Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/americas/panama-china-belt-and-road-initiative-rubio-visits-intl-latam/index.html[/url]

President Raúl Mulino added however that Panama would not renew a 2017 memorandum of understanding to join China’s overseas development initiative, known as the Belt and Road, and suggested that the deal with China could end early.

Panama will seek to work with the US on new investments, including infrastructure projects, he said. “I think this visit opens the door to build new relations … and try to increase as much as possible US investments in Panama,” Mulino told reporters on Sunday after Rubio’s first foreign trip as the United States’ top diplomat


Nice win here.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

it's a hostile takeover, make no mistake about it

[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/usaid-security-leaders-removed-refusing-elon-musks-doge-employees-acce-rcna190357"]USAID security leaders removed after refusing Elon Musk's DOGE employees access to secure systems[/URL]

[URL="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/"]Exclusive: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems[/URL]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372609]it's a hostile takeover, make no mistake about it

[URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/usaid-security-leaders-removed-refusing-elon-musks-doge-employees-acce-rcna190357"]USAID security leaders removed after refusing Elon Musk's DOGE employees access to secure systems[/URL]

[URL="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/"]Exclusive: Musk aides lock workers out of OPM computer systems[/URL][/quote]

Look I’m pro USAID when they are funneling money to kill Marxists, socialists and terrorists in other countries. Keep doing that.

I’m Anti-USAID when they funnel money to terrorists organization, hostile regimes; corruption organizations who pocket the funds and any type of woke liberal project in another country

Sounds like some sort of reforms are needed.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372611]Look I’m pro USAID when they are funneling money to kill Marxists, socialists and terrorists in other countries. Keep doing that.

[B]I’m Anti-USAID when they funnel money to terrorists organization, hostile regimes; corruption organizations who pocket the funds and any type of woke liberal project in another country
[/B]
Sounds like some sort of reforms are needed.[/quote]

Amazing what you make up when you refuse to look at the truth, very trump like.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[B]Trump Pauses Tariffs On Mexico After Financial Stocks Nosedive[/B]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/trump-pauses-tariffs-mexico-financial-161808773.html[/url]



Who didn't know this would happen?JHC.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02/03/us/trump-tariffs[/url]

Ms. Sheinbaum agreed to deploy 10,000 additional troops, who President Trump said would be designated to stop the flow of migrants and illegal drugs across the U.S.-Mexico border.

In return, Mexico will get at least a temporary reprieve from the blanket 25 percent tariffs Mr. Trump announced on Saturday, as well as help from the U.S. government to stanch the movement of guns back over the border, Ms. Sheinbaum said on Monday

Mexico agreed to send troops to the border to stop the illegal crossings and stop the flow of drugs. That why Trump paused the tariffs, not because of the stock market

Looks like they will hold further talks for a bigger deal within the month. It’s called leverage folks

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

trumps big middle finger to the voters he cares so much about.


"That figure assumes Canada retaliates with tariffs of its own, according to analysis first shared with Yahoo Finance. If it doesn’t, the cost would be $648 per household. Tariffs on Canada would also shrink the US economy by $875 billion, or 0.2% of gross domestic product.

And when including tariffs on Mexican goods, import taxes on all three countries would cost about $1,245 per household while reducing GDP by $1.4 billion."

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Why can't we have a leader like him instead of a phucking asshole.


[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/video/canada-s-trudeau-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-after-trump-s-executive-order-230879301866[/url]



[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owBaqSuWB6Q[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

The reason the Democrats are so upset about Elon because they know what’s in the books and they know Elon and his team are smart enough to find the corruption.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372642]The reason the Democrats are so upset about Elon because they know what’s in the books and they know Elon and his team are smart enough to find the corruption.[/quote]

Democrats worship the government they are in charge of. That is their god. Any threat to that, is the enemy. It's that simple. You could replace Elon with anyone, they'd hate that person too.

And as guaranteed, you created a shit on Trump thread. That's your fault lol.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372642]The reason the Democrats are so upset about Elon because they know what’s in the books and they know Elon and his team are smart enough to find the corruption.[/quote]

He’s not an elected official, he’s gained access to systems and private and even classified information. This shit is unprecedented and no fucking joke.

[url]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/doge-treasury-usaid-donald-trump-011538[/url]

[url]https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285539/elon-musk-is-barreling-into-government-with-doge-raising-unusual-legal-questions/[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372647]He’s not an elected official, he’s gained access to systems and private and even classified information. This shit is unprecedented and no fucking joke.

[url]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/doge-treasury-usaid-donald-trump-011538[/url]

[url]https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285539/elon-musk-is-barreling-into-government-with-doge-raising-unusual-legal-questions/[/url][/quote]


The republicans and others are just too phucking stupid to understand what this asshole has done and is doing.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1372643]Democrats worship the government they are in charge of. That is their god. Any threat to that, is the enemy. It's that simple. You could replace Elon with anyone, they'd hate that person too.

And as guaranteed, you created a shit on Trump thread. That's your fault lol.[/quote]

The bigger the meltdown, the more conformation Elon is over correct target of government abuse, waste and fraud.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372647]He’s not an elected official, he’s gained access to systems and private and even classified information. This shit is unprecedented and no fucking joke.

[url]https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/03/doge-treasury-usaid-donald-trump-011538[/url]

[url]https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/npr/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285539/elon-musk-is-barreling-into-government-with-doge-raising-unusual-legal-questions/[/url][/quote]

Yes I mean unelected bureaucrats are actually the problem here. This agency has pissed away billions on failed projects without an inkling of consequence.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372660][B]The bigger the meltdown[/B][/quote]



Bingo, this is it, this is the respond all trump cult members are looking for, they are not interested in what is right fair or good for the Country but how to phuck the others side over the most without thought of the repercussions of their actions.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Damn should have gotten gas yesterday, when it was 40 cents cheaper. Thanks Psycho Don.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=88Commanders00;1372667]Damn should have gotten gas yesterday, when it was 40 cents cheaper. Thanks Psycho Don.[/quote]

chico says "we're back"!

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Everyone back to the office, oh wait now we're getting rid of offices to return to.

[URL="https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-gsa-terminate-office-leases-f8faac5e2038722f705587c8dd21ab26"]Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration[/URL]

Agencies were already scrambling to figure out how to accommodate workers, every day it's a new level of crazy

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Donny takes the L

[URL="https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/judge-blocks-birthright-citizenship-executive-order/index.html"]Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship[/URL]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

the same Democrats who argued for the right for government to see individuals Venmo transactions are the same ones having a shit fit when waste, fraud, so called “foreign aid” leftist schemes being exposed by DoGE

Here’s where our money been wasted:

$7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists how to avoid “binary-gendered language”

— $20 million for a new Sesame Street show in Iraq

— $4.5+ million to “combat disinformation” in Kazakhstan

— $1.5 million for “art for inclusion of people with disabilities”

— $2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

— $6 million to “transform digital spaces to reflect feminist democratic principles”

— $2.1 million to help the BBC “value the diversity of Libyan society”

— $10 million worth of USAID-funded meals, which went to an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group

— $25 million for Deloitte to promote “green transportation” in the country of Georgia

— $6 million for tourism in Egypt

— $2.5 million to promote “inclusion” in Vietnam

— $16.8 million for a SEPARATE “inclusion” group in Vietnam

— ~$5 million to EcoHealth Alliance, one of the key NGOs funding bat virus research at the Wuhan lab

— $20 million for a group related to a key player in the Russiagate impeachment hoax

— $1.1 million to an Armenian “LGBT group”

— $1.2 million to help the African Methodist Episcopal Church Service and Development Agency in Washington, D.C., build “a state-of-the-art 440 seat auditorium”

— $1.3 million to Arab and Jewish photographers

— $1.5 million to promote “LGBT advocacy” in Jamaica

— $1.5 million to “rebuild” the Cuban media ecosystem

— $2 million to promote “LGBT equality through entrepreneurship” in Latin America

— $500K to solve sectarian violence in Israel (just ten days before the Hamas October 7 attack)

— $2.3 million for “artisanal and small scale gold mining” in the Amazon

— $3.9 million for “LGBT causes” in the western Balkans

— $5.5 million for LGBT activism in Uganda

— $6 million for advancing LGBT issues in “priority countries around the world”

— $6.3 million for men who have sex with men in South Africa

— $8.3 million for “USAID Education: Equity and Inclusion”

— USAID’s “climate strategy” outlined a $150 billion “whole-of-agency” approach to building an “equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions.”





Complete horseshit.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372703]”





Complete horseshit.[/quote]

Yes, your post's are !

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

To a person not one trump supporter can explain why didn't trump do any of this in his first 4 years in Office?

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

The USAID budget is less than 1% of the entire Federal budget.

Like wiping a crumb off a table and claiming you cleaned house.

Good job Elmo

[url]https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-trumps-attack-on-usaid-undermines-american-leadership-and-security/[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372713]The USAID budget is less than 1% of the entire Federal budget.

Like wiping a crumb off a table and claiming you cleaned house.

Good job Elmo

[url]https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-trumps-attack-on-usaid-undermines-american-leadership-and-security/[/url][/quote]

Seems strange he is worth 750 Billion and he is shutting down Aid to the needy.

[B]USAID upheaval is paralyzing delivery of food and medicine around the globe[/B]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/usaid-upheaval-paralyzing-delivery-food-021418126.html[/url]

Shipping containers packed with lifesaving antibiotics and antimalarial drugs are being held at the Port of Sudan, where they sit in limbo. Essential medicines are expiring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a cash-strapped government contractor was forced to shut off the air conditioning. Millions of pounds of American-grown soybeans that were bound for refugee camps overseas are being diverted to warehouses instead.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Giantone;1372706]To a person not one trump supporter can explain why didn't trump do any of this in his first 4 years in Office?[/quote]

Problems were exacerbated under the Biden administration. We know the stats and it’s why the democrats got completely rolled.

Voters wanted this to happen and approve of it.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-era-southern-border-sees-migrant-encounters-plummet-over-60-new-policies-kick-in[/url]

Trump-era southern border sees migrant encounters plummet by over 60%

There were 7,287 migrant encounters at the southern border in the first seven days (Jan 20-26) after Trump's inauguration by both Border Patrol between ports of entry and by the Office of Field Operations (OFO) at ports of entry, with a daily average of 1,041 encounters a day.

That compares to 20,086 encounters in the seven days in the final days of the Biden administration (Jan 13-19) prior to Trump’s inauguration, averaging 2,869 encounters a day.




Of course no new legislation was needed to implement securing the border. Anyone who cried like a baby saying legislation was needed was lying to themselves the entire time.

Trump achieved the lowest illegal border crossings in 35 years when he was in office the first time…we are going back to those numbers again because he chose to secure the border under immigration laws that never changed.

Oh and 79 miles of new border fencing is going up as we speak

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[url]https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/trump-executive-order-ban-trans-women-sports-rcna190767[/url]

Trump signs executive order banning trans women from women’s sports

[url]https://apnews.com/article/trump-transgender-transition-executive-order-301e4130233b411311978f66f455f1c4[/url]

Trump order aims to end federal support for gender transitions for those under 19


Child sex changes and men competing with woman is out. The fad is coming to an end.

Liberals already walking back prior positions acting like they never supported the very sick and twisted trans policies. Nope, you fully supported chemically castration of children and child sex changes.

I wonder is Justice Brown still believes she can’t define a woman because she isn’t a biologist?

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Giantone;1372717]Seems strange he is worth 750 Billion and he is shutting down Aid to the needy.

[B]USAID upheaval is paralyzing delivery of food and medicine around the globe[/B]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/usaid-upheaval-paralyzing-delivery-food-021418126.html[/url]

Shipping containers packed with lifesaving antibiotics and antimalarial drugs are being held at the Port of Sudan, where they sit in limbo. Essential medicines are expiring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a cash-strapped government contractor was forced to shut off the air conditioning. Millions of pounds of American-grown soybeans that were bound for refugee camps overseas are being diverted to warehouses instead.[/quote]

All makes sense now

[url]https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372718]Problems were exacerbated under the Biden administration. We know the stats and it’s why the democrats got completely rolled.

[B][B]Voters wanted this to happen and approve of it[/B][/B].[/quote]


LOL, voters were lied to by trump(no surprise there) .No one wanted this and those that did are just idiots.


As for Biden no one said he was great but like trump you lie.
To add you still didn't answer the question, why didn't trump do any of this in his first 4 years in Office? Can't wait for 2026 and the republicans with no back bone are all voted out by the people they supposed represented.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

USAID........................

Then-President John F. Kennedy established the US Agency for International Development, known as USAID, during the Cold War. In the decades since, Republicans and Democrats have fought over the agency and its funding

Kennedy created USAID at the height of the United States’ Cold War struggle with the Soviet Union. He wanted a more efficient way to counter Soviet influence abroad through foreign assistance and saw the State Department as frustratingly bureaucratic at doing that.

Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act and Kennedy set up USAID as an independent agency in 1961.

USAID has outlived the Soviet Union, which fell in 1991. Today, supporters of USAID argue that US assistance in countries counters Russian and Chinese influence. China has its own “belt and road” foreign aid program worldwide operating in many countries that the US also wants as partner

Republicans typically push to give the State Department — which provides overall foreign policy guidance to USAID — more control of its policy and funds. Democrats typically promote USAID autonomy and authority. Funding for United Nations agencies, including peacekeeping, human rights and refugee agencies, have been traditional targets for Republican administrations to cut. The first Trump administration moved to reduce foreign aid spending, suspending payments to various UN agencies, including the UN Population Fund and funding to the Palestinian Authority.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372713]The USAID budget is less than 1% of the entire Federal budget.

Like wiping a crumb off a table and claiming you cleaned house.

Good job Elmo

[url]https://www.americanprogress.org/article/how-trumps-attack-on-usaid-undermines-american-leadership-and-security/[/url][/quote]

Remember, Democrats demanded they have access to individual Venmo accounts and transactions in order to tax them. Talk about crumbs.

To support hiding government spending and resist transparency to taxpayers hard earned money is another poor position for liberals to take. I can’t help you if you don’t see it.

Should we be sending 300k for a lesbian theatre group in Sri Lanka?

And I read in disbelief that genius young developers assisting in DOGE are being attacked by Hillary Clinton/media and Reddit has a sub filled with death threats towards these individuals? So attacking brilliant young government workers who don’t do your bidding are the enemy?

I have no clue what democrats stand for…they had no interest in transparency in the Biden administration who never spoke to the media or the American people about his policies…now they demand to know everything this administration is up too? How does a liberal square this? Its ridiculous

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=Chico23231;1372744]Remember, Democrats demanded they have access to individual Venmo accounts and transactions in order to tax them. Talk about crumbs.

To support hiding government spending and resist transparency to taxpayers hard earned money is another poor position for liberals to take. I can’t help you if you don’t see it.

Should we be sending 300k for a lesbian theatre group in Sri Lanka?

And I read in disbelief that genius young developers assisting in DOGE are being attacked by Hillary Clinton/media and in Reddit have a sub filled with death threats? So attacking brilliant young government workers who don’t do your bidding are the enemy?

I have no clue what democrats stand for…they had no interest in transparency in the Biden administration who never spoke to the media or the American people about his policies…now they demand to know everything this administration is up too? How does a liberal square this? Its ridiculous[/quote]
It's sad you have fallen so low, the ignorance you show in your belief of the maga BS is staggering.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Genius young developers lol

[url]https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury[/url]

Yeah this tracks

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

Matty: You cut too little, what a waste, it's less than 1%.

