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The DOJ Says Trump Has Saved 258 Million Lives. I Asked Them What That’s Based On.
“Are you ready for this, media?” No, actually!
By Jim Newell | May 01, 2025 10:29 AM
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/trump-news-doj-fentanyl-pa
m-bondi-lives-saved.html
In an X post from her official account that afternoon, Attorney General Pam Bondi observed, “In President Trump’s first 100 days we’ve seized over 22 million fentanyl laced pills, saving over 119 Million lives.”
Bondi’s claim that Trump had saved the lives of 1 in 3 Americans in his first 100 days was met with some skepticism.
Bondi took the criticism not as a call to clarify what she meant, but as a challenge to go bigger.
“Mr. President,” she said, “your first 100 days has far exceeded that of any other presidency in the country, ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it.” Then it was time for some stats.
“Since you have been in office, President Trump, your DOJ agencies have seized more than 22 million fentanyl pills, 3,400 kilos of fentanyl, which saved—are you ready for this, media?—258 million lives.” Yes, she turned to the camera for the aside to the media.
Yep, that’s math, all right. As for the overnight uptick from 119 million to 258 million lives saved, the spokesman said that the 119 million figure “was in reference to stats that did not include FBI seizures, just the DEA’s.”
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Another concerned Georgia voter, Daniel Austin, said, “[Trump is] alienating our foreign allies. He thinks he’s some master negotiator, but instead, in 100 days, he’s managed to ensure in the next 100 years the U.S. won’t even be third place.”
"Third place"?
Third place in what?
Number of rats per capita?
I bet if you asked this guy what unit of measure he was using, he couldn't tell you.
1) China
2) The European Union
3) Russia
4) India
5) Japan
. . .
Nth) USA (Texas and California became separate countries)
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
You honestly think that's what he's referring to?
Besides, nobody can predict 100 years into the future. Heck, we can't even predict tomorrow.
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Well... Sure you can.
Just before the election Ted was gloating about that push poll that had Iowa up 13 points for Harris, and all of the media had Ted and Second convinced that Harris was going to win the election easily.
It's extremely easy to make predictions.
I just make it look easy how often mine come true.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:6ix, I'm pretty sure you remember that I wanted Biden to assassinate Trump if Trump won. I predicted Biden was too goody-goody to do it, but there was always a tiny chance Biden would kill that fat dumb motherfucker Nazi, if the Nazi Party won. 6ix, you probably remember the consolation prize I would get if Donald "Adolph Hitler" Trump won: a tax cut and non-enforcement of all restrictions on natural gas. Where is my tax cut? Trump cannot even do that, the fat fool. This was written before Trump proved to be mentally incompetent, worse than President Herbert Hoover:
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... Sure you can.
Just before the election Ted was gloating about that push poll that had Iowa up 13 points for Harris, and all of the media had Ted and Second convinced that Harris was going to win the election easily.
It's extremely easy to make predictions.
I just make it look easy how often mine come true.
Democrats aren't alone — incumbent parties have lost elections all around the world
By Cooper Burton | November 18, 2024, 2:29 PM
https://abcnews.go.com/538/democrats-incumbent-parties-lost-elections-
world/story?id=115972068
One potential explanation for Democrats' milder defeat is the relative strength of the U.S. economy compared to those around the world. Most countries have seen soaring inflation and stagnant or painfully slow economic growth since the COVID-19 pandemic. By many measures, the U.S. is a striking exception to that global trend, with strong growth in GDP and real wages. Some economic metrics are outpacing even pre-pandemic trends.
But just because the U.S.'s economy is performing better than that of many other countries doesn't mean it's in perfect shape or that voters aren't still unhappy with it. As 538 explored earlier this summer, the economic metrics that Americans care about have shifted in dramatic ways since the pandemic. Issues like inflation and the high cost of housing remained at the forefront of the campaign, drowning out Democrats' attempts to highlight other strong economic indicators like increased wage growth and low unemployment.
The few incumbent governments that did manage to hang on this year did so not on the backs of stellar economic performances, but rather through campaigns that focused heavily on security issues. Mexico, Finland, Moldova and the Dominican Republic all saw incumbent parties gain seats or vote share compared to the last election on the backs of concerns over issues like gang violence and Russian encroachment. National security issues simply didn't dominate the U.S. campaign in the same way (though immigration, which often gets lumped in with national security, was a top concern for voters).
Ultimately, the U.S. proved no outlier in the wave of malaise and anger that has toppled incumbents across the globe since the pandemic. Economic anxiety and deep discontent with the direction of the country proved fatal for Democrats, but if trends from this year continue, they have one bright spot on the horizon: Next time, they won't be the incumbents.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Trump Voters Who Like What They See
“Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something.”
Elaine Godfrey | April 30, 2025, 7 AM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/satisfied-trump-v
oters/682645/
Earlier this month, after it became clear that the Trump administration would not be facilitating the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran megaprison, I texted a close childhood friend. He’d voted for Donald Trump in each of the past three presidential elections, and I asked for his evaluation. “Trump might be taking it too far,” my friend replied. “But then again,” he added, “he’s a man of action and we wanted change.”
