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4 hours ago, Willfully Horn said:

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The market’s reaction to turnip’s spasmodic tariff decisions has belied the claim the president has little effect on the stock market.

#5 is the only one that is real. The first 90 days of global covid have nothing to do with who is president... let's be intellectually honest in our laying out of blame.

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3 hours ago, Hookah Horns said:

I can't believe I just read someone call dotard "a genius with word delivery."

Being fluent in stupidity does not make one a genius. 

You and I not understanding or liking it doesn't take away from it... It's not genius in the way us intelligents think about genius, but he has shown genius level effectiveness (on the average person) that is undeniable.

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#5 is the only one that is real. The first 90 days of global covid have nothing to do with who is president... let's be intellectually honest in our laying out of blame.

Yeah I don’t feel the need to change facts so that they appear better for that shithead, who doesn’t go five seconds without making something up out of whole cloth.
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37 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

really? really?? you mean the same guy that threw out the pandemic handbook the prior admin left them to deal with exactly what they faced and we're supposed to not blame for shit like a historically bad stock market? it absolutely mattered who was in the oval office and he fucked it up colossally and literally millions of people died. I was there. so were you

Yeah. How we responded dictated how the world responded as well. Us throwing our hands up instead of coming up with solution as to how to keep the world going didn't help at all.

 

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6 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Yes. Not to mention that his Exec Order does not lower the price of any drug by one penny. Some drugs may be required to at least match what other countries' single payers are paying for those drugs. I can already think of scenarios that prevent lowering the price for Americans.

1. Raise the prices of the drugs to other countries to the same level as the US.

2. Remove the drugs to Medicare and Medicaid recipients

3. Change the formulation or dosage for Americans. Let's say Brits today pay $0.10 for a 5mg pill and Americans pay $1.00.  Change it so Brits pay $0.10 for a 4.999mg pill and Americans pay $1.00 for a 5mg version.

And to combine the two recent topics here, this pharmacy exec order is only to distract the 747 gift. Senior citizens, you may get a slight discount and Trump gets $400m+.

The other thing is that this is probably what Medicare will pay for that drug, not what you, I, or our insurance company will pay for that drug.

And Pharma is gonna sue the shit out of the Administration and this will not take effect, if at all, for years.

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2 hours ago, Slacks said:

#5 is the only one that is real. The first 90 days of global covid have nothing to do with who is president... let's be intellectually honest in our laying out of blame.

You sure about that?  Stop making excuses for him. image.thumb.png.d8bebfc01bcd92e385a62abc11ac5f79.png

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I miss the good old days when Trump was accusing Qatar of state sponsored terrorism at the highest levels.

 

Donald Trump has accused Qatar of sponsoring terrorism at the highest levels, in an extraordinary escalation of the diplomatic row with one America’s most important military partners in the Middle East.

Speaking in the White House rose garden on Friday, Trump said he had decided “the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding … and its extremist ideology.”

His comments marked his most forthright intervention in a crisis triggered on Monday when Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies launched a co-ordinated diplomatic and economic campaign to isolate Qatar.



https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/09/trump-qatar-sponsor-terrorism-middle-east
 

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6 hours ago, C-Man said:

You gotta know Trump wanted them to give it to him personally.  The Emir or Sheikh or whoever probably said, you know we can't do that, we have to give it to your government, and Trump was like, "OK, but I want it after."

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8 hours ago, TexArcher said:

How fat must that guy be for this 285-er to call him fat with a straight face?

I also like how it was a personal phone call that alerted Trump to the fact that prescription drugs are expensive here.  That is how fucking checked out this guy is on every issue.

How much could insulin be? $10?

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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

The other thing is that this is probably what Medicare will pay for that drug, not what you, I, or our insurance company will pay for that drug.

And Pharma is gonna sue the shit out of the Administration and this will not take effect, if at all, for years.

Executive Orders that do something good get delayed for years before dying. Executive Orders that do bad stuff get enacted immediately and stay in effect for years while being appealed. 

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https://gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-make-all-porn-a-federal-crime-following-project-2025-playbook-2000600994

 

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Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that.

 

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Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) recently introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), which would effectively criminalize all pornography nationwide by legally redefining what it means to be obscene. For years, “obscenity” has been all but a defunct legal category that narrowly defines speech that remains unprotected by the First Amendment. Lee would explode this legal category, expanding it to encompass virtually all visual representations of sex.

 

 

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According to the bill text, “a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction” of any media that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion” would be considered criminal. In other words, if you have an old VHS tape of some Cinemax-style smut stashed away in your garage, you could, under this law, be considered to be harboring deeply illicit materials. Some critics have suggested that Lee’s definition of obscenity is so ridiculously broad that it could effectively criminalize Game of Thrones. That said, the punishments for merely possessing porn under the proposed law seem unclear at this point, as the legislation seems more focused on punishing the creators and distributors of racy material.

