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  • Trump Plans to Offload National Park Sites, But States Don’t Want Them | States say their resources are already tight.

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  • Yes, and more than anything else, we need to stop it, because once privatized it'll be nearly impossible to reclaim our national parks from corporations. Everything else is temporary or can be reversed; this would effectively be permanent.

  • Nancy Mace ran bot army, had staff run fake accounts to boost profile, report claims: ‘It’s what she does for fun’

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  • Nancy Mace fun facts:

    • She's been divorced twice.
    • She was engaged a third time, but that ended too.
    • She accused her ex-fiancée and three other men by name of rape and physical abuse on the floor of Congress. All the men have strongly denied the accusations, and her ex noted that she made her accusations solely on the floor of Congress, the only place where she can't be held legally liable for defamation. Another man sued her for defamation anyway.
    • She condemned Trump after Jan 6, then voted against impeachment, then endorsed for president the candidate who was found liable for sexual abuse, accused by his ex-wife of spousal rape and physical abuse, accused of attending underage sex parties, and in total accused by over 25 women of rape, sexual assault, and stalking.
    • She supports repealing the ACA.
    • She used to be a very strong supporter of LGBTQ rights, then "mysteriously" became super hostile to those exact same rights literally days after Trump was reelected, to the point of sponsoring anti-trans legislation and repeatedly using hate language on the floor of Congress.
    • She supported Liz Cheney and voted against her removal from Republican leadership, saying dissent should be protected. She appeared at fundraisers with her. Then she voted to remove her the next time the vote came up.
    • She supports sending US troops to forcefully remove Palestinians from Gaza and to take control of the territory.

    In summary, Nancy Mace is a failure of a human being with no core values. She will betray any person or cause she has previously supported in her quest for more power. Her personal life is a disaster, and she's an active supporter of genocide.

  • Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Biden’s a Clone

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  • Yeah. I think it's somewhere in between this and the above post. I think he thinks it's funny, and he likes stirring the pot for his own amusement or to deflect from something else. I don't think he's thinking about it as a demoralization tactic; I think he's just having fun because he doesn't take being president seriously and he's just seeing what he can get away with.

    I think Trump is mainly there for grifting, trolling, and bullying, and all the other stuff is just because he wants his crazy base to love him. He just uses the issues as leverage.

  • Trump Shares Unhinged Conspiracy Theory That Biden’s a Clone

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  • Talking big on the Internet

  • South Korea's Nuclear Armament: Candidate's Statement and Regional Risks

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  • South Korea's population will be cut in half in less than 50 years and be right around the size of North Korea by that time, which will have a much larger army unless South Korea dramatically increases conscription.

    Within 70 years, South Korea will cease to be a functioning society. Their options are to dramatically and abruptly increase immigration (overtaking their native population and thereby wreaking havoc on their culture), reunify with North Korea (whose population would overtake theirs), or just give up and accept fate.

    Either way, they're going to be overrun or die out in the long run, and it'll only get harder for working age people. Not sure nuclear armament is the best strategy given the demographic realities...

  • US court blocks Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs

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  • More than two times. The US has used wide scale tariffs many times in the past, particularly in the 19th century and into the early 20th. They directly caused or were a significant contributing factor to a recession and FIVE depressions. The last one was the Great Depression.

  • Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

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  • I mean, he of course thinks white people are superior. That's why he's a white supremacist.

    But he said the first comment about Air Jordans in Atlanta, then a follow-up talked about low IQ, which is a racist stereotype most closely associated with black people, and low impulse control, which feeds into the racist narrative that black people are more primitive.

    Also, white supremacists typically have a hierarchy of hate, and black people are usually at the top of it. In other words, white supremacists hate all non-white races, but they still have priorities.

    Anyway, this guy sucks.

  • Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

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  • He's a white supremacist. He means black people. Note the bold.

    In October of that year, he responded to a video of people in a neighborhood in Atlanta, saying: “When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).”

    “Where do these population reduction conspiracies come from? All I see is trash multiplying,” he wrote in January 2023.

    In May of that year, Beattie wrote on X that “It's not politically correct to say, but low-IQ, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties---they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society. Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for the dumb and violent, and Sweden for the more elevated.”

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  • A bunch of rich 80-year-olds should not be running our country. It's why the response to Trump has been so anemic: they're too comfortable and they can't be bothered.

    In other words, it cannot be exclusively one narrow demographic. That's not ageism; that's just common sense.

  • The Debt Is About to Matter Again

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  • The US isn't the only country on the planet. The real question is what are other country's debt ratios, and how have those impacted their economies? And the answer is there are lots of countries with a similar debt ratio, and many with a higher ratio, and most of those are doing fine.

    Of course, if (say, over a period of four years) the US replaced its healthcare system with universal single-payer, cut back on defense spending, and raised taxes on the rich, it might actually get back to a surplus.

    But then some Republican would come along and squawk about the "people's money" and give it all away in tax cuts and just plunge us back into a deficit again.

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  • He's insufferable.

  • Pro-Trump Cuban Rapper El Funky About to Be Deported

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  • “If I could vote, I would have voted for Trump,” he says. “He’s the strongest president when it comes to Cuba.”

    This dude is married to an American citizen, worked at a Christian school, and will be in a Cuban prison cell in less than 30 days' time.

    But he would still vote for Trump if he could.

  • US Justice Department pardon lawyer pledges 'hard look' at plot to kidnap Michigan governor

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  • “In my opinion these are victims just like January 6,” Martin said.

    The law only binds the enemies of the administration.

  • "I Voted for Trump" — Now My Industry's Down 23% and Collapsing Fast: Freight CEO’s Heartbreaking Realization

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  • The stock market is around the same level it was 6 months ago and still down from the beginning of his presidency

  • Influencer who attended Trump’s memecoin dinner says he got a ‘Walmart steak’—and no access to the president

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  • My friend, that meme is about to graduate college

  • Influencer who attended Trump’s memecoin dinner says he got a ‘Walmart steak’—and no access to the president

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  • In my experience, extreme wealth is a sign of one or more of: inherited wealth, lack of morality, lack of empathy, lack of humility, lack of self-reflection, or luck. In most cases these people are simply so broken that they'll justify exploiting other people to get what they want in ways that people with morals simply refuse to.

    Intelligence isn't a major factor.

    Also they're willing to spend millions of dollars on a dinner like this because what's the downside? Losing that money won't affect their lifestyle in any way. Worst-case scenario, they get a story out of it. Best-case scenario, they get face time with the most powerful person on the planet and maybe a sympathetic ear if they get in trouble with the law (since all of them are privately breaking the law in some way).

  • Fetterman Says His Openness on Mental Health Issues Is ‘Weaponized”

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  • If it's too hard, he should fucking resign.

    Signed, Also someone who's had a stroke

  • Fetterman Says His Openness on Mental Health Issues Is ‘Weaponized”

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  • Facial recognition has important roles—for example, finding lost or displaced children.

    Now: "But what about the children?" Next: Vague child safety or terrorism justification to deploy this everywhere

  • Fetterman Says His Openness on Mental Health Issues Is ‘Weaponized”

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  • This is a shitty take. Fetterman sucks all on his own, with or without the stroke.