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Biden almost killed USA and Obama was the weakest among all presidents... so actually I don't see any lies on CNN... so far.

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34 minutes ago, zephyralexxx said:

Biden almost killed USA and Obama was the weakest among all presidents... so actually I don't see any lies on CNN... so far.

And Ceausescu was the greatest leader Romania ever had and the Securitate bringing so much joy to the Romanian people? 

Posted
3 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:

And Ceausescu was the greatest leader Romania ever had and the Securitate bringing so much joy to the Romanian people? 

Again trolling me? This is a Madonna forum and we are here for the music, mainly. You're not even for this, here. Mind your own business.

Posted
48 minutes ago, zephyralexxx said:

Biden almost killed USA and Obama was the weakest among all presidents... so actually I don't see any lies on CNN... so far.

And your arguments are? 

Posted
10 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:

And Ceausescu was the greatest leader Romania ever had and the Securitate bringing so much joy to the Romanian people? 

Ouch, :lol:

 

Posted
Just now, zephyralexxx said:

Here it comes @Raider of the lost Ark advocate :lol:

I was not. It was a serious question. Curious to hear why you think Biden and Obama was so terrible. 
Stop taking every comments like an attack.

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Just now, runa said:

I was not. It was a serious question. Curious to hear why you think Biden and Obama was so terrible. 
Stop taking every comments like an attack.

Really? You and other 2-3 members are doing this since last year when I said I wouldn't vote for the incompetent Kamala if I was an american citizen.

Just learn that in this life not everyone has to agree with everything you stand for: art, politics, religion, hobbies... neither to justify ourselves with arguments in front of others.

Posted
14 minutes ago, zephyralexxx said:

Really? You and other 2-3 members are doing this since last year when I said I wouldn't vote for the incompetent Kamala if I was an american citizen.

Just learn that in this life not everyone has to agree with everything you stand for: art, politics, religion, hobbies... neither to justify ourselves with arguments in front of others.

I remember asking you why you wouldn’t vote for Kamala and you refused to give me your reasons, just like you do, now. 

We don’t have to agree with each other, thank God for that, but at least have some arguments to back up your words. At least we could understand why you think how you think. It has nothing to do with justifying yourself. You keep saying Kamala is incompetent, fair enough, but you never said why. Easy to say "I hate", but it’s way more difficult to say why.
 

Posted
3 minutes ago, runa said:

I remember asking you why you wouldn’t vote for Kamala and you refused to give me your reasons, just like you do, now. 

We don’t have to agree with each other, thank God for that, but at least have some arguments to back up your words. At least we could understand why you think how you think. It has nothing to do with justifying yourself. You keep saying Kamala is incompetent, fair enough, but you never said why. Easy to say "I hate", but it’s way more difficult to say why.
 

Thank you. Just as we never got an answer to the Kamala question, we will not get an answer in regards to Biden and Obama from @zephyralexxx

When I make a very obvious stupid comment, it's trolling. Considering the original comment I don't even think there is something wrong about it. In fact, at this point I do believe Zephyr makes those comments merely as ragebait. 

 

Posted
6 hours ago, mtzlplk said:

This Barron is freshly hawt... 

:megamanson: 

Well, at least you're consistent. :rolleyes:

Posted
17 minutes ago, runa said:

I remember asking you why you wouldn’t vote for Kamala and you refused to give me your reasons, just like you do, now. 

We don’t have to agree with each other, thank God for that, but at least have some arguments to back up your words. At least we could understand why you think how you think. It has nothing to do with justifying yourself. You keep saying Kamala is incompetent, fair enough, but you never said why. Easy to say "I hate", but it’s way more difficult to say why.
 

I don't hate anyone, though I see so much hate in here, especially towards other artists. Actually there is more interaction in their threads than in Madonna's (and this is also for sure because of the lack of Madonna's activity in music for 6 years).

Anyway, here are the "gifts" from Biden/Harris administration: increasing prices with more than 20%, increasing inflation, families falling behind on bills, number of americans struggling to pay credit card bills has increased to the highest level for years, billions NOT millions spent for Ukraine and Israel, the pandemic handling (as an american citizen you had to show your vaccine paper when entering in a restaurant but there you had the border crisis with immigrants who had no identity, vaccine, etc.), increasing crimes on streets because of immigrants.

...and I'm sure I forgot other aspects.

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3 minutes ago, zephyralexxx said:

I don't hate anyone, though I see so much hate in here, especially towards other artists. Actually there is more interaction in their threads than in Madonna's (and this is also for sure because of the lack of Madonna's activity in music for 6 years).

