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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   Suspended for 7 days....why? Not one reason given.  Interesting isn't it? Interesting that the righteous right-wing crowd can bloviate endlessly about free speech but turns around to report posts on a forum.  Seems about right. 
   
   I have been the most personally attacked individual on this forum. No doubt about it, including direct assaults on my actual intelligence.   Have I ever reported? No.  I tend to think of myself as not a crybaby .
   
   I'm wondering why so many run to moderation, who is obviously a very sympathetic to the complaints.  Why?  Unable to let post speak for itself?  Folks needing to eliminate opposition? Because posts can't stand on their own?

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      GA Andersonposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      Random thoughts? That's right up my alley. I have them all the time.
      
      But this one isn't random, it's a standard. If you (generic) can't stand the heat, what are you doing in the kitchen!
      
      I leaped to the conclusion that the suspension was yours? And that you might have a friend named FayettevilleFaye?
      
      This 'reporting stuff' is nuts. What the hell are you (again, generic) doing in an online political discussion forum (instead of a choirroom) if your skin is too thin to even scratch!
      
      Persistence can be a virtue. If you know that 'Faye' person, you know the persistence I mean. Good job.
      
      I have never seen anything you post that is even close to reportable. Never seen you run to daddy because your feelings were hurt either.
      
      Well, that's a pretty tough slam against reporting folks. I hope no one can prove I'm pointing a finger in their direction.  ;-)
      
      GA

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         Willowarborposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

         The suspension of 7 days was all mine for unspecified reasons, even after asking.   I was only pointed to a list of fairly vague forum rules.  I thought maybe my language would have been objectionable but no, profanity isn't even included on the list. Keeping to the exact title/intent of a thread, well that was included  but who hasn't veered toward an offshoot path?  Who knows how long my persistence will last. And Faye?  No, not a friend.

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            Ken Burgessposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

            I'm pretty sure we have all been burned by the ban...
            
            Welcome to the club.
            
            I go off and make myself some money when I get banned... so I really can't complain about it... I'd take up knitting, but my fingers are too messed up.

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               Kathleen Cochranposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

               It's good to see folks from "both sides" supporting a fellow banned hubber. You can make an educated guess about who is doing the reporting by who we don't get a reply from.
               
               Yes, we've all been there.

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         Kathleen Cochranposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

         Amen.

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      My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      My feelings exactly. The moderators are clearly right-wing sympathizers as they ignore obvious rule breaking and personal insults by several of the right-wing commenters.

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   Trump is currently polling -30 on inflation.
   
   He can gaslight all he wants that there is no inflation, but when people go to the supermarket and see their grocery bill is up +20% from a year ago, the lies stop working....

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   Trump still has not followed a court order to release SNAP funds for millions of people.
   
   Meanwhile, he hosted a "Great Gatsby" themed party at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.
   
   And he posted seven times about renovating a White House bathroom with marble and gold.
   
   Priorities.
   
   
   Fan-freaking-tastic
   
   The queen has a new bathroom
   
   While  millions have lost their food assistance...

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   While the world burns, Mar-a-Lago turns women into living martinis for geriatric gawkers. "Family values"? More like fossilized fantasies. Cheers to the real circus....Of all themes..Great Gatsby...my God
   

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      My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      I am reading Virginia Roberts Giuffre's memoirs Nobody's Girl and immediately thought that was her in the glass (it is not).
      
      What a sad and horrendous book to read, but ALL girls and women should read it.

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   

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      My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      Only MAUGA thinks Trump is doing well on the economy and inflation. Based on the disagree numbers, 2 out every 3 American's KNOW he is doing terrible.
      
      Even for immigration, he can't get about 50%. I guess it is Gestapo tactics that is putting a damper on it.

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   No.... No it's definitely not illegal Grandpa
   
   

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      My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      Why does any same American pay attention to the mentally ill lunatic in the WH?

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   Interesting, moderators sent  me a list of forum rules... of which included the fact that signatures aren't allowed to posts lol

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      My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      Yeah, that is what I got from them - either garbage or NOTHING.

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   Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

   No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
   The real threat to free speech is MAGA officials using this conspiracy to justify their own censorship...
   
   https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/no-ther … censorship

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   IslandBitesposted 2 weeks ago

   Snowflakes.
   
   Im glad you're back!

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      Willowarborposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

      Thank you!

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    These blue states have abused the SNAP program.”
    SpeakerJohnson
    
    
    85 of the top 100 counties to receive SNAP benefits are counties Trump won in 2024.
    
    Why do Republicans hate their own voters so much?

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       Such a good question - but Trump and Johnson prove it many times a day.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    
    
    The pattern is super predictably repetitive. Billionaires picking whom they can easily buy, and then turn around to tell poor people what is good for them, except supporting the candidate that would actually benefit the poor....

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?
    
    TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is
    
    O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.
    
    TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
    
    A functioning Congress would be investigating this...

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened
    Donald Trump apparently feels he can now dictate CBS News’s content....
    
    Oh my ...
    
    https://newrepublic.com/post/202618/don … m=Autofeed

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       OF course, he "owns" the new owners.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Trump’s favorite judge is dragging her feet on a report relating to his classified document case, and a federal court is ordering her to get on with it...
    
    A panel of judges on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that Judge Aileen Cannon needs to rule on motions to release Volume II of special counsel Jack Smith’s report on the classified documents case within 60 days, noting an “undue delay” thus far...
    
    Yes, LETS GO
    
    https://newrepublic.com/post/202613/jud … ce=Twitter

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       And that from a conservative court who is fed up with Trump's lapdog.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    If Trump doesn’t know who he is pardoning, then who’s in charge at the WH?
    
    Insert Biden rhetoric here...

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Democrats will be called extreme because some associate professor at Columbia who has voted Green since 1986 says some bs, but this guy dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and everybody just shrugs....
    
    
    Nick Fuentes on Vance:
    
    "He is literally a fat, gay, race traitor that married a jееt."
    
    He's yours maga...
    https://x.com/EYakoby/status/1984292913757433905

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Jack Smith needs to speak before Congress ASAP....

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    The stagnant $7.25 Minimum Wage fuels SNAP Reliance for 41.9 Million Americans....
    
    The federal minimum wage has remained at $7.25 per hour since 2009, while SNAP supported 41.9 million people in 2024, with 60% of recipient households including working adults. Advocates propose raising it to $25-$28, adjusted for inflation and productivity, to boost incomes and reduce SNAP enrollment, as supported by Economic Policy Institute analyses. Critics, citing Congressional Budget Office projections, argue such hikes could eliminate 1.4 million jobs and strain small businesses amid ongoing debates on economic inequality.
    
    If someone works full-time and receives SNAP, that means your taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the company's profits because it refuses to pay them a livable wage.
    
    This can only be said so many ways; it isn’t difficult to grasp.... I'm really tired of the simplistic ignorant argument about folks on snap buying Oreos and if we just deny them the Oreos then everything will be fine....

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       Credence2posted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       First of all Willow, welcome home. So much for the idea of actually having an. Intelligent conversation with some people.
       
       The point which I made in article 12 years ago was just what you are saying that the fat cat capitalist class by not paying a livable wage since 2009 is having the tax payer pay and subsidize through social welfare programs. “Capitalist profits, socialized losses”…….
       
       Conservatives also like to blame the poor and destitute for everything ignoring the sheer greed of the system as to how it is truly designed to operate.
       
       I am with you, i am tired of the tall tales woe about lobster and steak purchases that these people, making only a handful of dollars a day, are accused picking up a the grocery stores.

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          Willowarborposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

          Thank you Credence!
          
          Republicans continually frame the issue of SNAP benefits disingenuously.
          
          The question isn’t why there are over 40 million Americans on SNAP. The question is why so many people who are gainfully employed make so little that they qualify for it. 
          
          They also conveniently ignore the fact that every $1 in SNAP generates $1.50–$1.80 in economic activity, billions that keep our towns running.
          
          But at an average monthly benefit of about $188 for an individual or $6.25 a day... I certainly don't think many food luxuries are being bought.
          
          The cruelty is always the point with this regime.
          
          They always attack the most vulnerable, the most marginalized, and the most in need of support.
          
          All to protect their tax cuts for the super-rich.

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             My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

             NO, NO, you got that wrong, don't you know. I have it on good authority that SNAP causes inflation (and maybe cancer to, lol).

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       "If someone works full-time and receives SNAP, that means your taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the company's profits because it refuses to pay them a livable wage." - I hadn't thought of it in those terms and am ashamed I hadn't.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Laura Loomer is now officially part of the Pentagon press corps.
    
