So, when will the Epstein Files be released?
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just pretend wrote:
Trump the Great wrote:
And how much inflation did we have under Biden?
2.91 average 6 months since Trump took office vs 3.26 in last 6 months of Biden.
2.91 because less products are being purchased ... tariffs.
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fhulkyuk wrote:
So, when will the Epstein Files be released?
Evidently, the AI redo of the documents still marks them as fakes. So, until the new version can be passed off as the originals the files will not be released.
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SeaTack wrote:
just pretend wrote:
2.91 average 6 months since Trump took office vs 3.26 in last 6 months of Biden.
2.91 because less products are being purchased ... tariffs.
Tariffs didn't affect it:
A new Study by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), led by Highly Respected Chair, Dr. Stephen Miran, has found that Tariffs have had ZERO IMPACT on Inflation. In fact, the Study shows that Import Prices are actually DROPPING, just like I always said they would. The Fake News and the so-called “Experts” were wrong again. Tariffs are making our Country “BOOM.” Many new Factories, Jobs, and TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS in Investments are pouring into the U.S.A. Someone should show this new Study to “Too Late” Jerome Powell, who has been whining like a baby about non-existent Inflation for months, and refusing to do the right thing. CUT INTEREST RATES JEROME — NOW IS THE TIME!
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Women for Trump!
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\'trump2028 28 wrote:
SeaTack wrote:
2.91 because less products are being purchased ... tariffs.
Tariffs didn't affect it:
Source?
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\'trump2028 28 wrote:
SeaTack wrote:
2.91 because less products are being purchased ... tariffs.
Tariffs didn't affect it:
A new Study by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), led by Highly Respected Chair, Dr. Stephen Miran, has found that Tariffs have had ZERO IMPACT on Inflation. In fact, the Study shows that Import Prices are actually DROPPING, just like I always said they would. The Fake News and the so-called “Experts” were wrong again. Tariffs are making our Country “BOOM.” Many new Factories, Jobs, and TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS in Investments are pouring into the U.S.A. Someone should show this new Study to “Too Late” Jerome Powell, who has been whining like a baby about non-existent Inflation for months, and refusing to do the right thing. CUT INTEREST RATES JEROME — NOW IS THE TIME!
Adults don't write or speak like that. Yet his supporters believe whatever he says. Astounding. Most of us believe journalists, financial experts, and scientists.
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BillionairesForHire wrote:
Adults don't write or speak like that. Yet his supporters believe whatever he says. Astounding. Most of us believe journalists, financial experts, and scientists.
Trump is one of the world’s preeminent real estate developers (and his crypto has done incredibly well as well).
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Trump the Great wrote:
Nnonequals wrote:
Reminds me that, while a huge majority of the problem and the depression comes from the very existence of Trump and the Trumpers, there's also that appreciable bit about our laws and our "system" turning out to be SO incredibly un-suited to limiting a determined autocrat.
No one's above the law? Right. Congress has the power of the purse? Right. The president can't get away with using the power of the executive branch to bully or control industry, education, state and local governments, etc.? Right.
Obama / Biden tried to control colleges with insane title IX rules
EVERY comparison defense of Trump: Throwing mole hills at mountains.
And that's when they're even honest and accurate in the first place, which they often aren't.
Main ingredient: Lying.
Secondary ingredient: Objectively absurd equivalencies.
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Trump won, libs lost wrote:
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrumpVery unfair media is at work on my meeting with Putin. Constantly quoting fired losers and really dumb people like John Bolton, who just said that, even though the meeting is on American soil, “Putin has already won.” What’s that all about? We are winning on EVERYTHING. The Fake News is working overtime (No tax on overtime!). If I got Moscow and Leningrad free, as part of the deal with Russia, the Fake News would say that I made a bad deal! But now they’ve been caught. Look at all of the real news that’s coming out about their CORRUPTION. They are sick and dishonest people, who probably hate our Country. But it doesn’t matter because we are winning on everything!!! MAGA
Serious question: is Donald Trump f*cking retarded? He sure as f*ck sounds like it.
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"The Trump administration’s claim that it is saving billions of dollars through
DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records.Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.
Despite the administration’s claims, not a single one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money has been returned to agencies mandated by law to spend it." - POLITICO
In other words, DOGE saved the US government exactly $0 out of a claimed $52,800,000,000. I'm having a bit of trouble with the math here - can someone calculate what that is in percentage terms?
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Rea1 0bvi wrote:
Nnonequals wrote:
Reminds me that, while a huge majority of the problem and the depression comes from the very existence of Trump and the Trumpers, there's also that appreciable bit about our laws and our "system" turning out to be SO incredibly un-suited to limiting a determined autocrat.
