Trump Dictatorship and All Things Politics
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Red
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Very misleading. Inexcusable. When it was suggested to Trump that it was Americans who will pay for the tariffs, he replied “they will understand”. Excuse me?? We will accept higher prices across the economy? Really? Easy for a billionaire to say…4x more drugs flow from the United States into Canada than from Canada into the United States!
View: https://x.com/CryptoPal4/status/1885908200345735557
Red
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Sure is nuts….
Elon Musk and his DOGE team have been granted access to the US Treasury Department's payment system, according to a report in the New York Times. The move follows a standoff between Musk's team and a top Treasury official, David Lebryk, who refused to grant access to the department's payment system. The official was reportedly put on leave and then retired after the dispute.
US Senator Ron Wyden (Democrat) confirmed the news in a post on Bluesky, stating“Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it,”
Musk's allies, who were given access to the Treasury's payment system, were reportedly made employees of the department, underwent government vetting and received security clearances.
The Times archived report:
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I don’t want USPS to be privatized. But it would be ironic if it were. Guess who would pay through their noses? Ruralists. It costs more to run mail service to places out in the middle of nowhere. Cities subsidize ruralists (as usual) and sadly these morons vote against their own interests (as usual).
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People had four years of this lead by tweet leadership. And last November they said, “Hell yes. Gimmie four more!”
Admit it, if this were a family member you’d be seeking medical care for them. But because he’s the cult leader of the GOP? We’re all just gonna look the other way.
How does this reflect on us as a country?
Admit it, if this were a family member you’d be seeking medical care for them. But because he’s the cult leader of the GOP? We’re all just gonna look the other way.
How does this reflect on us as a country?
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How do we know that Musk isn’t sharing this data with fellow oligarchs? How do we know he isn’t selling this data to foreign business interests? What safeguards do we have that Musk isn’t going to take advantage of this data to enrich himself and his buddies? What recourse do we have if he does something unethical or illegal with this data? What options do we have if he cuts payments to people or limits services?
Where’s our very principled conservatives who value privacy and small government when you need them?
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Red
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Asking too much to expect private companies to deliver “universal service at a universal price”.
D
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Yep.
If Donald really cared about drugs, why did he pardon Ross Ulbricht?
Trump pardons Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht
Libertarian activists, who generally oppose criminal drug policies, argued the government overreached in building its case against Ross Ulbricht and the dark web marketplace Silk Road.
www.cbsnews.com
Anyone else excited to see what the stock market does this week? Just a friendly reminder, the Biden administration had several years of economic growth, record low unemployment, and record stock market! But apparently the price of eggs or something something. And so we had to elect tariff dotard.
Elections have consequences
EDIT avg egg price in February is two ice what it was a year ago.
View: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/increasing-egg-prices-have-americans-scrambling/
MVP
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Magats refuse to admit that there is way more fentanyl coming to Canada from US than vice versa. So who's border needs fixing?
MVP
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I am glad Canada is not bending to orange clown circus. Most of stores here all promote buy Canadian or Mexican ( as I am as well as private business owner buy switching to local or other non american products in my business) , bunch of provinces already ordering to remove all american liquor from stores and so on. Trump wanted fight, he will get one.