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Trump's Policies Part 5

jthomas666 said:
Not sure this will play well...
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Republican Sen. Joni Ernst defends proposed Medicaid cuts: 'We all are going to die'

Her comment came in response to an attendee who yelled that proposed GOP cuts to Medicaid would cost lives.
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I said right after Team Blue lost that the 2026 Senate was an uphill battle for them but Ernst was one that barely won last time, also pointing out in another post the tariffs might hurt her and the fact she got less than 52% of the vote might give the Ds hope.

This MIGHT be the George Allen Macaca moment if she loses. And the Ds cannot win the Senate on their own based on the states but the GOP can easily lose them with Admiral Whackbar in the Oval…..and own goals like this.
 
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Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?

I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things, but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar.

While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development had not cost any lives.

“No children are dying on my watch,” he asserted. At another point in the hearing, he broadened his statement to include adults as well: “No one has died because of U.S.A.I.D.”

This is ludicrous: The only debate is whether to measure the dead in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. So Representative Brad Sherman, a California Democrat, challenged Rubio, citing reporting overseas by me and by Reuters of individuals who died as a result of the shutdown of American humanitarian aid.
 
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jthomas666 said:
"Disgusting"? Really?
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xenophobe
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Yes, disgusting and you can stop with this xenophobe BS.

I don't care if people immigrate to this country, become citizens, pay into SS and then later in life pull from SS.

To move here already of SS age and pull from a system you did not contribute is disgusting. And I would say the same about anyone who did not contribute to the system but gets to pull from the system. It is all disgusting.
 
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Tidewater said:
I am far from an expert, but I would wager that there are large sums of money that flow between the two states to cover the cost. In other words, if 1,000 Belgians 65-year olds move to the US, I'd bet the Belgian government transfers a lot of money to cover that cost. And the same applies in reverse. If 1,000 Amerians emigrate to Belgium, I'd bet the US pays a sum of money to cover that.
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I'm sorry, but this makes no sense in today's world. If you retired from a French, or Belgian, or German company and decide to move to the US why should the US start giving you retirement benefits? Can't the German government continue to direct deposit your German retirement into your bank account. Banks are pretty much global entities so it should not be a problem to direct deposit from Germany into a US bank. Just keep your German bank account and transfer the money after the fact. This rule was probably necessary a century ago but no longer.
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
Makes sense. He's a toddler so you have to use toddler tricks to hold his attention.
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You'd think this would be humiliating for the administration. Hell, I'm humiliated that we have to do this for our PRESIDENT.

Then again, these are the same people who blew off inadvertantly leaking classified information, so...
 
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selmaborntidefan said:
I said right after Team Blue lost that the 2026 Senate was an uphill battle for them but Ernst was one that barely won last time, also pointing out in another post the tariffs might hurt her and the fact she got less than 52% of the vote might give the Ds hope.

This MIGHT be the George Allen Macaca moment if she loses. And the Ds cannot win the Senate on their own based on the states but the GOP can easily lose them with Admiral Whackbar in the Oval…..and own goals like this.
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Ernst doubles down:


Ernst doubles down on Medicaid comment with sarcastic video ‘apology’

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on a recent quip about Medicaid in a Saturday post on her Instagram story.

“Hello, everyone. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall,” Ernst said in the clip, with a sarcastic tone.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1928916957278908823
 
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Trump pardons drive a big, burgeoning business for lobbyists
With Trump issuing pardons on a rolling basis, lobbyists say clients are willing to pay significant sums to get their cases in front of the president.

Seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump has become big business for lobbying and consulting firms close to the administration, with wealthy hopefuls willing to spend millions of dollars for help getting their case in front of the right people.

“From a lobbying perspective, pardons have gotten profitable,” said one lobbyist whose firm has received such calls.

There’s no set rate for pardon help. But two people directly familiar with proposals to lobbying firms said they knew of a client’s offer of $5 million to help get a case to Trump. These people, like others, were granted anonymity to speak candidly. And while such high numbers do not seem to be standard, they speak to a burgeoning pardon economy.
 
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Ernst doubles down:


Ernst doubles down on Medicaid comment with sarcastic video ‘apology’

Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) doubled down on a recent quip about Medicaid in a Saturday post on her Instagram story.

“Hello, everyone. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my town hall,” Ernst said in the clip, with a sarcastic tone.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1928916957278908823
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TROPIC TRUMPER SCENE 41:

ERNST:
In a weird way, I just had to sorta fool my mind to believe it wasn't ridiculous and by the end of the whole thing I was like, "Wait a minute, ya know?"

CONSULTANT:
Sure. You wuz breaking wind in bathtubs and laughing. You wuz making fun of dying people and then making fun of people pointing out you're acting like a nitwit. But....simple Joni thought she was smart. Or rather didn't think she was ridiculous. Playing a Senator who ain't smart but thinks she is - that's tricky. Especially knowing how the "never Trumpers" are about that stuff.

