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Should be a wild four years.

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also lies about fucking video games.
this is true and hilarious.

I’m all for trimming the fat but let’s have someone more level headed and less autistic do it
so far he seems to be doing a fine job, and somehow managing to be a lolcow at the same time. i'm all for this continuing until he actually fucks up.
 

22 Blue States Signed Secret Pact To Defy Trump Immigration Efforts, Coordinate Legal Strategies​

Attorneys general from 22 blue states along with Washington DC and San Francisco signed a secret agreement just 3 days after President Trump won the 2024 election for a coordinated response to resist Trump's anticipated actions to end birthright citizenship.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D)

According to an investigation by the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project, the 22 AGs agreed to legal collaboration and communication to defy Trump's immigration enforcement initiatives, including any deemed confidential or privileged.

All shared information would be used to coordinate various legal schemes, as well as pre-lawsuit investigations, litigation strategies, complaints, dispositive motions, merits briefs, and amicus briefs. The agreement also bars third parties from accessing any of this shared information, which is defined as all documents, materials, information, and communications exchanged between the attorneys generals’ offices prior to the agreement.

The agreement does allow for public records requests, but requires any AG to give five days' notice to the other AGs about the request before it was due.

🚨SECRET BLUE STATE RESISTANCE AGREEMENT OBTAINED - BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP🚨

We have obtained a secret agreement between 22 blue states, DC, and San Francisco, signed beginning on November 8, 2024. This agreement, just 3 days after President Trump's landslide election win,… pic.twitter.com/7AsqgCjlcX

— Oversight Project (@OversightPR) February 11, 2025

"The Parties have agreed that they have a common interest in developing potential litigation to challenge executive action related to ending or curtailing birthright citizenship," according to the agreement.

As AZ Free News notes further, the other attorneys general to enter the secretive agreement oversaw California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, as well as Washington, D.C.

The city and county of San Francisco, California also joined the agreement last month.

Trump issued an executive order ending birthright citizenship during his first day in office. The order extends to children born of illegal immigrant parents in the U.S. It prohibits the federal government from issuing or accepting citizenship documents from persons born under those circumstances after its effective date, which is scheduled to take place later this month.

“[T]he Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States. The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not ‘subject to the jurisdiction thereof,’” read the order.

The order flies in the face of longstanding court precedent on the matter.

That precedent led three federal judges in separate cases to block Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship. The first two occurred in Washington and Maryland, with the third occurring on Monday in New Hampshire.

Mayes joined Arizona to the case blocked in the Washington district court earlier this month. Based on the timeline of the secretive agreement and the filing of their lawsuit, it appears the case emerged directly from that agreement.

The court’s decision to block this illegal executive order nationwide protects the basic right to birthright citizenship guaranteed by the 14th Amendment,” said Mayes. “I will keep fighting to protect the Constitutional rights of all Arizonans from the Trump administration’s illegal actions.”

Several of those states signed onto the secretive agreement — Washington, Oregon, and Illinois — were partnered on the lawsuit with Mayes.

DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell​

DOGE head Elon Musk said on Tuesday that DOGE is going to investigate federal employees whose net worths have exploded despite their comparatively low pay.

The announcement - which came after President Donald Trump signed an executive order calling on federal agencies to work with DOGE, follows a bombshell report that Samantha Power, former head of USAID, saw her net worth explode to $30 million despite an annual salary under $250,000.

President Trump and Elon Musk exposes the EX-USAID Chief Samantha Power who accumulate a $30 million of net worth over a matter of years with a $180k annual salary. pic.twitter.com/3auDYginRs
— DeVory Darkins (@devorydarkins) February 11, 2025
"We don't know why. Where did it come from? I think the reality is that they're getting wealthy at the taxpayer expense," Musk said on Tuesday.

Power, a former ambassador to the United Nations under President Obama, and was sworn in as head of USAID in May of 2021, reported a net worth between $6.7 million-$16.5 million in January of 2021 on a disclosure form. Her net worth is now estimated as high as $30 million, according to the website Biden's Basement.

🚨EX-USAID CHIEF SAMANTHA POWER’S NET WORTH SKYROCKETS—FROM $6.7M TO $30M ON A $180K SALARY

Samantha Power, Biden’s ex-USAID chief, saw her wealth explode while earning just $180K per year.

Where did the extra $23.3M come from? And all of this in just 3 years! USAID oversees… https://t.co/D5c30Jibzj pic.twitter.com/bAOfC2FDub

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 9, 2025
According to various reports, Power's sources of income have varied over the years. After serving as UN Ambassador, she reportedly made $471,000 per year as a Harvard professor, and made $351,000 from speaking engagements with major firmst such as Nestle, Google and UBS, along with $1 million in book royalties.

Most notably, however, was an $11.73 million gain in her investment holdings.

If we had to venture a guess, DOGE's access to information from the Treasury, USAID, and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), run through Palantir's intelligence apparatus (including AI), will quickly unravel graft hidden through multiple layers of organizational fog.

Meanwhile, there's the issue of lawmakers who have become unbelievably 'lucky' when it comes to growing their net worth via insider trading.

