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14 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

The House Commitee disagreed.  And of those entities, which were elected by the people, and which were unelected deep state actors?

 

What don't you understand about the fact the William Barr and John Durham set about precisely to prove that there was anti-Trump bias in the Justice dept and that they failed miserably to find it? Those 2 clowns publicly disagreed with  the Inspector General's report that political bias played no role in the investigation of Trump.

And because members of the House are elected therefore they are more trustworthy? Because they don't have a political agenda? Clearly, you are an inhabitant of Oppositeworld.

10 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Cant even indict him for mishandling classified info. But they sure would have you believe he was running the country.

 

The Democratic Party has always been the fount of corruption in US history and I defy any of the Trump deranged to debate that with me lol. They will just leave emojis

Go ahead, Give this piece of info your best shot. I defy any Trumpist to prove that this was a Democratic scandal.

"The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding. It centered on Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding.^[1] The leases were the subject of an investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies, Fall became the first presidential cabinet member to go to prison, but no one was convicted of paying the bribes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

Someone has to be very ignorant of American history not to know about this.

11 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Hard to prove someone with dementia profited from anything

Not necessary as a defense since there is no good evidence that Joe Biden participated in any criminal scheme.

1 minute ago, impulse said:

 

I think they were counting on the FBI (who had the laptop for a looong time) to do the right thing.  By the time it became clear they would bogart the information from the American voters, it was pretty close to the election.  So he decided the only way the voters would have the truth before the election was to release it.

 

The FBI shouldn't have released the laptop since there was no good evidence of a crime contained in it. In fact, even if there was such evidence, it shouldn't have been released until charges were brought.

51 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

No, because the focusing on building up economic self-sufficiency, autarky if you will, should bring with it a more nationalist focused political populace, wich by definition would be less socialist.

 

Maybe we have seen peak socialism.

Apart from the likelihood that Trump's economic agenda will fail miserably, you're saying that nationalism = fascism?

1 minute ago, SunnyinBangrak said:

"Comer Releases Direct Monthly Payments to Joe Biden from Hunter Biden’s Business Entity"

 

https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-releases-direct-monthly-payments-to-joe-biden-from-hunter-bidens-business-entity/

 

What is your record on the Biden corruption saga? For newbies sake, you abrasively and falsely claimed the laptop which had already been verified by the FBI had " no metadata" and was a hoax. 

How did that turn out?😅

 

How many times do I have to shoot down your claims?

Comer cited three “direct monthly payments to Joe Biden from Hunter Biden’s business entity” as evidence that Joe Biden profited from a deal Hunter Biden made with a Chinese energy company. But Hunter Biden’s attorney said the payments — which totaled a little over $4,000 — simply reflect Hunter Biden repaying his father, who bought him a truck while Hunter was in the throes of drug and alcohol addiction. That explanation appears to be corroborated by emails obtained from Hunter Biden’s laptop, as reported by the New York Post last year.

https://www.factcheck.org/2023/12/gop-misleading-claims-in-biden-impeachment-investigation/

The laptop the keeps on exonerating Joe Biden, Ironical,no?

I never claimed that the laptop had no metadata. Quite the opposite What I have written is that Guiliani refused to share the metadata that could have confirmed the veracity of the laptop. All he had to do was provide a complete copy of all the documents. He refused NBC's request.

"The lack of major new revelations is perhaps the biggest reason the story has not gotten traction, but not the only one. Among others: Most mainstream news organizations, including NBC News, have not been granted access to the documents. NBC News asked by email, text, phone call and certified mail, and was ultimately denied."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/here-s-what-happened-when-nbc-news-tried-report-alleged-n1245533

In hindsight, it's clear why Giuliani and company waited until it was nearly election day before releasing the contents of the laptop. They had it for months before selectively releasing the contents. There was nothing on it that showed criminal or even improper activity on the part of Joe Biden. So there was just enough time to raise a scandal but not enough to thoroughly refute allegations of criminality.

The United States exports more than $44 billion per year in education and accompanying services. This is more revenue than any other category of services: more than travel services, more than business services, more than financial services, and many multiples of computer, health, and legal services. In fact, education raises more revenue from foreign countries than all but a handful of categories of American goods and commodities, only slightly less than pharmaceuticals and far more than iron and steel, plastics, furniture, dairy products, and even soybeans.

https://archive.ph/8sM98

28 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Tanks didn't roam the streets of fascist Italy or Nazi Germany prior to war. And you certainly have the military embedded in civil life in the US.

Just paramilitary forces like the SA and the SS.  A benevolent fun-loving group of guys who like nothing better than a good party scene like Kristallnacht.

57 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

That's valid, fascism is nationalist and socialism is internationalist and knows no country.

 

As we are now about to enter an age of nationalism, as we exit globalism, it would be only natural that fascism makes a strong comeback.