No one's above the law? Right. Congress has the power of the purse? Right. The president can't get away with using the power of the executive branch to bully or control industry, education, state and local governments, etc.? Right.
Interesting point. But I wonder if any set of laws/constitution/system could do much better. Any system relies on the actors within that system to act in the nation's best interests.
Congress was granted significant powers in the Constitution and is designed to be one of many checks on the president's power. But congress members need to act in the nation's best interests for that check on unlimited presidential power to be a reality. Likewise the Supreme Court.
I don't think a system exists, even theoretically, that can protect a nation when virtually all players within that system don't give a rat's ass about what is in the best interest of the nation.
I'm no lawyer, so I can get out of my depth real quick. But a few random thoughts:
- A law against me stopping at stop signs doesn't depend on me acting in the nation's best interests. Ditto murder, tax evasion, and a few thousand other things. Violate them, and you are stopped and/or punished. That simply doesn't seem to be the case for great number of things that Trump is doing. We think that there are laws against a president being openly corrupt. In at least some cases, there certainly are. And yet...... Sure, some hope that some of this is still playing out in the courts, but.....at least in the case of destroying executive branch organizations, the destruction is already done.
- My guess is that there are a LOT of new laws that need to be written to TRULY constrain the behavior of a future Trump.
- My guess is that there are a LOT current laws that need to be RE-written to render them as immune as possible to courts (up to and including the SC) deciding that they don't really mean what they were intended to mean.
So, yeah, I'm guessing - and REALLY hoping - that a better, much more airtight system CAN be developed, that most certainly DOES NOT rely on the good will of leaders (or citizens).
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'trump2028 28 wrote:
SeaTack wrote:
2.91 because less products are being purchased ... tariffs.
Tariffs didn't affect it:
A new Study by the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), led by Highly Respected Chair, Dr. Stephen Miran, has found that Tariffs have had ZERO IMPACT on Inflation. In fact, the Study shows that Import Prices are actually DROPPING, just like I always said they would. The Fake News and the so-called “Experts” were wrong again. Tariffs are making our Country “BOOM.” Many new Factories, Jobs, and TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS in Investments are pouring into the U.S.A. Someone should show this new Study to “Too Late” Jerome Powell, who has been whining like a baby about non-existent Inflation for months, and refusing to do the right thing. CUT INTEREST RATES JEROME — NOW IS THE TIME!
Correct!
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'trump2028 28 wrote:
SeaTack wrote:
2.91 because less products are being purchased ... tariffs.
Tariffs didn't affect it:
Buying less lowers inflation. Tariffs result in buying less.
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Nnonequals wrote:
Rea1 0bvi wrote:
Interesting point. But I wonder if any set of laws/constitution/system could do much better. Any system relies on the actors within that system to act in the nation's best interests.
Congress was granted significant powers in the Constitution and is designed to be one of many checks on the president's power. But congress members need to act in the nation's best interests for that check on unlimited presidential power to be a reality. Likewise the Supreme Court.
I don't think a system exists, even theoretically, that can protect a nation when virtually all players within that system don't give a rat's ass about what is in the best interest of the nation.
I'm no lawyer, so I can get out of my depth real quick. But a few random thoughts:
- A law against me stopping at stop signs doesn't depend on me acting in the nation's best interests. Ditto murder, tax evasion, and a few thousand other things. Violate them, and you are stopped and/or punished. That simply doesn't seem to be the case for great number of things that Trump is doing. We think that there are laws against a president being openly corrupt. In at least some cases, there certainly are. And yet...... Sure, some hope that some of this is still playing out in the courts, but.....at least in the case of destroying executive branch organizations, the destruction is already done.
- My guess is that there are a LOT of new laws that need to be written to TRULY constrain the behavior of a future Trump.
- My guess is that there are a LOT current laws that need to be RE-written to render them as immune as possible to courts (up to and including the SC) deciding that they don't really mean what they were intended to mean.
So, yeah, I'm guessing - and REALLY hoping - that a better, much more airtight system CAN be developed, that most certainly DOES NOT rely on the good will of leaders (or citizens).
I hesitate a bit to make this joke, as I do, obviously, greatly respect all of the things that our founders got CORRECT. But....
Could we have a new version of the play Hamilton that makes fun of all of the stuff that they got WRONG that has allowed Trump to get away with WAY, WAY more than the average citizen would have thought possible ?
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Rea1 0bvi wrote:
"The Trump administration’s claim that it is saving billions of dollars through
DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records.Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.
