Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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“… The invitation specifically states that “Donald J. Trump is appearing at this event only as a featured speaker, and is not asking for funds or donations.” The event occurred at 7:00pm on March 1 and was listed on the president’s official schedule as the “MAGA INC. Candlelight Finance Dinner.”

This is the only event by that name on Trump’s official schedule since he took office. …”
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Biden Crime Family!!! Hypocrisy!!!!!!
 
nycfan said:


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Behold the Strange Spectacle of Christians Against Empathy​


“… The Republican Christian right made a hard turn against immigration and, in its most extreme political faction, is turning against empathy itself.

In 2020, Ryan Burge, perhaps the nation’s leading researcher of statistical trends in American religion, found that white evangelicals were the religious cohort of Americans most likely to support separating children from parents when their parents enter the country illegally. They were also the cohort mostly likely to support drastic reductions in legal immigration.

… At the same time, hard-right Christians began to turn against the very idea of empathy. Last year a popular right-wing podcaster, Allie Beth Stuckey, published a best-selling book called “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.” This month, a right-wing theologian, Joe Rigney, is publishing a book called “The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits.”

These attacks are rooted in the idea that progressives emotionally manipulate evangelicals into supporting causes they would otherwise reject. For example, if people respond to the foreign aid shutdown and the stop-work orders by talking about how children might suffer or die, then they’re exhibiting toxic empathy.

That’s one reason you’ll often see a shocking amount of derision online when anyone starts talking about the human toll of Trump’s decisions. His MAGA evangelicals are broadcasting that you cannot reach them with anything that looks like an appeal to the heart. . …”
 
Just googling and spitballing, so take the numbers with a large grain of salt.

Estimated 1 million people worldwide with a net worth of $10 million. Forty percent are Americans. That leaves 600,000 people with net worths of $10 million. How many want or need to move to the USA?

I’m spitballing that someone with $10 million could liquidate assets and come up with the $5 million in cash (I realize that it’s a stretch for a $10 million estate to come up with $5 million in cash).

If all 600,000 buy the $5 million visa, that’s $3 trillion. That knocks a nice hunk off the national debt.

How many of those 600,000 are drug kingpins, sex traffickers, warlords, etc?
 
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Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story

New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Employees at the Social Security Administration (SSA) were informed on Thursday morning that new rules forbid them from accessing “general news” websites, including those that have been at the forefront of the reporting on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort.

In an email reviewed by WIRED and addressed to “all SSA employees” from a mailing list called “internal communications,” the agency informed employees that it was “implementing additional restrictions to the categories of websites prohibited from government-furnished equipment. Effective today, March 6, 2025, the categories include: Online shopping; General News; and Sports.” The headline read “Internet Browsing from Government Equipment.”
 
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US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself

The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.
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In 2008, the US Embassy in Beijing started regularly tweeting about the air quality in the city, which was gearing up to host China’s first Olympic Games. Two times a day, the embassy automatically published current pollution levels measured by an air quality monitor installed on its roof in collaboration with the US Environmental Protection Agency. The data contradicted the figures published by the local government, angering local officials and eventually spurring China to clean up the air in its capital city. But on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the US State Department told WIRED that the program is abruptly ending due to budget constraints.

The project eventually became part of a broader, highly successful US government initiative known officially as DOSAir, which measured pollution levels in about 80 cities where US diplomatic missions are located around the world. Scientists and researchers have credited it with helping clean up the air in dozens of countries, preventing up to 895 premature deaths and saving $465 million in medical costs per median city annually, according to a research paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2022.
 
altmin said:
I am old enough to remember that Hunter Biden selling his artwork was a treasonous offense or something.
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Huh....weird

“In the 2 to 3 years prior to December 2023, I sold 27 pieces for art at an average price of $54,481.48,” Biden said in the filing. “But since then I have only sold 1 piece of art for $36,000.”

Hunter Biden reveals his dire financial situation after selling one piece of art this year and lackluster book buys​

Biden has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit he was pursuing against a former Trump aide as he can no longer afford to proceed with litigation

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Hunter Biden reveals his dire financial situation after lackluster book and art sales

Biden has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit he was pursuing against a former Trump aide as he can no longer afford to proceed with litigation
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Electric vehicle rebates in Canada differ from those in the U.S., but they serve the same purpose: bringing the upfront costs of EVs down. Dealerships provide rebates of up to $5,000 at the point of sale and then the government reimburses them. However, before the program ended in January, Tesla reportedly claimed over half of the remaining funds, leaving Canadian dealers in the red. Now, they’re pissed.

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Canada’s iZEV rebate was paused in January after the funds earmarked for the program were allocated earlier than expected. The weekend before the program ended, there was a massive increase in claims from Tesla, as it claimed over half of the remaining $71.8 million (Canadian dollars).

The Toronto Star reported that four Tesla outlets filed for 8,653 EV sales in just 72 hours, worth $43.1 million in rebates. This ultimately led to the portal’s shutdown, leaving hundreds of dealerships without a way to recoup the rebates they had offered to buyers at the point of sale.
 
nycfan said:
Related:

Behold the Strange Spectacle of Christians Against Empathy​


“… The Republican Christian right made a hard turn against immigration and, in its most extreme political faction, is turning against empathy itself.

In 2020, Ryan Burge, perhaps the nation’s leading researcher of statistical trends in American religion, found that white evangelicals were the religious cohort of Americans most likely to support separating children from parents when their parents enter the country illegally. They were also the cohort mostly likely to support drastic reductions in legal immigration.

… At the same time, hard-right Christians began to turn against the very idea of empathy. Last year a popular right-wing podcaster, Allie Beth Stuckey, published a best-selling book called “Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion.” This month, a right-wing theologian, Joe Rigney, is publishing a book called “The Sin of Empathy: Compassion and Its Counterfeits.”

These attacks are rooted in the idea that progressives emotionally manipulate evangelicals into supporting causes they would otherwise reject. For example, if people respond to the foreign aid shutdown and the stop-work orders by talking about how children might suffer or die, then they’re exhibiting toxic empathy.

That’s one reason you’ll often see a shocking amount of derision online when anyone starts talking about the human toll of Trump’s decisions. His MAGA evangelicals are broadcasting that you cannot reach them with anything that looks like an appeal to the heart. . …”
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I would definitely expect an autistic man with little self-awareness to view empathy as a weakness. But for professed Christians to argue it, we’ve truly gone through the looking glass.
 
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