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Well... it's Trump... again. #47, here we go.

“They [FIFA] said: ‘Could you hold this trophy for a little while?’ We put it in the Oval Office and then I said: ‘When are you going to pick up the trophy’, and [FIFA President Gianni Infantino] said: ‘We’re never going to pick it up, you can have it forever in the Oval Office,’” Trump explained in a mid-game chat with the broadcaster, DAZN.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
 
I've been trying to look around at Alternet, but none of the articles are opening up. The page scrolls fine, and refreshes, I close out the pop ups, but still nada. I can't read anything there. ?? I guess you have to log in?
 
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I don't know if it's true or not but I would not want my accomplishment forever tarnished by that asshole.
 
In other Trumpian news:
Inflation is move up and AP, Reuters, and CNBC are all referencing the tariffs as the reason why. AP and Reuters are also saying this will keep Jerome Powell (you know, the Jerome Powell Trump wants so desperately to fire) and the Federal Reserve from lowering interest rates. Trump wants the Fed to lower them a full percentage point. Now it looks like they'll have to stand pat.
Tariffs, inflation, Putin, Epstein. I'll make some popcorn.
 

Secret police slush fund is gonna be SO corrupt​


The One Big Bill the Trump administration includes a massive expansion of funding for “border security,” ICE, and other anti-immigrant functions of the Department of Fatherland Security. This will produce a corresponding massive increase in corruption.


Consider the U.S. Coast Guard, which had — and still has — an annual budget of around $14 billion. Since next year’s budget is pretty much the same as last year’s budget, they know where that money has gotta go and thus where that money is gonna go.

But ICE and DHS are getting a ton of new money, tens of billions of dollars only vaguely designated for vague purposes. It’s new money, not needed money, and so where it’s gotta go and where it’s gonna go are open questions.
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WAB said:
I've been trying to look around at Alternet, but none of the articles are opening up. The page scrolls fine, and refreshes, I close out the pop ups, but still nada. I can't read anything there. ?? I guess you have to log in?
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Does the pop-up say "You've landed on an exclusive Alternet+ article"? I THINK you can get around that by accessing via a browser you otherwise never use (in my case Edge) and setting that browser to Block Javascript.

But only about half the stories are blocked. You can't get ANY of them?

Many Alternet articles are copied from another site (e.g. TheHill or RawStory or Robert Reich's substack) and you may find it there -- though those sites may also be pay-to-view.
 
Swammerdami said:
WAB said:
I've been trying to look around at Alternet, but none of the articles are opening up. The page scrolls fine, and refreshes, I close out the pop ups, but still nada. I can't read anything there. ?? I guess you have to log in?
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Does the pop-up say "You've landed on an exclusive Alternet+ article"? I THINK you can get around that by accessing via a browser you otherwise never use (in my case Edge) and setting that browser to Block Javascript.

But only about half the stories are blocked. You can't get ANY of them?

Many Alternet articles are copied from another site (e.g. TheHill or RawStory or Robert Reich's substack) and you may find it there -- though those sites may also be pay-to-view.
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It's working fine for me now. I don't know what I was doing wrong before. 🤔 Thanks for the response.
 
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When Thaksin's red-shirts terrorists were burning down Bangkok, someone adapted this Lily Allen song and put it up on YouTube. Somebody should do that for the Orange Sociopath!

(Thaksin served as Siam's P.M.; and was deposed in a military coup d'état. His sister later served as P.M., and was also deposed; she remains a criminal fugitive. Thaksin's daughter became P.M. last year (upon which her father, but not her aunt, was permitted to return to the country and serve his prison sentence in a luxury hospital) but she was recently "suspended." Has this family set some sort of record?)
 
Josh Hawley proposes bill to undo Medicaid cuts in bill he helped pass.
article said:
The bill would restore funding that states rely on to finance Medicaid, which Republicans put on the chopping block by passing President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful” tax and spending law. The measure passed on a party-line vote after months of debate and hand-wringing about taking health insurance away from vulnerable Americans ― including voters who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“President Trump has always said we have to protect Medicaid for working people. Now is the time to prevent any future cuts to Medicaid from going into effect,” Hawley said in a statement released by his office.

Hawley’s bill also includes an additional $50 billion in support for rural hospitals ― up from the $50 billion already included in Trump’s massive tax package. Rural hospitals are expected to bear the brunt of the cuts to Medicaid, most of which are scheduled to begin in 2028.

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Hawley defended the move, however, pointing to other aspects of the bill he supported, like the extensions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts and support for victims of nuclear radiation.

