Legitimate gripes about Trump
POSTED BY: 6ixStringJack
UPDATED: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 18:50
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I got one for you...
I am not at all comfortable with Trump's relationship with Crypto Currency.
At best, Crypto is a complete scam. At worst, it's the death of the paper dollar and a huge step toward a cashless society where every transaction you ever make leaves a paper trail. No possible good can come from Crypto.
I don't hear anybody complaining about this, which I find odd. Outside of Crypto-Bros and Trustifarians, I don't believe many people who voted for Trump support Crypto in any form.
So why isn't the Media hammering this one every single day 24/7?
It couldn't be because that's what the people who own the News want for the future, could it?
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I might be wrong to call him just Populist some want him called a Demagogue but I think its wrong to call him a full Demagogue. He is anrgy, he does offend and is a populist and knows how to manipulate the mob by way of tv and his new alt social media
a Fanboyism, Fangirl follows him like Trumpists
not a full Demagogue but he knowns who to manipulate a mass of people, whips up the passions of crowds
a star, Elvis, George Washington, the Beatles...a savior
he is not a savior...not yet anyways
Could learn how to cool it once in a while, his diplomacy skills...not sure
we seen this under small Bush and Obama who would 'save' everyone, fix everything but the fandom fever gets worse each time.
People almost pray to him
Trump is a degenerate also and not a perfect man, he is not a Moses or Buddha or Jesus
...he is also less energetic and much older now.
It's possible some form of government will be need when Private sector 'Fails', Roads need to be done, jobs, investment in science, transport, fighting pollution in rivers etc Government needs a story military to defend potential invasion or protect borders, government to set legal policy etc
Trump will save you?
ask will he really take on the 'Deep State' we heard this before, there are some of the usual Freemason Zionist Uniparty Neocons there who might even kiss Saudi butts yet its not the worst, but his picks are somewhat better...at least no John Bolton
Driving the wrong way?? The wrong way culturally with all this Tranny DEI stuff?
culture might need to change I'm not sure how as its a free country but there might be some restriction on the adult, the gambling, the obsecene, the lewd, the USA has addicts, they will still want highs, boozed out, demand drugs, homosexual parades...I'm not for Sharia or Religion but its swung too far, can he really fix all schools?
Relations with Russia are terrible, there is no friendship era happening again like Russia was close to Bush after 911 attacks. All that worldwide goodwill is gone, maybe some of that Middle East stuff can be fixed, maybe it can get better for Ukraine Russia I'm not sure...maybe less dying. With Biden and Kamala Harris in charge it looked like the old Lion or Eagle injured with Hyenas circling
the Ukrainians dead, lots of young Russian men dead
Ukraine is broken, I'm not sure if it ever can pay that money back
Debt is crazy Trillions, it was broke when Bush sent it past 9 to 10 Trillion and broke the debt clock, now its $36 trillion US debt, you cant really pay that off.
Every wonder why Aircraft Carriers pop up outside troublesome nations say take our Dollars or else!
I do like the idea of 'Doge' cutting stuff
Take US Dollars or else!!!
that madness might be ending with Brics,
Crypto?
Stephen Findeisen, better known as Coffeezilla seemed ok if he sees very bad Crypto he will call it out Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX for example.
Why would people invest in a fake digi coin linked by a nasty girl vulgar young woman, street interview, Haliey Welch astreet interview, Haliey Welch making a mimic sound of spitting a man's penis during 'oral sex' and they invest in their scam linked coin...is that how bad the US Dollar got?
Viral ‘Hawk Tuah’ girl accused of crypto scam
https://www.yahoo.com/news/viral-hawk-tuah-girl-accused-212501852.html
Crypto exists only because a Super alien foreign AI hasn't cracked its trade yet and figured out all the trades, almost nothing is backed in Gold anymore and the Dollar, Euro, Yen and other currency are so bad....its jumpy, volatile, buy fast sell fast, win some lose a little profit fast, the best of a bad bunch to pick from?
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I'm not asking about broken stuff he promised to fix and hasn't even had an attempt to try fixing since he hasn't even been inaugurated yet.
I'm under no illusion he's going to get everything done that he said he's going to get done. Even if he wanted to do everything he said on the campaign trail, he's going to get a ton of pushback on most of it, sometimes by people supposedly on the same team.
The question there is what does get fixed and what is forgotten about along the way. Time will answer that.
Most of your stuff here is a Black Pill laundry list, and they're things I refuse to dwell on with a super-negative outlook. Things I already spent way too much of my better years worrying about and I refuse to worry about anymore.
Yeah. Trump is not god. Trump is not even Moses. Trump is just a man. He can't fix at least 50 years of people purposefully trying to break America behind the scenes.
But he can at least stop the bleeding, and maybe course correct the whole ship the right way so we can keep fixing things instead of making everything worse every day.
The Crypto thing is bothersome though.
Once everybody is on a purely digital currency that is exclusively made of 1's and 0's, there's really nothing stopping them from putting expiration dates on the currency too. Nobody ever generates any real wealth if they lose what they don't spend on disposable crap that also never generates any wealth and they're all renting their living quarters.
Why not 3 different tiers of currency, like they do in the "Free To Play" mobile game space? You can't really buy the good stuff unless you're making real money transactions. Most people never get more than a few bits of Level 2 currency their entire lifetime, and only when they do something extraordinary. And if ever they luck into it they think long and hard before choosing what they spend that on. They've finally got what they need to get some of that top-shelf merchandise that they've been dreaming about owning since they were a kid at the arcade. Some might even prize their bits of Level 2 currency so much that they never actually spend it and it just goes back into the community pot when they die, since laws were made long ago barring any inheritance from being passed down to kin. No matter what they do they will never hold any Level 1 currency. They've likely never even been in the same room as anybody in their lives that ever held any Level 1 currency. The people who own the arcade building and all of the prizes on every shelf are the only ones who hold any Level 1 Currency and it's what they trade in exclusively.
I mean, if you want to talk Mark of the Beast stuff, it was never about barcodes on your wrist to buy booze. I mean... yeah... why not do that too out of convenience if we're living in a world of pure digital currency.
But it's about the implications of what a digital currency means and how human behavior down to the individual can be controlled completely when you know everything about somebody because they're online all the time and you can literally program the currency in their wallet.
One of those two things we can already do easily if "The People" allow it, and the other one probably won't take too long to figure out how to get the people to willingly go along with as well, with a few more years of hardware and software upgrades on the horizon first.
You think things changed a lot over the last 30 years?
I doubt very much that the world we're living in 30 years from now will even be recognizable to an alien that touched down today and makes a return trip to check in on us in 2054.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President. 
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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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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Right now it's impossible to have a legitimate gripe about Trump's Presidential policy because he isn't President, yet.
I didn't qualify it with Presidential Policy. Any legitmate gripe against Trump is acceptable here (NOTE: If it's something MSNBC is complaining about, it is not a legitimate gripe).
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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
His picks haven't bothered me like they've bothered you so far, but I share the same concerns about how close he was to "Bitcoin Bros" and how the already ridiculously priced Bitcoin shot up from $64,000 per coin to $100,000 per coin today.
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Trump is fine.
He is also your current President.
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I think we can have legitimate gripes about Trump, the gripes because we have seen exactly what he did during his first Presidency.
Will Trump be an improvement on Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, well they have done such a bad job it should be easy to improve
However let's look at Donald, I sometimes remarked Zion-Don, maybe the tail waged the dog once again...how independent was he? or people did financially back him, the Murdoch family would briefly back him, backed by Geoffrey Palmer real estate, Sheldon Adelson over seas Jewish guy in Maccau for example, led by British Freemason Royal power? didn't take on the Saudi although he said he would. Everyone expected him to take on the 'Deep State' fight 'Big Tech' he would arrest the corrupt, instead it went the other way and his was on the backfoot for most of his Presidency. McMahon's they backed him 2016 that's why rewards are coming, big names their ownership of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) there was real estate Tom Barrack Colony Capital Nixon's Lebanon Lawyer, Orscheln retail and food stores...backed by Disney which has purcahsed almost every other USA film studio and forced DEI Transexual SJW messages to be blasted at kids like Soviet propaganda.
People expected him to 'pardon' Assange, he didn't not Trump...it was during Biden that Julian Assange finally got to see freedom after almost 15 years under investigation, arrest or in hiding due to manufactured fake charges with the British, Ecuadorian, Australia and disgusting Swedistanis also involved.
Assange supporters campaigned on his behalf for a pardon from US president Biden because Trump did not pardon him as Trump voters said he would.
Right now a world going more chaotic we see an expansion of Empire, the Greater Israel, the Greater Turkish Ottoman Empire, the Kurds getting screwed over, a rise of al-Qaeda type groups and ISIS linked terrorist in Syria AGAIN!? but to give Trump credit he is not in power yet, we are at the Lameduck Presidency period, the end of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris...the Saudis, Israeli, British, Qatar, UAE and others wanted Assad gone, what is happening now is chaos, mass murder, bloodshed and terrorism...is it spreading into Iraq?
