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Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:10pm On Jun 01, 2025
CNN reports that judicial activists in black robes have scuttled Trump's agenda a whooping 181 times.

CNN doesn't mention that lawfare expert Norm Eisen has his fingers by his words in at least 152 of these lawsuits.

Someone tell me that's not a choreographed judicial coup which Supreme Court CJ John Roberts is reluctant to stop. Or by extension. it's no longer possible for Republicans to get justice in the courts.

Foreign AffairsRe: World News! Events Happening Around The World by basilico: 10:24am On Jun 01, 2025
France president Macron ( advised by Trump to always close the door) wants to force a two state solution on Israel.
Not being prophetic , but in 50 years France will have the same demands to have a separate state for it's increasingly violent immigrants who profess to a particular faith which demands sharia laws.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:01am On Jun 01, 2025
The next demo rat who comes to power will shutter these plants,instead will provide subsidies to wind and solar power.

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/trump-aims-400-gw-nuclear-2050-10-large-reactors-under-construction-2030
AI data centres are a ginornous power hogs. Facebook is building a 1GW facility for it's AI. Microsoft is reopening a shuttered nuclear plant 300MW and pledges to buy all it's power for it's. nearby data centre.
xAI plant in Memphis is facing backlash due to its cooling . 100K Nvidia GPU supercomputer. Buy Nvidia stocks ,demand is off the roof.

As for me , batteries of which almost all are made in China will be darn cheap.
Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 6:04pm On May 31, 2025
WritterNg:
⚡IAEA reports that Iran's stockpile of 60% enriched uranium has reached 408 kilograms, which is enough for 24 small-yield nuclear bombs.
Amid the ongoing controversy about Iran’s nuclear program and what to do about it, the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Foreign Minister and a hardline pro-regime newspaper have recently revived the old claim, much beloved of the Obama administration back in the bad old days, that there is nothing to be concerned about at all. This is because the Ayatollah Khamenei has issued a fatwa saying that nuclear weapons are un-Islamic, and therefore, the Islamic Republic of Iran couldn’t possibly be trying to develop nuclear weapons. [b]There’s just one catch: no such fatwa exists or has ever existed.

No less a luminary than Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi nevertheless recently said: “If America’s aim is for Iran not to advance toward nuclear weapons, this is achievable. We have no desire to build nuclear weapons. The Supreme Leader issued a fatwa, and we do not need nuclear weapons in our defense doctrine. They [the Americans] imposed sanctions on us due to the enrichment. We were under sanctions for years, but we didn’t turn to [nuclear] weapons. Our scientists were assassinated, but we didn’t turn to [nuclear] weapons. We came, we negotiated, and we reached an agreement through negotiations, but they [the U.S.] abandoned [the agreement]. We didn’t use [nuclear] weapons. Our policy is based on principles and foundations, and nuclear weapons have no place in our defense doctrine [/b]
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:55pm On May 31, 2025
Maeve7:
Obama, Bush and Biden are history.

What has Trump done to solve the debt problem?

Nada.

He is making the problem worse.

You are arguing like a toddler.

Mommy: Kevin, don’t hit other children.

Kevin: But Jason is hitting other children too.

See yourself?
This is additional information.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 5:47pm On May 31, 2025
Gbadebo19:
Everything you listed here are his private business. It is nobody's business and shouldn't be an excuse. That the appointment is for 150 days is what you need to prove. I have never seen a political appointment that lasts 150 days, the least is usually 180 days. Even if it is 150 days, Elon is yet to spend 150 days, Trump has just spent 4 months and the 5th month just started, except a month is now 25 days. 🤷🤷
You can always ask chatbots when you need info.

Elon Musk served as a Special Government Employee (SGE) leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a temporary advisory body tasked with reducing U.S. government spending and bureaucracy. His role was subject to federal regulations under Title 18, Section 202 of the U.S. Code, which limits SGEs to 130 days of service within any 365-day period. Musk’s appointment began on January 20, 2025, coinciding with President Donald Trump’s inauguration, meaning his SGE term was set to expire by approximately May 30, 2025.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:26pm On May 31, 2025
benalvino3:
John Chow an American Christian was killed trying to convert an uncontacted, uncolonized tribe. These people are not building roads, education, or developing. They are stagnant.

When I said that colonialism moves us forward by decades, even if it comes at the cost of exploiting our resources, some people who constantly #ate will act as if my statement isn't true. But in reality, it's a reflection of their hatred for the life style and things they enjoy yet #ate.