In July, a bipartisan group of senators including Josh Hawley (R-MO) came to an agreement on a renewed effort to ban members of Congress from trading stock.

"Congress should not be here to make a buck," Hawley said at the time. "There is no reason why members of Congress ought to be profiting off of the information that only they get."
 
wrong retard, you fell for liberal propaganda

He is world ranked at diablo and fucking washed at POE2

people conflated the stream where he played path of exile and dident know what the fuck he was doing with his actual diablo 4 achievements
i personally know at least one person who went no-life on the first season of diablo 4. there is no way that elon musk has the time to do everything he does for all of his obligations and still has enough time to personally grind any of these games. it's simply impossible. to believe otherwise is to either delude yourself or to not understand how immense the time investment into these types of games is to have the things necessary for what he claims, even in diablo 4.

DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell
this has me intrigued. i really hope this shit doesn't just fizzle out next month.
 
you are a sweetie pie but its hard to help that witch is retarted

I could easily open a second tab and check where the thread is at and wait for a new page

I dont do this, I spend the better part of my hour on a post and hit send beacuse I dont wanna waste a second between now and my based ass information reaching a fellow kiwi

so what ive had a little to drink, "get off me, THEY HANDED ME THE MIC!"
How much does Null pay you
 
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Unironically would have saved the world a ton of grief if they had gotten it instead of the retarded Sykes-Picot agreement.
No because alot of the problems were created by the British and French teaming up with Israel to invade Egypt in the 1950s and because the Soviets threatened to nuke London and Paris over it, that made the Arabs turn to the USSR and communism which lead to a fucking domino effect.

Then after the communists overthrew Iraq, Syria, Tunisia, Libya, Yemen and still fucking lost to the Jews, the Saudis decided to use the power of Oil to fund their brand of Islam to project power then it got out of control after Saudi Arabia became aligned with the US due to Saddam (baathism = communism) invading Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

1947 British let the Jews create Israel

1956 The British, French and Israelis jointly invade Egypt, Arabs turn to the USSR and communism

1967 The communists get completely felted by Israel and the French help Israel make their first nuke

1969 Gaddafi (Communist) overthrows the King of Libya, gives weapons to everyone in the world that's anti-west.

1970 The Palestinians and Syrians (both communists) try to take over Jordan, fail and get kickbanned to Lebanon

1973 The communists try again, almost reach Tel Aviv then got completely felted again.

1973 America, due to the Arabs being communists, gives Israel massive military support to keep them from nuking Cairo and Damascus and starting a nuclear war with the USSR since soviet troops were stationed in both countries

1973 Saudi Arabia cucks the west by cutting off the Oil, then uses this to fund radical islam to become the leaders of the Arabs and fight the communists, Arabs start to turn to Islam to defeat the jews

1975 the Palestinians (Communists) started a civil war in Lebanon, the heart of Arab secularism

1978 Egypt makes peace with Israel destroying the credibility of the communists to arabs.

1979 Islamists overthrow Iran giving Islamists credibility

1979 Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan making communism absolutely haram and starting the first islamic jihad with Saudi backing

1983 "Islamic Jihad Group" successfully kills hundreds of Americans in Lebanon

1987 Hamas was founded to contest the leadership of the communists over the Palestinians, Israel funds them to divide and conquer.

1989 Islamists beat the Soviets in Afghanistan

1990 the Iraqis (Communists) invade Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, they invite the US to Saudi and the Islamists are incensed

1991 Arab living in the Gulf states get deported after the communists support Saddam, these deportees were already indoctrinated by the Saudi brand of islam leading to them starting Islamists groups everywhere completely out of control.
 
It’s another example of him being retarded the nigga also lies about fucking video games. I’m all for trimming the fat but let’s have someone more level headed and less autistic do it
I dunno. He has a lolcow thread here for very good reason, but he's clearly higher functioning than other lolcows, or he wouldn't be where he is. We shouldn't forget what he's done, and you don't need to forgive him, but you can credit what he does right. How he is with that kid is sweet; how he's generally acted with family and fatherhood is insane and wrong. What he did with twitter is probably mostly positive, and it's clearly helped Trump; hopefully we're saying the same thing about DOGE in a few months. Doesn't help to be a partisan for or against him, he just should be watched closely and not given the benefit of the doubt.

It's like the one DOGE kid who did a stint at PATH (there's an interesting article posted on him in the Corey Barnhill thread if you want to know more). He's probably a cybercriminal who has some really sketchy connections. He's really young, so best case this is a talented but wayward kid who's going to take an opportunity to go straight and do some good. Worth keeping an eye on though, and he shouldn't be given much slack.
 
