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matthewfarmery wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 14:07 @Observe,
“In June 2019, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. traveled to the small Pacific island nation of Samoa, where he met with activists calling for Samoans to skip measles vaccines and opt for alternatives instead. Now that visit — and the country’s subsequent measles outbreak — are receiving new political attention, as Democrats and advocates seek to block Kennedy’s confirmation as America’s top health official,” the Washington Post reports.

“Five months after Kennedy’s visit, Samoa declared a measles emergency, with leaders warning that vaccination levels had declined precipitously.”
More proof that that fool isn't able to do this job, I hope he doesn't get the job, otherwise, his policies could very well harm more people in the coming year /s. I don't see what you see him in? I mean come on, he is dangerous with those views. Especailly if his anti vaccine policy winds up hurt more people, like the above example.
This is something that Vertigo7 has brought up numerous times, but since he is on my ignore list, I no longer respond to him.

RFK Jr. visited Samoa in June 2019, after the vaccination program had been halted and before the measles outbreak started later that year in September. His visit and interactions with anti-vaccine activists in Samoa are said by some to have exacerbated vaccine hesitancy, but the initial decision to stop vaccinating was due to a medical error on the part of the authorities and the subsequent government response.

I expect this will come up during the confirmation hearings. For the record, RFK is NOT anti-vaccination. He is FOR safe vaccines. Aren't we all? RFK does question the motives and the science behind some of the vaccines. Given the billions of dollars involved in the vaccination industry, it is not hard to see how corruption may be present. RFK seeks transparency and proof of safety protocols. Don't we all?
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Observe wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 17:24 [...]
I expect this will come up during the confirmation hearings. For the record, RFK is NOT anti-vaccination. He is FOR safe vaccines. Aren't we all?[...]
Apparently not as many people seem to value the word of RFK over what actual experts in the fields are saying. The problem is not that Kennedy has an opinion on the matter. The problem is that his opinion is based on pseudoscience and nonsense. Vaccines do not cause autism, like he claimed. This claim by him: "Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," is also a lie and that also isn't how genetics work. Furthermore there is no question in the scientific community about the HIV virus being the cause of AIDS. All that only leads to one conclusion. He does not know what he is talking about.
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2025 seem to be already on the road to be more crazy than 2024 and we're not even past 10 days.
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clakclak wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 17:52Apparently not as many people seem to value the word of RFK over what actual experts in the fields are saying.
Particularly those experts who have been corrupted by the vaccine industry. RFK's book "The Real Anthony Fauci" was on the New York Times Best Seller List for seventeen weeks and still remains in the top 5 on USA Today's list. In that book, RFK condemns some of the key figures in the medical mafia and associated special interest groups. Yet, no one has sued him.
The problem is not that Kennedy has an opinion on the matter. The problem is that his opinion is based on pseudoscience and nonsense.
As Secretary of HHS, Kennedy will be able to sort the facts from the fiction and the science from the dollar.
This claim by him: "Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," is also a lie and that also isn't how genetics work.
I think he clarified that he was discussing the broader concept of ethnically targeted bioweapons and was referring to a study which showed that Covid-19 disproportionately affects certain races, not that it was deliberately engineered to target them.

In fact, the virus does disproportionately affect certain races more than others, but the reasons are complex and not necessarily due to genetics per se. Is it theoretically possible to engineer a virus that will attack certain racial types? I don't know, but I imagine there are those who are working on such a thing. Why wouldn't there be?
Furthermore there is no question in the scientific community about the HIV virus being the cause of AIDS.
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Observe wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 18:43
clakclak wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 17:52Apparently not as many people seem to value the word of RFK over what actual experts in the fields are saying.
Particularly those experts who have been corrupted by the vaccine industry. RFK's book "The Real Anthony Fauci" was on the New York Times Best Seller List for seventeen weeks and still remains in the top 5 on USA Today's list. In that book, RFK condemns some of the key figures in the medical mafia and associated special interest groups. Yet, no one has sued him.
Kennedy has a law degree. He knows how to write so that he can't be challenged legally. This proofs he knows the law not that what he writes in the book is the truth. What he writes is still nonsense, just no legally relevant nonsense.
Observe wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 18:43
The problem is not that Kennedy has an opinion on the matter. The problem is that his opinion is based on pseudoscience and nonsense.
As Secretary of HHS, Kennedy will be able to sort the facts from the fiction and the science from the dollar.
He can't and he won't. He can't, because he lacks any training in virology or any natural scientific background and he won't because he has shown to only seek out information that confirm his own bias and discard the rest.
Observe wrote: Wed, 8. Jan 25, 18:43
This claim by him: "Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese," is also a lie and that also isn't how genetics work.
I think he clarified that he was discussing the broader concept of ethnically targeted bioweapons and was referring to a study which showed that Covid-19 disproportionately affects certain races, not that it was deliberately engineered to target them. In fact, the virus does disproportionately affect certain races more than others, but the reasons are complex and not necessarily due to genetics per se. Is it theoretically possible to engineer a virus that will attack certain racial types? I don't know, but I imagine there are those who are working on such a thing. Why wouldn't there be?

