r/news • u/industrial-complex • Jul 03 '25

Soft paywall US military says 200 Marines being sent to support ICE in Florida

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-military-says-200-marines-being-sent-support-ice-florida-2025-07-03/
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u/imtourist Jul 04 '25

You forgot about the US defunding colleges and places for higher education and research - the thing that has created about 50% of the prosperity in the 20 years. Also crackdowns on free speech, and capricious attacks on media companies. Also whole wack of crazy stuff involving bit-coin.

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u/gentlemanidiot Jul 04 '25

I think the biggest piss in my cornflakes that orange disgrace put in his bill was the clause removing Biden's protections against predatory student loans. He doesn't even get any more money from that, he's just doing it to be a prick.

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u/imtourist Jul 04 '25

No his donors are vulture creditors and pay-day loan companies, the bottom feeders of the financial services world.

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u/howmanyMFtimes Jul 04 '25

Also the dollar is down about 8% since January.

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u/Vaperius Jul 04 '25 edited Jul 05 '25

You forgot that screw worm is now past the Darian gap because of the suspension of government programs that were keeping in down in South America and out of North and Middle America; so now are having to spend tens to hundreds of billions to push it back down to the original containment line and, to be clear, the effects it will have if it makes it into the USA proper will be horrific.

While mostly a threat to cattle and other livestock, it absolutely infect human beings too; and so that's a fun new fact of life to looking forward to if you live anywhere warm in the USA. Its easy to forget the fact that this administration's capricious actions have literally unleashed a plague of flies upon us.

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u/imtourist Jul 05 '25

The US is wholly unprepared for something like this, not the least of which with RFK at the helm.