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The Official President Trump Thread - Second Term Edition

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Scarface281, Jan 25, 2025.

  1. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    I often wonder what Steve Jobs would have done during this mob-boss federal executive era. We'll never know for sure, but I tend to think he'd show more hutzpah than Tim is Cooked (or Tim Crook). Maybe not though.
     
  2. jchu14

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    This brings up a memory. I was in high school marching band when Putin visited Bush's ranch in 2001. We went to Ellington Field to play the Russian national anthem as part of the welcome party for him. Though I don't think he paid us any attention at all. He just walked from his jet to the helicopter.

    Interesting to think that I've seen Putin in-person, albeit from fairly far away.
     
  3. No Worries

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    And isn't this what is really important?

    Does little Tiimmy Apple got his arm around a "chick with a d*ck"? Enquiring minds want to know.
     
  4. No Worries

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    Timmy Apple has one foot out of the door. Perhaps he did not want to shat the bed on his way out?

    BTW Trump is one vindictive little b*tch and could single handedly taken out Apple out of business, if Timmy did not play ball. Sad that a Titan Only in His Own Mind could easily take down a Titan of Business beecause his feefees got hurt.
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    Trapple
     
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  6. Amiga

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    Congrat MAHA and MAGA

    Report Details How Trump Did Big Tobacco’s Bidding on Flavored Vapes Despite Risk to Kids | Common Dreams

    The resignation of a pair of top health officials in the Trump administration this week has brought to light efforts by the president to help Big Tobacco executives and lobbyists sell addictive flavored e-cigarettes that could be marketed to children.

    On Friday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new guidance allowing cigarette makers to begin marketing and selling fruit- and candy-flavored vape products on store shelves, which were banned under previous administrations due to evidence that they were driving youth vaping.

    The policy was enacted despite the strong opposition of then-FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, who resigned on Tuesday, reportedly because he could not in good conscience support it.

    Makary’s resignation was followed by the departure of Rich Danker, the chief spokesperson for Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who similarly warned that the policy “would appeal to children and expose them to nicotine addiction, lung damage, and higher risk of cancer” in a letter addressed to Trump on Wednesday.

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    A New York Times report on Wednesday confirms the extent of Trump’s direct involvement in strong-arming the FDA into enacting the policy. It found that he pressured higher-ups in HHS to move the policy forward amid a tongue-lashing from tobacco industry lobbyists and executives angry that they could not get in on the highly profitable sale of fruit- and candy-flavored vapes. Despite being illegal and mostly imported to the US from China, these vapes make up about 60% of the total e-cigarette market.

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    Hesitating to approve flavored vapes and not put American teens on a fast-track to lifelong addiction to harmful nicotine products is the bare minimum anyone could hope for from the Trump FDA,” she said. “But that was a bridge too far for Donald Trump, who sees young people as disposable political pawns that he can appeal to with poison while lining the pockets of his big vape donors.”

    She said the ouster of Makary and his replacement with Diamantas “all but guarantees an FDA further consumed by chaos and driven by the wish lists of special interests that want profits put before public health.”
     
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    He sounds intelligent saying cap and mfer etc. sounds like someone to follow. Critical thinker.
     
  9. astros123

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    Yet when Trump touted him as a major endorsement in 2024 y'all were jumping in glee
     
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  10. Rocket River

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    From Sleepy Joe
    to this Sleepy Hoe
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    Rocket River
     
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    dude a night owl go on a frenzy posting unhinge thoughts on social media all night then sleep during the day.

    must be nice sleep on the job.
     
  12. El_Conquistador

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    What a coup for China with all the kompromat they’ll get from this Billionaire Boys Club Retreat.
     
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    I have a friend who is in intelligence, but works for one of the big defense contractors in Huntsville. He's told me some of the ways that Chinese intelligence tech can pull information from your cell phone if they are in close proximity that few people really know about. This is done by Chinese intelligence IN AMERICA in a part of the country that is as well guarded as any.

    Can you imagine what intelligence they are gathering from these bumbling idiots while they are likely connected to Chinese networks? For being supposedly smart at things like coding, and computer science these people are complete morons when it comes to common sense.
     
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  15. Andre0087

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    Sponsored by Casper, you’ll never go woke again!
     
  16. Sajan

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    [insert Team America clip here]
     
  18. astros123

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    Trumps entire thing was he going to be tough on China and get back at them for screwing American workers. Now he's become china's b**** and all you MAGATs worship him like suddenly China is our friend when theyre our main rival lol.

    If any other president would've sold out to China all you cultist would've had a brain aneurysm but when it's your cult leader you blindly accept it. Partisanship is such an awful thing

     
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  19. El_Conquistador

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    Amigo, you just don't understand the situation at all. China is a huge market for American goods -- manufactured in America. China is a huge market for American services and American energy. The gains through trade will be tremendous, and the friction costs of doing business will come down under a trade partnership. Trump has reset the terms of trade in America's favor, and Americans will prosper as a result. This is true statesmanship and economic leadership. And you're worried about short term chip supply -- guess what, China is smart and can figure out how to make chips. So can the USA. You are a short-term, small-time thinker. Those are not leadership traits. Trump/Musk/Huang/Cook are visionary thinkers and are united in this mission. I'll take their leadership over your input from the cheap seats -- didn't you say you were a pharmacist? And now you think you know international trade relations? LMAO AMIGO!


    GOOD DAY
     
  20. astros123

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    Biden had a export ban on a advanced semiconductors to China bcz the Pentagon deemed those semiconductors were being used by the CCP to develop next generation weapons which would attack us. Now that Trump reversed that ban hit argument is we shouldn't worry about China attacking us with weapons we helped them build cuz nvdia making those chips in USA helps us more lol.

    You MAGATs have become everything y'all pretended to hate. You are the perfect example why modern day capitalism is broken. The CCP will never be our ally when their goal is world domination. You morons use to believe this until your cult leader sold us out
     
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