#201 2025-04-07 21:04:20
Quite the banner day. Nothing says Mission Accomplished like a parade.
Trump planning military parade through DC for 79th birthday
Washington City Paper first reported on the parade, noting it will stretch almost 4 miles from the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., to the White House.
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#202 2025-04-08 09:08:41
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I wonder if he realizes that 'past leaders' includes him...
Definitely not, he criticized the people responsible for the current treaty with Canada while either not knowing or not caring that he was the one the who tore up NAFTA and renegotiated with Canada and Mexico.
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#203 2025-04-08 17:57:07
Gotta get down to the Cumberland mines. Make good money 5 dollars a day, made any more might move away.
robots are Secretary Lutnick's vision for America's "manufacturing renaissance"
On Fox News' Hannity on Wednesday, Lutnick touted that "a high school-educated workforce is going to get trained to do robot mechanic," adding that it'll bring the "coolest" and "highest-paying jobs" to the U.S.
"We use robotics here. It's cheaper than cheap labor overseas." He added, "The renaissance will be the greatest factories in the world, high-tech people. What are the jobs Americans are going to have? We are going to have mechanics who fix robotics."
MARGARET BRENNAN: And you said that robots are going to fill those jobs. So those aren't union worker jobs.
SEC. LUTNICK: No, it's really automated jobs. It's automated factories- automated factories. But the key is, who's going to build the factories? Who's going to operate the factories? Who's going to make them work? Great American workers. You know, we are going to replace--
MARGARET BRENNAN: You said robots on other networks. You said that to FOX.
SEC. LUTNICK: --the armies of millions of people- well, remember, the army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little- little screws to make iPhones, that kind of thing is going to come to America. It's going to be automated and great Americans- the tradecraft of America, is going to fix them, is going to work on them. They're going to be mechanics. There's going to be HVAC specialists. There's going to be electricians, the tradecraft of America. Our high school educated Americans- the core to our workforce, is going to have the greatest resurgence of jobs in the history of America to work on these high-tech factories, which are all coming to America. That's what's going to build our next
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#204 2025-04-08 20:39:52
Fucking COS Play... She can shoot dogs, but: Nothing Like Flagging One of the Employees. Maybe she thought the guy was a dog? (edit: if you don't know the reference, ask.)
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#205 2025-04-08 22:30:02
Cosplay Kristi spent way more than that to show her fealty to Trump.
In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA
Does proximity to power rely on a specific look?
But eventually, as with so many things, the times they are a changing.
Fuller faces—and facial fat grafting—will replace chiseled cheeks.
If your social media feed has ever delivered you to an account that tracks celebrities’ faces over time, you might have noticed common threads in the changes. “It's always: the nose gets more angular, the cheeks get hollower, the cheekbones are more defined. For so long, this has been our beauty ideal,” says Dr. Doft. In the operating room, as well as in the makeup artist’s chair, techniques for sculpting the face have dominated conversations, but their stronghold seems to be slipping: “There was so much talk about buccal fat pad removal [for hollow cheeks], fillers for building up the cheekbones, and contouring with makeup,” says Dr. Doft. “Now we’re getting away from that. Instead of wanting to create shadows on the face and more angularity, we're looking for that fresh, youthful, less defined face.”
Dr. Doft thinks it’s partly a natural ebb and flow—“aesthetics change.” (Just look at the generational divide over winged liner and hair that’s parted to the side.) And it’s partly a reexamining of what’s youthful and, by extension, desirable for many patients. “That fleshier look is associated with youth—I mean, when you look at children, they have full cheeks,” says Dr. Doft. But she also thinks that the more we see sunken faces, the more we’re forced to confront how aging that can be—and it’s not a coincidence that this self-reflection is coming on the heels of so much GLP-1-induced weight loss. “Ozempic face is a really hollow face—we know that it looks drawn, it looks sad, it looks sickly, and so we're trying to combat that,” posits Dr. Doft. “Could this be our natural reaction, pushing back?”
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#206 2025-04-09 03:53:00
"Have I Got News For You" recently did a before-and-after series of women who got 'Mar A Lago' face, and some of them were actually quite good-looking before their... 'enhancements'.
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#207 2025-04-09 19:56:10
#208 2025-04-09 20:36:54
Back to business as usual.
Trump orders DoJ to investigate duo who debunked claims of election fraud
On Wednesday, Trump, who campaigned with a promise of “retribution”, signed a presidential memorandum accusing Taylor of leaking classified information, stripping him of any active security clearance and ordering the Department of Justice to investigate his activities.
