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    Quote Originally Posted by Malkiah View Post
    sadly i'm going to have to disagree with you.
    the US civil war ended in 1865, and over 150 years later we still have confederate statues and state parks and such named after confederate generals, "the south will rise again" is a common cultural artifact, active and aggressive racism is one of the core foundations of US culture.

    the fact is, US citizens fucking LOVE regressive ideology - if you have some hateful views that can end with an -ism suffix americans are fucking on board for it.
    if you can identify a group, any group it doesn't even matter what group it is so long as it's an identifiable group, americans will jump at the chance to make their entire identity about destroying that group's existence.
    this is just what the united states is, this is what the united states has always been.
    religious weirdos too extreme and bizarre for early 1600s church of england along with a devil's horde of grifters and psychos planted the seeds and nothing and nobody has ever done anything to stop it since.

    if the nazis had done a ground invasion of the US and taken over, i dunno let's say from north carolina down to florida, the entire east coast of the US would be dotted to this day with statues of hitler and calls to remember their proud nazi heritage.
    That's very fair, but it's hard to compare the internal effects of a civil war vs a country getting invaded by a clear foreign power. The relics of confederacy worship are tied to an entire subset of the American populace belligerently refusing to accept that they lost what power and autonomy they possessed. At the end of the day both sides profess to be "more American" than the other while often championing completely different ideologies.
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    Because fuck you, that's why.

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    In the ongoing effort to distract from being an abject failure at everything except raping children, Trump announces he's signed the biggest trade deal in history.

    "By what metric?"

    Desperation.

    He claimed it had some numbers, which incidentally include 15% tariffs, so those are sticking around. He also claimed major Japanese investments and hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

    "When?"

    He didn't say.

    "It must say so on the form he signed!"

    He didn't show it. But he did say Japan will buy US cars.

    "Japan doesn't want US cars. They want Japanese cars. Why would they pay extra for a car shipped from here?"

    They won't. He did say Japan would start buying US rice.

    "Did he mention any other ag products, or is he just being racist?"

    You know the answer.

    "How much rice does Japan buy from the US annually?"

    Literally the majority of imported rice by trade value s ours. They are already buying it. The deal won't change that. They buy twice as much rice from Thailand for half the money.

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    so is this deal basically just reshuffling the existing deal, again?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    so is this deal basically just reshuffling the existing deal, again?
    Sounds like it, yeah.

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    DoJ is trying to head off the Subpoena of Ghislaine Maxwell by having a Deputy AG talk to her to get her story straight, probably to get her a pardon.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/polit...axwell-epstein

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    so is this deal basically just reshuffling the existing deal, again?
    Quote Originally Posted by DarkTZeratul View Post
    Sounds like it, yeah.
    Trump admin ripped over new trade deal that's 'worse than we had before'

    Japanese officials have not publicly commented on the terms laid out by Trump. Details about its implementation and specifics weren't immediately known.

    Critics roundly mocked the new deal.

    Joey Politano, author of the economics newsletter Apricitas Economics, wrote on X, "Trump announces 15% tariffs on Japan. Another trade 'deal' that’s even worse than what we had before he took office."

    Spencer Hakimian, Founder of Tolou Capital Management, wrote on X, *TRUMP TO IMPOSE 15% TARIFF ON GOODS FROM JAPAN Japan doesn’t even charge a 1% tariff on us. This is a complete joke.

    Software developer Lucas Baker added, "One bad policy after another from this administration. Future historians will note this as the era in which the age of American hegemony made a rapid and irreversible decline."

    Clara Jeffery‬, editor-incChief of Mother Jones/Center for Investigative Reporting, wrote on Bluesky, "Prediction: Japanese consumers don't want our cars, trucks, or rice."

    Jeffery added in a follow-up post a gif of a confused John Travolta,which comes from a scene in the 1994 film "Pulp Fiction" directed by Quentin Tarantino. She captioned the post,: "'where are the Japanese buyers for our s---ty gas cars?'"

    She noted that China has electric vehicles that "eliminate range anxiety, cost like $11,000, are cool AF, and literally dance."

