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Really interesting story. I did not realize that American Samoans do not get birthright citizenship. They cannot vote in federal elections but can vote in local elections in Samoa, which apparently has tripped up some Samoans who move to a State and assume they can vote in local elections there.
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Why prosecute them, then? They are Americans. They should get citizenship. Instead they get shit and then when our dumbass system confuses them, they get thrown in fail? Fuck that.

Samoan football players need to realize their power and boycott states with retrograde policies -- like prosecuting Samoans for innocent behavior. If Samoans were to decide to no longer go to BYU or Boise State, those football programs would crumble.
 
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THIS IS SUCH BULL SHIT. The May 2025 jobs report shows a labor market that added 139,000 jobs, but at a slower pace than in recent years. The Annual average monthly job gains in 2024 were 186,000 which was lower than in 2023 when the average was 225,000 per month. Adding 139k jobs in a month is nothing to brag about Donald. The US economy added 4.5 million jobs in 2022, the second-strongest year for job growth in the past 40 years. Today, the unemployment rate remains relatively low, but has risen slightly from its lowest point in recent years. This suggests a continued but more moderate economic expansion compared to 2021 - 2024 when the dead and soulless Biden was in office.

And the bull shit about "tariffs bringing in billions" - this is total gas-lighting. He's trying to make it sound like the U.S. has gained billions of dollars from foreign countries - but in actuality, American businesses, companies and consumers have been paying BILLIONS more for goods, services and supplies.

Have you been to the grocery store lately? Are you paying WAY more for products now than this time last year? Of course you are. Just one example: a bottle of "value wine" at the grocery store - let's use an inexpensive Rosè from France or a Pinot Grigio from Italy. 6 months ago one could purchase - from the local grocer - a bottle for $9 or $10 bucks. Now, that same, cheap - yet highly drinkable "value wine" is more like $13 and $15 bucks per bottle. And we're talking CHEAP, INEXPENSIVE wine here folks. This stuff is NOT supposed to be top shelf... this is the basic "table wine" found on the bottom shelf. Don't even look at the top shelf stuff now.

For you wine snobs - go to your local Wine store, where you go to get the "good stuff"... compare those prices NOW as to just one year ago.

Imported wine is just ONE example of how all those "billions have been pouring in". Somebody has been pouring in the billion$ - it's the American consumer that's who! What a dumbfuck trump is.
 

Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early​


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Army hits recruiting goal of 61,000 soldiers 4 months early

This is the second year in a row the service has met its recruiting goals.
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“The Army has met its fiscal 2025 recruiting goal four months early, signing 61,000 contracts for new active duty soldiers, officials announced Tuesday.

… The goal was 10% higher than the 55,000 recruits the Army sought last year. Average contracts per day exceeded last year’s levels by as much as 56% during the same period, according to the release.

… Last year marked the first time the Army had reached its recruiting goals in two years.

In 2022, the Army added 44,901 new soldiers to the active Army, reaching about three-fourths of its goal of 60,000 recruits, according to Army data. In 2023, the service recruited 54,000 soldiers, falling 11,000 short of its “stretch goal” of 65,000 recruits.

However, in 2024, the Army exceeded its goal by 11,000 recruits, who were placed in the service’s delayed entry program for this fiscal year.

The service has reached its retention goals for seven years straight.…”
 


These protests/raids are getting more heated by the day. It won’t end well. And there are people in the Trump Administration absolutely jonesing for a chance to “have no choice” but take drastic action in a Blue city….
 
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Dr. Oz on Medicaid cuts: People should ‘prove that you matter’​



“… Oz made the comments during an interview Wednesday on Fox Business, arguing that when Medicaid was created in the 1960s lawmakers did not include work requirements because it “never dawned on anybody that able-bodied people who work would be on Medicaid.”

“We’re asking that able-bodied individuals who are able to go back to work at least try to get a job or at least volunteer or take care of loved-one who needs help or go back to school,” he said. “Do something that shows you have agency over your future.”

If Americans are willing to do that, he added, they should be able to be enrolled or stay enrolled in Medicaid.

“But if you are not willing to do those things, we are going to ask you to do something else. Go on the exchange, or get a job and get onto regular commercial insurance. But we are not going to continue to pay for Medicaid for those audiences.”

“Go out there, do entry-level jobs, get into the workforce, prove that you matter. Get agency into your own life,” he added. “It’s a much more enjoyable experience if you go through life thinking you are in control of your destiny and you will get better insurance at the same time.”…”
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What's the criteria for proving that you matter?

I bet Oprah is so ashamed of this man.
 
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And there are people in the Trump Administration absolutely jonesing for a chance to “have no choice” but take drastic action in a Blue city….
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100%. I'm not sure jonesing is a strong enough word. They fantasize about it when they go to bed and it's the first thing they think about when they wake up. That is, after all, how one loses one's wife to Elon Fucking Musk.
 
nycfan said:


These protests/raids are getting more heated by the day. It won’t end well. And there are people in the Trump Administration absolutely jonesing for a chance to “have no choice” but take drastic action in a Blue city….
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I would hate to have the job of ICE agent.

Yes, there is a purpose, but I would bet that most of them are in it to have some power over others. Being powerless is a horrible feeling, I bet that most of them know it well.
 
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These protests/raids are getting more heated by the day. It won’t end well. And there are people in the Trump Administration absolutely jonesing for a chance to “have no choice” but take drastic action in a Blue city….
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This is precisely the type of lead-in I expected when predicting a city would get placed under martial law (literally or figuratively), by the end of September. This type of protest gives Stephen Miller frothy white spittle at the corners of his mouth.
 
nycfan said:


These protests/raids are getting more heated by the day. It won’t end well. And there are people in the Trump Administration absolutely jonesing for a chance to “have no choice” but take drastic action in a Blue city….
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To wit

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