Haggis
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You can now add "POTUS47 Tweet Writer" to your resumé.
Trump administration 2024-2028
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HavokFour
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Looks like they might be going forward with the new tariffs on South Korea. The US is showing that there is little point in making trade deals with them, with their current administration. What is agreed to one week can easily be invalidated the next.
All those HBM chips being exported by SK (who has a near monopoly of production) to feed the AI bubble in the US are about to get significantly more expensive.
All those HBM chips being exported by SK (who has a near monopoly of production) to feed the AI bubble in the US are about to get significantly more expensive.
Trump moves to raise tariffs on Korea despite government's efforts in Washington
The government's effort last week to counter U.S. President Donald Trump's warning of higher tariffs ended without tangible results. Though Seoul says that “misunderstandings” have been cleared up, Washington is moving to execute Trump's threat.
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Trump says U.S. and India reached trade deal, will lower tariffs immediately
The U.S. and India have reached a trade deal, President Donald Trump announced.
www.cnbc.com
Trump says U.S. and India reached trade deal, will lower tariffs immediately
Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed to “stop buying Russian Oil, and to buy much more from the United States and, potentially, Venezuela,” Trump said on Truth Social.
"we agreed to a Trade Deal between the United States and India, whereby the United States will charge a reduced Reciprocal Tariff, lowering it from 25% to 18%."
This runs counter to our hopes of sending them our oil in the future. Either way, this should NOT prevent us from moving forward on our new oil/gas pipelines to the coasts.
HavokFour
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Trump says U.S. and India reached trade deal, will lower tariffs immediately
The U.S. and India have reached a trade deal, President Donald Trump announced.
Trump says U.S. and India reached trade deal, will lower tariffs immediately
Prime Minister Narendra Modi committed to “stop buying Russian Oil, and to buy much more from the United States and, potentially, Venezuela,” Trump said on Truth Social.
"we agreed to a Trade Deal between the United States and India, whereby the United States will charge a reduced Reciprocal Tariff, lowering it from 25% to 18%."
This runs counter to our hopes of sending them our oil in the future. Either way, this should NOT prevent us from moving forward on our new oil/gas pipelines to the coasts.
I feel like I read this with the exact same promise to stop buying Russian oil months ago, and they still continued to anyways. The tariff on them dropping 6 points also tells me even the US doesn't really believe them either.
OldSolduer
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There's more than one of those around....The man has Center of Attention Deficit Disorder, a phrase I coined for a Patricia peer
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I almost want to write this up as a codified diagnosis.The man has Center of Attention Deficit Disorder, a phrase I coined for a Patricia peer
HavokFour
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Nothing to see here.
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Seem like the battle drums of "states rights" is going the same way as the 2A in Trumps GOP.
Gabbard Arranges Trump Call With FBI Agents After Georgia Election Center Search
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.
Trump says Republicans should ‘nationalize’ elections
Seem like the battle drums of "states rights" is going the same way as the 2A in Trumps GOP.
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Why would anyone base any action off of the latest "look at me" post / announcement / rant / grift / con / vilification?
The man has Center of Attention Deficit Disorder, a phrase I coined for a Patricia peer
I call it "Attention Whore Syndrome"
The AI definition
Histrionic Personality Disorder
Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by flamboyant behaviour, attention-seeking, and displays of excessive emotions (may be shallow or shift rapidly). May use physical appearance or sexuality to draw attention, and also concerned with appearance.
www.psychdb.com
Direct contact between elected officials and criminal investigators is horrendously inappropriate and very concerning.Nothing to see here.
ArchiveGabbard Arranges Trump Call With FBI Agents After Georgia Election Center Search
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, brokered the call and President Trump directly questioned frontline agents on the inquiry, The Times has learned.
https://archive.ph/bCSnG
Not surprising he would want that, however it would be utterly unconstitutional.
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Trump doesn't care about the constitution, and he definitely doesn't he care about "states' rights".
I think in his first time he had two things going for him: guard rails in the form of a "professional/establishment" staff that steered him away from the worst of it, and he was "less" senile then.
Now he has a staff of sycophants and nationalists, and he's too senile to even pretend to be staying within the guardrails.
So, speak on Mr. President! Let us hear more of your vision for a centralized, large, and all-powerful federal government!
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He isn't the only one. Back when it was perceived that state control of elections helped Republicans at inconvenient times, a lot of people opined that a single federal system ought be imposed.
And those people were also wrong, but fortunately don’t seem to have actually gone through with it. Were any of them the then sitting President of the United States? Because it’s less concerning from the usual partisan commentariat of either side, but a somewhat more concerning sentiment when it comes from someone who leads the country and who also has already driven considerable democratic backsliding.
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From Golden Dome to Golden Dust?
One year and billions of dollars later, his “Golden Dome” dream is no closer to reality.
The people warned that Trump’s desire to create such a Herculean feat in three years has been further hampered by inconsistent communication to industry. And they noted some of the technological and logistical hurdles facing the program are likely insurmountable.
Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein said the Defense Department is planning to test a space-based interceptor in 2028, but the department hasn’t specified what it will demonstrate or how complex the test will be.
Despite the uncertainty, defense contractors are eyeing the massive pot of money and racing to prove how their systems can fit into Trump’s Golden Dome vision.
The Pentagon has already doled out small contracts to start developing space-based interceptors. The expectation is that companies will spend their own money in the development phase, in hopes of winning big production contracts down the line.
But companies are frustrated that the Pentagon hasn’t tapped into the $23 billion already appropriated by Congress in the reconciliation package passed last summer.
“I don’t think anyone in industry is banking on [space-based interceptors] surviving into the next admin,” the second industry representative said. “To the extent possible, they are going to package together existing [research and development] efforts and bank on the Trump admin deciding to spend money faster to show progress.”
