Legitimate gripes about Trump by 6ixStringJack

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What happened to the 'Moron' thread I could only see some unhinged rants, 'Nazi Pedophiles' maybe that was the original thread and it just went more crazy

meanwhile in Clownworld

Chinaman...Do Nothing...Win

U.S. Tariffs Make Xi Jinping’s Day
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/xi-jinping-china-u-s-tariffs-donald-trump-
trade-war-europe-canada-9dd99d61
Trump’s global trade war is a strategic gift to the Chinese President.

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Beijing also added a couple dozen U.S. companies to various regulatory blacklists subject to trade, investment or export restrictions. Mr. Xi is slapping export controls on several rare-earth minerals critical for high-tech manufacturing. Oh, and a smattering of regulatory investigations for antidumping and the like are brewing, targeting American firms.

The Confirmed moron, Plausibly Nazi, Plausibly minor attracted person changed the title of its thread from what you correctly remember that it used to read.

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Friday, April 18, 2025 3:50 AM

Novara Media not Trump fans it started as a British Left media group founded in 2011 by James Butler and Aaron Bastani, one of them was party of the 'British Labour' party, Bastani resigned from the Labour Party in February 2021.

it started to be critical of the British Left and Right

the channel because popular during Covid Lockdowns

Trump’s Biggest Fanboys Can’t Make Sense Of Tariffs

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Monday, April 21, 2025 8:34 AM

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it was not legal or appropriate to send U.S. citizens to foreign prisons.
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2025/04/20/sen-kennedy-not-legal-appro
priate-or-moral-to-send-u-s-citizens-to-foreign-prisons/
Host Kristen Welker said, “Do you believe that President Trump is following the orders of the courts right now?”
Kennedy said, “Yes. And I don’t believe that President Trump will defy a federal judge; if he does, I’ll call him out on it.

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Wednesday, May 14, 2025 7:07 AM

2nd Terms are always a shitshow

he's hanging out with the Al-Qaeda or ISIS guy now

Trump Pledges Syria Sanctions Relief In First US Meeting With Al-Sharaa After Years Of Isolation
https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-sharaa-syria-sanctions-saudi/33413417.ht
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Trump meets interim Syrian president as Damascus celebrates lifting of sanctions
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce3vypz0nd6t?post=asset%3Adcc73b40-caf
3-4b02-8bb4-b06f4ab29acb

there is a Mugshot of al-Sharaa rewards offered, he was capture by U.S. forces in Iraq planting bombs trying to blow up Americans

not sure how NeoCon Q-Anon Magatard spins this one

Trump Says U.S. Will Lift Sanctions on Syria Under New Government
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/world/middleeast/trump-syria-presid
ent-meeting.html

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Thursday, May 15, 2025 6:48 AM

they might detain you for not fully supporting Zionism and Israeli bombings, ...how wacko can it go?

the Australia has ramped up its travel warnings for the USA three times since April

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-15/australia-government-travel-adv
ice-usa-trump-border-control/105293186

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Sunday, May 18, 2025 10:45 AM

Arnab Calls Out Trump For Inconsistent Statement On Indo-Pak Ceasefire& Posing With Syrian Terrorist

Not Going to Mars. Elon Musk Space-X Won’t Save Us.

Launchpad to Nowhere: The Mars Mirage
https://heyslick.substack.com/p/launchpad-to-nowhere-the-mars-mirage
Space won’t save us. Musk and Bezos don’t plan to. The real science fiction? Billionaires caring.

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Sunday, May 18, 2025 11:48 AM

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

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Not Going to Mars. Elon Musk Space-X Won’t Save Us.

Launchpad to Nowhere: The Mars Mirage
https://heyslick.substack.com/p/launchpad-to-nowhere-the-mars-mirage
Space won’t save us. Musk and Bezos don’t plan to. The real science fiction? Billionaires caring.

Mostly, this article is a lambasting of Musk, but there is a sideways mention within the article of The Trump administration kills nearly all USAID programs https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5310673/u
said-trump-administration-global-health :

When Gates criticizes cuts to USAID that could cost real human lives, Musk responds as if the funding were fungible. As if every dollar not spent on SpaceX is a dollar wasted. As if government money for sick children would be better spent on Mars.

