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[Commenter_XY]

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-873898

Despite uproar, IDF cantor to perform at Amsterdam Hanukkah concert...

Martinned and his fellow travelers hardest hit.

[Frank Drackman]

Check out the Amsterdam photos, you'd think it was Kabul or Terror-Anne

[Mr. Bumble]

Those damn soccer hooligans...

[AmosArch]

It really is the hardest thing to figure out where progs stand on Jews. One week they're examining a Trump campaign flyer through an electron microscope and running his speeches through a da Vinci Code supercomputer cluster combing every nook and cranny for possible antiSemitic dogwhistles then the next they're physically assaulting jews and spraypainting antiJew slurs on buildings or alternately standing by and watching then posting a 10 page defense in support.

[Malika la Maize]

What an interesting time for Amos to trot this out given the Fuentes mess and this:

If you thought sending horrific, racist texts was enough to get you shunned from political service, think again! President Donald Trump wants Paul Ingrassia to take his “Nazi streak” to the General Services Administration.

In a Thursday email to his colleagues obtained by Politico, Ingrassia announced that the president had personally offered him a position as general counsel at the GSA. The conservative activist had previously been serving as White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security.

https://newrepublic.com/post/203204/donald-trump-failed-nominee-nazi-streak-paul-ingrassia-job

[Brett Bellmore]

Well, he's right. While it's certainly possible to find antisemites on the right, and I'm rather disturbed that they're not getting the Buckley treatment these days, the idea that the left is innocent of antisemitism is absurd.

It's just that on the left your antisemites pretend to be anti-Zionists, and you pretend to believe them.

[Malika la Maize]

You really don’t get the whole Mote and Beams thing, do you?

[AmosArch]

Gender Ideology is chock full of motte and bailey fallacies. One could even argue that its built on them.

For example gender activists always move to estabilish trans gender identity (ie delusion) to essentially be the exactly same thing as if it was biological sex. Including in ways that don't make sense if it was just an mental identity. For example a trans identity for some reason makes it automatically okay for men to play on a girls team against other girls. When challenged however they withdraw to the Motte position its just an identity not actually biological and once the challenge ceases they go back to the Bailey of attempting to get men back on girl's sports teams.

A second example is intersexuals. Abandoning a defense of actual transgenderism to retreat to the Motte of pointing out the existence of rare biological intersexuals as somehow a justification for trans delusion is one of the most common tactics gender activists use, despite arguing the other half of the time that gender is not the same as biological sex.

A third example is the 'just want to be left alone'. Gender activists love to chant the Motte that 'they just want to be left alone' as they lobby for the Bailey of robbing taxpayers for sex changes for minors and felons. Taxpayer money to brainwash kids and hide it from their parents. 24/7 media programming for their cause. Garnering as much controversy as they can with a weirdly singular obsession with exposing kids to drag queens. Brutally punitive punishments for 'disrespecting' pronouns etc etc.

[Mr. Bumble]

It's all part of a big grift where genuinely confused people are encouraged by groups who smell big money in supporting the fantasies of individuals who need mental health support and not surgery and drugs.

[Stephen Lathrop]

Amosarch — What do you have to say about the significance of the various permutatations: Motte v bailey; Motte and Bailey; Bailey v Motte; motte and Bailey; motte and bailey; etc.?

[ThePublius]

What's your point, Lathrop, other than to just toss sand into the gears of this discussion?

[Malika la Maize]

You have to admit there’s some weird thing that goes on with basic English writing skills and MAGAns, from the top to the bottom

[ThePublius]

What are you talking about?

[Malika la Maize]

Do you ever see Trump’s Truth Social posts?

Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein Hoax, involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try and deflect from their disastrous SHUTDOWN, and all of their other failures, I will be asking A.G. Pam Bondi, and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein’s involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions, to determine what was going on with them, and him. This is another Russia, Russia, Russia Scam, with all arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men, and many others, spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his “Island.” Stay tuned!!!

[Frank Drackman]

No, he has a life.

[Malika la Maize]

lol, says pathetic loser who emulates them daily, constantly.

MAGA draws the weird.

[jb]

Interesting to try to hand wave away the existence of intersex people as "rare" when the population of intersex people is in the same order of magnitude (~1%) as the population of trans people.

But overall: it's interesting to see so many strawmen in just a few paragraphs. Maybe if you want to have a discussion about "Gender Ideology" it would be useful to try to discuss at least a few of the actual positions of the people you disagree with.

