Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them: On constitutional matters of war powers and tariffs, Republican lawmakers have abandoned the field to Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
By Rachel Oswald | November 7, 2025, 5:42 PM
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/07/congress-war-powers-tariffs-trump
-republicans-venezuela-boat-strikes/
As U.S. President Donald Trump pushes the boundaries of executive power in the matters of trade and military action further and further, Congress’s conspicuous absence in pushing back against the president’s bold usurpation of authorities that the U.S. Constitution explicitly delegates to the legislative branch has become all the more glaring.
Recent votes in the Senate have highlighted just how far afield the Republican Party has traveled from its own previous long-standing stances in support of free trade. On other key votes in recent days on the permissibility of the Trump administration’s expanding regional maritime strikes on alleged drug-running vessels and the legality of any military action against the Venezuelan government, Republican lawmakers have overwhelmingly accepted the administration’s assertions that it is targeting “narco-terrorists” and have declined to preemptively put limitations on a potential effort to overthrow the Nicolás Maduro regime.
The Senate held votes last week on three separate measures to end a series of tariffs that Trump imposed this year, including his sweeping global tariffs; tariffs on Canada that the White House controversially justified by claiming a national fentanyl emergency existed on the northern border; and tariffs on Brazil that the president said were a response to the Brazilian Supreme Court’s criminal case against Trump ally and former President Jair Bolsonaro, who was convicted of attempting a coup after his 2022 election loss.
Though each of the resolutions narrowly passed the Senate after a couple of Republicans crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats, the measures face steep procedural hurdles in the House, where Republican leaders have more tools to preemptively block them from being voted on.
“I think we’ve seen probably for the last half-century an ebbing of congressional authority to the executive,” said Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff, a lead sponsor of two recently rejected war powers resolutions related to the military’s maritime attacks on alleged drug smugglers and the growing U.S. naval buildup near Venezuela.
“You could probably add up the sum total of that accretion of executive power in the last several decades, and it will be less than what’s happened in the last several months. Congress needs to reinsert itself, its control over the power of the purse and certainly its war power,” Schiff added.
With Congress under full Republican control and largely absenting itself from imposing any meaningful check on Trump, it will be likely the Supreme Court that acts first on the tariffs question. During oral arguments in a case before the high court this week, a majority of justices sounded skeptical about the administration’s contention that it has essentially unfettered powers to interfere with the U.S. economy through the mercurial imposition of tariffs.
“The legal basis for Trump’s use of tariffs is extremely weak,” said Jordan Tama, a professor at American University who specializes in congressional oversight of U.S. foreign policy. “The International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which the Trump administration has cited as the basis for the tariffs, authorizes the use of sanctions in the event of a national emergency that [constitutes] an unusual and extraordinary threat.”
Tama argued that long-running trade deficits could hardly be viewed as unusual under the
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The Trump admin is so much better with internal policy!
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Brennan, Page, & Strzok Hit Today With Russiagate Grand Jury Subpoenas, Up To 30 More Pending
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/brennan-page-strzok-hit-today-russ
iagate-grand-jury-subpoenas-30-more-pending
So well deserved!
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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Quote:Fuck you to death, Signym:
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The Trump admin is so much better with internal policy!
"A death sentence"
November 9, 2025 9:22 AM EST
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/promising-clinical-trials-in-alzheimers-p
revention/
Jake Heinrichs is an electrician who carries one of the early-onset genes. The disease claimed his grandmother, uncle, father and brother, all within the same age range. "Symptoms in the 40s and, and dying in 50s," he said.
For Heinrichs growing up, the word Alzheimer's was "a death sentence."
He started getting treatment in Bateman's study in 2013. Though he's definitely getting an antibody called lecanemab now, for the first seven years, he did not know if he was receiving an antibody or placebo. "I was at an age where I should have been showing signs," Heinrichs said, "and I am now at an age that I should probably not even be alive."
His wife, Rachel Chavkin, says over the past three years, he will occasionally repeat a question, but otherwise has shown no cognitive decline since she fell in love with him twenty years ago. "Jake is now 51, which is the age that his father was when he died," she said.
The Trump administration's budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of dollars in Alzheimer's research. The situation has already had an impact on Bateman's trials. "It's a precarious time," he said. "Research is not like building a building or painting a wall where you can start and then stop for a few years and then go back and resume what you were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby … if you stop doing that for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Fuck off, Second.
