They should just give up the Starbucks and avocado toast then they can afford anything.

At that point Trump knew Homan was perfect for the job because he'd have to be loyal or face prison. Trump has publicly admitted he's willing to bribe people for their loyalty.

I wonder if any former Presidents will attend Trump's funeral?

With as sickly as he's been looking lately I'm not confident he will be around to find out

This article reminds me that there will likely be dozens of Americans who are seriously wounded or killed tonight by some "responsible gun owners" who fire a few rounds into the air to celebrate the new year.

I'm sure he's always insisted that he is a "responsible gun owner".

Some other details reported by the Journal -
Epstein's address book contained personal contact information for multiple Mar-a-lago spa employees.
Former employees reported that Marla Maples warned Trump and employees about Epstein's behavior years prior to him being banned from the club.

A couple of posts deserve a well-thought response which I hope to get to.
#122 | Posted by BellRinger

Arrested Development Narrator: He did not.

MAGATS are only pretending to care fraud. How do they expect to be taken seriously when they elected a man who has granted clemency to dozens of convicted *illionaires who have collectively ripped off billions from the American public and who himself is a convicted fraudster 34 times over.

And guns is a great example. Far more suicides by gun than other method, but we don't effectively regulate that. So why regulate the far fewer number of people who want to transition?
#158 | Posted by snoofy

Let me first say that I oppose the proposed regulations. That said, guns is a poor example when you consider the HHS proposed regulation would only apply to minors, a group of people that federal law generally prohibits from buying firearms.

Which is exactly the treatment path that US doctors most heavily rely on.
The therapy or the puberty blockers?
#149 | Posted by jpw

I was referring to therapy being the primary treatment. After that statement I went on to discuss the insurance industry data on puberty blockers.

They learned how to talk with each other privately.
#2 | Posted by LampLighter

You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

It's pretty clearly about more than simple puberty blockers. Especially given the section following the above text laying out support for mental health issues to work through the frustrations and feelings to avoid the negative effects of early transition. They even flat out say that minors receiving therapy/counseling resolve their issues without permanent medical intervention/modification.
#125 | Posted by jpw

Which is exactly the treatment path that US doctors most heavily rely on.
Even if one were to rely on Bellringers grossly inflated, false number of 0.3% of all US youth, then puberty blockers are used in extremely rare cases.
When one looks at the actual data then we see it's much more rare than that with the treatment being prescribed to less than 0.1% of trans or gender-diverse youth, a sub-group that makes up 3% of total youth. We are talking as low as 5k patients in total
I say that not to dismiss the significance of that number but to further emphasize what I already said in #86. There are a group of patients with physical and/or hormonal differences that make it so they can't be easily classified into the male/female/trans trichotomy that the discussion so often focuses on and none of the data that I've read appears to address how many of those patients are included among the total who have received puberty blockers or surgery.

Donald Trump is a murderer who violates international law with his orders to kill people who may or may not be running drugs to countries that are not the US. The only prize he deserves is a life sentence.

She believed that wildfires were started by space lasers and that the Sandy Hook and Parkland shootings were staged by the government. She's a very stupid person who is easily misled. She has no business being in Congress.

Vance has the personality of a dead moth. He tells his wife she's going to hell while he covers for child sex traffickers.

That is such a terrible argument. What is .3% of 340 million people? Oh, so it's "statistically" low, medically damaging but because it's statistically low, SCREW the victims.
Unless the left is able to scrub this history will view this horribly.
#62 | Posted by BellRinger

I didn't make an argument. I asked a question about a statistic. Here's another stat: studies indicate that up to 1.7% of U.S. children are born with intersex traits. This includes individuals whose chromosomal sex does not match their phenotypic sex, as well as those with other conditions affecting primary or secondary sexual characteristics. These conditions can result in atypical ------- appearance, disorders of sexual development, hormonal irregularities, breast development in males, excess facial or body hair in females, and similar variations.

So here's another question about a statistic: what percentage of that 0.3% is included within that 1.7%?

Now here's an argument for you. The data DHS is relying on to justify the proposed treatment bans does not attempt to answer that question. In fact, DHS does not even collect the patient-level data that would make answering it possible. As written, the regulations would either outright ban or severely restrict access to treatments for people with the conditions described above. While there is some wiggle room in regulations but their broad language is likely to lead providers to refuse care altogether. The risk of losing federal funding will outweigh the incentive to act in the best interest of the patient. Insurers will welcome new rules they can use to justify denial of coverage for the rare and often expensive treatments that may be needed by such patients.

We have already seen, since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, how treatment bans have lead to sharp increases in infant and maternal deaths along with avoidable infertility. The politicians who enacted those bans insist that these outcomes were not their intent, but they were entirely foreseeable. The same dynamic will play out here. Lawmakers will claim they never intended to block teenage boys from receiving hormones or surgery to treat gynecomastia, or to prevent girls with Turner syndrome from accessing treatments that protect sexual function, or any of the dozens of other similar foreseeable scenarios I can think of. Their intent doesn't change the reality that such bans will result in patient harm.

Do you honestly support chemical castration and surgical mutilation of minors?

#6 | Posted by BellRinger

What percent of American minors receive such treatments?

#9 | Posted by LampLighter

It was a deliberate understatement

Remember when MAGATS were decrying divisive rhetoric? Will they assign responsibility to Trump when one of these journalists on his enemies list is the target? The answer is no.

This is what real government censorship looks like.

Vance failed the morals test when he decided to run as vp along side of a rapist, insurrectionist.

Won't be surprised if the Royals very soon announce a move to Kansas too. They are also negotiating for a new stadium.
Kaufman stadium is in the same complex as Arrowhead in Jackson County.

Missouri is a s**t hole country.

#11 | Posted by Angrydad

I live in Missouri and confirm this to be accurate

Here's a summary I had Chatgpt create for those who have not watched the segment.

1. Opening Context:
The report starts by showing men being taken into custody and delivered to CECOT " the Salvadoran high-security facility known for harsh treatment.

2. Firsthand Interviews:
The segment includes on-camera interviews with former detainees who describe extremely harsh detention conditions: Men say they were shackled, forced to kneel for long periods, beaten until they bled, and in some accounts their heads were slammed against walls, breaking teeth. One interviewee describes being put in a dark, windowless room with no ventilation, beaten repeatedly during isolation.
Guards allegedly forced detainees to remain in stress positions for many hours, with beatings if they moved.

3. Former detainees describe severe conditions:
24-hour lighting that prevented sleep.
Lack of clean drinking water " having to drink the same water used for bathing/toilet purposes.
Reports of sexual abuse or assault by guards, according to interview testimonies.

4. Human Rights Analysis: The piece includes commentary from human-rights observers " including a Human Rights Watch representative " who say the conditions are consistent with systemic abuse or torture.
The segment cites data suggesting most detainees had no violent criminal history before being deported and imprisoned at CECOT.

5. Government Statements - The segment reportedly shows clips of statements by U.S. officials supportive of cooperation with El Salvador on detention policies, but also notes that key U.S. agencies declined to participate with on-camera responses for the version that leaked.