[hobie]

I noticed that each week's latest outrage causes AM radio to switch to the squirrel of transphobia. You'll have to forgive Amos 'Whatabout' Arch, he's just executing his programming.

[Brett Bellmore]

Only using a deliberately expansive definition of "intersex". Naturally Wikipedia seized on it.

How common is intersex? a response to Anne Fausto-Sterling

"Abstract
Anne Fausto-Sterling s suggestion that the prevalence of intersex might be as high as 1.7% has attracted wide attention in both the scholarly press and the popular media. Many reviewers are not aware that this figure includes conditions which most clinicians do not recognize as intersex, such as Klinefelter syndrome, Turner syndrome, and late-onset adrenal hyperplasia. If the term intersex is to retain any meaning, the term should be restricted to those conditions in which chromosomal sex is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female. Applying this more precise definition, the true prevalence of intersex is seen to be about 0.018%, almost 100 times lower than Fausto-Sterling s estimate of 1.7%."

[jb]

Those figures roughly represent the extremes of how you might count the frequency (since really we're talking about differences in how you define intersex), and the 0.018% number isn't really any better than the 1.7% number. Here's a page that lists how frequent various phenomena that some people might call intersex are:

https://isna.org/faq/frequency/

The "total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births" seems like a reasonable way to think about the overall frequency.

[Brett Bellmore]

But "intersex" doesn't MEAN "differs from standard", and that's the point.

[William of Brooklyn]

Not only are intersex statistics abused, they are totally irrelevant to remarks and claims about gender, as the vast majority of people claiming to be transgendered have never been evaluated chromosomally or in any of the other ways intersex status might be assessed. Transgenderism is emphatically and overwhelmingly a psychological phenomenon (and a socio-political fad among the Emperor-has-clothes set) that will recede (and according to new data IS receding) with time.

Here is some actual data on intersex people, which --again -- has ZERO to do with gender claims.

How common is intersex?

To answer this question in an uncontroversial way, you’d have to first get everyone to agree on what counts as intersex —and also to agree on what should count as strictly male or strictly female. That’s hard to do. How small does a penis have to be before it counts as intersex? Do you count “sex chromosome” anomalies as intersex if there’s no apparent external sexual ambiguity?[1] (Alice Dreger explores this question in greater depth in her book Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex.)

Here’s what we do know: If you ask experts at medical centers how often a child is born so noticeably atypical in terms of genitalia that a specialist in sex differentiation is called in, the number comes out to about 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2000 births. But a lot more people than that are born with subtler forms of sex anatomy variations, some of which won’t show up until later in life.

Below we provide a summary of statistics drawn from an article by Brown University researcher Anne Fausto-Sterling.2 The basis for that article was an extensive review of the medical literature from 1955 to 1998 aimed at producing numeric estimates for the frequency of sex variations. Note that the frequency of some of these conditions, such as congenital adrenal hyperplasia, differs for different populations. These statistics are approximations.

Not XX and not XY one in 1,666 births
Klinefelter (XXY) one in 1,000 births
Androgen insensitivity syndrome one in 13,000 births
Partial androgen insensitivity syndrome one in 130,000 births
Classical congenital adrenal hyperplasia one in 13,000 births
Late onset adrenal hyperplasia one in 66 individuals
Vaginal agenesis one in 6,000 births
Ovotestes one in 83,000 births
Idiopathic (no discernable medical cause) one in 110,000 births
Iatrogenic (caused by medical treatment, for instance progestin administered to pregnant mother) no estimate
5 alpha reductase deficiency no estimate
Mixed gonadal dysgenesis no estimate
Complete gonadal dysgenesis one in 150,000 births
Hypospadias (urethral opening in perineum or along penile shaft) one in 2,000 births
Hypospadias (urethral opening between corona and tip of glans penis) one in 770 births

Total number of people whose bodies differ from standard male or female one in 100 births
Total number of people receiving surgery to “normalize” genital appearance one or two in 1,000 births

1 Dreger, Alice Domurat. 1998. Ambiguous Sex—or Ambivalent Medicine? Ethical Issues in the Treatment of Intersexuality. Hastings Center Report, 28, 3: 24-35.

2 Blackless, Melanie, Anthony Charuvastra, Amanda Derryck, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Karl Lauzanne, and Ellen Lee. 2000. How sexually dimorphic are we? Review and synthesis. __American Journal of Human Biology__ 12:151-166.

