whining about Trump basically just managing the family real estate portfolio into a billion dollar business…I hear virtually no pushback or outrage that folks like Biden have waterfront mansions because of “public service”, or guys like McConnell or Paul Ryan are millionaires many times over despite doing nothing but exploit politics.

We aren't talking about politicians here we are talking about civil servant. 

 

If there's a job to be done, you want it done as efficiently and as well as possible.  That means having the best employees possible - whether serving the public or serving shareholders. Telling people they suck and capping pay and firing them after 10 yrs is not getting the best, most productive output.