Who will be the first to go?

[Godboy]

And punish our consumers who have bought the goods in the past and still want to purchase them.... you always seem to leave that out as you talk on your foreign made phone, type on your foreign made computer and likely wear foreign made clothing. Wise up dick breath.

Meh, short term pain for long term gains always wins out.

 

[Lesh]

Meh, short term pain for long term gains always wins out.

How short? Five years? Ten?

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

what's the purpose of this thread Mods? Please, can we stop this bullshit?

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Lots of leftist trolling that nobody needs.


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[kyzr]

A lot of sites allow users to access an article or two a month.
If this is pay-walled for you, you have reached your limit of free views.
Here ya go.

My grandson had to go thru "Fat Camp" before getting into basic training.
He ended up with the highest athletic score for the basic training unit.
Point being, some athletes got out of shape, and need the DIs to run them back into lean playing shape by dropping 50#-70#.

 

[BULLDOG]

Anyone that agrees with President Trump would be patriotic, by definition.

Perfectly repeated cult dogma.

 

[Billiejeens]

Perfectly repeated cult dogma.

in what way?

 

[Godboy]

How short? Five years? Ten?

A couple months.

 

[Lesh]

A couple months.

And you know this, how?

 

[berg80]

Meh, short term pain for long term gains always wins out.

That's assuming there ARE long term gains.

Bessent says he expects ‘de-escalation’ in U.S.-China tariff fight in the ‘very near future’​

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/bessent-trump-tariffs-china-deescalate.html

All the indexes were down quite a lot yesterday as the market considered China's comments about retaliation against countries who try to isolate it at Dotard's direction. And on the fear Dotard would fire Powell, which could lead to a downgrade of our credit.
I asked myself why any country would align itself with us after what Dotard has done.

If you think Bessent's calming message to the markets is a coincidence after yesterday you'd be wrong. Some in the regime know what thin ice we're skating on. But they have to try to walk this looming disaster back while appeasing the idiocy of the Moron-in-Chief.

 

[Godboy]

And you know this, how?

Because a trade war isnt going to be useful when the midterms come. Trump can end this with the snap of his fingers. He will end it when the time is right. Why WOULDNT he?

 

[Godboy]

That's assuming there ARE long term gains.

Bessent says he expects ‘de-escalation’ in U.S.-China tariff fight in the ‘very near future’​

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/bessent-trump-tariffs-china-deescalate.html

All the indexes were down quite a lot yesterday as the market considered China's comments about retaliation against countries who try to isolate it at Dotard's direction. And on the fear Dotard would fire Powell, which could lead to a downgrade of our credit.
I asked myself why any country would align itself with us after what Dotard has done.

If you think Bessent's calming message to the markets is a coincidence after yesterday you'd be wrong. Some in the regime know what thin ice we're skating on. But they have to try to walk this looming disaster back while appeasing the idiocy of the Moron-in-Chief.

The markets will bounce back the day that Trump ends the trade war. You will not be seeing these stock market numbers by the time midterms come.

 

[berg80]

A couple months.

I'll bookmark that post and see where we are in two months. BTW, Dotard's virtual capitulation on tariffs is something the regime will pretend is a win. It isn't.

 

[berg80]

The markets will bounce back the day that Trump ends the trade war.

Yes, to some extent. But he may already have inflicted irreparable harm to the dollar and to bonds. And depending on how long he keeps up the tariff idiocy it may cause Q2 to show signs of significant, unnecessary, GDP contraction.

 

[rightwinger]

Tariffs aren't the underlying problem, trade imbalances are. Countries will not magically buy more US goods because their exports are tariffed.

US is wealthy
Other nations are not

That makes us consumers…..we like to buy things
We can’t expect less wealthy countries to do the same

 

[g5000]

BULLSHIT. Link please. (Waltz set up the call, duh)

On Signal, you can see all the users names on the chat, and their phone numbers.

It doesn't matter who set up the call.

Hegseth fucked up.

What's more, Hegseth violated the Federal Records Act which requires the preservation of records.

 

[g5000]

The Pentagon is in far better hands under Pete Hegseth than it ever was under Lloyd Austin. We've gotten rid of the stupid DEI stuff. Physical training standards are returned to what they should be. They've reached out to all of the veterans who were canned because they refused to take untested Covid "vaccines", apologized and offered them their jobs back. Recruitment is no longer at a critical level.

Chaos? Chaos is what we had for the four years under Joe Biden!

Hegseth has stated he does not believe women should be on active duty.

How do you think that makes the women who have more kills than he does feel?

He's a fucking asshole.

 

[g5000]

It is my soft-and-fuzzy understanding that military recruitment surged once Trump had been re-elected.

Your understanding is incorrect.

October 2024:

Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges​

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If true, then, was Hegseth taking credit as a result of his own work, or was he merely crediting his boss for that result?

Trump has taken credit for his predecessors' achievements more than once.

 

[g5000]

You think NPR is the source for accurate reporting, Lesh? Aren't you cute!

You people think you have an out for everthing. Your propagandists have programmed you to ignore any information not provided to you by them.

That's how gaslighting works.

So here's the DoD itself.

October 2024:

Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges​

 

[g5000]

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/article/3616786/dod-addresses-recruiting-shortfall-challenges/

Military Recruiting Shortfalls—A Recurring Challenge

Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic all but halted in-person recruiting in America’s high schools, the U.S. military has fallen short of its recruiting goals.

www.hoover.org

Your own link says 2024 saw a rebound!

You don't even read past headlines, do you.

The shortfalls were in prior years due to Covid.

Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges​

 

[g5000]

The people that normally make up the bulk of the military come from the Fly Over States. Those young people didn't want to join Biden's DEI military.

Utter horseshit.

Under Hegseth they are joining Trump's military. Under Hegseth the different branches are meeting their recruitment goals and then some.

2024: Recruitment Rises 12.5% Despite Ongoing Challenges​