The goddamn Trump Administration

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I mean, the whole thing is idiotic (big surprise), but yeah, VAT stood out as well. A loooot of countries use VAT, not just in Europe. (I know because we had to file a VAT report to USAID for every program.)

Five especially jumped out, as I do agriculture commodity sales for work as well. GMO is a major sticking point for a lot of countries, including for food sovereignty reasons. Not that it will matter much; the tariff war is threatening to tank the world market for US agricultural commodities whether GMO or not.

Good luck cracking down on seven. Especially now all the people who could enforce this have been fired by doggie.

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So one of Hegseth’s recently-fired aides just wrote an op-ed trying to get Hegseth fired. It’s way too deferential to Trump, but I wonder if the flattery is part of his strategy. Saying “Trump is way too strong of a president to let this guy stay…” is maybe intended to make Trump feel weak if he doesn’t fire the guy?

So yeah, that’s clearly not true at all, but I can only hope it will help sway Trump to dump the guy.

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ETA:

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Ny magazine put together a collection the last time.

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Fark headline:

JV Dunce is on his way to meet with Modi. Maybe he can go two for two

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There is more evidence behind the claim “JD Vance killed the pope” than there is behind the claim that any of the people renditioned to the slave camp in El Salvador are gang members.

Good point!

I so hope this grimly humorous faux conspiracy theory sticks to Vance as stubbornly as the claim that he’s a couch fucker has. :crossed_fingers:

Some reporter needs to ask Fascist Barbie if the White House has any comments on the rampant suspicion that Vice President Vance slipped the Pope a kill pill.

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Also; he fucked the Pope’s couch.

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Well naturally… Goes without saying.

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Looks like I’ll finally get around to watching Conclave.

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Why is he standing over him like that, and so close? It’s massively disrespectful.

And don’t get me started on not wearing a mask around someone who has just gotten out of hospital for pneumonia.

As far as I’m concerned, it’s not just a rumor: Vance’s behavior was unnecessarily risky and dangerous.

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I think J. D. Vance robs people of their will to live.

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And what’s with this administration’s sudden obsession with yellow ties?

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Honestly if you told me it was just the stress of confronting an acolyte of the antichrist that pushed the old man into the arms of Jesus… I’d nod.

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Well, the Pope was in a weakened state, so what would have been debilitating for most people was likely more serious for him;

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Has he actually bought anything lately?

“Preemptive Cuts” in Interest Rates are being called for by many. With Energy Costs way down, food prices (including Biden’s egg disaster!) substantially lower, and most other “things” trending down, there is virtually No Inflation. With these costs trending so nicely downward, just what I predicted they would do, there can almost be no inflation, but there can be a SLOWING of the economy unless Mr. Too Late, a major loser, lowers interest rates, NOW. Europe has already “lowered” seven times. Powell has always been “To Late,” except when it came to the Election period when he lowered in order to help Sleepy Joe Biden, later Kamala, get elected. How did that work out?

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