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Tit for Tat Tariffs - The US versus the World

China’s trade surplus tops $1 trillion as its exports surge

But as trade with the U.S. weakens, China is diversifying its export markets throughout Southeast Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America.

[China's surplus for the first 11 months of 2025 is already larger than all of 2024 and a new record, topping $1T for the first time.]

Right, as I indicated at the outset, if the US picks a fight with the world, the world doesn't have to fight with each other -- they can band together and do EVEN MOAR trade.
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OU Student given a zero for citing the bible in essay

The 'essay' itself is floating around and it really does bear no resemblance to a piece of academic writing, even a poor one.
The reason it was floating around was that conservatives were making a big deal of this 'injustice' and spreading it themselves as 'evidence' of what a great essay it was.

Why conservatives are obsessed with this bad college essay

The academic merits of Fulnecky’s essay are immaterial to the battle at hand. [Short answer to headline question: it's ragebait.]
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The primary cause of America's social-justice violence

God will forgive the ones who have given themselves to Christ.
I agree but we don't know who these are or if and when people give themselves to Christ. That is why pray for all because vengeance is the Lord's.

Paul was a prosecutor before Jesus revealed himself to Paul. Why did Jesus choose that moment? Faith is trusting that God has a plan and he will save whom ever he wishes whenever he chooses.
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Conservative Marc Theissen column: Trump built a winning coalition. White nationalists will destroy it.

Glenn Beck attempts to patiently explain to his rightwing fans that Hitler was bad.

The idea that Adolf Hitler was some misunderstood or even "good" figure while Winston Churchill was the real WWII villain was once confined to the extreme fringes and unknown to almost everyone else. Today, however, the idea has resurfaced with disturbing visibility — no longer limited to neo-Nazi forums but now defended or entertained on major podcasts, viral social-media threads, and platforms with tens of millions of listeners and viewers.

Glenn Beck, a lover of history and collector of historical artifacts, is appalled that this revisionist narrative is being taken seriously.

“I really don't get it. History, real history, is not a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. It's ink on paper, orders in filing cabinets, telegrams, diaries, bodies. It's what actually happened, not what we hope happened,” he says.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn sets the record straight about Hitler, Churchill, and WWII.
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Do the Ten Commandments apply to Christians today?

There is the weekly Sabbath about worship Isa66:23 and honoring God Isa 58:13 Exo20:8-11 and the annual sabbaths that had to do with animal sacrifices- festivals, offerings etc.
This be true. Consider the double sabbath at the time of Jesus' crucifixion.
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Trump Foster’s yet another peace deal

Many people write to be understood. Deliberately obscuring or confusing writing seems self-defeating - if you actually want to be understood.

Lols. Did you see that Thailand and Cambodia have resumed bombing? Leaders of some of the nations know just how very susceptible to flattery poor Donald is.


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It is deeply pathetic.
IMHO - a picture of Pathetic includes ignoring world leaders because it doesn't line up with the tribes narrative.

What did their 'flattery" get them?

Oh yeah - peace
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President makes historic trip to Asia

Thailand suspends Cambodia ceasefire deal, testing Trump-brokered truce

Thailand said on Tuesday it was halting implementation of a ceasefire pact with Cambodia a day after a landmine blast maimed a Thai soldier, posing the biggest test for a truce brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Thai government has accused Cambodia of planting fresh landmines along a stretch of their disputed border, including a PMN-2 anti-personnel mine that injured four Thai soldiers on Monday, with one losing a foot in the explosion.

At least they got the photo op.

Trump-brokered truce under threat as Thailand-Cambodia fighting reignites

BANGKOK/PHNOM PENH, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Thailand said its fighter jets struck Cambodia on Monday in an attempt to cripple its military capability, as a re-eruption of border hostilities derailed a fragile ceasefire brokered by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Each side blamed the other for starting clashes that broke out during the night and intensified before dawn and spread to several locations, with one Thai soldier and four Cambodian civilians killed, according to officials.

Thai Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul on Monday said his government would do whatever necessary to protect its territorial integrity and would not engage in dialogue with Cambodia.
"There will be no talks. If the fighting is to end, (Cambodia) must do what Thailand has set," he said, without elaborating.
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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

Trump was a Democrat in 1993 so it stands to reason he was a criminal.View attachment 374206
It's easy to overlook, but there's some impressive engineering going on in Melania's hairdo.
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A horrifying event, but why is the attorney bringing up alcohol?

i have addiction issues myself but even if you're drinking, and you kill someone it can understand unclear thinking but doesn't excuse the fact you are the one that took that life, and you have to take responsibly of that
Regardless of your opinion, or my opinion, on the morality of the matter the fact remains that in some jurisdictions, for certain crimes the intoxication from alcohol or drugs can be considered a mitigating factor. For example, changing from a charge of premeditated murder to one of manslaughter. Moreover, legal systems do not require that individuals take responsibility for their actions, rather that they should face the consequences.
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Trump joint session speech: "So to our farmers, have a lot of fun. I love you too. I love you too."

Trump is proposing a $12B aid package for farmers hit hard by his trade war with China

Farmers appreciate the aid package, but they say it’s likely only a down payment on what’s needed and government aid doesn’t solve the fundamental problems farmers are facing of soaring costs and uncertain markets for their crops.

[China has bought about one fourth of the soybeans that Trump said the Chinese said they would buy by the end of the year.]
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Trump says he is pardoning Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Texas Democrat facing bribery charges

Apparently not. Or at least not yet.

