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You still think any of his moves are driven by 'what's good for the US'? I think it's motivated entirely by schemes to stuff his pockets with money.
by watutalkinbout 1mo ago
You still think any of his moves are driven by 'what's good for the US'?
I think it's motivated entirely by schemes to stuff his pockets with money.
- rapnie 1mo agoHe's just running a kleptocracy, and doing so reasonably well.
- rjzzleep 1mo agoPeople still happily buy his tokens though, and then blame China for getting scammed.
- bdangubic 1mo agoNot China’s fault but Biden’s :)
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- trueno 1mo agoindeed. i'm sure he's surrounded by some lumber moguls stateside that are going to get very rich from this. very russia coded. i don't doubt deregulation on clearcutting as well as removing land ownership and no logging in national forests & protected lands.... are around the corner with this admin. feel like they attempted that during his last term with attempting to disgrace park rangers over wildfires and saying they didn't rake the leaves on the ground or whatever.
- ETH_start 1mo ago[flagged]
- cammikebrown 1mo agoOh no! Not the implosion of democracy in real time!
- forestrywat 1mo agoMy friend, sometimes the truth is partisan. And in those cases it absolutely belongs on HN.
- ivewonyoung 1mo agoThe issue is that it only goes in one direction of partisanship.
- dredmorbius 1mo agoThat is hardly the Truth's fault.
- forestrywat 1mo agoSo you are suggesting less truth is good? That we should come here and post lies because that's more fair? Absurd.
- watutalkinbout 1mo agoI've noticed pretty heavy partisanship here on [flat earth] vs [spherical earth]. Shocking really.
- valleyer 1mo ago"Reality has a well-known liberal bias."
- FpUser 1mo agoYou should try programming language X vs language Y, cloud vs on-prem, Framework A vs Framework B, OOP vs Composition etc., etc. HN is as partisan as it gets.
- xphos 1mo agoI think the clamoring of the aesthetic of impartiality is destroying interesting discussion. The president is currently lining his pockets with tax payer dollars and being an overall bumbling buffoon. It is not partisan when the would view the US as weaker, less intelligent, and less reliable. Its consequences of inaction and bad policy of the current administration
- TehCorwiz 1mo agoThey already started by shrinking national monuments. https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893397/trump-again-shrinks-utah-national-monuments https://www.npr.org/2026/07/14/nx-s1-5893397/trump-again-shr... EDIT: Adding a TL:DR, this article explains how the Trump admin reduced the size of two national monuments by 90% and 91% respectively. This is just one example, there are more and most of them are out west in lands untouched for nearly a century. Saved for posterity because once they're gone, they're gone.
- hammock 1mo ago[flagged]
- realusername 1mo agoHow it seems to work from his past attempts is that the business pays a bribe to try to lift it
- ekabod 1mo agoMaybe US lumber producers lined his pockets. Probably not.
- Avicebron 1mo agoI don't cutting down our forests either but the stated goal of the whole exercise is to improve the US's businesses and self reliance on local industry...
- Arodex 1mo agoAnd the unstated goal is to satisfy a senile crook stuck in the 70s (maybe the 1870s)...
- estearum 1mo ago"The stated goal" is stupid as fuck, especially when it comes to our literal immediate neighbor who has been a steadfast ally for the last 100+ years.
- forestrywat 1mo agoWhy would anyone, even one of his supporters, care about the stated goal? The man has decades of pursuing goals other than his stated goals. You'd have to be profoundly naive.
- Avicebron 1mo ago> Why would anyone, even one of hoods supporters, care about the stated goal? Because regardless of the execution, this is a forcing function around a broader topic about prosperity in a nation. Tangentially it's also about potential future conflict with China (I hope not!). Both of which I think are much more interesting of a discussion than base partisan mud-slinging.
- nielsbot 1mo agodon’t forget his weak ego
- dboreham 1mo agoThe "make more money" rationale is way too logical vs how this guy's brain operates. It's better understood as being like Pro Wrestling. Except the "ring" is the world economy.
- Terretta 1mo ago> “motivated entirely … to stuff his pockets” Someone's pockets, must be gnomes: • PHASE 1: COLLECT UNDERPANTS. (tariff "foreign" goods desired by Americans, collect upon import from companies, clarify spiked prices experienced by consumers ‘entirely’ due to prior admin policies) • PHASE 2: … (let simmer) • PHASE 3: PROFIT. ("return" tariff costs to companies)
- estearum 1mo agoApril 2: Trump "liberates" Americans from low-cost goods by placing tariffs at 46% on Vietname May 16: Vietnam approves $1.5B Trump hotel project (https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-trump-golf-estate-investment-f2aa09af5467654dff4dcf19fcdc25c9 https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-trump-golf-estate-investm...) July 2: US lowers tariffs on Vietnam to 20% (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500738/pdf/DCPD-202500738.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/DCPD-202500738/pdf/DCPD-...)
- jaynate 1mo agoThe underpants gnomes. Well played!
- m0llusk 1mo agoIt's worse than that. He is so completely off that he thinks this means US builders will chose to buy US lumber instead and that will work out positively for everyone in the US.
- iAMkenough 1mo agoSimultaneously believes that flooding the market with foreign beef to lower beef prices will benefit American cattlemen.
- watutalkinbout 1mo agoHe doesn't give a shit about US lumber or US builders. If he isn't stuffing his pockets, he's leveraging the populist playbook. In this case, 'scapegoating'. But let's be honest, he likely has a huge amount of debt. Before he came into office he almost certainly fixed the interest on that debt knowing he could blow inflation through the roof and inflate it away.
- brador 1mo agoHe wakes up and flips a coin. He doesn’t care anyway and there’s no consequences.
- Jcampuzano2 1mo agoIf it was a coin flip, there'd be a 50% chance he did good things every day and we'd have a significantly better outcome than we do now. Its many times worse than a coin clip.
- dpkirchner 1mo agoThe coin is to decide which terrible person he is going to listen to. And his weirdo followers love him for it.
- Teknomadix 1mo agoIndeed. Donald Trump is only the visible tip of an iceberg. Below the waterline it's a massive and all encompassing corruption, comprised of an organized multi-national cabal that touches every part of the globe and which has its roots in the world starting well before WWI. The goal of which appears has always been to enrich the people on the inside while sewing chaos. To these figures, war and peril have always been more profitable than making peace. https://annas-archive.gl/md5/2275fbf2d96f518e54c2b72edf163f85 https://annas-archive.gl/md5/2275fbf2d96f518e54c2b72edf163f8...
- pkulak 1mo agoHe's already got more money than he can spend. As dementia sets in, he's been shifting more and more to pure emotion-based decision making.
- foogazi 1mo agoand votes