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raumdeuter:
Which tax paying citizen will be upset when you expose potential corruption in govt?

So what Dem want to campaign about is how upset they are that Trump or Musk is exposing potential corruption and mismanagement of public funds?

Check this link showing govt payment to Politico a new outlet and see example like one which shows a subscription for 37 users for 500k.

These things have been going on under both parties for decades until Trump an Elon came

https://www.usaspending.gov/search/?hash=ce007c986b96d38c983ae10dc0614b6a

happney65:
BREAKING: A second federal judge blocks President Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship, saying it's likely unconstitutional

raumdeuter:
That is Trumps strategy and people keep falling for it. He starts with an extreme position, people react extremely, they come to the table and finally get a mid point

1. Trump says he will take Gaza
2. Saudi and other Arab nation reject
3. Trump invite them to talk If you don't want me to take Gaza, then all of you commit to controlling Gaza and getting rid of extremist turn into a prosperous nation like UAE, Qatar and Saudi
4. At end of the day Saudi Qatar UAE commit to controlling Gaza
5. Trump takes credit for bringing peace to the region

IjeBos:
Worse than that, Trump single handedly has cost the US the moral authority it has spent decades vocalizing/propagandizing.

Trump and the US's claim to authority now seems to be Might is right. Tearing up negotiated Trade deals, threatening countries over land, etc.etc.
It's the same authority Russia used to invade Ukraine, Israel uses in the Middle East and China will undoubtedly use in Taiwan.
Goodbye Rule Based International Order.
The world is going to get a lot more irrational and more dangerous for US citizens.

This is the reason US Presidents study voraciously, don't run their mouths in public and read off of prepared remarks with decisions that scores of people have been briefed on previously.

bemeruca:
Na supreme court get say. all these judges are irrelevant.

ObaIgwe1:
Oseee...
Trump should give you the position of Senior Special Spinmaster
Even before it happened, you have already started spinning it like Ogbomosho amala
Now let's even assume, this is Trump's plan:
You actually support a strategy that use bullying and threats to compel others to do your wish?
You honestly don't want US to be seen as a bully nation, that will boomerang in a big way against US.

ObaIgwe1:
I am surprise many are not seeing all these implications of Trump's actions. Some are even hailing him (smh).
If Trump messed up America's image, it will take a long while for the coming Presidents to rebuild it.
And we are just in his 1st month in office...

happney65:
So you are saying you support the supreme court to go against the Law of the United states written in White and Black right?

Anyways you are not different from your master who you worship.Birds of the same feather.

ObaIgwe1:
I am surprise many are not seeing all these implications of Trump's actions. Some are even hailing him (smh).

If Trump messed up America's image, it will take a long while for the coming Presidents to rebuild it.

And we are just in his 1st month in office...

raumdeuter:
How will you see an American suffering, you are telling him you want to increase his taxes and he sees that they are spending part of his money for DEI initiatives in Serbia, transgender in Colombia, EV in Vietnam.

basilico:
No it pays my employer A proposal we had made in private hasn't gone through.
USAID is part of my employer's donors, not the largest though but significant . The west in reality plays a good role in charitable causes.
I have often said America is esp a force of good ,I would never want China to replace the west.I have serious beef with China.
When you see me writing so much about America and Europe ,it's because I don't want liberals destroying their nations under globalism .UK especially God bless FCDO.

basilico:
In a series of orders Monday evening, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum revoked Biden-era actions that blocked drilling across 625 million acres of federal waters nationwide—an area that is equivalent in size to a third of the continental United States—in the 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and in the state’s 23-million-acre National Petroleum Reserve


Biden blocked oil exploration because climate change.
Why I approve this.
Oil prices will go down when America reduces it's import and unconventional fracking achieves near production costs as the Saudis.
The Biden admin and the globalist want oil prices prohibitively high, so they can push their green agenda. That encompasses more govt control on what we do eg How much we can travel, eating meats, living in urban 15 minutes, Basically it's a new form of micromanaging us.

IjeBos:
The distrust he's building is going to take a long time to repair.
And in this new multipolar world, we may not ever repair it.

People fall back on jingoisms and don't think through the policy implications.
People are aghast that the US is giving out HIV treatments to developing countries through things like USAID but don't think about the multiplier effect of that money in perceptions of the US in those places and thus on US policy, regional or business interests.

raumdeuter:
Is that what you call Bully? What has the non bully and threat tactics done for the middle east in the last 50yrs if not more bloodshed, orphans, widows etc. If that can work and they bring peace to the region who cares if it was done by bullying or licking the floor

Regular people care about the results and peace in their life. Not waking up to sounds and missile explosions

1. Trump says he will take Gaza
2. Saudi and other Arab nation reject
3. Trump invite them to talk If you don't want me to take Gaza, then all of you commit to controlling Gaza and getting rid of extremist turn into a prosperous nation like UAE, Qatar and Saudi

ObaIgwe1:
If the above is not a threat /bullying, then please what is it?

Who or What gave the US the power to unilateral decide this? The fact that Trump and Elon is taking the laws into their hands and doing whatever they like within US should not give them the liberty to think they can do it anywhere else outside US.

