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Retired: Army Vietnam Vet and AF civil servant. Retired from my own company, but that didn't work out. Published 1 book on economics, amateur art collector, and political junkie. Served America from 1973 - 2008 in one capacity or another.
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"Trump and Abu Dhabi ink partnership to build massive AI data center complex in UAE" So much for AMERICA FIRST, LOL. www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/m...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NOW you will start feeling the impact of Trumpflation. Walmart is raising prices due to tariffs. www.cnn.com/2025/05/15/b...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Is Donald Trump killing this woman? www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/h...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not the only say the felon, Trump, and Musk will cause MILLIONS OF DEATHS. Bill Gates chimes in as well. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/t...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Trump apparently BLINKED first. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/e...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

“CHINA SHOULD OPEN UP ITS MARKET TO USA — WOULD BE SO GOOD FOR THEM!!! CLOSED MARKETS DON’T WORK ANYMORE!!!,” Trump posted." Maybe the felon and sexual predator who failed Econ 101 should follow his own advice. Is it possible he is seeing the error of his way? - Nah. www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/e...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I just wanted to remind everyone that Trump, that convicted felon, that sexual predator, will probably be responsible for the deaths of OVER 25 MILLION PEOPLE worldwide. It is that kind of Monster who MAGA wanted as president. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is how the dictator 78 million of you elected works - ILLEGALLY Fire tens of thousand of federal workers and then 1) ILLEGALLY take over the INDEPENDENT systems put in place by Congress to protect them and 2) ILLEGALLY strip labor unions of their ability to help. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/p...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

What's up with TARIFFs today: * CHINA: 145% on things over $800 * CHINA: 120%+ on things $800 or less * CANADA: 25% on non-energy, 10% on energy * MEXICO: 25% * EVERYBODY ELSE: 10% * AUTO and PARTS: 25% * STEEL and ALUMINIUM: 25% INFLATION is here. www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

In an especially worrisome development this week, the Justice Department reinstated a rule that allows federal investigators to secretly go after journalists’ records in leak investigations. www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has opened investigations into broadcast networks and blocked the AP from news conferences. All while Trump is personally suing news outlets. “These attacks on the media are not random actions. In fact, they are part of the AUTOCRATIC PLAYBOOK,” www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

WARREN BUFFETT, the billionaire investor, thinks Trump, the felon and sexual predator, is an ACT OF WAR!. (Fact: Tariffs WERE a type of warfare prior to the 1700s www.cnn.com/2025/05/03/b...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

FACT: The president of the United States, Donald Trump, a felon and sexual predator, has A WORSE CRIMINAL RECORD than 99% of those he is deporting!!!!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's - the felon and sexual predator - so-called America First policy should really be called "America Last" policy. You see, his signature trade war, for several reasons, will HELP EUROPE and HURT AMERICA. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/e...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

YET ANOTHER TRUMP APPOINTED judge found the felon and sexual predator sitting in the oval office BROKE EVEN MORE LAWS!!!!! In this case, Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport gang members is ILLEGAL. The judge saw the obvious, the gang is not an invading army. www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Trump continues his WAR ON VETERANS. This blow is his scuttling a Biden program that helps Vets who are having trouble paying their mortgages. One of these days Veterans will realize that Trump - a felon, sexual predator and draft dodger - is not their friend. www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

FINALLY, I have something positive to say about Trump - who is still a felon and sexual predator. He now has two great accomplishments under his belt. The first was Operation Warp Speed and the second is this deal with Ukraine. www.cnn.com/2025/05/01/w...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Didn't Trump - a felon and sexual predator - once say Covid would be over quickly, like a miracle? Didn't he once say Tariffs won't hurt? Now he is admitting Tariffs WILL HURT, a lot, and will extend for a long time and will cause inflation and will empty shelves. www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I see Trump - a felon and sexual predator - has found another way to kill people. Estimates now put the likely death toll from Trump policies in excess of 21 MILLION!!!!

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Regardless of the lies Trump - felon and sexual predator - tries to tell you, he can't overcome this TRUTH - ON JAN 21, 2025, America had the strongest economy IN THE WORLD. On April 30, 2025, it is quickly becoming ONE OF THE WEAKEST. www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/i...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING - Trump - a felon and sexual predator - took Biden's economy which was growing at a healthy 2.4% and, in JUST 100 days, reversed it so that initial estimates show a CONTRACTION of -.3%. One more quarter (likely) and we are in a RECESSION!! www.cbsnews.com/news/gdp-rep...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Trump - a felon - said this about domestic automakers “They took in parts from all over the world,” Trump said of the auto manufacturers. “I don’t want that. I want them to make their parts here ...” He forgot to add - "...and you to pay lots more money". www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/b...

