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Item 57,114 for the prosecution showing Trump is a profound idiot.
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Any component of the National Guard that is Federalized (and they must be to be deployed to a state that has not asked for them to be deployed there) is covered by the Posse Comitatus prohibition.
Possibly could be arrested by a state, when deployed there as Federal, against the state’s wishes.
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Ask Sessions, Barr, Mattis, Esper, Tillerson, Priebus, Kelly, Bolton, Coates, et. al. how well Trump represented them and exhibited loyalty to them.
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Ramping up immigration enforcement to truly focus on criminals and other serious evil doers to give them priority for immediate due process, followed by deportation as appropriate, would have been widely popular.
What they are actually doing includes a lot of BS to run up the numbers
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Are these people actual people or androids programmed with very limited and focused AI (Absurd Indoctrination)
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Most of the time Defense Production Act orders are “friendly” coercion. They immunize the contractor against breach of contract claims by other affected customers and typically soothe the pain with a healthy dose of compensatory payments. 2/2
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Under the Defense Production Act, DOD contracts for important goods, empower the Govt to unilaterally order contractor to prioritize work for DOD over EVERYTHING else Govt must compensate contractor for excess costs incurred (maybe even lost profits)
Physical seizure of production is possible 1/2
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I think Putin’s final play is, once he perceives Trump is no longer useful toward Putin’s aims (willingly or unwillingly by Trump), Putin will play the maximum chaos card. Carefully leading non-US Intel agencies to conclude THEY uncovered secret info about bona fide treason on part of Trump.
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What an almighty idiot! Pam Bondi is in control, not someone hidebound by ethics, like Garland. It would already have been released verbatim if either there was info implicating Dems or merely neutral about Trump.
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Any claim he can broker a reconciliation in about 24 hours?
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Avoiding denial, explicit or even just implied, like the plague.
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I know a couple ofpeople who are nice but flawed, often being emphatic about memory, recollection, & opinion. They could be easily baited into trying to “best” an opposition attorney in a deposition. Having no idea they were being boxed in for trial testimony and primed to be annhilated on cross
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Yeah, really applies nicely to two irredeemable Narcissists who absolutely cannot help themselves.
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There is no excuse whatsoever to have not already released everything but with names redacted. Expand that just a bit to redacting very obvious identifying info, like say, “Harvard professor emeritus” that would clearly map to someone who gets massages with their underwear on.
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So much of the GOP is just s**t.
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The Israeli govt should be very worried that they will be absolutely alone & with little or no international support after Trump is gone. If the US tries to move ahead with expelling Gazans, watch for a Dem POTUS to drop that on day one & Israel stuck with dealing with the blowback in isolation
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There is a doctrine in estate law that a person’s wishes/intent regarding wills & disposition of estates, expressed during brief periods of apparent cognitive normality (valuable to have disinterested witnesses), are still controlling even if the person has other episodes of cognitive impairment.
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I don’t like it one bit but it sets a nice precedent for the House of Representatives to do the exact same thing to him if Dems take back the majority.
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Putin, the pal of Trump who basically tells Trump to F*** Off on any movement for settling the Ukraine war.
Yeah, sure Putin will help Trump bend Iran to Trump’s will! GMAFB!
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If just 1% more people had died because of policies like RFK espouses, that would be about 11,000.
And look how poorly we did in terms of excess deaths vs Italy, UK,Spain, France, and Germany. About TRIPLE the avg of death rates in those 5 countries, which maps to about 750,000 more US deaths
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Dynamic scoring as a term goes back to the Reagan years.
You don’t hear much about it because actual, factual history refutes its validity.
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From GOP standpoint, dynamic scoring is predicting their actions ALWAYS lead to better than expected growth, hence better than expected tax revenue.
It is basically a highly flexible fudge factor that they use to improve projections from what CBO makes using standard and repeatable methods.
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It is even better for an authoritarian to have installed lackeys who will know how to do the bosses bidding without being explicitly told how/what to do.
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Good luck shaping attitude favorably on constantly changing major policy on tariffs and daily rage & grievance tweeting by Trump.
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100% expected move. Unitary Executive doctrine at work. The White House exerts final say on all information that is released from Federal Agencies that were once mostly objective & fact based.
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USNS is the Naval Sealift Command that runs a fleet of Navy-owned support ships like supply ships, oilers (for refueling), and transports. They are NOT combatant ships and are usually crewed by contracted civilians.
No real warrior ethic is involved with the activity of the crews.
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When the cuts and debt increases become irrefutably obvious, I suspect the Trump & GOP strategy will be to blame Democrats for somehow undermining the provisions of the bill that would have triggered economic growth & revenue growth that would have negated the downside impacts. Post truth world.