Anyway, here are the "gifts" from Biden/Harris administration: increasing prices with more than 20%, increasing inflation, families falling behind on bills, number of americans struggling to pay credit card bills has increased to the highest level for years, billions NOT millions spent for Ukraine and Israel, the pandemic handling (as an american citizen you had to show your vaccine paper when entering in a restaurant but there you had the border crisis with immigrants who had no identity, vaccine, etc.), increasing crimes on streets because of immigrants.

...and I'm sure I forgot other aspects.

Thanks for your answer! I understand better your point of view, now. I appreciate.
Doesn't mean I agree, but at least, I know where your opinion comes from, which is a good start ! Talking politics is a sensitive subject and the world, now, is so polarized, but I think it's important to hear what other people have to say. 

And I totally agree with you : there's a lot of hate, that's why I rarely post in the princess section. 

Posted
2 minutes ago, runa said:

Thanks for your answer! I understand better your point of view, now. I appreciate.
Doesn't mean I agree, but at least, I know where your opinion comes from, which is a good start ! Talking politics is a sensitive subject and the world, now, is so polarized, but I think it's important to hear what other people have to say. 

And I totally agree with you : there's a lot of hate, that's why I rarely post in the princess section. 

You're welcome. That's why I don't talk politics with family and friends anymore. Not even on social media. This is my point of view, no one has to agree with me in here and also I won't change my point of view no matter how many quotes will follow after this. At least there was a minimal and mature conversation between us, unlike the other member with the Ceausescu reference 🤦‍♂️

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35 minutes ago, zephyralexxx said:

You're welcome. That's why I don't talk politics with family and friends anymore. Not even on social media. This is my point of view, no one has to agree with me in here and also I won't change my point of view no matter how many quotes will follow after this. At least there was a minimal and mature conversation between us, unlike the other member with the Ceausescu reference 🤦‍♂️

I have read your "reasons" why you have an issue with Biden/Harris and realized a "mature" discussion with you will not be possible anyway. Let's face it, you are deep down in a MAGA hole, although you are not even living in the U.S.. You even admit to it. Quote: "... I don't talk politics with family and friends anymore ...". Makes me wonder where you are getting your information from. You name all the MAGA talking points, except transgender and bathrooms, all the talking points that can be so easily dismantled. But from my perspective you have shut down and will not listen to whatever "the other side" will say. I will not engage in a discussion about inflation with anyone who clearly lacks the basic knowledge in economics. And please don't claim otherwise because if this was the case, you would not have posted your nonsense in the first place. The issue of inflation has been explained for several years now. But if the election in the U.S. has shown one thing, it's that there are a lot of people being willfully ignorant, in fact they even pride themselves for their ignorance as if it was a badge of honor. And of course, all what has happened in the last years is that big conspiracy created and paid by Soros. Let's face it, I could provide all the facts in the world, you will not care. Again, I don't know if you truly believe what you posted because it is textbook MAGA talk. Or if all of this is merely an act and it is indeed just ragebaiting. In the end, it is not my or any other persons job on this board trying to educate or convince you. The facts are what they are, they don't change just because you may not like them or they don't fit your narrative. You cannot change them. You can only change yourself. Good luck. 

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Omg at all of Trump’s executive orders he signed and pardons issued today! Deranged evil dumb piece of shit and everybody who voted for him! 

Posted
6 hours ago, zephyralexxx said:

Anyway, here are the "gifts" from Biden/Harris administration: increasing prices with more than 20%, increasing inflation, families falling behind on bills, number of americans struggling to pay credit card bills has increased to the highest level for years, billions NOT millions spent for Ukraine and Israel, the pandemic handling (as an american citizen you had to show your vaccine paper when entering in a restaurant but there you had the border crisis with immigrants who had no identity, vaccine, etc.), increasing crimes on streets because of immigrants.

...and I'm sure I forgot other aspects.

  1. Inflation was a worldwide problem exacerbated by post-pandemic supply chain disruption and other factors. Neither Biden nor Harris caused this issue in the U.S.
  2. Americans have their own issues paying for things with credit and this has been a problem for decades. Biden actually tried to forgive student loans to ease bills on middle class and lower income people.
  3. Crime increasing is not due to immigrants. Native-born citizens are more likely to commit crimes. There's even data showing as much.
  4. Your "vaccine paper" argument is laughable. That was purely up to the restaurant owners (not the government) and they did it to protect their staff. Now that's Biden's problem?

Clearly your media in Romania is in alignment with FOX News and Russia. As you said, maybe you should "mind your own business" because you clearly don't have a firm grip on the facts. Just like 50% of the U.S.

 

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https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-executive-orders-3a035a0bbd37b5c12630b92c8c8a9625

Trump signed slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?

IMG_9560.webp

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1.

With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.S., among other actions. He pardoned hundreds of people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

Here’s a look at some of Trump’s initial actions and upcoming plans:

Pardons in the Jan. 6 US Capitol attack 

As he promised repeatedly during the 2024 campaign, the president issued pardons late Monday for about 1,500 people convicted or criminally charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as Congress convened to certify Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump. 

Separately, Trump ordered an end to federal cases against “political opponents” of the Biden administration — meaning Trump supporters. He said Monday that he would end “weaponization” of federal law enforcement but his actions seemed targeted only to help his backers. 

The economy and TikTok

In a made-for-TV display at Capital One Arena on Monday evening, Trump signed a largely symbolic memorandum that he described as directing every federal agency to combat consumer inflation. By repealing Biden actions and adding his own orders, Trump is easing regulatory burdens on oil and natural gas production, something he promises will bring down costs of all consumer goods. Trump is specifically targeting Alaska for expanded fossil fuel production. 

On trade, the president said he expects to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Feb. 1, but declined to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.

Trump also signed an order intended to pause Congress’ TikTok ban for 75 days, a period in which the president says he will seek a U.S. buyer in a deal that can protect national security interests while leaving the popular social media platform open to Americans. 

America First 

As he did during his first administration, Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization. He also ordered a comprehensive review of U.S. foreign aid spending. Both moves fit into his more isolationist “America First” approach to international affairs. 

In more symbolic moves, Trump planned to sign an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. The highest mountain in North America, now known as Denali, will revert back to Mount McKinley, its name until President Barack Obama changed it. And Trump signed an order that flags must be at full height at every future Inauguration Day. The order came because former President Jimmy Carter’s death had prompted flags to be at half-staff. Trump demanded they be moved up Monday. Another Trump order calls for promoting “Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.”

Immigration and national security

Trump reversed several immigration orders from Biden’s presidency, including one that narrowed deportation priorities to people who commit serious crimes, are deemed national security threats or were stopped at the border. It returns the government to Trump’s first-term policy that everyone in the country illegally is a priority for deportation. 

The president declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, and he plans to send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents and restrict refugees and asylum. 

Trump is trying end birthright citizenship. It’s unclear, though, whether his order will survive inevitable legal challenges, since birthright citizenship is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. 

He temporarily suspended the U.S. Refugee Admission Program, pending a review to assess the program’s “public safety and national security” implications. He’s also pledged to restart a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait over the border in Mexico, but officials didn’t say whether Mexico would accept migrants again. And Trump is ending the CBP One app, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants. 

Meanwhile, on national security, the president revoked any active security clearances from a long list of his perceived enemies, including former director of national intelligence James Clapper, Leon Panetta, a former director of the CIA and defense secretary, and his own former national security adviser, John Bolton.

Climate and energy

As expected, Trump signed documents he said will formally withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreements. He made the same move during his first term but Biden reversed it.

Additionally, Trump declared an energy emergency as he promised to “drill, baby, drill,” and said he will eliminate what he calls Biden’s electric vehicle mandate. 

Overhauling federal bureaucracy

Trump has halted federal government hiring, excepting the military and other parts of government that went unnamed. He added a freeze on new federal regulations while he builds out his second administration.

He formally empowered the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is being led by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man. Ostensibly an effort to streamline government, DOGE is not an official agency. But Trump appears poised to give Musk wide latitude to recommend cuts in government programs and spending. 

Diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender rights 

Trump is rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government. Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign trail promises. One order declares that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. And they’re to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes, according to details of the upcoming order. Under the order, federal prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims would be segregated by sex as defined by the order. And federal taxpayer money could not be used to fund “transition services.”

A separate order halts DEI programs, directing the White House to identify and end them within the government. 

Posted
1 hour ago, Camacho said:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-day-1-executive-orders-3a035a0bbd37b5c12630b92c8c8a9625

Trump signed slew of executive orders on Day 1. What are his priorities?

IMG_9560.webp

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has begun his promised flurry of executive action on Day 1.

