The Absurd GOP

[Angrboda]

Oh, The Hypocrisy!!

The most criminal American regime is warning its own employees to be less naughty.

The White House has written to staff reminding them that insider trading is a federal offense after a flurry of online bets cashed in on Donald Trump’s foreign policy decisions. The email came after a series of lucrative wagers were placed on Trump’s decisions, such as pausing strikes in Iran and toppling Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, with many of the bets landing in the hours before the president’s announcements.

It goes on to say it is a “criminal offense for anyone to use nonpublic information to buy or sell these contracts,” adding that “government ethics regulations prohibit the use of nonpublic information for the private benefit of an employee or any other third party.”

“All White House employees are reminded that the misuse of nonpublic information by government employees for financial benefit is a very serious offense and will not be tolerated,” it concludes.

Boru

A high-profile US defense department official who oversees the agency’s artificial intelligence efforts made a profit of up to $24m selling a private investment he held in Elon Musk’s AI company earlier this year, according to government ethics records released this month. The value of his stake totaled a maximum of a million dollars when he joined the department.

Emil Michael, who is the Pentagon’s under secretary for research and engineering under the Trump administration, oversees negotiations with AI companies and has been pushing the defense department to rapidly increase the widespread use of AI.

Michael declared in March 2025 that he had a position in xAI valued between $500,000 and $1m.

He sold those holdings on 9 January for between $5m and $25m, according to disclosures filed with the office of government ethics (OGE). He reported that he owned the xAI shares through a company called KQ Partners. (Government financial disclosure reports are designed to show ranges of holdings, rather than precise amounts.) The increase in value amounts to a gain of between 400% and 4,800%.

US defense official overseeing AI reaped millions selling xAI stock after Pentagon entered agreement with company

[Angrboda]

[Fake Messiah]

Katie Miller is now railing against the decline in teen birth rates, claiming that women should not work (especially in the office) and instead have countless babies. Mind you, she didn't give birth in her teens and waited until she was 29 to have her first child. Not to mention that she had a career before she gave birth and after it.

Stephen Miller’s Wife Condemns Teen Birth Rate Falling-‘Biological Destiny’

Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, condemned the teen birth rate having declined in a recent post on X.

Miller shared a screenshot of a graph charting the birth rate decline in the U.S. by age group, that used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was published in a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Pointing to the decline in the teen birth rate, Miller said that hormonal birth control is "killing population growth," and that "our biological destiny is to have babies."

Miller served as communications director for former Vice President Mike Pence. She and Stephen Miller married in 2020. They have three children together and are expecting a fourth child

"Since 2007, the teen birth rate has fallen 72%," Miller wrote. "Hormonal birth control isn’t just poison for women’s minds and bodies—it’s killing population growth."

The teen birth rate fell by 7 percent last year, following a years long decline with the birthrate 15- to 19-year-olds now having fallen by nearly three quarters since 2007.

https://www.newsweek.com/katie-stephen-m...y-11809217

[Ivan Denisovich]

Katie Miller is now railing against the decline in teen birth rates, claiming that women should not work (especially in the office) and instead have countless babies. Mind you, she didn't give birth in her teens and waited until she was 29 to have her first child. Not to mention that she had a career before she gave birth and after it.

Stephen Miller’s Wife Condemns Teen Birth Rate Falling-‘Biological Destiny’

Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, condemned the teen birth rate having declined in a recent post on X.

Miller shared a screenshot of a graph charting the birth rate decline in the U.S. by age group, that used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was published in a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Pointing to the decline in the teen birth rate, Miller said that hormonal birth control is "killing population growth," and that "our biological destiny is to have babies."

Miller served as communications director for former Vice President Mike Pence. She and Stephen Miller married in 2020. They have three children together and are expecting a fourth child

"Since 2007, the teen birth rate has fallen 72%," Miller wrote. "Hormonal birth control isn’t just poison for women’s minds and bodies—it’s killing population growth."

The teen birth rate fell by 7 percent last year, following a years long decline with the birthrate 15- to 19-year-olds now having fallen by nearly three quarters since 2007.

https://www.newsweek.com/katie-stephen-m...y-11809217

Being right winger and hypocrite fits together even better than pancakes and maple syrup. Aside from that how much of a fucking trash and failure of human being one must be to lament decline of teen birth rate?

[Jackalope]

Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi.

"Four legs good, two legs better."

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Katie Miller is now railing against the decline in teen birth rates, claiming that women should not work (especially in the office) and instead have countless babies. Mind you, she didn't give birth in her teens and waited until she was 29 to have her first child. Not to mention that she had a career before she gave birth and after it.

Stephen Miller’s Wife Condemns Teen Birth Rate Falling-‘Biological Destiny’

Katie Miller, wife of White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, condemned the teen birth rate having declined in a recent post on X.

Miller shared a screenshot of a graph charting the birth rate decline in the U.S. by age group, that used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was published in a recent Wall Street Journal article.

Pointing to the decline in the teen birth rate, Miller said that hormonal birth control is "killing population growth," and that "our biological destiny is to have babies."

Miller served as communications director for former Vice President Mike Pence. She and Stephen Miller married in 2020. They have three children together and are expecting a fourth child

"Since 2007, the teen birth rate has fallen 72%," Miller wrote. "Hormonal birth control isn’t just poison for women’s minds and bodies—it’s killing population growth."

The teen birth rate fell by 7 percent last year, following a years long decline with the birthrate 15- to 19-year-olds now having fallen by nearly three quarters since 2007.

https://www.newsweek.com/katie-stephen-m...y-11809217

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I don't think these nutters are as upset about 'killing population growth' as they are about teens becoming 72% smarter.

Boru

[h4ym4n]

Losing their future xian soldiers. Who’s gonna fight future religious wars?

[Deesse23]

Losing their future xian soldiers. Who’s gonna fight future religious wars?

Thats what it is always with right wing extremists, christian and otherwise: They need sheep and cannon fodder.

[Jackalope]

Losing their future xian soldiers. Who’s gonna fight future religious wars?

Future capitalist drones as well. Who's gonna meet quarter-over-quarter growth expectations?

[Angrboda]

Rep. Mike Turner completely washed his hands of President Trump’s Iran war narrative during a painfully awkward interview.

Turner, 66, appeared on Face the Nation Sunday, and repeatedly dodged questions on Trump’s mixed messaging about whether or not Iran had planted mines in the Strait of Hormuz.

“Well, I think—I think you’ll have to ask the president. It’s his tweet," Turner immediately answered.

Mike Turner repeatedly told CBS host Margaret Brennan that he could not answer for the president over Iran war claims. CBS News

“But that’s the point, that Congress has not been briefed on that,” host Margaret Brennan noted, with her GOP guest simply repeating: “It’s his tweet.”

As Turner interrupted to echo: “I think you’ll have to ask the president,” Brennan asked more personally: “As a member of oversight and armed services, do you feel like this has actually been adequately explained to you? Because the American public does not.”

Turner batted off the question and continued his broken record interview tactic by saying once more: “The president just tweeted this this morning. So you’ll have to ask the president.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-rep-le...interview/