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The first clinical trials were funded by the two pharmas, Eisai and Biogen, that first produced lecanemab, a monoclonal antibody. (Any treatment ending in "mab" is a Monoclonal AntiBody.)
FDA approved lecanemab in 2023.
Heinrichs is no longer in a clinical trial, he's being treated with an FDA-approved medicine.
Don't you like the way CBS news twisted their reporting?
Quote:But not on Heinrich's treatment
We started getting treatment in Bateman's study in 2013. Though he's definitely getting an antibody called lecanemab now, for the first seven years, he did not know if he was receiving an antibody or placebo. "I was at an age where I should have been showing signs," Heinrichs said, "and I am now at an age that I should probably not even be alive."
His wife is Broadway director Rachel Chavkin. She says over the past three years, he will occasionally repeat a question, but otherwise has shown no cognitive decline since she fell in love with him twenty years ago. "Jake is now 51, which is the age that his father was when he died," she said.
The Trump administration's budget cuts have stopped or delayed millions of dollars in Alzheimer's research. The situation has already had an impact on Bateman's trials.
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"It's a precarious time," he said. "Research is not like building a building or painting a wall where you can start and then stop for a few years and then go back and resume what you were doing. It's much more like feeding a baby … if you stop doing that for a few weeks, it's irrecoverable."
The NIH IS funding research on leqanemab, but it's on people in different stages and with garden-variety Alzheimer's.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
Any other platform in the world and Second would have been gone a long time ago.
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix and Trumptards in general need a bullet in the back of their heads to fix what is wrong with them:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
We have vast records dating back to at least the 90's on most of this stuff now.
Even in that time, Trump is far from the least popular President in history.
You're just saying stupid shit, and that's because you read stupid shit.
Any other platform in the world and Second would have been gone a long time ago.
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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.
No kidding.
He must be feeling extra butt-hurt today. Did you see his response to me?
Maybe he's been slipping cogs lately and is desperate for Alzheimer's research.
Maybe he's upset by Ukraine's defeat in Pokrovsk.
Maybe he lost $$$ on a bad investment.
Hey SECOND, I have an idea: If you're that concerned about Alzheimer's research, why don't you take that fabulous wealth of yours and kick some in? Yanno, follow Gates' example?
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Yeah. I saw his response to you... Now adding Rape to his Murder fantasies...
That was what prompted me to tell him to fuck off again.
Personally, I think he's drinking now.
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Trump Urges GOP To Redirect "Democrat-Supported Insurance" Funds Directly To The American People
On Friday, the president posted on X that the insurance-industrial complex, aligned with the Democrats, has seen stock gains soar between 400% and nearly 1,200% since Obamacare was introduced. Meanwhile, the promise of lower healthcare costs under the ACA turned out to be an illusion, as Democrats pushed toward socialized healthcare while serving corporate interests first, not working-class families.
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It's exactly what happened when car insurance was mandated, and especially after technology got to the point that the government could easily deny you the sale of your yearly car registration if you couldn't prove you had insurance. Prices went through the roof and have continued to balloon out of control. You know all about that being in the first state where many of the homeowners insurance companies closed shop because it's just simply too expensive to insure people in California anymore.
I've said it 100 times before. Prices for healthcare would never have gotten anywhere near as high as they have if insurance was never a factor. You can simply look to how "relatively" cheap it is to go get glasses or have your teeth worked on compared to anything that takes place in a hospital and/or doctor's office. In most cases, Dentists and Optometrists have to charge what people can afford.
Government and Insurance cannot co-exist.
If the Government is going to ever fix healthcare, the only way for it to do that is to make major sweeping laws banning insurance and forcing hospitals and drug companies to charge reasonable rates for their goods and services. Short of that, the only way they're going to do it is if Government completely absorbs and takes over healthcare. But I sure as shit don't trust them to do it any better than it's being done now.
I hate to sound like a fucking communist, but when it comes to healthcare there shouldn't be trillionaire companies and billionaire CEOs. There shouldn't be any fucking profit in it except for money going back into R&D, and a reasonable salary being paid to the people doing the actual work.
And don't give me any of that bullshit about nobody would do that work without a profit motive. Of course the researchers and developers would be getting paid a reasonable wage for their work. But on top of that, they LOVE doing this work. A lot of them hung around college a lot longer than they needed to so they could continue to do this kind of work with the college grant backing while still eating Ramen noodles on their stipend.
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