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Nivek

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  1. And those bailouts cost approximately as much as the revenue gained in the tariffs. So it accomplished nothing but to harm our agrarian industry.
  2. https://steady.substack.com/p/heartbreak-for-cbs-news?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=247881&post_id=156209726&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=v8bg&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email It’s not a surprise. Authoritarians must silence their perceived opposition. President Trump believes his No. 1 opponent is a free press. He has long demonized the media, calling it “the enemy of the American people.” He couldn’t be more wrong. A free press is not the enemy, and our Founding Fathers knew it. They enshrined freedom of the press in the very first amendment to the Constitution, up at the top of the Bill of Rights — not because they were great fans of journalists, but rather because they knew, as Thomas Jefferson put it, that “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free ... it expects what never was and never will be.” ...... Paramount is in the midst of a multimillion-dollar merger, which needs approval by the Federal Communications Commission, now run by Trump’s appointee. And Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder and board member, stands to make billions if the deal goes through. See where this is going? CBS, but really Paramount, is in settlement talks with Trump and co., according to The New York Times, which by the way is one of the few independent national newspapers. “A settlement would be an extraordinary concession by a major U.S. media company to a sitting president, especially in a case in which there is no evidence that the network got facts wrong or damaged the plaintiff’s reputation,” wrote Lauren Hirsch, James B. Stewart, and Michael M. Grynbaum in The Times. If a settlement is reached, some might characterize it as a payoff. “That’s called a bribe,” Richard Painter, President George W. Bush’s White House ethics lawyer, posted on X. If CBS settles, it will be the third media company to do so since the election. ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to Trump’s presidential library after he sued for defamation. Meta is giving $22 million to the library to settle a suit Trump brought after his social media accounts were suspended for cause.
  3. We have lumber, we just don’t have it near factories which use it as they have shut down older sites to focus on the cheap imports.
  4. Ow my ballz!
  5. He absolutely cares what others think of him. He doesn't mind if he is hated, he doesn't respect the people who bend the knee to him either. But to be called an idiot, weirdo, terrible businessman, and incompetent is what gets to him. To call President Musk his puppet master is humiliating to him.
  6. Short it on the way down, buy up distressed assets near the bottom. Give contracts to bolster it back up. Maybe the crypto scams were to expedite liquidity for President Convict.
  7. I wasn't going to make it that complex. he watches newsmax.
  8. The fuck you mean need congress? Congress isn't there to do shit anymore, Supreme Court ruled the Executive is omnipotent.
  9. Hey kid, which cunt over there is your mom?
  10. I spoke with my father yesterday. He thinks we are headed for prosperity with the new administration. (Apparently, not investing has helped him not see the rewards of the Biden administration.) But he did impress me insofar that he understands who pays the tariff. He tried to talk commodities about the price of oil and his understanding was even worse. But I had to simplify it even further. If Mexico sells apples here for $1. And America sells apples here for $1. If we add the 25% tariff to Mexican goods the Mexican apples are now $1.25. He was here following along. But when I stated that as the American Apple guy, I raise my price to $1.25 and get to reap more profit. This part he was able to follow along but it surprised him completely that a company would do that. The idea that oil costs more to produce in one region or another based on geologic factors (and transportation) is well beyond him. He used to be smart. Fox/OANN/NEWSMAX and talk radio has corrupted his brain. I am less credible talking about oil and gas than a talking head who never stepped foot on a site, couldn't identify a sandking from a blender. This man raised me to have values he has abandoned. They have no idea that Trump is fucking with the FDIC as well. That could lead to more issues and uncertainty in markets, but I guess when you don't have shit in them, you think it doesn't impact you. Until it does.
  11. https://www.lwv.org/blog/recent-rise-anti-voter-litigation Stuff like this helps.
  12. Middle class will just be asked to contribute more. If they work harder and a few more hours at their job per week, they can become billionaires too.
  13. Teachers are kind of abused by the government
  14. Federal Network? Would you like to know more?
  15. They are split from the Episcopal Church.
  16. Those jobs will be replaced by Tesla Robots, that will cost $3 million each, and only kill/maim 20% of the herd.
  17. I want to privatize those public bridges. Sure it will cost you more and I will need government funding to do the repairs, but you’ll get to pay me 3x for the same thing you already have!
  18. Mediocrity is a step up from MAGA
  19. How/why is this thing not confiscated or sunk?
  20. Nivek

    LBGTQ

    I think it was always about normalizing the brutality and horror and working their way to their goals. I suppose it could be just interpreted as getting their industrialized mass murder of the Jewish and Roma people started required a learning curve and that was means tested on other populations first.
  21. I told you so is appropriate. Laughing is appropriate. I think this is a good thing. The veneer of society being ruled by the people, that our elected leaders are servants, and that our system hasn’t been corrupted is long gone and more people will have to come to terms with it.
  22. Nivek

    LBGTQ

    I think they got to the undesirables first with their eugenics programs and facilities starting in the late 1920s. Since they couldn’t resist and were already in state run facilities (mental hospitals).
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