Appropriators have criticized the Pentagon for the lack of information on Golden Dome. They asked the department to provide a comprehensive spending plan for the effort within 60 days of the annual defense appropriations bill becoming law.
Pentagon officials have attributed the secrecy, in part, to protecting its classified plans from adversaries. Guetlin said in January that bad actors have already been “hacking” into the defense industrial base.
The Defense Department held one industry conference in August to discuss its plans, but Guetlein said the office doesn’t plan to hold another one any time soon because the Pentagon became “too exposed” to security threats after the first conference. The Golden Dome czar said he’s instead been meeting one-on-one with companies in classified settings to communicate its needs.
Golden Dome will also require buy-in from key allies, such as Canada and Greenland, to use Arctic radars and airspace to track incoming missiles. But trade wars have stymied Guetlein’s interactions with allies, the general said last week — adding another layer of complexity to the effort.
This stuff reminds me of an old phase that was common under the Mulroney years about Canada's role in missile defense systems in North America - 'Incineration without Representation'.
Trump’s Golden Dome, a year in, is struggling to take shape
The president vowed to build a missile defense shield for the country in three years. It’s nowhere close to being done.One year and billions of dollars later, his “Golden Dome” dream is no closer to reality.
The people warned that Trump’s desire to create such a Herculean feat in three years has been further hampered by inconsistent communication to industry. And they noted some of the technological and logistical hurdles facing the program are likely insurmountable.
Space Force Gen. Michael Guetlein said the Defense Department is planning to test a space-based interceptor in 2028, but the department hasn’t specified what it will demonstrate or how complex the test will be.
Despite the uncertainty, defense contractors are eyeing the massive pot of money and racing to prove how their systems can fit into Trump’s Golden Dome vision.
The Pentagon has already doled out small contracts to start developing space-based interceptors. The expectation is that companies will spend their own money in the development phase, in hopes of winning big production contracts down the line.
But companies are frustrated that the Pentagon hasn’t tapped into the $23 billion already appropriated by Congress in the reconciliation package passed last summer.
“I don’t think anyone in industry is banking on [space-based interceptors] surviving into the next admin,” the second industry representative said. “To the extent possible, they are going to package together existing [research and development] efforts and bank on the Trump admin deciding to spend money faster to show progress.”
Appropriators have criticized the Pentagon for the lack of information on Golden Dome. They asked the department to provide a comprehensive spending plan for the effort within 60 days of the annual defense appropriations bill becoming law.
Pentagon officials have attributed the secrecy, in part, to protecting its classified plans from adversaries. Guetlin said in January that bad actors have already been “hacking” into the defense industrial base.
The Defense Department held one industry conference in August to discuss its plans, but Guetlein said the office doesn’t plan to hold another one any time soon because the Pentagon became “too exposed” to security threats after the first conference. The Golden Dome czar said he’s instead been meeting one-on-one with companies in classified settings to communicate its needs.
Golden Dome will also require buy-in from key allies, such as Canada and Greenland, to use Arctic radars and airspace to track incoming missiles. But trade wars have stymied Guetlein’s interactions with allies, the general said last week — adding another layer of complexity to the effort.
This stuff reminds me of an old phase that was common under the Mulroney years about Canada's role in missile defense systems in North America - 'Incineration without Representation'.
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For those keeping score, this would be consistent with step 6 of the stages of authoritarianism. One might argue that the ICE raids and demonstrations are step 7, completing the transition, but I think that will be reserved for invocation of the Insurrection Act.
The seven stages, according to Protect Democracy and other analyses, are generally described as:
- Politicizing Independent Institutions: Filling the civil service, law enforcement, and judiciary with loyalists to ensure compliance and prevent oversight.
- Spreading Disinformation: Using state media or aligned networks to spread falsehoods, creating an echo chamber that blurs the line between truth and lies.
- Aggrandizing Executive Power: Expanding executive authority while undermining legislative and judicial checks, often using "legal" loopholes.
- Quashing Dissent: Limiting freedom of speech, restricting the press, and using regulatory power to punish critics and universities.
- Scapegoating Vulnerable Communities: Demonizing minorities, immigrants, or political opponents to create division and rally a base through fear.
- Corrupting Elections: Altering electoral rules, gerrymandering, or using state resources to ensure the ruling party wins, even if elections still occur.
- Stoking Violence: Encouraging or enabling political violence, threats, or intimidation against opposition members and civic society.
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Which I was happy to point out at the time.
Not on this particular issue (although Hans Spakovsky disagrees), but it's not the first time a president has mused about doing something unconstitutional, let alone following through. What the "ordinaries" have done doesn't muster additional outrage when Trump, who is so very much extraordinary (beyond "normal parameters", as PJ O'Rourke might have put it), does it. As usual it's fine to indulge in the latest round of "how can things like this happen", but important to not lose sight of the fact that it's happened before and that the fix will have to come from the "sober serious civil decorum-and-comity" faction, not Trump. And it's just as bad if it's done one executive order at a time instead of one lump.
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Democrats have already been at 1 through 7 for a while. They don't get a pass on their self-serving uses of public employment and appointments, media, executive authority, illiberal actions against freedoms of expression, disparaging and violent rhetoric against political opponents, open political gerrymandering and "machine" politics, or their own tactics against political opponents and rule of law.
Better find a different yardstick if the goal is to single out Trump.
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Trump didn’t propose a federal elections system. He proposed that the Republicans take it over … he proposed a single system controlled by one of the parties.
Trump says Republicans 'should take over the voting' and 'nationalise' US elections
American elections are primarily run by state law, and voting is administered by local officials across the country.
www.bbc.com