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Key takeaways from Trump’s press conference:
X.com ^ | 1:42 PM · Feb 13, 2025 | Libs of TikTok✓@libsoftiktok

Posted on 02/13/2025 11:54:07 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

- Will be looking at the IRS
- Car tariffs are coming soon
- Would love to have Russia back in G7
- Elon Musk’s DOGE is doing a great job
- Deadline to ban TikTok could be extended
- Taiwan took our chip business—we want it back
- Not concerned about countries shifting business to China
- Wants talks on military spending cuts with Russia & China
- No need for producing or stockpiling new nuclear weapons
- BRICS nations playing with the dollar could face 100%+ tariffs


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TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: brics; china; g7; irs; omgputinputinputin; omgrusharusharusha; press; trump; usdollar
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To: sam_whiskey

We are at no disadvantage. 300 modern nukes are more than enough.

Any use of nukes will end the world.


21 posted on 02/13/2025 12:12:41 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: dp0622

I don’t know what he’s told and neither do you. He may or may not know that and given past behavior by bureaucracy they could have misled him. Maybe the public announcement is an opening round of a arms control negotiation ploy. We shall see!


22 posted on 02/13/2025 12:12:42 PM PST by Reily (a)
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To: Theoria

TikTokkers helped Trump get elected, so there’s that.


23 posted on 02/13/2025 12:12:52 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Fury

The US has 300 Minuteman 3 ICBMs in silos around the USA currently. Currently the Arms Agreement is 1 warhead per missile but it can carry 3 if needed

900 nukes on just the ICBMs is enough to destroy, Russia, China and Iran

At some point people are finally go to have to realize the Cold War been over for about 35 years now


24 posted on 02/13/2025 12:13:04 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Reily

The US Airforce has a plan to replace the current ICBMs in the 2030s. There is time to negotiate this


25 posted on 02/13/2025 12:15:21 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: packagingguy

I do.
EPA did a good job initally, but they should be disbanded NOW! States have figured it out and will cover it.


26 posted on 02/13/2025 12:15:22 PM PST by rellic (No such thing as a moderate Moslem or Democrat )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes, that was 2024 tik tok, 2020 tik tok was anti trump algo. That's the odd thing about this entire banning exercise.
27 posted on 02/13/2025 12:15:25 PM PST by Theoria
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To: MNJohnnie

Amen. We need enough for deterrence, no need to pay enough to obliterate the planet 427 times over.


28 posted on 02/13/2025 12:16:12 PM PST by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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To: sam_whiskey

“That one worries me slightly.” Me, too. Nuclear weapons don’t age well and reliability degrades.


29 posted on 02/13/2025 12:16:33 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (They were the FA-est of times, they were the FO-est of times.)
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To: packagingguy

He’s correct. Chip business can be very bad for the environment if not properly handled or disposed of.

Chip Production’s Ecological Footprint: Mapping Climate ...

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
https://www.interface-eu.org › publications › chip-prod...
Jun 20, 2024 — This paper analyzes where the chip production process is particularly harmful to the environment or climate and where there is potential to make the process ...
‎Main Takeaways · ‎Introduction · ‎The Big Picture: Mapping the...

Chip Manufacturing Shortcuts Harm Our Health And ...

Forbes
https://www.forbes.com › Innovation › Sustainability
Dec 17, 2024 — Though PFAS and other harmful chemicals are common in chipmaking, Congress voted to exempt many federally funded chips manufacturing ...
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The chip manufacturing industry: Environmental impacts ...

ScienceDirect.com
https://www.sciencedirect.com › article › abs › pii
by M Ruberti · 2023 · Cited by 58 — Chip production is highly input-intensive with huge environmental impact. This is the first paper on the eco-performance assessment of the chip sector.
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Why chip manufacturers choose Arizona’s desert environment

Arizona State University (ASU)
https://fullcircle.asu.edu › features › why-chip-manufac...
Sep 10, 2024 — Beyond water, chip fabrication requires geologically stable ground, low humidity and a positive business climate for manufacturers and the ...
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Environmental group raises safety concerns about Intel ...

10tv.com
https://www.10tv.com › article › news › local › environ...
Jan 30, 2025 — Chip manufacturing requires highly toxic chemicals. For example, chips are coated with a light-sensitive compound that allow chips to be ...
Missing: environmentalist ‎production

What the Building Chips in America Act could mean ...

Environmental Working Group
https://www.ewg.org › news-insights › news › 2024/10
Oct 25, 2024 — The Building Chips in America Act may help boost domestic production of semiconductors, but by exempting certain projects from environmental ...
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The computer chip industry has a dirty climate secret

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › environment › sep › se...
Sep 18, 2021 — As demand for chips surges, the semicondutor industry is trying to grapple with its huge carbon foot print.


30 posted on 02/13/2025 12:20:40 PM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Toyota is so heavily associated with the U.S. it’s almost like an American company.


31 posted on 02/13/2025 12:21:03 PM PST by Borges
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To: Borges

Yeah that one thing most US people do not understand. Most “foreign” cars are produced here in the USA while Mexico and Canada produce most “US” cars.


32 posted on 02/13/2025 12:24:01 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The US Airforce has a plan to replace the current ICBMs in the 2030s. There is time to negotiate this


33 posted on 02/13/2025 12:24:50 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: All

Factoid few are aware of:

70% of US nuclear warheads are on US submarines. 36% of Russia’s warheads are on submarines.

The disparity is from awareness that distances from the coast(s) to ICBM bases in Dakota Wyoming Montana is so much shorter than that for Russia. The Russians get much more warning of warheads inbound and time to respond than the US does.


34 posted on 02/13/2025 12:32:19 PM PST by Owen
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To: clee1

>>We are at no disadvantage. 300 modern nukes are more than enough.

Any use of nukes will end the world.
>>

How many nuclear explosions have taken place on Earth since 1944, just before US use in Japan.

ChatGPT: Well over 2000. This includes testing by the US, USSR/Russia, China, Pakistan, India, France, UK


35 posted on 02/13/2025 12:37:09 PM PST by Owen
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Not sure about taiwan “taking” our chip business away

Intel kinda made some dumb mistakes as well as some microsoft moves that screwed them in the long run

Resting on their laurels, so to speak


36 posted on 02/13/2025 12:39:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Fury

Nope.

ALL wars (yes, ALL!) are banker’s wars. All. Solve that issue, and nuke stockpiles will be history.


37 posted on 02/13/2025 12:39:59 PM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Many X accounts now reporting that DOGE has entered the IRS building


38 posted on 02/13/2025 12:40:38 PM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: MNJohnnie

This isnt counting whats on the subs too


39 posted on 02/13/2025 12:41:19 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump is being badly short sighted on this “No need for producing or stockpiling new nuclear weapons”

If anything we need more as Nukes do go bad with time...


40 posted on 02/13/2025 12:46:23 PM PST by dpetty121263
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