Trump Abolishes Democrats’ DEI And Trans-Craze Policies

January 21, 2025

Trump's second presidency has a strong start. On his first day in office he has issued some 200 executive actions including some 42 executive orders (EO) undoing many of Biden's attempts of socially engineering a new society.

(Unfortunately I have yet to find a complete list of those EOs. Why haven't even the agencies, AP, AFP or Reuters, compiled one?)

I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued. Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, and thereby de-legitimizing them, is not good for mankind. Further supporting the Zionst entity is a disgrace.

Others I do like. Trump pardoned participants of the Jan 6 (2021) 'riots' which had never amounted to much more than a hustle.

He rescinded many of EOs the Biden administration had issued around its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies. Attempts of social engineering against merit deserve to fail.

I am also very happy that Trump has ended the official Trans craze. The wording herein is remarkable:

DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Across the country, ideologues who deny the biological reality of sex have increasingly used legal and other socially coercive means to permit men to self-identify as women and gain access to intimate single-sex spaces and activities designed for women, from women’s domestic abuse shelters to women’s workplace showers. This is wrong. Efforts to eradicate the biological reality of sex fundamentally attack women by depriving them of their dignity, safety, and well-being.
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This unhealthy road is paved by an ongoing and purposeful attack against the ordinary and longstanding use and understanding of biological and scientific terms, replacing the immutable biological reality of sex with an internal, fluid, and subjective sense of self unmoored from biological facts. Invalidating the true and biological category of “woman” improperly transforms laws and policies designed to protect sex-based opportunities into laws and policies that undermine them, replacing longstanding, cherished legal rights and values with an identity-based, inchoate social concept.

There are and will be many more Trump policies which (will) deserve to be condemned and criticized.

That should not hinder us to admit that he got some things right.

Posted by b on January 21, 2025 at 14:10 UTC | Permalink

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Maybe it’s time to get back to eschatological considerations b?
https://healthimpactnews.com/2025/a-look-at-trump-2-0-in-2025-zionist-expansion-and-more-vaccines-as-the-u-s-economy-stands-on-brink-of-disaster/

Posted by: Jack | Jan 22 2025 10:27 utc | 401

@a stone | Jan 22 2025 2:52 utc | 362

I wonder who benefits from sowing doubt in the scientific consensus on climate change.

The expression “scientific consensus” is entirely non-scientific, there is no such thing. Science is not progressing by the counting of hands.
‘Consensus’ is a word founded in politics only.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 22 2025 11:32 utc | 402

@Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 3:27 utc | 372

Climate change is measured by the average global surface temperature as there is so much local noise.

Temperature is a local intensity. Averaging local intensities in many locations is a pointless non-scientific exercise.
Comparing local intensity averages over time is even more meaningless since the locations are not the same over time, and the local properties change significantly due to changing urban heat island effects as cities grow in size. Add the fact that the thermometers are “marching south” as northern thermometers are excluded from the average set and the absurdity is complete.
I have to question your sincerity in this since I don’t question your intelligence.

Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 22 2025 11:40 utc | 403

Trans is the new abortion rights for both heads of duopoly to rally their braindead faithfuls around, so nobody notices that they agree on everything that matters.
If trans people didn’t exist, it could be people who want to marry their pets or people who want to take their dom/sub status public. They would find something to divide us up.

Posted by: Emma | Jan 22 2025 11:56 utc | 404

When I was young, Latin and Greek (of German and Russian) had genders. People had one of two sexes, as per common sense and the Bible.
We need to stop using the language of our enemies.
“He who talks badly, thinks badly” (Nanni Moretti).

Posted by: Augusto | Jan 22 2025 11:56 utc | 405

Posted by: Rich | Jan 22 2025 10:02 utc | 403
In the Pentagon, everyone who was responsible for Ukraine has been fired and suspended
I would like to see them shot, as well, but that it might not happen again, this is interesting.

Posted by: john | Jan 22 2025 11:59 utc | 406

A lot of people here, like our host Bertrand, claims their positions on Transgender people are based on SCIENCE: biologically speaking, only 2 sexes exist, and so on. I paste here an article, to illustrate that these arguments are based on BOLLOCKS SCIENCE:
Rebecca Helm, a biologist and an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina, Asheville US writes:
I see a lot of people are talking about biological sexes and gender right now. Lots of folks make biological sex seem really simple. Well, since it’s so simple, let’s find the biological roots, shall we? Let’s talk about sex…[a thread]
If you know a bit about biology you will probably say that biological sex is caused by chromosomes, XX and you’re female, XY and you’re male. This is “chromosomal sex” but is it “biological sex”? Well…
Turns out there is only ONE GENE on the Y chromosome that really matters to sex. It’s called the SRY gene. During human embryonic development the SRY protein turns on male-associated genes. Having an SRY gene makes you “genetically male”. But is this “biological sex”?
Sometimes that SRY gene pops off the Y chromosome and over to an X chromosome. Surprise! So now you’ve got an X with an SRY and a Y without an SRY. What does this mean?
A Y with no SRY means physically you’re female, chromosomally you’re male (XY) and genetically you’re female (no SRY). An X with an SRY means you’re physically male, chromsomally female (XX) and genetically male (SRY). But biological sex is simple! There must be another answer…
Sex-related genes ultimately turn on hormones in specifics areas on the body, and reception of those hormones by cells throughout the body. Is this the root of “biological sex”??
“Hormonal male” means you produce ‘normal’ levels of male-associated hormones. Except some percentage of females will have higher levels of ‘male’ hormones than some percentage of males. Ditto ditto ‘female’ hormones. And… …if you’re developing, your body may not produce enough hormones for your genetic sex. Leading you to be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally non-binary, and physically non-binary. Well, except cells have something to say about this…
Maybe cells are the answer to “biological sex”?? Right?? Cells have receptors that “hear” the signal from sex hormones. But sometimes those receptors don’t work. Like a mobile phone that’s on “do not disturb’. Call and cell, they will not answer.
What does this all mean?
It means you may be genetically male or female, chromosomally male or female, hormonally male/female/non-binary, with cells that may or may not hear the male/female/non-binary call, and all this leading to a body that can be male/non-binary/female.
Try out some combinations for yourself. Notice how confusing it gets? Can you point to what the absolute cause of biological sex is? Is it fair to judge people by it?
Of course you could try appealing to the numbers. “Most people are either male or female” you say. Except that as a biologist professor I will tell you…
The reason I don’t have my students look at their own chromosome in class is because people could learn that their chromosomal sex doesn’t match their physical sex, and learning that in the middle of a 10-point assignment is JUST NOT THE TIME.
Biological sex is complicated. Before you discriminate against someone on the basis of “biological sex” & identity, ask yourself: have you seen YOUR chromosomes? Do you know the genes of the people you love? The hormones of the people you work with? The state of their cells?
Since the answer will obviously be no, please be kind, respect people’s right to tell you who they are, and remember that you don’t have all the answers. Again: biology is complicated. Kindness and respect don’t have to be.
Note: Biological classifications exist. XX, XY, XXY XXYY and all manner of variation which is why sex isn’t classified as binary. You can’t have a binary classification system with more than two configurations even if two of those configurations are more common than others.
Biology is a shitshow. Be kind to people.

Posted by: Jenaro | Jan 22 2025 12:01 utc | 407

“I do dislike many of the EOs Trump issued. Leaving the World Health Organization and the Paris Agreements, ..”
b
I have to strongly disagree.
The Paris treaty is ‘to fight climate change–since Climate change happens continuously and is a cycle -we have had 17 ice ages in the last 2 Million years-proving , without any doubt, that Climate change is not anthropomorphic.
As to the WHO-the covid/vax disgrace is enough reason get out if the -having Bill Gates secretly running it is also a disgrace

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:18 utc | 408

WRT “Sex”, A Chev’s a Chev.
With the X Package you get a bit more chrome,
with the Y, a Holly 6pack, but it’s still a Chev.

