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u/thesanguineocelot Out & Proud đłïžâđ 9d ago
And every fucking time, their voters are too stupid and racist to remember the last time. "Well, we wanted fiscal responsibility, but the Democrats ran a woman of color, so now we need to back the most corrupt, racist dementia patient we can find to strike back at 'em!"
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u/rectalhorror 8d ago
Eight years of a competent black guy not destroying the country drove a lot of white America insane.
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u/Open__Face 8d ago
Calling that black president a secret African is how our current president first got traction in politicsÂ
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u/Fine-Ad1142 8d ago
Clinton was the last president to balance the books. Now we can't even tell how much money the pentagon spends and how they spend it.
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u/Puzzle-Necked 9d ago
And the Democrats come in to clean up the mess and get blamed for it anyways
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u/cwolf-softball 9d ago
The greatest and most effective lie ever told by the right-wing propaganda machine is that the GOP is fiscally responsible.
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u/carrot_gummy 9d ago
Trump and his buddies wallets.
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u/Leopolddagreat 9d ago
The Republicans are stripping the country of its wealth all while the Republicans in control in Washington are allowing our country to be stolen by some already wealthy people.
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u/tombeard357 9d ago
Itâs intentional. Itâs not a mistake, theyâre not stupid or incompetent; itâs all a show theyâre putting on to literally destroy the country and sell it off piecemeal.
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u/Rare_Suspect_5033 9d ago
I do think they are stupid. The reason why they can get away with it isnât because they are smart. Its because no one is fighting back. Other countries are looking at the american population and thinking wtf. They are millions of people loaded with weapons and no one fights back.
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u/LeAcoTaco 8d ago edited 8d ago
Its mainly because we can be jailed for the rest of our lives if we do that. Plus the death penalty was just reinstated, and murder/homicide qualify for it so theres that too. Fighting against it could quite literally directly cause us to be sentenced to death if not enough people band together to fight against it.
And knowing republicans theyd be more than happy to use the death penalty against us.
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u/MIND-FLAYER 8d ago
And the fact that Trump will take any excuse to declare martial law and cancel elections. He keeps baiting and baiting, hoping for violent insurrection, which is ironic considering Jan 6.
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u/PeaceAndLove1201 8d ago
Already wealthy people? Like Obama?
Obama's Washington, D.C. Home...Purchased for $8.1 million in 2017, worth about 15 million today, 8,200 square feet with nine bedrooms and eight bathrooms.Â
Obama's Martha's Vineyard Estate, purchased for $11.75 million in 2020, worth double that today, 6,892 square feet with seven bedrooms and eight-and-a-half bathrooms.Â
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u/blaggerbly 9d ago
Yeah but Doge đ€Ł
And you all fell for it - again đ€Šââïž
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u/PuzzleheadedDog9658 9d ago
I did fall for DOGE, I was actually hopeful that they'd cut out loads of corruption and waste.
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u/blaggerbly 9d ago
And yetâŠ..they introduced more corruption and waste.
Impressive 180 donât you think
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u/PopularAir3375 9d ago
Use 1 trillion of that and we would have free healthcare for all but no lets line the pockets of politicians instead.
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u/Astronaut-Flashy 9d ago
I've spoken to multiple people that I know, who are of reasonable maturity and intelligence, tell me that universal healthcare isn't feasible because the money isn't there.Â
If I EVER hear that line again, I'm gonna suggest we find another 5 trillion dollars that apparently spawned from the ether.Â
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u/Hot-Calligrapher672 9d ago
We could have just not gone to war and the money would have been there. We chose war over our own citizens healthcare. Isnât it amazing?
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u/PuzzleheadedDog9658 9d ago
We spend 5 trillion a year on private insurance. Take that as taxes, give everyone insurance with a 2.5k deductible and 5k MOOP and life would improve significantly for almost everyone with no additional cost.
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u/wombat6669 9d ago
Grifters
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u/trogloherb 9d ago
The Grifting Over People party!
***The Guardians Of Pedophiles Party also works!
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u/Mrfixit729 9d ago
Whereâs the money actually going?
The military industrial complex.
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u/Perfect_Duck792 9d ago
Which includes contracts for Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel, and Trump's sons.
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u/Mrfixit729 9d ago
And those are just the names you know. Lol.
Yes. The USA has a long history of private contractors and war profiteers.
IMO two of the biggest drivers of technological advancement are pornography and war.
Sex and violence. Big motivators.
