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Bad Bunny's avatar

This move to deny Afghan refugees continued asylum here reeks of hypocrisy. During the 2024 campaign Trump used this issue as a cudgel against Harris. Now he shows his true colors -- white vs. brown, of course. Shame on this liar and hypocrite! Shame!

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SLMontgo's avatar

Due to home responsibilities, I stopped traveling last August. Now, even if the reason for my grounding should be ended, I'm taking a train.

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Sabrina Wood's avatar

I do truly really really detest this regime, the republican politicians, and especially the vile base that supports this crap.

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Jarno Jokinen's avatar

"Monday marked yet another day saturated with the latest Trump fails. From surrendering to China on tariffs, accepting a luxury jet from a foreign country" Worst is yet to come. Donald "The Beast" Trump is building a wall once again. Colossal tariff wall that is the beginning of the end for the system of down. At first the beast will pull the plug out of the global economy. The worst financial crisis of human history will pull a swarm of the banks underwater and the bank run begins. Then the beast will collapse a mountain of debt shattering the backbone of the monetary system causing a systemic risk to realize. Finally the beast will cast American citizens into a system slavery under the name of Ronald Wilson Reagan, just to "honor his legacy" count the number. After the destruction a new world order will be established in the US. And the Golden Age begins from the ruins of the world wide collapse. All of the system slaves will love it. No more cash - just digital transactions. No more traditional criminal activity. No more tax evasion. No more transactions without the "all seeing eye". Outcasts will hate the world without freedom, hope and privacy. To cover up the mess and distract the public by smoke and mirrors, the beast will engage in a war with Iran. Lies and deceit, corruption and decay, dancing on the graves will continue. Until; Black hole sun, won't you come, won't you come... I want to play a game. Time has come to opt out of the empire of filth. Live or die...

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Carol Nelson's avatar

I like this format. It's a nice, compact list of the atrocities that the regime is perpetrating on America.

I was reading about the elections going on in the Philippines and came across The Hague holding Duterte for his crimes. It gave me hope that there will be consequences for the Trump regime after Trump grants blanket pardons for his administration. I particularly liked the part where they arrested Dutarte as he was boarding a plane to leave the country. Nice touch Hague!

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William Jones's avatar

What the hell is wrong with Trump? This is another act of betrayal against the Afghans who helped us. Their fate is sealed. Hopefully the courts can intervene.

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Claudia Miller's avatar

WOW, ending protections for Afghans that helped US soldiers in Afghanistan . Incredible. A Republican Regime and Republicans in Congress are doing this. WOW We are truly in the upside-down.

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drbilldean@gmail.com's avatar

Cheeto’s Trade Game

Free trade benefits the consumer but when business colludes with government the result is protectionism where the consumer loses due to necessary inflation that comes with such policy Tariffs are a form of protectionistic policy which are contrived out of a paranoia that the Orange Cheeto has fabricated This developed fantasy that the strongman has created now gives him the reason to slap tariffs on other countries that are “ripping us(US) off”

But it’s just a fantasy, a game Cheeto is playing with the American electorate The unfair advantage that Der Fuhrer claims is of America’s own doing Even if manufacturing could be brought back to the US….and that’s a big if…..with all the cost constraints such as labor, regulationary hurdles, and property costs production would still be feasible in the US But instead of businesses working to create a manufacturing base they have lobbied the Cheeto for a protectionisitc policy ie tariffs And even if businesses tried to manufacture they have been out of the loop for so long that they would produce an inferior product that would not sell on the global market

Cheeto’s upside is that he creates a middle class tax to an already financially strained economic group so he can fund his tax cuts for the uberwealthy donors, all the while cultivating a plutocracy which can remain in power forever Meanwhile Der Fuhrer destroys the democratic republic

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Jeanine Brown's avatar

I become angrier with each passing day announcing more cuts, illegal deportations and the "silence" of the gutless, evil repuglicans.

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Sarah's avatar

How are these acts saving money?

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TR's avatar

They are not, that's all just for the future of musk's companies, sidelining regulation inspections and lawsuit

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Jane in NC's avatar

Remember all the performative caterwauling from elected Rs about the need to protect our Afghan allies and remove them to the US for their safety? Wanna bet not one republican will publicly criticize this heartless, gutless move by Kristi De Vil?

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MPT's avatar

Simple trump admin equation. Brown and Black people can die, white people will be saved. Sending Afghans to back is like sending them to a harsh life or death after they sacrificed so much to help US. It's disgusting, grotesque, pathological, and cruel. I wonder how many children they will force out who will be sent to a hellscape where education is only for boys and girls are sent to slave environments. Classy bunch that trump admin... But those wealthy white South African farmers will be greeted with open arms as trump sends children dying of cancer to places where they will die sooner. If only those brown children and families were white....

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Kathy Tankersley's avatar

The racism/bigotry brought out in the open by so many Americans with the full throttle policies of the current fascist regime, makes my skin crawl. It’s profoundly disgusting to me that many people are oakie dokie fine with targeting vulnerable minorities ( LGBQT, POC, Jews, Muslim, etc). We, as a nation, have come to an abrupt halt in any progress for future generations that the Biden administration had fought for the path forward, but no, we keep voting republicans in office who continue to, and always will, block progress for the majority of Americans. The republicans’ s sole objective is to protect the billionaire donor class at all costs, pushing the wish list of the 1%, while the needs of the rest of us, the 99% are ignored.

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Julia Morrell's avatar

Well also have to include abortion, immigration as part of republicans goal.

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MPT's avatar

Well said, It’s profoundly disgusting to me that many people are oakie dokie fine with targeting vulnerable minorities ( LGBQT, POC, Jews, Muslim, etc).

If dems weren't so weak, feeble and clueless, maybe none of this would have happened. I knew GOP didn't give a damn about anyone but wealthy white people, but I didn't think dems were so useless. Dems need to become punchers instead of the punching bag.

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