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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:02pm On Apr 24, 2025
Kilmar Garcia had been stopped driving an SUV without valid driving licence. He also had eight passengers. The cop who stopped him suspected of human trafficking. They was going for "construction work'. They called the FBI. FBI ordered everyone released ..

Turns out the SUV belonged to Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes, a convicted human smuggler busted for bringing illegals into the U.S. from Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras. 2020, Hernandez Reyes, himself an illegal alien, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 months in prison for smuggling fellow illegal aliens in the United States after he was stopped by law enforcement in Mississipi. (Reyes had bragged that $360 gets an illegal in his SUV transported ).


Gets worse for this illegal safely at home where he belongs.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:25pm On Apr 24, 2025
Maeve7:
Your problem with Buttgiege is that you read what he said but didn’t understand a word.
I understood exactly virtue signalling is.
White gay couple adopts black kid.
When there was a major crisis somewhere I think Palestine as Transport secretary he was on paternity leave.
** smacks my head**
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:18pm On Apr 24, 2025
Maeve7:
So?
You did question voters who went for trump. how about those who went for this buttgiege?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:19pm On Apr 24, 2025
GloriousGbola:
wow wow wow

basil coming out like a straight up maga pauper whom has never seen money before and is faked out of his shoes

let me drop this for you

of all the billionaires in the world to carry a torch for - it was the fakest of the fake



i just know you have his gilded toilet as your wall paper with life's goals as the header

stop deflecting though and lets focus on the reality of your strong man folding like a bitch

i hope you are taking lessons from the billionaire so you can also cut strong deals with your own clients.

i am charging 300m! take it or leave it!

you are leaving? no not like that! cheesy cheesy cheesy cheesy
Read this article.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/trump-trade-war-results-record-12-billion-surge-customs-revenues

Someone had to do the do that he is doing.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:10pm On Apr 24, 2025
Harvard and Oxford graduate got a discount when he adopted a black baby. He and his partner that is. He is gay.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg
NEW: Pete Buttigieg opens up about his black adopted children, says there is a discount depending on whether you adopt black kids or white ones.

"It was called a surprise adoption scenario. I was traveling. We got a phone call."

"Anybody who says race is not a thing in this country should experience an adoption process where there are literally different lists if you say that you want a white kid only versus if you say that doesn't matter."




Maeve7 , this guy won Iowa democrat primaries .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 1:08pm On Apr 24, 2025
Maeve7:
He is not the first to have won despite scandals. In fact, it’s one of the reasons he won and he knows that the most important thing for him was to have enough publicity , good or bad.

But it speaks volumes of his voter’s character, morals and ethics to give him their vote despite his lack of integrity and basic decency .
Basically you are saying he is unfit and his voters and supporters are dimwits. Without saying it.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:56pm On Apr 24, 2025
GloriousGbola:
what money did trump make?

that's why he declared bankruptcy four times
that's why he had to start taking loans from russian banks
thats why he became a reality tv star shouting you're fired.

there are no guardrails, there is no one to put him in check and you are seeing for yourself the REALITY of his deal making prowess.
i am sure it is biden and the dems who are making him flip flop on tariffs like a worn out pair of bathroom slippers.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter allegedly by Winston Churchill.
you swallowed the myth of a hypercompetent businessman - you a nigerian, who see 'billionaires' like this all the time - blowing other peoples money and in debt to the gills.

dont worry - we all have front row seats to watch this in real time.
He is worth at least 4B.
How much did he start with?
Just hatred. You live pathetic lives looking for something to hate.
Hiis washroom is probably worth more money than you can count till your last day.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:18pm On Apr 24, 2025
GloriousGbola:
The difference is that trump has always gotten away with it personally. He has never borne the consequences of his actions. Can you say the same for the average American? Will American citizens also get away with it?

You are a Nigerian. Even if you have not experienced it directly you have seen the fallout of the recklessness and incompetence of ceos.

I watched a ceo start a company, build it up and destroy it all because he was too greedy. The company could not survive. It was sad. Like Trump the guy was also charismatic and could wind investors. But in the end it wasn't enough.

Bad leaders will make it out fine. Can you say the same for everyone else?
You can't make all that money without brains and deal making prowess That's my point. Trump is the rare aggressive type .
How many have ever won the presidency with all that negative media coverage Only him. Thrice.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:41am On Apr 24, 2025
cococandy:
Can you imagine being in this position?

