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

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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.

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Sunday, May 18, 2025 12:04 PM

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Thursday, May 29, 2025 8:40 PM

Whatever you say, faggot.

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Saturday, May 31, 2025 8:58 PM

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Whatever you say, faggot.

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6ix, your mind has been addled by alcohol. This is information you don't wish known:

Since Musk is a big ketamine user and Trump is allegedly hopped up on Adderall, it’s no wonder they want the evidence of harm from drug abuse buried:

“A federal study on mental health problems and substance use across the country that has been running for decades and is used by a wide range of researchers faces an uncertain future after President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce.

“The National Survey on Drug Use and Health is an annual survey of households conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, which is being dissolved in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of the nation’s health agencies.”

Hey, if you don’t know about it, it can’t hurt you, right?

They've tracked Americans' drug use for decades. Trump and RFK Jr. fired them

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/29/nx-s1-540784
9/samhsa-nsduh-trump-rfk-jr-hhs-cuts

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Saturday, May 31, 2025 10:14 PM

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Whatever you say, faggot.

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6ix, your mind has been addled by alcohol.

Shut up asshole.

Your opinion means nothing to no one.

You're finished.

Go call your mom and bitch to her, because nobody else cares.

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Sunday, June 1, 2025 5:33 AM

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Shut up asshole.

Your opinion means nothing to no one.

You're finished.

Go call your mom and bitch to her, because nobody else cares.

Not an opinion. There are facts about how Trump will harm you, personally:

Reverse Robin Hood - The Seven Ugliest Provisions in Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’

The Trumpy tax bill that's headed to the Senate has many nasty surprises

By Tim Dickinson | May 31, 2025

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-tax-bill
-big-beautiful-seven-ugly-provisions-2025-1235351717/

Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. The 1,038-page version that passed the House will also balloon the deficit by nearly $4 trillion.

The Trump tax bill achieves this feat by extending (and in many cases expanding) tax breaks for the richest Americans, while at the same time depriving more than 10 million Americans of health insurance and regular access to their doctors, by axing $880 billion from Medicaid. It also increases red tape for Obamacare, while allowing other subsidies to lapse, boxing millions more out of their insurance.

The bill is regressive as a matter of tax policy. It will reduce the take-home incomes of bottom 10 percent of income earners by four percent by the end of the decade, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office projects. Penn Wharton, Trump’s alma mater, finds that most households earning less than $51,000 will immediately see their after-tax income decrease. Meanwhile, the bill boosts the incomes of the top one percent by nearly $70,000 in the first year alone, giving that elite cohort a collective $124 billion net tax cut.

The Trump bill sorta makes good on Trump’s campaign sales gimmicks — offering temporary, three-year tax breaks on tips (cost: $40 billion); the extra income earned from overtime ($124 billion); and auto loan interest ($58 billion); while also offering a tax credit to seniors, meant as an offset of taxes on Social Security income ($72 billion).

But as passed by the House, the tax bill also has many ugly provisions. Some are related to taxes, like the abolition of taxes on gun silencers, or ending tax incentives for clean energy and cars. Others are just completely extraneous, like language prohibiting state- and local regulation of artificial intelligence for 10 years.

Below is a survey of seven terrible tricks up the sleeves of the Big Beautiful Bill:

1) Undermining the Rule of Law

A provision slipped into the House bill, unrelated to taxes, would have a major impact on the courts and the rule of law. It blocks any funding to enforce contempt of court orders. This, in turn, could enable the Trump administration to flout the rulings of judges without consequence. Erwin Chemerinsky, a professor of law as the University of California, is sounding the alarm that this is an affront to the basic functioning of our democracy. He writes in a post at Just Security that “nothing could be done” to enforce injunctions against the executive branch were this provision to become law — “even when the government had been found to violate the Constitution.” In fact, he adds, “the greatest effect of adopting the provision would be to make countless existing judicial orders unenforceable.” These concerns are ripe because the Trump administration’s countless illegal executive orders and actions keep getting turned back in court, and the administration’s compliance — as with falling to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from the gulag in El Salvador, as directed by the Supreme Court — has been irregular at best.

2) Rewarding Rich Homeowners

Rich people in blue states have cause to laud the Big Beautiful Bill. It quadruples a tax break that one analysis finds “Overwhelmingly Benefits Wealthy, White Households.” We are talking here about the state and local tax, or SALT, deduction. The tax break has some logic. It is intended to keep folks from having to pay federal taxes on the tax dollars they owe to governments closer to home. The 2017 Trump tax bill limited the deductibility of these payments — once unlimited — to $10,000, to help pay for its sweeping tax cuts for the rich and corporations. That partially preserved a break that’s a boon to middle-class homeowners in blue states with high property taxes, including the Northeast or the West Coast, while stripping it from the vacation home and private-school set.