Romania, Georgia
Ukraine is chaos and Russia is slowly winning that meat grinder war.
it seems nobody seen the politics of South Korea coming
Russia fires of a non-Nuclear ICBM or IRBM test with MIRVs
the fall of Afghanistan
...nobody in left or right can see chaos coming?
Benjamin Netanyahu who possibly gave stand down orders allowing Palestinians to attack now got his distraction and appears in a fortified underground courtroom, wars distract from his corruption trails
Erdogan has been a thorn in many people's sides
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the return of the Swamp Creatures?
Trump appoints gay tech executive who previously supported Pete Buttigieg to State Department role
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-appoints-gay-tech-executive-112214920
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The president-elect nominated Jacob Helberg
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Right here is an example.
I don't believe that Trump is the problem here or that he would agree with them, and I do hope he addresses this soon. It is both a shame and probably a good thing that Trump posts on a different platform than Elon and Vivek post on.
I would suggest that Ted and Second both watch this. Particularly Ted.
I assume that they probably know who Carl Benjamin is, and I already know what they think about me. But I think they'd be surprised to see how many things we might actually agree on when it comes to labor.
I'm not saying I endorse every statement made in this 2 hour long video, but I agreed with enough to think it was a good example of a real potential legitimate gripe about the Trump Administration if the conversation between these two and other people engaging with them on Twitter doesn't change. Because even if they're not aware of it the talk they're making right now is just going to lead to more of the same for the American worker, simply with swapped out means coming ultimately to the same end.
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Hegelian dialectic the interaction of opposing forces, Carl Benjamin have people on the 'Left' heard of him?
Does mainstream news the left CNN, MSNBC the BBC talk of Carl Benjamin...maybe not
In parts of the web
there is Leftwing Bias and maybe rational wiki isn't very rational
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lotus_Eaters
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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.
Why surmise, deduce stuff we don't know
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I assume that they probably know who Carl Benjamin is
I think its incorrect to assume or if they have heard they hear he is 'Far Reich' or Alt Far-Rights or something
Anyways you know my opinion on the culture clash inside tech, paid H1B applicants were from Hindu or Sikh India not all but its 75% - 95% ...a huge number, then Canada took so many they started pooping on beaches!! street shitters, riots assassinations, a culture clash that seen global diplomatic issues and almost economic war between two nations because Trudeau couldn't manage his borders with 'Oceans' between them.
and who the fuck is that Waris Ahluwalia guy he's been around Hollywood a lot The Grand Budapest Hotel who would appear in those 'Pizzagate' posts next to Maxwell, DeNiro, Epstein, Victoria Secret Les Wexner fashion party events etc
with so many of them around its like the have their own weird gang in North America and yes before some leftwing comes on to 'correct' me I realize Sikh are not jihadist muslims but they still hijack and blow up Aircraft and do the same thing radical muzzies do, Canadian Sikhs for example were charged with plotting to blow up Air India Flight 112 in New York City.
Commissioned for Clinton Foundation Anniversary
Marina Abramovic
https://imgur.com/v7vwba7
the thing about Carl Benjamin is he won't really go nuts and touch anything too controversial then you have guys like Alex Jones who are wacko Pirate News and push stuff like 'Pizzagate' but not all of Alex Jones infowars pizzagate stuff might be wrong
There seems to be something going obn with all that movement of Art, the island trips, the foundations, the young model actors, the weird occult gore and sadist symbols, Abramovic, Rachel Chandler another name New York, Los Angeles, California, nobody was really sure what she did a photographer, modeling agency face, then you had Balenciaga's grotesque fashion campaign
https://steemit.com/pedogate/@artistiquejewels/rachel-chandler-s-background-connections-to-nexivm-standard-hotel-marina-abramovich-modeling-agencies-epstein-symbolism-and
Chateau Marmont, Andre Balazs, Standard Hotel and Maxwell's name again
Rachel was friendly with Prince Andrew and Maxwell, connected to the Rothschild family through Paris and Nicky Hilton
Her Instagram account went private around the same time the PizzaGate story broke after an anonymous user screenshot images she posted, seeming to be Epstein's secret security lair beneath "The Temple" structure on Little Saint James Island.
Rachel married Tom Guinness, a well-known Stylist linked to a powerful Anglo-rish Guinness family known brewing, banking, print media.
A Myspace photo Rachel posted (but quickly archived) appeared to be Jeffrey Epstein’s Paris apartment.
As one commenter said
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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?
like were all over CDAN was this pizzagate stuff was happening, the Entry Blinds
Balenciaga clothes
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Look at those two out of place college "educated" white girls in that crowd.
It's really insidious, once you strip away all the fluff and bullshit they covered it with.
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Mellon family, old money, even more than Elon Musk donated
Who is Trump's new mega-donor, Timothy Mellon?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9eed9g3vlyo
They gave Donald Trump millions. Here's what they want
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/gave-donald-trump-millions-heres-100000609.
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Zion Don and the Hindu Sikh invasion?
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64787
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Zion Don and the Hindu Sikh invasion?
https://www.informationliberation.com/?id=64787
The funniest thing about all of this is Vivek claiming that Screech would have been a genius engineer. He obviously doesn't know his Saved By The Bell canon. When they took their ACT tests, there was a whole episode about Screech needing to come to terms with the fact that not only was he the goofy ugly guy who didn't get the girl, but he only scored 1,200 when Zach scored 1,500.
OOPS!
Nah. These visas are bringing over cheap labor for tech and for the medical care industry. I knew a guy from India who was working at my last good tech job. We already had 2 data centers stationed in India, but he was sent to us to learn our jobs. I assume he was making roughly around $50k per year with benefits as I was at the time, but he said he sent half of his money home after expenses and his family was living like royalty off of that. At this time (around 2008), he said that it cost around $6,000 for a brand new car and only 25 cents for a pack of Marlboros (around the time they were pushing it up past $5.00 a pack in the states).
He went back to India and taught a bunch of Indian people to do our jobs for 1/10th of the salary while people outside the building were shitting in the street.
In the end, all of those jobs would have been taken over by computer programs and eventually A.I., but in the meantime they were able to save a billion or two over 15 years by increasing their cheap Indian workforce and forcing all the Americans there out of good jobs.
The overall intelligence of Indians working in America is vastly overstated.
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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.’"
Ask a 10 year old kid today what a mall is, and if their cool parents already watched some cool movies with them they might tell you it was that place that everybody met up at on the movie Mallrats.
Gotta be fair here though... even though the execution and timing of these statements was probably a mistake and obviously a PR disaster that the media is loving, it is really, really hard to argue with most of Vivek's comments on the issue.
I was a genius kid. I had a shattered home and two parents that viewed the kids more as pawns in a war than actual people, so after 5 years old neither of them attempted to talk to any of us as much more than objects, always afraid of what might get back to the other parent when we talked. Despite scoring in the 99th percentile across the board on the IOWA tests every year and being put in a "Gifted" class in grade school, and winning the prize for the most books read during the Accellerated Reading program several years in a row, also being in the NJHS as well as an upgraded version of the Gifted program, by High School I didn't give one single shit about any of that. I refused the offer to join the NHS. I refused the advice to take honors classes. My overall grades for the dummy classes slid to around a solid B average. I never did any homework and everything I needed to do outside of a class was finished in Study Hall if I hadn't already finished it in class while the teachers were yammering on. Outside of wrestling, I did no extra curricular activities.
Why should I have? Nobody gave a shit at home. The only prize to be had by getting straight A's was not being pulled over my mom's knee and having my ass smacked to oblivion like my brother did 4 times a year when he brought home another report card by a frustrated teacher who couldn't figure out why a guy that smart can't get anything better than a C or D in all of his subjects. The freakin' mini-golf and arcade cared more about my report card grades than my parents did. They just expected that shit out of me. If I got a couple of Bs or god forbid a C, it would have been my ass getting slapped.
Then you figure out one day that you like girls, and girls are not at all impressed by your intelligence in American Midwest Public Schools, circa 1992. They like the big dumb guys. The bigger and dumber the better.
Well.... I wasn't big or tall. Nothing I can do about my height, I'm afraid. But I can start working out. And I can be really dumb.
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So they want to die on that H1B Sikh Hindu Visa position, Vivek says the USA is ok if you have the certificate a qualified education from some place and Elon Musk censors shadow bans so now lost all their main support just BEFORE inauguration
this kind of political collapse ever happened in US history?
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Yup, tick tock...
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Meh... Relax. It'll be fine.
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cryptocurrency is being wiped out...
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Financial Markets BRACE For TRUMP…Major SELL OFF?!?
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cryptocurrency is being wiped out...
Awesome.
I'll consider that my belated Christmas present.
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Trump's trolling and tariffs sped up Trudeau's demise. How will Canada handle him now?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-trolling-tariffs-sped-trudeaus-16141
8848.html
Troll?
usual diplomacy...annex North America map?
