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Syrian Internal security with Ministry of Defense expelled outlawed groups from Suwayda, over 100 Druze dead
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Retailers caught red-handed using Trump's tariffs as cover for price gouging
[FoxNews] Poll shows 52% of voters agree with President Trump that corporations should bear the burden of tariff-related costs.
Absorbing increased costs is not how companies stay in business, especially where the margins are only a few percent to begin with.
In recent weeks, headlines have been filled with warnings from major retailers about impending price hikes due to tariffs reinstated by President Donald Trump. Big Box stores like Walmart and Target have been quick to suggest that tariffs on imported goods, particularly from China, have left them with no choice but to raise prices for American families.

Let’s be clear, these decisions are more about raising profit margins and going against Trump’s agenda to bring costs down for Americans than responding to any actual economic pressure.

Tariffs are a strategic tool. The Trump administration has always been clear about that. Tariffs are designed to level the playing field, incentivize domestic production, counter predatory trade practices – especially from the Chinese Communist Party – and put America First. Tariffs protect long-term American interests, especially in vital industries like technology and manufacturing.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 10:02 || Comments || Link || [45 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like we didn't know.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Retailers cannot raise prices for long before competition brings them back in line. That is the beauty of free enterprise.

Posted by: Slats Hitler4552 || 07/16/2025 12:47 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Tucker Carlson's Message to America on the Epstein Cover-Up | Full Speech
[YouTube] Tucker unloads on deep state creeps silencing us from speaking about child molester Jeffrey Epstein.

He outright states the CIA was involved in the murder of a sitting US President - JFK.

Hit the title link for the video.

Tucker Carlson has chosen which clicks he wants to bait.


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Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 07/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [109 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let me see if I can get the gist "Epstein was a Jew, therefore it was a Mossad operation!".
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 07/16/2025 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Tucker Carlson’s speech makes some valid and some bad points.

On the valid side, his questioning of Jeffrey Epstein’s unexplained accumulation of wealth and social status, I think, is entirely fair. I would like an answer to that too. That those questions remain unanswered is disturbing. Additionally, Carlson's critique of growing economic disparities, particularly the burden of credit card debt and unaffordable housing, rightly highlights the challenges young Americans face in achieving a stable, middle-class life.

However, the rest of the speech is speculative and unsupported. Carlson states that Epstein was protected by a long-standing government cover-up and possibly worked for foreign intelligence, specifically naming Israel, but offers no credible evidence to support these serious claims. Furthermore, his assertion that dual citizens or Americans serving in foreign militaries should automatically lose their citizenship is extreme and disregards individual motives. While hearing him talk about it, I was thinking of his strong support of Russia; following his logic, he should lose his citizenship.
Posted by: Zebulon Ebbavise5691 || 07/16/2025 6:20 Comments || Top||

#3  No need for the government to overwhelm the simple minded. We should know a great deal more in 65 years or so.

Posted by: Besoeker || 07/16/2025 7:34 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Likely sooner than that.

The dumbing of America
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 8:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Bill Kristol and his bloodthirsty neocons crying because Trump smashed their pretty little toys
[Bulwark] The American Age Is Over
Emergency Triad: The United States commits imperial suicide.

Exactly what we elected Trump to do: close the bases, bring the troops home, and mind our own God-damned business.
Billions for other countries while FEMA says the cupboard is bare for aid in Maui.

And just like that, the age of American empire, the great Pax Americana, ended.
And just in time, we were about to go bankrupt.
We cannot overstate what has just happened. It took just 71 days for Donald Trump to wreck the American economy, mortally wound NATO, and destroy the American-led world order.

He did this with the enthusiastic support of the entire Republican party and conservative movement.

He did it with the support of a plurality of American voters.
And don't you ever forget that, you bloodthirsty warmongering ghoul.
He did not hide his intentions. He campaigned on them. He made them the central thrust of his election. He told Americans that he would betray our allies and give up our leadership position in the world.

