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Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here's what he's proposed

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By BILL BARROW

Donald Trump has promised sweeping action in a second administration.

The former president and now president-elect often skipped over details but through more than a year of policy pronouncements and written statements outlined a wide-ranging agenda that blends traditional conservative approaches to taxes, regulation and cultural issues with a more populist bent on trade and a shift in America's international role.

Trump's agenda also would scale back federal government efforts on civil rights and expand presidential powers.

A look at what Trump has proposed:

“Build the wall!” from his 2016 campaign has become creating “the largest mass deportation program in history.” Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort. Still, Trump has been scant on details of what the program would look like and how he would ensure that it targeted only people in the U.S. illegally. He’s pitched “ideological screening” for would-be entrants, ending birth-right citizenship (which almost certainly would require a constitutional change), and said he’d reinstitute first-term policies such as “Remain in Mexico,” limiting migrants on public health grounds and severely limiting or banning entrants from certain majority-Muslim nations. Altogether, the approach would not just crack down on illegal migration, but curtail immigration overall.

Trump played down abortion as a second-term priority, even as he took credit for the Supreme Court ending a woman’s federal right to terminate a pregnancy and returning abortion regulation to state governments. At Trump’s insistence, the GOP platform, for the first time in decades, did not call for a national ban on abortion. Trump maintains that overturning Roe v. Wade is enough on the federal level. Trump said last month on his social media platform Truth Social that he would veto a federal abortion ban if legislation reached his desk — a statement he made only after avoiding a firm position in his September debate against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.

But it’s unclear if his administration would aggressively defend against legal challenges seeking to restrict access to abortion pills, including mifepristone, as the Biden administration has. Anti-abortion advocates continue to wage legal battles over the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug as well as the agency's relaxed prescribing restrictions. Trump is also unlikely to enforce Biden’s guidance that hospitals must provide abortions for women who are in medical emergencies, even in states with bans.

Trump’s tax policies broadly tilt toward corporations and wealthier Americans. That’s mostly due to his promise to extend his 2017 tax overhaul, with a few notable changes that include lowering the corporate income tax rate to 15% from the current 21%. That also involves rolling back Democratic President Joe Biden’s income tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans and scrapping Inflation Reduction Act levies that finance energy measures intended to combat climate change.

Those policies notwithstanding, Trump has put more emphasis on new proposals aimed at working- and middle class Americans: exempting earned tips, Social Security wages and overtime wages from income taxes. It’s noteworthy, however, that his proposal on tips, depending on how Congress might write it, could give a back-door tax break to top wage earners by allowing them to reclassify some of their pay as tip income — a prospect that at its most extreme could see hedge-fund managers or top-flight attorneys taking advantage of a policy that Trump frames as being designed for restaurant servers, bartenders and other service workers.

Trump’s posture on international trade is to distrust world markets as harmful to American interests. He proposes tariffs of 10% to 20% on foreign goods — and in some speeches has mentioned even higher percentages. He promises to reinstitute an August 2020 executive order requiring that the federal government buy “essential” medications only from U.S. companies. He pledges to block purchases of “any vital infrastructure” in the U.S. by Chinese buyers.

Trump has called for rolling back societal emphasis on diversity and for legal protections for LGBTQ citizens. Trump has called for ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government institutions, using federal funding as leverage.

On transgender rights, Trump promises generally to end “boys in girls’ sports,” a practice he insists, without evidence, is widespread. But his policies go well beyond standard applause lines from his rally speeches. Among other ideas, Trump would roll back the Biden administration’s policy of extending Title IX civil rights protections to transgender students, and he would ask Congress to require that only two genders can be recognized at birth.

The president-elect seeks to reduce the role of federal bureaucrats and regulations across economic sectors. Trump frames all regulatory cuts as an economic magic wand. He pledges precipitous drops in U.S. households’ utility bills by removing obstacles to fossil fuel production, including opening all federal lands for exploration — even though U.S. energy production is already at record highs. Trump promises to unleash housing construction by cutting regulations — though most construction rules come from state and local government. He also says he would end “frivolous litigation from the environmental extremists.”

The approach would in many ways strengthen executive branch influence. That power would come more directly from the White House.