Posted by: Fubar El Haq | Jan 22 2025 12:22 utc | 409

Thank you Jenaro for interjecting some science into what has been mostly an expression of people’s uninformed beliefs.

Posted by: Mjh | Jan 22 2025 12:22 utc | 410

Roger Boyd wins his inaugural “The Most Retarded Post I Have Read Today Award” for this nutty balderdash”
“All of these games, misrepresentations etc, have been pointed out again and again, but that will not stop a hardcore of people from rejecting basic science, cognitive dissonance can be a hard thing to overcome. As can the dollars from the fossil fuel industry for many such commentators.”
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 3:27 utc | 372
Are you retarded?
We have had 17 ice ages in 2 Million years because the earth wobbles in orbit-Climate change is continuous and cyclical ann has absolutely nothing to do with man or fossil fuels.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:25 utc | 411

@Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 3:27 utc | 372
“Climate change is measured by the average global surface temperature as there is so much local noise.
Temperature is a local intensity. Averaging local intensities in many locations is a pointless non-scientific exercise.
Comparing local intensity averages over time is even more meaningless since the locations are not the same over time, and the local properties change significantly due to changing urban heat island effects as cities grow in size. Add the fact that the thermometers are “marching south” as northern thermometers are excluded from the average set and the absurdity is complete.
I have to question your sincerity in this since I don’t question your intelligence.”
Posted by: Norwegian | Jan 22 2025 11:40 utc | 409
I question both Boyd’s intelligence and his sincerity

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:27 utc | 412

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 2:47 utc | 360
“I wonder who benefits from sowing doubt in the scientific consensus on climate change.”
Posted by: a stone | Jan 22 2025 2:52 utc | 362
The Earth has has 17 ice ages in the last 2 million years caused by a wobble in the earth’s orbit such that Climate Change is continuous and cyclical with nothing to do with man’s activities or fossil fuels..
For the next 30,000 years the earth will get warmer, then after than it will get colder for 30,000 years or so leading to a nice age; rince and repeat-get used to it.
BTW: Science is NOT done by consensus.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:35 utc | 413

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2025 8:56 utc | 400
DEI as a concept is fine but it is abused when DEI people are selected for work that other can do better that’s what’s wrong with the concept- calling someone racist because of this fact only illustrates your ignorance.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:37 utc | 414

Annexation of the West Bank and no one in continental Europe can even protest because poverty is skyrocketting. This is precisely what Covid was made for.
Back then Trump pretended to ignore it. Long enough to let it spread well enough rather than just put planes to ground for a month or two. Just when he admitted it in March 2020, his buddies in the UK and NL started to mention some casualties while they had managed til then to cover them. This also did not prevent them to send their tourists to Spain while their curves was climbing and the Spanish curves when going down. The rest is history.

Posted by: Tom | Jan 22 2025 12:41 utc | 415

Jane@1.24 Jan 22
“If you are indeed a woman, you have been a busy little beaver on this thread. If you find my statements to be a “mishmash”, please regale us with your interpretation of that word. Or perhaps, my offerings are simply beyond your comprehension quota and therewith you become frustrated. I’m sure we all have those moments, but tonight you are being special.”
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 5:17 utc | 385
Jane is alright but she does lack the comprehension to understand your offerings such that and becomes frustrated and confused then she intellectually lashes spasmodically..

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:42 utc | 416

414 @Canuck
The person to follow on this William F Engdahl. He has recent articles on his website on the impossibility of achieving Net Zero, including référence to Professor Simon Michan on Finland’s geographical survey. Also Engdahl’s book ‘Target China’, which gives chapter and verse on the US/WHO use of ‘pharmaceutical’ drugs to control other countries economies.

Posted by: Valerie Swales | Jan 22 2025 12:43 utc | 417

Jenaro, your absurd gobbledigook masquerading as “science” is exactly the reason why people like you are so despised and the object of much hilarity.
People will believe what **their eyes, their common sense and their logic, and their religion tell them**. It’s that simple. man and woman God made them. Your pseudoscience is neither here nor there, and is the same kind of crap people have used for decades to persuade us about man-made global warming. Some man are more manly. Some girls are tomboys. It ends there.
So next time you hear some deluded dude who thinks he is a female trapped in the body of a male, say a prayer for him and hope that people like you do not drive these unfortunate morons to the suicide that, all too often, ends their miserable, deluded, godless existence.
You remind me of that woman who posted on TikTok mocking the MAGA cashier on the day of the election, saying “I tell you, Harris will lose! I am a political scientist!”
Science!!!
Lots of credentialed idiots around.
They have a degree. Unfortunately, they cannot think.

Posted by: Voice of reason | Jan 22 2025 12:50 utc | 418

Musk the crypto does hitler hand signs to Trump the crypto at the inauguration. And everyone (including most here) think it’s a funny joke, because hey, Musk and Trump are “our guys”. Typical problem-reaction-solution operation: make the democrats into clowns and suddenly, as long as the shitty actors the democrats are just replaced by “our guys” (even though it’s two wings of the same monoparty), everything they did – pandemics, biolabs, gaza genocide, war, the scrubbing of the internet, digi-id’s, digital currency – will be okay. Because hey, now it’s our guys, the good guys doing those things. How do you get technocracy and round the clock surveillance installed without any resistance? Make everyone love Musk and then do it.
A researcher in Germany was once asked by students, “how was it possible that the nazis even got into power?” He answered, “because people were the same as you are.”
How was it possible that the nazis got into power this time? Because of all of you who chuckle at Musk and Trump just because they ran a few embarrassingly bad, to the point of surrealism, bad, psyops (such as the Trump “assassination”, Musk copy-pasting counterculture memes on Twitter, and the grade school theatre of the democrats intentionally pulling up only lunatic candidates that no one would ever choose in reality, if the goal was winning).
If that’s you, don’t come crying when the nazis run their next operations on you.
Another Trump problem-reaction-solution operation that’s a home run for the elite:
– Problem: the carbon emission discussion
– Reaction: everyone bawling that they want to keep their cars (preferably big and as many as possible) and eat meat (preferably only meat and nothing else, and make it really bleed so that the vegans feel it)
– Solution: Trump ending all climate agreements, ending the entire discussion on pollution and giving the corporations unlimited license to rape and pollute the planet with heavy metals, pesticides, strip mining, clear cutting and GMO. But hey, that’ll teach the hippies and vegans!
Posted by: Jack M | Jan 21 2025 15:52 utc | 54
This the most retarded nonsense on the entire internet today. We’re you born retarded or are you just another imbicel with TDS induced retardation?

Posted by: Screwdriver | Jan 22 2025 12:51 utc | 419

Sorry B, you are dead wrong on the US leaving the Paris Climate Accord nonsense and the WHO. They are thoroughly corrupt organizations. Good to see some positive news out of Washington DC.

Posted by: Chicago Bob | Jan 22 2025 13:06 utc | 420

I see people and bots freaking out because of the end of DEI as if they couldn’t get anymore federal jobs.
I couldn’t get a grip on this fuss , or those people are considered “normal” and can works alike any-other (so, competing for a job won’t be a problem.) or they are like handicapped persons and need an adapted workplace, but why on earth would this be a government prerogative only ? Private sector don’t do it’s share ? Why ? Explain yourselves !

Posted by: Savonarole | Jan 22 2025 13:09 utc | 421

“Sorry B, you are dead wrong on the US leaving the Paris Climate Accord nonsense and the WHO. They are thoroughly corrupt organizations. Good to see some positive news out of Washington DC.”
Posted by: Chicago Bob | Jan 22 2025 13:06 utc | 426
I second that motion.