    "Japanese consumers are not going to pop for a Buick. This is why the Big Three (and labor, too) fighting for status quo rather than future is so short-sighted."

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    So Trump is now claiming that CBS is going to give him $20 million in free advertising from their new owners.

    Bribes? Use em if you got em.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other...58ec45bb2&ei=9

    Donald Trump has claimed that the future owner of the US TV network CBS will provide him with $20m worth of advertising and programming – days after the network canceled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.

    The US president recently reached a $16m settlement with Paramount, the parent of CBS News, over what he claimed was misleading editing of a pre-election interview with the Democratic candidate for president, Kamala Harris.

    While CBS initially called the lawsuit “completely without merit”, a view shared by many legal experts, Paramount is in the midst of an $8bn sale to the Hollywood studio Skydance Media, which requires the approval of federal regulators.

    In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump claimed the settlement had been paid – and that he was expecting much more from the new owners of Paramount.

    “Paramount/CBS/60 Minutes have today paid $16 Million Dollars in settlement, and we also anticipate receiving $20 Million Dollars more from the new Owners, in Advertising, PSAs [public service announcements], or similar Programming, for a total of over $36 Million Dollars,” he wrote.

    CBS and Skydance did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

    Trump’s claim that he has been offered millions of dollars’ worth of programming is likely to exacerbate anger over the axing of The Late Show, which CBS announced on Thursday.

    Days earlier, Colbert, a high-profile critic of Trump, had branded Paramount’s settlement with Trump “a big fat bribe”. He is due to remain on air until May, and declared on Monday that “the gloves are off”.

    Skydance was founded in 2010 by David Ellison, son of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, and an ally of Trump.

    The $16m settlement was already seen by critics as a further example of capitulation by media companies hoping to smooth the waters with the US president. ABC News, ultimately owned by Disney, also agreed to pay $15m to settle a defamation lawsuit over its coverage.

    After Trump’s latest claim regarding $20m worth of advertising and programming from Paramount, the Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter: “This reeks of corruption.”
    And to even twist the knife further, Stephen Miller is basically targeting Johns Hopkins School of Medicine for "illegal DEI policies".

    What "illegal DEI policies" you ask? Well, they offered anyone a full scholarship if they made under $300k a year after they got a $1 billion dollar donation from Michel Bloomberg.

    Yep. DEI now includes the poor. If you are poor, you aren't allow to be anything other than poor according to Stephen Miller.

    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/st...8ec45bb2&ei=19

    A legal group founded by the Trump adviser and white nationalist Stephen Miller has requested the justice department investigate “illegal DEI practices” at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

    In a letter to the justice department’s civil rights division, America First Legal asked the assistant attorney general Harmeet K Dhillon to investigate and issue enforcement actions against the prestigious medical university for embracing “a discriminatory DEI regime as a core institutional mandate”.

    The legal complaint accuses Johns Hopkins of “systematically infusing race and other identity-based preferences into medical school admissions, scholarships, faculty hiring, academic curricula, residency programs, and governance.

    “Johns Hopkins is not training the next generation of physicians,” the complaint reads. “It is indoctrinating them.”

    America First Legal specifically criticized the university’s financial aid program, which began offering full scholarships to all students from families earning less than $300,000 after a $1bn donation from alum Michael Bloomberg in 2024.

    The complaint alleges: “Johns Hopkins is Using ‘Socioeconomic Status’ as a Proxy for Race-Based Admissions” to circumvent the supreme court’s ruling ending affirmative action.

    “Johns Hopkins has constructed a facade of legality around a deeply illegal system. They have replaced explicit race-based admissions with upstream sorting, downstream subsidies, and bureaucratic double-speak designed to preserve racial preferences,” the America First Legal attorney Megan Redshaw said in a statement announcing the complaint. “This is not only unlawful under the Constitution and federal civil rights statutes – it has no place in medicine where competence must come first.”

    Founded by Miller in 2020, America First Legal focused on advancing a legal agenda for a second Trump administration. As a White House adviser under the first Trump administration, Miller led work on the Muslim travel ban and family separation policy. After Trump lost the 2020 election, Miller launched America First Legal to continue pursuing the administration’s agendas.

