Politics The Trump Crazy Train!

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  1. MickZagger

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    People don’t want to buy your tickets either at so..,I think Trump realized that so he don’t care about your spiel
     
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    Presidents can be elected twice. Trump could try end runs around that, experts say

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    President Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force One on Sunday.

    President Trump has once again floated the idea of testing the Constitution's presidential term limits by seeking a third term, as his administration continues to challenge constitutional provisions and push an expansive view of executive power.

    After telling NBC News that he's "not joking" about the possibility and that there are "methods" that would allow him to serve a third time, Trump declined to confirm to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday that he's planning to leave the White House after his second term ends on Jan. 20, 2029.

    The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person from being elected U.S. president more than twice. The states ratified the restriction in 1951 in the wake of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's controversial third and fourth terms during World War II, which bucked a two-term norm set by George Washington.

    Changing presidential term limits with a new constitutional amendment would need support from three-fourths of the states.

    But some legal experts point to plausible strategies for attempting end runs around the 22nd Amendment under unusual scenarios.


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    23 Democratic led states suing admin over loss of public health funding.

    So if they win do only those states get the funding back? Because I’m sure tired of Republican states (who need it more) not saying anything that would upset this administration and getting the benefits of people willing to put their neck on the line and say something.
     
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    As I think about it more it’s clear the Democratic states are standing up for the impoverished in the Republican states as well. Republicans who gerrymandered, threw money into elections and suppressed voting rights certainly don’t want or need the public health funding and couldn’t care less if the poor moved out of their state, besides losing their businesses minimum wage workers who were forced into existence.
     
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    Is Trump stupid enough to think that he can bring down prices while jacking up tariffs on imported goods that are the mainstay of our economy, or is this just another case of him counting on the stupidity of MAGA world in accepting his continuous stream of crazy bullshit? Yeah, I know, it's most likely both.
     
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    That and I think he has this fantasy that it's a good idea and that it's going to work. That fantasy is being fed by people who want to see the government collapse.
     
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    I think he honestly thinks American companies won’t just raise their prices to be the same as the imports.
     
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    At the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, some employees who were laid off were told to contact Anita Pinder, former director of the Office of Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, with discrimination complaints. Pinder died last year.
     
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    Well that's a cruel joke
     
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    What an idiot
     
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    They'll raise them more.

    I handle purchasing for my employer and we received letters from some of our customers stating that we have to give them an itemized list of all of the things they buy from us which would be tariffed.

    That's going to take a ton of time. Prices are going to have to go way up to cover that. So my employer is going to want to raise prices as much as possible until the customer pushes back.

    You see, capitalism.
     
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    They are going to push back. That's why they want an itemized list.
     
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    They will. Typical consumers won't be able to. And prices will have to raise enough to handle the added bureaucracy, plus the tariffs.
     
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    In an unhinged rant, Trump attacked reluctant Republicans. Demanded they support huge tariffs on Canada because of fentanyl coming across Northern border without tariffs.

    Canada is not a significant source of fentanyl. And does Trump think drug smugglers pay tariffs?
     
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