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Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 1:20pm On May 16
benalvino3:
You hate billionaires is an attack 😂

Well, just so you know, you hate billionaires.
It's not an attack, it's a fact.
Lame and dull. I don’t remember having any interaction with you that didn’t end up like this. Dry & uninteresting.

This is why I usually either have you blocked or ignored.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 1:16pm On May 16
How does it feel that everything you’ve tried to use to insult me are things conjured up by your imagination?

Meanwhile I don’t even have to do any digging to find your verified character flaws that you openly brag about?

bemeruca:
Yes I did 😂

I was a teenager once. The difference between the teenager I messed with and you is that the teenager I messed with did not have multiple abortions as a teenager. You are the queen of abortions from a teenage age 😂
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 1:09pm On May 16
bemeruca:
You call this an attack? You are short so I understand your temperament.

You hate billionaires is not an attack, it's a fact.
And my attack on you was saying you messed with a teenager? Something you bragged about here with your own words? I didn’t lie against you. You said it yourself.

Oh the attack was me saying I found it disgusting? Well I do find it disgusting. That’s not an attack. It’s a fact.

You’re the one crying . Cry more. While I go wash myself of this interaction. I find grown ups who mess with or lust after teens disgusting. Facts

Shoulda kept my name out your mouth. Now you’re sobbing. Remember next time to steer clear.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 1:05pm On May 16
bemeruca:
Its a simple thing. You have a house you sleep in some people don't, why not give it up?

You guys will preach but you don't believe what you preach.
Omg. You’re so so dull.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 12:57pm On May 16
Lame.
bemeruca:
Whatever you want to call them, care worker is a universal term.

Become a billionaire and share your money. If you can't, why?

I am not a billionaire, I make my own cash, my charity begins from home. I still want to keep enough for myself knowing I am not a robot.

Try and make your own money as others are doing. Don't try to take their money.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 12:57pm On May 16
Remember I told you don’t have to respond just to have something to say? Because you trying (and failing) to make a distinction between Jan 6 criminals and other criminals makes no sense.

The reason the Jan 6 criminals are re-offending now is because Trump got them out of jail and pardoned them. If they stayed locked up, the people they assaulted after their release would’ve been safe. I don’t know how it makes sense for you to try and differentiate them from their fellow criminals.

basilico:
Those are people already convicted and jailed who received pardon.

The ones I'd be concerned about are where a prosecutors refuses to charge someone,judge frees him then he goes on to commit a crime .Child predators especially like the example I gave

Am ugly example , that Ukraine girl who was stabbed in a train for no reason by a psychopath who should have been in a mental institution. Multiple violent felonies but judges still let him free .
Democrats successfully petitioned for her mural to be removed last week by the way.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 12:51pm On May 16
bemeruca:
They belittling humans who think they can belittle others then cry when they are fed their own medicine.

Maybe if you are in a glass house you don't throw stones.

This brief person is going to start the attacks, then when she gets it in bulk as well she cries.

It's funny it's deepsight talking about disgusting for saying someone is doing care work and her significant other enjoys pron movies.

So here is the deal, advice the short thing to shut tha mouth if she cannot take what she is putting out there.

And y'all for once should no be a hypocrite.

The bold, what are you saying 😳😳
It's makes no sense to you and many people.
What manner of a silly lie is this? This was you today. This was your post that got me responding to you.

You were speaking to bayelsa man and started mentioning me when I literally didn’t care if you’re existing today or not.

And you’re bold facedly saying I started attacking you? This lying of a thing has become second nature to you Trump people. You don’t even know when you’re doing it. Did you forget because you were using your other account 🤣

benalvino3:
It's why people like cococandy hates billionaires, they are powerful so for no reason they should be hated even if they are the reason a lot of people have a life.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 12:42pm On May 16
bemeruca:
Leave billionaires alone. They did not steal their money, if they do go and arrest them.

They made their money, go and do your care work and become a billionaire, then share your money evenly.
A quarter of the weekly paycheck of a “care worker” (we call them CNAs and PCTs in America) can help you fix this algae-ridden dilapidating fence of yours. Mind how you talk down on them.

