President Donald Trump
I assume it's still acceptable to have a Trump thread in a Politics forum?
So this is an obvious lie - basically aimed at
- Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration.
- Feel that they deserve privileges and special treatment.
- Expect to be recognized as superior even without achievements.
- Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are.
- Be preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate.
- Believe they are superior to others and can only spend time with or be understood by equally special people.
- Be critical of and look down on people they feel are not important.
- Expect special favors and expect other people to do what they want without questioning them.
- Take advantage of others to get what they want.
- Have an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others.
- Be envious of others and believe others envy them.
- Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.
- Insist on having the best of everything — for instance, the best car or office.
- Become impatient or angry when they don't receive special recognition or treatment.
- Have major problems interacting with others and easily feel slighted.
- React with rage or contempt and try to belittle other people to make themselves appear superior.
- Have difficulty managing their emotions and behavior.
- Experience major problems dealing with stress and adapting to change.
- Withdraw from or avoid situations in which they might fail.
- Feel depressed and moody because they fall short of perfection.
- Have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, humiliation and fear of being exposed as a failure.
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Well that answers my question perfectly.
Trump cucked to China, as expected. Xi could easily figure out that when Trump threatened North Korea with, "fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen before," if Kim launched another missile and Kim responded with launching a missile over Japan and Trump ignored it, that Trump has always been and will always be a paper tiger.
I'm sure mongy will be along any second now to explain to us why this is all akshually a very bigly victory for the Great Orange.
Trump cucked to China, as expected. Xi could easily figure out that when Trump threatened North Korea with, "fire and fury, the likes of which the world has never seen before," if Kim launched another missile and Kim responded with launching a missile over Japan and Trump ignored it, that Trump has always been and will always be a paper tiger.
Maybe, but in the slightly longer term what really matters is (despite promising cuts initially) Trump is promising a huge increase in military spending. There are more hammers and even more things in the future will look like nails.
While on principle I would generally oppose this kind of move, customer service representatives whose native language is not English leave me somewhere between frustrated and very angry around 90% of the time.
They are generally so terrible that I would approve of the practice being outlawed.
keep in mind it's exceptionally hard to find anyone talking basic Italian outside Italy, at least if you want random cheap people.
I know Tunisia and Albania have been offering Italian language courses for the last 20+ years in increasing amount and then you can land a good (for their economy) job as remote support for Italian services (say 1k/month + which let's you live very decently there) and when I dealt with those services it was very professional (the accent was terrible but they spoke slowly on purpose and had a very good grasp of the technical side of matters which is more relevant I guess).
so what I figured is for now they pay say the same or a tad less for the foreign call centers but they are much higher quality people. unsurprisingly because for 1k/month in Italy you can't hire a median person.
Maybe, but in the slightly longer term what really matters is (despite promising cuts initially) Trump is promising a huge increase in military spending. There are more hammers and even more things in the future will look like nails.
Good. Cutting military spending at this time would be exceptionally stupid. The only thing that should be cut is stuff like the VA/GI bill and the money should be redirected towards a universal healthcare and higher education system..
keep in mind it's exceptionally hard to find anyone talking basic Italian outside Italy, at least if you want random cheap people.I know Tunisia and Albania have been offering Italian language courses for the last 20+ years in increasing amount and then you can land a good (for their economy) job as remote support for Italian services (say 1k/month + which let's you live very d
I also think it's important to understand that the frustrating experiences with these customer service agents is often due to cost-cutting structuring rather than the competence of the agent themselves.
These agents are outsourced to foreign call centers where they literally don't have the access to solve your problems outside of the simplest **** lol. Gone are they days where you get to actually talk to someone who is inside the company and knows how to figure out solutions.
I also think it's important to understand that the frustrating experiences with these customer service agents is often due to cost-cutting structuring rather than the competence of the agent themselves. These agents are outsourced to foreign call centers where they literally don't have the access to solve your problems outside of the simplest **** lol. Gone are they days where
lately in Italy service has actually improved a lot.
I talked a bit with people inside large utility companies (some are headquartered in my city for trash collection for ex, people k went to college with work there), they say AI chatbots are solving a lot of the very basic time waste they had to deal previously so with a not huge amount of actual humans they can solve a ton more real problems.
mobile companies are better as well and personally I solved all (very simple, like plan changes) things with the chatbots myself since COVID.
only negative is you have to use WhatsApp for that which I hate.
I suppose in other countries it's about lack of competition, ofc if you don't risk losing your customers you cut support a lot.
PokerStars.it has no serious competition and it's supports is faaaar worse than 10+ years ago
Good. Cutting military spending at this time would be exceptionally stupid. The only thing that should be cut is stuff like the VA/GI bill and the money should be redirected towards a universal healthcare and higher education system..
I think you could cut bases in Europe if we increase our spending, and that would be true even with a renewed American commitment to NATO (with this I mean post-trump), it's time we do more ourselves, and you can always use our facilities to project power.
I suppose something similar could be true for Japan as well if they rearm
I had a quick read through project 2025 (ok the wikipedia page on it). It sounds llike they've delivered on an awful lot of it already (or its in the pipeline), except one bit that is quite troubling. "...invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement".
We will see if that comes into play if demonstrations continue, I guess.
I had a quick read through project 2025 (ok the wikipedia page on it). It sounds llike they've delivered on an awful lot of it already (or its in the pipeline), except one bit that is quite troubling. "...invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement".