Funds for USAID and SpaceX aren’t supposed to come from the same pocket, but Musk acts like they do. And the worst part? He’s increasingly right.

With his growing political clout, media dominance, and stake in meme-fueled governance, he’s helping rewrite the budget priorities himself.

And in the name of saving the future, he’s cutting care in the present.

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

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Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:04 PM

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

Fighting the Trump/DOGE cuts to biomedical research

By Joel Eissenberg | May 18, 2025 5:40 am

https://angrybearblog.com/2025/05/fighting-the-trump-doge-cuts-to-biom
edical-research

The link is to a long but cogent piece in Talking Points Memo. Unlike the author, I long ago appreciated the threats posed by the massive cuts to NIH funding. But Josh does the extra work of thinking about how this anti-science juggernaut could be halted. Read the whole thing, but here are the nut grafs:

“So how can this trajectory be changed? Basically we need people with big megaphones to start leveling with the public about what’s happening. The more widely known this becomes, the more salient it becomes, the worse it will get for those pushing these cuts or at least point trying to make them permanent through the 2026 budget process. But how can this be done at scale, change the equation in the very short term? There’s one approach which mostly hasn’t been tried and which I believe holds great promise.

“Every major disease affecting Americans has what we might call a disease community build up around it. These are a mix of survivors, people suffering from the disease, family members, loved ones and caregivers. To a lesser degree they involve clinicians and those in the caring fields. Sometimes those communities are strongly tied to the quasi-official fund-raising and public awareness organization to the specific disease. But sometimes they’re not. The key is that these aren’t top down organizations. They’re genuine mass membership organizations and even movements. Often there are a handful of different organizations. But the point is these communities are out there, regardless of precisely how they’re constituted. They’re made up of people who care deeply about the issue and they make their voices heard. I first started thinking about this when I was speaking to a former NIH researcher and he mentioned to me how he was about to do a Zoom meeting open to members of a breast cancer focused organization in a mid-sized to large state. Just in that one state and focused on that one (albeit common) disease the group had about 80,000 members.

“Something clicked in my head. And when I did some more poking around I learned that what’s happening at NIH and in biomedical research general was only just beginning to make itself known in these disease communities. Put these two things, two groups together – the researchers who know what’s happening and the disease communities who need to know – and it’s like a spark in a room filled with gas fumes.

“This is really the entire story. I’ve written in other posts about how we’ve learned over recent months that the modern American university is simply not equipped for this kind of assault. They lack the tools and experience. I’ve described the challenges the researchers have communicating with the broader public. But these people – the people in the disease communities – are all people who speak human. There are lots and lots of them. They will show up at town halls. In their nature they transcend ordinary political divisions. This is what has to happen. When the people in the world of biomedical research, let’s cut the technical language, disease cure research make sustained contact with the people in each of these dozen or so disease communities and help them understand what’s happening, that’s the point when I think everything will change.”

Much more at A Path Forward to Save American Bio-Medical Research
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-path-forward-to-save-american-b
io-medical-research/sharetoken/0a234fa8-d968-4e8c-abe8-8043c2a1a125

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

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Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:08 PM

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Fighting the Trump/DOGE cuts to biomedical research

You pay for it, cunt. We're not paying for it anymore.

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 6:34 AM

A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/22/israel-gaza-ethnic-
cleansing-genocide-2/
We can no longer avoid these uncomfortable truths.

CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/cdc-can-no-longer-help-prevent-
lead-poisoning-in-children-state-officials-say/

'I Think It’s Wrong To Burn Children Alive'
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/28/sorry-if-this-is-antisemiti
c-but-i-think-its-wrong-to-burn-children-alive/

they voted Republican now moving back to Bernie

Former Trump Voters in Warren, Michigan, Talk About What Changed Their Mind

Zionism much? War everywhere again

Warmongering Republicans Are Not 'Pro-Life'
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/warmongering-republicans-are
-not-pro-life/

Australia pushes tariffs removal amid US court ruling
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8979471/australia-pushes-tariffs-r
emoval-amid-us-court-ruling/

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 12:34 PM

Shut up faggot.

