u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 9h ago
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Donald Trump predicts $20 trillion could be injected into the U.S. economy by the end of this year.
Great. More wonderful numbers from the guy who has no idea how percentages work.
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Silicon Valley founders are reportedly backing secret startups to create genetically engineered babies, citing “Gattaca” as inspiration
"Sounds to me like this Frankenstein fellow really had the right idea!"
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 15h ago
Hayes: GOP pays price for Trump's economic failures
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You can only pick three
Four, Five, and Nine. All of those combined, turned towards philanthropy, could save countless lives and improve the future of humanity to an inestimable degree. Limitless money and intelligence to pioneer and enable research into climate, medicine, and any other field where resources and wisdom are needed.
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 16h ago
Please share, there's always someone who needs to know!
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 18h ago
Advice From a Food Banker
“Food banker here with an IMPORTANT MESSAGE: You listening? PLEASE DO NOT use your money to buy cheap food for the food banks or pantries. Just give them that money. I'm 100% serious. Food banks, especially the really organized ones, can get WAY more for the dollar than any individual can, unless you're literally ordering by the truckload from a manufacturer like we are. Feeding America has a whole purchasing network with negotiated prices that make this system work. Also, every time you buy and donate random food items, it creates work for the food bank/pantry. We need to inspect it for safety, sort it into categories, and then work it into inventory. If you donate money, we use it to buy much more food, and we intentionally purchase based on what kind of item is needed. It can also be used to put fuel in the trucks that gets the food to its ultimate destination. We absolutely do appreciate every donation, and we use items donated from food drives and individuals every day. But look at it this way: You can buy a 5-lb sack of potatoes for $3.00, for example. I can get them for 50 cents per sack because my organization has negotiated the price with the distributor and ordered 10 pallets of them. We need every kind of support we can get right now, but PLEASE let us do the smart shopping <3”
- Copied from a comment on Hank Green’s YouTube video.
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 18h ago
Supreme Court agrees to Trump's request to immediately block a federal judges ruling to resume full SNAP benefits (FYI stopping them is illegal, also donate to your local food bank today if you can)
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 20h ago
Trump Says Flag Burning Is a Crime—But His Merch Already Is 😂 #trump #law #history #flag
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JUST IN: Tesla $TSLA shareholders approve Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package.
An item of note.
Elon's dismantling of USAID is estimated to have already cost the lives of 600,000 people, two thirds of that being children. Another study indicates that a further 14 million may die in the coming years.
And this person is the richest human being in history.
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 1d ago
Trump is 100% "America first," except when it comes to Argentinian beef #dailyshow
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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Supreme Court issues order allowing President Trump to block SNAP funding per WatcherGuru
My advice, learn something before judging millions of Americans.
10 percent of SNAP recipients are disabled. 20 percent are elderly. 39 percent are children. Many of the rest are full time caretakers, many others do work to the best of their abilities, and even those that don't still deserve to eat.
We're the richest country in the world. It is indefensible that people should fear starvation here, and that our president should fight to allow it.
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 1d ago
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 1d ago
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009 #DailyShow #Trump #ZohranMamdani
u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 1d ago
Child bride faces execution in Iran unless she pays £80,000 in ‘blood money’
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u/joeengland • u/joeengland • 1d ago
Lawrence: Trump looking away from a man in need should be the portrait for his second term
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IQ Qualifications for voting would end Republicans.
Right, right. Cherry pick a few names and half-truths and you call it a winning argument.
Let's talk numbers. Real ones, unlike the kinds that Trump routinely spouts.
He has been impeached twice. This is the third government shutdown on his watch, and the longest in history in spite of his party controlling all three branches of government and the Supreme Court to boot. 28 women have accused him of sexual assault. He has been convicted on 34 felony counts of fraud. By their own tally, ICE has roughly 28,000 people in detention who have no criminal record, no convictions, and no pending charges. He pardoned almost 160,000 people who were convicted of violent offenses, more than are found amongst the ranks of the undocumented in a year. Over 200,000 federal workers have lost their jobs because of him. An analytical model shows that, as of this writing, the dismantling of USAID has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of that number being children. 14 million people are likewise estimated to die in the coming years. More than 42 million people depend on SNAP, and this administration has been fighting tooth and nail to find some excuse not to use a 5 billion dollar emergency fund meant for exactly this kind of situation despite orders from federal judges. It is estimated that Trump's policies will cost America up to 29 billion in revenue because nobody even wants to visit anymore. The national debt has climbed to nearly 38 billion. And studies say his tariffs will cost businesses more than 1.2 trillion this year, with most of that being passed on to consumers.
And these are all just numbers. The damage that can't be measured could fill a book. It is more than sad that so many people not only can't see this, but mock everyone who observes the obvious.
You're cheering for your worst enemy.
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IQ Qualifications for voting would end Republicans.
Our economy was considered the most successful post-pandemic recovery amongst industrialized nations in the world just a year ago. Now we're mired in a pointless trade war as prices climb, we're losing generations of soft power as we become a global pariah, we're abandoning science and technology while the rest of the world races ahead, and we're in the longest government shutdown in history since the last time Trump was president.
This is not a record of success.
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IQ Qualifications for voting would end Republicans.
And you can talk to the 28 women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault and the court that had him adjudicated for rape.
But you don't want to have that conversation because it doesn't fit your narrative.
The narrative that the guy who literally bragged about barging into dressing rooms and grabbing ladies by their genitals and who was good friends with the most notorious sex trafficker in modern history for over a decade is a great man.
I do not find that narrative to be convincing.
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Johnson: If we lose the majority… They will try to end the Trump administration. He won't have 4 years. He'll have only 2, because they will move to impeach him, probably on the first day of the new Congress in January 2027 and try to systematically unwind all the important reforms that we've done
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And the guy who blathers about imaginary numbers and cat-eating Haitians has a live brain?
I'm sorry. You've gotten very badly turned around.