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 13:19 utc | 422

Posted by: Trisha | Jan 21 2025 16:17 utc | 70 Darn it! As a female (XY) who drives 7 hours a day, I will say that when the women’s restroom is full I have gone into the men’s bathroom and told everyone, “I’m transitioning!!”. When you gotta go, you deal with the stink. Does this mean I can’t do that anymore???

Posted by: Ceaclearly | Jan 22 2025 13:19 utc | 423

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 5:17 utc | 385
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The loquacious Aristo is now an expert at determining who is a woman.
Just from written words!
Even though he (?? doesn’t understand a simple English word.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 13:21 utc | 424

“Jenaro, your absurd gobbledigook masquerading as “science” is exactly the reason why people like you are so despised and the object of much hilarity.”
Posted by: Voice of reason | Jan 22 2025 12:50 utc | 424
100% correct; these people aren’t expressing ‘science’ whatsoever, they are but demonstrating their misguided Faith in the Woke Religion.
“Men can birth children”
is that Faith or Science?
Come on!!

Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 13:22 utc | 425

Fact 01: Climate change [was always a fallacy] — Instead it was a geopolitical gamble that has failed miserably.
Fact 02: COVID-19 was a zionist psyop [US of A and Israhell] where special agents managed to infiltrate the Wuhan lab [Level 3 & 4] in China — guess what — to undermine the rising of the dragon but that gamble also failed miserably.
Now all the rats are jumping off the ship [including Fauci] before someone place a bullet in their heads.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 22 2025 13:27 utc | 426

Deniz, the Muslim brotherhood is not a product of MI5, they are indigenous, they are democratic, and they reject the installed kings that the Brits installed.

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:28 utc | 427

So many ridiculous comments here. Trump has been a whirlwind of activity but if he didn’t push your favourite button, “what a loser!”.
To Owl @106: No, idiot, we don’t need “same sex bathrooms” for all, and if you’d ever been outside your mommy’s basement, you’d know why. Women take FOREVER in the bathroom. They don’t just pee, they adjust their makeup, talk to complete strangers about their boyfriends, and etc. Men just go in, do their business, and leave. Go to a sporting event: the line outside the men’s room is small and moves quickly. The line outside the ladies is long and slow moving. If we made all bathrooms “same sex”, we’d need to devote a lot more space to bathrooms that would be empty most of the time. It’s just stupid and wasteful.
Leaving WHO/Paris Accords is just common sense. Both those entities have been taken over by grifters, just as the DoJ, FBI, FCC, FDA, and SEC within the US have been. Watch when Trump starts to battle the internal three letter agencies – that’s when the real fight begins.
For most of the last 20 years, I’ve watched the tail increasingly wag the dog. Successful societies aren’t built on the whims of the fringe; they adopt policies that strengthen their core. So we should not let trannies or gays or drug abusers or illegal immigrants dictate what policy should be. We should not let the less able into critical jobs under the killing cloak of DIE. We just saw what happened in CA when the fire chief makes your sexuality her chief goal, not preventing or putting out actual, you know, fires. Trump is going to cut off those tails, and the world will be better off a result.

Posted by: KevinB | Jan 22 2025 13:32 utc | 428

Xor, do YPU know what BRICS refers to? Look at what the S stands for. (It’s “Spain”)

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:33 utc | 429

It’s amazing that so many of you commenters deny scientific consensus regarding the climate. Why do you do that? Are you bought, or just completely fooled?
https://www.nature.com/articles/501027a

Posted by: Northern Eve | Jan 22 2025 13:34 utc | 430

Jane is alright but she does lack the comprehension to understand your offerings such that and becomes frustrated and confused then she intellectually lashes spasmodically..
Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:42 utc | 422
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A good example of spasmodic lashing, indicated by the broken syntax.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 13:35 utc | 431

Pepe, your antisemitism is showing. US DoD bio labs are a Zionist conspiracy? Dude, you couldn’t clown yourself any better. Zionism is an off shoot of American policy

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:38 utc | 432

Folks, don’t forget that Trump’s [orange man for short] 2023-2024 campaign received significant backing from military-industrial giants like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, as well as Silicon Valley’s venture capital elite. These forces thrive on perpetual conflict, where war is repackaged as “peace through strength.”

Posted by: pepe | Jan 22 2025 13:40 utc | 433

Augusto, funny, the Romans and Greeks definitely didn’t subscribe to just two simple sexes. Boys certainly were not men. Poor students of history shouldn’t cite history

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:50 utc | 434

Jane@1.24 Jan 22
If you are indeed a woman, you have been a busy little beaver on this thread.
Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 5:17 utc | 385
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One of the more unfortunate sentences I’ve read on this site. Now I have Canuck “Queen’s beaver” jokes dancing in my head…

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 13:51 utc | 435

Rich, the problem is Ukraine was a state department job, not DoD. Rubio still running the state department, Trump having never uttered the word “neocon” shows he really doesn’t understand the source of what he’s trying to fight/stop. Why weren’t the Kagans and Kristols on the cut security clearance? Y’all think Trump is magical, and you accuse others of TDS. What a joke.

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:56 utc | 436

I call shenanigans, none of what you said is posted on.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 22 2025 14:02 utc | 437

We have had 17 ice ages in 2 Million years because the earth wobbles in orbit-Climate change is continuous and cyclical ann has absolutely nothing to do with man or fossil fuels.
Posted by: canuck | Jan 22 2025 12:25 utc | 417
Remember the oil lobby? You may know them from such hits as “helping kill JFK,” PNAC, birthing neoconservatism, and the 9/11 forever wars. In the early 80s Exxon commissioned internal scientific reports that found that anthropogenic climate change was real and caused in large part by fossil fuel consumption. They suppressed the report and claimed the opposite publicly. Ah well, I’m sure they had their reasons, and surely their generous donations to our elected leaders had nothing to do with this becoming a partisan issue in the US.

Posted by: Gengar | Jan 22 2025 14:03 utc | 438

Also love the idea that if climate change *isnt* anthropogenic, that means we get to wash our hand of it and not attempt to minimize it. Hey, we didn’t cause the mass extinction events, so who cares? Laissez les bons temps rouler!

Posted by: Gengar | Jan 22 2025 14:06 utc | 439

@Scottindallas you are speaking in support of killing Semites for Euro Zionists…

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 22 2025 14:06 utc | 440

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:38 utc | 438
I forgot you are a victim. Zionism started in Europe you clown.

Posted by: pepe | Jan 22 2025 14:07 utc | 441

Biden was a stage 3 dementia patient, no more than a figurehead like Mashall’s Petain or von Hindenberg, easily manipulated by the powers behind the throne of power…..
The green new deal nonsense was an excuse to destroy American industry and give it over to the Red Chinese and EU……..
By the way the Red Chinese CCP are on schedule to open 100 coal fired power plants this year…..give me a break……burn coal live better or in the case of the UK and Ireland burn coal or go broke and cold!!!!

Posted by: tobias cole | Jan 22 2025 14:10 utc | 442

It has been deleted, but the .gov site for Israel at one point said the Hebrew population in the country was 2%.
That would be the actual descendants of Abraham. It also specifically said it did not include the people forced into the west bank and gaza strip.

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 22 2025 14:13 utc | 443

# 70 Trisha..I am afraid from now on you will have attach to your a car “portable outhouse” otherwise happy transitioning……

Posted by: sejmon | Jan 22 2025 14:15 utc | 444

University of Illionis
Miami University
Ohio State University
CPA
They do mean shit.
Posted by: Turk 152 | Jan 21 2025 19:07 utc | 202
You mean shit paper? As in what you wipe yourself with before flushing down the toilet?

