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US military kills five people in strikes on alleged drug-trafficking boats in the Pacific
The latest strikes were off the coast of Colombia, while seven previous attacks in the Caribbean killed at least 32.
White House officials have tried to justify the increasing number of strikes with a dubious legal theory that claims the boats are affiliated with “designated terrorist organizations” with which the US was now in a “non-international armed conflict”.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/military-boat-strike-p
acific-pete-hegseth
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You know what the Trump Presidential Palace Ballroom and Casino needs? More floors above the ballroom. Rooms for guests to stay. And a penthouse suite for Trump so that he doesn't have to live in an old building with two stories and an attic. There is no view from a short and small White House, especially compared to the big, beautiful skyscraper being built next door.
No One Is Tearing Down the Trump Ballroom
By Noah Rothman | October 23, 2025 12:37 PM
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/no-one-is-tearing-down-the-trump
-ballroom/
Because he is the President, Trump does not need to obey the rules on building heights for his Trump Ballroom and Casino.
Washington, D.C. has a building height limit of 130 feet on business streets and 90 feet on residential streets, with a unique rule that a building's height is often limited to the width of the street plus 20 feet. Exceptions include a portion of Pennsylvania Avenue NW, where buildings can be up to 160 feet tall, and corner lots, which are subject to the height of the wider street. The Height of Buildings Act, passed in 1910, has preserved the city's horizontal skyline by preventing the construction of skyscrapers.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Are you really unaware that the National Debt has kept increasing because Republicans
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You can bitch about that all you want and nobody from either side is going to do anything about it. You'll see posts from me back in 2006 about this issue.
Things that rise exponentially in the long-term seldom benefit anyone.
One of two things is going to happen in our lifetime.
1. Things will continue on as they always have, and my generation's grandchildren will be in shock and awe to see the first time American debt reaches $1 Quadrillion.
2. Somebody is going to call in that debt and we're all going to officially be somebody's slave.
Looks like the national debt was only $27 Billion when my grandfather was born. We'd already added another $800 Billion to that number when I was born, and only a few years later before I was in preschool we had hit $1 Trillion. I feel like an old man now when I say I remember the days when the national debt was only $27 Trillion.
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For all that I've blessed, and all that I've wronged. In dreams until my death, I will wander on.
Shut the fuck up.
This has been a both parties fucking us problem for generations now.
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Quote:Explain this away by blaming both sides: Today, a major criminal who made Trump richer is pardoned for criminal activity by Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
This has been a both parties fucking us problem for generations now.
President Donald Trump has pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, who created the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and served prison time for failing to stop criminals from using the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking and terrorism.
The pardon caps a monthslong effort by Zhao, a billionaire commonly known as CZ in the crypto world and one of the biggest names in the industry. He and Binance have been key supporters of some of the Trump family’s crypto enterprises.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-pardons-binance-founder-changpeng
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Explain this away by blaming both sides
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up.
This has been a both parties fucking us problem for generations now.
No. Go fuck yourself.
I don't even read your Lefty bullshit.
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Quote:Trump did the same thing you are doing. Trump is falsely claiming Canadians put lefty bullshit words into Reagan's mouth: “The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs.”
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. Go fuck yourself.
I don't even read your Lefty bullshit.
Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over this TV ad
President Donald Trump said late Thursday that he was ending “all trade negotiations” with Canada because of a television ad opposing U.S. tariffs that he said misstated the facts and called “egregious behavior” aimed at influencing U.S. court decisions.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-canada-trade-tariffs-a0cfd202ef6f2205
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Trump claims that Reagan never said the words, but Canada has the unedited speech to prove that Trump is a lying sack of shit.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump did the same thing you are doing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. Go fuck yourself.
I don't even read your Lefty bullshit.
Good for him.
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Quote:Trump claims that Reagan never said the words, but Canada has the video of the unedited speech proving that Trump is a lying sack of shit.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump did the same thing you are doing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. Go fuck yourself.
I don't even read your Lefty bullshit.
Good for him.
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Trump’s Gilded Ballroom and the Fall of the American Republic
Tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand
By Paul Krugman | Oct 24, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gilded-ballroom-and-the-fall
I assume that everyone reading this newsletter knows that Donald Trump is in the process of destroying a large part of the White House so he can construct a 90,000 square foot gold-encrusted ballroom. And this is being done without any historical or architectural review, treating a national treasure that belongs to the people as if it were his own personal property. In true Trumpian style, this act of vandalism is being paid for by large corporate donors — mostly tech and crypto companies — seeking to buy Trump’s favor.
But let me digress momentarily from the norm-breaking, the outrageous sense of entitlement, and the implicit corruption to talk about Trump’s execrable taste, as shown by the renderings of the inside of the ballroom. Yes, taste.
Why, you might ask, at a moment of national crisis am I writing about Trump’s bad taste?
Masked government agents are snatching people off the street. The National Guard has been sent into major cities on the obviously false pretext that these cities are in chaos. The U.S. military is essentially murdering people on the high seas. Huge tariffs are, in addition to their economic costs, undermining a system of alliances former presidents spent generations building. Green energy is being eviscerated, vindictive prosecutions are the norm, and many millions are on course to lose their health insurance. So why do I want to talk about Trump’s appalling design sense?
But these aren’t separate issues, because tackiness and tyranny go hand in hand. Yes, Trump has terrible taste and probably would even if he didn’t have power and, thanks to that power, wealth. But the grotesqueness of his White House renovations is structural as well as personal. For the excess and ugliness serve a political purpose: to humiliate and intimidate. The tawdry grandiosity serves not only to glorify Trump’s fragile ego, but also to send the message that resistance is futile.
I’ve read uncountably many articles about Trump and his motivations, and I continue to think that one of the most insightful is a piece by Peter York, published early in Trump’s first term, titled “Trump’s Dictator Chic.” York is an authority on the design and décor choices of modern despots, from Saddam Hussein to Ferdinand Marcos to Nicolae Ceausescu. He noted that despite the vast differences in their cultural backgrounds, the palaces of despots all looked very similar: Gigantic rooms confected with massive amounts of gold, glass and marble, clearly in imitation of Versailles.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/03/trump-style-dictator-a
utocrats-design-214877/
York was shown photos of a New York apartment, at first not knowing who owned it. His reaction:
I know Manhattan and its sophisticated style pretty well, and at first glance, you would think the place didn’t belong to an American but to a Russian oligarch, or possibly a Saudi prince with a second home in the United States. There were overscaled rooms, and obviously incorrect-looking historical detailing and proportions. The home had lots of gilded French furniture and the strange impersonal look of a hotel lobby, with chairs and sofas placed uncomfortably far from one another. There were masses of gold …
The apartment was, of course, Donald Trump’s. The purpose of all this excess wasn’t personal pleasure: dictators’ palaces generally look very uncomfortable. Instead, it was to project a kind of power that bypasses all the boring checks and balances of collaboration and mutual responsibility and first-among-equals. It is about a single dominant personality.
So is it any surprise that Trump is turning the White House into Mar-a-Lago North?
This is all deeply alien to American tradition. Washington DC is a city full of grand monuments and impressive public buildings. Yet the style of these monuments and public buildings is gen
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Quote:Trump claims that Reagan never said the words, but Canada has the video of the unedited speech proving that Trump is a lying sack of shit.
Originally posted by second:Quote:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump did the same thing you are doing.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
No. Go fuck yourself.
I don't even read your Lefty bullshit.
Good for him.
I don't know what you're even talking about and I don't give a shit.
Nobody else does either, and a month from now you won't ever think about whatever it is that's got sand in your vagina today.
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