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We all knew Boris was dodgy. This proves it! One of orange guy's defense attorneys stepped down because of that shill. Don't recall the attorney's name, there were so many. Said ol' Boris kept getting in the way.

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11-26-24

Get off your asses and organize a Trump Counter Inauguration…like WE DID when Nixon was elected —

https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph084-b001-f094-sl004-i012

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We already watched how inept the 45th administration was at dealing with the Opioid crisis and the Covid Pandemic. So why do the MAGA voters feel the 47th will be more successful?

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Please repeat after me..."GOP good; Dems bad"

There you go...if you wish for more direct reprogramming of your brain...please start watching FoxNews.

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MAGAs think the only things that Trump did wrong about Covid were: 1. Signing on to short-term lockdowns. 2. Promoting the development of vaccines.

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Sadly we may experience another pandemic while he’s in charge. Avian flu keeps getting closer to being spread from human to human.

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Is there a better litmus test for how crazy the MAGAs are then their reaction to vaccines that saved millions of lives...with Trump getting the credit?

I mean...seriously...how bassackwards is that?

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You know...have we entered the "Shoot them on 5th Avenue" phase of Trump in politics?

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Depends on whether the Senate approves a Putin girlfriend as the head of all intelligence agencies. If they approve Tulsi, we're screwed. The Intelligence Agencies may have to be the Resistance in government. Like Admiral Canaris was during Hitler's time. He managed to survive until 1944 when he was finally arrested. He was executed literally days before Flossenburg was overrun by the Americans.

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Reading this announcement of tariffs makes me wonder if there is a switch in the Mexican, Canadian, or Chinese possession that turns off the flow of fentanyl. Seems like someone believes that.

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Well now...that's a good point. Maybe they'll start squeezing in guacamole into the fentanyl shipping containers to avoid the Tariffs.

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The Wharton School has evidently been selling diplomas.

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Who grifts the griftsmen?

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Tariffs on avocados hurt all the "the right people". Avocado toast loving millennials. Vegetarians. Latin American immigrants. Vegans.

As someone cares deeply about fiber and unsaturated fat intake, I saw this coming. When the come for my hummus though I'll start railing about my second amendment rights!

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You don't want to buy Mexican avocados anyway. The orchards are being run by violent cartels now. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/13/americas/avocado-cartel-us-mexico-intl-latam/index.html

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Another reason that Trump loves tariffs is that he knows many companies will begin to hard lobby that they would be exempt. I’m sure Trump will find a way to give certain people exemptions, And even though the Supreme Court said that actually taking bribes could still be considered a crime for a president, they could change their mind if they get their cut.

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Wrote about this back in October, actually:

"When we’ve critiqued Trump’s plan to make the federal government run on tariffs in the past, we’ve mostly focused on his cockamamie economic thinking.1 But a massive across-the-board increase of federal tariffs would also mean a massive increase in the president’s discretionary control over various parts of the economy through the distribution of waivers and exclusions."

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/a-hatefest-at-the-garden

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Prophetically spot on!

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Yes...totally a "power" move...and a negotiating tactic. He'll just wait by his phone for the phone calls.

He's such an idiot playing games with our country for his own ego's sake.

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He claims to have stopped numerous wars just by warning other world leaders they'd better not try.

How any educated person could put any trust in his "leadership" is beyond mystifying.

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They're in it for the money.

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Anyone who isn't worried about an enormous brain drain in the federal workforce, once Trump & his minions begin firing federal workers, needs to quickly pick up a copy of The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis. In some cases, like NOAA, the FDA, the Dept of Agriculture & the Dept. of Energy, these employees often literally save our lives!

In case you're interested, the "fifth risk" turns out to be bad project management & willful ignorance.

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The MAGAs don't deserve the country they live in and they don't know that the country's much better than the trash heap they want to act like it is.

It's like we're giving the power to the person and people least deserving of it. It's madness.

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Great word, “coupster”—sounds racy.

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Putting aside the general case against tariffs (the validity of which I'll stipulate), do critics of Trump's schemes and fixations still think "constructive engagement" with China is a good thing?

Or do they just believe that economically disengaging from China would harm only American consumers and perhaps the very Chinese workers it is conceivably intended to help?

Should whether to buy the products of (arguably) slave labor be a private consumer choice, not something a government should try vainly to dictate?

(Needless to say, pangs of conscience are the last thing I would attribute to Donald Trump.)

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The funny thing is that 25% of Tesla's income comes from China. So clearly Musk LOVES China.

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My initial (always wrong) response is that: all the countries in the world excluding the US should get together to negotiate a treaty that

1. guarantees free trade and excludes the US;

2. automatically imposes a cumulative retaliatory tariffs on US imports. (Canadian farmers should get government handouts to construct greenhouse farms for growing any product currently exported from the US, that we cannot get from Mexico or other Equatorial countries);

3. freely accepts any and all people who are either forcefully deported or voluntarily emigrate from the US.;

4. requires all governments and companies to refuse to give any and all information to the US government its residents, and any companies headquartered in the US.;

5. requires all treaty signatories to immediately confiscate all US commercial assets located on their territories, sell them off to non US headquartered companies. Under this part of the treaty, any subsidiaries of companies owned in whole or part, or with investors from the US would not be eligible to purchase said commercial assets; and

6. require all businesses to divest all US shareholders.

I cannot think of anything else at the moment. But, if the Trump and the US Government really want isolationism, Christian Nationalism and America First, the rest of the world should give them what they want for Christmas.

The above is, of course, an impossible fantasy. It is why I am not and will never be an elected representative. When it is my turn to play GODDESS OF THE UNIVERSE, watch out.

The UN should relocate to another country. Ethiopia could use the money the UN brings in.

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All (non-MAGA) business owners/employers in the USA importing from Canada, Mexico and China, should start telling their employees not to count on any bonuses or raises anymore, because The TRUMP Tariffs are increasing their import prices and they want to keep their (end) products as affordable as possible for the US customers.

And Mexico and Canada (plus Democrats and non-MAGA business owners) should start flooding the US with both serious and entertaining content on The TRUMP Tariffs etc. through all (social) media. Rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, rinse, repeat, etc.

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Bill: 100%! trump is not satisfied with being the king of the United States. He intends to be king of North America, and maybe China too!

Speaking of the UK: Let's ask the Brits how their economy is faring after they voted to divorce themselves from their country's principal trading partner, the EU.

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Brexit and America First were both encouraged by Russian influence operations telling people that the only way to save their cultures was to cut their countries off from transnational institutions and alliances.

Meanwhile, Russia keeps aiming to bring other countries under its own domination, in part by force.

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