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I know Nebraska is heavily dependent on immigrant farm workers but can't find anything on line to confirm that this call happened or the numbers quoted in the text.
The Second Term of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States of America
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Please define "they" jm1.
Learned, credentialed economists and political scientists frantically flailed warning flags before the election about the risks, the predictable consequences of a second Trump term.
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The -red- voters disregarded the warnings, and here we are. Plausible reports indicate the global economy is degraded by Trump's deliberate punitive unpredictability.
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"They" means red state voters, governors, together with Donnie and his sycophants.
In particular that includes the farmers who are now crying about leopards eating faces and the governors of those states who realize they're effed.
In particular that includes the farmers who are now crying about leopards eating faces and the governors of those states who realize they're effed.
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Donald Trump's firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Department of Labor Statistics, has been widely interpreted as a childish overreaction to disastrous job numbers. That’s true, up to a point, but I think his motivation went a good deal deeper. You see, Trump hates the very concept of numbers. Why? Because he sucks at math. Brutally.
In fact, math might be his worst school subject, and that includes geography (he thinks there is an African country called Nambia) and history (he thinks the British had airports during the Revolutionary War).
Since Trump has spent over half a century in the business world, you might expect him to be good with numbers; but since he had to file for bankruptcy six times, maybe not.
His staggering math stupidity revealed itself in worrisome fashion during an appearance in 2006 with his daughter, Ivanka, and son Don Jr., on Howard Stern’s radio show. After asking the younger Don whether he had attended Wharton, Stern issued this follow-up: “What’s seventeen times six?”
Stumped by this brainteaser, Don Jr. guessed 96 and 94, both incorrect. With Ivanka offering her brother no lifeline, it fell to Dad to save the day. He confidently answered “Eleven-twelve,” meaning 1,112. He was off by a mere 1,010. The correct answer is 102.
You read that right: when it comes to math, Trump is even stupider than Don Jr. But as Little Don’s former fiancée, Kimberly Guilfoyle, would say, “THE WORST IS YET TO COME.”
After boasting, in 2020, “I know South Korea better than anybody,” Trump declared that Seoul had a population of 38 million, overshooting the correct answer by 28 million. His biggest math mistake, though, was one he made in his first budget, in 2017. That goof, which wasn’t exactly a rounding error, totaled $2 trillion.
In his second term in office, his math skills appear to have deteriorated—if such a thing is possible.
Speaking to members of Congress last month, Trump boasted, “This is something that nobody else can do. We’re gonna get the drug prices down. Not 30 or 40% which would be great, not 50 or 60, no. We’re gonna get ‘em down 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%.”
That is, in fact, something that no one else can do—because it’s mathematically impossible. Let’s do a little calculation, shall we?
The price of a month’s worth of Ozempic is about $1000. 1500% of that would be $15,000. So if Trump reduced the cost by that amount, the makers of Ozempic would have to pay the customer $14,000.
No wonder Trump fired the Labor Statistics boss: math makes his head hurt. Molly Ivins's quote about Dan Quayle applies equally well to Donald Trump: “If you put that man’s brain in a bumblebee, it would fly backwards.”
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And the gerrymandering begins (rather continues)
August 3, 2025 (Sunday)
Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to push through a new district map that would take five seats currently held by Democrats and give them to Republicans. President Donald J. Trump has demanded this rare mid-decade redistricting in an attempt to hold control of the House of Representatives in 2026. He is urging all Republican-dominated states to make a similar change to guarantee Republican dominance regardless of the will of voters.
Republicans in the Texas legislature rushed a bill that would make the new map law through committee on Saturday morning after the one public hearing they held on it showed overwhelming opposition. Sophia Beausoleil of NBC 5 in Dallas–Fort Worth reports that the Texas House is scheduled to vote on the bill Monday.
