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  #3421256 3-Oct-2025 22:29
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SaltyNZ:

 

Can't believe he didn't even tell us which product they were.

 

 

Nope, those are the ones he sells to the MAGA masses at high prices as merchandise. 😁

 

 




     

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  #3421278 4-Oct-2025 07:46
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Some of this week's cartoons:

 

The aftermath of Peter Hegseth's "pep talk" with the military...

 

 

...and after the orange buffoon took over said "pep talk":

 

 

No one must question Dear Leader:

 

 

And finally, the glaring differences between Reagan and Trump (both Republicans):

 

 

Tinkerisk:

 

Nope, those are the ones he sells to the MAGA masses at high prices as merchandise. 😁

 

 

Funny you should say that:

 

https://www.10news.com/politics/the-president/trump-1-coin-proposed-for-americas-250th-anniversary

 

U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach shared designs for a potential $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

 

One side of the coin shows a side profile of Trump. The reverse depicts him raising a fist in front of an American flag, with the words “fight, fight, fight” encircling the image.

 

Seriously?? If these hideous things ever entered circulation and I was handed one in a shop, I would either throw it away or ask for a $1 note 🙄 at least the president on the $1 note is worthy of my respect.

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  #3421285 4-Oct-2025 09:38
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quickymart: 

 

U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach shared designs for a potential $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump, timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

 

One side of the coin shows a side profile of Trump. The reverse depicts him raising a fist in front of an American flag, with the words “fight, fight, fight” encircling the image.

 



 

AlterNet - 'Something a fascist dictator would do': Internet erupts over proposal to mint Trump coin  (03 Oct 2025)

 

 

The Treasury Department is considering producing one-dollar coins emblazoned with images of President Donald Trump next year.




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  #3421447 4-Oct-2025 11:05
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  #3421464 4-Oct-2025 11:21
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"The Verge" article picked up by several in mainstream media.

All speech is good speech, unless questions Trump's infallibility then it's bad.

Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia: The Verge

Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.

When making the search about President Trump, AI Overviews will display a message that says, “An AI Overview is not available for this search”:

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  #3421523 4-Oct-2025 12:33
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Some might prefer not to have Ai summaries that may miss people seeing real content.
Older in depth articles seem to be harder to find ,if you are searching something historical.
I'm getting more from India news organizations for some reason.

Though now the cleaner page has results for ...

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  #3421524 4-Oct-2025 12:44
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kingdragonfly: Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia: The Verge

Google appears to have blocked AI search results for the query “does trump show signs of dementia” as well as other questions about his mental acuity, even though it will show AI results for similar searches about other presidents.

 

I have just done a Google search myself, and found remarkably little material on this topic, that is less than a year old.

 

I did find one good article that slipped in - it's 2 months old, but it is still topical and is freely available:

 

The Guardian - ‘He has trouble completing a thought’: bizarre public appearances again cast doubt on Trump’s mental acuity   (04 Aug 2025)

 

EDIT   extract:

At the beginning of July [2025], Trump was asked, “What is the next campaign promise that you plan to fulfill to the American people?”

 

He then rambled about meeting foreign leaders and removing regulations, adding:

 

 


"I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”

 




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  #3421564 4-Oct-2025 14:52
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Sideface:

 

AlterNet - 'Something a fascist dictator would do': Internet erupts over proposal to mint Trump coin  (03 Oct 2025)

 

 

The Treasury Department is considering producing one-dollar coins emblazoned with images of President Donald Trump next year.

 

 

The Penny, the Nickel, The Dime, The Quarter, The Pedo....

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  #3421565 4-Oct-2025 14:52
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The Grim Reaper

 

 

video link

 

In the wee hours of Friday morning, President Donald Trump posted a dark AI video parody set to the tune of Blue Öyster Cult's 1976 hit ("Don't Fear) The Reaper" - much to the concern of many.

 

In the video, Trump, clad in an ominous dark hooded robe, bangs on a bell while Vice President JD Vance plays the drums. 

 

In it, an AI-generated Russ Vought - Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget and a Project 2025 mastermind - is the grim reaper, carrying a scythe along a hallway lined with portraits of Democratic leaders. 

 

Vought, the video’s soundtrack explains, “wields the pen, the funds, and the brain” to enforce the president’s plans to axe federal workers.

 

 




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  #3421578 4-Oct-2025 16:22
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sir1963:

 

The Penny, the Nickel, The Dime, The Quarter, The Pedo....

 

 

I did see it suggested somewhere online that one side would be the orange buffoon, the other would be Epstein 🤔

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  #3421612 4-Oct-2025 20:29
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Obama's "Affordable Care Act"is the same as Obamacare. Trump prefers to call it Obamacare, because he hates Obama, and he wants to wipe Obama from history.

On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to "waive, defer, or grant exemptions to any provision of the [Obamacare] ACA to the maximum extent permitted by law."

Trump: "The fact is Obamacare [ACA] is a disaster by ending it everyone’s going to say, ‘Oh, it used to be so great.’ But it wasn’t great."

Trump has often tweeted or spoken that Obamacare "doesn't work," "is not affordable," and is "lousy health care." "People must remember that ObamaCare just doesn't work, and it is not affordable"

Trump on a full repeal said he has "concepts of a plan" for a replacement, while criticizing it as "lousy" or expensive. No replacement has ever appeared.

Short video below, about Republicans trying to kill Obama's "Affordable Care Act", ACA, credits

Premium mentioned for the cheapest plan, in Georgia, for a 62 year old.
USD $1,142 =
NZD $1,958 / month
or NZD $23,495/year

To make this plan so "cheap", it leans heavily on the ACA credit, what the government paid, of NZ $14,483/year.

