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Why does MAGA protect pedos?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to SectionC3's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Biden didn't even know what year it was, how could he understand a list? This is all on Trump -
Why does MAGA protect pedos?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to SectionC3's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/07/12/turning-point-usa-conference-concerns-trump/ By Natalie Allison TAMPA — At a gathering of some of President Donald Trump’s most devout supporters — young conservatives spending a summer weekend strategizing on how to further the MAGA movement — a cloud hung over the convention center. Attendees of Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit erupted in boos over the Trump administration’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased child predator. Top MAGA leaders criticized the White House from stage and on their wide-reaching social media accounts throughout the weekend, attacking not only Trump’s attorney general, Pam Bondi, for declining to release more on the investigation and potential Epstein associates, but raising questions about why the president seemed to be out of step with his base. The concerns raised at the conference followed days of conservative foment that continued to build over the weekend, fueling anxiety among Trump allies that conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein, widely promoted by Trump and administration officials before they took office, will continue to haunt them. Even Trump’s preferred cable network, Fox News, raised a warning Sunday morning, with “Fox & Friends” host Charles Hurt saying the White House needed to provide more answers. “There has to be some explanation,” Hurt said, “and I think that’s why you have a lot of people still ... with a lot a very valid questions.” Anchor Kevin Corke and co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy, the wife of Trump’s transportation secretary, Sean P. Duffy, agreed that his supporters needed a more substantive response. Kirk warned that Trump’s newer young male supporters are especially rankled by what they see as a lack of transparency on Epstein. “Their trust of government is zero,” Kirk said. “The only reason they were able to succumb themselves to engaging was because of Trump.” But the prospect that the White House might alienate key segments of the movement that returned Trump to Washington was a constant theme in speeches from some of the biggest commentators in MAGA politics. “This could actually cost Trump in the midterms,” conservative podcaster and former Fox News host Megyn Kelly said, as she spent more than half an hour railing against Bondi. “We can’t lose any of the MAGA base.” Former senior White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon, taping his daily podcast from a small stage in the convention center Friday morning, was even more alarmed. “It’s deeper than Epstein!” Bannon shouted as a crowd gathered around him. The administration’s refusal to release more on the investigation and Epstein’s potential ties to power, as it had once promised to do, is “not about just a pedophile ring and all that,” he said. “It’s about who governs us.” “For this to go away,” a fired-up Bannon continued, telling his producers they would have to blow through the scheduled commercial break, “you’re going to lose 10 percent of the MAGA movement. If we lose 10 percent of the MAGA movement right now, we’re going to lose 40 seats in ’26, we’re going to lose the presidency. They don’t even have to steal it.” Tucker Carlson, another former Fox News host, said the official response to criticism over Epstein reminded him of the Biden administration. “The fact that the U.S. government, the one that I voted for, refused to take my question seriously and instead said ‘Case closed. Shut up, conspiracy theorist’ was too much for me, and I don’t think the rest of us should be satisfied with that,” Carlson said. -
Everyone keeps saying AI is going to be a job killer, maybe this is the tip of the iceberg or maybe not. Trump's policies are also job killers, higher taxes are never good and his tariffs have sure hurt sectors of the economy, and created uncertainty for many small businesses. Chasing after workers that happen to be unpeaople in MAGA's eyes has hurt business, also, costing citizens their jobs. If an immigrant can't do his job he can't pass the good or service onto the next stage in the economic process, so a citizen doesn't get hired. Immigration, legal or illegal, is great for the economy, Trump is hurting that. Once the supply of goods imported before the tariffs kicked runs out we will see higher inflation, too Stagflation
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UPDATE: ISRAEL v IRAN - Ceasefire reached?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
What source do you have about Iran rushing to finish its nukes? -
UPDATE: ISRAEL v IRAN - Ceasefire reached?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
And it's a nice name. Parents just don't name girls Sue anymore 🤷♂️ Or Lisa -
UPDATE: ISRAEL v IRAN - Ceasefire reached?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
Bibi will demand they bomb it -
UPDATE: ISRAEL v IRAN - Ceasefire reached?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
The chief United Nations nuclear inspector has widened the divide with the Trump administration over how severely the United States set back Iran’s nuclear program, declaring that it could be enriching uranium in a “matter of months” even as President Trump repeated his claim that Tehran had lost interest in the effort. “Frankly speaking, one cannot claim that everything has disappeared and there is nothing there,” Rafael Mariano Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in an interview with CBS News that aired on Sunday. But Mr. Grossi’s analysis — one that several European intelligence agencies share — is consistent with a preliminary assessment by the Defense Intelligence Agency that was widely reported on last week. That report estimated that the strike set back the Iranian nuclear program by only a few months. The C.I.A. director said later in the week that the Iranian program had been severely damaged, and the U.S. intelligence agencies were continuing to assess the strike. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/us/politics/un-iran-nuclear-program-enrichment.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Sk8.rXji.vZ38L-H11Vde&smid=url-share -
UPDATE: ISRAEL v IRAN - Ceasefire reached?
