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Trump can make deals with almost anyone in the world — except the extreme left. Schumer has completely lost it. As usual, the last few posts have DDD: dismissed, denied, and downplayed what’s happening in the US and around the world. Trump has signed over $20 trillion in deals and helped broker more peace agreements globally — all in less than a year. Scientists are still working on a cure for TDS.
Corruption: Lately, it's like peeling back layers of an onion—except this one's rotten to the core. We're uncovering a mountain of evidence that the so-called "allegations" against Trump weren't just baseless; they were cooked up by a corrupt cabal in the FBI, CIA, and state-level Dem operatives. The party? It's veered hard into extreme-left territory, ditching pragmatic governance for radical stunts that tanked the border under Biden (while Obama, credit where due, kept things tighter). And now, the Biden autopen scandal? Most of those "signatures" on executive orders, pardons, and bills can't even be traced back to the man himself—staffers pulling strings in the shadows. Biden DOJ's "Arctic Frost" probe the personal cell phones of eight Republican senators and one House GOP rep.
So much fictitious pap. I borrow from Orange supporter James Woods in "True Crime" when he told uncle Clint: "I can't fart loud enough to tell you what I think of that."
The red carpet is rolling out for Trump across the world — and there’s a reason. It’s about respect and a desire to do business with America again.
U.S. Image Declines in Many Nations Amid Low Confidence in Trump
"U.S. President Donald Trump receives mostly negative ratings in a new Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations. More than half in 19 of these countries say they lack confidence in Trump’s leadership of world affairs.
Majorities in most countries also express little or no confidence in Trump’s ability to handle specific issues, including immigration, the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S.-China relations, global economic problems, conflicts between Israel and its neighbors, and climate change"
The red carpet is rolling out for Trump across the world — and there’s a reason. It’s about respect and a desire to do business with America again.
You are misinterpreting events once again! President Trump is emotionally insecure and he reacts favorably to pomp and circumstance and fawning praise. Foreign leaders are taking advantage of Trump's weakness.
Speaking of red carpets, the one Dump rolled out for Putin in Anchorage was in start contrast to his half-hearted greetings for the E.U. leaders who visited in D.C. Dictators of a feather stick together.
// Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House measure to fund the government without negotiating over the Democrats’ demand for the extension of the premium tax credit without which healthcare premiums will skyrocket.
Yesterday air traffic controllers received their first “zero” paycheck. For weeks, flights have been delayed across the country as air traffic controllers call in sick. Also across the country, states are bracing for food insecurity among the 42 million Americans who depend on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits when those payments don’t go out on time on November 1. The administration maintains it cannot distribute the $6 billion the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds in reserve to cover for November 1.
Meredith Lee Hill of Politico reported on Monday that even some Senate Republicans want to fund SNAP in a stand-alone bill, but yesterday House speaker Johnson dismissed Democrats’ attempts to pass stand-alone measures to fund federal workers and SNAP, calling them a waste of time. Also yesterday, governors and attorneys general from 25 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia sued the USDA and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, the Office of Management and Budget along with its director Russell Vought, and the United States itself over the government’s refusal to use the USDA’s reserves to fund SNAP.
The lawsuit argues that Congress has mandated SNAP payments and has made appropriations for them, including the $6 billion the USDA holds in reserve. Another USDA fund has more than $23 billion in it. The USDA took money from it earlier in the shutdown to fund another nutrition program, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) program. The lawsuit notes that the USDA itself initially said it could use reserve funds; the decision saying it cannot is recent.
The lawsuit notes that the “USDA’s claim that the SNAP contingency funds cannot be used to fund SNAP benefits during an appropriation lapse is contrary to the plain text of the congressional appropriations law, which states that the reserves are for use ‘in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations’ under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.”
Today, ignoring Johnson’s insistence that he would not recall the House to debate stand-alone funding for SNAP and WIC, Democrats led by Senator Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico introduced a measure to fund both.
The loss of SNAP benefits will hit not only the 42 million Americans who depend on them but also the stores that accept Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. At the same time, the cost of healthcare insurance premiums is soaring because of the expiration of the premium tax credits. Medical debt is central to throwing families into bankruptcy. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which under President Joe Biden tried to remove medical debt from credit reports, yesterday published a rule to make sure states cannot stop companies from including such debt on credit reports. The acting director of the CFPB is Russell Vought.
So, just as the government stops addressing food insecurity and as healthcare costs skyrocket, the administration permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores even if state laws say they can’t.
This is happening as higher costs, economic uncertainty, and increased use of AI mean hiring is slow and jobs are disappearing across the economy. Lindsay Ellis, Owen Tucker-Smith, and Allison Pohle of the Wall Street Journal reported last night on layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Target, Rivian, Molson Coors, Booz Allen Hamilton, and General Motors that together mean the loss of tens of thousands of white-collar jobs.
The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill of July, the law they call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and made dramatic changes to SNAP, including cuts of $187 billion from SNAP over ten years. Crucially, the Republicans designed those cuts to go into effect after the 2026 midterm elections.
But their refusal to extend the premium tax credits and end the government shutdown has given Americans an early taste of what those changes will mean. …
We are probably about to learn that our devout Christians on the Supreme Court don't get a rats about whether Americans eat much less get to have a say in how their tax money and tariffs are spent.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/cnn-data-guru-stunned-polls-184112485.html
Trump can make deals with almost anyone in the world — except the extreme left.
