Trump's Policies Part 5

[jthomas666]

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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.

You've heard of the Hot/Crazy scale?

The Trump administration has a similar scale--the White/Christian scale.

 

[PaulD]

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.

As a normal rule, to qualify for a retirement pension under Social Security you have to have 40 quarters of coverage. If, for example, I had lived and worked in the UK and came to the States at age 65, it's unlikely that I would have the necessary quarters for coverage.

 

[81usaf92]

The country was at war.

He did the right thing.

Treason was the reason for the season.

Im actually surprised that you aren’t bringing up that Jeff Davis did it as well.

 

[jthomas666]

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Even CNN couldn't ignore that inflation just hit its LOWEST point since 2021. "It's an unexpected and very welcome development that's defying economists' expectations..."

You know, when Biden's team said that the economy was doing well, people here were screaming BUT MY GROCERIES.

I guess groceries are that big a problem anymore?

Narrator: Groceries are still a big freaking problem.

 

[Crimson1967]

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.

I agree. If an American moves to another country they should still be allowed to receive social security if they are entitled to it, even if they take up foreign citizenship. (In my opinion).

Likewise, someone moving here should rely on their own government’s version of social security. If they work 40 quarters here, they can get it.

If there is some small fee for an international transfer and currency exchange, that’s fine.

 

[crimsonaudio]

You know, when Biden's team said that the economy was doing well, people here were screaming BUT MY GROCERIES.

I guess groceries are that big a problem anymore?

Narrator: Groceries are still a big freaking problem.

Yup - grocery prices are never going back down.

But at least they're not continuing to skyrocket.

 

[Huckleberry]

Yup - grocery prices are never going back down.

But at least they're not continuing to skyrocket.

Yes, skyrocketing inflation ended during the Biden years:

Consumer Price Index: 2024 in review

Consumer prices for all items rose 2.9 percent from December 2023 to December 2024. Food prices increased 2.5 percent, reflecting a 1.8-percent increase in prices for food at home and a 3.6-percent increase in prices for food away from home.

www.bls.gov

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Prices for all six major food at home groups increased from 2023 to 2024. Prices for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs increased the most, up 4.2 percent. Within this larger category, egg prices rose 36.8 percent, following a decline of 23.8 percent in 2023. Nonalcoholic beverages and beverage materials prices increased 2.3 percent, while dairy and related products prices rose 1.3 percent. Fruits and vegetables prices were up 1.0 percent. Prices for cereals and bakery products and other food at home each increased 0.8 percent.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Yup - grocery prices are never going back down.

But at least they're not continuing to skyrocket.

I'm just so glad that transtesticles can't play B-team volleyball.

 

[Bamabuzzard]

You know, when Biden's team said that the economy was doing well, people here were screaming BUT MY GROCERIES.

I guess groceries are that big a problem anymore?

Narrator: Groceries are still a big freaking problem.

Groceries are still a huge problem for my family (7 people under my roof), and anyone who can fog a mirror knows that, regardless of the sitting president, they can't magically make prices go down. "How's the economy doing?" is ALWAYS, ALWAYS a relative term.

Ask anyone in the food distributing business "how's the economy" and they'll tell you "it's never been better!", "record profits". Then ask the consumers who have to pay their prices, "How's the economy?" and they'll tell you a very different story. I have friends in the food distribution business who are making more money than they have in their entire lives. This is the best economy they've ever lived in.....literally.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases.

A statistical impossibility.

That isn't "random." It's rigged.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929992176059969975

A lot of people have noticed and acknowledged this, but it seems to mostly be Trump supporters who want to see his policies move forward. This feels like a scandal that should have blown up, but didn't. The right has never been shy about sky-screaming over stuff like this, but most have been oddly quiet.

 

[Its On A Slab]

Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases.

A statistical impossibility.

That isn't "random." It's rigged.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929992176059969975

A lot of people have noticed and acknowledged this, but it seems to mostly be Trump supporters who want to see his policies move forward. This feels like a scandal that should have blown up, but didn't. The right has never been shy about sky-screaming over stuff like this, but most have been oddly quiet.

I just consulted the Google Monkey. Judge Boasberg is the chief judge of the US District Court in DC.

