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kingdragonfly

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#3443126 12-Dec-2025 15:37

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Trump must really hate tourists coming the USA.

Maybe he's trying to appeal to Christians who hate queuing up for Ark Encounter or Creation Museum or Holy Land USA

Or maybe he dislikes exotic foods, such Chinese buffets and sushi.

Atlanta activist charged with wiping phone before CBP search: Privacy Guides

Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta-based activist, was arrested and charged with destroying evidence after a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) unit searched his Google Pixel smartphone, 404 Media reports.

The search was conducted by the Tactical Terrorism Response Team, an elite unit of the CBP, on January 25, 2025. Tunick supposedly erased the data of his Pixel smartphone before the CBP officer searched his device.

Although the circumstances of his arrest was unclear, an official indictment states that Tunick allegedly did "knowingly destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, and otherwise take any action to delete the digital contents of a Google Pixel cellular phone." There is no evidence that Tunick committed any crimes beyond this charge. [Other reports was it was a traffic stop regarding his tail light]
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Cop Breaks The Judge’s Tail Light Trying To Frame Her

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#3443133 12-Dec-2025 16:35

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The FIFA World Cup is going to be a joke. Except for the people who will be impacted by ICE, BCP and other crap.

I've decided it is not worth watching it either.

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#3443147 12-Dec-2025 18:12

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I'm wondering this too, Christ alone knows he's opened an investigation into almost anyone/anything/any company that's p'd him off since he came back to office 🤷‍♂️

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#3443157 12-Dec-2025 18:38

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America stinks, and Americans think it's perfume.

Qui nihil scit, omnia credere debet.
Firewalls do NOT stop dragons.
In effect we have everything to hide from someone, and no idea who someone is.

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#3443215 12-Dec-2025 19:17

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https://archive.ph/t1zcn

I found this an interesting read, it's a look at why Democrats lost last year, this story puts forward the view that it was because they stayed home instead of getting out to vote.

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#3443287 12-Dec-2025 21:19

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Trump's Special Warcrime Operation about to kick off. The combat rescue squadrons have arrived.

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#3443288 12-Dec-2025 21:29

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Voter suppression is a thing.
Social media is made for it, now with Ai its even easier. All you need is money.
Don't need the large bot wrangling workforce in a tower block like Prigozhin.

Convince their people their vote will not count or matter. Sleep in.
Google, Meta etc only too happy to take your coin to identify 'their people' to target.

Convince their people that 'some of what you want' is not good enough you need 100%.
'better', 'more', its not good enough, I want it all I want it now!

USA Greens did everything Trump could hope implacable opponents to do
Rather than looking at a massive calamity for 'any' Green initiatives and doing the sensible thing.

Advocates for other concerns GOP, Trump is unfriendly to.
I'd be sure they suddenly found a spike in donors for '100% or nothing' campaigns.
Where did that money come from? Roger Stone has spoken about strategically financing opponents.

Sometimes you need to hold the line, before you can make that next advance.

Convince people that obviously dramatically different candidates are the same.
Its social media just flood the zone.

Pay influencers well to sow all those seeds of doubt.
You may not get democrat leaning voters to vote for Trump, just get them not to vote against him.

Trump and GOP got the trifecta.
Absolutists hands are clean, but all your programs to make the world better are wiped clean too.

This kind of thing will be very active in NZ come election campaign time.

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#3443342 12-Dec-2025 22:07

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Would be interesting to see the respective outcomes if we held our election around the same time as the US midterms next year.

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#3443451 13-Dec-2025 07:44

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Your Saturday morning cartoons:

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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-hand-picked-rnc-chair-predicts-doom-midterms-joe-gruters-affordability

Lots of good reading on The Bulwark today (especially a few midterm predictions for next year), but what struck me was actually one of the comments about Republicans in this day and age under the rule of the orange buffoon:

What terrifies these cowards isn’t electoral loss. It’s the recognition that the creature they nurtured now controls the feeding schedule. The red hats write the menu, set the price, and demand only one course. Obedience, and anyone who refuses to swallow gets eaten instead.

Harsh but quite accurate.

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#3443628 13-Dec-2025 14:12

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SaltyNZ:
Trump's Special Warcrime Operation about to kick off. The combat rescue squadrons have arrived.

Venezuela's only hope is that the organizers and leaders are Trump appointees.

You'll remember Trump has many times claimed his superior expertise

“There’s nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.”
“I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me.”
“And I know because I rebuilt that army, and I rebuilt the military -- I rebuilt it like nobody has ever rebuilt it before
“I know more about offense and defense than the generals will ever understand, believe me.”
“It would take an hour and a half to learn everything there is to learn about missiles. I think I know most of it anyway.”

So if Trump steps up, and actually cosplays as a general, Venezuela may successfully annex the USA.

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House Republicans propose healthcare plan with no extension of tax credits: The Guardian

With health insurance premiums set to rise sharply for at least 22 million Americans who purchase their coverage through Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces using tax credits that will expire at the end of this year unless Congress acts, the US House speaker Mike Johnson unveiled a Republican alternative late Friday.

Johnson’s bill comes as his party refuses to extend the enhanced tax subsidies for people who buy policies through the ACA, dubbed Obamacare by opponents of the 2010 law. Those subsidies help lower premiums for Americans who do not get insurance through employers.
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Time is running out for Congress to act. Democrats engineered the longest federal government shutdown ever this fall in a failed effort to force Republicans to the negotiating table on healthcare.