 

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The law would “pave the way for the prosecution of obscene content disseminated across state lines or from foreign countries and open the door to federal restrictions or bans regarding online porn,” The Daily Caller writes.

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” said Lee, in a press release about the bill. “Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.”

Lee’s view of pornography hews closely to that of the Heritage Foundation, which has similarly sought to crush the smut industry. In its Mandate for Leadership, Project 2025 defines pornography as the “omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children” and argues that the “people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned” and that “telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

It should be noted that porn has always been a hot-button issue and that critics have long tried to criminalize it. The history of the anti-pornography movement in the U.S. is a long and complicated one, littered with differing ideological justifications and strange bedfellows. In recent years, however, the anti-porn crusade has largely been led by the MAGA right.

Much of the modern anti-porn movement has sought to focus on the harmful psychological impact that pornography may have on young web users and children. It has targeted online access to porn by instituting age-verification requirements for porn websites that bar underage users. Over the past decade, over a dozen states have passed legislation designed to curb youth access to porn, much of which is still being challenged in court.

 

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3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-make-all-porn-a-federal-crime-following-project-2025-playbook-2000600994

 

 

 

 

 

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The law would “pave the way for the prosecution of obscene content disseminated across state lines or from foreign countries and open the door to federal restrictions or bans regarding online porn,” The Daily Caller writes.

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” said Lee, in a press release about the bill. “Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.”

Lee’s view of pornography hews closely to that of the Heritage Foundation, which has similarly sought to crush the smut industry. In its Mandate for Leadership, Project 2025 defines pornography as the “omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children” and argues that the “people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned” and that “telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

It should be noted that porn has always been a hot-button issue and that critics have long tried to criminalize it. The history of the anti-pornography movement in the U.S. is a long and complicated one, littered with differing ideological justifications and strange bedfellows. In recent years, however, the anti-porn crusade has largely been led by the MAGA right.

Much of the modern anti-porn movement has sought to focus on the harmful psychological impact that pornography may have on young web users and children. It has targeted online access to porn by instituting age-verification requirements for porn websites that bar underage users. Over the past decade, over a dozen states have passed legislation designed to curb youth access to porn, much of which is still being challenged in court.

 

That seems like a lot of work. Can’t we just get Mike Lee’s teenage son to monitor our porn intake?

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41 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

Executive Orders that do something good get delayed for years before dying. Executive Orders that do bad stuff get enacted immediately and stay in effect for years while being appealed. 

Well, you may not be able to count on SCOTUS to support Trump, but you can probably count on them to support big business.

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46 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

According to the bill text, “a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction” of any media that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion” would be considered criminal.

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1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Project 2025 defines pornography as the “omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children”

Tells you a lot about what kind of porn the P2025ers watch.

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17 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Tells you a lot about what kind of porn the P2025ers watch.

“That’s fucking hot! It takes the man out while leaving the man in!”

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11 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I don't understand why Boeing hasn't been able to deliver the 2 new 747s but is there actually a problem with the current two planes?

It's unreal that we're allowing a country to give our President a gift worth $400m. And on top of that, the US taxpayer is going to pay to modify and then hand it over to Trump when he's out of office. 

the current AF-1 air frames are pretty old (first flight in 1987), there's no new 4 engine aircraft coming out, and the air force really wants 4 engine aircraft for reasons. the VC-25s are currently older than the VC-137Cs were when the current planes replaced those two.

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2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://gizmodo.com/gop-senator-introduces-bill-to-make-all-porn-a-federal-crime-following-project-2025-playbook-2000600994

 

 

 

 

 

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The law would “pave the way for the prosecution of obscene content disseminated across state lines or from foreign countries and open the door to federal restrictions or bans regarding online porn,” The Daily Caller writes.

“Obscenity isn’t protected by the First Amendment, but hazy and unenforceable legal definitions have allowed extreme pornography to saturate American society and reach countless children,” said Lee, in a press release about the bill. “Our bill updates the legal definition of obscenity for the internet age so this content can be taken down and its peddlers prosecuted.”

Lee’s view of pornography hews closely to that of the Heritage Foundation, which has similarly sought to crush the smut industry. In its Mandate for Leadership, Project 2025 defines pornography as the “omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children” and argues that the “people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned” and that “telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.”

It should be noted that porn has always been a hot-button issue and that critics have long tried to criminalize it. The history of the anti-pornography movement in the U.S. is a long and complicated one, littered with differing ideological justifications and strange bedfellows. In recent years, however, the anti-porn crusade has largely been led by the MAGA right.

Much of the modern anti-porn movement has sought to focus on the harmful psychological impact that pornography may have on young web users and children. It has targeted online access to porn by instituting age-verification requirements for porn websites that bar underage users. Over the past decade, over a dozen states have passed legislation designed to curb youth access to porn, much of which is still being challenged in court.

 


 

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/hasan-piker-border-trump-gaza

This is a lot more sinister than it seems at first glance. This guy is probably the largest online progressive political pundit, is a US citizen, and CBP had no reason to do this (other than the one we all know). He was pulled in for "further questioning" alongside quite a few others and he was the only citizen that was detained. Questioned extensively about what he thought of Trump and Israel.

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Hasan Piker, a US-born progressive political commentator, said he was stopped by US Customs and Border Protection agents and questioned about his opinions of Donald Trump and Israeli war policy as he returned to the country on Sunday from France.

Also some of you should pay attention to how the interrogator was behaving and realize that it closely resembles your past behavior in the Israel thread.

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6 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/12/hasan-piker-border-trump-gaza

This is a lot more sinister than it seems at first glance. This guy is probably the largest online progressive political pundit, is a US citizen, and CBP had no reason to do this (other than the one we all know). He was pulled in for "further questioning" alongside quite a few others and he was the only citizen that was detained. Questioned extensively about what he thought of Trump and Israel.

Also some of you should pay attention to how the interrogator was behaving and realize that it closely resembles your past behavior in the Israel thread.


I need to start a duty free shop that sells only MAGA memorabilia, Trump swag, and america flag apparel.

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Some more articles:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/05/12/political-commentator-hasan-piker-chicago-airport/83588720007/

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"They straight up tried to get something out of me that I think they could use to basically detain me permanently,” Piker said. "(The agent) kept saying stuff like, 'Do you like Hamas? Do you support Hamas? Do you think Hamas is a terror group or a resistance group?'”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/12/hasan-piker-detained-border-agents-twitch/

https://www.newsweek.com/hasan-piker-cbp-border-detention-questioning-chicago-watch-2071261

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Piker said on his livestream that he was "instantly" told to "step aside" for additional questioning while going through a Global Entry checkpoint after flying into Chicago's O'Hare International Airport from France.

"'Here we f****** go,'" Piker recounted thinking, adding that he immediately texted his family members and manager when he was on his way in for more questioning.

The progressive streamer, who is a U.S. citizen and passport holder, said he was eventually taken to a separate room for questioning, adding that the experience was "an insane f****** situation."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hasan-piker-twitch-streamer-questioned-us-customs-rcna206406

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“They knew who I was and they were ready to receive me, let’s just say, and it wasn’t a very warm welcome,”  Piker, known as HasanAbi online, told his followers during a live stream. News of his detainment was first reported by User Mag.  

The Turkish American streamer — who has more than 2.8 million followers on Twitch, 1.6 million subscribers on YouTube and 1.2 million followers on TikTok — is known for being vocal on a number of political and social issues, including his support for Palestinian people and criticism of Israeli leaders.

 

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Posted
45 minutes ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

Do you want another brain worm? Because this is how you get another brain worm. 

 

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This regime is bursting at the seams with the most cartoonishly creepy people you can imagine. It's really quite a feat by the magats. 

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12 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

I don't understand why Boeing hasn't been able to deliver the 2 new 747s but is there actually a problem with the current two planes?

It's unreal that we're allowing a country to give our President a gift worth $400m. And on top of that, the US taxpayer is going to pay to modify and then hand it over to Trump when he's out of office. 

 

didn't trump 1.0 take all the govt inspectors out of boeing factories ?

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3 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

According to the bill text, “a picture, image, graphic image file, film, videotape, or other visual depiction” of any media that “appeals to the prurient interest in nudity, sex, or excretion” would be considered criminal.

So I guess VY’s 4th and 5 run is just gonna be wiped off the face of the Earth now? 

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14 hours ago, Texas Jeff said:

Also, Hamilton warned us about this, but he used big words that are hard for us to understand:

An avaricious man, who might happen to fill the office, looking forward to a time when he must at all events yield up the emoluments he enjoyed, would feel a propensity, not easy to be resisted by such a man, to make the best use of the opportunity he enjoyed while it lasted, and might not scruple to have recourse to the most corrupt expedients to make the harvest as abundant as it was transitory; though the same man, probably, with a different prospect before him, might content himself with the regular perquisites of his situation, and might even be unwilling to risk the consequences of an abuse of his opportunities. His avarice might be a guard upon his avarice. Add to this that the same man might be vain or ambitious, as well as avaricious. And if he could expect to prolong his honors by his good conduct, he might hesitate to sacrifice his appetite for them to his appetite for gain. But with the prospect before him of approaching an inevitable annihilation, his avarice would be likely to get the victory over his caution, his vanity, or his ambition.

I couldn't help but read this in the voice of Lin-Manuel Miranda rapping the quoted text.

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