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I've found a way to articulate what I love so much about the second Trump regime and what distinguishes it from the first: he's a rug puller. Rug pulling is a genre of entertainment and wonderful sport I've recently become addicted to; it's most often practiced in cryptocurrency trading and it's about pumping an inherently worthless cryptocurrency before selling it to suckers and crashing its price, i.e., pulling the rug from under them. Hilarity ensues.

Trump is a natural rug puller, and he's practicing the art he's spent a lifetime honing in real estate and other dubious business ventures on the grand geopolitical stage. America has spent seven decades since the end of WWII pumping the "liberal international order" to soaring heights, and Trump is now rug pulling the Euro-suckers who bought the bubble high.

I've been listening to podcasts, radio interviews, talk shows, etc. non-stop lamenting the death of the liberal international order and I'm having an absolute blast. Hosts, guests, and callers are all aghast at what Trump is doing, and the phrase "new world order" is getting thrown around like it's the 90s WCW.

I recommend the European shows more than the American ones. In addition to the latter's anger and bitterness, the European ones have the panic of a child at a mall who just realized he can't find his parents.
 
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Eyeing military budget cuts by 8% in one year, you can't make this up folks.

Every day of this presidency is another iteration of China do nothing win meme
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This administration has a personality disorder. Trump endorsed a budget for 850 billion. Is there no coordination between different departments.
 
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Trump weighing ‘DOGE dividend’ to send taxpayers checks with saved funds​

President Trump said Wednesday that he’s considering returning 20% of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency initiative directly to taxpayers — potentially putting thousands of dollars in the pockets of Americans struggling under record inflation.

“There’s even under consideration a new concept where we give 20% of the DOGE savings to American citizens and 20% goes to paying down debt,” Trump said in a Miami Beach speech to a nonprofit funded by Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund.

“The numbers are incredible, Elon, so many billions — hundreds of billions — and we’re thinking about giving 20% back to the American citizens.”

Trump floated the potential refund after Musk tweeted Tuesday that he would “check with the President,” in response to a post from investor James Fishback, who has been advocating the concept.

It’s unclear precisely how much DOGE has saved to date, but Musk has stated a goal of $1 trillion in annual cost cuts as his 100-person team blazes through the federal bureaucracy, effectively closing some agencies, mass-firing employees at others and canceling contracts deemed wasteful.

Musk’s initiative has halted operations at the $50 billion-a-year USAID foreign aid agency and started the process of dismissing most of its 10,000 employees while beginning to dismantle the 1,700-person Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has $712 million in funds whose fate is in limbo.

On Friday, DOGE said that it discovered $1.9 billion in “misplaced” and unneeded Department of Housing and Urban Development funds and canceled $373 million in Education Department grants for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training sessions.

Also last week, the initiative scrapped $900 million in Education Department grants for tracking academic progress — and put the Pentagon’s vast discretionary spending in the crosshairs.

Fishback, the advocate of a DOGE dividend, argues that $2 trillion in savings over two years would amount to roughly $25,000 per taxpayer. The proposed 20% dividend would then amount to $5,000 per taxpayer.

Musk tweeted Wednesday that he hasn’t endorsed a specific amount for the dividend, which he mentioned may take the form of a lower tax bill.

“The amount would… obviously be proportionate to how much savings DOGE actually achieves,” he wrote.

“More savings would mean a bigger tax reduction! The top DOGE priority remains however reducing the deficit to stop inflation and lower people’s interest rates.”
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Fishback, the advocate of a DOGE dividend, argues that $2 trillion in savings over two years would amount to roughly $25,000 per taxpayer. The proposed 20% dividend would then amount to $5,000 per taxpayer.
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The Covid DOGE Stimulus Package.
 
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