What does President Trump do NOW?

[jusplay4fun]

Trump should have NEVER gone after James Comey, especially with such a weak criminal case against Comey:

Case against Comey appears to be on shaky ground as judge questions prosecutor's handling of indictment

Washington — The Justice Department's criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey appears to be on shaky ground as a judge Wednesday repeatedly questioned federal prosecutors about the validity of the indictment returned by a grand jury and how it was handled by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

During a hearing on Comey's bid to have the charges tossed on the grounds his prosecution is vindictive and selective, U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff pressed government lawyers for clarity about the events that surrounded the grand jury proceedings on Sept. 25, when it voted to indict Comey on two counts related to testimony he provided to Congress in September 2020. He has pleaded not guilty.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/comey-case ... -handling/

Despite Trump denying this was a REVENGE case against Comey, all the evidence suggests OTHERWISE. What a weak case and basically bluster by Trump that will GO NOWHERE. There is NO THERE there against James Comey.

[mookiemcgee]

does this mean the tariffs are working?

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[Pack Rat]

Why publish bad news?

[jusplay4fun]

Courts and Judge(s) continue to Block excesses (imo) of Trump; cases against James Comey and Letitia James are dismissed, by the SAME Federal Judge, a Clinton appointee. As I said earlier, this was an obvious attempt by Trump for political REVENGE. That is blantantly apparent to me.

Judge tosses indictments against James Comey and Letitia James
The judge ruled that the appointment of the prosecutor in the case was invalid.

A federal judge on Monday dismissed the criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James on the grounds that the appointment of the U.S. attorney who brought the indictments was invalid.

The judge dismissed the charges without prejudice, meaning the cases could potentially be refiled by an appropriately appointed U.S. attorney.

U.S. District Judge Cameron McGowan Currie concluded that the appointment of Interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan was unconstitutional and that her actions bringing the case were "unlawful" and "ineffective."

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-dismiss ... =127732668

[mookiemcgee]

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[jusplay4fun]

More stooopidity from the Dems:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 0222&ei=18

The 2025 Self-Own Award Goes to ... Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota (applause)!

On, Wednesday using the social media platform X, Klobuchar posted a graph that showed average past-due utility balances at an all-time high under President Donald Trump, and yet, as a legion of X users noted, the graph also showed that those balances had skyrocketed under former President Joe Biden.

Incredibly, the graph covered the years 2022-25, a time when Biden's policies, not Trump's, affected outcomes.

A blue line, filled with plot points, reflected a surge in past-due utility balances, particularly from mid-2023 to late 2024.

Well Done, Joe and Amy. "Let's Go, Brandon..!" LIVES ON.

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[Pack Rat]

Trump and his cover-up of Epstein Files.

[jusplay4fun]

Trump and his cover-up of Epstein Files.

Simply more UNPROVEN allegations and, as expected, another PATHETIC and non-refuation attempt by the pee rat who suffers from TDS. Showing such silliness by pee rat is like swatting flies, and sometimes I SQUASH a few. I think the release of the Epestein files is a SQUASH. There is NO THERE there. pee rat has NOTHING else worth posting; he is reduced to a one track wannabee entertainer.

And we realize rats and flies love to spend time around CRAP. SO NO SURPRISE here.

[Pack Rat]

...and he had a noticeable size stain in front of his pants

[Dukasaur]

Trump's triple assault of deporting the most productive workers, shattering America's trading partnernerships with unprovoked trade wars, and slashing subsidies for working-class families, has yielded its predictable fruits. The recession is picking up steam.

Even Trump's lapdog Fox News, has now admitted that his economy is a dumpster fire.
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/money/topstor ... r-AA1RJDwO

[jusplay4fun]

First, as expected, pee rat offers NOTHING but an failed and impotent attempt at an insult.

Now, to address some of Duk's response, NO matter how well things are going, one is able to find a number SOMEWHERE which shows things are NOT PERFECT. So, such data, Duk, indicates are realignment of resources (capital, workers, equipment) to be better utilized.

I think most of us acknowledge that AI will be disruptive to the Economy. And that is what makes the US Economy so productive and good for most folks: The ability to change course as needed to take advantage of new tools, resources, and technology. And yes, some workers and some people and some regions suffer during the transition. One key is to keep the suffering to a reasonable minimum and unemployment money from the Government helps with that. Can the worker use that time to find another job? NOT everyone finds a comparable job and often requires moving and relocation of families.

