Ongoing Thread to list objective Failures and Diasters of the second Trump Administration

[Citizen_404]

Just as a quick re-cap of the current drama --> the entire reason for the budget cuts AND the tariffs was so that Trump could claim that his upcoming tax cuts were "revenue neutral"... in other words, would NOT raise the deficit and national debt.

https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-reveal-trump-tax-plan-will-cost-us-45-trillion-2030024

Surprise! Not really...he hasn't been able to raise enough with the tariffs, and (despite all the claims of waste at the government) he hasn't been able to find enough to cut, so his upcoming budget is going to have a $4.5 trillion deficit.

What this means then is that the US govt. will have to sell more bonds to borrow money...which likely means interest rates will go up. Coupled with the already rising prices, that means inflation is going to go up...lather, rinse. repeat. To the people who claim "Well, the Democrats did that too," I would state that borrowing money *at low interest rates* to jump start the economy to help all Americans is not a bad idea. Borrowing money *at high interest rates* to fund tax cuts just for the wealthy not only sounds like a bad idea, but is the same "trickle-down economics" we've had for the last 45 years (since Reagan). Trickle-down economics has gotten us into our current situation. Doing the same thing over and over (and over again) and expecting a different result isn't working for us.

Remember all of Trump's pre-election promises about how he was going to roll back all the price increases and cut inflation? He's already given up on them, apparently.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

a $4.5 trillion deficit

... excuse me?

 

[N7Kopper]

Let me save you a read of this waffle: "Everything the ordinary Americans elected him to do. How dare they."

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Let me save you a read of this waffle: "Everything the ordinary Americans elected him to do. How dare they."

Remind me where gutting cancer research was in his project 2025?

Then again it's you, the guy falsely claiming nazis were leftwing.

 

[BlazeHeatnix]

Let me save you a read of this waffle: "Everything the ordinary Americans elected him to do. How dare they."

Ordinary Americans elected him to...*checks notes* cause a second Great Depression?

 

[SeltzerMist]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g3nrx1dq5o

Oops we needed these people after all. Administration continuing to waste taxpayer dollars and resources with this clown show.

 

[Taleweaver]

Let me save you a read of this waffle: "Everything the ordinary Americans elected him to do. How dare they."

Picking fights with Denmark, Panama and Mexico wasn't an election point. The peace talk about Ukraine is a flat concede to Russia, and his campaign promise was to decrease the cost of living.
But yeah... I can't deny that he's mostly doing what he promised to do. Too bad it's all the insane stuff.

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Just as a quick re-cap of the current drama

Just FYI: 'the current drama' isn't exactly covering it.

From my end, the Ukraine situation is a lot more severe than the suicidal us economy. Negotiating without the eu is one thing, but negotiating without ukraine? Meanwhile, doofusses Vance and Hegseth issue statements that ukraine will ever follow, and i don't have good hopes that Rubio will do better. All in all, it's becoming clear that the us is Russia's bitch, and it's up to the rest of nato to help out.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

New week, new horrors by the brain worm.

"Aggressive suppression of sunshine", aye, we will fight the parasols!

Worm-infested child killer.

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

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New week, new horrors by the brain worm.

"Aggressive suppression of sunshine", aye, we will fight the parasols!

Worm-infested child killer.

Explain why any of this is bad

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Explain why any of this is bad

For real, or you going to do like you usually do and turn everything into an insult-fest because you can't control yourself?

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

For real, or you going to do like you usually do and turn everything into an insult-fest because you can't control yourself?

Vitamins, exercise and sunshine = bad because man you don't like is in charge

 

[Dark_Ansem]

Vitamins, exercise and sunshine = bad because man you don't like is in charge

None of these are "suppressed" by any measure, let alone "aggressively". So the worm is talking out of its hole, again.

 

[SeltzerMist]

Vitamins, exercise and sunshine = bad because man you don't like is in charge

No one said these things were bad? They aren't (sunscreen etc) but they aren't a cure all. Just making up stuff that's not being said to "win" an argument is pathetic.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

No one said these things were bad? They aren't (sunscreen etc) but they aren't a cure all. Just making up stuff that's not being said to "win" an argument is pathetic.

My worry is that he'll start forcing people to swallow this nonsense because they will ban proper therapy.

Oh you're depressed, just go take a walk in the sun! Great advice for vampires.

 

[SeltzerMist]

Sunlight (again wear sunscreen depending on where you live and skin type etc) and vitamin D do help depression but it's not a full replacement either, just so everyone is clear.

 

[BlazeHeatnix]

Explain why any of this is bad

Mmm, love that bacteria-infested raw milk.

"It's a good day to die from e. coli" - Purple_Shyguy

Also since when was the FDA "suppressing" any of this shit? Republicans were the ones refusing to fund shit like stem cells. The rest of the medical world would've been hunky-fuckin-dorey to allow more of that.

JR's the kind of worm to unironically tell you horse medicine cures Covid.

 

[titan_tim]

Suppression of stem cells? Wasn't that a Bush era thing due to the Christian right? Oh noes! They're using an old fetus!!!

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New week, new horrors by the brain worm.

"Aggressive suppression of sunshine", aye, we will fight the parasols!

Worm-infested child killer.

Let's go down the list:
Psychedelics: Dumb to think they can do anything useful. But hey, as least the test subjects will have fun.
Peptides: Honestly no clue what he's talking about. Probably another new-age nothing, but whatever.
Stem Cells: All for it. It was the Christian right who are against it.
Raw milk: Proven to be dangerous, but he just wants to have his pseudo-science think it's right.
Hyperbaric therapies: Sure, go for it.
Chelating compounds: ???
Ivermectin/hydroxychloroquine: Apparently can do something for cancer. Nothing for COVID though. So it feels like the company that makes them are just trying to pivot to sell their overstock.
Vitamins: FDA was never against those.
Clean food: Ditto
Sunshine: Same.
Exercise: He just seems to think the FDA is the boogeyman.
Nutraceuticals: You mean vitamins?

He didn't mention vaccines, which have proven themselves to work, but that'll come later once he has a foothold.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

He didn't mention vaccines, which have proven themselves to work, but that'll come later once he has a foothold.

Yeah this is just the stuff he wants to promote / allow, the list of crazy prohibitions will come later

 

[gamefan5]

*sips tea

I love this timeline. Gotta love "common sense".

 

[DiscostewSM]

Mmm, love that bacteria-infested raw milk.

Would really like Mr Brain Worm to prove to the country that drinking raw milk is safe by replacing his typical consumption of milk over a period of 3 months with it. Same goes for other "replacements".