He would make it easier to fire federal workers by classifying thousands of them as being outside civil service protections. That could weaken the government’s power to enforce statutes and rules by reducing the number of employees engaging in the work and, potentially, impose a chilling effect on those who remain.

Trump also claims that presidents have exclusive power to control federal spending even after Congress has appropriated money. Trump argues that lawmakers’ budget actions “set a ceiling” on spending but not a floor — meaning the president’s constitutional duty to “faithfully execute the laws” includes discretion on whether to spend the money. This interpretation could set up a court battle with Congress.

As a candidate, he also suggested that the Federal Reserve, an independent entity that sets interest rates, should be subject to more presidential power. Though he has not offered details, any such move would represent a momentous change to how the U.S. economic and monetary systems work.

The federal Department of Education would be targeted for elimination in a second Trump administration. That does not mean that Trump wants Washington out of classrooms. He still proposes, among other maneuvers, using federal funding as leverage to pressure K-12 school systems to abolish tenure and adopt merit pay for teachers and to scrap diversity programs at all levels of education. He calls for pulling federal funding “for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”

In higher education, Trump proposes taking over accreditation processes for colleges, a move he describes as his “secret weapon” against the “Marxist Maniacs and lunatics” he says control higher education. Trump takes aim at higher education endowments, saying he will collect “billions and billions of dollars” from schools via “taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments” at schools that do not comply with his edicts. That almost certainly would end up in protracted legal fights.

As in other policy areas, Trump isn’t actually proposing limiting federal power in higher education but strengthening it. He calls for redirecting the confiscated endowment money into an online “American Academy” offering college credentials to all Americans without a tuition charges. “It will be strictly non-political, and there will be no wokeness or jihadism allowed—none of that’s going to be allowed,” Trump said on Nov. 1, 2023.

Trump insists he would protect Social Security and Medicare, popular programs geared toward older Americans and among the biggest pieces of the federal spending pie each year. There are questions about how his proposal not to tax tip and overtime wages might affect Social Security and Medicare. If such plans eventually involved only income taxes, the entitlement programs would not be affected. But exempting those wages from payroll taxes would reduce the funding stream for Social Security and Medicare outlays. Trump has talked little about Medicaid during this campaign, but his first administration reshaped the program by allowing states to introduce work requirements for recipients.

As he has since 2015, Trump calls for repealing the Affordable Care Act and its subsidized health insurance marketplaces. But he still has not proposed a replacement: In a September debate, he insisted he had the “concepts of a plan.” In the latter stages of the campaign, Trump played up his alliance with former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines and of pesticides used in U.S. agriculture. Trump repeatedly told rally crowds that he would put Kennedy in charge of “making America healthy again."

Trump, who claims that climate change is a “hoax,” blasts Biden-era spending on cleaner energy designed to reduce U.S. reliance on fossil fuels. He proposes an energy policy – and transportation infrastructure spending – anchored to fossil fuels: roads, bridges and combustion-engine vehicles. “Drill, baby, drill!” was a regular chant at Trump rallies. Trump says he does not oppose electric vehicles but promises to end all Biden incentives to encourage EV market development. Trump also pledges to roll back Biden-era fuel efficiency standards.

Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance framed their ticket as favoring America’s workers. But Trump could make it harder for workers to unionize. In discussing auto workers, Trump focused almost exclusively on Biden’s push toward electric vehicles. When he mentioned unions, it was often to lump “the union bosses and CEOs” together as complicit in “this disastrous electric car scheme.” In an Oct. 23, 2023, statement, Trump said of United Auto Workers, “I’m telling you, you shouldn’t pay those dues.”

Trump’s rhetoric and policy approach in world affairs is more isolationist diplomatically, non-interventionist militarily and protectionist economically than the U.S. has been since World War II. But the details are more complicated. He pledges expansion of the military, promises to protect Pentagon spending from austerity efforts and proposes a new missile defense shield — an old idea from the Reagan era during the Cold War. Trump insists he can end Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, without explaining how. Trump summarizes his approach through another Reagan phrase: “peace through strength.” But he remains critical of NATO and top U.S. military brass. “I don’t consider them leaders,” Trump said of Pentagon officials that Americans “see on television.” He repeatedly praised authoritarians like Hungary’s Viktor Orban and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

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2024 Harris 67.3 million

2024 Trump 72.1 million 

2020 Biden 81.3 million 

2020 Trump 74.2 million 

A cursory review of the popular vote indicates that many millions of voters from 2020 simply did not show up in 2024. Votes remain outstanding in a few states, but most are showing nearly 99% of votes counted.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/11/05/us/elections/results-president.html

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Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here's what he's proposed

Some hilarity in this morning after the election was seeing many MAGA shills after spending months denying Project 2025 today coming out and say "Yeah, that's the plan".