The billionaires do not claim you. Not today or tomorrow.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 12:37pm On May 16
Saudi Arabia is building a Trump resort and Qatar gifted him a nice new jet.

I guess America didn’t have a jet for him.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 10:40am On May 16
Happy to translate: “Effective immediately, start posting memes that flatter America’s leader, the more flattering, gaudy and golden the better , if you’d like your visa application to be approved.”

They don't mean "identity" as in 'who you are' but as in 'what you stand for'. They've rejected folks who interact with non-flattering portrayals of the administration. Because that makes you an "enemy of the state". In much the same way the DOJ is collecting the identity of anyone they can who protests ICE and adding them to their "domestic terrorist" list.

Because apparently a passport isn’t enough to verify identity anymore. You have to suck up to Trump to be a valid person. So much for freedom of speech 🤡

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 8:43am On May 16
He thinks he’s part of the boys club grin. Maybe one day daddy Elon will remember him and throw a welcome party for him into the billionaires club.

But what’s more likely to happen is that a billionaire would feed him to his pet exotic animals & no one will do anything about it. Any cop who assists in covering it up will receive a promotion the next cycle & life moves on. No investigation. No closure. Just disappeared. End of.

You can tell who lives in a fantasy world by how they are removed from reality.
bayelsaowei:
And to know that these pathetic individuals aren’t billionaires themselves keeps me amazed all day.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 7:47am On May 16
DeepSightZ:
This is deeply disgusting. Pathetic. Gravely unmanly. Undignified. Shallow. Stupid. Thoughtless.

If you had any shame, you ought to be ashamed of yourself.

If you know what care work involves, especially for a loved one, you would worship care workers.
I’m as much of a care worker as IjeBos is a gay man.
Neither is bad. And neither is what any of us are.
But it shows something about their psyche when you ponder upon what they think is an insult. And I think in a way, it explains why they’re the way they are.

They have no respect for people they consider lower in society. No respect for people’s autonomy to live and love as they wish. People who btw they’re no better than in anyway shape or form. Bemeruca would realistically kill to be a “care worker” in places that I’ve worked at.

But if you’re an assaulter or person who exploits others, then you automatically earn their respect. Very sinister minded people.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 7:41am On May 16
basilico:
https://www.fox5dc.com/news/charges-dropped-man-suspected-4-year-olds-attempted-abduction

Cococandy. Democratove freeing criminals and predators back into the society.
Like this?

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 7:06am On May 16
DeepSightZ:
You guys never cease to amaze me. Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. The amount of Jan 6 convicts who have grievously re offended including sexually, after Trump pardoned them, is enough to make you silent about something like this.
They have no ounce of self awareness
Foreign Affairs › Re: Trump Warns Taiwan Against Declaring Independence, Hours After Summit With China by cococandy(f): 7:05am On May 16
So he’s now a mouth piece for China? 🤣🤣🤣
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f):
benalvino3:
Don't you have someone to care for? Go do your care job while your husby is probably at home consuming barely legal stuff on pron hub.

Make your money and allow billionaires to have their peace.

😌
You keep trying to insult me with stuff that makes no sense. I’m a care worker. I’m short. So what if both are true? Neither of them is a character flaw. Is that something I need to explain to you?

Care workers (which isn’t what they’re called in the USA btw. You keep exposing yourself and your fake American residence. Those are the little things that expose your ignorance and lies -but I digress) are the bane of the healthcare industry. We can’t do our jobs without them. Mad respect to them.

So what if that’s my job? You’ve tried to use that severally as a dig at me. How’s that an insult? It’s lack of refinement that makes one try to use honest labor as a dig at those doing it.

Also, I’m a happily short woman. 5’3 on a day I stretch really well. Maybe 5’5 with a ponytail and sandals. Pls tell me what’s insulting about this. Such a weak come back 😄

However you on the other hand have deeper issues you need to figure out and stop projecting on others. Like why you’re on here bragging about messing with teens and assuming others are like you. And why are you bragging about trying to scam people with phishing links. Plus all your other easily detected lies. Please stay far away from honest and polite society.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f):
I would love to keep ignoring you because directly interacting with people who impregnate or lust after teenagers makes my skin crawl. Truly truly

But you can’t stop lying with your every breath.
All that imaginary hate for billionaires is in your head. The same way your other imaginary stories on this thread are.