I know some might have life sustaining medications they need to take everyday but can’t get it. A diabetic or cardiac patient detained in this situation without access to their medications will die.

What about not showing up to work for 10 days due to wrongful detention? Can’t notify your employer. Obviously you’re going to lose your job. In this economy?

All of this even after asserting your legal right to be in the USA but having some overzealous ICE agents and an anti immigrant govt overlook all that??

People that are happy with this, may nothing bad or unjust ever happen to you guys. May you not be recipients of undeserved cruelty.🙏🏽
Can you imagine Americans are being held by Hamas as hostages in inhumane conditions & are tortured.
No democrat has flown to Gaza or Israel to demand they get released, More than 565 days later, yet democrats are going to El Salvador to demand their citizen a gang member back to America soil. Yet you are crying about a mistakenly held man for 10 days as though it's the end of the world.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:36am On Apr 24, 2025
GloriousGbola:
All trumps life he has come at every negotiation, every deal with a win lose mentality. It works when you are dealing with people much smaller than you. But it leaves you completely unprepared for people who can tell you to go fk yourself and who have the resources to take you on.

Matters are made worse by trump stumping for nostalgia not reality. Those jobs are never coming back.
Trump doesn't know how to make deals. When he retires, you can pay for his lifestyle.
It's not every deal that works out . Some fail some go through .
How many of yours go through.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:30am On Apr 24, 2025
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/chinese-exporters-begin-to-feel-pain-of-tariffs-as-containers-stack-up-5845686?welcomeuser


Looks like China is beginning to hurt from cancelled orders .
Eventually these goods that won't be shipped to America will have to be sold at discounted rates to the rest of the world.
I am watching lithium batteries prices
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:52am On Apr 24, 2025
Ijebos , this writer lives in America and is bold enough to state the social security is a ponzi scheme that will go bust by 2035.

https://www.justfactsdaily.com/in-fact/n0000454

Despite multiplicative tax increases, SS is due to become insolvent in 2035.
To put SS on the same financial footing as a fully funded pension plan, every person who currently pays SS payroll taxes would have to contribute an additional $272,237.


Your rejoinder?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 9:48am On Apr 24, 2025
cococandy:
When Trump was promising to be the anti war president, remember him saying he’s tired of his tax money being spent on wars.

Fast forward months later, he no longer has a problem with Trump increasing defense spending
Trump has always supported and rightly bragged about building the strongest military.
He announced a 6th Gen fighter, which is another costly understanding.
Possible to cut wastage like having military bases all over but expand the budget. At the end of the day the military is more lethal.
Hegseth has been saying he wants to return the military to war fighters. Under Biden social engineering was factored in , that was a wasteful objective . Soldiers who refused to take the vaccine were dismissed from service . Hegseth wants them back.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:58pm On Apr 23, 2025
Hans Mahncke
@HansMahncke
The fact that Susan Rice, Colin Kahl, Michele Flournoy and other entrenched DC insiders and operatives still sit on the Defense Policy Board—which supposedly exists to advise the Secretary of Defense—is a perfect example of the deeper corruption in Washington.

Obviously, Pete Hegseth isn’t going to take defense policy advice from Susan Rice, so some might shrug it off. And sure, it might not influence Hegseth directly but it absolutely matters when it comes to how the DC establishment keeps the whole racket going. These boards exist mainly to hand out titles and a veneer of credibility that people like Rice can leverage for jobs, board seats, speaking gigs, and appointments, for instance with military contractors. More importantly, they keep these figures in the loop—lingering on the edges of power until the next president gives them another turn on the merry-go-round. (It’s the same with security clearances, which for some inexplicable reason aren’t revoked the moment someone leaves office.)

If you're serious about changing Washington, you have to break up their ecosystem. Don’t just kick them off the boards. Get rid of all these boards entirely. There's no legitimate purpose for a corrupt credential mill handing out fake titles just to keep these people in the game.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 6:52pm On Apr 23, 2025
EU Digital Services Act.

