Changes under Trump 2.0

[TheLurper]

During the next four years there are going to be a lot of changes. It will be next to impossible to track/remember of all of them on our own. I'm creating this thread so we can log what changed and use this as a resource. I imagine most of these changes will be for the worse, but there will be a few things that might change for the better.

And just to log a starting point, as of today, Nov 9th:

Unemployment: 4.1%. (https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm)
Percent of Americans living in poverty: 11.1% (https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2024/demo/p60-283.html)
Dow Jones Industrial Average:43,988 (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EDJI/)
Avg US Gas Price: $3.09  (https://gasprices.aaa.com/)
Inflation Rate: 2.44%. (https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_inflation_rate)
National Debt: $35,984,888,500  (https://www.usdebtclock.org/)
Number of Incarcerated people in America: 1.9 million  (https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2024.html)
Median Household income (2023): $80,610 (https://www.moneygeek.com/career/median-income-by-age/)
Median Home Price: $420,000  (https://www.fool.com/money/research/average-house-price-state/.)
Interest Rate: 4.5% to 4.75%.  (https://www.usbank.com/investing/financial-perspectives/market-news/federal-reserve-interest-rate.html)
TSLA stock: 252 (Nov 4th closing price) (https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/)
USD Dollar value in Euros: 93 cents
BTC to USD: Roughly 68,770 (start of Nov 5th) (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/)
Measles cases: 277 (https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html)
% of Americans that own a home: 65% (https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/files/currenthvspress.pdf)
Number of homeless: 653,104 (https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-homeless-people-are-in-the-us-what-does-the-data-miss/#.)

I'll try to add in a few other basic stats over the next few days. I imagine the next four years will be super weird and we'll need to track all the changes... and separate the bluster from reality (so many Build Back Better accomplishments will be credited to Trump and team. Dems invested heavily in red states).

[fuck_that_guy]

fuck that guy

[Colin Robinson]

Stupidity continues to skyrocket

[garbage_wagon]

This one looks pretty bad:

https://theintercept.com/2024/11/10/trump-nonprofit-tax-exempt-political-enemies/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

[Lame_Fella]

Will Tim Pool be appointed the Minister of Skate under this administration? Everyone required to learn hang ten hard flips and def not AI skate pics?

[TastyBurrito]

Will Tim Pool be appointed the Minister of Skate under this administration? Everyone required to learn hang ten hard flips and def not AI skate pics?

He’s already been put on the Board of directors for SLS

[Wienerboy]

I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

[TheLurper]

I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

Added this to our basic list of starting point stats. We are at the highest point of homeless-ness since 2007 (i.e. right before the housing crash of 2008 and housing prices came back to reality).

@IUTSM let me know if you want to look up the stats you mentioned above or if you want to do it. And, if anyone else has ideas on starting point stats. Let me know. I have a few more that I'd like to add over the coming weeks.

[TastyBurrito]

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I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

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Added this to our basic list of starting point stats. We are at the highest point of homeless-ness since 2007 (i.e. right before the housing crash of 2008 and housing prices came back to reality).

@IUTSM let me know if you want to look up the stats you mentioned above or if you want to do it. And, if anyone else has ideas on starting point stats. Let me know. I have a few more that I'd like to add over the coming weeks.

Assuming that since Trump got elected, stocks for for-profit prisons shot thru the roof with the added fact that SCOTUS said it’s okay to make homelessness a crime, I’ll put good money on the chance that a lot of the un-housed will end up in these prison. Thus making homelessness numbers plummet under Trump as if he solved the problem (yes, it does in a way) and his buddies running those for-profit prisons will be raking in state and federal money to incarcerate those folk.

[TheLurper]

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I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

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Added this to our basic list of starting point stats. We are at the highest point of homeless-ness since 2007 (i.e. right before the housing crash of 2008 and housing prices came back to reality).

@IUTSM let me know if you want to look up the stats you mentioned above or if you want to do it. And, if anyone else has ideas on starting point stats. Let me know. I have a few more that I'd like to add over the coming weeks.