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113789874318969723
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Where is Trump when Working Americans Need Him?
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/05/where-is-trump-when-workin
g-americans-need-him/
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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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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.
"Governor Gavin Newscum refused to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
He went on to claim Newsom prioritized protecting the Delta smelt, a small fish species, over the needs of Californians.
"Now the ultimate price is being paid," Trump wrote, adding, "He is the blame for this. On top of it all, no water for fire hydrants, not firefighting planes. A true disaster!"
TRUMP COMPLETELY IGNORES THE WEATHER, PLACING ALL BLAME ON HIS POLITICAL ENEMY:
Los Angeles usually gets several inches of rain by now, halfway into the rainy season, but it’s only recorded a fifth of an inch downtown since July, its second driest period in almost 150 years of record-keeping. The rest of Southern California is just as bone-dry. Strong winds are driving the fire.
https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/california-rain-droug
ht-north-south/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/01/08/santa-ana-winds-
fuel-los-angeles-wildfires/77542643007/
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The cosmetics billionaire behind Trump’s obsession with buying Greenland
Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland has a long and storied history
By Gustaf Kilander | Wednesday 08 January 2025 21:53 GMT
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ronald-l
auder-donald-trump-greenland-b2676094.html
“People don’t even know if Denmark has any legal right to it,” Trump claimed. “But if they do, they should give it up because we need it for national security.” Video of Trump saying this at https://x.com/AlanFisher/status/1876682147320443193
“I said, ‘Why don’t we have that?’” he told the authors. “You take a look at a map. I’m a real estate developer. I look at a corner, I say, ‘I’ve got to get that store for the building that I’m building,’ etc. It’s not that different.”
“I love maps. And I always said: ‘Look at the size of this. It’s massive. That should be part of the United States,’” he added at the time.
“I am hearing that the people of Greenland are ‘MAGA’,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Monday night. “My son, Don Jr, and various representatives, will be traveling there to visit some of the most magnificent areas and sights. Greenland is an incredible place, and the people will benefit tremendously if, and when, it becomes part of our Nation. We will protect it, and cherish it, from a very vicious outside World. MAKE GREENLAND GREAT AGAIN!”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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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.
It is Newsom's fault. Along with all the Democrats who control the state and the locality.
Your party has an inability to plan 2 days in the future.
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putting team 'BRICS' together is a bad idea
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Quote:Trump creates federal department that already exists
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
And I can be really dumb.
Donald Trump is blabbering about tariffs again:
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
For far too long, we have relied on taxing our Great People using the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Through soft and pathetically weak Trade agreements, the American Economy has delivered growth and prosperity to the World, while taxing ourselves. It is time for that to change. I am today announcing that I will create the EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE to collect our Tariffs, Duties, and all Revenue that come from Foreign sources. We will begin charging those that make money off of us with Trade, and they will start paying, FINALLY, their fair share. January 20, 2025, will be the birth date of the External Revenue Service. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Jan 14, 2025, 10:28 AM
Fine. Call it anything you want. But I wonder if Trump really believes he's creating something new. Does he know that we already have an agency that collects tariffs? It's the C in CBP, Customs and Border Protection. Speaking of which, here's what they have to say about who pays customs duties:
Liability For Duties
There is no provision under which U.S. duties or taxes may be prepaid in a foreign country before exportation to the United States. This is true even for gifts sent by mail. Paying a customs broker will not relieve the importer of his or her liability for customs charges (duties, taxes, and other debts owed CBP) should those charges not be paid by the broker. Therefore, if the importer pays the broker by check, he or she should give the broker a separate check, made payable to “U.S. Customs and Border Protection” for those customs charges, which the broker will then deliver to CBP.
A foreigner can't pay tariffs even for a birthday gift. You, the recipient, have to pay it. How? By writing a check payable to "U.S. Customs and Border Protection."
It hardly seems possible that even the MAGA sycophants surrounding Trump haven't told him this, but he keeps claiming that other countries pay US tariffs anyway. And, sure, it's Trump. But it's still weird as hell.
https://jabberwocking.com/trump-creates-federal-department-that-alread
y-exists/
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I love cock.
P.S. Your "Customs and Border Protection" department is an abject failure and needs to be dissolved immediately. They'll be replaced with a new bureau that actually does the job it is charged with doing.
At this juncture, only the stupidest of stupid cultists would believe that any US Department with either "Border" or "Protection" in the name is capable of doing anything more than sucking up US Dollars while making everything they touch worse than it was.
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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Quote:CBP is Customs and Border Control. If Trump fired everybody at CBP because of customs and tariffs, he would also be firing Border Control.
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?
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
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Originally posted by second:Quote:CBP is Customs and Border Control. If Trump fired everybody at CBP because of customs and tariffs, he would also be firing Border Control.
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?
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
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We've already established he can create another bureau even though one already exists. It was such a big deal, Kevin felt the need to make you some fake graphs about it.
So we'll just start the new one first, then dissolve the old and useless one.
Guess we have to buy a new coffee maker.
Shame. It's worth more than most of the employees that are about to be unemployed.
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Trump's Cabinet is Rich as Hell
Many Americans turned to Trump because they believed he would unrig the system. But he’s filling his White House with the billionaires who benefit most by keeping it rigged.
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Trump advisers concede Ukraine peace deal is months away
By Gram Slattery | January 15, 2025 5:54 AM CST
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/trump-advisers-concede-ukraine-pe
ace-deal-is-months-away-2025-01-15/
Summary
• Trump advisers are quietly backing away from the campaign promise to end the war on Day One
• New extended timeline - months, not days or weeks - recognizes the intractability of the conflict
• Putin sending mixed messages about readiness to resolve the conflict
In the run-up to his Nov. 5 election victory, Trump declared dozens of times that he would have a deal in place between Ukraine and Russia on his first day in office, if not before.
In late October, however, he made a subtle shift in his rhetoric, and began saying he could solve the war "very quickly."
Since the election, Trump has walked back his rhetoric further, often simply saying that he would "solve" the conflict, without offering a timeline. And the president-elect has said ending the war in Ukraine will be harder than reaching a ceasefire in Gaza.
"I think, actually, more difficult is going to be the Russia-Ukraine situation," Trump said when asked about Gaza during a press conference in December. "I see that as more difficult."
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The incoming administration doesn’t seem to have any economic plan. But the ultimate reason for that absence is fear: everyone is afraid to say anything that might be taken as an implicit contradiction or criticism of Trump
The details are in “Trump's Team of Economic Yes-Men. Or, why he still has no plan”
By Paul Krugman | Jan 15, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-team-of-economic-yes-men
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No reply to that one, huh?
That's what I thought.
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the Ego therefore he loves to talk
always shooting his mouth off?
Trump’s claim Canada’s water would stop L.A. fires ‘preposterous’: experts
https://globalnews.ca/news/10953225/los-angeles-wildfires-canada-water
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Every "You're fired!" ever (The Apprentice)
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Does This Trump Crypto Appointee Even Have Crypto Experience? Yes, With a Trump-Themed Meme Coin.
By Matt Sledge | January 15, 2024
https://theintercept.com/2025/01/15/trump-crypto-who-is-bo-hines/
When Donald Trump announced days before Christmas that he was tapping a former college football player and failed congressional candidate to lead a White House “crypto council,” even crypto bros were confused.
“Who the heck is Bo Hines?” one Bitcoin booster posted on X.
As it turns out, the trust fund kid from North Carolina had connections in the crypto world.
Hines, 29, received support in one of his election campaigns from FTX campaign finance fraudster Ryan Salame.
More recently, a group overseen by his company teamed up with the makers of a Trump-themed meme coin called Restore the Republic that launched with a storm of scam accusations.
Hines will serve as executive director of the newly created Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, which is chaired by the far more prominent venture capitalist David Sacks.
Hines’s experience with the Trump-themed crypto venture raises questions about whether his appointment could signal looser restrictions on the fringe “meme coins” as the council sets out to deregulate more mainstream crypto projects backed by the likes of Sacks.
Until now, Hines’s ties to the crypto industry escaped scrutiny, in part because Trump announced his appointment in the days before Christmas. His relationship with Restore the Republic has not been previously reported.
Crypto Connections
Trump announced Hines’s selection on Truth Social on December 22 by lauding Hines’s educational background — Yale University, Wake Forest University law school — instead of his crypto chops.
In his home state of North Carolina, Hines may be best known for 2022 and 2024 runs for Congress, in two different districts, as well as a stint as a wide receiver at North Carolina State University before he transferred to Yale.
Despite Trump’s failure to tout them, however, Hines’s links to the crypto world were out in the open for anyone to notice.
As the CEO of the right-wing news organization Today Is America, which he ran since March 2023, provided a quote for an October 23 announcement about a partnership with a Trump-themed meme token called Restore the Republic.
Those were frantic, final days of a campaign that still seemed like it might come down to the wire. According to the press release, an organization called Students for Trump would partner with the meme coin organization to hold events, community forums, and voter outreach programs in swing states.
