"those deadly shots" I took 3, and I'm still alive.
You're self-programming your brain with nonsense.
That is why leo says that it's pointless to try to argue rationally with you.

Even if your worst assumptions are true, they are still not "deadly shots".
That would mean that we would have lost 5.6 billion people worldwide,
myself and everyone I know (except my brother in law) included.

No one told me something like: "Do you know who died directly after getting the shot? The father of Mark from IT.". Why not? Because, besides my brother in law, I'm hanging around with people who can rationally assess these claims. Even my brother in law didn't know anyone personally who died. He told me about dozens
of unsubstantiated claims from his friend's friends; which are useless rumors.
That's what ALL OF YOU have; nothing but useless rumors.

Your side controls all the institutions now, and you STILL got nothing.
Sure, they make theater investigating Fauci, but that's it.
So, you either have to admit that you're wrong or that your side is the most
useless bunch ever. Democrats would have had piles of evidence by now.

There are now multiple Watergates per week
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He is not participating in this childish perjury trap.

What do you think, that he would just tell you, if there was some massive conspiracy
going on, that your whole administration failed to uncover? Silly goose!

What was Trump hiding, when he pleaded the 5th over 440 times?

One thing that the House Republicans have been trying to do, is to abuse the broad definition of gain-of-function (GoF) research, give him no time to explain what part of that definition was applicable to the international infectious disease research collaborations and which part was not, and then try to point to some made up inconsistency and call it a lie, for which they will try to put him in jail for 5 years. Does that answer your question?

At least one or two were intended to make fun of you. I hope you caught that.

Trump administration demands hospitals share personal emergency room records.
This will require participating hospitals to provide personally identifiable patient information, including names, addresses, diagnoses, and other medical details, to the CPSC's contractor.

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manure, manipulation, menace, maleficent

Trump lost another fan.

Alan Ritchson goes NUCLEAR on Donald Trump
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Crops are dying or burning on the fields.
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Grapes in Italy are harvested 10 days earlier than last year. They do this early in the morning, before temperatures hit 40°C (104°F). In localized regions, it genuinely is the earliest on record. For instance, in the major sparkling-wine hub of Oltrepò Pavese (Lombardy), the cutting of Chardonnay grapes on July 27–28 was officially declared an absolute historical record early start, as operations there have NEVER previously shifted into late July.

In July 2026, Europe is experiencing an unprecedented, record-breaking wildfire season, with the absolute worst-hit areas concentrated in southwestern France and central Spain. Fuelled by historic droughts and intense heatwaves, these massive "mega-fires" have forced over 300,000 people to evacuate and have burned an area larger than Luxembourg across the European Union.

As of late July 2026, the United States is battling an intensely severe wildfire season, with federal fire managers elevating the national wildfire alert to its highest possible level. Driven by a hot, dry winter and punishing summer heatwaves, over 4.5 million acres have already burned nationwide across 42,651 individual fires.

In late July 2026, Canada is battling one of its most intense wildfire seasons on record. Prime Minister Mark Carney has mobilized cabinet-level emergency response committees to manage nearly 900 active fires burning simultaneously across the country.Over 3.7 million hectares have already been scorched nationwide, sharply outpacing the historical 10-year national average.

In late July 2026, the Middle East and neighboring Eastern Mediterranean are grappling with a dual crisis of unprecedented heatwaves and localized wildfire emergencies.
Further east in Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, the climate story is focused on absolute survivability rather than forest fires. A historic mid-to-late July heatwave has pushed temperatures flirting with 50°C (122°F) across southern and central Iraq and Kuwait, straining local power grids to their breaking points.

In July 2026, Africa is experiencing some of the most severe consequences of a human-driven climate crisis. Because the continent is warming significantly faster than the global average, extreme heatwaves and multi-year droughts are triggering widespread devastation.
The extreme Saharan heatwaves have pushed temperatures frequently past 45°C to 50°C, causing an unprecedented ecological crisis. As reported by atmospheric and veterinary scientists on the BBC, even hyper-resilient animals like camels are now dying from extreme heat stress. The lack of clean water combined with high temperatures has created a breeding ground for vector-borne diseases and public health emergencies. Vulnerable populations are experiencing spikes in heat exhaustion, heat strokes, and cardiovascular distress. Furthermore, earlier floods in central Africa have left stagnant water that, when superheated by the current drought, accelerates cholera risks. As dry grass and parched forestry create literal tinderboxes, countries like Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa, as well as the savannas of South Africa, are seeing uncontrollable bushfires consume thousands of hectares of protected nature reserves and commercial grazing land.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
There is no reason to suspect that there is anything wrong with the product,
but I prefer that products that I consume are inspected, to be sure.
So, it's not clear who fucked up in the first place, but the final call is sensible.
It's still a waste that in all likelihood perfectly fine products are getting discarded,
but for food my standards are higher than "in all likelihood".