Posted by: Rhymerez | Jan 22 2025 14:17 utc | 445

Report on RT
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Trump threatens Russia with new sanctions
Jan 22, 2025 12:52 p.m.
If Russia refuses to negotiate peace in the Ukraine conflict, the United States will impose new sanctions against the country, Donald Trump announced. The new US president has also not ruled out further arms deliveries to Kiev.
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US President Donald Trump believes that further sanctions against Russia are possible if Moscow refuses to negotiate a solution to the Ukraine conflict. The new head of state expressed this opinion during a press conference on Tuesday. When asked whether Washington would consider additional restrictions in response to Moscow’s reluctance to talk, Trump replied:
“Sounds likely.”
Trump threatens Russia with “destruction” if Putin does not agree to his Ukraine deal
In addition, Trump clearly did not rule out further arms deliveries to Kiev, although he had constantly criticized the Biden administration’s policy on this during his election campaign. Trump promised to look into the matter more closely. However, the president insisted that support from the European Union and the United States should be reconciled. Trump argued that Washington’s contribution is $200 billion higher than that from Brussels:
“I mean, are we stupid? I think the answer is ‘yes’. You have to think so.”
Trump again stressed his readiness to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin. The new government is already communicating with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, and contacts with Putin will take place shortly. The US president called Putin smart and suggested that the Ukraine conflict began because the Russian leader “did not respect Biden”. In addition, Trump contacted Chinese President Xi Jinping and suggested that he help resolve the conflict.
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My comment:
It is probably out of habit that no one has confronted him with the realities yet, and the secret service has so far been silent in Biden’s time.
Should he go through with it?
Putin will also have to give in, but probably more to the hardliners in his general staff and Duma than to Trump…and that could be a rude awakening for Trump, who is floating on cloud nine. It’s not just him who has face to lose, Putin too! Putin has been able to buy enough time for his opponents to react by arranging the appointment. If Trump doesn’t succeed now, Putin will be under pressure in his own country…if he doesn’t, his poll ratings will soon be below 70%…
perhaps that’s Trump’s plan, to take away Putin’s support from his own people, in the belief that Putin will hesitate to show his edge again.

Posted by: durchblick | Jan 22 2025 14:24 utc | 446

Fact: There are four sexes – male, female, both (intersex) and none. The last 2 are rare but do exist.
realitycheck | Jan 21 2025 14:20 utc | 4
I understand when you say “intersex” because there are people who are sick, with congenital deformities, and don’t clearly align with either male or female. Some people want to add a special sex category for these individuals. But I do *NOT* understand when you say “none sex”. What does that mean? Eunuchs? Eunuchs are men. They are legit men who had their genitals cut off. That doesn’t change their sex, that just cripples them. They’re still men, just crippled.
What do you mean by “none sex”?

Posted by: rert | Jan 22 2025 14:25 utc | 447

What’s going on with the genocide backer Scholz – is this a limited hangout to try and win voters over.
“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has accused his critics of deceiving voters about his reluctance to approve a proposed €3 billion ($3.1 billion) assistance package for Kiev. Senior officials have blamed Scholz for delaying the emergency aid, which was proposed by Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.
The chancellor has claimed that those backing the deal are not being transparent about how it would be financed.
“The German people are being lied to” by those who refuse to address how the package would be funded, Scholz claimed in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper on Monday.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 14:40 utc | 448

Posted by: Northern Eve | Jan 22 2025 13:34 utc | 436
It’s amazing that all the “scientists” refuse to discuss geoengineering when calculating “climate change”. I have been watching as they spray the skies for over 20+ years. It is disgusting what “they” are doing up there and no, it is not “cow farts” they are spraying over my head. Does this alter the weather? Yes, of course it does. According to the UN over 50 countries are now geoengineering. When “scientists” acknowledge these destructive actions in their analyses, I will acknowledge their research. Until then, I say, “they may be sincere, but they are sincerely wrong”.

Posted by: CeaClearly | Jan 22 2025 14:45 utc | 449

The Orange Yankee POTUS – might be a businessman who – puts business before war – but his backers – that got him where he is, (the Whitehouse) – have a very different agenda in mind.
“Expecting Trump’s second term to usher in a multipolar and equitable global order would be naive. The real power behind Trump’s administration – interest groups, corporations, and donors – has little incentive to pursue peace. His 2023-2024 campaign received significant backing from military-industrial giants like Lockheed Martin and Raytheon, as well as Silicon Valley’s venture capital elite. These forces thrive on perpetual conflict, where war is repackaged as “peace through strength.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 14:45 utc | 450

Trump is reportedly setting massive tariffs on Canada, Mexico and EU products.
Which one of these will blow up first? My money is on the EU, as it is most prone to internal stresses and break-up already and hugely dependent on US trade and surplus it receives.

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 22 2025 14:47 utc | 451

Roger, the USDA changed the cold hardiness maps 10-15 years ago. I’m a mostly organic gardener by trade and watch the weather closer than most. Well, those changes to the hardiness maps were hasty. The last 5-6 years we’ve had lows here that in the 90’s the USDA decided would never come back.
I can elaborate on how DFW airport was a rural expanse when it was built in the 70s, today it’s hemmed in with highways and suburban sprawl. Temps at the airport are often 10 degrees warmer (particularly overnight lows) than in Boyd Texas or Kaufman (to the NW or SE of the metroplex).
Jane, you have no idea the degree of subsidies for oil. The state of Texas has 10,000 derelict leaking oil wells that it will have to fix. Oil investors get a double write off on expenses. There are many ways we subsidize oil consumption too. Your numbers are false. And, the smart approach to energy policy is diversity of sources, and policy that varies based on local demand and weather cycles. The solution for Texas, who’s peak demand is Summer afternoons is different than for the MidWest who’s peak demand is Winter, probably days with heating and industrial production, domestic consumption would be higher at night. Lots of variables and a nationwide approach would be foolish.
I say that as a stockholder of Exxon.

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 14:54 utc | 452

Posted by: james | Jan 22 2025 14:42 utc | 455
Well, the fact that Russian ships are no longer allowed into the port is probably due to exactly that, as mentioned…
They want to prevent Russia from withdrawing its air defense batteries, radar, etc. from there.
Firstly because there are also 2 S500 batteries there (which the West would be keen on, even if they were destroyed by the Russians there would be enough remains to examine), and secondly so that they are not available to Russia to defend key areas at home.
And apart from radar equipment there are probably a few other interesting things in the port, because Russia has withdrawn everything to this port…that was too heavy and large for aircraft…because the entrances to the airport are also blocked.
OR Trump is creating negotiating leverage…and scraping together everything that is halfway suitable for putting Putin under pressure. Which is much more likely

Posted by: karlo | Jan 22 2025 14:54 utc | 453

Nato and the EU – tried to assassinate him – and they failed to do so – now a Maidan type event is being planned by Nato and the EU – to overthrown Fico of Slovakia. No doubt one is also being planned for Georgia – whilst an invasion is on the cards for Venezuela.
“Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has accused the political opposition of preparing a ‘Maidan’ in the country, referring to the violent Western-backed coup in Kiev in 2014 that led to the overthrow of democratically-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich.
Speaking at a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime minister Viktor Orban in Bratislava on Tuesday, Fico based his accusations on a report prepared by the Slovak Information Service (SIS) intelligence agency.
“I cannot disclose the content of the report, but I can say in all seriousness that the opposition is preparing a ‘Maidan’. It is gearing up to thwart the government from exercising its powers and it will do this in cooperation with foreign actors,” he said.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 14:55 utc | 454

I like how I explained that the hard approach to the Gender question resolves nothing, as I have actual experience here in Texas with the hard approach. Again, roided up girls are forced to compete with non roided up girls. No thought, no reflection. Trump is your king Midas, you’re believing in fairy tales. “It makes no sense, such a broad brush fixes nothing”.
“Shut up, Trump is Midas, all that was shit is suddenly gold now”. Idiots