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Unimportant if it is a breadcrumb trail to get testimony & THE REAL documents in discovery.
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Trump will oppose and string out critical & illuminating discovery by Harvard, probably for years (legal delays are truly his superpower).
So, if a TRO is in place enjoining the cuts, nothing much happens, for years. USSC could intervene but what is urgency & who’s at risk of irreparable harm?
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Last sentence is worse! Entities & institutions that can present “realities” that conflict with the monarch’s can’t be allowed to exist. “Truth & reality” by definition, will be whatever the monarch decrees.
Wearing underwear on the outside will be a vital norm to confirm multiple daily changes
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The main things that WERE worrisome, Annual Federal Deficits, and cumulative National Debt, are on track to be made worse by Trump.
Duhhhh!
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what was so bad about what he inherited from Biden that put USA’s economic survival at risk?
The National Debt? (Trump plans to increase THAT massively).
The annual Federal deficit? (Trump is not decreasing THAT in any meaningful way)
So, by any rational standard, Trump is increasing the risk.
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Quoting Edie Brickell from her song, “Religion ……… is like a smile on a dog”
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Someone from an asylum please take Trump away!
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Good strategy, now THAT is OPSEC. Alternative, inform a political appointee in DOD or State Dept, it gets up to Trump, and Russia gets advance warning.
Other nominal allies need to religiously apply the same OSEC and INFOSEC principles while Trump is POTUS.
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Didn’t say eliminate the deficit, just reduce its magnitude (like Obama’s last 4 yrs), so he just admitted that the bill will increase the total national debt.
You can reduce the ANNUAL deficit from, say, $1.5 Tr to
$1.4Tr but YOU ARE STILL ADDING $1.4 Trillion to the total national debt.
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If attacking actual military bases during an ongoing war is terrorism, what were Russia’s attacks on civilian schools, hospitals, and residences at the start of the war.
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Is this real? Posting it as trolling is bad enough, but if he actually believes it, Trump is bona fide insane.
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Absolutely, 100% predictable. They know accurate & objective numbers will likely be dismal so they must insert Soviet-style political officers in statistical agencies to have the last say on what is publicly released
Core MAGAts & QAnons never believed Govt data, now the remaining 70% won’t either
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As a nobody, I suggest periodic testing by no-notice, random location missile launches by US (or allies) using unarmed reentry vehicles
Adapt Elon’s subscription idea, mandate successful tests for BIG fractions of payments. Hmmm, might need a skilled & objective evaluator, like office being closed
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A 100% expected move. The reviews & evaluation of Golden Dome will be done by Trumpist cheerleaders who know it’s likely to fail real world performance tests
Watch for Musk & Techbros proclaim that software-only simulations drawing heavily on AI will be cheaper & better than actual physical tests
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2024 New York GDP is $2.3 Tr vs $1.7 Tr for Florida. In 2024, NY contributed $89 Bil more to Fed Govt than received back. Florida was $17 Bil.
Trump & his cabinet are abject morons.
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MAGAts who delighted & gloated about this claim made by Trump, when he made it, seem to now believe it was made in jest, or not made, at all
Also waiting to see what hell Trump unleashes on Gaza because Hamas did not release ALL hostages by his inauguration, and at least two other revised deadlines
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Amazing, Leonard Leo hoodwinking Trump into appointing crazy communists despite Trump having dozens of staffers & appointees (including Attorney General & handfuls of Deputy AGs) to review the nominees separate from Leo.
Trump is NEVER responsible or to blame for any outcome he doesn’t like!
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An amazing deal (not just temporary)? WTF was it, I must have missed that?
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Up to 9% (5 x 1.8%) growth! Unbelievable (quite literally)
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Absolutely horrible that a court (with specialty & expertise in international trade) has ruled that a power clearly, obviously, & explicitly reserved to the legislative branch by the US Constitution must be exercised by that legislature & cannot be blanket delegated to POTUS.
What an outrage!
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If only we could assess and collect taxes on rhetorical bulls**t.
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I do not denigrate her military service but, in the realm of ignorant morons’ it’s the only factor that separates her from Trump
She is on rampage about abuse of “Govt. credit” cards. Actually relates to Govt Travel Cards where employee is 100% legally liable for debt w/ zero liability by taxpayer
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With that attitude of acceptance why do we
care at all about Fentanyl
abuse
provide vaccinations of any kind
have any regulation & oversight of airlines, hazardous waste, & nuclear power/waste
Spend nearly $1 Trillion in Iraq & Afghanistan because a meager 3,000 were killed (vs 1.1 Mil by COVID)