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Assuming that since Trump got elected, stocks for for-profit prisons shot thru the roof with the added fact that SCOTUS said it’s okay to make homelessness a crime, I’ll put good money on the chance that a lot of the un-housed will end up in these prison. Thus making homelessness numbers plummet under Trump as if he solved the problem (yes, it does in a way) and his buddies running those for-profit prisons will be raking in state and federal money to incarcerate those folk.

This is probably a good bet. People in prison aren't counted as unemployed, which has historically pushed down unemployment rates for those groups that are over incarcerated.  My assumption was private prisons sky rocketed partially because conservatives refuse to believe these aren't the best or most cost effective way to incarcerate people AND because the private prisons have hard-ons for all the deportation detainees that they can profit off. If Trump wants to deport a million a year, that'll be a lot government money shoveled into the pockets of geo-group.

[roba]

what keeps me worried is what's going to happen in ukraine. jr already posted some instagram stories on how ukraine isn't going to be getting any more "allowance". hopefully trump is able to make some sort of agreement with putin which will stop the invasion, but i doubt it. if putin wins in ukraine, he's probably not going to stop there and will continue into other post-soviet countries. basically if shit goes wrong there, it could very well escalate into ww3. there's no way of telling, but i fear it could happen.

[TastyBurrito]

what keeps me worried is what's going to happen in ukraine. jr already posted some instagram stories on how ukraine isn't going to be getting any more "allowance". hopefully trump is able to make some sort of agreement with putin which will stop the invasion, but i doubt it. if putin wins in ukraine, he's probably not going to stop there and will continue into other post-soviet countries. basically if shit goes wrong there, it could very well escalate into ww3. there's no way of telling, but i fear it could happen.

Putin won’t stop with Ukraine. He very much wants to recreate his version of the Soviet Union. And having Trump basically hand over Ukraine and exit NATO is just another hurdle jumped in his journey to domination.

[TheLurper]

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what keeps me worried is what's going to happen in ukraine. jr already posted some instagram stories on how ukraine isn't going to be getting any more "allowance". hopefully trump is able to make some sort of agreement with putin which will stop the invasion, but i doubt it. if putin wins in ukraine, he's probably not going to stop there and will continue into other post-soviet countries. basically if shit goes wrong there, it could very well escalate into ww3. there's no way of telling, but i fear it could happen.

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Putin won’t stop with Ukraine. He very much wants to recreate his version of the Soviet Union. And having Trump basically hand over Ukraine and exit NATO is just another hurdle jumped in his journey to domination.

The EU is going to have to contribute more and Zelensky is going to sell off Ukrainian resources to American companies.

I saw RFK's dumb ass post about his hopes for the FDA, which needs improvement but this man is going to make it worse in most cases.  I was initially excited that he mentioned stem cells, but then realized he isn't talking about real stem cell research but it is more likely that he wants to promote scam stem cell therapies that they do in Thailand that claim to cure everything.

I just hope the RFK's FDA will get all the chlorine out of our salt 

[garbage_wagon]

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what keeps me worried is what's going to happen in ukraine. jr already posted some instagram stories on how ukraine isn't going to be getting any more "allowance". hopefully trump is able to make some sort of agreement with putin which will stop the invasion, but i doubt it. if putin wins in ukraine, he's probably not going to stop there and will continue into other post-soviet countries. basically if shit goes wrong there, it could very well escalate into ww3. there's no way of telling, but i fear it could happen.

[close]

Putin won’t stop with Ukraine. He very much wants to recreate his version of the Soviet Union. And having Trump basically hand over Ukraine and exit NATO is just another hurdle jumped in his journey to domination.

[close]

The EU is going to have to contribute more and Zelensky is going to sell off Ukrainian resources to American companies.

I saw RFK's dumb ass post about his hopes for the FDA, which needs improvement but this man is going to make it worse in most cases.  I was initially excited that he mentioned stem cells, but then realized he isn't talking about real stem cell research but it is more likely that he wants to promote scam stem cell therapies that they do in Thailand that claim to cure everything.

