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Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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Woo pig!
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Fuck.
Chonky redeems himself.
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Fucked up ESPN stream, of course.
Woo pig sooie!
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Furk.
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Some Augie remembrance there.
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On 6/3/2025 at 3:15 PM, tbone_ said:
What’s the point of having a gt if you don’t get sideways coming out of cars and coffee?
Opening the straight pipes and blipping the throttle continuously while cruising through the hood.
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Woo pig sooie.
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On 6/17/2025 at 2:11 PM, Hugo Stiglitz said:
InsaneUnfortunately, due to the political question doctrine, it's not completely insane. Either that or SCOTUS will find that Congress delegated all authority to declare emergencies to the President, despite the major question and non-delegation doctrines that they love elsewhere.
This is a specter in the tariff cases and everywhere Trump has declared an emergency.
There is some hope that SCOTUS will not derogate its own power that greatly.
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Make that 6.
Holy shit.
Go Cleers
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2 hours ago, dieucla98 said:
It's war. It's always going to be political. Wake the fuck up.
We see, therefore, that War is not merely a political act, but also a real political instrument, a continuation of political commerce, a carrying out of the same by other means.
-Carl von Clausewitz, On War, 1918.
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4 hours ago, The Original Greaser Bob said:
Imagine how Iran's call for the destruction of Isreal might affect this issue?
Israel, dammit. Iz Rah El. Not is real.
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1 minute ago, Js1 said:
Yeah, same.
But they won't ever say it. They like their access too much
AP and maybe Reuters are the only journalistic entities with any balls anymore.
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On 6/12/2025 at 3:08 PM, Sbbruin said:
Buncha cucks
I am un chien Andalusia.
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Can usually count on fuckin tigah to turn it up in the post-season.
Go cleers.
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12 minutes ago, Horn80 said:
I’m still perplexed by what happened to Will’s and Jalin’s hitting. Not sure I’ve seen such a huge drop off before from previous Texas teams.
I don't remember particular players, but going 20-15 after Witt went out after starting 11-0 was pretty huge.
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5 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:
Head to head, Horns beat LSU 2 outta 3 at home....I'd like our chances against them.
We did, but those were slightly flukey/lucky wins emblematic of our whole season. We were definitely starting on a peak that was over by Arkansas and stayed over. I wouldn't give late-season us a chance against LSU or probably any of the teams in the CWS.
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Sayonara Kuma.
Never really thought they had a chance.
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1 hour ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
In fairness, you wouldn't consider it enough evidence unless Elmo and the Palantir CEO signed sworn affidavits in blood saying they did it and attached photos of them doing it.
Well you kinda do need evidence besides the "I seen it in my head" that seems to go round here.
Which is ultimately no better than Sidney Powell.
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2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:A reminder that it didn't used to be like this.
“It’s occurred to me on countless occasions today that if anyone spoke to my wife, or my daughter, or my mother, or any of my five sisters, the way Mr. Trump has spoken to women, I wouldn’t hire that person, wouldn’t want to be associated with that person, and I certainly don’t think I’d be comfortable hiring that person to be the leader of the free world.”
“We’ve been asked to settle, on matters of great principle, with our candidate for President of the United States. This can’t continue.”
“With all due respect, you, sir, are the distraction. Your conduct, sir, is the distraction. It’s the distraction from the very principles that will help us win in November.”
“It’s for precisely that reason, Mr. Trump, that I respectfully ask you, with all due respect, to step aside. Step down. Allow someone else to carry the banner of these principles.”
-Mike Lee the coward, October 2016
The number of GQP fucks that have absolutely debased themselves, and the degree to which they have done it, is astonishing.
Should be "Debased Mike Lee."
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6 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:
There are no rules for dotard.
Even so, there aren't really rules for anyone else in this arena.
A competitor, or possibly even a consumer, could sue their collective asses off for false advertising and deceptive trade practices.
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1 hour ago, C-Man said:
Not sure he was ever sane or normal. I was watching Jon Stewart last night and he recounted a story from back in 2019 or whenever where he and a handful of first responders were going around and meeting US senators and reps to help support potential legislation to get 9/11 first responders treatment for cancer and other toxic cleanup ailments they had.
