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Steak and eggs for breakfast.

armyofone:
Causing confusion and resignation of workers will not help the fed workers. Not good to rub A to pay B or try to save money blindly without thinking of cause and effect. I don't know what they are up to.
But may God help us all.

God bless our Troops!

God bless our troops. Amen.

But they are already preparing to shaft it to the veterans who served the country and dedicated their youth/health to further the American cause.

If they are able to get it done without heavy push back, they’re coming for the active troops benefits next. Anything to save a buck for the oligarchs.

You’d think a govt like this would understand the benefits of a motivated military. Unless they plan to conscript the boys of poor families to fight for the country, they will have a hard time finding patriotic soldiers to fight in this war they’re inevitable courting by threatening our allies.

omoredia:
The wokeness has eating deep into America. Trump has alot of cleaning to do

omoredia:
Trump should really purge the system. Incompetence stinks

You are not well

basilico:
Hi

Everything I put down is self explanatory. Maybe the only point "cling to their guns" ,an insult from Obama to whites ( cowboys) in the rural areas . That went unchallenged but a shithole comment went viral

Only one race uses the N word in pop culture , any other is ostracised. Any other race would get a dress down.
The infidel label is also from the protected religion,which they use freely daily basis. A christian won't call others heathens else fire and brimstones will rain on him/her. Christians who protested LGBTQ indoctrination in school boards were hunted down specifically as domestic terrorists by the FBI.
In short minority groups have a lot of leeway .

Yet not one policy mentioned.

Almost like we were right to recognize it’s just a culture war carefully crafted to be distracting and inflammatory.

Christians do in fact say fire and hell stone will fall on unbelievers. If that’s not a threat I don’t know what is.

What you mean to say is that minority groups have freedom like you do and that doesn’t sit well with you. You don’t like that you are not allowed to harass people without consequences, So you feel oppressed!

Wait wait, are you saying that other races are oppressed because they can’t say the N word? And this is your evidence that democrats have extreme policies? Are you for real?

You’re either a child, a doofus or a clown. For this specific comment about the N word never mention my moniker again.This is too slow for me to deal with pls.

bemeruca:
Can you live for a day without trump in your head?

Lame response.

Let me live obliviously without him in my head while he’s recklessly swinging his pen in ways that affect my and everyone else’s wellbeing.

bemeruca:
Tragic news: US passenger jet collides with army helicopter while landing near Washington airport

Let’s hope his reckless behavior didn’t cause this.

Messing with federal agencies that control air traffic is not something any president has done before.

Air traffic controllers are extremely important. Not a job to be messed with.

Indiscriminately firing and freezing the hire of new ones causes panic in the sector and can lead to stuff like this.

I guess investigations will reveal what actually happened. Let’s pray his recklessness was not the cause. And that his recklessness won’t lead to future disasters

SpaceX:
It's Trump fault.....

Yankee101:
This isn’t fair
A totally avoidable crash

DrAda:
Terrible.

I bet that every disaster in America going forward will be blamed on Trump and rightly so

Roboto11:
They would also debate this in Congress.

This is an accident that could have been avoided.

Trump's policy likely caused the accident.

This a bit rambly but show me the policy pls.The specific policy that places LGBTQ people above non-LGBTQ.

basilico:
oppressed groups are allowed to be racist .

What does this mean?

Pride flags are flown on embassies. Banned.

okay and? If the embassies are choosing to do that, how does that place them above you?
The question again is, where is the democrat policy that instructs embassies to fly pride flags?

We have Black History month. Noone would dare declare a white history month

🤦🏽‍♀️ why would white people need a white history month?
We have BET . Noone would dare try launching a WET.[/quote]again 🤦🏽‍♀️

cisgenders are transphobic if they oppose trans in sports, prisons ,

you don’t have to participate. Or commit crimes

2 gender choices on govt IDs

Put the gender you are on your ID. Where’s the policy that forces you to put something else on there?

Christians are well the most persecuted people but few raise their voices in support .