ERNST:
Wait - about what?

CONSULTANT:
You're serious? You don't know?
Everyone knows you never go Full Trump.

ERNST:
What do you mean?

CONSULTANT:
Check it out. Liz Cheney, look Trumper, act Trumper, ain't Trumper. Daughter of Darth Vader, reps a backward state, looks like Miss Piggy, sure. Conservative, sure - not Trump. You know Michael Cohen. Slow, yes, Stupid probably, but he charmed the pants off Stormy Daniels and got her to keep her mouth shut until after the election by actually paying her. That ain't Trumper.

You went FULL Trump.
You never go Full Trump.
 
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Earlier I had expressed a preference for sober second thought, rather than acting on the first impulse. Fisher Ames, one of the Founders from Massachusetts, expressed it this way in 1788:

"A democracy is a volcano, which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption, and carry desolation in their way. The people always mean right; and, if time is allowed for reflection and information, they will do right. I would not have the first wish, the momentary impulse of the public mind, become law. ... On great questions, we first hear the loud clamors of passion, artifice, and faction. I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law."
 
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/do...-big-burgeoning-business-lobbyists-rcna209801

Trump pardons drive a big, burgeoning business for lobbyists
With Trump issuing pardons on a rolling basis, lobbyists say clients are willing to pay significant sums to get their cases in front of the president.

Seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump has become big business for lobbying and consulting firms close to the administration, with wealthy hopefuls willing to spend millions of dollars for help getting their case in front of the right people.

“From a lobbying perspective, pardons have gotten profitable,” said one lobbyist whose firm has received such calls.

There’s no set rate for pardon help. But two people directly familiar with proposals to lobbying firms said they knew of a client’s offer of $5 million to help get a case to Trump. These people, like others, were granted anonymity to speak candidly. And while such high numbers do not seem to be standard, they speak to a burgeoning pardon economy.
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Absolutely, the most corrupt, money grabbing president (and family) in the entire history of this country! None other comes even close.
 
The party of law and order becoming the party of break the law and we pardon you in short order (with a substantial donation).

Televangelism has reached the White House. Expect a miraculous conversion to Christianity when he leaves and a TV show where he hawks stuff.
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
Yes, disgusting and you can stop with this xenophobe BS.

I don't care if people immigrate to this country, become citizens, pay into SS and then later in life pull from SS.

To move here already of SS age and pull from a system you did not contribute is disgusting. And I would say the same about anyone who did not contribute to the system but gets to pull from the system. It is all disgusting.
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I don't know. It sounds like this is a complicated topic and its mostly meant to protect workers, and probably more importantly for the US economy, companies from paying into 2 different countries social security systems.
 
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CrimsonNagus said:
This is disgusting.
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You have a very interesting, and telling disgust response to a single feature of our immigration policy.

The best question to asks is, are these folks a net positive benefit to our country to earn this benefit or not? For example, if someone 40 years old immigrates that makes $300,000 a year and pays taxes on that amount of money for 20 years, why would you care if they get SS or not? They will pay an outsized amount into SS by the time they retire. And if they did want to retire with a large nest egg, why would you tell them they are not worthy of staying in the US by eliminating their SS?

It's also interesting to dig into the data to understand what happens when these (mostly Western European countries) persons come to the US. On average, they earn more money than the US citizen, meaning they likely contribute an larger portion of taxes that the average US citizen and therefore boost our economy. They are also more educated that the average US citizen.

I for one don't care if they get SS, as 1. almost half of these folks are relatives of a US citizen. 2. we don't let that many Western Europeans in anyway, 3. as long as they are strong earners/tax payers on AVERAGE and good citizens.

So, are they a net benefit, or a net drag on our economy and country? After all, most US citizens are relatives of European immigrants one way or another.

 
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Hegseth Orders Navy to Review Ship Name Honoring Gay Rights Pioneer Harvey Milk
The names of several other vessels that honor civil rights leaders and Supreme Court justices might also be changed.

Mr. Milk is one of several trailblazers whose name has been identified for possible removal from naval vessels. According to a senior official familiar with a memo from John Phelan, the secretary of the Navy, they include Thurgood Marshall, the first Black Supreme Court justice; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, another Supreme Court justice, who became a feminist icon; Harriet Tubman, who, after being born into slavery, became an abolitionist instrumental in the Underground Railroad; Lucy Stone, a prominent abolitionist and suffragist; Medgar Evers, a civil-rights leader who was assassinated by a member of the Ku Klux Klan; Cesar Chavez, a labor leader; and Dolores Huerta, another labor leader.
 
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