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"President Obama's travel budget for his family was estimated at $100 million for an 8-day trip to Africa.
#7 | Posted by visitor"

The trip he took to visit heads of state for three nations on the continent? Visiting with heads of state is considered the equivalent as going golfing, now?

Obama took 52 international trips in 8 years.en.wikipedia.org

Trump took 8 trips just last year alone. en.wikipedia.org So those numbers are pretty close. But in your mind every trip Obama took was for personal purposes, while Trump is all-business while golfing at his own resorts and charging the American taxpayer top-dollar for Secret Service space there.

Early on, the Egyptian, Saudi, and Jordanian governments pushed the US hard behind the scenes to pressure Israel into embracing UN Security Council Resolution 242 (en.wikipedia.org), adopted unanimously in the wake of the 1967 war. I bumped into one of more than a few messengers emanating across the seas towards DC working on behalf of this effort. This was the 1969-era, with the three aforementioned powers regarding the Syrians and Iraqis as, and I quote, "savages" and "animals." That threesome of nations had some pretty good heft as a bloc in those days. The problem, then as now, lay in Israel's territorial ambitions. The reward for implementing g Resolution 242 was, according to a waverider with whom I spoke, summed up in a single word: "petrochemicals." They weren't kidding.

So here we are now, well over fifty years later, shilling for an expansionist ethnonationalist rogue state and worrying about ... what was that word again? Oh, yes: petrochemicals.

Aside from floating from one ceremonial testimonial to himself to another Potemkin village-style staged event, Trump actually does very little, certainly when it comes to actual work: rollcall.com

Clue: He surely regards the extraordinary amount of time he wastes mired in ridiculous displays of obeisance by glassy-eyed toadies as "work."

If we survive him and there is still a relatively free press running somewhere, historians are going to spend decades puzzling over this one.

And, as usual: No, thank you, MAGAts. No, really, the best you can do is just eff off.

Since 1948 under both Democratic and Republican Party administrations, the peace-loving, hardworking American taxpayer has sent the Labor and Likud governments of Israel, a prosperous and nuclear-armed country, $317.9bn, the most US economic aid given to any nation in the world while they ethnically cleanse and oppress the Palestinian people.

Unlike the US, Israel provides world class universal healthcare for its residents and maintains a superior social security system (B+) to America's (C+). Source: US funds ethnic cleansing while we have the BBB, medical bankruptcies, and government insolvency

Inexplicably, the Democratic Party doesn't publicly release the autopsy report explaining why 6,265,888 supporters they had on Tuesday 3 Nov 2020 decided to stay home on Tuesday 5 Nov 2024. These antiwar Samaritans did not waste their vote on either oligarch Dummkopf Trumpf or Green Party candidate Jill Stein (who received a meager 861,142 votes nationwide).

Republicans don't want a full release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Democrats don't want a full release of the 2024 election autopsy report.

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