"Putin is invading more than Ukraine

The new battlefield is online, and the stakes are democratic sovereignty."

Biden had to pay for Covid expenses that Trump increased by his bumbling fumbling stumbling reaction to the Pandemic. Which also cost an untold number of lives, btw.

But they weren't billionaires, so who cares?

UPDATE:

"Trump said he had a long call with Putin on Iran and Ukraine. According to the Kremlin, the call lasted more than an hour.

Trump said he "is not happy" about the war in Ukraine and stressed he "didn't make any progress at all" on this issue in his call with Putin."

Donald Trump's Approval Rating Plummets With Republicans

This decline in Trump's approval rating among Republicans could signal growing dissatisfaction within the party's core supporters, which could weaken his influence over the GOP's direction and strategy. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, a faltering base could impact candidate endorsements, voter turnout, and overall party unity.

- a thinking person

You've been telling us you are a genius since you were 17... in all the time we've known you, we still don't know what you mean.

Plus Record Military spending from the No War President... his MIC donors love him just like redneck rwingers do.

For different reasons, obviously. The donors because he makes them money, his Cult because he makes them feel important. Or interesting. Or smart or brave. All the things they aren't.

#51

Absolutely right... the same thing happened in FL when the GOPhers put in drug testing for welfare users; they had to close it down because it cost 10's of millions of dollars to find out that there were less than 2 percent testing positive.

Underedumacated rwingers are highly susceptible to political myth, as LBJ pointed out.

And it not only works on race, immigration, and gender, it also works when people are too poor to own homes, have health care, and feed themselves BECAUSE THEY NEVER HAD A GOOD EDUCATION NOR A LIVING WAGE!

Elite Corporate donors made sure of that.

Just look at some of the Trump posters here, for example. And others of his supporters who are perhaps better off, but have never in their life been concerned about anyone other than themselves.

If they're ok, F everyone else.

"Meanwhile, Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill" is intentionally handicapping more easily and faster-built wind, solar and battery storage projects that would help satiate the massive data center power demands of the large-scale cloud service providers known as hyperscalers.

The final legislation approved by Congress on July 3 (the House concurred on a 218-214 vote) agrees to quickly unwind the clean energy tax credits that could have helped strengthen an already stretched electric grid."

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"Unsurprisingly, the clean energy industry is up in arms about the BBB legislation. Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association, said it will increase electricity bills, shut down manufacturing facilities, cost many thousands of U.S. construction jobs, and weaken the grid.

"This legislation [will] set back America's global competitiveness, destabilize our energy future, and weaken the very industries that power our economy and strengthen our national security"while surrendering the 21st-century tech race to China," she said.

On the other hand, with money flowing from fossil fuel interests to support Trump and Republicans last year, oil and gas lobbyists " who frequently decry clean energy tax credits as unfair " praised the final bill."

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The tiny orange hand wins! It's full of oil money!

Vlad actually made Lil' Donnie wait for an hour for him to answer the 4:00 scheduled phone call because he was talking to a room full of oligarchs (Russian, supposedly, lol).

Then he threw some shade at the US President:

"He apologized to the host and the crowd and announced that he is going to have a phone call with Trump and requested the audience, "Please, don't be angry. I understand that we could talk more, but it's so awkward to make [Trump] wait, he could get offended."

"Putin told Trump that Russia is not going to give up on its goals in Ukraine, Ushakov said, adding that Russia sees its peace talks with Ukraine as a bilateral issue that the U.S. shouldn't be actively involved in.

What's next: Ukrainian officials said President Volodymyr Zelensky is scheduled to speak with Trump on Friday to discuss the pause of the weapons shipments."

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Well, Donald Jehovah Trump now his Marching Orders from Vlad. I'm sure he'll break the news to Zelensky kindly.

#43

Diapers that he will eventually have dipped in gold (colored paint) in China, and sell for the bargain price of $1000 each; Only $10,000 with their original contents!

Trumpers care not at all about right or wrong, truth, justice, or the American Way.

They care about a political win, 'bragging rights'... no matter how damaging to the People it is, even when it's damaging to themselves as well.

All because an uppity black-ish guy became President, twice in a row, and then women had the audacity to think they could win, too!

That was enough for the Republican Racist/Misogynist Genes to kick in; enough for them to support a documented criminal and traitor in the WH, no matter that he's an evil SOB unfit to serve.

