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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
(Post 2937037)
Meanwhile the Biden administration is busy selling border all materials purchased during Trump's first administration. We all know full well Trump will immediately begin a continuance of wall at the border. Not only does this slow wall building, the material that needs to be purchased will cost much more than it did originally. This is our government folks. Just idiots.
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That hoary claim keeps coming up again and again and hasn't a lick of truth to it; the materials in question were purchased by the contractor given the project to build the wall; as such; the contractor, who was a major contributor to the Trump campaign in the 2016 election, got a no-bid, non-competitive contract from the 1st Trump administration, basically a give away to the donor for his loyalty to Trump; not only did the contractor not have any, at all, experience in building structures like the wall, he used sub-standard materials and construction processes in the segments he did build, including one very large segment which collapsed and sank in a rainstorm; the contractor, having bitten off more than he could chew, dropped the project, while still pocketing the Trump-given taxpayer funds, and left the supplies and materials you cited to just rot and rust; the materials are little more than scrap material and are being sold off as such to at least get some small return on the Trump-inspired corrupt debacle
...oh, and by the way; Trump made a very big deal out using "All-American Made, Quality" materials for his wall; however the materials used were, as mentioned before substandard
Chinese made, imported construction materials; seem that the contractor was shortchanging the US taxpayers and he's getting away with it... seemingly with Trump's blessing...
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Originally Posted by u crank
(Post 2936891)
You sound bitter. I know it is shocking that the guy is heading back to the White House but don't despair, it's only four years. It will give you a chance to learn some new buzzwords. MAGAts, Trumptanic II, MAGA Kool-Aid? Come on now, you can do better than that. What will actually happen is not certain but one thing is. We know who will be President come January. Maybe somebody will gin up another Russia collusion hoax to keep you interested like the last time. I agree with les green01. It will be entertaining. I hope you enjoy it.
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I am neither bitter nor in despair; n fact, I am rather much confident that the 2nd Coming of Trump will be as badly handled, if not worse that the first; I said it was amusing the Left is clutching pearls and the Far Right/MAGA/GOP is trying to strut around like they are large and in charge; the Left just has to sit back and let Trump and the GOP blow up their own selves, calmly waiting for the Midterms when the voters will most probably hand back the House to the DEMs, and that is not so far fetched; the new GOP controlled House actually has a smaller majority than it had prior to November's Election, and, prior to November, that margin was described as "razor thin"; so, what is thinner than "razor thin"...?...
The weakness of the GOP can be seen in what happened in California, where four GOP House seats were up for election in November, with three of the four seats occupied by GOP incumbents, in heavily GOP registered voter districts; two of the three incumbents were defeated, including one incumbent who had been in the House some 30 years; the GOP had 12 seats from CA going into the election and now have only 9 seats; again, what makes the situation so bad is those lost seats were in districts where the GOP candidates should have done much better, but, I guess, the voters spoke loudly and clearly...
...one can only imagine what the voters will say in 2026 when the wheels have come off the GOP campaign cart...
The DEMs have only to take control of just one of the Chambers (Senate, House) in order to put the kibosh on Trump and the MAGA's grand plans, just like in Trump's first term; hell, Trump might even accommodate the DEMs again by doing something so stupid and illegal they'll be obliged to impeach him yet again... :haha:
The reason I'm not bothered by Trump is because Trump is Trump; he is an easy target because he is so consistently predictable; getting his Cabinet picks trounced just like in the first term?
Check; start backtracking from his campaign promises? Why, he's even started to do so
before he's taken office, this time!
Check; appointing persons with little to no experience or knowledge to high post merely because they are slavishly loyal?
Check...
We all know what's going to come next; Trump will make all sorts of wild Executive Orders and demands only to be tripped up and flummoxed by those pesky little matters like the Law, Legal Precedent, and The Constitution; his little attempts at his new banana republic will be met with lawsuits, constitutional challenges, and intraparty GOP bickering, pretty much freezing, or at least, heavily slowing his roll; this should occupy the first two years of his term and result in the same stalemate as the first go-around; then the midterms will come along, and all those voters who bought into the Trump bluster of promises will look at their bank books, their grocery receipt, and, for some, their pink slips, and be not very inclined to continue to drink his brand of MAGA Kool-Aid, just like the first term, and hand the House back to the DEMs; the GOP can not afford to lose even one more seat than they have now, so this does seem to be a rather good prediction...
...oh, and about Trump's claim he will reduce food prices in his first year... well, in Trump's first term, food prices rose in each and every month of his four years in office, with a 3.8% increase being recorded in his last month in the Oval Office...
So, I'm neither bitter nor in despair; and, I think the DEMs should just sit back and watch the Trump/MAGA/GOP train wreck roll by and be there to reap the benefits; and, the GOP should look to getting rid of the wingnuts running their party and find some real, intelligent, grownups to run in 2026...
...and, yes, I will enjoy watching the ship sink beneath the waves... :03:
As I said, past is prologue...
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