The European Union has fined Apple €500 million and Meta €200 million for breaching digital competition laws, specifically related to Apple's App Store practices and Meta's handling of user data consent. These fines are part of the EU's efforts to enforce the Digital Markets Act and promote fairness in the tech

Regulate if you cannot innovate.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 5:20pm On Apr 23, 2025
Crazy Eddie scam.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws9PGROHZzg&pp=ygURY3JhenkgRWRkaWUgc2NhbSA%3D

After jail and since 2009, Sam Antar has been a forensic accountant, working with federal and local law enforcement agencies, teaching them what to look for in paperwork - and where to look for paperwork - as well as digging on his own time into waste, fraud, and abuse, always on the hunt for white collar crime.

He is the one who discovered Letitia James preaches water and drinks wine. His investigation led to her criminal referral to DOJ.

Letitia James tenants are coming forward about their landlord Her coworkers are also rumoured to be ready to talk

Lot more on his website here.

https://whitecollarfraud.com/
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 4:00pm On Apr 23, 2025
IjeBos:
Keep doing your intellectual dishonesty dance.
The question wasn't if Musk would ever leave, the question was if it would be in "coming weeks" which would be now.
And the White House denied the scoop.
“Starting probably in [the] next month, May, my time allocation to DOGE will drop significantly,” Musk said.

“I’ll have to continue doing it for, I think, the remainder of the president’s term just to make sure that the waste and fraud doesn’t come roaring back, which we’ll do, if it has the chance.”

“I believe the right thing here is to just fight the waste and fraud and get the country back on the right track and working together with President Trump and his administration, because if the ship of America goes down, we all go down with it, including Tesla and everyone else,” Musk told investors.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:39pm On Apr 23, 2025
IjeBos:
Keep doing your intellectual dishonesty dance.
The question wasn't if Musk would ever leave, the question was if it would be in "coming weeks" which would be now.
And the White House denied the scoop.
He is not leaving His shareholders want him to spend more time on Tesla especially rolling out 10 million robotaxis this year. From May he will be spending 2 or so days a week on DOGE matters.
If the stock had shot up and sales gone through the roof , I doubt he would be leaving
Anyway if I were him , I'd win a contract to supply every Federal and govt office with a cybertruck or some fancy models to drive Carbon emissions down.
The military would replace every armoured vehicle with a custom cybertruck.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:31pm On Apr 23, 2025
benalvino3:
Research that gave us bobriski 🤣
And also
Ted Kaczynski (Undergraduate, Class of 1962)

Known as the Unabomber, Kaczynski conducted a 17-year bombing campaign targeting technological advancements, killing three and injuring 23.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:22pm On Apr 23, 2025
IjeBos:
Harvard tuition is ~100k dollars a year.
The Federal government's funding mostly goes to research, research that keeps the US on the cutting edge.

These are some of the research that has been interrupted. And once interrupted these scientists may lose a lot of their research and in some cases have to start over.
- Research interrupted: A $60 million seven-year, multi-institutional consortium to study how the immune system controls tuberculosis.
- Research interrupted: Two contracts worth under $20 million: one to test and develop drugs to treat long-term radiation exposure, including chemotherapy, and the other to study the effects of microgravity and radiation in space on human cells to help astronauts travel to Mars.
- Research facing uncertainty: A $3.5 million neuroscience research project that studies how the neurons in the gut change with aging and conditions such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases.

And these researches aren't super well paid. Mostly scientists who love what they do.

You keep writing about things you have 0 idea about and keep flooding this space with nonsensical conspiracy theories.
And even though you aren't in the US, this research probably helps developing countries more as they get the benefits of the research without the investment.
Important research no doubt . They might lose that because they don't want to kick antisemitism in their curriculum. Or do away with DEI.
Would you swim in a pool if you knew a teaspoon of cyanide had been dropped.
We are doing God's work and very important cutting edge , we have some shit you don't like , but give us your money. That's their attitude. You was also saying many judges went to Harvard , they are likely to win any lawsuit.
I don't think that's why they are adamant. Between 2001 and 2021, Qatar donated approximately $4.7 billion to U.S. universities, with Harvard being among them. Harvard averaged $31 million grants from.middle east countries last 4 years. Those ME countries are antisemitic, anti Israel constitutionally, culturally, historically and religiously.

That's my opinion. They send students there paid for by their govts.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:07pm On Apr 23, 2025
Democrat whistleblower claims that DOGE user copied National Labor Relations Board data and siphoned 10GB to Russia after they was given access.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/whistleblower-doge-siphoned-nlrb-case-data/


The truth
🇺🇸 DOGE CLEARED IN NLRB WHISTLEBLOWER FIASCO — NOW THE ACCUSER’S IN THE HOT SEAT

Daniel J. Berulis claimed Elon’s DOGE team hacked into the NLRB — that’s the National Labor Relations Board — and funneled sensitive data to Russia.

