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Should be a wild four years.

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Damocles_Sword said:
Wow, that speach last night. I guess that without USAID the democrats really can't organize a protest. That was utter embarassment.
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I figured they were just demoralized, but their showing last night was so disorganized that I'm starting to think that without their glownigger handlers, Democrats have no idea how to act.
 
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Orange_Juiche said:
SCOTUS just blocked Trump’s USAID funding freeze. 5-4 lmao Roberts and ACB
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Once again, Supreme Court Justice Roberts has cucked and revealed himself to be a traitor to the American people. This faggot needs to go. Pack the courts, Trump. Get Clarence Thomas a successor and never let ACB and Roberts's votes matter again.

Edit: Yes it's only 2 billion for completed work but nixing bills for completed work is Trump's bread and butter.
 
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Betonhaus said:
Wouldn't it be the reverse, where 25% tarriffs means a $1 item becomes $1.25, but 25% on that becomes $1.56, and then $1.92?
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There's no one answer. How hard the tariff hits the final consumer price depends entirely on how the imported good is used.

  • An importer imports a good for $1. To be profitable, he resells it for $2. WIth a 25% tariff, he now imports it for $1.25. He now turns around and sells is for $2.25.
  • You buy a good from an online retailer for $1. A 25% tariff is slapped on it. The price you see at checkout is $1.25.
  • A manufacturer makes a finished good that has $25 of parts, and sells it for $75. $12 of those parts come from overseas, and now have a tariff of 25%, or $3. So now the manufacturer has a good that has $28 of parts. He increases the price to $78.
 
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Overall I give his speech 9/10 in the cold light of morning. I just wish he had gone through in painstaking detail what is involved in the chemical castration surgery of a child, while pointing at the dems and going “why do you wanna do this to children?

That and the Mars shit is dumb. People, autists used trigonometry to prove the Moon landings were faked. We can’t send men to Mars, we can’t send men to the Moon, and it’s possible we never will. Humans just can’t survive through the Van Allen radiation belts.
 
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edgymovies said:
didn't he cut grants funding cancer research? I think actually trying to cut 4 billion or so dollars in medical research is much worse optics.
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Early in Trump’s second term, the administration imposed temporary freezes on NIH activities, including grant reviews and meetings, starting January 21, 2025. This stalled about 16,000 grant applications worth $1.5 billion, some likely cancer-related, though the freeze was lifted by early February. Separately, Trump signed a bill in February 2025 restoring $120 million for 9/11-related pediatric cancer research, showing a specific instance of funding support.

Even far left Snopes debunked this bullshit talking point, here's a link https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/01/28/trump-nih-cancer-research/
 
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Nuns with guns said:
You guys are pussies no better than liberals who live in “safe space” echo chambers if the moment a troll, a doomer or a retard disagrees with you—no matter how stupid or solid their argument is—you have to pile on them and repeat your winning mantras so you don’t have a mental breakdown.

Trump is a gay nigger faggot etc etc. If you read these words here don’t try to overdose in whitepills and repeat to yourself that everything is perfect. Grow a fucking spine for once.
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I’d argue there are some people with some good criticisms and then there are people who don’t realize a lot of it is trolling. Trump is in and he should be criticized, but the issue is that it’s very hard to tell due to TDS and people here trolling (for Boomers anyway).

The solution is to use the block function. If someone is shitting up the thread because people keep responding to them then hit ignore. Don’t feed the trolls. It’s a bigger issue if it’s an Android Raptor situation where one person keeps derailing the thread by responding to people even if that person ignores them.
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
If her parents were Taiwanese, why the fuck is she presiding over the elite Boston institutions being captured by the Chinese
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Looking at it deeper, her family were in the Koumintang party and migrated after the collapse of Republican China. So she is very, very Mainland Chinese. They are the least likely to support Taiwanese independence. Factions in the koumintang have even given up recoquest and hope for a much more swagged out Hong Kong type agreement
 
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The Last Stand said:
Could it be argued that ACB aligns with RGB on the political spectrum with their stance on abortion? RBG was on record saying that Roe v. Wade was a horrible precedent for enforcing rights.
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that one was always a nice bit of honesty as she was literally on the winning team for Team Roe before she was SCOTUS
shitload of live stuff via ntd today
 
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The Ugly One said:
TLS TLSing over white women is like a rock in the stormy seas of this forum.
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Conan said:
TLS saying "I don't get it." is like the North Star, constant and unchanging.
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Well, before, I would hold Hillary Clinton to a high standard to the discomfort of many here, so consider this an improvement. She's a black robe wearing judge that is part of the hierarchical government system that we know and love (and hate.)
 
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