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Trump's Second Term

Trump has called for a comprehensive audit of all Ukraine funding and is demanding a thorough investigation.
 
Trump's talk about water from up north should put a chill into every Canadian.

America has been overusing water for decades to the point that many of its aquifers are significantly depleted. The effects are starting to be acutely felt, especially in the southwest but other areas of the country are not far behind and its not hard to see a fresh water crisis coming in the next couple of decades.

Meanwhile, Canada has fresh water to spare. For years Americans have been eyeing our fresh water supply. Several years ago a businessman came up with a scheme to divert vast reserves of fresh water to the southwest, even arguing before the WTO that the Canadian government had no right to stop him from just taking it. The WTO ruled against him but it was a clear warning sign.

Its been said that in the future, wars will be fought over access to fresh water. In Canada, that war might be closer than many realize. If America doesn't get what it wants, it has no qualms about taking by force, economic or otherwise.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Trump has called for a comprehensive audit of all Ukraine funding and is demanding a thorough investigation.
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Pikachu shocked face.....

Trump has no interest on aid to Ukraine unless it benefits him personally. IMO that's true of all government spending.

Social security - doesn't benefit him personally, can it
Military spending - likes shiny things, not interested in spending money on mundane items like logistics
Infrastructure spending - only interested if a Trump business gets a taste
and so on.....
 
Safe-Keeper said:
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The illoyal woke communists haven't gotten around to correcting the name of the Gulf of Murica either.
Gotta read the discussion pages for both the Gulf of Mexico and Denali, though. This'll be good 🍿.

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Apparently the guy the mountain is named after (I assume) has gone woke and is opposing the change. How ungrateful of him. That's not how you handle gifts and kindness from the Führer.

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The Gulf of Mexico page has a paragraph about the renaming, with a note that "Gulf of America redirects here."
There's an entire section of the Denali page dedicated to the "naming controversy".
 
shemp said:
Why do you think it's just fresh produce? Meat, dairy, processed foods, everything will be involved. Tyson Chicken Nuggets don't make themselves. Plus there are illegals who transport products, illegals who sell products, illegals who build houses, illegals who do roofing, siding and windows, the list goes on and on.

This will come home to roost.
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Oh I don't think that at all, it's just fresh produce will be the very FIRST thing it effects, the rest will take a little bit longer, but will be effected as well, and there's no stopping it now.
 
Mike! said:
Oh I don't think that at all, it's just fresh produce will be the very FIRST thing it effects, the rest will take a little bit longer, but will be effected as well, and there's no stopping it now.
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.....and then they'll be able to blame the shortages, and the associated inflation, on illegal immigrants. :xrolleyes
 
JayUtah said:
I've seen reporting that indicates the Trump administration is trying to remove all attention to race in grant funding, including as a study variable. Race disparities are a common feature of health and medical research. If the Trump administration demands that all federally funded research may not consider race as a variable, then any studies produced from such studies would be effectively unpublishable.
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The reason for this is obvious. If there is no real research that points out and proves that such disparities / problems exist then when someone says such problems etc., exist it can be said there is no evidence for such problems etc., and therefore no problem. Thus the problem is solved because there is no evidence the problem exists because you have made sure such evidence does not exist.
 
Pacal said:
The reason for this is obvious. If there is no real research that points out and proves that such disparities / problems exist then when someone says such problems etc., exist it can be said there is no evidence for such problems etc., and therefore no problem. Thus the problem is solved because there is no evidence the problem exists because you have made sure such evidence does not exist.
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That was the approach Trump suggested to COVID testing, wasn't it?
 
mollyploofkins
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Trump put 80 illegal immigrants on a deportation flight to Mexico this week, at a cost of $825,000 to taxpayers, only to have Mexico deny entry.
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LiteBright said:
America has been overusing water for decades to the point that many of its aquifers are significantly depleted.
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Yes.

Just, yes. I live in a state that is mostly desert, but also contains a strangely large lake. The problem is that the lake is drying up. It's only about half the size it was ten years ago, and is projected to dry up entirely in perhaps five years unless water policy here radically changes. Dry lakebeds are not an uncommon feature in the American Southwest, but this one happens to share a valley with 1.2 million people. When lakes dry up, all the heavy metals and other minerals they have accumulated over tens of thousands of years become airborne.

And that's entirely tangential to the main problem that 1.2 million people need something to drink. We've been in an ongoing drought for decades, and other aspects of climate change have prevented developed our seasonal snowpacks in the mountains. (As I sit here now and write this, New Orleans has received half again as much snowfall as we have this season so far.) The problem with the lake is that we're diverting more and more of its supply for use. The more showers we take and the more we water our lush, green lawns, the less ends up in the lake.

And to make matters even worse, a huge amount of our domestic water supply is allocated to growing alfalfa. Fine, growing crops is a reasonable thing to do with lots of land. But alfalfa is a very water-hungry crop. Deciding to grow that crop in a desert makes you stop and think. "But it's a useful crop," they say. "You can feed it to livestock." And that argument would matter if that's what's happening. Almost all our alfalfa is exported, mostly to China. This is a cash crop. The relatively few number of farmers who do this (including our governor) are turning a disproportionate share of our scarce water into money into their pockets and no one else's.

As you can imagine, the solutions proposed for our drying-up state have not emphasized using less water. We have to keep that unwise crop growing, apparently, and watering our dozens upon dozens of golf courses. The most popular solutions involve elaborate plans to pump water from faraway places to replenish the Great Salt Lake. Apparently you can't tell some Americans that they're using too much of something and that no, there won't always just be more.
 
Armitage72 said:
The Gulf of Mexico page has a paragraph about the renaming, with a note that "Gulf of America redirects here."
There's an entire section of the Denali page dedicated to the "naming controversy".
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Which reminds me: has the draft dodger made any drooling noises about re-renaming the relevant military bases back to their former anti-American (Confederate) glory?
 
TellyKNeasuss said:
Scientists are part of the Evil Elite.
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Back during the period leading up to the 2008 election, I would sometimes listen to AM radio raving lunatic Michael Savage for a laugh. At one point he played a clip of someone expressing their wish that members of Congress would have enough scientific education to make informed decisions when creating and passing legislation. Savage responded with a literal Godwin.

"You want scientists to be running the country? That's who you want in charge? Hitler was a scientist. That's who you want running things?"
 
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