Because Trump 2.0

[seahawk]

35 minutes ago, Murph said:

No Trump is just finally putting the US first, not some third world sh**hole or paying our "friends" anymore.  I support pretty much everything he is doing.  We are NOT the ATM any longer.  

 

At least when it comes to the Ukraine, I do not see that.

Not paying one more dollar for the Ukraine - great idea but he still does pay.

No longer paying for the defence of Europe - well he did lot leave NATO yet.

Accepting Russian positions - saves no money at all and so far nothing of value has become public that Putin might have given Trump to make it a sweet deal 

Imho he is not doing enough and the hard decisions must be actually made and not more posts on social media. It is time to start doing things. Leave NATO, leave the UN, take Greenland and Panama, make a deal with Putin, remove the leftist judges,... 4 years pass quickly, better start doing things. DOGE was a good first step but decisive action is needed.

[bfng3569]

2 hours ago, TrustMe said:

I didn't like Biden much, but he did it right with Ukraine. Now Trump's in power who 's policies are just erratic. But he seems to do whatever Putin tells him to do. This is Russia were talking about, the evil empire, and you americans are helping him out. That's just plain crazy.

ya, look at that, Trump essentially forcing nato and the european countries to rearm themselves.

I'm sure that was first on his list of things for trump to do.

[bfng3569]

1 hour ago, TrustMe said:

I think that what Trump is doing has alienated most of his US allies. Some day America will want those allies to be around. Don't forget that the UK provided 9000 troops in Afghan for 20 years and the other day Trump said he would put a 25% tarrif on UK car manufacturers. With friends like the US who needs enemies.

i think you've got that backwards.

[seahawk]

10 hours ago, bfng3569 said:

ya, look at that, Trump essentially forcing nato and the european countries to rearm themselves.

I'm sure that was first on his list of things for trump to do.

Rearm for what? Either Russia is a threat or it is not. If it is the US can not ignore it.

Imho Russia is no threat to the US and that is why the US needs to leave NATO behind and let the Europeans handle their own fate.

[Stuart Galbraith]

The USSR took something like 15-20 years to match the US in nuclear weapons. This is not about matching Russia conventionally, because Europe, just because of the Poles and the Finns alone, would dispatch them easily. What is not matched is the Russian nuclear options, and ive heard zero smart comments on this grate site how Europe can match then im the next half decade, other than 'well you have to spend some money.' Much as I delight of the thought of Poland into nuclear weapons, procuring a delivery system that could hit moscow and St petersburg would take longer than 5 years, let along a hydrogen bomb to mount in it which would, as Iran has demonstrated, take considerably longer without the necessary technical capablities.

We arent upset because America is withdrawing military equipment, because there is bugger all here anyway. its the expression of not extending article 5 to smaller eastern european nations. If Americans cannot see why this is a problem, then clearly they have, like Trump, spent zero time thinking about it.

These arguments are always defined by the Americans themselves as purely about conventional options. The Europeans arent worried about the Russian 1st Guards Donkey Army. They are worried about greenskins and the Russian 10 to 1 nuclear advantage.

[seahawk]

Well then there is another option for Europe. Pay the US for the service they provide. If Europe pays all costs the US has for participating in NATO and additionally spends at least 5% of their GDP the make their armies functional again, I am sure president Trump will be willing to make a deal.

[PaulFormerlyinSaudi]

Perhaps the President has had tariffs explained to him. -=Link=-

 

Donald Trump has said he "couldn't care less" if carmakers raise prices after his 25% tariffs on foreign-made vehicles comes into effect.

Some analysts have warned that Trump's charges on businesses importing vehicles could lead to the temporary shutdown of significant car production in the US, increase prices, and strain relations with allies.

But speaking to NBC News on Saturday, the US president said he hoped foreign carmakers raise prices as it means "people are gonna buy American-made cars. We have plenty".

On Wednesday, Trump announced new import taxes of 25% on cars and car parts entering the US from overseas, which go into effect on 2 April. Charges on businesses importing vehicles are expected on 3 April, and taxes on parts are set to start in May or later.

[Stuart Galbraith]

And this is after being lectured by Tanknetters for 2 and a half decades that Socialism is bad, and free competition brings prices down.

[Rick]

15 hours ago, Murph said:

No Trump is just finally putting the US first, not some third world sh**hole or paying our "friends" anymore.  I support pretty much everything he is doing.  We are NOT the ATM any longer.  

 

+1

[sunday]

The struggle to restore the West.

Speech by Speaker Mike Johnson on the goals of the new US administration.

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 The Trump administration’s break with the economics, politics, and foreign policy of the last four decades was underlined in a speech given by U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson at Jordan Peterson’s Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference.

Johnson, whose video linked keynote address followed Peterson’s opening appearance, spoke on February 17 of a need to renew America with a return to foundational conservative values.

Johnson said America – and the West – faced a future of globalist “tyranny” which could be countered by the values of “Christian community.” He told the conference:

“The only way to reverse this trend into further technocratic tyranny is to recommit to our foundational principles and live them out. What made the West, and what made our nations great, must now guide us once again.”

 

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Against the economic and political model of borderless globalism, Johnson promoted an agenda of “national renewal” based on the Christian and conservative “foundational principles which lead to human flourishing.”

“A key downside to the new global order is that it ultimately led to a devaluing of local communities and a weakening of national identity, which was replaced instead by a divisive new racial, sexual, and gender-based identity,” he explained – showing how the renewal of America would shape the renewal of the West beyond its borders.

“If Americans aren’t American anymore, and Brits aren’t British anymore, and Germans aren’t German anymore, then naturally something else will fill the void. If everyone is a citizen of the world, then no one is really accountable any longer to their own nation or to their own local community.”

What would this renewal look like – and what sort of communities does Johnson mean?

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Against the economic and political model of borderless globalism, Johnson promoted an agenda of “national renewal” based on the Christian and conservative “foundational principles which lead to human flourishing.”

“A key downside to the new global order is that it ultimately led to a devaluing of local communities and a weakening of national identity, which was replaced instead by a divisive new racial, sexual, and gender-based identity,” he explained – showing how the renewal of America would shape the renewal of the West beyond its borders.

“If Americans aren’t American anymore, and Brits aren’t British anymore, and Germans aren’t German anymore, then naturally something else will fill the void. If everyone is a citizen of the world, then no one is really accountable any longer to their own nation or to their own local community.”

What would this renewal look like – and what sort of communities does Johnson mean?

 

Edited March 30 by sunday

[Ol Paint]

15 hours ago, TrustMe said:

I think that what Trump is doing has alienated most of his US allies. Some day America will want those allies to be around. Don't forget that the UK provided 9000 troops in Afghan for 20 years and the other day Trump said he would put a 25% tarrif on UK car manufacturers. With friends like the US who needs enemies.

You mean friends like the UK that apply a 20% VAT and a 10% import duty on US made cars?

And stop waving the bloody shirt.  Stuart already wore it out. 

Doug

Edited March 30 by Ol Paint
Being more concise.

[Ol Paint]

1 hour ago, Stuart Galbraith said:

And this is after being lectured by Tanknetters for 2 and a half decades that Socialism is bad, and free competition brings prices down.

Free competition does. 

There's some good information in here about the actual impact of the tariffs as well as the non-reciprocal nature of the tariff regimes.  Relevant to my prior post, the US has been charging 2.5% import duty/tariff on vehicles.  Compare to the UK charging 10% duty (+20% VAT) and you start to see why Americans might be less than impressed by the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Doug

[Murph]

After Zelenskyy's latest stunt, I would not blame Trump at all for washing his hands 100% of the Ukraine, and telling Putin to "have at it, and may you choke on it".  What a cnut Zelenskyy is proving to be.  

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/zelensky-defies-us-emboldened-euro-globalists-ukrainian-leader/

It seems that Ukrainian Leader Volodymyr Zelensky has decided on a path that’ll send him clashing with US President Donald J. Trump and his administration.

Besides repeatedly breaching the Trump-brokered partial ceasefire on energy and infrastructure, Zelensky has now made a TV statement that contains at least two very controversial points.

First, he again stated that the hundreds of billions of dollars in US aid to the Kiev regime were NOT ‘loans’, but rather, donations – despite the fact that nothing was ever registered as such.    NOTE: LOOK A TYPICAL UNGRATEFUL EUROPEAN!!! THE US IS THE ATM! SEND US MORE, MORE, MORE!

Secondly, he alerted that Ukraine will NOT sign the reworked rare-earth/mineral exploration deal, although his aides had assured US officials that the deal was ready to be signed.

 

 

 

[Murph]

1 hour ago, Ol Paint said:

You mean friends like the UK that apply a 20% VAT and a 10% import duty on US made cars?

And stop waving the bloody shirt.  Stuart already wore it out. 

Doug

Completely agree here.  

[Ivanhoe]

12 minutes ago, Murph said:

After Zelenskyy's latest stunt, I would not blame Trump at all for washing his hands 100% of the Ukraine, and telling Putin to "have at it, and may you choke on it".  What a cnut Zelenskyy is proving to be.  