Students for Trump and Today Is America are deeply intertwined. The student group is overseen by Today In America, according to a LinkedIn posting by a former top official at the company and a separate post on a crypto news clearinghouse about the Restore the Republic coin. And the student group’s homepage is a vertical of the Today Is America website. According to its Instagram bio, Students for Trump is “powered” by Today Is America.
In the announcement of the Restore the Republic meme coin, Hines referred to the Students for Trump partnership in the first person.
“We are excited to join forces with Restore the Republic to amplify our outreach and ensure voters across the country are equipped with the knowledge and tools they need to make informed decisions,” Hines said in a press release.
The press release made it sound as if a trio of civic-minded organizations were coming together around a love of Trump. But in a conversation on X Spaces around the same time, an adviser for the Restore the Republic “team” acknowledged a more contentious recent history involving Trump.
In early August, Restore the Republic launched as a token at the same time that Trump’s sons were teasing the imminent creation of an official Trump crypto project.
Meme coins operate on the edges of a wider, infamously freewheeling cryptocurrency world. The most famous is Dogecoin, a dog-themed token with a shiba inu as its lo
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At his Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth refused to state whether he would follow an unlawful order given by President-elect Donald Trump. During the nationwide protests after George Floyd’s murder in 2020, Trump asked the then chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “Can’t you just shoot them, just shoot them in the legs or something?” It is entirely conceivable that during his second term, what was previously a question becomes an order.
Everyone in the military chain of command swears an oath to the Constitution that requires them to disobey unlawful orders—and to be very clear, a mass shooting conducted by the government against its own citizens is definitely that. If the secretary of defense is unwilling to fulfill that oath in contradiction of a commander-in-chief who demands absolute fealty from his subordinates, it will fall on the uniformed career service members to uphold the Constitution and ensure that the military is not unleashed on American civilians. Although individual service members are legally authorized to use force in acts of self-defense against an imminent threat, an order to fire on civilians would be not just unlawful—a violation of the rules for the use of force—but a war crime under the laws of armed conflict.
An order by Trump to deploy the military and have it open fire on protesters would be catastrophic in a way few Americans who haven’t served in uniform realize. Unlike the National Guard at Kent State, today’s military is significantly more lethal. In 1970 the Ohio National Guard killed four protesters and wounded nine at Kent State University, firing bolt-action M1 Garand rifles, which held an eight-round magazine and could fire 40 to 50 rounds a minute. As one National Guard member there that day recalled: “I distinctly heard one shot fired; then all hell broke loose when 28 men fired a total of 67 shots over a period of 13 seconds.”
A modern military squad operates with roughly nine M16s loaded with 30-round magazines and three squad automatic weapons that each contain 200-round belts of ammunition. If today the same number of soldiers were firing for 13 seconds, as they did at Kent State, they could easily unleash several hundred rounds. Additionally, contemporary crowd-control tactics often result in “kettling,” in which protesters are pushed into densely confined areas, where individual bullets are likely to penetrate multiple people before stopping.
This has nearly happened before. When the Insurrection Act was most recently invoked, it was by President George H.W. Bush, who deployed elements from the 1st Marine Division to Los Angeles in 1992, after the Rodney King verdict. After taking fire while responding to a domestic disturbance with the city’s police department, Marines fired more than 200 rounds into a house with children inside after an officer yelled, “Cover me!” Thankfully, nobody was harmed, but as Major General James Delk, who commanded the joint task force at the time, would write: “The marines responded instantly in the precise way they had been trained, where ‘cover me’ means provide me with cover using firepower.”
Much more at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/01/trump-cabinet-pete-hegseth
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With those fires still burning towns and cities is the USA setting an example of freedom and leadership?
In polls
the US public does not want to annex Greenland
USA does not want Canada
the public also does not want Mexico
support for the Panama Canal was more mixed
Trump's suggestion that the United States annex Greenland has met with a lukewarm reception among American voters, who overwhelmingly oppose a military operation with that aim. Seventy-six percent of registered voters in a recent Napolitan News Service survey either "somewhat" or "strongly" opposed sending troops to take the island by force.
Whatever about Canada and Mexico or Latin American having trouble standing up to a bigger 'bully' guy, Greenland has even less of a chance. If the USA wanted to politically take over Greenland would they really be able to hold off Americanization and cultural imperialism that wipes out Ancient Culture? Technically if you go outside Iceland then you are outside Europe, Silfra Icelandic a rift formed in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge – the divergent tectonic boundary between the North American and Eurasian plates, it goes under the Ocean as Mid-Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge a divergent or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean when America split from Africa and Europe 150 million years ago in what used to be a giant super continent but Greenland is culturally linked to the Scandinavian and Danish and the Native, The Thule are thought to be proto-Inuit were the ancestors of all modern Inuit.
Culturally I feel we entered an era of understanding and revisionism, the days of Ronald Reagan types, Harry Truman and Joseph McCarthy cheering on movies of John Wayne shooting the Indians are over.
While sometimes I find Trump amusing I don't think this whole annex Panama, Canada, Mexico, Greenland thing is going to fly well and people might look back on it as a bad dark period. Yes there are military reasons to be there in Greenland, it is strategy, there are investments, under the ice from news reports we see credible stories of secret United States program of the Cold War cities under the ice, however the USA has bases all over the world...would it need to politically 'annex' anyone? It is generally agreed that this place is ancient and has a lot of Native American heritage, yes it is classed as European but in Greenland a Native First people existed there a long long time ago, even before the Vikings. Inuit religion is the shared spiritual beliefs and practices of the Inuit, an indigenous people from Alaska, northern Canada, parts of Siberia, and Greenland. Their religion shares many similarities with some Alaska Native religions. It is generally accepted that the Eskimos, or Inuit, migrated east from northeast Siberia thousands of years before Christ, before India, before Rome, before China before Jewish religion or Egypt religion and people, for some reason these people lived in the snows for many years part of the continent of North America, but it might have been colonized as recently as only 1 thousand years ago before Vikings arrived. Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial Scandanavia powers and in Europe there are old Native people who were surviving, in Japan the Ainu, the Sámi Ancient DNA shows the Sámi the Siberian the Native American Alaskan and Finns, they share some symbolism and share similar words in their language. Somehow a lot of their rituals and religions survived despite a push by Christian Lutheranism to wipe out their 'Paganism' there was also an influece and fusion of Choir and Dance with Native Folk music and tradition, even its Christian traditions became a unique fusion of Native and old Church music.
Greenland is one of the places on Earth with most Native peoples, it also has a few hundred and dozens of people from other place the Danish represented demographically as it is a Denmark colony
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Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland – and his implication that he could use the military to get it – may be just a negotiation ploy. But for Denmark and Europe, it would be irresponsible to ignore the possibility that he’s serious.
By Dominique Soguel Special correspondent, Anna Mulrine Grobe Staff writer
Jan. 15, 2025, 5:13 p.m. ET | Basel, Switzerland; and Brussels
https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0115/greenland-donald-trum
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When President-elect Donald Trump said last week that the United States needs Greenland “for national security” and refused to rule out military measures to get it, it raised eyebrows all over the world.
Mr. Trump’s fellow Republicans quickly defended his comments. “The United States is not going to invade another country,” said Sen. James Lankford on “Meet the Press” Sunday. “The president speaks very boldly on a lot of things. We’ve seen this [is] how he’s done negotiations.”
But officials in Denmark – and Europe more broadly – don’t have the luxury of thinking that way.
For while the idea of the U.S. forcibly seizing control of Greenland may appear capricious, the possibility – however remote – raises challenges to international law, security alliances, and U.S.-European relations. France and Germany have responded with a seriousness typically reserved for Russia and China, emphasizing the importance of maintaining Europe’s borders as inviolable.
And even if Mr. Trump intends his Greenland gambit as a ploy to negotiate greater defense contributions from NATO allies, to Europeans his aggressive approach is not how allies should engage.
“The Europeans are taking it seriously,” says Célia Belin, head of the European Council on Foreign Relations’ office in Paris. “It is not just about Greenland. It is about the type of relationship that this president is trying to establish with Europe, which is not just transactional, but extortionist.”
Mr. Trump’s expansionist rhetoric is forcing Europeans to have conversations that were not even on the agenda. If backed with action, it potentially puts the U.S. on par with revanchist powers China and Russia.
Much more at https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2025/0115/greenland-donald-trum
p-europe-denmark
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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.
10000% behind taking back the Panama Canal. Fuck them, that's ours.
My advice to Greenland is the same advice I gave to Puerto Rico. Stay the fuck out if they put it to a vote. You'll end up with half those trees cut down in 10 years and they'll rename the place Disneyland. Stick around long enough and we'll burn the other half of the trees down on you.
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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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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Quote:Trump doesn’t understand economics, but that’s no problem for him because the advisors he selected to work in the White House repeat back to him his same old misunderstandings, and that ain’t gonna change no matter what misfortunes happen caused by Trump's failure to understand.
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.
