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I hate to be a wendy-downer but, does anybody else think it's odd that just over 12 hours after a man named Livelsberger "shot himself in the head" before detonating a tesla in front of Trump Tower, is when Fatpacks dons the burger suit? There's no way he could have known the name of the driver before the decision, right? No reason why his boss didn't OK the change until after the attack? Unless . . .
 
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Sanders coming out and saying something the republicans refuse to do. If this holds up they will be outflanked.
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I promise you that Gronk is gonna come out saying this pretty soon as a massive wedge against the Republicans. If the GOP does not get ahead of this soon I have a feeling the Dems are gonna hammer the H1B stuff as revenged against the Tech Bros while sneaking in their unlimited illegals on the backend.
 
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https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-attend-jimmy-carters-funeral-amid-history-mutual/story?id=117247101
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President-elect Donald Trump said this week he plans to attend former President Jimmy Carter's funeral following a history of mutual criticism.

Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, will be honored with a state funeral at Washington National Cathedral on Thursday, Jan. 9. President Joe Biden is expected to deliver the eulogy.

"I'll be there. We were invited," Trump told reporters on Tuesday night, though he declined to say if he'd spoken with any members of the Carter family.
Trump's attendance at the funeral will come after years of public sniping between Trump and Carter, including Trump's recent jabs at Carter on the 2024 campaign trail.

Though after the 39th president's passing, Trump issued a statement praising Carter's service to the country.
"The challenges Jimmy faced as President came at a pivotal time for our country and he did everything in his power to improve the lives of all Americans. For that, we all owe him a debt of gratitude," Trump wrote. "Melania and I are thinking warmly of the Carter Family and their loved ones during this difficult time. We urge everyone to keep them in their hearts and prayers."
In another post, Trump commended Carter as a "truly good man" and praised his humanitarian work post-presidency.

"While I strongly disagreed with him philosophically and politically, I also realized that he truly loved and respected our Country, and all it stands for. He worked hard to make America a better place, and for that I give him my highest respect," Trump wrote of Carter. "He was a truly good man and, of course, will be greatly missed. He was also very consequential, far more than most Presidents, after he left the Oval Office."

But previously, Trump had labelled Carter as the country's "worst president."
"Crooked Joe Biden is the worst president in the history of our country. He's the most incompetent and he's the most corrupt president in the history of our country," Trump said last January as he ramped up campaign events. "And it's not even close. In fact, I said, today, the happiest person alive today is Jimmy Carter because his presidency looks brilliant. Brilliant by comparison."

Carter, who had been in hospice care since early 2023, was out of the public eye during the presidential race but his family said he was trying to live until he could cast his ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris -- which he did in mid-October.

During the presidential transition, Trump's denounced a signature achievement of Carter's presidency -- the Panama Canal Treaty that gave the Central American nation eventual control of the critical waterway. Trump recently said the U.S. "foolishly" ceded the Panama Canal and suggested his incoming administration might try to regain control of it.
During Trump's first term, Carter didn't mince words when discussing what he thought about his presidency.

Carter told the Washington Post in 2018, "I think he's a disaster." "In human rights and taking care of people and treating people equal," Carter said of Trump.
Carter also casted doubt at one point on Trump' s 2016 victory, suggesting that a full investigation into Russian election interference would show Trump "didn't actually win." Trump hit back to those comments by saying Cater was "a nice man" but "a terrible president" who was "trashed" by his own party.

Though notably the two men spoke in 2019 when Trump called Carter to discuss China and trade negotiations. Prior to the call, Carter had sent a "beautiful" letter to Trump sharing some advice on the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and Beijing, Trump's White House said at the time.
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lmao even if he doesn't attend, they would still make it about him like every other political funeral he wasn't invited to.
 
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No news link to story yet, but 2025 just keeps on going..

(story link. https://ktla.com/news/california/smoke-billows-from-plane-crash-in-fullerton/ I know it's not really politics, but so much is going on today..)



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ETA2: To make it more political, Biden's always wanting to perm ban more oil drilling. They really don't want energy prices going down for 4 years.

 
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I swear I haven't seen Fatpacks post in a while but his profile says he viewed this thread recently so...

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Edit 2: Also confirms both the new Orleans individual and this alleged individual both served in Afghanistan in 2009 (not together or in the same location as far as they know) and were in fort Bragg and used the rental app mentioned prior in the thread. But currently no evidence of them being in the same unit or were even there the same years.
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Wouldn't that hint that they both eventually got recruited to the CIA?
 
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Bernie has an interesting history with illegal immigration.

<2015 -- "Millionaires and billionaires like the Koch brothers want unlimited illegal immigration to fuel their corporations with unlimited slave labor. Also, vote for Hillary!"

2016-2019 -- "Trump wants to stop helpless migrants from seeking asylum in the United States because he hates brown people and wants to strip them of their rights."

2020-2024 -- *crickets*

>2024 -- "Millionaires and billionaires like Musk and Ramaswamy are abusing legal migration systems to fuel their corporations with unlimited slave labor. Also, vote for Kamala!"

I look forward to the day Bernie becomes a billionaire. We deserve a people's champion to protect us from the tyranny of the millionaires billionaires trillionaires!
 
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I remember being in my teens during the early 00's and hearing about how all those clothes donated to Africa only stunted any possible textile industry from being formed.
Now it's 2025 and I'm in my thirties hearing about how we need to take people from those countries into our first-world nations and I keep being reminded time is a flat circle.
 
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