Living under Trump 2

[88Commanders00]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/2 ... w-00196098

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>>>>> A Colorado man is facing possible bias-motivated charges for allegedly attacking a television news reporter after demanding to know whether he was a citizen, saying “This is Trump’s America now,” according to court documents.

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Just life under Trump 2 and he’s not even in office yet.

[Renegade7]

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[ixcuincle]

the only positive is RFK jr banning dyes but this sucked. can't say I'm surprised. Kamala was a mid candidate. tried to warn yinz on es ...

[ixcuincle]

ES has been down since November and has no prospects to come back, so we missed a lot and let me get this off my chest, but the Democrats to lose to Trump twice in 3 elections is indefensible. To make matters worse the old guard kept AOC out of a key congressional committee, which doesn't give me hope that they learned their lesson.

Listen, I'm a Democrat but I'm also a moderate and I'm also honest about my political opinions. Democrats messed this up, big time. And now we have 4 years of Trump. While I do like some of what RFK JR is proposing (he has threatened to take pharma ads off the air day one) some more infighting when it comes to H1B visas is concerning as well as other factors. And that's assuming Mike Johnson is speaker of the house (pending vote today)

The next 4 years are going to be a shit show, and I tried to stop it. I voted Kamala, but most people didn't. Most people were more concerned about the economy and Democrats "pushing an agenda" rather than voting for a felon.

[Corcaigh]

On the topic of H1-B not surprisingly Musk and his MAGA opponents are both right and wrong.

H1-B visas do provide a recruitment mechanism for new engineering talent, me included , but it historically has been badly abused by Indian IT outsourcing shops and consulting firms who are hired by American firms looking to replace American workers with offshoring or cheaper temporary foreign labor.

About half the firms on this list are about cost reduction and worker displacement, not engineering innovation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk- ... echnology/

[Corcaigh]

And I’m so pissed off with the DNC and Dem leadership. Being GoP-lite has been a failed strategy.

Pelosi in her mid80s recovering from hip surgery after a fall backing a dull guy no one cares about in his mid 70s who is also recovering from cancer over a dynamic woman 39 years his junior. All this while a huge majority of Americans favor term limits and think Washington is too old, and corrupt.

Pelosi, Biden and even RGB should have gone at least a decade before they did.

[Rigsnpigs]

I was told by my staunchly liberal friends before the election that inviting people to the "Big Tent" is how politics works.

I don't believe in Aaron Sorkin's take on how politics should work, but it seems a lot of liberals do.

How you can run on the fact that the right is full of fascists and criminals, but we will work with them. Doesn't make sense to me. But hey, maybe it'll work next time...

[PleaseBlitz]

Probably a redux of his first term, lots of noise, not much action that impacts me. I’ll probably get a tax cut and laugh at the MAGA dipshits when their Medicare gets cut.

I updated my passport (and got them for my kids) just in case I feel like leaving.

[hail2skins]

I expect to be congratulated on my ES prediction of a Trump victory!

Agree with PB that just expect a lot of noise. Today's Truth Social post complaining about the flags being at half-staff during his inauguration is a reminder of how much of a man-baby the guy is.

[The Sisko]

On the topic of H1-B not surprisingly Musk and his MAGA opponents are both right and wrong.

H1-B visas do provide a recruitment mechanism for new engineering talent, me included , but it historically has been badly abused by Indian IT outsourcing shops and consulting firms who are hired by American firms looking to replace American workers with offshoring or cheaper temporary foreign labor.

About half the firms on this list are about cost reduction and worker displacement, not engineering innovation.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk- ... echnology/

OMG, who would have thought that a couple of mega wealthy tech bros would come out in favor of a misused policy that will help them add on to their Scrooge McDuck pile of megabucks?

I don't entirely agree with the folks saying it will be a redux of his first term where he blathered on and whined a lot but other than tax cuts, not a lot got done. I think this time around, he's more addled than the first time so the snakes he's surrounded himself with will have their collective hands up his ass pulling the levers of government, or destroying it. All of that creates a shit ton of risk for the economy, the stock market, jobs, freedom, every damn thing. Mrs. Sisko and I have largely gone to cash in our portfolios. It's not because we think we can time the market, but because we're awfully close to retirement and unassing the U.S. altogether and we don't have time to wait out another downturn. We'll be meeting with a financial advisor in the next couple of weeks to come up with a defensive strategy we're comfortable with.