The Official Thread Dedicated to "Trump Winning"

[IndySteel]

Tibs doesn't understand what Communism means, even though he is a commie. Hilarious.

 

[Hypocycloids]

The MAGA movement personified in a single headline.


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Um.. no name has been “stripped” from a carrier you deranged Hungarian lunatic.
Millers name was in the plans for a new vessel not even built yet.

“Navy may reconsider naming future carrier after black war hero.”
That would resemble a heading written by a rational journalist not afflicted with TDS.

 

[Badcat]

Ultimately, both the Biden and Trump administrations have added historic, multi-trillion-dollar sums to the deficit. The reality is that Congress passes the budget bills and modern debt is a deeply bipartisan issue. I just wanted to make sure you Trump supporters acknowledge his significant role in all of this mess. If you're going to call out Obama and Biden for the rising national debt under their presidencies, be consistent and do the exact same for Trump and a Republican-controlled Congress.

Why do we (collectively) blame the President for the National debt when it's Congress who sets the budget? Sure, the President gets to direct the funding but we should be pointing to Congress for allowing such debt to incur.

 

[Hypocycloids]

The irony of this thread is that it also serves as The Official Tread Dedicated to Tibs Losing.

 

[Tibs]

Tibs doesn't understand what Communism means, even though he is a commie. Hilarious..

you're deranged. do explain how you got to this conclusion.

How is that communism in any way shape or form?

Here you go, comrades.

Trump's policy could be compared to communism - or a heavily state-managed "command economy" - through its use of centralized state intervention to dictate market pricing and control supply, rather than letting free-market capitalism determine them naturally.

Here is a detailed breakdown:

1. State-Mandated Pricing (Price Setting)

The Policy: The announcement states that the government has secured a "commitment that this beef will be sold at 25 percent below current market prices".

The Parallel: In a pure capitalist system, prices are determined entirely by supply and demand. By contrast, a hallmark of communist or command economies is administrative price-fixing, where the state decides what a good should cost to protect the consumer, rather than letting the competitive market find its own equilibrium.

2. State-Controlled Supply and Quotas

The Policy: The state is explicitly managing the volume of the economy by injecting exactly "up to 300,000 metric tons" of a specific product into the domestic market over a strict "90 days" time frame.

The Parallel: Centralized economic planning relies heavily on government-enforced production and import quotas. Rather than private businesses importing goods based on their independent profit calculations, the centralized authority orchestrates the volume and timing of the supply to achieve a political or social outcome.

3. Favoring State Selection Over Market Competition

The Policy: By waiving "out-of-quota tariffs" specifically for an engineered deal, the government uses its power to artificially lower the cost of foreign goods.

The Parallel: Domestic industry representatives, such as the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, argued that flooding the market with government-managed, below-market beef disrupts natural trade dynamics. When the state tips the scales to favor certain products or dictate how a sector recovers, it mirrors the "heavy hand" of state-directed industrial planning found in socialist or state-capitalist systems.

 

[Tibs]

Millers name was in the plans for a new vessel not even built yet.

Ok, let's take this nice and slow, Stewey. Somebody, somewhere high enough in the US Navy decided under Trump's first term to name the carrier after Doris Miller. The ship was officially assigned his name.

In January 2020, during Donald Trump’s first presidential term, the Navy announced that the Gerald R. Ford-class nuclear aircraft carrier CVN-81 would be named the USS Doris Miller. It was set to make history as the first aircraft carrier ever named after an enlisted sailor and a Black American.

And now, somebody, somewhere, somehow decided to stop and change this, and are considering renaming the vessel after Donald Trump instead.

What is it in this scenario that is so difficult or complicated for you to understand?