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The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Scarface281, Jan 25, 2025.

  1. dobro1229

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    Nice pick. Pick something you can setup to both sides.

    I mean the obvious one should be price fixing if you really are the libertarian you say you are. Big government coming in to pick winners and losers in the auto industry is exactly the type of thing you guys freak out about with socialist or communist regimes you freak out that America might become one day.

    I could go on and on with examples of anti libertarian actions but I don’t really have to. If you were truly principled I think we would hear a lot more, but the picking of pardon abuse says it all. You know you are setting up the ability to go hard at Bill Clinton or Biden. I can see that tactic coming a mile away.
     
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  2. Buck Turgidson

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    What is an anti-libertarian?
     
  3. dobro1229

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    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anti-libertarian

    Or in other words Donald Trump. You can fire a bunch of federal workers and still pursue big government overreach. I think unprincipled libertarians confuse firing people with being a libertarian.
     
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  4. heymak

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    Send 'em a pair of Trump sneakers and a Trump bible.
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    ...and some Trump Steaks
     
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  6. astros123

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    Yeah "small government" Republicans is when we force corporations around the world to change their policies to fit with ours lol.

    Its just hilarious how anyone thinks Republicans mean small government

     
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  7. StupidMoniker

    StupidMoniker I lost a bet

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    I was specifically asked about pardons and corruption, so I don't see how I picked it. Try to follow along. I don't want the government involved in business at all. Get rid of subsidies, taxes, regulations. Let businesses compete on the market and live or die as they will.
     
  8. Andre0087

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    Trump says he’s ‘very angry’ and ‘pissed off’ at Putin during an NBC News interview

    WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.”

    Agence France-Presse reported that Putin on Friday called for a transitional government to be put in place in Ukraine, which could effectively push out Zelenskyy.

    “If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump said in an early-morning phone call with NBC News on Sunday.

    “That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States,” Trump said. “There will be a 25% tariff on all oil, a 25- to 50-point tariff on all oil.”

    The president’s comments come after he had previously criticized Zelenskyy, saying he was “sick” of his handling of the war and falsely calling him a dictator.

    Former President Joe Biden banned Russian oil imports shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. Since then, the amount of Russian oil imported to the U.S. has plummeted, with only 10,000 barrels of Russian crude oil and petroleum products imported into the U.S. in 2023, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

    Trump similarly announced "secondary tariffs" on Venezuela, saying in a post to Truth Social that the tariffs would be placed on countries that bought oil and gas from Venezuela.

    A few of the top importers of Russian oil products include China, Turkey, Brazil and India, according to an analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. If Trump uses the same definition of secondary tariffs as he used with Venezuela, these countries could be among those seeing an impact of secondary tariffs.

    Trump had made ending the war in Ukraine a top foreign policy promise on the campaign trail, leading to meetings between U.S., Ukrainian and Russian officials in the first few months of his second term. Last week, Russia and Ukraine agreed on a partial and limited ceasefire that would allow safe navigation in the Black Sea and halt attacks on each other’s energy facilities.

    “There will be a 25% tariff on oil and other products sold in the United States, secondary tariffs,” Trump said, noting that the tariffs on Russia would come within a month without a ceasefire deal. Trump said Putin knows he is angry, but noted that he has “a very good relationship with him” and “the anger dissipates quickly ... if he does the right thing.”

    The two men plan to speak again this week, Trump said.

    His latest comments came after a separate phone interview with NBC News on Saturday evening.

    During the interview, Trump also threatened “bombing” and “secondary tariffs” on Iran if the country did not make a deal with the U.S. to ensure it did not develop a nuclear weapon.

    “If they don’t make a deal,” Trump said about Iran, “there will be bombing. It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before.”

    U.S. and Iranian officials are “talking,” Trump said.

    However, in a statement on Sunday, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said he rejected direct negotiations with the U.S. over its nuclear program, in the country’s first response to a letter sent by Trump to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-angry-putin-zelenskyy-iran-sanctions-rcna198729
     
  9. mtbrays

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    .. lol only 23% of Americans think Trump will make their life better aka the hardcore MAGATs.

    What a complete and utter shitshow
     
  11. GOATuve

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    You don't live here
     
  12. astros123

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    Global economy depends on USA. What happens in USA effects everyone as central banks move alike. Please stop replying to me. You bring zero substance to any conversation
     
  13. GOATuve

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    Just replied
     
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  14. Sajan

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    who is going to open the 3rd term thread?

    https://apnews.com/article/trump-th...nd-amendment-efba31be02ee96b0ef68b17fe89b7578

    WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Sunday that “I’m not joking” about trying to serve a third term, the clearest indication he is considering ways to breach a constitutional barrier against continuing to lead the country after his second term ends at the beginning of 2029.

    “There are methods which you could do it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with NBC News from Mar-a-Lago, his private club.

    He also said “it is far too early to think about it.”
     
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  15. edwardc

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    and you presumably do live here, but didnt participate in our democratic process...but you joined a basketball message board last year and do nothing but whine about people who criticize a politician that you claim you didnt vote for.
     
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  17. GOATuve

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    I can't take anything seriously by a clown who named themselves 'Jo Mama '
     
  18. jo mama

    jo mama Member

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    and i cant take anything seriously by a clown who joined a basketball message board just to cry whenever people criticize a politician that they claim they didnt vote for.
     
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  19. Buck Turgidson

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    I am your king!

    Well I didn't vote for you.

     
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  20. GOATuve

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    That's not why I joined but if it makes you feel better NY all means convince yourself of whatever you want. "Jo mama ". What a clown
     

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