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-celebrate-project-2025-trump-win-1235155322/

Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance framed their ticket as favoring America’s workers. But Trump could make it harder for workers to unionize.

If they didn't realize it by now, I wonder how long it will take the MAGA base to realize they are not 'winning' under Trump.

https://newrepublic.com/post/186505/trump-brags-got-paying-workers-overtime-scab

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“taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments” at schools that do not comply with his edicts.

"his edicts"

Fascism.

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2024 Harris 67.3 million

2024 Trump 72.1 million 

The 2020 Biden supporters just didn’t show up for Kamala.

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/holy-smokes-literally-nothing-jake-tapper-in-awe-after-harris-fails-to-outperform-biden-in-a-single-state/

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The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

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It's all going to be ok...

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The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

I’m not even surprised by the win, there was no way the country was THAT crazy to elect someone as unqualified as she was, I think a lot of people took a second look, thought real hard and decided, I may like like this guy, but he’s not going to drive the country over a cliff.

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dagon

Trump has sweeping plans for a second administration. Here's what he's proposed

Some hilarity in this morning after the election was seeing many MAGA shills after spending months denying Project 2025 today coming out and say "Yeah, that's the plan".

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/republicans-celebrate-project-2025-trump-win-1235155322/

Anyone that didn't believe that project 2025 was the plan only have themselves to blame.

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bass4funk

The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

I’m not even surprised by the win, there was no way the country was THAT crazy to elect someone as unqualified as she was,

And yet she is more qualified than Trump.

I think a lot of people took a second look, thought real hard and decided, I may like like this guy, but he’s not going to drive the country over a cliff.

As he proceeds to drive the country off a cliff...

Like last time, I expect a lot of buyers remorse.

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Anyone that didn't believe that project 2025 was the plan only have themselves to blame.

Relax, that’s not going to come to fruition.

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I think a lot of people took a second look, thought real hard and decided, I may [not] like this guy, but he’s not going to drive the country over a cliff.

No, they decided not to vote.

Trump’s 2020 supporters mostly showed up — no more, perhaps slightly less.

Over 10 million of Biden’s 2020 supporters stayed home.

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bass4funk

Anyone that didn't believe that project 2025 was the plan only have themselves to blame.

Relax, that’s not going to come to fruition.

We shall see...

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About one-third less voter turnout than the 2020 election.

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Unbelievable! The lies, rapes, treason, critical remarks about fallen veterans of foreign wars, racism, previous mishandling of the government during his last term, his love of dictators, etc. It all must mean nothing to the majority of people.

He should've been disqualified anyway for his treason and attempted coup on Jan. 6th. And now he's back again for another 4 years. Let's hope that the whole thing doesn't go up in flames on his watch. Trump is the wrong person you want in charge if there's a crisis, as he proved during his mishandling of the Covid pandemic.

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Trump probably will not serve out his term, because of dementia

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And yet she is more qualified than Trump.

Voters didn’t think so

As he proceeds to drive the country off a cliff...

He didn’t last time. We already have something to compare, people could have rejected him, they didn’t, so relax we will be ok

Like last time, I expect a lot of buyers remorse.

Uh-huh, ROFL

We shall see...

Don’t worry, Trump doesn’t want to lose the House or Senate in any upcoming midterms, so it’s just not going to happen.

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It’s time for real Americans to celebrate. This is a victory for every hardworking American out there - of all backgrounds. It’s about restoring common sense and fighting for the blue-collar men and women who make their country great, while the Far Left and their woke expat buddies here were busy talking about more illegal immigrants, wasting resources, meddling in other countries’ affairs, and getting vaxxed to the gills.

For years, these Far Left Democrats have mocked traditional values and ignored the struggles of everyday Americans, choosing instead to cater to their elitist agendas.