High earners in states from New Jersey to California have since bridled against the SALT deduction limit, arguing it’s a form of double taxation, and have won over political allies in both parties. Inside the House GOP, a group of lawmakers calling themselves the “very salty” five held up the Trump bill until the SALT deduction was boosted to $40,000 and made available to couples earning up to half-a-million dollars a year.

3) A Boondoggle for Private Schools

On the charitable giving side of the tax act, the House Bill creates a back-door subsidy for private school vouchers. Rich people who donate to nonprofits that hand out vouchers to private K-12 schools will now receive not a tax deduction — usually capped at 35 cents off taxes for every one dollar donated — but a tax credit. Every dollar donated is counted as a dollar paid in taxes. This tax credit not only applies to the value of cash donations, but the market value of stocks. In many cases — as outlined here — donors would be able to reap a greater return on their investments by donating stock that has appreciated in value, and reaping the tax benefits, than by selling the investment and then owing capital gains taxes. The value of this incentive is estimated at $23 billion over 10 years, with the administration subsidizing the flight from public education at the same time it aims to eliminate the federal Department of Education.

4) Leave No Heir Behind

No GOP tax bill would be complete without a giveaway to the scions of billionaire families. The Republican Party has long demonized the estate tax as the “death tax,” inveighing against it as a threat to salt-of-the-earth family farmers. Thanks to Trump’s first tax bill, the estate tax exemption currently stands at nearly $27 million for couples, but is due to fall to about half that, absent a change in the law. The “Big Beautiful Bill” indexes the current exemption to inflation and makes the tax break permanent. A rich couple will be able to pass on $30 million to their descendants without paying a penny of tax next year. According to a letter from Americans for Tax Fairness, “this handout to lucky heirs and heiresses will cost over $200 billion in lost revenue over 10 years.”

5) Shortchange Kids of Immigrants

A MAGA tax bill needs some anti-immigrant juice. And the Big Beautiful Bill provides that by limiting availability of the child tax credit to only citizen children with a citizen parent. The child tax credit is currently available to children with Social Security numbers, so long as their parents have a taxpayer identification number, given to immigrants who pay taxes. The BBB would increase the value of the credit to $2,500, but require that the parent or parents claiming the credit also have Social Security numbers, as a proxy for citizenship status. The change is expected to disqualify nearly two million citizen children in mixed-status households from this vital government support.

6) No Insurance for You!

One of the most controversial changes in the Big Beautiful Bill is to impose a work requirement on supposedly “able-bodied” adults to maintain eligibility for Medicaid, the government health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans. The requirement is spelled out as 80 hours a month of work or volunteering. The implementation is left up to states, some of which are committed to expanding health coverage, but others which have long been ideologically opposed. Enrollees must often navigate a maze of forms and bureaucratic hurdles to establish and maintain eligibility — even before this new work requirement — because Medicaid contains strict income caps. Recipients must prove they are, in fact, poor. The Big Beautiful Bill however adds insult to injury. People who are kicked off Medicaid by failing to navigate the requirements around work and work-reporting, will be punished by becoming ineligible for subsidies for individual insurance plans sold under Obamacare. By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will eliminate coverage for 10.3 million people, according to the CBO.

7) Work for Your Supper

Work requirements are fetishized throughout the Big Beautiful Bill, and also apply to recipients of SNAP, the acronym for the federal food assistance program. As passed, the House bill would expand work requirements in SNAP on adults up to the age of 65. (Current work requirements phase out at 55). It would also require parents with children as young as eight to work outside the house, turning another generation of young poor children into latchkey kids. According to modeling by the Urban league, the Big Beautiful Bill — which so richly rewards billionaires and their heirs — would be financed in part by taking food out of the mouths of hungry families. As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month.

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DOGE is on track to cost taxpayers more money than it saved

Elon Musk took a chainsaw to his brand and reputation with nothing to show for it.

By Zachary B. Wolf | 4:00 AM EDT, Fri May 30, 2025

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/politics/doge-musk-government-savings

Despite everything DOGE claimed to do, government outlays are on track to rise by 9% in 2025 compared with 2024.

