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Should be a wild four years.

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That's assuming JD would even be allowed to become president, which he won't.

MAGA is dead and gone, pack it up everyone. The courts will fuck us over constantly for the next four years and Trump will do nothing to stop them.

The case involves a small amount of USAID payments that contractors say their owed for work already performed.

Honestly this is the correct ruling for the Supreme Court to make and it doesn't really hurt Trump's agenda in any significant way.
 
The auto industry needs to take a fucking beating for this shit. The fact these car companies are getting away with this grift while quality is tanking is insanity. Nobody should be taking out what's essentially a second mortgage for cars. No vehicle period outside of exclusive luxury vehicles should be costing anymore than $15k-20. The worst part is, it's all inflated costs. The vehicles fucking sit in the lot and rot for months, if not years or sit in a warehouse until eventually nobody buys them because they're charging 45k for a damn SUV.
This is also kinda why I’ve always looked side eyed at union factory workers. When shit started going overseas, you’d always hear about these smug assholes with quotas they hit by lunch time and then they’d sit around for the rest of the day flipping off their bosses.. like the pride was fake and they saved it for the picket line

Idk. The teamsters president there, Sean O’Brien? He got me thinking by endorsing trump and seeming to give a fuck about the state of industry, but before that, I’ve always disliked factory unions
 
PL but almost all developers I’m seeing in small towns are Indians/SE Asians/Arabs or Indian/SE Asian/Arab exclusive companies.
All I know is some of the people who told me to "learn to code," and that my job would be gone by now, have been replaced by H1-Bs and I still have my job.
 
I've am watching the state of the union today and democrats were told to not make it about themselves, when Trump starts talking about thousands of people dying in Ukraine due to our support they start clapping lmao wtf is this shit. Are these people brain dead so I guess the dems support killing hundreds of people nice.
 
There’s actually a big scandal happening in Texas over the state govt being shanghaied — a large group of politicians who ran on republican platforms turned coat after the election and immediately voted to give more power to the dems. Several bills that Texans voted for in overwhelming numbers have been in stalemate due to this shit. Rumors are that a lot of these “rising star” TX Dems are Obama funded. A few honest and upright TX reps are documenting this corruption live on X every week trying to get the word out.

Those of us in the know have been begging for larger coverage of this insanity. We have been drowning in Indian H1B transplants, illegal Mexicans, violent rapist Venezuelan gangs and Californians since 2020 and the demographics in several formerly rural counties are changing overnight.

There are entire apartment complexes, streets, neighborhoods, even full-on towns that are overrun by violent illegals being funded by shadowy corps and protected by psychopathic politicians like Al Green, Jasmine Crockett, Dustin Burrows and Dan Crenshaw. Meanwhile, native Texans are forced to pay disgusting amounts of money in property taxes on homes they’ve owned for decades to fund it all. And no one is covering it.
Blue Texas is all but a foregone conclusion. Why is nobody outside of this thread talking about this?
 
The problem is that this dipshit district judge told the State Department to just pay everything, every claim from everybody, do not check for completion, fraud, or anything else. Within hours. Yes, that means he ordered relief for parties that were not involved with the suit and yes that means he is ordering the State Department to violate Federal law. This is how stupid and or brazen he is.
That was after they failed to do it for two weeks as stated in the initial TRO. They would have had enough time to check routine payments for fraud in that time. The government was dragging their heels to not pay for work they promised to pay for.
 
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is referring all four mayors at today’s hearing for criminal prosecution.

Eric Adams, Mike Johnston, Brandon Johnson, and Michelle Wu.

"You are in direct violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324."

"I'm criminally referring you to the DOJ for investigation. These are going to Pam Bondi immediately!"

 
Your meanie replies hurt my feefees and make me want to hide in a corner. I come to this thread so everyone agrees with me and rates my posts with winner stickers. 🥺
The only way to win A&H is to get a post that is equally rated with positive and negative stickers.
Wait is that how tariffs work? Fuck it at this point I am pro-tariff if just to see how they even work!
The problem is that tariffs are assessed at one point (when whatever it is crosses the border) so it can be real hard to see how it ends up. And if the tariff is on something that's also produced locally, they won't have as much headway to raise price, because customers will just go to the local product. So it may or may not raise prices something that may or may not be related to 25%. The only real way to be directly hit is to order something outside the country and get a duty imposed.
Apparently back then, cars were a bitch to maintain. There were even dedicated inspection services at some gas stations, but with engineering improving and inspectors purposefully damaging cars to drive up profit, they disappeared.
Cars were quite fragile mechanical devices when they first appeared, and progressively got better (and more complicated). It's possible to maintain an old enough car with a blacksmith's and no parts. But even by the 70s they had numerous improvements, each of which removed part of the hassle. They were so bad that the reason chauffeurs existed wasn't to drive rich people around, it was to keep the damn car running. The 70s saw points finally disappear so you didn't have to maintain that, at least. Modern cars really are a marvel - they run for so long with no maintenance at all because the manufacturers have learned that they really need to make them maintenance-free because maintenance - ain't a chance! for the vast majority of the public.
A 1968 chevy truck was around $1900 MSRP.. Thats 21,000 today.
You can get a basement-level car for $21k but it has a ton of bells and whistles that would have been unavailable or high-end luxury in the past. Modern cars really ARE better, but they're a fuck to keep running once they start wearing out (which they do much later than old ones did). They've also gotten better since the bad old days when they were still figuring shit out.
 
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is referring all four mayors at today’s hearing for criminal prosecution.

Eric Adams, Mike Johnston, Brandon Johnson, and Michelle Wu.

"You are in direct violation of 8 U.S. Code § 1324."

"I'm criminally referring you to the DOJ for investigation. These are going to Pam Bondi immediately!"

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Man. If Johnson, Wu and and Johnston go to prison and get sexually assaulted by Mexicans gangsters in a cell, I’ll be the happiest American ever.
 
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