The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Buddy you are trying to paint a narrative in a world where I exist also and everyone posting here exists.

That means like you we all deal with replacing light bulbs in our lives. We all have experience replacing bulbs. You seem to be the only one who has terrible experience with 2 pack of 6 dollar 2700k bulbs.

Like sure 1 on like 10 will have capacitors that fail. Sometimes people install led bulbs located next to some heat source like right next to a stove in a kitchen that makes it operate not within temp ratings shortening the lifetime also.

But out of every like 10 led bulbs I buy, maybe one dies before I expect it to. That is a horrible excuse to prefer incandescent bulbs.

 

Lol, I should have known better....

 

I saw that.

Here's an article for the Compassionate Conservatives among us:

First USAID Death as Freeze Sees Oxygen Supplies Cut Off for Refugee
Published Feb 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM EST

A71-year-old refugee from Myanmar, who was residing in a Thai displacement camp, has reportedly died after her oxygen supply was cut off amid hospital closures that have occurred following the withdrawal of U.S. foreign aid.

Pe Kha Lau passed away four days after being discharged from a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded healthcare facility operated by the International Rescue Committee (IRC), which was forced to close following the aid freeze, British newspaper The Telegraph reported.

Newsweek contacted Thailand's Department of Health for more information via email.

Why It Matters
President Donald Trump's administration announced on February 4 that nearly all USAID workers would be withdrawn from the field amid efforts to dismantle the agency. The U.S. pays more in foreign aid than any other country, and dismantling USAID emerged as a key priority for Trump in the early days of his second term.

What To Know
Pe Kha Lau had been dependent on oxygen support for the past three years. Her family reported that after the IRC received a "stop-work" order in late January and she was sent home from the hospital. Within days, her condition deteriorated, leading to her death, according to Reuters.

She is considered to be one of the first people to have died after the decision to freeze all funding for foreign aid projects for 90 days.

The IRC manages clinics that cater to 80,000 people in nine refugee camps in Thailand close to the Myanmar border, but it had to abruptly close all but two of its hospitals to comply with the State Department order.

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Shockingly, Republicans were never interested in cutting government spending. As usual, they want a budget increase. They just had to make sure they slash as many poor people programs as they could to give those sweet tax cuts to the rich.

 

It applies to consumer LEDs as well. Not sure where your grandma is getting hers from.

 

I've been on D&D 20+ years chief, if Nook wants to pull that "you don't know what we're talking about here" BS, he can shove it. Very pompous, patronizing and poorly thought-out, truly unlike him. When I'm posting, I'm sharing my reasoning. He didn't share sh*t. He just started attacking me because he doesn't want to admit he's being a cute patriotic defensive citizen.

Point being: there is practically nothing you guys discuss here that I'm not aware of. I don't know what he thinks is so novel over here, these views are more or less the slightly conservative and libertarian leaning America and/or left-leaning Texas. You can hear 99% of these opinions somewhere on social media and 2 news channels. American opinion is actually way more diverse than this. If anything, I see a greater variety of American citizens' opinions in my daily life than what I see on a mostly Texan message board obviously. This is not AMERICA btw in case you guys forgot. This is a Texan basketball board where we discuss politics on the side - and while there's some good convo here, there is nothing here an English-speaking foreigner wouldn't understand nor is this viewpoint representative of the major centers like LA, NY which have a lot more cultured experience.

Did you even notice that just today the new big ticket triggering of your fear center has begun? Trump beating war drums just like George Bush did on Drugs in the exact same way? How Obama injected you with fear RIGHT before expanding his own rights to include extra judicial killings of Americans? Why do they do this, why do they declare wars on ideas loosely tied to nations? What do they know that makes them do this? They know what Carl Jung knew, what every psychologist, every film director, every advertiser knows. The human brain can't fully distinguish between what is real and what is imaginary, so if you keep showing a human an imaginary thing, their body will begin to release the hormones suited to that thing. In this case, what they are doing is a Cortisol flood. They want to invade building B with your consent. They create a fear about Building A. Now your nervous system is pumping Cortisol at the frequency they like. Now they sell you the massively exaggerated narrative about building B and give you the sense murder and destruction could be imminent if you don't do what they recommend - but they can't show you the proof. You are thinking you can resist this easily, but they know they will get at least 30% of the population in and that's all they need to force-f*ck it through whatever representatives you have in the government to protect you.

This "Appeal to Fear" is getting your brain to a place of extreme uncertainty avoidance without you knowing it, which leads to a need for extreme trust of authority. Once this fake border war puts you guys in the war mood - then he's going to tell you the actual war and Americans are going to tell me they have no choice but to kill colored people for the 66th year in a row. You will believe that your country is under imminent threat - and you should care you have family, home, job, future to care about and money is scarce for Americans. Once this lie is debunked (after all the murder/damage is done) Americans will wash their hands of it and say they just didn't know. This has been done to Americans many times, famously: yellow cake, anthrax.