“Chainsaws and bluster can’t solve the yawning gap between revenue and spending that has led American debt to rise to unsustainable levels,” Stevenson said.

In total, estimates suggest that what has been spent to generate these cuts may be as great as the cuts. In the long run, it’s not clear that DOGE generated any savings. DOGE cuts could end up costing the US $135 billion simply because it will need to retrain and rehire elements of the work force that have been let go.

While Musk has promised maximum transparency, it has been impossible to verify much of what DOGE has said it has done.

We expect the government to show receipts. And the receipts that DOGE has shown that are posted publicly are nonetheless woefully inadequate to back their claims.

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5 ‘Argument Tactics’ That Narcissists Rely On — By A Psychologist

By Mark Travers | May 31, 2025, 04:15pm EDT

Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/traversmark/2025/05/31/5-argument-tactics
-that-narcissists-rely-on---by-a-psychologist/

To strip the power from an emotional abuser, you must recognize their argument tactics for what they are: logical fallacies.

Narcissists tend to vastly overestimate the accuracy of their own beliefs. They become defensive, or even combative, when confronted with viewpoints that don’t align with their own. As a 2023 study published in Frontiers in Psychology explains, this is due to the fact that narcissists often exhibit very low levels of intellectual humility.

As a result, they rely heavily on manipulative argument tactics that serve to protect their inflated self-image. At face value, these tactics might seem clever, or maybe even intellectually sound. In reality, however, these tactics focus more on control than they do logic.

A 2024 study in published in Memory & Cognition also notes that individuals prone to such poor argument tactics are highly likely to accept and perpetuate information that confirms their existing beliefs.

Narcissists exploit this cognitive bias to others’ wits end: they frame their arguments to align with their victims’ fears or insecurities, or in ways that defend their warped self-image.

As such, they’re adept at spinning webs of flawed reasoning that feel convincing — but, under any actual scrutiny, they fall right apart. In other words, many of their go-to argument tactics are riddled with errors that are designed to deflect blame and derail conversations. In turn, they keep themselves in a position of control.

Here are five logical fallacies narcissists often rely on, and why they keep them in their repertoire.

1. Ad Hominem

The ad hominem fallacy occurs when someone chooses to attack the person making an argument instead of addressing the actual argument itself. They refuse to engage with the issue that was brought up, and instead discredit the speaker by focusing on their personal traits, emotions or past behavior. As a result, they shut down the discussion in its entirety.

For instance, say you confront a narcissist about their manipulative behavior. With an ad hominem attack, they might respond with, “You’re just insecure and bitter, that’s why you’re making such a big deal out of this.”

Rather than addressing your very real concerns, they attack you instead. As a result, your criticisms are rendered “irrational” in their eyes.

Narcissists heavily rely on ad hominem attacks, largely due to the fact that they will avoid engaging with facts that threaten their self-image at all costs. By turning the discussion into a critique of the accuser rather than their own actions, they change the course of the conversation. They make the victim feel self-conscious about raising concerns, which ensures the narcissist remains in control.

2. False Dichotomy

The false dichotomy fallacy arises once someone presents two extreme options as the only possible choices; they ignore the existence of middle-ground or nuance. This type of reasoning serves to force the victim (and the conversation as a whole) into a total gridlock. In turn, they prevent the possibility of any thoughtful discussions ensuing.

For instance, if you critique something that a narcissist says or does, they might respond in black-or-white statements like, “Either you agree with me, or you’re against me.” They equate any disagreement whatsoever with outright hostility.

But, in reality, relationships cannot function without compromise. Nor can discussions be productive without acknowledging the existence of both parties’ perspectives. Regardless, the narcissist limits the conversation to two opposing sides, which takes reasonable discourse out of the question entirely.

Narcissists favor false dichotomies given how well they simplify complex issues in ways that solely benefit them. By forcing you to choose between two extremes — total compliance or rejection — they pressure you out of thinking critically or independently. More cunningly, this also serves to instill you with guilt: as though refusing to align with their viewpoints equates to a signal of disloyalty.

3. Straw Man Argument

“Strawmanning” refers to the distortion of another person’s claim, which makes it easier to attack, refute or ignore. They refrain from acknowledging any of the actual points that were made, and opt instead to exaggerate, oversimplify or misrepresent the argument.

Consequently, the argument is painted as unreasonable or extreme. This eschews them from accountability, while simultaneously dismissing your concerns.

