Trump 2.0: MAGAA

[BDKJMU]

[BDKJMU]

Too bad. Lots of high ranking govt positions don’t require Senate confirmation. Not trampling over squat except liberals and swamp deep staters feelings. Elections have consequences.

Name one who’s attempted what Elon has in the past week alone. Not to mention the unitary executive creation of the faux DOGE.

You’re right on elections have consequences though Thanks Dems). Elect a cold who likes to play pretend president without consequences and reap from your own inadequacies.

As opposed to unitary executive creation of the faux USAID?

[kalm]

Name one who’s attempted what Elon has in the past week alone. Not to mention the unitary executive creation of the faux DOGE.

You’re right on elections have consequences though Thanks Dems). Elect a cold who likes to play pretend president without consequences and reap from your own inadequacies.

As opposed to unitary executive creation of the faux USAID?

7 Republican administrations since Kennedy have had an opportunity to rescind it.

Unless it was codified by congress at some point.

Douchebag
Oligarch
Glorifies
Egocentrism

DOGE

[Bobcat]

This guy is my new favorite American

Suddenly Democrats are Pro ID! I cant quit laughing at these idiots!!! "But I'm a member of Congress" LOL I absolutely LOVE how this guy wont pay attention to them!!!

Its even funnier because they are there to destroy evidence while the building is being audited. HA HA HA HA I can't take 4 years of this! LOL LOL LOL


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Maxine Waters harasses and taunts a guard at the Dept of Education building to try to force her way inside <a href="https://t.co/azpQK9N9CX">pic.twitter.co ... </p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=" 7, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

[Bobcat]

I have always said that if Maxine Waters hung her head out a car window like a dog, it would sound like finger blasting your date on prom night

[kalm]

Nothing worse than government dependent immigrants who can’t stand on their own.

[SeattleGriz]

Nothing worse than government dependent immigrants who can’t stand on their own.

You too apparently fail to realize he is making products that are used for the betterment of the environment (Tesla) and exploration (SpaceX) which both require large amounts of cash to get up and running.

NPR is people throwing out opinions. NPR starts producing something of value and then you can start to compare.

[Bobcat]

Don't rile Kkkalm or MGR88 too much or they might have you shot

[Bobcat]

"We are member of congress" LOL They remind me of the seagulls in Finding Nemo

"We are members of Congress" SO WHAT! America cares as much as that guy did! LOL LOL LOL


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">DOGE security guy wins the award for least fucks given <a href="https://t.co/MHXbTjeeTz">pic.twitter.co ... </p>&mdash; Ashley St. Clair (@stclairashley) <a href=" 7, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>


Its a new Golden Age in America!!!

[BDKJMU]

[kalm]

Fears over inflation surged after Trump’s Dec. 16 press conference in which he threatened 10% tariffs on China and 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, according to the University of Michigan. And they rose again on Jan. 21, when the president said he would follow through on his promises by the first of the month.

The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.

Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across the political spectrum to feel considerably more pessimistic about the economy than they did before President Trump took office.

Consumer sentiment fell about 5% in the University of Michigan’s preliminary February survey of consumers to its lowest reading since July 2024. Expectations of inflation in the year ahead jumped from 3.3% in January to 4.3%, the second month in a row of large increases and highest reading since November 2023.

“It’s very rare to see a full percentage point jump in inflation expectations,” said Joanne Hsu, who oversees the survey. Republicans have come off a postelection surge in confidence, she said, and Democrats and Independents also seem to believe that economic conditions have deteriorated since last month.

Morning Consult’s recent index of consumer confidence, too, fell between Jan. 25 and Feb. 3, driven primarily by concern over the country’s economic future.

“I don’t like the turbulence. I don’t like the chaos in the market,” said Paul Bisson, a 58-year-old, who writes proposals for a flight safety company and co-owns a dog daycare in San Antonio. Bisson voted for Trump, but feels “his policies have led to that chaos.”

Expectations of inflation in the year ahead jumped a full percentage point in the Michigan survey.
Expectations of inflation in the year ahead jumped a full percentage point in the Michigan survey.

“It appears that consumers are paying attention to the news,” Hsu said.

American consumers believe that they would have to cover almost half the cost of a hypothetical 20% tariff, on average, according to a survey commissioned by academic economists from mid-December to early January.

“This idea that ‘Foreigners pay for our tariffs’ is not really supported by this survey,” said Michael Weber, an economist at the University of Chicago and one of the survey’s organizers.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumers/a ... MvvUOQtnwQ

[BDKJMU]

I bet the libs and TDSers will be upset at this:

[kalm]

This is a slimmer of good news.

[kalm]

Control the media, control the courts. They’re following the playbook perfectly.

[SeattleGriz]

Control the media, control the courts. They’re following the playbook perfectly.