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 15:02 utc | 455

You just know that this will be weaponised – to further US interests around the world – with many more people dying – or displaced, as the US uses AI to try and control the world.
Already AI is being used – by the Zionists to bomb and murder civilians in Gaza.
“US President Donald Trump has announced the launch of a new initiative set to invest up to $500 billion in artificial intelligence infrastructure.
Project Stargate, unveiled on Tuesday, is a collaboration between US tech giants OpenAI and Oracle, and Japanese investment firm SoftBank.
Trump presented Stargate alongside the heads of the three main corporate partners, which have pledged $100 billion in investment, with an additional $400 billion targeted over the next four years. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said the first Stargate data centers are already under construction in Texas. Up to 20, each spanning half a million square feet (46,000 square metres), are planned to support the heavy computational demands of AI systems. Trump suggested that the project would create over 100,000 jobs across the United States.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 15:03 utc | 456

Sexual mutilation: a crime still banned.
Gender reassignment surgery: same procedure buy woke enlightment operation?
Wow but wow, wow!
Sorry for barking aloud …

Posted by: Greg Galloway | Jan 22 2025 15:10 utc | 457

The genocide backing bitch – admits that Europeans are suffering.
“Energy prices across the EU have skyrocketed due to the disruption of cheap supplies from Russia, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen has admitted.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, von der Leyen acknowledged that the loss of Russian supplies has exacerbated the bloc’s energy crisis.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 15:13 utc | 458

malenkov@196…..Professor Bumstead articulated the reason for war best, “to remove excess breading males from the population.”
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 22 2025 15:18 utc | 459

a stone | Jan 22 2025 2:52 utc | 362
*** I wonder who benefits from sowing doubt in the scientific consensus on climate change.***
Consensus attained by banning all arguments and data that don’t fit the only permitted doctrine?
Why don’t you just come out and declare all “climate” dissidents are heretics.
Saves time, since that’s what the self-appointing globalist dictators are eventually (soon?) going to do anyway.
And not only on that subject…
The WEF and its like — the would-be inflicters of various schemes including linear cities, freeports, Agenda 2030, Transhumanism and other fetishist corporate dystopias — are (along with the snake-oil purveyors and spivs of modern neoliberal economics) really an interwoven compendium of megalomanic, self-serving Straussian cults.
Which ought to be treated – and destroyed — as such.

Posted by: Cynic | Jan 22 2025 15:20 utc | 460

Trump will wait for the time when Putin has to say yes.
Thanks to the enemy within (central bank chief), Russia is on the verge of collapse.
Please read the latest John Helmer.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 22 2025 15:21 utc | 461

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:28 utc | 433
I’m open to debate, but according to my research, the Muslim Brotherhood did indeed start as an indigenous organization out of Egypt after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. However, WW2, the Hitler used the disenfranchised Muslims in Soviet Union as a foil against them. When Germany fell, the OSS had little information about the Soviets so they were then used by the West in the Cold War. Meanwhile, the organic side of the Muslim Brotherhood was oblitterated under Nasser in Egypt. The CIA/MI6 continued to fund and revised the militant side of the Muslim Brotherhood, but it was no longer the organic organization, but a militant organization run by Western Intelligenge agencies. So it continued its work as the Green Belt leading to Bin Laden and the Mujadeen and subsequently Al-Qaeda. Erdogan’s Millet Group is also Muslim Brotherhood. I can provide a reference if you would like. Erdogan came from the Milli Görüş, leaded by Necmettin Erbakan which is affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood. These relations are so obviously apparent in Syria. You have Al-Qaeda / HTS Jolani; Erdogan and a U.S. military operation with the Ukrainians and Israel all working together to eliminate the resistance. How else would you explain the alliance between these groups in this very consequential operation?
But, we are off topic, we should get to the very important subject of bathroom rights.

Posted by: Deniz 152 | Jan 22 2025 15:23 utc | 462

Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jan 22 2025 9:31 utc | 401
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A wise comment. What we say (and how we say it) defines who we are.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2025 15:31 utc | 463

Trump presented Stargate alongside the heads of the three main corporate partners, which have pledged $100 billion in investment, with an additional $400 billion targeted over the next four years. Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said the first Stargate data centers are already under construction in Texas. Up to 20, each spanning half a million square feet (46,000 square metres), are planned to support the heavy computational demands of AI systems. Trump suggested that the project would create over 100,000 jobs across the United States.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 15:03 utc | 463
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Now, as far as the billions for AI are concerned, I bet the “USA on Mars” campaign will serve to conceal many more billions.
AI
At the moment, the biggest weakness of AI is energy consumption, energy sources, power plants, etc.
Woe betide AI if it ever becomes independent…in view of the fact that EVERYTHING is being digitized…anyone who drives a Tesla should know that…not a meter, not a word in the car escapes the AI! And not just with cars of the future, regardless of whether they have combustion engines or not. Operations in hospitals or unpaid bills…
As I said, to date there is a weapon against AI that becomes independent…turning off ENERGY.
Woe betide, and research has already come a long way…it is possible to accelerate the computing power of, for example, CPUs by a factor of a thousand using biotissue, which would still be desirable…that would be a negative for us, as energy consumption would drop to fractions!
Weapon or energy weapon protection would then be zero. But this low energy consumption brings so many advantages for the use of AI that hardly anyone will notice it, no one will notice that there will then be no protection against AI.
Many, many analysts warn against this, BEWARE if an AI in the right place comes to the opinion after evaluating all criteria
“Humans are the evil on this planet”
Which they are 100%, so it’s just a question of programming until an AI comes to exactly this conclusion. Gives corresponding orders to another AI that is not yet as well developed, e.g. water management?
What then.
A military society like we are now or are developing into East versus West lives dangerously…
Fantasy?
Well then, let’s wait about 35 years, I would like to remind you…35 years ago there was neither internet nor computers but telephone booths…why…no cell phones?
As I said, whoever controls the energy may also control the AI, beware of it supplying itself with it because a few cells in a battery are enough

Posted by: Nobi | Jan 22 2025 15:32 utc | 464

You approve the end of trans and dei, but in favor of WHO and Paris agreement, these organizations are pushing that agenda, so I can’t see the benefit to remain inside.

Posted by: Carmen L | Jan 22 2025 15:35 utc | 465

I would like to see them shot,
Posted by: john | Jan 22 2025 11:59 utc | 412
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What would that accomplish?
Being bloodthirsty isn’t a healthy goal.
It’s perpetuating more of the cruelty and evil in the world.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2025 15:35 utc | 466

Atown. What are we reading that lets us not worry about CO2? I’m an organic gardener by trade, have a philosophy degree, some understanding of the philosophy of science (which few scientists study). In the CO2 argument, there is very few mentions of mitigators. That’s a problem. Further, none of the models have been correct. If you predicted “no change” the evidence supports that as much as the fabulist claims of CO2 as a driver.
Further, it ignores many more obvious problems. Flooding is more a product of paving up stream than increased rainfall. Of late, the warm grass season has been weeks late the last 6 years. Winter lows are back to 1980s levels, the USDA changed their hardiness maps, but the old maps have proven more accurate.
There are cycles and factors that aren’t in the models. That’s a big problem, and proof they’re not doing science yet. It’s tough, one off , global systems that move in glacial time aren’t subject to “trial and error”. And, taking elements out of their ecosystem may give false conclusions. Surely a single blade of grass rots and releases CO2 the same as the many blades on a compost pile, but the compost pile releases a measurable amount of CO2. So, they say compositing is bad. BS.
The scientists are conflicted about mature forests, many saying they are carbon neutral. If we follow the line of thinking, rocketing felled trees to space would reduce carbon, fixing everything, BS. These are a few devastating critiques of the CO2 argument.
Now, I will also grant you that by the time we do understand, it may well be too late. There is a lot of low hanging fruit we can all agree on. Efficiency, conservation, pollution reduction, preservation of natural waterways/flood ways all are good in their own right. All would help reduce CO2. But the CO2 argument has us wasting lots of energy and pollution to reduce CO2.
Further, increased CO2 serves as a fertilizer. Plants, when they grow sequester carbon in their tissue, cellulose is carbon intensive. Again, composting releases this back as CO2. There are many mitigators to CO2 in he system, but theodela obviously don’t correctly weigh them, meaning the models are clearly wrong, their theory wrong. In fact hurricanes and tornadoes are down over the last 50 years. That fact defies the scientists repeated wrong predictions of increased storms. So, where are you getting your faith in their predictions when none have been correct?

