Lmao as someone from the Gulf Coast I actually love this idea and find it super funny. It is the type of thing that will cause political outrage for no reason whatsoever. It isn't like it is a Native American name its just the name the Europeans gave it so bring on the outcry as we change it!
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79 sats \ 33 replies \ @siggy47 7 Jan
I have to push back on this a little. I know it's what makes him who he is, but I wish he would do a lot less talking.
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102 sats \ 7 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Jan
I've heard some theorizing that Elon yapping about rape gangs in Britain is a way of diverting attention from the H1B controversy, which was actually causing a rift in Trump's base. This could be a similar thing.
One thing about Trump is that the media's reaction to his ragebait is entirely predictable, and this allows him to wield the media machine like a tool. Yeah, yea, I know it sounds a bit like "4D chess" Trump worship, but he's too successful to think that there isn't some strategy to what he's doing. If I had to put money on it, I'd lean towards his actions being more strategic than most non-Trumpers give him credit for.
Case in point: I thought the nomination of Matt Gaetz was entirely calculated as a way to get Gaetz out of Congress while potentially saving face from the ethics report (though they chose to release it anyway.) But my Never-Trumper dad disagrees and thinks that Trump actually wanted Gaetz to be AG.
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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan
The Gaetz move I 110% agree with you that it was a huge win for the House to get him out. The H1B visa controversy to me people are really missing a key point and its yes we have US citizens that need jobs but those people are often not in STEM fields. Now in the CHIPS and Science Act, we created and built a pipeline but the results will take 10 years. H1B visas allow the US to poach some of the best minds from other countries and tbh away from China.
H1B has also gotten mixed with the idea that members on both sides are looking at, which would allow a path to a green card and citizenship if American institutions educate you. Right now we are educating a ton of people who are then leaving and going to China and other places because they cant stay in the US once they graduate. China has waived its rules if you have skills they want so you can stay and Congress is looking at doing the same here.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Jan
I would support a policy that allows you to stay and work here if you graduate from one of our universities. Selfishly, I want to gin up the demand for university seats :)
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Jan
Means I want to stimulate demand for US university education since I work at one. California's population loss means demand has been declining and funding cuts are on the horizon
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30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 7 Jan
On the Gaetz point, I think he saw it as a no-lose scenario. He would be happy with Gaetz as AG, if somehow that worked out, and he was happy with what actually happened.
In general, I think he's not super strategic, but has very good (savvy?) instincts and isn't afraid to jump on opportunities.
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61 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7 Jan
You're right, it was a no-lose scenario for Trump. One of the things about him is that decorum is just a total non-factor now. He is so well and thoroughly smeared that nothing he or the media says will change anyone's minds about him anymore.
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22 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan
Im 99% sure he said he could shoot Sen. Cruz on the floor of the Senate and not lose a single vote years ago lmao and that is when it realllllyyyyy became wild out here
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41 sats \ 24 replies \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan
I mean I do think this is something he could easily do and why not I mean the name came from the Spanish when they had the entire area around the Gulf under their power so now that it isn't ehhh
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0 sats \ 23 replies \ @siggy47 7 Jan
No doubt he can do it. The question is why? His motive will be seen as a xenophobic, US first move which will do nothing to dispel the perception worldwide that the US is an imperialist bully.
And for what purpose? What is to be gained?
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41 sats \ 22 replies \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan
I mean honestly the first move is going to be the Jan 6 pardons.... that already is as set in stone as stone itself.
I hate to say it but easily what +50% of things he is going to do people will decry as xenophobic when its just putting America first after 4 years of us looking like idiots. I am not sold on it being imperialistic since at the end of the day its literally the third coast its not like we are trying to rename some part of the Pacific.
Mexico is free to call it whatever they want to as well. We can rename it for our stuff they can call it the Gulf of Mexico that type of stuff happens all across the world and wouldn't be anything new. People in the border states are not Mexico fans. Trump and the Republican Party did fantastic along the border regions and in races that they lost made them a lot closer than expected.
Trump made a comment today that sent some people into a tailspin about Mexico being run by cartels. Well remember when they arrested El Chapos sons and then they had to release them after the government was kicked out of towns because of it? They, the Mexican Government, do not have a solid grasp on huge swaths of their own country the cartels do.
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15 sats \ 21 replies \ @siggy47 7 Jan
No question Biden was a disaster, and I'm confident Trump will be better for the US than Harris would have been. I just don't think it makes sense from a cost/benefit analysis to run his mouth about meaningless issues.
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41 sats \ 19 replies \ @kepford 7 Jan
Regardless this is Trump as you said. I expect nothing less.
I do kinda love it for this reason. It exposes the messed up priorities of people. Trump offends mostly because he doesn't care about their sacred traditions or doing things the way they have been done. He's an embarrassment. They will talk more about WORDS he says than the blood shed by other presidents. They get more angry at him for these trivial things than they do about the killing of people in wars, the destruction of wealth, or the outright graft of politicians.
It exposes the fact that the state is an idol that many people worship and they hate him because he is the turd in the punch bowl. He profanes their sacred institutions. Its also why they hated J6 so much. The fact that so many now wish we had W Bush instead of Trump says it all. I don't like either of them but one of these is not like the other.
The view of politicians and the positions they hold NEEDS to be brought down to the joke it is in reality. The reverence of these offices is disgusting to me. Its a religion in everything but name.
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0 sats \ 18 replies \ @siggy47 7 Jan
This is very true.
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41 sats \ 17 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Jan
And I honestly think the media and elite class does more damage to itself by obsessing over his words than Trump does damage to himself.
I agree that Trump running his mouth is not helpful, but the elites obsessing over it is worse for them than it is for Trump.
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41 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 OP 7 Jan
Yeah I am hopeful that with having a trifecta and more importantly this time around not having Trump skeptics in the Republican Party that we can really address some of the key points.
Case in port the Laken Riley Act is going to be voted on by The House today. Now I think the Senate will hold off until President Trump takes office because I think Biden would be the one who would sign off on this piece of common sense legislation but it will be one of the first things sent to Trump's desk.
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