“My Democratic colleagues and I have just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop Trump's redistricting power grab,” Texas state representative James Talarico said in a video posted to social media. “Trump told our Republican colleagues to redraw the political maps here in Texas in the middle of the decade to get him five more seats and protect his majority in Congress. They're turning our districts into ....
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August 3, 2025 (Sunday)
Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to push through a new district map that would take five seats currently held by Democrats and give them to Republicans. President Donald J. Trump has demanded this rare mid-decade redistricting in an attempt to hold control of the House of Representatives in 2026. He is urging all Republican-dominated states to make a similar change to guarantee Republican dominance regardless of the will of voters.
Republicans in the Texas legislature rushed a bill that would make the new map law through committee on Saturday morning after the one public hearing they held on it showed overwhelming opposition. Sophia Beausoleil of NBC 5 in Dallas–Fort Worth reports that the Texas House is scheduled to vote on the bill Monday.
“My Democratic colleagues and I have just left our beloved state to break quorum and stop Trump's redistricting power grab,” Texas state representative James Talarico said in a video posted to social media. “Trump told our Republican colleagues to redraw the political maps here in Texas in the middle of the decade to get him five more seats and protect his majority in Congress. They're turning our districts into ....
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And then we see MAGA attempting to gaslight America
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Further to #1,185
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And today's edition of "What did you think was going to happen?"
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This week's FAFO #MAGA #tariffs #Trump.
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Thank you S2. It seems sometimes I'm even grumpier than I am at other times.
" invoke a 2021 attorney general opinion "
Seems like a ripe prospect for a law suit. "Stare Decisis" applies to jury verdicts, court rulings, not AG opinion.
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When senior courts write paragraphs like the first one...
YES!!! COURT *SPANKS* NOEM, DHS, ET AL, IN THEIR EFFORT TO REVOKE TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) FOR IMMIGRANTS FROM HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, AND NEPAL!!
And the first paragraph of the order is sublime!:
"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees."
WOW!!!
The court then goes through a description of *each* of the plaintiffs, explaining not only that they are in the country legally (as they currently have TPS), but explaining how they have contributed to society, and what would happen if they lost that status and were forced to go back to their home country. Here's just one example of many (there are 17 individual plaintiffs along with an organization):
"J.L. is 60 years old, a native of Nicaragua, and has lived in the United States for almost 30 years. For the past 20 years, J.L. has worked as a manufacturing technician in a semiconductor factory. He has a pacemaker and takes daily ...
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YES!!! COURT *SPANKS* NOEM, DHS, ET AL, IN THEIR EFFORT TO REVOKE TEMPORARY PROTECTED STATUS (TPS) FOR IMMIGRANTS FROM HONDURAS, NICARAGUA, AND NEPAL!!
And the first paragraph of the order is sublime!:
"The freedom to live fearlessly, the opportunity of liberty, and the American dream. That is all Plaintiffs seek. Instead, they are told to atone for their race, leave because of their names, and purify their blood. The Court disagrees."
WOW!!!
The court then goes through a description of *each* of the plaintiffs, explaining not only that they are in the country legally (as they currently have TPS), but explaining how they have contributed to society, and what would happen if they lost that status and were forced to go back to their home country. Here's just one example of many (there are 17 individual plaintiffs along with an organization):
"J.L. is 60 years old, a native of Nicaragua, and has lived in the United States for almost 30 years. For the past 20 years, J.L. has worked as a manufacturing technician in a semiconductor factory. He has a pacemaker and takes daily ...
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In 2020: Just find me the 11,800 votes I need! But Raffensburger wouldn't. In 2025: Just get me 5 more electoral districts! Abbott will.
BREAKING: Liberal Fox News host Jessica Tarlov destroys her network's lies about the shocking Texas gerrymandering scandal and exposes Donald Trump's role in the shameless power grab.
MAGA viewers at home got a much-needed dose of reality...
"It's always going to come back to this 'Trump is bad' and he's at the root of all evil when they're also saying, well, in these new districts the conservative Hispanics are outweighing the Democratic Hispanics and the white voters," said right-wing host Emily Compagno on "The Five."
"Well, that's exactly what happened in 2024 so for me, this is the application of reality then rather than the distortion that Democrats always hope for," she added.
"But Trump did ask for it. Explicitly," said Tarlov. "He wants those five extra seats. Don't you think it should just be every ten years as it has been?"
"Well, we'll see when the Voter Rights Act is called into question at first SCOTUS and I'm pretty sure they'll rule in his favor," said Compagno.
"And real quick: Texas, their legislature only meets every two years so most of ....
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BREAKING: Liberal Fox News host Jessica Tarlov destroys her network's lies about the shocking Texas gerrymandering scandal and exposes Donald Trump's role in the shameless power grab.
MAGA viewers at home got a much-needed dose of reality...
"It's always going to come back to this 'Trump is bad' and he's at the root of all evil when they're also saying, well, in these new districts the conservative Hispanics are outweighing the Democratic Hispanics and the white voters," said right-wing host Emily Compagno on "The Five."
"Well, that's exactly what happened in 2024 so for me, this is the application of reality then rather than the distortion that Democrats always hope for," she added.
"But Trump did ask for it. Explicitly," said Tarlov. "He wants those five extra seats. Don't you think it should just be every ten years as it has been?"
"Well, we'll see when the Voter Rights Act is called into question at first SCOTUS and I'm pretty sure they'll rule in his favor," said Compagno.
"And real quick: Texas, their legislature only meets every two years so most of ....
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They make Alligator Auschwitz sound like a spa. A day camp. But nobody is allowed inside to see what the facilities are actually like.
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Trump Targets His Own Voters, Setting Off All Havoc Breaks.
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Trump Gets Hit By Nobel Peace Prize BOMB, LOSES IT
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(Be sure to turn on the sound) Can't wait to see what Donnie is going to Tweet about this .....
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🚨Trump Gets Hit By Nobel Peace Prize BOMB, LOSES IT.
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(Be sure to turn on the sound) Can't wait to see what Donnie is going to Tweet about this .....
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Proud Boys l
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This is one way to handle people like him
6K reactions · 27 shares | On February 21, 2025, #EnriqueTarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, attempted to hold a press conference near the U.S. Capitol to announce a lawsuit against the Department of Justice. The event was met with oppositio
On February 21, 2025, #EnriqueTarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, attempted to hold a press conference near the U.S. Capitol to announce a lawsuit against the Department of Justice. The...
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This is one way to handle people like him
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BREAKING: Hunter Biden enrages MAGA world by pouring gasoline on the raging Jeffrey Epstein scandal in a bombshell new interview, says that Epstein "introduced Melania to Trump" and the "connections" are "so wide and deep."
Hunter is clean and sober and the gloves are completely off now. And he was just getting started...
"Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile that came into enormous wealth by very mysterious circumstances and had connections across the globe to very, very powerful people and he was murdered right before it was all about to blow up," Hunter Biden said in an interview with Andrew Callaghan of the YouTube series Channel 5.
The Trump administration has insisted that Epstein took his own life while in prison but the footage they released from outside of his cell that night has a missing minute and was edited from different sources. Additional footage has been uncovered showing an orange shape, possibly an inmate, moving in the direction of Epstein's cell block before his death.
"And now there supposedly are no files that the American people can see to explain all of that," added Hunter. "I mean it's crazy. Like do I think that there's an actual list? No. I don't think that there's an actual list. I don't think that he was that stupid. But do I think that what they do have implicates him? Yeah, I think so."
"You know, I mean Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. The connections are like so wide and deep," he went on. "Anyway, why do we think they don't want the files released? I don't know, I think that thing that John Heilemann said like a long time ago, I think is the most accurate kind of assessment of them which is 'everything is projection or confession.' Everything.
