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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.

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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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Lotus Eaters is a far-right podcast and webshite that promotes conspiracy theories, anti-LGBT, anti-veganism, COVID misinformation, global warming denialism, eugenics, and misogyny. Similar to other far-right websites such as Aporia Magazine, it campaigns against multiculturalism and "wokeness". It is not about eating lotuses.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


I assume that they probably know who Carl Benjamin is

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How hard is it to come forth and condemn the sexualization of children in fashion? I don't care how many of these stupid leather catsuits and suffocating head masks they’re sending you, how can you not step forward and say this is unacceptable?
Like, how depraved are these people?

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Zion Don and the Hindu Sikh invasion?

https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64787

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Ramaswamy insisted on X that native-born families need "more math tutoring, fewer sleepovers. More weekend science competitions, fewer Saturday morning cartoons. More books, less TV. More creating, less ‘chillin.’ More extracurriculars, less ‘hanging out at the mall.’"

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Originally posted by THG:
cryptocurrency is being wiped out...

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Where is Trump when Working Americans Need Him?

Paul Craig Roberts

Divisions are already appearing in MAGA ranks. President-elect Trump and Elon Musk have aligned with the H-1B work visas that allow foreigners to be brought in to fill American jobs. This disappoints the Trump working class that believed making America great again meant they were going to get their jobs back.

American corporations, universities, and non-profit organizations like H-1B work visas for a variety of reasons. A H-1B visa recipient is an indentured servant. He or she is paid substantially less but cannot leave the employer for higher pay as the visa is tied to the specific employer. This also has the result of denying the indentured servant employment or protest rights as the indentured servant’s presence in the US is tied to the visa that is tied to the employer. For example, a H-1B visa holder cannot file a discrimination complaint.

As Senator Bernie Sanders puts it:

“The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire ‘the best and the brightest,’ but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.” rt.com/news/610400-bernie-sanders-elon-musk-visas/

The case for H-1B visas is fraudulent. The claim is that America’s huge numbers of universities are incapable of producing enough American graduates to meet America’s need for “highly educated individuals with skills critical to our country’s economic future,” to use the words of Todd Schulte, president of an immigrant advocacy organization with ties to big tech. Or as Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas disguised the scam, “American businesses rely on the H-1B visa program for the recruitment of highly-skilled talent, benefitting communities across the country.”

Imagine, the United States relies on the Third World, not on its many world prestigious universities, to supply its need for “highly-skilled talent.” The communities are not benefitting. The American residents are losing the jobs. Wages and salaries are being paid to foreigners who have displaced Americans. The difference between the US wage and the H-1B wage goes to corporate profits and executive “performance bonuses.”

I pointed all of this out years ago and summarized it 12 years ago in my book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Disintegration of the West,(Clarity Press, https://www.claritypress.com/product/the-failure-of-laissez-faire-capi
talism/ ).

It is a fairy tale told by shills to enhance corporate profits and executive bonuses that Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Columbia, University of Pennsylvania, MIT, Cal Tech, Georgia Tech, University of California, University of Chicago, and the large numbers of private and state universities cannot turn out enough educated people to fill the economy’s needs.

If Americans are not studying for careers in high tech it is because they know the jobs will be given to foreigners on visas. Moreover, Americans who prepare for these careers are hit again by the offshoring of many of the jobs.

During the early years of the 21st century when the “skills shortage” was being concocted to serve corporate profits, Business Week reported a 12.7% decline in computer science pay, a 12%decline in computer engineering pay, a 10.2% decline in electrical engineering pay. Professor Norm Matloff at the University of California, Davis, found that between 2001 and 2005 starting pay for master degrees in computer science, computer engineering and electrical engineering fell 6.6%, 13.7%, and 9.4% respectively.

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Originally posted by second:
Joe Biden's Statement on California Wildfires Compared to Donald Trump's

Jan 08, 2025 at 1:56 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-donald-trump-california-wildfire-st
atements-compared-2011897

Trump went a different route with his statement, blaming the catastrophic fires on California Governor Gavin Newsom, who is one of Trump's sharpest critics.

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And I can be really dumb.

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Originally posted by second:
I love cock.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

And being a big powerful successful business man, I shouldn't have to tell you that this is a little trick that companies in the private sector use all the time to clean house.

If Trump and Elon went into that department and hand picked who they were getting rid of, all they're doing is opening themselves and the government up to multiple lawsuits from all the DEI hires they have running everything now.