Bro, when I showed up on this board and said your government is watching everything you do and this board went at me calling me an America hater and a conspiracy theorist. Then Assange happened. Then the weasels decided "I don't have anything to hide anyway". I've been through all that here and these are the same people who now meekly argue with me. It's so ironic actually that I'm also the one who said the Iraq war narrative was fake and 4 million Americans protested it and this board STILL was not having it. I know where I am and I know these people. I choose to come here, I read their stuff. Disagreement is natural here, and I hear ****-talking like this all the time. Just not from one of the more intelligent guys.

I get you're defending Nook, typically you would find me in that position, love the guy. He was out of line here.

 

Associated Press and Encyclopedia Britannica still calling it Gulf of Mexico despite White House tantrum

We should just be lucky that Trump did not rename it Gulf of Trump ... and the country to United Red States of Trump.

 

Bro, I don't give a **** how long you've been in the D&D. You can be a lunatic nonetheless with idiotic takes and that is you. Try again.

 

Love my man Bernie.

 

SharkNinja CEO says Trump’s tariffs won’t mean its air fryers and ice cream makers will be made in the USA. It’ll shuffle the supply chain to dodge those fees instead
BYSasha Rogelberg
February 13, 2025 at 1:35 PM EST

• SharkNinja CEO Mark Barrocas said the vacuum cleaner and blender manufacturing company has moved production away from China in response to President Donald Trump’s tariffs, but it likely won’t develop an American supply chain. Trump has implemented a 10% levy on China and will likely announce reciprocal tariffs Thursday.

Early reactions to President Donald Trump’s tariffs indicate they may not have the intended impact of invigorating U.S. manufacturing.

SharkNinja CEO Mark Barrocas believes that at least for his company, it’s not possible to conveniently develop a U.S.-based supply chain, even as the maker of Ninja Creami and Shark Navigator vacuum hastens its shift away from production in China.

“Our industry doesn’t exist in the U.S.,” Barrocas told Bloomberg News on Thursday. “The product is not made here. The components are not made here. This is not like the car industry that you could say, ‘Well, let’s flex it back to the United States.’ That is not something that we believe is on the horizon.”

Trump has already implemented a 10% tariff on China and ordered an additional 25% tax on steel and aluminum imports, but has delayed steep levies on Mexico and Canada. On the campaign trail last year, Trump argued tariffs would be a means to incentivize American manufacturing. He also suggested in his Feb. 1 executive order that China has not done enough to stymie the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.

The White House did not respond to Fortune’s requests for comment.

SharkNinja reported earnings to investors on Thursday that exceeded Wall Street expectations, posting $1.8 billion in fourth-quarter revenue, a 29.7% year-over-year increase. Even when considering the impact of Chinese tariffs, the company expects sales to grow as much as 12% in 2025.

Navigating the supply-chain switch
SharkNinja has been tapering off its reliance on China since Trump’s 2018 trade war during his first term, Barrocas said. Its goal is to source nearly all of its materials for U.S. products from countries outside China by the end of the year. SharkNinja plans to have 90% of production for goods sold in America made elsewhere by the second quarter of 2025. The company has since been sourcing much of its materials from Vietnam and Thailand and stockpiling other key items.

“We don’t believe the U.S. right now is a viable supply location,” he said.

Barrocas said there could be some instances in which SharkNinja would be able to develop a supply chain in the U.S., such as for coolers, which require fewer parts and assembly steps than most of their appliance counterparts.

“While the manufacturing infrastructure for many of the products we produce is not currently available in the U.S., we are looking for ways to manufacture in the U.S. and continue to evaluate what is possible,” SharkNinja told Fortune in a statement.

The company may not be immune to tariffs, even with its contingencies. Trump said he will announce reciprocal tariffs Thursday, which would theoretically result in taxes on imported goods equivalent to the taxes those countries have implemented for U.S. exports. Southeast Asian countries in particular have benefitted from the “reshoring” of supply chains from China because of past tariffs, and could become a target for a next wave of taxes.

Executives have largely had a negative reaction to Trump’s tariffs, fearing disruptions in supply chains and increases in production costs that will be passed down to consumers. From September to November last year, about 200 companies in the S&P 500 mentioned tariffs in earnings calls or investor conferences. Like SharkNinja, Lowe’s and e.l.f. have already begun strategizing on how to mitigate the impact of tariffs, including moving production away from China.

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One of those is easily explainable.

 

Trump's not gonna like this