The Next President is...

[herkbum]

Evil demon


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[Lord Ratner]

46 minutes ago, herkbum said:

Evil demon


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I hear she smells like sulphur...

 

 

 

[Biff_T]

3 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Can you imagine if this bitter old @unt had been elected.

Now she thinks only a DNC female can be POTUS.

 

 

No DIBS!

[disgruntledemployee]

30 minutes ago, Biff_T said:

No DIBS!

Every time I walk by her caricature at KLIT, I hope someone has added horns and a Hitler stash to her fucking mug on the wall.

[ClearedHot]

On 5/17/2025 at 1:03 PM, uhhello said:

Yeah, it's starting to happen more often.  He can't control it 

I think it has a lot to do with his Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, she is no nonsense and he seems to listen to her.  He was certainly more (relatively), disciplined during this election.  Supposedly she has drastically reduced access and the ability of his family and far right influencers to simply walk into the Oval.

My wife hates politics and rarely watches any coverage but together we watched part of one of his speeches in the Middle East last week.  The minute he went off script and started dropping the "most powerful, rigged election, horrible people" comments she couldn't help herself..."can't he just keep his mouth closed and enact his policies." 

On 5/19/2025 at 10:24 AM, disgruntledemployee said:

I find the irony quite thic with Tapper and his book, "exposing" the Biden decline when he was fully a player in it.  He's spinning his part.

As for who was running the nation, imo, it was the primary gatekeepers, Jill and Chief/Dep of Staff and a few read-in die hard staffers. 

Tapper used to be a journalist, I used to watch his segments on CNN, sad when he converted to mouthpiece.  Joe Scarborough is the worst - “I spent, as I’ve said before, two and a half, three hours with Joe Biden in the White House, all over the White House, talking at length, at length and in depth about foreign policy matters. And he was as sharp as anybody else I’ve spoken to and spoke actually like a man who’s been doing this since he was 29 years old and knew world leaders.”

The GOP seems determined to investigate what happened at the end of JB's term, yesterday senior DNC folks suggested any investigation should be stopped now that Joe has been diagnosed with cancer.  I hope they continue, not as retribution but I think we as American's deserve to know who was leading the country and how do we stop that from happening again.

The mainstream media is finally acknowledging what happened and they are using Tapper's book (Original Sin), a recent summary - "The inescapable conclusion is that party leaders were well aware of Biden's diminished capacity and were more than willing to mislead the voters."

[Banzai]

https://apnews.com/article/congress-tax-cuts-trump-f2c60ae5c7c1313de69446f9ac7176e6

Is increasing the federal deficit $3.8T something that “had to be done” just like the tariffs? What’s the plan guys?

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61422-Reconciliation-Distributional-Analysis.pdf

[GKinnear]

1 hour ago, Banzai said:

https://apnews.com/article/congress-tax-cuts-trump-f2c60ae5c7c1313de69446f9ac7176e6

Is increasing the federal deficit $3.8T something that “had to be done” just like the tariffs? What’s the plan guys?

https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61422-Reconciliation-Distributional-Analysis.pdf

I'm not a financial expert...not that many of us are (paging @Finance_Guy)...but I've heard that the CBO uses fairly static analysis when scoring bills.

So in this case, tax cuts are continued, but so are the spending levels...which leads to the that score.  Just like the outyears in the FYDP, the numbers don't and likely won't reflect reality when it gets here.

But it will be interesting to see if D's and R's are willing to actually cut discretionary, let alone entitlement spending.  My guess is it'll always be the Party in the minority demanding cuts because they realize it'll never happen...and in four years magically the new minority party will wake up and realize they've always been fiscal hawks.

Probably time to come up with a new club in on-line political arguments...

[uhhello]

Suppressors and SBRs squeaked into the BBB

[Lord Ratner]

3 hours ago, GKinnear said:

I'm not a financial expert...not that many of us are (paging @Finance_Guy)...but I've heard that the CBO uses fairly static analysis when scoring bills.

So in this case, tax cuts are continued, but so are the spending levels...which leads to the that score.  Just like the outyears in the FYDP, the numbers don't and likely won't reflect reality when it gets here.

But it will be interesting to see if D's and R's are willing to actually cut discretionary, let alone entitlement spending.  My guess is it'll always be the Party in the minority demanding cuts because they realize it'll never happen...and in four years magically the new minority party will wake up and realize they've always been fiscal hawks.

Probably time to come up with a new club in on-line political arguments...

The problem isn't the parties, it's the people. We've reached the part of the cycle where everyone expects everything for less than they put in to the system. 

 

We'll either go the route of Greece (in progress) or a big, scary, deadly catastrophe will finally jolt people into a new era of "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."

[Lord Ratner]

1 minute ago, uhhello said:

Suppressors and SBRs squeaked into the BBB

Dude if that makes it through the Senate...

[uhhello]

1 minute ago, Lord Ratner said:

Dude if that makes it through the Senate...

Hopefully manufacturers are paying attention

[tac airlifter]

9 minutes ago, uhhello said:

Suppressors and SBRs squeaked into the BBB

Dose BBB bump them off the NFA registry or just eliminate the $200 tax?

[uhhello]

3 minutes ago, tac airlifter said:

Dose BBB bump them off the NFA registry or just eliminate the $200 tax?

From what I can decode from the clutter.  As BBB is written now, suppressors are completely written out of the NFA.  No tax or registration and destruction of previous registrations.  SBRs will be worked in Senate.  The removal is under the Hearing protection act and there is another option in there that only removes the tax as a separate rider.  

Edited Thursday at 05:23 PM by uhhello

[brabus]

Dear God, please don’t let the Senate fuck this up. 

