Donald I, emperor of the world.

[Pinno718]

More tariffs:

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/26/...ex.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc

He really really does want to crash the American economy.

 

[Bazzer]

In a surprise ruling by a usually gun friendly court, the US Supreme Court rules 7 - 2 against ghost guns. Alito and Thomas deciding against the majority.
Ghost guns are made with kits or are 3D printed and consequently are without a serial numbers and don't require background checks.
The Biden Administration tightened the rules about these types of gun, which of course p1ssed off the MAGidiots both for being linked to Joe Biden, but also because it offended the rights of those who wanted to carry an untraceable deadly weapon.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8303xnjl8o

 

[CXRAndy]

Concerned about how deported migrant's low paid jobs are going to be filled?
Florida has the answer, child labour. Yup, 14 year olds will be able to work the night shift before school. I sh!t you not.

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-law-bill-2025/82657143007/

It is being discussed, there are many caveats in the legislation currently with some proposed alterations.

Americans have always had a strong work ethic. They work long hours and have few holidays, compared to UK and other countries

I used to work weekends before age 14, great bonus pocket money, felt like a millionaire for a while

 

[Pinno718]

MANHEIM, Pa. (AP) — Democrat James Andrew Malone narrowly won a special election for a Pennsylvania state Senate seat in Republican-leaning suburbs and farming communities, scoring an upset in a district that a Democrat hasn’t represented in the chamber for 136 years.

 

[Pinno718]

The staunch Rep county voted for a black senator?! That'll pi$$ the MAGA white supremacists off.

 

[briantrumpet]

And this is before the Trumpian stuff (tax cuts for the very rich paid for by the workinging class, inflationary tariffs, Medicare cuts, veteran cuts, benefits cuts etc have really registered. At the moment, it's mood music that MAGA will have had filtered out for them by Fox & Newsmax, but they'll find out the hard way what they voted for sooner or later.

 

[Pinno718]

And this is before the Trumpian stuff (tax cuts for the very rich paid for by the workinging class, inflationary tariffs, Medicare cuts, veteran cuts, benefits cuts etc have really registered. At the moment, it's mood music that MAGA will have had filtered out for them by Fox & Newsmax, but they'll find out the hard way what they voted for sooner or later.

'mood music' lol.
He did it 'old school' apparently. i.e he went knocking on doors. No press statements, no ads. I wonder if the reps. are actually a bit intimidated by getting in amongst the voters like that? I mean, the Dems are less likely to be confronted surely and the Reps have abandoned town halls?

 

[briantrumpet]

'mood music' lol.
He did it 'old school' apparently. i.e he went knocking on doors. No press statements, no ads. I wonder if the reps. are actually a bit intimidated by getting in amongst the voters like that? I mean, the Dems are less likely to be confronted surely and the Reps have abandoned town halls?

By 'mood music', I mean that they've been selling one sort of story to the cultists, but everyone else has picked up the fashy mood. Reality for the cultists is going to cut through the 'mood music' they've been fed relentlessly: penury, illness and death are quite challenging to hide for ever, even for those who *so* want Trump to be their saviour.

 

[Pblakeney]

Problem - "The rate of chronic disease and cancer increased dramatically as our department has grown," he said. "What we've been doing hasn't worked. That's why we're making this dramatic overhaul."

Solution - "Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will slash 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a part of a sweeping restructuring.
The move - along with voluntary resignations - will shrink the department's workforce of 80,000 to about 60,000, the White House estimates."

Paying off or letting go 1/4 of the staff. Hmmm. Will it help? There must be a couple of paddles downriver.

 

[Pinno718]

Reduce the size of the dept. and it will reduce cancer rates. Simple. Logical. Genius.

 

[All uphill]

Reduce the size of the dept. and it will reduce cancer rates. Simple. Logical. Genius.

Correlation is causation in magaland.

 

[Bazzer]

Problem - "The rate of chronic disease and cancer increased dramatically as our department has grown," he said. "What we've been doing hasn't worked. That's why we're making this dramatic overhaul."

Solution - "Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr will slash 10,000 jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a part of a sweeping restructuring.
The move - along with voluntary resignations - will shrink the department's workforce of 80,000 to about 60,000, the White House estimates."

Paying off or letting go 1/4 of the staff. Hmmm. Will it help? There must be a couple of paddles downriver.

If they are dead they fall off the statistics, don't they? Bonus side effect is if on Medicaid that stops too.
Of course it would be sensible to look at the cause of the problems, but will the US food industry voluntarily give up the additives, corn syrup, colourants, etc., banned in Europe?

 

[Pinno718]

If they are dead they fall off the statistics, don't they? Bonus side effect is if on Medicaid that stops too.
Of course it would be sensible to look at the cause of the problems, but will the US food industry voluntarily give up the additives, corn syrup, colourants, etc., banned in Europe?

Yes, we need to maintain those food standards set by the EU.
A comparison would be interesting.

 

[Pblakeney]

If they are dead they fall off the statistics, don't they? Bonus side effect is if on Medicaid that stops too.
Of course it would be sensible to look at the cause of the problems, but will the US food industry voluntarily give up the additives, corn syrup, colourants, etc., banned in Europe?

Short answer, no.

 

[Pblakeney]

"In Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic circle, President Vladimir Putin vowed to "strengthen Russia's global leadership in the Arctic", while warning that "geopolitical competition in the region" was intensifying.
The first example he gave was Donald Trump's idea to acquire Greenland.
But from the Kremlin leader there was no criticism of his US counterpart."

I will need some convincing that a deal has not been done.