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No, I'm not against him searching for trannies, nor any other group of people. TC's version of bigotry: I think people who like pickles are crazy.

So you can use war power acts anytime anywhere? Why even bother then. Just call him a King, and let him do whatever he wants. Can you explain to me why it's not illegal for him to have people thrown in foreign prisons for immigration issues here? How is labeling someone a terrorist, via connection to an alleged gang not any different than Nazi Germany with the Jews? Then justify the whole thing with we are at "war". The whole thing is STUPIDLY absurd.

That's the beauty of it. The metric will be our economy in 10 years, after 2 more Democrats have held the presidency, that removed all the stuff he did, using his own illegal methods. This whole thing is really absurd. The only thing that makes sense is he's a flagpole sitter. MUST HAVE EYES ON ME!!!

It's his fault I don't trust him. You can blame the media for that, but it was really just his 10 million things that he's said and done that make me believe it. Honestly, I have no clue what a great trade deal would be. I just know he can't be trusted, and he's not smart.

Recruitment?

If you were writing a book called art of the deal, what would you consider to be the best move here: Call the citizens of a trade war "peasants", and piss them off, which gives the Chinese government more leeway with them; or call them "peasants", and mean that their government is cheating them, and take pressure off? This administration seems to be clueless about everything. I don't think we'll ever know if a fair deal was made. I'm almost certain that it will be billed as the greatest move that America has ever made. Can't have a golden age, without the best deals ever!!! Has anyone ever gotten an estimate or timeline on when this will start happening??? There's a lot of 'Day 1' people still holding their breath for a lot of other things.

There's the cave, and it isn't China announcing it: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expects the U.S. and China to begin de-escalating their trade hostilities in the “very near future,” he said at an event in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday organized by JPMorgan, a person in the room told Barron’s. Those tariffs are “an embargo on both sides” that effectively ends trade between the U.S. and China, Bessent said, according to the person. But Bessent added that the goal isn’t for the U.S. and China to decouple their economies. Rather, he believes the unsustainable tariff situation is likely to drive both the U.S. and China to recalibrate their trade relationship. That would begin a potentially difficult set of negotiations.

This is why we hired the greatest negotiating peacemaker in the history of our great country!!! He did a spot on job with NK.

So make India into China, so we can screw them over in a few years, after we get manufacturing infrastructure going? Why would India agree to that? Are they really really stupid, or is this the 'art of the deal'? It sure sounds like it's just a China do over to me.

Do you want me to list the all reasons why a ton of things that are important are being cut? All I have to do is say that "it's the mission", and "Congress says so" to justify it? Is that the exact same kind of thinking that has us in what some think has put us in an existential crisis; that the smart ones know will absolutely be our demise. Like I said, if it's that important, go ahead and throw another trillion logs on the military industrial complex fire. Oh look, Karoline is a bleeping liar. Who knew?? Now blame the whistleblower or the news. Lather, rinse repeat: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is under mounting scrutiny after reports revealed he pulled highly sensitive information about U.S. airstrikes in Yemen from a secure military communications channel and shared it via Signal, an unsecured messaging app, with his wife, brother, lawyer, and others.

I understand and respect that opinion, but there's also been times when the heat needed turning up, but it wasn't.

Any sneak peaks on what colors the new ties might be available in??? Propaganda, because they're losing BIGLY. It was to be expected. Now will come the Sharpie board numbers. LOL

But also contrary to the notion that we're under the control of the most peaceful president ever, and that we can't afford anything. I just looked it up. The average soldier cost $140,000 a piece.

Maybe the temperature needs turning up. People can take my opinion any way they want. I'm fine knowing it was just simply received.

So you can never have enough? Why not make the DOD budget $2 trillion then? We're discussing the utility of the matter, not a general platitude.

Would he love to be fascist? That's the only question you ever have to ask, when you're wondering if someone is good for your democracy. The fascist comment was mainly in a 'tariff war' to real war comparison. Mussolini thought he had big britches, and could barely beat Ethiopia. Hitler thought he could take on the USA, England, and Russia at the same time. Very foolhardy. A good lesson for any nationalist, that thinks they're better than anyone else.

So why do you want to pay and equip so many soldiers? It makes no sense, other than the 'you can never be too cautious' approach. That approach isn't the approach you use, when you're currently defending cutting support for hurting Americans.

For people that are hell bent on insisting trump is the most peaceful president in history, and hate wasteful spending, you sure are happy about the ballooning numbers in military recruitment. Hypocrite much?

I always like to pop into the bigot's only thread from time to time to check what NC's algorithm has been showing him lately. LOL Hint: stop googling tranny.

Have you seen the story about the bird, that was killed protecting his owner, but if that bird hadn't attacked, the police would have never found the evidence, that revealed the killer? It was a story from Dr. Baden. It's a cool story if you wanna look it up.

This is why fascists always lose. Because they're bold and overconfident. That's always their downfall. It made ZERO sense to start tariff wars with the whole world. You manipulate each of them against each other if you're smart. if you're real stupid, you make them all your enemies at the getgo.

All they did to quell this was say, "the information wasn't classified". That's complete BS, and to steal a phrase from the donald, "and everybody knows it". They should have just owned up to their mistake, instead of insulting the intelligence of every person on the planet, that's not in the cult. This is the equivalent of showing off your diamonds, and then when they get stolen, saying they were just glass anyways. I'm guilty of this to, but I think we add personal flaws to criticize too much, especially with appointed people in specific departments. Sure, we should hold our high leaders and judges to high standards, but truth is I'm not perfect, nor is anyone else. If Pete could get the job done to A1 standards, and womanize, then that should be ok. Unfortunately, Pete can't, but adding womanizer to reinforce that fact, is unecessary. You don't know that bounce was due to Pete. If recruitment had went down, the political play would have been, "give him some time". They literally have stated that loyalty is a top priority, while bashing crony appointments as DEI. Lot's of people are buying that nonsense, too. They could sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo. When determining who's the most qualified to do the job best, loyalty is not a top priority, especially in politics. It's basically the foundation that cronyism was built on. You'd want to remain anonymous too, if you knew the administration you were exposing was hell bent on getting rid of whisteblower protections. He'd be fired, slandered, and afraid of prosecution. You have to pick your poison here, either you prefer coverups or anonymous sources. Remember, the source can possibly be corroborated, while the coverup would NEVER reveal itself. There's a reason the founding fathers were so big on free press.

This is a good conversation. To me it seems that dogs will often give their lives to defend their 'family', and that often would extend to other humans they have never even previously encountered. You won't find many humans going into a fray with a 1,000 lb grizzly bear to stop a mauling on another person. Some would say it's because the dog is dumb. I disagree. That dog knows the bear will kill it, yet he feels compelled to do it anyways.

My concern is that at some point, the American people are going to demand action, a disadvantage the Chinese don't have, and trump will make a bad deal, then label it as the greatest deal ever made. Is that what they were talking about when they were saying "holding the cards"?

Savage was a bad word choice, because it can have both meanings. I meant unprovoked, unnecessary, or maybe unjustified. If animals acted like us, they wouldn't maintain a proper ecosystem. Their violence seems to be mostly survival driven. Attacking something else for no possible benefit would be a waste of valuable resources to them. Beast is another word that would fill both meanings.