The Stink-King and the Reek-King.
Clickbait headline: "This little trick could save you millions of dollars!"
Actual story: "Trump fires 6700 IRS employees whose job was to focus on wealthy taxpayers."
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President Bill Clinton cut the federal payroll, too, and subsequently balanced the budget, without tariffing nothin'. But the position of all employees under the axe underwent a full six months examination before a decision was made, not Elon's "tossing a grenade in each office and firing anyone who ran for safety" approach.
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Trump's favorability numbers are crashing and Republican congressmen are feeling the heat. Keep putting the pressure on by calling and writing your elected officials. They particularly fear the humble postcard. Word.
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When Nazi Germany threatened Czechoslovakia both France and Britain decided to appease Hitler by giving him the Sudetenland. Germany did not allow Czechoslovakia to attend the negotiation. (Ukraine: "Now where I have heard that before?")
Churchill's opinion of the agreement was basically "This is not the end, but the beginning."
You don't appease people like Hitler or Putin.
Trump is starting WWIII. And it's not a war against fascism this time, but a war against democracy.
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Also, in 1994, after the Soviet Union had collapsed, Ukraine found itself in possession of a buttload of nukes. The UK, the US and Russia made an agreement with Ukraine that if they gave up their nukes they would be protected and would not ever face invasion.
What Trump is doing, by abandoning Ukraine, is ensuring that nuclear stockpiles worldwide will increase, not lessen. Because you don't invade countries that have nukes. (And it's why Dubya invaded Iraq, pretending it had "mushroom cloud" capability.)
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Just for fun let's compare Russian and American internet.
Russian: Limited access to content outside of Russia. Very little social media, which is tightly censored. The state controls the flow of information which is heavily propagandized.
Result: Authoritarian government.
American: Open to any and everybody. All the social media you can eat, even if foreign owned. Subject to foreign misinformation designed to sow distrust.
Result: Authoritarian government.
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All of these federal employees that the Storm Trumpers are relieving of their honest employment leaves me wondering if the racial makeup may be predominantly non-anglo. It would not surprise anyone if this were true.
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Trump's demand for 50% of Ukraine's rare earth metals is obviously for the benefit of Elon Musk's car business. So is Trump for EVs or against EVs or is he just an asshole playing both sides of the green new deal?
That's a rhetorical question.
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Lefty
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