Apparently Trumpers still buh-lieve that the droppings from their betters, the billionaires who financed their Orange Cult Leade,r will eventually someday maybe possibly Tinkle Down on them.... which has never, ever happened. Ever.

#12

Is just another slave to the racist cult of the criminal traitor in the WH.

On the one hand, Musk is probably trying to distance himself from his work at DOGE now that his bromance with president Donald Trump has devolved into a bitter feud.

But it also smacks of hypocrisy, considering that he previously complained that empathy is destroying society.

In late February, roughly a week after wielding the chainsaw on stage, Musk told podcaster Joe Rogan that "we've got civilizational suicidal empathy going on."

"The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy, the empathy exploit," he said at the time. "They're exploiting a bug in Western civilization, which is the empathy response."

The wake of chaos and destruction DOGE has left behind certainly underlines Musk's capacity to disregard the feelings of others " almost as if "cruelty is the point," as The Atlantic's Adam Serwer put it in a 2018 essay about Trump's first term.

But now that his once rosy relationship with Trump has exploded into a million pieces, metastasizing into an ugly feud rife with threats and personal attacks, Musk is trying to distance himself from his ruthless and ultimately fruitless endeavor to save the government money."

"Two other U.S. officials said Pentagon leadership did not seek any input from the State Department, the U.S. embassy in Kyiv or Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg's team before pulling back a shipment of critical arms that were already on the ground in Poland.

Some in the Joint Staff were also opposed to the halt, both officials and a person familiar with the discussions said.

Both the White House and the State Department pushed back on the notion that the munitions pause caught administration officials off guard.

"This is false," said a White House official who was granted anonymity to talk about an ongoing review. "The president and top officials expect the DOD to regularly review aid allocations to ensure they are in line with the America First agenda."

... gives a new meaning to Soylent Green... it's Gator Processed now for Freshness!

I wonder who's going to play her in the movie version of The Trump Devolution?

And will they do it in like a Marx Bros Meets Fascism fashion.

The Marx Brothers - This Country's Going To War

Wow... amazed to see Bluethwaffer admit that Obama and Biden are better business men than his Cult Leader.

Neither of who's Campaign Manager was a Russian asset.

Major B is like a lot of people who want to say they live in a Christian nation, then not observe any of Christianity's values. Almost none at all.

It's a really tired old ploy: it's ok to give to others if you do it yourself, but if you agree that we could do more if we do some things together as the People, well, that's just wrong.

It's utter nonsense, mostly touted by interests that are opposed to the whole idea of, "the People".

And have proved it by making corporations into Super Citizens with more money than God, and made money 'Speech'. God, who's kid more than once said that the love of money is the root of all evil, and that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter Heaven.

He added that, obviously 'all things' are possible, but he didn't sound like that was going to help the stupid, greedy, and arrogant bastards of the world.

China... the first steps in the Indo-Pacific war when Xi invades Taiwan, and Trump just salutes and gives him mean girl looks.

I still think that Vlad, Xi, and T-rump have already divvied up the world over the years, with Vlad getting most of the old SU back and parts of NATO, Xi getting Taiwan, some islands, some mainlands... Indonesia, the Philippines at a Special Discount if they throw in free cases for Trump phones. Australia, if they wanted it.

DJT gets Canada (if he can take it!), Greenland, Mexico, Central and parts of South America. But only after letting Vlad and Xi bunker drone California.

Obviously LHT assumes that all the Trumpers who testified to his Coup Crimes were actually Dem Crisis Actors.... as he has never come up with why Trump's own DOJ lawyers would refuse to sign the letter to States saying they could just mark out Biden's name on the Certified Ballots and replace it with Trump's... and threatened to resign en masse.

Or all the other Trumpers who also testified to his crimes; because they never happened in the Trump World Cult.

"Had the initial April 2 tariffs stayed in place, the companies in the JPMorganChase Institute analysis would've faced additional direct costs of $187.6 billion.

Under the current rates, the $82.3 billion would be equivalent on average to $2,080 per employee, or 3.1% of the average annual payroll. Those averages include firms that don't import goods and those that do."

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The Fart of the Deal!

#69!!!!

for Major B, apparently

"Trump administration military aid halt will only encourage Russia, Ukraine warns

Ukraine warns that slowing weapons deliveries "would only encourage the aggressor to continue war and terror."

The weapons pause was greeted positively by Russia.

"The fewer arms supplied to Ukraine, the closer the end of the special military operation will be," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters."