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Traditionally, much of the appeal of an Irish base was the ability to house a company’s intellectual property in Ireland. Tech companies then attribute a significant share of global sales and profits to that IP and so pay the 12.5pc rate rather than a higher tax in the nation where sales are made. “They pay corporate tax on 3pc profit in America and Ireland announces a massive budget surplus for their 5m people." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/01/25/donald-trump-plan-crush-ireland-economic-miracle/ I have to give Trump credit if his administration actually follows through on this. While The Telegraph puts a negative spin on this in their headline, actually it's long overdue.

Just another case of Pavlovian thinking. Stupid would be thinking that the origin of the virus has any relevance at all to the therapeutic effect of vaccines or to the preventive effect of wearing masks.

Their models are cheaper thanks to US export restrictions that have inadvertently spurred innovation Last month, a Chinese start-up called DeepSeek astonished the international tech community with its latest open-source artificial intelligence model. DeepSeek-V3 delivers a performance comparable to that of better-funded US rivals such as OpenAI. This week it impressed once again with R1, its foray into AI reasoning. https://archive.ph/51WIt#selection-2415.0-2419.1 I see lots of comments about how China just produces cheap copycat goods. Clearly this is an outdated view. Japanese manufacturing was regarded in the same way for about 25 years after WW2.

Why should I be mad at Elon Musk. He agrees with me. You've still got nothing. Well, except confusion.

Apparently, I'm not the only one who's got nothing: Elon Musk bashes Trump-backed $500 billion AI mega project Tech titan Elon Musk cast doubt Wednesday on a $500 billion AI project announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, saying the money promised for the investment actually wasn’t there... “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority,” Musk added in a subsequent post. https://archive.ph/d6tnw#selection-835.0-835.103 Why does Elon Musk hate Trump so much?.

Another hate-filled leftist casts doubt on the 500 billion dollar project. Musk Pours Cold Water on Trump-Backed Stargate AI Project Billionaire says companies behind the project don’t have enough money to follow through on pledges “They don’t actually have the money,” Musk wrote at 11:35 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, replying to a post from OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker that announced the joint venture with global tech investor SoftBank Group and database company Oracle. At 12:57 a.m. Wednesday, Musk added, “SoftBank has well under $10B secured. I have that on good authority.” https://archive.ph/0ym9s#selection-5663.0-5667.98

But in the case of pharma companies, they are behaving with exceptional greed. What is there exceptional about the alleged Chinese attitude? Why mention it at all since the Chinese are no different in this regard?

Yes. unlike the 2 previous Attorneys General under Trump, who on a few occasions showed some spine, Kash Patel can be counted on to do Trump's bidding no matter how illicit his commands might be.

You ignore that several of my points are about his reversals. He promised to lower grocery prices during the campaign, but now admits that it's unlikely to happen. He harshly criticized the H-1B program but now claims he loves it. He hasn't put a halt to the Ukraine war despite his claim that he could do it on the first day he took office. And it's very convenient for you to ignore the obvious negative impact his proposals will have on the economy by claiming that the effects are unknowable.

I don't know whether or not Crying Dick assembled those facts himself or copied them from elsewhere. But if you make a direct quote and don't acknowledge your source, it's called plagiarism.

For what it's worth, The Trump organization was prosecuted on 17 felony counts. But it was only convicted for 17 of them. Trump Organization sentenced to pay $1.6M for felony convictions https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/trump-organization-sentenced-pay-1-6m-felony-convictions

He pardoned them because a certain President-in-waiting called for investigations and criminal prosecutions. The same President who castigated his previous Attorneys General for not knuckling under to his unjustified demands.

In fact, it's a total lie that Jared Kushner was an official government advisor to President Trump with special responsiblity for the Mideast. It's also a total lie that Kushner helped to resolve the conflict between Saudia Arabia and Qatar and that subsequently Qatar took part in a sweetheart bailout of a Kushner family disastrous investment made by Jared himself. Come to think of it, actually, it's the truth.

Or, he could be setting up the Trump administration. Now that potential witnesses no longer have any legal reason for invoking the 5th Amendment, what's stopping the Trump administration from prosecuting Biden. Apart from the fact that time after time alleged evidence against him has been exploded by the facts.

