Remember when Republicans and the right-wing media attacked Biden for flying immigrants into the US. The claim was that Biden did this in the middle of the night to try and hide what was happening. Of course, Trump would never try to hide these flights bringing in White South African 'refugees'. No, he would do it out in the bright light of day, so as to rub it in the faces of everyone, showing them what he can get away with, to say nothing of trying to ingratiate himself with the far-right/White nationalist crowd.

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The effects of the tariffs are starting to be noticed, if not yet in the stores, it's manifesting itself in other ways...

Our oldest son, and some of his family, drove out from Texas about 10-days or so ago, via the Palm Springs area and eventually ending up in Monterey, CA to visit their oldest daughter and family. They then stopped and spent a couple days with us and then stopped again in the desert to visit our daughter-in-law's sister. They then left on Thursday arriving back in Katy, TX, late, this past Friday evening.

They've driven this same round trip from Texas, perhaps not the Monterey portion, but at least the Irvine, via Palm Springs, route many times over the years.

Our son said that on the way out here he noticed that truck traffic was a bit less but not really that noticeable if you didn't stop and think about it. However, on their way back to Texas this past Thursday and Friday, he said it was like night and day. He had never seen the roads so empty of big rigs. He said it was almost eerie, like some scene from an apocalyptic movie. What really got his attention was that they had driven that same route, at least between Katy and Palm Springs, only a week ago and in that time, things had totally changed.

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And speaking of federal workers leaving their jobs, Republicans in Congress are now talking about reducing the pension benefits for federal employees. They say that they're still looking for places where they can get the money needed to pay for Trump's 'big beautiful bill' that they've been working on for the last couple of months.

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IRS Hopes to Replace Fired Enforcement Workers with AI

Following considerable cuts to its enforcement workforce, the US's Internal Revenue Service (IRS) plans to use AI to supplement its ability to collect taxes from US citizens.

Posted by LampLighter at 11:31 PM

What could possibly go wrong...

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This is a very dangerous place to go since once this has been invoked, there would be nothing stopping Trump from arresting virtually anyone he deems to not be supporting America, which in his mind, is becoming more and more to mean himself.

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I mean, she had less than a year left in her 10-year term. Trump could have simply waited, but then he would not have seemed sufficiently mean spirited enough to the MAGA crowd as she was an obvious DEI hire, despite the fact that Dr. Hayden was an actual librarian, unlike most of the people who've held that position in the past.

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Why did the hebrews wander in the desert 40 years?
-one of them dropped a quarter

#6 | Posted by chiligordo at 2025-05-08 04:22 PM

And then they settled in the only place where there was NO oil.

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When a Pope selects his pontifical name, it's often to indicate how he wants the Church and the world to see him, that is when you look at the previous Pope who carried that name, in the case of our new Pope, he's telling people to look at what Pope Leo XIII was noted for.

For more on Pope Leo XIII, go to:

While Pope Leo XIV is an American from Chicago, and he attended the seminary in Chicago, he was ordained in Rome and until 2023, when he was made a Cardinal and was brought to Rome by Pope Francis, he had been serving virtually all of his liturgical career in Peru, where he became a naturalized citizen in 2015.

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The new Pope will be known as Pope Leo XIV.

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The average Conclave, at least for the last three or four Popes, has been two-days or so. The shortest Conclave was 10-hours in 1503. The longest was just short of three-years in 1268, after which was when then started locking the Cardinals in St. Peters so that they were motivated to be a bit more expeditious.

The new Pope is an American, Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, from Chicago.

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I guess adding the Bible to public school curriculums wasn't enough...

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Now Trump want's to rename Veteran's Day to 'Victory Day for World War I' and declare May 8th as 'Victory Day for World War II'. He implied that the United States won both of these wars, claiming that no on else came close to accomplishing what we did but we never celebrate that fact.