It seems to me that Zelenskyy is now trying to provoke a complete fallout with the Trump admin, so he can "resign in disgust" and retire to his villa. It wouldn't surprise me if he was also tired of the oligarchs who installed him.

Who knows whether Ukraine has anyone better waiting in the wings.

[DKTanker]

11 minutes ago, Murph said:

After Zelenskyy's latest stunt, I would not blame Trump at all for washing his hands 100% of the Ukraine, and telling Putin to "have at it, and may you choke on it".  What a cnut Zelenskyy is proving to be.  

Should never have gotten in bed with one of the most corrupt nations on Earth, Ukraine, going back to the first Trump administration.  In 2014 Obama and Putin told the world that the Budapest Memo of 1994 was null and void, Trump should have left well enough alone.
To make matters worse Trump broke a cardinal rule of negotiating, letting his emotions get in the way of the deal.  Ever since his one stated goal was to "end the killing" both Zelensky and Putin knew they could drag this out in an attempt  to leverage one concession after another from Trump.  

[seahawk]

It is worse for the EU - 10% + 17-27% VAT on Us imports.

I say Trump was too weak, it should have been 100% for imports into the US.

[Ivanhoe]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-fda-official-who-played-key-role-in-covid-vax-reportedly-forced-out

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Dr. Peter Marks, who served as the Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) at the FDA, submitted his resignation letter on Friday, after he was informed he would be fired if he didn’t resign, sources told The Wall Street Journal.

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/FDA-SSCP-Vaccine-Safety-and-Surveillance-FDA-Written-Testimony-FINAL-Clean.pdf

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FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER) has facilitated, and continues to facilitate, the development and availability of vaccines and other biological products to combat COVID-19. Through our transparent and rigorous process of scientific evaluation, FDA has issued Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for four monovalent COVID-19 vaccines:

• the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine for use in individuals six months of age and older;

• the Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine for use in individuals six months of age and older;

• the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine for use in certain individuals 18 years of age and older (the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine is no longer authorized for use in the United States);2 and

• the Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted for use in individuals 12 years of age and older.

Look past all the laudatory hoopla and consider he recommended mRNA shots for infants.

 

[glenn239]

20 hours ago, TrustMe said:

I didn't like Biden much, but he did it right with Ukraine. 

Sure did.  300,000 Ukrainian men deader than doornails and 4 Oblasts annexed.  Biden did it right good for Ukraine, straight up the ass with no lube.

[glenn239]

18 hours ago, TrustMe said:

I think that what Trump is doing has alienated most of his US allies. Some day America will want those allies to be around. 

Why?  So that the United States can be dragged into some war in Europe or Asia in which the allies benefiet but the USA has little interest? 

[Murph]

2 minutes ago, glenn239 said:

Why?  So that the United States can be dragged into some war in Europe or Asia in which the allies benefiet but the USA has little interest? 

It always works that way, see WWI and WWII.  Both European squabbles.  And who won?  it was not the US.  

[Murph]

29 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

It seems to me that Zelenskyy is now trying to provoke a complete fallout with the Trump admin, so he can "resign in disgust" and retire to his villa. It wouldn't surprise me if he was also tired of the oligarchs who installed him.

Who knows whether Ukraine has anyone better waiting in the wings.

So true.  But I think Zelenskyy is addicted to the grift.  He needs that extra few hundreds of millions of dollars.  

[JWB]

Mark Levin stated Jeffrey Goldberg violated 18U.S. code 798:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798

[DKTanker]

1 hour ago, JWB said:

Mark Levin stated Jeffrey Goldberg violated 18U.S. code 798:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/798

No he didn't.  Everyone who was in on the discussion that was supposed to be said nothing classified, or sensitive, or of national security risk (classified) was discussed.  If they were all good with Goldberg being privy to what was discussed, then they were good with the entire world knowing.  Therefore, no criminal violation, no criminal conduct.  Levin is just flat wrong, Goldberg wasn't at fault.  Point in fact, Goldberg should be applauded for disclosing that he had been invited into the chat and was allowed to see what was being said.  Goldberg could have remained silent, nobody the wiser, and hope to be invited into yet another discussion group.  I've seen nobody on the right, much less MAGA, point that out.  I suppose to do so means having to hold somebody MAGA accountable.

[JWB]

15 minutes ago, DKTanker said:

Everyone who was in on the discussion that was supposed to be said nothing classified, or sensitive, or of national security risk (classified) was discussed.

Kevin Carroll, a lawyer who specializes in national security litigation and previously worked as a CIA officer, told us in a phone interview that the Signal chat was “100%” a violation of that law.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/was-the-signal-chat-illegal/