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The Official 2nd Term Trump corruption thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Jan 7, 2025.

  1. deb4rockets

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    They see him as the guy who will do or say anything for money or attention. The bigger the donation bribe the better. After all, it's not about what he can do for the country, it's about what you are willing to do for him.
     
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    Lets see what happens with these lawsuits. These lawsuits can literally transform our country. Take real power away from big tech. The government just proved in court that Google search is a monopoly. Big tech is losing in court and they just bought trump his office.

    I just don't buy that he has any morals or values. Hell capitulate
     
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    He doesn't want to work on affordable healthcare plan? He doesn't care about addressing gun violence, mental healthcare, or other big issues that he has the power to work on? Of course not. He never cared about that stuff. He only cares about what serves his personal needs.

    My guess....

    Musk wants the mineral rights in Denmark for his Tesla batteries, and Musk bribes Trump to do as he wishes. Trump wants to build resorts anywhere he can, the oil billionaires want to drill for more oil in Canada and the arctic, and Trump sees the power and dollar signs in his eyes by doing as they wish while they feed his ego and pockets.

    As for threatening to take other people's countries and territories, it's just his jaw flapping with a quench for pulling a Putin type power hungry move. Who can get more countries? Mine is bigger than yours. Putin will use the force and Trump will use bribery and tariffs, but won't rule out force.

    Sure, there is strategic military benefits, but there's always a side motive for everything Trump says or does. Always. He has to feed his ego, and his thirst for more money, more resorts, more hotels, more things to sell, more power, more loyalists hellbent on covering up his illegal acts, immunity for ever spending a day in jail for any criminal acts, and the neverending thirst for attention.

    As for renaming stuff like National Parks, oceans, or anything else it's often a blend of racism behind it if you ask me.
     
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    Like I said, whatever or whoever makes him richer personally will be the answer to any policy he makes, and that will usually lead back to Musk.
     
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    He's so corrupt. These rich folks play him like a fiddle and his illiterate low iq base eats up his culture wars while he screws working class people.

    Its unreal how Americans are so dumb. Social media is the root of all evil
     
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    Social media is definitely a great way for cons and corrupt politicians to spread lies and propaganda easier. It's interesting how Trump and Musk have used that concept to their advantage. There will always be gullible people to con, and sadly it's the most vulnerable who they usually harm the most. You have to be smart enough to see the whole picture, and realize that. You also have to be smart enough to really consider who is truly going to serve the people of the country more than just themselves, and who is trustworthy to believe.
     
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    Uncle Tom fraternizing with Hitler.

     
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    Braindead trolls trying to distract from the corruption
     
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    Just goes to show that it doesn't matter how much education some people have when it comes to what they choose to post. Even if they don't believe the BS they do it to attract attention to themselves, or to detract from the bigger issues facing this country with Trump.
     
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    I think everyone should know his playbook by now. He threatens to do something crazy and extreme to take a better position at the outset of a negotiation. He wants them to feel like they're at risk of some cataclysmic consequence if they don't negotiate a deal. He won't actually be invading anyone.

    It's hard to be mad at Bezos about it when the scheme is so likely to work.
     
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    And the negotiation with Canada is what exactly?

    How are we gonna make them the 51st state?
     
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    Biden is sending fighter jets to Maryland. I have to think that's some sort of defensive precursor to forestall Trump's invasion of Baltimore
     
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    I was a Trump supporter but kinda lukewarm. Ever since that failed assassination attempt last July, I am now a full blown MAGA. This is something that woke clowns in here will here never ever understand. People follow courage and authenticity. You Dem voters simply do not have anyone like that in your tribe.
     
  15. JuanValdez

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    Probably wants to renegotiate the USMCA. He threatened tariffs on Canada despite that free trade agreement. So he threatens a little physical violence too to get as much as he can from a new trade agreement. It also is a warning shot to other countries that if Trump might invade Canada or Greenland or Panama, he might invade them too. I find it hard to believe anyone is still buying it, but he just recycles the same 3 tricks over and over.

    Not buying the courage thing, but I'll grant you authenticity. Dude is lying all the time, but he's authentically himself. And mainstream democrats are pretty fake. They focus group everything they're going to propose and they run everything they're going to say by the PR team. They are so focused on saying what they are supposed to say that you don't know what they actually believe.

    But, I'd suggest that being authentic isn't enough by itself, or even if courage is added if I'd grant it. Being authentically terrible isn't better than being mediocre in a fake way. Bad decisions, moral failings, and crimes are all still bad even when you do them authentically.
     
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    Who's mad at Bezos? He did what he had to do for his business and bribing Trump is the smart thing to do.

    Its just depressing that all the anti monopoly work biden has done for the past 4 years will be gone within weeks. You lefties are part of the problem on why Trump won.
     
  17. JuanValdez

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    Well, I'm mad at Bezos for being a dirty monopolist. I know your post was aimed at Trump's moral failing for being bribable, but the briber is just as culpable. But it looks so easy! How can you expect him to resist? Nevertheless, I'm still mad at him for being a dirty monopolist.
     
  18. astros123

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    But why blame bezos when it's legal what he's doing? Blame citizens united for legalizing corruption. Bezos is doing what any CEO would do.

    Apple Amazon Google Meta they're all going escape being broken up by bribing Trump. It's ****ing depressing and it's why I moved out of America.

    The oligarchs run the nation with a iron fist.
     
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    Why were you lukewarm on him? What didn't you like in the past that you're now OK with?
     
  20. astros123

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    Dude he's full of ****. He's been kissing Trump's ass under his old username for years now.
     

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