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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. Salvy

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    Don't believe it... Just leftist noise...
     
  2. astros123

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    Weird how none of these "DEI practices" caused major crashes when biden was in office but somehow happening under Trump? Maybe you're just a brainwashed cultist?
     
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  3. El_Conquistador

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    It's a 10-year investment horizon, dunce. The $500 billion of GDP is an annual measurement. And UAE has a collection of some of the world's largest investment funds such as the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and Mubadala. Once again, you are very far behind the conversation.

    Trump is bringing investment home to the USA -- spurring job creation and real wage increases over time. This is what economic leadership looks like. Not opening a factory in China and sending Midwestern workers to the unemployment lines.

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  4. astros123

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    UAE isn't going to invest 3x what their economy is worth. If you sincerely think that then you're sincerely dumber than i thought. Anyone can promise anything knowing their low iq base eats up anything

    900+ new factories opened up under biden and not just some dumbass announcement. You morons pretend this wasn't already happening under biden.

     
  5. El_Conquistador

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    You are so economically illiterate that you confuse GDP with funds available for investment. Let me dumb it down for you by providing an example. Harvard's annual revenue is around $6 billion. Harvard's endowment is $50+ billion. Harvard can invest much more than 3x its annual revenue over a 10-year period by simply investing $2 billion a year. Harvard likely makes $5 billion/year in returns on its endowment. So in other words, over a 10-year period, Harvard could use 40% of just the annual additions to the endowment to fund an investment of over 3x its annual revenue.

    UAE has a MASSIVE wealth fund/endowment and could easily follow a similar path and invest $1.5 trillion into the US economy. And that's just what they pledged to do.

    It's sad that I have to explain something so basic to you... and you are going around like a fool and calling other people dumb. You are very dumb and highly emotional -- a dangerous combo for you personally. I'd love to see you better yourself -- to give you a shot at success in life.


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    The UAE soverign wealth fund has a total of 225 billion dollars in assets all throughout the world. If you think suddenly they are going to 6x their portfolio in America then again you're proving my point at how much of a dumbass you are. Foxconn promised to invest hundreads of billions of dollars in 2017 and what happened to that? Turned out to be fake and fraudulent and they invested nothing.

    You're not explaining anything other than exposing yourself as a moron. It doesnt matter cuz every country/CEO knows how to play Trump like a fiddle. Make some bullshit announcement about the future and get on his good side.

    The bottom line is we already saw hundreds of billions of dollars in real investment under Biden without the need for dumbass tariffs.
     
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    None of them were gang members
     
  8. Rileydog

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    Entire point is to terrorize brown people. Doesn’t matter if there are here legally or not. Doesn’t matter if they are criminals or not. Doesn’t matter they didn’t get any due process. Don’t got time for that crap. People like @Salvy don’t give a crap - wont bother to read anything suggesting this was illegitimate, brush off Reuters as “fake news”. It’s just a bunch of brown people to people like @Salvy. Tough crap, they shouldn’t have ever come here anyway.
     
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  9. El_Conquistador

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    Wrong again, dunce. The UAE has $1.7 trillion of assets under management. About 7.5x your false figure. And you can't spell sovereign.

    Is there a G-league version of the debate & discussion forum that you could compete in? You are just not ready for this. Outclassed and outsmarted.


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  10. astros123

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    Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company deployed a total of 40 billion dollars last year globally with over half of it being deployed in Asia. You think that the wealth fund is going to magically go from investing 40 billion a year to somehow 140 billion in USA alone? Are you this gullible or just dumb?

    And the number you posted is the total fund including any bonds they hold which they are holding for long term.

    https://www.semafor.com/article/10/09/2024/abu-dhabi-sovereign-wealth-reaches-17-trillion
     
  11. El_Conquistador

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    Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company is ONE of FIVE platforms that manages assets for the UAE. The five are:

    Abu Dhabi Investment Authority ($1 trillion in AUM)
    Mubadala ($300 billion in AUM)
    Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company ($160 billion in AUM)
    Investment Corporation of Dubai ($300 billion in AUM)
    Emirates Investment Authority ($100 billion in AUM)

    Are you deliberately excluding the other four because collectively they manage $1.7 trillion? Or did you mistake the name? Or simply not know?

