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They’re not trying to hide their racism anymore. Trump emboldens them

kiyosaki1:
He had the chance but he prefer to identify more with the whites

He was a president for everyone.

I thought you guys hated the race card ?

Elon Musk really is running America huh.

Oh the meltdown republicans would’ve had if Obama brought in his rich African friend to come call the shots in the USA. The hypocrisy of the right is mind blowing

IjeBos:
Tell me how I liked my own post if there was no guest and noone was logged in besides you and I as you claim?
Do I have some special "Like" button for my own posts no one else has for theirs?

I keep telling you, you are a dumbass.

I was actually online then and I liked your post.

Everyone with two neurons to rub together knows Nairaland doesn’t update real time by the minute who’s online and who’s not. You can leave a page and still be showing on there as viewing the page for a while.

Didn’t know we are hurt about likes now. Childish

PDPGuy:
A consequence of the dismantling of the federal department of education is that state and local governments would have to step up in addressing the resulting funding gaps in their public K-12 schools.
Now, the expected federal funding shortage may have to be made up by… you guessed it right…steep increases in property taxes 🙆🏽‍♂️

Maybe.

But surely poor residents will just have lower quality of education. Worse than they already have now.

That’s guaranteed republican votes right there. Keep them uneducated and susceptible to propaganda and they’ll be suffering from whatever you’re doing to them while blaming imaginary enemies.

If I were someone like RFK, how can I convince you that riboflavin is a bad chemical added to your food? By keeping you ignorant.

IjeBos:
You were online right? Which account did I use?

Lol.
You're a dumbass.
A Monumental Dumbass.

🤣

Crazy how people who never saw anything positive in the past administration (that they didn’t support) now want you to post positive things about their rapist con-artist overlord. You guys and logic are separated by the Pacific Ocean.

It doesn’t even look good enough to justify the waste.

Feldie:
I have never seen anything like this before in my life. In fact I have never even read it in a fiction. In war, both sides lie and try to deceive each other, they say things to dampen each other's morale. Look at the garbage this idiot Trump is posting about their own ally. Something that will boost Russians morale and dampen Ukrainians'. He wants Ukraine to just give up

The world has never seen anything like this either. We’re all in disbelief

Maeve7:
Will giving them bleach to drink prevent bird flu infections?

Turns out we have to be exact about the terminology to minimize the impact of how foolish it all sounds. Otherwise his supporters will swarm here to defend him.

He didn’t say bleach verbatim. But he said disinfectant (like bleach).
So you know, not too bad 😂🤣.

President as smart as Isaac Neutron. The smartest ever.

ObaIgwe1:
Thank you Professor!

So this explanation would have been equally acceptable to you if Kamala had been in charge?

You know darn well it wouldn’t have been acceptable. They would have called for her head on a spike.

With Trump they always manage to shift the goal post until it leaves the playing field.

Economy good? Oh awesome Trump did it.(even if he truly inherited it and ruined it)

Economy bad? Oh give him some time. The same time they refused to give his opponent.

Economy atrocious? At least we can buy cheap stocks. That’s a smart business man’s chance to get wealthy.

What about the majority of American who supposedly “voted for the economy”? Never mind them. Forget those losers. The country only belongs to those who can afford to buy stocks. Who cares if the rest of the country can’t survive ?

Botragelad:
Such a bad take from Trump on this one, Coco! 🤦🏼

He never has a good take!

feedthenation:
---(F)Elon Musk confidant James Murdoch becomes the latest Tesla insider to sell, cashing in $13 million amid the historic single-day plunge---

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/insider-sale-director-tsla-sells-54776-shares

Maybe the shareholders might have to oust him for the company to survive. Their problem is not that people are boycotting or the few that are attacking Tesla owners.

Their major problem is the face of company Elon. Turns out Nazism doesn’t sell cars. It chases clients away.
Anyone who actually wanted a Tesla already bought it. The remaining people either don’t want it or are too poor to buy it. Or don’t believe in clean energy cars.

Elon is his own problem.

And while they are at it, they can buy “teslers” too so Elon doesn’t get demoted to having only a few hundred billions. The absolute horror. How will he afford his next fun project?

ObaIgwe1:
Hell would have been let loose with Republicans asking Congress to impeach her immediately.

But raumdeuter understands fully what is happening, he advised that this is the time to buy and buy and buy stock..... hmnnn, but then, only few rich people can afford to buy stock now, and these rich people might also have to accept loses by selling their old stock low to be able to buy new ones , and how will those who cannot afford to buy egg under Biden, that are now struggling with the increased price of egg even think of buying stocks ?

Hmnnn... I am confused. Well Trumps must have a perfect solution and raumdeuter knows that solution, and as a good student, I am ready to learn... So raumdeuter, over to you

Says the US president about a supposed ally.

Who in their right minds would want to ally with us anymore?

Republican lawmakers are running from their constituents. They’ve been advised to stay away from town halls for now. This one thought he would be different

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Republican Congressman Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., was confronted by angry constituents during a town hall meeting on Thursday night about President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping cuts across the government.

“How do you justify cuts to staff of the VA helping veterans, especially those with long term care needs,” asked one constituent who was met with a standing ovation from the raucous crowd in Asheville, North Carolina.

“So first of all, there have been no cuts to the staff at VA as of this point. Like him or not, Elon Musk has brought a lot of really smart people,” Edwards responded as he was met with a round of boos. Earlier this month, an internal VA memo indicated that the agency was preparing to lay off 80,000 from its workforce.

The interaction turned so contentious and hostile that Edwards had to be escorted out of the building.

“You don’t get to do this to us,” yelled another constituent.

Republican leadership has told their members to avoid in-person town halls like these after several members were grilled in their home districts.

Edwards, however, went against their advice on Thursday. The event comes as Republicans have faced protestors at town halls critical of the Trump administration slashing federal jobs.

“"You see a lot of advice in Washington, D.C. from different folks saying, you know, ‘Republicans shouldn't be out there doing town halls,’ and I'm thinking 'why not?' I love the people,” said Edwards.

The Trump administration is pushing forward with sweeping cuts with thousands of workers already having been laid off across the federal workforce – including Veteran Affairs, the IRS and the Department of Education.

Elon Musk split with the White House this week, suggesting that entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security could be on the chopping block next.

"The waste and fraud in entitlement spending, which is all of the, which is most of the federal spending is entitlements, so that's like the big one to eliminate,” Musk said earlier this week.

Those words have left some voters very concerned, with Edwards taking the brunt end of the attacks Thursday night.

“What are you doing to ensure the protection of our Social Security benefits,” asked on constituent to a round of applause.

Replied Edwards: “I'm not going to vote to dissolve your Social Security. I'm not looking to disrupt Social Security at all.”

ABC News Network

Not only that. The big jump in housing prices in 2019 still plaguing us now is from his timber tariffs on Canada.
People have such short memories. I remember clearly like it was yesterday. Because in the grand scheme of things it’s really only yesterday. Biden did his best to try reverse the blunders he made. They never gave him grace. Yet he quietly and calmly worked for everyone.
No drama. No scandal. No porn star debacles. Or supporting rapists. Or lusting after his daughter. Or mistress drama. Or scamming. And stiffing his contractors. The list of absurdities with Trump is endless

Look at Nebraska farmers crying about impending bankruptcy. Trump’s first go around almost bankrupted farmers. Biden came and rescued them. They got better and forgot what happened during Trump’s first term. And viola here they are again. Like chickens to the slaughter. They do not have an iota of deductive reasoning.

IjeBos:
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Ex. Trump's metals tariffs his first term did more harm to the economy than it helped.
It caused price increases and decreased production for products using metals.
That is where some of that inflation came from.
Anyone who owned a home during Covid knew how expensive everything got. Part of that was the metals tarriffs.



Also, for the US to produce more metals like Aluminum they would need to build more smelters, which takes years to build and is highly energy intensive.
With Trump trying to be the bitcoin capital where is that energy coming from?

Trump's past tariffs and current tariffs have been and will be overall bad for the economy as he doesn't seem to understand or account for their reciprocal effects.

GloriousGbola:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/us-stock-market-loses-5-trillion-in-value-in-three-weeks.html

so .. much ..winning!

own those libs!!

MAGRA !!!!

how soon before the lord and maximum ruler pulls a full putin and outlaws proper reporting of information?

Oh they already plan to do that. Can’t have the dear leader in any more negative light that he already is.

I posted it here last week or so when he first made the asinine statement. And in typical fashion their resident boot licker said it was a lie. The commerce secretary was saying it himself. He plans to do it if he can get away with it.

