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Once again, here are your words in response to the firing of King, who was zealously pursuing a ban on flavored vapes: "Well Trump did raise the age toi smoke from 18 to 21. He isbn't a big fan of alcohol or tobacco so I wouldn't read too much into it. "

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia had legal protection from being deported to his home country of El Salvador, from which his lawyers say he fled aged 16. The Trump administration has admitted to deporting a Maryland resident to a Salvadoran mega-prison due to an "administrative error" despite a court order barring him from being sent to the country. While it appeared to acknowledge the mistake, the government then argued it could not return him to the US, where court records filed by his lawyers state he has lived since 2011, and has a family. https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/01/trump-administration-admits-man-was-deported-to-el-salvador-mega-prison-due-to-error What makes this case particularly damning is that El Salvador was the one country he couldn't legally be deported to.

Nice try at deflection. What don't you understand about the fact that the Attorney General, William Barr strongly backed John Durham in his investigation to look into political bias in the justice dept as the reason for the investigation. They both actually went on the record as being dissatisfied with the IG's finding that political bias didn't enter into it. Durham's investigation found nothing. The only case he won was against a low level line lawyer by using evidence developed by the Inspector General of the Justice Dept. Almost 4 years of investigation and he came up with nothing.

You started with this: Well Trump did raise the age toi smoke from 18 to 21. He isbn't a big fan of alcohol or tobacco so I wouldn't read too much into it. And now you're claiming just the opposite. That it's okay not to enforce the bans. It's the parents' responsibility. Just like most Trumpists, when Trump reverses himself, so do you. Such an amazing coincidence.

So Brian Kiing believes that the government should own the means of production? Because that's what Socialism is all about. Can you share with us a position paper from him on the issue? I'm sure you wouldn't make such a claim without having serious evidence to back it up.

You're the party who wrote this: "Banning things is like what Hitler would do." In a way, you're right. Retorts are useless. With that comment you managed to completely discredit yourself. No need for help from me. But thanks for the bonus comment about gay porn in high school. You're a treasure...of sorts.

Programs have been slashed but somehow there's money available to do a large study on a claim that started in fraudulence and has been repeatedly tested and found wanting. Did you stop to think that the reaction might not be worry? That it might be exasperation? And to make it worse, this study will be headed by David Geier, a vaccine denialis,t who was fined for practicing medicine without a license. He was fined $10,000 for practicing quackery. But, to be fair, he does have a B.S. in biology. "On a podcast in 2022, Mr. Kennedy credited the Geiers’ research for showing that vaccines “had nothing to do with” a decline in infectious diseases over decades... In a review of two Geier studies this week, Jeffrey S. Morris, director of the division of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania, said he found what appeared to be a numerical sleight of hand that made it appear that vaccines caused a spike in autism. “When I look at these two studies, they are so fatally flawed that I have serious concerns that any study that they’re going to design is going” to be rigorous enough, he said, “to yield valid results.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/health/rfk-jr-autism-vaccines.html

It looks like you think this topic should have been posted in the cheerleaders forum.

But straight porn is okay?

Have you forgotten the Barr-Durham fiasco?

Right. Let's legalize fentanyl.

Trump abandons sweeping vape ban with new slimmed-down rules The Trump administration is dialing back a sweeping ban on flavored vaping products the president promised three months ago, following strenuous lobbying from his political allies and the vaping industry. Federal rules expected to be released soon — more than three months after President Donald Trump promised a crackdown on vaping amid a pair of related public health crises — include new carveouts that will allow some products to remain on the market. The Wall Street Journal first reported the news. https://www.politico.com/news/2019/12/31/trump-abandons-sweeping-vape-ban-with-new-slimmed-down-rules-091864

Got any more B##ls##t to share? Hospitals in Thai refugee camps shut as US suspends aid WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2025 Border agencies call an emergency meeting as medical care withdrawn from over 100,000 Myanmar refugees Seven hospitals serving refugees on the Thai-Myanmar border have halted medical services following the Trump administration’s 90-day suspension of foreign aid funding. Saw Saw, a former NGO official, confirmed that hospitals in seven refugee camps – three in Tak province, two in Mae Hong Son, one in Ratchaburi, and one in Kanchanaburi – had suspended treatment after the US ended over 40 years of funding and no other support was available https://www.nationthailand.com/blogs/news/asean/40045679

Or it could be that this was already an issue before the earthquake? A problem foretold? Trump administration to keep only 294 USAID staff out of over 10,000 globally, sources say February 7, 2025 Only 12 staff would remain in Africa bureau, 8 in Asia bureau https://archive.ph/ekNSm The Abolition of USAID in South Asia: Stability, Strategic Rivalry, or a Dangerous Vacuum? February 21, 2025 https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/02/21/the-abolition-of-usaid-in-south-asia-stability-strategic-rivalry-or-a-dangerous-vacuum/ U.S. Soft Power Is Spiraling in Asia, With China Filling the Void February 26, 2025 10:31 am (EST) https://www.cfr.org/blog/us-soft-power-spiraling-asia-china-filling-void

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been removed from his post as sweeping cuts hit the agency and staffers across the federal health workforce Tuesday... King, who joined the agency in 2022, has been vigorously criticized by vaping lobbyists for ordering thousands of companies to remove their fruit and candy-flavored e-cigarettes from the market. During his time at FDA, teen vaping has fallen to a 10-year low. https://apnews.com/article/fda-tobacco-rfk-brian-king-cf2d5657e5d55410073aece19592be09 Under King, the FDA rejected applications for millions of flavored e-cigarettes, citing insufficient data that the products would help adult smokers while not becoming popular with underage kids. Those rejections have resulted in multiple lawsuits against FDA from vape makers, including one that was argued before the Supreme Court in December. The Vapor Technology Association, an industry group, has been running ads urging Trump to follow through on a campaign pledge he made to “save the flavored vaping industry.” https://ca.news.yahoo.com/fdas-top-tobacco-official-removed-120449207.html

And if the French aren't impressed by that PM's balls? The UK will withdraw from the EU?

Well, I didn't see that lunacy coming.

The problem is, businesses are having a hard time keeping up with Trump's shifts. Who knows what he'll do from day to day?

There will probably be a run on autos and other expensive items that might be affected by tariffs. Ford has a lot of cars it's been unable to sell quickly. So in the short run, its sales may jump.

I never claimed that someone should be denied services. My point was merely that in what is now all 3 cases this was self inflicted harm. Of course, the insurance company might have something to say about reimbursing a homeowner for carelessness with their cigarettes.

In theory Trump could send in a special forces ops team to deal with Comey and not be criminally liable. That's what the Supreme court's recent decision on Presidential immunity means.

What was compared is the behavior of 2 groups. One group who refused to heed Hurricane warnings and instead chose to ride out a hurricane and the other group consisted of people who refused to heed warnings to get vaccinated and instead chose to face covid unprotected. In both these cases it's behavior being compared. And in both cases the consequences of those behaviors were fatal. What you have offered here is a burning house. That's not by itself evidence of heedless behavior so why offer it as evidence?Now, let's say the residents of that house were warned by an electrician that their wiring was unsafe but they refused to heed expert advice and as a result they died in a subsequent fire. That would be analogous to the 2 cases previously cited.

Based on a NYP report based on anecdotes.

And more name calling and nothing else to contribute.

Actually, I'm arguing for the sake of a lost cause: trying to make you understand why 2 situations are similar. You offer no reasoning or evidence in disagreement.