It spread because of one or two early studies with falsified data.
Personally, I wish this stuff were more lethal with prolonged usage. I think two people have died, but maybe people would think twice about believing social media if the risk were greater. And if they didn’t, well, it’s probably good for the survival of the species.
$50 million per day for 500 people is absolute insanity
$180 billion is what they claim
Here’s the thing, Tom. You just said a lot of things, and maybe they’re true and maybe they’re not, but I can’t believe any of them because you’re part of an administration where everyone lies continuously. And even if I did, it doesn’t excuse imprisonment for life without a trial in a foreign prison for terrorists. That’s literally the kind of thing that Nazis did.
Based on his comments and Katie Johnson’s testimony, I don’t believe he ever had sex with Ivanka, though he very obviously wanted to. I can imagine based on her reaction in that video that he assaulted her in some way, though, like groping.
“Aides said [Donald Trump] talked about Ivanka Trump’s breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter,” Taylor wrote, recalling an alleged exchange with Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff between 2017 and 2019.
“Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was ‘a very, very evil man.’” source
Trump assaulted Jill Harth repeatedly in the early 1990s. On one occasion he pulled her into Ivanka’s empty room in Mar-a-Lago to try to have sex with her on Ivanka’s bed. source
Ugh. He’s such a monster.
This was obvious after all the anti-Trump Republicans fell in line in 2016, and then did it again in 2021. Some even tried to create some space between themselves and Trump during the Biden administration, but ended up falling in line after the 2024 election.
The idea that anyone was ever going to line up for Elon Musk, a repugnant weirdo space alien who had just spent months pissing them all off, is about as plausible as the idea that they’d line up behind Steve Bannon. They’re all just useful tools in service of Trump, until they’re not.
Unfortunately there’s no Smedley Butler today to speak truth to power publicly.
Cascadia and the Republic of California when?
Character is more important than 100% ideological parity. Republican Party politicians have no values; it’s a party organized around mutual benefit for the worst humanity has to offer: opportunists, morons, abusers, bullies, grifters, liars, rapists, and authoritarians. Their leader somehow embodies every single one of those qualities. Not to say Democrats are perfect by any means, but I’d rather someone own up to their mistakes and right the ship late than never at all. I’ll happily count Walsh as an ally for that reason.
Not very anonymous when the list of suspects and list of authors is identical, unless I’m misunderstanding your idea.
I know it’s hard to believe, but real people work at corporations, and some are even in positions of authority. Some of those people even have actual values and aren’t just playing an elaborate charade as part of some conspiratorial master plan.
Publishing to journals, AKA a prime motivator for scientists? Good plan, you incompetent stooges.
If you can’t even fight on your own behalf, why would I trust you to fight for me?
Nancy Mace fun facts:
In summary, Nancy Mace is a failure of a human being with no core values. She will betray any person or cause she has previously supported in her quest for more power. Her personal life is a disaster, and she’s an active supporter of genocide.
Yeah. I think it’s somewhere in between this and the above post. I think he thinks it’s funny, and he likes stirring the pot for his own amusement or to deflect from something else. I don’t think he’s thinking about it as a demoralization tactic; I think he’s just having fun because he doesn’t take being president seriously and he’s just seeing what he can get away with.
I think Trump is mainly there for grifting, trolling, and bullying, and all the other stuff is just because he wants his crazy base to love him. He just uses the issues as leverage.
Talking big on the Internet
More than two times. The US has used wide scale tariffs many times in the past, particularly in the 19th century and into the early 20th. They directly caused or were a significant contributing factor to a recession and FIVE depressions. The last one was the Great Depression.
I mean, he of course thinks white people are superior. That’s why he’s a white supremacist.
But he said the first comment about Air Jordans in Atlanta, then a follow-up talked about low IQ, which is a racist stereotype most closely associated with black people, and low impulse control, which feeds into the racist narrative that black people are more primitive.
Also, white supremacists typically have a hierarchy of hate, and black people are usually at the top of it. In other words, white supremacists hate all non-white races, but they still have priorities.
Anyway, this guy sucks.
He’s a white supremacist. He means black people. Note the bold.
In October of that year, he responded to a video of people in a neighborhood in Atlanta, saying: “When a population gets feral, a little snip snip keeps things in control. Could offer incentives (Air Jordans, etc.).”
“Where do these population reduction conspiracies come from? All I see is trash multiplying,” he wrote in January 2023.
In May of that year, Beattie wrote on X that “It’s not politically correct to say, but low-IQ, low-impulse control populations lack higher reasoning and moral faculties—they require strict corporal punishment and threat of violence to function properly within a society. Instead of anarcho-tyranny, we need Singapore for the dumb and violent, and Sweden for the more elevated.”
“Don’t look up”