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Pig Bellmont

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  1. Schumer is too old and has no instincts anymore. Completely misread the situation
  2. I don’t care why - this is a good thing
  3. I won’t speak for the person you’re quoting, but I’d guess it has something to do with this: “As of October 2024, there have been hundreds of documented nonfatal incidents involving Autopilot and fifty-one reported fatalities, forty-four of which NHTSA investigations or expert testimony later verified and two that NHTSA’s Office of Defect Investigations verified as happening during the engagement of Full Self-Driving (FSD).” https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2025/02/11/tesla-again-has-the-highest-accident-rate-of-any-auto-brand/
  4. Because of the legal shell game they set up. Ostensibly these people were hired into the US Digital Service and that was folded into the Executive Office of the President so it’s “not an agency”. A federal court only just ruled that DOGE is subject to FOIA
  5. Perhaps the beginning of accountability and sunlight into this shadow presidency
  6. So first of all - so great for all the US based champagne producers… This is such a dumb way to run a country. It truly seems like he’s trying to crash the economy
  7. We’re disappearing green card holders for their speech - of course the precedent was set when we looked the other way when Virginia resident and WaPo journalist was murdered by MBS so what do we care of middle Eastern people anyway. We are permitting a foreign billionaire to dismantle US agencies that have active regulatory enforcement investigations into his companies simply bc he was the President’s biggest donor We have politicized our entire federal law enforcement arm from prosecutors to the FBI itself - no more impartial rule of law, emphasized of course by pardoning terrorists who assaulted cops in a literal effort to stop the certification of votes electing a President I used to believe there were immutable issues that everyone shared that were the backbone of the American idea. We’ve instead become a Russian vassal state All that to say that I don’t believe in third rails. There’s not a single issue this government can take on that will result in a wholesale rejection of Trump or MAGA. GOP politicians and voters alike would rather eat glass than admit we should have people inspecting our food to make sure it doesn’t have glass in it
  8. They genuinely believe (or refuse to correct) that tariffs can replace the revenue from income taxes.
  9. Yes and it’s 25% - cartoon idiocy. EU retaliation already levied
  10. So we all have GOP Congress to thank to taping our feet to the bicycle and forcing us to endure whatever tariffs fuckery comes next with no legal off ramp. Just fantastic work
  11. I have to believe this is mostly because of poor cap management. It’s not like there’s a ton of room in the budget unspent- it’s that they don’t prioritize putting money aside for free agency. Any signings they do make I seem to remember also news of key players restructuring their contracts to make the cap space available
  12. Some of our OL draft picks have actually been a bright spot for a unit otherwise completely neglected by Jerry. If they don’t score TDs he won’t pay. See also why the defense sucks
  13. Using the fucking White House as a backdrop to benefit a billionaire donor who also is destroying the government’s ability to regulate business or innovate. And the media has given up on reporting corruption or illegality of any of these actions. “The President looked at Teslas on the White House lawn and went ‘Vroom vroom.’ Today is the day Trump became the people’s President”
  14. Notice how it’s only words with Russia but actual consequences for Ukraine?
  15. It’s depressing how this is probably the correct answer- that combined with a healthy “Jews control the banks, so let’s screw them while making money on manipulating crypto”. Otherwise I can’t make much sense of him railing against (((globalists)))
  16. No, man - it’s bad faith attempts to create facts to beat the many lawsuits challenging Elon’s authority. Particularly litigation based on the Appointments clause. This was only a little later:
  17. Well I guess instead of creating an asylum policy to remedy the wrongs of turning away a ship full of refugees running from Hitler and sending them home to war, torture, and death - we decided we wanted to embrace that tradition and repeat it on a larger scale
  18. they never wanted a mineral rights deal. They wanted to lure Zelensky to a meeting and they coordinated with the Russians before. I’d be outraged but this administration is clearly pushing for Ukrainian surrender and doing everything in its power to aid Russia in those efforts
  19. So to recap- we’re preventing delivery of weapons and aid we already approved and paid for. We stopped sharing intelligence with Ukraine. The Secretary of Defense ordered a stand down on fights against Russian cybersecurity threats. Can the press stop repeating the administration’s lies about peace and just admit that we are using all of our leverage to force a Ukrainian surrender?
  20. So can anyone articulate an end game or policy goal for tariffs? Because it sure seems like Trump really intends to make them permanent under the sincere belief that he’ll be able to balance the budget. And no one is left with courage to tell him why that’s so fucking dumb
  21. But what is the end game? In the last administration tariffs were a stick to force new trade deals in place of NAFTA and agreements on IP with China. Here, what’s the actual purpose?
  22. A self imposed worldwide great depression by a country that was leading the Western world in growth and stability. Has history ever seen such a thing on this scale?
  23. Well it’s 20% on imports from China as of today. Markets are collapsing, GDP contracting instead of growing, inflation rising, and every day consumer prices just shot through the roof. Can’t wait for all the manufacturing jobs to start up, right guys? That’s definitely what companies will spend their capital on in this economic environment, right?
  24. The President is illegally impounding all military spending to Ukraine and lifting sanctions on Russia. Oh and we’re crashing the economy by Presidential fiat. Putin runs this country
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