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@#11 ... Except for the payments he offered to military personnel. ...

Trump claims credit for military bonus that Congress already approved
www.politico.com

... President Donald Trump's promise Wednesday to pay troops a "warrior dividend" bonus is actually a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, and not a generous new White House program.

The rebrand, confirmed by a senior administration official and two congressional officials, follows a pattern for the president, who has previously claimed credit for routine military pay increases that weren't his doing.

The $1,776 per person bonuses, unveiled by Trump in his nationwide address Wednesday night, will be covered with funding approved in the Big Beautiful Bill that passed in July, according to the congressional officials and later confirmed by the Pentagon.

The payouts " which will cost roughly $2.6 billion " will be a "one-time basic allowance for housing supplement to all eligible service members," said the official, who like others, was granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive issue. ...


-Claims Dems are controlled by insurance companies ... but most insurance companies execs donate to Republicans who oppose single payer.

I can't say you're wrong but consider this fact about ACA.......

More than $1.1 billion was spent on lobbying the initial version of the bill in 2009, according to an OpenSecrets report. In the lead-up to the bill's passage, there were more than 1,500 individual clients"including defense contractors, labor unions, ideological organizations and corporations"contracted with lobbyists to influence the bill's ultimate design.

The healthcare industry spent more than $270 million on lobbying in 2009, which exceeded its own spending record up to that point. On average, the pharmaceutical industry spent a stunning $1.2 million on lobbying each day Congress convened during the first three months of 2009.

Industry giants including the Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America, the American Medical Association and the Partnership for America's Healthcare Future all supported the ACA, but pushed lawmakers to pass the legislation on their terms.

The groups argued that establishing a government-run insurance provider " often referred to as a "public option" " or giving the government the power to negotiate drug prices would hurt private insurers, hospitals and drug makers. The industry's massive lobbying investment paid off: The version of the bill that ultimately passed in 2010 did not include a framework for publicly-provisioned insurance.

The ACA passed without support from a single Republican. Conservatives argued the legislation would undermine free market principles and raise taxes on the rich, and the GOP's opposition to Obamacare didn't dissipate after the bill became law.

www.opensecrets.org

You can't even fact check this because basically nothing he is saying is true.

-Claimed to end 8 wars

-Claimed to get $18T in tariffs

-Claims things are more affordable

-Claims there will be large tax cuts for everyone, there won't be except for large brackets.

-Claims blanket no tax on tips and over time, which isn't true

-Claims military families will get $1776 dividend pay before Christmas (and claims it was only decided 30 min ago ... )

-Claims he lowered drug prices by up to 600% ... he didn't. He said he would but never implemented a change. Claims it started 4 days ago ...

-Claims no president has ever had "Most Favored Nation" clauses ... but nearly every existing US trade deal had it.

-Claims by giving you the healthcare money, you'll somehow get cheaper insurance. You won't.

-Claims Dems are controlled by insurance companies ... but most insurance companies execs donate to Republicans who oppose single payer.

-Just making up random gas prices again ...

-Claims inflation was the worst ever in history ... it wasn't.

-Claims illegals were 60% of the rentals. Which is mathematically impossible.

-Claims Dems "pillaged" the treasury, which is wild cause the only people self-enriching is Trump and team. Where is the Resolute Desk by the way?

-Claims his popularity is up loool

-Claims America is respected again. LMFAO.

Jfc.

That was painful.

Basically a next level dumb campaign rally speech.

His sycophants don't recognize it, because they've not heard it from Trump before:

-He was scared.

He is losing power.

His perceived strength is fraying, his past crimes coming to haunt him, he's losing special election after special election, and his health is failing.

He is afraid.

A narcissist doesn't know what to do with that.

He doesn't know how to heal lost respect, handle graceful defeat or deal with his mortality.

So fear turns to anger.

An outburst aimed at trying to convince you that he is strong and wonderful - in a desperate hope that you'll give him the validation he needs.

And an even more desperate hope that you'll see him as so strong that he is worth defending no matter the cost, when finally his crimes and failings catch up with him.

This was what Trump sounds like when he is scared.

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"There is no Ukraine": Fact-Checking the Kremlin's Version of Ukrainian History (2020)
blogs.lse.ac.uk

... The notion that Ukraine is not a country, but a historical part of Russia, appears to be deeply ingrained in the minds of Russian leadership. ...

But as much as these assumptions may resonate with ordinary Russians, as well as some foreign leaders, a glance into Ukrainian history reveals that they are based on a dangerously distorted reading of the past.

Ultimately, by redrawing borders and rewriting history the Kremlin is unlikely to have done itself a favour.

Through its intervention in Ukraine it has galvanised most Ukrainians in their aversion to Russia and has thereby done a great deal to demarcate the perceived differences between Ukrainians and Russians more clearly than ever before. ...


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