It's interesting in that Trump appears to not know when World War II actually ended. He's suggesting that May 8th is the appropriate day to celebrate this historical event. Do you know who else celebrates the end of World War II on May 8th? Russia. Just so that Trump knows, if he's trying to give the United States credit for winning World War II, he should be looking at making September 2nd 'Victory Day for World War II', as that's the day Japan formally surrendered, just like November 11th, 'Veterans Day' (what used to be called 'Armistice Day') was the day that Germany formally surrendered after World War I.

And just so that you know, it appears that the Pentagon is going ahead with plans to hold a military parade in Washington DC on June 14th to commemorate the birth of Donald J. Trump.

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And this is the same administration which is trying to remove any anti-Christian bias from the federal workforce.

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This has the potential for impacting Red states more than others...

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How is this not recognized as an opportunity for bribery...

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Arkansas is a Red State that voted 64.20% for the Dotard. "Vroom vroom!"

#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-22 12:09 PM

Which is exactly why Trump doesn't give a damn, those people would vote for him if he was burning their house down or raping their daughters, and he knows it. Besides, despite what he might be telling people, he's not running again so they can just go pound sand as far as he's concerned. After all, there's not a one of them in the whole bunch that he would allow in the front door of Mar-a-Lago, unless they were making a Doordash delivery from McDonald's.

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I agree, it appears that Hegseth has forgotten his promise to stop drinking if and when he was given the job as Defense Secretary. If he really did have a drinking problem, that's not something that you can just say, "Starting tomorrow morning, I'm not going to drink anymore."

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Shades of the 'final solution'...

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just like all the leftist deadbeats on 'the hill" I've "debated"with

saying the shapiro fire was set by a maga terrorist..

--they just can't accept the fact that he is an anarchist...probobaly

don't know what that is.

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-04-15 05:39 PM

Note that his social media posts seem to present him, if not as a MAGA nutjob, than at least someone who hated Democrats, like when he posted last year that, "People who support Joe Biden shouldn't be allowed to live".

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Only the best...

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About two years ago our financial advisor purchased a modest number of shares of Palantir as part of my wife's stock portfolio (not her IRA, but rather a non-exempt investment account where we had put some excess cash). Anyway, it's gone up in value about four-fold since then, certainly better than any of the other stocks in the account.

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If DOGE is using AI to spy on federal employees, law-enforcement will find ways to use AI to prosecute citizens.

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-04-13 09:24 AM

Shades of the 'Minority Report'...

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When asked about the Palm Sunday missile attack by Russia on a Ukrainian city where 31 people were killed and 80 people injured, Trump's response was "That was a mistake".

Exactly how does Trump know that? Who has he been in communication which where he would have been given that assurance?

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I've taken that same cognitive test many times. Back in 2017 I needed to have a heart valve replaced and I was given both a cognitive and physiological test a few days prior to the procedure. Then I was given the same tests a couple days after the procedure and then again at my 30-day follow-up and again at my 90-day follow up. It was to see if there had been any impact on my mental as well as my physical capabilities. These tests are given to patients who are facing a situation where there could be a problem as a result of either some preexisting condition, or as was in my case, the trauma of a serious surgical procedure. These tests are not designed to be passed or failed, they're designed to show if there has been a change in a person's mental and physical capabilities. The tests are very easy as they need to be able to show slight differences, not intelligence. There are no gotcha questions, in fact, there are not really any 'questions' in the classical sense of the word, but rather it consists of a series of visual and recognition tests, or ones where you're asked to identify simple relationships or remembering a short list of words or a simple phrase. 'Passing' the test doesn't mean that you're a genius, it means that your mind has not deteriorated since the last time that you took the test.

With that in mind, the reason Trump is always talking about having taken this amazing cognitive test just might be that there has been some concern by the doctors that there may be some deterioration in the mental capabilities of the president and therefore they've been including it as part of his annual physical. And if it's indeed true that other presidents have not been given this test, it just might be because their doctors felt that there was no need for them to take it.

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