In short, this win is for the factory workers, the farmers, and the small business owners - not the elitist expats and woke keyboard warriors who forgot what it means to stand up for America.

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Fascism

You have literally just described your own party.

It's just amazing the way you (collective) cannot tolerate anything outside your own echo chamber and abuse those who don't hold the same views as them... whilst proclaiming tolerance.

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The US economy has grown 2.5% or more for six straight quarters (longest stretch since 2006), inflation has come down steadily and the jobless rate is 4.1%, maybe a tad high, but well below the 14.8% peak in April 2020. So what happened? Were people really freaked out about gender issues? Wokeness? Like Dagon, I wonder when MAGAts will realize they're not getting anything under Trump (besides emotional gratification - rage! - courtesy of Fox).

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The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

Don't forget incompetent judge Cannon

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Pray for America, and the whole world

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About one-third less voter turnout than the 2020 election.

No, it was a complete blowout. He gained voters in every demographic. Women came out for Trump +2

Men +3

Non-College educated +6

Hispanic +6

Blacks +7

Young voters +10

These are the groups that gave him a sounding win.

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That crazy incompetent District Attorney from California Gascon is out, another massive win for Democracy.

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Judge Merchan, save us from this deranged felon! 0h, and thanks to Biden & Garland for allowing him to run amok for 4 years and give the lie to "equal justice under law" and show the American people how some are positively more equal than others!

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bass4funk

As he proceeds to drive the country off a cliff...

He didn’t last time.

Voters didn't think so. He lost in a landslide because of his mishandling of Covid.

We already have something to compare, people could have rejected him, they didn’t, so relax we will be ok

People have short memories.

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“"Pray for America, and the whole world.

I did real hard yesterday and my prayers were answered.

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Ken

Don't forget incompetent judge Cannon

Potential SCOTUS candidate?

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American that voted for Trump, deserve the government they will and the MAGA hell they will be living in

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Voters didn't think so.

They did that’s why they voted for him.

He lost in a landslide because of his mishandling of Covid.

Huh, I’m talking about yesterday not 2020, please keep up.

People have short memories.

Relax. Lol

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the struggles of everyday Americans

Oh, please! Three weeks ago, the Economist reported that “wages in America’s poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than the averages in Britain, Canada, and Germany.”

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Anyone that didn't believe that project 2025 was the plan only have themselves to blame.

Exactly; the beauty of it (for Trump) is that during his first term his authoritarianism was hampered by his natural incompetence.

But this time. there is a corporatist planner and and Xtian nationalist organizer planning team in place to carry it all out.

.

He just has to sit back and hand out some sound bites and it will all play out.

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The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

You said yesterday Kamala would win the popular vote. What happened?

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Elect a conman (again); don't be surprised that he doesn't do what he promised.

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He gained voters in every demographic.

Trump didn’t gain voters. His supporters showed up — around 72 million, slightly less than the 74 million from 2020.

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NOMINATION

The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

You said yesterday Kamala would win the popular vote. What happened?

I didn't say anything yesterday.

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American that voted for Trump, deserve the government they will and the MAGA hell they will be living in

People of all races, genders and religions contributed to Trump winning. You have said otherwise for months and only white people supported Trump. Why Yrral?

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This article belongs in the opinion section - a Democrat-stained look at what a Trump presidency might look like through the eyes of a journalist clearly upset at the election's outcome.

I guess this is the tone of articles here on JT for at least the next 4 years.

Is it too much to ask for objective facts untainted by partisan views?

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I didn't say anything yesterday.

"Trump will once again lose the popular vote"

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Amazing all the Harris boyz opposed Trump and his policies.

He said them, he asserted the decency and now he has a mandate.

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The dollar-yen hits ¥153.38.

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Nov. 6  09:14 am JST Posted in: Election Day voting in U.S. unfolds generally smoothly with some scattered issues and delays  See in context

Trump will once again lose the popular vote.

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> wallaceToday  08:07 am JST

NOMINATION

The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

You said yesterday Kamala would win the popular vote. What happened?

I didn't say anything yesterday.

Ummmm, yes you did Wallace. Here's the post above.

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I did real hard yesterday and my prayers were answered.

Nah you prayed for the world to burn. Things are only going to get worse as Trump switches up on American allies to befriend Russia, China and NK. Democracy is dead

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The country will be run by Trump, Musk, and their fellow billionaires. The gates of hell have opened.