To answer that question: "Is it theoretically possible to engineer a virus that will attack certain racial types?" No. That is not possible. Because once again, this is not how genetics work. Human races are not a biological concept but a concept from the humanities. Biologically speaking there are no different human races.
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There are certain genes that appear or do not appear in certain populations (or appear more or less frequently), but to take the example given by Kennedy, there is no gene shared by all 1.4 billion Chinese people but not by anybody else, because Chinese nationality is a social and not biological category. This is something Kennedy would know if he had studied, for example, biology. But he didn't and he has absolutely no clue what he is talking about.

To answer the question why certain groups were more affected by Corona: The reason, once again, is not biological but social. "The higher rates of infection among people of color likely reflect increased exposure risk due to working, living, and transportation situations, including being more likely to work in jobs that cannot be done remotely, to live in larger households, and to rely on public transportation. Black, Hispanic, and AIAN people have experienced the highest age-adjusted death rates amid each resurgence period, reflecting higher rates of death across all age groups among people of color compared to White people and an older White population. Overall, death rates have decreased across groups over the course of the pandemic as vaccination rates have increased and vaccination – particularly with boosters – continues to be highly effective at reducing the risk of hospitalization and death. Early disparities in vaccination rates by race and ethnicity have also narrowed over time. However, data suggest potential disparities in access to COVID-19 treatments, which will be important to monitor going forward." Source
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Furthermore there is no question in the scientific community about the HIV virus being the cause of AIDS.
True.
And yet Kennedy said that AIDS is not caused by the HIV virus, but by drug use and being gay. To quote him directly : "The HIV virus…was a kind of free rider that was also associated with overlapping lifestyle exposures. Duesberg and many who have followed him offered evidence that heavy recreational drug use in gay men and drug addicts was the real cause of immune deficiency among the first generation of AIDS sufferers. They argued that the initial signals of AIDS, Kaposi’s sarcoma and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), were both strongly linked to amyl nitrite — “poppers” — a popular drug among promiscuous gays. Other common “wasting” symptoms were all associated with heavy drug use and lifestyle stressors." He is a conspiracy nut who does believe in pseudoscience and has no clue what he is talking about.
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what's an "expert corrupted by a
the vaccine industry"?

what's "the vaccine industry"?

what "vaccine"?

and what's "corrupted"?

is this a conspiracy?
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Musk is now admitting, that he won't be able to find 2 trillion in cuts. which was a goal he set earlier.
“Elon Musk said Wednesday that his budget-cutting effort on behalf of President-elect Donald Trump would most likely not find $2 trillion in savings, backtracking on a goal he set earlier as co-head of a new advisory body, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE,” CNBC reports.

George Will: Overhauling government isn’t rocket science. It’s harder.
So more BS from another con man. So don't expect anything to go down, just up.
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Bob Bauer: “No president has ever attempted to do what Donald Trump now proposes to do—assemble a small team of former personal attorneys and install it at the highest levels of the Department of Justice…”

“The Justice Department’s responsibilities have always been subject to competing expectations: that it would keep politics out of law enforcement but, like other departments, would loyally serve the president in the implementation of his governing program. The results have been uneven, and at times disastrous, as with Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. But when problems arose, they were relatively localized: the product of poor appointments, or the failure of particular presidents in particular situations to respect institutional values and norms.”

“What the DOJ faces now is different in kind: a vision of White House control achieved through the appointments of individuals the president has chosen because they have worked for him and demonstrated their loyalty. The pressing question now is whether these lawyers may be, as the president-elect likely hopes, the “president’s lawyers” in more than one sense.”
Anyone really surprised by this? his personal Gestapo. Right from the Hitler platybook every second. Democracy is finished. Garland should be utter ashamed of himself allowing this SOB to run amok and not put a stop to him while he had the chance. justice will be what Trump says it will be. Even the American Supreme court won't be able to stop this monster from playing havoc. America is going to feel the worst as time goes on. This and threatening war with NATO members. the list keeps going on. A cold dark year will be ahead, and this will just be the tip of the iceberg.
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matthewfarmery wrote: Thu, 9. Jan 25, 17:04 Musk is now admitting, that he won't be able to find 2 trillion in cuts. which was a goal he set earlier.
My only shock is that he admit it so fast - usually his other cons come to the light when they miss the deadline by 3-4 years, while still underdelivering.
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True, I guess he realises that it doesn't matter anyway. Trump will still come to power along with all the other broken promises. As for Musk, that agency is probably just for show. And no substance.

