Because they’re looking for a excuse to get rid of him.
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No way that was rush hour. There are normally twice as many vehicles on the street (mostly motorbikes).
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China seeking to divide and conquer. Let’s not pretend many of the comments referred to in the article below weren’t instigated by the CCP.
(But can you imagine if China felt another country’s social media was actively interfering in its internal political battles? Not that it has any that are visible.)
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Just sharks? not the whole… y’know… sharknado?
He’s really into gators too.
Maybe we can sell him a gatornado inside a sharknado inside a tornado.
Like… a turducken but of living carnivorous wild animals.
“Many people are saying it would be the best gatornado-sharknado-turducken.”
“Man. Woman. Camera. 'Nado. Turducken.”
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Can the US imagine that literally every other country on earth feels that about US social media?
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Meanwhile, roughly 400 miles north, Florida is preparing to break ground on a second facility at Camp Blanding, a Florida National Guard base. State Emergency Management Director Kevin Guthrie said construction could begin as soon as the week following the holiday weekend.
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I was reading that Fox stopped detailing Mamdani’s policies because the audience was finding them too attractive.
I’m looking at the final items on that list: “Capitalist model” being “increased NYPD funding,” and the “Socialist model” being “fund mental health response teams” with some surprise. Are they admitting that police don’t exist as a public service, but instead purely exist to protect capital?
Yep, and boy, are they telling us what they’re going to do:
The Latino population of the U.S. is 65 million. She’s explicitly talking about exterminating an entire ethnic group. And while Loomer was once an internet crackpot, she’s now got the ear of the President and he’s done exactly what she wanted on multiple occasions (e.g. fired six National Security Council officials on her word alone).
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It’s the usual Trumpian wordsalad, but he seems to be saying that there will be a 20% tariff on goods from Vietnam (which will be paid, of course, by US consumers), and they’re not going to apply a reciprocal tariff. (Which seems pretty unlikely to me, because that’s not a trade deal, that was his threat if they didn’t come up with a trade deal.) Transshipping is third country (for instance Chinese) goods being sold through Vietnam. I’m not buying any of this, really, even if the bit about SUVs is just Trump’s wishful thinking rather than any sort of agreement (real or imaginary). It just sounds more like they haven’t actually made any sort of trade deal and Trump is trying to make it sound like he has, because I don’t see anything here that’s a benefit for Vietnam. It’s just disastrous for their manufacturing (and US consumers).
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I guess maybe Trump’s foray into the Middle East conflict has taught him an important lesson in diplomacy – it’s much easier to make a deal if the other party isn’t involved in it. 
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I just wonder what happens when Vietnam has its own idea of how things are supposed to go down… outrage, or just ignoring it and pretending it’s not happening to save face? Trump goes either way…
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I wondered about that too. This wording from Bloomberg News is a bit clearer.
a 20% tariff on Vietnamese exports to the US and a 40% levy on any goods deemed to be transshipped through the country.
No mention of how goods will be “deemed to be transshipped”. I can think of several ways, ranging from “that makes sense” to “that’s batshit”, and I’m confident that my “batshit” expectations will be met or exceeded.
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In between violence and protests are general strikes. Corporations and Wall Street helped make this mess; they can help clean it up or face the financial music.
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Trump yet again showing that he’s out of the loop and doesn’t know what’s going on… even with “his” “big beautiful bill.”
Given that Trump is currently bringing members of congress in for meetings to get them to vote for the bill, telling them that they should never vote for [what’s in the bill] seems like it would be nicely counterproductive. Fingers crossed this torpedoes the bill.
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Patho- has gone on quite the journey from its original meaning of suffering.
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Maybe Tramp will use a “line item veto” to delete the Medicaid cuts?
(I mean, I doubt it, since he’d want to avoid any such tarnishing of his glorious moment, but maybe…?)
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That would be interesting if he tried it, since SCOTUS has declared that unconstitutional. Of course, he doesn’t care about that, so . . . maybe I want him to try? Jesus, I really hate this timeline.
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The Art of the (One-sided) Deal!
[Narrator: There is only one side. There is no deal. He learnt no lesson.]
“The US lost 33,00 jobs in June”
But what about the tens of thousands DOGE was supposed to get rid of? /s?
They only care about the mess when it hits markets / share prices. The fascism, they can live with.
On the other hand it would afford him a grandstanding ‘I saved Medicaid - aren’t I a hero’ moment.
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