Wouldn't that court be the most convenient court to submit a Federal case for litigants in the DC area? I only counted 3 of the 16 district judges of that court that were appointed by Trump.

From what I'm reading (and I'm no ambulance-chaser), the chief judge is the doorkeeper for assigning cases. I guess he's the 1st one that's consulted?

 

[Huckleberry]

Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases.

A statistical impossibility.

That isn't "random." It's rigged.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1929992176059969975

A lot of people have noticed and acknowledged this, but it seems to mostly be Trump supporters who want to see his policies move forward. This feels like a scandal that should have blown up, but didn't. The right has never been shy about sky-screaming over stuff like this, but most have been oddly quiet.

https://www.courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-case-assigning-evenhanded-despite-gop-outcry/

DC Circuit case assigning evenhanded, despite GOP outcry
Republican lawmakers have suggested that the D.C. District Court’s chief judge has been assigned a disproportionate number of “high-profile” Trump cases — but a review of such litigation points to a less damning conclusion.

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Courthouse News reviewed roughly 100 cases challenging Trump administration actions that have come before judges in the capital’s federal district court. They included litigation against the White House’s efforts to fire independent inspectors general from federal agencies, its move to shutter the U.S. Agency for International Development and the freezing of certain federal funding programs, among other issues.

Of the cases Courthouse News examined, Boasberg was assigned just the four that House Republicans pointed to in their Monday letter. Some of his fellow D.C. judges, including Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, and senior Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, have presided over as many as six such cases. Judge Jia Cobb, appointed by Joe Biden, is overseeing eight cases challenging Trump's actions.

 

[crimsonaudio]

I'm just so glad that transtesticles can't play B-team volleyball.

What does this comment have to do with the discussion regarding inflation?

 

[crimsonaudio]

Yes, skyrocketing inflation ended during the Biden years:

That's fine, though it really has nothing to do with what I posted, specifically the point I highlighted: "It's an unexpected and very welcome development that's defying economists' expectations..."

 

[Huckleberry]

That's fine, though it really has nothing to do with what I posted, specifically the point I highlighted: "It's an unexpected and very welcome development that's defying economists' expectations..."

Ah, I guess I missed your original post, as I was responding to the later one. I agree that it's a nice surprise that high inflation hasn't returned yet.

 

[jthomas666]

Yup - grocery prices are never going back down.

But at least they're not continuing to skyrocket.

No, but with the steel and aluminum tarriffs just implemented, I'm pretty sure cars and major appliances will pick up the slack.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases.

A statistical impossibility.

Gee, I was once drug tested at work 9 times in 13 months when ONE PERSON from our office was tested every month.

Was that rigged, too?

And Trump is crying like a sissy about the judges he appointed who won't just say, "Everything he wants to do is okay," so let's not pretend the judge assigned even really matters to Trump since he's only focused on the RESULT.

A lot of people have noticed and acknowledged this, but it seems to mostly be Trump supporters who want to see his policies move forward.

Here's a radical idea: submit your ideas to Congress like every other President in American history.
Quit pretending you're elected to be dictator.

This shouldn't be hard.

 

[UAH]

We had a discussion on Rare Earth Metals from China recently. Inside China Business posted this video on the topic this morning. Big time problems for the US Defense Industry and other countries as well!

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Gee, I was once drug tested at work 9 times in 13 months when ONE PERSON from our office was tested every month.

Was that rigged, too?

Respectfully, "random" DT's aren't as random as we are led to believe. I made friends with the HR director at a company I worked for 20 years ago and she affirmed as much.

And Trump is crying like a sissy about the judges he appointed who won't just say, "Everything he wants to do is okay," so let's not pretend the judge assigned even really matters to Trump since he's only focused on the RESULT.

Yeah, Trump is a whiner, but I don't believe for one second that personal politics don't enter into some of these decisions. God knows, we hear that all the time around here when the topic of SCOTUS comes up again.

Here's a radical idea: submit your ideas to Congress like every other President in American history.
Quit pretending you're elected to be dictator.

This shouldn't be hard.

Believe it or not, I agree with you. Congressional gridlock is a problem, though. It seems like the only time those clowns agree on anything seems to involve fueling up the bombers or keeping the assembly lines going at Ratheon. Outside of that, it's nearly impossible to get anything passed.

 

[selmaborntidefan]