Is this the best dis someone ever gave Trump?

Exactly. A not so veiled message to his base.

It's despicable that the president of the United States is not protecting his citizens.  

TRUMP is that is what the tariffs, the deportations etc are all about....

Tariffs will RAISE costs to consumers
Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill” will strip health care coverage from 13.7 million Americans
Disobeying court orders relating to deportations are only showing that Trump thinks he's above the law
Slashing taxes for the people who need it the least doesn't benefit enyone else
Trump is cutting federal health and nutrition programs

Republicans would like us to believe that the person most likely to steal from us is a Black person in a hoodie or an immigrant with tattoos.  The truth is that it's our government that is stealing from us.  If that were not true, they wouldn't be debating this bill under cover of darkness in the middle of the night.

My costs have not increased.  Buy American and there is no tariff.  
Illegals yes, should be removed from our medicaid.  Requiring able-bodied working age people to work is something that should never have stopped being enforced. 
Illegals should be deported....
I got a tax cut....I am not rich. 

Trump administration does not care what race you are if you are a criminal you will be dealt with as a good gov should. 

I don't remember anyone complaining when Dems passed bills in the middle of the night...

Trump has clearly stated that he loves the uneducated.

Clearly, you don't realize that not everything we may need is made in America.  Should we just do without anything not made here?

YOUR costs haven't ireased, so you conclude no one's have.  Clearly, you don't understand that the prices everywhere are not the same.

There are immigrants here who have been given permission to remain here and work here.  If they have a child born here, they are legally entitled to apply for Medicaid.     

YOU got a tax cut, so you conclude everyone has.  Do you not understand that because something is true for you, it is not necessarily true for everyone?

This post was edited by my2cents at May 24, 2025 5:30 AM MDT

Some things never change.



This post was edited by my2cents at May 24, 2025 6:26 AM MDT

Well, all the low-income MAGA voters who will be losing their Medicaid and food stamp benefits will be whining about how they had no idea Trump was going to try and eliminate them.  Lots of pearl-clutching will be going on.  Boo hoo.

If legal status and a work requirement for able-bodied and work aged  people causes them to be removed from either Medicaid or food stamps then they shouldn't have been on them to start. Regardless of their political party. This post was edited by my2cents at May 24, 2025 6:27 AM MDT

Should he say he hates the uneducated?  Yes, most blue collar people like Trump and he knows that is why he has won. 

And Yes, I know that many things we need are not made in USA anymore. That is a problem that Trump is trying to address, this is why we are.doing the tariffs.  And also why the blue collar people like him. We have been told to suck.it up. Jobs going overseas is just the way it is and we cannot stop it. (By both sides for too long) We can just "learn  to code."  No, they can bring the jobs back here or they can pay the tariffs. 

Jeff Bezos of Amazon has said the tariffs have not impacted prices or demand.   So no, it is not just me. 

I don't assume everyone got a tax cut because I did. I know it because I know what the Trump Tax Cuts and Jobs Act had in it. And it had tax cuts for everyone. 

To my2cents:  When I want my comments edited, I will ask you to do it.  

If you post something in violation if the rules here, you are asking for it to be edited or removed. 

All I did was question why I bother to respond to you.  I did not say anything bad about you personally.

Again, do not make personal comments about users here. They will be moderated.  This post was edited by my2cents at May 24, 2025 11:31 AM MDT

My comment was by me, about me.  So, I can't say anything about myself.  Got it.

Edit for spelling This post was edited by Spunky at May 24, 2025 1:34 PM MDT

"Buy American". You're obviously not a farmer or you'd realize that you CAN'T. Potash is vital for crop yields and the US doesn't produce any. Never has.
You're obviously not smelting aluminium or you'd realize that you CAN'T. No bauxite deposits.
You're obviously not making electronics, or aircraft, or anything high tech, or you'd realize that you CAN'T. No high enough yield deposits of rare earth minerals, no facilities for refining same - one advantage of a totalitarian government is no pesky environmental restrictions. The waste by-products are highly toxic and China is the only nation equipped to deal with that. This post was edited by Slartibartfast at May 24, 2025 6:41 AM MDT

This is the point of the tariffs to bring the jobs back that our government allowed to be sent to other countries for decades.  We finally have a President with the strength and resolve to tackle this issue. 

So your now fine with China ruining the environment if we get our new iPhone etc.?
Again, yet another reason for the tariffs. 

You. Don't. Have. The. Raw. Materials.
Bringing manufacturing back won't help farmers. Without Canadian potash, you all starve to death.
Tariffs won't magically create bauxite deposits. You can't "drill baby drill" for what isn't there. So no aluminium.
Tariffs won't magically create high yield deposits of neodymium, yttrium, dysprosium or tungsten - so no aircraft, no Teslas, no high end electronics, no computers of any kind (even your wristwatch is loaded with semiconductors). This post was edited by Slartibartfast at May 24, 2025 8:50 AM MDT

We can purchase whatever we need to manufacture.  China does not the raw materials for the products we used to make either.  
The jobs did not leave because of materials they left for cheap labor. So the tariffs replace the savi gs from the cheap labor. 
I have said since I was not even old enough to vote. It should be in our tax code that if a company moves their jobs overseas then we should change their tax rate to make it cost them more than they are saving in labor. 

It makes you mad when you watch your family members being forced to train their foreign replacements.  While being told you cannot inform them of the hourly rate the fired worker was getting or lose your lose of job to outsourcing benefits.  

Or maybe he's right. There were 6900 murders in South Africa last year. 12 of them were white farmers. Never mind, your reasons seem more plausible.

Correction: There were over 26,000 murders in South Africa in 2024. 44 were farmers or farm workers. South Africa does not report by race, but of the 44, 7 were farmers, who are usually White, the rest were employees, who are usually Black This post was edited by Jane S at May 22, 2025 2:14 PM MDT