And (last point for now) Trump is using the tools at his reach to help bring back some manufacturing job to help some folks. It is NOT perfect, but is the first President in recent memory to help the American worker in a significant way. Clinton, hailed as a guru of the Economy, actually caused many US Jobs to go to Mexico and Canada. I am not sure that NAFTA helped the American worker overall.

NAFTA affected U.S. workers in four principal ways. First, it caused the loss of some 700,000 jobs as production moved to Mexico. Most of these losses came in California, Texas, Michigan, and other states where manufacturing is concentrated. To be sure, there were some job gains along the border in service and retail sectors resulting from increased trucking activity, but these gains are small in relation to the loses, and are in lower paying occupations. The vast majority of workers who lost jobs from NAFTA suffered a permanent loss of income.

https://www.epi.org/blog/naftas-impact-workers/

The following article seems to offer a balanced assessment of NAFTA and its replacement, USMCA.

https://www.numberanalytics.com/blog/na ... al-economy

Did USMCA help you and your region, Duk? Or did is it cause painful disruption(s)?

[Pack Rat]

If you searched hard enough, you can always find something on the internet, TV or radio to prove your ridiculous and absurd claims. Truth is annoying is it not.

Ignorance is comforting to you and a couple of other renowned posters like yourself.




https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTraub4Au/

Truth and logic is the target of the autocratic ruler wrath.

[jusplay4fun]

If you searched hard enough, you can always find something on the internet, TV or radio to prove your ridiculous and absurd claims. Truth is annoying is it not.

Ignorance is comforting to you and a couple of other renowned posters like yourself.

Something that I have already said that pee rat continues to ignore. Well Done, LOSER.

And this sounds too good to be an original quote by the pee rat. Where did you steal that from, pee rat???

[mookiemcgee]

And (last point for now) Trump is using the tools at his reach to help bring back some manufacturing job to help some folks.

You can keep making this claim, but it's quite obviously not supported by data, just your own 'feels'.

All the manufacturing growth in 2025 was due to gov't investment from bills passed under Biden, one of which you have been SHITPOSTING about for 4 years now (Inflation reduction act, and the CHIPS act).

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The only other big change in manufacturing is in data centers (for AI), which is not going to create many new jobs in the short term and it's existential existence is to long term replace human workers with AI... which is perhaps inevitable in the long term, but trump is doing everything he can to move it along at warp speed so markets don't crash until after mid-terms next year.

[jusplay4fun]

And (last point for now) Trump is using the tools at his reach to help bring back some manufacturing job to help some folks.

You can keep making this claim, but it's quite obviously not supported by data, just your own 'feels'.

All the manufacturing growth in 2025 was due to gov't investment from bills passed under Biden, one of which you have been SHITPOSTING about for 4 years now (Inflation reduction act, and the CHIPS act).


The only other big change in manufacturing is in data centers (for AI), which is not going to create many new jobs in the short term and it's existential existence is to long term replace human workers with AI... which is perhaps inevitable in the long term, but trump is doing everything he can to move it along at warp speed so markets don't crash until after mid-terms next year.

The impact of government OVER spending such as the misnamed Inflation reduction act and the CHIPS act are as follows:

1.1.2. The Impact of Government Spending on Private Sector Investment
While government spending can be beneficial, it can also crowd out private sector investment. When the government borrows heavily to fund its initiatives, it can lead to higher interest rates, making it more expensive for businesses to borrow and invest in their operations. This phenomenon can stifle innovation and slow economic growth.
https://fastercapital.com/articles/Gove ... rison.html

Does any of this sound familiar? Yes, it is the INFLATION caused by Bidenomics. NO feels here, just FACTS.

and more, in Canada, that offers more insights:

We find that the public (government) sector accounts for a large majority (86.7 percent) of all net new jobs created since the start of the pandemic.

Meanwhile, there has been almost no net
job creation in the private sector (including self-employment). Net jobs increased in the private sector by just 0.4 percent between February 2020 and July 2022 compared to an increase in net jobs of 9.4 percent in the government sector.