This administration? You don’t need to go find any negative news about them. The negativity permeates.

Unlike other administrations where we have to make up stuff to be mad about. Like he wore a tan suit. Or uses fancy mustard for his burger. Or him taking his wife out on a date. We really struggled to find scandal.

Every month, the federal government serves up a steady diet of economic reports on everything from the price of groceries to the unemployment rate. These reports are closely followed: They can move markets — and the president’s approval rating.

Businesses and investors put a lot of stock in the numbers, which are rigorously vetted and free from political spin.

Now the Trump administration is calling that trust into question.

The government recently disbanded two outside advisory committees that used to consult on the numbers, offering suggestions on ways to improve the reliability of the government data.

At the same time, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has suggested changing the way the broadest measure of the economy — gross domestic product — is calculated.

Those moves are raising concerns about whether economic data could be manipulated for political or other purposes.

Among those raising the alarm is Erica Groshen. She’s one of the outside experts who received a terse email last week saying her services were no longer needed, because the committee she’d served on — the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee — had been folded.

Groshen cares deeply about the reliability of government data, having previously overseen the number crunching as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“Statistical agencies live and die by trust,” she says. “If the numbers aren’t trustworthy, people won’t use them to make important decisions, and then you might as well not publish them.”

In this 2014 photo, Erica Groshen testifies before the Joint Economic Committee. She's seated in front of a microphone and is wearing a dark top and glasses.
Erica Groshen used to oversee the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces the monthly jobs report and the consumer price index. Here, Groshen testifies before the Joint Economic Committee in January 2014, when she was commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Alex Wong
The email to Groshen, along with a note on the committee’s website, said the commerce secretary had terminated the committee because its purpose had been fulfilled. A second committee that advises the government’s Bureau of Economic Analysis was also discontinued.

That puzzled Groshen, who’s now a senior labor market adviser at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She says taking an accurate measure of a dynamic economy is an ever-evolving process.

“It is part of the mission of statistical agencies to be continually improving,” Groshen says.

Changing how GDP is calculated

The email Groshen received came just days after Lutnick said he planned to alter the formula for calculating gross domestic product (GDP).

“You know the Commerce Department runs the statistics of GDP,” Lutnick told Fox News. “Governments historically have messed with GDP. They count government spending as part of GDP. So I’m going to separate those two and make it transparent.”

Lutnick argued that subtracting government spending from the calculation would present a more accurate picture of the economy. He appeared to echo an argument that President Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk made on social media, suggesting that much of what government spends money on doesn’t make people’s lives better.

In this photo, Howard Lutnick stands next to President Trump, who is seated in the Oval Office. Lutnick is wearing a suit and tie and has a beard.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has advocated removing government spending from the way gross domestic product is calculated, saying it would provide a more accurate picture. However, that would mark a break from the way GDP has been estimated.
Anna Moneymaker

Such a change, however, would be a major break from both long-standing practice and international standards. It could also serve to mask any negative effects of the Trump administration’s spending cuts

LocalFARMERS:
You are very correct. Alot of Young Boys in my place, farming have turned them to millionaires. As for me, I don't even buy Rice, Beans, Maize, Guinea corn, Soya Beans, Mango, Yams etc. Cause I farm them.



Nlfpmod

Na you fit this economy

Elon Musk said empathy is a weakness when he was on Joe Rogan’s show trying to convince his mumu supporters that they don’t deserve to receive the social security they’ve been paying into for decades. He said it’s a ponzi scheme. Hear that. The money they’ve been taking from your paycheck every month with the promise that you can depend on it for your retirement is now a ponszi scheme.

When that didn’t go down well the way he thought, he went on Fox News and damn near shed tears because he’s now operating his business with “great difficulty”.

Elon were we supposed to have empathy for you? Remember it’s a weakness. And you abhor weak people.

I don’t know what people who were lamenting about the cost of eggs prior to the election can do to support a billionaire like you so that you don’t loose more billions.

Typical Trumpie

I watched a video of him and one other business lady complaining about how administration is affecting them negatively. Hers was even worse. She’s a business owner with more than half her staff being Hispanic.

The interviewer asked her what she thought would happen to her staff when she voted for him. No answer. Just that vacant light-is-on-but-no-one-is-home stare. You can’t help but wonder.

