There are a handful of posters that should've been doing a long victory lap these past few weeks. Instead, it's been crickets... and I find that really curious.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
Do you think his actions will be beneficial on prices and affordability?
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
like it or not... Trump is cleaning house quickly. I actually don't understand how he is moving so quickly.
Sure, is a lot different than the cognitive decline of our last so-called President. I think he learned a great lesson from his last term and he is exposing fraud and waste and draining the swamp at record pace.
Romans 10:9 "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved."
So far the very people that oversees our nuclear stockpiles were fired. They had to try and find them all and hire them back.
The same thing happened over this past week-end to the very officials fighting to end the bird flu epidemic. They're doing it fast by just cutting everything. Even the good parts because they said they were going to cut the waste but don't have a clue what they're doing.
Unless of course you think firing people they have to hire right back because they had no idea what those people were doing in the first place is a good thing.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
like it or not... Trump is cleaning house quickly. I actually don't understand how he is moving so quickly.
He's moving so quickly because he's ignoring laws and court orders.
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
This should really help keep aviation safer......................
Trump begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal midair collision at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
Probationary workers were targeted in late-night emails Friday notifying them they had been fired, David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said in a statement.
The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told The Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.
In a message posted to X late Monday, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said fewer than 400 FAA employees were fired and “Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.”
A Transportation Department official told the AP earlier Monday that the agency has “retained employees who perform critical safety functions.” In a follow-up query the agency said they would have to look into whether the radar, landing and navigational aid workers affected were considered to handle critical safety functions.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a brief statement Monday it was “analyzing the effect of the reported federal employee terminations on aviation safety, the national airspace system and our members.”
Other FAA employees who were fired were working on an urgent and classified early warning radar system the Air Force had announced in 2023 for Hawaii to detect incoming cruise missiles, through a program that was in part funded by the Defense Department. It’s one of several programs that the FAA’s National Airspace System Defense Program manages that involve radars providing longer-range detection around the country’s borders.
Due to the nature of their work, staff in that office typically provide an extensive knowledge transfer before retiring to make sure no institutional knowledge is lost, said Charles Spitzer-Stadtlander, one of the employees in that branch who was terminated.
The Hawaii radar and the FAA defense program office working on it are “about protecting national security,” Spitzer-Stadtlander said. “I don’t think they even knew what NDP does, they just thought, oh no big deal, he just works for the FAA.”
“This is about protecting national security, and I’m scared to death,” Spitzer-Stadtlander said. “And the American public should be scared too.”
Spero said messages began arriving after 7 p.m. Friday and continued late into the night. More might be notified over the long weekend or barred from entering FAA buildings Tuesday, he said.
The employees were fired “without cause nor based on performance or conduct,” Spero said, and the emails were “from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address” — not a government email address. A copy of the termination email that was provided to the AP shows the sending address “ASK_AHR_EXEC_Orders@usfaa.mail.outlook.com.”
The firings hit the FAA as it is facing a shortfall in controllers. Federal officials have been raising concerns about an overtaxed and understaffed air traffic control system for years, especially after a series of close calls between planes at U.S. airports. Among the reasons they have cited for staffing shortages are uncompetitive pay, long shifts, intensive training and mandatory retirements.
In the Jan. 29 fatal crash between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines passenger jet, which is still under investigation, one controller was handing both commercial airline and helicopter traffic at the busy airport.
Just days before the collision, President Donald Trump had already fired all the members of the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, a panel mandated by Congress after the 1988 PanAm 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland. The committee is charged with examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
Spitzer-Stadtlander suggested he was targeted for firing for his views on Tesla and X, formerly Twitter, not as part of a general probationary-level sweep. Both companies are owned by Elon Musk, whose Department of Government Efficiency is leading Trump’s effort to cut the federal government.
Spitzer-Stadtlander is Jewish and was angered by Musk’s straight-arm gesture at Trump’s inauguration. On his personal Facebook page he urged friends to get rid of their Teslas and X accounts in response.
Spitzer-Stadtlander said that post drew the attention of a Facebook account labeled “Department of Government Efficiency,” which reacted with a laughing emoji. Soon after, he saw the same account reacting to much older posts through his personal Facebook feed.
There are at least a half-dozen Facebook accounts labeled “Department of Government Efficiency,” and it’s unclear who operates any of them. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt wrote Monday on X, “DOGE doesn’t even have a Facebook page.”
Spitzer-Stadtlander said he was supposed to be exempted from the probationary firings because the FAA office he worked in focused on national security threats such as attacks on the national airspace by drones.