Ohy Lord. This happened weeks ago. None of those outlets has lost access. They just have to rotate spaces with a wider variety. HuffPo got included for Christ's sake.

Be better.

[kalm]

Control the media, control the courts. They’re following the playbook perfectly.

Ohy Lord. This happened weeks ago. None of those outlets has lost access. They just have to rotate spaces with a wider variety. HuffPo got included for Christ's sake.

Be better.

They’ve added to this list since first announced. The replacements are even more biased than the msm they’re replacing.

[SeattleGriz]

Ohy Lord. This happened weeks ago. None of those outlets has lost access. They just have to rotate spaces with a wider variety. HuffPo got included for Christ's sake.

Be better.

They’ve added to this list since first announced. The replacements are even more biased than the msm they’re replacing.

BFD. Are you unable to discern truth out of what is called our MSM?

NY Times and Politico have been proven to take gubmint money. You trust them?

[kalm]

They’ve added to this list since first announced. The replacements are even more biased than the msm they’re replacing.

BFD. Are you unable to discern truth out of what is called our MSM?

NY Times and Politico have been proven to take gubmint money. You trust them?

Evidently you are if you’re still believing Politico took money.

[BDKJMU]

Biggest financial scandal in US history if true (or if even close to that #).

[SeattleGriz]

BFD. Are you unable to discern truth out of what is called our MSM?

NY Times and Politico have been proven to take gubmint money. You trust them?

Evidently you are if you’re still believing Politico took money.

Don't start Sweetpea. We all know they took gubmint money.

[Caribbean Hen]

Biggest financial scandal in US history if true (or if even close to that #).

I always asked myself how are my Puerto Rican brothers and sisters spending all this money? Where the heck are they getting it from? Nobody is working

I learned that Puerto Ricans lead the league in every type of government assistance and disability … oh and drug money.

Even with all this artificial support of the Puerto Rican economy, it was still a disaster. What will happen to the economy of Puerto Rico and the United States if they take away all these fraudulent freebies…. maybe the reason the Joey Rotten administration didn’t care and rigged the unemployment numbers is because they didn’t want the next great recession on their watch… even though Joey handed Trump an economic disaster

[BDKJMU]

How could anyone be against these 3 proposals?

[BDKJMU]

Wow.

[BDKJMU]

Lol Biden couldn’t even work a full day.

[kalm]

Hey MAGA dudes. Here’s another example of how these guys you’re following and defending are true lying pieces of shit with one specific goal in mind.

In other words…you’re idolizing pieces of shit.

Congrats!

Last Sunday, the head of the Lutheran social services outfit in the Northwest woke to find his phone had been blowing up.

“I had texts and calls that had come in overnight from people all over the country, some of them extremely alarmed,” says David Duea, CEO of Lutheran Community Services Northwest in Tacoma.

“We Lutherans,” he joked, “are normally a reserved and quiet group.”

What happened was that at 3:14 a.m. East Coast time, the multibillionaire Elon Musk sent a tweet that implied the Lutherans were involved in criminal activities.

Michael Flynn, once President Donald Trump’s national security adviser before getting fired, had been compiling lists of federal grants that he considered to be “VERY ROTTEN.” In one, Flynn listed some grants awarded to about 15 Lutheran nonprofits, including Duea’s group, describing it as akin to a “money-laundering operation.”

Musk responded approvingly: “The @DOGE team is rapidly shutting down these illegal payments.”…….

No, the Lutherans are not a money-laundering operation. They use donations and local, state and federal grants to help the poor, which they’ve been doing in the Northwest for 104 years.

No, the payments are not illegal. They’re typical grants, authorized by Congress and administered by the Health and Human Services agency. The Lutherans competed for them with a host of other nonprofit groups.

OK. Back to the story.….


In Washington, Idaho and Oregon, the Lutherans’ top line of work is family support and mental health counseling, with food and clothing giveaways, senior help, homeless shelters and so on. They also help refugees who have been brought here legally through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, matching them with host families and providing other support.

Some of their clients were scared and on heightened alert even before the Lutherans got smeared by Flynn and Musk.

“We spent the first 48 hours just trying to make people feel safe,” Duea said.

Musk, though, has 216 million followers on X. His tweet impugning the Lutherans was viewed more than 20 million times.

It was hard to ignore the 10,000-strong comment mob.

“The corruption runs deep,” said one. “Keep up the good work, Elon, the barn has not been cleaned out for way too long.”

“So,” asked another, “the ‘Lutheran’ faith is now a new branch of the ‘Get Rich Quick’ scheme?”

“If it’s illegal, why aren’t people being arrested,” urged another.

We’re less than three weeks into the new Trump administration and we’re talking about arresting … the Lutherans?

Duea said the vetting of any grant is fair game. But he’s gobsmacked they would portray century-old poverty-aid groups as criminal…..

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-ne ... tAlLxcAfsg