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[-] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

What's interesting about this is that Ghislaine Maxwell just got a transfer to a cushy facility in exchange for what is likely to be heavily coached testimony about how Donald Trump totally didn't rape children.

[-] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

My hope is that he signs the pardon before she testifies, and then she burns him down on the stand.

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago

As if she would.. She will just do what she do best, just not for Epstein, but for mr president himself, I fear…

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Why would he pardon her? Prison is sheer hell and she got a huge upgrade. Fuck around and they can take that back. They got all the leverage they need without the screams of outrage a pardon would bring.

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[-] viking@infosec.pub 9 points 1 week ago

I read those news in a way that she's now in a low risk facility with plenty of other people around who might casually remove a witness, rather than stuck in isolation in a max security prison where every 'suicide' would be met with public outrage.

[-] Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

All the dangers they tell us about being over weight and eating like shit, and this mother fucker is still clinging to life like an 80s action hero clings to the underside of a helicopter at the climax of the movie. Come on clogged arteries, do something!

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The truth is most human maladies are combination of environment and viruses. The two thing our current administration refuses to do anything about.

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Where are the Trump-Epstein files?

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

It’s fucking tariff roulette again. And so it will be for the next 3.5 years. Stupid cunts. Remember to kick a republican in the nuts.

[-] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Next 3.5 years if we are lucky.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

The last 6 months have been the longest decade of my life.

[-] flandish@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

*capitalist

they ALL do this. they just market it differently. profits are at record highs and have been for YEARS. while working class people suffer and die.

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

In lighter news he’s 78 with congestive heart failure, obvious mental decline, incontinence and obesity

[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Yea, but he's also aware of his limited time left. Hence he's rushing this. Fuck him

[-] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Americans won‘t own anything and they‘ll be happy.

[-] MyOpinion@lemmy.today 6 points 1 week ago

What a piece of human shit Trump is.

[-] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The cover image looks like he’s trying to make farting noises with his mouth. Not that that’s much different than anything else that comes out of it.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

From the bleachers, we watch the Trump shitshow daily. The topic of the show is: "What can Donald Trump still do today to appear even dumber than the day before?"

And he is not disappointing. What's next? Tariffs for interstate trading? One must admit, this would be a really dumb idea, but it is not outside Trumps grasp.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Looks like we just found our new interstate secretary! Tell us more about these tariffs against California.

[-] compostgoblin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Just wait until he has a conversation with the AI freaks in his admin. He changes policy based on the last person he talks to. What an idiot.

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

But, everything is computer.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

anything to not discuss the epstein files, it seems like the effectiveness of tariffs isnt have as much effect as distraction as it should.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't this only affect goods manufactured in the USA? If a finished product containing chips from say, Europe, were to land on USA shores it would only have a 15% tariff right?

Why does trump hate American manufacturing?

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's a tax of 100% on chips being imported to the USA, having been manufactured elsewhere. The idea is that it should force companies to set up their own chip manufacturing in the USA. But that's expensive and slow to do, and requires a lot of specialized engineering talent, so US-based electronics companies will somehow have to survive through years of paying twice as much for the chips they build into their products. This will mean significant price increases for Americans buying electronics, as the unavoidable costs are passed on.

[-] MyNamesTotallyRobert@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Expecting companies to build their own chip foundries and manufacture their own chips to avoid tariffs is as unrealistic as expecting poor people to singlehandedly use nuclear fission to create atoms from nothing to materialize into existence all the food they can't afford. Even if these American "use AI for everything" megacorp regimes that can't even write a mouse driver that's under 1gb actually put their big swingin' dicks back into their pants long enough to actually figure out how they could be efficient enough use the more achievable 90nm and 65nm chips, even that is so unachievable they'd never find a way to mass produce them affordably. Russia supposedly managed to diy their own 350nm chips which is barely even mid 90s Pentium 1 era bullshit and even that's probably fake propaganda that, best case, followed some half successful low volume experiments in a lab.

The only purpose of this is to cause mass calamity and force people further into poverty while corporations have an excuse to make everything even more expensive without giving anything back to society in return.

[-] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

He's been trying to prevent the US from manufacturing their own chips, so that can't be the real goal...

https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-wants-kill-527-billion-semiconductor-chips-subsidy-law-2025-03-05/

[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

From that article:

The comments were Trump's strongest criticism of the bipartisan CHIPS Act to date. "We don't have to give them money," Trump said, suggesting that avoiding new tariffs would be enough to convince them to build U.S. factories.

I think that, insofar as Trump has a coherent view, that's it: he doesn't want to give companies money to establish chip manufacturing in the USA, because he thinks it can be done instead by bullying them with tariffs so they are forced to fund it themselves if they want to stay in business.

I'm not saying that's a wise view. There's a good chance he just ends up creating more economic problems at home. And it's in part driven by his desire to get revenge on Biden by undoing everything he did, rather than a rational appraisal of economics.

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[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Just tell him computer chips are made of McDonalds and diet coke, several problems will solve themselves shortly after.

[-] Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

1000%, 2500%, 600%, 1500%

Release the Epstein files.

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