“You can’t get everything you want in one piece of legislation. I like a lot of what we did. I don’t like some of it,” the senator told reporters on Tuesday.
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:rolleyes:

Is this walk-back maneuver going to become a thing?
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Josh Hawley proposes bill to undo Medicaid cuts in bill he helped pass.
article said:
The bill would restore funding that states rely on to finance Medicaid, which Republicans put on the chopping block by passing President Donald Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful” tax and spending law. The measure passed on a party-line vote after months of debate and hand-wringing about taking health insurance away from vulnerable Americans ― including voters who supported Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“President Trump has always said we have to protect Medicaid for working people. Now is the time to prevent any future cuts to Medicaid from going into effect,” Hawley said in a statement released by his office.

Hawley’s bill also includes an additional $50 billion in support for rural hospitals ― up from the $50 billion already included in Trump’s massive tax package. Rural hospitals are expected to bear the brunt of the cuts to Medicaid, most of which are scheduled to begin in 2028.

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Hawley defended the move, however, pointing to other aspects of the bill he supported, like the extensions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts and support for victims of nuclear radiation.

“You can’t get everything you want in one piece of legislation. I like a lot of what we did. I don’t like some of it,” the senator told reporters on Tuesday.
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:rolleyes:

Is this walk-back maneuver going to become a thing?
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Yeah. I mentioned that. yesterday although autocorrect changed Hawley to Harley, the name of my late parrot. The following is just something I've copied from a NYT article although it can probably be found in many places. Yeah! It's always the Democrats fault.

In a blistering social media post Wednesday morning, President Trump took aim at his supporters who are upset with the administration’s handling of files related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender whose connections to wealthy figures have been a subject of intense interest among vocal portions of his base.

Mr. Trump distanced himself from those who have criticized him, calling them “PAST supporters” who had “bought into this ‘bullshit,’ hook, line, and sinker.”

Mr. Trump also claimed that outrage over the Justice Department’s decision to not release additional information and close the investigation was just the latest “scam” cooked up by Democrats.

“Let these weaklings continue forward and do the Democrats work,” he wrote, “don’t even think about talking of our incredible and unprecedented success, because I don’t want their support anymore!”

In doing so, Mr. Trump turned to an old playbook: attempting to reframe politically unfavorable issues as the work of Democrats and his political opponents.
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Another temper tantrum from the toddler in chief! How long can this keep going on........
 
I can understand medical debt being part of a mortgage application, maybe even a car, but is it necessary for a credit report?
 
Proposed $55B chip plant near Flint canceled amid national uncertainty

MUNDY TOWNSHIP — A deal to bring a $55 billion semiconductor manufacturing project, once expected to bring up to 10,000 jobs to Genesee County, has collapsed, state officials confirmed this week.

California-based Sandisk has pulled out of plans to build a massive chip fabrication facility at the Advanced Manufacturing District in Mundy Township, just south of Flint and roughly 65 miles southeast of Midland County.

The facility had been viewed as a potential anchor for Michigan’s push to lead the next generation of U.S. semiconductor production.

News about Sandisk's decision to abandon the project was first reported by Crain’s Detroit Business, which cited a statement from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s office blaming “massive economic uncertainty at the national level” for the company’s change of heart.
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Thanks, Don.
 
Seen elsewhere:

Yesterday, during an event held at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, President Donald Trump claimed his uncle John Trump knew and taught the Unabomber:
Kaczynski was one of his students. Do you know who Kaczynski was? There's very little difference between a madman and a genius. But Kaczynski, I said, what kind of a student was he, Uncle John, Dr. John Trump? He said, what kind of a student? And then he said, seriously, good. He said he'd correct, he'd go around correcting everybody, but it didn't work out too well for him. Didn't work out too well, but it's interesting in life.
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No, Thomas Kaczynski was not one of John Trump's students. John Trump taught at MIT. Kaczynski never attended MIT. Furthermore, Kaczynski's academic studies were narrowly focused on mathematics, so Kaczynski would never have had any reason to take a course from or even to meet Dr John Trump, who was a professor of electrical engineering and physics.

Furthermore, the fact that Kaczynski became the Unabomber was not known until after John Trump's death, so John Trump saying "it didn't work out too well for him" is Donald Trump's invention.

Donald Trump lies all the time, often for no discernible purpose, so the story Donald Trump made up about his uncle and the Unabomber might be nothing more than just another pointless lie. On the other hand, that story (and several other equally false stories Trump incorporated into his remarks) might be yet another sign of Trump's cognitive decline.
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Jimmy Higgins said:
I can understand medical debt being part of a mortgage application, maybe even a car, but is it necessary for a credit report?
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The thing is debt is debt. By default, it would be included.

It was specifically excluded because it's not very predictive of a person's overall financial state. I suspect the hospitals were screaming over this because it would leave their only means of collection being taking someone to court.
 
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