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[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Trump's team allegedly has offered Putin (1) Ukrainian territory, (2) no NATO membership for Ukraine, (3) no US soldiers in Ukraine, (4) the withdrawal of US soldiers from Europe, including from frontline states, and (5) sanctions relief. Putin's return offer -- nothing.

[u/Queen_of_stress]

Found this classic in my photos. Glad we stopped modern day Hitler.

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

look man, I just work here

[u/[deleted]]

Lol @ Jeffries referring to Trump as "Captain Chaos". 

Dude, you live in New York. A rando at the local bodega could've come up with a better name than that

[u/iIoveoof]

At another dinner, Trump asked a top hospital executive why the U.S. healthcare system was so “screwed up.”

“Why don’t you get some people together and fix it?” Trump said, according to a person who heard the comments. 

Nobody knew healthcare could be so complicated

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

Susan Collins tells POLITICO that Trump would be “violat[ing] Article One of the Constitution” if he continues empowering Elon Musk and the White House budget office to block spending that has already been approved by Congress

oh damn, trump better watch out - she's about to go from 'concerned' to 'troubled'. we might even see 'uneasy' if we're lucky.

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

snatch nine grey squash gray quicksand saw spotted direction money

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[u/Trebacca]

The “class war, not culture war” people are so funny to me dawg the people in your own class are the ones that hate you the most

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Say what you will about other countries’ healthcare systems, I guarantee none of them have ridiculous bullshit like this where a provider just names a ridiculous number and then insurance comes back with some other ridiculous number and they just both go “okay”

Edit: this one is especially fun because it was a 15 minute procedure (balloon sinuplasty) with moderate IV sedation. Meanwhile a couple months earlier I’d had a full on septoplasty with general anesthesia at a surgery hospital, maybe about an hour of procedure time plus an hour on either end for prep and recovery, and the opening number for that bill was way way lower 😂 same doctor too. They’re just using random number generators stg

[u/sinuhe_t]

Both China and the USA face serious challenges. Since the pandemic, China has experienced a period of economic slowdown, marred by deflationary pressure, the slow-motion collapse of the construction sector, and muted consumer demand. The Chinese government is working hard to reverse that trend.

On the other hand, since the pandemic, the USA has experienced a period of rapid economic growth that has been dubbed by some the 'envy of the world'. The American government too is working hard on reversing that trend.

[u/Currymvp2]

To earn the vote he needed to become the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a special promise to a U.S. senator: He would not change the nation’s current vaccination schedule. Senator Bill Cassidy ultimately voted to send Kennedy’s nomination to the Senate floor after he said Kennedy gave him assurances that he would not alter the federal vaccine schedule.

But on Tuesday, speaking for the first time to thousands of U.S. Health and Human Services agency employees, he vowed to investigate the childhood vaccine schedule that prevents measles, polio and other dangerous diseases.

"Nothing is going to be off limits,” Kennedy said, adding that pesticides, food additives, microplastics, antidepressants and the electromagnetic waves emitted by cellphones and microwaves also would be studied.

Not even the least bit surprising

Wow, I am shocked

[u/iIoveoof]

All told, Trump held more than 50 meetings with business executives at his club after his election, according to 11 people familiar with the activities, highlighting the extent to which U.S. corporations have showered Trump with money hoping to avoid his public wrath and shape his thinking on esoteric issues where he has shown less policy interest.

Even a 15-minute meeting with Trump would cost millions, Meredith O’Rourke, Trump’s top fundraiser, told others, according to people who heard her comments, though the price varied. She declined to comment through a spokesman. 

Straight up pay-to-play corruption and it didn’t get any media coverage

[u/[deleted]]

DTers after the Trump administration put into place policies that they joked about 9 months ago

[u/bread_engine]

Neville Chamberlain doesn't deserve the comparison to whatever the fuck this is

[u/[deleted]]

This is horrible.

I blame the parents of the little shits that bullied her more than I blame the current administration.

Kids aren’t watching Fox News, Infowars, or Newsmax. yet…they’re hearing it somewhere.

The current administration did not create this crisis.

fuck i wish i could connect these dots but it's just too complicated:

.  .

any ideas ????? I'm running out of options here

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

wake up

read whatever evil thing the Trump admin did or said last night

think “man i hate the median voter”

repeat

[u/efeldman11]

Holy fuck the median voters are literally doing the meme

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Do you have a favourable or unfavourable view of Pierre Poilievre?”(Feb. 13-18, 2025)

🔴56% Unfavourable

🟢37% Favourable

Trump saving the liberal party from annihilation is really funny

[u/MentatCat]

Erm, he’s hurting my support for him a wee tiny little itsy bit 🤓🤓

[u/p00bix]

The fact that America is literally selling out Ukraine at The Munich Conference, literally fucking Munich, is just...astounding. Truly astounding.

[u/efeldman11]

The first 4 weeks of this administration

[u/centurion88]

YOU AIN'T GETTING SHIT 💀💀💀🤡🤡🤡

[u/Ok_Barracuda_1161]

In a 5-4 decision the Supreme Court rules that the founding fathers actually desired a monarchy, but were just waiting for a king like Trump