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Trump orders a 100% tariff on foreign movies | CNN Business

Sony/Colombia and many other studios physically located in the US affected. US actors, US studios. Add to that how special effects are collaborative and globalized, Peter Jackson's Weta in NZ, and especially VFX which US movies still lead the world in, all nailed to the crucifix of "Make Hollywood Great Again"

"Make Hollywood Great Again"

What's he wishing for?

That cinematic masterpiece we haven't seen since 1935...

I guarantee you he's lining up Leni Riefenstahl right now for 2025: Triumph of the Will, military parade on his birthday, June 14th.

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Cutting 83k people from the VA is unlikely to be helpful; it's unclear if a promised funding increase will happen, and whose pocket the graft will end up in. Know any Black and Hispanic vets? Is the new VA "whites only"?

We do know Trump's popping off a military parade for his birthday, June 14, claiming it "is a great value for the money" ...

...stealing the valor from 250 years of the US Army??? Happy Birthday 🎉 🎂 Trump!!! Who's a special boy? You are! You are!!!🎉🎈🎈🎈🎂

But fwiw it's clear now he hates Veterans.

Trump just renamed our November 11 Veterans Day, known as Remembrance Day in the UK, as "Victory Day for World War I"

Veterans Day is on the anniversary of the 1918 Armistice, but is a day to honor all U.S. military veterans, regardless of their service period or conflict, regardless of their race or ethnicity or gender.

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Big if true.

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Well... until he truly has consolidated power he isn't a fascist dictator, just a fascist wannabe dictator imo ... "Trump 2028" will be a milestone in this nonstop Trainwreck of a constitutional crisis.

Pete Navarro is still running the playbook there, he was the "Greenbay Sweep" guy with the fraudulent electors and the Jan 6 violent insurrection. Earlier this week he said, "I really like where we're at now" ... and I truly believe him when he says that.

Pete's agenda is Russia's restoration of RuskyMir, claiming they have the right to do so through war against their neighbors because of injun-giving take-backsies: "Soviet Union (back before Russia when it broke up) contained all of Ukraine including Crimea. [Ukraine] itself is not really a country." In that vein, he sees Trump becoming the kind of supreme oligarch that Putin is, taking whatever (Panama, Greenland, Canada) and bullying whomever (everyone).

But to begin shilling merch immediately after taking office? ... Tacky. (So that's probably 100% Donald J. Tacky)

End-run around the US Constitution? Navarro's playbook.

What the fuck is this???

This is found on the Trump Organization website

Maybe someone should tell him that it is against the constitution to run for a 3rd term as president.

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The Death of Intelligence: Why Modern Society Celebrates Stupidity

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The more I look at this, the more unconstitutional it looks.

I know a lot of people are worried about martial law right now.

And honestly, that is a valid thing to worry about under this administration. But doomscrolling and "what if"ing yourself to death is only going to make you more scared and less prepared.

Take a breath. If you celebrate Easter, happy Easter. Go eat something, go drink water, my go to is coloring books, but you might have a different self-soothing activity.

If martial law is declared, we will work through it. We are people who come from a range of different ages, each one of us have already gone through our own experiences of shit, and we're still here regardless. We will continue to be here.

I'll reblog any resources I find, I don't want to give you guys websites since the ones I looked at all seem riddled with ads. Take care of yourselves, it's going to be alright.

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Sure, according to you, here in the Cantons of Switzerland we're white/European (not on the Euro, not in the EU) but our strength and resilience you admire comes from maintaining our centuries-old Swiss traditions. Specifically of being vehemently (yet neutral and diplomatically) racist against Eastern Slavs. All the Tschuschys are mostly okay. Ukrainians are sort-of okay. Russians.

I have a tip for you:

Stay away from those Russians.

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Karoline Leavitt Warns That Migrants Are Smuggling Math Into US

— May 1, 2025 | The Borowitz Report | The New Yorker

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Washington (The Borowitz Report)—Delivering an incendiary accusation, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt warned on Thursday that “An Invasion Force of Migrants” is Smuggling Math Across the US-Mexico Border.

“They are Bringing Textbooks, Calculators, and Slide Rules Into Our Country, Hoping to Get America’s Children Hooked On Math,” she said.

“President Trump has Made a Strong Commitment to Protect Our Country from Math, Whatever It Takes,” she added.

Claiming that the nation was suffering from a “Math Epidemic,” Leavitt refused to disclose how many math-smuggling migrants have invaded the US thus far, noting, “Using Numbers Is Exactly What They Want Us to Do.”

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Keep an eye on this.

As flavours of martial law go, this is a real Tharid of a dish. The new zeitgeist of, "Trump won't have to declare martial law everywhere, President Trump'll just declare anywhere to be a military base under martial law" is some real energy, just like "If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Prophet Mohammed shall go to the mountain."

End-run around the US Constitution: instead of declaring Martial Law everywhere, declare that everywhere on a US Military base!

