Legitimate gripes about Trump
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UPDATED: Tuesday, August 25, 2026 18:50
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A genocide is happening in Gaza. We should say so.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/22/israel-gaza-ethnic-
cleansing-genocide-2/
We can no longer avoid these uncomfortable truths.
CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/cdc-can-no-longer-help-prevent-
lead-poisoning-in-children-state-officials-say/
'I Think It’s Wrong To Burn Children Alive'
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/05/28/sorry-if-this-is-antisemiti
c-but-i-think-its-wrong-to-burn-children-alive/
they voted Republican now moving back to Bernie
Former Trump Voters in Warren, Michigan, Talk About What Changed Their Mind
Zionism much? War everywhere again
Warmongering Republicans Are Not 'Pro-Life'
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/warmongering-republicans-are
-not-pro-life/
Australia pushes tariffs removal amid US court ruling
https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8979471/australia-pushes-tariffs-r
emoval-amid-us-court-ruling/
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Shut up faggot.
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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics
Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’
https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344
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India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics
Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’
https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344
Will be appealed in no time at all.
Eventually we're just going to ignore these things.
Judges don't actually have this power, and we don't need to play ball with them.
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
India Hindu news reports on the Aussie politics
Australia lauds US court ruling on Trump tariffs, reiterates trade duties are ‘unjustified’
https://www.wionews.com/world/australia-lauds-us-court-ruling-on-trump
-tariffs-reiterates-trade-duties-are-unjustified-1748518668344]
Will be appealed in no time at all.
Eventually we're just going to ignore these things.
Judges don't actually have this power, and we don't need to play ball with them.
Saving the Court from Itself
https://chroniclesmagazine.org/web/saving-the-court-from-itself/
We're no more than several months away from sweeping changes, and all of these activist judges will be completely defanged.
YOU did this, Democrats.
That's the last thing your dead party will do before it's gone forever.
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Striking Down Trump’s Tariffs Isn’t a Judicial Coup
Congress, not the executive branch, has the power to enact tariffs.
By Conor Friedersdorf | May 29, 2025, 10:09 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-tariffs-court-
rulings/682964/
The debate over President Donald Trump’s tariffs often focuses on whether they are prudent. Defenders insist that Trump’s tariffs will help make America great again and boost national security. Critics counter that they’ll wreck the economy. But the strongest argument against the tariffs is actually that they are unlawful. Neither the Constitution nor any statute authorizes Trump to impose what he ordered.
Now, months after sticklers for the rule of law began making that argument, it has finally been vindicated: Yesterday, the United States Court of International Trade, the federal court with jurisdiction over civil actions related to tariffs, struck down almost all of Trump’s tariffs in a 49-page ruling. The decision includes a detailed discussion of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the 1977 law delegating increased power over trade to the president during national emergencies, which the White House had cited to support its moves. It concludes that the law does not authorize any of Trump’s tariff orders. https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf
Administration officials quickly challenged the ruling’s legitimacy. “It is not for unelected judges to decide how to properly address a national emergency,” White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in a statement. “The judicial coup is out of control,” Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller posted on social media. But their objections are dubious, not because the judiciary never overreaches, but because at least three features of this dispute make the argument for judicial overreach here especially weak.
First, the Constitution is clear: Article I delegates the tariff power to Congress, and Article II fails to vest that power in the presidency. So the Trump administration begins from a weak position. And the court’s ruling did not arrogate the tariff power to the judiciary, which might have warranted describing it as “a judicial coup.” It merely affirmed Congress’s power over tariffs. Americans need not fear a judicial dictatorship here. Congress can do whatever it likes. Indeed, it could pass a law reinstating all of Trump’s tariffs today without violating the court’s ruling. But Congress is extremely unlikely to do so, in part because Trump’s tariff policy clearly lacks public support; for example, a recent poll found that 63 percent of Americans disapprove of it.
Second, the plaintiffs in this particular lawsuit include the states of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Vermont––all democratically accountable entities in a federal system where states are meant to act as a check on unlawful exercises of federal power. All of those states asked the court to rule in this manner to vindicate their rights under the law. As Oregon’s attorney general put it, “We brought this case because the Constitution doesn’t give any president unchecked authority to upend the economy.” States controlled by both Republicans and Democrats routinely file lawsuits asking the judiciary to strike down purportedly unlawful actions by the president. There is bipartisan consensus that such judicial review is legitimate, not couplike, and such rulings have constrained presidents from both parties.