    It succeeded in winning a 2021 lawsuit blocking implementation of a $29bn Covid-era Small Business Administration program for restaurants owned by women, veterans and people from socially and economically disadvantaged groups; another against CBS and Paramount alleging discrimination against a white, straight man who wrote for the show Seal Team; and a case this year allowing Maryland parents to have their children opt out of lessons using LGBTQ+ books.

    America First Legal addressed its complaint regarding Johns Hopkins directly to Dhillon, head of the justice department’s civil rights division and a conservative attorney known for her lawsuits opposing Covid-19 restrictions and gender-affirming care for minors.

    The letter accuses Johns Hopkins of evading the supreme court’s affirmative action ruling by focusing on pathway programs.

    The letter alleges: “The use of DEI-based discrimination in medical education isn’t just illegal, it’s especially indefensible. No sector demands greater adherence to merit and objectivity than medicine, where decisions made by physicians can mean the difference between life and death.”

    Emerging research shows that diversifying the medical workforce may end racial disparities in healthcare: one 2023 study in the Journal of American Medicine found that Black people in counties with more Black primary care physicians live longer, and guidance from the American Medical Association explains why Native American patients may not trust white doctors.

    Only about 5% of US doctors are Black, even though Black Americans make up 14% of the US population. Medical school applications from Black and Hispanic students fell sharply after the supreme court’s affirmative action ruling.In 2020, Johns Hopkins University announced that its founder owned slaves during the 19th century. At the time, university officials wrote they decided to share the development as part of the school’s effort “to deepen our historical understanding of the legacy of racism in our country, our city, and our institutions”.

    America First Legal’s complaint asks the justice department and the Department of Health and Human Services to require Johns Hopkins end all offices, residencies, outreach initiatives, scholarships, admissions pipelines and other programs that focus on race. It also calls for the federal government to suspend funding streams “currently supporting discriminatory practices” and conduct an audit on all funding awarded to the university since 2021.

    A major recipient of federal research dollars, Johns Hopkins announced in March that it would cut more than 2,000 jobs after the Trump administration slashed $800m in grants to the administration through the now dismantled US Agency for International Development.

    The institution is also currently under investigation alongside nine other elite universities set to be visited by the Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism.

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    damn man, donald just bragging about open bribery lmao

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    How things have changed from 2013.

    President Barack Obama was asked about the controversy in an interview with The Associated Press, and said, “If I were the owner of the team and I knew that there was a name of my team — even if it had a storied history — that was offending a sizable group of people, I’d think about changing it.”
    Notice what was happening in that 2013 quote. Obama was asked, he said if he owned it, he'd think about it.

    In that context, here is Trump's response:

    Then-businessman Trump took to Twitter to say such controversies should be beneath a president.

    "President should not be telling the Washington Redskins to change their name — our country has far bigger problems! FOCUS on them, not nonsense," Trump tweeted.
    Once again, I have a 24-hour challenge for all Trump supporters. Should Trump have told the Washington team to change their name, which he said they should, or should he focus on far bigger problems, which he said he should do? It literally cannot be both, so pick what you want, you're a hypocrite either way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    damn man, donald just bragging about open bribery lmao
    Funny thing is, I don't think Skydance and Paramount actually agreed to the larger amount given for free. Now the big problem is, either they have to do it or if they refuse, basically they paid him $16 million in a settlement and won't get their merger.

    This is the problem with actively capitulating with terrorists and gangs. There will always be something more that has to be given.

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    So, here is a video of Trump doing 2 things. Stating he knows very little to nothing about Epstein AND somehow claiming that evidence is somehow both not proof of something and proof of something at the same time when talking about Obama. I linked the point in the video where he says it.

    "The Witch Hunt you should be talking about is they caught President Obama absolutely cold. We found absolutely, this isn't like evidence or, it's like PROOF. Irrefutable proof that Obama was sidacious."


    As I said, somehow evidence is now both proof and not proof of something happening. And here I thought evidence is irrefutable proof something happened. And also, he now made up another term. Much like confeve and hamburder.
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    So much "good" stuff coming out of the White House. Did you know that educating kids is "woke"? Well Trump thinks so, so we're leaving UNESCO once again.

