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  #3312865 25-Nov-2024 20:45
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Interesting set of interviews with Trump voters who support his cabinet picks.  The tl;dr is that it's been business as usual / no change in Washington for decades now and anyone the Democrats would have brought in would just perpetuate this (true, look at Biden's record, nothing changed).  So they support Trump's picks because their term will see some change, for the first time in decades:

 

For Ed Bisch the desire to tear down parts of the system is deeply personal. He lost his 18-year-old son Eddie to a prescription opioid overdose in 2001, an early victim of an epidemic that has claimed close to 900,000 lives. Bisch voted solidly Democratic all the way up to supporting Hillary Clinton in 2016 in the belief that the party would take on the big pharma interests that caused the opioid epidemic. But little changed.

 

Then Bisch saw Trump in office and decided he was the president most likely to challenge the drug industry and what he sees as its corruption of American medicine and health regulation. Bisch is enthusiastic about Kennedy, who is a former heroin addict, and JD Vance as vice-president after he wrote a bestseller, Hillbilly Elegy, about growing up in a region blighted by drugs.

 

 


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  #3312940 26-Nov-2024 08:04
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The NY Times - Special Counsel Moves to Dismiss Charges Against Trump in 2020 Election Case

 

breaking

 


The special counsel bows to Justice Department policy against prosecuting sitting presidents.

 

The special counsel, Jack Smith, asked a federal judge in Washington on Monday to formally dismiss the indictment charging President-elect Donald J. Trump with plotting to subvert the 2020 election, bowing to the reality that Justice Department policy forbids pursuing prosecutions against sitting presidents.

 

Minutes after the filing in Washington, Mr. Smith made a similar filing to an appeals court in Atlanta, ending his attempts to reverse the dismissal of the other federal case against Mr. Trump - the one in which he stood accused of illegally holding on to classified documents after he left office. 

 

 

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  #3312994 26-Nov-2024 10:55
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I don't want to conjure up anything, but every time in America's history when it has threatened to go bankrupt, they have entered into a war or a world war.

 

It's certainly not there yet, but ... I really hate it when my premonitions come true. 😕





     

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  #3312997 26-Nov-2024 11:10
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It's ok, they're not financially bankrupt. They're only morally bankrupt. Completely different crisis axis.





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  #3313016 26-Nov-2024 12:08
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Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation: The New York Times

“America’s doctor” could soon have an even bigger hand in shaping health care in the United States.

On Tuesday, President-elect Donald J. Trump announced that he would nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz, a longtime TV personality, to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a powerful role that would give him control over a more than $1 trillion budget and influence over drug price negotiations, medication coverage decisions, the Affordable Care Act and more.
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But he has also sown misinformation — about Covid treatments, weight loss hacks and unproven supplements. He has invested in drug companies, even as he has publicly taken aim at Big Pharma, and has profited from a medical device that he helped invent but that has been subject to several recalls.

Over roughly two decades in the public eye, Dr. Oz has drawn the ire of medical experts, members of Congress and even his own peers, including a group of 10 doctors who called for him to be fired from a faculty position at Columbia University, arguing he had shown a “disdain for science.”
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Dr. Oz has a long history of promoting dubious weight loss products, including raspberry ketones, garcinia cambogia and green coffee bean extract, frequently extolling their “magic” or “miracle” ability to help people drop pounds. Many of these claims lack evidence or have been proved false.
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He also heavily promoted the malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine early on. He was in contact with advisers to President Trump about accelerating the approval to use hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus. At the time, the drugs had not been substantially tested against the virus. Scientists soon found those treatments were ineffective against it, and came with significant risks, including heart issues.
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He criticized the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations that young people get booster shots.

He has pushed for a greater emphasis on treatments, like monoclonal antibody infusions, instead of focusing on vaccination.

During his run for Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022, Dr. Oz also seized on conservative ire over lockdowns and pandemic restrictions. “It’s not a healthy way to live!” he said in one TikTok video.
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  #3313031 26-Nov-2024 12:47
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Video from 2000 of past co-founder of WWE and future Minister of Education Linda McMahon teaching her daughter a lesson.

I had originally wrote this post as "real video" but I know this is all a fever dream I'm having, and none of this is real. :(

Linda McMahon slaps her daughter Stephanie McMahon


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  #3313054 26-Nov-2024 14:04
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kingdragonfly: Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation: The New York Times 

 

He's a celebrity TV doctor rather than an active-practice doctor, he's been criticsed for years for this.  It'd be like Trump hiring the Roadrunner to run the Federal Highway Administration based on how well he deals with that coyote.


