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Sorry, TikTok isn't available right now

A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can't use TikTok for now.

We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!

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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump

I'm asking companies not to let TikTok stay dark! I will issue an executive order on Monday to extend the period of time before the law's prohibitions take effect, so that we can make a deal to protect our national security. The order will also confirm that there will be no liability for any company that helped keep TikTok from going dark before my order.

Americans deserve to see our exciting Inauguration on Monday, as well as other events and conversations.

I would like the United States to have a 50% ownership position in a joint venture. By doing this, we save TikTok, keep it in good hands and allow it to stay up. Without U.S. approval, there is no TikTok. With our approval, it is worth hundreds of billions of dollars - maybe trillions.

Therefore, my initial thought is a joint venture between the current owners and/or new owners whereby the U.S. gets a 50% ownership in a joint venture set up between the U.S. and whichever purchase we so choose.

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Originally posted by second:
The CBO numbers suggest a persistent and possibly worsening gap between the taxes Americans are willing to pay and the services they expect the government to provide.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Enjoy your last day, BTW.



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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay, just pout then.



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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I heard bits and pieces of Trump's word salad that he spewed (virtually) at the WEF. I don't remember enough of it to comment specifically but it was pretty cringeworthy.
OTOH most of the globalist speakers spew word salad there too, so I suppose nobody should take seriously what is said there.

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A one-off concern, not a gripe. I have heard Trump comment more than once that he was saved by God ("If I hadn't hadn't turned my head just at that moment...") to save America. I hope he's not serious about that, but it sounds like he half believes it.

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Donald Trump Attacks Zelensky: 'He's No Angel'
Published Jan 24, 2025 at 2:40 AM EST
Updated Jan 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM EST

By Maya Mehrara

President Donald Trump has said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is "no angel" and suggested he shares the blame for the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

In his first sit-down interview since returning to the White House, Trump criticized Zelensky, saying that he "shouldn't have allowed this war to happen."

"Zelensky was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful," Trump told Fox News. "He shouldn't have done that, because we could have made a deal."

Why It Matters

Trump's criticism of both Zelensky and Vladimir Putin in the interview risks making it more difficult for him to help broker a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.

It also signifies a major shift in tone from Joe Biden's administration, which offered substantial financial and military backing for Ukraine's war effort.

What To Know

In his interview, Trump criticized Zelensky for wanting to fight the war despite massive military deficiencies in comparison to Russia.

"First of all, he's fighting a much bigger entity," Trump said. "We started pouring equipment... and they [Ukraine] had the bravery to use the equipment, but in the end, it's a war that has to be settled," Trump said.

But he added that Zelensky has now "had enough" and "wants to settle" in order to secure peace.

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Trump also blamed Putin for the war, claiming that Russia had lost around 850,000 soldiers.

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"Putin shouldn't have done it... and it has to stop," he said.

He warned that the U.S. would impose "massive tariffs and massive taxes" on Russia...

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and if Putin does not agree to a peace deal soon.

Meanwhile, Trump also reiterated his claim that the war would never have started if he had been in office over the past four years. He blamed Biden's administration for provoking Putin and allowing him to profit from soaring energy prices.

"Biden did a horrible, horrible job in allowing that war to start, it should never have started," he said. "He allowed energy to go way up, if he brought it down the war wouldn't have started."

What People Are Saying

President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday: "I'm not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin - and this despite the Radical Left's Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. We must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War

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losing almost 60,000,000 lives

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in the process.

"All of that being said, I'm going to do Russia, whose economy is failing,

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and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. If we don't make a 'deal,' and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries.

"Let's get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better. It's time to "MAKE A DEAL." NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!"

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Trump Calls For Jordan, Egypt To Take More Palestinian Refugees, "Clean Out" Gaza
President Donald Trump said on Jan. 25 that he wants Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab nations to accept more Palestinian refugees from the Gaza Strip, with the goal of moving out enough of the war-torn area’s population to “just clean [it] out” and create a virtual clean slate of the Palestinian territory.

Trump made the comments during a 20-minute question-and-answer conference with reporters on Air Force One Saturday. He said he lifted former President Joe Biden’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, which was intended to lower civilian casualties in the Israel–Hamas War, now paused during a fragile cease-fire deal.

Trump said he released the bombs that day, “They’ve been waiting for them for a long time.”

When asked why he lifted the ban, Trump said, “Because they bought” the bombs.

The president has backed Israel for much of his political career. Regarding his goals for Gaza, Trump described a call earlier in the day with Jordan’s King Abdullah II and said he would speak with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi on Sunday.

“I’d like Egypt to take people,” Trump said.

“You’re talking about probably a million and a half people, and we just clean out that whole thing and say, ‘You know, it’s over.’”

During his call with Abdullah, Trump said he complimented Jordan for taking in Palestinian refugees and told the king, “I'd love for you to take on more, cause I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now, and it’s a mess. It’s a real mess.”

The resettling or displacement of Gaza refugees would likely spur pushback from Palestinians, who hold a connection to the region. Trump said the area has experienced “many, many conflicts” for centuries and that resettling could be “temporary or long term.”