There are certain points in this article that should be addressed: "One of the most contentious allegations involves Hunter Biden’s attempted deal in 2017 with CEFC, China’s largest private energy company. An email retrieved from Hunter’s discarded laptop allegedly referenced “the big guy” receiving a 10% stake, a term Hunter’s former business associate Tony Bobulinski claimed referred to Joe Biden. While Hunter testified that the suggestion was made without his father’s knowledge and did not materialize, Comer’s investigation has identified $8 million in payments from Chinese sources to Biden family members and associates. " The email may have referenced "the big guy" receiving a 10% stake, but this is misleading. It was formulated as a question "10% for the big guy?" And as later text shows, Hunter Biden said he broached the subject with his father and was given an "emphatic no." And who knows if he ever raised the issue of a deal at all with his father? After all, Devon Archer said H. Biden told him that he would lie about the influence he had with his father In order to impress people. In addition, this occurred when Biden was no longer the VP. So even if he did profit from the deal, which he didn't, what would have been the crime? “In Russia, a 2014 payment of $3.5 million from Elena Baturina, then Russia’s richest woman, to Hunter Biden’s business partner Devon Archer has drawn attention. Republicans allege that a subsequent dinner involving Baturina, Hunter, Joe Biden, and Archer suggests a possible quid pro quo. They point to the fact that Baturina was not subjected to U.S. sanctions as evidence of potential favoritism.” It wasn’t noted that. Elena Baturina may once have been Russia's wealthiest woman, but when she did the deal with Archer, she had moved to the UK and was living there since 2010. And that's because she was on the outs with Putin and Co. Not only was she not a crony of Putin's, but, in fact, Russia had a warrant out for her arrest. The sanctions applied only to those who were considered to be associates of Putin. “Hunter Biden’s involvement with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma has also been a focal point. Appointed to Burisma’s board in 2014, he earned an annual salary of $1 million during a period when Joe Biden, as vice president, was overseeing U.S. relations with Ukraine. While Republicans argue Hunter’s role was tied to his father’s influence, Biden has maintained that his actions regarding Ukraine were aligned with international consensus, including the European Union and the International Monetary Fund.” It isn't just Biden's claim that his actions were aligned with International consensus, It’s a fact. As the source article in The Times notes: "Republicans allege that the position was not a real job and the appointment was a reward for his father’s pressure on the Ukrainian government to fire Viktor Shokin as prosecutor-general — though the removal of Shokin, who was accused of failing to pursue politicians for corruption, was also favoured by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund." In addition, Devon Archer specifically testified he was told by the people at Burisma that Shokin was in cahoots with Burisma and that his firing was a bad thing for them. He also testified that Hunter Biden told him that he lied to the management of Burisma by claiming he had influence over his father's decisions.

As usual, instead of responding with facts and/or reasoning, you make it personal. You've got nothing.

Is this another triumph like the 200 billion dollars in American products that China promised Trump it would purchase? Talk is cheap.

It really would be amazing. Unemployment is already low in the United States. Where are the workers going to come from? Will these companies be shipping them over, too?

"The presidential candidate I voted for and wanted to see elected is now in office, and has started to fulfill his campaign promises." Like lowering grocery prices? Like reining in the H-1B visa abuses? Like putting a stop to the war in ukraine on day one of his adminstration How exactly will imposing tariffs lower inflation? How will ridding the country of undocumented aliens lower inflation? Did you see that he is now demanding that other countries lower their interest rates? He also asked OPEC members to lower their asking price for oil. While at the same time he's pushing for more drilling in America. As for people" investing therir energies into hating President Trump"...they're investing their energies into opposing Trump. Given that Trump is constantly saying hateful things, why is it puzzling to you that he's hated? And what do suppose the people who were calling Biden the most corrupt President in US history doing? Engaging in a love-in? As for Trump being in power "rather definitively" whatever that means... The Republican majority in the House is tenuous. Let's see how that plays out when it comes to legislation. And as for having nothing, people like you who answer facts with irrelevantl comments about the alleged emotional states of people they disagree with, truly do have nothing.

Making it personal like you're doing here is just another way of showing that you've got nothing.

Trump rolls back Biden directive to study methods of lowering prescription costs Among the dozens of Biden-era executive orders he rescinded on day one, President Trump nixed one that aimed to explore new health care payment models that would lower prescription costs for Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. Trump rescinded former President Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans.” He included this directive among those he deemed to be “unpopular, inflationary, illegal, and radical practices.” Biden’s executive order asked the Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary to look into “new health care payment and delivery models that would lower drug costs and promote access to innovative drug therapies for beneficiaries enrolled in the Medicare and Medicaid programs.” https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5098715-trump-executive-order-biden-prescription-drug-costs/

Keep up the repetition long enough and magically that will turn the assertion into al fact.

Now that you put it that way, how could it not happen? Clearly, it's inevitable.

Except, how severe is the damage resulting from this ideology. Remember when the George Bush used the specter of gay marriage to help him win the 2004 election? This issue generates a lot of emotion but how much does it really affect the daily life of most Americans?

As usual, you've got nothing but insults. And of course, even if the project is built, the claims about Trump's election being crucial come from his ardent supporters who stand to benefit greatly from, among other things, the tax breaks he proposes.