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Originally Posted by Nebe

Id go 1 step further and say the minerals are lithium. Who in trumps inner circle needs lots of lithium?
Cant wait for the new release of the Tesla Mein Kamphermobile
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Good catch, I just read an article on that.

[RIROCKHOUND]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Id go 1 step further and say the minerals are lithium. Who in trumps inner circle needs lots of lithium?
Cant wait for the new release of the Tesla Mein Kamphermobile
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That’s the new model SS
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[Pete F.]

The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty.

But fear not, FFOTUS has a plan.

He says that RFK Jr and Dr Oz are working together to solve autism.
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[Pete F.]

Owning a Swastitruck doesn't sound like a very good plan for a long life, considering they’re more dangerous than the Pinto.
And just like Musk they’re coming unglued.
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[Nebe]

Originally Posted by spence

Good catch, I just read an article on that.

I rest my case.

https://kyivindependent.com/us-threa...-tell-reuters/
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[Got Stripers]

Quid pro quo with Ukraine at the request of Trump, I’m having a DejaVu moment, seems familiar.

[Pete F.]

Well this is strange. That Kash Patel is the first Trumpy person to stand up to Musk in public is interesting Kremlinologically speaking.
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[Got Stripers]

So the tcja extension will give the middle a 1.3 tax break, but the top 1% get 3.2, so a $70,000 break vs $1000, sounds fair right. Ah but remember how well that trickle down economics has worked haha. Projections of our national debt continue to go up NOT down under this new administration and the outlook for the economy isn’t great. Wondering when the stark reality of what is happening wakes up the maga brainwashed, if that is even possible.

[Pete F.]

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading.
Nervous Musk, Trump, Vance have all been outclassed in public arguments these last few days. Government failure, stock market crash, and dictatorial alliances are not popular. People are starting to realize that there is no truth here beyond the desire for personal wealth and power.
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[Pete F.]

A few facts about Ukraine

Zelensky does not imminently risk losing all of Ukraine.
• Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed.
• Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US
Constitution, which requires it).
• Ukraine has not suffered millions of losses.
• Europe provides about as much direct aid to Ukraine as the United States.
• European loans to Ukraine are backed by income from frozen Russian assets, not Ukraine.
• Ukraine did not misuse or lose half of the aid the United States has provided.
• Ukraine repeatedly invited Putin to negotiate in early 2022.
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Originally Posted by Pete F.

A few facts about Ukraine

Zelensky does not imminently risk losing all of Ukraine.
• Most Ukrainian cities have not been destroyed.
• Ukrainian law prohibits holding elections in wartime (unlike the US
Constitution, which requires it).
• Ukraine has not suffered millions of losses.
• Europe provides about as much direct aid to Ukraine as the United States.
• European loans to Ukraine are backed by income from frozen Russian assets, not Ukraine.
• Ukraine did not misuse or lose half of the aid the United States has provided.
• Ukraine repeatedly invited Putin to negotiate in early 2022.
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Salon is a more progressive site but this piece really speaks volumes.

But here’s the thing: The chaos Trump is unleashing won’t do America a damn bit of good. What’s the point of winning if it means losing the people who once admired you, who chose to stand with you around the world? Alienating voluntary friends, burning bridges that took decades to build — how does that make America great?

If you think those lost friends can be easily replaced with new ones, forget it. They can’t.

Trump’s new friends are not America’s friends. They may be his friends, at least for the moment: political opportunists, power-hungry strongmen and regimes that don’t care about the ideals America once stood for. They don’t admire its history, its culture, its principles. They barely know anything about it.

They’re celebrating one thing: the fact that the America that once stood in their way is crumbling. They don’t respect a strong America. They relish the idea of a weak America, , an America too distracted, too divided, too consumed by its own chaos to stop them. And don’t fool yourself into thinking they’re satisfied with just a piece of the pie.

They want the whole damn bakery.

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/23/ukr...ends--like-me/

[Pete F.]

There’s a discussion going on about what’s called The Mar a Lago Accords.
It’s a complicated convoluted set of financial assumptions, changes and things that are claimed to be in his power and would of course make America great again.
https://www.macrovoices.com/guest-co...-bianco-4/file

This assumes that the USA which generates about 26% of the world’s GDP can bully the rest of the G7 into submission on this and that the rest of the world will fall in line.
Unfortunately for Trump and us BRIC+ and the rest of the G7(excluding USA) control more than twice as much of the world’s GDP as the USA.
We’ve alienated much of the world both through past behavior and current.
Much of our current strength is derived from having the strongest military in the world and the dominant currency.
A multilateral agreement among most nations could quickly put the United States in a very weak position.
If Xi Jinping convinced Putin to withdraw from Ukraine and they negotiated a multilateral trade and military agreement with BRICS and what remains of the G7 excluding the USA there’s great advantages for the rest of the world and little Trump could do.
Threaten them with war and/or regime change after he’s decimated the USA military and CIA?
Impose tariffs and decimate what’s left of USA trade?
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[wdmso]

Trump announces conservative podcaster Dan Bongino as FBI deputy director

U.S. sides with Russia against Ukraine war resolution
Washington breaks with Europe, refusing to condemn Moscow on third anniversary of invasion

Dan Bongino, right-wing firebrand tapped to be FBI deputy director?

wow and we are in 2 months into this madness

[Pete F.]

Bongino is what you’d have if steroids and a shaved boner took human form.

New FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino: “The only thing that matters is power. Power. That is all that matters. A system of checks and balances? Haha! That’s a good one.”
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[Pete F.]