With his opening rounds of memoranda and executive orders, Trump repealed dozens of former President Joe Biden’s actions, began his immigration crackdown, withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate accords and sought to keep TikTok open in the U.S., among other actions. He pardoned hundreds of people for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

Here’s a look at some of Trump’s initial actions and upcoming plans:

Pardons in the Jan. 6 US Capitol attack 

As he promised repeatedly during the 2024 campaign, the president issued pardons late Monday for about 1,500 people convicted or criminally charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as Congress convened to certify Biden’s 2020 victory over Trump. 

Separately, Trump ordered an end to federal cases against “political opponents” of the Biden administration — meaning Trump supporters. He said Monday that he would end “weaponization” of federal law enforcement but his actions seemed targeted only to help his backers. 

The economy and TikTok

In a made-for-TV display at Capital One Arena on Monday evening, Trump signed a largely symbolic memorandum that he described as directing every federal agency to combat consumer inflation. By repealing Biden actions and adding his own orders, Trump is easing regulatory burdens on oil and natural gas production, something he promises will bring down costs of all consumer goods. Trump is specifically targeting Alaska for expanded fossil fuel production. 

On trade, the president said he expects to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico starting Feb. 1, but declined to flesh out his plans for taxing Chinese imports.

Trump also signed an order intended to pause Congress’ TikTok ban for 75 days, a period in which the president says he will seek a U.S. buyer in a deal that can protect national security interests while leaving the popular social media platform open to Americans. 

America First 

As he did during his first administration, Trump is pulling the U.S. out of the World Health Organization. He also ordered a comprehensive review of U.S. foreign aid spending. Both moves fit into his more isolationist “America First” approach to international affairs. 

In more symbolic moves, Trump planned to sign an order renaming the Gulf of Mexico, making it the Gulf of America. The highest mountain in North America, now known as Denali, will revert back to Mount McKinley, its name until President Barack Obama changed it. And Trump signed an order that flags must be at full height at every future Inauguration Day. The order came because former President Jimmy Carter’s death had prompted flags to be at half-staff. Trump demanded they be moved up Monday. Another Trump order calls for promoting “Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture.”

Immigration and national security

Trump reversed several immigration orders from Biden’s presidency, including one that narrowed deportation priorities to people who commit serious crimes, are deemed national security threats or were stopped at the border. It returns the government to Trump’s first-term policy that everyone in the country illegally is a priority for deportation. 

The president declared a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border, and he plans to send U.S. troops to help support immigration agents and restrict refugees and asylum. 

Trump is trying end birthright citizenship. It’s unclear, though, whether his order will survive inevitable legal challenges, since birthright citizenship is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. 

He temporarily suspended the U.S. Refugee Admission Program, pending a review to assess the program’s “public safety and national security” implications. He’s also pledged to restart a policy that forced asylum seekers to wait over the border in Mexico, but officials didn’t say whether Mexico would accept migrants again. And Trump is ending the CBP One app, a Biden-era border app that gave legal entry to nearly 1 million migrants. 

Meanwhile, on national security, the president revoked any active security clearances from a long list of his perceived enemies, including former director of national intelligence James Clapper, Leon Panetta, a former director of the CIA and defense secretary, and his own former national security adviser, John Bolton.

Climate and energy

As expected, Trump signed documents he said will formally withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreements. He made the same move during his first term but Biden reversed it.

Additionally, Trump declared an energy emergency as he promised to “drill, baby, drill,” and said he will eliminate what he calls Biden’s electric vehicle mandate. 

Overhauling federal bureaucracy

Trump has halted federal government hiring, excepting the military and other parts of government that went unnamed. He added a freeze on new federal regulations while he builds out his second administration.

He formally empowered the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which is being led by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man. Ostensibly an effort to streamline government, DOGE is not an official agency. But Trump appears poised to give Musk wide latitude to recommend cuts in government programs and spending. 

Diversity, equity and inclusion and transgender rights 

Trump is rolling back protections for transgender people and terminating diversity, equity and inclusion programs within the federal government. Both are major shifts for the federal policy and are in line with Trump’s campaign trail promises. One order declares that the federal government would recognize only two immutable sexes: male and female. And they’re to be defined based on whether people are born with eggs or sperm, rather than on their chromosomes, according to details of the upcoming order. Under the order, federal prisons and shelters for migrants and rape victims would be segregated by sex as defined by the order. And federal taxpayer money could not be used to fund “transition services.”

A separate order halts DEI programs, directing the White House to identify and end them within the government. 

This is a baby boomers wet dream. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’re the most statistically happiest demographic today.

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