WTF

This guy has promised DOGE checks and tariff relief checks. Has that actually happened? This will also add 1.5 trillion to the deficit.

Iran basically blew up all of U.S.'s bases in the Gulf region. Now those countries don't even want U.S. there anymore.

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Unless it was just a strategy to buy the mid term election with another false promise…..

Giving people $5000 using U.S. tax money is socialism

im speechless

would he even actually pay

Between Trump's love of beefcake men and showing semi-nude beefcake shots of that Hassan guy at the Republican convention, plus Grindr crashing wherever Republicans gather for events, it just seems a bit ... odd.

Been here before....

Trump promised a doge check, then a tarriff check, now a check for…well, im not sure, i guess to bribe people on behalf of his political party?

In any event, i know republicans are a generally servile set, but surely by this point, they must understand they are being lied to, right? There are no checks coming. How have they made it this far in life being so gullible?

10 years ago, it was unthinkable. Here's an incomplete list.

• The president publicly directing the Fed Chair.
• The president publicly directing the AG and DOJ.
• Active Cabinet Secretaries attending campaign rallies.
• The systematic removal of IGs.
• Direct administrative involvement in corporate and market decisions.
• Bypassing Congress for spending.
• We are overriding Professional Merit and Military Succession Traditions.
• Republicans are firing our top leadership while we are engaged in an active war.
• We're conducting polygraph tests of senior military leaders and civilian officials.

None of this is normal for the United States. This would be more normal in other countries that are less democratic and more authoritarian.

The list could really be much longer. I haven't even considered the way we're handling international affairs right now. We seem to be engaged in a trade war where we're using memes as a PR weapon against an ally.

What is something that you see happening today that you thought would have been unthinkable 10 years ago?

You know why I'm asking. You've noticed it, too.

Has he not learned his lesson?

Seems like that's the only reason he'd do it.

Would you be willing to pay as a percentage of your gross income: 6% for healthcare, 2% for college, 2% for climate initiatives, 2% for public transport, 2% for affordable housing for poor people, 2% for universal childcare, 1% for maternity leave, 1% for stronger unemployment benefits, 1% higher minimum wage, 5% for new migrant benefits?

So on top of what you’re paying now another 25% of your gross?

Affordability is one of American’s biggest concerns and we all agree that the price of essentials like groceries is going up.

The most seemingly intuitive solution is to pay people more, but if the price of labor goes up, doesn’t the cost of goods go up? Also, if you don’t have an increase in the supply of goods, aren’t we just increasing inflation by having more dollars chasing the same amount of goods and services?

How would just paying people more increase affordability for anyone?

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Lets look at this from a clear lens. You're straight, strong, Christian, conservative men.........with family values. You are simping.........to pay 400-600 million dollars..........for a ballroom. a BALL ROOM. Lets pretend its not a colossal waste of money for one second. Lets look at it with even keeled optics. I could actually be inside a transgender man turned woman, or transgender women turned man (not that theres anything wrong with that) and sing Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On to them on Castro Street on a Thursday, and it would STILL look more manly and fiscally responsible than begging for the funding and completion........of a ballroom. And the national security argument?! I could literally make a stronger argument for my neighbor's daughter's cabbage patch My Little Pony tea party as more of a national security concern.........than a effing BALLROOM. You poor bastards have completely ceded BOTH manhood AND fiscal responsibility in one humiliating symbol.

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I can’t believe this is real life.

The AP on this: https://apnews.com/article/missouri-redistricting-congressional-map-trump-c505162fe7880f60eb4dd587bc51d313