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38 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

I think we can all agree that the President of The United States of America can dress how he wishes.

In that case,I think we can agree about that for the president of Ukraine too.

12 minutes ago, Magictoad said:

I think "you people " refers to the obsessively Anti Trump comment makers who can't get over losing the election over a 100 days ago. Give us a break and shut up, please. Enough is enough. You should be concentrating on the next election which by the way, it looks like you're going to lose too.

Right. Just the Way right wingers kept mum during the Obama and Biden administrations?

An innovation that came into existence years ago could now help the United States tackle China’s dominance in a key sector.

A scientist working at the University of Minnesota lab years ago developed the world’s first iron nitride magnet, a revolutionary technology forged from iron and nitrogen without using rare earth elements.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/rare-earth-free-magnet-help-us

Just now, ujayujay said:

Go to Trustpilot and you will see how trustworthy WION really is....not

 

https://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.wionews.com

I cited another source to confirm that it does exist. Whether it's as menacing as WION says is dubious. Anyway, another piece of evidence to show that China would be a formidable military foe. Although there are reasons for doubting that, too.

6 minutes ago, NoDisplayName said:

That's why Biden had to blow up Nordstream.

Evidence?

Just now, BangkokReady said:

 

Well, a lot of the time, when people say that Trump lies, they are lying themselves, especially the press, so it's hard to believe much of what people say on this topic.  🤷‍♂️

Please, could you be more vague?

Here are some of the lies he repeatedly says. And these are huge ones which he uses to justify his policies.

The US trade deficit with Canada: Trump has repeatedly said the US has a “$200 billion” trade deficit with Canada. That’s not even close to true. Official US statistics show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was $35.7 billion. Even if you only count trade in goods and ignore the services trade at which the US excels, the deficit was $70.6 billion.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-nine-trump-false-154530911.html

In 2024, “China made $1 trillion off trade with the United States.”

US trade deficit with China is less than $300 billion, not $1 trillion, as Donald Trump said

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/apr/11/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-china-1-trillion-trade-deficit/

Trump’s Latest False Claim About the U.S.-China Trade Deficit

The total U.S. trade deficit with China in goods and services in 2023 was about $252 billion, the lowest it has been in 14 years. Former President Donald Trump was way off when he falsely claimed that the U.S.-China trade gap is about four times as high.

“Right now, we have the largest deficit we’ve ever had with China, like over a trillion dollars,” Trump said in an interview for Fox News’ “The Will Cain Show,” which was posted online June 3. “Think of how bad that is. Too much. You can’t sustain that.”

https://www.factcheck.org/2024/06/trumps-latest-false-claim-about-the-u-s-china-trade-deficit/

On 4/25/2025 at 9:48 PM, Cryingdick said:

All he has to do is write a letter to the President of El Salvador that says "Please, pretty please with sugar on top, return this Maryland Father to the USA>" Then he replies "I have considered it. No."

Or he could threaten to cut off aid, He actually has cut off aid to most programs based abroad.

US deports 3 American children, including cancer patient: rights groups

One of the US children removed from the country has "a rare form of metastatic cancer" and was deported without medication or medical consultations, the ACLU said...

Three American children aged two, four and seven -- one of whom has a rare form of cancer -- have been deported from the United States alongside their undocumented immigrant mothers, campaigners announced Saturday...

The administration of President Donald Trump contends one of the women asked for her child to be sent with her.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-deports-3-american-children-015612747.html

I had my doubts but when the government contended that the mother asked for her child to be sent with her, who could doubt that Mom wanted her child to die? So believable.

4 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

It's truly astonishing that so many people are willing to aggressively deny the truth (with insults and mockery), even when it's right there in front of their faces.  🙄

This is truly weird coming from a Trump supporter given that the President repeatedly tells the same huge falsehoods  aggressively and with mockery.

8 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

 

You can clearly see that the article has the other attendees wearing blue cropped out.  This, combined with the headline, is obviously intended to suggest that Trump is the only one wearing a blue suit, therefore he's the bad guy.

 

You can see that.  I don't think you're that dim.  Why not just accept it for what it is? 

 

This kind of reaction just makes you look dishonest.

Whereas the hypocrisy of Trump supporters makes them look like paragons of honesty?

3 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

That link is to a fortune article, no where does it show a direct quote from the Vatican regarding dress code or a link, I will suggest the Vatican didn't say anything about suit colour, the entire fortune article is just another in the long line of fictional  BS hit pieces we see on a daily basis. Which people like youself & the op and all the other Trump haters here eagerly lap up every word of.

Do you  ever stop and think how foolish such comments are. Ya think that there aren't a host of right wing journalists who would love nothing better than to catch out MSM in a lie? You got any evidence at all that Fortune is lying?

Here's a link to a far more detailed report on sartorial standards requested by the Vatican:

https://metro.co.uk/2025/04/26/popes-funeral-a-strict-dress-code-not-everyone-followed-rules-22977721/

15 hours ago, HappyExpat57 said:

No, this is a NEW hydrogen bomb with NO atomic elements. Again, no nuclear fallout.

 

 

Just to clarify. It doesn't use fission or fusion. It does generate a huge amount of heat

"Developed by the China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s 705 Research Institute, the device used a magnesium-based solid-state hydrogen storage material known as magnesium hydride, which stores considerably more hydrogen than a pressurised tank. This compound was activated by conventional explosives and made to undergo rapid thermal decomposition, releasing hydrogen gas that ignited into a sustained inferno. Researchers observed regarding the test: "Hydrogen gas explosions ignite with minimal ignition energy, have a broad explosion range, and unleash flames that race outward rapidly while spreading widely…"

https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/china-nonnuclear-hydrogen-warhead-gamechanger

1 minute ago, frank83628 said:

Do some research rather than gullibly believing the lame stream media all the time. I see quite a few blue suits

What propaganda? The Vatican did ask attendees to wear black. Trump didn't. Others didn't also but why is that relevant? It was Trump supporters who made such a big deal out of Zelensky violating sartorial norms. When Trump does it, it's no big deal.