So, here’s what happened in Federal Court today when the judge asked the government a trick question

JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time?

GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that.
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[Pete F.]

REPORTER: Can you explain the rationale in having the US vote against the UN resolution that Ukraine proposed?

TRUMP: It's sort of self-evident I think

When he's right, he's right. Donald Trump is pro-Russia.
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Originally Posted by Pete F.

Bongino is what you’d have if steroids and a shaved boner took human form.

New FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino: “The only thing that matters is power. Power. That is all that matters. A system of checks and balances? Haha! That’s a good one.”
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It’s nearly as much of a sick joke pick as Gaetz was for AG if anyone can even remember him.

Even worse it sounds like FBI Director Patel (another sick joke) told the FBI they would make a traditional pick for Deputy from rank and file agents. Forget about the FBI investigating white collar crime or national security, we now have a secret police.

We might just see another cherished institution go right down the drain.

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Originally Posted by Pete F.

REPORTER: Can you explain the rationale in having the US vote against the UN resolution that Ukraine proposed?

TRUMP: It's sort of self-evident I think

When he's right, he's right. Donald Trump is pro-Russia.
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Seriously, Trump is now negotiating on Putin’s behalf. The United States, last bulwark of communism is siding with Russia, North Korea and Belarus.

Sounds like the EU is contemplating making their own deal for Ukrainian minerals and giving nearly 300B in frozen Russian assets to those fighting and dying for democracy. I’m not holding my breath.

Seeing Macron embarrass Trump in the Oval Office yesterday was priceless though, Marsh, are we winning yet?

[Pete F.]

What real men say

"I do not want my picture in your offices.
The President is not
an idol, an icon or a portrait.
Hang your kids' photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision."
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
2019 inaugural speech
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[Pete F.]

Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE?

White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”
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[wdmso]

Originally Posted by Pete F.

Reporter: Who is the administrator of DOGE?

White House secretary: “I’m not going to reveal the name of that person from this podium…”
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thats Code for I don't Know.

saw once fairly normal republican turned MAGA lunatic.Steve Scalise

held a press conference claiming because Democrats won't save republicans from themselves and vote to support the current Bill.

they are against America. and their cult are the only ones falling for it ... what Happened to Mandate

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Originally Posted by wdmso

thats Code for I don't Know.

Hardly, it’s a ‘eff you don’t need to know.

The second a figurehead is named they’ll be in front of a judge the same day. Normally they would be dragged into a congressional hearing but the Republicans are a complicit party to the arson and are terrified of their constituents and Musk.

This is really messed up.

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I’m just going to leave this right here.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...68387897265338

My suggestion is to not watch the video while drinking any hot beverages.

[Pete F.]

Originally Posted by spence

I’m just going to leave this right here.

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...68387897265338

My suggestion is to not watch the video while drinking any hot beverages.

Are the little statues at:26 FFOTUS on the toilet
Do you think he approved the fat man pic as the Genocide Duo at the end
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[Pete F.]

The market is up this morning but tariffs are coming

Aluminum producer Alcoa said on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s plan to impose a tariff on aluminum imports could cost about 100,000 US jobs and would itself not be enough to entice it to boost production in the country.

The tariff is set to take effect March 4.
Energy is a major cost in production of aluminum and Canadian hydro is cheap
That’s why lots of aluminum is processed from ore in Canada
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[Pete F.]

In today’s episode of “Destroying the United States Government”:

The Trump administration sets the stage for large-scale federal worker layoffs in a new memo.
Wants to cut it to government shutdown levels, only “essential workers”.

Here’s what happened to the economy last time we had a shutdown, permanent would be exponentially worse
The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the 2018-2019 shutdown cost the U.S. economy $11 billion, mainly due to federal workers reducing their spending in response to lost pay. Notably, this decrease in spending may not rebound even after workers receive their back pay.

The 2018-2019 shutdown delayed over $2 billion in loans to small businesses since the SBA was unable to make new loans.
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[Pete F.]

Don Jr. says the U.S. should abandon Ukraine and align with Russia:

“I honestly can’t even imagine that anyone in their right mind picking Ukraine as an ally when Russia is the other option… the U.S. should’ve been sending weapons to Russia.”

What does Russia have on the Trump family?
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[Pete F.]

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
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Originally Posted by Pete F.

The large clinical trial of a new Covid vaccine pill (not shot) was halted by RFK Jr www.aol.com/multimillion...
The Covid nasal vaccines may be next up to be axed.
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I’m sure Jr saw a blog post about a study from bumblefkuc southwest Mongolia where a sample of three ketamine dependent eunuchs and no control group showed little response to an experimental covid vaccine by a guy who knows a guy with a last name sharing a third letter of the kid who’s mom who created the nasal spray.

In other words, stop everything we need to look into this and consider all the science.

[wdmso]

USDA Invests Up To $1 Billion to Combat Avian Flu and Reduce Egg Prices. Washington, D.C., Feb. 26, 2025—U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a $1 billion-dollar comprehensive strategy to curb highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), protect the U.S. poultry industry, and lower egg prices


this is the strategy. spend spend and spend some more claiming the money will come from DOGE savings

The plan includes $500 million to upgrade biosecurity at poultry farms as well as bailing out farmers. $400 million in financial relief to farmers whose flocks have been decimated by the flu.The department will also explore more egg imports to help lower consumer prices, potential vaccines for laying hens a dismantling of regulations that Rollins said place an undue burden on egg producers.

How about just vaccinate the chickens Now. I am sure the only chickens to complain about being required to get the vaccine. will be Republican chickens that survive ...