They could have solved this by some on the spot inspections and prevent the destruction of this product, but I suspect that they are being overzealous, to recover some trust from the public at large, because of the recent fuck-ups that were causing your Clostridium outbreak.

When the FDA initially identified Taylor Farms' lettuce as the source of a massive Cyclospora parasite outbreak, which has sickened thousands across multiple states, some Taylor Farms executives bypassed standard regulatory channels, with an urgent plea to delay announcing a public product recall, demanding more proof and time.

The FDA initially announced that a sample of Taylor Farms' lettuce tested positive for Cyclospora. However, shortly after the White House meeting, the FDA deleted that finding from its public website, claiming a re-review showed the result was actually a "false positive". The "false positive" claim is considered "highly questionable" and has sparked intense skepticism from public health experts, lawmakers, and the public. Despite walking back the specific lab test, the FDA maintained that the broader voluntary recall was still necessary based on "overwhelming epidemiological data" pointing to Taylor Farms.
More than 1,600 lab-confirmed cases (and over 7,400 suspected cases) have been reported across multiple states. 90% of interviewed patients reported eating shredded iceberg lettuce at Taco Bell right before getting sick.

The most critical scientific fact in this outbreak is that the Cyclospora cayetanensis parasite can ONLY survive and multiply in human feces. The contamination most likely occurred because human sewage leaked onto the fields in Central Mexico and contaminated the crops. This could have happened via:
• Contaminated irrigation water (rivers or canals connected to open sewers).
• Flooding after heavy rainfall, which caused human wastewater to overflow onto the fields.
The outbreak has occurred in waves. When an outbreak continues to repeat over a longer period, it usually points to a "persistent contamination of the irrigation water or the process water." If the water used in the fields or the factory remains continuously contaminated with the parasite, every new batch of lettuce that comes into contact with it becomes contaminated as well.
Microbiologists emphasize that Cyclospora eggs (oocysts) have an extremely hard, sticky protective shell. Once contaminated water is sprayed over the lettuce, the eggs cling tightly to the microscopic folds of the leaves. Standard washing with chlorine or water is often not effective enough to remove them.

Taylor Farms immediately posted on social media that the FDA had "apologized" to them for the error, a claim that the FDA subsequently denied ever making.

Public Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings revealed that in 2025, Taylor Farms contributed $1 million to President Trump's super PAC (MAGA Inc.) and over $1 million to other Republican political action committees. Congressman Garcia is demanding all communications between Taylor Farms, the White House, the FDA, and the CDC, questioning if these millions in political donations were leveraged to interfere with a public health crisis.

Independent food safety experts noted that public health communication has been severely weakened because many of the dedicated communications staff at the FDA and CDC were recently terminated due to deep federal budget cuts.

On July 27, 2026, the US Congress (the House Oversight Committee) launched an official investigation into Taylor Farms. In this probe, lawmakers demand that the company hand over all internal documents regarding their food safety procedures and water quality testing at their Mexican facilities. A definitive conclusion about the exact condition of the water used by Taylor Farms will only be reached once these documents and independent inspections are made public. The Trump administration does not have the legal authority to shut down a congressional inquiry, but they have forcefully dismissed the probe's allegations as entirely false.

I think this article about the Canadian bacon recall is made public as a distraction.

The product wasn't actually suspected of any contamination risk. It was recalled because
it bypassed a legally required US import re-inspection, meaning its safety could not be verified.

Based on the information released so far, there is no indication of intentional wrongdoing or contamination by Maple Leaf Foods. The reported issue is that the bacon bypassed the required US import re-inspection process, and it has not been publicly explained whether that happened because of an error by the importer, a customs/logistics issue, or another administrative failure. The recall notice does not explain the mechanism by which the shipment bypassed the required inspection or assign fault to any particular party.

The situation in the central registration center for asylum seekers is absolutely awful.
Don't expect me to defend that. The immigrants aren't welcomed with open arms
by the people who live there either. That's the people who vote for Geert Wilders.

However, what I don't get is why a software engineer from the US has to go through
Ter Apel. We have the Dutch-American Friendship Treaty (DAFT).
All an American has to do to get in is:
1. You must be a U.S. citizen.
A U.S. passport is required. Having only a U.S. green card is not enough.
2. You must start or operate your own business in the Netherlands.
This can be a sole proprietorship, a private limited company (BV), or another legitimate business structure. The business must be genuine and actively operated.
3. You must invest at least €4,500 in your business.
This money is your own business capital, it is not a fee paid to the Dutch government. The funds must remain available to the business.
4. You must register your business with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (KvK).
The business must be officially registered.
5. You must apply for a Dutch residence permit under DAFT.
The Dutch Immigration and Naturalisation Service (IND) processes the application.
6. Your business must remain active.
When you renew your residence permit, the IND will check that your business is a real, ongoing enterprise. There is no fixed minimum income requirement, but the business cannot exist only on paper.

That's why so many Americans start a YouTube channel. The money is exactly what you need for a good camera and microphone set and an editing PC with enough storage.
Then they make videos about how they love their life here.

A transgender from the US has a very slim chance to be accepted as a refugee,
because the US is considered to be a safe country.

So your story doesn't make sense. Or he is a very dumb American who didn't know that.

"Have tariffs worked?"
That depends on the goal. If his goal is to tax the lower and middle class more, to compensate for the billionaire tax-cuts, then it is the easiest thing that he could do.
If the goal is to cause chaos on the stock-market, that your family and friends can use to enrich themselves, than it is a devious plan. I'm sure that he didn't think of it himself, because he's not smart enough for that.

Trump doesn't give a fuck about anything being 'illegal'. He has been getting away with crimes all of his life. At worst he had to pay some fines. If you own the DOJ,
the FBI and the supreme court, and all your senators and governors are partisan loyalists, then nothing is 'illegal' anymore.

Do you want your political side to be cruel to a woman who has abnormal hair growth
or baldness or a low voice or a masculine facial bone structure, and call them "SIR"?
I expect that you wouldn't. So what is it that you cannot accept that some people
have a development abnormality with their sexual attraction or sexual identity?

"pure luck and chance they are still alive" because obviously cops should just
kill people who shout at them! FUCKING FASCIST!!!

This is why you are showing that you are NOT AN AMERICAN:

1. First Amendment – Freedom of Speech
o The First Amendment protects the right to criticize the government and its officials, including police officers.
o Simply shouting, insulting, or verbally criticizing an officer is generally protected speech, unless it crosses into categories like a "true threat" or incitement.

2. Fourth Amendment – Protection Against Unreasonable Seizures
o A police shooting is considered a "seizure" of a person.
o Under Supreme Court precedent, officers may use deadly force only when it is objectively reasonable under the circumstances.
o Someone merely yelling at an officer, without posing an imminent threat of serious harm, would not justify deadly force.

3. Fifth Amendment (federal government) and Fourteenth Amendment (states)
o Both contain Due Process Clauses, which protect against deprivation of life without due process of law.
o Since most policing is done by state and local officers, the Fourteenth Amendment is especially important because it applies constitutional protections against state governments.

Key Supreme Court cases
• Tennessee v. Garner
o The Court held that police generally may not use deadly force against a fleeing suspect unless the suspect poses a significant threat of death or serious physical injury.

• Graham v. Connor
o The Court established that police use of force must be judged under the Fourth Amendment's "objective reasonableness" standard.

• City of Houston v. Hill
o The Court struck down a law that broadly criminalized interrupting police officers, emphasizing that the First Amendment protects a significant amount of verbal criticism and challenge directed at police.

OMG, undue expectations? They just want to be accepted for who they are.

These people have development abnormalities, just like people who have other non-lethal abnormalities in their bodies. I never heard you say that someone with Autism, Cerebral palsy or Epilepsy should just ACT NORMAL, but because of some weird obsession with sex and 'sex' identity, you lot are denying THIS.

What happened in Germany is that religious and culturally inspired ignorance and hate, resulted in some fuckwit starting to kill people who are celebrating FREEDOM!!!

Persisting in the claim that it isn't real is just ignorance. To make you a bit more aware, I put below the process, as far as science has unraveled it today, of just the development of a fertilized egg into a girl/women, with all the primary and secondary sex characteristics, fertility, sexual identity and heterosexual attraction. When everything goes correctly, we get a straight cis-female/woman.

If I added the information for a boy/man, my comment would span several pages. Male development has one particularly vulnerable feature: it depends on the successful activation of the SRY → SOX9 pathway and the production and action of testicular hormones during a relatively narrow developmental window. Many chromosomal abnormalities lead to miscarriage before birth, so the patterns seen in live births don't necessarily reflect how often they occur initially. That leaves all the men with non-lethal variations in their sex/gender/sexual attraction development.

Development into a girl/woman
1. Chromosomes
Usually:
• 46 chromosomes
• XX sex chromosomes
However, simply having XX is not sufficient by itself. The genes on those chromosomes—and on the other 44 chromosomes (autosomes)—must also function normally.
There are exceptions:
• Turner syndrome (45,X)
• Mosaic XX/XO
• XX individuals with differences of sex development
• Rare XX males due to translocation of the SRY gene
So chromosomes are the starting blueprint, not the whole story.
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2. Genes
Scientists estimate that well over 1,000 genes contribute in some way to sex differentiation, fertility, brain development, and puberty.
Only about 50–100 genes are considered major regulators of sex development.
Some of the best known include:
Ovarian development
• WNT4
• RSPO1
• FOXL2
• DAX1 (NR0B1)
These actively promote ovarian development.
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Suppression of testis development
Female development is not simply "default."
Genes actively suppress the male pathway.
Examples:
• WNT4
• RSPO1
• FOXL2
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Hormone production
Genes involved include:
• CYP19A1 (aromatase)
• CYP17A1
• STAR
• HSD17B enzymes
• CYP11A1
These produce estrogen and progesterone.
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Hormone receptors
Examples:
• ESR1 (estrogen receptor alpha)
• ESR2
• PGR (progesterone receptor)
Without functioning receptors, hormones cannot work properly.
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Fertility
Many additional genes are required.
Examples:
• FSHR
• LHCGR
• BMP15
• GDF9
• NOBOX
Hundreds more participate in ovarian function.
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Brain development
Many genes that influence:
• hypothalamus
• limbic system
• pituitary regulation
• social behavior
also contribute indirectly.
Scientists estimate hundreds of genes are involved.
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3. Hormones before birth (mother's womb)
Female fetal development requires relatively low androgen exposure compared with male development, but it is still hormonally regulated.
Important hormones include:
• maternal estrogens
• placental estrogens
• progesterone
• human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)
• fetal adrenal steroids
• insulin-like growth factors
• thyroid hormones
• anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH) is generally absent at male-typical levels
Interestingly,
female internal reproductive organs develop primarily because they are not exposed to high levels of AMH and testosterone during critical developmental windows.
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4. Hormones after birth
During childhood and especially puberty:
• estrogen
• progesterone
• FSH
• LH
• GnRH
• growth hormone
• IGF-1
• prolactin
• thyroid hormones
• adrenal hormones
work together.
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5. Development of primary sex characteristics
Requires coordinated development of:
• ovaries
• uterus
• cervix
• vagina
• fallopian tubes
This involves:
• genes
• hormone signaling
• receptors
• embryonic tissue interactions
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6. Secondary sex characteristics
At puberty:
• breast development
• wider pelvis
• fat distribution
• reduced muscle mass
• menstrual cycles
• body hair pattern
• voice characteristics
depend largely on estrogen and progesterone.
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7. Fertility
Requires successful development of:
• ovaries
• follicles
• ovulation
• uterus
• endocrine cycles
• cervix
• hypothalamus
• pituitary
Hundreds of genes contribute.
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8. Gender identity
Current evidence suggests gender identity arises from a combination of:
• genetics
• prenatal hormone exposure
• brain development
• later life experiences
Twin studies indicate a genetic contribution, but no single "gender identity gene" has been identified. Many genes likely each contribute a small effect, interacting with developmental processes.
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9. Sexual orientation
Similarly, research suggests sexual orientation reflects:
• many genetic influences
• prenatal hormonal environment
• early brain development
• other biological factors that remain incompletely understood
Large genetic studies indicate there is no single "heterosexual gene" or "homosexual gene." Instead, many genetic variants each contribute a very small amount, alongside non-genetic developmental influences.