Not in America we are not. In northern Nigeria maybe. But in America we’re the oppressors. Christians here feel persecuted if they can’t force others to live by biblical principles. As far their own personal lives, no one has ever stopped a Christian from living according to their religion.
I’m free to go to church, display my religious faith in my personal space, pray at my own time. Wear Christian clothes etc.

But I can’t try to convince others to join me especially in a professional environment. I can’t pray unsolicited for people who didn’t ask for it. I can’t choose a job in an establishment that’s funded by public money and then refuse service to members of the public whose money pays for same establishment just because they are “unchristian”.

This is not persecution. I don’t feel persecuted by it at all. Because if a Muslims asked for the same liberty to foist their beliefs on me, I’d be livid. So I understand my boundaries and theirs. Keep your religion in your home.

A quote about clinging to their guns was derogatory but noone said anything .

??

bemeruca:
reduce the nonsense you post here maybe the bots may let you be

Haha so funny 🙄

armyofone:
This is serious situation. Scary knowing you will no longer have the medical care that has been keeping you well. It will be well.

I’m praying they find a solution

Livelystone01:
Did you not see the LGBTQ and there alphabets being placed above everyone? Their flags and whatever they are were made more important than everything and everyone else? The last Olympics and other LGBTQ issues in the US were placed on top of every other person. Don't get me wrong, I do not care about what grown adults care to do with their lives and how they choose to live, I only care about someone trying to force it down my throat.

Can we also talk about children allowed to make such delicate choices about their gender when they cannot be allowed to vote?

Me and anti spam bot today 😮‍💨

Here’s to hoping I don’t get banned again

What was the specific LGBTQ policy that placed them above other people?

Are you conflating rainbow people being loud on the internet and flashing their queer personalities with govt policy and laws? Because those are not the same. And I didn’t see any laws stopping non-LGBTQ people from being themselves either.

So you may not care what people are doing in their bedrooms, buts it’s obvious you care that they exist publicly and that’s your personal bias. But we all have our biases. so, own it.

Don’t claim it’s democratic policy placing them above others.

Raumdeuter. I’m going to attempt to rephrase my earlier response to you without adding the links I used previously. Let’s see if I can skate by without getting banned again.

Trump’s tax cuts show lower rates on paper. But he removed virtually all deductions that families use to save on taxes. So while their paper rate is lower, they’re owing more because their taxable income is now higher. The first year after his tax cuts went into play, people were shocked at how much they owed when they filed. Because they read the tax cut part but didn’t read the part where he made it so they couldn’t deduct as they usually would. This was all over the news then. I’m sure you remember.

You’re right individual households’ situations differ. But if there’s something most middle class families have in common, it’s that they have kids, students, home maintenance expenses etc. so giving them a “cut” but removing their deductibles is like giving with one hand and taking with two. And I know he knows this. The only people his tax cuts favored were millionaires/billionaires and corporations who’s rates went from 35% to 21% and now he’s proposing 15% for them.

The $500 tax cut the average person got but ended up owing thousands in back pay means nothing.

We don’t want communism. And we don’t want unbridled capitalism either. It breeds oligarchs. Gets top heavy and collapses on itself. That’s how empires collapse . An unchecked oligarchy with fed up serfs. What could possibly go wrong?

raumdeuter:
Americans and people all over the world know the disaster that is called communism, Its why people from communist countries flee from it

bemeruca:
Who is the bot dealing with 🤣🤣

Me. But I’m back. I hope

nateevs:
The Pentagon's budget is nearly $900bn a year. The US does not need to tax a single soul to take care of its citizens. It is just a complex state of warmongers and corrupt politicians, that rely on the radicalisation of people like you.

There is no requirement for a $830bn a year on defence.

How else are we going to maintain our 250 military bases around the world? 😬

raumdeuter:
cococandy e be like say the system mean you today

They banned me and my kitchen account. I’m not sure if you can even read this. I had a whole response typed out for you. 😫😫

When you give a $500 tax cut but the family doesn’t get to deduct as much expenses they normally would, then they owe money because the IRS said they underpaid. Is that a tax cut?