Despite the administration’s claims, not a single one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money has been returned to agencies mandated by law to spend it." - POLITICO
In other words, DOGE saved the US government exactly $0 out of a claimed $52,800,000,000. I'm having a bit of trouble with the math here - can someone calculate what that is in percentage terms?
All of the DOGE savings was diverted to fund Trump's private ICE cosplayer. The money had to come from somewhere to avoid having to ask Congress to add funds for it.
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Rea1 0bvi wrote:
"The Trump administration’s claim that it is saving billions of dollars through
DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records.Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.
Despite the administration’s claims, not a single one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money has been returned to agencies mandated by law to spend it." - POLITICO
In other words, DOGE saved the US government exactly $0 out of a claimed $52,800,000,000. I'm having a bit of trouble with the math here - can someone calculate what that is in percentage terms?
It cut many woke programs. It did its job
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Rea1 0bvi wrote:
"The Trump administration’s claim that it is saving billions of dollars through
DOGE-related cuts to federal contracts is drastically exaggerated, according to a new POLITICO analysis of public data and federal spending records.Through July, DOGE said it has saved taxpayers $52.8 billion by canceling contracts, but of the $32.7 billion in actual claimed contract savings that POLITICO could verify, DOGE’s savings over that period were closer to $1.4 billion.
Despite the administration’s claims, not a single one of those 1.4 billion dollars will lower the federal deficit unless Congress steps in. Instead, the money has been returned to agencies mandated by law to spend it." - POLITICO
In other words, DOGE saved the US government exactly $0 out of a claimed $52,800,000,000. I'm having a bit of trouble with the math here - can someone calculate what that is in percentage terms?
I suppose it goes without saying, but didn't we long, long ago cross into "Man bites dog" territory with Trump/Trumpism and lying?
Should not the only news be when Trump or one of his acolytes tells the truth about something?
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Nnonequals wrote:
Rea1 0bvi wrote:
Interesting point. But I wonder if any set of laws/constitution/system could do much better. Any system relies on the actors within that system to act in the nation's best interests.
Congress was granted significant powers in the Constitution and is designed to be one of many checks on the president's power. But congress members need to act in the nation's best interests for that check on unlimited presidential power to be a reality. Likewise the Supreme Court.
I don't think a system exists, even theoretically, that can protect a nation when virtually all players within that system don't give a rat's ass about what is in the best interest of the nation.
I'm no lawyer, so I can get out of my depth real quick. But a few random thoughts:
- A law against me stopping at stop signs doesn't depend on me acting in the nation's best interests. Ditto murder, tax evasion, and a few thousand other things. Violate them, and you are stopped and/or punished. That simply doesn't seem to be the case for great number of things that Trump is doing. We think that there are laws against a president being openly corrupt. In at least some cases, there certainly are. And yet...... Sure, some hope that some of this is still playing out in the courts, but.....at least in the case of destroying executive branch organizations, the destruction is already done.
- My guess is that there are a LOT of new laws that need to be written to TRULY constrain the behavior of a future Trump.
- My guess is that there are a LOT current laws that need to be RE-written to render them as immune as possible to courts (up to and including the SC) deciding that they don't really mean what they were intended to mean.
So, yeah, I'm guessing - and REALLY hoping - that a better, much more airtight system CAN be developed, that most certainly DOES NOT rely on the good will of leaders (or citizens).
Also, I wonder what the conventional wisdom is about what the current "conservative" Supreme Court justices think about the incredible, disgusting slack that they're granting the CURRENT president? Is it ACTUALLY possible that they haven't thought about what they're enabling for a future, perhaps very liberal, president?
I mean, they're smart, very-well educated people, right? They HAVE thought about that, right? That human history won't end with Trump? That there very likely IS another Carter, Clinton, Obama, Biden (OR Sanders or Warren or AOC?!) coming along? They're happy with the virtually unlimited powers that they're granting to THEM, TOO ???
Freakin' bizzare.
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Nnonequals wrote:
Also, I wonder what the conventional wisdom is about what the current "conservative" Supreme Court justices think about the incredible, disgusting slack that they're granting the CURRENT president? Is it ACTUALLY possible that they haven't thought about what they're enabling for a future, perhaps very liberal, president?
I mean, they're smart, very-well educated people, right? They HAVE thought about that, right? That human history won't end with Trump? That there very likely IS another Carter, Clinton, Obama, Biden (OR Sanders or Warren or AOC?!) coming along? They're happy with the virtually unlimited powers that they're granting to THEM, TOO ???
Freakin' bizzare.
Libs have claimed we won’t be having elections in the future. You’re telling me the panicans were wrong?
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