57 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

That's valid, fascism is nationalist and socialism is internationalist and knows no country.

 

As we are now about to enter an age of nationalism, as we exit globalism, it would be only natural that fascism makes a strong comeback.

Because respecting the Constitution was part of the globalist agenda?

4 hours ago, MicroB said:

The scowl is not a good look.

 

 

Well, what do you expect. Fox News is owned by that arch-Marxist Rupert Murdoch.

11 minutes ago, Cryingdick said:

it's a term used by some internet moron that also uses the terms, resist, masoginist and Devine. 

Some intellecx

1 hour ago, MicroB said:

 

 

Same as over use of the terms "Leftist", "Socialist", "Communist", "Far Right" "Hard Right", "Marxist". "Liberal". Too many isms lose impact.

 

Its possible that the US President does not possess any sort of political ideology; he flip flops continuously.

 

He might fit various definitions of being a fascist, but might not actually subscribe to the ideology. At least John Kelly attempted to define the term when ascribing it to the man. Kelly described a fascist as:

 

 

That's a man who paid attention when attending the National War College.

 

An expert of the ideology agreed that the President is unlikely to be sophisticated enough to be a fascist:

 

https://www.vice.com/en/article/we-asked-a-fascism-expert-if-donald-trump-is-a-fascist-124/

 

 

Some argue that while fascism and popuism do share many features, fascism is a form of dictatorship while populism functions within the boundaries of democracy.

 

But populism can turn into something that more definitively fascism.  Some observers believe he moved closer to fascism after January 2020, showing increasing distaste for the levers of democracy. Others are less convinced. seeing how he equally praises communist and fascist dictators. inviting the suggestion that whatever 'ism he holds, it might be new and unique.

 

First time around, he was enjoined in cabinet by individuals generally holding high reputation; they likely agreed with his objectives but disagreed with the method, and hence were dubbed the "Adults in the Room". That all fell apart when he pushed back against people who didn't share his methodologies.

 

Second time around, the people he has surrounded himself with like his methodologies, but not his objectives, because ultimately, besides the banal MAGA slogan, which is amibguous and really doesn't mean anything,  he doesn't really have  any objectives. So they are taking advantage of his methodologies to further their objectives (the heritage 2025 mob).

 

These objectives are not conservative in nature. They are revolutionary. This whole nonsense about a "reset" is quite close to Pol Pot's Year Zero in some ways (arguably, Pol Pot was never a Maoist; his methods genuinely horrified the Chinese). They seem content to destroy parts of American society in order to further their oobjectivs of a reset.

 

I'm not sure the 47th President  is wholly convinced, hence his recent turn arounds. Who does he identify with in American society? he doesn't identify with the farmer; he has zero experience of farming culture. He was brought up entirely in a city, and like most city dwellers, scarcely thinks about where his food comes from. He doesn't identify with the working class man, because he's never been there, being born with a silver spoon. Sure, he knows what to say, because that's acting, and it helps the ratings to create a persona. And you know, given all the cameos, from those early appearances on The Jeffersons and The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, he's received acting coaching. What you see is not the real man, but a pastiche perfected on The Apprentice.

 

He might admire, from a distance, the Tech Bros, but probably doesn't understand a thing they say but wishes he could. He identifies with business. He is probably wuite well acquainted with the realities of a supply chain, understanding why his MAGA hats, ties, and sneakers came from China. He knows full well the watches weren't American made, but were Chinese. When a business person goes on TV and explains reshoring is all very well, but he doesn't have the $400k for tooling for the CMO that might or might not exist, and the tooling has to come from overseas anyhow, and even if he had all that, its takes 3-6 months to set up, and by then, the business has gone; the American leader likely understands that, and may even identify with it (or comes close to identifying with it)

 

He doesn't believe in the rule of law, because from his perspective, the law have been an embuggerance in business. Its not a disagreement born of revolutionary zeal, but basically ignorance. Those controlling him do understand it, which is evidenced by the numerous, on the fsce of it, small things happening. Where it all falls apart for them is Him; hs love of Ratings, or being liked. Plus he can fire them. And he will, like last time, ultimately doing a half arsed job.

 

 

 

Whether or not the label applies to Trump, why should it  matter what  someone believes  so long as their actions fit the description?

2 hours ago, Mike_Hunt said:

I’m still waiting for Adam Schiff’s Russian collusion evidence.

Thanks for the whataboutism.

24 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

I didn't. You didn't read the reply properly.

Now you're just gaslighting. Show where you gave a percentage or even an amount of how much was  recycled.

3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

China has already blocked export of graphite since 2020. The US has a large scale rare earths site in Mountain Pass, Callifornia. The US has sponsored Australian exploitation of rare earths in Africa.

