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ThinkItThrough 4 points ago +4 / -0

As I remember it, he didn’t “give it away.” A lot of taxpayer money went with it. So basically we paid Panama to take it. I remember it because back then I used to read Time magazine, which ran an editorial saying that even though the American people did not want to give up the Panama Canal, it was good for all the people’s representatives in Congress to vote for giving it back, in opposition to their constituents’ wishes, because it was the “right thing to do.“ I canceled my subscription to that magazine.

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ThinkItThrough 2 points ago +2 / -0

4 out of 5 democrats honestly winning in a Orange County would be the equivalent of 4 out of 5 Republicans winning in DC.

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ThinkItThrough 2 points ago +2 / -0

The Supreme Court said they couldn’t pay off student loans, but they did it anyway. Will this stop them from selling border wall materials? 🤔

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ThinkItThrough 1 point ago +1 / -0

According to Grok:

Yes, there was another incident where a person was set on fire near Penn Station in New York City. This event occurred around 8:10 PM on December 27, 2024. A 56-year-old man sustained burn injuries to both his legs and upper body near an escalator in the station but was reported to be in stable condition after being transported to NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center for treatment. No arrests were reported in connection with this incident, and the cause remains under investigation.

https://x.com/AngieEph2ten/status/1872887025080102958

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ThinkItThrough 7 points ago +7 / -0

What do you want to bet some politician(s) got something under the table in exchange for this?

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ThinkItThrough 6 points ago +6 / -0

Boy, their version of the situation is sure different from what I heard and read. Reminds me why I don’t get my news from MSN.

In a manic posting spree on Wednesday, the world's richest man bombarded his platform X, formerly Twitter, with attacks on a proposed funding bill, which would've kept the government funded through March 14 and had bipartisan support. He also amplified misinformation about what's in the 1,500-page bill - as did his non-governmental commission, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which is recommending cuts to government spending and regulations to the incoming Trump administration.

Trump himself signaled Wednesday that he opposes the resolution, according to a joint statement shared by Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Various hard-right GOP representatives also vowed to vote against it. Should Johnson fail to get a spending plan passed by Dec. 20, the federal government will enter a partial shutdown ahead of the holidays. But that apparently sounded ideal to Musk and his social media clique.

"YES," Musk commented on an X post from a user who wrote, "Just close down the govt until January 20th. Defund everything. We will be fine for 33 days." In his own post, Musk wrote, "No bills should be passed [by] Congress until Jan 20, when @realDonaldTrump takes office. None. Zero." (Upon Trump's inauguration, Republican majorities will control both chambers of Congress.) Elsewhere, Musk reshared a meme of himself hacking at the bill with a sword, captioned "KILL THE BILL." In yet another post, he wrote: "Any member of the House or Senate who votes for this outrageous spending bill deserves to be voted out in 2 years!"

Musk personally thanked a number of GOP representatives who announced via X that they were voting "no" on the bill, including Reps. Barry Moore, Anna Paulina Luna, Wesley Hunt, Eli Crane, Randy Weber, Michael Cloud, Jeff Van Drew, Warren Davidson, Keith Self, Kevin Kiley and Andy Ogles, many of whom blasted it as an "omnibus" package of excessive spending and Democratic giveaways.

The funding bill, H.R. 10445, contained provisions for allocating roughly $100 billion to relief efforts to aid Americans recovering from natural disasters in the past two years, some $30 billion in aid to farmers, and federal funding to replace the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. It would also have criminalized revenge porn, given the District of Columbia greater control over the area surrounding the defunct Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium as they seek to bring the Washington Commanders back into the city, addressed transparency issues in hotel prices and live event ticketing, and implemented health care reforms, including some intended to lower prescription drug costs.

More controversially, the bill included a pay raise for members Congress, justified as a cost of living adjustment, a provision which drew criticism from both sides of the aisle. At most, it would have boosted their income by $6,600, a 3.8 percent bump from the annual salary of $174,000 that most of them receive. The official DOGE account and Musk both falsely claimed that the pay raise would be $69,000, or nearly 40 percent. Musk meanwhile shared a post from a far-right influencer who wrote that the resolution would impose mask and vaccine mandates. Although there was a section about ensuring pandemic preparedness that mentioned the need for accelerated vaccine research, there is no language about mandating their administration, nor does the word "mask" appear.

Musk and DOGE likewise bought into and spread the false claim that the bill earmarked billions of taxpayer dollars to build a new NFL stadium in Washington, D.C., at the site of RFK Stadium. In fact, the resolution said the exact opposite, stipulating a covenant that "the District may not use Federal funds for stadium purposes on the Campus, including training facilities, offices, and other structures necessary to support a stadium."

Other dubious complaints circulating on X were that the bill ensured "Deep State immunity," as MAGA loyalists interpreted one provision to have been added in order to protect former Rep. Liz Cheney from prosecution over her role on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Trump has said that Cheney belongs in jail, and House Republicans yesterday released a report recommending the FBI investigate Cheney over alleged witness tampering in the congressional testimony of former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson. Some Republicans additionally accused the resolution of funding "censorship activities" because it extended support for the Global Engagement Center, an agency within the State Department tasked with identifying and countering "propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States."

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ThinkItThrough 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thanks for sharing his video.

I checked it out and he’s on X

@FreeMattKim

And he has a YouTube channel

https://youtube.com/@freemattkim?si=B-9HR0k32UMI41Au

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ThinkItThrough 1 point ago +1 / -0

Right, you don’t need to sign up. I don’t have an account.
Who is this man? Very well-reasoned. Does he post anywhere else?

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ThinkItThrough 1 point ago +1 / -0

The problem is they don’t think. They simply accept, without thinking, whatever the ministry-of-truth media throws at them. If they actually thought, and reasoned, they would see the obvious falsity of what they are believing.

Every belief is a choice.

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ThinkItThrough 7 points ago +7 / -0

“I actually don’t mind if some of these close.“

I’m gonna take a really wild guess that neither you nor any of your relatives (that you care about) work at any of these stores. 🤔

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ThinkItThrough 8 points ago +8 / -0

I say she waits 3 to 6 months until surgery can be approved and scheduled, like the average citizen.

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ThinkItThrough 2 points ago +2 / -0

“The people working for SMCI who are collaborating with China need to be arrested and replaced with loyal Americans, so that the company can continue operating without causing the tech sector to crash.”

Hmmm . . . more people to include in the “blanket pardon”?

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