No, you cannot chose to be gay if you're not or chose not be gay if you are.
You are what you are. You can chose to deny it, of course.
But why should they do that? Just because of you?

It's as much a choice as for you to turn gay.
Or do you think that being gay is a choice too?

Teachers salaries in the US have not even kept up with inflation in the last 30 years. They lost ground significantly, especially relative to other professionals.

Your whole country is politicized and biased. It's only logical that teachers are included in that trend. It has been going on in relation to religion for a long time. We have Christian teachers too, but they have never outright refused to teach evolution.
About 28% consistently taught evolution as the scientific consensus.
About 13% explicitly advocated creationism or intelligent design.
About 60% took an "avoidance" approach, teaching evolution incompletely or presenting it as controversial, rather than as the foundation of modern biology.
That means that 72% are not doing their job as they should.

Kids are getting dumber, because your whole society is worshiping stupidity. That's because of your side turning away from facts, critical thinking and science. Your politicians were literally banning schoolbooks, because it mentioned or explained critical thinking. There is a brain drain ongoing in your country, because educated people are leaving. A 2025 Nature poll of more than 1,600 U.S.-based researchers found that about 75% of respondents said they were considering leaving the U.S. Many mentioned Europe and Canada as possible destinations. Other countries are trying to recruit them. Universities and research organizations in Europe, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere have been positioning themselves to attract researchers
who are frustrated with US conditions.

It was not Biden's inflation, it was COVID INFLATION. IT WAS GLOBAL.
Before Covid hit, Trump's economy was already cooling down.
Then he created a massive crisis, by bungling Covid response.
Biden inherited that crisis, but he turned it around, better than other countries.

Even if prices for some things will come down, Trump's stupidity is turning
people's overall cost of living into a complete crisis.

If Trump inherited anything from Biden, he could have easily changed it,
because he controls the house, the senate, and the supreme court.
Biden didn't, which means that he had to deal with your side obstructing
his every move, even when he wanted to introduce very strict immigration laws.

Yes, the problem is sources, and then you are here posting opinion hit-pieces from people who have proven themselves to be absolute grifters, while you are denying irrefutable facts from experienced investigative journalists or even the prevailing evidence from decades of scientific research, by thousands of independent scientists, across many different disciplines, from all over the globe.

When journalists are given classified information from a whistleblower, they don't trust
the whistleblower, they will verify as much of that information as possible, against other sources. I always get the impression that you have no idea how that works.
I know the person saying that. He is smart enough to understand this, which means
he has some reason to spread doubt on processes like this.

I just told you that your country has banned puberty blockers for minors and is very much cracking down on transition surgery for adults. That results in people like this person not looking the part. Your side did that to this person. And to make it worse, then you disrespect them for what YOU DID TO THEM. I understand their anger.

The Dutch police generally provide training in professional and respectful communication with citizens, which includes treating people in an inclusive manner and addressing them appropriately. This may include respecting a person’s preferred name, form of address, and pronouns when these are made known.

However, there is not necessarily a single, nationwide training program in which all officers receive extensive instruction specifically about gender identity or pronoun use. The level of attention given to these topics may vary depending on the police unit, role, and training context.

In practice, officers are expected to communicate respectfully and take a person’s stated preferences into account where possible. Mistakes can happen, for example when someone’s preferred pronouns are not known or out of habit, and these are not automatically intentional. However, if someone is repeatedly or deliberately addressed incorrectly after clarifying their pronouns, they can raise the issue with the officer involved or submit a complaint to the police.

DUH!!! That's why they want to use puberty blockers; to stop looking more and more like a man, while you identify as a women. Or to stop growing tits and wide hips, if you are born as a woman, but identify as a man.

By the way, most of the gender affirming care, given to children, is for boys who have a genetic or hormone abnormality, that results in them developing breasts. Those boys are hurt by your ideology too.

Meanwhile, Pete Kegsbreath is announcing that male service members aged 30
and above should be checked to ensure they have the “right testosterone levels”
and should get testosterone treatment, if they have low levels. He is literally asking
for gender affirming care for one group, while denying it to others.

Of course it's important to integrate tech into the classrooms, because kids today need to learn skills that cannot be replaced by robots and AI. Working with AI is the most important skill for that. But don't think you can replace a teacher with AI any soon. What do you think kids will do, if they are left alone with AI or a robot, for only a few minutes?

Exactly because that robot is still crude, it isn't worth using the money for that. Have you not heard how many teachers are buying supplies from their own money, because funding is getting cut too short?

What is waste? This is the best definition that I can find: Waste is public spending that consumes resources without reasonably advancing the legally authorized objective of the expenditure, or that achieves that objective at substantially greater cost than a practical alternative.

It's waste, if you spend $57,000 on something that can be achieved fully with $300
and a $30/month subscription. If something added has a 10% advantage, you don't pay 19,000% more for it.

If the robot is used to teach programming of robotics software, for kids who are at that level, then it's a whole other thing. That can be worth every dollar.

Mothers are forced to work, because the cost of living crisis makes it impossible to live on just one income. I don't think that it's only the woman's job to care for children. Women should be able to have careers too, so they are not dependent on men.
Men are just as important to the development of children as women, so both the parenting and the career should be shared among them.

I get criticized by your political side for using AI to find some data. They argue that it's completely unreliable. And now you telling me that it's a good idea to hand over the education of children to an AI teacher, to save some money. I didn't expect that.

You really don't understand how much the US and American businesses profited from this, don't you? Your country used it as leverage to pressure the EU in doing your bidding, stealing technology from us and squeezed us with ridiculous prices.
Nothing is as profitable as a monopoly, and you will lose the monopoly on many products and services.

You wanted us to be dependent on you for fuel and defense. It has been your governments priority for decades to keep us dependent. The EU is fully independent for food. We don't need any of your products. We will be independent on energy, when we speed up the energy transition.

In 2024, the US exported $12.8–$12.9 billion in U.S. agricultural exports to the EU, while the EU exported $32–33 billion to the US. Because a significant share of US agricultural production is located in regions that are increasingly affected by climate change, such as drought, heat stress, water scarcity, and extreme weather events, the US may become more reliant on imports of food products in the future.

The U.S. government has expanded climate-related agricultural funding in recent years. The Inflation Reduction Act included billions of dollars for climate-smart agriculture, conservation, and rural resilience programs.

The Trump administration has moved to reduce or reshape some of the climate-related agricultural programs, especially those created or expanded under the Biden administration. The USDA under Trump canceled the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities, a roughly $3 billion program created under Biden. The Inflation Reduction Act had provided about $19.5 billion in additional funding for USDA conservation programs. The Trump administration has sought to redirect priorities away from what it calls "climate" programs.

Exactly, keep your nasty shit within your borders. We don't want it.
It's not just food either, the whole of the EU is working hard to find new suppliers
for EVERYTHING that you are selling.

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The EU is investing in European alternatives to reduce strategic dependence on foreign suppliers, particularly in critical sectors where American companies currently dominate. Priority areas include:
• AI
• Cloud computing
• Semiconductors
• Defense
• Energy
• Telecommunications
• Critical raw materials
• Pharmaceuticals
• Banking and payments
• Space
• Software
• Logistics and shipping
• Chemicals
• Aviation
• Food and agriculture

The EU is one of the United States' largest trading and investment partners, so if Europe succeeds in replacing a significant share of American products and services in strategic industries, many U.S. companies will lose market share and future growth opportunities.

They want the United States to be carved up by billionaires, who all own and rule their piece of the land and people, with the Trump family as the ruling dynasty.
The lord-kings will be ruling their serfs from their castles, but instead of knights, they'll control the people with robots. People will be working 12 hours per day,
7 days per week, from age 10, for starvation wages, and live in small apartments owned by their lord-king. The fairest daughters of the serfs will be taken to serve
the lord-king's perverse desires, from the age of 10 too. They will also breed his 50 children, who will all be competing for their father's succession, by showing who can manage the sweatshops (for the jobs that robots are too expensive for) the most ruthlessly. This is not a fantasy, this is exactly what you get, if you follow the trends that they have set out.

