Trump administration 2024-2028

[rmc_wannabe]

I respectfully disagree. I think the world has learned "once bitten, twice shy". The new global market relationships are probably here for at least several cycles, until the we are confident that the US has pulled its head out of its arse.

More importantly, the U.S. people are going to need a good long time, and a lot of soul searching, to figure out what comes next.

Reconstruction will look like a weekend DIY project by comparison.

 

[Brad Sallows]

Whether it will take the US a long time to "correct course" depends on how much correction is expected. I expect the economic warfare to diminish quickly without Trump pushing it, but I do not expect the US to resume prior levels of interventionism; people waiting for that will be SOL. Democrats are inclined to focus domestically because of their welfare-favouring policies, and Republicans were always an unnatural fit for interventionists that was only sustainable while voters couldn't break the establishment logjam that set in after WW II. Democrats have had to absorb a tranche of the hyper-educated mass that seeks causes to fight (including abroad), and Republicans have absorbed a tranche of ordinary people who are disinclined to solve others' problems.

 

[HavokFour]

Virtually no new jobs added in 2025 after revisions.

What Sweeping Revisions and a Blowout Month Tell Us About the U.S. Job Market
Archive

 

[The Bread Guy]

Off you go, then!

Trump Religious Liberty Commission boots member after contentious antisemitism hearing

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission removed Catholic activist after controversial antisemitism hearing.

www.foxnews.com

Carrie Prejean Boller removed from Religious Liberty Commission

"No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue."

angelusnews.com

Carrie Prejean Boller ousted from White House Religious Liberty Commission following antisemitism row - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

“No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue,” said Commission Chair Dan Patrick.

www.jta.org

More on the Prejean Boller:

Carrie Prejean - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[lenaitch]

Whether it will take the US a long time to "correct course" depends on how much correction is expected. I expect the economic warfare to diminish quickly without Trump pushing it, but I do not expect the US to resume prior levels of interventionism; people waiting for that will be SOL. Democrats are inclined to focus domestically because of their welfare-favouring policies, and Republicans were always an unnatural fit for interventionists that was only sustainable while voters couldn't break the establishment logjam that set in after WW II. Democrats have had to absorb a tranche of the hyper-educated mass that seeks causes to fight (including abroad), and Republicans have absorbed a tranche of ordinary people who are disinclined to solve others' problems.

As opposed to the current level of interventionism like Venezuela, plus the sabre rattling at Iran, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, et al?

It seems a lot of elected Republicans (and Republican voters - who knows) seem to be okay with their boss trying to mould the world to his vision.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Off you go, then!

Trump Religious Liberty Commission boots member after contentious antisemitism hearing

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission removed Catholic activist after controversial antisemitism hearing.

www.foxnews.com

Carrie Prejean Boller removed from Religious Liberty Commission

"No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue."

angelusnews.com

Carrie Prejean Boller ousted from White House Religious Liberty Commission following antisemitism row - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

“No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue,” said Commission Chair Dan Patrick.

www.jta.org

More on the Prejean Boller:

Carrie Prejean - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Isn't that the same individual who made p*rn video for her then boyfriend, when she was underage?

Classy individual.

 

[Remius]

As opposed to the current level of interventionism like Venezuela, plus the sabre rattling at Iran, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, et al?

It seems a lot of elected Republicans (and Republican voters - who knows) seem to be okay with their boss trying to mould the world to his vision.

They want their cake and eat it too.

 

[Brad Sallows]

As opposed to the current level of interventionism like Venezuela, plus the sabre rattling at Iran, Canada, Mexico, Greenland, et al?

It seems a lot of elected Republicans (and Republican voters - who knows) seem to be okay with their boss trying to mould the world to his vision.

I'm thinking more of shooting wars that go on for months or years, and the fraction of the international security load that the US will bear. The Republican party as currently constituted - its prominent politicians, and most of its voters - prefer less of both.