    Again, you are so clueless that you OMITTED the largest investment vehicle in the UAE. Yet people are supposed to believe that you know what you are talking about? And the UAE's investment won't be made over 10 years? My man, you have a serious credibility problem. And you just got owned by The_Conquistador.


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  12. astros123

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    Yes the TOTAL combined capital they have allocated in 2024 was roughly 40 billion dollars according to their own stats.

    Those asset values you listed are also investments made in their own country.....
     
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    They know those tattoos aren’t gang tattoos. They don’t care -
     
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    Reading up on American history and learning about the Japanese internment camps we set up during WW2 was something I never understood growing up. I couldn't imagine how we lost our morals and rounded up random Japanese people and threw them in camps. It always blew my mind how we allowed such unconstitutional behavior occur as a country.

    Watching whats happening unfold here with sending random people to another country's slave camp without any due process really puts everything into prospective about how weak minded the human brain truly is and how prone we are to brainwashing.

    Its sad what humans have the capability of becoming
     
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  15. Salvy

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    See, it's been years with bias and false reporting on Trump. Russia Russia Russia, very fine people, suckers and losers...... The list goes on and on. Turns out it was all bs. Here we have over 200+ TDA gang members sent to El Salvador. All of a sudden we have nation wide attention because supposedly less than 20 of these dudes are not TDA.... None of this outrage happened for the victims of these assholes but a loud cry from the woke is being heard for the poor angels suffering.

    Venezuela could have accepted all these people and said nah.... Biden could have not let them enter but he said nah.... Now it's Trump's problem and when he does something about it y'all get sad. All these dudes got picked up for a reason. Could there have been some mistakes made? Maybe, I'm going to hold on for Bukele's answer because I think Bukele is more just than Trump. I have no doubt anyone who was placed at Cecot in error will get released. Maybe Venezuela should take their people back thou? Or do we just blame Trump for everything... Wait don't answer... I already know...
     
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    “mistakes” - yeah right. If Trump/ICE wanted to get it right, they could have and would have taken the 15-20 minutes to figure out if these folks were gang members, if they were gang tattoos. But terrorizing brown people is the point. There is no mistake here. They didn’t give a sh-t.

    See, the way it works is if Biden fcks up, blame Biden. When Trump fcks up, blame Trump. You seem to only care when Trump is blamed for anything.

    Again, don’t pretend you actually give a crap if any of these brown people were sent to cartel jail when they aren’t gang members. You said it yourself. “All these dudes got picked up for a reason”. Yep, because they’re brown and had tattoos.

    You still can’t get it into your thick skull. Nobody is claiming any of these people are saints. Thats not even the point.

    The entire point is due process and the law - and we know you ain’t got any time for cute ideas like that. Especially not when it is brown people at issue.

    For you, these brown tattooed people are trash, so who gives a crap if they got due process or ICE followed the law.

    “All these dudes got picked up for a reason”. Listen to what you have become.
     
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  17. Salvy

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    Yeah, they shipped over 200+ gang members and now we get reports that less than 20 might not have been... Trump got very lucky snagging 200+ brown people and 90% were confirmed TDA, I'm sure they did no research before going and getting these guys. Just random ICE raids with insane success rates of getting TDA and MS13 members.....

    Why didn't Venezuela take the supposedly 18 innocent individuals back? Did they not want innocent people saved from gang prison? Did they not care before they were sent to gang prison? They just left them to get deported to gang prison? Now they want them freed but do they want them back?

    Nope, you don't care.... Does not matter, Trump is racist for deporting brown people and that's that. F*ck why they were wanted in the first place, the narrative has no room for common sense.... Trump hates brown people and those who support him also hate brown people despite me being literally American Salvadorian....

    "Due process" isn't perfect even in the U.S but there is no b****ing about those wrongfully imprisoned in the U.S right now because we have brown people to save specifically because its super convenient to the Trump is racist narrative.

    The not caring is actually from your part, this is why millions entered this country illegaly. Don't care if they are criminals or innocent, they are all just looking for a better life and we can't punish the good people because of the bad people so welcome to America!!!