Now let's compare the insurance premium against the Georgia's average salary is about USD $52,264/year, NZD $89,605. Without ACA, the cheapest annual insurance premium would consume about 37% of after-tax income.

A minimum wage worker in Georgia makes USD $7.25/hour, NZD $12.43/hour. Without the ACA contribution, the insurance premium is about 96% of their entire gross salary.

Even if you have this insurance, you got plenty of "blindspots". The combined out-of-pocket maximum for an individual is USD $9,100 per year, NZD $15,602/year

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  #3421675 4-Oct-2025 23:33
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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders explain why Congress isn't voting - they're not backing down on healthcare


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  #3421676 4-Oct-2025 23:38
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Sideface:

 

At the beginning of July [2025], Trump was asked, “What is the next campaign promise that you plan to fulfill to the American people?”

 

He then rambled about meeting foreign leaders and removing regulations, adding:

 

 


"I got rid of – just one I got rid of the other night, you buy a house, they have a faucet in the house, Joe, and the faucet the water doesn’t come out. They have a restrictor. You can’t – in areas where you have so much water they don’t know what to do with it. Uh, you have a shower head the shower doesn’t uh, the shower doesn’t, you think it’s not working. It is working. The water’s dripping out and that’s no good for me. I like this hair lace and – I like that hair nice and wet. Takes you – you have to stand in the shower for 20 minutes before you get the soap out of your hair. And I put a, a thing – and it sounds funny but it’s really not. It’s horrible. And uh, when you wash your hands, you turn on the faucet, no water comes out. You’re washing whole – water barely comes out it’s ridi – this was done by crazy people. And I wor – wrote it all off and got it approved in Congress so that they can’t just change it.”

 

 

 

And yet the Republicans wouldn't stop bleating about how "senile" Biden was 🙄

 

For sure, Biden had issues speaking - however he was a few years older and had had a stammer in his younger years.

 

In any case, I was hoping that the Republicans would put forward someone younger than the orange buffoon last year (Nikki Haley, anyone?), but oh no, they just couldn't get enough of Trump. Sigh.

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  #3421686 5-Oct-2025 09:06
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This is a bit of a meandering post, about robocallers scammers, and some good progress against phone scams despite Trump.

The USA and Canada had a real problem with scammers using spoofed caller id on telephones. Literally every year over a million complaints to the FCC about phone calls, mostly from scam victims.

The Americans and Canadians mandated cryptographic caller ID verification during the Biden years. It's called STIR/SHAKEN protocol.

Telcos there complained about cost, complexity, and legacy systems, but the FCC basically said “too bad, you must implement it by February 2025 deadline.”

The FCC has reported fewer robocall complaints. There were ~3.4 million robocall complaints in 2021, dropping to ~1.8 million in 2022.

If Trump was in office during all this, even that small victory would have been lost.

In January 2025, President Trump issued an executive order directing executive departments and agencies to “pause any currently pending proceedings” and review proposed or adopted rules not yet in effect.

Luckily major U.S. carriers (the Tier-1s) had implemented STIR/SHAKEN before Trump's executive order. About 86% of US traffic between top carriers was signed beforehand.

To end on a sour notes, in America complaints about unwanted texts have risen sharply. Many scammers are switching to texting or "robotexts" / phishing via SMS. Texts often has fewer protections or less authentication. One report noted that robotexts complaints have tripled since 2019.

Also scam calls are coming via carriers or paths that are less compliant or slower to implement STIR/SHAKEN. For example VoIP providers, calls coming from foreign uncompliant gateways, commonly India. Also, some of what looks like a "verified" call still is spam or scam. STIR/SHAKEN verifies that the caller ID matches the number sending the call, but it doesn’t check that the caller is benign.

Around robo-texts, the US was discussing 10DLC registration: businesses sending texts from local numbers must register with carriers via The Campaign Registry. Unregistered traffic risks being blocked or throttled. This weeds out a lot of spammy bulk senders and provides accountability.

But again Trump's executive order has trampled this underfoot accidently.

If you check out the Australian / New Zealand response to robo-calls / robo-texts, it's just lip service: scam call blocking heuristics, (useless) SMS sender ID registries (after the fact), and (useless) complaint hotlines. These minimal efforts help, but they don’t fundamentally fix the spoofing problems.

Though I think it's impossible under the current NZ government, something similar to forced 10DLC registration, a campaign registry, would be extremely helpful against spam TXT's.

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  #3421747 5-Oct-2025 12:58
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kingdragonfly: 

If you check out the Australian / New Zealand response to robo-calls / robo-texts, it's just lip service: scam call blocking heuristics, (useless) SMS sender ID registries (after the fact), and (useless) complaint hotlines. These minimal efforts help, but they don’t fundamentally fix the spoofing problems.

Though I think it's impossible under the current NZ government, something similar to forced 10DLC registration, a campaign registry, would be extremely helpful against spam TXT's.

 

 

 

Having worked with some of the MBIE people that deal with this stuff, it's a lot more than just lip service.

 

Also you will note that that there are two things we do have here that the US does not which has killed local spam dead: first, we don't penalise the carriers, we penalise whoever is responsible for sending the spam in the first place. If Joe's Plumbing spams you, MBIE will kick them to the curb if they don't take heed of the first warning. In the US they put all the onus on the carriers with no real penalties for the originators, and they exempt political parties from the rules too.

 

Second, we don't blindly accept any old CLI from the client. We only accept CLIs that come from the range actually assigned to them. That's 99% of the problem solved immediately. The other 1% is greedy telcos who don't ask questions as long as you pay the bill. Not a whole lot anyone can do about that other than blacklist the entire carrier which is a big deal, because it's pretty rare for a telco to have nothing but fraudulent customers. It's that last 1% that STIR/SHAKEN tries to address. Or at least, it's 1% here. It's probably a lot more than that in the land of the free.

 

 




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