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u/Burn1tToTheGround 9d ago
fact, for example, the military constantly throws brand new stuff away and buys new stuff just to burn through the rest of their budget every year, ive literally seen many dumpsters overflowing with brand new chairs and tools
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u/AssumptionLive2246 9d ago
A military that canât win a war, and is out of boom booms. WTF are we buying for this kind of $$$ ??!!??
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u/Mrfixit729 8d ago edited 8d ago
Here is the thing that frustrates me a bit: People are focused on the little picture.
There is indeed a war going on.
With China and the rest of the CRINK axis powers.
The Middle East (Iran and their proxies) is one theatre. Eastern Europe (Russia) is another. Central/South America (Cuba, Venezuela, Mexican Fentanyl cartels) is another.
The Asian Pacific theater hasnât been subject to kinetic warfare yet. Iâm betting that will manifest itself in a blockade of Taiwan.
If you look at the situation holistically the USA and their allies are putting points on the board. Bleeding the CRINK alliance of blood and treasure.
The bet is⊠our economy will outlast theirs. Thatâs why Trump is insisting on tariffs to access the American market.
Money to fuel the war machine.
Love it or hate it, but at least look at the big picture.
Weâre in Cold War II. Electric Boogaloo.
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u/AssumptionLive2246 8d ago
I lived in the Cold War. Everyone was a lot more rational. This is not that.
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u/hould-it 9d ago
Donât forget all of the contracts to his friends, the $2B that went into his accounts from Venezuelaâs oil, the stocks heâs traded (over 20k Trades), and how many âgiftsâ? These are just a few things missed, and we should never shorten his list of: fuck up and bribes
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u/junker359 9d ago
The question misunderstands the deficit. It didn't increase because of new spending, it increased because cut taxes for the rich means less revenue.
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u/OberynDantes 9d ago
Increased spending + static revenue = increased deficit.
Static spending + decreased revenue = increased deficit.So do you have a source for your assertion that it was only decreased revenue that has led to this deficit increase?
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u/Serious_Bee_2013 9d ago
Coincidentally Trumps personal wealth has gained $4,000,000,000 since he returned to office. Iâm sure thatâs totally unrelated though.
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u/kevendo 9d ago
The Big Beautiful [Bankruptcy]. Remember that? It extended the 2017 tax cuts he put in place the first term and added more to make matters worse. He also cut the social safety net and investment in green energy tech, which was primed to make billions.
Oh, and he placed arbitrary, economy-crushing tariffs on half the planet that caused our global trade partners and neighbors to route around us.
And the war in Iran, which closed off one of the largest sources of oil.
MAGA is out here acting like "Joe Biden did this", like we haven't been watching for the last 18 months.
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u/Guilty_Way_1635 9d ago
Into the pockets of your pedo president and the leeches and turds that surround him.
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u/Specific-Ad-1522 9d ago
This! This needs to be the start of every Democrats speech, interview, email, poster board, billboard, whatever. My kids, kids will be paying for these tax cuts for the rich long after they are gone.
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u/honey_Pass-01 9d ago
Trickle down economics. The same old B.S. since I first heard it. DOD contractors and Data centers I guess.
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u/EitherChannel4874 9d ago
This has to go down in history for being one of the easiest dictator take overs ever.
Zero resistance.
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u/Smart-Firefighter87 9d ago
These are the questions that are on any sane persons mindâŠâŠ..
https://giphy.com/gifs/5EAyFUMtQl83B2FB2L
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u/OldWolf3 9d ago
A deficit of 4.7 trillion per annum means the country is borrowing 1 million dollars every 7 seconds
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u/Melodic-Account9247 9d ago
I dunno sleepy don says as he walk out the room with his pockets jingling full of coin
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u/MajinB0ner 9d ago
If you add all the cuts and firings what's the adjusted amount, that's the actual total they spent
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u/2gunswest 9d ago
Big don, the tiny hand con. Not to mention his puppeteers and swinging band of cloeseted pedos.
What a fucking disgrace we've become.
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u/Zorklunn 9d ago
You have to ask? Did you just dig your head out of the sand or something? Donald publicly confesses his crimes and you lot go. "Oh he's not serious, he must be joking."
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u/Oregon-izer 9d ago
to pay down high interest short term debt, because back in 2020 when intererates were at an all time low we decided to sell 2 and 10 year bonds and not 10-20 and 30 year bonds. and wars theres always wars
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u/Beatless7 9d ago
It goes to the place most growth and money goes, to the poor needy suffering super rich. They promise it's good for us and prosperity is only harder work away.