Dissolve the Alphabet Agency completely. Remove all of the personnel at once without affording them any legal recourse. Meanwhile, they keep the building(s), the phone numbers, the office furniture and the coffee maker. Then they create an entirely new Alphabet Agency where they can handpick all the staff from scratch.

Put up a new sign.

Easy Peasy, no lawsuits from Sleazy.



Have you got anything else stupid to say to me tonight, Big Brain?

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:

And being a big powerful successful business man, I shouldn't have to tell you that this is a little trick that companies in the private sector use all the time to clean house.

If Trump and Elon went into that department and hand picked who they were getting rid of, all they're doing is opening themselves and the government up to multiple lawsuits from all the DEI hires they have running everything now.

Dissolve the Alphabet Agency completely. Remove all of the personnel at once without affording them any legal recourse. Meanwhile, they keep the building(s), the phone numbers, the office furniture and the coffee maker. Then they create an entirely new Alphabet Agency where they can handpick all the staff from scratch.

Put up a new sign.

Easy Peasy, no lawsuits from Sleazy.



Have you got anything else stupid to say to me tonight, Big Brain?

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CBP is Customs and Border Control. If Trump fired everybody at CBP because of customs and tariffs, he would also be firing Border Control.

If every employee at CBP is fired, the illegal aliens will know that the Mexican border is open and unguarded until Trump hires 100,000 unemployed Trumptards to control the border. Since normal people are worth 10 Trumptards, Trump would have to hire 1,000,000 Trumptards to replace 100,000 normal people.

Your "easy peasy" plan is stupider than Trump's plan which assumes that Americans do NOT pay the tariffs on imports, but that is brain-dead stupid of Trump.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

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 JAYNEZTOWN:
Should Greenlanders want to join the U.S., however, a slight majority of 51% expressed at least some support for permitting them to join the country.
Support for taking the Panama Canal was more mixed, with 40% supporting it to 41% opposing such a move and 19% unsure.
Americans decidedly opposed the acquisition of Mexico, with 69% disapproving of such a move. Support for acquiring Canada should the country oppose integration was also low, with 61% opposing its acquisition.

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
My biggest gripe about Trump is that he's a blowhard salesman. Now, I happen to like what he's selling (MAGA) but he promises shit he can't possibly deliver.

Also, he's getting bad advice and while the people he's nominating may be loyal, some of them don't know what they're doing. Kellogg in particular seems to be living in 1920.

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Originally posted by second:
January 17, 2025

https://andrewtobias.com/three-bessent-takeaways-and-a-bonus/

I watched all three hours of Scott Bessent’s confirmation hearings. My major takeaways:

1. He’s highly competent, thoughtful, and decent. In many respects, he’s likely to be a fine Treasury Secretary.

2. Whether out of conviction or greed, he and his team are blind when it comes to taxing the wealthy. To them, the top tax brackets are either perfect just as they are . . . or else too high. At no income level — be it above $1 million a year or $10 million or $1 billion — would they consider even a small rate hike. This is terrible for our economy, our National Debt, and our social fabric.

Yesterday, Scott called billionaires “the job creators.” His fellow billionaire, Nick Hanauer, debunked that notion in a 6-minute clip I’ve been linking to for 12 years:

Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer "Rich people don't create jobs"

Via Business Insider: "As the war over income inequality wages on, super-rich Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer has been raising the hackles of his fellow 1-percenters, espousing the contrarian argument that rich people don't actually create jobs. The position is controversial — so much so that TED is refusing to post a talk that Hanauer gave on the subject. National Journal reports today that TED officials decided not to put Hanauer's March 1 speech up online after deeming his remarks "too politically controversial" for the site...".

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

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To start things off, corporations got a huge tax break from Trump and Republicans in 2017. Now Republicans want to give them another handout at a cost of $522 billion

Here’s another $222 billion handout to huge, profitable corporations. Odds are, the corporations will turn a lot of these handouts into stock buybacks for the benefit of wealthy shareholders and executives:

Somebody’s gotta pay for all those corporate tax breaks. Republicans want to begin with a $192 billion tax increase on single parents

They want to repeal the IRA’s energy tax credits, which are what lowers carbon emissions and invests in clean energy. At a time when energy production in America is booming and clean energy is taking off, Republicans want to surrender the clean energy industry to China and raise your energy bills.

Trump lies all the time about who will pay his tariffs. It’s a $2 trillion tax hike on consumer goods, and Americans will be the ones who pay for it. A devastating increase in the cost of living for working families and a huge hike in operating costs for small businesses.

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