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Posts posted by Gap03
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23 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Cross posting this from DT for clarity on how fucking stupid the admin thinks (knows) America is.
The USTR formulas had nothing to do with VATS or tariffs at all, just a simple ratio reflecting a bilat trade deficit. Its Exports to US- Imports from US/Imports from US.
They added some smart-sounding Econ terms and expressed them with Greek symbols to make this look complex and smart. They fixed the value of epsilon at 4 and the value of psi at .25, ensuring that they will cancel each other out. A laughable and transparent attempt to just make this simple formula look informed and analytical because they trust Americans won’t check and if they do, they’ll be too innumerate to replace the Greek symbols and do the simple task of multiplying an integer with its reciprocal and see that they just added some fucking chrome hubcaps onto their clapped out Altima equation.
They are absolutely right.
Every person with a shred of math / economic sense after reading the admin's explanation:
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5 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:
We've finally got a new State Chair. Let me know what you folks think. He's down in on the ground with us, not locked away in some blue bubble tower somewhere. I'm proud to call him a good friend.
This was shot immediately after he won handily this past Saturday in Austin.
And here's another interview:
I would love to believe, but as Red once said, "Hope is a dangerous thing." Unless they're going to drag Beto out there for run #13, it feels like it's time for some folks to get some name recognition in preparation for the 2026 elections. Honestly, the only folks on the bench that I'd be excited about in statewide elections at this point are Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico and maybe Lizzie Fletcher. Are there any up-and-coming folks in Texas politics, or is the bench as barren as it seems?
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14 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:
Congress passed amendment allowing federal income tax for reasons unknown to all mankind
I can’t watch any more of this crap
It really feels like he's flushing the global economy and the goodwill the U.S. has built up over the last 80 years down the toilet just so he can make the whole world watch him babbling for a fucking hour. Good job, America - who can have foreseen this after watching this narcissistic fuck treat the pandemic like his own shitty reality show last time.
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18 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:
Jamelle Bouie had a good thread on this yesterday in response to some lawyers with terminal lawyer-brain:
Jamelle strikes me as someone that hasn't read any of the Supreme Court's recent case law - i mean, I'm pretty sure "Nihilistic Textualism" is the name of Alito and Clarence's garage band - it's their written rationalization for what is ultimately just Calvinball.
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8 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5191889/is-trump-running-for-a-third-term
Other legal experts, however, point to the last sentence of the 12th Amendment, which covers the Electoral College, as a roadblock for any twice-elected president attempting to return to the White House through the vice presidency. It says that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States."
Still, in court, a lawyer could try to argue that being a "natural born" citizen, at least 35 years old and a resident within the U.S. for at least 14 years are the only presidential eligibility requirements specified in the Constitution, says Stephen Gillers, a professor emeritus at New York University School of Law, who proposed in 2004 that Clinton run for vice president.
"I want to make it very clear that I'm identifying an argument that Trump could make in order to get back into the White House. I'm not endorsing it," Gillers says. "But we know from experience that even if it's far-fetched and it offers the possibility of a third presidential term, Trump will make it. If his health holds up, he will make the argument he likes the job. Whether or not it succeeds in court is another matter."
Gillers posits that Trump "could make a deal" with Vance that, ahead of the 2028 election, they switch places on the Republican ticket, and if they win the White House again, Vance resigns and Trump becomes president.
To avoid any debate about whether the 12th Amendment forbids presidential electors from choosing a twice-elected president as vice president, Gillers says there could be a similar arrangement in which Trump does not run on the winning Republican ticket but, after the newly elected vice president resigns, becomes vice president with congressional approval.
"It is not implausible. And just the existence of the possibility of it in the next four years gives Trump power that enhances his position," Gillers says. "The members of Congress in 2027 will know that they're not dealing with a lame duck necessarily because Trump could still hold out, through 2027 and 2028, the possibility of his return to power and the power that that possibility gives him — to get Congress to bend to his will."
If the Dems were smart, they'd be pushing the Supreme Court to consider this in the run-up for the 2028 election. I know that the SC would say that the issue isn't ripe, but there needs to be existing political pressure in place to prevent Roberts and Co. from pulling the same old "Aw shucks, we just can't rule on this so close to the election, so maybe next time ..." bullshit.
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8 minutes ago, bolverk said:
Yeah, a little context would be really helpful before I blow a fucking lid.
Here you go - in a nutshell, ol' Keith was using the "We're not Nazis, you're nazis ..." defense.
QuoteA Capitol Hill hearing held to explore supposed government censorship under Joe Biden was based on a “fiction”, a leading expert on countering online disinformation told members of Congress on Tuesday.
Nina Jankowicz, head of the American Sunlight Project, a pro-democracy organization, went on the offensive at a House of Representatives foreign relations subcommittee meeting held to examine the existence of an alleged “censorship industrial complex”, which Republicans claim was established to stifle rightwing views on social media, rather than combat foreign propaganda, as officially stated.
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“The premise of this hearing, the so called censorship industrial complex, is a fiction that has not only had profound impacts on my life and safety, but on our national security,” she said in her opening statement at a fractious hearing that exposed the width of the chasm between Republicans and Democrats on the issue.
“More alarmingly, this fiction is itself suppressing speech and stymieing critical research that protects our country.
“I want to acknowledge the irony that we’re having this discussion as we witness an assault on the first amendment we have not seen in decades. The Trump administration has directed far more egregious violations of our constitution than the imagined actions of the Biden administration on which this hearing is premised.”
QuoteKeith Self, a Republican representative from Texas, provoked anger among Democrats by appearing to liken the Biden administration’s anti-disinformation efforts to steps by the Nazi to construct public opinion in 1930s Germany.
