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  • ‘I Know Nothing About It’: Trump Pleads Ignorance on Deadly Navy SEAL Raid

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  • Which autopen signed off on this authorization? Y'know, since every accusation is a confession.

  • A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House

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  • Samesies

  • A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House

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  • You think that everybody whose title is a Mr followed by anything means they're related? I have shocking news: every man you've ever met is not necessarily related to one another. Your teachers growing up were not all family.

  • A bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the House

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  • Oh no, then we might have to have a special election to replace 85-year-old, out-of-touch millionaire Nancy Pelosi, and in the meantime the Democrats will be short a seat while already in the minority and refusing/unable to curb all this fascism. What a tragedy.

  • Giuliani Is Hurt in Car Crash in New Hampshire

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  • Rudy does.

  • What to Know About Covid Vaccines This Fall

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  • Ever since vaccines became available, covid is like the flu, and the flu is only the flu because it also has a vaccine available, so don't bother getting the covid vaccine which has been instrumental in getting covid under control? Is that your position? Let covid go back to doing what it did to populations before vaccines by not getting the vaccines?

  • Trump says he has fired Fed governor Lisa Cook. She says she will ‘continue to carry out’ duties

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  • The tipping point will be when OPEC replaces the petrodollar. The USD will weaken more and more over the next 6-24 months, and trump will piss off OPEC with warmongering, and they'll turn to the petroeuro or petroyuan, and trump will lash out and attempt unwinnable wars while the economy is in freefall.

    Or we'll form our own OPEC to compete, and we'll deal with Russia attempting to invade Alaska. And we'll sell so much oil that Americans won't have any left for us, so we'll be one of those broke petrostates that the right makes fun of all the time.

    Or he'll die before that all can happen.

    If Vance weren't a couchfucking coward, he'd 25th amendment and... destroy the country a little more slowly. Yeah, I don't really see a stable way out of this one.

  • Ah yes the already freed Tibet!

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  • I recognize that this probably qualifies as "picking holes" as he said, but his questioning of Hamas seems to be more of a rhetorical device than a sincere request for information. It's not like things had been good in Palestine before the October 7 attack, so questioning why they did it sort of implies that it was out of the blue and not in response to decades of failed attempts to peacefully end settlement expansion and violence against Palestinians. And while acknowledging the horrors that Israel is raining down on them, is it not obvious why Hamas would still have hostages? The hostages are their only bargaining chip, and without the hostages, Palestine would've already been wiped off the map.

    I've been a Radiohead fan for a long time, and I'll continue to be, but this was an unexpectedly neoliberal take to criticize both sides and yearn for going back to how things used to be, completely ignoring that how things used to be is how we got here. That's how time works.

    I think of this quote from JFK pretty often, and it just refuses to stop being relevant, and apparently more people need to hear it. "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." That's the reason for the attack. The reason for having hostages is "to cling onto hope for survival against an otherwise guaranteed complete genocide." They're holding on and hoping that the world that is watching actually does something to help them, and we just aren't.

  • JUST IN: Judge Temporarily Halts Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Deportation to Uganda

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  • It's not even that. It's exile.

  • Oopsie Doodle

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  • I wasn't really thinking of covid. Biden made sure we got free test kits mailed to us when they were impossible to find, but yeah otherwise he just kept on course. Covid vaccines were maybe the one thing that I agreed with trump on. And he could've sailed to reelection if he had just let the experts talk to the people instead of sowing doubt about masks and lockdowns. If he had just sold red masks that said "trump 2020" on them, he would've won reelection while lining his pockets.

    Biden's first half achievements that I was referring to were things like the infrastructure bill and the chips act. Inflation cooled, shit got fixed, manufacturing started coming back, and we started investing in a greener path forward. He should've communicated those accomplishments much better because most people don't really get a glimpse beyond what catches their attention in everyday life. Like egg prices. But there's a very good reason that egg prices rose, and it has very little to do with Biden and everything to do with bird flu, culling, and supply & demand; reduce your egg use for 6-12 months and the prices will come back down.

    The same strategy will not be so effective in the incoming crisis due to tariffs, mostly because trump is such a stubborn dipshit that I'm not sure he'll ever fully walk it back. He always chickens out of the high rate shit (probably mostly as a pump and dump scheme) but he'll never admit that he was wrong about what tariffs are and what they do when deployed the way he insisted on doing them. His whole thing is pretending to be brilliant at business, but he doesn't know basic shit that most people know before even enrolling in econ 101, so that's pretty damning for the knowledge of the tens of millions of people he managed to trick into believing that he's even remotely passable at business. His multiple bankruptcies are evidence of either incompetence or maliciously fraudulent looting, and the latter is only really necessary if you're so bad at business that you have to cheat to get ahead despite the monumental inheritance left to you.