Stewart said they met with Lee and the first responders took turns telling their stories. A police officer recounted his emotional experience of being in one of the towers that collapsed. When he was done telling story, Lee had this smile/grin on his face and said, “Man, I bet you’ve got a lot of stories.”
Stewart said they left the meeting and as soon as they walked out, they all looked at each other and said, “What the fuck was that?” He said it was the only meeting of many they had where they had that experience.
Needless to say, Stewart is no fan of Lee.He's been a Senator for a good long time (since 2011), 2019 is recent history for him.
I noticed him as a sponsor of a version of the First Step Act quite some time ago, and a more charitable version of what actually got passed. I'm sure he's always been some kind of reactionary, but he used to not be "based."
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30 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
But I was told it was made in America
The 47 Plan
The 47 Plan, named after the fact that Trump is the 47th President of the U.S., is the main offering for the network. While it does offer a smartphone for sale, the bread and butter for a carrier is the service.
Trump Mobile is a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). It will likely work on three major U.S. carriers, leveraging the 5G networks and coverage of AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile.
What it is not, is a new network. It resells AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile network access.
The $47.45 per month, clearly another presidential number reference, is a fairly high price for a mobile service. But, there are promises of it going far beyond the typical cellular service.
Trump Mobile says it will provide unlimited talk, texts, and data, with the first 20GB offered at "high speed." These are very common features of modern-day phone plans.
The free international calling to over 100 countries is framed as a benefit for families who regularly call American military bases.
Going into the realm of extended services, Trump Mobile also touts "Device Protection," but stops short of saying what it is, save for it not being insurance. It is being handled by a third-party provider, but again Trump Mobile doesn't say what that would be.
There is also included roadside assistance provided by Drive America. There's also telehealth and prescription services, again handled by third-party providers.
This is a lot for Trump to offer as part of a mobile plan, and at face value it could justify the monthly fee. However, the extra services may cause users to incur fees if they use them beyond a basic level. There is a complete lack of disclosure on the website about additional fees, so it's hard to tell how much, or how often.
The site does say that you can bring your own phone over to the network, with a SIM card supplied by the company. It is unclear if eSIMs are being supported.
Since current-gen iPhones don't have a SIM card slot and rely on eSIM support with networks, this could rule out Apple users until that support is added.
At the time of reporting, Trump Mobile is not listed on Apple's eSIM support page.
T1 takes on iPhone 17, maybe
The constant calls and pressure from the administration of President Donald Trump for Apple to make its iPhone in the United States are well documented. It's therefore apt that Trump Mobile will be offering its own smartphone to consumers as well.
The T1 is described in the Trump Mobile press release as a device that is "designed and built in the United States." This nationalistic claim is also a shot against Apple, which often uses the phrase "Designed by Apple in California," followed by a statement about the phones being assembled in India or China in most cases.
Clad in a gold-colored casing, the T1 is said to have a 6.8-inch Punch-Hole AMOLED display, with an under-screen fingerprint sensor and an "AI Face Unlock."
All of these parts will need to be imported for the phone. There are no domestic AMOLED display manufacturers, and the VCSEL used for face unlock technologies is also produced overseas.
Running on Android 15, it is listed as having 256GB of internal storage, expandable by a memory card slot, and 12GB of memory.
On the back are a 50MP main camera but surprisingly low-resolution depth and macro cameras at 2MP, but the front has a 16MP selfie camera. The camera modules will have to be imported too for any kind of US manufacture.
Battery capacity is said to be a generous 5,000mAh, charged using USB-C with 20W of fast charging. That USB Type-C port is also limited to slow USB 2.0 speeds, and is joined by a 3.5mm headphone jack. These are typical for the price point.
The T1 is also seemingly going to be an attempt to spoil the September launch of the iPhone 17 range, with Trump Mobile planning to ship it by August.
The price of $499 with a $100 down payment for pre orders, makes it a mid-range device price-wise. The Amazon sale price on the device is about $180.
A reskinned import?
While there is a lot of bravado that it will be US-made, it took social media about an hour to find out where the phone actually comes from.
