Actually it’s worse! Because the current US secretary of Commerce, Howard Luttnick, and his sons went around to companies most impacted by the illegal tariffs, and said that they’d pay them a small amount of money now, for the rights to the full tariff refund later. Basically betting that the tariffs would be ruled illegal, and that there would be massive refunds issued. So they bought up the rights to millions of refunds, for pennies on the dollar, effectively leveraging their insider knowledge of the issue, in one of less blatant instances of corruption within this administration.
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jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump announces re-election bid in rambling address to Washington media
3·3 days agohuh, you’re a bit of a loser, aren’t chya?
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump announces re-election bid in rambling address to Washington media
21·4 days agoyou made a dumb comment and several people corrected you.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Senator Calls for Mamdani to Be Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo
5·4 days agoI would take the nationalization of vital industries, like space travel, air travel, trains, education, and healthcare… but
yeah, not that.
Automatic license plate reader (ALPR) companies like Flock Safety are quietly trying to build a nationwide mass surveillance system. If there are Flock cameras in your city, they are tracking, logging, and sharing your movements without a warrant.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Senator Calls for Mamdani to Be Arrested and Sent to Guantanamo
37·4 days agoCore Features
One Ruler: Power belongs to a single leader or a small group with no free elections.
Extreme Pride: People are taught to love their country above all else, often looking down on other groups.
No Freedom: The government uses police and military force to silence anyone who disagrees.
Strict Control: Businesses and daily life are heavily watched and run to match the goals of the state.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Trump announces re-election bid in rambling address to Washington media
61·4 days agoSounds like you’re intentionally downplaying a constitutional crisis. The first one was interrupted by a gunman trying to save America. This rescheduled one was last night, where he announced his intention to run for a third term.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•FBI Director Kash Patel plans Russia trip
9·7 days agoremember that time republicans spent July Fourth in moscow definitely not coordinating cyber attacks and carpet bombing the US with misinformation prior to the 2020 election? You know, the election that trump just accidentally revealed russia 100% helped him get elected president?
or were those different elections? it’s so hard to keep track of all the russian election interference that’s been utilized by republicans for the last decade. It’s almost like the russians have some big secret on all the republicans that they don’t want the US people to know about…COUGHEpstienFilesCOUGH COUGH
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Lesbians like me joined forces with conservatives. Now they're turning on us.
62·9 days agostupid self-hating bitch.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Ohio Dem Party Has Banned Criticism Of Gov. Candidate Amy Acton Calling Trans Girls “Boys”
6·9 days agoJust one more reason why I left Ohio, and why I’ll never live there again. Absolute shit hole.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•FCC approves giant space mirror as astronomers warn of risks to the night skyEnglish
252·9 days agoI was just postulating to a friend, that if we built a huge array of solar panels, set out in a pattern not unlike solar sails, and deployed them out in-between the Earth and the Sun, we could block an appreciable amount of heat, which might act as a way to slow down climate change on our planet. Additionally this array could be connected in a grid, making it a huge space station, and energy source, where we could potentially use it as a base to start collecting and mining asteroids.
And then I read about these dumb mother fuckers who want to redirect sunlight back at the earth, making climate change worse, all to replace a couple flood lights? How fucking stupid is the person who brought this to reality? Jesus fucking christ.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Plane passenger invoked Sharia law to avoid sitting next to a woman, then attacked flight attendantEnglish
171·10 days agoThe ultra-orthodox follow a strict policy of gender segregation and, in Israel, have insisted that women ride at the back of buses.
trash religion.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
politics @lemmy.world•Mamdani Says He Is Examining Whether His Government Can Arrest Netanyahu During NYC Visit
31·10 days agofucking BASED. This guy is amazing.
Americas Mayor.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•GameStop CEO Says Games Are "Irrelevant" To Company RevenueEnglish
82·12 days agobro thinks funko pops are a hobby 🤣
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Extinction Rebellion claims responsibility for chemical-filled balloon attack targeting Microsoft datacenter projectEnglish
18·12 days agoMight not be the best way to do it, but hey, they’re doing something. I’m proud of them.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•GameStop CEO Says Games Are "Irrelevant" To Company RevenueEnglish
92·12 days agobro nothing makes me less interested in knowing a person than finding out they have a funko pop collection
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Saudi Arabia reassures LGBTQ+ visitors ahead of 2034 World CupEnglish
14·13 days agoEmperor Palpatine assures Rebel community, “I definitely won’t somehow mysteriously return.”
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•‘Zara death pants’: are these the world’s most dangerous trousers?English
25·13 days agoThis is stupid. My JNCO Jeans back in the 90’s would drag behind me everywhere I went. Water from puddles, bits of crap from the ground, literal crap from the ground, my JNCO Jeans picked it ALL up. I carried that shit with me, I didn’t care, I looked cool as shit. When I went to the mall (Mall; noun: an ancient place of commerce) and got on the escalator, I hiked my jeans up so that the puddley excrement skimmed against my bare shins, and I wouldn’t get sucked down by the demons.
Fashion is cyclical I guess, but stupidity remains constant.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Pete Hegseth launches joint task force to crack down on information leaksEnglish
8·15 days agoIf you weren’t doing so much stupid, illegal shit, then you wouldn’t have to worry about leaks.
jpreston2005@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft admits Windows 11 has a GDID tracker with no off switch, first documented publicly in an FBI hacker complaintEnglish
52·15 days agoI downloaded this program called “Driver Easy,” which scans my hardware, searches automatically for driver updates, downloads and installs them for me. If I could download a wizard that got rid of windows, installed a nice user-friendly version of linux, while keeping my old programs, files and junk… I’d do it in a heartbeat. All I want to do is play my video games from Steam, download shit to watch, browse the internet, write in Libreoffice… Can I do all those things with Linux? Can I download some install wizard to switch?
If that wizard existed, a shit ton of people would switch. It’s just the idea of deleting my current OS and putting in a new one makes me thing I’m gonna brick my machine.

They did all that terrible shit to these journalists, because they posted one short article about how the Ebay CEO was earning 152 times that of it’s employees.
What’s MORE ridiculous, is that’s from 2019. Now it’s more like 300 times.
I feel like that intimidation campaign of sending live cockroaches and bloody pig masks should really be going the other way, dontchya think?