Imagine that you’ve calmly expressed your discomfort about a narcissist’s behavior. In response, they start a tirade with, “Oh, so now I’m the worst person in the world? I guess I can never do anything right!”

But by grossly exaggerating the complaint, they turn it into an extreme accusation (which was never never actually made) and trick you into focusing on damage control instead.

Strawmanning is useful when a narcissist feels the need to redirect the conversation, or when they want to put their victim on the defensive. They turn your genuine concerns into a caricature, or create an entirely new, false version of it, to ensure the discussion revolves around their feelings instead of their actions.

Not only does this discourage you from bringing up concerns in the future, but it also allows them to cherry-pick which of your points are worth giving credence to — even if they aren’t based in reality.

4. Red Herring

A red herring is a distraction tactic in which an unrelated topic is brought up purely to steer the conversation away from the real issue at hand. This technique is used to discombobulate the opposition, and to, once again, make it impossible to hold the person accountable for their actions.

For example, when confronted about emotionally hurtful behavior, a narcissist might suddenly say to you, “Well, remember when you forgot my birthday last year?”

With this completely out-of-left-field rebuttal, your attention is diverted away from their actions. In lieu of admitting any kind of wrongdoing, they portray you as the aggressor and themselves as the victim.

Red herrings are ideal when a narcissist is confronted with an argument that makes them feel uncomfortable, as they can derail the discussion in a manner that still allows them complete control over the narrative. Much like the other fallacies, red herrings divert your focus in a direction that ultimately only benefits them.

You’re forced into a position in which you must now defend yourself. Distractions like these are thrown in the hopes that their behavior will pale in comparison to yours — or that you forget you even brought it up in the first place.

5. Appeal To Hypocrisy

An appeal to hypocrisy, or tu quoque fallacy, is made by deflecting criticism with the fact that the accuser has likely done something similar in their lifetime. Once again, rather than addressing whether their behavior is right or wrong, the argument is sidetracked to whether the other person has ever made a similar mistake.

In charged discussions, this appeal may actually seem like a valid rebuttal, which is what makes it so reliable. Ultimately, however, it’s simply another way to avoid taking responsibility.

For instance, imagine that you’re trying to call a narcissist out about lying. Instead of explaining why they lied, or admitting that it was hurtful, they instead say, “Oh, so you’ve never lied before?”

Dishonesty is no longer the topic at hand; your past mistakes are instead. With this logic, they make it seem as though only a “perfect person” has the right to call them out.

Narcissists employ appeals to hypocrisy when they have no desire to engage in a meaningful conversation about their actions. They choose instead to create a false equivalence that vindicates them — a reality where there’s neither a need to take accountability or admit that their behavior was unjustified.

Concerned that you might have narcissistic tendencies? Take this science-backed test to find out if it’s cause for concern: Narcissism Scale https://therapytips.org/personality-tests/narcissism-scale

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Trump Hits 'Undo' on Private Astronaut's Nomination for NASA Administrator

The move to pull Jared Isaacman's nomination comes a day after the White House publishes a budget proposal outlining a 24% cut in NASA’s budget.

By Rob Pegoraro | June 1, 2025

https://www.pcmag.com/news/trump-withdraws-private-astronaut-jared-isa
acman-nomination-nasa-administrator

Reaction to Isaacman losing out has been uniformly gloomy among NASA observers. Berger, an exceptionally sourced space reporter, quoted an unnamed "current leader" of the agency as saying "NASA is fucked."

But even before this plot twist, the release Friday of details of Trump's 2026 budget proposal for NASA had things looking bleak at the agency. That document calls for slashing its budget by 24%, from fiscal year 2025's $24.8 billion to $18.8 billion, then keeping it clamped down to that total through fiscal year 2030.

The budget would also chop NASA's planetary-science budget by 32%, and hack its Earth-science budget by almost 52%. And it would shove the agency's STEM-outreach efforts out a fiscal airlock, ending all funding for that office.

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The TACO Presidency

David A. Graham | May 30, 2025

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/05/taco-donald-tr
ump-wall-street-tariffs/682994/

One way to trace the past nine years of Donald Trump is the journey from taco bowls to TACO bulls. (Hey, don’t click away! This is going somewhere!)

Back in May 2016, the then–GOP presidential candidate posted a picture of himself eating a Trump Tower Tex-Mex entree. “I love Hispanics!” he wrote. Nearly everyone understood this as an awkward pander.