I would love my tax dollars to pay for things the ordinary citizen like me benefits from instead of funding billionaires. It’s as simple as that. That’s what govt for the people is. Not govt for the oligarchs. But it’s not your tax dollars, so feel free to chime in on stuff that’s none of your business as usual, pathetic wannabe.


benalvino3:
Naaa. When Biden was there, they still hate America including Biden. That's why no one respects the US and they take the US for granted.

Why do you think the EU was dragging its feet with Ukraine when Biden was around?

The US is seen as a colonial power which is why the left with virtue signalling hates themselves. Sadly you have joined the fray.

It's why people like cococandy hates billionaires, they are powerful so for no reason they should be hated even if they are the reason a lot of people have a life.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 5:28am On May 16
Things that could’ve never been heard if in other administrations

Shame on the people who support this
IjeBos:
Corruption and graft everywhere.
Trump is running this country like Nigeria.

How are people you are supposed to be regulating donating money so you can take 7 months off for a reality TV show.
No wonder planes are falling out of the sky.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 5:25am On May 16
Don’t even bother reading this if your comprehension is at a 6th grade level. That way you won’t insult us with an ill-thought out response.

But my goodness what a great read!

Jeniifer Fowler:
May 15, 2026 (Friday)

Yesterday in Beijing, the President of China told the President of the United States to his face that America is the falling power.

He used a phrase out of Thucydides (the Athenian general who lived through Athens losing to Sparta and spent his exile writing down why). President Xi Jinping invoked the Thucydides Trap on camera. He was telling Donald Trump that the United States is the ruling power on the way down.

From the suite they put him in after the welcome ceremony, Trump posted on Truth Social. The post said the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world. It said Xi must have meant Sleepy Joe Biden. It said Xi congratulated him.

A man somewhere in America is reading the post on his phone.

He reads it twice.

He scrolls to the replies. Someone has typed that declining is the present participle of decline. Someone else has typed that being is a present participle. A third has typed wouldn’t it be declined, past tense then? Three civilians in a comment section, unprompted, doing English grammar in public to a sitting president.

Further down, someone has written: Confucius says, when enemies congratulate you, it’s not a compliment.

Further down still, someone has written: We’re fortunate this will be archived as part of our nation’s history. Future generations need to learn from this.

The man sets the phone face down on the counter.

The post was meant to save face. The room knew. The cameras knew. The Chinese press knew.

The Chinese press has a nickname for him. Chuan Jianguo. Trump the Nation-Builder. The nation he is building, they say, is theirs.

Three hundred Chinese schoolchildren waved paper flowers. Trump told the officials the children were beautiful. Musk sat alone at the banquet table while Chinese executives took turns dropping into the empty seat beside him for photos, his face cycling through grimace and indifference and ham. The clips have been watched eleven million times.

Back home, artificial intelligence was replacing eight hundred and sixty-four American tech workers a day, work those same companies had flown across the Pacific to expand.

Behind the president stood the American oligarchy while Xi said it. A dozen chief executives. Combined personal wealth over a trillion dollars. Apple. Tesla. Nvidia. BlackRock. Blackstone. Boeing. Goldman Sachs. Citigroup. Never before had so much American capital landed on Chinese soil at once. They had flown to Beijing to make deals inside the decline Xi had just named.

Athens in the fifth century before Christ. Whitewashed houses stepped down to the harbor. Olive groves on every hillside above the city. Goats on the slopes. Smoke from the cookfires drifting up to the Parthenon. The most dazzling democracy in the Mediterranean. A naval empire. The city other cities measured themselves against. It went to war with Sparta and lost.

The real cause of the war, Thucydides wrote, was the one nobody wanted to name. The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable. A rising power. A ruling power. The collision.

He also wrote how Athens lost its soul before it lost the war.

