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Trump Sec of Commerce who was neighbors with Epstein


Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: So he invites us in.

He gives me a tour in the living room...and he opens the doors and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. And candles all around and stuff. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I say to him, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage?

And he says, "Every day." And then he gets like weirdly close to me and he says, "And the right kind of massage."

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Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: So he invites us in. He gives me a tour in the living room...and he opens the doors and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. And candles all around and stuff. So I ask very insightful cutting questions. I...
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"Lutnick, in a notable break with the DOJ, claimed late pedophile Epstein was 'the greatest blackmailer ever' — and may have traded the feds video of his rich and well-connected associates getting massages from young women in exchange for a controversial 2008 plea deal."

 
Since so many people are gullible over what Republicans say, Democrats in Senate might as well go ahead to approve the spending bill to stop the shutdown. And later if bad things happen such as hospitals closing, or ACA sharply up, then say see, I told you so.
 
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So now the military is going after gabgbangers????


Stephen Miller brings his seething rage to MEMPHIS: "Gangbangers think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore… We are gonna rescue Memphis.”

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Stephen Miller brings his seething rage to MEMPHIS: "Gangbangers think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore… We are gonna rescue Memphis.”
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I wonder if it occured to Trump that declaring war on American cities may make corporate heads from overseas think twice about setting up plants in America. Then to add to the chaos is the tariff policies and the government shut down. It's time for corporate heads to call congressional Republicans to tell them to stop the chaos or else they will give money to and vote for Democrats in 2026!

Where there really isn't inflation is in China. Another reason why American owned businesses in China may not want to come to America where inflation is around 3%.
 
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‘Dangerous Cities,’ the Military, Trump and the Founding Fathers

The U.S. armed services have long sought to preserve the tradition of a nonpartisan military.
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News analysis

‘Dangerous Cities,’ the Military, Trump and the Founding Fathers​

The U.S. armed services have long sought to preserve the tradition of a nonpartisan military.

In the middle of Tuesday’s rambling speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, President Trump told hundreds of the country’s military commanders his latest thinking on where they should next set their sights.

Not Poland, or Romania, or Estonia or Denmark, all NATO allies where Russian drones have in the past month violated airspace in a challenge to the alliance’s borders.

The president chose San Francisco. Chicago. New York. Los Angeles.
.....

“It’s a war from within,” he said.

In that moment, the president again pitted himself against the wishes of the country’s founding fathers, historians and former military leaders say.
.......

‘A Fraught Moment’​

Mr. Trump has tried this before.

During Mr. Trump’s first term, Defense Secretaries Jim Mattis and Mark T. Esper and the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Joseph Dunford, tried to prevent the president from using the military domestically to further his political agenda.

When Mr. Trump demanded a deployment of 10,000 to 15,000 military troops to fend off what he called a migrant “invasion” at the southwest border, Mr. Mattis responded by sending 6,000 National Guardsmen, and told them to make sure to stick to support roles and to steer clear of migrants.
.......
When Mr. Trump wanted to send the 82nd Airborne onto the country’s streets during social justice protests, Mr. Esper called a news conference to announce his opposition, for which he was eventually fired.

Those men are now gone, and the men Mr. Trump has installed in their place in his second term have either amplified his wishes or bowed to them.

Gone too is the congressional opposition that blocked Mr. Trump during his first term. Republicans control both the House and the Senate, and have acquiesced to all of Mr. Trump’s directives and appointments that relate to the American military.
......

Deploying troops inside the country as an arm of law enforcement is not what the founding fathers wanted, military historians say. They feared that the government could use a standing army to suppress dissent and establish tyranny.

Over 250 years, American political and military leaders built what is widely viewed as the world’s most competent fighting force. Its 1.3 million active-duty troops and 765,000 reserve and National Guard troops have answered to civilian leaders, whether Democrat of Republican, saluting whomever the American people elected as president.

But now the military, which has long prized its nonpartisan role in society, has a commander in chief who is not only breaking that tradition, but also targeting domestic, instead of foreign, threats.

“If I was the leader of the Polish military, and we’re getting Russian incursions into NATO territory, and I saw 800 American generals and admirals sitting in an auditorium listening to that speech, well, that would grate,” said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, an Iraq war veteran who is retired. “Is the American military serious?”
......

Cleareyed Realists​

The framers of the American Constitution were students of history, heavily shaped by the English Civil War, in which King Charles I asserted the divine right of kings, tried to rule without Parliament, and used his army against his own people.

The framers also were heavily influenced by the British military’s occupation of the colonies.

They were cleareyed about what they considered the biggest potential danger: that a standing army could be turned against the people it was supposed to protect.

But they were also realists and acknowledged the need for a military to defend the country.

“The continual necessity for his services enhances the importance of the soldier, and proportionably degrades the condition of the citizen,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers. “The military state becomes elevated above the civil.”
 
Rep. Carlos Gimenez defends Trump's racist AI videos: "You're gonna see more of these things happen, and so people need to develop a little bit thicker skin ... if you complain about it you're just going to get more of it"

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Rep. Carlos Gimenez defends Trump's racist AI videos: "You're gonna see more of these things happen, and so people need to develop a little bit thicker skin ... if you complain about it you're just going to get more of it"
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Leavitt: "Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position. And if they don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple."