    The White House announced that President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) following a review of American participation in the agency, citing concerns about "woke" activity.

    It is not Trump's first withdrawal from UNESCO, having pulled the U.S. out during his first term, only for his successor, President Joe Biden, to rejoin under an effort to counter growing Chinese influence within the organization.

    Trump has withdrawn the U.S. from several international agencies and agreements, including the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement, arguing that it is not in America's interests to participate, citing the use of taxpayer money to fund these organizations.

    However, his critics argue that such moves reduce U.S. influence in the world, create spaces that American rivals and enemies will fill, and thus undermine national interests by walking away.

    "President Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from UNESCO—which supports woke, divisive cultural and social causes that are totally out-of-step with the commonsense policies that Americans voted for in November," White House deputy spokesperson Anna Kelly told the New York Post.

    "This President will always put America First and ensure our country's membership in all international organizations aligns with our national interests."

    The administration's review identified issues with UNESCO's diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies, as well as what it perceived as a pro-Palestinian and pro-China bias, the Post reported.

    The Trump administration has pushed back hard against DEI, viewing it as a left-wing ideological distraction from things that truly matter, and is seeking to root out its influence from the government, the corporate sector, and education.

    "This decision contradicts the fundamental principles of multilateralism, and may affect first and foremost our many partners in the United States of America—communities seeking site inscription on the World Heritage List, Creative City status, and University Chairs," Azoulay said in a statement.

    "However regrettable, this announcement was anticipated, and UNESCO has prepared for it," she continued, pointing out that the agency had made "major structural reforms and diversified our funding sources."

    She also rejected the White House's accusations of bias.

    "The reasons put forward by the United States to withdraw from the Organization are the same as seven years ago even though the situation has changed profoundly, political tensions have receded, and UNESCO today constitutes a rare forum for consensus on concrete and action-oriented multilateralism," Azoulay said.

    "These claims also contradict the reality of UNESCO's efforts, particularly in the field of Holocaust education and the fight against antisemitism."
    US Quit UNESCO Before

    This will be the third time that the U.S. has left UNESCO, which is based in Paris.

    The Trump administration in 2017 announced that the U.S. would withdraw from UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias. That decision took effect a year later. The U.S. and Israel stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011.

    The U.S. previously pulled out of UNESCO under the Reagan administration in 1984 because it viewed the agency as mismanaged, corrupt, and used to advance the interests of the Soviet Union. It rejoined in 2003 during George W. Bush's presidency.

    Trump's decision will take effect at the end of December 2026.

    It will come as no surprise to UNESCO officials, who had anticipated such a move following the specific review ordered by the Trump administration earlier this year.

    They also expected that Trump would pull out again since the return of the U.S. in 2023 had been promoted by his political rival, Biden.
    EPA is making a plan for stopping the fight against climate change.

    Even more evidence that Trump, the pedophile, was friends with Epstein, another pedophile, for around 30 years, at minimum. Here are some pictures of Epstein at Trump's birthday in 1993.

    Photos from 1993 confirm for the first time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance at the ceremony at the Plaza Hotel was not widely known until now.

    In addition, footage from a 1999 Victoria’s Secret fashion event in New York shows Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting together ahead of the runway event. CNN’s KFile uncovered the raw footage during a review of archival video of Trump at events in the 1990s and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared together in at least one video among the limited archival footage reviewed.

    The new footage and photos, which have not been widely reported and pre-date any of Epstein’s known legal issues, come amid renewed scrutiny of Trump’s past relationship with Epstein. The Justice Department’s recent decision not to release long-promised files related to Epstein has spurred outrage in some corners of Trump’s MAGA movement, where people developed an expectation for bombshell revelations into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.

    In a brief call with CNN on Tuesday, President Trump, asked about the wedding photos, responded, “You’ve got to be kidding me,” before repeatedly calling CNN “fake news” and hanging up.