By Paul Krugman | Jan 16, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/chinas-very-bad-no-good-trillion
Krugman gives the following warning: “Not about Trump, and fairly wonky.” I disagree with that assessment. It is about Trump’s misunderstanding of how an economy works.
Giant Chinese trade surpluses create problems in other countries too — although not the problems crude mercantilists like Donald Trump imagine. And China’s attempt to export its problems (for that’s what this amounts to) will meet a protectionist backlash; in fact, this would have happened even if Trump weren’t about to take office.
First things first: When a nation runs a trade surplus, what it that telling us? Many people, Trump obviously among them, think such a surplus is a sign of national strength — if you’re selling more to other countries than you’re buying, that must be because you’re outcompeting them. But that isn’t at all how it works.
For a nation’s balance of payments always balances. That is (with some slight technical adjustments),
Trade balance + Net inflows of capital = 0
I often run into people who believe that a successful economy, one achieving rapid productivity growth and leading in cutting-edge technology, will both run big trade surpluses because it’s so competitive and attract lots of foreign capital because it’s such a good investment. But that’s arithmetically impossible.
In fact, when an economy surges past its rivals in productivity and technology, it usually does attract a lot of foreign investment — but that means that it runs a trade deficit, not a surplus. A case in point: U.S. productivity surged past productivity in Europe after around 1995, because we were quicker to take advantage of information technology. As a result, foreign money began flooding in — and that led to a much bigger U.S. trade deficit:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1CXGd
Conversely, when nations experience big declines in trade deficits or increases in trade surpluses, it’s usually because something bad has happened. Look at what happened to current accounts (a broad definition of the trade balance) in southern Europe during the euro crisis 15 years ago:
More at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/chinas-very-bad-no-good-trillion
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Right-wing politicians justify massive tax cuts for the rich with the claim that all will be well because these policies will unleash rapid economic growth.
Donald Trump has brought his own brand of nonsense, with claims that tariffs can make foreigners pay for everything.
Which brings us to Scott Bessent, Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary. Bessent’s “3-3-3” economic plan is full-on magical thinking. He will increase oil production by 3 million barrels a day, reduce the budget deficit to 3 percent of G.D.P. and raise economic growth to 3 percent.
The Congressional Budget Office expects potential G.D.P. to rise about 1.9 percent a year over the next decade; Bessent is claiming that he can raise that to 3 percent. The problem is, nobody knows how to do that. The question is whether there are plausible policies that could raise productivity enough to get growth up to 3 percent.
Well, Republicans believe, or claim to believe, that they can sharply raise productivity growth by cutting taxes on the rich. You could say that claim is unsupported by evidence. But that’s too weak; in fact, it’s powerfully rejected by the evidence.
The markets were reassured by Bessent’s selection because he comes across as a normal, sensible Wall Street type. But personal affect is a very bad guide to how policymakers will act. Trump’s future Treasury secretary — I assume he will easily be confirmed — has policy ideas that are, in their own way, as disconnected from reality as Trump’s belief that he can fund the U.S. government entirely with tariffs, at no cost to consumers, or Elon Musk’s belief that there’s $2 trillion a year in wasteful spending hidden under the sofa cushions or something.
More evidence at https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/voodoo-maga-style
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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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How bond market vigilantes could check Trump's power
By Lawrence Delevingne, Yoruk Bahceli, Davide Barbuscia and Dhara Ranasinghe | January 16, 2025, 2:51 PM CST
https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/how-bond-vigilantes-could-
check-trumps-power-2025-01-16/
NEW YORK/LONDON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - When Bill Clinton began his first term as president in 1993, he faced a challenge to his authority from an unexpected adversary: bond traders. Low taxes and high defense spending over the prior decade had contributed to U.S. debt doubling as a share of economic output.
Clinton and his advisers worried that 'bond vigilantes' – so called because they punish governments' profligacy – would target the new Democratic administration. A run on U.S. Treasury bonds, they feared, could sharply raise borrowing costs, hurting growth and jeopardizing financial stability. A frustrated Clinton made the unpopular decision to raise taxes and cut spending to balance the budget.
"He went away pretty disgusted with the idea that here he had just won an election by a pretty nice margin in a difficult three-way race, and now he was subservient to a bunch of bond traders," said Alan Blinder, one of Clinton's closest economic counselors who later served as the vice chair of the Federal Reserve. "A lot of us are wondering if the bond market vigilantes are going to come back for a second chapter."
As Donald Trump takes office on January 20, concerns over bond vigilantes in the United States, have resurfaced, according to several market experts. And this time, the economic indicators are even more alarming, they said.
The U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio is pushing 100%, double the level in Clinton's time. Left unchecked, by 2027 it's projected to exceed the records set after World War II, when the government borrowed heavily to fund the war effort.
Bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have been climbing. The yield on 10-year U.S. Treasury bonds has risen more than a percentage point from a September low, a whopping increase for a measure where even hundredths of a percent matter.
Like Clinton before him, Trump now faces the prospect of bond vigilantes becoming a potent check on his policy agenda, according to several former U.S. and foreign policymakers who faced market turmoil while in office.
Reuters interviewed nearly two dozen policymakers, economists and investors – including Trump advisers, a former Italian prime minister and former Greek and British finance ministers – and examined bouts of bond market routs around the world since the 1980s to assess the risk of turbulence after Trump takes office.
The review found several indicators watched by bond traders are flashing red. U.S. federal debt has increased to more than $28 trillion, from less than $20 trillion when Trump took office in 2017. Debt is also piling up in other countries, with the world’s total public debt expected to cross $100 trillion for the first time in 2024, leaving investors nervous.
"There's a risk of the bond vigilantes stepping up," said Matt Eagan, portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles, a fund manager with $389 billion under management. "The unanswerable question is when that would occur."
The experts believe Trump has some cover, thanks to the dollar's status as the global reserve currency and the Fed's now well-established ability to intervene in markets in moments of crises, which means there are always buyers of U.S. debt.
Other nations may be at more imminent risk, partly because of worries that Trump's trade policies would dampen their growth, the experts said. Some of Europe's biggest economies, including Britain and France, have come under pressure in bond markets recently.
The Reuters analysis of past crises showed it's hard to predict what will spark a bond market selloff. Part of the problem is market signals are open to interpretation. But once panic sets in, conditions can quickly spiral out of control, often requiri
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Another potentially decent thread ruined by unchecked TDS.
You had 2 dozen threads to put this crap in, idiot.
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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
They'll post clowns in full makeup pretending to be women and how they should be able
to reach your kids, but THIS is too politically controversial for the site?
TED is a WEF-led Liberal Dystopia.
What's the real reason they wouldn't show you that clip?
That's the question you ought to be asking yourself.
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) laid bare the plans of how House Republicans will finance their tax cuts for the rich by gutting support for everyone else, in a thread posted to Bluesky on Friday afternoon. https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3lfxlcqdojk24
The document outlining Trump's budget options: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/budget_optionspdf.pdf
Quote:Republicans plan to sell out the American people
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.
By Matthew Chapman | January 17, 2025 4:20PM ET
https://www.rawstory.com/ron-wyden/
"My staff just got ahold of this memo from House Budget Committee Republicans," wrote Wyden. "It's lengthy and hard to digest but it tells us exactly how Republicans plan to sell out the American people for another round of tax cuts to the rich."
House and Senate Republicans are planning a broad package of tax changes to support President-elect Donald Trump's agenda, with one of their biggest priorities being extending the 2017 tax cut bill — although there is disagreement between the chambers on whether to pass those tax items on their own or bundle them with legislation on energy and border security.
"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," wrote Wyden. "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."
As far as how to pay for them, Wyden noted, it's a laundry list of cuts to vital services.
"Republicans want to begin with a $192 billion tax increase on single parents," said Wyden. Additionally, "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."
Other things on the chopping block, Wyden noted, include repealing green energy subsidies, the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit, a $4 million program to reduce air pollution in schools, and the remainder of the Biden-era IRS funding increases to modernize tax collection and audit high-income tax evaders.
They are also exploring repealing the home mortgage interest deduction, which would be a $1 trillion cut over 10 years, although this is one of the few proposed GOP cuts that would make the wealthy pay more.
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CBO projects US debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending Trump's tax cuts
By Josh Boak | January 17, 2025
https://apnews.com/article/cbo-budget-outlook-treasury-26b1fc8a13af453
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The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars in additional tax cuts being championed by President-elect Donald Trump. The national debt is now $36.20 trillion https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/national-debt/
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its 10-year budget outlook on Friday. Annual budget deficits are expected to equal 6.1% of U.S. gross domestic product in 2035, which the CBO noted is “significantly more than the 3.8 percent that deficits have averaged over the past 50 years.” The federal government is poised to spend $7 trillion this fiscal year, a sum that would equal about 23.3% of GDP.