I just hope the RFK's FDA will get all the chlorine out of our salt 

https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/09/zelensky-selling-ukraine-wall-street/

[augustmoon]

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I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

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Added this to our basic list of starting point stats. We are at the highest point of homeless-ness since 2007 (i.e. right before the housing crash of 2008 and housing prices came back to reality).

@IUTSM let me know if you want to look up the stats you mentioned above or if you want to do it. And, if anyone else has ideas on starting point stats. Let me know. I have a few more that I'd like to add over the coming weeks.

[close]

Assuming that since Trump got elected, stocks for for-profit prisons shot thru the roof with the added fact that SCOTUS said it’s okay to make homelessness a crime, I’ll put good money on the chance that a lot of the un-housed will end up in these prison. Thus making homelessness numbers plummet under Trump as if he solved the problem (yes, it does in a way) and his buddies running those for-profit prisons will be raking in state and federal money to incarcerate those folk.

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This is probably a good bet. People in prison aren't counted as unemployed, which has historically pushed down unemployment rates for those groups that are over incarcerated.  My assumption was private prisons sky rocketed partially because conservatives refuse to believe these aren't the best or most cost effective way to incarcerate people AND because the private prisons have hard-ons for all the deportation detainees that they can profit off. If Trump wants to deport a million a year, that'll be a lot government money shoveled into the pockets of geo-group.

They will find reasons to incarcerate people so they can legally have slave labor for for-profit endeavors.  It won’t stop wit homelessness, they will find other arbitrary things to make jailable, like debt or childlessness. 

[Colin Robinson]

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I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

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Added this to our basic list of starting point stats. We are at the highest point of homeless-ness since 2007 (i.e. right before the housing crash of 2008 and housing prices came back to reality).

@IUTSM let me know if you want to look up the stats you mentioned above or if you want to do it. And, if anyone else has ideas on starting point stats. Let me know. I have a few more that I'd like to add over the coming weeks.

[close]

Assuming that since Trump got elected, stocks for for-profit prisons shot thru the roof with the added fact that SCOTUS said it’s okay to make homelessness a crime, I’ll put good money on the chance that a lot of the un-housed will end up in these prison. Thus making homelessness numbers plummet under Trump as if he solved the problem (yes, it does in a way) and his buddies running those for-profit prisons will be raking in state and federal money to incarcerate those folk.

[close]

This is probably a good bet. People in prison aren't counted as unemployed, which has historically pushed down unemployment rates for those groups that are over incarcerated.  My assumption was private prisons sky rocketed partially because conservatives refuse to believe these aren't the best or most cost effective way to incarcerate people AND because the private prisons have hard-ons for all the deportation detainees that they can profit off. If Trump wants to deport a million a year, that'll be a lot government money shoveled into the pockets of geo-group.

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They will find reasons to incarcerate people so they can legally have slave labor for for-profit endeavors.  It won’t stop wit homelessness, they will find other arbitrary things to make jailable, like debt or childlessness.

And this is why you buy guns.

[TheLurper]

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what keeps me worried is what's going to happen in ukraine. jr already posted some instagram stories on how ukraine isn't going to be getting any more "allowance". hopefully trump is able to make some sort of agreement with putin which will stop the invasion, but i doubt it. if putin wins in ukraine, he's probably not going to stop there and will continue into other post-soviet countries. basically if shit goes wrong there, it could very well escalate into ww3. there's no way of telling, but i fear it could happen.

[close]

Putin won’t stop with Ukraine. He very much wants to recreate his version of the Soviet Union. And having Trump basically hand over Ukraine and exit NATO is just another hurdle jumped in his journey to domination.

[close]

The EU is going to have to contribute more and Zelensky is going to sell off Ukrainian resources to American companies.

I saw RFK's dumb ass post about his hopes for the FDA, which needs improvement but this man is going to make it worse in most cases.  I was initially excited that he mentioned stem cells, but then realized he isn't talking about real stem cell research but it is more likely that he wants to promote scam stem cell therapies that they do in Thailand that claim to cure everything.

I just hope the RFK's FDA will get all the chlorine out of our salt 

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https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/09/09/zelensky-selling-ukraine-wall-street/

@garbage_wagon good catch.