But still, Musk got what he wanted. a president for sale.
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It's looking more likely that mass deportations will happen shortly after that fascist felon takes office.
The incoming Trump administration is planning to ramp up operations to arrest unauthorized immigrants across major U.S. cities next week after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, targeting ‘sanctuary’ jurisdictions that limit cooperation with federal immigration officials,” CBS News reports.

“The locations expected to be targeted by deportation teams from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement include those with large populations of immigrants, such as the Chicago area.”

Said border czar Tom Hohman: “There’s gonna be a big raid all across the country.”
I don't see this ending peacefully, could very well get violent. I'm still not even sure how well this can be done? But it is Germany all over again. Expect the worst once this operation gets going. And people take their stand.

also, Trump is appointing someone called Penny, to the Department of education. But trump has said, he will gut that department and close it down. And funny thing is, his MAGA cult are turning against him, because he broken another promise to them. you really have to laugh at that.

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I bet if things go bad, Trump could declare a nation emergency, and declare martial law. Then, things will likely head south. But that I suspect might his intention, wouldn't put it past him.
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Seems like they really want to go through with their expansion plans. A bill to allow the president to begin negotiations with Denmark over the purchase of Greenland just got introduced. Apparently the focus of the new administration is going to be expanding America outwards and building an Empire.

Source straight from congress: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-con ... 1/all-info
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And we all know where that will lead. Congress is just signing things with blood now. As that is where this will end.
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And we all know how this will end: Once a bill is introduced, there's no way to stop it and it will take effect exactly the way it was meant to be. How I despise those Americans with there efficient democracy.
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Thereswhy wrote: Sun, 19. Jan 25, 14:15 And we all know how this will end: Once a bill is introduced, there's no way to stop it and it will take effect exactly the way it was meant to be. How I despise those Americans with there efficient democracy.
The problem is not rather or not the bill is going to pass, the issue is the message it and Trumps comments are sending and the message is clear: America wants to expand. Other countries need to prepare for land grabbing attempts by the planets foremost superpower and with Trump‘s temper anyone could be on the chopping block.
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Should at least be yet another LOUD wake-up call for those who didn't quite got it in what times we live in. Times of peace are over, now everybody is staking "their" claims [again].
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clakclak wrote: Sun, 19. Jan 25, 19:34
Thereswhy wrote: Sun, 19. Jan 25, 14:15 And we all know how this will end: Once a bill is introduced, there's no way to stop it and it will take effect exactly the way it was meant to be. How I despise those Americans with there efficient democracy.
The problem is not rather or not the bill is going to pass, the issue is the message it and Trumps comments are sending and the message is clear: America wants to expand. Other countries need to prepare for land grabbing attempts by the planets foremost superpower and with Trump‘s temper anyone could be on the chopping block.
And that congress is ready to bow and kiss the emperor's ring, another sure sign that bad things are coming. the mass deportations is just a small wakeup call. getting invaded by a friendly power, because of the said emperor who wants it all, is another. I see war coming, and its getting closer. Trump's madness will do a great deal of harm.

American cities will be under a curfew, very probable. concentration camps by the truckload. We should all start to live in fear. I feared this will happen. and its going to be bloody. I don't see a peaceful solution to this. Trump will want war, or new land by any means necessary. No one will stop him. No one will dare.
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Trump is currently doing a lot of talking – that’s it. His focus will be on domestic policy at the beginning, which I would generally predict for his entire term in office.
Then reality will probably catch up with him again: The USA needs migration, otherwise who will do the numerous “easy jobs”?
The USA is the largest donor to Ukraine, but at the same time it is also the largest beneficiary, if you look at the order books of the US defense industry. This is a fact that Trump must pay close attention to.
Trump can't keep numerous election promises anyway, and he won't make cities in the Midwest like Detroit boom again - either. Nobody cares about the fuss about Panama, Greenland and Canada anyway.
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Well everyone, I give you the drained swamp, the anti elitsts sitting in Trump's family section who will fight for the blue collar American worker. From left to right: Mark Zuckerberg, MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Elon Musk. I am sure they are all very worried about egg prices and such.
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So it begins, Trump will sign around 200 executive orders on the first day of office. Probably to reverse whatever Biden has done. Plus to declare a national emergency on the border of Mexico. (or very soon) plus he plans to do one for energy, so he can start getting drills working for oil.

And, he also saying that transgender people aren't recognised. And ending birthright citizenship. (is planning)

So, things are going to get real ugly, real soon.

PS. Trump never touched the bible when he took the oath of office. a lot of people noticed and annoyed by that. But of course, it means, he doesn't give a shit about the oath he has taken.
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