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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By Anne Applebaum | January 7, 2025
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/trump-populist-co
nspiracism-autocracy-rfk-jr/681088/
Foreigners and Americans alike have been hard-pressed to explain the ideology represented by some of Donald Trump’s initial Cabinet nominations, and for good reason. Although Trump won reelection as a Republican, there was nothing traditionally “Republican” about proposing Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence. Gabbard is a former progressive Democrat with lifelong ties to the Science of Identity Foundation, a Hare Krishna breakaway sect. Like Carlson, she is also an apologist for the brutal Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and for the recently deposed dictator of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, both of whose fantastical lies she has sometimes repeated. Nor is there anything “conservative” about Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee for FBI director, who has suggested that he intends to target a long list of current and former government officials, including many who served in the first Trump administration. In keeping with the spirit of the New Obscurantists, Patel has also promoted Warrior Essentials, a business selling antidotes both to COVID and to COVID vaccines. But then, no one who took seriously the philosophy of Edmund Burke or William F. Buckley Jr. would put a conspiracy theorist like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—another Putin apologist, former Democrat (indeed, from the most famous Democratic family in America), and enemy of vaccines, as well as fluoride—in charge of American health care. No “conservative” defender of traditional family values would propose, as ambassador to France, a convicted felon who sent a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband in order to create a compromising tape—especially if that convicted felon happened to be the father of the president’s son-in-law.
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Trump's personal cryptocurrency, $Trump, launched Friday night at 6 pm. As of this writing, it's trading at about $70. https://gettrumpmemes.com/ Price: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/official-trump/
There are currently 200 million TrumpCoins in circulation, with plans to grow that to one billion within three years. Out of the total supply, 80% are owned by CIC Digital, an affiliate of the Trump Organization, and a CIC co-owned entity called Fight Fight Fight LLC. At the current market value Trump's holdings would be worth $56 billion in 2028. ($70*80%*1 billion coins) There's more here: “Trump meme coin doubles again, stake worth $58 billion or more” https://www.axios.com/2025/01/18/trump-meme-coin-25-billion
The coins won't keep their $70 value, but even if they go down to $1.25, Trump's holdings would be worth nearly a billion dollars. Not bad for zero work.
I'm running out of things to say about Trump. I mean, how often can you ponder aloud that this time he's really gone too far? There is no bottom.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%24TRUMP+price
Technical details about how Donald Trump plans to get rich selling crypto coins
By Kevin Drum | Jan 19, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Bitcoin is mined. The amount of Bitcoin increases steadily over time according to the dictates of an algorithm, and new coins go to the lucky folks who successfully solve a difficult problem on their computer. You don't have to pay anyone for the coins.
But Donald Trump's meme coins are different, something I didn't fully appreciate when I wrote about them yesterday. New coins are created by Trump (or, more accurately, his agents) and then sold to the public on a set schedule over 36 months . . .
Because this is cryptocurrency and isn't regulated by the SEC, everything is private by design and it's hard to suss out what's really going on. In other words, it's a perfect vehicle for essentially bribing Trump without anyone ever being able to know it. It's no wonder Trump did a U-turn and became a big fan of cryptocurrency last year. Someone must have explained the possibilities of personal wealth to him.
I'm sure there's more to come. It will just take some sleuthing.
More at https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-plans-to-get-rich-selling-crypt
o-coins/
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Donald Trump wants to buy TikTok
Last night TikTok went dark. They were not subtle about whose fault it was:
Quote:Donald Trump, the hero of TikTok, this morning announced his plan:
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!
Learn more / Close app
Quote:This is all wildly illegal. Trump has no authority to simply ignore a law passed by Congress. The law does have a provision for a 90-day extension, but only if TikTok's owners have found a buyer—which they patently haven't. In fact, they've been vocal in their refusal to even consider it.
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.
8.01k ReTruths 32k Likes / Jan 19, 2025, 7:00 AM
And then there's the dealmaker-in-chief's suggestion that the federal government buy a 50% share in TikTok. I'm at a loss for words here. He thinks the United States—CEO: Donald Trump—should own the most popular social media app on the planet? And be in control of content moderation? Maybe the government should nationalize a bunch of other pesky media sites while it's at it? The mind boggles.
I'd try to say more, but I really am at a loss for words. You'll have to make up some of your own.
https://jabberwocking.com/donald-trump-wants-to-buy-tiktok/
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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.
Well that was always the end-game of this pyramid scheme.
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Enjoy your last day, BTW.
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Quote:President James Buchanan (the one immediately prior to Lincoln) could have killed the soon-to-be President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis in Washington DC. All around DC traveled Jeff Davis, who would not stop talking about his plans to annihilate everything that is good about the USA. But Buchanan was a weak old man and let Jeff Davis continue with his well announced plans. Buchanan died June 1, 1868 (age 77 years) never admitting that he could have stopped a Civil War with one well placed bullet into Jeff Davis' head. President Joe Biden (age 82 years) is the next James Buchanan, a weak old man, and Trump is the next Jeff Davis, traveling around DC telling everyone about his plans to annihilate everything good about the USA.
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Enjoy your last day, BTW.
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6ixStringJack, Jeff Davis had millions of rabid followers, as does Trump, all convinced he would fix the United States by crushing the 'woke' abolitionists with their DEI programs of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion which would destroy the rights of slave owners who are the backbone, the soul, the very foundation of America's freedoms to be a complete asshole who doesn't work, much like 6ixStringJack and Trump loving billionaires, who also live off the work of others, not doing much more than owning property, collecting unearned income and cheating on taxes.
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Okay, just pout then.
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Quote:You missed the point that President James Buchanan did nothing but run his stupid mouth about Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who was walking and riding around Washington DC and describing plans to take control of America and remake into a paradise for slave owners. Historians rate Buchanan as one of the worst Presidents. It is a competition between Buchanan and President Andrew Johnson (the one immediately after Lincoln) about who is worse.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Okay, just pout then.
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https://www.usnews.com/news/special-reports/the-worst-presidents/slide
shows/the-10-worst-presidents?slide=11
Biden will be in competition for worst depending on which Trump follows him. If it is the Trump of 2016, who didn't do anything except lower his own taxes, Biden is safe. If it is the Trump of 2024, who talks like he is the second coming of Jefferson Davis, Biden's reputation is in trouble for thinking as Buchanan had, that everything will be fine.
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40% of Republicans support Trump corruption
Pretty much everyone is convinced that Donald Trump will use presidential power to go after his political opponents, though Democrats are more convinced.
But check out the follow-up poll question: 40% of Republicans think this is fine. Is this just how Republicans roll? Is it revenge because they think Biden sicced prosecutors on Trump? Do they not really understand that this is wrong?
I suppose the good news is that at least 40% is still a minority. But it's close.
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/f548560f100205ef/e
656ddda-full.pdf
https://jabberwocking.com/40-of-republicans-support-trump-corruption/
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Panama turned its canal into a money-maker. History shows why Trump’s threats are sounding the alarm bells
By Patrick Oppmann | 10:20 PM EST, Mon January 20, 2025
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/01/20/americas/panama-canal-trump-threat-
intervention-intl-latam
US President Donald Trump in his inaugural address on Monday vowed to wrest the canal back. “We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made and Panama’s promise to us been broken,” Trump said, claiming that Panama overcharges the US Navy to transit the canal.
“Above all China is operating the Panama Canal,” Trump also said, a frequent claim he has made without providing any evidence. “And we didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama and we are taking it back!”
The lucrative Panama Canal
In 2007, Panama began work on the canal’s largest expansion in nearly a century, a new set of locks that would allow larger ships – more than one and a half times the size the ships that previously transited the waterway to travel through the canal. The new locks cost Panama more than $5 billion and went into operation in 2016. They also more than doubled the marine traffic the canal could handle.
“We paid for it, we built it, and right now over 55% of the revenues of the Panama Canal are coming from that investment, not from the US investment that they made so long ago,” former Administrator of the Panama Canal Jorge Luis Quijano told CNN.
The expanded canal has reaped billions of dollars for Panama and helped the country become a rare bastion of stability in Central America where other nations are beset by poverty and violent drug trafficking that fuel migration to the US.
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Nobody cares.
It wasn't Democrat's to give away.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to AOC: I Hope We Open As Many New Prisons As Possible To Round Up Illegal Aliens
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/01/22/rep_marjorie_taylor
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That is a stupid, stupid thing to say.
Get them the fuck out.
You build a bunch of extra prisons today, somebody is going to want to keep those filled even after we get the illegals out after investing all that money.
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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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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.
I didn't sit and watch the whole thing, but at least what I heard of it I liked. If you remember specifically what parts you thought were cringe, I'd like to hear them.
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OK... Saudi Arabia and OPEC are not about to bring down the cost of oil to "end the war in Ukraine"?
Why should they???? They are 100% dependent on oil money. Trump would have to give them something YUGE! in return. And what that is, I can't imagine. Maybe he'll give them Gaza, or Iran.
I think AI is a scam, and I wouldn't throw two pennies at it.
Deregulation, lower taxes (for domestic producers and manufacturers), low interest rates, lower energy costs... I guess it's supposed to lower the value of USD and spur manufacturing at home. Needs thought.