Also Matty: You cut too much, you're trying to dismantle the country.

If you're not the most measured about Commanders football, you're definitely Top 3. You're the exact opposite about the federal government.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1372769]Matty: You cut too little, what a waste, it's less than 1%.

Also Matty: You cut too much, you're trying to dismantle the country.

If you're not the most measured about Commanders football, you're definitely Top 3. You're the exact opposite about the federal government.[/quote]

It’s where I work, my agency is already severely underfunded and understaffed yet it’s a critical program. Getting daily emails suggesting you should quit is beyond demoralizing.

There’s a way to slim things down without taking a hatchet to it.

Move fast and break things doesn’t work with the government.

[url]https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-not-a-startup/[/url]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372762]Genius young developers lol

[url]https://www.npr.org/2025/02/06/nx-s1-5289337/elon-musk-doge-treasury[/url]

Yeah this tracks[/quote]

Indian nazis? If there is a social media policy with federal workers, should DOGE instead search social media posts and then fire federal workers for bigoted tweets/reddit posts?

Again, if you are truly outraged by this…are you ok with USAID sending 110 million to entities controlled by Hamas, an identified Terrorist organization? Or 2 million sent to Guatemala for sex changes? Should the American taxpayer be funding sex changes in Guatemala?

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=MTK;1372782]It’s where I work, my agency is already severely underfunded and understaffed yet it’s a critical program. Getting daily emails suggesting you should quit is beyond demoralizing.

There’s a way to slim things down without taking a hatchet to it.

Move fast and break things doesn’t work with the government.

[url]https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-not-a-startup/[/url][/quote]

You work in/with Social Security, correct?

Do you think any part of the reason your agency is underfunded and understaffed is because the government is so big and bloated that it wastes money on bullshit like "$1.1 million to an Armenian 'LGBT group'", that cuts into funding for actual departments/expenditures/etc. that we need like SSA?

Why not cut that say in half, so the government saves $550k, and then sends the other $550k to the SSA to use on something the federal government is actually doing to help Americans?

The federal government is a fucking monstrosity that wastes billions of dollars, correcting that should be a goal of every American imo, then use the saved money to pay off the debt and funnel some of the savings to actual vital agencies in the govt.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[quote=sdskinsfan2001;1372793]You work in/with Social Security, correct?

Do you think any part of the reason your agency is underfunded and understaffed is because the government is so big and bloated that it wastes money on bullshit like "$1.1 million to an Armenian 'LGBT group'", that cuts into funding for actual departments/expenditures/etc. that we need like SSA?

Why not cut that say in half, so the government saves $550k, and then sends the other $550k to the SSA to use on something the federal government is actually doing to help Americans?

The federal government is a fucking monstrosity that wastes billions of dollars, correcting that should be a goal of every American imo, then use the saved money to pay off the debt and funnel some of the savings to actual vital agencies in the govt.[/quote]
You know nothing about anything, simply put there is a right way and a wrong way and trump is wrong. What you don't understand is you're playing with peoples lives and livelihoods. Something a phucking Billionaire knows schitt about.

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

[COLOR="red"][COLOR="Red"]I changed my mind this is the type of Leader we need!!!!![/COLOR][/COLOR]

[url]https://news.yahoo.com/news/back-plastic-trump-says-sign-173000512.html[/url]



USA TODAY
[B][SIZE="6"]'BACK TO PLASTIC!': Trump says he will sign executive order ditching paper straws[[/SIZE][/B]

Re: Trump 2.0 Administration Golden Years
 

I’m perfectly fine with cutting waste where appropriate just do it the right way through acts of Congress, not a hack and slash executive order which is unconstitutional.

This doge nonsense isn’t about rooting out waste anyway, there’s a whole different agenda going on there.