An adjustment for population growth shows
that the share of adults above the age of 15 employed in the private sector has fallen from 49.3 percent to 48.2 percent during this period.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/d ... 19-era.pdf

and more data to ponder, to contradict an earlier post by Duk:

Cautious Optimism Amid Mixed Signals
Despite the volatility, the overall unemployment rate has remained remarkably stable, holding at 4.1% for a second consecutive month. This stability, coupled with real wage growth supported by receding inflation, continues to underpin consumer spending. “The resilience of the consumer has been the story of this economic cycle, and that narrative hasn’t changed,” said one economist familiar with the data

https://www.roic.ai/news/government-hir ... 08-26-2025

As I have said before, we can compare data all day long and not arrive at a CONCLUSIVE and COGENT determination of the overall impact on and direction of the US Economy. The US Economy is very complex, robust, constantly moving, and divergent to pin down easily and quickly. Neither Mookie nor Duk offer such a conclusive assessment of the US Economy. As long as there is some success, Politicians, especially those like Trump, will move to CLAIM ALL the credit.

[mookiemcgee]

When the government borrows heavily to fund its initiatives, it can lead to higher interest rates, making it more expensive for businesses to borrow and invest in their operations. This phenomenon can stifle innovation and slow economic growth.
https://fastercapital.com/articles/Gove ... rison.html

Yes, so you main argument is that gov't overspending leads to inflation, higher rates and can make it difficult for business to grow.

Trumps gov't passed a bill in spring to spend more, borrow more, and create a bigger budget deficit than any year of Biden's presidency. Are you admitting he's now responsible for creating an environment that will lead to greater inflation and one where it's difficult for business to grow?

Or are you happy speaking out of both sides of your mouth in an intellectually dishonest way?

As I have said before, we can compare data all day long and not arrive at a CONCLUSIVE and COGENT determination of the overall impact on and direction of the US Economy. The US Economy is very complex, robust, constantly moving, and divergent to pin down easily and quickly. Neither Mookie nor Duk offer such a conclusive assessment of the US Economy. As long as there is some success, Politicians, especially those like Trump, will move to CLAIM ALL the credit.

Yes, that's largely because you back away from conversation of actual data when it doesn't say what you want. You initial claim here was:

"Trump is using the tools at his reach to help bring back some manufacturing job to help some folks"

and the data doesn't need to be interpreted, it clearly says this is a make believe fantasy and the opposite is happening. In 2025 the manufacturing sector in the US is cutting jobs, investing less in US factories than in 2024, the cost of raw materials from which to manufacture things in the US is rising extremely quickly and was dropping in 2024, and manufacturers are wary of building 'factories' in the US due to Trumps tariff bukkake party, a concern they didn't have under Biden.

This isn't about Biden and how he managed things, it's about Trump's extreme economic policy failing utterly and leaving the country much worse off that it was in 2024.

[jusplay4fun]

New FIFA peace prize awarded to U.S. President Donald Trump

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/ ... nald-trump

And, Mookie must have missed this in my previous post:

As I have said before, we can compare data all day long and not arrive at a CONCLUSIVE and COGENT determination of the overall impact on and direction of the US Economy. The US Economy is very complex, robust, constantly moving, and divergent to pin down easily and quickly. Neither Mookie nor Duk offer such a conclusive assessment of the US Economy. As long as there is some success, Politicians, especially those like Trump, will move to CLAIM ALL the credit.

And Mookie is TOTALLY wrong here; he interpreted the data to Draw this BAD CONCLUSION:

and the data doesn't need to be interpreted, it clearly says this is a make believe fantasy and the opposite is happening.

What is obviously becoming more CLEAR that Mookie suffers from TDS and will NEVER give Trump credit for ANYTHING signficant.

[ConfederateSS]

---------------TRUMP WINS PEACE PRIZE.... ....The President of FIFA......WHICH IS WORLD WIDE......NOT SOME IGNORING LITTLE COUNTRY IN NORTHERN EUROPE HANDING OUT TRINKETS AND BOBBLES....
-------------- HAS BEEN IN COUNTRIES TRUMP HAS STOP WARS AROUND THE WORLD ...ACTING WITH FIFA....SUCK IT....NOBEL....YOU HAD YOUR CHANCE....AS TRUMP BROUGHT PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST(ABRAM ACCORDS)...IN HIS 1st TERM AS U.S. PRESIDENT....HAS STOPPED 8 WARS AROUND THE GLOBE IN HIS 2nd TERM IN OFFICE...
---------------FIFA HAS MORE WORLDWIDE RESPECT , THAN AN AWARD BY SNOBS/NOBEL CHOOSERS....JUST TRUMP HATERS....
--------------- THIS PEACE PRIZE MEANS MORE THAN A NOBEL PRIZE....CONGRATS 45/47... ...It's been a lond time coming, well deserved...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

[jusplay4fun]

I could put this in a few threads; let's start here: