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AMERICA IS THE NEW VERSION OF NERO FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNS

TRUMP GOLFING WHILE AMERICA BURNS

Ironically pay a monthly fee to be told they don't have enough left for something their kids really need then brag about doing so online.

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scwr.bsky.social•18 hours ago

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lozzadarlo.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Have they recently purchased *groceries*? Apparently, they are placed into *bags* following purchasing - how v old fashioned. As any fule kno food arrives in styrofoam packaging from McDonald's restaurants.

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fairwarning.bsky.social•20 hours ago

3rd times a charm for Trump! I can feel it.

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warnsperger.bsky.social•20 hours ago

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iranphotos.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Still waiting for Reagan’s trickle down economy to make me a billionaire.

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howardbeale.bsky.social•13 hours ago

there is ketchup on those hot dogs

https://youtu.be/hPVyvSoInGM

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danglynnbals.bsky.social•20 hours ago

“Lie to me daddy” - Maga

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pushkin99.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Those hotdogs look disgusting.

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bluesos.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Who will be able to afford that kind of smorgasbord?

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regnad.bsky.social•6 hours ago

TWO hot dogs? Look at Ms. Moneybags here!

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voteless.bsky.social•18 hours ago

You'll swallow the official story about the chocolate ration and you'll like it.

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kenwyant.bsky.social•19 hours ago

To those who enjoy being lied to, “I hope you have a really nice day.” After all, what’s one more lie for them to enjoy.

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jjugs.bsky.social•19 hours ago

The report estimated that 663,000 private and public sector jobs were lost in the month of March—a revealing statistic people found shockingly blunt. Responding to the new information, an overwhelming majority of citizens said they believe that, during these extremely uncertain times, our leaders

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jjugs.bsky.social•19 hours ago

have a responsibility to come together, sit the American people down, and lie through their teeth about everything from misappropriations of taxpayer dollars to the severity of the credit crisis.

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nikkinikkitm.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Turned their back on the baby bec they can only afford to feed him plastic. 😔

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jaydeedouble.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Biden goes home for the weekend: “Vacation!”

Trump leaves the White House middle of the day on Thursday to play around with Saudis in Florida: “Working so hard for us!”

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logicalmuppet.bsky.social•19 hours ago

https://youtube.com/shorts/DCyO1tbi6ek?si=zadh7NVIO78J77D7

#recession #harris

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genialjim.bsky.social•15 hours ago

All I can do is stair at those meals and think; what the actual fu*ck🫣

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reasonsvoice.bsky.social•17 hours ago

FOX News: "We gotz dis"

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extremecdnliberal.bsky.social•19 hours ago

When it’s chicken wieners again …

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tigergrrldc.bsky.social•18 hours ago

By Monday the orange thug will say it's Biden's fault because the the market went up too high under his administration.

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chemistcarrie.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Yes we are...feed the delusion please!

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stubobnumbers.bsky.social•19 hours ago

"Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies."

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northernsnowdog.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Fake photo! A real struggling family would have generic condiments, or more like a bunch of free single serving packets.

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tink51.bsky.social•18 hours ago

You're god damned right we're fucking ready...never been so ready.

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strapskinks.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Nope, I never took lies about the economy nicely and I still won’t take them nicely.

Donald, if I ever see you and the ugly big black limousine, my pink can of spray paint is going to paint your car with “TRUMP DIDDLES KIDS - PEDO TRUMP!”

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michellesalvetti76.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Oh, hell yes! Make me feel like Meg Ryan in that diner scene from Sleepless in Seattle! Tell me lies, baby! Bigger! Bigger! Ugh, right there! Right in the ego, omg, yessss...

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askquestionsfirst.bsky.social•18 hours ago

to be fair, Obama inherited an awful economy and made it better. trump inherited a healthy economy and destroyed it in days🙄

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aftertone.bsky.social•17 hours ago

It was not healthy

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schmidty.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It was as healthy as it could be post Covid and post Trump v1

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aftertone.bsky.social•15 hours ago

It has been in decline for decades.
Even ignoring that, it still wasn't healthy

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pushkin99.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The rot started with Reagan. Obama slowed the decline.

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aftertone.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Slightly

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oconnellmark.bsky.social•20 hours ago

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chaseydujac.bsky.social•20 hours ago

But look…mom has TWO hot dogs.

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dyson-poincare.bsky.social•19 hours ago

She's eating the leftovers from last week's pack😉

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regenradler.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Americans!!! Try it with eg Möhreneintopf, would give some more volume and calories!!😂 (if you dared to cook!🤣🤣 But that is surely not the way Lutnick, Friedman, Hayeck, Mises and maybe Hjalmar Schacht estimated the American People.🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭)

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jmawork.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I might actually do this with some leftover kielbasa i have. thank you!

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jmawork.bsky.social•19 hours ago

mistyped: its andouille sausage, which would actually be pretty fuckin good

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regenradler.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Youre correct. But my point was, you cannot complain when you do not know to do it right. And I wished you Americans complained a lot more against your actual gvrnment! - And I say it as a German, who has his Whole life was accused of being a born Nazi. Hope for you, you can avoid this!

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jmawork.bsky.social•10 hours ago

oh SHIT this is good soup

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jmawork.bsky.social•15 hours ago

we do. we yell at our reps in person and call our reps, so much one day we broke calling records. we have protests planned for weekends in the coming months. we have been protesting since January. many of us in the bitter cold of -22°F.

we're trying. our representatives are not listening

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jmawork.bsky.social•15 hours ago

we have nationwide protests happening today even!!

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vardm-65.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Hey, those adults can afford two hot dogs each for lunch, I'm so tired of the elite flaunting their wealth.

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emadfamily7.bsky.social•9 hours ago

I never wanted to write a message like this. But a donation or repost would mean so much.

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fpardalis.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Hurt me baby. Make me write bad checks.

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sholloway.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Another joke, that is sadly not a joke 🙁

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binkythebomb.bsky.social•18 hours ago

F*ck, this hits hard.

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scotsandlit.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Right on schedule…

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greasythumb.bsky.social•19 hours ago

By contrast, across the Atlantic, UK citizens are always ready to be lied to about the economy. It can happen at any time.

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luna-brin.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Now, this has become a tradition. Every season there will be a batch of fresh creative stories

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liam1313.bsky.social•12 hours ago

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025/04/04/trumps-tariffs-to-send-us-into-recession-jpmorgan/

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mogigo.bsky.social•20 hours ago

but can I hold on to my mind altering hate?

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tiagomargon.bsky.social•20 hours ago

From may, 2009?? Man...

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adrame.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The picture is perfect haha

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nekrobomb.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Where's the joke?

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schmidty.bsky.social•15 hours ago

Half of nation happy to gobble up lies like M&Ms and rejoice in everyone's suffering

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srasmussen9.bsky.social•13 hours ago

And too many still keep believing. Ugh

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gohanprolife.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Happened from 2020-2024

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notrealy.bsky.social•18 hours ago

just bragging all the time!

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retrogamerje.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Narrator: they were not ready

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travelingsnowman.bsky.social•19 hours ago

MAGA will eat it up. Have no fear.

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toms-takes.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It didn’t take long.

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vanllips.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I can actually say some of the the magas in my red state, red county, red city are pretty pissed off. I think it will last until the midterms. ✌️❤️🇺🇸

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sethtaylor.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Spoiler alert: the economy is better than it's ever been. Have you not received your million-dollar check from Supreme Leader Trump yet? What, are you stupid? Check the mail.

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