    In a statement to CNN, White House Communications Director Steven Cheung said, “These are nothing more than out-of-context frame grabs of innocuous videos and pictures of widely attended events to disgustingly infer something nefarious.

    “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep. This is nothing more than a continuation of the fake news stories concocted by the Democrats and the liberal media.”

    Allegations that Epstein sexually abused underage girls first surfaced in 2005, leading to his arrest a year later. He was arrested again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges and later died in jail, fueling numerous conspiracy theories. The medical examiner ruled his death a suicide by hanging.
    A past relationship

    Trump’s relationship with Epstein dates back to the 1980s and included regular appearances at social events in Palm Beach and New York. No law enforcement authorities have ever accused Trump of wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.

    The two had a falling-out in the mid-2000s, according to the Washington Post, stemming from a dispute over a high-profile real estate deal in Palm Beach.

    Before then, photos and video repeatedly showed the two were friendly. In 2019, NBC posted footage of a party showing Trump socializing with Epstein in 1992.

    A year later in October 1993, high-society photographer Dafydd Jones took photos at the opening of the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York, capturing Trump and Epstein together.

    “There was this guy there who struck me — the way he was looking — and he gave me his card. It said: Jeffrey Epstein, financial advisor,” Jones recalled in an interview with CNN this week.

    Jones captured photos of Trump with his arm around his two young children as he stands next to Epstein, leaning on a railing.

    Two months later, in December 1993, Jones was assigned by a media organization to photograph Trump’s wedding. Among the photos he took was one of Epstein entering the event.

    “I must have recognized him going in [to the event],” Jones said to CNN, adding he only took select photos of attendees he thought looked interesting.

    “I wish now I took more of him with Trump,” he said. “I had the job of photographing the Trump wedding, so I stood with the press and photographed him. The image you have is from the contact sheet — the negatives were lost.”

    Another photo captures Epstein at Trump’s wedding, part of LIFE’s archive that was reviewed by CNN. It shows Epstein smiling in the background — his head just visible between other guests and shock jock Howard Stern and Robin Leach of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” who were taking a group picture.

    LIFE’s collection of dozens of photos of Trump’s wedding are available online through Google Images and Shutterstock, and a CNN review of photos found multiple photos with Epstein.

    Together at a fashion show

    The 1999 fashion show wasn’t the first Victoria’s Secret event the pair attended together. Two photos from Getty Images show Trump and Epstein appearing at a 1997 Angels party in New York, two years before the footage uncovered by CNN.

    Epstein’s presence at the 1999 fashion show also reflects his longstanding ties to Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founder of Victoria’s Secret’s parent company. Epstein managed Wexner’s finances from 1987 to around 2007. The two later severed ties, and Wexner has said he was unaware of Epstein’s alleged crimes during their association.

    In 2002, Trump was quoted in a New York Magazine profile of Epstein — “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery” — describing him as “a terrific guy,” saying he’s known Epstein for 15 years. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” Trump said.

    Trump flew on Epstein’s jets between Palm Beach and New York, at least seven times according to flight logs.

    In his 2004 book, “Trump: How To Get Rich,” Trump wrote about taking a call from a man he named “the mysterious Jeffrey.”

    “As mysterious as Jeffrey is, he’s one of the few people I know who can get by on just a first name. My staff never asks for a last name in his case, which in a way puts him up there with Elvis. Not that Elvis calls in much these days, but you never know,” Trump wrote.

    It’s unclear if the “mysterious Jeffrey” is Epstein and White House did not address it in a comment to CNN.

    Images published in the Palm Beach Post in 2000 also show Trump, Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell — who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence for sex trafficking — and Prince Andrew in attendance at a charity fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

    Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on a birthday message sent bearing Trump’s name for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003. According to the Journal, it contained an outline of a naked woman and a typed note that ended with the line: “Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

    Following the report, the Trump administration pledged to release grand jury materials related to Epstein. The federal judge overseeing Maxwell’s case set a deadline for the Justice Department to provide information so he can determine whether to unseal the transcripts.

    The Department of Justice also said Tuesday it has reached out to Maxwell for a meeting amid backlash over the administration’s handling of files related to Epstein.