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Leavitt: "Democrats should know that they put the White House and the president in this position. And if they don't want further harm on their constituents back home, then they need to reopen the government. It's very simple."
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Mike Johnson: "Many of you asked me this morning about sombreros and memes and why Hakeem Jeffries is all alarmed by that. Look, these are games, these are sideshows, people are getting caught up in battles over social media memes ... to my friend Hakeem, man, just ignore it."

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Mike Johnson: "Many of you asked me this morning about sombreros and memes and why Hakeem Jeffries is all alarmed by that. Look, these are games, these are sideshows, people are getting caught up in battles over social media memes ... to my friend Hakeem, man, just ignore it."
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steross said:
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www.nytimes.com

‘Dangerous Cities,’ the Military, Trump and the Founding Fathers

The U.S. armed services have long sought to preserve the tradition of a nonpartisan military.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com

News analysis

‘Dangerous Cities,’ the Military, Trump and the Founding Fathers​

The U.S. armed services have long sought to preserve the tradition of a nonpartisan military.

In the middle of Tuesday’s rambling speech at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia, President Trump told hundreds of the country’s military commanders his latest thinking on where they should next set their sights.

Not Poland, or Romania, or Estonia or Denmark, all NATO allies where Russian drones have in the past month violated airspace in a challenge to the alliance’s borders.

The president chose San Francisco. Chicago. New York. Los Angeles.
.....

“It’s a war from within,” he said.

In that moment, the president again pitted himself against the wishes of the country’s founding fathers, historians and former military leaders say.
.......

‘A Fraught Moment’​

Mr. Trump has tried this before.

During Mr. Trump’s first term, Defense Secretaries Jim Mattis and Mark T. Esper and the chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley and Gen. Joseph Dunford, tried to prevent the president from using the military domestically to further his political agenda.

When Mr. Trump demanded a deployment of 10,000 to 15,000 military troops to fend off what he called a migrant “invasion” at the southwest border, Mr. Mattis responded by sending 6,000 National Guardsmen, and told them to make sure to stick to support roles and to steer clear of migrants.
.......
When Mr. Trump wanted to send the 82nd Airborne onto the country’s streets during social justice protests, Mr. Esper called a news conference to announce his opposition, for which he was eventually fired.

Those men are now gone, and the men Mr. Trump has installed in their place in his second term have either amplified his wishes or bowed to them.

Gone too is the congressional opposition that blocked Mr. Trump during his first term. Republicans control both the House and the Senate, and have acquiesced to all of Mr. Trump’s directives and appointments that relate to the American military.
......

Deploying troops inside the country as an arm of law enforcement is not what the founding fathers wanted, military historians say. They feared that the government could use a standing army to suppress dissent and establish tyranny.

Over 250 years, American political and military leaders built what is widely viewed as the world’s most competent fighting force. Its 1.3 million active-duty troops and 765,000 reserve and National Guard troops have answered to civilian leaders, whether Democrat of Republican, saluting whomever the American people elected as president.

But now the military, which has long prized its nonpartisan role in society, has a commander in chief who is not only breaking that tradition, but also targeting domestic, instead of foreign, threats.

“If I was the leader of the Polish military, and we’re getting Russian incursions into NATO territory, and I saw 800 American generals and admirals sitting in an auditorium listening to that speech, well, that would grate,” said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Eaton, an Iraq war veteran who is retired. “Is the American military serious?”
......

Cleareyed Realists​

The framers of the American Constitution were students of history, heavily shaped by the English Civil War, in which King Charles I asserted the divine right of kings, tried to rule without Parliament, and used his army against his own people.

The framers also were heavily influenced by the British military’s occupation of the colonies.

They were cleareyed about what they considered the biggest potential danger: that a standing army could be turned against the people it was supposed to protect.

But they were also realists and acknowledged the need for a military to defend the country.

“The continual necessity for his services enhances the importance of the soldier, and proportionably degrades the condition of the citizen,” Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Papers. “The military state becomes elevated above the civil.”
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I appreciate you sharing this. I prefer these focused, well-sourced articles over the rage bait we see often.

I was talking with someone recently and mentioned I like this format as it isn’t controlled by an algorithm. But lately I’ve realized some folks are pulling the rest of us into their algorithm.
 
TheMonkey said:
I appreciate you sharing this. I prefer these focused, well-sourced articles over the rage bait we see often.

I was talking with someone recently and mentioned I like this format as it isn’t controlled by an algorithm. But lately I’ve realized some folks are pulling the rest of us into their algorithm.
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Agree. I know it's unavoidable but I try and make an honest attempt at avoiding getting sucked into a news stream that gives more of what it thinks I want to hear at the expense of what I need to learn. But I do get a lot of my information from this board. I tell myself to think about the article and the source (I find myself checking twitter credentials alot) but if I'm just chasing someone else's algorithm then am I really getting what is important without the bias of the user.
 
cowboyinexile said:
What does he consider democrat agencies?
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It will be interesting to see what is. It's a rather long list. For starters, Social Security, Medicare, ACA, Medicaid and Dept of Education.

Many Republicans think most of the federal government might as well be abolished anyway, since they picture federal workers as doing nothing other than sit around all day.
 
BREAKING: President Trump has determined that the U.S. is now engaged in a formal "armed conflict" with drug cartels, according to a confidential memo obtained by @abcnews.

The move comes after recent U.S. strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

The notice was sent to several congressional committees and was first reported by The New York Times.

Read more: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/2PA709
 
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