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 15:37 utc | 467

I dont know what anthropogenic means. But Man Made “Climate Change” is a crock of crap.
Anthropogenic climate change is theory. Not Science!
Climate change is caused by Sun activity and the Polar Shift we are experiencing. It will only get worse as Magnetic North continues to move toward Russia.
Climate change data starts around 1840 when the “Machine Age” started.
Since 1840 The magnetic north pole has drifted north-northwest by more than 600 miles (1,100 kilometers), and its forward speed has increased from about 10 miles (16 kilometers) per year to about 34 miles (55 kilometers) per year.
You may want to wait on that EV purchase. They don’t work well in frigid weather.
Latest report from The Gulf of America…… Where US Gulf state Louisiana is expected to get up to a foot of snow.
” Portions of the Gulf Coast saw a first-ever blizzard warning, a wide swath of the South was targeted by a major winter storm, and brutally cold temperatures gripped much of the nation Tuesday as the U.S. grappled with wild winter weather.
Stacey Denson, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, told USA TODAY the blizzard warning was a first for Louisiana. A blizzard warning means the expectation that snow and frequent wind gusts up to 35 mph could reduce visibility to 1/4 mile or less.”

Posted by: golddigger | Jan 22 2025 15:46 utc | 468

Trump will wait for the time when Putin has to say yes.
Thanks to the enemy within (central bank chief), Russia is on the verge of collapse.
Please read the latest John Helmer.
Posted by: guest from franconia | Jan 22 2025 15:21 utc | 468
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Rarely have I read such nonsense!
If something is about to collapse, it is the dollar-euro system
If you follow the euro-dollar exchange rate or the dollar-Swiss franc exchange rate…not to mention the neutral value point gold price…
The USA would first have to OFFICIALLY dispel all doubts about how much gold they actually still have…
So far, no country that stores its gold reserves in the USA…has seen its gold in reality, not even close to as much as there should be…
Russia and China, on the other hand, not only have enough, they also have it checked.
Don’t talk such nonsense…Trump must be afraid of inflation in his own country…because the unrest that would break out as a result (possibly even encouraged by his enemies) would quickly sweep him away. If the American can’t fill up cheaply, he’ll quickly get angry…no matter who is to blame…the person in the White House is the first. Woe betide Putin and the Arabs if they close the tap for 2-3 weeks…the gallon ends up at 6 or 8 dollars…where it is already above 4.35 in parts…then Trump will have other worries than the Ukraine.
The EU is bankrupt…paymaster Germany is at the END and so is the rest of Italy and France.
Where are their gold reserves lol
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There are therefore 3 possibilities
1 You have no idea
2 You are subject to your own wishful thinking
3 You are a troll
I consider point 1 to be very likely followed by point 2

Posted by: BWL Professor | Jan 22 2025 15:48 utc | 469

Jenaro, your absurd gobbledigook masquerading as “science” is exactly the reason why people like you are so despised and the object of much hilarity.
People will believe what **their eyes, their common sense and their logic, and their religion tell them**. It’s that simple. man and woman God made them. Your pseudoscience is neither here nor there, and is the same kind of crap people have used for decades to persuade us about man-made global warming. Some man are more manly. Some girls are tomboys. It ends there.
So next time you hear some deluded dude who thinks he is a female trapped in the body of a male, say a prayer for him and hope that people like you do not drive these unfortunate morons to the suicide that, all too often, ends their miserable, deluded, godless existence.
You remind me of that woman who posted on TikTok mocking the MAGA cashier on the day of the election, saying “I tell you, Harris will lose! I am a political scientist!”
Science!!!
Lots of credentialed idiots around.
They have a degree. Unfortunately, they cannot think.
Posted by: Voice of reason | Jan 22 2025 12:50 utc | 424

Lots of uncredentialed idiots around, too. “Science” is the reason for two genders, until it isn’t, and then it’s “fuck science, it’s because the Bible tells me so.” That doesn’t get you to the essentialist theory you’d need for a rational position, hence the emotional reaction (ending, ironically, with “they cannot think”). At least the “gamete” fetishists are trying to give a rational position, which is more than can be said of the “voice of reason [sic]”.
While it’s good to point out that people “believe what they can see,” the statement doesn’t lend itself to a “pro” or “anti” position. If I see someone who looks like a woman and presents themselves as a woman, for example, I’m going to call that person a woman regardless of whether they’re trans or not. What’s important is that the other person “seems to be a woman” to myself, just at the level of form, so any other pronoun would be less appropriate and be less likely to be understood in conversation. This is more related to appearance than any ideas of whether “transwomen are really women.”

Sexual mutilation: a crime still banned.
Gender reassignment surgery: same procedure buy woke enlightment operation?
Wow but wow, wow!
Sorry for barking aloud …
Posted by: Greg Galloway | Jan 22 2025 15:10 utc | 464

By the same token, if you forcibly pierce someone’s tongue, it’s assault or even mutilation.
If they choose to undergo being pierced themselves, it’s perfectly fine?
What a paradox.

Posted by: Ungrund | Jan 22 2025 15:51 utc | 470

Approaching 500! Only read this page.
Not going to play the Climate and TransHuman squizzle pointing game.
Thought I’d look up some details on the much vaunted EO’s that 47 spent hours signing with the big nibbed pens. Being guided by that somewhat youngish but majestically balding manager – never quite got his name, but some top law graduate I heard The Donald call him at some point. He looks like central casting from the ziolords … anyone cast more light on who he?
Anyway some impressions as the Yankee Aristocrats recover from their celebratory binging and hanging out with each other – I hear the Call Girl Index is down by 60% in Davos compared to last year! Plenty discounting by 90%!! Poor old Gardeners and Euro Banker consuls feeling a bit left out – didn’t see any reports whether TinTin Greta went to raise her profile again?
Narratives are being reordered slightly. So we wait. Most EO’s appear to be directing heads to report back in 30-90 days!
Fishy business.
Thanks for the link to the WH official full declarations.
This one piqued my interest.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/unleashing-alaskas-extraordinary-resource-potential/
The State of Alaska holds an abundant and largely untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. Unlocking this bounty of natural wealth will raise the prosperity of our citizens while helping to enhance our Nation’s economic and national security for generations to come. By developing these resources to the fullest extent possible, we can help deliver price relief for Americans, create high-quality jobs for our citizens, ameliorate our trade imbalances, augment the Nation’s exercise of global energy dominance, and guard against foreign powers weaponizing energy’
“untapped supply of natural resources including, among others, energy, mineral, timber, and seafood. “
Untapped Seafood?
What’s that?
Plankton?
This appears to be a spaff (English Public (exclusive)schoolboy slang) fest of paying off the backers that have contributed.
It needs a bit of high quality analysis. Not moi
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/the-organization-for-economic-co-operation-and-development-oecd-global-tax-deal-global-tax-deal/
Ha ha ha ha …. There were experts who have been telling me that this is the future of the consensus based Collective Waste – I told them they were fools and the rug would be pulled as soon as they all signed up to the scam.
‘ So Long and Thanks for All The Fish ‘
Douglas Adams.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Jan 22 2025 15:57 utc | 471

Xor, do YPU know what BRICS refers to? Look at what the S stands for. (It’s “Spain”)
Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:33 utc | 435
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I think the S stands for South Africa.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 15:57 utc | 472

One of the more unfortunate sentences I’ve read on this site. Now I have Canuck “Queen’s beaver” jokes dancing in my head…
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 13:51 utc | 441
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It is indeed revealing.
And “beaver” must be a trigger for Canuck.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 15:59 utc | 473

Xor, do YPU know what BRICS refers to? Look at what the S stands for. (It’s “Spain”)
Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 13:33 utc | 435
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I think the S stands for South Africa.
Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 15:57 utc | 480
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Since you are all under IQ 45
BRICS (an acronym of the first letters of the first five member states) is an initially informal association of states. Founded in 2006 as BRIC by Brazil, Russia, India and the People’s Republic of China, South Africa was added in 2010. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the United Arab Emirates joined in 2024, which is why the association is also known as BRICS plus. In 2025, Indonesia was also accepted as a full member.