Sitting in the Oval Office, the president said he could barely remember Taylor: “I said, who the hell is Miles Taylor? And he made a living on going on CNN talking about the president. And I think what he did – he wrote a book, Anonymous, said all sorts of lies and bad things. I think it’s like a traitor. It’s like spying.”
Trump added: “I didn’t know anything about him and he wrote a book, Anonymous, and I always thought it was terrible … We’re going to find out whether or not somebody is allowed to do that. I think it’s a very important case and I think he’s guilty of treason, if you want to know the truth, but we’ll find out.”
Taylor responded on social media that Trump had proved his point by using the justice department to pursue revenge. He wrote on X: “I said this would happen. Dissent isn’t unlawful. It certainly isn’t treasonous. America is headed down a dark path. Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man’s point.”
Asked by the Guardian whether he had concerns about his civil liberties were officials to seek to prosecute him, Taylor said in a text message: “Well, if they do that, all Americans should be worried about their own.”
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#209 2025-04-09 22:44:27
#210 2025-04-10 11:00:31
Yeah, I mean, who thought this was anything other than a money grab? Even PolitiFact had our Liar-In-Chief preparing to do a flip flop as "False".
* On April 7, a reporter asked President Donald Trump if he would be open to pausing tariffs to allow for negotiation. Trump said, "Well, we're not looking at that."
* White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said April 7 that the idea that Trump was going to issue a 90-day pause was "fake news."
* On April 9, Trump announced a 90-day pause on some tariffs, lowering the amount for all partners to 10%. He excluded China.
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#211 2025-04-11 21:54:15
A short clear explanation for Trump's mismanagement of the national debt scuttling his plans.
What are bonds and why have they spooked Donald Trump?
The reason the US president had to back down on tariffs once investors started dumping treasury bonds
What have Trump’s tariffs done to bonds?
At first the US president considered his tariff plan to be working, having anticipated stock markets would react badly to tariffs and the dollar would fall.
Trump was sure the bond market would remain calm because he promised to pay for tax cuts later in the year with revenues from tariffs, meaning the US government could limit the number of bonds it issues, keeping supply and demand in sync and putting a cap on overall government debt levels.
However, the tariff war has prompted fears of a US recession, making it riskier to lend to the US. There are concerns that the US will become locked in a titanic struggle with China, which would damage both economies over a long period and drag down global growth.
In response, investors have sold US bonds in huge quantities, driving down their value and sending the yield higher, making future government debt more expensive to issue.
Where did this leave Trump?
There was a fear in the White House that paying a higher interest rate on national debt would increase the government’s annual spending deficit, adding pressure to an already stretched budget and increasing the overall debt mountain.
Worse, the $29tn market in US treasuries is the bedrock of the global financial system and heavy selling could put pressure on other parts of it, forcing banks or other institutions to default and causing a wider financial crisis.
...While Trump has more resources, he faces similar concerns about the spillover effects. If his policies do drive up inflation as expected, with some analysts forecasting a rate of 4.5% by next year, that could alienate the Republican core vote that brought him in on promises to cut soaring food prices. Voters could see tariffs as a tax on mortgages if banks start to charge more for home loans on the back of higher yields, denting his popularity with his base.
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#212 2025-04-14 19:36:33
"Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."
Aaron Rupar captured and published a rough video conversation on social media.
this exchange was captured on the El Salvador government’s live stream. Trump endorses sending ‘homegrown’ U.S. prisoners to El Salvador—meaning American citizens to notorious foreign prisons.
Follows what he confirms to the press.
“Do you want to pay for those facilities to be open if you want them to be built?” he was asked.
“I’d do something. We’d help them out,” Trump replied. “They’re great facilities, very strong facilities, and they don’t play games. ”
“I’d like to go a step further. I mean, I said it to (Attorney General) Pam [Bondi] I don’t know what the laws are —we always have to obey the laws— but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters,” Trump added. “I’d like to include them in the group of people to get them out of the country, but you’ll have to be looking at the laws on that.”
Experts have noted that there is no legal way for the president to send legal US citizens to foreign prisons.
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#213 2025-04-14 20:08:24
Johnny_Rotten wrote:
Experts have noted that there is no legal way for the president to send legal US citizens to foreign prisons.
Oh that won't stop Donald, the black van will roll up and they'll just pull you off the street. Next thing you know you're already in El Salvador and your family/friends don't even know you're missing.
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#214 2025-04-15 09:33:04
I know that V For Vendetta was supposed to be social commentary against Thatcher (graphic novel) and Bush (movie), but it's seriously looking more and more like Trump watched it and said, "Hey, let's do that."
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#215 2025-04-15 10:33:50
He should have watched to the end, the rats will always turn on you to try and save their own skins.
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#216 2025-04-15 15:25:14
Much like Sutler, I doubt he'd believe it possible until there's quite literally a gun in his face.
