So surprising that a thrice divorced dude who cheated on all his wives would betray them.
How could they have possibly foreseen this? /s
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Trump speaking about the super fast Ratcliff visit to Moscow. The only routine activities in this administration is thievery and treachery.
“None of the above,” Trump said Aug. 26 when Beck raised the NATO concerns and other possible reasons for the visit. "He’s there on very, sort of semi-routine (business). I hate to disappoint people."
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One big trend I have noted around Mesa, AZ, from small restaurants to my wife’s pedicures and hairstyles is a request to either pay with cash or pay an additional 3% if you are using a credit card. Small businesses are getting killed.
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But they all voted Trump, because he was going to cut taxes, deport criminals and stop giving money to undeserving people.
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My sweetie is an agricultural economist. He said that these #s look about right for what it was during the Biden admin but that it’s higher under the orange excretion.
1st Trump term it averaged 21%, but was 38% in 2020
Biden average 14%; 7% in election year
Trump 2: 24%
Obama’s #s were about 1/2 Biden’s.
(Thanks for pulling these #s, honey!)
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No, because he was going to eliminate the tax on tips - these people are living marginally and many have their own deportation issues to worry about here in AZ.
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In the Senate at a minimum.
The Saudis, and the rest of the oil sheiks should put some urgency on ending the war. China was the biggest customer for petroleum from that region and it has managed to do fine without it, and the reason for that is the huge investment they did on renewables and transition to electric vehicles (60% of new cars). So there is a very real risk for the gulf states is that their customers just don’t come back after the war.
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Because they have been
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But from feeling betrayed by Trump to vote for Commie, pro-sharia, boys in girls sport, abortionist Democrats is a long stretch. Better the devil they know.
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Well, I’d say yes and no. That is, I agree with you except that I believe the country-city divide I talked about is also an important factor, as it has been practically since the invention of agriculture (which went hand-in-hand with the first villages/towns/cities).
I’ve noticed that trend, too.
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Which got me thinking. Maybe he should have been primaried by a DSA or DSA adjacent or WFP member in order to light a fire under him, call out this paling around with Kushner and even toughen him up.
Other suggested nominees for speaker.
Katherine Clark-MA She’s already in the house leadership.
James Walkinshaw-VA He’s a former aide to Connelly. A really sharp member of the oversight committee. Plus he’s young.
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During Vietnam the press tried to find out what was going on. Ultimately the then administration paid at the polls. These days the press just reports what it is told on X or Truth Social by Pete Hegseth and the gang. All the press does is nod with reverence and say thank you very much. Our bases were damn near distroyed and nobody in the press reported it for months. Jesus, one wonders if this bunch of free press warriors would have reported Pearl Harbor if the Pentagon had decided to keep it secret to protect Husband Kimmel’s reputation.
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Why is that? One has to wonder.
Which the kleptocrats used to capture their votes through unrelenting demonization of “those city folk / Democrats / Liberals looking down on you.” Of course that works best with groups having an inferiority complex to begin with.
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That’s simply not true.
Prove otherwise. i follow the news closely. It is only since the sailors jumped off the Lincoln that we discovered the Iranians closed all four bases in the middle east. That is a press failure. News organizations have all sorts of people who have X or Truth Social accounts but not many boots on the ground anywhere. It is easy for the administration to cover up. because nobody is looking.
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I hope they have learned their lesson but I think you might be right at least as far as the senior citizens are concerned.
Apparently, not closely enough. I’m not going to waste my time “proving otherwise” by googling to refute your stronger, original statement, which is what I was replying to (“These days the press just reports what it is told on X or Truth Social by Pete Hegseth and the gang”). I will say this much. As for problems on the Lincoln, I distinctly remember reporting and discussion about them on Nicole Wallace before it broke that sailors were trying to jump overboard, and then that one had succeeded. And when I heard those reports on Wallace’s show, they weren’t brand new news to me. I’d be surprised if it was a press failure that the damage to our bases wasn’t reported earlier. That would have been quite a scoop for a reporter and the news organization. It’s not as if journalists can put their “boots on the ground” on or near our bases in the Middle East, and responsible journalists aren’t going to report on the basis of rumors or suspicions. Finding someone who will leak reliable info when troops are in harm’s way isn’t easy. (Remember Cokie Roberts and her “People are saying”? Once the people she reported were saying things were women she got chatting with at her hair salon. And then there were Thomas Friedman and David Brooks – they do this less now, having been mocked for the habit – who liked to base elaborate analyses on conversations with cab drivers and patrons at rural diners.)
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