“Less than a week later, I was fired, despite my position allegedly being exempted due to national security,” Spitzer-Stadtlander wrote in a post over the weekend on LinkedIn.
He added, “When DOGE fired me, they turned off my computer and wiped all of my files without warning.”
DOGE did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The firings were first reported by CNN.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Honestly if people were paying attention, to DOGE issues and security breaches, to What the tool is saying about Zelenski and Russia, about Medicaid, the impact of tarrifs should they be implemented, to what Vance said to Europe about free speech and how it went down like a flaming turd, whats happened with Nuclear safety and other firings .... I think the impact would be more.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
It would, but it's like I tried to tell republicans that keep saying "This is what people voted for!". No, it's not. Most of them voted strictly on the economy. Most people don't even bother to watch the news or keep up with what's going on. They simply knew it was getting tougher to make ends meet then, and despite all the noise about "I will fix it on day 1!", it's continuing to be tough now.
Sadly we live in a world where people don't really keep up. At least most of them.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
This admin will make the same mistakes that get made every time either side gets all the levels of power: they will overplay the hand they have, p*** off millions of Americans, and pay in the midterms and next presidential..
It happens every time.
Only difference this time: the movement might be accompanied by pitchforks and pyres. The situation is just that dire.
Impose time-limits on how long low-income people can receive Medicaid in their lifetime.
Lol, don’t get disabled in anyway. The investor class needs that money to make more money… you can’t make it up. Were slowly becoming Venezuela. We already have the banana republican in the oval.
And I’m sorry y’all. I’m trying not to attack posters, just the ideas, echo chamber ridiculous rhetoric, and the elitists behind Trump’s BS. But I despise Trump, Elon, and this gutter slime admin they pieced together. Not to mention the parroting jellyfish Rs in congress. But I can’t handle stupid comments or even remotely threatening comments without an indignant response. I get how they were duped now, but the shear magnitude of maniacal intentful BLINDNESS to the corruption, criminal activity, and plague of misinformation currently on display is maddening.
bro, they called us satanist, marxist, child groomers.
calling them unpatriotic morons doesnt even reach the same level of hate,.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
There is no level of sucking we haven't seen; in fact, I'm pretty sure we hold the patents on a few levels of sucking NOBODY had seen until the past few years.
This admin will make the same mistakes that get made every time either side gets all the levels of power: they will overplay the hand they have, p*** off millions of Americans, and pay in the midterms and next presidential..
It happens every time.
Only difference this time: the movement might be accompanied by pitchforks and pyres. The situation is just that dire.
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A hear ya, but the thing I worry about most is what the Republicans or should I say that MAGA wing of the party has done to voting rights.. They've made it harder to vote for certain parts of each state. They've chipped away at peoples rights to vote..
If Dems wanna take back that house and senate, they gotta fix that and they only have 2 years to do it.
#GMSTRONG
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"Alternative facts hurt us all. Think before you blindly believe." Damanshot
bro, they called us satanist, marxist, child groomers.
calling them unpatriotic morons doesnt even reach the same level of hate,.
A few reasons; we are generally smarter than them, we are generally more compassionate than them, and we grasp reality better than them.
I don’t want to be them. I’d like to help them see the light, but not at the expense of who WE ARE. They’ve already taken enough and at the end of the day they were duped. The government has road drug us all for 50 years and they see their kids not being able to have more than them, not even close to what they had, and the decline of America is what they are feeling. They’ve just directed their anger at the wrong people. We’ve been set loose on each other like rabid dogs, while the elite take it all and keep us in-fighting. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to point our weapons at the real enemy.
bro, they called us satanist, marxist, child groomers.
calling them unpatriotic morons doesnt even reach the same level of hate,.
A few reasons; we are generally smarter than them, we are generally more compassionate than them, and we grasp reality better than them.
I don’t want to be them. I’d like to help them see the light, but not at the expense of who WE ARE. They’ve already taken enough and at the end of the day they were duped. The government has road drug us all for 50 years and they see their kids not being able to have more than them, not even close to what they had, and the decline of America is what they are feeling. They’ve just directed their anger at the wrong people. We’ve been set loose on each other like rabid dogs, while the elite take it all and keep us in-fighting. I don’t know about you, but I’d like to point our weapons at the real enemy.
that's where i view things differently than you. There are no enemies, from a general perspective when dealing with our fellow Americans. I will argue with them like family does, whether I like being around them or not.
just because their anger is directed at the wrong people isn't a pass for them to keep letting it continue. I will not tolerate such disrespect, unlike them.