 

[Cloud Cover]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/lindsey-halligan-judge-vitriol-charade

Absolutely agree with Judge Novak that Halligan had no business to hold her position, whereupon she instituted a series of malicious prosecutions for Trump including charging Comey.

But … I don’t know enough about US process and law that the courts in the Eastern District of Virginia engage in a process to seek, solicit and appoint a DA which is normally a Federal appointment made by the Executive Branch.
It seems odd that Courts will now appoint the person who will act as Chief Prosecutor in a federal district.

I would note the EDVA is the same district Research In Motion (BlackBerry) lost the largest patent infringement action (at that time) to a redneck jury trial in 2006/7. Speaking from personal experience there were a lot of unusual goings on in that District.

ongoing saga … the prosecutor appointed by the judiciary was fired within hours by Trump.

Federal judges picked a new U.S. attorney in Upstate New York. The White House fired him four hours later

Judges were attempting to replace a Trump appointee who was disqualified from the role.

www.democracydocket.com

And they are trying to reopen the case against Comey …

Pam Bondi trying to revive cases against James Comey and Tish James despite indictments being tossed

Attorney General Pam Bondi, seeking to revive the criminal cases against James Comey and Letitia James, is arguing that she can appoint successive acting U.S. attorneys.

www.goodmorningamerica.com

 

[Retired AF Guy]

Isn't that the same individual who made p*rn video for her then boyfriend, when she was underage?

Classy individual.

Nope. While there are reports of a "sex-tape" it was supposedly made when she was an adult.

 

[Czech_pivo]

Nope. While there are reports of a "sex-tape" it was supposedly made when she was an adult.

The ‘reports’ are true, 100%

 

[HavokFour]

And now Peru (do they play hockey there?).

In blunt warning, the U.S. says Peru could lose its sovereignty to China​

 

[Retired AF Guy]

The ‘reports’ are true, 100%

And you are right!! She was 17 when the tape was made!

‘It was me, by myself. There was no one else with me. I was not having sex. I sent it to my boyfriend at the time. I was a teenager.

Source

Since Carrie Prejean was only 17 years old during the filming of this video, it could strictly be understood as child pornography.

Source

My bad!

 

[RangerRay]

From the person in charge of keeping the children of the most powerful nation on the planet healthy.

RFK Jr. Boasts He’s ‘Not Scared’ of Germs Because He ‘Used to Snort Cocaine Off of Toilet Seats’​

RFK Jr. Boasts He’s ‘Not Scared’ of Germs Because He ‘Used to Snort Cocaine Off of Toilet Seats’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed on Theo Von's podcast that the two first met years ago in rehab for substance abuse.

www.mediaite.com

 

[dapaterson]

From the person in charge of keeping the children of the most powerful nation on the planet healthy.

RFK Jr. Boasts He’s ‘Not Scared’ of Germs Because He ‘Used to Snort Cocaine Off of Toilet Seats’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed on Theo Von's podcast that the two first met years ago in rehab for substance abuse.

www.mediaite.com

I saw that headline and assumed it was from The Onion.

 

[rmc_wannabe]

From the person in charge of keeping the children of the most powerful nation on the planet healthy.

RFK Jr. Boasts He’s ‘Not Scared’ of Germs Because He ‘Used to Snort Cocaine Off of Toilet Seats’

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed on Theo Von's podcast that the two first met years ago in rehab for substance abuse.

www.mediaite.com

Being a Kennedy, I imagine its normal to have an unhealthy fear of shots rather than germs...

 

[dapaterson]

Being a Kennedy, I imagine its normal to have an unhealthy fear of shots rather than germs...

That comment was a bridge too far.

 

[Remius]

That comment was a bridge too far.

SO WAS THAT COMMENT LOL

 

[Good2Golf]

I saw that headline and assumed it was from The Onion.

The Onion is now the standard for accurate current reporting.

 

[ModlrMike]

They want their cake and eat it too.

At the risk of being pedantic, what they want is to "eat their cake and have it". Anyone can have a piece of cake and subsequently eat it. The trick is to eat the cake and still have it left. This is what they want.