What will history say about Trump?

[AceDesSpades]

Live ... Die ... Repeat

 

[AceDesSpades]

"There’s ways I can describe this in Los Angeles, where we live, all sorts of places where the real estate prices, the rents have gone up more and more. If we talk about the inflation problem, it was inflation and immigration. There’s a way you could talk about inflation in terms of the prices of eggs or groceries, but that’s not that big a cost item, even for lower middle class people. The really big cost item is the rent. I think in some ways, Trump and JD Vance did manage to shift the conversation a little bit to this real estate problem. Again, I don’t want to blame it all on immigration, but if you just add more people to the mix and you’re not allowed to build new houses because of zoning laws, or it’s too expensive, or it’s too regulated and restricted, then the prices go up a lot.

"It’s this incredible wealth transfer from the young and the lower middle class to the upper middle class and the landlords and the old. There are reasons you might not want to do that … If you actually think of it in Econ. 101 terms, maybe you don’t want more people competing for your two-bedroom apartment and driving up the rent even more or even more people crowding in and paying money to the landlord."

Peter Thiel [emphasis mine]

JOY​

 

[AceDesSpades]

"Border concerns, driven as much by real challenges as manufactured ones — and wrapped up with voters’ other worries about the economy, housing prices, and crime — … fueled rightward shifts across the country, pollsters and strategists said,” admitted a post-election, November 15 article at the New York Times.

History will say that he was the dying gasps of the Republic, the last stand of the common man.


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[AceDesSpades]

Bipartisan?

Carr's agenda for "reining in Big Tech," as described in the chapter that he contributed to the Heritage Foundation's 2025 Mandate for Leadership, includes new FCC rules aimed at restricting the liability protection offered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Carr also supports regulations that would "impose transparency rules on Big Tech" and legislation that "scraps Section 230's current approach." He favors "reforms that prohibit discrimination against core political viewpoints," which he says "would track the approach taken in a social media law passed in Texas."

That law, which says social media platforms may not "censor" content based on "viewpoint," was the focus of NetChoice v. Paxton, a case that the U.S. Supreme Court decided in February along with Moody v. NetChoice, which involved a similar Florida law. In both cases, the Court unanimously vacated appeals court decisions (upholding the Texas law and blocking provisions of Florida's law, respectively), saying they did not properly apply the First Amendment. But as Reason's Elizabeth Nolan Brown noted, the opinion by Justice Elena Kagan, which was joined in full by four of her colleagues, supported the argument that moderation decisions are a form of constitutionally protected editorial discretion.

Jacob Sullivan, Reason [Libertarian]




https://reason.com/2024/11/18/trump...itorial-discretion-of-social-media-platforms/

 

[AceDesSpades]

The main historical rationale for treating broadcasters differently—that the "scarcity" of "the public airwaves" required government control—never made much sense. It makes even less sense in the current media environment, where the exact route that information travels on its way to listeners and viewers has no obvious constitutional significance. But because of the increasingly puzzling legal distinction between broadcasting and other modes of communication, an FCC chairman's understanding of "the public interest" remains a potential threat to freedom of the press.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Depends on the meaning of "is..."

We have to fight, fight, fight the bureaucracy and at least go down swinging.

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[Wat_Tyler]

Best he does is slow it down.


Because it's inevitable.

 

[AceDesSpades]

Agreed


☮︎

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Goddamned Slippery Slopes.

 

[AceDesSpades]

⛷🏔

 

[Rebel5soul]

Victor Davis Hanson, Classicist

Both Russia and Ukraine are running out of soldiers, with escalating casualties that will haunt them for decades. Russia yearns to be free of sanctions and to sell oil and gas to Europe. The West, and the U.S. in particular, would like to triangulate Russia against China and vice versa, in Kissingerian style, and thus avoid any two-power nuclear standoff.

America wants to increase and stockpile its munitions with an emboldened China on the horizon. It is dangerously exhausted by defense cuts and massive aid to Ukraine and Israel while preferring allies like Israel that can win with a few billion rather than perhaps lose after receiving $200 billion. The Republican Party is now becoming the party of peace, and Trump, the Jacksonian, nonetheless the most reluctant president to spend American blood and treasure abroad in memory.

Europe is mentally worn out by the war and increasingly reneging on its once boastful unqualified support for Ukraine. So, it hopes the demonized Trump can both end the hated war and then be blamed for ending it without an unconditional Ukrainian victory.

In short, there are lots of parties who want, and lots of incentives for, an end to our 21st-century Verdun.

Link at American Greatness

Verdun is the proper analogy.