    We live in an  Idiocracy.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Interesting that maga is now on board with nuking the filibuster.... Democrats have a lot of work to do when they retake the three branches... Getting rid of the filibuster will come in handy.

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       Weren't they against getting rid of it when a few Democrats wanted to in order to protect Voting Rights?

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    I still can't get over the slap in the face to the base that the Gatsby shindig was... The theme was on point though...
    
    “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made,”
    
    Fitzgerald really illustrated how the rich can act without accountability, while the poor are left to deal with the fallout... wealth grants a powerful and irresponsible carelessness.
    
    ... And it was god-awful tacky too

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Wow
    
    

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       Joel Steinnposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       Trump has been hypomanic again. Another long post that's all over the place with fear mongering and grievance. If he sleeps at all, it's probably in short uncomfortable bursts. This is a highly dysfunctional person who is terrified of losing, desperate, and in decline.  His failed the presidency is catching up with him quickly

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          My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

          Should I bring up again that now HUNDREDS of professional mental health experts have written or signed on to writings that explain Trump's mental illness and cognitive decline in detail?

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    JUST IN...Judge Currie orders DOJ to submit a more compete transcript of the Comey grand jury proceedings, noting that the transcript she was provided — of the lone witness — does not include Lindsey Halligan's remarks or presentation.
    
    
    
    
    She's cooked.... The judge obviously wants to know if she committed misconduct

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    The Republican message? Let us take away your health care and we'll let you eat...

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Crucial hearing over feds' use of force could reveal 'incredible' Bovino testimony Wednesday...
    
    In a filing released late Monday, plantiffs’ lawyers said that Bovino’s deposition included an admission that he had instructed officers to “go hard” and arrest protesters “who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations.”
    
    Tell me more about how you value free speech...
    
    https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigratio … -wednesday

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       Trump will probably give Bovino for copying what he does best - LYING.
       
       They should be firing his ass.

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          Credence2posted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

          Yes, indeed, Bovine has to go……

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Who is feeding him these lies?
    
    Trump: We've done so much, energy is way down. Look at energy. We'll have $2 gas. That brings everything else down. Groceries are way down other than beef. They have this new word called affordability and they don't talk about it enough. The Democrats make it up because we took over a mess. Think of energy. Energy was so expensive, and now I have it down to half what it was.
    
    Why is he lying?
    
    https://x.com/Acyn/status/1986210995375890740

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    This viral tweet, reposted nearly 2k times so far, reflects the reach of Trump’s lies about tariffs.
    
    Barrett was asking how the government would refund people in the *US* if Trump loses.
    
    Because that’s who pays Trump’s import taxes....
    
    
    

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       I would think it would be rather easy, actually. There is an electronic receipt each time an importer paid a tax. Just go through them and refund the money.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Where the hell is Congress?
    
    Trump says we are preparing to invade Nigeria. Apparently that’s what voters said they wanted in the exit polls. LOL
    Trump: “We’re going to do things to Nigeria that Nigeria’s not gonna be happy about. Guns-a-blazin
    
    he sounds absolutely awful...
    
    https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1986239292595753029

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    If the Supreme Court rules Trump's tariffs are illegal, that creates a real problem for the White House, which is already spending tariff money on Trump's pet projects without congressional approval.
    
    If illegal, who gets all the money Trump has collected from U.S. taxpayers?

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Yikes the Comey case is predictably falling apart...
    
    The judge scolds the prosecution saying it looks like they chose to indict first and investigate later LOL....OH WELL
    
    Federal judge slams DOJ's 'indict first, investigate later' approach | Fox News https://share.google/DhQsJVayP74w49ebN

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    My Esotericposted 2 weeks ago

    Walmart and Donald "the LIAR" Trump are at it again; Walmart in trying to sell you something and Trump to prove we are in a period of disinflation.
    
    "Fact check: Cheaper Walmart Thanksgiving meal touted by Trump has fewer items than last year’s"
    
    Specifically, 29% fewer items. Worse, the items they want you to buy are discounted items.
    