“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
Well I look at a handful of elite stealing our kids futures as the enemy. Domestic enemy? Yes. Enemy within? Yes. Normal working Joes? Hardly. Why do I think they are enemies and can’t be talked to like family? Have you been listening and seeing what two Billionaires are doing to the country as we chat?
As far as people on this board, in everyday life, that just supported whoever is in the oval. I can disagree and hate what they vote for without hating the people. I know I get too heated too often because I actually care about Americans. But when you are under attack, with no idea who is attacking, hate and mistrust is expected. Once you identify the aggressors, are you still down for knocking heads of the people tricked into helping the terrorists or are you going after the terrorists themselves? And it’s okay if you don’t see Trump, Elon, and this despot admin as terrorists BUT I’ma need a more detailed description of how you see them to further debate.
Trump acknowledges ‘inflation is back’ but blames Biden
President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that aired Tuesday night, acknowledged that inflation is on the rise again — bucking his campaign promise to lower prices immediately upon taking office. But he said the Biden administration’s runaway spending is to blame.
“Inflation is back,” Trump said. “I had nothing to do with it. These people have — have run the country. They spent money like nobody has ever spent.”
Trump is right about the return of inflation: Consumer prices rose much more than expected last month, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported last week — buoyed in particular by surging fuel and egg prices. January marked the biggest monthly increase since August 2023. And prices were 3% higher year-over-year for the first time since June 2024.
The president is also right that he can’t shoulder much of the blame: Former President Joe Biden occupied the Oval Office for 19 ½ of the 31 days covered by the most recent report.
But Trump’s argument that Biden is to blame for inflation is up for debate. Economists disagree about why, exactly, inflation surged after Biden became president before coming back down to near-normal levels. Prices rose throughout Biden’s first year in office and inflation spiked in his second year, reaching a 40-year high in June 2022 before falling.
d a series of federal initiatives, notably the CARES Act and the American Rescue Plan, which collectively authorized roughly $5 trillion in government spending,” noted the authors of a September 2023 National Bureau of Economic Research report. “These programs contributed to strong consumer and business demand, which tightened labor markets (between mid-2021 and early 2022 the ratio of job vacancies to unemployed workers doubled), putting upward pressure on wages and prices.”
But the same report also blamed the price hikes on factors including higher production costs linked to swings in demand, the war in Ukraine and Covid-era supply trouble.
The BLS in a January 2023 report blamed inflation on “volatility of energy prices, backlogs of work orders for goods and services caused by supply chain issues due to COVID-19, and price changes in the auto-related industries.”
And the International Monetary Fund said in a September 2024 report that macroeconomic effects like federal spending weren’t to blame at all — instead it was just old-fashioned supply and demand.
So the jury is decidedly out on how much federal spending contributed to inflation — if at all. Trump may be right that the Biden administration spent too much at the wrong time. But economists agree that alone didn’t cause inflation to spike.
And it certainly isn’t what’s driving prices higher now. Prices have remained stubbornly high as bird flu boosted egg prices at the fastest rate in 10 years and a combination of slumping demand and sanctions on Russia and Iran continued to raise fuel prices.
Prices were up across the board last month, though — not just those volatile and hard-to-control categories like food and fuel. That will almost certainly halt the Fed’s efforts to lower interest rates, keeping the cost of borrowing high for American consumers and homebuyers — and mortgages and rents have been a persistent source of inflation.
Another thing that won’t help prices: Trump’s tariffs. Raising taxes on imports will ultimately cost the American consumers who will be left footing the bill, economists largely agree. That could negate savings realized from his plans to cut spending, cut taxes and increase fossil fuel drilling licenses.
So Biden may have contributed to America’s stubborn inflation problem. But it’s now Trump’s problem, and his most prominent economic policy may make it worse.
He can't keep his campaign promise and inflation is once again on the rise. So he is blaming the man who was actually making it better. This is what it looks like when you blame someone else for your own lies. Same as it ever was.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
I just want to make sure I have this straight: Inflation starts to increase right after Biden takes over and it's his fault. Inflation starts to increase right after Trump retakes office, and it's also Biden's fault.
Got it...
Hey, send out those DOGE checks...that'll help.
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Yes I think you got it. Just like the war in Ukraine was their own fault. Just like Musk claimed he shut down an 8 billion dollar program that was only an 8 million dollar program. They just make BS up because they know their loyal followers will believe it.
Intoducing for The Cleveland Browns, Quarterback Deshawn "The Predator" Watson. He will also be the one to choose your next head coach.