    Sorry for the wall of text lol.

  • Oopsie Doodle

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  • I would say that Biden did better than I had expected in the first half of his term and then more or less coasted off of that momentum through the second half. The probable dementia can't be ignored, but even without that he should've been doing more. He mostly stabilized shit, which is what a status-quo neolib is supposed to do, and he even expanded equitability and built framework for a better tomorrow, but he was I guess too humble to brag about it? He should've been holding up graphs every week and told the people "this is an improvement, and you may not be fully feeling it yet, but you will over time. I've expedited relief to get to you faster, but that means it's on the scale of years instead of decades. The downside of bureaucracy and democracy and proper checks and balances is that solutions can take time, but that's also a benefit in that any would-be malevolent authoritarian couldn't break everything overnight. Just hold on. We've stopped the bleeding, and now the healing takes a little time."

    Instead, we got bounced from our hospital bed and immediately started picking at the scabs with a rusty knife. We're fucked. Tariffs? What a fucking moron. We'll be referring to turned-out pockets as trump flags by the end of the decade.

  • Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt data

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  • Why always with the clickbaity headlines?

    Because it gets people to click. Duh. So thanks for saving us the click and reducing their site traffic with your comment.

  • Anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch is rivaling Joe Rogan. Does it have staying power?

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  • It's not perfect, but some more news and their podcast "even more news" are good and they tend to wait to report on breaking stories until more facts come out, or at least state upfront that there is still a lot that they don't know yet.

    Lately, it's kind of impossible to report on some of this shit without getting a little emotional. But they're closer to tears than frothing angrily.

  • Replace PBS with indoctrination

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  • The three-named dork missed and just clipped his ear, and now I don't think there will be other opportunities again.

  • CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries.

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  • Big if true. They are claiming a lot of things, which would be exciting if I had any reason to believe that they're anything more than claims, probably to juice investment. Sodium ion battery tech is infamous for being heavier per kW such that it's less ideal for EVs, last for fewer power cycles such that it's less ideal for EVs, and the cost savings to switch just hasn't been enough to justify. Here, they're claiming comparable energy density, 2.5-5x the power cycles, and under 10% of the cost compared to lithium ion, all without mentioning how they've managed to achieve all of this. I want this to be true, but I'm not jumping for joy until I see them actually selling this product that they claim will exist at this price that they claim it will be.

    I would've been on board with sodium ion tech for home battery solutions connected to smart power management on a market adjusted power plan before ever seeing a breakthrough like this. Imagine subsidizing your home power needs with a battery during the hot summer day and then charging that battery overnight at 2am when there are minimal power needs on the grid. That application doesn't really care about weight, and if you could just call somebody to come swap out your batteries every couple years, then the power cycle limit doesn't really matter either. As for cost, early adopters of the idea could inject the capital for these companies to scale up production which would drive costs down. Suddenly, 20 years from now, who the fuck bothers to have a gas/diesel backup generator at their house anymore? Now if these claims turn out to be true, every home and business could utilize this plan.

  • Crackdown for Big Balls

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  • Yep. At least have the balls to kill somebody in your false flag. Ideally somebody more notable than fucking Big Balls lmao. And make the supposed perpetrators somebody more official and organized than a bunch of 15 year old carjackers or whatever. Fucking lazy cowards.

  • JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files

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  • Yep, that's more or less why I said I don't put him on a pedestal. But as DOT secretary, he recognized the need for collecting tax dollars and using them effectively, plus things like the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment resulted in him directly, loudly, publicly raising awareness to the need to regulate these essential industries and sectors more stringently to prevent future disasters.

    I think he's learned a lot in the past 5 years. I'm open to people having the ability to learn and grow if they're showing actual evidence of it, and he is imo. I can't hold his McKinsey roots against him forever. I worked at Walmart for a few months nearly 20 years ago, and that has very little to do with who I am now.

  • JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files

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  • My bad, I didn't know anything had changed recently with the DNC. Idk anything about the new people, but I imagine it must be a good start if you're so excited about it and since the changes all happened pretty much immediately after losing 2024.

    Alright, my hope tank just got up to like halfway lol.

  • JD Vance’s Latest Epstein Claims Lead to New Calls For Trump to Release All the Files

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  • Yep, it certainly was.

    Who are you hoping will be the progressive Democrat that runs in 28 that proves that neoliberal policies are just a thing of the past?

    It just seemed like overconfidence to proclaim any sense of achievement in that arena without yet achieving anything or even naming names. I want you to be right, but fascism is very much on the rise and the opposition party isn't doing much to signal any real opposition aside from leaving Texas to withhold quorum for the absurd redistricting vote and I guess not blocking Mamdani from winning the NY mayoral primary.

    Just feels a little like Bush's premature Mission Accomplished banner 20 years before giving up and pulling out of the conflict.