[Frank Drackman]

Did you know 1 in 5,000 women is born without a Vagina? In all other respects they're Female, Emotional, Inability to be Logical, Terrible Drivers, Poor Mathematical Skills, they just lack the Gash.
I think I met every one of them during my Dating Days, some guys get told "I have to wash my Hair", "I have a Headache", "I like you as a Friend",
I got the "I don't have a Vagina"

Frank "What is the deal with these women without Vaginas????"

[Malika la Maize]

First, its interesting to see the “delusion” thing pushed by the MAGA right, which often is quite willing to let lie or indulge various things that could be considered delusional (wild conspiracy theories, many traditional religious beliefs). As to the delusion theory, as I’ve mentioned here before there are other aspects where people “deny biological reality” and “indulge delusions”, such as when we treat the persons that adopt children as their mothers and fathers and their children as siblings to the adopted child. Another way of putting this is not letting biological facts always determine social and legal roles and duties. Biology needn’t, and shouldn’t, always be destiny.

Second, the sports thing usually involves kids sports, which is kind of supposed to be for fun and education. Co-ed sports teams are quite common at the younger levels and in less populated areas. The issue admittedly gets thornier as you get to older more competitive sports, but MAGAns aren’t to be taken as anything but disingenuous in their sudden defense of girl’s sports and Title IX.

The “weirdly singularly obsessive” likely says more about your knowledge (or lack thereof) of the trans community. The whole “drag queen story hour” thing likely involved a small minority of trans persons.

[Mr. Bumble]

Get back to us when the WNBA allows men to play.

[Malika la Maize]

Yes, he’s this dumb.

“The issue admittedly gets thornier as you get to older more competitive sports”

[Frank Drackman]

Would love to see Shack (is that how you spell it? "Shack"??) pick up one of those Skinny WNBA Broads and throw her the length of the Court like a Spear.
If I was the Owner of Kaitlyn Clark's team I'd release every XX player except for her, sign 10 recently released NFL Defensive Linemen, what is it, 5 Fouls until you're ejected? Lets see how many cheap shots Katilyn gets with Jartavious, Martez, and "Switch Blade" Jackson defending her.

Frank

[jb]

"Second, the sports thing usually involves kids sports, which is kind of supposed to be for fun and education. Co-ed sports teams are quite common at the younger levels and in less populated areas."

Also, I don't think there's any real disagreement that the physical differences that make it important to separate men's and women's sports don't show up until puberty. So any debate about trans girls in sports for little kids is obviously about something other than competitive parity.

[Mr. Bumble]

...and in the be care what you wish for (or more exactly support).
Like the blowhard virtue signalers of Martha's Vineyard who supported illegal immigration until illegals showed up in their portion of Whitelandia, South Africa (a vocal supporter of Hamas)
was surprised when 153 Gazanians showed up unannounced.
"... Israeli authorities allowed 153 Gaza residents to enter Isreal, travel to a nearby airport, board a chartered jetliner and fly to Johannesburg, via Nairobi."
" South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says there will be an investigation into the “mysterious” arrival of a chartered plane carrying 153 Palestinians from Gaza into the country."

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/11/unwanted-guests-arrive.php

[Mr. Bumble]

"careful"

[hobie]

I reckon they now qualify as 'white' South Africans. Looks like you'll have to grudgingly accept their matriculation, Bumble.

[Mr. Bumble]

...and why would I have to do that?

[ThePublius]

Last paragraph of the article:

"The war in Gaza is the first humanitarian crisis that I can recall where not a single country on earth has agreed to accept a single refugee from the area.

Why is that?"

Why, indeed.

[Malika la Maize]

Why do *you* think that is*?

*it appears to be false btw

[Brett Bellmore]

Well, the DNC apparently can be shamed into retracting a lie.

BREAKING: The official X account of the Democrat Party has DELETED their post claiming President Trump spent Thanksgiving with Jeffrey Epstein in 2017

But only because he was already President at the time, and there was too much proof he spent it at a Coast Guard station in Florida.

But why would they be stupid enough to make the claim in the first place?

[Mr. Bumble]

"When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose..."
H/T B. Dylan

[jb]

"Well, the DNC apparently can be shamed into retracting a lie."

