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  • Factual btw

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  • Yes. BUT there are certain ways a government can help its citizens (and itself in most cases) by allowing them to be self sufficient that has nothing to do with electric companies or monopolies at all. The subsidies for solar panels were a great example of this. Depending on your personal needs, you could generate enough power to take yourself off the grid, and the government invested in your panels by way of those subsidies. In many cases the extra electricity from the panels that you don't use can go back into a grid to be used by someone else. Theoretically helping you and the government. There are, of course some issues with the system but speaking from experience it can absolutely work and work wonderfully.

    Unfortunately Trump (of course) has killed these subsidies so that will not be a thing as of new years 2026.

  • Kelly says Senate will ‘put people under oath’ over reported follow-up strikes in Caribbean

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  • Well now I just have to disagree there. I think some of them will show up... and then nothing will happen.

  • Epstein files bill allowing Bondi to "redact" details comes under scrutiny

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  • It certainly seems to me like there's a ton of wiggle room in there to interpret things however you want.

    First of all it requires the release of:

    Internal DOJ communications, including emails, memos, meeting notes, concerning decisions to charge, not charge, investigate, or decline to investigate Epstein or his associates.

    Which, holy hell, is that NEVER actually going to happen lol.

    As for redactions it just requires the DOJ to submit a list of:

    All categories of records released and withheld and a summary of redactions made, including legal basis.

    What does that mean exactly? Idk but it sure seems like that could be as simple as "we redacted information from these emails/memos/voicemails or whatever because it was sensitive information to the victims or pertinent to an ongoing investigation." That's a summary and the legal basis fully abiding by the bill.

    I'm very very far from a government bill expert so I'd love to be wrong here but by the letter of that bill, it seems insanely easy to still redact pretty much whatever you want.

  • Ocasio-Cortez Says ‘We Should Not Be Entertaining a Bailout’ of AI Industry as Bubble Fears Grow

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  • They've been talking about this for a while now. OpenAI in particular has been leading the charge on having their business deals "federally backed." They don't really say why but it can't possibly be because they are promising to spend like 629 bazillion more dollars than they are making.

  • Tucker Carlson: Trump Shooter Was a Trump-Backing Radical — and the FBI Covered It Up

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  • He backed off very hard on this in line with a bunch of other conservative talking heads. This is from July:

    "Plenty was said this last weekend at our event about Epstein. Honestly, I’m done talking about Epstein for the time being. I’m going to trust my friends in the administration, I’m going to trust my friends in the government to do what needs to be done, solve it, ball’s in their hands. I’m going to trust my friends Kash Patel, Dan Bongino, my friend Pam Bondi. All these guys. Ball’s in their court. I think that there was plenty of, let’s say, speeches that were directed towards this topic this last weekend. So we don’t need to spend our valuable time on this program relitigating it."

    Emphasis mine because saying "balls in their hands" is hilarious to me.

  • Supreme Court weighs appeal to overturn ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide

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  • They said that over and over too lol

    “Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned. We all know that.”

    • Chris Collins, R - N.Y.

    “I think the likelihood of Roe v. Wade being overturned is very minimal. I don’t see that happening, truly I don’t see that happening.”

    • Joni Ernst, R - Iowa

    “Well, I don’t think anybody is going to overturn Roe v. Wade … it’s a settled opinion … I doubt seriously that that’s really a legitimate concern.”

    • Orrin Hatch, R - Utah

    I could go on and on... Now they're saying the exact same things about same sex marriage

    Fool me once, shame on... shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again.

  • Deal to end government shutdown in reach

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  • And what the hell is the republican answer for why it was so important that people not get slightly more affordable healthcare that it was worth starving people.

    Immigrants. It was always immigrants. They repeatedly blamed it on immigrants "stealing" tax payer money thru ACA even tho that's not really possible except for extreme circumstances that typically account for less than 1% of the funding for the program.