In Book Five, Thucydides records Melos. An island in the Aegean refused to submit to Athenian rule. Envoys arrived with ships. The Melians appealed to fairness, to the gods, to the idea that small powers deserved to live. Back came a sentence that has survived twenty-four hundred years because it was useful. Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. They killed the Melian men, sold the women and children into slavery, and sailed home.

Within a generation, the Spartans took the city, their fleet built with Persian gold. The walls came down, the navy was reduced to twelve ships, tribute stopped, democracy ended. A council of thirty wealthy men ruled in its place. Athens kept existing as a place. It stopped existing as the power it had been.

Athenian politicians spoke on the way down. They named the markets and named the navy and named the tribute, listed the victories, told the audience, in the very moment that audience could have walked outside and seen the empty granaries and the warships rotting at anchor, that the city was at its height. They were eloquent. They were wrong.

In 1987, a book called The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers appeared, a title that now sounds like the sort of premise you find in a thrift-store paperback, and which contained, forty years ago, the entire argument we are watching arrive on a tarmac. It compared the United States directly to Imperial Spain around 1600 and the British Empire around 1900. It named the disease that killed them. Imperial overstretch. The sum total of an empire’s global commitments becomes far larger than its power to defend them. The book named the rising power that would benefit. China.

We did not read the book.

Look at what the country is funding.

The Golden Dome, a missile shield Trump promised would cost $175 billion, is now estimated at $1.2 trillion. Bloomberg says it would still likely fail against a peer adversary. A trillion dollars for a fantasy of safety.

Four hundred new data centers are going up to run the artificial intelligence replacing American workers. They drink water as they run. In Texas, past the cooling stacks outside Abilene, past the Microsoft build in San Antonio, past the new Meta site in Temple, past the OpenAI installation that was pasture land in 2023, those facilities used forty-nine billion gallons last year.

Texas just told its own residents they need $174 billion to avoid a water crisis. The same state is building 400 data centers.

Look at what the country will not fund.

Healthcare. Childcare. Paid leave. The price of insulin. A federal minimum wage frozen since 2009. The cashier watching you put the gum back. The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index at an all-time low, structural breakdown, the survey itself calls it, in how Americans now see the economy.

Pundits call it a mood. A 2014 study examined seventeen hundred and seventy-nine federal policy outcomes over twenty years and found that the preferences of average American voters had a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact on what their government did. To conclude that the preferences of economic elites had a substantial impact is, needless to say, an understatement.

The men on the plane cut roughly a thousand American jobs a day in 2026 and called it efficiency. Balance sheets, stock prices, personal wealth, all at records. Near zero is what the rest of the country is worth to them as a constituency.

The Iran campaign cost a billion dollars a day. The war on terror cost roughly eight trillion over twenty-five years. The Belt and Road Initiative, China’s twenty-five-year project, the slow patient unglamorous work of building ports and rail and fiber across Asia and Africa and Latin America, has cost about one trillion. Their map filled with infrastructure. Ours filled with rubble and arms contracts.

Trump confessed it on Fox. That’s why they came. China’s going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars with those people that were in that room today.

Boeing’s stock fell four percent on the news that China would graciously buy 200 of its planes. Three hundred fewer than industry sources had expected. Exactly enough to let the president report a victory. The country has gotten smaller every time he has made the trip.

Xi spent the summit speaking the language of patience, touring Trump through the gardens at Zhongnanhai; promising to send him seeds for the roses; invoking Thucydides on camera; telling the American president that a new bilateral relationship of constructive strategic stability had been established.

He did not need to threaten anything.Trump praised the choreography.

The gas hit $4.53 this week. You are doing the calculations at the pump. The numbers are the numbers of an empire that funds aircraft carriers and refuses to fund the safety net. We have to take care of one thing: military protection, the president has said. The structure has chosen. It chose long ago.

The Michigan number is the country reporting back the symptoms. The premium notice in your inbox is the country reporting back the symptoms. The eight hundred and sixty-four tech workers a day are the country reporting back the symptoms. The reservoirs at nine percent are the country reporting back the symptoms.