I can see either Tulsi or RFK getting BTFO by Republicans because they were the two biggest names, most controversial, Dem defectors...the biggest asks. And after giving Trump so much, denying him one of them would show token resistance, that the entire Party and Congressional Republicans in particular aren't totally under his thumb. Either of them would be considered a necessary sacrifice to give Trump everything else he wants.
Hegseth was a pretty big ask in terms of baggage. Maybe I’m too optimistic but my takeaway from that confirmation was that Mitch McConnell tried to be the brave resistance but just came out looking like an old drooling retard after JD came in and broke the tie. Trump got his nomination and the Rinos looked stupid. I don’t think they have a lot of fight in them for RFK and tulsi. If I’m wrong because of being too optimistic, what’s the opposite of a burger suit?
 
i personally know at least one person who went no-life on the first season of diablo 4. there is no way that elon musk has the time to do everything he does for all of his obligations and still has enough time to personally grind any of these games. it's simply impossible. to believe otherwise is to either delude yourself or to not understand how immense the time investment into these types of games is to have the things necessary for what he claims, even in diablo 4.
Wasn't his account found to be doing shit while he was in an interview, and his diablo bank or whatever it's called in that game had chinese characters for 'items for Elon' or something to that effect?
I don't care if he boosts to get to endgame content due to time restrictions, but being murky about it just makes him a disingenuous cunt inflating his own ego. He can be a good player and also not have earned any top spot.
 
I dunno. He has a lolcow thread here for very good reason, but he's clearly higher functioning than other lolcows, or he wouldn't be where he is. We shouldn't forget what he's done, and you don't need to forgive him, but you can credit what he does right. How he is with that kid is sweet; how he's generally acted with family and fatherhood is insane and wrong. What he did with twitter is probably mostly positive, and it's clearly helped Trump; hopefully we're saying the same thing about DOGE in a few months. Doesn't help to be a partisan for or against him, he just should be watched closely and not given the benefit of the doubt.

It's like the one DOGE kid who did a stint at PATH (there's an interesting article posted on him in the Corey Barnhill thread if you want to know more). He's probably a cybercriminal who has some really sketchy connections. He's really young, so best case this is a talented but wayward kid who's going to take an opportunity to go straight and do some good. Worth keeping an eye on though, and he shouldn't be given much slack.
That’s fair but I don’t trust him whatsoever because his end game is getting cheap jeet labor for himself and his other billionaire buddies
 
Journoscum are truly magical beings. Every day I think I've reached peak distain for them and every day the goal line shifts again.
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FUCK

I hate when I effortpost and it gets the bottom page treatment

plz just glance at the dumb shit about congresspeoples politico subs while cruising thru on highlights, dont care so much about "muh internet points" as people seeing some of this absurd shit
The bottom of the page is a place where effortposts go to die. I weep with you.
I treat effortposting like a message in a bottle. Whatever effort I put in is getting thrown into the ocean, like so many car batteries. You makes your posts and you takes your chances.
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I am not trying to doompost here, but I definitely think it's important to keep Big Tech in mind as an independent bloc with access to a lot of capital vying for high-level political influence and power. Politics is a zero-sum game where all actors are inherently opportunistic and self interested. Big Tech wants to excert and entrench their influence the same way the Neocons, Libertarians and any other groups or people in Trump's "coalition" do. Being aware of all the actors in a given place where competition for power occurs is the key to fully understanding the situation. I don't want to convince any people that Trump is totally selling out the country to Silicon Valley, but I do want to keep them in mind as a actor with a degree of influence in the administration vying to push for their own self interest.
I've had plenty of similar thoughts. I've held off posting about factionalism and the coming realignment of the political parties, because it feels nice to enjoy the Trump induced winning and the ineffective wailing of the "establishment". Plus, trying to predict or make conjectures right now is a fool's errand.

One aspect I can mention is Trump optimally positioning himself right in the middle of the "common sense" Overton Window. He just waltzes in and starts pointing out all the Uniparty's dialectic polarization issues are stupid and proceeds to fix them by ignoring the artificial political divide.
Trannies? What freaks allowed this; ended.
Abortion? States Rights. Partial birth is barbaric.
Foreign Wars? Avoid.
Immigration? US citizens are more important.
Deindustrialization? Tarrif foreign. End red tape.
Low Wages? End or lower Income Tax.
Inflation? Cut government waste and fraud.
DEI? Nobody wants to hear nagging; ended.
Global Warming? Nobody actually cares, shut up.
Oil? They do care about gas prices; drill baby drill.
Windmills? Ugly; ended. Birds and whales say tnx.
Food? Make McDonald's quality better than slop.
Corruption? Terminate with extreme prejudice.

Hotelling's Law helps explain why two shops of the same kind will locate next to each other rather than disperse evenly. It can explain both political parties hugging the center. But, the Uniparty colluded to maintain divisive issues to force people into 1 of 2 loyalty programs. Their collusion allowed them to plunder.

It would be like a town only having 2 restaurants: a vegan Hooters staffed only by trannies with no parking, and a methhead interstate truck stop that closes on Sundays because it's rented out to a Megachurch. Both with ripoff pricing.
Trump opens a 1990 McDonalds on Main Street situated near the school, the park, the church, the business district, the post office, and the shopping mall that he purchased and promises to reopen; they still serve beef tallow french fries.
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Who wouldn't pick the friendly clown under these circumstances.

The uniparty is pissed, but they are run by geriatrics who fired anyone competent.
 
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