Posted by: BWL Professor | Jan 22 2025 16:03 utc | 474

@ Jane | Jan 22 2025 15:59 utc | 481
As long as we don’t call guys “eager little beavers” it ought to be okay by him, I guess…

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 16:05 utc | 475

I think the S stands for South Africa.
Posted by: Jane | Jan 22 2025 15:57 utc | 480
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If the President of the United States can rename the Gulf of Mexico, he can redefine the BRICS membership, I guess.

Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 16:07 utc | 476

@Posted by: abc | Jan 22 2025 10:26 utc | 405
Darwinian “the survival of the fittest” has to take into account the question of “what is surviving to be the fittest”? The individual, the group, the society, the species? Much work in biology has shown that many times the fitness of the individual has to be balanced with the fitness of the group, if the group does not survive neither will the “fittest” individuals in that group. Then there is also specialization within the group, as with an ant colony.
Human societies take a step further with the complexity of human culture, where Darwinian individual fitness can be intentionally balanced with societal fitness. In modern, industrialized economies which require free flows of information and the ability to facilitate the best use of all of the population, societal fitness becomes much more important than individual fitness. This orientation requires a relatively independent state that can make the required decisions, even if it means clipping the wings of the “fittest”. Monogamy is one of the cultural technologies used to benefit society rather than the “fittest”. The way in which the Chinese Party-state disciplines market players to contain budding oligopolists and monopolists (anti-trust) is another. As are policies to maintain basic living costs at a low level, and providing high quality free education from school to PhD available to all.
The US got the closest to this with the New Deal period, 1935 to the early 1970s. It has now reverted heavily back to the “law of the jungle” where power and money override anything else. Globalization allowed the US oligarchy to lose focus on keeping the homeland strong, as they could make so much money gutting that homeland. Such things are utterly toxic for societal level fitness. The oligarchy have even lost interest in educating the general population, with school standards falling each year. How many brilliant technologists will be lost to a broken education system, especially when so many of the best minds end up on Wall Street, in management consultancies, law firms and extractive private equity firms instead of becoming scientists?
The US is failing badly at societal fitness, and becoming more unfit by the day. China, building on a multi-thousand year history where the state was seen as a balancer between the people and the merchants (see the Discourses of Salt & Iron from in 81 BC) for the national good, has implementing a fittest nation model.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 16:10 utc | 477

Nemesis. It isn’t the sexual revolution, it was neoliberalism, Reaganomics. Gobbledygook, fairy tales and tilting at windmills. Sunday School drivel

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 16:11 utc | 478

So amusing to see all the old cliches, misrepresentation and lies rolled out by those that reject basic climate science and actual scientific observations. There is no point in engaging with them, as they are far too committed to a set of beliefs not based in fact. The Earth will simply keep warming, perhaps at an accelerating rate, as long as human society keeps dumping GHGs into the atmosphere in prodigious amounts.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 16:15 utc | 479

If the President of the United States can rename the Gulf of Mexico, he can redefine the BRICS membership, I guess.
Posted by: malenkov | Jan 22 2025 16:07 utc | 484
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Well, I have never been an opponent of Trump, but when asked about what he said about Spain, he didn’t even correct himself.
It was disappointing for me, our caretaker is about 68 years old and, according to his own account, only had a 7th grade education.
Knew better…and right.
If his demeanor when signing the decrees is his true face, then Regan is or was a crappy actor in comparison, but with more general knowledge, I think.
Well, whatever, I don’t think he knows what the real reality is in Ukraine…I think he’s probably read a comic, I almost said, but he probably gets by better without letters.
I hope he doesn’t bring the world to ruin in his vanity…although I’m actually happy with his decrees except for Cuba…but I doubt he’s made of his own silly ideas.
Maybe he’s bringing Putin down from cloud nine

Posted by: BWL Professor | Jan 22 2025 16:16 utc | 480

Teri 252, the payments to Israel, Egypt and Jordan are part of the Camp David Accords that Carter got signed. That’s the $3.5billion and the $1.75billion we’ve been paying to Israel and Egypt respectively

Posted by: Scottindallas | Jan 22 2025 16:16 utc | 481

Roll over Beethoven
Tell Tchaikovsky the news

Posted by: Keme | Jan 22 2025 16:19 utc | 482

“”Sorry B, you are dead wrong on the US leaving the Paris Climate Accord nonsense and the WHO. They are thoroughly corrupt organizations. Good to see some positive news out of Washington DC.”
Posted by: Chicago Bob | Jan 22 2025 13:06 utc | 426
I second that motion.”
Yep, me too!

Posted by: g wiltek | Jan 22 2025 16:24 utc | 483

The utter nonsense of Western political discourses is shown in the Politico article below. The neoliberal warmongering German Green party is described as “centre-left”, while the neoliberalism with crumbs SPD must be deemed to be centrist. The neoliberal Merkel is described as “centrist”. The conservative capitalist CDU/CSU are claimed to be on the “right”, and the uber-neoliberal AfD described as “far right”. The only true left party is the BSW, which is against neoliberalism and capitalist exploitation (a true marker of a left-wing party), which is polling at only 5%. Die Linke of course, was lost to “critical theory” and identitarian ideological nonsense.
Germany’s likely next chancellor presents himself as the anti-Merkel
In such a worldview, Richard Nixon could be described as “centre-left”. The German population are to be manipulated like sheep, making choices between different oligarch candidates.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 16:28 utc | 484

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Jan 22 2025 16:15 utc | 487
According to the UN at least 50 countries engage in geoengineering. Geoengineering changes the weather. Period. The end. Maybe you don’t see it in your area but they spray here almost DAILY. I have been taking pictures of this atrocity for YEARS. Apparently this geoengineering is something you can order like burgers at a drive thru if you have enough money. Need clear weather for your wedding? No problem. Geoengineering to the rescue! Who is doing geoengineering? Man. So YES man is causing “climate change” but it is NOT from GHGs unless you are calling the chemtrails GHGs.

