Trump 2025

Quote: rxwine

You're ignoring my post in the Mandani thread of how many businesses Trump's probably destroyed with his tariffs while you fret about one Target store. I guess that's MDS.

Quote: SOOPOO

You are joking right? You know there are around THREE MILLION more small businesses now in the USA than on the day Trump took office. Get the Dems out, put in a Repub, and small businesses FLOURISHES! Of course not all succeed! But the overall trend under Trump has been WILDLY UP. Somewhere around 36 million today. 33 million a year ago.

And your point is of course just STUPID. It’s not about a Target store going out of business because they charge too much, or have bad management. It’s because of a CRIME that was committed.

So frankly, in street lingo,

YOU GOT NUTHIN!

Quote: rxwine

Oh, so apparently if he blows up the world in his second term, we only count the first. Not the way it works.

Quote: SOOPOO

So you still got NUTHIN! You brought up bankruptcies implying the death of small business, while the fact is they are expanding.

Read my posts. I am not in favor of most of Trump’s tariff policies. But I am not against them all just because they are ‘Trump’.

I am definitely against Trump’s childish Greenland posturing

He’s a boor. But that boor is better for American businesses than Biden/Harris. They had the tailwinds of the end of COVID. And Trump IN ONE YEAR added 10% more businesses. As I often say, it’s not Trump, just anyone but (fill in Democrat name here).

Quote: rxwine

You're trying to convince me the only people who matter are the ones who didn't lose their businesses? Trump might have as well been an arsonist. At least Mamdani wasn't the arsonist.

And if he's doing so great why are job approval rating on the economy so low? The proof is in the pudding. He so great yet YOU didn't vote for him.

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An Alaska Survey Research poll conducted Jan. 8-11 found former Rep. Mary Peltola leading Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan 48 percent to 46.4 percent, with roughly 5.6 percent undecided, Newsweek reported. The margin of error sits at plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Republicans got an alarm bell as Peltola boasts a significantly more favorable rating than Sullivan: 46 percent positive versus his 39 percent. To boot, Sullivan's job approval took a hit, with just 36 percent approving while 44.5 percent disapprove.

Quote: SOOPOO

He’s not great. He’s just not as bad as any Democrat. And I’m agreeing with you lefties that he’s particularly ‘bad’ on Greenland. On pardoning the insurrectionists. On the instability of his tariffs (on again, off again). On his childish renaming of stuff. On his purile name calling.

Businesses succeed. Businesses fail. There are many more that have succeeded. The big businesses, as evidenced by the stock market, have had a great year since Trump’s election.

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A Reagan-appointed federal judge declared that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem had “conspired” to chill First Amendment rights in a case involving pro-Palestinian student protesters.

Senior Judge William Young of the U.S. District Court for Massachusetts, on Thursday said that Rubio and Noem had “failed in their duty to uphold the constitution,” as Politico’s Kyle Cheney reported.

Judge Young’s remarks were reported in real time by journalists covering the proceedings and shared on social media as the hearing unfolded.

“What happened here is an unconstitutional conspiracy to pick off certain people, to twist the laws,” Judge Young said, denouncing the lack of any actual policy. “Two cabinet secretaries conspired … they intentionally, knowing what they were doing, counseled by professionals who cautioned them, nevertheless went ahead to pick off these people with the intention that your clients would be chilled. And did so rather effectively, by the way.”

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“U.S. President Donald Trump is issuing a pardon to Puerto Rico's former Governor Wanda Vazquez Garced, who was previously indicted in a federal corruption case, a White House official confirmed on Friday.”