But after promising votes, the Senate failed this week to advance either a Republican healthcare plan or the Democratic bill to extend the tax credits for three years.
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Trump: "China, youse get your AI chips, but we's get a little taste, capisce?"

China: "great. but what about your people? Dey ain't going to like this"

Trump: "Hey, let me worry about my people. I told them to hold onto the the very best stuff for locals -- they's are seriously hooked on the stuff, so we's got to protect our investment. Plus either fall in line or ..." [runs finger across throat]

Trump gives Nvidia green light to sell advanced AI chips to China: BBC

US President Donald Trump has announced that he will allow AI chip giant Nvidia to sell its advanced H200 chips to "approved customers" in China.

"We will protect National Security, create American Jobs, and keep America's lead in AI," Trump said on social media on Monday.
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Nvidia - both the world's leading chip firm and most valuable company - has found itself at the centre of a geopolitical tug-of-war between the US and China in recent months, and had been banned from selling its most advanced chips to Beijing.

Trump reversed the chip-selling ban in July, but demanded that Nvidia pay 15% of its Chinese revenues to the US government.

Beijing then reportedly ordered its tech companies to stop buying Nvidia chips manufactured for use in the Chinese market.
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Nvidia's H200 is a generation behind its Blackwell chip, which is considered to be the world's most advanced AI semiconductor.
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Nvidia hailed Trump's announcement on Monday.
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Trump said "$25% [sic] will be paid to the United States of America" in his post.

The BBC has reached out to the White House for clarification on the arrangement, which will likely face opposition from national security hawks in Congress.
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Trump presents himself as a champion of “states’ rights” — but his record shows that principle only seems to matter when it serves his own interests. The moment state laws get in his way, especially on issues like climate or artificial intelligence, he’s suddenly all-in on sweeping federal power.

When states began passing laws to rein in artificial intelligence, Trump suddenly dropped the “let the states decide” act.

These laws are aimed at exactly the kinds of protections Trump claims to respect when it’s convenient such as imposing accountability on powerful systems. Yet his executive order explicitly pushes federal agencies to go after them as “onerous.”. Trump pro–state rights, in his own framing:

On “states’ rights” generally:

“States know their people better than Washington does, and they should have the freedom to govern themselves without constant interference from federal agencies.”
“The Constitution sets clear limits on federal power, and returning authority to the states is one of the best ways to keep Washington in check.”
“When the federal government gets too big, too controlling, or too aggressive, states are the last line of defense for the American people.”
“Local leaders are closer to the voters, so decisions made at the state level are more accountable and more responsive.”

On gun rights:

“Federal agencies shouldn’t be inventing new gun rules that override the rights of states and their citizens.”
“States should be free to protect Second Amendment rights without Washington trying to impose new restrictions from the top down.”
“When federal regulators go beyond what Congress intended, states have every right to push back.”

On abortion rights:

Trump “promised to leave abortion regulation to the states.”
He pledged that “abortion should be left to the state’s discretion.”
He said each state should be free to set its own abortion laws, reflecting the will of its voters.

On education and local control:

“Education decisions belong with parents, teachers, and local communities — not with federal bureaucrats who have never set foot in your school.”
“States should have the power to design their own education systems, including school choice and voucher programs that work for their families.”
“The federal government shouldn’t be dictating curriculum or classroom policy; that’s for states to decide.”

On elections and state power:

“Each state has the constitutional authority to run its own elections, and they should be able to set voting rules without federal interference.”
“Washington shouldn’t be telling states how to manage voter ID, mail-in ballots, or election security — those decisions belong to the states.”
“Strong state level election laws are essential for protecting the integrity of the vote.”

On federal overreach in general:

“Too many federal agencies act like they’re above the law, and states are the ones who end up paying the price.”
“Rolling back federal overreach is one of the best ways to restore freedom and return power to the American people.”
“States should not be forced to follow regulations that go far beyond what Congress ever intended.”

Trump Attempts to Preempt State AI Regulation Through Executive Order: Ropes & Gray (a leading US law firm)

Following several unsuccessful attempts to secure federal preemption of state artificial intelligence (“AI”) regulations through Congress

first, through the “Big Beautiful Bill,”
then as part of the National Defense Authorization Act

President Trump has turned to executive action, signing a sweeping executive order last night, entitled “Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence” (the “Executive Order”).

Consistent with the deregulatory priorities outlined in Trump’s “America’s AI Action Plan” published this summer, the Executive Order directs federal agencies to challenge state laws regulating AI, with the stated goals of establishing a “minimally burdensome national standard” for AI and preempting conflicting state regulations.
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the Executive Order signals a focus on state AI laws that aim to prevent discrimination and ensure algorithmic transparency and accountability, particularly those laws that impose compliance and disclosure obligations which could be deemed “onerous.” Key examples include:

Colorado’s AI Act
California’s transparency and algorithmic accountability statutes
Texas’s Responsible Artificial Intelligence Governance Act
Utah’s AI Policy Act.

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#3443821 14-Dec-2025 07:45

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Did they think he could fix things because he’s a businessman? You know—a businessman with six bankruptcies? Anyone capable of even a semblance of critical thinking who spent 10 minutes examining Trump’s business career could see that what he mostly did was drive companies into the ground, stiff contractors, fend off lawsuits, and skate through it all because he was a celebrity, which he figured out how to parlay into profit by selling the right to put his name on buildings.

A critical look at why people voted for the orange buffoon, or - worse still - thought that he cared enough about them to actually lower prices of anything (spoiler: he didn't give a crap about them).

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