Trump's targets for 'reciprocal' tariffs include uninhabited islands but exclude Russia and Iran
abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-targets-reciprocal-tariffs-include-uninhabited-islands-exclude/story?id=120445283

Trump went so crazy with tariffs that he included "reciprocal" tariffs on an uninhabited island. No word on how the penguins there are dealing with these new economic challenges.

And interestingly, Trump levied no tariffs on his puppet masters in Russia.

At least he wasn't openly taking bribes to stop investigations for billionaires. And Trump is selling pardons! It's disgusting.
www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardon-bitmex-crypto-exchange-money-laundering.html

The law in California is the other way around. It stops school districts from forcing teachers to notify parents when the students still need privacy. Apparently, coming out as trans can be a delicate situation, and some parents don't take it well. I'd imagine that the parent who actually sees the student would have more than a clue as to what's going on. No need to force a teacher to get between them.

It's not that big of a deal. Teachers can talk to parents if they like. It's just that the school districts cannot require it.
www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/trump-administration-investigates-californias-forced-outing-law-00253931

More likely, this is just something to distract you from the mess that Trump is making everywhere else. Trump is eliminating the Department of Education and half of the rest of the federal government. They're trying to prove that government doesn't work by breaking it.

What "sick perverted ideas?" The part that's bugging me is Trump's lawlessness. He brought in a billionaire consultant, who held no office, but took it upon himself to break into government agency offices and compromise data systems, lacking the requisite security clearances, and had fired the people who were supposed to regulate and investigate such crimes. Musk claimed it was to root out waste fraud and abuse, but just messed things up. What is Trump fixing?

Radical gender choice for elementary children? Do you even know what you mean? Because what it looks like is that you just heard Trump say it and are repeating it here without question.

And yeah, Trump doesn't care about ruining the economy if he can pretend to deport more immigrants, legal or not, than Obama or Biden. Watch the Dow Jones and our 401(k)s tumble halfway to zero, but Stephen Miller will sing Donald's praises because they hate brown people. Got it.

Hah. Good one! Liz Truss probably the least popular British PM, ever. If she knew what is popular in the UK, she might stayed PM longer than seven weeks.

Electrical substations are part of the energy infrastructure, so it is a violation of the cease fire. But, bombing civilian infrastructure and especially hospitals is a war crime, so Russia are just criminals and we shouldn't be surprised, and it's not like Trump is all that against crime.

MSN isn't the news source. MSN is an aggregator, and the news source for the above article is the New York Post. You can see their icon at the top of the story. But you're right that it's not a good news source. It's a tabloid newspaper bought by Rupert Murdoch and now part of NewsCorp.

The story is being reported elsewhere, too, so it checks out. Also the NY Post is a pro-Trump rag, so they didn't report how unpopular the idea is. Some Republicans are very against it, while others are still under Trump's spell and can't disagree with anything he does.
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-maga-backlash-commonwealth-king-charles-2049391

Yikes. I was being sarcastic, but wound up prescient.

Hours After Trump Secures Limited Ceasefire Deal, Russia Attacks Ukraine
truthout.org/articles/hours-after-trump-secures-limited-ceasefire-deal-russia-attacks-ukraine/

More qualified people on unemployment, you mean?

System-wide personnel cuts isn't efficiency. It's just mindless reductions, and they wind up wasting more time and money trying to hire them back. Not to mention all the illegal firings. There are laws protecting federal workers from unwarranted firings, and the Trump Administration and DOGE are breaking laws left and right in the process. It'll probably take years and possibly $billions to sort it all out. Maybe longer, as some of the agencies that oversee that sort of thing are also getting the illegal reductions in force.

Yeah, Russia will probably just stick to bombing and shelling apartment buildings and hospitals, as they do.

I saw that. Many people are upset that Senate Democrats helped Republicans pass their continuing resolution with all the cuts to veterans' programs. Very disappointing. Of course, Republicans should be ashamed of themselves, but we all know they have no shame.

Anyway, polls are just a snapshot and we've got over 18 months to turn things around. It's not like Trump will solve any problems in that time. I'm betting Democrats take the house and Senate in '26.