In a post to X by analyst Max Weinbach, it seems that the T1 closely resembles the T-Mobile REVVL 7 Pro 5G. The specifications of the display and the odd camera resolutions match up with the T-Mobile device, along with other details.
That smartphone is made by Wingtech, owned by the Chinese-owned manufacturer Luxshare. The T-Mobile version is believed to be built in Kiaxing, Wuxi, or Kunming, in China.
The T1 appears to be a reskinned version of the REVVL 7 Pro 5G, in a new enclosure and with slightly moved around cameras. This smartphone normally costs $250 at full retail, and even goes down to $169 on sale like it is on Amazon right now.
For the Amazon price, you don't get the gold-colored trim, of course.
The T1 phone may be modded in the USA. It certainly wasn't designed or assembled in the US.
Made in America?
The promotion surrounding Trump Mobile and the T1 certainly paint the operation as a US-centric approach, including for manufacturing the T1. The press release specifically mentions the T1 as "proudly designed and built in the United States."
In interviews, Eric Trump has also repeatedly mentioned the manufacture of smartphones. "You're gonna have phones that are made right here in the United States of America," he told Fox Business.
On stage for the launch, he declared "Making phones in America, it's about time we bring products back to our great country."
The fact that it is a reskinned smartphone notwithstanding, the repeated claim of the T1 being designed and made in the United States is one that should be further questioned. The information provided about the smartphone is missing quite a few key areas, and goes against the usual expected cost of manufacture, if it is truly a US-made product.
For a start, the specifications list is missing the description of the chip that powers the mobile device. Even though Qualcomm, the main U.S. chip company for mobile processors, is based in the United States, it still outsources chip production to foreign third parties, such as TSMC in Taiwan.
TSMC does have a factory in the United States, but that is still far from being an adequate source of chips, even for Trump Mobile.
The obvious logic here is that the chip is being ignored because it's not a component made in the United States. This can be said of the screen, and the camera modules as well.
That leads to another issue with the claims of it being made in the United States. As AppleInsider has repeatedly discussed, Apple cannot easily bring manufacturing of the iPhone to the United States without significant expenditure, as well as years of planning with its many supply chain partners.
Then there's the issue of somehow building up a skilled workforce in the U.S., to a skill level of what is available from workers in China. Or better robots.
All of these problems that apply to Apple also apply to Trump Mobile's T1, except it doesn't have the massive baggage Apple would have to deal with to do the same thing.
Assembling smartphones in the United States is possible, but on an extremely small scale. There are producers such as Purism who design and assemble smartphones entirely in the United States.
They do not source all of their parts from US manufacturers, though. Cameras, RAM, storage, processors, and screens are all imported.
So assembling a smartphone in the US is not completely impossible, just difficult. And by definition, it will have to be in low volumes.
Trump Mobile would still have to source the components before assembling them in the United States. Add in that those components would ideally have to be sourced from within the U.S. as well, and it becomes a very expensive operation.
Possibly one that on a per-smartphone basis would leave little to no profit from the sub-$500 selling price. Given that Trump businesses want to make a profit, something has to give to make the T1 for $500.
We believe that the device will be assembled and designed in the US. We do not think it will make the Trump Organization's deadline.
Furthermore, the parts the company will need to assemble the phone will need to be imported. They will be subject to the tariffs that the administration applied, unless some kind of special deal is carved out by the Trump administration, making a $500 price point generating a profit unlikely.
So, unless there is some real supply chain magic happening, and there does not appear to be any at this moment, it's extremely unlikely that this will be an entirely U.S.-produced smartphone.
Trump Mobile is clearly aiming for the Trump fan vote with the T1. What they'll get from their money is a mid-rate Android device that won't live up to the plastic shine of its golden exterior.
Other than a common-law type false advertising claim, which could be quite viable, the law requires country of origin labeling on the product itself. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/19/1304 and provides penalties for failure to mark or marking falsely.
So, conversely, lying your ass off, without mismarking the product itself, doesn't seem to be actionable.
I also assume this is 100% a Patriot Mobile/Trump deal.
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Fucking pig.