Each country/Nation is Sovereign, It is wrong for US to look down on other Nations and dictate what they should do because it has military might. Nations reach agreement through DIPLOMACY not by threat, that is disrespectful to other nations' sovereignty.

ObaIgwe1:
If the above is not a threat /bullying, then please what is it?

Who or What gave the US the power to unilateral decide this? The fact that Trump and Elon is taking the laws into their hands and doing whatever they like within US should not give them the liberty to think they can do it anywhere else outside US.

Each country/Nation is Sovereign, It is wrong for US to look down on other Nations and dictate what they should do because it has military might. Nations reach agreement through DIPLOMACY not by threat, that is disrespectful to other nations' sovereignty.

cococandy:
Before he won and started to further his nonsense behaviors from his first term, I said a Trump win will take America a generation to recover from. And they called me a fear monger.

Look at Germany today. With every step they’re taking to address their past (including paying reparations), they still haven’t recovered from it. It’s a stain on their name and it’s been at least two-three generations since it happened.

I really can’t stand people who don’t have any pattern recognition abilities.

He’s currently shipping “dangerous criminals” without trial to Guantanamo bay. People are okay with it because it’s only criminals. So we’re talking a liar at his words?

Okay.

basilico:
Thanks to DOGE. In sep 2022 Lindsay Graham introduced to ban abortions at 15 weeks federally leading to a massive turnout by democrats. They still lost the house though. The timing of the bill was a coincidence?
Lindsay also supports military aid to Zelensky..

A data cruncher has discovered the International Republican Institute (IRI) ,an NGO received $130 million from USAID.

https://x.com/DataRepublican/status/1886785021236928861

Lindsay Graham is a board member.
It also has other big names on its board, including Sen Joni Ernst, Sen Tom Cotton, Sen Dan Sullivan and McMaster.

raumdeuter:
What is this image we talk about? US policies has to be one that furthers American interest. Before Trump we have people burning US flags abroad and some even started within the US chanting Death to America. while maintaining the image

Is it in Americas interest for it to be taken advantage of while still taking from US tax payers to fund programs in these countries?

Someone asked, How many of these countries are taking from their own tax payers to fund anything in US?

budaatum:
I don't think its bad yet. Republicans win the next presidency after a minor dent in the midterms and install a puppet controlled by the dumps. Then we'd see how bad USA's image gets tarnished for ever.

raumdeuter:
What do you think Gazans care more abut threats, bully or peace? The "no threats" that they have been dealing with for 50yrs what has it gotten them?

Someone who has been hiding inside rubble dealing with missiles daily cares about what is threats or bully?

Its like some people just like being told lies that massage their egos, Biden, Blinken will tell them we are not threatening, we are not bullying, we are chasing Diplomacy and before leaving that podium, 10 missiles have hit Gaza

The diplomacy of the past 50yrs what has it gotten them, In your view at least they were not Disrespected, Just killed respectfully and Diplomatically

ObaIgwe1:
All that US has to do is keep her interests and dollars to herself, secure her boarder and do whatever she likes within her boarder. No one is blaming or fighting US for withdrawing her aids to other nations. What is not acceptable is going to other nation and claiming it because it has military might to do so or threaten them because of the amount of aid given to them. If that is right, then Russia would have been justified taking over Ukraine, China can now take over Taiwan, then Europe can share Africa among themselves again.

Moony45:
A second federal judge has issued an order blocking Donald Trump's administration from implementing his plan to curtail U.S. birthright citizenship, saying no court in the United States has ever endorsed the Republican president's interpretation of the Constitution.

During a hearing on Wednesday in Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman sided with two immigrant rights groups and five pregnant women who argued that their children were at risk of being denied U.S. citizenship based on the immigration status of their parents in violation of the Constitution.

Boardman, an appointee of Trump's Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking Trump's order from going into effect as planned on Feb. 19 while the matter is litigated.

"Today, virtually every baby born on U.S. soil is a U.S. citizen upon birth," Boardman said. "That is the law and tradition of our country. That law and tradition are and will remain the status quo pending the resolution of this case."

raumdeuter:
This is why I was telling IMAliyu2 that both Republican and Democrat politicians have been running these racket for Decades, So you the Dems now want to be the party to defend this corruption and mismanagement of tax payers money? Good luck to them explaining to voters that you are against exposing these spending

I am sure even Lindsey Graham will rather keep quiet at this point and let the Dem catch the knife for him

ObaIgwe1:
And you have visited Gaza and asked Gazans what they want and they told you what they want now is to be moved to Jordan and Egypt and their land taken over by US? And if the aim is get other Arab nations to enforce peace, it will be by threat?

No sir, decency and Diplomacy is Trump calling all the stakeholders to a meeting and reach an agreement on way forward before making a statement.

bemeruca:
You don't understand trump. He will take Gaza for what? Because he says something does not mean he wants to do that .

basilico:
A democrat house member Al Green
has filed articles of impeachment.
At the rate Trump is eating their goats they can muster enough votes to impeach and convict him.

raumdeuter:
That is what Trump is doing exactly, If you want American dollars you will give us something in return that furthers our interest. US has not invaded anyone yet under Trump. Its asking for returns on its investment abroad

What is not acceptable to who? Let the recipient nation tell Trump that he should keep his money and his interest