Decline as we are living it is visible everywhere, in the friend who moved abroad and seems happier, the slow shrinkage of what people expect from the country they were born in, the quiet calculation about which institution will fail next and whether one has the energy to care, the screen flickering with news that arrives and is absorbed and changes nothing. The country is showing signs of premature aging, no matter how sprightly they say the markets are.

Xi said it on camera. Thucydides wrote it in 411 BC. The book on the thrift-store shelf wrote it in 1987.

Sparta did not take Athens alone. Persia paid for the fleet. The countries that used to need us are flying to Beijing now. The Athenians did not believe they would fall either. Until the ships arrived.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 6:44pm On May 15
Imagine people who have CLEARLY never done one literature review in their entire lives trying to debunk a whole systematic review of studies. I can’t wrap my head around the absurdity. The absolute gall of it all.


IjeBos:
This thread is beyond ridiculous.
It like a book club where people who read the book are arguing details of the book with people who didn't even open it but think they know what it's about based on the cover.
And these people (Bemeruca and Benalvino) will post 1 million times repeating the same debunked things instead of spending time reading the book.
And then once in a while one of them(Bemeruca) will talk about another book (the UK), to make you think he reads.
And they must stay in the book club, even though they don't read, because they want people to think they are people who read.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 6:36pm On May 15
DeepSight:
BRILLIANTLY ARTICULATED, I VIGOROUSLY CONCUR.
Me too
Romance › Re: Chike: My Friend About To Call Off His Wedding Because Of Fiancée's Comment by cococandy(f): 2:08pm On May 15
You and your friend should marry each other
FreeNaijaII:
So my friend proposed to his longtime girlfriend of 3 years this month.

They are already planning to go and see her parents later next month and to also get a date for the wedding sometime in December this year.

They don't always have issues, and anytime they do, they will resolve it within a day or so.

So, my friend saw his fiancée's comment on Instagram validating Frank Edoho's ex-wife opening her legs to Chike (another man) while married to Mr. Edoho.

In her argument, she said that she was right to open her legs to another man because Frank confessed that he keeps malice as a form of punishment.

For the sake of anonymity, I can't share the screenshot here.

He (my guy) has already made up his mind to quit the relationship because he sees her comment as a red flag that should not be ignored.

I tried to talk him out of it, but it seems his mind is made up.

What can I do to help?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 2:05pm On May 15
basilico:
Im very clear I don't support child marriage.
could’ve fooled me 🙄




My feeling was that you should not jump to call all republicans paedophiles for not supporting marriages of 18.
if it quacks like a duck

My immediate thoughts on democrats banning that is to immortalize abortions.
you need to reexamine your thought processes. Maybe seek a professional to help you understand why you follow convoluted thought patterns to get to weird conclusions.

I've always said people who are religious are less likely to commit crimes as opposed to those who are not. There are hypocrites of course I refute the statistics put out that there are more republican than democrats who are paedophiles, something you believe.
You refuse the statistics because you don’t believe in facts that don’t align with your prejudices. That’s called being a negatively emotional nuht.

Emotions are not bad since humans are emotional creatures. But when they stop you from considering real facts, then you’re operating emotionally negatively. And that what a lot of you do here. Just intentionally ignoring reality.

Don’t worry, despite all the available data that points out conservatives are more predisposed to abuse kids, we will ignore those and write you a new set of alternative facts to suit your feelings. How does that sound?
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 11:51am On May 15
DeepSight:
Incredible.

Reminds me of the Nigerian Senate when many northern senators cried blue murder and voted against the Child Rights Act saying it was un-Islamic for barring marriage to underage girls.
That’s exactly what the American right wing is.
Nigeria’s version of the worst parts northern leadership and culture. So many parallels it’s hard to ignore.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 11:47am On May 15
Just lying as easily as they breathe

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 11:41am On May 15
DeepSight:
No, tell me this is fiction. Please I beg you.
Not fiction. And the funny thing is the bill was sponsored by a senate and a house republican. Meaning that the rest of them couldn’t have use the excuse that democrats were hiding something in the bill to avoid voting yes on it. That used to be their favorite excuse whenever a democrat sponsored legislation was introduced.

This time two decent republicans sponsored this bill and 36 of them voted no. Maybe those two republicans are RINOs because they don’t want to see kids get married.

Cc basilico. Every single persons who voted against ending chile marriage was a republican. You can go find more long balderdash to try to justify the nonsense. But we see you guys. If it quacks like a duck

Kudos to the two decent guys who sponsored the bill and those who voted yes.

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 11:35am On May 15
There’s something seriously wrong with the mindset that somehow tries to justify childhood marriage. The solution to kids having sex is not marriage .

“Oh look a child is engaging in sexual activity before they are mature enough to understand the consequences. Let’s make things worse by forcing them into marriage which further seals their premature sexual behavior and further complicate their lives with all the strains that come with marriage”.

You simply don’t have to respond to everything on this thread. It’s okay to be like “wow that is terrible” and move on. You don’t have to twist yourself into unreasonable shapes in order to find something ridiculous to say.

basilico:
I may be wrong .
Democrats want to ban marriages in total before 18.
We know a lot of teens get children before 18. What happens in such cases. Democrats provide them with abortion options , govt funded abortions.
I may mention religious cultures that betroth their children when young.
Strictly what would encourage paedophilia. Abortions or bans in under 18 marriages.
There are those who insist on their 17 year olds who are already sexually active to get married instead of aborting. Many democrats and republican children are sexually active by 18 , especially those with absentee parents.

Personally I would never let my children get married before at least 20 years. I have said it , reluctantly I would raise any child they bring home, Let's face it , .It's a problem no parent wants to face at all .
I think it's a stretch calling those who voted no paedophiles.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 5:48am On May 15
We need to check the hard drives of the 36 republican law makers who voted no.

BREAKING: HUGE VICTORY! Oklahoma Democrats TRIUMPH over Republicans to pass a ban on child marriage, making it only the 17th state in the country to do so.

The party of Epstein didn't win this time...

“Marriage is a legally binding contract, some of these young people can’t even get a tattoo, can’t enter into a legal contract, but yet they can get married, it is a lifelong decision,” said State Rep. Nicole Miller.

Senate Bill 504 makes it illegal for anyone under the age of 18 to get married. Astonishingly — or perhaps not given who the Republican Party's leader is — Governor Kevin Stitt refused to sign the law. But since he also refused to veto it, it takes effect on November 1st.

His cowardice is telling. He didn't want to veto a ban on child marriage because of the negative press he'd receive, but he also didn't want to sign it and risk enraging his own party.

Before this measure passed, minors were allowed to get married with parental consent and children under 16 were allowed to get married if a court granted them permission. The status quo was a paradise for pedophiles and sexual predators.

“We are seeing cases of grooming, human trafficking, young people being forced into marriage, even married at 14, by 16 the marriage was dissolving, assault cases, couldn’t even turn on electricity in their own name,” said Miller.

While it passed the state Senate unanimously, House Republicans vociferously opposed it. It passed by just one vote. Ultimately, 36 Republicans voted against it.

You don't have to squint too hard to untangle what's going on here. If Republicans had total control of every level of government, there would be no lower age limit for marriage. Thankfully, Democrats are here to stop them!
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 5:45am On May 15
I’ve always known who they are and that’s why I never bought into their lies about “protecting the kids”. When all they wanted was an excuse to harass the rainbow community. Facts after facts keep showing they’re the ones in favor of harming kids

Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 5:09am On May 15
The call is coming from inside the swap.

The same swamp they claimed to want to drain.
Everyone said Trump was manipulating the stock market for personal gain. Turns out you were right.

New financial disclosure forms released today by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show Trump made at least $220 million (and potentially up to $750 million) in financial transactions during the first three months of 2026, while he was actively setting tariff and economic policy that moved markets.

The purchases included securities in Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Broadcom, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Nvidia, Apple, and S&P 500 index funds. He was also selling Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta among the large sales. Trump was buying and selling hundreds of millions in stocks in the same companies affected by his own executive decisions.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Trump Is The 47th President! by cococandy(f): 5:09am On May 15
basilico:
Depends on when one saw the light and I don't mean getting filled with the spirit.
Everyone has a past .
Yet you find it hard to believe the people you judge might also have a past

Typical maga lack of empathy

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