GloriousGbola:
what a time to be alive

The history books will be lit with the events of these days. The future generations will study it in amazement

From saying Biden was pushing EVs, we’ve moved the goal post past the stadium. Now boycotting them is a illegal 🤣🤣

Where are his supporters who couldn’t afford eggs two months ago going to find money to buy “TESLERS”?

IjeBos:
Trump wants the Military to draw up plans to maybe take the Panama canal by force.
Everyday is something more insane than the last.

They say we go and fish out negative news about him to come and post. When the guy can’t go 5 minutes without doing something that has the whole world going huh?

He’s making headlines every 5 minutes. No need to go fishing because you can’t escape his chaos.

Who’s he planning to send to the canal to take it by force? And whose lives/limbs will be at stake going to take the canal for his ego?

Every single time!!

Republican administrations end in recessions. Democratic administrations end in Republican outrage that our newly forged prosperity is being shared with a class that doesn't deserve it.

ObaIgwe1:
When Trump was campaigning and talking about tariff, his primary objective was the 2nd reason, this ordinarily wouldn't also be a problem, if it was handled properly without adding political undertone to it. But Trump being Trump, took it beyond Economics reason and turned it into political/trade war.

Problem with Trump started when he began the tariff implementation as a political tool to deal with Canada, Mexico and China for the reason of 'stopping the flow fentanyl and boarder control'. From that moment, people no longer belief the tariff is for economic reasons to protect the interest of US trade, but a political tool to hurt other nations. The rest of the world will not fold their hands and do nothing after Trump turned the imposition of tariff into political / trade war.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

He didn’t even do it for any iota of economic reason.

He truly thinks it’s a D measuring contest. The person who imposes the most tariffs wins. Even when their citizens have to pay dearly.

“Oh buT hE eNdanGered JewisH stuDents”

We care about Jewish people and support Nazis.

Interesting 🤔

NEW YORK — Protesters from a Jewish organizing group occupied the ground floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Thursday over the immigration arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student and activist at Columbia University.

In the lobby of Trump Tower, approximately 300 people, led by Jewish organizers, donning red shirts reading “Not in My Name,” chanted and held banners in support of Khalil, said Sonya Meyerson-Knox, a spokesperson for Jewish Voice for Peace, an organizing group critical of Israel and U.S. policies toward the Palestinian territories. Over the weekend, federal immigration agents detained Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent U.S. resident, as officials said they revoked his status in the country.

The group was wearing red T-shirts that said, "Stop arming Israel" and "Not in our name," the group's spokesperson Sonya Meyerson-Knox told NBC News. About 300 protesters were present, she said.

"My grandmother lost her cousins in the Holocaust. I grew up on these stories. We know what happens when authoritarian regimes begin targeting people, begin abducting them at night, separating their families and scapegoating," she said. "And we know that it’s one step from here to losing all right to protest and then further horrors happening, as we have seen too well in our history."

spiSeyi:
Natasha called for this because she can't differentiate between sexual harassment and toasting . And as for Akpabio he went too far by trying to engage in an affair with his subjects which is a bad etchic, a man of integrity won't date his any staff members or his subjects

Unwanted sexual approach in the workplace is actually sexual harassment? You guys have upended the definition of things that’s why you don’t know what’s out of pocket and what’s acceptable.

They’re colleagues and she’s married. What about that dynamic gave him the impression that she was an appropriate sexual partner for him?

So she should’ve set up a camera in anticipation of the assault so she would have “evidence”?

Well we have some concession here. So cheers to that.

I personally believe she could have only been 2nd to Obama simply because he has unmatched charisma.

And a small part of his charisma is his maleness. But we can’t begrudge him for that. He was an excellent president. The only one in my opinion who could’ve topped Kamala. This is my opinion.

If she runs again and wins, time will either prove me right or wrong.

dominique:
Yes the unnecessary cackling did lose her some popularity points. Also she couldn't articulate her points coherently. You might be book smart but if you're not articulate or coherent enough, you will lose your audience! Her ever fluctuating accents and refusing to tackle tough questions especially how her administration handled the economy did her no favours at the popularity polls. I agree, her presidency would not be as disastrous as this Trump's but I don't think she would have made a spectacular president.

I remember when this guy first came on scene with his big mouth. I saw through him right away. Time has again proven me right.