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  #3313055 26-Nov-2024 14:07
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neb:

 

kingdragonfly: Dr. Oz, Tapped to Run Medicare, Has a Record of Promoting Health Misinformation: The New York Times 

 

He's a celebrity TV doctor rather than an active-practice doctor, he's been criticsed for years for this.  It'd be like Trump hiring the Roadrunner to run the Federal Highway Administration based on how well he deals with that coyote.

 

 

 

 

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  #3313085 26-Nov-2024 15:55
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The Washington Post  - Opinion - The only qualification for Trump’s White House  (22 Nov 2024)

 

 

 





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  #3313243 26-Nov-2024 18:41
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Speaking of the orange buffoon's cabinet picks, seems there's a battle going on inside MAGAworld: https://www.alternet.org/trump-transition-big-blowup/

 

 

 

Also: an analysis of how Merrick Garland and Jack Smith (among others) dropped the ball when it came to charging Trump with various offenses:

 

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/special-counsel-jack-smith-drops-all-charges-against-donald-trump

 

Although Trump brazenly gamed the system, evading the rules that apply to everyone else—including the nearly 1,500 criminally charged followers who stormed the Capitol at his behest—there’s plenty of other blame to go around.

 

Now those are the people I'd happily refer to as "losers and suckers".

 

 


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  #3313357 27-Nov-2024 09:23
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Trump and John Key, not that different after all ? 

 

Trump Offers ‘Millions’ for Young Girl’s Hair in Bizarre Video
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-offers-millions-for-young-girls-hair-in-bizarre-video/

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Donald Trump was caught on camera offering to buy a young girl’s hair in a cringe-worthy encounter at his golf course in Palm Beach, Florida. The president-elect was driving his golf cart when he spotted the girl. “Oh I love that hair! I want her hair! Can I buy your hair? I’ll pay you millions for it,” he said. Trump then invited her to sit next to him and take a photo. 
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While our export industries consider, if Trump is going to tariff everyone else 20% -100% or more, where will we end up.  Last time we got hit, so I guess this time same but more.
Then there is the problem of our other markets being swamped by products from countries diversifying away from USA to where we are usually a strong exporter.


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  #3313469 27-Nov-2024 17:21
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Trump ups the ante on tariffs, vowing massive taxes on goods from Mexico, Canada and China on Day 1: CNN

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday promised massive hikes in tariffs on goods coming from Mexico, Canada and China starting on the first day of his administration, a policy that could sharply increase costs for American businesses and consumers.

The move, Trump said, will be in retaliation for illegal immigration and “crime and drugs” coming across the border.

“On January 20th, as one of my many first Executive Orders, I will sign all necessary documents to charge Mexico and Canada a 25% Tariff on ALL products coming into the United States, and its ridiculous Open Borders,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. “This Tariff will remain in effect until such time as Drugs, in particular Fentanyl, and all Illegal Aliens stop this Invasion of our Country!”

Similarly, Trump said that China will face higher tariffs on its goods – by 10% above any existing tariffs – until it prevents the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
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Although Trump has repeatedly said targeted foreign countries pay the tariffs, they are in fact paid by companies that purchase the imported goods – and those costs are typically passed onto American consumers.

Most mainstream economists believe tariffs will be inflationary, and the Peterson Institute for International Economics has estimated Trump’s proposed tariffs (before the new tariffs announced Monday night) would cost the typical US household over US $2,600 a year / NZD $4,400/year.
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  #3313474 27-Nov-2024 17:39
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As a nation in the age of networked economic systems, this is a surefire way to dig your own grave in the long term (as shown in the pic).





     

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  #3313479 27-Nov-2024 18:28
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"Everything Trump Touches Dies"

 

Every business that Trump has ever touched has failed - spectacularly.

 

Unfortunately he may have the same effect on the US economy, but without his usual convenient pass-the-buck option of bankruptcy.   🙄





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  #3313481 27-Nov-2024 18:34
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There's really only three main reasons for tariffs:

 

     

  1. Most common, to protect uncompetitive local industries.  Result is high prices and low-quality products from industries that don't have any competition.
  2. Uncommon and only very short-term, to punish countries or industries engaging in dumping.
  3. Even less common, in trade wars which assume you can take the pain for longer than the other side can take the pain.  Chinese citizens have said they'd eat grass before they let Trump win a trade war, which I can well believe.  US citizens have said hurr, durr, China will pay for it, we'll be fine.

 

Meanwhile US media is full of stories of panic buying as people with at least some understanding of economics try and front-run the price hikes, including guides on what to buy and how soon to buy it.


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