 

[AceDesSpades]

He knows his past. Some say it repeats broadly...

 

[Rebel5soul]

Trump can probably pull off a cease fire but right now the two sides are way too far apart for anything resembling a 'peace agreement.'

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Stalingrad. It was right up the road, FFS.

 

[DukeofPaducah]

Victor Davis Hanson, Classicist

Both Russia and Ukraine are running out of soldiers, with escalating casualties that will haunt them for decades. Russia yearns to be free of sanctions and to sell oil and gas to Europe. The West, and the U.S. in particular, would like to triangulate Russia against China and vice versa, in Kissingerian style, and thus avoid any two-power nuclear standoff.

America wants to increase and stockpile its munitions with an emboldened China on the horizon. It is dangerously exhausted by defense cuts and massive aid to Ukraine and Israel while preferring allies like Israel that can win with a few billion rather than perhaps lose after receiving $200 billion. The Republican Party is now becoming the party of peace, and Trump, the Jacksonian, nonetheless the most reluctant president to spend American blood and treasure abroad in memory.

Europe is mentally worn out by the war and increasingly reneging on its once boastful unqualified support for Ukraine. So, it hopes the demonized Trump can both end the hated war and then be blamed for ending it without an unconditional Ukrainian victory.

In short, there are lots of parties who want, and lots of incentives for, an end to our 21st-century Verdun.

Link at American Greatness

In response to Biden’s authorization for Ukraine to use longer range military hardware, Putin has announced a nuclear option. Live Now reports. That’s a big saber to be rattling..

Lets hope the Peace Prez can come up with a solution that doesn’t involve Chamberlainian style concession
of a democratically elected government to a plutocracy.
A bold statement from the leader of the free world.
Perhaps Trump and Putin can settle the matter over a competitive round of golf.

 

[Lance_Castro]

Maybe the USA should trade Israel & Gaza to Russia for Ukraine and give Putin right of first refusal on Iran. Jared keeps Albania.

 

[DukeofPaducah]

It was disheartening and more than a little frightening to watch the MAGAt mob turn on Mitch McConnell
once he got out of goosestep and was no longer of use to them.
Some tried to coax him back into the gaggle, but most of the posts I read on X called for investigation into
Snappy Tom and his wife’s criminal activities and a Pence-style lynching.

They reminded me of a pack of cannibalistic rats.

If that’s what MAGA entails, I’ll stick with the poo throwing Marxists, thank you very much.

 

[ll74]

It was disheartening and more than a little frightening to watch the MAGAt mob turn on Mitch McConnell
once he got out of goosestep and was no longer of use to them.
Some tried to coax him back into the gaggle, but most of the posts I read on X called for investigation into
Snappy Tom and his wife’s criminal activities and a Pence-style lynching.

They reminded me of a pack of cannibalistic rats.

If that’s what MAGA entails, I’ll stick with the poo throwing Marxists, thank you very much.

The idiots don't recognize how their current position is directly related to political chess that McConnell has been playing his entire career.

Transactions don't understand history.

 

[HisArpy]

Trump can probably pull off a cease fire but right now the two sides are way too far apart for anything resembling a 'peace agreement.'

I think in the next 60 days Ukraine is going to kick some serious Russian ass and that's going to bring old Vlad to the table fairly quick. Especially after the NoKo's start surrendering en mass.

Putin's threats to use nukes are going nowhere. His own advisors won't stand for it because they know what the result will be - no more Russia.

 

[DukeofPaducah]

I was watching Trump down at Spacex in Texas for a rocket launch.
His campaign of politics as entertainment went so well, he’s decided to let it ride and continue to roll dem bones.
Seeing him standing next to Elon and Ted Cruz. Super surreal.
Just like they were old buddies.

 

[JaySecrets]

Tell me what it was I said about Communism in your statement above..

You’re out in the weeds old son.
What did I say about Communism? I said it had been gone for a while. Where so you come up with that as praise.
I noted some positive aspects of Chinese CULTURE. is that the same to you?

I stated some drawbacks to American CULTURE that you can’t even address. Where else on this planet does someone walk int a school and slaughter children or kill 58 from a hotel window and injure almost 500?
That mentality has nothing to do with Capitalism.
I look around I don’t see much Capitalism here. You should read Adam Smith’s Wealth of Mations before you try to identify it. It mentions bailouts nowhere. No one is too big to fail. Reckless behavior is reckless because there are consequences.
My father said never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

Communism is FAR from gone. It is alive and well in China and several other nations including Venezuela and Cuba. Ask the Christians who are suffering in the underground church in China, who are being arrested, tortured, and killed for the crime of being a Christian and thus an enemy of the state, ask THEM how dead Communism is in China. The culture there IS Communism. It's just a Maoist brand, and you lefties want to act as though what you call "Progressivism" and "Socialism" is anything more than Communism by any other name.

School shootings are happening in GUN FREE ZONES, most of them in HARD LEFT states or cities. You know who openly has guns in schools? Israel. The teachers open carry high power rifles at times. Guess what. No school shootings by citizens... Except for the attempts by the Palestinians who have it literally in their charter to kill all Jews. I oppose bailouts. Period. I oppose "too big to fail". Period. But those are the ideas of globalist commies and local Marxists in office. Mostly from the left, some from the right.

For all that, we still live in the greatest, freest, most blessed, nation on the planet. A nation that is truly unique and exceptional in its founding principles. But you would likely deny that fact. Your problem.

Oh, and Right to Bear Arms was always SUPPOSED to be so that the people were the Army or had the firepower to match the military and overthrow an unconstitutional government. It wasn't so you could hunt and protect your house. Those were side benefits. The government was SUPPOSED to be terrified of the people. In today's terms, the people should own actual military grade weapons, tanks, and whatever else they want. That was the founders' intent. And school shootings.... they don't happen when there are good guys with guns there to shoot first. That's why taking the guns from the people has been the first move of every Socialist takeover in history, from the National Socialist Party (Nazis) to the USSR, to the People's Republics. Be careful what you wish for. You may get it. And when you do, we are all screwed.

 

[Politruk]

Communism is FAR from gone. It is alive and well in China and several other nations including Venezuela and Cuba.

But as an international political movement, Communism is dead.

 

[Politruk]

Oh, and Right to Bear Arms was always SUPPOSED to be so that the people were the Army or had the firepower to match the military and overthrow an unconstitutional government. It wasn't so you could hunt and protect your house.

It was neither. The purpose of the 2A was to facilitate a militia-based defense system, which is completely irrelevant now. It was never to facilitate insurrection.

 

[DukeofPaducah]

Communism is FAR from gone. It is alive and well in China and several other nations including Venezuela and Cuba. Ask the Christians who are suffering in the underground church in China, who are being arrested, tortured, and killed for the crime of being a Christian and thus an enemy of the state, ask THEM how dead Communism is in China. The culture there IS Communism. It's just a Maoist brand, and you lefties want to act as though what you call "Progressivism" and "Socialism" is anything more than Communism by any other name.

School shootings are happening in GUN FREE ZONES, most of them in HARD LEFT states or cities. You know who openly has guns in schools? Israel. The teachers open carry high power rifles at times. Guess what. No school shootings by citizens... Except for the attempts by the Palestinians who have it literally in their charter to kill all Jews. I oppose bailouts. Period. I oppose "too big to fail". Period. But those are the ideas of globalist commies and local Marxists in office. Mostly from the left, some from the right.

For all that, we still live in the greatest, freest, most blessed, nation on the planet. A nation that is truly unique and exceptional in its founding principles. But you would likely deny that fact. Your problem.

Oh, and Right to Bear Arms was always SUPPOSED to be so that the people were the Army or had the firepower to match the military and overthrow an unconstitutional government. It wasn't so you could hunt and protect your house. Those were side benefits. The government was SUPPOSED to be terrified of the people. In today's terms, the people should own actual military grade weapons, tanks, and whatever else they want. That was the founders' intent. And school shootings.... they don't happen when there are good guys with guns there to shoot first. That's why taking the guns from the people has been the first move of every Socialist takeover in history, from the National Socialist Party (Nazis) to the USSR, to the People's Republics. Be careful what you wish for. You may get it. And when you do, we are all screwed.

Thanks for the Sermon From the Mount. Will you be serving Loaves and Fishes later? I’m a little peckish.

You know nothing about my politics, so you can shut the fuck up about that.

I think spending a weekend on the streets of Chiraq might have some benefits in store for you. The school shooting at Afalachee was in GA. The last nightclub slaughter was in FL. If those are in hard left states you can take a big old lick of my starfish. You quote factoids much like Orange Julius.
I may be off here, but somehow I’m not sure more lead flying in a school zone is the answer to our prayers. I guess we’ll just have to put body armor on every student’s school supplies list.
And as far as the government being terrified of your 2A right, think about that when you bring an AR-15
to a drone fight., pahdnah. Pa-POW!

 

[JaySecrets]

It was neither. The purpose of the 2A was to facilitate a militia-based defense system, which is completely irrelevant now. It was never to facilitate insurrection.

Tell that to the founders who founded America by... insurrection, as you call it now.