The Danger of another Donald Trump Presidency

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I think that the problem here is that what you are referring to as people not to be taken literally is a whole generation of people not saying what they mean or meaning what they say. For instance we had Trump tell us that he would end the war in Ukraine in a day. The same thing he said about the war in Afghanistan; it would be ended by him. He never did and in fact he increased it at times. When it extends to all his lies about expanding or contracting property values then such exaggerations broke the law. And now that it includes forcing other countries to become a part of the United Clones of Americops it only encourages other countries to take land as well. It is also part of his inflated business deals. I’ve met such people who sell a package of cracker jacks instead of the real commodity: they cannot be trusted and you end up not doing business with them and find more candid and kind people you can trust to do as they say and not as they boisterously bragged about or as they please to serve there own selfish purposes. We are talking about people who serve us rather then serve themselves and their own selfish ego aims.

[mccoy]

Steve, I understand what you are saying, but probably the choice as to presidential candidates is limited and people voted for what they considered the best choice available, not the best ideal choice in absolute. I too believe that the best choice in absolute would have been very different. However, sometimes you must eat what's on the table if there is no other choice.

I listened attentively to Trump's clams about Ukraine. First of all, he's not in charge yet, so he could not lead negotiations in the name of the USA. Second, he probably spoke about an effective day, minus the preparations and all the diplomatic activities needed to make the negotiations happen. Plus, he was aware that he was speaking in very optimistic terms, because he added that it's going to be much more difficult now, and it would not have happened if he were president.

I think people will be happy if the war is ended not in one day, but in a reasonably short time.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Steve, I understand what you are saying, but probably the choice as to presidential candidates is limited and people voted for what they considered the best choice available, not the best ideal choice in absolute. I too believe that the best choice in absolute would have been very different. However, sometimes you must eat what's on the table if there is no other choice.

Well if we have a plate full of food, it is best to leave the beef and bottom feeders behind in preference to the vegetables and fruits and we know the grabbing meat eaters!

[mccoy]

Steve, I understand what you are saying, but probably the choice as to presidential candidates is limited and people voted for what they considered the best choice available, not the best ideal choice in absolute. I too believe that the best choice in absolute would have been very different. However, sometimes you must eat what's on the table if there is no other choice.

Well if we have a plate full of food, it is best to leave the beef and bottom feeders behind in preference to the vegetables and fruits and we know the grabbing meat eaters!

Good point, although the new president told Joe Rogan that his doctor put him to diet. I wonder what's the new diet. I doubt it's vegan, but it could have improved (from beef burger to fish burger?)

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump has been sentenced to 10 years in deadly DWI crash
Jan. 30, 2025, 9:49 PM EST
A Missouri woman convicted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and recently pardoned by President Donald Trump was sentenced to 10 years this week for killing a mother of two in a drunken-driving crash.
Emily Hernandez was seen holding the broken nameplate of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi after the mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol in 2021. She served 30 days in federal prison and was released.
On Wednesday, she was sentenced in Missouri state court to 10 years in prison for a 2022 drunken-driving crash that killed Victoria Wilson and seriously injured her husband, Ryan Wilson, court records show.
“Nothing will ever bring her back,” Victoria Wilson’s mother, Tonie Donaldson, told reporters outside court. “We have an empty hole in my heart that will always be there.”
Hernandez, 24, pleaded guilty on Nov. 5 to one count driving while intoxicated in which a person died and another DWI count in which a person was seriously injured.
Hernandez was driving the wrong way on a Missouri interstate on Jan. 5, 2022, when she crashed into a car with Victoria and Ryan Wilson, a couple out celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary, NBC affiliate KDSK of St. Louis reported.
Victoria Wilson, 32, died of her injuries at a hospital. Ryan Wilson was hurt and suffered a disabling injury to his right foot, court documents say.
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Hernandez’ blood-alcohol content was recorded at .125, records show.
Hernandez’ defense attorneys argued in a sentencing memorandum for a sentence of 120 days, or around four months, saying she acknowledged that she killed someone and is ashamed of her actions.
“Emily’s emotional make-up will forever contain feelings of remorse, grief, sadness and shame,” her attorneys wrote.
A voice mail left at the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's Office seeking comment Thursday night was not immediately returned.
Trump on Jan. 20, the first day of his second presidential term, issued pardons or commutations for everyone convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, in which police officers were beaten by a mob and the building ransacked.
Hernandez was not accused of violence against any officers on Jan. 6. She pleaded guilty to a federal count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, a misdemeanor, in January 2022, and was sentenced to 30 days and one year of supervised release.
Nearly all of the estimated 1,500 people received unconditional pardons, but 14 people convicted had their sentences commuted, including  Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right group Oath Keepers.

[mccoy]

Steve, in all fairness towards the Cosmic director, we cannot see only one scene of the cosmic film, otherwise we would distort the truth.