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

[TastyBurrito]

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I saw someone mention poverty stats but what about Homelessness? From what I've seen, we have been experiencing record-high numbers in the last few years and that is only growing.

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Added this to our basic list of starting point stats. We are at the highest point of homeless-ness since 2007 (i.e. right before the housing crash of 2008 and housing prices came back to reality).

@IUTSM let me know if you want to look up the stats you mentioned above or if you want to do it. And, if anyone else has ideas on starting point stats. Let me know. I have a few more that I'd like to add over the coming weeks.

[close]

Assuming that since Trump got elected, stocks for for-profit prisons shot thru the roof with the added fact that SCOTUS said it’s okay to make homelessness a crime, I’ll put good money on the chance that a lot of the un-housed will end up in these prison. Thus making homelessness numbers plummet under Trump as if he solved the problem (yes, it does in a way) and his buddies running those for-profit prisons will be raking in state and federal money to incarcerate those folk.

[close]

This is probably a good bet. People in prison aren't counted as unemployed, which has historically pushed down unemployment rates for those groups that are over incarcerated.  My assumption was private prisons sky rocketed partially because conservatives refuse to believe these aren't the best or most cost effective way to incarcerate people AND because the private prisons have hard-ons for all the deportation detainees that they can profit off. If Trump wants to deport a million a year, that'll be a lot government money shoveled into the pockets of geo-group.

[close]

They will find reasons to incarcerate people so they can legally have slave labor for for-profit endeavors.  It won’t stop wit homelessness, they will find other arbitrary things to make jailable, like debt or childlessness.

Why do you think Florida killed the legal weed bill. It passed with majority but failed with less than 60% They knew it would work that way, now it's easier to bust people for possession.

[Sick_McCrank_]

All that’s gonna matter is how much more money the top 1% will have at the end. The rest? None of his business.

[pugmaster]

I wonder what kind of pillows the prisons will order in large volumes.

[Sincerity]

The number of billionaires in the US as of September, 2024: 801, worth 6.22 trillion.

Source: https://inequality.org/great-divide/billionaire-wealth-keeps-growing/#:~:text=801%20U.S.%20billionaires%20hold%20a,Berkshire%20Hathaway%20with%20$141%20billion.

[S.]

Inequality: GINI Index 41.3

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA

[SUPREMENECKPROTECTOR]

https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/literacy-statistics

May be of interest?!

[ok boomer]

Deez nuts 100%

[augustmoon]

The billionaire class is enacting their own New World Order and they’re doing it by force.  They’re consolidating power ahead of imminent climate collapse.  Expect someone to launch a nuke.  Expect us to either go to war with Russia/China or ally with them to subjugate the global south.  Expect a serious pandemic this time around with 20% or more mortality rate.  Expect compelled euthanasia for marginalized groups as resources run scarce. 


This was inevitable and not much could have been done to stop it.  We’re just along for the ride now 

[augustmoon]

Gonna have to check that out


I think I posted my climate change consapiracy here a few years back.  And while I don’t believe in conspiracy theories, just about everything I speculated has come to pass.

[Scarecrow Radio]

I wonder what kind of pillows the prisons will order in large volumes.

Why, MYPILLOW.COM of course!

[TastyBurrito]

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I wonder what kind of pillows the prisons will order in large volumes.

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Why, MYPILLOW.COM of course!

Don't forget, for the sake of efficiency, every government vehicle will be replaced with a Cybertruck.

[TastyBurrito]

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I wonder what kind of pillows the prisons will order in large volumes.

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Why, MYPILLOW.COM of course!

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Don't forget, for the sake of efficiency, every government vehicle will be replaced with a Cybertruck.

[close]

But weirdly at the same time they’re trying to harm EV legislation and production

Yes. But I feel like with Elon in his cabinet position, EV legislation and production will affect every other EV manufacturer out there but Tesla.

Kind of efficient when it comes to competition, right?

[Scarecrow Radio]

Republicans have retained control of the House. This my friends is going to be an absolute shit-show for four very long years