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"In 2023, a jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll, sufficient to hold him liable for battery, though it did not find that Carroll proved he raped her.

The jury awarded Carroll $5 million for battery and defamation. In January, Carroll was awarded an additional $83.3 million in damages for defamatory statements made by Trump that disparaged her and denied her rape allegations.

A judge concluded in August 2023, when dismissing Trump's countersuit against Carroll, that the claim Trump raped Carroll was "substantially true."

The judge wrote that Trump "raped" her in the broader sense of that word, as people generally understand it, though not as it is narrowly defined by New York state law."

Good to know.

The 'shroom may have not actually, technically, have been up to it.

Lyndsey Graham could have won a Committee!

They would certainly qualify, if you've ever seen them on their period AND on tv.

He's creepy as hell, isn't he?

And he's running circles around #47.

Then again, Navy is leading Army, so anything is possible.

The reconstituted SU, plus whatever Russia gets in Europe after Vlad nails Ms Ukraine, is enough to compete with China for #2 in the World they way they used to... and want to again.

He's insatiable.

"The Telegraph reported that the jets were meant to be an "extension of the Oval Office" once the updates are complete.

They will be fitted with boardrooms, meetings rooms, military avionics and self-defense systems.

An unnamed Air Force spokesperson told the Beast that an update on the delivery timeline is expected sometime in the spring of 2025.

Boeing's delay on the new generation of Air Force One may be due to a seven-week strike by the company's workers that ended in November.

The Seattle-based company's operations were significantly hampered after 33,000 machinists went on strike over wage negotiations. The machinist union's members ultimately agreed to a contract that would increase their wages by 38% over the next four years."

WOW... that Strike was even more successful than we first knew. A twofer, getting a decent contract AND slapping the Orange B around a bit.

"The reason behind this lies in the unique addictiveness of TikTok's platform. The average Instagram user spends 30.6 minutes on the app a day. Meanwhile, the average TikTok user spends 45.5 minutes scrolling.

"The whole algorithm is built around the massification of videos," explained Alexis Normand, the chief executive of Greenly.

"Addictiveness also has consequences in terms of incentivizing people to generate more and more [of a carbon] footprint on an individual basis."

LOTs more on stats at the link

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But...

"It is unclear whether or not these reporting practices and commitments will persist under new ownership " a US appeals court has upheld a law that will require Chinese firm ByteDance to sell the platform to a non-Chinese entity by 19 January 2025, though the firm is trying to delay this until a recently friendlier Trump administration is inaugurated.

If the platform is bought by a US company, rules passed this year would require the firm to publicly disclose its emissions if they are "material" to investors, though Trump will probably reverse this.

TikTok did not respond to request for comment."

Polluting the planet, paying in Bitcoin, which Trump and Musk are making Taxpayer Supported... think about that... AND returning the Grand Old Party's Gilded Age of Oligarchs Great Depression II: The Trump2 Years.

Only question now is who is going to be FDR this time?

Trumpers are SO smart!

Drain the Swamp and refill it with Billionaires!

Little Drummer Boy - Johnny Cash and Neil Young

If Republicans has shown even a modicum of patriotism and put their Country before their Party, Trump would have been Impeached years ago when it mattered.

But no, Yurtle et al are cowards and aided the attempted insurrection.

Suppositions aren't facts... well except to deluded Trumpers.

See if you can calm the voices in your head long enough to do some actual research of known facts, and get back to us.

Progress.

No evidence that these informants were provoking anything.

Trumpers are evidence-free trolls, especially that one.

The command body of the NATO member's Armed Forces said in conducting these attacks, Russia has also began operating in its airspace, so it felt it was necessary to scramble fighter jets, meaning it quickly deployed as many fighter jets as possible.

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Monty Python

Santa is test flying the new Reindeer Drone Squad, Capitan Rudolph in charge.

- twenty-six agent provocateurs

Your Visibot on Qanon.

No Federal Agents, only informants... as even Fox News reported in #10.

One supposes that desperate times call for desperate lying bots.

Lost Amazon Delivery Drones.

You haven't posted any facts with any evidence.

Just what your brain on Trump seeps out on these pages.

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So... no facts to back up your nonsense about voter fraud.

Typical.

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"But Americans worried only about the cost of helping Ukraine are thinking about the issue in the wrong way. They should be worried about the cost of not helping Ukraine.

Right now, by providing aid to Kyiv, the United States is preventing Russia from directly menacing eastern and central Europe, which would doubtless consume even more U.S. resources. Washington may, in fact, be deterring a direct war between NATO and Moscow, one in which U.S. forces would have to fight."

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"According to our calculations, defeat in Ukraine would require the United States to spend $808 billion more on defense over the next five years than it has budgeted.

Since 2022, by contrast, Congress has appropriated $112 billion to the Defense Department to assist Kyiv. T

hat means the aid provided to Ukraine through the Pentagon is less than 14 percent of what it would cost Washington to defend Europe against a victorious Russia. (That $112 billion is also mostly spent at home, on domestic weapons production.)

Put another way, allowing Russia to defeat Ukraine would cost the United States about seven times more than preventing a Russian victory. Aiding Ukraine, then, is clearly the right financial decision."

more at the link

Not to mention that aiding Ukraine is also clearly the right moral and geopolitical decision.