    TRUTH - Thanksgiving dinner will cost you more this year than last. Don't believe their LIES.
    
    https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/politics … fact-check

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    When his face is relaxed and he's still like this, you see signs of his face droop that indicate prior strokes or mini strokes. Yesterday, he stood catatonically still as a person near him who had collapsed was being treated...as if all awareness had drained from him.  Either that or he just didn't give a shit, which is entirely plausible.  I think he's a sociopath.
    
    

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       You think??

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Earlier this year Trump accepted a massive donation from Boeing. Now the criminal case against Boeing is being thrown out at the request of the DOJ....
    
    This is the most corrupt regime in history
    
    

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       Boeing was caught bribing our Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Acquisition/Management, Darlene Druyun, back when I worked there. Sen John McCain didn't like what he was seeing. Both were found guilty and Darlene went to jail.  I briefed her a few times about Boeing related cost analysis which she blew off.
       
       That is what should happen to Trump, but won't.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    From this
    
    
    
    To this in less than one year..
    
    
    
    Making bread lines great again?
    
    The golden age?
    
    Starving Americans just in time for Thanksgiving... Fingers crossed it hits Maga hard as hell.

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       MBLGA. And Donald "the LIAR" Trump wants them to get less food - he appealed the judges order to follow the law and pay SNAP benefits.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    As Democrats offer to reopen the government in exchange for keeping health insurance subsidies the same for one year, Trump orders his puppets in Congress to reject the deal as he flies back to Palm Beach for another weekend of golf and parties at his country club....

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    People are waiting in food lines to feed their families. Trump's response?
    
    "I don't want to hear about the affordability."
    
    Yes, we have officially crossed into the Marie Antoinette presidency....

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    The appeals court  denied Trump's  request for an emergency pause on a judge's order to fully fund SNAP.... And what does this regime do? They're turning to the Supreme Court to block the payments... Cruelty is the point.

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       My Esotericposted 2 weeks agoin reply to this

       Unfortunately, the Supreme Court did stay the ruling until the judge can revisit the time line.
       
       It ran out at midnight last night, I think, and Brown ruled at around 9 PM. So, meeting that deadline wasn't going to happen even IF Trump were willing.
       
       I suspect it will be reset to Tuesday or something.

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Meanwhile at mar a lago....Billionaires getting tax cuts and welfare.  42 million Americans starved by Trump, and no worries! The seafood and champagne are flowing...
    
    https://x.com/patriottakes/status/19871 … 42351?s=20

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    Willowarborposted 2 weeks ago

    Average ACA subsidy: $6,500
    
    Average cost to deliver a baby in a hospital: $20,000
    
    Average cost to treat cancer: $150,000
    
    Trump’s healthcare plan: Don’t get sick and if you do get sick, die quickly.
    
    

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    Willowarborposted 13 days ago

    Wow...federal judge Mark Wolf appointed by Reagan says he is leaving  the bench to be able to speak out against Trump’s abuse of the rule of law more openly.
    
    (His successor is already lined up, so Trump wont get to choose)
    
    
    

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       My Esotericposted 13 days agoin reply to this

       How is his successor already picked?

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          Willowarborposted 13 days agoin reply to this

          "Wolf was a senior judge – which means semi-retired – and his successor has been appointed. So he was in an ideal position to resign on principle."
          
          Seems as if it had to do with him being semi-retired or halftime.
          
          Federal Judge Resigns - Lawyers, Guns & Money https://share.google/Cu0Y2DMuJXH9K4Ox9

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             My Esotericposted 13 days agoin reply to this

             Good to know.

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    Willowarborposted 13 days ago

    And with another wow...
    
    deranged imbecile Dementia J. Trump posts that DOGE & “royalties linked to Obamacare” that originated on a SATIRICAL website. The site warns viewers: “Everything on this website is fiction… If you believe that it is real, you should have your head examined.” !
    HAHAHAAHAHA
    
    

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       My Esotericposted 13 days agoin reply to this

       Trump is as easily deceived by this stuff as his followers here are deceived by his lies.

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    Willowarborposted 13 days ago

    I know that Trump has no self-awareness but don't any of the fools around him know any better?
    
    Laser focus on affordability huh?
    
    
    
    
    LOL welcome to the Marie Antoinette presidency... Flaunting your filet while the peasants scrape together scraps.
    
    Ordering states to stop sending out payments toward SNAP benefits while posting about the new ballroom.
    
    Unbelievable levels of ‘let them eat cake’ happening.

