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Chips wrote: Sat, 26. Jul 25, 09:50 (The Guardian is now paywall or mandatory accept an unbelievable amount of cookies).
I call it a cookiewall, and blocking their request to run scripts completely walks through it. On those few times it doesn't load properly because the article is full of transitional animations, just click readability mode.

WRT Trump on South Park, nobody really seems to have mentioned that it's not Trump. It's Saddam in disguise.
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Well, seems like the US of A has actually gotten themselves their first political officer.

The Federal Communications Commission finally approved an $8 billion merger between Paramount and Skydance on Thursday after several changes at CBS that were widely seen as efforts to placate President Donald Trump. Part of the deal will apparently require an ombudsman to check the media company’s supposed political biases. And FCC commissioner Brendan Carr has been doing the rounds to brag about how he’s getting people on TV to be nicer to the MAGA movement.
Source: https://gizmodo.com/fcc-to-appoint-a-ba ... 2000634566
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mr.WHO wrote: Sat, 26. Jul 25, 09:28 South Park might be in a bit of slump (which is no wonder - reality became South Park episode and start to directly compete with it).
You do know that Paramount just paid them $1.5 Billion for the exclusive rights to show South Park, that is a hell of a lot of cash for something that is in a bit of a slump.
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It seems increasingly likely that Maxwell will get pardoned. Conservative news media like Newsmax are already referring to her as a victim. Soon they will say she was illegally put into prison by Barack Obama and was just a harmless innocent woman that did not do anything wrong. Trump also refuses to rule out a pardon for her.
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Pardoning a paedophile, is about as low as can you get.

George Carlin playing Trump talking about the Epstein documents except he's calling it a commie documents. Eerily similar, or what.
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Do you really expect anything less? Dear leader must be protected by any means necessary. If any living person has the dirt to prove he is, himself, a pedophile, it's her. So, he's going to buy her silence or kill her.
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People for some reason don't seem to get what a pardon actually means. When someone is offered a pardon one thing they have to do is accept that they are guilty of the crime they are being pardoned for, even if they are innocent once you accept that pardon you are actually saying you are guilty, it is even in the pardon that if you accept the pardon you cannot claim you are innocent or make any kind of challenge against your conviction. So they cannot go I'm giving them the pardon because I think they are innocent, because the pardon says you have to take responsibility for your crimes to be pardoned of those crimes. So if Trump offers Maxwell a pardon, and she accepts said pardon, then she is saying, yeah I'm a criminal paedophile who transported minors for sex, remember this if Trump does pardon her.
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This has got me thinking. If Trump were to pardon Maxwell, it could potentially end up being his biggest mistake so far. Let me explain, if I was one of her victims and there is potentially over 1 thousand of them, I would sue her for damages if she got a pardon, because as I said above she would have to take full responsibility for her crimes by agreeing she had committed those crimes to get the pardon, meaning she could not defend herself from any private prosecution for damages, now how could that effect Trump, well my lawyer would be demanding she hand over any and all evidence she had like a certain list and file, the other problem is she would not be able to claim the 5th as she has already been pardoned for the crimes, you cannot incriminate yourself for something you have already agreed you did them, and she cannot be prosecuted for them a second time (stupid law) which means under oath if she was asked did Donald J, Trump get involved in any kind of sexual activity with a minor she would have to answer honestly or even what's the names of those others involved she would have to answer honestly if she refused or lied she would go back to jail and there would be nothing Trump or anyone else could do about it. There are risks to being pardoned, or in this case there is a risk to Trump and others if Trump were to pardon her.
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we appear to know that Trump doesn't think strategy for longer than 20 minutes. I think he wouldn't be able to finish reading your analysis and write (not draw) penis with his black marker, then throw pardons around
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Ghislaine Maxwell has been been given immunity. So yes, next step will be a pardon. But this is still a bad move on Trump's part.

A breakdown on what happening. Especailly when a major conflict of interest when Blanche (Trump's former lawyer) has been interviewing her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b10zrhw6hwE

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I was going to say how the hell would her getting out go down with the Maga conspiracy ones who drove all this...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... a-epstein/

The answer is, perfectly fine. Always thought this was just a vote win sound byte akin to "LOCK HER UP!!!" (which went nowhere). If it really starts picking up I'd worry what they can sneak out under the cover of the media frenzy around all this? :D
“She is the Rosetta stone. She knows everything,” former Epstein and Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz said on Fox News this week. “She arranged every single trip, and if she was just given … immunity, she could be compelled to testify.”

