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Eatspancakes84

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  • Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’

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  • Are you kidding? The major achievement of the pact has been to stop wars among its members, something that the US highly appreciated after the WW. All presidents up to Trump have been in strong favour of the EU, and EU expansion. Obama campaigned against Brexit. Bush junior strongly pushed for expansion into Eastern Europe. They all realised how much they benefited from having strong allies. Incredible how quickly that lesson has been forgotten.

  • That explains a lot

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  • There absolutely is. Any mass, no matter how small, will turn into a black hole when sufficiently compressed.

  • More Americans approve of Trump than Biden on every issue, poll finds

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  • Did they ask about “siding with Russia over Ukraine”, or “Making peace in Ukraine in three weeks”? Yes framing matters, and obviously people support policies that are framed like “eliminating fraud and waste in government expenditure “. Wonder how that position is affected if you add the subclause “by kids that come straight out of high school “.

  • Jeff Bezos Announces Resignation of Washington Post Opinion Editor Over New Editorial Mandate in Stunning Statement

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  • I am really lost here. Is the idea to attract the exact same (super niche) readership as the wall street journal? We know from this election that there are very few voters in this domain, since this is exactly the type of voter Harris tried (and failed to) attract.

    Somewhat ironically we have gone from the very bad outcome of for-profit media, to the even worse outcome of newspapers as personal vanity projects for out of touch billionaires.

  • Couple forced to sit next to dead body on plane for 4 hours after woman dies mid-flight

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  • I guess?? In case of a medical emergency they would typically try to make an emergency landing (I hope??). So how did this person die, and how certain were they that they could not recessitate? Did it happen over sea or land? Honestly it raises a ton of questions.

  • Taal vraagje

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  • Meta warns EU it will run to Trump whenever Zuckerberg feels company is being unfairly punished

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  • Seriously, Facebook was not even the first Social Media of it’s type. Truly bizarre that this guy has earned so much.

  • AOC says Dems need to play hardball if they help Republicans keep the government open

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  • Raising the debt ceiling requires only 50 votes I think. Besides the article is about the house. I don’t see any reason why Dems help out the GOP if they can’t stop defectors.

  • AOC says Dems need to play hardball if they help Republicans keep the government open

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  • I don’t really get this. They don’t need the Democrats to keep the government open, since they have a majority in both chambers. Completely up to the GOP to get the votes lined up.

  • AG Pam Bondi shutters the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force

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  • There are dozens of obvious ways in which Trump and co destroy the government. However, what worries me even more is the things they destroy that are not immediately obvious. For instance, say they remove building construction code, and in 30 years we find out that every building constructed since the Trump government has a fatal construction flaw.

  • Insisting on Cheaper Eggs Is a Huge Mistake

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  • Clearly you can do stuff to bring agricultural prices down, BUT with the bird flu going around don’t expect miracles in egg prices. If somehow, magically, high egg prices are the only negative effect we will encounter related to bird flu, we are extremely lucky.

  • Germany's Left Party wants to halve billionaires' wealth

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  • That’s a fantastic quote. This is how you can still run campaigns today!

  • Senator says they are getting ‘1,600 calls a minute’ amid Trump-Musk chaos

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  • In both situations the problem is that congress is not acting when it should. When Dems controlled congress we wanted it push through bills. Now that GOP controls congress we want them to stop Elon. In both cases congress does nothing (and this has been the steady state for decades).

  • Elon Musk demands firing of ‘disgusting and cruel’ WSJ reporter who uncovered DOGE employee’s racist tweets

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  • Clearly 1A also limits the executive branch. For instance If an executive order infringes on freedom of speech this can be challenged with an appeal to 1A.

  • it's good to look in the mirror and understand the material outcomes of voter behavior

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  • The Democratic platform is really quite leftwing. It contains things like increasing the minimum wage, getting money out of politics etc etc. The problem is in how they run campaigns. The role of consultants is far too big, and this lets the GOP set the agenda.

    Example: The GOP talks about the border constantly->media reports on the border-> voters in focus groups report caring deeply about the border->Dems campaign on the border (arguably their weakest point).

    If Kamala had campaigned heavily on healthcare (say expanding Medicare), she could have shifted part of the focus away from the border and towards healthcare (the GOPs weakest point), which shifts the momentum.

    The same happened with many other topics. The campaign talked about the economy (whatever that means, but somehow voters associate this with GOP), rather than raising minimum wages or building homes (a strength of Dems). Climate change was never even mentioned throughout the campaign.

    Dems have to find a way to lead the conversation, rather than follow a conversation set by the GOP or they will never win.

  • In shock announcement, Trump says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip

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  • You ask for a concrete action when we are no more than 16 days in. Ok let’s ignore that and pretend you are acting in good faith.

    1. Weapon shipments that had been blocked have been released
    2. After the Gaza ceasefire Israel has opened an offensive on the Westbank
    3. Words of a US president have a meaning if they are not directly felt on the ground. For instance, Trump has made it clear today that he will not oppose an ethnic cleansing operation in Gaza (and likely the same for the Westbank).

    Let me ask you a question in return. It is my impression that you suffer from confirmation bias where you sat out the election because both sides were equally bad. I therefore think it would be good for you if you set a threshold. At what point will you accept that Trump is really worse than Kamala would have been?

  • 'Stop Playing Nice,' Says AOC as Senate Dems Help Approve Yet Another Trump Nominee

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  • Not decades. They started in 2010. Trump was elected in 2016.

  • Trump picks former chief entangled in 'Sharpiegate' to lead NOAA

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  • Lol at “Entangled in Sharpiegate” makes it sound like this was some grand conspiracy.

  • In shock announcement, Trump says U.S. wants to take over Gaza Strip

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  • We are 16 days in the Trump presidency and he has announced that he will clean the Gaza Strip from Palestinians. So within the first 16 days he has proven that the GOP has a radically different Middle East policy than Democrats, and you still continue to lie and state that both sides are the same. I am guessing you will keep this BoTH SiDeS conviction even if Trump nukes Gaza.