I never said the war in Ukraine is because of Trump. It started back in 2022, and was clearly because of Putin. He'd been planning for years by the time the first units invaded, squirreling away hundreds of billions of euros and dollars into banks around the world, and making plans with his generals. I doubt Trump had any idea of anything. He's an idiot.

Sorry. You think the tariffs are good for America? Here's a story from that link you shared above:

DHL CEO: Global Trade to Grow Despite US Tariffs
https://www.newsmax.com/streettalk/dhl-ceo-global/2025/03/13/id/1202599/
It's saying that global trade is predicted to increase, but only because most of the global trade is outside the USA. As in 75% of the global trade (outside the US) will likely grow. The tariffs are definitely a damper to international trade, and nobody wins a trade war. Trump is just causing other countries to boycott American-made products. Canada had planned to buy $billions in US defense supplies, but are now looking to cancel those orders and buy from Europe. And that's Canada--our closest and formerly best trading partner.

The companies investing in new US business are doing it because of Biden's CHIPS and Science Act, which gives grants and tax cuts to companies investing in US businesses. Like you pointed out, 60 days is too short a time to make all that happen, and Biden's act was signed into law in 2022. Not surprised that Trump is taking credit for it.
www.commerce.gov/news/blog/2024/08/two-years-later-funding-chips-and-science-act-creating-quality-jobs-growing-local

And the "people that make less than $150,000.00 to pay no income tax" is a scam. The US is running at a deficit, and further tax cuts just add to it and the national debt. Of course we all knew Trump would. Back before the election, it was estimated that Trump would add at least $9 trillion to the debt. That was just on the tax cuts he had proposed by then. This eliminating taxes on earnings under $150K is just another giveaway. They money will come due sooner or later. Maybe Trump doesn't care because he won't live long enough to see it ever get paid back. That, and Medicare and Social Security. Again, Trump won't care because he doesn't need Social Security. I'm guessing by the way you're crowing about this, you don't take SS or Medicare, either.

Trump Administration’s No Taxes Under $150k Proposal Is A Disaster
www.forbes.com/sites/andrewleahey/2025/03/14/trump-administrations-no-taxes-under-150k-proposal-is-a-disaster/

A trade imbalance isn't taking advantage of the other country. Canada's and Mexico's populations and economies are small fractions of the US. How do you expect them to be able to buy as much as the US does? How is Mexico not paying their share when they're farming those vegetables that the US buys, for example?

Trump is convincing you that a trade imbalance is so unfair and bad for us, when the US consumers get to buy stuff for less. If anything, maybe you should be more angry with big pharma for jacking up the price of your prescriptions or angry at the landowners who jack up the price of real estate, and the farm equipment manufacturers that makes it so expensive to grow crops in the US? Otherwise, it's just Trump's friends selling you eggs for a buck a piece, while he pushes his tax cuts for billionaires. I hope you're happy.

Yeah, I reported it, too, but understanding that the guy is un Uganda, I doubt the FBI will be able to do all that much. I was more hoping Mingle2.com would take down this thread. WTH do the moderators even do here?

Is it really a problem where men play against women in women's sports? Where does that even happen? I can't imagine it happens often, and in official competition, there are governing bodies that can impose rules and such. Why are you so wrapped up in that? Were you beaten by a trans man in sports?

I think accountability if fine. Especially in government, but just bringing in a small band of computer hackers to "find" waste, fraud and abuse, and then lie about all that was found should be a crime. The GAO already investigates all that stuff, but because Trump and Musk are the ones trying to cheat the government, they had all the actual government investigators fired and are conducting who-knows-what in their place.

Trump now losing his mind over retaliatory actions from Canada. Raising tariffs to 50% and pledging to kill Canada's automotive industry.

Trump imposes new Canada tariffs, demands it join U.S.

President Trump on Tuesday imposed new retaliatory tariffs on Canada and insisted the only solution was for the country to join the U.S.
www.axios.com/2025/03/11/trump-tariffs-canada-steel-aluminum

Of course Canada is retaliating, including their own tariffs, a general boycott of products from the US, and even imposing surcharges on electricity from Canada to the US--possibly even cutting off that electricity later.

Trump is an imbecile.