One problem: they never had a login. Not even a password reset email.

Turns out Berulis filed a national security complaint based on a gut feeling, not evidence.

Now folks are asking the DOJ to investigate him — because making up a spy story isn’t a harmless mix-up.


Democrats are nothing but liars.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 11:09am On Apr 23, 2025

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:58am On Apr 23, 2025
Look at this other asshol. They ruin the black people's reputation.

Come Get High,’ He Yelled to a Random Woman from His SUV. When She Said No, He Shot Her Dead.


Nikki Loffredo, 42, died two days after being shot by James Bernard Johnson, 43, in Des Moines,


He faces life in orison.

https://people.com/man-yelled-come-get-high-suv-shot-dead-guilty-11713766

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico:
cococandy:
meanwhile Biden had an actual $35 cap on insulin for seniors on Medicare.
Something Trump himself called a radical approach and immediately sought to dismantle as soon as he could. Anything that helps people is immediately classified as radical by the right wingers.

Now we’re supposed to celebrate his concept of a plan to cut medication costs. Not even action. Just plans.

All talks and no action. Like his no tax on tips promises.
You are not telling the truth
Trump implemented the $35 caps on insulin for senior citizens affecting 800K .
Biden enshrined it in law for upto 3 million users. Biden ran away with the idea as though it was his.

When caring for your patients, I can only hope you don't bring in your Trump issues .

Ditto child tax credit Trump started with $ 2000 which I suspect you may have received. Kamala was proposing to make it to $6K as though it was her brainchild.

You sleep soundly after openly lying for real?
Personally I never lie on most matters, I'm glad to tell my children to be honest. There is a difference between not telling it all and lying like you just did. My kids don't even know about nairaland. And it won't help them if I tell them, they have TikTok and ojo etc
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 8:00pm On Apr 22, 2025
[quote author=cococandy post=135085973][/quote]Trump plans to cut medicine prices.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-looking-cutting-us-drug-prices-international-levels-sources-say-2025-04-22/

Sources will of course frame it that lower pharmaceutical prices will reduce the profits of big pharma , leading to lower IRS tax revenues which means programmes to fund the downtridden will face cutbacks.
Or something like that.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 7:48pm On Apr 22, 2025
The Biden crime family is above the law.

Ashley Biden's charity has a $500,000 discrepancy in its books, a watchdog alleged in a complaint filed with the IRS on Monday.

During the height of her father’s presidency in 2023, Ashley Biden launched a walk-in trauma recovery center in Philadelphia equipped with infrared saunas to help women overcome mental health challenges. Known as the Women’s Wellness Spa(ce), the former first daughter’s charity supposedly got off the ground with at least $500,000 in seed funding in 2023. Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Archewell Foundation and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation each reported in their tax forms granting $250,000 to Ashley Biden’s charitable venture in 2023, figures that should have been reflected in the Women’s Wellness Spa(ce)’s Form 990 tax filing.

But the Women’s Wellness Spa(ce) told a much different story to the IRS, reporting in its 2023 tax filing that it received just $170,296 from all sources that year, and that it didn’t receive any contributions from a single source greater than $5,000, seemingly contradicting the financial reporting of its two largest benefactors. Ashley Biden signed the document as the charity’s president under penalty of perjury.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 3:26pm On Apr 22, 2025
IjeBos:
You've made my point.
These were old friends of Hegseth who he put in those positions.
Next Trump will be calling Hegseth deep state.
What you don't see , this will be a gishinh expedition. All bid comms will be subpoenad , then they will leak anything negative.
With democrats nothing us off limits. Someone can send him CP , then they claim he has CP.
I don't think you know what lawless democrats are capable of.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 12:03pm On Apr 22, 2025
Ibime

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/exposing-beijings-gray-trade-tariff-avoidance-scheme

Gray trade area. Country A faces10% tariffs China faces 145%. China sends fully manufactured parts to country A and assembles the final product "Made in country A". Gets tariffed at 10% by America..

How long you think China can carry on with this before the hammer falls.
I think America holds all the aces against China .
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by basilico: 10:35am On Apr 22, 2025
Double standards.

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