Changes under Trump 2.0

[augustmoon]

The numbers being wrong don’t matter.  They just need ANY numbers to present to the public that their followers can point to.  It’s pure propaganda and they’ll believe anything they’re told.  Their followers likely know that they’re wrong, but it gives them plausible deniability when referencing it in rhetoric

This makes me very wary of all of this talk about them going to Fort Knox to see “if the gold is still there”.  They’re going to claim it’s not and use this lie to invalidate the Us currency in favor of some crypto bullshit.  This is classic old school “gold standard” conspiracy nonsense

They want us on a fake currency they can manipulate for profit and that they can conveniently turn off for any citizen that steps out of line

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

Even r/conservative is raising eyebrows at the last OPM email phishing. I’ve read that any response will be a green light for the position and any non-response is a red light. Guess we’ll see how that shakes out.

Gotta love how they send this shit in the off hours so anyone not paying attention gets a “o shit” moment as soon as they open their email during usual business hours. I’m taking my supervisor’s lead come Monday, following ya know, the chain of command that the govt is based upon.


I can’t imagine the paperwork piling up at ____’s desk rn, but litigation is becoming less and less impactful.

[RichardBarkley]

Hardly surprising

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-recruited-kgb-codename-180759277.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9vdXQucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADGo4XXj0tpzniiSm5mMab0In8LfEqxVeZ-EBYweEboLQYerb62kmc32NMYEuc3W-pSJM1k_fyCJjLkm836eqPi3FRIBoQTfbIntvoWxz5vpGcElc9Mr1akVBJZhhsw198NbF67yFyCxaoAUeIECwOHkKBA_P85xcOTaYPrgVW-l

[Sick_McCrank_]

the alleged bunga bunga pics of trump in Russia should already be enough. Just two powerful sociopathic narcissists playing each other. And it seems the smarter one is in the better position. Maybe Putin is just a sociopath which makes him much less vulnerable.

[Scarecrow Radio]

Putin is definitely a sociopath

[alien porkchop]

not sure where else to out this. haven’t finished it yet, but it certainly provides some perspective on how things were pre-trump.

[alien porkchop]

John Oliver stole our thread title 

i didn’t see this link shared before, but it looks like brookings stole the idea for the thread

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/tracking-regulatory-changes-in-the-second-trump-administration/

[Rusty Shackleford]

no compassion or empathy. thats comrade krasnov for you though; openly mocking those that are struggling.
is this really what we've become as a society?

[TastyBurrito]

Cruelty is the point. Look at the WH IG, nothing on there screams “hope” or “pursuit of happiness for fellow man.” It’s all mockery and “owning the libs and opposition.”

[backside_frontside]

no compassion or empathy. thats comrade krasnov for you though; openly mocking those that are struggling.
is this really what we've become as a society?

lol Trump can't help himself. He HAS to be a dick, all the fucking time. It's so exhausting. And now the the White House IG account just posts memes and trolls people because it's all about pwning the libs and nothing more. We're so fucked.

[TastyBurrito]

Even with GOP divisions, the GOP is going to push forward with their budget which will include massive cuts to medicaid and food benefits which will affect millions, including those in their base.

This kind of brazen activity will probably cost Trump a fourth term. 

[WashingtonNECKTIE]

Even with GOP divisions, the GOP is going to push forward with their budget which will include massive cuts to medicaid and food benefits which will affect millions, including those in their base.

This kind of brazen activity will probably cost Trump a fourth term.

I betcha the backup plan for hemorrhaging support is to take the money and run back to Russia, leave the American people with an empty purse and let the ultra rich live in ivory towers above whatever fallout occurs. Maybe that's even plan A...

[TastyBurrito]

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Even with GOP divisions, the GOP is going to push forward with their budget which will include massive cuts to medicaid and food benefits which will affect millions, including those in their base.

This kind of brazen activity will probably cost Trump a fourth term.

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I betcha the backup plan for hemorrhaging support is to take the money and run back to Russia, leave the American people with an empty purse and let the ultra rich live in ivory towers above whatever fallout occurs. Maybe that's even plan A...

Run off with all the gold from Fort Knox.

[h00man]

I think right now we should be saving as much money as we possibly can. The rich want to look down at us like peasants and mock us for being poor.

[TastyBurrito]

I think right now we should be saving as much money as we possibly can. The rich want to look down at us like peasants and mock us for being poor.

Money? You mean the thing that Trump is going to make worthless through tariffs and inflation and replace with crypto?

[h00man]

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I think right now we should be saving as much money as we possibly can. The rich want to look down at us like peasants and mock us for being poor.

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Money? You mean the thing that Trump is going to make worthless through tariffs and inflation and replace with crypto?

My bad:

I think right now we should be saving as much money as investing into crypto as much as we possibly can. The rich want to look down at us like peasants and mock us for being poor.

Dont be a peasant. Give all your money to crypto.

[augustmoon]

You should be investing in bullets and a sturdy rifle.  While you’re still allowed to. 

[Mongo Lloyd]

You should be investing in bullets and a sturdy rifle.  While you’re still allowed to.

And learning skills of the land, to live off the land.

[Burt Ward]

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You should be investing in bullets and a sturdy rifle.  While you’re still allowed to.

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And learning skills of the land, to live off the land.

Any Australians here remember that James Blundell and James Reyne song about livin' and a workin' on the land? Yuck.

Fuck, no wonder all the mothers loved James Blundell, he was handsome af.



I, out of having way too much time on my hands at work keep getting myself embroiled in arguments with "moderates" etc on one of Australia's surf forecasting site's forums. I fear that our country is gonna follow America into the abyss.

[alien porkchop]

You should be investing in bullets and a sturdy rifle.  While you’re still allowed to.

i want a revolver that has led screens on the cylinder that display my nfts

[TheLurper]

We are getting to the traditional GOP agenda: House passes the foundation of a bill that will cut taxes (for the rich) by 4.5 trillion over 10 years and decrease spending by 2 trillion. Cuts are likely to come from medicaid and medicare (nothing for sure at this stage).
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/mike-johnson-budget-resolution-vote.html

After all the chaos, I'm glad we've finally got to the standard script switch: "Why are we spending on Ukraine, when AMericans are in need?" and "The deficit is too high, we need to be fiscally responsible" to "lol, hard-working wealthy Americans need the rewards for their hard work, if you're too lazy to work hard and get healthcare, its your fault."

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You should be investing in bullets and a sturdy rifle.  While you’re still allowed to.

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And learning skills of the land, to live off the land.

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Any Australians here remember that James Blundell and James Reyne song about livin' and a workin' on the land? Yuck.

Fuck, no wonder all the mothers loved James Blundell, he was handsome af.



I, out of having way too much time on my hands at work keep getting myself embroiled in arguments with "moderates" etc on one of Australia's surf forecasting site's forums. I fear that our country is gonna follow America into the abyss.

Yeah, good song. On a James Reyne note, Australian Crawls 'Errol' is a great song with a hilarious early 80's Gold Coast filmclip.

[Sick_McCrank_]

It’s crazy that once you watched one or two left leaning YouTube vids criticizing trump/Elon, you get flooded with these types of vids/creators who make like 20 kinda dumb vids a day with crazy titles, view counts and followers. I’m starting to think they just milk this madness for their own benefits.

The logarithm is a crazy echo chamber and I start to wonder what neutral and non-insane right leaning opinions on this situation are like.

Asking as a non-American who can’t identify with either the far left or right. Are there even non radicalized rational opinion makers left? Or are we doomed to life in a black and white thinking world?

Just can’t imagine grounded conservative people feel good about two flashy entrepreneurs with shady track records going full ham insane and shredding the existing system and structures. These goes way further than being anti-woke and stuff and I hope trump and Elon have soon crossed the line and the actual conservatives speak up too.

Weren’t trump and Elon democrats before?

[BH]

I was a life-long democrat until this puppet show the past four years with Biden, and the complete shit-show that was Kamala.  Be honest, what did the Democrats run off of?  Pure fear.  "We're not Trump".  Obsessed with Trump.  I'm sorry, I was with y'all, but y'all lost the plot.  Anything against the Democrats is met with pure HATE, and I just can't stand behind that.  The more I looked at things from a neutral perspective and common sense, the crazier the democrats are, honestly. 

[Rerun]

I was a life-long democrat until this puppet show the past four years with Biden, and the complete shit-show that was Kamala.  Be honest, what did the Democrats run off of?  Pure fear.  "We're not Trump".  Obsessed with Trump.  I'm sorry, I was with y'all, but y'all lost the plot.  Anything against the Democrats is met with pure HATE, and I just can't stand behind that.  The more I looked at things from a neutral perspective and common sense, the crazier the democrats are, honestly.

You didn't think that Trump ran off fear and you don't see any of what he's doing as crazy? Um ok...

