The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

This is a brain dead conservative talking point. SCWs do not give one **** about Laken Riley. Full stop. They are using Laken Riley's death to feed their outrage machine.

 

It isn't because I don't like it - it isn't accurate nor is it in touch with the day to day lives of the majority of Americans. I say this as someone that has lived in relative poverty (what is considered poverty in the USA), that has lived a middle class life and has been relatively speaking wealthy ..... as someone that has lived in a number of regions in the USA and has lived in a number of places outside the USA for years at a time.

 

So.... a convicted rapist, an accused child molester and someone that plead guilty to knowingly lying to the FBI?

 

and you also have mike tyson, ted nugent and mike flynn!

 

So he is hosting a convicted rapist, an admitted pedophile, and a convicted liar. Yeah that's on brand.

 

Damnit I should have read your post before making mine...LOL

 

Trump now referring to himself as King...



SMH.

 

Trump Kills New York's Flawed Congestion Pricing Program
Federal transportation officials said that because New York's congestion tolls were really about raising money for mass transit, they didn't qualify for an exemption from the federal tolling ban.

https://reason.com/2025/02/19/trump-kills-new-yorks-flawed-congestion-pricing-program/

excerpt:

Even under the higher $15 tolls, academics were predicting a muted effect of the program on traffic congestion.

In a November 2024 paper, Stanford University's Michael Ostrovsky and the University of Chicago's Frank Yang argued that New York's policy of charging taxi cabs and for-hire vehicles like Uber and Lyft (which make up a significant share of Manhattan traffic) much lower tolls to enter the congestion zone would mute the impact on congestion.

Similarly, Ostrovsky and Yang also say New York's plan to charge full tolls between 5 a.m. and 9 p.m. on weekdays and charge steeply discounted tolls outside that time period. Delivery drivers (another major source of traffic) could avoid the full tolls by entering the congestion zone early in the morning and staying in the zone during peak hours.

Preliminary data on the first month of congestion pricing bore out those predictions.

A congestion tracker supervised by Brown University professor Emily Oster found that in the first month of congestion pricing in Manhattan, congestion on bridges and tunnels leading into Manhattan is down but congestion with the priced cordon has remained the same.

"It's having an impact on travel behavior outside the zone but it doesn't appear to be having a measurable impact within the zone. That's a big problem," says Marc Scribner, a transportation researcher at the Reason Foundation (which publishes this website). "What is the purpose of cordon pricing? It is to reduce congestion within the cordon."

Scribner says that the apparent minimal impact on traffic is a product of the Manhattan tolls being primarily used as a funding tool for New York mass transit. The tolls were therefore set to maximize revenue and reduce political pushback, not minimize congestion. The Trump administration therefore has a point when it says that New York's congestion pricing scheme doesn't align with the purpose of the VPPP.
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more at the link

 

I smh and wonder how my grandparent's generation would have responded to Trump's shtick.

Maybe I give them too much credit, but I'm fairly sure the negative reaction would have been pretty extreme. The generation that got rid of Hitler would not have responded well to that kind of talk, I think.

 

@Nook this is what a banana Republic looks like

 

Death threats are scaring them? Arm yourself - and ignore them....go public with them.

****ing cowards.

DD

 

How terrible, I'm so scared.... I'm crying... This is so awful... Banani republic

Trump says he’s weighing giving 20% of DOGE savings to Americans

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/19/elo...n-idea-for-tax-refunds-from-doge-savings.html

 

the issue is he hasn't found any real fraud and the stuff he "found" was literally fake. These tactics work on you cuz youre low iq.

 

Thanks for the xlink to the wokie with tds and a Ukrainian flag, I almost fell for that lyin Trump and Musk again.... So glad we have leftists that can disprove everything Trump does... Top tier journalism......

 

Are they doing the pentagon next or just social security and Medicare?

 

Womp womp?

[NBC News]Appeals court declines to reinstate Trump's birthright citizenship order

 

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Elon Musk Is Faking DOGE Results to Hide His Incompetence

The New York Times reported on the discrepancy Tuesday, and determined that the original contract—which started September 30, 2022—had initially been listed at a value of $8 billion
in the Federal Procurement Data System. On January 22, 2025, the number was updated to $8 million. The contract said it had been signed January 30, 2025, and terminated the same day.

Now, it looks like DOGE is trying desperately to cover the mistake, rationalizing that it is merely a clerical mistake.

The DOGE website boasted a total of $55 billion in cuts, which remained unchanged, despite the DOGE’s admission of clerical errors.

It’s unclear how many more errors reside in DOGE’s buggy list of savings.​

 

How is it the Feds should be interfering in a state matter?

 

I thought of those that have sacrificed their lives in service to this country as i was voting this last November. Those people, the ones no longer with us, are the reasons why I vote, really. Why I can vote, actually.

I figure taking a few minutes to vote is the least I can do to honor their sacrifices.

Then I thought of Donald Trump -- the guy that attempted, among other things, to overturn the results of a free and fair election. Then I thought of the saps that were voting for him a second time around, knowing full well what he did, not to mention who he is and what he's all about, and how they were absof*ckinglutely disgracing those that have died for this country.

 

and dishonoring