“Something has to happen,” the president said. “But it’s literally a demolition site right now. Almost everything’s demolished, and people are dying there.”

“So, I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations, and build housing in a different location, where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” he added.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office did not issue an immediate response to Trump’s remarks.

After his inauguration on Jan. 20, Trump said Gaza has “really got to be rebuilt in a different way.”

”Gaza is interesting. It’s a phenomenal location, on the sea. The best weather, you know, everything is good. It’s like, some beautiful things could be done with it,” he added.

The response from the Hamas terrorist group and its aligned groups was swift, with the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad calling Trump’s idea “deplorable.” The group told AFP that the plan encourages “war crimes and crimes against humanity by forcing our people to leave their land.”

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, has fought alongside Hamas and other allied Palestinian groups throughout the Israel-Hamas war. It is the second-largest militant group in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. The U.S. State Department designated it as a terrorist group in 1997.

Bassem Naim of Hamas’s political bureau told AFP that Palestinians would foil those plans, just as they have with other ideas “for displacement and alternative homelands over the decades.”

He added that Gazans would not “accept any offers or solutions, even if their apparent intentions are good under the banner of reconstruction, as proposed by U.S. President Trump.”

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, an opponent of the Gaza truce deal, called Trump’s idea of seeking relocation for Gazans a “great idea.”

“Only out-of-the-box thinking with new solutions will bring a solution of peace and security,” he said.

Trump’s resumption of large bomb deliveries is a break from Biden, who stalled their delivery in May to limit an all-out assault on Rafah, the southern Gaza city. Israel took control of the city a month later after a majority of Rafah’s one million residents that had lived or taken shelter in the city had been removed.

At the time, Biden had also paused 1,700 500-pound bombs that were packaged in the same shipment, but delivered those weeks later.

Trump’s latest move comes amid his celebrations of the first phase of the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Fighting is paused, and Hamas released some of the hostages it took in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.

However, negotiations in the cease-fire’s second phase have not yet begun, which would result in all Hamas-held hostages being released.

The Israeli government has threatened to resume its war with Hamas—which began after the terrorist group massacred Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, 2023—if the remaining hostages are not released.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Right now it's impossible to have a legitimate gripe about Trump's Presidential policy because he isn't President, yet.

I have a few concerns about his staff picks, two blinding red lights about Iran and Israel, and a serious question about that he'll do when he finds he can't "maximum pressure" a deal with Russia.

But I just have to wait and see, like we all do

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Originally posted by second:
Eggs are pricey again. What’s Trump doing about it?

A carton of eggs today costs more than $4 on average, up from about $2.50 a year ago.

The USDA forecasts that egg prices will continue to rise through the first few months of 2025 before dropping to about half the peak price, according to the agency’s January forecasts. However, new or expanding bird flu outbreaks in the US could disrupt this.

. . . while the risk to most people might be low now, the longer the epidemic in poultry continues and the more opportunities the virus has to adapt to spread amongst humans, the more likely the risk for a pandemic becomes.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/394511/bird-flu-eggs-human-death-pr
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
So far, I'd say he's doing pretty much everything wrong. And Trump is not protecting America's vital interests this way, he's once again meddling in places that don't involve us. We'll see how well Trump handles this.

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So far, I'd say he's doing pretty much everything wrong. And Trump is not protecting America's vital interests this way, he's once again meddling in places that don't involve us. We'll see how well Trump handles this.

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I disagree with this assessment of the first week 100%.

I don't give one single fuck about other countries or any of the people living in them. Fuck all of them.

The cabinet picks are all going smoothly. The media is being shown as the joke that we always knew it was. Skulls are being cracked among the illegals and they're being shown the exit door. DEI is dead. There are only 2 genders.

Trump has done 10 times as much good for America in one week than Joe Biden* did in 4 years.

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What I meant was ... doing everything wrong with regards to negotiations with Russia, and in the Middle East. If he wants to disengage, then DISENGAGE. Don't go playing around with Russia "and various other participating countries", Gaza, Jordan, Israel, and Egypt. IMHO that's an exercise in hubris.

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AFA his internal policies, mostly OK.

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SIX: I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

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I hear ya on crypto. It's vaporware, there's nothing behind it. That's not to say that blockchain isn't a good way to transfer funds.

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Also, I think AI is also vaporware. Other than bragging rights, I don't see a reason to make a big push. Unless this is a sop to Musk, something else for him to invest in, since Trump is going away from EV/ solar power.

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SIX: I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

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Why? Why should we be using our power to take "these people... down a peg or two"? Are Egypt, Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia credible threats to us? Or Iran? Do they threaten our vital interests?

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The only thing I can think that we need to import is heavy crude, pluse we need transit thru the Panama and Suez canals.

Do we need Saudi crude? Not really. There are a lot of other sources of heavy crude, the most convenient being in Venezuela. But Trump decided to stop buying oil from Venezuela https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trumps-special-missions-envoy-g
renell-says-he-has-spoken-with-venezuelan-2025-01-20/ bc Maduro is "a dictator". Frankly, that never bothered us before, as long as they were OUR dictators! In any case, I thought he was supposed to be making decisions based on AMERICAN interests, not for the Venezuelan people or "spreading democracy".

