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  #3377706 28-May-2025 14:26
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Ironic how the orange buffoon was banging on about Biden's executive orders/pardons he signed being "done by autopen" and therefore (he thinks) "not legal" - yet Melania signing something is perfectly fine? In fact would an executive order signed by her even be binding?

 

One of the comments on this post did make me chuckle though - "Was it bring your third wife to work day?" 😀

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  #3377709 28-May-2025 14:44
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quickymart:

 

 

 

mad? ☑️ bad? ☑️ stupid? ☑️




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  #3377711 28-May-2025 15:20
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How many people even know what an autopen is?

If you do, you're probably either a specialty retailers or an elite. Who else could afford up to $10,000 for a machine does the signing for you? The priciest one costs $365,000.

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  #3377729 28-May-2025 18:14
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"The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history."
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German idealist philosophy

In 2024, Trump secured an average of 77.7% of the vote in farming-dependent counties

Here's an article from 2019.

3 reasons farmers hurt by the U.S.-China trade war still support Trump: PBS

America’s farmers have borne the brunt of China’s retaliation in the trade war that President Donald Trump launched in 2018.

One reason: China is the biggest buyer of many U.S. agricultural products, such as soybeans, grain sorghum, cotton and cattle hides, which made these products an obvious target for retaliatory tariffs.

The other related reason is more strategic: China hoped inflicting economic costs on U.S. farmers – who voted overwhelmingly for Trump in 2016 – would in turn put pressure on the president to end his trade war.

Although farmers have lost billions of dollars in exports, China’s strategy hasn’t created the intended effect, with surveys of farmers continuing to show strong support for the president.
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#1) The administration gave soybean, sorghum and other farmers $12 billion in assistance in 2018

#2) 44% said they believe the U.S. economy will be stronger in three years. [ According to the American Farm Bureau, farm bankruptcies rose by 20% shortly after survey over the previous year. Next year Covid struck.]

#3) “The Chinese do not play by the rules”

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  #3377982 29-May-2025 10:47
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The Washington Post - GOP rejects ‘millionaire tax’ pitch, advancing breaks for rich Americans

 

28 May 2025

 

House Republicans rejected a push by some allies of President Donald Trump to include tax hikes on the rich in sweeping legislation they passed last week - a decision that could carry repercussions into next year’s elections.




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  #3378070 29-May-2025 13:08
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Trump Pardoned Tax Cheat After Mother Attended $1 Million Dinner: New York Times

As Paul Walczak awaited sentencing early this year, his best hope for avoiding prison time rested with the newly inaugurated president.

Mr. Walczak, a former nursing home executive who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a pardon application to President Trump around Inauguration Day. The application focused not solely on Mr. Walczak’s offenses but also on the political activity of his mother, Elizabeth Fago.

Ms. Fago had raised millions of dollars for Mr. Trump’s campaigns and those of other Republicans, the application said. It also highlighted her connections to an effort to sabotage Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 campaign by publicizing the addiction diary of his daughter Ashley Biden — an episode that drew law enforcement scrutiny.
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Still, weeks went by and no pardon was forthcoming, even as Mr. Trump issued clemency grants to hundreds of other allies.

Then, Ms. Fago was invited to a $1-million-per-person fund-raising dinner last month that promised face-to-face access to Mr. Trump at his private Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla.

Less than three weeks after she attended the dinner, Mr. Trump signed a full and unconditional pardon.
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  #3378071 29-May-2025 13:15
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https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/us-court-blocks-trumps-tariffs

 

A federal court on Wednesday ruled that President Donald Trump overstepped his authority to impose sweeping tariffs that have raised the cost of imports for everyone from giant businesses to everyday Americans...A three-judge panel at the US Court of International Trade, a relatively low-profile court in Manhattan, stopped Trump’s global tariffs that he imposed citing emergency economic powers, including the “Liberation Day” tariffs he announced on April 2. It also prevents Trump from enforcing his tariffs placed earlier this year against China, Mexico and Canada, designed to combat fentanyl coming into the United States. 

 

Oh dear. How sad. Never mind 😀

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  #3378074 29-May-2025 13:26
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How the wheel turns.

 

One day you are leaving jolly old England, France, or Germany etc.
As the embedded class system locks in wealth for few, your opportunity is only hard labour to serve at their whim and pleasure. 

 

Next day you fight a war of independence to escape a mad King, and its class system.

 

After shaking off some dream about a shining something on a hill, principles of fairness and democracy.
Memory of it already fading as you rub sleep from your eyes. 

 

You wake, hand everything to the Rich, and Techbros that will ensure a new wide class divide.
Exalting your new mad Orange King.

Your opportunity becomes a slog of Gig-Gigs until you are no longer any use.

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  #3378079 29-May-2025 14:17
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US Federal Trade court rules almost all of Trump's tariffs are illegal, blocks them, rules all tariffs collected must be vacated (likely paid back).

 

 

Naturally, an appeal has been filed.




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  #3378125 29-May-2025 17:05
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Oh he's going to absolutely lose it over this.

 

Sensational.

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  #3378214 30-May-2025 07:51
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“I’m not happy about certain aspects of [the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB)], but I’m thrilled by other aspects of it,"

Reworded "F__k America and democracy. I’m not happy that my purchase of my f__k toy Trump. [The One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB)] isn't a 100% win"

My guess. loves
  • three-year federal tax rate of just 0.4%

  • extend provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts

  • SpaceX secured over $700 million in contracts from the U.S. Space Force in a single month

  • Trump's deregulatory stance Musk's ventures planting chips in your brain and using coal for AI, and general reducing regulatory hurdles


Hates
  • Musk's close ties to the Trump administration during the DOGE/OBBB era already attracted scrutiny.

  • Any tightening of immigration—particularly employment-based—constrains access to engineers, AI researchers, and rocket scientists.

  • High deficits → higher interest rates → more expensive borrowing

  • defunding basic research and public-private partnerships, means he'll won't get millions in research for free

  • OBBB Buy-American and protectionist clauses means Musk's companies hurt by retaliatory tariffs, and worse global supply chain, especially in semiconductors and rare earth materials


Neutral:
  • elimination of the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles could disadvantage newer EV manufacturers more reliant on subsidies, potentially giving Tesla, an established player, a competitive edge.

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  #3378223 30-May-2025 08:34
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kingdragonfly: 
Neutral:

 

  • elimination of the $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles could disadvantage newer EV manufacturers more reliant on subsidies, potentially giving Tesla, an established player, a competitive edge.


 

 

 

Heh, more than outweighed by the Swasticar effect, I would think.




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  #3378229 30-May-2025 09:13
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Its likely one of the few ways they are keeping the Chinese EVs out of America, imagine the carnage over there if the likes of BYD or MG got a foothold

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  #3378231 30-May-2025 09:24
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Federal appeals court temporarily halts the trade court decision, allowing tariff collections to continue for now.

 

 

Jeffrey Schwab, senior counsel at the nonprofit Liberty Justice Center who represented the five small businesses that sued, called the appeals court order a mere “procedural step.’' He expressed confidence that courts would block the tariffs, which represent “a direct threat’’ to his clients’ livelihoods.

 




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  #3378251 30-May-2025 10:40
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The Guardian - ‘Trump always chickens out’: TACO jibe ruffles president’s feathers

 

30 May 2025

 

Trump Always Chickens Out – or TACO for short.

 

Investors like narratives to explain the financial world, and they appear to have seized on this one: whenever Donald Trump faces a market backlash, he will back down.




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