Schumer has completely lost it.
As usual, the last few posts have DDD: dismissed, denied, and downplayed what’s happening in the US and around the world. Trump has signed over $20 trillion in deals and helped broker more peace agreements globally — all in less than a year.
Scientists are still working on a cure for TDS.
Corruption:
Lately, it's like peeling back layers of an onion—except this one's rotten to the core. We're uncovering a mountain of evidence that the so-called "allegations" against Trump weren't just baseless; they were cooked up by a corrupt cabal in the FBI, CIA, and state-level Dem operatives. The party? It's veered hard into extreme-left territory, ditching pragmatic governance for radical stunts that tanked the border under Biden (while Obama, credit where due, kept things tighter). And now, the Biden autopen scandal? Most of those "signatures" on executive orders, pardons, and bills can't even be traced back to the man himself—staffers pulling strings in the shadows.
Biden DOJ's "Arctic Frost" probe the personal cell phones of eight Republican senators and one House GOP rep.
Did Biden get that treatment? Of course not. Would Kamala? Let’s be honest — that would be a joke.
"U.S. President Donald Trump receives mostly negative ratings in a new Pew Research Center survey of 24 nations. More than half in 19 of these countries say they lack confidence in Trump’s leadership of world affairs.
Majorities in most countries also express little or no confidence in Trump’s ability to handle specific issues, including immigration, the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S.-China relations, global economic problems, conflicts between Israel and its neighbors, and climate change"
https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/us-image-declines-in-many-nations-amid-low-confidence-in-trump/
President Trump is emotionally insecure and he reacts
favorably to pomp and circumstance and fawning praise.
Foreign leaders are taking advantage of Trump's weakness.
Trump is taking advantage of sycophants like Fully Delusional1000%
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Today is the twenty-ninth day of the government shutdown, and the House of Representatives is still on break as House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) continues to try to force the Senate to pass the House measure to fund the government without negotiating over the Democrats’ demand for the extension of the premium tax credit without which healthcare premiums will skyrocket.
Yesterday air traffic controllers received their first “zero” paycheck. For weeks, flights have been delayed across the country as air traffic controllers call in sick. Also across the country, states are bracing for food insecurity among the 42 million Americans who depend on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits when those payments don’t go out on time on November 1. The administration maintains it cannot distribute the $6 billion the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) holds in reserve to cover for November 1.
Meredith Lee Hill of Politico reported on Monday that even some Senate Republicans want to fund SNAP in a stand-alone bill, but yesterday House speaker Johnson dismissed Democrats’ attempts to pass stand-alone measures to fund federal workers and SNAP, calling them a waste of time. Also yesterday, governors and attorneys general from 25 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia sued the USDA and Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, the Office of Management and Budget along with its director Russell Vought, and the United States itself over the government’s refusal to use the USDA’s reserves to fund SNAP.
The lawsuit argues that Congress has mandated SNAP payments and has made appropriations for them, including the $6 billion the USDA holds in reserve. Another USDA fund has more than $23 billion in it. The USDA took money from it earlier in the shutdown to fund another nutrition program, the Women, Infants & Children (WIC) program. The lawsuit notes that the USDA itself initially said it could use reserve funds; the decision saying it cannot is recent.
The lawsuit notes that the “USDA’s claim that the SNAP contingency funds cannot be used to fund SNAP benefits during an appropriation lapse is contrary to the plain text of the congressional appropriations law, which states that the reserves are for use ‘in such amounts and at such times as may become necessary to carry out program operations’ under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008.”
Today, ignoring Johnson’s insistence that he would not recall the House to debate stand-alone funding for SNAP and WIC, Democrats led by Senator Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico introduced a measure to fund both.
The loss of SNAP benefits will hit not only the 42 million Americans who depend on them but also the stores that accept Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. At the same time, the cost of healthcare insurance premiums is soaring because of the expiration of the premium tax credits. Medical debt is central to throwing families into bankruptcy. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), which under President Joe Biden tried to remove medical debt from credit reports, yesterday published a rule to make sure states cannot stop companies from including such debt on credit reports. The acting director of the CFPB is Russell Vought.
So, just as the government stops addressing food insecurity and as healthcare costs skyrocket, the administration permits credit-reporting agencies to put medical debt back onto people’s credit scores even if state laws say they can’t.
This is happening as higher costs, economic uncertainty, and increased use of AI mean hiring is slow and jobs are disappearing across the economy. Lindsay Ellis, Owen Tucker-Smith, and Allison Pohle of the Wall Street Journal reported last night on layoffs at Amazon, UPS, Target, Rivian, Molson Coors, Booz Allen Hamilton, and General Motors that together mean the loss of tens of thousands of white-collar jobs.
The Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill of July, the law they call the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and made dramatic changes to SNAP, including cuts of $187 billion from SNAP over ten years. Crucially, the Republicans designed those cuts to go into effect after the 2026 midterm elections.
But their refusal to extend the premium tax credits and end the government shutdown has given Americans an early taste of what those changes will mean. …
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5580711-mark-warner-democrats-trump-administration-drug-boat-attacks/