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 12:44 PM

India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics

Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’

https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 12:47 PM

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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics

Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’

https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344

Will be appealed in no time at all.

Eventually we're just going to ignore these things.

Judges don't actually have this power, and we don't need to play ball with them.

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 1:18 PM

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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics

Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’

https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344]

Will be appealed in no time at all.

Eventually we're just going to ignore these things.

Judges don't actually have this power, and we don't need to play ball with them.

Saving the Court from Itself

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/saving-the-court-from-itself/

We're no more than several months away from sweeping changes, and all of these activist judges will be completely defanged.

YOU did this, Democrats.

That's the last thing your dead party will do before it's gone forever.

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 4:59 PM

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

Striking Down Trump’s Tariffs Isn’t a Judicial Coup

Congress, not the executive branch, has the power to enact tariffs.

By Conor Friedersdorf | May 29, 2025, 10:09 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-tariffs-court-
rulings/682964/

The debate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs often focuses on whether they are prudent. Defenders insist that Trump’s tariffs will help make America great again and boost national security. Critics counter that they’ll wreck the economy. But the strongest argument against the tariffs is actually that they are unlawful. Neither the Constitution nor any statute authorizes Trump to impose what he ordered.

Now, months after sticklers for the rule of law began making that argument, it has finally been vindicated: Yesterday, the United States Court of International Trade, the federal court with jurisdiction over civil actions related to tariffs, struck down almost all of Trump’s tariffs in a 49-page ruling. The decision includes a detailed discussion of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the 1977 law delegating increased power over trade to the president during national emergencies, which the White House had cited to support its moves. It concludes that the law does not authorize any of Trump’s tariff orders. https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf

Administration officials quickly challenged the ruling’s legitimacy. “It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. “The judicial coup is out of control,” Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted on social media. But their objections are dubious, not because the judiciary never overreaches, but because at least three features of this dispute make the argument for judicial overreach here especially weak.

First, the Constitution is clear: Article I delegates the tariff power to Congress, and Article II fails to vest that power in the presidency. So the Trump administration begins from a weak position. And the court’s ruling did not arrogate the tariff power to the judiciary, which might have warranted describing it as “a judicial coup.” It merely affirmed Congress’s power over tariffs. Americans need not fear a judicial dictatorship here. Congress can do whatever it likes. Indeed, it could pass a law reinstating all of Trump’s tariffs today without violating the court’s ruling. But Congress is extremely unlikely to do so, in part because Trump’s tariff policy clearly lacks public support; for example, a recent poll found that 63 percent of Americans disapprove of it.

Second, the plaintiffs in this particular lawsuit include the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Vermont––all democratically accountable entities in a federal system where states are meant to act as a check on unlawful exercises of federal power. All of those states asked the court to rule in this manner to vindicate their rights under the law. As Oregon’s attorney general put it, “We brought this case because the Constitution doesn’t give any president unchecked authority to upend the economy.” States controlled by both Republicans and Democrats routinely file lawsuits asking the judiciary to strike down purportedly unlawful actions by the president. There is bipartisan consensus that such judicial review is legitimate, not couplike, and such rulings have constrained presidents from both parties.

Third, when Congress created the Court of International Trade and later defined its jurisdiction, its precise intent was to create an arm of the judiciary that would exercise authority over trade disputes. Congress made a deliberate choice to alter an earlier law vesting that power in the Treasury Department, under the executive branch, and deliberately vested it in a court instead. To quote from the 1980 law that defined its powers, “The Court of International Trade shall have exclusive jurisdiction of any civil action commenced against the United States, its agencies, or its officers, that arises out of any law of the United States providing for tariffs.” Policing whether or not a tariff complies with the law and the Constitution is central, not peripheral, to the court’s ambit.

