The corruption continues...

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They were lucky this time. If they don't learn from it then the Russians and the Chinese and anyone else who can will take advantage of that.

The fact is they have already given the keys to the castle to any hostile adversary who wants to take advantage of the current piss poor OPSEC of Pete Hegseth's F Troops.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-03-29

Yea, thank God they didn't include Trump on that Signal chat, or who knows who would've been made privy to what was about to happen.

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For the last couple of weeks or so, we've been paying $4.49/dozen for White Jumbo, Cage-Free eggs at Trader Joe's, which is 50 cents LESS than for White Large, Cage-free eggs (I can't explain it and neither can the people working in the store). Before the recent bird-flu epidemic, the normal price for a dozen White Large, Cage-Free eggs at Trader Joe's was $2.49. At the local Ralph's and Albertson's the price for a dozen White Large, Cage-Free eggs have been running eight or nine dollars or more.

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This is the sort of thing that people will remember simply because of the absolute lunacy of the situation.

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To start with, at the time that these people registered to vote, North Carolina law did NOT require voters to produce a drivers license or supply their Social Security number. That's what Judge Griffin wants the Court of Appeals to do, go back and make a retroactive change to the law, adding those requirements, thus invaliding some 60,000+ voter registrations. I'm sorry, but ex post facto laws are explicitly forbidden by the US Constitution (Article I, Section 9, Clause 3 for federal laws and Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 for state laws).

And for those whose Latin is a bit rusty, "Ex post facto" means "after the fact". Which as defined in the Constitution means, that you can't deprive an individual of a right or charge him with a crime, for something that was legal at the time that he exercised it or committed it.

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Sound familiar...

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And these 'gold card' holders will be exempt from having to pay federal taxes on their foreign income, unlike American citizens. This means that they could move here, buy some mansion at one of Trump's golf resorts or a penthouse in one of his buildings, and live the life of an oligarch while enjoying all of the benefits of being an 'American', but without having to pay a single dime toward supporting any of it.

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Just goes to show how ignorant and petty this whole affair is.

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Just goes to show how ignorant and petty this whole affair is.

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Speaking of throwing people under the bus, Trump is now saying that he had nothing to do Musk getting a Pentagon a supposed briefing over our war plans with China, that that was Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's idea.

And he's also claiming that sending all of those alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, that was Marco Rubio who came up with that one.

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Isn't this the same approach that RFK Jr wants to use to address the measles epidemic, just let it run its course until we reach 'herd immunity'?

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Think about it people, there's far more money to be made in treating cancer compared to simply making it go away, so an outright cure is a bad investment for the American people.

Much better for the American people to have incurable cancers, they can still get a little treatment, and more importantly, serve as a source of revenue until they die from cancer we didn't invest in curing.

Signed,
Republicans

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-03-18 05:57 PM

Tell me about it. I've been diagnosed with stage-four prostate cancer. There is no cure and it's inoperable, but it can be treated with a drug regimen, a combination of injections every six-months and an oral medication that I have to take daily. The injection, which is a hormone suppressant, costs $3,700/injection, but it's covered 100% by my Medicare Part B. The oral medication, four tablets which I have to take every morning, costs $17,900/month. Now we have Medicare Part D, which this year caps my out-of-pocket maximum expenditure at $2,000, so it's not as bad as it sounds (if Musk/Trump doesn't screw it up that is). So far, it appears that the treatment has been effective (I've been on this course of treatment since this past October) and the prognosis looks good for the near future, at least for the next three to five-years, which by then there might be more effective treatments, if you can pay for them that is.

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The dumbing down of America continues...

And when other nations start to make breakthroughs in this area, who will Trump blame?

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Now to what purpose was this change made? Why would someone decide that after 60-years that this clause needed to be removed from federally funded contracts? Who is going to benefit from this change?

Apparently NOT having segregated facilities, like rest rooms and water fountains, is violating Trump's ban on anything that he perceives as being DEI related.

BTW, this revoked an executive order signed by LBJ in 1965.

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