But I conflated this speech with another. If I can find it I'll highlight the problematic areas.
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Something to watch for: Trump's sanctions war on BRICS nations. If he does it, it's gonna boomerang. Believe me.
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Quote:Not according to Zelensky's public statements. He's still angling for EU troops ('peacekeeping force') of 200,000, whose only function is to act as tripwires to rope the USA in.
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.
Quote:Where is he getting those numbers from? Kiev? If so, he's really misunderstanding the war.
Trump also blamed Putin for the war, claiming that Russia had lost around 850,000 soldiers.
Quote:... "and various other participating countries" Newsweek left that out.
"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...
What does he mean by "participating nations"? Does he mean nations alleged to be directly contributing to Russia's war effort? (supposedly N Korea, China, Iran, possibly Belarus). Doubtful, since Iran N Korea and already blockaded.
Does he mean any nation buying products from Russia? Well, that would be pretty much the whole world. Or does he mean something intermediate, like the BRICS?
Bc I think Trump is really using the war in Ukraine to tackle BRICS nations, and BRICS maybe wannabes, like Saudi Arabia.
Quote:No. RUSSIA won the Second World War. OOPS!,
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
Quote:that was the Soviet Union in total. Russia's losses, while huge, were about half that...
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is he just a Zion-Donald?
Trump's comments to 'clean out' also moving people out doesn't really fly so easy these days, the Leftwing hates any idea like this and even Left and Right agree there is a 'Cultural genocide' element to moving people out
He wants to move out the people in Palestine by move people around Joe Stalin style, yeah Trump maybe you should read history ....they already tried that one...its called 'Black September' it led to the Jordanian Civil War, as Palestine types who were relocated around the Middle East and problem people went psycho stabbing, blowing shit up, burning, shooting everywhere.
Donald Trump Faces Backlash for Gaza 'Clean Out' Plan: 'Catastrophic Mistake'
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-faces-backlash-gaza-clean-out-pl
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Trump floats plan to 'just clean out' Gaza
https://japantoday.com/category/world/trump-floats-plan-to-%27just-cle
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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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I knew Trump would probably piss me off over the Middle East (now called Western Asia, BTW) sooner or later, but I didn't think it would be this soon.
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is a Jew, a Zionist, and a real estate investor. He's reportedly expressed a desire to clean out Gaza and turn it into a resort community.
I sense a lot of deal-making in the background. Deals with Mohammed bin Salman (Saudi) Deals with Israeli genocidal government officials (Netanyahu, Smotrich etc). This isn't a vital American interest. Why is Trump meddling with Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia?
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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.
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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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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
More fear and loathing from the irrelevant people today.
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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.
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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Quote: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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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.
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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Just GTFO.
AFA his internal policies, mostly OK.
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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.
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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Just GTFO.
That too.
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AFA his internal policies, mostly OK.
Mostly...
Crypto is really bothering me though, NGL...
In the back of my mind I'm hoping that Trump learned a thing or two from SBF, Logan Paul and the Huak Tauh girl about rug pulls, and he's going to do a pump and dump on everyone else.
Could you imagine if Trump paid off our national debt by putting half of the nations of the world and all the crypto bros into bankruptcy overnight.
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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.
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.
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?
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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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.
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.
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.
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?
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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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".
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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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
More fear and loathing from the irrelevant people today.
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Trump (James Austin Johnson) interrupts the signing of the Declaration of Independence, starting at 1:30.
Not funny, except the jokes at 5:45 about the price of eggs.
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Quote:At it's heart, blockchain is a way of recording data that can't be spoofed or altered.
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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.
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.
For example, if you receive data, one way to record it is use previously recorded data to encrypt the next set of data. Then, if that data is distributed to other sites, their previously recorded data is going to be different. It would be an impossible task to decrypt and unentangle to recover that one bit of data. Im just extarpolating from what I remember about secure electronic records.
I'll look into it.
Cryptocurrency AFAIK is simply a way of calculating a unique set of numbers, and making it increasingly difficult to continue the calculation - like calculating prime numbers, for example - according to various algorithms that end with a finite set of numbers. Those numbers are attached to some sort of asset... in this case, cryptocurrencies are attached indirectly to the dollar. That attachment is as bogus as the value of fiat currency itself. But the supposed value of crypto is that since the # of numbers that can be generated is finite, it can't be issued (inflated) indefinitely. Supposedly. But the value of each coin can be inflated, so ... It's still worthless, IMHO.
Pure speculation.
Block chain is simply a secure way of recording cryptocurrency transactions (ledger) but it can be used for a lot of other things.
Quote:It's only a threat if it's posed as being genuine human effort.
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.
Quote:WHO, exactly, has shit all over us, and how specifically did they do that?
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.
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&
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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.
Also, 51% of queried databases have to agree that a specific entry is correct.
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He is better than Biden that's for sure
and Kamala Harris would have been a disaster
but are critics right at times, the Zion-Donald
is he a Liar...or a guy who bluffs and exaggerates, a person with a massive ego?
but the Technocracy is not going away, he will continue Arm sales to the Saudi, Britbongs and other Marxist globalists will push nonsense in their media outlets connected inside the USA, he won't cut aid to Egypt or to Israel
every politician lies so is President Trump any different to other 'Liars'?
he said he would end the war day one, or in 'one day' depending on what quotes you go with...did he confuse Ukraine and Russia with Palestine and Israel...a project still on going
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Try to keep your antisemitism in check, Jaynez.
He's only starting his 6th day of work, and it ain't as if a lot didn't get done in the first 5 days.
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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
The reality of it is the US is not really spiritual as people are not allowed their own path, freedom away from radical religion noise?
No! the USA is harassed and abused by alien religions, bite foreskins off babies...abuse a chicken thinking you can magically transfer your sins into the chicken...and these people are considered 'normal', their crimes excused, their racism against Goyim ok
Do crime your Rabbi says but if you do this 'voodoo' chicken ritual your crimes vanish inside the chickens and the poor chicken will go to hell instead?
https://www.thedodo.com/kapparot-animal-slaughter-chickens-1355682268.
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a “bloodbath” on the streets of NYC can the bird blood changes the color of the streets to red creating a Jew made biohazzard
and they call that behavior normal?
What other 'culture' comes from that region?
the other sandbox people, calls of death against infidels, mutilate the genitals of little girls and also want open borders...the types who hijack aircraft, blow up civilians intentionally and suicide bomb.
Then you get leaked reports of all the money laundering and hazing and abuse within Masonry, obsessed with the Lore of that Babylon region.
Even the peaceful Buddhists have their wars, their caste like the street shitter Hindu and if something bad is happening its punishment for crimes in a pervious life they say.
Perverts have been around a while and getting hijacked and blackmailed by other perverts has been happening for a long time. I've a feeling the British and Russians and French have all types of blackmail on all kinds of people.
The next group of sickos the Roman Catholic Church one of the biggest brainwashing groups on Earth, theft of riches and ridden with pedophilia.
Then you have Lutherans, the LDS or Mormon church is getting on the human trafficker resettlement scam, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Arab groups, Ethiopian Churches
At least Trump started to talk about this stuff when he talked about Weinstein or Human Trafficking or Ghislaine Maxwell
from Biden a deafening silence or was he just senile, a brain empty?
all stories about Hunter fake they said...'Disinfo'
remember how Beau Biden defended handling of the pedophile du Pont heir, Robert H. Richards IV a convicted child rapist and great-grandson of the foreign dynasty chemical magnate
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/30/du-pont-heirs-la
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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
I dunno dude. I just know you aren't a fan of Jews and you don't go out of your way to hide it.
Good on you for speaking your mind, but again, Trump is starting his 6th day in office and he's done more for Americans than the entire previous admin did in 4 years even if those warmongering Jews are still getting our tax dollars at the moment.
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Agriculture is the most striking example: Immigrants — many of them undocumented — make up most of the farm labor force:
Source: USDA
Push those workers out, either by actual deportation or detention or simply by creating a climate of fear, and just watch what happens to grocery prices.
About a quarter of construction industry employees are immigrants — 40 percent in Texas and California — but this number rises to 31 percent if you look only at “construction trades,” i.e., people who actually build stuff as opposed to working in offices or marketing. And the immigrant share is much higher in particular trades:
Source: National Association of Homebuilders
So at a time when Americans are still angry about the price of groceries and, with more justification, about the unaffordability of housing, Trump’s immigrant crackdown seems set to hobble food production and home construction.
Yet I don’t think he can dial it back. He can call off his tariffs, claiming to have won big concessions from Canada and Mexico, or grant tariff exemptions to his friends, turning them into one more instrument of corruption. But his screeds against immigrants have, I believed, unleashed forces of hatred that he can’t rein in. And these forces will make America poorer as well as uglier.
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-deportation-nightmare-begins
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Fuck you and your gated community as well as your dead Globalist dreams, Paul.
We would all rather deal with your hypothetical situation than continue to dig ourselves in a hole.