  • Judge permanently blocks deployment of National Guard to Portland, saying Trump exceeded his authority

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  • They will give him the nastiest look you just wait

  • Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved

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  • The full presentation is 10x weirder. He says the robots will eliminate poverty and provide universal health care. In fact, he says the only way we can get universal health care is with optimus robots. He also says that with optimus robots we don't need prisons. We just have an optimus robot follow criminals around and it will stop them from commiting crimes.

    He also sounds like a 5th grader nervously stumbling through a speech to their class about Luis and Clark.

  • Donald Trump sued over east wing demolition

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  • He has demolitional immunity!!!

  • Trump is ‘gonna be president’ in 2028, MAGA leader bluntly declares: ‘There’s a plan’

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  • Idk, they make it abundantly clear in that interview that they are angling for a third term and skirting the 22nd amendment. He can blabber all he wants about technicalities but at the end of the day he explicitly states he'll have another term, shit he even said two if that's what they need to "finish what they started."

    Just think about a 90 year old Donnie rolling around the oval office in a mech suit or something with his head in a glass jar Futurama style. We're gonna be so great...

  • White House announces radical new plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress

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  • Careful. That sounds an awful lot like something a domestic terrorist would say!!! 😲

  • White House announces radical new plan to allocate tariff revenue without Congress

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  • Everything he does is because of some declared emergency. It's ridiculous and hilarious at this point.

    Tarrifs - an economic emergency (with every single country with which a tarriff is levied)

    Deploying the National Guard - national emergency of foreign invasion by immigrants somehow invading the usa

    Literally blowing up 4 vessels (so far) in international waters and killing civilians - a recently declared "non-international armed conflict (niac)" with the gang tren de aragua. Basically saying the country is currently at war. Also declaring gangs as international terrorists gives them the ability to indiscriminately do whatever they want according to them.

    Arresting immigrants without warrants, forgoing due process and deporting to wherever the fuck they want - national emergency of foreign invasion by immigrants somehow invading the usa

    Dismantling or destroying any organizations they just simply don't like and arresting and killing, if necessary, their members - recently released NSPM-7 which basically declares anyone having just about anything to do with anything even remotely left leaning as a domestic terrorist. This includes anything "anti-American, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity; support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality" which can pretty much apply to anyone ever.

  • Trump no longer distancing himself from Project 2025 as he uses shutdown to further pursue its goals

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  • I have actually been told by multiple trump voters that they know he lies. Nothing he says can be trusted. They know this full and well... And that's fine because you just have to trust that his actions will be best for the country. Just don't listen to him...

    I just find that such a wild take for someone in a position so powerful that his words alone can easily start wars or get people killed or just make eggs 84x more expensive.

  • Mormon Church Shooter Had a Trump Sign Outside His House

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  • Welcome to the world that embraces division. Difficult situations that would otherwise serve as a punch to the face to snap us out of our (woefully, embarrassingly dumb) stupor and realize we need to come together instead become a fervent race to figure out how we can use it to drive the wedge between us deeper.

    Truly wonderful times ahead!

  • Who stopped the UN escalator? Likely Trump's videographer, says UN

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  • Trump's description of this is so hilarious

    "All I got from the United nations was an escalator that stopped right in the middle. If the first lady wasn't in great shape, she would've fallen. But she's in great shape. We're both in good shape."

    Like I get it I guess but it just became stairs. Are we seriously acting like conquering a flight of stairs is some heroic feat that requires Herculean strength and athleticism?

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Yeah but he'll most likely go to jail for murder. Call me crazy but I don't think that will happen here.

  • Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers

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  • Yeah well Trump has the legal cover of "I can do whatever the fuck I want" immunity which has fully not expired. Worst case they just tell him he can't kill people like 3 years after he killed a bunch of people and he just says "no."

  • Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann

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  • I get what you're saying and you're definitely right. I don't side load things all that much but the times I have was because there was no other viable way to get what I needed and it worked amazingly well (not to mention testing something before it's available on the app store).

    It's one of those things like a fire extinguisher that you might not need but you are very grateful it's there just in case you ever do.