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#217 2025-04-22 13:28:27
Sure, it's satire... for now.
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#218 2025-04-24 11:15:21
Concerned about US vaccine misinformation and access, public health experts start Vaccine Integrity Project
By Meg Tirrell, CNN
Updated: 11:00 AM EDT, Thu April 24, 2025
Source: CNN
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Concerned that the nation’s health leadership is casting unfounded doubt on the safety of well-studied vaccines and may take action to curb their use, a group of public health experts is working to put pieces in place to respond.
The initiative, the Vaccine Integrity Project, will be funded by a foundation backed by Walmart heiress Christy Walton and has a steering committee helmed by former US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg and former National Academy of Medicine President Dr. Harvey Fineberg, said Dr. Michael Osterholm, who is leading the initiative and who serves as director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
The effort will consider what’s needed to safeguard vaccine policy and use in the US, including whether there’s a need for a new independent body to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness, Osterholm said ahead of Thursday’s announcement.
“There have been conversations happening for months now across the public health community about, ‘what will we do if US government vaccine information becomes corrupted or the system that helps to ensure their safety and efficacy are compromised?’ “ he said.
The initiative is being formed in response to actions by US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spread mixed messages about the measles vaccine amid a deadly outbreak, accused advisers to federal health agencies of conflicts of interest and pledged to start a major autism study that experts fear will falsely tie the condition to vaccines.
The Vaccine Integrity Project’s first move will be to hold a series of information-gathering sessions, pulling together experts from local public health departments, medical associations, academia, public policy, industry and others.
The initial goal is to determine “what is important to have going forward if, in fact, there should be compromise by the federal government in terms of our vaccine enterprise,” Osterholm said. “We can’t say at this point that that’s happened, but we don’t want to wait until the moment it might happen, and we have enough signals that that is.”
He pointed to Kennedy’s vaccine comments, as well as moves like some Minnesota state legislators’ introduction of a bill this week “to declare that mRNA vaccine technology is a weapon of mass destruction and that it should be immediately taken off the market and anyone using it would be liable for criminal activity.”
“Who’s going to respond to that?” Osterholm asked. “Is anybody at the federal government level going to respond to activities like that? That’s a question I think we are left, at this point, unanswered.”
The “initial feedback phase,” as he called it, will start this month and last until early August.
“We don’t know what’s this is going to look like at the end, but we’ll only find out by listening to all of these groups,” Osterholm said. “At the end of that process, hopefully we can all look at it and come to a similar conclusion, that this is what’s necessary or not necessary to protect the vaccine enterprise.”
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#219 2025-04-27 16:08:37
Wow, looks like we are already skating down easy street. Who knew Trump had it all worked out so well?
Truth Details
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Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
When Tariffs cut in, many people’s Income Taxes will be substantially reduced, maybe even completely eliminated. Focus will be on people making less than $200,000 a year. Also, massive numbers of jobs are already being created, with new plants and factories currently being built or planned. It will be a BONANZA FOR AMERICA!!! THE EXTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE IS HAPPENING!!!
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#220 2025-04-28 08:07:38
Of all his childlike peccadilloes, changing the name of something as if he's some kind of master satirist drives me the most crazy. "The external revenue service", what does that even mean? Just like "the senate unselect comittee". I mean, yeah he probably stayed up all night thinking them up. but still.
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#221 2025-04-29 14:54:10
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#222 2025-04-29 14:58:50
Shot over the Bow!
https://newrepublic.com/post/194481/kar … urt-judges
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#223 2025-04-29 18:13:49
SpacePuppy wrote:
Shot over the Bow!
https://newrepublic.com/post/194481/kar … urt-judges
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail … lmib4@jpeg
It's not even summer yet. This is beginning to look like 1968 all over again.
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#224 2025-04-30 12:31:12
Fitting this comes on the 50th anniversary of another disastrous war that also had to be waged on people in America.
The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson
The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflict
"... how difficult is it to deceive the public? I would say, as a former insider, one becomes aware: It’s not difficult to deceive them. First of all, you’re often telling them what they would like to believe — that we’re better than other people, we are superior in our morality and our perceptions of the world.”
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#225 2025-04-30 14:21:32
Baywolfe wrote:
SpacePuppy wrote:
Shot over the Bow!
https://newrepublic.com/post/194481/kar … urt-judges
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail … lmib4@jpegIt's not even summer yet. This is beginning to look like 1968 all over again.
Well I am not up in the mountains training for guerilla warfare like I was in 1968, so I have that going for me.