We will see if that comes into play if demonstrations continue, I guess.
I hope we do. People who demonstrate/protests are typically outcasts who have nothing else going for them. Most don't even know what they are protesting. Many are paid to be there. We saw what happened during the BLM riots. This can't happen again. I say bring in the boys and shut them down.
I had a quick read through project 2025 (ok the wikipedia page on it). It sounds llike they've delivered on an awful lot of it already (or its in the pipeline), except one bit that is quite troubling. "...invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement".
We will see if that comes into play if demonstrations continue, I guess.
Yup , all the maga here claimed project 2025 was not at all what trump had in mind lol .
And yes the work just starting .
Trump using emergency measure and « national threat » against Canada for tariffs is just an example of stuff like that , bypassing congress is just an example of what’s to come too.
Trying to get rid of judges not complying to everything trump does , etc .
It will get worst before it gets better .
I hope we do. People who demonstrate/protests are typically outcasts who have nothing else going for them. Most don't even know what they are protesting. Many are paid to be there. We saw what happened during the BLM riots. This can't happen again. I say bring in the boys and shut them down.
Like China and Russia kinda of way !
Man , the Americans got lied for the last 5-7 decades since ww2 believing they lived in a free country and were defending freedom while in reality China and Russia were the true freedom holders lol.
Gj buddy !
Sadly they didn’t show the tank crushing the protesters but w.e ..
I hope we do. People who demonstrate/protests are typically outcasts who have nothing else going for them. Most don't even know what they are protesting. Many are paid to be there. We saw what happened during the BLM riots. This can't happen again. I say bring in the boys and shut them down.
protesting is a very important unalienable right to preserve and defend.
rioting isn't.
what law enforcement should do is to quell any rioting brutally, with lethal force immediately after violence to things or people is perpetrated, while leaving non violent protesting fully untouched.
if law enforcement isn't able or willing to treat rioters with as much violence as necessary to guarantee they stop immediately at any cost (and with a complete disregard for their lives), then using the armed forces to do so is legitimate, and actually moral imperative.
rioting is an act of domestic war against the state and should never be tolerated in any form.
then there is the state v fed can of worms which is actually quite complicated
Yup , all the maga here claimed project 2025 was not at all what trump had in mind lol .And yes the work just starting .Trump using emergency measure and « national threat » against Canada for tariffs is just an example of stuff like that , bypassing congress is just an example of what’s to come too.Trying to get rid of judges not complying to everything trump does , etc .It
project 2025 on trade has both a pro tariff piece and an anti tariff piece, anyone claiming project 2025 is about the tariff wars ongoing is completely in bad faith, a total liar.
unfortunately congress delegated the power to set tariffs to POTUS with various laws, the bypassing only can happen because congress wrote the laws allowing for it. that happened decades ago.
I'd love for project 2025 to be applied in many parts, but the DoE is still there (employees aren't all kicked in the ass and the money saved and the buildings used for something else for example), FDA and EPA are still enforcing absurd rules and still have the power to make more and so on.
0-based regulation might come into effect in September and if it does that's one of the best things to happen in the west in 50+ years but until it does come to fruition I don't believe it.
I think you could cut bases in Europe if we increase our spending, and that would be true even with a renewed American commitment to NATO (with this I mean post-trump), it's time we do more ourselves, and you can always use our facilities to project power.
I suppose something similar could be true for Japan as well if they rearm
If I was an italian nationalist that’s exactly what I would say too probably.
America should not take a step back in the world at all. Now is the time for America to grow their firepower and revamp their military, as well as increase strategic capabilities.
I agree EU should raise military budgets though
If I was an italian nationalist that’s exactly what I would say too probably.
America should not take a step back in the world at all. Now is the time for America to grow their firepower and revamp their military, as well as increase strategic capabilities.
I agree EU should raise military budgets though
i am not an Italian nationalist and i would like to keep free rolling your defense expenses but the world is changing right now.
I am hopefully our Italian ingenuity will allow us to pretend to increase defense expenses just booking what's not defense as such.
we already do with like half of our police force which is technically militaries but do normal police stuff 99% of the times (the Carabinieri).
there are talks to include AI investments into defense spending if they are used also for defense, so I am optimist we will be able to apply our skills and pretend we vastly increased defense spending while not doing that in practice.
I had a quick read through project 2025 (ok the wikipedia page on it). It sounds llike they've delivered on an awful lot of it already (or its in the pipeline), except one bit that is quite troubling. "...invoking the Insurrection Act to deploy the military for domestic law enforcement".
We will see if that comes into play if demonstrations continue, I guess.
Seeing as how we’ve arrived at the ‘deport people for no reason and decide to not bring them back cuz **** the courts’ phase I absolutely see this coming
protesting is a very important unalienable right to preserve and defend.rioting isn't.what law enforcement should do is to quell any rioting brutally, with lethal force immediately after violence to things or people is perpetrated, while leaving non violent protesting fully untouched.if law enforcement isn't able or willing to treat rioters with as much violence as necessary to
Most if not all left wing "protests" turn into riots. I don't like protesters and I don't care about their rights. It's just a bunch of raggedy whiners. They have wore their welcome out as far as I'm concerned.
Like China and Russia kinda of way !Man , the Americans got lied for the last 5-7 decades since ww2 believing they lived in a free country and were defending freedom while in reality China and Russia were the true freedom holders lol.Gj buddy ! Sadly they didn’t show the tank crushing the protesters but w.e ..
Yes.