'No more Mr. Nice guy!' Trump erupts as Dem lawmaker he pardoned sticks with party

President Donald Trump lashed out at Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX) on Sunday after learning that the lawmaker – whom he had pardoned this week following bribery and conspiracy charges – still plans to run for re-election as a Democrat, decrying it as “such a lack of loyalty.”

I have no doubt Trump is using, I mean abusing, the presidential power in a transnational means. More than one person has claimed in Trump's first term through Rudy Giuliani a pardon could be bought for 2M. One one hand that could be just a Rudy thing, but on the other hand Trump is know for demanding compensated in one form or another for his actions. Several pardons are of people who campaign donated or enacted business transactions with his sons.
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Tim Pool Shot At

The case is still ongoing, but according to the indictment, they paid Poole $100k per episode. In media production world, the title "producer" is annoyingly ambiguous and can have a bunch of different meanings with one of them being "financier."
I know. I once watched the credits for a 22 minute TV sitcom. There were 3 executive producers, 12 producers, 27 co-producers, and 139 assistant producers, lol. The show was probably produced by more people than watched it. I suspect people are having lunch, and one of them says "Hey I'm starting a new project. If you pick up the tab I'll give you a producer credit". ;)

But Tim has complete editorial control. He's seen enough to not be a dupe.
I don't know. The indictment didn't say.
I just don't get what your beef is. The aim of Russian and Chinese propaganda is to sow division to bring down America and the West. That's what your side of the aisle is already doing 24/7 anyway. ;)
Without knowing who did the shooting, it's impossible to know why. Maybe it was just some randos getting drunk and firing out their windows. Maybe it was somebody with a vendetta against guys in knit hats.
I heard him say they had received death threats in October which were deemed credible by the FBI. And the threats came from some person(s) who are already "on their radar" for making threats to other conservative figures.
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The Final Experiment (Flat Earth Bites The Dust)

Sportswear boss offers his £3billion firm to anyone who can prove Earth is flat

In a video posted on Columbia Sportswear’s YouTube channel on Tuesday (December 2), the boss, dressed in a casual navy quarter-zip and red and white checked shirt, challenged conspiracy theorists to prove him wrong


But by about 300 BCE, educated scholars overwhelmingly accepted that the Earth is a sphere
They was all part of a Satanical conspiracy.
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A Different Date, to Live in Infamy

Many recognize Dec. 7, 1941 as the date the Empire of Japan attacked the US. And we, quite rightly, remember that date. But there is another date coming up, that represents events equally or more horrible.

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese invaded the city of Nanking. The defending forces scattered, and General Iwane Matsui in command of the Japanese Central China Area Army entered the city. The course of that army was marked by appalling atrocities, including killing contests and the massacre of whole villages. When they entered the city, it got worse. For example -

...the Nanqiantou hamlet near Wuxi was set on fire, with many of its inhabitants locked within the burning houses. Two women, one a 17-year-old girl and the other pregnant, were raped repeatedly until they could not walk. Afterwards, the soldiers rammed a broom into the teenager's vagina and stabbed her with a bayonet, then "cut open the belly of the pregnant woman and gouged out the fetus". A crying two-year-old boy was wrestled from his mother's arms and thrown into the flames, while the hysterically sobbing mother was bayoneted and thrown into a creek. The remaining thirty villagers were bayoneted, disemboweled, and also thrown into the creek.

Prince Yasuhiko Asaka was installed as temporary commander in the campaign. He issued an order - "kill all prisoners".

Estimates of the number slaughtered range from the most common of 100,000 to 200,000. And then there were the rapes. Tens of thousands of them.

Japanese soldier Takokoro Kozo recalled:

Women suffered most. No matter how young or old, they all could not escape the fate of being raped. We sent out coal trucks to the city streets and villages to seize a lot of women. And then each of them was allocated to fifteen to twenty soldiers for sexual intercourse and abuse. After raping we would also kill them.[86]
The women were often killed immediately after being raped, often through explicit mutilation,[87] such as by penetrating vaginas with bayonets, long sticks of bamboo, or other objects. For example, a six-months pregnant woman was stabbed sixteen times in the face and body, one stab piercing and killing her unborn child. A young woman had a beer bottle rammed up her vagina after being raped, and was then shot.

Pearl Harbor was bad enough, but at least it was a military target. Nanking wasn't war. It was demonic.

There were other casualties. Minnie Vautrin was a missionary in Nanking, who tried desperately to save as many as she could, sheltering them in the school she headed. She saved many, but she could do nothing for the others. In 1941, she was able to return to the US after 28 years of missionary service in China. But, haunted by the memories of those she could not save, she took her own life.

Over the entrance to Dachau it says, "Forgive, but never forget". On December 13, let's forgive. But we must never forget.

Regards,
Shodan

Immigration Agents Have Rescued More Than 60,000 Children From Human Smugglers

“The evil of human trafficking cannot be overstated. It’s modern-day slavery. By leaving our borders open and even encouraging people to come here illegally, Biden enabled the largest human-trafficking operation in modern history,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said after a rescue operation this past July.

May God bless continued efforts to rescue victims of human trafficking.
Here’s what was actually said about the 62,000 children by Tom Holman. “SOME OF THEM were in sex trafficking, SOME were in forced labor”.

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So after hearing it from Tom Holman himself, would you agree that the article you posted in the OP is incorrect?
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