Someday in the future, historians might well point to April 2025 as the first sign of an enduring erosion in Trump’s popular support. In just the first week of this month, America witnessed another mass expulsion of federal workers, in this case from several health agencies, followed by a tariff rollout that sent 401(k)s plunging like a Six Flags log flume. Even with stocks partially rebounding, feedback from riders has not been great for the president: Poll after poll has registered a drop in overall support for Trump, with many voters citing economic uncertainty. Trump’s numbers on immigration, long a strength of his, are also beginning to slip. Another recent survey suggests that Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected president in at least 70 years.
But even as Trump’s critics cheer the apparent change of heart among some of his supporters, they face an inconvenient reality: Many of his voters are jubilant. For these happy millions, the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency have been a procession of fulfilled campaign promises—and have brought the country not to the precipice of economic ruin or democratic collapse, but to a golden age of greatness. They see Trump as ushering in a new era of action, according to my conversations with several Trump supporters and pollsters in recent days. “Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something, and something is better than nothing,” Rich Thau, the president of the nonpartisan qualitative-research firm Engagious, told me.
Despite the relentless stream of shocking deportation stories—Abrego Garcia; the Venezuelan makeup artist; the Honduran child with Stage 4 cancer—many Trump voters see the president’s handling of immigration as a highlight. The new administration says that ICE has so far carried out 66,000 deportations, a rate that is lower than that of previous administrations but that is partly the result of historically low border crossings.
“It’s a night-and-day difference” from the Biden administration, Ben Cadet, a 24-year-old college student from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, told me. Cadet voted for Joe Biden in 2020 but switched to Trump in 2024, partly because he felt that Democrats had moved too far left and partly because he thought that Biden simply hadn’t done enough to address illegal immigration. Trump’s “immediate action is something I would have appreciated from a Democrat,” he said. In the early days of the new administration, Cadet regularly called a friend to discuss Trump’s executive orders on immigration, foreign policy, and “the culture war,” he told me. The two would joke that they should cancel their Netflix subscriptions and tune in to Trump instead “because watching everything he does is kind of hilarious.”
Thau, who conducts monthly focus groups of swing voters who supported Biden in 2020 and Trump in 2024, told me that half of the participants in any given group cannot name a single thing that Biden achieved while in office. For many of them, the past 100 days—including Trump’s deportations but also his tariffs, reams of executive orders, college shakedowns, and targeting of the political press—have seemed like “an incredible flurry of activity by comparison to the guy who came before,” whom they’d already considered old, infirm, and not really in charge. “I see
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6ix, I'm pretty sure you remember that I wanted Biden to assassinate Trump if Trump won. I predicted Biden was too goody-goody to do it,
The person who constantly calls for political assasinations and genocide is a Nazi.
NTW Biden was, and still is, too non compos mentis to do much of anything.
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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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Originally posted by second:Quote:Really? Destroy what is valuable
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Besides, nobody can predict 100 years into the future. Heck, we can't even predict tomorrow.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
AMERICANS SUPPORT AMERICA
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ix, I'm pretty sure you remember that I wanted Biden to assassinate Trump if Trump won.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Well... Sure you can.
Just before the election Ted was gloating about that push poll that had Iowa up 13 points for Harris, and all of the media had Ted and Second convinced that Harris was going to win the election easily.
It's extremely easy to make predictions.
I just make it look easy how often mine come true.
Yes. It is on your very long list of information that will be given to the authorities if anything does happen to Trump.
I don't see how that is related at all to what you quoted.
Your brain is damaged.
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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon
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Quote:I am taking my morality from God, specifically Genesis and Revelation. God could have created a duplicate Earth for the wicked, instead of drowning nearly everyone in the story of Noah's Ark and slaughtering most during Armageddon. I presume God is not into rewarding evil people with a land perfect for the "wicked" nor into persuading them with therapeutic words to become "good". The USA will not be divided into two countries covering the same area, one perfect for Trumptards, all of whom are wicked, and another for everyone left over. Instead, the Trumptards die, perhaps by suicide from smoking, as in the case of Rush Limbaugh, or maybe something quicker such as:
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
6ix, I'm pretty sure you remember that I wanted Biden to assassinate Trump if Trump won. I predicted Biden was too goody-goody to do it,
The person who constantly calls for political assasinations and genocide is a Nazi.
NTW Biden was, and still is, too non compos mentis to do much of anything.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Yup, the winds of change are blowing...
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Trump’s ‘ignorance’ fueling second term 'chaos'
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Many of the policies enacted by the Trump administration with lightning speed in these first 100 days were initially laid out two years ago in the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025. David Graham’s new book “The Project” details its origins and sweeping goals to reshape American culture.
Download the free book from the mirrors at https://libgen.rs/search.php?req=David+Graham+The+Project
"They want to change the structure of society and the government. They are looking to roll back precedents from the Great Society in the 1960's, the New Deal in the 1930's, and even to the foundation of the Civil Service in the 1880's."
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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