    Taking action is actually caring, look at El Salvador... Yes there was collateral damage but damn the country 100X safer and growing, no justice system is perfect and to only expect perfection when convenient to a narrative is mighty hypocritical.

    The U.S is a better place because of those specific deportations. Sorry you hate taking action....
     
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    False choice analysis. Right thinking people do not pretend you have to choose which of these issues to support. And with a country of our resources, it is quite easy to support them all, rather than only on a partisan basis.

    - falsely imprisoned people in the US? Absolutely, we need and have the Innocence project and other organizations devoted to this issue. Your bogus straw man - nobody rages about innocent imprisoned people in the US. Utterly false.

    - due process for these 20 people. Utterly false that the administration could not easily take the steps to determine validity of the deportations. It is a choice of whether or when to do it. Plenty of people care about this due process issue.

    - why didn’t Venezuela take them back? Of course, Venezuela is to blame as well if they chose not to take them back. Not a difficult analysis.

    - millions entered this country illegally - yup, Biden and democrats utterly failed on this issue. That doesn’t mean Trump administration should do a sh-T job cleaning it up. Biden’s failure on this issue does not justify failure on Trump’s administration to exercise due diligence. It’s not that hard to understand…unless you just don’t want to.

    - El Salvador took action - yes they did. And it improved their country. Gee, that was easy. I am bewildered how you can remotely compare the resources and laws of El Salvador to the United States. You are saying that well, if El Salvador didn’t have due process, hell why should we bother either. Let’s do it El Salvador style.

    That is idiotic. We are a vastly superior country, with a constitution, laws, and resources to handle this the right way. The only question is whether we choose to properly deploy deportations.

    All of your outrage about why aren’t we upset about this or that, but we are upset about due process for deportations…that is nonsense. These are such simple issues with clear right and wrong. There is nothing that says you can only support one issue, at the expense of the other.

    But it sure is easier for you to minimize the due process/law issue if you frame all of this as an either or. Trump and Fox News have been very successful in making you do so. But it is an entirely false choice. It just makes you mad enough you don’t give a crap what Trump does.

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    “All these dudes got picked up for a reason”. Think about that mindset.

    That’s the reasoning used during Jim Crow … I’m sure the black fella did something wrong when we arrested him. He looks suspicious.

    Hey, look at that Indian/pakistani/muslim looking guy … he sure looks like a 911 terrorist. He looks suspicious

    Man fck that Asian guy, they brought over the Kung flu. Or send him to an internment camp. Those as-holes are ruining our country.

    And if you think that is all just woke fake news, that’s on you.
     
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    ND these cultists complain about the national debt @adoo
     
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    Homeland Security revokes temporary status for 532,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans

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    By GISELA SALOMON
    Updated 8:13 PM EDT, March 21, 2025

    MIAMI (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will revoke legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, setting them up for potential deportation in about a month.

    The order applies to about 532,000 people from the four countries who came to the United States since October 2022. They arrived with financial sponsors and were given two-year permits to live and work in the U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they will lose their legal status on April 24, or 30 days after the publication of the notice in the Federal Register.

    The new policy impacts people who are already in the U.S. and who came under the humanitarian parole program. It follows an earlier Trump administration decision to end what it called the “broad abuse” of the humanitarian parole, a long-standing legal tool presidents have used to allow people from countries where there’s war or political instability to enter and temporarily live in the U.S.

    During his campaign President Donald Trump promised to deport millions of people who are in the U.S. illegally, and as president he has been also ending legal pathways for immigrants to come to the U.S. and to stay.

    DHS said parolees without a lawful basis to stay in the U.S. “must depart” before their parole termination date.

    “Parole is inherently temporary, and parole alone is not an underlying basis for obtaining any immigration status,” DHS said.

    challenged in federal courts.

    A group of American citizens and immigrants sued the Trump administration for ending humanitarian parole and are seeking to reinstate the programs for the four nationalities.

    Lawyers and activists raised their voices to denounce the government’s decision.

    Friday’s action is “going to cause needless chaos and heartbreak for families and communities across the country,” said Karen Tumlin, founder and director of Justice Action Center, one of the organizations that filed the lawsuit at the end of February. She called it “reckless, cruel and counterproductive.”

    Continued...
     
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