Orange stain second term results thread

[SteveGrabowski]

A cap would eliminate a huge amount of credit overnight. Any questionable credit worthiness and no, not for you. Those rewards cards? Gone. This is a credit based economy. Online retailing etc... is huge. it would be gone. It would collapse everything pretty much overnight. The interest rates allows them to lend to more questionable people.

The rewards cards need to go, that's bullshit that we all subsidize these credit card companies and their ridiculous swipe fees they charge businesses.

 

[SteveGrabowski]

I'm shocked the man who believes windmills can cause turbo cancer doesn't believe that Global Warming is an actual thing. The leader of the free world not only thinks that, but he Tweeted it for the world to read. He has direct access to some of the top-level experts on the planet. Yet he still thinks that because we're having an unusual cold spell it means Global Warming couldn't possibly be real.

He's an educated man, he believes in global warming. See the seawall he petitioned for permission to build at his golf course in Scotland with the application explicitly citing sea level rise from global warming as the reason. He just doesn't give a fuck about it except where it impacts him directly.

 

[IronWing]

The rewards cards need to go, that's bullshit that we all subsidize these credit card companies and their ridiculous swipe fees they charge businesses.

Now you're crossing the line. I stole those rewards from poor people fair and square.

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Hey how you guys south of us liking your new interest rates? Bet they go well with the DOGE cheques, Tariff checks.....

 

[nakedfrog]

I did see something interesting, one of my credit cards offered me a reduced rate of 9% APR for the next however-many months (nine, maybe?), I was assuming this was to entice me to consider carrying a balance on it. One of my others just sent me a letter stating that unless I contact them, they plan to reduce my credit limit (fine by me, they're the ones that kept increasing it unasked, and I don't need that much available credit).

 

[trenchfoot]

I like the way they describe Trump's cabinet of clowns so eloquently:

1 Mio. Aufrufe · 62.032 Reaktionen | Trump's never-ending list of goons has turned the government into a "moronocracy" | ITH 43 | The Daily Beast

Trump's never-ending list of goons has turned the government into a "moronocracy" | ITH 43

www.facebook.com

 

[biostud]

So much winning:

Trade deal: India and EU announce FTA amid Trump tariff tensions

The long-awaited deal comes as both Delhi and Brussels contend with economic and geopolitical pressure from the US.

www.bbc.com

 

[cytg111]

Fucking wild, as US collapses we are going to have to address the nuclear factor. And if US goes offline do we have enough deterrent to counter Russia alone?

 

[RnR_au]

Fucking wild, as US collapses we are going to have to address the nuclear factor. And if US goes offline do we have enough deterrent to counter Russia alone?

Yes.

At least by GDP.

Poland, Scandinavia, Finland, the Baltics and Ukraine alone exceeds Russian GDP by 33%.

And if war starts, do you think the French, Germans and the English would sit on their hands?

Norway and Denmark have 67 F35s operational today. Denmark, Finland and Poland have another 112 on order in total. I don't believe Russian air defenses are hard counters to these aircraft as shown by Israel when they bombed Iran in 2025.

 

[K1052]

Fucking wild, as US collapses we are going to have to address the nuclear factor. And if US goes offline do we have enough deterrent to counter Russia alone?

Europe needs a tactical option to supplant the US B61-12. Variable yield up to 50kt. Otherwise they are fairly set as far as strategic weapons go between the British and the French.

 

[JTsyo]

I like the way they describe Trump's cabinet of clowns so eloquently:

1 Mio. Aufrufe · 62.032 Reaktionen | Trump's never-ending list of goons has turned the government into a "moronocracy" | ITH 43 | The Daily Beast

Trump's never-ending list of goons has turned the government into a "moronocracy" | ITH 43

www.facebook.com

Trump is the living embodiment of the saying "Better to be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and leave no doubt." No surprise that those he picks would be just as foolish especially since after his first term options are lean.

 

[MrSquished]

so much winning!

https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-government-has-lost-more-10-000-stem-ph-d-s-trump-took-office

 

[UNCjigga]

This headline is hilarious:
Trump heads to Iowa hoping to refocus attention from shootings to the economy

 

[KMFJD]

this sounds bad

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016005804458180841

THE INVERTED PANOPTICON

Beijing Weaponized the West’s Own Wiretap Infrastructure to Execute the Greatest Intelligence Coup Since Cambridge Five

shanakaanslemperera.substack.com

lol

The Chinese operators did not need to hack individual phones, which would have been noisy and detectable. They did not need to intercept communications in transit, which would have required breaking encryption. They hacked the wiretap system itself. Once inside the CALEA infrastructure at AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, they had access to everything the FBI had access to: call metadata showing who contacted whom and when, geolocation data derived from cell tower triangulation, the actual content of unencrypted calls and texts, and most devastatingly, the database of active surveillance requests. They could see whom the United States government was watching. They could see if they themselves were being watched.The vulnerability was not a bug in the architecture. It was the architecture.

 

[DZero]

So USA right now seems split in 2. Dems and Reps, 2 opposing positions, no middle road. Might as well make it official

I see even 4 factions...
- Dems: The ones who are screwing hard with the betrayals to help the ICE
- Trumpists: The ones who follow Trump and are noticeable a strong force.
- Reps: A faction that is getting taken over by Trump and his goons, some of them only consider an above average president, but just that and even some of them didn´t like his way to do the things
- Neutrals: being tired of democrats and republican antics, waiting to see if someone has balls and make a new brand party

 

[nakedfrog]

this sounds bad

https://twitter.com/x/status/2016005804458180841

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THE INVERTED PANOPTICON

Beijing Weaponized the West’s Own Wiretap Infrastructure to Execute the Greatest Intelligence Coup Since Cambridge Five

shanakaanslemperera.substack.com

lol

The Chinese operators did not need to hack individual phones, which would have been noisy and detectable. They did not need to intercept communications in transit, which would have required breaking encryption. They hacked the wiretap system itself. Once inside the CALEA infrastructure at AT&T, Verizon, and Lumen Technologies, they had access to everything the FBI had access to: call metadata showing who contacted whom and when, geolocation data derived from cell tower triangulation, the actual content of unencrypted calls and texts, and most devastatingly, the database of active surveillance requests. They could see whom the United States government was watching. They could see if they themselves were being watched.The vulnerability was not a bug in the architecture. It was the architecture.

Sort of merits a thread to itself, not really an outcome of Great Leader's second term, you know?
I'm not shocked, especially given we already knew this was 100% a real possibility.

 

[MrSquished]

Sort of merits a thread to itself, not really an outcome of Great Leader's second term, you know?
I'm not shocked, especially given we already knew this was 100% a real possibility.

the Chinese probably need a three translator system to transcribe Trump's communication.

First Translator: Gibberish to English
Second Translator: WTF to making some sense of it
Third Translator: Some sensical ramblings to Mandarin/Cantonese