This is of particular concern for someone like myself who has been given a chance to survive longer than I would have 11-years ago, before the cancer drug regimen that I'm now on was available. And I suspect that federal research dollars played a significant role in the development of the drugs which make up this regimen.

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I suppose the next thing is that Trump will want to do the same with labor and inflation reports as well.

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I thought lawyers could be barred from practicing if they knowingly lied in court or to a judge.

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What's Trump going to do now, raise the tariffs on Brazil to 100%...

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require prospective citizens to eat a bacon cheeseburger.
#7 | Posted by easy_meat

Just be honest and say "No Jews."

#9 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-09-09 02:36 PM

Or no Muslims...

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This is like when during the Jim Crow era, across the south they made African-Americans pass a written test before they were allowed to register to vote, and then on election day, they collected a 'poll tax'. Note that these were applied on per person basis, meaning that the local authorities could exempt anyone they wished.

It will be interesting to see if the test will be geared to White South Africans...

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And then Trump fell asleep during the final set and it appeared that he also failed to stand and applaud the winner at the end of the match.

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And the irony is that the Republicans have for years been arguing that we needed to get rid of the 'death tax' (AKA, inheritance tax) so as to protect small to medium sized family farms from having to be sold to pay off the taxes when the owner dies. Well, now the policies of their party is forcing the sale of those same farms while the owners are still alive and kicking.

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Cops and donuts. Who knew?

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-09-04 08:55 PM

Actually 'Cops & Doughnuts' is a pretty cool place. We've stopped there several times as our youngest son lives just a few miles from Clare, Michigan:

Despite the fact that Trump is not sure whether he needs the approval of Congress, he's already ordered that the marque on the Pentagon be changed from 'Department of Defense; to 'Department of War' (there was a video of an employee scraping off the letters of the word 'Defense' on the news last night).

Trump is now suggesting that when the War Department was changed to the Department of Defense after WWII, that the Pentagon had gone 'woke' and that this cost us victories in Korea and Vietnam:

After the last one? The one with the senior citizens and dei chuckleheads in their wrinkled unisex pajamasmock who couldn't even stay in step?

#7 | Posted by easy_meat at 2025-08-31 03:48 PM

Were you ever in the service, or more specifically, the Army? Have you ever heard of 'route step'? It's a manner of marching which while the organization of the ranks are maintained, the members are not expected to march in cadence. This is the way you march if you're having to go a long distance, as was the case during the parade in June. I suspect that Trump was expecting something along the lines of what you'd see in Red Square or in North Korea, and perhaps even from some old newsreels of Germany troops marching into Paris during WWII.

And for the record; I was in the Army and I did my share of marching, so I know of what I speak.

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But to what purpose? Is he simply 'rattling a sword' or does he honestly think that he could either blockade ships coming and going into Venezuelan ports or does he think that he could land troops and take over at least part of the country?

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Not sure what sort of 'parade' could be held to recognize the Navy's 250th birthday. Perhaps a 'parade' of ships up Chesapeake Bay, or along the shore of Long Island, or maybe passing in review in front of Mar-a-Lago.

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Well, this is a bummer (not)...

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Someone needs to tell Trump that the federal government already owns Union Station and has always been responsible for at least a portion of it's day-to-day operation and maintenance to say nothing of its long term responsibility.

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Is this had been Obama or Biden or Harris, the Right would be demanding that they be tried for treason, and if convicted, executed.

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This is ridiculous. Trying to one up Trump. Instead of one uping him. Maybe chart a different course of action. Selling Bibles isn't it.

#2 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-08-26 10:26 PM

There never was a Bible for sale. This was intended to mock Trump and his merch efforts.

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On the same day that two young lives were snuffed out while in church, praying, and another 17 people were wounded, some seriously, Trump decides that now would be a good time to brag about all of the money what he's hauled in since taking office for a second time:

Let's hope this portends things to come...

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There's no way foreign adversaries or terrorists or drug cartels can ever get to us in this golden age of America.

#6 | Posted by horstngraben at 2025-08-22 02:22 PM

No, all they have to do is get invited to Mar-a-Lago and just sit around listening to Trump telling his guests all sorts of confidential, if not top secret, information. Or they could simply ask where the bathrooms were...

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It appears that the Right is also attacking Cracker Barrel for changes made to their famous peg-board game, which many people play while they're waiting for their orders to arrive (FWIW, I've been able to solve the game, getting to where only one peg was left on the board):

Can't they work in a factory? Manufacturing is coming back to the US.

#8 | Posted by madbomber at 2025-08-20 02:57 PM

Or picking crops and processing chickens, after all of the immigrants have been deported.

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I thought Trump's meeting with Putin was supposed to be about trying to find a way of ending the war in Ukraine, but now we've learned that they talked about how elections are held in the United States and how the 2020 election was probably stolen from Trump. What a waste of time and resources. And now we have Trump bragging on Truth Social about how at no time in history has so many European leaders will have been in the White House at one time, as if it's something to be proud of. After all, he's the one who's created the emergency which has led to this meeting in the first place, and now he's making it sound like he's accomplished some great diplomatic feat.

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About a million, probably more like two or three million by now, Russians "remembered" they are Jewish and emigrated to Israel, after the fall of the Soviet Union.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-14 04:12 PM

One of the guys I worked with, he and his family were Jewish and they immigrated to the US from Leningrad when he was 17-years old. Now they could have gone directly to Israel, with new passports in hand, if they had wanted to, but an uncle had immigrated to the US a few years earlier and they wanted to join him, however, that meant that they had to wait something like seven-months in a fleabag hotel in Stockholm waiting for the US government to process their application for asylum.

I first met Mike (his actual name was Mikhail) years after he had graduated from engineering school and was working for our company out here in SoCal (for a short period of time, he actually worked for me). Anyway, he was quite proud of the fact that he'd learned to speak English without any trace of a Russian accent (I've met several Russians who've managed to accomplish this, which was always a bit scary). The problem was that his family, when they came to the US, settled in New Jersey, and so when Mike was honing his English skills, he was also acquiring a New Jersey accent, which we always kidded him about.

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What does the constitution say about this?

Article 1, Section 9

"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."

#10 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-08-12 06:18 PM

This actually applies to states taxing goods moving between states. It does not apply to goods moving out of the country. That being said, I do believe that it's shortsighted to impose taxes on exports. Imports are bad enough, but taxing exports just makes American goods more expensive from the get go.

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