Now, in May 2025, Wall Street is all over the “TACO trade,” another instance of people realizing they shouldn’t take the president at face value. “TACO” is short for “Trump always chickens out.” Markets have tended to go down when Trump announces new tariffs, but investors have recognized that a lot of this is bluffing, so they’re buying the dip and then profiting off the inevitable rally.

A reporter asked Trump about the expression on Wednesday, and he was furious. “I chicken out? I’ve never heard that,” he said. “Don’t ever say what you said. That’s a nasty question. To me, that’s the nastiest question.” The reaction demonstrates that the traders are right, because—to mix zoological metaphors—a hit dog will holler. The White House keeps talking tough about levying new tariffs on friends and geopolitical rivals alike, but Trump has frequently gone on to lower the measures or delay them for weeks or months.

Foreign leaders had figured out that Trump was a pushover by May 2017, and a year later, I laid out in detail his pattern of nearly always folding. He’s a desirable negotiating foil, despite his unpredictable nature, because he doesn’t tend to know his material well, has a short attention span, and can be easily manipulated by flattery. The remarkable thing is that it’s taken this long for Wall Street to catch on.

Even though no president has been so purely a businessman as Trump, he and the markets have never really understood each other. That is partly because, as I wrote yesterday, Trump just isn’t that good at business. Despite much glitzier ventures over the years, his most effective revenue sources have been rent collection at his legacy properties and rent-seeking as president. His approach to protectionism is premised on a basic misunderstanding of trade.

Yet Wall Street has never seemed to have much better of a grasp on Trump than he has on them, despite having many years to crack the code. (This is worth recalling when market evangelists speak about the supposed omniscience of markets.) Financiers have tried to understand Trump in black-and-white terms, but the task requires the nuanced recognition, for example, that he can be deadly serious about tariffs in the abstract and also extremely prone to folding on specifics.

Although they disdained him during his first term, many titans of industry sought accommodation with Trump during his 2024 campaign, hoping he’d be friendlier to their interests than Joe Biden had been. Once Trump’s term began, though, they were taken aback to learn that he really did want tariffs, even though he’d been advocating for them since the 1980s, had levied some in his first term, and had put them at the center of his 2024 campaign.

Trump’s commitment to tariffs, however, didn’t mean that he had carefully prepared for them or thought through their details. The administration has announced, suspended, reduced, or threatened new tariffs on China, Mexico, Canada, and the European Union. All of this volatility is ostensibly a product of ongoing negotiations, but in many cases, it’s also a response to market turmoil or because of a lack of clarity about details. (This week, two federal courts also ruled that the president was overstepping his authority by implementing tariffs under emergency powers.)

This is where the TACO trade comes in. Rather than panicking over every twist and turn, investors have begun to grasp the pattern. But every Wall Street arbitrage eventually loses its power once people get hip to it. In this case, the fact that Trump has learned about the TACO trade could be its downfall. The president may be fainthearted, but his track record shows that he can easily be dared into taking bad options by reporters just asking him about them.

One can imagine a bleak scenario here: Trump feels shamed into following through on an economically harmful tariff; markets initially don’t take him seriously, which removes any external pressure for him to reverse course. Once investors realize that he’s for real this time, they panic, and the markets tank. If the president stops chickening out, both Wall Street and the American people won’t be able to escape the consequences of his worst ideas.

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How Trump’s push to end California EV mandates may change rules of the road

By Francine Kiefer Staff writer | June 02, 2025, 5:00 a.m. ET | Pasadena, Calif.

https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0602/trump-california-cars-
ev-mandates

The march toward electric cars in the United States took a U-turn in May when the Senate voted to revoke California’s electric vehicle mandate. And it’s not just about California. The move also applies to nearly a dozen states in step with the Golden State’s zero-emissions requirement, set to start phasing in next year.

President Trump has promised to sign the congressional action into law. And as soon as he does, California says, it will sue.

Regardless of the outcome, the revocation is a significant rebuke to states’ self-determination and, more specifically, any state hoping to push the nation to quickly abandon fossil fuels in favor of electrification for vehicles. The scientific consensus says greenhouse gas emissions must be cut dramatically within the next five years to mitigate the worst effects of climate change.

“It will slow down adoption,” says Stephanie Valdez Streaty, of Cox Automotive Inc., a technology provider to the industry.

Here, the Monitor explains why California plays such an outsize role in auto emissions standards, why this has met strenuous pushback, and where things might go from here.