It's interesting to see that you think this is an argument against the Democrats, instead of realizing that there's nothing you can do to get Trump (or basically all of MAGA in general) to retract a lie.

[ThePublius]

That's a rather weak attempt using both deflection and whataboutism.

Did the Democrats lie? Yes. They deleted the post because they got caught.

It has nothing to do with what you think of Trump.

[Mr. Bumble]

...but, but everything has to do with Trump.
See Qualika below.

[Malika la Maize]

You’re really this dumb, are t you? Yes, Trump’s comments directing the DOJ to investigate people because he was embarrassingly implicated has to do with Trump.

[ThePublius]

You're the dummy for changing the context of this thread. It is about the Dems lying on their official account, and then deleting it when caught. Period.

[Malika la Maize]

Pubes, you’re such a pathetically partisan tool. Bumble first referenced me and my downthread comment in this thread, I just responded.

Partisanship makes some people quite stupid.

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...but, but everything has to do with Trump.
See Qualika below

[John 4]

Go back to bed, dude. You got that brain fog.

[ThePublius]

Speak for yourself.

[Malika la Maize]

Way to own your mistake. Party of personal responsibility!

[Brett Bellmore]

That's my point: They ran with a pathetically easy to disprove lie, then dropped it when disproven.

But, even if they could be shamed into dropping the lie, why'd they tell it in the first place?

A lie can circle the globe while the truth is tying its shoe laces, the refutation will never catch up with all the repetitions, so it was a net gain. There's a long list of lies they've told about Trump and company, and the people who still believe them are legion.

[Malika la Maize]

This has been Motes with Brett Bellmore!

[jb]

It is obviously whataboutism, but a bunch of people who just a constant flood of overt lies from the leader of their party (and many others in the MAGA movement) to clutch their pearls over a deleted tweet is at this point just a demonstration of rank hypocrisy and that y'all have no actual principles.

Yes, it's bad that the DNC posted something that was obviously incorrect and that they could easily have checked on themselves. It's also good they deleted it! And yet, it's much worse that Trump lies all.the.time, doubles down on those lies, and never acknowledges that he's wrong, and all of you either ignore it, try to rationalize it, or just adopt the lies yourselves. If you really think lying by politicians is bad, act like you mean it.

[Stephen Lathrop]

Bellmore — In general, if you publish an untruth, for whatever reason, discontinuing its publication is regarded as responsible, not blameworthy. Nor is there reason to conclude that taking down an untruthful publication is evidence that it was intended as a lie. For that conclusion you need more evidence. Like someone saying, "Sure it's false, but if we publish it anyway it will hurt our opponents." Got anything like that?

[ThePublius]

It's a common ploy, Stephen; don't be so naive. You publish a lie that hurts your opponent, that's widely shared. Far fewer notice when it's been deleted, retracted, or corrected. The damage is done.

Note the Dem official account never repudiated what it posted, it just deleted the post.

[Estragon]

This one goes out to Life of Brian:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136/gov.uscourts.vaed.582136.187.2.pdf

[Malika la Maize]

Trump has now blatantly called for, and Bondi has agreed to engage in, prosecution of opposition political figures because he’s embarrassed that he was implicated in something. Remember when MAGAns accused Obama and Biden in directing investigations of Trump?

Every accusation is a confession.

[Frank Drackman]

That's the Hill you've chosen to die on??
Don't let me stop you.

Frank

[Malika la Maize]

What specific Hill are you referring to, or do you have some mental condition that impacts your writing?

[Frank Drackman]

It's an Allegory, an Allusion, a Mirage, do I have to draw you a Diaphragm?? Do you want a standing Ovulation? It's like I say I'm beating a dead Horse and you call the NAACP, and speaking of mental conditions, look up "Concrete Thinking" there Mr. McMurphy.

[Malika la Maize]

MAGA draws the weird. QAnon Shaman Francis.

[John 4]

Absolute gibberish

[Frank Drackman]

Performers gotta play up (or down) to his Audience, just pretend I'm some Transexual Poet from East Elbonia and you'll love it.

[DDHarriman]

>Remember when MAGAns accused Obama and Biden in directing investigations of Trump?

Remember Obama and Biden directed investigations of Trump?

[Stephen Lathrop]

Trump has conducted a program to make criminal conduct in office so commonplace that there will be too much of it to make subsequent prosecution look useful. The aim seems to include creation of a class of holders of high office who understand themselves empowered to abet Trump's own criminality without fear of personal consequences—or in expectation of actual enrichment by criminal decree. Trump issues floods of unwarranted pardons, and publicizes them, to deliver that encouragement.