If the Trump administration kept its criticism of the judiciary to edge cases, where there is real doubt about how the Constitution separates powers, it could plausibly claim to be engaged in the sort of dispute that is inevitable when branches of the federal government are checking one another as intended. That it seeks to delegitimize even this ruling suggests contempt for any check on the power of the presidency, not principled opposition to judicial overreach.

The Constitution explicitly vests the tariff power in Congress, and wisely so: Empowering one person to impose taxes and pick economic winners and losers tends toward corruption and dictatorship. Going forward, Congress should set tariff policy itself, and impeach any president who tries to usurp its authority.

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

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 5:34 PM

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

Trump points to $5.1 trillion in investments from the Middle East that aren’t exactly real

What’s worse than the president pointing to a made-up investment figure? His willingness to make plans to spend some of the money that doesn’t exist.

By Steve Benen | May 29, 2025, 2:22 PM CDT

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-points-51-tr
illion-investments-middle-east-arent-exactly-real-rcna209811

At an Oval Office event on Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump why he never followed through on his threats to impose economic sanctions on Russia. The president never quite got around to answering the question, but he did seem eager to emphasize a completely unrelated point.

“I went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and [the United Arab Emirates], and we brought back $5.1 trillion,” Trump claimed. “So, I made that money in about two hours, the money that we’re talking about.” After briefly suggesting — without a shred of evidence — that Ukraine has misused U.S. security aid, the Republican went on say, “I’m more interested because I picked up $5.1 trillion and, by the way, got a beautiful big, magnificent free airplane for the United States Air Force, OK? Very proud of that, too.”

For now, let’s not dwell on the fact that the plane from Qatar wasn’t free, and it’s proving to be far more controversial than the White House cares to admit. Let’s instead consider that statistic the president is apparently quite excited about.

If the “$5.1 trillion” figure sounds at all familiar, that’s because Trump can’t seem to stop talking about it. He referenced it a week ago when unveiling the “Make America Healthy Again” report, which came two days after he pushed the same line during a visit to Capitol Hill, which came one day after he repeated the talking point at the White House.

For reasons unknown, the president went on to say last week that the figure might even be “$7 trillion” at some undetermined point in the future.

To be sure, the boast certainly sounds impressive. Americans are apparently supposed to believe that Trump went to the Middle East, met with some officials for “about two hours” and left with investments so enormous, they represent roughly a sixth of the United States’ GDP.

But that’s not what happened.

For one thing, as The Washington Post reported, Trump has started referring to Biden-era foreign investments as his own, pretending that they’re new and that he deserves credit for them. The Post’s report added:

The math behind the White House’s claim that Trump secured ‘trillions’ on this trip is fuzzy even including the contracts that predate his presidency. The sum of the deals is under $1 trillion, but the White House is also counting announcements it made months before the trip, including a vague plan that the UAE said would result in $1.4 trillion in investment in the United States over the next decade. The UAE and White House previously announced that deal in March. The White House did not explain why its announcements included deals that predate Trump’s presidency.

Around the same time, The New York Times took a closer look at the data and reported, “The list of some of the agreements published by the White House left many details vague. The value of the agreements appeared to total about $283 billion.”

If those investments happen, terrific. But they might not happen, and $283 billion is a small fraction of $5.1 trillion.

What’s more, as MSNBC’s Paul Waldman wrote in a piece for Public Notice, some of the money Trump referenced might materialize in future decades. It led Waldman to conclude that the presidential claims amounted to little more than “smoke and mirrors.”

The problem, however, is not just that Trump keeps talking up an investment figure that isn’t real. The problem is made worse by the way that the president appears to be making plans to spend some of the money that doesn’t exist.

At an Oval Office event last week, Trump was asked whether his wildly unrealistic “Golden Dome” idea might be prohibitively expensive. He responded, “We can afford to do it. You know, we took in $5.1 trillion in the last four days in the Middle East, and when you think about it, this is a tiny fraction of that.”

But therein lies the point: Trump didn’t take in $5.1 trillion, so making plans to devote those imaginary resources to a missile shield project that won’t work is an enormous problem.

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

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