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TheFrog

Why use your left boot when you can banana kick with your right? Try assist by T H O M A S ................... R A M O S ! https://x.com/i/status/1964786286071361952 Clermont will try go reach Top 6 this year. They don't have a brilliant team but it is fairly solid despite all the departures. I wat...

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I note that the man who already stopped 10 wars (according to his own people), and engaged Putin personally, inviting him on US soil, has managed feck all so far...

I don't know how US citizens feel about their leader's approach to Ukraine. But for sure it tells them who he really is.

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"If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer."

Sounds like something happening?

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“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”

Hello ICE officers?

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Food for thoughts - Hannah Arendt "The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." "Evil thrives on apathy and cannot exist without it." “Evil comes from a f...

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Hi gals, Hope you lot are keeping well... I have kept away from this forum, I think it's a healthy thing to do! In any case, there is something in their script that is preventing me from reading and posting from a phone, so that helps. Any news from Ski? I think he must love the Russian drift in thi...

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They acted and Trump was elected. (And among other things, they were denied a primary. I hope you Republicans use primaries for the US Congress to send Trump a message. But I fear extremism will prevail). Extremism is certainly prevailing in the Dem party. They are running an open communist or at l...

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That's CAD, not USD. 70.5k CAD = 51.2k USD at current exchange rates. The other thing to look at is the cost of life. High income does not necessarily mean more purchasing power. [I don't know how US and Canada compare in that respect) And the actual income distribution also matters when you want t...

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A third of CEOs plan to axe jobs over the next year—and most now say they’ll pass on new tariff costs to their customers

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Interesting read. Certainly aligns with what I am witnessing around me.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/busi ... yoffs.html

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It's OK, Republicans will continue to enable him while protesting they don't agree with everything he does. Implying that 100% of the democrats agreed with everything Sleepy did? The Pali-protesters and pro Iranian Dems would like a word. They acted and Trump was elected. (And among other things, t...

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It's OK, Republicans will continue to enable him while protesting they don't agree with everything he does.

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The U.S. Embassy has expressed its deep appreciation to the Royal New Zealand Air Force for carrying out a complex and high-risk medical evacuation from McMurdo Station in Antarctica overnight. “This mission wasn’t just difficult; it was one of the most technically demanding operations an aircrew c...

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Still some hope on bipartisan work: Lawmakers in Congress have introduced the Dignity Act of 2025, a bipartisan proposal that would increase the number of green cards available to immigrants and implement broad immigration reforms. The legislation, H.R. 4393, aims to overhaul visa backlogs, expand e...

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More black and white issues separating Americans I guess: The US State Department has voiced rare support for El Salvador’s decision to abolish presidential term limits, paving the way for President Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite reelection. Critics argue the controversial move undermines democrati...

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https://i.imgur.com/AffPkdS.jpeg At this point GOP just means Group of Paedophiles Waiting on Rodney to come defend the "age of consent" here any minute. oh also hes a big fan of the old trans dogwhistle GOP senator who said trans people put girls at “risk” just helped a relative who raped a 13-yea...

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Another area where tariffs will hurt are businesses relying on imports, whether as intermediary or end users. They won't be able to switch to US products overnight (if they exist) because of the time it will take the US industry to ramp up. And if the plan works, and the US industry is revived, you'...

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Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End.

America’s run as the premier techno-superpower may be over.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/arc ... ne/683711/

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puku wrote: ↑Wed Aug 06, 2025 5:18 pm JFKjr pulling federal funding for mRNA-based vaccines, of any stripe, is extremely shortsighted and naive.

Another black and white subject I guess.

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Early days, and too early to judge. But tariffs do not have the expected effect short term at least.

Orders from U.S. factories fell in June, declining for two of the past three months, the Commerce Department said Monday.

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We have been divided for a very long time and now the only issues left are really black and white issues, not middle ground or nuance issues. This day was always coming and it began on Nov 21, 2013. The government no longer had to compromise to function. Now even our judiciary has dropped the facad...

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What you need in rich clubs is a manager of men. Like Noves was in Toulouse. Someone the players respect and fear.

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California’s Texas-thwarting gerrymander has swiftly transformed from fantasy to reality. Democrats in the House and the state Legislature are coalescing around a plan to draw a half-dozen Republican incumbents into oblivion — and persuade California voters to approve the new congressional maps bef...

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Russia testing TACO in response to the latest Trump position on the Ukraine war. "Russia no longer sees itself as limited" on these types of weapons, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to remarks published by Russian state news agency TASS. "Russia considers itself entitled to take a...

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The worst part is that Trump will not listen to opinions that so not support his uneducated worldview, and that fact that he is now firing those who bring him data that he does not agree with will affect the already slim possibility that he gets the information he needs to make the correct decision...

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The U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Saturday it is taking the unusual step of investigating Jack Smith, the former Justice Department official who oversaw two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump, for potentially violating the law barring federal officials from political activity Isnt this that...

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The U.S. Office of Special Counsel said Saturday it is taking the unusual step of investigating Jack Smith, the former Justice Department official who oversaw two federal prosecutions of Donald Trump, for potentially violating the law barring federal officials from political activity

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ICE targeting people seeking asylum and complying with all related requirements including turning up at court hearings where the ICE Officers are waiting for them. This is how you reward migrants who comply with their legal obligations. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/nyregion/immigrant-arrests-c...

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Trump defended his decision to fire US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer. Without evidence to back his claims, the president wrote on social media that were numbers were “RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad” and the US economy was, in fact, “BOOMIN...

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I never understood why Ferrari wasted money on a driver who was past his best. Turns out he is worse than Sainz who is worse than Albon.

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Google has purged more than 50 organizations related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, from a list of organizations that the tech company provides funding to, according to a new report.

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The rethoric is interesting.

When judges decisions goes against you, it's bias and lawfare.

When the stats are not good, the head of the stats bureau should be fire.

At this rate, I can see someone's uncle being sent to the firing squad some time.

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Meanwhile, on the Epstein front: Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been moved from a Florida prison to a new minimum-security facility in Texas, authorities have confirmed. Looks like the administration has decided for a more human treatment in this case.

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A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” has entered its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions. Meanwhile, there are concerns about conflict of interest when it comes to the deve...

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More concerning was that they made a mistake with the previous two months counting. In addition, the bureau revised the two previous months down sharply, cutting a combined 258,000 from the prior counts, putting the three-month growth rate at a paltry 35,000. It was the biggest two-month downward r...

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grandpa - without quoting your message.... i usually read this guy's (Irwin Stelzer) weekly piece in the Sunday Times. He's a Trump fan boy and some of his stuff is clearly horsesh1t but i try and read it just to see if there's an alternative view point that might in some parallel universe make sen...

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That no tax on overtime bill is BS anyway. I do a LOT of overtime at a high rate and I get less than a thousand dollars in tax breaks. The average person working overtime at the coal mine is getting like $150 back. Just another bill designed to look good for the poor but actually doesn't benefit th...

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Alligator Alcatraz

We have not ever seen a situation where hundreds of people are being held without charge, without access to the immigration courts, under a legal authority that has not been explained

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Skiaddict wrote: ↑Mon Jul 28, 2025 10:59 pm The US has been taking it unlubed for over 50 years. How dare they stand up and ask for a fair playing field. The nerve of those yanks!

You really have some talent!

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A day after the European Union and United States struck a trade deal on Sunday, the French government has come out swinging against the agreement, calling instead for tariff retaliation and warning that Europe would be politically weakened if it didn’t hit back. “It is a dark day when an alliance o...

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