IjeBos could not mention a single thing his tribe or any other tribe for that matter was building pre-colonialism. What natural resources we wear mining and utilizing.
There are different ways to look at things. The Good perspective of the actions of the colonizers, the bad perspective of the colonizers. Exploitation and all.

Budaatum, watch this video and tell me if colonization was all bad and no good. And if you would prefer to live like these people who does not know till this day there are things like radio frequency, and things like energy. They discovered fire, yeah but that is it.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw-La26h3yw
Africans were complacent. Had a whole forest for toilets and whole rivers for water and a whole sky for the rain. Good annual average weather .
Colonialists need to keep cool in summer. They invented air-conditioning.
They needed to keep warm in winters They invented home heaters and everything heat related. They discovered oil and electric generation.
They needed to preserve food during their harsh weather.
Africans could eat berries,wild roots ,fruits ,animal food all year round as needed.
Colonialists modernized Africa in so many ways. That is a fact that will not be denied.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:18pm On May 31, 2025
bemeruca:
Wahala, most of these bees are innocent bees. I believe they are just gonna find a sweet spot to make honey
On a positive. They will pollinate crops , trees and flowers . Expect bumper harvest and lower food prices smiley
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:13pm On May 31, 2025
budaatum:
I didn't even read your post because the quality of brain used in composing it was way below par.

Up your game some, and you too will be responded to. But if you do not up your game "sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must rule over it.”
Are you a freemason?
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:11pm On May 31, 2025
Maeve7:
Obama, Bush and Biden are history.

What has Trump done to solve the debt problem?

Nada.

He is making the problem worse.

You are arguing like a toddler.

Mommy: Kevin, don’t hit other children.

Kevin: But Jason is hitting other children too.

See yourself?
In bold. Please note.

The best month of May for the S&P 500 index was in 2025, with a gain of 6.3%. This marked the strongest May performance since 1990, driven by easing trade tensions, solid corporate earnings, and a resilient U.S. economy despite tariff uncertainties. Posts on X and web sources confirm this was the S&P 500’s most significant monthly gain since November 2023.

Foreign AffairsRe: Russia-Ukraine War: World News, Weapons & Battlefield Discussions - Live by basilico: 10:21am On May 31, 2025
Gbadebo19:
Seems the job was actually bigger than he thought. I don't understand and have never seen any official tenure than ends in 4 months. The least has been 6 months.
That appointment was for 150 days if I'm right.
He also needs to figure out how to fix your neurons ( Neurallink), dig underground roads & tunnels ( The Boring Company) ,send stuff to space and Mars (SpaceX), connect your internet via satellite (Starlink), make your EV and robotaxis ( Tesla) , provide alternative unbiased AI ( xAI) , give you a free speech platform (X) and do due diligence to thousands of shareholders invested in his companies .
He's a one man wrecking army whose companies employ at least 140,000 people.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:55am On May 31, 2025
81 million voted for this.



Media is deflecting on Trump's health weeks after he passed and aced a medical. They said Biden was the best ever Biden.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:44am On May 31, 2025
budaatum:
Verse 5, along with the others bolded, explicitly imply the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" on the eight day after he had rested.

After the Lord had then formed the man from dust did he "planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed".

But that's not even the conclusive evidence. The fact Adam was not given the same duties and pay as the Image shows they couldn't possible be the same creation unless you want to argue God decided to demote the Image to a naked ignorant slave, which he's unlikely to be able to do since they are themselves in God's image with the same powers and abilities and might resist being enslaved by their peer. Hence, slave Adam.
You never answered me why people who worship a deity called Satan aka Lucifer aka Shaytan don't believe there is a God.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:37am On May 31, 2025
raumdeuter:
San Francisco Equity plan for grading

Convert all B grades into A
Convert all F grades into C
Eliminate homework and weekly test
Allows you to take an exam as many times until you pass

These are some of the crazy leftist policies you want to push nationally. Which parent will support any of these measures for their children

The bigotry of low expectations of the left towards minority children where they don't have to bring children up rather bring the standards down
My reasoning is that democrats want dumbed down and impoverished America. Their policies and actions are not spur of the moment but carefully planned long term goals.One step at a time .
They root for green New scams that drives energy up instead of exploring the cheapest energy sources. They prevent mining, through the EPA, it takes donkey years to get all permits. They overegulate, making it impossible to get a business up and running in the shortest time . Ditto infrastructure projects.
They raise minimum wages driving business out to other states or countries.
They import immigrants turning red states purple then solid blue.
Now they want to lower academic standards.
Pray if you were hiring , would you ever hire Ijebos with his Latin and Harvard education? Democrats have really screwed up education especially the social sciences and arts.
Governor Cuomo is running for NYC mayor seat His major vote winner. Raise minimum wage to $20.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:12pm On May 30, 2025
budaatum:
No it is not talking about Adam and Eve when God created humans in his image in chapter 2. And if you had been paying attention you would have raised this point so we thrashed it at the start of my stretching where I said the following, which at the time I knew hadn't been understood by you.



