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The answer is obvious: neither one is telling the truth, because they never do.

The problem is, though, that the powers of the Presidency are broad, and there is no part of the Constitution that says you can go back and invalidate the actions of a past President. There is even historical precedent for this, because near the end of Wilson's presidency, it's been commonly recognized that he was greatly incapacitated after a stroke in 1919, and his wife basically ran the country from then on. (There was no 25th amendment back then, but that can't be invoked retroactively either) If there was any time when Wilson's opposition could have opened this can of worms, it was then.

So no matter how much merit you may think this has, if we are a nation of laws then whether or not the President is at his best at all times during his term simply doesn't matter. Trump is bringing this up now because he knows

1. Biden was actually fit to govern, even if he was diminished
2. Trump has no issues lying to get what he wants
3. If he can get the courts to embrace this lie, then he can get them to embrace others. And thats when the shit hits the fan.

So like so many other things Trump lies about, it's win/win. If he wins, then he can push other lies to get the unlimited power he craves. If he loses, he still makes the other side spend money, while he can find a different lie to win on.

It's tough to handle this fortune and fame

Everybody's so different, Joe hasn't changed

Certs and experience are more important for sysadmin type jobs anyway. Besides, if the company values a degree more than your experience, would you really want to work there?

I'm guessing that UC Berkeley Professor's PhD was not in English

Hurry up and clone that ASAP, this is gonna get taken down once DOGE realizes what it is

He is missing a key point: his dad built his real estate empire in Queens, and when Donald Trump took it over in the 70s, he had aspirations on Manhattan. But while he could make deals there, the deal makers there never fully accepted him.

https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/articles/2020-11-13/donald-trump-raised-and-rejected-by-new-york-city

Though he is the scion of a wealthy real estate family, the city's old aristocracy never quite accepted Trump. In a tribal city, Donald Trump has no real tribe.

Since he began running for office, much has been made of Trump's often failed efforts to gain approval from the Manhattan elite. That hardly made him unique: Many strivers never gain entrance into New York high society.

It's quite clear to me that he is so obsessed with NYC because nobody that mattered accepted him as an equal. So like so much in MAGA, the animosity is explained by a long grudge over hurt feelings.

In today's environment, a Chinese national asking for special permission to do science is equivalent to putting a big sticky note on his own back saying "deport me". He shouldn't have smuggled it, but asking permission wouldn't have worked at all.

Sadly, his best bet would have been to take his research somewhere else. (Edited to add: oh wait, it was the girlfriend's research? Now they're both getting deported)

It is likely the car USB port is looking through directories for MP3 files, and thats not now those iPods present themselves when hooked up via USB. You might be able to find an audio-to-bluetooth adapter, but it is likely you will not be able to control the device through the car's interface, so you would have to press play manually.

(Side note: older cars with USB might have a very low-level relationship with the USB sticks, where they read files in the order they were written to the device, without regard to what folders you put them in. There are utilities that can reorder the files' physical position on the stick so that albums play in order)

"Not just any Democrat.... a lady Democrat. We'd go to war at least once a month!"

Trump certainly has no problem with people who cross-dress. If you haven't already, search teh intarwebs for "Trump Giuliani drag". It's a real thing.

The grift was peanuts compared to now, though, because Trump hadn't found religion in crypto yet. He didn't release his shitty NFTs until 2022. That's when he found out how much money there is to be "made" by attaching his brand to digital tokens.

Don't forget installing Starlink uplinks all over the federal government to upload sensitive information to Russia the Cloud....

I think it's an indictment of the zero-sum mentality that is driving the Trump Administration's thinking, and to a lesser extent was behind this scientist's deportation. It's hyper-focused in the present, and how someone can "win" a deal right now, ignoring the long-term repurcussions.

But maybe not ignoring them entirely: once these researchers go back home and improve science outside of the US, the same people who ejected them will use their progress in other countries as an excuse to hunker down even further and exclude more foreigners. So while it's a losing proposition for the country as a whole, it helps consolidate power for the people making the decisions. And what is more important, really?

It's because the administration is not counting on winning the case on its merits. They are counting on winning the case because they expect judges that Trump appointed to create new precedent in his favor. He wants "his" judges to do what he wants. Judges that don't immediately comply (particularly conservative judges) will immediately be put on the "nasty" list.

Do not forget all the J6ers he pardoned. These people showed they would do violence for Trump once, and they got rewarded for it. They will do it again. Also, the administration has already started arresting judges they don't like. And for all the compliant judges, we all know that the Supreme Court recently made bribes gratuities legal, and the President is literally making his own currency now. So he has both sticks and carrots to use to get his way.

Congress has rolled over in submission to King Trump, and he is now working on the judiciary.

There's been talks that Elon would use ketamine as a suppository.

I bet you just pulled that one out of his ass....

Don't forget installing a bunch of Starlink access points all over government to upload all the data to Russia the cloud ...

Trump’s remarks were a far cry from his statement in the immediate aftermath of Biden’s diagnosis.

“Melania and I are saddened to hear about Joe Biden’s recent medical diagnosis,” he wrote. “We extend our warmest and best wishes to Jill and the family, and we wish Joe a fast and successful recovery.”

There's no way Trump actually wrote that

You can mint tokens on solana, cardano and plenty of others.

Exactly. And most of those tokens are shitty, because anyone can make them, and they are not useful for anything. The few that have utility are only useful because they have been declared by their founders to represent some other asset: dollars (like Tether), votes in some governance protocol, even access to the President.

Whereas SOL and ADA can't just be made on demand, by anyone. The native cryptocurrency has some scarcity at least. And utility, but let's face it, their main utility is to create the shitty tokens. (I bought some ADA in the hopes that their smart contracts would be interesting, it turns out all I bought was regret.)

Still, I'd much rather buy SOL or ADA than the craptastic tokens they enable.