The Trump Card...

ATeam · Wednesday at 12:20 PM

Ragman said:
It must have something to do with the Trump Crime family having holdings in those nations.

Mine was a rhetorical question and I have a different answer.

The Trump administration is propping up the Japanese yen because Japan is in deep financial trouble. They also hold $1.2 trillion is US Treasury securities. An easy way for Japan to ease its pain is to sell a good chunk of those. But if they do, US interest rates will instantly rise, which no number of Trump appointees on the Federal Reserve Bank board can prevent. The market speaks louder than the Fed.

A big Treasury sale by Japan would interfere with Trump's false claim that interest rates are going down. To prevent that negative political development, Trump is happy to do everything he can to prop up the Yen (which is doomed to crash anyway later on); no matter what the long-term negative consequence may be to the US.

muttly · Wednesday at 3:25 PM

ATeam said:
Of course I do not approve of any one being doxxed or personally threatened. But answer me this. Why do legitimate police officers wear name tags, have badge numbers, and keep their faces unmasked? What's different about ICE that inspires them to unprofessionally patrol the streets and raid homes as secret police? Why do they need to hide their faces when real police officers don't?

Because they’re being doxxed and threatened for doing constitutionally sanctioned enforcement. There’s reportedly a whole illegal network there in Minnesota doing that: Getting license plates numbers, doxxing, and threatening them. And the local police are given stand down orders to not assist ICE and Border Patrol with public violence . Leaving ICE to do their police work. This is the fault of Minnesota leadership.

muttly · Wednesday at 3:29 PM

ATeam said:
As the Trump strongman myth collapses, and his law-breaking loyalists are brought to justice, there is going to be a lot of head shaking under those red caps, and a lot of those caps will be burned.

Your premise is wrong again. Like usual.

Ragman · Wednesday at 3:57 PM

muttly said:
Because they’re being doxxed and threatened for doing constitutionally sanctioned enforcement. There’s reportedly a whole illegal network there in Minnesota doing that: Getting license plates numbers, doxxing, and threatening them. And the local police are given stand down orders to not assist ICE and Border Patrol with public violence . Leaving ICE to do their police work. This is the fault of Minnesota leadership.

muttly said:
Your premise is wrong again. Like usual.

History will show how ridiculous the whole Maga movement is and rank it along other fascist regimes.

muttly · Wednesday at 4:53 PM

Ragman said:
History will show how ridiculous the whole Maga movement is and rank it along other fascist regimes.

Just unhinged Leftist blather.

muttly · Wednesday at 5:04 PM

muttly · Wednesday at 5:12 PM

Good, good.

ATeam · Wednesday at 5:22 PM

Ragman said:
History will show how ridiculous the whole Maga movement is and rank it along other fascist regimes.

We don't have to wait for history. It's self-evident now. Masked secret police openly violating the rights of citizens at the direction of a Hitler wannabe.

muttly · Wednesday at 5:35 PM

ATeam said:
We don't have to wait for history. It's self-evident now. Masked secret police openly violating the rights of citizens at the direction of a Hitler wannabe.

Such rhetoric is embarrassing. The leaders in Minnesota are at fault. They ordered police to stand down. They didn’t allow ICE in their jails so they were left to apprehend outside them. Without Police backup to prevent agitators from interfering with arrests, which makes it unsafer for ICE and their citizens.

muttly · Thursday at 11:37 AM

ATeam said:
Trump to "De-escalate a Little Bit"

"President Donald Trump said his administration was 'going to de-escalate a little bit' in Minnesota, after the second fatal shooting of a US citizen by federal immigration officers there.

'Bottom line, it was terrible. Both of them were terrible,' he said in a Fox News interview on Tuesday." (Source: BBC)

He may de-escalate but the people will not stop protesting and they will not forget. The Minnesota optics and Trump's lies will haunt Trump forever and define his legacy. The Republicans are going to be destroyed in the 2026 mid-term elections. While it will take a generation to repair the damage this Hitler wannabe has done, the constitution will survive his attempt to subvert it.

People can protest. Just don’t interfere with the constitutionally sanctioned ICE enforcement. Without Minnesota police backup( because leaders told them to stand down )to control the agitators interfering with ICE enforcement, there will be unfortunate incidents like this. Especially if they interfere with ICE operations, resisting arrest or assaulting them.

Ragman · Thursday at 12:05 PM

muttly said:
Such rhetoric is embarrassing. The leaders in Minnesota are at fault. They ordered police to stand down. They didn’t allow ICE in their jails so they were left to apprehend outside them. Without Police backup to prevent agitators from interfering with arrests, which makes it unsafer for ICE and their citizens.

Failed 4th grade reading and comprehension i see.