More than 100 square miles.

If you've somehow never been on a military base as a civilian, you um give up your normal constitutional rights as soon as you step foot on.

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Trump Goons' Masked Ambush Goes WRONG As Bystanders Are THREATENED

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Where America SHOULD be now

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So shocked and upset to learn that our Sycamore Gap tree was deliberately and illegally felled through the night.

(Images: Craig Connor/Newcastle Chronicle and Andre Poling/ullstein bild/Getty Images).

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Fuck Donald Trump, fuck Jeffrey Epstein, fuck Elon Musk, fuck Andrew Tate, fuck Neil Gaiman, fuck Chris Brown, fuck Johnny Depp, fuck Brad Pitt, fuck Leonardo DiCaprio, fuck O.J. Simpson and fuck every other misogynistic man and their supporters.

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He Is Selling "TRUMP 2028" Merch Now

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Listen to me. Listen very carefully:

They are trying to wear you out.

They are trying to wear you out, and they own most major social media now, along with many major media outlets. The disinformation machine is cranking along. You are going to have to slow the fuck down and read things before you help them wear out other people, too.

So you just saw a post about a real scary bill, hunh? Republicans want to make it a capital offense to pet dogs and repeal The Sky Is Blue Act of 1793, declaring the new official color of the sky to be squant? Damn, that sounds scary.

Let's go look up this fictitious "Make The Sky Squant Again Act" on GovTracker* & on the official legislative tracker on congress.gov!

Well, let's see... GovTracker estimates it has a 1% chance of even getting out of committee and a 0% chance of being enacted, while congress.gov says this bill has 2 cosponsors who have been in the House and combined total of less than a month. The bill doesn't have any actual text, and it was referred to 5 different committees.

That fictitious bill and a hundred others like it are quite literally not worth your time, and more than that, continuing to wring your hands about it and tell other people about the scary scary squant sky bill only does their work for them. It scares people, it makes them spend time and energy on it, and it wears them out. It is a legislative Gish Gallop, meant to throw so many things at people that we can't keep up.

Even calling or messaging your Rep in this case means their staffer has to waste time responding to you and letting you know that Representative Buttzonheads definitely won't support making petting dogs a capital offense, a thing that will never, ever happen regardless.

Staying engaged in this environment is going to require protecting your heart and protecting your energy, yes, but also protecting the energy of others. This is why WWII propaganda posters also included ones taking people to task for spreading panicky rumors and undermining morale.

Do you know why most observant Jews don't eat chicken and dairy together, even though the ban is on red meat and dairy together bc you're not supposed to cook the calf in the milk of its mother?** It's not because we think that chicken might secretly lactate or Just Because. It's because the rabbis decided that if I'm sitting out in public and eating turkey and cheese together, someone might glance at the turkey and mistake it for red meat and think, "oh, well, I know that Spider is a good Jew, there must have been a change, or maybe I can just justify it to myself that if Spider does it, it must be permissible to bend the rules just that much." And I would then be accidentally leading my fellow Jew astray. We are responsible for being even more careful for the sake of others than we are for ourselves.

It's the same principle here. We need to really be careful about the information we are spreading and check things past reading a news site. Is it true? Is it relevant? Is it meaningful? Is the news site one I recognize? Can I find meaningful independent corroboration on another site, which is to say, if I find an article about it on a second site, is it just quoting or rephrasing this site?

Yeah, that is a lot. But that's how we keep them from using us to lead our fellows astray.

*GovTracker is an independent site. They explain their methodology in their About section.

**I cannot say enough how I am not at this time interested in going on a Jewish Side Quest About Dietary Laws on this post. Usually, I love it, but hold off this time, please, y'all. Let's stay on target this once.

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These are people; they have names.

Francisco Reyes-Ramirez

He did something or a lot of things? We have a process for that: due process, if you will.

We are a free country; ruled by laws, not kings. Not by Gestapo nor police misconduct. Civil Rights do not discriminate; granted by God to everyone, equally and recognized by our US Constitution the same way.

They have not prosecuted Francisco Reyes-Ramirez, he has not been convicted. Francisco Reyes-Ramirez is innocent, this is America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

:-( now we're 🇺🇸 helping Bukele's 🇸🇻 domestic political purge of anyone he targets as opposition abroad, even here in the former-"Land Of The Free"

...headline:

ICE officers & partners in the nation’s capital arrest El Salvadoran national Francisco Reyes-Ramirez

Obviously, since he's not Venezuelan 🇻🇪 he's not part of that Venezuelan gang that is the fabricated casus belli or made-up pretext for Trump's "Emergency Powers" and suspension of the US Constitution—oh, but he has been critical of Bukele? And fled El Salvador 🇸🇻 when Bukele came to power? And Bukele wants him dead?

Okay, makes sense now—this is what we're doing 🇺🇸

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