MWB wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 1:19 pm
The maga people I know are loving this. Anecdotally:
-doge is amazing (and have seen two different people make doge memes) and government workers are getting a taste of the real world. One acquaintance even told a friend of mine who is having to deal with a lot of fallout from this, “she’ll be fine, she can get a new job.”
-tariff back and forth - “this is how you get deals done”
-economy in general - “no one said it would be easy”
the flip on the economy is both funny and crazy making. These **** ingrates were having a **** fit when prices were high under Biden but have no problem swallowing them based on a very flimsy promise of future prosperity
There isn't time left in Trump's term to fully implement these fundamental changes to the way our economy has operated over recent decades. You can't just spin up domestic production in the short term. I guess he'll need to serve a third term.
I’m pretty familiar with BOI because the business I started last year is subject to it. There’s likely nuanced reasons for why it was ever started but the penalty ($500 a day and up to two years in prison) for not completing the info (which is all publicly available anyway) is absolutely ridiculous for tiny businesses like my own when the communication about this has been pitiful; I only learned about it from my business partner
Also any company that is performing money laundering likely could get away with lying about this **** anyway I imagine and/or could eat the penalties no problems. This whole thing felt like something that hurts true small businesses but helps massive corporations
How is that information publicly available?
I imagine there would be details when incorporating the business about those reporting requirements.
business registration is done at the state level so the state has all the info necessary but there also wasn't any info about BOI when I registered my business
also, speaking of BOI, apparently it was re-instated yet again. This has gone back and forth like 10 times it feels like. absolute ****
I finally just did my company's BOI filing. All we had to input was driver's license # and a photo of it. very dumb imo
MrKennethTKangaroo wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 1:14 pm
Somehow the claim that TL is listening to barstool content is less believable than this 87% approval rate stuff
CNN poll conducted by SSRS
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Donald Trump is handling the economy? Republican: 88% Approve, 12% Disapprove, 1% Don't Know/Refused"
(I imagine the numbers add up to 101% because of rounding)
*shrug*
I don't know what's hard to believe about the number at least as regards that specific question.
More than half of the respondents in a survey released Wednesday say they disapprove of President Trump’s handle on the economy.
The CNN poll found that 56 percent of respondents disapprove of the way Trump has handled the economy since returning to office, while 44 percent say they approve, and 1 percent say they don’t have an opinion on the matter.
While 92 percent of Republicans say they approve of Trump’s handling of the presidency overall, 88 percent say the same about his handle on the economy. Similarly, 91 percent of Trump’s 2024 voters say they support the work he’s done in his second term so far, but 87 percent approve of his economic moves.
With a mass email sharing what it called “difficult news,” the U.S. Department of Education has eroded one of its own key duties, abolishing more than half of the offices that investigate civil rights complaints from students and their families.
Civil rights complaints in schools and colleges largely have been investigated through a dozen regional outposts across the country. Now there will be five.
The Office for Civil Rights’ locations in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco are being shuttered, ProPublica has learned. Offices will remain in Atlanta, Denver, Kansas City, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Interesting that they shut down the ones in the biggest cities, and leave basically nothing in the northeastern part if the country.
MWB wrote: ↑Wed Mar 12, 2025 1:19 pm
The maga people I know are loving this. Anecdotally:
-doge is amazing (and have seen two different people make doge memes) and government workers are getting a taste of the real world. One acquaintance even told a friend of mine who is having to deal with a lot of fallout from this, “she’ll be fine, she can get a new job.”
-tariff back and forth - “this is how you get deals done”
-economy in general - “no one said it would be easy”
This isn’t surprising. Until it impacts them directly they don’t have the ability to understand how something impacts daily life.