The Corps are just going to have to pay us all more because we won't be able to afford what they make when we don't artificially hobble every American's potential income by allowing tens of millions of illegal leaches that steal from us through entitlements as they burn the candle at both ends.
Eat shit and die.
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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.
EDITED TO ADD: you think differently, point to instances when we were FORCED to do anything against our interest.
And if you can't find examples of us being FORCED to act against our interests (fighting other people's wars, sending money to foreign causes, allowing massive illegal immigration, sending our manufacturing overseas) then you have to conclude that it was our politicians who betrayed us. We did it to ourselves.
As far as shitting on the big guys ... Russia, China ... dude, that ship has sailed.
We can't take on Russia or China if we're fighting near their horders: logistics and military strength just aren't on our side. And we can't take them on economically, altho I know Trump is gonna try.
Our mission should be to rebuild economically and socially, and if we're serious about it, the wealthy are gonna have to sacrifice their wealth in order to do it.
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So, getting a sense of Trump's foreign policy, I would call it "threatening to rampage" thru much smaller, much weaker nations, and allies.
Greenland and Denmark.
Colombia.
Gazans.
Panama.
Making the EU pay for NATO.
Basically, taking from anyone who can't fight back.
Not a good start Mr. President. Making more enemies unnecessarily. I hope it's just a "maximum pressure" negotiating ploy.
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I think Trump's first term, he learned the limits of his power in setting domestic policy, given the deep state's captured politicians' and media's intransigence.
I believe he has that figured out now. What he now has to deal with are foreign powers and THEIR legit resistance to his claims. I hope he has a good reading of the cards in his hand, and doesn't waste his effort on shit that doesn't matter.
For example, if he's REALLY fearful of an attack via the Arctic, I'm sure Greenland would be more than happy to host an American base. If that's not whats bothering him, then it's just a land grab, like attempting to grab Gaza or Panama.
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he is old
losing hearing
and now sounding more delusional, the Jew Israeli Kusher to open MacDonlads Burger King, KFG in the Gaza strip and Hamas and Hezbollah etc will be serving Americans and Jews some Burgers with Bacon and extra cheese, working at the Hotel's and Abdul Mahomet Omar and women who beat their daughters to death with rocks for offending an islamic book now will be giving tickets to kids about to get on the Disney land rides?
Trump posts AI video of GazVegas
https://amp.9news.com.au/article/98329fe6-b56e-4530-bbed-ee2f79da1e48
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Germans no longer see US as trustworthy partner
https://www.dw.com/en/germans-no-longer-see-us-as-trustworthy-partner/
a-71858094
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the endless Middle East wars...
Israel consulted US on Gaza airstrikes. Was this Trump's 'last warning' to Hamas?
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/18/israel-gaza-hamas
-war-trump-warning/82514326007/
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not sure if Legit but Godwins Law is truly broke
https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1903596448438247511
Quote:
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.
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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Mideast policy of pandering to Netanyahu
Obliterating the NLRB
And my god, he runs his mouth. No filter. The first thing that pops into his head winds up on Truth Social.
Other than that .... still watching. trying to sort out the bullshit from what he's really serious about.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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an Azerbaijani YouTube channel that uploads videos about Geopolitics, Political Armchair History TV
CaspianReport
Why Trump is selling out Ukraine for peace with Russia
https://twitter.com/CaspianReport
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Sorry, but you got Ukraine backwards.
It's not Trump who "betrayed" Ukraine, it was Biden*, by arming Ukraine and aiming it at a superior military.
And every neocon, grifting official, and brainwashed Russophobe ever since, who wanted to keep throwing Ukraine bodies into the meat grinder, even when it was clear that Ukraine and NATO were getting their collective ass handed to them.
Peace is the only thing that can save what's left of Ukraine, even if it's the peace of unconditional surrender. There's no other option
And if you think there is, tell me what, spell it out step by step, identity the resources and logistics, and tell me the probable outcomes.
In other words, instead of engaging rhetoric, engage brain.
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AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Nobody cares about Ukraine. Nobody ever cared about Ukraine.
Just like I said from the very beginning.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:
Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
not sure if Legit but Godwins Law is truly broke
https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1903596448438247511Quote:
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.
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?
At this point Jaynez may sound a little hyperbolic, but I'd be lying if I didn't share that feeling.
I don't like that particular rhetoric. I don't like the idea of American Born Citizens being shipped to foreign prisons. I don't like the fact that the only reason we've got somebody saying things like this today is because of how fucking bonkers the Left made the world leading up until this point.
Stop talking about what you want to do and just find some of these people and make a harsh example of them. Immediately. Don't wait until next month. Don't wait until next week. Do it tomorrow.
The longer you let this bullshit go on the more people are emboldened to keep doing it. Just finish it now before this whole thing starts boiling over into Kent State II territory.
I am 100% against this idea. Kick all the invaders out. Keep our prisoners here. Start cracking a few skulls again and let people know that clown world is over and we don't tolerate fatherless behavior out in the streets anymore. If you want to be psycho, keep it in your bedroom.
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A headline I would like to see: Trump decides NOT to change tariffs after consulting with knowledgeable advisors. But this is the real headline:
Trump says any country buying Venezuelan oil will face a 25% tariff
By Elisabeth Buchwald | 12:33 PM EDT, Mon March 24, 2025
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/business/trump-venezuela-oil-tariffs/in
dex.html
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will impose tariffs of 25% on any nation that purchases oil from Venezuela.
“Venezuela has been very hostile to the United States and the Freedoms which we espouse. Therefore, any Country that purchases Oil and/or Gas from Venezuela will be forced to pay a Tariff of 25% to the United States on any Trade they do with our Country,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
Trump claimed, without evidence, Venezuela has “purposefully and deceitfully” sent criminals, including violent individuals and members of gangs like Tren de Aragua, to the United States.
This news comes after reports that Trump is set to delay prior tariffs he announced, including charging 25% on imports of pharmaceuticals, cars and lumber. Those tariffs were set to go into effect April 2, the same day Trump’s said he’ll announce a number of reciprocal tariffs on other nations — a day he refers to as “liberation day.” He pledged Monday to enact the 25% tariffs on countries purchasing oil from Venezuela on that same day.
Markets opened markedly higher on Monday and appeared unphased by Trump’s latest threats.
Venezuela was one of the top foreign suppliers of oil to the US last year, according to Commerce Department trade data. In total, the US bought $5.6 billion of oil and gas from there in 2024. This came after the Biden administration briefly lifted sanctions on Venezuelan oil in 2023. But they were reinstated in April 2024 after the Biden administration accused the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, of failing to hold free and fair elections.
Even though shipments rose significantly during that short period, Venezuelan oil and gas shipments trailed far behind America’s top source of foreign oil, Canada, which exported $106 billion of oil and gas to the US last year. Canada alone accounted for 60% of all oil and gas the US imported last year, while Venezuela accounted for 3%.
Prior to Monday’s announcement, Trump was already gearing up to limit the ability for Venezuelan oil to reach the United States by revoking Chevron’s joint venture license to pump oil there. After meeting with Chevron CEO Mike Wirth and other oil executives last week, Trump is now considering extending their license, according to an industry source.
The move, which is set to take effect on April 3, was presented by the Trump administration in part as a form of punishment for Venezuela’s unwillingness to accept deported migrants, who were accused of being part of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.
Venezuela has since reached an agreement to resume repatriation flights from the US, receiving 200 deportees on Monday. Some relatives of deportees have told CNN that their family members were not involved in any criminal activity and there’s been very little evidence presented by the administration to dispel such claims.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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soon a Soccer WorldCup and Olympics arrive in LA,
trade wars, blame Canada for drugs and immigration
Netherlands issues US travel warning, Belgium set to follow
https://www.newsweek.com/netherlands-issues-us-travel-warning-belgium-
set-follow-2050630
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so Trump picked a Bush jnr era guy, a Cheney pro Nu Democrat NeoCon idiot
'Mike Waltz'
So NeoCons are back in the Whitehouse as suspected
and Waltz tries to explain how a multiple citizen IDF gyspy Jew Romani 'Goldberg' ended up in group chat...Goldberg hates Trump and is known for his sleaze and gossip
basically says Trump is 'Hitler' wants to Holocaust the Earth or something, his news articles on Trump have been somewhat 'insane'...he wanted Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton to win, he works for the magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C. the heart of the beast...nobody talks about The Atlantic how the magazines 'culture' changed and what British Jew Israeli Canada linked millionaire and Billionaire powers, the multinational technology company headquartered in California and other foreign family started to buy it out and change it from a USA brand to a globalist brand, nobody talks about the big names backing it.
'Goldberg'...nobody talks about him...media? Waltz they seem ok with the NeoCon
media man, editor-in-chief, worked for a time at the Washington Post, he then moved to Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces
however Trump at least Called Him a ‘Sleazebag.’
but they broadcast the narrative, they want the rest of the Trump-Admin gone or to be 'Fired'
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