Democrats running for midterm office ought to think hard—and together—about ways to campaign to counter all that. They must campaign to inhibit politically the corrupt support Trump/MAGA expects—and seems to be getting—from the Supreme Court—and especially the Court's decree of kingly power for Trump.

The only checks available at present are either an impossible impeachment, or politics forthrightly announced to hold Trump's abettors criminally responsible for whatever acts they commit to assist Trump in flagrant crimes for which the Court granted impunity. Forget the impeachment, and campaign on accountability for abettors. Remind them that Trump has no power to pardon crimes committed under state laws.

Concern to avoid setting off tit-for-tat retaliation in political affairs is no longer worth considering. The political criminality could not get more commonplace, nor more flagrant, than it has already become. Open, flaunted, criminality of this sort and on this scale has never before been seen in American governance.

Trump orders his Justice Department to go selectively after his political opponents, citing as justification the Epstein scandal in which he himself is apparently enmeshed. While doing that, Trump maneuvers to pardon Trump/MAGA operatives for any crimes they commit.

Trump and Congress collude to pass bills to enrich with public money both Trump, and Congress members, The payoffs are for publicly endorsing crimes so flagrant they provoked major investigations, multiple indictments, and hundreds of convictions. Which Trump reversed with blanket pardons.

Trump's Justice Department lies in court rooms, without apparent consequence for the liars. They seem to lie about the substance of everything which comes to court, and also about the conduct of administration members in response to court orders.

Meanwhile, various types of anonymous, masked, law enforcement thugs (pointedly wearing literal brown shirts) attack without discrimination, American citizens, immigrants, and peaceful protestors of all kinds. To make a point that no one should even try protest, the thugs shoot clergy members in the head with pepper balls, or arrest them violently at detention sites where they have arrived to deliver spiritual aide to detainees.

When courts demand an accounting, the thugs lie as if they were high administration officials, and get away with it likewise. Judges themselves are evidently quailing in response to threats of violence against their families. Only a few have dared discuss that in public.

The crime and violence are performative—intended to cause fear and induce meek compliance. That must be checked by an opposite response.

There is no longer point to geographically dispersed demonstrations against the Trump/MAGA regime. Henceforth, demonstrations must be focused. It is time to mobilize demonstrators, and convene crowds large enough to put violent counter-measures out of the question. No more conceding the streets themselves to the thugs. They obstruct the streets as thoroughly as any crowd of demonstrators could do, without the demonstrators' Constitutionally protected rights to be there. But demonstrators have been meekly herded into tiny cordoned areas designated free speech zones. Let's see how aggressive ICE and the other thugs will be when confronted by crowds numbering 200,000 or more.

This nation has famously been characterized, "A Republic, if you can keep it." There has never been any doubt that the, "you," in Franklin's famous quote was intended to be the American People themselves. The time for the People's republic-keeping activity has arrived.

[Mr. Bumble]

Per Qualika:
"Every accusation is a confession."

[ThePublius]

I have never seen so much bullshit heaped into one post. How do you do it?

On top of that, you seem to be calling for violence against immigration and law enforcement officers.

"But demonstrators have been meekly herded into tiny cordoned areas designated free speech zones." That's total bullshit. Tell me when that has happened in Portland or Chicago, for example.

[Brett Bellmore]

Trump IS the tit for tat, surely you should realize that. Yes, he has embarked on high level lawfare against his enemies, THIS term. But that's only after Democrats set out to do it to him and everyone around him.

The is the payback, idiot, not the original provocation.

[Malika la Maize]

This of course means that everyone who criticized those measures against Trump are being hypocrites in not denouncing when he engages in the same.

[DDHarriman]

Or, those people realized the only way to make fascist Democrats stop being fascist is to hold them accountable.

The difference between the 'tat' and the 'tit'? The tit isn't using extra-legal novel theories with judges in cahoots.

[DDHarriman]

Stephen,

There's already been the tat. That was 2016 - 2024. Now is the era of the tit.