    Maxwell’s attorney told CNN they “are in discussions with the government” on the matter. “Ghislaine will always testify truthfully. We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case,” attorney David Oscar Markus said.

    Trump has denied authoring the note and drawing, calling the report false. On Friday, he sued the newspaper for libel in federal court in Florida.
    Trump is a pedophile and those that voted for him support pedophilia. Just wanted to make that clear.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    In the ongoing effort to distract from being an abject failure at everything except raping children, Trump announces he's signed the biggest trade deal in history.

    "By what metric?"

    Desperation.

    He claimed it had some numbers, which incidentally include 15% tariffs, so those are sticking around. He also claimed major Japanese investments and hundreds of thousands of new jobs.

    "When?"

    He didn't say.

    "It must say so on the form he signed!"

    He didn't show it. But he did say Japan will buy US cars.

    "Japan doesn't want US cars. They want Japanese cars. Why would they pay extra for a car shipped from here?"

    They won't. He did say Japan would start buying US rice.

    "Did he mention any other ag products, or is he just being racist?"

    You know the answer.

    "How much rice does Japan buy from the US annually?"

    Literally the majority of imported rice by trade value s ours. They are already buying it. The deal won't change that. They buy twice as much rice from Thailand for half the money.
    Japan is actually facing a major shortfall in rice and has been forced to import more with prices on the staple food having spiked. I am sure their pride vastly prefers buying US rice over Chinese which they have been forced to do so far.

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    Oh, look. More crimes against humanity that will be quietly ignored. Not content with absolutely fucking everyone in this country out of a future, they're going to do it to the rest of the world as well. Fantastic.

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    Quote Originally Posted by postman1782 View Post
    DoJ is trying to head off the Subpoena of Ghislaine Maxwell by having a Deputy AG talk to her to get her story straight, probably to get her a pardon.

    https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/22/polit...axwell-epstein
    Not quite, although you may be right about the outcome. (Although I suspect it will be "exonerates Trump, accuses his enemies and gets something short of a pardon, like commutation and immunity from further charges".)

    The Orwellianly-named DoJ is sending the President's personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to talk to Maxwell. Yes, he's also the deputy director of the DoJ (aka Donald Trump's personal law firm), but this visit, while under government auspices, is officially under his 'Donald Trump's personal attorney' hat. (Blanche is also a personal friend of Maxwell's lead attorney.)

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    Trump seems to be doing everything he can to avoid people talking about the Epstein Files.

    Revealing he has a medical condition rather than repeating he's the healthiest president ever.
    Bragging about non-existent lower prices.
    And saying he has plans to drop prescription drug prices by at least 500%.

    Something tells me the information in the Epstein case is more than just he was a client.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darththeo View Post
    And saying he has plans to drop prescription drug prices by at least 500%.
    So if it costs $100 for a prescription. Lowering it by 500% means they pay me $400 when I pick it up from the pharmacy? Wtf?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Darththeo View Post
    Trump seems to be doing everything he can to avoid people talking about the Epstein Files.

    Revealing he has a medical condition rather than repeating he's the healthiest president ever.
    Bragging about non-existent lower prices.
    And saying he has plans to drop prescription drug prices by at least 500%.

    Something tells me the information in the Epstein case is more than just he was a client.
    I sincerely hope he is on a strict regiment of Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, and intravenous bleach. I heard from a reliable source those work!
    For the UV treatment, how strong does it have to be to go through orange paint?
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    Quit using other posters as levels of crazy. That is not ok


    If you look, you can see the straw man walking a red herring up a slippery slope coming to join this conversation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darththeo View Post
    Revealing he has a medical condition rather than repeating he's the healthiest president ever.
    Bragging about non-existent lower prices.
    And saying he has plans to drop prescription drug prices by at least 500%.
    Ah yes, just like with eggs.

    Don't forget accusing Obama of treason, for something Obama did in the WH, therefore SCOTUS says he has absolute immunity.

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    And releasing the MLK files, against his kids wishes.

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    man, donald really wants to distract from the fact that he raped children and republicans are working overtime to cover up for a child rapist. a lot of them, actually

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