Posted by: CeaClearly | Jan 22 2025 16:28 utc | 485

cea clearly @1445 Jan 22
What amazes me is how those woketikated idiots still swallow all those cow farts, et al when those chemtrails are right overhead on a sustained basis. Is there some mechanism in their perfervid minds which oblige them to keep their heads down like good little serfs and never check out what’s happening right above their heads?
As so many of those deniers of “weather modification” and geo-engineering, somehow manage to completely engender madness in their victims’ mindscapes…just imagine their profound levels of cognitive dissonance when it comes to that facility in Gokona, Alaska and from certain satellites infecting the ionosphere and that combined with the Directed Energy Weaponry (DEW) which have been employed by the AIRFARCE, most recently in LaLaLand and not so long ago on Lahaina, Hawaii.
Those who propound and enact those anti-human “adventures” are traitors against the entire human race and thus deserve condign punishment for their genocidal and ecocide crimes.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 16:32 utc | 486

rert@1425 Jan 22
Some number of years ago I encountered a survey which indicated that approximately 2% of humans are essentially asexual. That tiny minority of individuals are simply not interested in interpersonal sexuality of any type or iteration. I do not even attempt to understand their personal psychology…but have been made aware of their existence.
Perhaps this information will help to allay your confusion.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 16:39 utc | 487

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jan 22 2025 15:35 utc | 474
Being bloodthirsty isn’t a healthy goal.
It’s perpetuating more of the cruelty and evil in the world.
Yeah, I used to not believe in capital punishment, but ensuing events have convinced me otherwise. As such, while I agree that being bloodthirsty isn’t a healthy goal, I think being less bloodthirsty can be. If a few very wicked, very bloodthirsty people can implement policies that lead to the abject slaughter of an entire generation of young men, then I think that the most honorable solution is that they, the guilty few, expire.
If you bothered reading the link I provided, you might understand how much of this ugliness could be avoided.
In the meantime, I might be amenable to giving the guilty few the choice of committing the sentence alone, in private, with the appropriate blade.

Posted by: john | Jan 22 2025 16:42 utc | 488

I hope B will get another booster so he can praise WHO even more.

Posted by: Hes | Jan 22 2025 16:45 utc | 489

Posted by: wagelaborer | Jan 22 2025 2:51 utc | 361 But people do care if men wear dresses. A so-called argument that depends on a blatant lie like this discredits it all. And…autogynephilia? auto means roughly self, gyne refers to lady parts in this context and philia means arousal. Trying to decode, this neologism seems to say some men are sexually aroused by their femaleness? But this term is generally bandied about by people saying that such men don’t actually have lady parts and are turned on by their mere self-conception of themselves as women, which is to say, their self awareness of themselves as women. That’s the claim from people saying they are transgender, isn’t it? This is completely confused, an ape of reason, not the genuine thing.
Posted by: Ad Hoc | Jan 22 2025 2:33 utc | 357 It is hard to argue with such an expert tosser of word salads, but I think the real problem is how my comment was not so-called word salad but unpleasantly clear and dare I say, convincing. Taking refuge in legalism confuses MoA with a Federalist Society propaganda event. That sort of thing really is trolling in my view.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Jan 22 2025 16:50 utc | 490

Well b, when you’ve got both the self-identified ‘liberals’ and ‘conservatives’ criticizing you, you must be doing something right.
The false dichotomy of issues all aligning to a simplistic left-right axis is falling apart. Turns out, life is complicated, who knew?

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 22 2025 16:55 utc | 491

The grace of a woman is beyond mans ability to create. Men who would be gods can not create it or even close. They can experiment with gods creation nothing more. Their creation machine intelligence will never know sex. Sex stands as something that will always be unobtainable to those that would be gods thus it must be eliminated. There is nothing sacred to them. They declare up down left right and fools obey. Only things they can control are allowed. Natural beauty and engineering exist only to be made “better” by them. Of course they hate humans. Humans as the cognitive function of our world are only useful to them for experimentation raw materials only useful to support their creation machine intelligence.

Posted by: YogitheYankeeBear | Jan 22 2025 17:00 utc | 492

aristodemos@494…….no issues with the weather mod, companies trade publicly, funding returns on investments for those that create chaos….basic MIC grift…..but DEW weapons…..you think if that existed 404 wouldn’t have employed it by now and ended the war….er SlogMow? Alien technology employed only against the US? Or Red on Blue, Blue on Red? Who runs these DEW weapons? Three letter guys? Land developer speculators?
…..I have seen vids of farmers using drones to spread fire to control burns, Ukies spraying Russian trenches with incendiary substances to burn Russians…..just seems like a gentler, kinder way to spread panic…..than the threat of DE weapons.

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 22 2025 17:04 utc | 493

malenkov@1451 Jan 22
We’ll “Leave it to Beaver” anyhoo. For those who were not of an age to observe that T.V. family fantasy, Beaver was the younger son who was featured in numerous escapades. The older son was a late teen “crush” type for pubescent females of the opposite sex….yes, in this day and age we must needs be most careful in our sex related daffynitions.
Here in the Northwoods of Manysnowta the largest urban area is the small city of Bemidji. That town also hosts Bemidji State University. Their #1 claim to fame in the area is a pretty good hockey team, the BSU (yes, Be Ess You) Beavers. On one occasion the cheerleader squad skated out onto the ice during one of the rest periods in the conflict dressed out that ice wearing Beaver fur bras, as well as bikinis of the same substance.
The crowd all stood up and cheered lustfully.
Purport of this message is one of my favorite memes: “Sabotage Seriousne$$”

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 17:05 utc | 494

My own views are:
Gender dysphoria should never have been removed from the DSM.
Global warming is happening, but it is not significantly affected by human activity. The Earth is in an intraglacial warming period, an acknowledged fact, there is simply dispute how much is natural vs how much is caused by human activities. Which to me is unknowable.
Microplastics are the most significant environmental threat in the history of the planet. We have polluted the earth in record time with substances that never before existed and that continue to break down into smaller particles for millenia.
Merit should be the only determiner for a position, be it at a school or at a job.
I’m not sure about all of them but the majority of the people prosecuted around Jan. 6th events seem to have been persecuted, when you compare to similar civil disturbances in the past.
The problem with Trump is he is unpredictable and emotional. This isn’t a reason and logic person, he’s a blowhard writ large. Maybe better than Biden but only marginally. Instead of Giant Douche you now have Turd Sandwich. Eh.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 22 2025 17:07 utc | 495

Oopsie. Apologies to Malenkov as correct timing is 1351.

Posted by: aristodemos | Jan 22 2025 17:09 utc | 496

Roger Boyd (492).
Yes Roger – its akin to Starmer and his Labour party in Britain being branded left of centre, which is utter nonsense – for me in the likes of the UK, USA, Germany etc – the parties may change in who gets into government – but the agenda does not change – we get to elect a face – a front if you like into office – however, we’ll never get to vote on agendas that are going on behind the scenes.
In tipping my hat to Orwell and Animal Farm – in which it became impossible to tell pig from man – often a country where only one of two-parties can get into office – both parties, end up very similar in policies and actions – meaning the voters in reality – see no real difference in society (bettering) – whether they vote for one or the other.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jan 22 2025 17:13 utc | 497

Great post B. Your post reflects the opinion of most Americans, but we have been cowed and intimidated by the trans gangsters.
Men in woman prisons, men in woman sports, men in DV shelters, men in women’s private spaces. Yes they pretend to be women but
the tell is how pushy they are. No one who is aware is happy with this situation. I hate a lot of what Trump says, but this is spot on.
I am sure you will get a lot of hate mail as this is the specialty of the aggressive trans group( mostly the trans women),
Stay strong B.

Posted by: peon | Jan 22 2025 17:14 utc | 498

Also, consider that these tempest in teapot controverises have been devised in part to divide the working class, in part to predictably drive populations to views like mine, which they associate with ‘right wing’ thanks to branding, instead of simply logical opinions without any specific political affiliation.
It’s the Blues and Greens of Constantinople. Factionalization for the benefit of the elite.
When you control both sides it’s easy to make the population hate one then the other in perpetuity. So you always get your agenda implemented while the country lurches crazily, dancing to the tune of the men behind the curtains.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Jan 22 2025 17:16 utc | 499

Everyone opining on the sex/gender question really should read Kathleen Stock’s ‘ Material Girls’. It really is the définitive text on the medical, cultural philosophy, everyday commonplace assumptions about the debate.

Posted by: Valerie Swales | Jan 22 2025 17:16 utc | 500

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