[uhhello]

14 minutes ago, brabus said:

Dear God, please don’t let the Senate fuck this up. 

I'm predicting the tax goes away but registration and forms process stays.  Maybe they'll surprise me

[tac airlifter]

5 hours ago, uhhello said:

I'm predicting the tax goes away but registration and forms process stays.  Maybe they'll surprise me

That alone would be amazing, but even better if we can buy a suppressed SBR at Walmart the way George Washington intended.
 

[Lord Ratner]

1 hour ago, tac airlifter said:

That alone would be amazing, but even better if we can buy a suppressed SBR at Walmart the way George Washington intended.
 

Yup. 

 

The process needs to go away for volume to increase enough to bring prices down. I dunno, I'm skeptical, but optimistic.

[ClearedHot]

Sales will be crazy for a while...

[uhhello]

So I looked up the actual bill details:

 

Sec. 112030. Reduction of excise tax on firearms silencers.

SEC. 112030. REDUCTION OF EXCISE TAX ON FIREARMS SILENCERS.

    (a) In General.--Section 5811(a) is amended to read as follows:
    ``(a) Rate.--There shall be levied, collected, and paid on firearms 
transferred a tax at the rate of--
            ``(1) $5 for each firearm transferred in the case of a 
        weapon classified as any other weapon under section 5845(e),
            ``(2) $0 for each firearm transferred in the case of a 
        silencer (as defined in section 5845(a)(7)), and
            ``(3) $200 for any other firearm transferred.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall apply 
to transfers after the date of the enactment of this Act.

 

No mention of SBR as we said earlier so it will have to be added.  Unlikely.  

[brickhistory]

On 5/22/2025 at 2:01 PM, brabus said:

Dear God, please don’t let the Senate fuck this up. 

Have you met the Senate?

[disgruntledemployee]

Any defenders wanna take a stab at explaining the weave on trophy wives in T's West Point rambling?  If this was Biden talking, MAGAs be losing their shit on mental capes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-west-point-address-dei-immigration-b2757275.html

 

[brabus]

1 hour ago, disgruntledemployee said:

 

Any defenders wanna take a stab at explaining the weave on trophy wives in T's West Point rambling?  If this was Biden talking, MAGAs be losing their shit on mental capes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-west-point-address-dei-immigration-b2757275.html

 

Nice ludicrously leftist hit piece you referenced. I read the whole transcript - laughable to conclude this is something akin to Biden’s mental implosion. Yep, it’s got Trump flair in it, but his speech is a pretty average political leader speaking at a grad ceremony speech. He actually says a lot of good things and addresses many reasonable topics given the audience. It’s no orator of the century speech, but it’s not remotely what the left (specifically this article) is trying to make it out to be. 
 

Bottom line, going to the actual source once again proves to be much better than just immediately gobbling up some garbage article that popped on Google or a CNN link. 

[disgruntledemployee]

3 minutes ago, brabus said:

Nice ludicrously leftist hit piece you referenced. I read the whole transcript - laughable to conclude this is something akin to Biden’s mental implosion. Yep, it’s got Trump flair in it, but his speech is a pretty average political leader speaking at a grad ceremony speech. He actually says a lot of good things and addresses many reasonable topics given the audience. It’s no orator of the century speech, but it’s not remotely what the left (specifically this article) is trying to make it out to be. 
 

Bottom line, going to the actual source once again proves to be much better than just immediately gobbling up some garbage article that popped on Google or a CNN link. 

Don't let the link distract you.  I heard it, drafted a post, then googled a link for ref.  Name another prez speech that references/weaves trophy wives. if there's another, then I'll consider it average political leader speak.

[brabus]

11 hours ago, disgruntledemployee said:

Don't let the link distract you.  I heard it, drafted a post, then googled a link for ref.  Name another prez speech that references/weaves trophy wives. if there's another, then I'll consider it average political leader speak.

So you heard it, but did not listen to it - there’s a difference. To address this single point you (and that article) have cherry picked out to try and use as some beacon of “mental faculty loss,” Trump was talking to the cadets about the importance of momentum - finding it, keeping it, and if you lose it, recognize that and pivot. He used an allegory of a businessman he knew who lost momentum, made poor decisions whilst doing so, didn’t recognize it early enough, and thus he basically tubed his life. It was long winded (as Trump can be) and could have been shortened with the same allegorical effect, but the valid message in the allegory is clear…unless one wants to be a politically-motivated hack and try to completely misrepresent it by cherry picking a couple words and talking about it without any context. 
 

Trump is a loud mouth and showman, we all know that, but along the lines of public speaking and mental faculties, this speech was 1000x better than Biden or Harris could have given. And that’s not so much a compliment to Trump as it is stating how incredibly bad the other options were…but I digress.

Edited 5 hours ago by brabus

[tac airlifter]

Trump spoke at length on Rogan about the style described above.  Like it or not, it’s deliberate.  He starts a point by taking a long winded trip (allowing opportunities to reference topical events, jokes, say random shocking things to get people like you riled up) but prides himself in having the mental wherewithal to return back and complete the point he was making.  
 

It sounds bizarre and is not my favorite style, but hey he’s a 2x POTUS and I’m a random no one so clearly he’s got something.  He also likes (and references) how much his style irks people like you.  You’re bothered by the random things he references and can’t see he’s doing it on purpose to bother you: it makes you say he’s like Biden, whereas any clear thinking person can objectively assess that isn’t the case, thus making you look crazy by comparing his mild eccentric affectations with an obvious dementia case.  This frustrates democrats thus advantaging him.