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  1. Blaming a President for high egg prices is really stupid. "The U.S. has an egg shortage because the “Biden administration and the Department of Agriculture directed the mass killing of more than 100 million chickens. Karoline Leavitt blames Biden for egg shortage, but killing infected birds was Trump’s policy, too https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2025/jan/30/karoline-leavitt/karoline-leavitt-blames-biden-for-egg-shortage-but/
  2. Where did I mention anything about price?
  3. I've had the same problem with Samsung chargers that I've purchased at the company store.
  4. Spending that the White House does not like is being labeled fraudulent. At the same time, President Trump is rolling back anticorruption efforts and ethical standards for himself and allies like Elon Musk. Now that he is back in office, President Trump sees corruption everywhere — in the foreign aid agency, at the Justice Department, in federal contracting. But when it comes to his own orbit, he doesn’t seem interested in looking. https://archive.ph/ieTq6#selection-4727.0-4727.228
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  5. Thanks for the advice so far.
  6. I think 3 months would still be an improvement.
  7. Is there such a thing. Mine generally don't last more than a few months. Particularly the cables. Is there any brand out there that does offer superior chargers and/or cables?
  8. So USAID has $50 million in Gaza Zimbabwe for HIV prevention in the form of condoms? I know they have a major program is Zimbabwe to combat HIV butt but 50 million for HIV prevention just in Gaza, Zimbabwe? You got a source for that? Also, would that be per year or over the life of the program which I believe started in the George W. Bush administration (?
  9. Maybe in the alternative universe you live in USAID is just being audited. But in this one, its programs are being put on hold and people told to go back home. Also, lots of lies are being told about it.
  10. Here we see another victim of truthiness. Somehow, in their biased way of thinking, the claim that 50 million was spent on condoms is valid because x amount of dollars was spent on family planning. In fact, the claim that 50 million dollars was spent on condoms is an unvarnished lie.
  11. You have to be an utter ignoramus to believe that Forbes is left wing. But that way, you can dismiss evidence without looking at it. The condition you appear to be suffering from is called willful ignorance.
  12. Stop with the falsehoods. This is what you wrote "Don't care" about "Many false and misleading claims about USAID spending practices have spread quickly on X, propped up by billionaires including Musk and Bill Ackman."
  13. Well, at least you acknowledge your reckless regard for the truth. What you and others like you prefer is something called "Truthiness". "Truthiness is the belief or assertion that a particular statement is true based on the intuition or perceptions of some individual or individuals, without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.[1][2] Truthiness can range from ignorant assertions of falsehoods to deliberate duplicity or propaganda intended to sway opinions.[3][4]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness
  14. Not just laws. But the Constitution. The President gets his or her once chance to deal with a law that they don't like but vetoing it. (Technically speaking it's a bill, not a law). But once that's done, the Executive branch is supposed to put into effect laws passed by Congress. If it's a funding bill, that means spending the money as the law prescribes. Now Congress has legistlatively given Presidents a means not to spend that money. It's called rescission. But it requires the approval of Congress.
  15. More proof that reading seems to be an art lost by Trump supporters.
  16. Now I see what you are referring to. So the question is why is what Musk up to part of a coup d'etat. I would call it rather what it is characterized in another topic as an autogolpe. Someone gains power legitimately but then takes it upon themselves to trample on the laws in such a way as to benefit themselves and endanger the rule of law and democracy.. Someone like Viktor Orban in Hungary. Or Vladimir Putin in Russia. That seems to be the model that Trump is pursuing. Actually J.D. Vance's former boss, and the guy who put up the big buck to get him elected to the Senate, espouses that. That would be Peter Thiel.
  17. Actual, the typical tactic on display here is to claim that evidence that demonstrates an assertion is a lie is the same as simply calling it a lie. But, in fact, it's you and others like you who call simply engage in name calling without marshalling evidence. Just another case of right wing irony.
  18. You think the rant you just indulged in here isn't a form of whining? And devoid of any content about actual issues.
  19. Why are you asking a question of something that wasn't asserted?
  20. The Constitution gives the President the power to veto laws. That is his one constitutionally permitted action to stop a law from taking effect. But once those laws are passed then he is obliged to faithfully uphold them. That's why it's called the Executive branch. It's supposed to carry out the laws.
  21. Says the party who consistently makes allegations about other members' personal life rather than address the issues raised by the topic.
  22. Instead of addressing the information in an article about Musk's lies, you engage in irrelevant comments. That would be called deflecting and dodging. You might want to look up a psychological phenomenon called projection. Once again, thanks for the irony.
  23. Had you read the article, you would see, for example, that my reply to the Appletons accurately reflects what was in the article. But you can post like you do, precisely because you don't read past the headlines. Thanks for providing yet another right wing source of irony.
  24. Do you think that focusing on me instead of on the information provided proves anything except that you are impervious to evidence you find disagreeable?
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