The real plot appears that Mr Trump conceded 1700 pardons, whereas Mr. Biden conceded 8064. Obama issued about 1900, so Trump Is only 3rd in the list!

Mr. Biden appears to be the biggest issuer of pardons in all the history of the USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_pardoned_or_granted_clemency_by_the_president_of_the_United_States

[Jitendra Hydonus]

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WestJet sees 25 per cent drop in passengers wanting to fly to U.S. since tariff talk started: CEO
By Jordan Kanygin

WestJet said demand for travel to the United States has been “soft” over the last few weeks since a possible trade war started brewing between Canada and its biggest trading partner.

“What we have seen though, since the tariff announcements, is that our sales from Canada into the U.S. have actually dropped very significantly,” von Hoensbroech said, adding that the exchange rate likely has something do with the falling demand as well.

As reported, a Leger poll conducted from 31JAN - 03FEB 2025 with 1,553 Canadians found that nearly half (48%) say they’re less likely to visit the U.S. this year versus in 2024. That’s nearly double the 29% of Canadians who said the same thing in a Narrative poll taken in mid-January.

And an even more recent (07-10FEB) Léger poll reported in the National Post indicates the number has increased substantially in just one week to 56% of Canadians who are willing to cancel or avoid U.S. travel.

Leger stated that domestic Canadian travel is the top alternative for those avoiding U.S. trips. Six-in-ten (61%) of those less likely to visit the U.S. plan to explore Canada instead – 30% will travel within their home province, while 31% will visit another province within Canada.

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[mccoy]

Good! Canadians exploring their land and scenic beauties in the 51st state of the USA. The largest state of all, actually.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Good! Canadians exploring their land and scenic beauties in the 51st state of the USA. The largest state of all, actually.

The Canadian citizens are obviously not happy with the United States since Trump
has become president and most likely will not allow such bombastic remarks by a blowhard to affect them.

[mccoy]

Good! Canadians exploring their land and scenic beauties in the 51st state of the USA. The largest state of all, actually.

The Canadian citizens are obviously not happy with the United States since Trump
has become president and most likely will not allow such bombastic remarks by a blowhard to affect them.

All is relative, Steve, all is relative.

I have heard so many Canadian citizens strongly complain about Mr. Trudeau's administration. Such Canadian citizens would sure be happy about turning their country officially into a state of the greatest democracy of all times, extolled by Paramhansa Yogananda as presently ruled by superachieving individuals like Mr. Trump ad Mr. Musk.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

As you must know there are also millions of people in the United States dissatisfied and many have left the country. Trudeau would be a much better president for the United Clones of Americops which Trump is attempting to implement in the American government, but do you ever hear Trudeau saying he wants to make the states provinces? Below are Trumps accomplishments for the last 25 days in office…

[mccoy]

Steve, the list you posted is very funny, I like it, political satire is always welcome.

However, in the real world detached judgment and logic elaboration of facts and evidence are required.
The Americans who would like Trudeau and really believe the Fuhrer has come back, are free to flee to his country, but he will be replaced soon and maybe the wind will change there as well. Such Americans might find themselves in the 51st state of the USA, pretty soon.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Steve, the list you posted is very funny, I like it, political satire is always welcome.

However, in the real world detached judgment and logic elaboration of facts and evidence are required.
The Americans who would like Trudeau and really believe the Fuhrer has come back, are free to flee to his country, but he will be replaced soon and maybe the wind will change there as well. Such Americans might find themselves in the 51st state of the USA, pretty soon.

Your views surprise me. At one time you sympathized with the Ukrainians and recognized the aggression of a tyrant when Putin and his thugs openly and blatantly invaded Ukraine with no provocation. And now you also openly support the take over of other countries by the domination of one man’s ego; full of hot 🥵 air —Donald Trump. Believe me Putin and Trump are two of a kind both so full of ego that they are willing to follow the path of Hitler and Napoleon before them. A road of dismal egotistical conquest and eventual vanquished despair.

[mccoy]

Steve, I strongly doubt that the USA will ever invade Canada in the same way Russia invaded Ukraine. I view that as an impossibility, or at least, something with such a low degree of probability to be impossible.

However, I support a friendly annexation of Canada to America, maybe with Canada having some special independence privileges as a 51st state. Things can be figured out. In the best interest of Canada and the world.

But what maybe will realistically happen, after Mr. Trudeau will be gone, is some special confederacy of nations, like it's happening in Europe, with borders that will not be subject to checks and free trade. The new entity might be called 'USNA', or United States of North America.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Once again Trump and his ultra ego Vice President show no social graces at all. The bombastic air of ego and bullying has no end in this supposed ‘conversation’ Trump even adds derogatory biting sarcasm to the conversation.


https://apple.news/Aio5tn2xwRLiyBPpR27WCmg

Well now we know how Trump would end the war in a day; by handing over power to a demon; Putin.