Preview of Trump's second term

[Morphine Prince 110,088]

Immigration

“Build the wall!” from his 2016 campaign has become creating “the largest mass deportation program in history.” Trump has called for using the National Guard and empowering domestic police forces in the effort. Still, Trump has been scant on details of what the program would look like and how he would ensure that it targeted only people in the U.S. illegally. He’s pitched “ideological screening” for would-be entrants, ending birth-right citizenship (which almost certainly would require a constitutional change), and said he’d reinstitute first-term policies such as “Remain in Mexico,” limiting migrants on public health grounds and severely limiting or banning entrants from certain majority-Muslim nations. Altogether, the approach would not just crack down on illegal migration, but curtail immigration overall.

Taxes

Trump’s tax policies broadly tilt toward corporations and wealthier Americans. That’s mostly due to his promise to extend his 2017 tax overhaul, with a few notable changes that include lowering the corporate income tax rate to 15% from the current 21%. That also involves rolling back Democratic President Joe Biden’s income tax hikes on the wealthiest Americans and scrapping Inflation Reduction Act levies that finance energy measures intended to combat climate change.

Those policies notwithstanding, Trump has put more emphasis on new proposals aimed at working- and middle class Americans: exempting earned tips, Social Security wages and overtime wages from income taxes. It’s noteworthy, however, that his proposal on tips, depending on how Congress might write it, could give a back-door tax break to top wage earners by allowing them to reclassify some of their pay as tip income — a prospect that at its most extreme could see hedge-fund managers or top-flight attorneys taking advantage of a policy that Trump frames as being designed for restaurant servers, bartenders and other service workers.

Tariffs and trade

Trump’s posture on international trade is to distrust world markets as harmful to American interests. He proposes tariffs of 10% to 20% on foreign goods — and in some speeches has mentioned even higher percentages. He promises to reinstitute an August 2020 executive order requiring that the federal government buy “essential” medications only from U.S. companies. He pledges to block purchases of “any vital infrastructure” in the U.S. by Chinese buyers.

DEI, LGBTQ and civil rights

Trump has called for rolling back societal emphasis on diversity and for legal protections for LGBTQ citizens. Trump has called for ending diversity, equity and inclusion programs in government institutions, using federal funding as leverage.

On transgender rights, Trump promises generally to end “boys in girls’ sports,” a practice he insists, without evidence, is widespread. But his policies go well beyond standard applause lines from his rally speeches. Among other ideas, Trump would roll back the Biden administration’s policy of extending Title IX civil rights protections to transgender students, and he would ask Congress to require that only two genders can be recognized at birth.

Education

The federal Department of Education would be targeted for elimination in a second Trump administration. That does not mean that Trump wants Washington out of classrooms. He still proposes, among other maneuvers, using federal funding as leverage to pressure K-12 school systems to abolish tenure and adopt merit pay for teachers and to scrap diversity programs at all levels of education. He calls for pulling federal funding “for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”

In higher education, Trump proposes taking over accreditation processes for colleges, a move he describes as his “secret weapon” against the “Marxist Maniacs and lunatics” he says control higher education. Trump takes aim at higher education endowments, saying he will collect “billions and billions of dollars” from schools via “taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments” at schools that do not comply with his edicts. That almost certainly would end up in protracted legal fights.

Read about more policy areas here: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wins-second-term-policies-de3dcf0f173b42602b258042fd7aaafb#

[gumzy3000 8,013]

Terrifying.

As a Canadian I pray this right wing wave doesn't come to Canada but I think it's too late. The world is shifting more right and fascist. More propaganda, more government control. Minorities will suffer. As the saying goes, when the US sneezes, the world catches a cold.

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 7,055]

34 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

his proposal on tips, depending on how Congress might write it, could give a back-door tax break to top wage earners by allowing them to reclassify some of their pay as tip income — a prospect that at its most extreme could see hedge-fund managers or top-flight attorneys taking advantage of a policy that Trump frames as being designed for restaurant servers, bartenders and other service workers.

 

Lmaoooooo. It's the opposite end of what I've been warning people about. I figured they would use it as an incentive to reclassify some lower paid jobs to tip jobs, so that payroll would come in lower and consumers would pick up the tab. Still the same thing though.

 

36 minutes ago, Morphine Prince said:

Education

The federal Department of Education would be targeted for elimination in a second Trump administration. That does not mean that Trump wants Washington out of classrooms. He still proposes, among other maneuvers, using federal funding as leverage to pressure K-12 school systems to abolish tenure and adopt merit pay for teachers and to scrap diversity programs at all levels of education. He calls for pulling federal funding “for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory, gender ideology, or other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.”

In higher education, Trump proposes taking over accreditation processes for colleges, a move he describes as his “secret weapon” against the “Marxist Maniacs and lunatics” he says control higher education. Trump takes aim at higher education endowments, saying he will collect “billions and billions of dollars” from schools via “taxing, fining and suing excessively large private university endowments” at schools that do not comply with his edicts. That almost certainly would end up in protracted legal fights.

