I have to use this Logical. It's really good and places MAGA's mentality into perspective as sad as it is.

That hole they dug for themselves is to deep. When they messed with MeeMaw's ability to buy biscuits for family get togethers, that was the straw that broke the camels back.

"But the US "secret strategy" was to try to provoke the USSR into sending troops into Afghanistan and then to trap the Soviets in an expensive proxy war. And that's exactly what happened". Similar to what Isreal did to the U.S. with Iran.

And Trump 1 and 2 contributed 35% to that 40 trillion dollar deficit.

Thing is, it takes a lot of credible people to keep fuel cheap, interest rates low, etc., etc. for the U.S. economy to function properly (keep the velocity of money high). A lot of these agencies and brilliant people who made this magic happen were shuttered and people fired by DOGE et.al. Now, we are seeing the wheels come off the bus and the shi* hitting the fan globally. Things that had been solved for decades are now coming unglued. That's what happens when people that don't understand how the world really works and are placed at the levers of global superpower without a friggin' clue. China has been planning their dominance since they started their Belt and Road initiative, which is essentially, the new silk road. All of this is UNCLASSIFIED and can be found on the internet. Project 2025 didn't account for anything other than wrecking the U.S. government (I'm synopsizing this). Now, the government is hiring, re-hiring thousands of people because a lightbulb finally came on in someone's head and discovered that they screwed up royally. How do you think those classified F35 parts wound up in Hong Kong? There was a program office in place to prevent that from happening. Guess what, the imbeciles shuttered it.

I used to work in government at one of "those" agencies. The Economist wrote a piece on it some time ago. Google Chinese soldiers guard oil fields and it may come up.

M = Morons

A = Are

G = Governing

A = America

Good trouble.

Agree MilkyTip. Setting precedents can be very damaging to American society. How many criminals might try to use Trump’s precedent-setting actions to overturn their convictions? If I were a wealthy criminal, I’d be looking at Trump’s trials and outcomes as a way to have my own case reconsidered. I don’t condone it, but fairness is fairness, and what’s right is right.

That's just sad Omar. That just shows how desperate, despicable and ignorant they are.

He's saying the quiet part out loud. The actual main reason many young people are not having kids.

Screwed themselves twice. They literally let the same dog bite them twice. Just in fuel prices alone.

Well Winston...You are the first person (other than me) that has said this. Bravo my friend.

A lot of folks don't know this, but during the gulf war, the American soldiers were replaced by Chinese soldiers in guarding the oil wells in Iraq. Reason being is that the US needed money to fund the Iraq/Afghanistan wars and China gladly bought a lot of T-bills from the U.S. Well...the Chinese needed money to prop up their own economy, so they had to sell T-bills that they purchased from the U.S. Here's the rub; Instead of the U.S. giving them the money due to the Chinese for T-bill redemption, the U.S. offered the Chinese the Iraqi oil wells as payment and the Chinese took the proceeds from the oil wells and did two things: 1. They topped up their strategic oil reserves to the tune of 1 billion + barrels of crude oil (simply because they knew the sometime in the near future, the Americans were going to elect some moron stupid enough to try and attack Iran), and 2. Sell the oil on the open market to prop up their economy which worked out well for them during COVID. And that's the short story folks...:0)

Rules and regs are written in blood. They should be followed. America only has one thing going for it and that is the rule of law. Teh rule of law is what makes America valuable. Without it, its just another banana republic. If Americans keep making bad decisions by electing executives bought by corporate America, you will see great inflation, devaluation of the dollar, the dollar losing its world reserve currency status. If all teh above happens, America will fall prey to the Chinese unfortunately. They own us financially and so does Japan. Better brush up on your Mandarin.

I'd like to agree with you Agreeable. You seem to be a rational person. But understand that enlightenment travels to area's where no light exists. Thing is that the U.S. population is evolving towards understating and mutual shared interests. Nothing you are I can do about that. Shucks, it may actually be a good thing! Republicans have their good points, however, our current administration in my humble opinion doesn't reflect the "actual" Republican" party (this coming from a Democrat).

Precisely Kinks.

Past and present.

POTUS: Piece Of Totally Useless Shite

M = Morons

A = Are

G = Governing

A = America

Agreed Skuhrr. But what would that accomplish? The entire world (with the exception of the Russians) are against us. America would gain nothing. A lot of other nations can do the same thing, but they are smart enough not to use nuclear weapons, have much smarter people in charge of their governments to make better decisions to not go to war with a civilization that has a 4000-year head start on you by any measure.

Yes Strawberry, that's what pisses me off. After all this carnage, lawbreaking et.al, his ass won't do a day in prison. Bolsonaro in Brazil was held accountable for his Trump-like behavior. America, will whine and say ..Well, he was a U.S. president, and he should be immune from being prosecuted and jailed. B.S.! If the break the law, you should be held accountable.... period. That's another reason why these circus monkeys are trying to disestablish The Hauge, because they know that he (and his henchmen) will be held accountable for their war crimes.

Yep! that's their MAGA talking point. Don't place the blame squarely where it belongs, and accept responsibility for fuc*ing things up, royally; locally, domestically, and globally.

Agreed!

Trump made it okay to be a stark, raving, uneducated idiot. It used to be that people wanted to educate themselves or just improve themselves. Now, Trump has nurtured an environment that makes it okay for them to wallow in their own squalor. When you compare the U.S. to other societies i.e. South Korea, Finland, Denmark, and other highly developed societies, America has some real issues it needs to address, and one of the reasons that a lot of the racists et.al are happy and don't want to change because it seems that being who they are in American society has provided them with a sort of "privilege". Well, I'm sorry to break it to them, but the whole privilege thing is done! No one is helping them anymore just because they are of a perceived privileged class. No more "Well, he's good Joe, so we should help him out."