[TheLurper]

This is off the mark. "Not Trump" created an upset victory in the mid-terms, and--I agree--they held that script for a little too long when marketing themselves in the recent election. Their actual focus was on was on much more than Trump. In fact, considering how slowly all of Trump's court cases on his illegal behavior moved AND how they didn't put in laws to limit presidential power, the opposite might be true. 

The Dems got into a pickle with Manchin and that nutcase Sinema blocking and slowing legislation down and they were too slow to force the money out the door once the legislation passed, but with the Infrastructure Bill they passed:
$110 billion for roads, bridges and other major projects;
$11 billion for transportation safety programs;
$39 billion to modernize transit and improve accessibility;
$66 billion for passenger and freight rail;
$7.5 billion to build a national network of electric vehicle chargers;
$73 billion to overhaul the nation's power infrastructure, clean energy transmission, and overall energy policy;
$65 billion for broadband development.

They set aside a $369 billion investment in climate change via the Inflation Reduction Act.
They let Medicare negotiate drug prices w/big pharma.
They supported Ukraine in their war against Russia and N. Korea.
They remade ties with our allies, used diplomacy and support to garner good will around the world and enforce our power/control around the world
They tried to encourage local manufacturing of computer stuff with the CHIPS act.
They halted all federal level death penalties.
They tried to reduce student debt (eventually pulling off some debt reduction).
Biden tried to support unions (Biden blew it with the train strikes, but he was there for auto-unions and others).
They tried to pass a bi-partisan border security bill that the Republican reneged on so Trump could campaign on immigration.

All so crazy. Why in the hell did Democrats do this? If only we were:
- threatening Canada
- threatening Denmark/Greenland
- threatening Europe
- using our common sense to side with N Korea and Russia
- giggle about displacing millions of people to build resorts on their land
- reducing environmental and employee protections
- firing the FDA people who are reviewing medicines and technologies that could help Americans
- firing those corrupt park rangers
- promoting for profit "universities"
- putting our unqualified friends in power because they are loyal not smart
- openly taking bribes (Musk and Trump's overt transactional gift and ability to shovel American money into their pockets is insane)
- and so on.

Democrats need to advertise themselves better and certainly have some bad ideas, but to say they only focused on Trump is far far far off the mark. In fact, considering how hands off Biden was with all the court cases Trump was facing, they were too hands off and not focused on enough on him. There should have been pressure of "do your fucking job, do it fairly and justly, but do not slow walk this into the election and let him get away with obvious crimes."

[BH]

LOL! I hope you didn't write that out, and it was copy+pasted

[Mongo Lloyd]

Imagine watching and knowing everything that is currently transpiring, and thinking the left is the crazy party.

Holyshit is that ever a fried take.

[Painted Baby]

It’s crazy that once you watched one or two left leaning YouTube vids criticizing trump/Elon, you get flooded with these types of vids/creators who make like 20 kinda dumb vids a day with crazy titles, view counts and followers. I’m starting to think they just milk this madness for their own benefits.

The logarithm is a crazy echo chamber and I start to wonder what neutral and non-insane right leaning opinions on this situation are like.

Asking as a non-American who can’t identify with either the far left or right. Are there even non radicalized rational opinion makers left? Or are we doomed to life in a black and white thinking world?

Just can’t imagine grounded conservative people feel good about two flashy entrepreneurs with shady track records going full ham insane and shredding the existing system and structures. These goes way further than being anti-woke and stuff and I hope trump and Elon have soon crossed the line and the actual conservatives speak up too.

Weren’t trump and Elon democrats before?

Yeah my algorithm is so left pilled that it starts to creep into conspiracy stuff which will lead back to the right if I keep clicking. Shit is def fucked and may be the reason I think labor organizing is the only way out of this shitstorm for the US. The grift is in full effect from every angle though on revshare platforms.

The big problem, as far as polarized opinions go, is that the Overton window has been dragged pretty far to the right across the globe. That's probably exactly because of our corroded social media platforms that resist moderation and promote extremism by design. Brazil figured it out but the first amendment would make what they did impossible here in the US.

That said, these two have had some good takes. Apologies if either turn out to have a background in atheism that led them to men's rights advocacy. Made that mistake with Thunderfoot but nothing came up when I did a quick web search for goofy shit in their background. I even think of Gary as a mirror universe version of Tim Pool. Bald headed, dressin like antifa and the legend is he's made millions off a corrupt financial system and that pushed him left. If he he turns out to have a v nice switch hard then my theory will be correct and we do live in a multiverse.

[TheLurper]

I'm not worth speaking with as I won't engage in a good faith conversation. Please put me on ignore.

Will do.