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I wonder if Trump knows that the only technology companies that can deliver machines that can facilitate making the highest resolution patterns for silicon chips are European. What if the EU stops delivery of deep UV lithography machines from ASML to American companies? What if he lets Russia invade Germany and lets them destroy the only factory in the world that can make the optics for ASML’s machines? Just a curiosity.

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4/4/25: China Calls Trump's Bluff, Stocks Plummet, Lawyer Responds To JD Vance

Krystal, Ryan and Emily discuss China calling Trump's bluff on tariffs, stock market reacts, and a lawyer for a wrongly deported man responds to JD Vance.

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4/4/25: China Calls Trump's Bluff, Stocks Plummet, Lawyer Responds To JD Vance

The battle between Democrats and Republicans is a distraction. The true fight is elitists vs. populists, and elitists have overtaken both parties. The Litmus test is Israel on the left and Epstein on the right. We need to vote in populists to both parties, and then we may finally have politicians that we feel represent our actual views as American citizens. The key is electing people who are strong enough and transparent enough to resist elite influence once an elected official. I’ve started thinking about candidates primarily as populists vs elitists and if I have a populist candidate, I vote for them.

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Can Democratic senators vote to remove Chuck Schumer as minority leader?

THE SHUTDOWN IS ENDING, DEMS GET NOTHING

Senate Dems are voting for a (non) deal to end the shutdown.

Republicans get to take a win while Senate Dems yield to whatever Republicans want uin exchange for a “promise” to allow a MID-DECEMBER VOTE on the ACA subsidies.

Notice, there is no promise to allow a vote now with the deal, nor a promise to vote for and fund the subsidies. As well as the fact it’s a “promise”. Pinky swear!

Dems are literally throwing away all of their power and leverage for empty promises from the most corrupt regime America has ever seen; one which has already betrayed most if not all of its promises - unless it’s fascist in nature.

One might speculate that Senate and establishment Dems want to quell any and all excitement and inertia that leftists and progressives have accomplished this past week.

The joke will be on them, however, when they face primary challenges like they’ve never seen before. We could get an entirely New Democratic Party if people just ...

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