You know what you are doing. Stop it.

raumdeuter:
No it didnt.

Thats the table for the taxes in his first term. Cuts for most people

https://taxpolicycenter.org/sites/default/files/2.9.3_tab1.png

https://taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-book/how-did-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act-change-personal-taxes

basilico:
You are being lied to as far as I can tell about tax hikes for everyone.

Did you ever get a tax cut from Trump in his first term by the way?

My taxes went up the first time Trump went into office. And he’s proposing to extend the same individual tax rates which are set to expire this year but cut taxes for corporations and billionaires from 21% to 15%.

Usually people can deduct things like child care or home renovations etc from their taxes. I was not able to do either when Trump passed his first tax laws because he changed the things that people can deduct. He also reduced child tax credit. A lot of people who usually didn’t owe taxes after filing were owing when tax season came.

Stick to your own personal taxes wherever it is you live. You’re not the one paying my taxes so you don’t tell me what I paid or didn’t pay.

I’m being lied to by who? By my bank account that knows what went in and out of it?

Why dont you come and educate me on what’s happening in my life? Ugh you are very irritating.

raumdeuter:
This is what democrats want increased taxes everytime

But republicans are increasing the taxes. What are you even saying? Trump’s tax plan increases taxes for everyone under $360k a year.

And his first tenure too. Taxes went up for all regular folks.

armyofone:
I love asparagus. Funny my pee has "asparagusy" scent/aroma after eating asparagus.

Unfortunately that’s an unavoidable side effect 😀

I’m glad you’ve come around

A lot of ignorant people especially here in nairaland often equate DEI to blackness. No matter how you explain to them, they don’t have the capacity to understand

Omoawoke:
Recently I just discovered that the biggest beneficiaries of DEI programs are white women, then Hispanic and Latinos… they come before blacks


A primitive mindset and ignorant belief…
For your resume to reach the hiring manager, you must be really qualified as a black person. Like be among the best…
DEI is meant to give opportunities to less resprsented people in white male dominated industries that won’t give opportunities to others because of technical racism… even with the DEI, they still placed white women far ahead of others…

The unfortunate thing is that they were told this time and time again before they voted. People were shouting their voices hoarse trying to explain to them that voting for Trump was a vote against themselves. They turned a blind ear to it. They were more invested in hurting anyone who didn’t look like them or belong to their religion.

He who the God’s want to kill, they first make mad.

Tellmeastory:
The funniest ones are the ones crying after learning they will lose their free healthcare.

They were all enjoying the ‘Affordable Care Act’ introduced by Obama, which guaranteed universal health coverage.

Trump campaigned saying he would end “Obama Care”.

Millions of the poor racist whites thought ‘Obama Care’ was a special health program Obama had established to benefit black and brown people.

So millions of whites voted for Trump based on his promise to “end the disaster called Obama Care”.

Only to find out that “Obama Care” is the “Affordable Care Act”!!

Many are so devastated.

They lost their healthcare because of their racism.

ObaIgwe1:
Some of these things honestly should not be about Left vs Right vs Centrist; issues in bold should not be for debate on whether to have them or not in a decent society. The discussion should be how far/much can the Government afford to go. This is why Obama's speech of DNC-2004 still resonate with me till date. "I am my brother's keeper".

💯💯

Yep. Unquestionably so.

Don’t forget to add the place of women in their society and how it compares with the republican policies on women’s rights. The Venn diagram is a circle

GloriousGbola:
it may sound tribalist - but there is a parallel between republicans and northern states in nigeria
hyper conservative deliberate policies to have a large underclass of poorly educated, easily manipulated single issue voters

and today, the poverty and conservatism has birthed boko haram and banditry.

the KKK is back . then we have proud boys, we have the pardoned jan 6th terrorists all empowered.

most of what is going on - we can see how it will end

Glad you guys are responding to him on that topic. Because we’ve rehashed this same topic over and over before so he knows what my response is going to be. So posting it again to me means we have to go back and talk in circles AGAIN.