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#226 2025-04-30 15:11:22
SpacePuppy wrote:
Baywolfe wrote:
SpacePuppy wrote:
Shot over the Bow!
https://newrepublic.com/post/194481/kar … urt-judges
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail … lmib4@jpegIt's not even summer yet. This is beginning to look like 1968 all over again.
Well I am not up in the mountains training for guerilla warfare like I was in 1968, so I have that going for me.
You missed all the fun up there! Fortunately for me I was 12 and missed all the fun too, except for Apollo 8.
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#229 2025-05-04 10:08:26
How do you like him now Catholics? Click the "See Full Web Article" link to see the image.
Trump posts AI image of himself as pope, leaving Catholics offended and unamused as conclave nears
By Sophie Tanno, Christopher Lamb and Antonia Mortensen, CNN
Updated: 9:04 AM EDT, Sun May 4, 2025
Source: CNN
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US President Donald Trump posted an AI image of himself as the pope, prompting accusations of poor taste in the Roman Catholic community just days before the conclave to elect Pope Francis’s successor is due to begin.
Trump, who days prior joked that he would “like to be pope”, posted the digitally doctored image of himself wearing a white cassock and papal headdress, with his forefinger raised, to his Truth Social platform late Friday. It was then reshared by the White House on its official X account.
It came less than a week after Trump, who is himself not a Catholic, attended Francis’s funeral last month. An official period of mourning for the pope is still being observed by the Vatican.
While no one suggests that the image is a serious distraction from the task of choosing the next leader of the world’s 1.4 billion Roman Catholics – Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni declined to comment on the matter – it has raised eyebrows on social media and drawn criticism, including from cardinals who are in Rome for conclave next week.
“Not funny, Sir,” the 66-year-old Filipino Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David wrote in a post on Facebook.
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York, was also critical when questioned by journalists ahead of delivering a Mass in Rome on Sunday.
Asked whether he was offended by the image, Cardinal Dolan – who Trump hinted he favors for the next pope - replied, “Well, it wasn’t good.”
Similarly, Father Gerald Murray, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York who was attending the Mass at Cardinal Dolan’s church Sunday, said that Trump’s post was “silly … you don’t do that.”
Italy’s former prime minister, Matteo Renzi, condemned the image as offensive to those of Catholic faith. “This is an image that offends believers, insults institutions and shows that the leader of the right-wing world enjoys clowning around,” he wrote on X.
Trump’s post caught the attention of Italy’s media. “Infantile” was the word used by Italian daily La Repubblica, accusing the president of “pathological megalomania.”
In St. Peter’s Square, CNN asked several groups of American tourists what they thought, and while none wanted to give their names, their reactions ranged from “absurd” to “typical.”
The office of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, an international ally of Trump, said they would not comment on the matter.
The image also prompted backlash among Catholic groups in the US. The New York State Catholic Conference, which describes itself as representing bishops in New York, said in a post on X; “There is nothing clever or funny about this image, Mr. President.
“We just buried our beloved Pope Francis and the cardinals are about to enter a solemn conclave to elect a new successor of St. Peter. Do not mock us.”
But the White House defended Trump as pro-Catholic.
“President Trump flew to Italy to pay his respects for Pope Francis and attend his funeral, and he has been a staunch champion for Catholics and religious liberty,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said when asked to respond to the criticism.
Others in Trump’s circle stressed it was a joke.
“I’m Catholic. We’ve all been making jokes about the upcoming Pope selection all week. It’s called a sense of humor,” far-right activist Jack Posobiec wrote on X.
This is not the first time Trump has triggered controversy with AI-generated imagery. He faced backlash after posting footage imagining war-ravaged Gaza as a Gulf state-like resort featuring a golden statue of himself.
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#230 2025-05-05 00:37:10
In a Truth Social post, Trump said the reopening of Alcatraz — which shuttered on March 21, 1963, having been deemed too expensive to maintain and operate — would “serve as a symbol of law, order and justice.” He directed the Bureau of Prisons, Justice Department, FBI and Department of Homeland Security to work together to reopen the infamous penitentiary on the island.
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#231 2025-05-05 13:54:54
Stupidity piled upon Stupidity...
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#232 2025-05-05 16:50:37
I wonder if anyone's told him that sharing an AI-slop image of himself holding a RED lightsaber isn't the flex he thinks it is...
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#233 2025-05-06 08:20:24
He doesn't know what the Declaration of Independence stands for.
Nor does he know if he has to uphold the Constitution.
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#234 2025-05-06 17:06:57
...we're all gonna die.
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#235 2025-05-06 19:25:02
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#236 2025-05-08 11:33:52
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#237 2025-05-08 12:26:26
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#238 2025-05-09 08:41:15
I guess they already owned "the libs" enough already.
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