So you’re saying if Harris would have won, with her billionaire fellow donors would have been better?

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People of all races, genders and religions contributed to Trump winning. You have said otherwise for months and only white people supported Trump. Why Yrral?

Racism is embedded in American culture more so than how many men are okay with having a female president it seems

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Trump will now be the president when the US enters the greatest recession since 1929. The damage has already been done, there is nothing he can do to stop it. Never fear, the rest of the world will be caught up too.

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Ummmm, yes you did Wallace. Here's the post above.

He often forgets his previous posts, forgets they are retrievable

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About one-third less voter turnout than the 2020 election.

Or rather about one-third less ballots than the 2020 election.

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Donald Trump will be the 1st convicted felon president.

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The Democrats shot themselves in the foot with Harris. Should have gone with Biden after Obama but they just had to have a woman and run Hilary. Then went with Biden but HAD to have a woman of color who just couldn't gain any popularity. So they tried to keep Biden in obvious failing cognitive health for another 4 years. That blew up in their faces so they were now stuck with Harris. And we are stuck with Trump. They now have 4 years to find some one who can win.

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Nah you prayed for the world to burn.

No, I prayed for my country. Sorry, you don’t get to dictate what I think or say

Things are only going to get worse as Trump switches up on American allies to befriend Russia, China and NK. Democracy is dead

We heard that in 2016 and nothing happened. Take a deep breath

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Trump will now be the president when the US enters the greatest recession since 1929. The damage has already been done, there is nothing he can do to stop it. Never fear, the rest of the world will be caught up too.

ROFL!! Too, too funny!

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Will be nice to see the end to the Didn’t Earn It programs!

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So the fear mongering by MSM and the left didn't take long.

Instead of asking why people rejected Harris and the Dems, the MSM and Dems are just going to double down on fear and blaming everyone they don't like or don't accept the far left agenda section of the party.

Here we have the fear mongering, and the Dem representatives are going around blaming white men, black men, white women even Hispanic men.

Calling everyone sexist, racist etc....they have even started blaming Tim Walz for being the wrong choice and being a straight white male picked just to cater to the racist voter. (This was said by Kamala's reps last night at her own headquarters in and interview).

They are not going to change or ask why.

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ROFL!! Too, too funny!

It is called the business cycle. Watch and learn.

All indicators are warning "recession", and with the whole world currently in the biggest asset bubble of all time it will be a nasty one.

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No, I prayed for my country. Sorry, you don’t get to dictate what I think or say

Nah America is doomed, as well as a few other countries are doomed as collateral

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Racism is embedded in American culture more so than how many men are okay with having a female president it seems

No, we just want a competent female president. Also, if America is so racist, how could Obama win, twice? How could Trump win without the Black and Latino vote.

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It is called the business cycle. Watch and learn. 

Uh-huh..ROFL!

All indicators are warning "recession", and with the whole world currently in the biggest asset bubble of all time it will be a nasty one.

Well, and this is why Trump will get rid of these stagnant regulations, tap into our endless energy resources and stop the government juggernaut that has been plundering our working class, particularly stop punishing small businesses, that’s a start

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. Should have gone with Biden after Obama but they just had to have a woman and run Hilary. Then went with Biden but HAD to have a woman of color who just couldn't gain any popularity

Worst take and you should probably go back to talking about the white man's burden.

The problem with Dems is that they go with neolibs that have caused the economic misery many suffer under in the States.

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/5/15/polls-sanders-has-more-potential-to-beat-trump

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No, we just want a competent female president. Also, if America is so racist, how could Obama win, twice? How could Trump win without the Black and Latino vote.

America is slightly more sexist than it is racist. Yeah the small percentage of those racist against their own kind. It's all fun and games until ICE puts kids back in cages again right? Or life going back in time to the 1950s

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Nah America is doomed,

Yes, and yesterday people voted for Change in a massive way!

as well as a few other countries are doomed as collateral

I personally worry more about my country first and foremost

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Uh-huh..ROFL!