"So when he puts out that tweet and he says 'Epstein now is the Russia hoax or Hunter Biden laptop...' Like I wonder if it works, you know what I mean?" said Hunter. "When he says to his followers like 'You're no supporter of mine if you keep talking about Epstein.'"
"Yeah. What do you think was in the files?" asked Callaghan.
"I don't know man. There's a great clip from Daily Show ....
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Returning to the tinfoil hat brigade ..... (the next chapter in "That worm hasn't stopped eating")
The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccines being developed to counter viruses that cause diseases such as the flu and Covid-19.
That will impact 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, HHS said.
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, announced he was pulling the funding over claims that "mRNA technology poses more risks than benefits for these respiratory viruses".
Doctors and health experts have criticised Kennedy's longstanding questioning of the safety and efficacy of vaccines and his views on health policies.
The development of mRNA vaccines to target Covid-19 was critical in helping slow down the pandemic and saving millions of lives, said Peter Lurie, a former US Food and Drug Administration official.
He told the BBC that the change was the US "turning its back on one of the most .....
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RFK Jr cancels $500m in funding for mRNA vaccines for diseases like Covi
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The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to cancel $500m (£376m) in funding for mRNA vaccines being developed to counter viruses that cause diseases such as the flu and Covid-19.
That will impact 22 projects being led by major pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer and Moderna, for vaccines against bird flu and other viruses, HHS said.
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr, a vaccine sceptic, announced he was pulling the funding over claims that "mRNA technology poses more risks than benefits for these respiratory viruses".
Doctors and health experts have criticised Kennedy's longstanding questioning of the safety and efficacy of vaccines and his views on health policies.
The development of mRNA vaccines to target Covid-19 was critical in helping slow down the pandemic and saving millions of lives, said Peter Lurie, a former US Food and Drug Administration official.
He told the BBC that the change was the US "turning its back on one of the most .....
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No point in "negotiating" with him since he's going to violate any deals he makes
BREAKING - "Trump renders tariff agreement with the EU null and void"
Well, that was short, even for TACO.
Ten days ago Trump touted his 15% tariff deal with the European Union the ‘biggest deal ever made’.
But now he threatens to raise the agreed tariff from 15% to 35% if the EU does not make a payoff to the U.S. of $600 BILLION DOLLARS "to invest in whatever we want. And that is a gift, not a loan," said Trump.
This is not a "trade deal" or any kind of deal at all.
What Trump refers to as "The Art Of The Deal" is flat out extortion.
The old NYC mafia style "protection" racket - Pay me to "protect" you or I will destroy you.
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UPDATE - MORE BREAKING NEWS - He just doubled India's tariffs from 25% to 50% on all products.
Pushing India, which WAS an ally, further into the arms of China and Russia.
He has destroyed our relationships with the entire world - even its dictators want nothing to do with him, now. His word means nothing. His handshake means nothing. His treaties mean nothing.
Worse, he has displayed to the world that the word of the USA now means nothing as well. If any madman can come in and
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BREAKING - "Trump renders tariff agreement with the EU null and void"
Well, that was short, even for TACO.
Ten days ago Trump touted his 15% tariff deal with the European Union the ‘biggest deal ever made’.
But now he threatens to raise the agreed tariff from 15% to 35% if the EU does not make a payoff to the U.S. of $600 BILLION DOLLARS "to invest in whatever we want. And that is a gift, not a loan," said Trump.
This is not a "trade deal" or any kind of deal at all.
What Trump refers to as "The Art Of The Deal" is flat out extortion.
The old NYC mafia style "protection" racket - Pay me to "protect" you or I will destroy you.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
UPDATE - MORE BREAKING NEWS - He just doubled India's tariffs from 25% to 50% on all products.
Pushing India, which WAS an ally, further into the arms of China and Russia.
He has destroyed our relationships with the entire world - even its dictators want nothing to do with him, now. His word means nothing. His handshake means nothing. His treaties mean nothing.
Worse, he has displayed to the world that the word of the USA now means nothing as well. If any madman can come in and
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