There are only three possible explanations as to why Americans voted for this man:

1. they wanted what he promised;

2. they didn’t believe what he promised; or

3. they didn’t understand what he promised.

Pick whichever rationale you want, because it doesn’t matter. Whatever the reason was, it exposed half of the electorate—the 77 million people who voted for Trump—as either fundamentally unserious, decadent, or weak.

And no empire can survive the degeneration of its people.
He still cannot understand that we do not want an empire. We want a republic that takes care of our people and our people only.
Why do we subsidize nuclear powers?
Recall that The Bulwark is the project of Never-Trumper neocon Bill Kristol and the staff of his defunct Weekly Standard. While Mr. Kristol is very pleased that Israel and President Trump teamed up to bomb Iran, he still stands by his endorsement of Kamala Harris in the last election and considers himself a former Republican. That this opinion piece showed up on his site is not surprising. A very smart man who is not wise.

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Posted by: Elmomoter Mussolini9149 || 07/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [79 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The author, Jonathan Last, is Bulwark's editor. The article cites the stock market meltdown in April as an example of Trump destroying the economy with tariffs. The NASDAQ was down to 16,000.

Today it hit 20,695. So far Never Trumper Jonny has not admitted he was totally wrong. But he and Kristol still claim the Democratic Party is our only hope.

I doubt they believe it, but their idiot subscribers need to hear it.



Posted by: Slats Hitler4552 || 07/16/2025 14:04 Comments || Top||


Newsom Founds Underground Railroad To Help Mexican Kids Travel To Work The Marijuana Farms
[Babylon Bee] SACRAMENTO, CA — An inspiring story emerged amid the ongoing immigration controversy, as Governor Gavin Newsom founded an Underground Railroad to help Mexican kids travel to work on California's marijuana farms.

After ICE operations made headlines in recent weeks with raids on California cannabis farms, Newsom made the noble decision to create a secret system to help unaccompanied minor migrants avoid detection by the authorities and find their way north to work as day laborers.

"Every Mexican kid deserves the chance to live out their dream of working as slave labor in California," Newsom told reporters. "This weed isn't going to pick itself, and with Donald Trump's oppressive ICE agents constantly arresting our adult illegal aliens, we owe it to our great marijuana growers to keep them fully stocked with child labor. That's the promise these parentless children get in Gavin Newsom's California."

Newsom's Underground Railroad provides Mexican kids with a system of routes and safehouses that allows them to secretly and safely travel from their home country to the Golden State to begin their new lives of endlessly picking cannabis. "Thank you, Gavin Newsom," said 9-year-old Luis Garcia, who arrived in California by himself to live on a marijuana farm. "I was afraid I would never make it here, but he made it happen."

At publishing time, Newsom's office announced plans to create large-scale marijuana plantations where Mexican families could work in return for free lodging and food for generations.
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Posted by: Frank G || 07/16/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [66 views] Top|| File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants

#1  I wouldn't expect to see Newsom working on the railroad himself like the graphic shows with him holding a lantern and courageously leading the children into slavery. He might get his hair mussed. No. He'd pay some flunky to do it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/16/2025 12:03 Comments || Top||

#2  And he'd pay the flunky with California tax revenue.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 07/16/2025 12:04 Comments || Top||

#3  They need smaller tunnels.
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 14:35 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
The key to living longer could be tied to a surprising substance, study suggests
Longer? How about 'better'?

Researchers at the Emory University Department of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, discovered that psilocybin extended cellular lifespan and improved survival in aged mice.
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Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 09:54 || Comments || Link || [65 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are You a Man or a Mouse?
Posted by: Skidmark || 07/16/2025 10:01 Comments || Top||

#2  Can Mushrooms Reduce Old Person Smell? Natural Remedies That Work

I'm suspecting "Big Mushroom" has a new PR firm...
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 07/16/2025 12:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Air. Without air living gets cut short.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/16/2025 13:25 Comments || Top||



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