Genesis Chapter states clearly that Adam and Eve were created on the eighth day, after the God had rested on the seventh day, and after "creating the humans in his image both male and female created he them" on the sixth day.

Their job descriptions are different, the image being told to rule the earth and multiply and subdue, while Adam was told to tend a tiny poxy garden.

And their pay/reward is different, with the image being told to eat every fruit from every seed bearing tree while Adam had a pay cut of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Besides, God can not possibly have created humans in his image from mud because that would be a hypocrisy that contravenes the second law as given in Exodus which states, "You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below", and unlike magas forgiving grab them by the pussy, billions in the world would not have forgiven that God (though I'm sure they would, considering the wuruwuru most do to justify the ungodly).

Saying Adam and Eve is the Image of God is step one in your enslavement by those who brought you the book. They themselves were not working in any tiny garden and not eating fruits of trees of knowledge. They were using the knowledge they nourished themselves with to get on ships to go dominate the entire earth to subdue the people they found where they got to so they themselves can plunder your wealth and multiply while you eat there fearing fruits of knowledge is deadly poison.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlYE6vgGeSQ?si=MeoqJbprQQBUwTBq

The above is a song the Brits sang on their way to enslave you. Note how its full of rule and subdue and multiply, and tell me if it does have similar sentiment to "free Palestine from the river to the sea". We might have resisted them more, I'd think, if we had heard them singing it when they first arrived on our shores, because it clearly hints at their intent.
TLDR. That's Jehovah Witness type of interprets.
My point is that one should not care about those things, xtianity dies not rely on the misspellings, placement and sequence of bible verses.
If Jesus didn't resurrect then xtianity falls flat in it's face. Fullstop. Period.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:04pm On May 30, 2025
budaatum:
Do you understand what you wrote at all?

Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

God was not talking to Adam in Chapter 9! Adam died in Chapter 5.
Happy that verse was to Noah. How about Genesis 1:28

Genesis 1:28 ►

God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:39am On May 30, 2025
Which judge will block this family deportation.
The 16 year old was doing mph.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:18am On May 30, 2025
budaatum:
I keep telling you to go sign up as dump's lawyer but it seems you like litigating your case on Nairaland. He needs you!

All tariffs imposed on 2 April, plus the fentanyl tariffs on China, Canada and Mexico are blocked.
Federal Appeals court has temporary reversed the tariff block as the case winds up the ladder to SCOTUS where Trump will eventually win
In the meantime democrats will have stymied any progress towards trade deals with the help of corrupt judges. Trump should never be allowed to do anything beneficial to America Bet you didn't know that.
This should broaden your horizons though we all know that you can take a cow to the river but you can never force it to drink the water.

https://thefederalist.com/2025/05/29/hemingway-presses-white-house-what-are-you-actually-doing-to-stop-ongoing-judicial-coup/

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:55am On May 30, 2025
When will Pam Bondi, Kash Patel and Bongino start arresting all the traitors? KP who investigated as Drvin Nunes chief investigator knuws all the dirty scoundrels and had published a list.

WASHINGTON — The wife of a former Justice Department official gave “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her involvement in drafting and disseminating since-debunked dossiers about Donald Trump’s purported collusion with Russia in 2016, according to a bombshell trove of internal FBI records released Wednesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Nellie Ohr worked for research firm Fusion GPS when it was hired in the lead-up to the 2016 election to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign’s alleged links to Russian organized crime — but later told a House panel she did not know about the DOJ’s parallel investigation into the matter.
vidence assembled by the FBI indicates that Ohr helped compile two dossiers — including the notorious file pushed by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele — that helped launch the bureau’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.


Her husband was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General DOJ.
The 2019 FBI analysis, obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and declassified at the chairman’s request, provides detailed evidence Ohr lied to Congress during sworn testimony and, as a result, obstructed

FBI since 2019 knew she lied but didn't prosecute her.

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-fbi-document-proves-fusion-gps-contractor-nellie-ohr-lied-to-congress-about-contributions-to-crossfire-hurricane
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:46am On May 30, 2025
Obama was the catalyst. He is pure poison.
Thank him for this sorry state of affairs.

Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:05am On May 30, 2025
benalvino3:
Yes, but Blacks are the second-largest race after East Indians. It's a mixed country.
8% are a mixture of European and Asian descent
Always thought it was just majority black. You killed my hopes of a black nation doing extremely well.

Compare Haiti and Dominican Republic. They are on the same island , yet Dominican Republic has 6 times GDP per Capita. Haiti is 96% black and Dominican Republic has this Ethnic Composition:
Mixed: 71.72%
White: 18.70%
Black: 7.45%
East Asian: 0.33%
Other: 1.80%
Haitis flee their country in droves to their neighbour.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:45am On May 30, 2025
budaatum:
Show me where God told Adam to "Go ye forth, be fruitful. Multiply and fill the whole world".

Genesis 9:7
“And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:36am On May 30, 2025
budaatum:
Yes you do need to possess superior knowledge in order to enslave people. Ignorant people don't make ships to travel hundreds of miles with guns they made to go enslave anyone. And if the people you want to enslave have superior or at least equal knowledge, it will show in their ability to resist being enslaved.


If you shoot me and I die 10 years later, it could still be said that you killed me with your gun, but if you say I will die if you shoot me and I live another 10 years after you shot me, most might conclude you are either a lousy shooter or your gun is fake.

Regardless, Adam was very very fruitful after he was supposed to die but instead gained independence, for not only did he bear Seth and Cain and Abel and a few others, his descendants are said to have populated the earth. If that's death, kill me now please.
Typical budaatum. How was he supposed to multiply and fill the earth.He was surrounded by animals and we want to assume they were having sex and multiplying in numbers before his very own eyes, he wasn't stupid to know that they would both multiply in the same way as those animals.. I'm ruling out that Adam and Eve didn't know about sex.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
benalvino3:
Budaatum, basilico, Raumdeuter, ono, Zendi. This video encapsulates why we prefer living in Western countries. In our culture, we lack a concept of maintenance, which is exactly why farms are struggling in South Africa.

You tend to blame the white man for sabotage. We leave our country to study abroad, and more often than not, we hesitate to return because we know that the knowledge we have gained will not be utilized to improve our country due to corruption and other selfish factors.

When I say we are not yet ready to govern ourselves or fully prepared for independence, this is precisely my perspective. You cannot add to or take away from this.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn_ok0gnL-8


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf3mYmRaGOw
Our excuse is that when we go study abroad the white man offers better pay than back home, resulting in brain drain
On the other issue of colonialism, I look at Taiwan and Korea, They were also colonized but are highly developed today. A black dominated country , Trinidad and Tobago performs better than other black nations.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:51am On May 30, 2025
budaatum:
Did you not say its a fairy tale? If that's true, no God revealed anything and we are talking about a story in a book, likely written by ancient men who by nature were anti-feminists. And if that's the case, one must consider the years of programming some have done with the book.

I put it to you that in order to enslave people you must have more knowledge (power) than them for starts, and you must deprive those you enslave of that knowledge least they acquire it and rebel against you.

https://oaklandliteracycoalition.org/literacy-by-any-means-necessary-the-history-of-anti-literacy-laws-in-the-u-s/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Bantu-Education-Act

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/world/almajiri-a-legacy-gone-bad-in-nigerias-north/183887


If Adam had died when he ate the fruit of knowledge I would agree with the above, but in the case of Adam it was more like saying not to have sex without protection or you will turn into stone, since Adam did not die as he was told he would if he ate the fruit of the tree he was told not to eat.

The God in that narrative lied, but I guess you can't admit that least you burn in hell.
Jesus spoke in parables so we can extend the interpretation of various bible stories Bible also has lots of symbolism .
God had told Adam to "Go ye forth, be fruitful. Multiply and fill the whole world".
Where does the tree of knowledge and sex come in , if they was to fill the world.
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:15pm On May 29, 2025
Maeve7:
DOGE was a huge smokescreen and did no sh.t. Musk exploded like his rockets.
An example.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/us-cancels-700-million-moderna-bird-flu-vaccine-contract
Foreign AffairsRe: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:10pm On May 29, 2025
Maeve7:
Now we’re talking instead of grasping at straws about Kamala.

The bill will be adding BIGLY to the deficit. Party of fiscal responsibility.
The bill has not factored in DOGE recommendations . Eventually there will be savings . There are bills to be tabled from next week.
At the same time the Congress is still hamstringing Trump admin , with a slim majority he needs every vote, there are always backstabber RINOs .
They have not asked for my input ,so the bills are still a work in progress smiley

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