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‘I’m not sure what one does with a madman’: Why Canadian voters worried about Trump on election day This Canadian woman is putting voice to what most non-Cult Americans are thinking. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/w...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This so-called "auto deal" is in fact Trump admitting he was wrong - AGAIN. (Boy, Lutnick can lie with the best of them according to this article.) www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

How Ironic!! Trump, the felon and sexual predator, falsely thinks trade deficits are bad (they are not) so he starts a trade war with the world and, like he did the first time he tried this, THEY GOT WORSE. www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/e...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Economists estimate that GDP expanded at an annualized rate of 0.8% in the first quarter. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta is forecasting a SHARP DECLINE of 2.5% Both are bad! Whichever one is right - it is Trump's fault www.cnn.com/2025/04/29/e...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Doesn't MAGA know it!

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“Tariffs are going to affect growing families,” said CEO of Babylist: Stroller prices are INCREASING 25% on average, while infant car seats are seeing average INCREASES of around 20%. ALL because Trump, the felon, doesn't understand basic economics. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/b...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

TRUMPONOMICS 101: GIVE the very wealthy a massive tax break that doesn't really help the middle class AND impose a massive TAX INCREASE on the middle class through tariffs. This is what Trump voters bought into and are finally realizing their mistake www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's core belief is the United States — the mightiest world power — SHOULD NOT LEAD the world but should use its strength in one-on-one negotiations to coerce smaller nations into policies that benefit America, strike that, Trump and no one else. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

401(k)s trashed. Airlines cutting flights; top firms are trashing annual forecasts; retailers giving up selling Chinese goods. Fed says businesses are stopping hiring; the CEO of Walmart told Trump his policies will seize up the supply chain by summer. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Trump Voters NEVER UNDERSTOOD that once prices, writ large, go up, THEY DON'T COME BACK DOWN - with one exception: Drive the economy into a DEPRESSION without inflation. Trump couldn't even do that right!! He is causing STAGFLATION so prices stay high. www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/p...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Paraphrasing a section of "Profile of a Nation: Trump's Mind, America's Soul", about when America got this angry and politically divided - It took root in the mid-1990s when Newt Gingrich began the blood sport of the "Republican Revolution" and plunged Washington into permanent dysfunction.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I am travelling to Britain and EU in late June. I really worry about my wife and I's safety given how much Trump has made them hate America and Americans.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Trump, the monster, felon, and sexual predator - "3 children who are US citizens — including one with cancer — deported with their mothers, lawyers and advocacy groups say" www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

ICE raided a nightclub at a strip mall, over 100 alleged illegal migrants were rounded up. They said they confiscated lots of drugs, stopped prostitution etc - emphasis on "they say". Here is the sad thing - I don't believe them. A year ago I would have. www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Independents and Hispanics are finally getting it about Trump, the felon and sexual predator. All Americans: HI - 48% NOW - 41% Women: HI- 43% NOW - 36% Independents: HI - 43% NOW - 31% Hispanics: HI - 41% NOW - 28% Trump is underwater in all categories www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/p...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

THIS SHOULD SCARE THE CRAP OUT OF ALL PATRIOTIC AMERICANS!!!!.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

DON'T TELL ME Florida isn't a #Fascist state!! "..Fort Myers City Council members voted against the ICE collaboration, only to ,, approve it after Florida’s AG sent them a letter warning that the governor could remove them from office. " www.cnn.com/2025/04/27/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How is Trump Doing? Using the Right-Leaning Rasmussen Daily poll as a benchmark we find it is Not Too Well. In 10 poll increments starting from Jan 23, his average Fav to Unfav spread is: 1. +2.2 2. +1.1 3. -3.7 4. -4.6 5. -2.8 6. -8.7 7. -4.7

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The last major poll that showed the public want's to keep a Republican House was in February. Every poll after that wants a change in leadership. www.realclearpolling.com/polls/state-...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"How Trump’s 145% China tariffs could crush American small businesses: ‘There’s no facility here that makes what we need’" DO YOU own or work for a small business that needs imports to make a profit. Well, Trump is effectively telling you to close and find new work. www.cnn.com/2025/04/26/b...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

"DOGE is building a master database for immigration enforcement, sources say" I bet it is for Musk's personal use as well. www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p... Huxley's Brave New World has arrived, albeit 30 after he predicted.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

No surprise there, Texas is a theocracy. I am surprised they don't try to bring back the Inquisition.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Trump's sunk to a new low. Without due process, he sent A 2-YEAR OLD American girl to Honduras with her mother. You see, the mother was doing her periodic check in with ICE. Instead ICE arrested her and shipped her to Honduras instead. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Another reason why so many Americans think Trump, the felon and sexual predator, is ALSO A MONSTER. "988 suicide prevention service for LGBTQ+ youth would be eliminated under leaked budget proposal" www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/h...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Arkansas found this out the hard way - "Trump officials discuss making it much harder to qualify for federal disaster assistance, starting this hurricane season" FLORIDA - be ready to suffer under Trump during this hurricane season!! www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Arkansas found this out the hard way - "Trump officials discuss making it much harder to qualify for federal disaster assistance, starting this hurricane season" FLORIDA - be ready to suffer under Trump during this hurricane season!! www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/p...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

In Poland, posters are appearing with outlines of Putin and Trump merging together. Those ought to be plastered all over the United States as well. Time cover showing Trump morphing into Putin. Hope it works. x.com/TIME/status/...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments