COMMUNITY United States Politics Thread: Trump's Second Term



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LurkerSix said:
I forgot to post it, but on reddit they're saying US steel companies already raised their prices in anticipation for this. They did it cuz they can make more money now and still be slightly cheaper than canadian steel now. Fucking scumbags
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So a 25% tariff so US steel can raise prices 20%, per se.

And who pays for that, the US consumer.

See this is the kind of shit democrats should be messaging. How these moves will impact the consumer. Make it simple, make it plain, and stop yelling in front of government buildings.
 
StringerBell said:


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He’s not wrong. Standing in front of government buildings and yelling and cursing about stuff the average person couldn’t care less about is dumb. Should the average person care? Yes, but they don’t so it’s falling on deaf ears.

Holding up avocados and beer when Trump threatened tariffs for 24 hours? Dumb as fuck.

Yelling constitutional crisis every 5 minutes? Most Americans don’t even know what that means.

They need to dumb it down to reach more people. Jay said it best:

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars
They criticize me for it, yet they all yell "holla"
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did 5 mill' – I ain't been rhyming like Common since (Woo!)
 
TheNightKing said:
He’s not wrong. Standing in front of government buildings and yelling and cursing about stuff the average person couldn’t care less about is dumb. Should the average person care? Yes, but they don’t so it’s falling on deaf ears.

Holding up avocados and beer when Trump threatened tariffs for 24 hours? Dumb as fuck.

Yelling constitutional crisis every 5 minutes? Most Americans don’t even know what that means.

They need to dumb it down to reach more people. Jay said it best:

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars
They criticize me for it, yet they all yell "holla"
If skills sold, truth be told, I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli
Truthfully I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
But I did 5 mill' – I ain't been rhyming like Common since (Woo!)
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I do agree with this, but honestly I don't know what Dems can say at this point that would resonate with people. I mean we are headed towards a constitutional crisis, but I don't think people care enough.
 
TheNightKing said:
So a 25% tariff so US steel can raise prices 20%, per se.

And who pays for that, the US consumer.

See this is the kind of shit democrats should be messaging. How these moves will impact the consumer. Make it simple, make it plain, and stop yelling in front of government buildings.
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Even if they do, (which a lot of them are) they have to fight through the fake news online & the people this message need to reach the most, a lot of them voted for Trump. And most these same people would rather die than admit they were wrong.

Another thing that doesnt help is most of these old fucks should of been retired. They have shitty messaging and online presence because they rely solely on young intern's/staff to do it, because they're old fucks that wont get out the way.

And finally, it clear as day a lot of them barely mean it, they go through the motions but we see the lack of passion. The same ones that have lunch with the same people we see proudly holding americans back. People are fed up with the theatrics
 
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‘Big Balls’ DOGE Guy, 19, Is Now a ‘Senior Adviser’ in State Department

It’s the same Elon Musk minion who was fired from an internship for allegedly leaking sensitive information to a competitor.
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Think they're setting him up to be the fall guy?
Elon Musk’s teenage acolyte known online as “Big Balls” has taken on a significant role in the U.S. State Department that has some officials on edge, a report claims.

Edward Coristine, 19, now works as a “senior adviser” in the State Department’s Bureau of Diplomatic Technology, The Washington Post reported. That bureau is a data hub that serves as the IT department for Washington’s diplomatic apparatus.

The role comes in addition to Coristine’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency, where reports identified him as one of Musk minions who have forced federal workers to justify why they should keep their jobs in one-on-one meetings.

Musk and others in MAGA have defended the youth of the DOGE team, claiming the whiz kids’ ages should not disqualify them from doing good work.
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There are concerns with Coristine that go beyond his youth, however. A Bloomberg report revealed Friday the teen was once fired from an internship at Path Network after an internal probe found he leaked sensitive information to a competitor.

An anonymous official who spoke to the Post said the 2022 leak, which Coristine has denied doing, is proof his proximity to sensitive material is “dangerous.”