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Originally posted by second:
Eggs are pricey again. What’s Trump doing about it?

A carton of eggs today costs more than $4 on average, up from about $2.50 a year ago.

The USDA forecasts that egg prices will continue to rise through the first few months of 2025 before dropping to about half the peak price, according to the agency’s January forecasts. However, new or expanding bird flu outbreaks in the US could disrupt this.

. . . while the risk to most people might be low now, the longer the epidemic in poultry continues and the more opportunities the virus has to adapt to spread amongst humans, the more likely the risk for a pandemic becomes.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/394511/bird-flu-eggs-human-death-pr
ices-government-response

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
I hear ya on crypto. It's vaporware, there's nothing behind it. That's not to say that blockchain isn't a good way to transfer funds.

SIX: Do you really understand blockchain though? Or any of the other jargon they throw around. I was just having a conversation with my friend the other night about this and I told him that 99% of the people who have invested in or even talk about crypto have actually no fucking clue what they're talking about or what they've invested in. That includes me.

It's so little-understood and mis-understood by everyone that it's almost pointless to have a conversation about it with anyone at all, if it weren't for the fact that it can destroy economies. Or if taken over by government that they'd one day have 100% control over every transaction ever made.

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Also, I think AI is also vaporware. Other than bragging rights, I don't see a reason to make a big push. Unless this is a sop to Musk, something else for him to invest in, since Trump is going away from EV/ solar power.

SIX: I don't know. I think that everyone is overstating the current power of AI, similarly to how they were trying to convince you that VR was a thing in the 90's when we clearly were nowhere near the level of graphical capability to immerse you.

But what I have seen is still pretty freaking impressive. Things that are possible today that weren't even possible for most people 3 years ago.

It's sufficiently terrifying to me. At the very least it's a potential threat.

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SIX: I'm fine with it. These people need to be taken down a peg or two and reminded of America's power when it's in capable hands.

SIGNY: Why? Why should we be using our power to take "these people... down a peg or two"? Are Egypt, Jordan, Israel, or Saudi Arabia credible threats to us? Or Iran? Do they threaten our vital interests?

SIX: Because we've had too many foreign leaders bending us over a barrel for too long.
I want Trump to shit on the big guys and I want him to completely ignore the little guys.
Halting all financial and military support to any of them in perpetuity accomplishes both of those goals nicely.

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SIGNY: The only thing I can think that we need to import is heavy crude, pluse we need transit thru the Panama and Suez canals.

Do we need Saudi crude? Not really. There are a lot of other sources of heavy crude, the most convenient being in Venezuela. But Trump decided to stop buying oil from Venezuela https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trumps-special-missions-envoy-g
renell-says-he-has-spoken-with-venezuelan-2025-01-20/ bc Maduro is "a dictator". Frankly, that never bothered us before, as long as they were OUR dictators! In any case, I thought he was supposed to be making decisions based on AMERICAN interests, not for the Venezuelan people or "spreading democracy".

SIX: The more of theirs everyone is using while the price is cheap the better for whoever is alive in the world when the oil starts running out and getting increasingly difficult and less lucrative to produce.

Let's use all of theirs up first.

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Blockchain works by storing data in blocks that are linked together in a chronological chain. Each block contains transaction data, a timestamp, and a cryptographic hash of the previous block, ensuring that once data is recorded, it cannot be altered without changing all subsequent blocks, making it secure and immutable.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
What the fuck is a Semite or Semitic anyways, its a Negroid Afro Tigray person, its an Arab jihadi, its also a Christian Crusader from Malta that wanted to flatten Jerusalem...linguistics and programing has made people afraid to look at history

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SIX: Because we've had too many foreign leaders bending us over a barrel for too long.
I want Trump to shit on the big guys and I want him to completely ignore the little guys.
Halting all financial and military support to any of them in perpetuity accomplishes both of those goals nicely.


SIGNY: WHO, exactly, has shit all over us, and how specifically did they do that?

Did Israel threaten to nuke us? Did Saddam have WMD and the missiles to deliver them? Did Europe threaten to tariff our products? Is Iran frothing to wipe us off the map? Did Mexico threaten to invade us? (Militarily I mean )

Seriously, SIX. We've been bent over many barrels, but not bc we were forced to by other nations.

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Trump has his Dachau

Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.

Trump suggested on Truth Social that people charged with attacking Tesla could serve time in “lovely” prisons in El Salvador.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
not sure if Legit but Godwins Law is truly broke




https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1903596448438247511

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Trump has his Dachau

Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.

Trump suggested on Truth Social that people charged with attacking Tesla could serve time in “lovely” prisons in El Salvador.

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Here's the thing though a lot of Libertarians both Left and Right wanted that Guantanamo nonsense over, the torture finished it all closed and people charged...

but a little rise in crime, the USA no longer a land of rights

and it all goes backwards again?

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