Personal responsibility personal responsibility. But we use our billions to subsidize the mega wealthy. Who “innovate” ideas then privatize them at 1000% mark up the moment it becomes profitable. When they start failing, we bail them out with public funds. Give them year tax cuts in the millions and billions. Where’s their personal responsibility in all that?

Meanwhile a republican lawmaker on TV is asking children to go to work after “all I was a paper boy before child labor laws”. That’s how far back they want to take us.

Innovation is dying in America because people feel (rightly so) that the game is rigged and that they’ll never succeed. The whole hyper capitalist “give it all to the rich and hope their conscience will let them drop some crumbs upon the poor masses” is obviously not encouraging people to get creative and see what new things they can bring into the society. Where’s the time even? When most people are either at work or in traffic or in bed for the few hours of sleep they can get.

The same people working day and night to get by can’t afford childcare, healthcare, parental leave, can’t buy homes, etc. any kind of policies to help them is frowned upon by republicans.

Ask republicans to vote then for increased wages, they always vote no. They’re invested in maintaining a slave vs oligarch class. Funny enough half of their voters can’t even afford to go to the dentist yet they keep voting for them because they’re distracted by useless culture wars.

ObaIgwe1:
Everything about a community or a nation does not end with the success or failure of how each family unit manages their homes. There are things done for the greater good of the community and for the Community/Nation's Pride. It is in the interest or pride of a community/nation when the community can claim that with joint /government efforts, they are able to have highly educated community, healthy community, safe community, produce geniuses, etc. If we allow individual family to cover all their needs, chances of having these achievements become slim, because even Jesus said "there will always be poor among us", this is why community leaders or government can/should intervene in supporting the weak/poor among itself to achieve these prides.

Also, there are consequences when we neglect the poor and weak among us to their fate; their bad health unattended to might become a community health challenge for which the whole community later suffer. Those poor kids with no chance of learning and survival might become nuisances to the community, then the government will now need to spend more money on fighting crime, enforcing the law, building more prison yards and taking care of them in prisons, all these cost could have been reduced if there is a system that gives everyone a chance to excel in life.

And finally, a good government should have empathy on the the weak and the vulnerable ones. Sure there are many families/parents that make lots of bad choices; but should the government really close its eyes and allow these children suffer the consequences of their parent bad choices?

This is a good plan. I give FG thumbs up for once in their lives

IjeBos:
Lol..
Remember all those people on this site who told us Trump was not connected to Project 2025?
Were they Liars, Intellectually Dishonest or just Stupid?

They choose to rewrite facts as they go. The more Trump does the project 2025 agenda, the more they’ll start to act like they never denied it was his goal. They might even start to brag about it.

IjeBos:
This whole plan seems designed to cause maximum chaos.
How do you just decide to get rid of whoever decides to take a buyout without figuring out if they are in a necessary roll to begin with.
Seems like this would be something that takes long term planning to do right.

Shock and awe is the strategy. I never agree with Steven Bannon but on this one he’s right. And he bragged that it’s working.

They’re intentionally causing maximum chaos so that everyone’s attention is scattered all over the place while they quietly achieve their goals for their broligarchs. It’s always going to be something chaotic happening every 8 hours.

IjeBos:
Trump/Musk is offering a buyout to all Federal Workers.
This actions seems suspect.
I don't see how he can do that since there is no Congressional approved budgeted money for that type of thing.
He might be trying to stiff Federal Workers.

Right. They’ll be in court years from now fighting for their dues.

Meanwhile Buy them out and replace them with bootlickers who won’t challenge him when he is about to do something unconstitutional.

And who even elected Musket?

basilico:
Judge blocks Trump's federal grants and aid freeze order.
Judge wants 100 million packs of condoms for Gaza.

Or maybe judge just wants children to be able to get education