Others who spoke to the Post said they fear Coristine’s position could “give him a foothold for obtaining unauthorized access to classified material” and perhaps “obtain compromising information on other countries and foreign activities.”
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Landing a senior role in the State Department is quite the career leap for Coristine, who only recently dropped out of Northeastern University—where he was a freshman engineering major—to join Musk’s team of young and controversial programmers.

He is the son of Charles Coristine, a businessman who purchased the once-failing snack company LesserEvil in 2011 and has since turned it around to reportedly rake in over $100 million a year.

It appears the younger Coristine has his sights on more than running a popcorn company like his father, however. WIRED reported he “has appeared on calls where workers were made to go over code they had written and justify their jobs.” He holds an official position in DOGE and in the Office of Personnel Management.
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Tayboo said:
I do agree with this, but honestly I don't know what Dems can say at this point that would resonate with people. I mean we are headed towards a constitutional crisis, but I don't think people care enough.
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Cant help but think of the proverb, “Those who don't listen must feel”. This is all jokes and no big deal to them till the feel the damage he's done. Since it all just started, this is just Dems crying wolf again.
 
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Donald Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to halt the enforcement of a US anti-corruption law that bars Americans from bribing foreign government officials to win business.“It’s going to mean a lot more business for America,” the president said in the Oval Office after signing an executive order on Monday directing Pam Bondi, the US attorney-general, to pause enforcement of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.“It sounds good on paper, but in [practice] it’s a disaster,” Trump said of the FCPA. “It means that if an American goes over to a foreign country and starts doing business over there legally, legitimately or otherwise, it’s almost a guaranteed investigation, indictment and nobody wants to do business with the Americans because of it.

”A White House official said that the country’s “national security depends on America and its companies gaining strategic commercial advantages around the world”.The official added: “President Trump is stopping excessive, unpredictable FCPA enforcement that makes American companies less competitive.”The order marks one of the boldest enforcement policies issued by the Trump administration, potentially undermining a critical tool in cracking down on individual as well as corporate misconduct.
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The FCPA has underpinned some of the DoJ’s most high-profile cases, including a plea agreement it reached last year with Trafigura over bribes the commodities trading house made in Brazil to retain business with state-controlled oil company Petrobras.

In 2022, one of McKinsey’s former senior partners pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to violate the FCPA in relation to a sprawling corruption scandal during the administration of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Last October, US defence contractor RTX agreed to pay more than $950mn over claims it bribed a Qatari official to facilitate arms sales to the Middle Eastern country and defrauded the Pentagon into overpaying for weapons, including Patriot missile systems.The decision drew criticism from anti-corruption experts who said that stopping enforcement of the law would hurt US companies operating abroad.“Most [US] companies appreciate the fact that the FCPA allows them to be firm in refusing bribes because most private sector companies — sensibly — see bribery as an unproductive cost,” Richard Nephew, a former anti-corruption co-ordinator at the State Department, posted on X.
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The White House official said Bondi would issue new enforcement guidance that “promotes American competitiveness and efficient use of federal law enforcement resources”, adding that previous and existing FCPA actions would be reviewed. US companies were damaged by “over-enforcement” of the act since “they are prohibited from engaging in practices common among international competitors, creating an uneven playing field”, the official added.The White House said US national security required strategic advantages in various infrastructure assets, such as critical minerals and deep-water ports.

FCPA prosecutions had imposed “a growing cost on our nation’s economy”, said the official, citing the 26 enforcement actions related to the law filed by the justice department and Securities and Exchange Commission last year.Having dozens of enforcement actions each year drained resources from companies and law enforcement, the official said. Thirty-one companies were under FCPA-related investigations at the end of 2024, they added.The SEC set up a specialised unit in 2010 to strengthen its FCPA enforcement, which it had described as a “high-priority area”.
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Last year, the regulator charged a former executive at Azure Power Global, a renewables company at the heart of a case accusing Indian billionaire Gautam Adani of perpetrating a bribery scheme. The DoJ also brought a criminal indictment.Azure said the former employees referenced in the charges had been “separated” from it for more than a year. Adani Group called the accusations “baseless”.Legal experts have argued the case, which was filed before Trump’s return to the White House, could hinge upon his presidency.The DoJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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