I wouldnt expect you to understand

Well, and this is why Trump will get rid of these stagnant regulations, tap into our endless energy resources and stop the government juggernaut that has been plundering our working class, particularly stop punishing small businesses, that’s a start

Best of luck to him. My personal favourite will be seeing how his tariffs on imported good will make everyones life much cheaper. kek

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I hope he does every single thing the Democrats falsely said he would do.

all of it.

you can’t just falsely accuse a guy like that and then the next day be like “oh let’s come together snd heal”

that can and will happen. On our timeline when we bore of celebrating our victory and enjoy ramming some things down your throat like you gleefully did to us the last 4 years.

so who is going to prison first on liberal side?

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Yes, and yesterday people voted for Change in a massive way!

By change you mean violence and hatred

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This is all things I have posted before but I am an independent leftist American, not a 'lib', and I knew Harris' weaknesses.

They went with Trump the anti-democrat but people cared about the economy.

Exit polls asked Trump voters why was it better 4 years ago and most said : THE COVID CHECKS!.

I got one with Trump's signature too.

His most socialist policy , a UBI, is what most people remember.

And then Biden had to go back to the neo-liberal, late stage capitalist mean and austerity for workers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/15/critics-say-bidens-covid-relief-plan-breaks-promise-of-2000-dollar-checks.html

This is why people look back on the Trump admin as a better economy and explains the Trump victory.

He will give the MAGA faithful a late stage capitalist dystopia though.

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'Liberal' Joe supporters suddenly don't like the concept of being thrown in the clink.

Despite the fact they have been demanding it of others.

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By change you mean violence and hatred

whine moar, isn’t it?

you must feel so disappointed and powerless.

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so who is going to prison first on liberal side?

Make sure it is enough to work the gulags and build the wall.

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Joe supporters didn't think twice (or once) before calling for jail sentences.

Now they pretend it didn't happen. Amazing.

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"Trump insists he can end Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, without explaining how"

Which is actually better than what Harris proposed which was absolutely nothing. Harris said she wouldn't be any different from Biden and that is ultimately why she lost the election.

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I wouldnt expect you to understand

I think it's the other way around.

Best of luck to him. My personal favourite will be seeing how his tariffs on imported good will make everyones life much cheaper. kek

Well, China wants to do one thing sell their cheap crap products and America is their biggest market, with tariffs they would have to rethink how they do business, they have to, they won't like it and that is ok, but Biden wouldn't push them, Trump would and will.

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Only 3 people have more of a right than me to say “I told you so”.

I literally told you every single thing that would happen. Down to the Kamala wouldn’t even get 70 million votes from actual people.

the 3 people with a “I told you so” right more than me?

Joe Biden.

Steve Bannon.

President Donald J. Trump.

Especially Joe, he has to be so full of joy and vibes right now, he told them, they couped him anyway.

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BlacklabelToday  09:02 am JST

Only 3 people have more of a right than me to say “I told you so”.

I literally told....

I must re-read the article. I didn't realise it was all about you.

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China wants to do one thing sell their cheap crap products and America is their biggest market, with tariffs they would have to rethink how they do business, 

Your fixation on punishment overlooks the harm tariffs will inflict on U.S. citizens and businesses. China meets demand, and tariffs will drive up inflation, hitting consumers already in tough circumstances. Small businesses relying on low-cost Chinese supply chains will suffer, and many could fail.

Yes, tariffs will impact other countries, but they’ll also likely trigger a U.S. recession, which could ripple into a global downturn. This is a natural phase of the boom-bust cycle in an inflated global economy.

Reshaping the U.S. economy for self-sufficiency would take decades, not just four years.

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As a candidate, he also suggested that the Federal Reserve, an independent entity that sets interest rates, should be subject to more presidential power

This definitely needs to happen, the elected should be the decision maker on any fiscal policy and especially interest rates.

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American that voted for Trump, deserve the government they will and the MAGA hell they will be living in

This is all things I have posted before but I am an independent leftist American, not a 'lib', and I knew Harris' weaknesses.

America is slightly more sexist than it is racist. Yeah the small percentage of those racist against their own kind. It's all fun and games until ICE puts kids back in cages again right? Or life going back in time to the 1950s

Nah America is doomed, as well as a few other countries are doomed as collateral

Trump will now be the president when the US enters the greatest recession since 1929. The damage has already been done, there is nothing he can do to stop it. Never fear, the rest of the world will be caught up too.