Why is California so important when it comes to auto emissions? More at https://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2025/0602/trump-california-cars-
ev-mandates

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Trump Puts Lives at Risk by Revoking Emergency Abortion Guidelines for Hospitals

By Jessica Washington / Jun 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM

https://theintercept.com/2025/06/03/trump-emtala-abortion-emergency/

The Trump administration rescinded Biden-era guidance that explicitly required emergency rooms to provide abortions to pregnant patients if such care would save their lives. Medical experts expect the policy shift to sow chaos in hospitals and endanger pregnant people throughout the U.S.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s move to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Biden administration issued guidance related to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act, or EMTALA, a federal law that requires health care providers that take Medicare to provide “stabilizing” medical treatment to all patients experiencing medical emergencies.

In a 2022 letter to health care providers, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Beccerra wrote that if a doctor believes a pregnant patient at an emergency room “is experiencing an emergency medical condition as defined by EMTALA, and that abortion is the stabilizing treatment necessary to resolve that condition, the physician must provide that treatment.” The memo also clarified that EMTALA preempts state law in cases where abortion is illegal with exceptions narrower than those in EMTALA.

In a press release Tuesday, the Trump administration rescinded the older guidance, stating that the previous rules “do not reflect the policy of this Administration.”

The release noted that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services “will work to rectify any perceived legal confusion and instability created by the former administration’s actions.”

“In places where doctors and hospitals are being threatened with both criminal and civil penalties for providing abortion care, it will cause a delay.”

Abortion providers and experts in reproductive health argue that the vagueness of the new guidance will create uncertainty in emergency rooms, denying pregnant people equal access to care and putting lives at risk in states that have restricted or banned abortion.

“The Trump Administration would rather women die in emergency rooms than receive life-saving abortions,” said Nancy Northup, President and CEO at the Center for Reproductive Rights. “In pulling back guidance, this administration is feeding the fear and confusion that already exists at hospitals in every state where abortion is banned. Hospitals need more guidance right now, not less.”

The Trump administration told The Intercept that the idea that the new guidance puts lives at risk is “false.”

“CMS will continue to enforce EMTALA, which protects all individuals who present to a hospital emergency department seeking examination or treatment, including for identified emergency medical conditions that place the health of a pregnant woman or her unborn child in serious jeopardy,” Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon wrote in a statement to The Intercept.

Even before the Trump administration rescinded the Biden-era guidance, dozens of pregnant women reported being turned away for emergency medical care since the fall of Roe.

A ProPublica report found that at least five women have died as a result of abortion bans since Roe v. Wade was overturned. Most reproductive health care experts believe the number is far higher than what’s been reported.

“We already know that women have died because physicians didn’t act because of fear surrounding what they or couldn’t do under certain state bans,” said Dana Sussman, senior vice president at Pregnancy Justice, a non-profit reproductive justice organization. “We know that women have died because they have been scared to get care, because they self managed abortions. We know that more women will die, and we and there are probably women who have died, and we will never know their names.”

Sussman said that the new guidance will only make it harder for hospitals to feel comfortable providing lifesaving care to pregnant people.

“I think inevitably it will create many more challenges when it comes to what hospitals are advising their physicians, what physicians feel comfortable doing in different states and and I do think that it’s putting more lives,” she said.

Last year, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case brought by the Biden Administration challenging Idaho’s abortion ban on the grounds that it violated EMTALA by prohibiting abortion care in too many circumstances. The court ultimately punted — refusing to add clarity — but allowing emergency abortions to go forward in the state.

The Trump Department of Justice declined to continue prosecuting the Idaho case, an early signal that it planned to rescind the Biden guidance.

Jamilla Perritt, an OB-GYN and abortion provider in Washington who is also president of the nonprofit Physicians for Reproductive Health, said it’s important to clarify that EMTALA still stands, even if the administration has tried to muddy the waters.

“This does not change [providers] legal obligation to provide life saving care for people when they report to emergency rooms,” Perritt said. “The other thing is that it does not change their moral and ethical obligation to do so.”

The confusion caused by this announcement, however, will carry risks, argued Perritt.

“In places where doctors and hospitals are being threatened with both criminal and civil penalties for providing abortion care,” she said. “It will cause a delay. It will give them pause.”

It’s striking, Perrit said, to see such policy come from an administration that has been masquerading as supportive of families.

“The federal government gets to decide who lives and who dies during pregnancy complications, during emergency events,” she said. “The hypocrisy is really glaring, because this is the exact same government that’s claiming to support children and families that want people to have more babies, but instead it is dismantling the system that protects the lives of pregnant people and their families.”

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