“A direct quote from Joseph Goebbels [the Nazi propaganda minister]: ‘It is the absolute right of the state to supervise the formation of public opinion,’ and I think that may be what we’re discussing here,” he said.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/01/capitol-hill-hearing-biden-censorship-trump
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5 minutes ago, turtlepond said:
Not ALL billionaires are fucking treacherous scum as you say.
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10 hours ago, C-Man said:
US Justice Department to seek the death penalty for Mangione
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/death-penalty-doj-luigi-mangione/index.html
Short of some heavy-duty fuckery during voire dire, good luck getting a conviction in NYC on this one, let alone a death sentence.
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2 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
why does the president need private representation? holy unethical bullshit, batman
Because he's chased all the competent lawyers out of the DOJ and WH Counsel's Office already ... duh.
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3 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:
Jenner and Block cordially invited Trump to lick their collective taint. It's nice to see a law firm with balls for a change.
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1 hour ago, Anastasis said:
I know everyone agrees with the concept until anyone actually tries to do something about it. What we need is a task force to study the issue for the next 12 months, write up a report, and issue some recommendations that everyone can ignore for the rest of the political cycle. Meanwhile the SSA database will operate on COBOL and everyone should just act like this is normal and the real risk is fixing the problem. Oh look, another interest payment due, keep rolling over those t bills until we can't anymore. Keep the carriers gassed up.
Classic Ana non-response response. Do you want to respond to the valid concern that Big Balls and co lack a basic understanding of what they're fucking with (as well as any interest in informing themselves before they run in and start breaking shit)? Given their performance thus far, it seems likely that DOGE will end up spending a metric shit-ton to end up with something that's more fucked up than what we started with (while also jeopardizing ongoing payments and everyone's private data in the process).
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2 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
Trump pardoned Nikola (EV car maker) CEO who had been found guilty of defrauding investors due to lies about the company. Prosecutors had been pushing the judge to get the CEO to pay restitutions upwards of $700m to the defrauded investors.
Oh, and the now-pardoned felon is currently represented by Pam Bondi's brother.
Keep it up, fuckers, and we're going to have a lot more of this running around ...
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4 minutes ago, Texas Jeff said:
You are correct.
If I were on the other side of the negotiating table I would do absolutely nothing. Accept the tariff and plan to sell a few fewer cars in the US. Watch Trump sweat as prices rise and people complain. Don't be the first to blink.
Eventually Trump would cave to the domestic pressure to get rid of the tariffs. Americans like cheap stuff, new stuff, and stuff you can drive around. We're not taking the bus.
At some point, they'll start doing this. I understand the impulse to try to avoid the economic harm if it's a modest give, but he's just going to keep doing this bullshit if they capitulate at all. They have to stand firm and make him back down, especially if they can all stand together, which seems to be the likely current play by Canada and the EU.
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2 minutes ago, bolverk said:“The group behind the proposed East Plano Islamic Center compound may be misleading investors,” Abbott said in the press release. “Defrauding Texans will not be tolerated. The Texas State Securities Board is conducting a thorough investigation to ensure Texans are protected from financial harm that is alleged to have been caused by EPIC."
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Thursday's announcement comes after two separate investigations launched this week prompted by the governor and Attorney General Ken Paxton against the mosque and its project "EPIC City."
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8 minutes ago, Vegas64 said:
Rather, in presenting the report to Congress, Trump’s new spymaster (Gabbard) said environmental awareness is a given, so the report instead focuses on direct threats.
Fuck these lying sacks of shit. The whole point is to undermine the argument that "Of course climate change is real - our own govt repeatedly acknowledges that it represents one of the biggest threats to our national security." With it out of the report, the GQP echo chamber will quickly move to "WTH are you talking about - it's not any any threat assessments!" mode.
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4 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
What a fucking psychopath.
We sure this isn't an animatronic being controlled by Stephen Miller? If she's human, she's putting out real "they're holding my daughter at knife-point" vibes here. Normally, when she's on a roll, its seems like her heart is really in it - here she doesn't seem to be feeling it at all.
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23 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:
My dream would be for Judge Boasberg to schedule hearings with the DOJ on the Signalgate case and the El Salvador flight case back-to-back to highlight the utter hypocrisy / lunacy of the positions of the Trump administration. Someone really deserves to get thrown in the clink for this bad faith bullshit, but it will never happen.
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10 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:
If texags is any indication, “THIS ONLY REVEALS TIMES, NO LOCATIONS… NOTHINGBURGER!!!” will be the rallying cry.
Texags pretty much all the time these days:
I dunno, geniuses, if I'm a Houthi leader / critically valuable to the Houthi cause and hear "Target Terrorist is @ his known location" and "1st strike window starts at 1345", I would view that as pretty important information, especially if I'm in relatively close proximity with other leadership with air defense assets nearby.
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2 minutes ago, Gandalfish said:
Umm, when the Dems have to win the popular vote by ~3-4% to put a president in office, losing by 1.5% is ACTUALLY getting blown the fuck out.
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Ossoff is just going down the line laying bare what lying fucks all of these dipshits testifying today are. That was glorious. Definitely sound bite worthy dressing down there.
Updated for a couple of portions of Ossoff going off - context was Ratcliffe and Tulsi had been explaining that the group chat was no big because there was no classified info being discussed on the chat. I'd love for someone like him to take over for Schumer.
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51 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:
Pam thinks "words have consequences" in this dystopia that Trump and co have fostered?
Bitch, please ...
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22 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:
"an epic fuckup"
Pete seems kinda pissed off. I think I'd like to see pissed off Mayor Pete on the road with AOC and Bernie.
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The Trump Economy
in Cloak Room
Posted
Any bets on how many of the folks at the event were heavily invested in inverse leveraged ETFs and shorts yesterday? I'm going with 100%. Maybe 110% ... whatever it takes ...