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       Credence2posted 12 days agoin reply to this

       It is an imperial presidency from a man that has no basic understanding of his role and position. As for the “let them eat cake”, heads are going to roll as a result of that stance and attitude.

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    Willowarborposted 13 days ago

    Trump has such disdain for his followers... He thinks you're idiots.
    
    How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy...
    
    
    "The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.
    
    With little public scrutiny, the Trump administration is handing out hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts to some of the country’s most profitable companies and wealthiest investors.
    
    The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service, through a series of new notices and proposed regulations, are giving breaks to giant private equity firms, crypto companies, foreign real estate investors, insurance providers and a variety of multinational corporations.
    
    The primary target: The administration is rapidly gutting a 2022 law intended to ensure that a sliver of the country’s most profitable corporations pay at least some federal income tax. The provision, the corporate alternative minimum tax, was passed by Democrats and signed into law by President Joseph R. Biden Jr. It sought to stop corporations like Microsoft, Amazon and Johnson & Johnson from being able to report big profits to shareholders yet low tax liabilities to the federal government. It was projected to raise $222 billion over a decade.
    
    But the succession of notices the Treasury and I.R.S. have issued beginning this summer means the tax could bring in a fraction of that."
    
    The Treasury’s actions are contributing hundreds of billions of dollars to the federal deficit, tax experts said. That is on top of the trillions that the legislation signed by Mr. Trump in July is already adding to the deficit. Yet unlike laws passed by Congress, Treasury is under no obligation to publicly account for revenue lost by its actions — such as cutting spending to offset the money no longer being collected."
    
    And how do you people think that he will make up that loss????
    
    But please, tell me more about how we can't afford anything that benefits the average citizen LMFAO
    
    How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy - The New York Times https://share.google/1XsmimO2Am3Wl68d6

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    IslandBitesposted 13 days ago

    Trump has such disdain for his followers... He thinks you're idiots.
    
    Well, most of them are.

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       Willowarborposted 13 days agoin reply to this

       Trump agrees
       
       "smart people don't like me"

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       Credence2posted 12 days agoin reply to this

       I like that “plain speaking” the man that penned that also referred to the Republican dominated congress of his time as a “do nothing congress”..
       
       Harry Truman.

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    Willowarborposted 13 days ago

    If you had a friend who lied to you, you might overlook it once or twice. But if it was 5 times, you'd stop listening to what they said as if it was the truth. If they lied again, you'd stop listening to them altogether.
        Trump has told over 50,000 lies, some of them hundreds of times. And yet the media reports his statements without qualifying them as the bloviations of a pathological liar. Their reports begin with "Trump said," instead of "Trump claimed." His pathologies rarely.. almost never even enter the discourse.
    This is normalization. It has always been Trump's biggest empowerment, without which he'd be nothing but a self-promoting over-the-top ass hat, which is how he was seen and perceived for decades in NYC...

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       My Esotericposted 12 days agoin reply to this

       What you say is so true, and it is those lies suck vulnerable people into his cult. If they are weak enough or predisposed then, through repetition, it is an easy task to con them.

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    Willowarborposted 12 days ago

    Trump: "By the time my first year ends, we're gonna have over $20 trillion of investment coming into the US. It's unheard of." (The entire US GDP is about $30 trillion, so yes, it's unheard of) LOL
    
    "It’s unheard of” = it’s not true... Sort of like a "sir"  story. 
    
    Oddly, after raking in the unheard of 20 TRILLION, the National Debt, keeps going up. What a dementia ridden old jackass...
    
    Goldman today...
    

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       My Esotericposted 12 days agoin reply to this

       And gas is $2 a gallon.

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    Willowarborposted 12 days ago

    He is insane...
    
    INGRAHAM: Is affordability a voter perception issue of the economy?
    
    TRUMP: It's a con job. Costs are way down.
    
    https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/19 … 99902?s=20

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    Willowarborposted 12 days ago

    TRUMP: The economy is as strong as it's ever been
    
    INGRAHAM: Then why are people saying they're anxious about the economy?
    
    TRUMP: I don't know they are saying that. The polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we've ever had
    
    He looks and sounds like an absolute lunatic in this interview...
    
    https://x.com/atrupar/status/1988038045300384043?s=20

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       My Esotericposted 12 days agoin reply to this

       That is proof the man is insane and delusional and needs to be hospitalized.

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