Third, when Congress created the Court of International Trade and later defined its jurisdiction, its precise intent was to create an arm of the judiciary that would exercise authority over trade disputes. Congress made a deliberate choice to alter an earlier law vesting that power in the Treasury Department, under the executive branch, and deliberately vested it in a court instead. To quote from the 1980 law that defined its powers, “The Court of International Trade shall have exclusive jurisdiction of any civil action commenced against the United
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Trump points to $5.1 trillion in investments from the Middle East that aren’t exactly real
What’s worse than the president pointing to a made-up investment figure? His willingness to make plans to spend some of the money that doesn’t exist.
By Steve Benen | May 29, 2025, 2:22 PM CDT
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-points-51-tr
illion-investments-middle-east-arent-exactly-real-rcna209811
At an Oval Office event on Wednesday, a reporter asked Donald Trump why he never followed through on his threats to impose economic sanctions on Russia. The president never quite got around to answering the question, but he did seem eager to emphasize a completely unrelated point.
“I went to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and [the United Arab Emirates], and we brought back $5.1 trillion,” Trump claimed. “So, I made that money in about two hours, the money that we’re talking about.” After briefly suggesting — without a shred of evidence — that Ukraine has misused U.S. security aid, the Republican went on say, “I’m more interested because I picked up $5.1 trillion and, by the way, got a beautiful big, magnificent free airplane for the United States Air Force, OK? Very proud of that, too.”
For now, let’s not dwell on the fact that the plane from Qatar wasn’t free, and it’s proving to be far more controversial than the White House cares to admit. Let’s instead consider that statistic the president is apparently quite excited about.
If the “$5.1 trillion” figure sounds at all familiar, that’s because Trump can’t seem to stop talking about it. He referenced it a week ago when unveiling the “Make America Healthy Again” report, which came two days after he pushed the same line during a visit to Capitol Hill, which came one day after he repeated the talking point at the White House.
For reasons unknown, the president went on to say last week that the figure might even be “$7 trillion” at some undetermined point in the future.
To be sure, the boast certainly sounds impressive. Americans are apparently supposed to believe that Trump went to the Middle East, met with some officials for “about two hours” and left with investments so enormous, they represent roughly a sixth of the United States’ GDP.
But that’s not what happened.
For one thing, as The Washington Post reported, Trump has started referring to Biden-era foreign investments as his own, pretending that they’re new and that he deserves credit for them. The Post’s report added:
The math behind the White House’s claim that Trump secured ‘trillions’ on this trip is fuzzy even including the contracts that predate his presidency. The sum of the deals is under $1 trillion, but the White House is also counting announcements it made months before the trip, including a vague plan that the UAE said would result in $1.4 trillion in investment in the United States over the next decade. The UAE and White House previously announced that deal in March. The White House did not explain why its announcements included deals that predate Trump’s presidency.
Around the same time, The New York Times took a closer look at the data and reported, “The list of some of the agreements published by the White House left many details vague. The value of the agreements appeared to total about $283 billion.”
If those investments happen, terrific. But they might not happen, and $283 billion is a small fraction of $5.1 trillion.
What’s more, as MSNBC’s Paul Waldman wrote in a piece for Public Notice, some of the money Trump referenced might materialize in future decades. It led Waldman to conclude that the presidential claims amounted to little more than “smoke and mirrors.”
The problem, however, is not just that Trump keeps talking up an investment figure that isn’t real. The problem is made worse by the way that the president appears to be making plans to spend some of the money that doesn’t exist.
At an Oval Office event last week, Trump was asked whether his wildly unrealistic “Golden Dome” idea might be prohibitively expensive. He responded, “We can af
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Whatever you say, faggot.
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Quote:6ix, your mind has been addled by alcohol. This is information you don't wish known:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Whatever you say, faggot.
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Since Musk is a big ketamine user and Trump is allegedly hopped up on Adderall, it’s no wonder they want the evidence of harm from drug abuse buried:
“A federal study on mental health problems and substance use across the country that has been running for decades and is used by a wide range of researchers faces an uncertain future after President Trump’s cuts to the federal workforce.
“The National Survey on Drug Use and Health is an annual survey of households conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, which is being dissolved in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s overhaul of the nation’s health agencies.”
Hey, if you don’t know about it, it can’t hurt you, right?
They've tracked Americans' drug use for decades. Trump and RFK Jr. fired them
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/29/nx-s1-540784
9/samhsa-nsduh-trump-rfk-jr-hhs-cuts
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Whatever you say, faggot.
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Shut up asshole.
Your opinion means nothing to no one.
You're finished.
Go call your mom and bitch to her, because nobody else cares.
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