ZenMode
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He backed down on handcuffs/chains but got military planes. Seems like both sides gave something and got something, right?
Trump / Musk (other than DOGE) Omnibus Thread
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Great victory indeed. He weakened us in the eyes of the world, looked like a fool and got what, the ability to use a more expensive form of transportation while removing inventory from its military functions to do something commercial flights were doing without any hassle already. Go, team.
Yeah, he got egg on his face. I guess he wanted to do that now while they were more affordable. It's the same shit he's doing on the border. He's sending top notch combat troops to do garrison duty on the border, a total misuse of their training and almost guaranteed to hurt their efficiency. For the duties they can legally perform, he should have sent combat engineers and quartermasters and the like. He's all hat and no cattle.
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There IS that. Maybe DOGE can get involved.He got the military planes at a much higher cost to taxpayers. So yeah, big win!
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Why RFK Jr. Is Dangerous to Public Health
He’s made millions from referring clients to trial lawyers, and he advocates mass tort litigation that would ruin the vaccine industry.
“… Mr. Kennedy is scheduled to appear before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday. Expect him to obfuscate about his ties to trial lawyers, anti-vaccine views, and support for sundry progressive causes. While presenting himself as a truth-teller and slayer of government corruption, he’s as slippery as Anthony Fauci.
… He says he merely wants to ensure that vaccines are safe and thoroughly studied—who doesn’t?—and that Americans have access to more information. In Mr. Kennedy’s case, this means opening the industry to lawsuits by the trial bar. …
But as HHS Secretary, Mr. Kennedy could take action to assist his trial-lawyer pals.
… The HHS Secretary can add or remove vaccines from the compensation program [National Vaccine Injury Compensation], as well as specify injuries eligible for compensation. Removing vaccines from the program would open up manufacturers to mass torts based on weak evidence, including animal studies and scattered human cases that purport to link injuries to the shots.
… Another danger is that Mr. Kennedy could turn over vaccine proprietary data in Food and Drug Administration filings to trial lawyers posing as vaccine safety advocates.
… The risk is high that Mr. Kennedy will use his power and pulpit at HHS to enrich his trial-lawyer friends at the expense of public health and medical innovation. It’s telling that Mr. Kennedy hasn’t agreed to stop taking payments from these allies in the Gardasil lawsuit. Senators would be wise to believe RFK Jr.’s career of spreading falsehoods rather than his confirmation conversions.“
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Tying RJK Jr to MAGA boogeymen (Fauci — who they never mention or even allude to again after using his name as a MAGA jump scare) and more traditional Republican/WSJ enemies (trial lawyers) with this editorial.
I actually think the WSJ Editorial Board is right that RFK Jr could and likely would feed the trial bar to try to destroy the vaccine industry with litigation, BTW. But I also think they won’t care if RFK is replaced by an anti-vax candidate who also hates trial lawyers and would try to destroy vaccinations in this country by lies and regulations.
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Fuck the Eagles and Commanders fans though!
Also, he really does think his election is cast a “bright light” over the world, doesn’t he?
Reminds me of Rocky Horror Picture Show
There's a light
Over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, a light
In the darkness of everybody's life
The darkness must go down the river of night's dreaming
Flow morphia slow, let the sun and light come streaming
Into my life, into my life
There's a light
Over at the Frankenstein place
There's a light
Burning in the fireplace
There's a light, a light
In the darkness of everybody's life
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What is weird is Colombia has been doing so for years — their original complaint here was the conditions of the transport (a complaint Brazil has also lodged).
Both leaders are blowhards and it seems both are claiming victory from their tweet duel.
Meanwhile,
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From the Yahoo link above
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Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old computer technician, was on the flight, after seven months in detention in the United States.
"On the plane they didn't give us water, we were tied hands and feet, they wouldn't even let us go to the bathroom," he told AFP.
"It was very hot, some people fainted."
Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, a 21-year-old freelancer, recounted the "nightmare" of people with "respiratory problems" during "four hours without air conditioning" due to technical issues on the plane. …”
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Edgar Da Silva Moura, a 31-year-old computer technician, was on the flight, after seven months in detention in the United States.
"On the plane they didn't give us water, we were tied hands and feet, they wouldn't even let us go to the bathroom," he told AFP.
"It was very hot, some people fainted."
Luis Antonio Rodrigues Santos, a 21-year-old freelancer, recounted the "nightmare" of people with "respiratory problems" during "four hours without air conditioning" due to technical issues on the plane. …”
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Well, they did their old men yelling and sorted it out without a trade war, so red alert rescinded for Valentines flowers. For now.If you and your significant other celebrate Valentine’s Day, you may want to plan ahead about the flower sitch this year.
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Yes, they want Bitcoin to replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency. Something that will help usher in a world tech oligarchy the likes of which we've never seen. With what I suspect will be disastrous consequences, but they think it will mean utopia, so who knows.
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And in the process we weakened our relationship with an ally by trying to bully them for no reason.
Perhaps one might ask how US interests are served by "gaining" the right to use military planes for deportation flights at the expense of worsening our relationship with allies who don't appreciate being bullied?
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Non-proliferation will die under Trump. All of the countries you mentioned should strongly consider starting a nuclear weapons program ASAP.
Pompous and uncircumstantial
lawtig02
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Objection, your honor! Relevance! A Pub is in the White House, so government spending is irrelevant for the next four years.He got the military planes at a much higher cost to taxpayers. So yeah, big win!
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I get that all of you TDS sufferers have to and desperately need to believe your narrative. Yall are like dyslexic people. See everything backwards. To the rest of the world trump got a FAFO win. It puts other countries on notice regarding some things. Who gives a shit if Trump said ok, no shackles. The world saw that with regard to this issue he wasn’t going to waste time dithering. It was a big world stage win by the press’s reporting and it just drives most of you bat shit crazy. Going to be a long 4 years for many of you. WINNING.
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This was all for the press. It worked, everyone thinks it’s stupid and child like except for the MAGAT’s who think it’s wonderful. Not surprised, dear leader can do no wrong. All in all a win for Trump because all that matters is MAGAT’s.
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Co-operate or else: Trump's Colombia face-off is warning to all leaders
Co-operate or else: Trump's Colombia face-off is warning for all leaders
Trump appears ready to punish nations he views as not sufficiently supporting hard-line immigration polices.
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“Less than a week into his presidency, Donald Trump has briefly engaged in his first international tariff dispute. And the target wasn't China, Mexico or Canada - frequent subjects of his ire - it was Colombia, one of America's closest allies in South America.
Colombia's offence was refusing to allow two US flights carrying deported migrants to land because they were military, not civilian, transport planes. That was enough to prompt Trump to threaten to drop the hammer.
… He is serving a warning to US allies and adversaries alike: If you don't co-operate with the US, the consequences will be severe.
… Colombia has backed down from a tariff war, but the tactic poses a test for the new Trump administration.
If future sanctions lead to higher prices for US consumers, will the American public object? Will they be willing to tolerate some financial pain incurred to advance Trump's immigration priorities?
… But these kinds of tariffs are a test of will - and could still be applied to other nations that do not agree to the US's demands. From the looks of it, this is just Trump's opening move.“
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Do you have any evidence that the rest of the world saw this as a win for Trump? Because from what I'm seeing, other countries so far are interpreting as (a) a tariff bluff that got called, (b) another indication Trump's administration can't be trusted to act rationally, or (c) both. But maybe I'm missing an article from a Hungarian newspaper or something.