Trump_is_Mentally_fit replied to Big Blitz's topic in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
You are jumping the gun. Real intelligence takes time. Your wishful thinking isn't intelligent https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/29/trump-iran-nuclear-damage-intercepted-call/ The United States obtained intercepted communication between senior Iranian officials discussing this month’s military strikes on Iran’s nuclear program and remarking that the attack was less devastating than they had expected, said four people familiar with the classified intelligence circulating within the U.S. government. -
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/upshot/republicans-medicaid-cuts-paperwork.html “The Republicans decided on the talking point that they wanted to say, ‘We didn’t cut anyone’s benefits,’” said Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, a professor at Northwestern who studies food assistance. “So instead they’re going to say, ‘Well, we’re going to really squeeze folks that we think should be working.’” The Trump administration has prided itself on deregulation, cutting rules for business processes throughout the government. But when it comes to antipoverty programs, this agenda moves in the opposite direction, making individuals work harder to prove they qualify for government programs. Federal and state agencies would also need to build vast new bureaucracies to measure and monitor the new paperwork. Republican lawmakers, White House officials and researchers who advise them argue that the extra paperwork and processes are a way of ensuring that only the truly worthy can access government help. “If you’re going to be on the public wagon, you have to do something to help pull it, if you’re able,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said last month in a CNN interview, in which he said Republicans “are not cutting Medicaid.” The bill does make some direct cuts to Medicaid funding, but most of its health care savings come from administrative changes. That’s a significantly different strategy from the Republicans’ attempt to repeal Obamacare in 2017, which would have directly reduced federal spending on health programs, and was thus easier for opponents to attack. But Democrats are trying. Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s Democratic leader, has said tens of millions of Americans would be “mummified in new red tape.” Decades of evidence show that administrative barriers prevent vulnerable families from receiving benefits, while simplifying programs can increase use. In the first Trump administration, more frequent Medicaid eligibility checks led to losses in health coverage for more than a million poor children. Studies of student aid applications have shown that programs that help families fill out the forms boost college participation. They can't figure out how to fill out an application? Do they belong in college? 🤷♂️
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Higher prices and less inventory https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/27/deep-inside-economy-more-sticker-prices-start-to-go-up-due-to-tariffs.html The latest inflation data came in hotter than expected, and Nike warned in its earnings on Thursday that prices will be going higher due to tariffs. Across the U.S. retail and manufacturing distribution chains, inventory has started to be re-ticketed with higher prices, by between 8%-15%, according to ITS Logistics, including for apparel and consumer product goods. The footwear industry says it expects prices to rise by between 6% and 10%. It’s not just higher prices but less inventory With current concerns about trade uncertainty and consumer softness, retailers and manufacturing clients are managing inventory by shrinking SKU counts and importing fewer SKUs they are keeping. The Bureau of Economic Analysis reported that gross domestic product shrank by 0.5% in the first quarter of 2025. “The overall inventory footprint is smaller,” said Martin. “You are looking at three months of inventory on hand now versus six.” Supply chain data from the warehouse sector and the growing number of empty shipping containers at ports are pointing to a more mild peak season (the summer buildup of inventory for the back-to-school and holiday shopping periods). Warehouse inventory levels are down 6% month over month, according to the Logistics Managers’ Index. Comparing readings from the first half of June to later in the month, growth in inventories started to slow down, which suggests that an increase in early June was temporary, according to Zachary Rogers, associate professor of supply chain management at Colorado State University. “Because of how long it takes inventories to move through systems, we haven’t seen any big shifts in transportation yet,” said Rogers. “Warehouse capacity did move from mild contraction to mild expansion.” The data for the full month of June is not in yet, but Rogers said it is highly unlikely the results would change in any meaningful way. “We’re far enough along that we basically know where they’ll end up,” he said.