What you read isn't 'news' it's pure propaganda. They pick something random that happens and then put their spin on it, to push their ideology down your throat. That's literally every article that you link here.

Wrong, we do get much more truth than you do, because our news is neutral to a sickening amount. They never put an opinion on ANYTHING, they only report what's happening. They used to be OBJECTIVE, but that made the right-wing call them the "lefty church", so they abandoned that and now they are just neutral.

Your news sources are bought and paid for by billionaires and corporations, and therefore they don't say anything that the billionaires and corporations don't like. I've been telling you this for years and now you tell me that I don't understand that my sources are paid for too? Our main channels are paid for by the CITIZENS. We still have good public networks. We have created a system that put a lot of distance between politics and these public networks. Our right-wingers have been cutting their funding a lot over the years, and they would love to destroy our public system, but it would result in massive backlash from the public, because the large majority of the people know that the public system is the most trustworthy.

They just said “Prove it is safe before putting it near children!”.

The robot costs $57,000 and it cannot do anything more than
a tablet with a $20–$30/month ChatGPT voice subscription.

Who is going to pay for your robot, when Trump is gutting education funding?

True, but if self-dealing was the only goal, they would not make such incredibly stupid choices. That would hurt their self-dealing long-term.

Their main goal is vandalism. They are a movement that believes government is broken, attacks and weakens its institutions, replaces expertise with loyalty,
and then points to the resulting dysfunction as proof that government never worked.

Republicans used to be free trade absolutists. Look at em now.
Tariffs can be a useful tool, if you use them intelligently, but....

OMG, those parasites and diseases are not coming in with foreigners, they are just allowed to turn rampant in your country by your failing government.

You all claim that under Biden more immigrants entered your country than ever in history, but you DIDN'T have all those outbreaks THEN. It happens under Trump, who claims that he is delivering the most secure border in American history. Your own side is literally destroying your argument.

Mexico is improving its standards for food safety, you are doing the opposite. The FDA was the standard for the whole world, but MAGA has decided to crack down on it.
You are turning yourself into a shit-hole country incredibly rapidly.

That's why you had the FDA too, to make sure that food coming into your country is safe.

To the EU, the US is an 'unclean place', because many of your food products don't live up to our standards for quality and safety. Due to Trump's cuts on the FDA and deregulation of food standards, I expect more (or all) your products to be banned by the EU.
Those cuts to the FDA might become VERY EXPENSIVE.

And your side is doing its best to keep it that way.

Your side made it so people like this person cannot transition to the identity they have
on the inside, even withholding puberty blockers from them. Then when a trans-woman doesn't look feminine enough, your side misgenders them and makes fun of them
for being angry about it.

Would you like it, if a cop was calling you "Sir", after they were called to deal with you
because some assholes calling you "Sir" made you angry?

Yes, I'm blaming those cops for participating in your culture war.
Their job is to protect and serve, not being pawns for your politics.

I see you linking videos to 'news'max often enough.
Do you actually think that they are trying to inform people?

Hi leopoldij, how are you doing?

For the Bible-thumpers who don't like the Citizenship Clause in the 14th Amendment,
you're literally going against what you believe are direct instructions from God.
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The following diseases have surged as RFK Jr and Trump have cut public health and pushed vaccine disinformation: —Measles
—Flu
—Rotavirus
—Whooping cough
—Ebola
—Hantavirus
—Cyclosporiasis
—E. Coli
—Campylobacteriosis
—Listeria
—Cryptosporidiosis
—Infant botulism

Imagine the costs to society. This is a classic case of 'False economy'.

[A false economy is when you cut spending to save money in the short term,
but the cuts end up costing far more in the long run]

The damages of this cut can run up into the many billions of dollars in:
• Healthcare spending: Emergency room visits, hospitalizations, ICU care, physician visits, medications, rehabilitation
• Lost productivity: Sick workers miss work, parents stay home with ill children, long recovery periods
• School disruptions: Student absences, temporary closures, additional staffing and sanitation costs
• Public health response: Contact tracing, laboratory testing, vaccination campaigns, quarantine monitoring
• Business disruption: Restaurants, farms, food processors, and retailers lose revenue during outbreaks or recalls
• Long-term disability: Neurological damage, chronic kidney disease, hearing loss, other lifelong complications requiring ongoing care

The following damages are already involved with just the Cyclospora Outbreak:
✅ Nationwide food recalls — Yes. Multiple iceberg lettuce products have been voluntarily recalled and removed from the U.S. market.
✅ Destruction of agricultural products — Very likely. Recalled produce is removed from sale and typically destroyed rather than redistributed.
✅ Restaurant/business losses — Yes. Taco Bell experienced reduced customer traffic and launched promotions to rebuild consumer confidence. A supplier also temporarily shut a processing facility.
✅ Consumer loss of confidence — Yes. This has been widely reported, with restaurants and retailers taking steps to reassure customers.

You can only wait before the next costs come in:
• Lawsuits
• Lost exports
• Restaurant closures

It just another example of the complete incompetence of this regime.

You mean cops being stubborn assholes who are only interested in escalating
every conflict?

At some point in the near future, you are very likely to be shitting your brains out, because of the cyclospora parasite infected food you ate. Then remember Trump's cuts to the FDA.

Tate Brothers Arrested In Florida: What We Know About Their Trump Ties
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These fuckers are giving online courses on how to trick women into being your whores
and how to get connected with powerful, wealthy and famous people. They literally stole
the EPSTEIN playbook. And who is thick as thieves with them again? TRUMP and Barron.
Also, the Tate brothers' own legal team and online right-wing commentators are reporting that Alina Habba and Marco Rubio were trying to block their extradition. Does anyone believe that they acted on their own?

Is there a point where you lot finally get the message that Trump is a sexual predator?

The Tate brothers are hugely popular with right-wingers. Are you not ashamed?

Since so many men here say they do this regularly, I guess it's either completely normal,
or this forum just happens to attract a very unusual concentration of men.

The DUMBEST thing Elon Musk ever said (you might remember the drawing?)
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Nixon, a Republican president, did this:
• Created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Signed the Clean Air Act amendments
• Signed the Endangered Species Act
• Signed the Marine Mammal Protection Act
• Supported affirmative action through the Philadelphia Plan
• Expanded Social Security benefits
• Created Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
• Proposed universal health insurance
• Proposed a guaranteed minimum income (Family Assistance Plan)
• Imposed wage and price controls to combat inflation

Now you have a president who broke it all down and pushes right-wing conspiracy theories.

So, I am asking you; is Elon really THAT DUMB, or just a fucking LIAR?

Destiny Calls Out Fox'News' Host LIVE
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He wiped the smirk right off his face.

Kyle Kulinski is very happy that Fox'News' finally noticed him.
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The sleight of hand is saying that "AMERICA is bashed as a disgusting fascist regime".
No bitches, the Trump regime is NOT America, it is the antithesis of AMERICAN VALUES.

"On the left, you have to be the most informed and most articulate.
You have to be poised, patient, rational, empathetic, fair, and inclusive.
On the right, you can spout off nonsense that you "feel" or "heard" or "just think"."

This was just a random comment, on a random YouTube video, from some random person,
but damn should they be a renowned philosopher.

Andy Beshear, step up and call a special election,
so the people can replace Mitch McConnell with a Democrat.
Mitch McConnell is obviously DEAD, and they are obstructing democracy, in his 'honor'.

Ask yourself what Mitch McConnell would do.

Yeah, I don't know what they mean with the '3 in 1'. It's a grill and you can use it to grill many things, not just 3.
The only benefits of it is that you can grill both sides at once and that it presses the sides together. It's in a closet under a Römertopf dish that we never use,
so half of the time I cannot be bothered to get it, and I use a frying pan too.

Which is what they all are.

I just mentioned Greg Gutfeld, and not a day later his 'humor' reaches the news:

‘All I’m Thinking About Is Her Behind’: Greg Gutfeld’s AOC Punchline Falls Flat
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They cannot stop thinking about AOC in a creepy way. When they are confronted
with an attractive woman, who has ideas that wildly oppose their own, they feel a sexual urge to dominate her. They cannot stop telling on their r@pe fantasies.
You have seen the MAGA guys here express that several times too, right?

When I am confronted with an attractive woman, who has ideas that wildly oppose
my own, even the idea of having sex with her holds no appeal for me. My thinking is: "Sure you look nice, but your character is UGLY!". Why would that not be the same
for these MAGA guys?