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"I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." ~RFK Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services
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"If he was smart, he would've put his name on it. You've got to put your name on stuff or no one remembers you." ~ Trump, visiting George Washington's home, Mount Vernon, in April 2019
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"Young, handsome guy. Always nice to be young and handsome. Doesn't mean we have to like you. I don't like young, handsome men. Women I like. Men, I don't have any interest." ~ Trump, introducing President Pena of Paraguay at first meeting of the Board of Peace
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"A disgrace to our nation... Fools and lapdogs...They're very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution. It's my opinion that the Court has been swayed by foreign interests... So they write this terrible defective decision... It's almost, like, not written by smart people...I think it's an embarrassment to their families, if you want to know the truth." ~ Trump, on Supreme Court ruling on tariffs
Many U.S. voters agree with this, or at least present the persuasive impression of agreement.
Too bad.
It's balderdash.
"Nothing has changed.
But what has changed, the supreme court has taken away the president's leverage ...” Trump administration Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent / Will Cain Country 26/02/20 / FNS 26/02/22 commenting on SCOTUS ruling against Trump levying tariffs without congress, against international trade partners
But what has changed, the supreme court has taken away the president's leverage ...” Trump administration Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent / Will Cain Country 26/02/20 / FNS 26/02/22 commenting on SCOTUS ruling against Trump levying tariffs without congress, against international trade partners
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"The Board of Peace is going to almost be looking over the United Nations and making sure it runs properly." ~ Trump
"This is a legitimate organization where there are tens of member countries from around the world." ~ WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
"This is a legitimate organization where there are tens of member countries from around the world." ~ WH Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt
a) Oh?
b) And where is this $10 billion coming from Mr. President?
c) And when did congress vote to approve this expenditure? *
d) What assurance can you provide U.S. taxpayers this $10 billion properly?
* "A million here, a million there; pretty soon you're talking real money." Everett Dirksen
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"I was talking to a U.S. Marshal just yesterday, and he was talking about the fact that they were deporting a planeload of illegals, and one of them was a cannibal. He called himself a cannibal, ate other people and ate himself." ~ Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
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"It just amazes me that there's not more support out there. We actually have a silent support." ~ Trump, on his latest poll numbers
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"Our country is winning again. In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it. People are asking me: 'Please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much; we can't take it anymore. We're not used to winning in our country. Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we are winning too much.' And I say, 'No, no, no, you're going to win again. You are going to win big. You are going to win bigger than ever.'" ~ Trump, in State of the Union address
By waging War against a depleted Middle East also ran, clogged with its own domestic turmoil?
It’s hard to believe now, but Donald Trump once promised to be an antiwar president. “I’m not going to start a war,” he said when he won reelection. “I’m going to stop the wars.”
Trump Promised an Antiwar Presidency. He's Delivered the Opposite. - Institute for Policy Studies
Any expectation that Trump would bring a new era of reduced wars is being dashed by the brutal, opposite reality.
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‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing
The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive
‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 100 children reportedly killed in school bombing
The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrivewww.theguardian.com
And then there's this
62K views · 26K reactions | BREAKING: (NPR) -- The Iranian government said one of the missiles hit a girl's elementary school in Minab city in Iran's southern Hormozgan province, killing at least 53 students. "They have hit many targets around me an
BREAKING: (NPR) -- The Iranian government said one of the missiles hit a girl's elementary school in Minab city in Iran's southern Hormozgan province, killing at least 53 students. "They have hit...
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"I don't know anything about the Epstein files. I've been fully exonerated." ~ Trump
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Things that didn't age well
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." ~ Trump on Obama, 2011
"Our interest, I think very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country." ~ JD Vance, 2025
"Our president will start a war with Iran because he has no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective." ~ Trump on Obama, 2011
"Our interest, I think very much is in not going to war with Iran. It would be a huge distraction of resources. It would be massively expensive to our country." ~ JD Vance, 2025
Is there an important counterpoint here?
North Korea having nukes seems a bad idea for Western civilization. BUT !
Too late.
Is the current Trump expenditure of U.S. blood & treasure a wise long-term investment in future global peace & prosperity?
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"We don't know who's leading the country now. They don't know who's leading. It's a little like the unemployment line." ~ Trump, on Iran
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"In my knowledge and understanding today, the American government does not have a clearly formulated strategy for the future civilian leadership of this country." ~ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz
"Most of the people we had in mind are dead." ~ Trump
"Most of the people we had in mind are dead." ~ Trump
"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history ... this century's history .... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century." -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republican vice-presidential candidate during a news conference in which he was asked his opinion of the Holocaust.
Dan !
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"Flying over Tehran and Iranian leaders looking up and seeing only U.S. and Israeli firepower every minute of every day until we decide it is over. B-2s, B-52s, drones and fighters controlling the skies. Death and destruction from the sky all day long. This was never meant to be a fair fight... We control their fate." ~ SecDef Pete Hegseth
"We're not at war right now." ~ Speaker Mike Johnson
"We're not at war right now." ~ Speaker Mike Johnson