[Frank Drackman]

This whole "(Insert name here) is a Liar!!!!!!!!" is so played out, it's like saying Jerry Nadler's Fat or Pete Booty-Judge takes it up the Keester, True, but to what end? (HT S. Dante)
I can say "AlGore diddled his maid", "Robert KKK Bird was in the KKK", "Barry Obama said the "N-word", "Cums-a-lots Hubbie "Dougie" slapped a woman in public, all True, but again, to what end?
That's been my favorite phrase lately, "To what end?", it comes in handy in so many Sitch-u-Asians.
And to answer, this whole Epstein/Shut Down Bullshit has been to stop the Lindsay-Buckingham-Nicks-Grahams of the world from getting us into WW3 in You-Crane, hasn't been in the news much the last few weeks, has it?? Everyone's too concerned with Alan Dershowitz's Schlong. (That's my goal, to be 87 and people are still talking about my Schlong)

Frank

[Malika la Maize]

How sad is it for a person to either be unable to perform basic English writing skills or such a sad, weird person he emulates the current President’s writing style like a sad version of Patton Oswald’s Big Fan character?

MAGA draws the weird.

[Frank Drackman]

Don't know Patton Oswald, or this "Big Fan" character but I think I'm going to like them.

[Malika la Maize]

Shouldn’t that be Character, Shaman Francis?

[Brett Bellmore]

He's been imitating an admittedly annoying Rush Limbaugh shtick. It's got nothing to do with imitating Trump, who has his own differently annoying way of talking.

[Malika la Maize]

Nope, look at Trump’s Truth Social posts. It’s pathetically weird

[Frank Drackman]

It's Rush Limbo, and I don't know what "Shtick" you're referring to since I stopped listening to him around 1995 (he stopped being funny and became Morley Shafer)
Oh, and that awful "Mannheim Steamroller" X-mas Music he'd play.

[Malika la Maize]

Kyiv endured another brutal night under attack on Friday as Russian missiles and drones struck it, killing six people and injuring dozens more, according to the local authorities. Firefighters and emergency workers were called to multiple districts of the city to deal with the consequences of the assault.

The targets of the overnight attack were not immediately clear. Most recently, Russian aerial assaults have regularly hit the country’s power grid, an effort to plunge Ukrainians into cold and darkness as winter looms. The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia had launched 19 missiles and 430 drones across the country, most of which were shot down. These figures could not be independently verified.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-russia-strike.html

March 4, 2023. Speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

“Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled quickly. Quickly. I will get the problem solved and I will get it solved in rapid order and it will take me no longer than one day. I know exactly what to say to each of them.”

[Frank Drackman]

Thanks for proving my point, if Epstein or Dershowitz isn't mentioned nobody cares.

[DDHarriman]

Epstein was texting Democrats and feeding them things to say in Congressional hearings re: Trump, but -- strangely -- never texted the Democrat Congressmen "tell them about the BJ" or "tell them about the young girls"...

lmao liberals are so stupid

[dwb68]

Yann LeCun, practically the inventor of AI, thinks large language models are a dead end. He thinks "world models" are the future.

So far, I have to agree.

Then again, Einstein said god does not play dice with the universe, and he was wrong.

[ThePublius]

Fed Study Vindicates Trump Trade Policy: 150 Years of Evidence Shows Tariffs Lower Inflation

"Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined major tariff changes from 1870 through 2020 across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Their conclusion challenges the conventional wisdom that dominated economic policy debates in recent years: when countries raise tariffs, prices actually fall, not rise.

“We find that a tariff hike raises unemployment and lowers inflation,” the authors, Régis Barnichon and Aayush Singh, write in their working paper released this month.”This goes against the predictions of standard models, whereby CPI inflation should go up in response to higher tariffs.”"

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2025/11/14/fed-study-vindicates-trump-trade-policy-150-years-of-evidence-shows-tariffs-lower-inflation/

[jb]

LOL.

It seems like you (or Breitbart while they were spoon-feeding you what to think) skipped over the mechanism. "Tariffs are so bad for the economy that the lowered employment counteracts their inherent inflationary effects" is not exactly a ringing endorsement of Trump's economic genius.

[DDHarriman]

---
In summary…
In Epstein’s own words, the timeline, the motive, the silence, the cooperation, the arrests — everything points to one conclusion:

Donald Trump was the informant who helped take down one of the most prolific pedophile and blackmail operations in history.
---

https://x.com/MJTruthUltra/status/1989024850170560735

The Epstein Files are "It's Meuller Time" 2.0. Ending with a doddering and blubbering fool and egg on the faces of the Democrat Fanatics.