 

In 2022, the latest year available, the world discarded e-waste containing 31 million metric tons of metals, 17 million tons of plastics, and 14 million tons of minerals, glass, and other reusable materials. But only an estimated 19 million tons was recycled—mainly “metals like iron which is present in high quantities and has high recycling rates in almost all e-waste management routes,” the Global E-Waste Monitor, a partnership between the International Telecommunication Union and the United Nations, reports.

 

The United States throws away nearly 7 million tons of e-waste each year, and as elsewhere, only the easiest parts, such as iron, are recycled. That’s doubly wasteful because discarded gadgets often end up in landfills, where they can poison soil and water—and because they contain the very rare-earth metals that are so desperately needed in new electronic gadgets.

 

https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/08/trump-ukraine-rare-earths-recycling/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=dHJ1bXAtdWtyYWluZS1yYXJlLWVhcnRocy1yZWN5Y2xpbmc=&pid=CW941515

 

With a bit of American ingenuity the US can overcome the rare earths problem. Of course now very little is recycled, but that's the whole point, the potential is there to increase it massively.

 

Why did you ignore the question of how much of the USA rare earths currently comes from recyclers? Deflecting much?

8 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

It wasn't actually written but the inference was there, I'm sure you would agree. There seems to be quite a degree of anti Trump sentiment on some threads.

The point I was making is that reducing an article to "orange man bad" is just an obvious way of deflecting the facts and arguments presented.

33 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

No need, the US has one of the largest, richtest domestic markets in the world.

 

The US can recycle rare earths. It's not a huge problem.

It may not be a huge problem but what percentage of rare earths are contributed by recyclers now?

6 hours ago, jas007 said:

Of course other countries run trade deficits. The US isn't the only country on Earth, and it's not necessary to have the world reserve currency to run a trade deficit.  Do you even understand that much?   It's a simple concept.  If I made a list of countries with trade deficits, it would be a long list.  Maybe you should look it up. 

 

As for "economic models"?  What, exactly, does they have to do with whatever point you're trying to make?  Economic models are a dime a dozen.  

 

Unless you're trying to give me a hard time, you should probably stop.  All you're doing is embarrassing yourself.  

 

Anyone schooled in economics or finance understands how everything works, at least on a basic level.  I'm sure all of Trump's advisors understand, even Navarro.  Especially Navarro.  He may just have been politically naive to think it would be easy to upend the world order with tariffs. 

You're the  party who unnecessarily invoked reserve currency as an issue re: trade balance. I'm party who pointed out that it was irrelevant by noting that it was irrelevant because there are other nations that run trade deficits. And now you're pretending that I need explained to me what I pointed out to you? Sad.

I mentioned economic models because once you launched into obscurantism by invoking all sorts of things that don't really affect the trade balance model. And yes, it's a model and a useful one. And if you understand that it's a model then you don't need to start referring to other less relevant considerations.

At least, you're not now claiming Trump understands. As for Navarro, who knows and who cares? He's not the one calling the shots. At least with him there would be consistency.

3 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

He's just more active on social media, that's all. You can't not lie on social media. The medium seduces you to.

So was that  a CGI image that gave the State of the Union Message? Who I've seen repeatedly say the same falsehoods?

The United States is a constitutional democracy. Just because someone gets elected to be President doesn't mean they get to ignore the Constitution or duly enacted laws.

6 hours ago, impulse said:

I'm pretty sure Musk is keenly aware of what it costs to lay people off, having fired about 80% of the Twitter staff and ending up with a better platform for it. 

 

Last time I looked, X is making about the same $$ profit on half the revenue (because of the predictable lefty advertiser boycott).  So maybe the gub'ment can provide a better level of service with fewer employees if they can shed the ones that are working against their customers... The citizens.

 

Gub'ment was never meant to be a jobs program for the otherwise unemployable.  Anyone who's ever had to deal with getting a new driver's license can tell you a horror story.  Not all DMV employees are lumps of useless skin, but about 20% of the good 'uns have to pick up the slack for the 80% that are.  It's the same across Federal agencies, too.

 

More Pareto  nonsense.

7 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

If prices go up it will naturally happen. And it would be a very good thing, for Americans and for the world. Americans are a very spiritual people, maybe they can spend more time on meditation.

That's what Trump campaigned on: Self-awareness and abnegation of wordly pleasures.

9 minutes ago, Cameroni said:

 

Sure, Trump lies. Every head of state HAS to lie, there is no leeway not to. You think Biden did not lie, Kamala did not lie? Obama did not lie? They all lied.

 

And yet, Trump has a heart of gold and is more trustworthy, he has a record of doing what he said he would. When it comes to the important things you can rely on Trump. 

 

The Chinese communist party however, well, everyone knows their record of untruths.

Nobody lies with the amazing frequency of Trump. And nobody persists in repeating those lies like Trump. At least I hope they are lies. There is the scary possibility, maybe even the likelihood that he believes what he invents.