The intensifying focus on the former girlfriend and accomplice of the now-deceased Epstein, a convicted sex offender and disgraced financier, represents the latest turn in a winding case that has long engaged conspiracy theorists and right-wing pundits. Maxwell, they say, can unmask powerful elites — many of them Democrats — whom they believe the government has protected from prosecution.
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felter wrote: Sun, 27. Jul 25, 05:12 This has got me thinking. If Trump were to pardon Maxwell, it could potentially end up being his biggest mistake so far. Let me explain, if I was one of her victims and there is potentially over 1 thousand of them, I would sue her for damages if she got a pardon, because as I said above she would have to take full responsibility for her crimes by agreeing she had committed those crimes to get the pardon, meaning she could not defend herself from any private prosecution for damages, now how could that effect Trump, well my lawyer would be demanding she hand over any and all evidence she had like a certain list and file, the other problem is she would not be able to claim the 5th as she has already been pardoned for the crimes, you cannot incriminate yourself for something you have already agreed you did them, and she cannot be prosecuted for them a second time (stupid law) which means under oath if she was asked did Donald J, Trump get involved in any kind of sexual activity with a minor she would have to answer honestly or even what's the names of those others involved she would have to answer honestly if she refused or lied she would go back to jail and there would be nothing Trump or anyone else could do about it. There are risks to being pardoned, or in this case there is a risk to Trump and others if Trump were to pardon her.
Seems like they found a way past that. They are now angling to have Maxwell's convicton overturned instead of having to pardon her. If they manage to get this through, it is as if Maxwell was never convicted in the first place. She will be a free woman and will be able to continue the work she did before she went to prison, only this time around she will have the full force of the Amercian justice system behind her, ensuring that her future trafficking operations will no longer be prosecuted. She will also be entiteled to recieve a government compensation for her time spend in prison.

Source: https://www.denver7.com/us-news/ghislai ... -plea-deal
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Trump says he had a falling out with Epstein after Epstein „stole“ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-o-Lago where the underage woman was working the spa. The piece in which he says this was published by the offical channel of the White House. As I am not sure how long it will stay up, here is PBS with more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politi ... ia-giuffre
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So Trump has placed a 50% Tariff on Brazil and sanctioned the Judge that is leading the case against Bolsonaro, he has been trying desperately to get Brazil to drop its prosecution of Bolsonaro threatening them with those Tariffs and sanctioning the judge. Now if I was running Brazil and their courts I would issue an international arrest warrant for Trump on charges of bribery and trying to influence a criminal trial. You can't attack another countries legal system and demand that they do what you want, sure you can make noise about it and raise issues that you see, but as soon as you start making threats and demands that they have to do what you say then you have gone way above what is legal.
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that's a thought. Trump as president has a quite a list of kidnappings and now the concentration camp.

best trading partners for USA are other fascist countries, like North Korea or Russia
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.. and all it does is damaging US products and services as they became unreliable and people are working on alternatives.
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that's kind of the goal though

Take Canada, US largest customer (or second largest?). US mostly doesn't want to trade with it. There are people who trying to soften the divorce, but when the policy is clear it seems accurate to say - well yes, tis the goal - US wants to trade internally only or mostly.

According to Putin, that does wonders for the economy, maybe US is taking notes
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Donald Trump just added Lawrence Taylor to a council responsible for fitness tests in school. Taylor became famous for being a (very good) football player and infamous for his many drug issues and tax evasion. He is also a registered sex offender as he had sex with a 16 year old prostitute. In his defense, the girl had been forced to tell him that she was 19 by her pimp. Still not exactly a guy I‘d for the job, but I am sure by now most hardcore Trump fans have shifted their opinions enough to say that having sex with underage prostitutes very alpha.
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US/trump was striking deals with and meeting with drug cartels earlier this year

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 50876.html

El Salvador is now even more of a dictatorship

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/a ... finite-re/

The party of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele approved constitutional changes in the country’s Legislative Assembly on Thursday that will allow indefinite presidential re-election and extend presidential terms to six years.

Immigrants sent to El Salvador by the US are being tortured, beaten, etc... It also costs more to send them there. Costs have also increased by multiples for the US deal. Apparently they are releasing some gang members who pay bribes or make deals with the government.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/ve ... r-AA1Jq8Qo

South Park released a second trump episode. After "sincerely apologizing" for the first episode.
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Even with doctoring false medical and economic data the US job market shows stagnation or due to population growth fewer jobs. Former job growth numbers from other months drastically cut. The groups meant to oversee the quality of the data have been fired/removed when trump took office. Same as the medical oversight people. Shipping ports are also not as busy so a decline in the US seems likely to have happened.

Trump fires labor statistics chief hours after data showed jobs growth slowed

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... SApp_Other

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