Racism is embedded in American culture more so than how many men are okay with having a female president it seems

Can't. Take. Much. More....

I'm OD'ing...

I knew this morning would be beautiful, but I can't feel my feet anymore......

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As Ramaswamy was quick to punch to say, first order of business is to release the Jan 6th victims.

That will be the first step in restoring public decency.

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I must re-read the article. I didn't realise it was all about you.

Leftists here made it all about me the last 4 years here.

So why wouldn’t it be about me and how right I was about everything, now?

you haven’t congratulated me yet, that’s step one for you.

Welcome to MAGA-world, wasn’t it? You better hope Trump isn’t as evil as you falsely claimed he was.

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Your fixation on punishment overlooks the harm tariffs will inflict on U.S. citizens and businesses. China meets demand, and tariffs will drive up inflation,

And for them as well

hitting consumers already in tough circumstances.

They know that and still voted for Trump

Small businesses relying on low-cost Chinese supply chains will suffer, and many could fail.

And you have other countries such as Brazil, Mexico, India and Taiwan to fill these voids

Yes, tariffs will impact other countries, but they’ll also likely trigger a U.S. recession, which could ripple into a global downturn. This is a natural phase of the boom-bust cycle in an inflated global economy.

Short-term, not long-term, won't be worse than what we are facing now.

Reshaping the U.S. economy for self-sufficiency would take decades, not just four years.

And the best time to start is now, excellent point.

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As usual, the best take is from Bernie Sanders whose hugely popular economic populism was blocked twice by the DNC establishment :

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

https://apnews.com/article/democrats-trump-harris-election-future-5bf8bd0ca6683119a846abd446544407

But the financier backers of both parties know whatever way it plays out they gain in the duopoly.

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Morning Joe:

Democrats need to be mature. Democrats need to be honest and say yes. There is misogyny but it's not just misogyny from white men. It's misogyny from Hispanic men misogyny from black men who do not want a woman leading them. There might be race issues with Hispanics who don't want a black woman.

A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates.

And then the Dems ask Why they lost.

Basically they called half more than half the population racist and sexist blaming Men in general and White women, then piled on that Hispanics are racist and black men are sexist.

What a great winning strategy!

Fear like in the above article and trying to shame people into voting your way due to their skin colour and gender.

And the far left don't de how that could be a problem.

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dagon, how many houses does the self-described socialist Sanders own?

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Retribution for the political prosecutions has to occur. Up and down the line.

Without that, natural justice cannot be achieved. The jury has delivered the verdict.

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"his edicts"....Fascism."

Woke left hysteria is hard to cure apparently.

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As usual, the best take is from Bernie Sanders whose hugely popular economic populism was blocked twice by the DNC establishment :

Popular with the Socialist, hand out crowds....

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent and former Democratic primary candidate, had warned Harris before Election Day that she was focusing too much on flipping Republican votes and not enough on pocketbook issues. He issued a statement excoriating party leadership.

“It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,” he said. “First, it was the white working class, and now it is Latino and Black workers as well. While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they’re right.”

He is right for once, attacking Trump, demonizing him, calling him Hitler and his supporters dumb or garbage boomeranged back at the Democrats, if anyone is to blame for a Democrat defeat its the Democrat's own self-boasting and thinking that nothing can touch them, not even Kryptonite, their self-absorbed hubris is what got them defeated. 

But the financier backers of both parties know whatever way it plays out they gain in the duopoly.

We are a Capitalist society after all

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@JJE,

Liberal' Joe supporters suddenly don't like the concept of being thrown in the clink.

Despite the fact they have been demanding it of others.

Hell yeah!

Why stop at jail....how about some Putin-style "falling from a window" public executions of political opponents?

https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-russians-fall-windows-putin-ukraine-war-1781790

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These are the groups that gave him a sounding win.

What’s a “sounding win”? Perhaps “resounding win”?

Or just a “euphemism”?

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Racism is embedded in American culture more so than how many men are okay with having a female president it seems

So I MUST vote for Kamala only because of her skin color and gender. If not, I am a racist? Interesting....

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Oh “Norm”, never change.

all this calamity just befell you.

Everything you ever thought or said here was just proven completely false and inaccurate. you basically hid and cried all day yesterday.

and you go with…grammar errors? lol

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