I know Trump's fans are big supporters of sartorial propriety. And no doubt they will condemn anyone who violates the accepted dress code for a funeral.

The Vatican asked Pope Francis funeral attendees to wear all black. Trump wore a blue suit

https://archive.ph/98IAi

49 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

You keep getting caught up in the weeds.  The lie is that Biden took on Big Pharma and made them lower prices.  The truth is that they negotiated prices on 10 (count 'em 10, of the thousands of drugs), and those lower prices kick in starting in 2026.

 

Any lower prices won’t take effect for three years, and the path forward could be further complicated by litigation from drugmakers and heavy criticism from Republicans.

 

10 drugs targeted for Medicare price negotiations as Biden pitches cost reductions | AP News  

 

Edit:  BTW, here's the wingnut conspiracy guy in me... I'd bet that those 10 drugs were about to come off patent and drop in price anyway.  I'm taking a drug (Omeprazole) that costs me about 5 baht that used to cost several dollars when it was still on patent as Prilosec.

 

 

First off, I've noticed that you dropped your insistence that Biden didn't enlarge the coverage for lowering the cost of insulin. In fact, I believe you called that a "huge lie". So, was it a lie or not?

. During his first 2 years, Biden had the barest majority possible in the Senate. No Republicans in either the House or Senate voted for it. So Biden had to lower the goalposts. So that meant accepting the delay on instituting lower prices.

And here's something you've apparently forgotten. In 2016 Trump campaigned on allowing Medicare to negotiate prices. He reneged on that promise after the election.

And there's this:

Trump Reverses Some Biden Drug Pricing Initiatives, Potentially Impacting Medicare Costs

President Donald J. Trump’s second-term health care agenda is taking shape with a clear focus on undoing several Biden-era policies.1 On Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025, Trump signed an executive order reversing initiatives aimed at reducing prescription drug costs for Medicare and Medicaid recipients, expanding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and increasing protections for Medicaid enrollees. However, experts suggest that the changes may have little immediate impact on out-of-pocket (OOP) health care costs for most Americans.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/trump-reverses-some-biden-drug-pricing-initiatives-potentially-impacting-medicare-costs

And this:

Trump Just Caved to Big Pharma—Again': New Order Aims to Delay Drug Price Negotiations

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order that aims to delay Medicare negotiations for a broad category of prescription drugs, handing the deep-pocketed pharmaceutical industry a major win as it lobbies aggressively against efforts to rein in its pricing power.

Trump's order, titled "Lowering Drug Prices by Once Again Putting Americans First," instructs Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to work with Congress to "modify" the Medicare drug price negotiation program that was established under the Biden administration and has already yielded significant results despite pharma companies' best efforts to block it in court.

Specifically, Trump calls for a four-year extension of the period during which small-molecule prescription drugs are exempt from price negotiations with Medicare.

https://www.ajmc.com/view/trump-reverses-some-biden-drug-pricing-initiatives-potentially-impacting-medicare-costs

7 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

I guess you missed the part about only applying to Medicare. 

 

And where's that list of the medicines that Biden made more affordable?

 

 

I'm not sure what you mean. Trump's order only applied to certain groups covered by Part D Medicare. Biden's order applied to all of Medicare.

As for the list, did you bother to search for it?

1 hour ago, GammaGlobulin said:

The Bell Curve was written BY an American FOR Americans.....

 

Fantastic read......

 

The information in the Bell Curve was largely derived from racists and their dubious "research"..

The Tainted Sources of ‘The Bell Curve’

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1994/12/01/the-tainted-sources-of-the-bell-curve/

28 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

That's a huge lie.  Exactly what medicines went down under Biden?  Where's the list?

 

Out of the thousands of medicines in the pharmacies, he negotiated lower prices on 10 of them, to kick in a few years from now.  As for insulin, Trump had already gotten that price down with an EO.  Biden rescinded that EO, then bragged about getting the price down to the same level.

 

You know, before you accuse others of lying, you might want to consider doing a search to see if your claim is true. As, for instance, in the present case:

"But whereas the Trump program applied only to certain Medicare Part D plans, the act mandated that all Medicare drug programs cap out-of-pocket insulin costs — including those in what’s known as Medicare Part B, which pays for medical equipment such as insulin pumps. The act’s insulin provisions took effect Jan. 1, 2023, for Part D plans and July 1 of that year for Part B.

The act also mandated that the out-of-pocket price cap apply to all insulin products a given Medicare plan covers, not just a subset."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fact-check-trump-lower-insulin-prices-false/

7 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Obviously, the cost of pharmaceuticals in the USA is still not enough for the average person.

Well, it's like marijuana. If it costs more, that probably means it's more effective.

23 hours ago, blaze master said:

 

The wording of the article said majority of Americans not majority polled. 

 

Huge difference in wording presentation. Deliberately done of course.

This is the most silly kind of nitpicking. As though the point of polling is to measure the opinions of a selected group that has no significance beyond that. Pollsters claim to be measuring public opinion. Is there anyone so ignorant who believes that they poll every potential voter in the country? I just went to Rasmussen's website and here's what it said:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 47% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty-one percent (51%) disapprove.

Is anyone going to claim that Rasmussen is trying to skew the relevance of its polls in favor of the Democrats  by not explicitly noting it's just a measurement of a group of people and nothing more?