Read about more policy areas here: https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-wins-second-term-policies-de3dcf0f173b42602b258042fd7aaafb#

I think Republican policy on Education is the thing that's stuck most with me through this entire cycle due to the irony. Johnson created the Higher Education Act of 1965 in response to the Red Scare, Space Race, and Arms Race because he knew that creating an educated society would be key to innovating and staying ahead of national security as well as national interests. The thing Republicans cite most in politics, communism, was the birth of the biggest push for education possibly in human history. And now we're wanting to cut education because it's too costly, not beneficial enough to every individual (in their eyes), and it's pushing people in the wrong direction. 

 

Also, the irony of nationalizing accreditation for colleges when we're wanting to do the reverse for K-12 and also hate big government.  

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 7,055]

33 minutes ago, gumzy3000 said:

Terrifying.

As a Canadian I pray this right wing wave doesn't come to Canada but I think it's too late. The world is shifting more right and fascist. More propaganda, more government control. Minorities will suffer. As the saying goes, when the US sneezes, the world catches a cold.

Is it really the world catching a cold from the US? Or is the US allowing the world to exhibit symptoms? I think a LOT of people in the world are frustrated (rightfully so) and are doing what humans do, going into survival mode. Everyone cares more about themselves and people they identify "as their own" while wanting to cut out the others. Unfortunately, a lot of people aren't able to recognize the real issue (societal systems in place), and instead blame one another. I'm scared of what the next few years will look like under Trump but I'm terrified to see what shape the world is in and how we're reacting because in the past this has been a sign of violence to come. 

[Whigney Houstan 1,267]

America is about to get exactly what it deserves.

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19 minutes ago, Whigney Houstan said:

America is about to get exactly what it deserves.

Right! It sounds horrific, but they voted for him? Now enjoy 

 

 

[calmar 22,831]

Well, it's easy to say that, but for all the Americans who *didn't* vote for him and now have to *deal* with what's coming their way...

2 hours ago, Whigney Houstan said:

America is about to get exactly what it deserves.

 

[Jill 31,812]

1 minute ago, calmar said:

Well, it's easy to say that, but for all the Americans who *didn't* vote for him and now have to *deal* with what's coming their way...

Sorry to be that person, but many people in the Third World never had the chance to vote or to decide that their family members would be brutally murdered and/or abused by governments directly funded by the United States, with the goal of maintaining their dominance over international politics and sustaining a relatively high standard of living for their own people at the expense of everyone else.

After ignoring all of that for so long, in pursuit of an "American dream" that is now nearing its end, hearing their people cry out "but we didn't vote for this!!!!!1" sounds deeply ironic.

[calmar 22,831]

1 minute ago, Jill said:

Sorry to be that person

Well, I mean, you're not, but yeah.
 
 Still not going to wish fascism or authoritarianism on anyone, no matter where they live.

[Jill 31,812]

18 minutes ago, calmar said:

Well, I mean, you're not, but yeah.
 
 Still not going to wish fascism or authoritarianism on anyone, no matter where they live.

Kamala Harris is as fascist as Donald Trump is. The only difference is that he's more overtly so.

[Monstermilo 5,480]

1 hour ago, Jill said:

Kamala Harris is as fascist as Donald Trump is. The only difference is that he's more overtly so.

pls list reasons why kamala is a facist

[Pandauralife 1,032]

2 hours ago, Jill said:

Kamala Harris is as fascist as Donald Trump is. The only difference is that he's more overtly so.

We clearly weren't experiencing the same election cycle. I didn't vote to have my rights taken away or my job security attacked and I definitely don't deserve it either. 

It's divisiveness like this on the left that contributed to us losing this election, so I hope you enjoy sitting on your moral high horse when our rights are being stripped away in droves.

[Jill 31,812]

9 hours ago, Pandauralife said:

We clearly weren't experiencing the same election cycle. I didn't vote to have my rights taken away or my job security attacked and I definitely don't deserve it either. 

It's divisiveness like this on the left that contributed to us losing this election, so I hope you enjoy sitting on your moral high horse when our rights are being stripped away in droves.

Kamala was taking away rights too. The Democrats didn't do anything about Roe v. Wade. They didn't do anything about the camps at the border. They didn't do anything meaningful about any important issue except trying to pander to Republicans for some reason. And they do this every single time, and yet somehow everyone still believes they're the ones protecting their rights.

Remember: they were the ones saying Biden's hands were tied in a lot of issues, yet have no problem acknowledging that Trump will have the power to do things. The truth here is that the Democrats are useful idiots that try to pander to the right will trying to squander any meaningful attempt at progressive reforms.

It's not the divisiveness that contributed to it. It was the Democrats that had their heads too far up their own asses to acknolowedge things were going awry. They're a bunch of elitists that think they're the anwer to everything yet they don't ever listen to what the people are trying to say. If you all keep blaming the left, we will have Trump and Trump lookalikes for the next three decades.

[Junko Enoshima 4,764]

Guys, if someone who migrated to the US legally to study at a college, would they get deported to their original country?

[Decodekid 31,130]

5 minutes ago, GagaGame said:

Guys, if someone who migrated to the US legally to study at a college, would they get deported to their original country?

If they’re under the right Visa (student visa) it shouldn’t be a problem. I have a family member who studied there with a student visa approved during Obama’s term and ended his studies mid Trump’s term. No issue really