Trump 2025

January 29th, 2025 at 2:54:46 AM permalink
DoubleGold
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Trump needs to clean house of corruption.

I don't think he can out Senators but can indirectly install term limits.


So the public needs to clean-house.

For example, Senators make too much money.

An average of $1.6 million per-year net worth increase on an average annual salary of $174,000?


It's a corrupt syndicate.

And the syndicate is running up trillions and trillions in debt.

In return for a bad deed (increasing debt), each gets $1.6 million reward per year average increase.

A percentage of the action.
January 29th, 2025 at 3:04:38 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: GenoDRPh
Willing to bet you don't think anything but national defense, cops and jails and building the wall is a proper use of your tax dollars.


IOW, you are saying condoms for Gaza IS a proper use of your tax dollars?

Thing is this looks like classic money laundering. Kind of thing where they will buy just enough product to show the auditors the invoices, if there was any audit to begin with. But they overpay, they buy thru a middleman, all the classic mafia-style kickbacks.

Pure waste and theft. Just wait until we see where all the Ukraine money really went.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
January 29th, 2025 at 4:58:42 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Karoline Leavitt tells the press that Trump WH is restoring press passes to 400 new media outlets and they are going to get more front row seats. I can only imagine how craze the LSM is over this.

Meanwhile, Columbians who entered illegally complaining about silly things like the A/C being too cold. Same excuse about
calling it "asylum" but Trump isn't having that.

And it has only been 9 days so far! How much better is this going to get?!
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength
January 29th, 2025 at 5:49:01 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: AZDuffman
Karoline Leavitt tells the press that Trump WH is restoring press passes to 400 new media outlets and they are going to get more front row seats. I can only imagine how craze the LSM is over this.


Trump can talk to any media outlet he wants at any time and lie about anything. Big deal. Nothing changed.
"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.
January 29th, 2025 at 6:01:07 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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Quote: AZDuffman
Columbians who entered illegally !


My classmates entered legally. If you are referring to Colombians…….

(Pet peeve)
January 29th, 2025 at 6:03:06 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: rxwine
Trump can talk to any media outlet he wants at any time and lie about anything. Big deal. Nothing changed.


Sure it has. Do you understand how the WH Press Room works? I doubt it.

Biden had thrown most of them out because he only wanted LSM to have access.
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January 29th, 2025 at 6:12:17 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: AZDuffman
Sure it has. Do you understand how the WH Press Room works? I doubt it.

Biden had thrown most of them out because he only wanted LSM to have access.


And they wrote whatever they wanted. You don't understand. Trump's the biggest media whore ever. You can't keep him away from them.
"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.
January 29th, 2025 at 6:22:18 AM permalink
AZDuffman
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Quote: rxwine
And they wrote whatever they wanted. You don't understand. Trump's the biggest media whore ever. You can't keep him away from them.


And that is why Trump won. Even in the 2016 primary they had a hard time getting low energy Jeb to do an interview but Trump made himself available as much as possible.

But you are so clueless that you do not understand the briefing room is a daily thing where outlets can ask questions. Trump does not have time for. So Biden got rid of the outlets that might have asked real questions and just let in LSM outlets that asked about his favorite color and other softballs.
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January 29th, 2025 at 6:34:11 AM permalink
SOOPOO
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I think there is another Trump overreach happening. He is offering ALL Federal employees an 8 month severance package to quit. 8 months of full pay and full benefits. The goal is laudable, to trim unnecessary and duplicative and costly employees from the budget. But offering ALL is just stupid. Maybe it is good business sense to cut 10% of the workforce from Department Z. Then offer this deal to the first 10% of Department Z members that apply. If 30% take up the offer, you have to hire new workers, while of course still paying those that are no longer working.

And 8 months seems bizarrely high. You are working in the mailroom at some office and they will pay you for 8 months, while you can go get a similar mailroom job at Company Q? I took one of these silly severance packages from my first job; it paid me for half a year to do nothing. Of course I got a new job so adding the two up was lucrative. It was good for ME, but certainly not my initial employer who had to replace me!

What should have been done…. use Mr. DOGE to identify which departments have two many employees. And more specifically, what exact job descriptions. Then offer those employees some sort of package, likely far less than 8 months worth of freebies. This trimming of the fat is a good idea, but is NOT an emergency that needs to be done haphazardly. Offering the deal to ALL federal employees is haphazard.
January 29th, 2025 at 6:49:06 AM permalink
rxwine
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Quote: AZDuffman
And that is why Trump won. Even in the 2016 primary they had a hard time getting low energy Jeb to do an interview but Trump made himself available as much as possible.

But you are so clueless that you do not understand the briefing room is a daily thing where outlets can ask questions. Trump does not have time for. So Biden got rid of the outlets that might have asked real questions and just let in LSM outlets that asked about his favorite color and other softballs.


Boy you are clueless. Presidents have done interviews on the golf course. Trump dictates books to ghost writers in the oval office. That's where Bob Woodward did much of his interview for his last book.

You believe nonsense..

Trump calls into Hannity, Fox News, even CNN whenever he wants. And he calls reporters at will.
"Trumpsplain (def.) explaining absolute nonsense said by TRUMP.