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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 06:39:19 AM EST
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Time fo a new open thread. The floor is yours, you pick the topics. All topic welcome.

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    So (none / 0) (#1)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 08:45:20 AM EST
    new report that Donald Trump gave Prince Andrew a list of girls link

    If the appeals court (none / 0) (#2)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 09:10:02 AM EST
    finds Trump can not just make up tariffs, and the SC agrees, Neil Katyal says the law is pretty clear, what happens then?

    Do all the tariffs just disappear?

    Obviously I hope they pull the plug of tariffs but I think it would be total chaos.  

    Orange mussolini (5.00 / 2) (#7)
    by Chuck0 on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 10:31:36 AM EST
    is claiming a national emergency exists and he is exercising emergency powers.

    I don't see how ANY court can agree that Brazil prosecuting Bolsonaro is a "national emergency" and justifies a 50% tariff.

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    Politico (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 09:11:51 AM EST

    Trump's tariffs get frosty reception at federal appeals court
    During a lengthy oral argument, judges were skeptical that Trump had the power to use an emergency law to enact the tariffs.



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    My understanding is that the tariffs (none / 0) (#4)
    by Peter G on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 09:28:21 AM EST
    would revert to whatever level was last approved by Congress, which has the lawful power to set tariff rates, not the President.

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    Right (none / 0) (#5)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 09:31:58 AM EST
    But something tells me it would not be so simple.

    Even if he just drags his feet.  What if he refuses?

    Just spitballin here.

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    Do you think (none / 0) (#6)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 09:34:37 AM EST
    the SC will agree with Neil Katyal?

    As a non lawyer the law does seem pretty clear.

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    If the court (none / 0) (#13)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 02:42:34 PM EST
    overturns the tariffs and says Trump can't do tariffs what then? It seems they were overturned before and Trump just ignored the courts. I imagine he would just ignore the courts again, the GOP will do nothing about the situation and businesses will not have a clue if there are tariffs or not tariffs.

    As I understand it, the whole situation is already a logistical nightmare because entire computer systems have to be changed every time the idiot opens his mouth and changes the number.

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    Yikes (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 11:53:43 AM EST
    But I've been waiting for this.  The real Kompromat.

    Trump should not think that the video archive of his past immoralities is only in the hands on Mossad

    That's also (none / 0) (#9)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 11:56:19 AM EST
    a very interesting way of putting it.  Suggests other reasons for Trump's slavish devotion to Beebee

    This could get really good.  Maybe there is a pee tape.  

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    Any Links With Substance? (none / 0) (#10)
    by RickyJim on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 01:55:40 PM EST
    For the past couple of weeks, I've been seeing claims on Youtube from Max Blumenthal, Phil Giraldi and others, that the solution to the Epstein mysteries involves Israel.  However, they don't supply the how, what and why. All they say are things like Ghislaine's father was buried in Israel after a big state funeral.  If you find a serious explanation, please post.

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    Well (none / 0) (#11)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 02:14:24 PM EST
    Epstein is suspected of being a spy who's game was kompromat.  If he was my first guess would be a spy for Israel.  So all thise hours of video of celebrities and politicians with minors would be the property of Beebee.

    Just a wild guess.


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    Also (none / 0) (#12)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 02:17:03 PM EST
    Maxwell makes even more sense as a spy because yes, hed dad is buried in Mount of Olives Cemetery. Which is like Jewish Arlington.

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    Ghislaine's (none / 0) (#15)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 02:48:58 PM EST
    father was believed to be Mossad. And Epstein met her father back in the early 80's apparently. Don't know if that actually means anything but I think that's where some of this comes from.

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    I just googled (none / 0) (#17)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 05:22:40 PM EST
    "Epstein mysteries involves Israel"

    There's quite a bit.  

    Here's one

    US media barely touches Epstein links with Israeli intelligence
    Jim DeBrosse The Electronic Intifada 25 July 2025



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    Why, for sure it would involve Israel! (none / 0) (#18)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 06:47:02 PM EST
    That's because Jews will not replace us - or at least, that's what some white guys carrying tiki torches said while on their way to try and save a Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville, VA. But first, we need to unregulate the inflationary conspirionism - or, so a convicted felon in the White House told me.

    Remember, RickyJim, it doesn't have to make any sense to you at all to still be oh so real in MAGA's parallel universe - a mystical place of magical thinking where Haitians are eating the dogs and cats, Russian president Vladimir Putin is our friend, French president Emmanuel Macron is married to a drag queen, illegal immigrants comprise over half the population of California, powerful CIA lasers hidden in Chile can burn down the town of Lahaina, Donald Trump is a friggin' business, economic and foreign policy guru, a Slovenian emigre can find a rich sugar daddy and rise to become America's very first First Lady with her own soft-core p0rn portfolio, and everything bad that happens can always somehow be blamed on Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Bill and Hillary Clinton and of course, the Mexicans.

    One day in the future, when my grandchildren ask me, "Oh, sage and wise Grandfather, how did America come to flounder and lose its way?" - well, that's probably as good an explanation as any.

    Aloha. ;-D

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    I think (none / 0) (#14)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 02:47:04 PM EST
    more than likely they are just screwing with his mind.

    What is more surprising to me is that France likely has a lot of information on Epstein and has kept mum. England must have a bunch of evidence too.

    Speaking of France I can't believe Candace Owens is so stupid as to have done an entire multi part documentary on Macron's wife saying she is a man. I guess when you get away with lying for so long you get bolder and bolder about it.

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    Russia had/has (none / 0) (#16)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 03, 2025 at 03:05:48 PM EST
    a famously Kompromat Hotel.  Trump stayed there.
    It's all in the dossier.

    Why wouldn't they have the real deal.

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