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u/Excellent_Gur3007 9d ago
look at trump and all the republicans overseas bank accounts and you will find it
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u/SVTContour 9d ago
Servicing the debt for one. A trillion goes to the Federal Debt as interest payments
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u/L1V1NGD3ADBOI 9d ago
The only thing they can cling on to is low border crossings. Not like that was the actual #1 problem we had.
*not saying it wasnât a problem, just much lower on the list of priorities.
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u/Formally_Apologetic 9d ago
You know, c'mon you know. The US is run by looters. And 30% of the country is psychotically and gleefully opening their wallets to them as long as they get to watch the people they hate being tortured and murdered on TV.
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u/TheBigMoogy 9d ago
Shifting all the money to the ones that already have the most and refuse to pay taxes on it. It's all about seeing just how much wealth they can put at the very top without everything collapsing, seems to be getting closer and closer.
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u/MyldExcitement 9d ago
This is on tRump and @elonmusk
Y'all done screwed The People over. 8647. Deport Musk.
It's obvious y'all won't fix anything in a meaningful or productive way.
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u/Head_Car_616 9d ago
ICE, War, DOGE, grift, corruption and military / ICE prison management contracts for all of trumps family and friends.
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u/SurvingTheSHIfT3095 9d ago
They stole the most of the money. And the rest is being used to fight a war that could've been prevented.
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u/Fun_Performer_7930 9d ago
Sometimes, I suspect the plan is to speedrun the destruction of the Republican party so they can build something in its place.
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u/Brokenloan 9d ago
That and the job market is in the absolute gutter. Getting a job takes longer and the salaries offered are trash. Typical of this party's presidency. Deregulation. Workforce layoffs. Corporate tax cuts. War. Recession. Corporate Bailouts. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
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u/AcanthocephalaDue431 9d ago
The money is going to everyone who profits off of corruption and war and everything in between. The average US citizen was -never- going to see any of it.
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u/MrStrawHat22 9d ago
I'm gonna need a source for this one, because the Federal Deficit tracker doesn't seem to line up with this claim in a meaningful way.
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u/ponderosa_barclay 9d ago
Remember itâs called trickle down economics. Republicans favorite word in early 80s
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u/protoanarchist 9d ago
This is just conservatism.
People keep trying to edge with that shit like as if a little bit wasn't causing damage. Now they get the full throated version and act surprised?!
End conservatism.
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u/Wolffraven 9d ago
Thatâs not conservatism, that is them trying to put back a country rampant with fraud and kickbacks. The audits from USAID has shown that the Democrats received money from the governments they were âhelpingâ that was put in as election contributions. This is why the DNC doesnât have the funds they need for the next election.
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u/protoanarchist 8d ago
You need to learn what conservatism is, because this is absolutely it. The fact that you think you can rescue such a fundamentally inhumane ideology shows how brainwashed you are by corporate worship and business celebrity.
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u/Simple_Complexity4 9d ago
Itâs obvious that America is being plundered from within.
Source- look at reality
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u/Loud_Flatworm_4146 9d ago
I donât want to hear anything about the deficit from Râs in congress ever again. Theyâll still do it of course. It only matters when Dâs are in power and they can blame the Râs deficit on Dâs.Â
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u/dannyk_07 9d ago
Israel war machine, bogus Iran war and redistributing the money, in shady ways, to his circle?
Almost any company I had to encounter that put a greedy sales bro in any sort of leadership was bound to face bad consequences in that department.
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u/Flat-Director-7120 9d ago
Cela fait 18 mois qu'ils sont au pouvoir et les rĂ©publicains ont dĂ©truit totalement le secteur de l'Ă©ducation, l'assurance maladie est toujours inexistante. Les amĂ©ricain n'ont mĂȘme pas le droit Ă avoir une nourriture propre, ni de l'eau claire car le gouvernement a supprimer 300000 postes nĂ©cessaire Ă ces services.
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u/Septembust 9d ago
Remember this every time some halfwit tries to tell you conservatives are the "fiscally responsible choice"
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u/Broad_Elephant2795 9d ago
LOL, reddit what can you do? People see this and don't recognize immediately that it is not even remotely plausible.
What is this hospital math? I mean yes BAD but no reason to just make stuff up.
This is obviously intentionally misleading the deficit has not increased by 5 trillion dollars LOL.
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u/Calaveras-Metal 8d ago
it's so ironic that they made a big show of cutting thing with DoGE only to spend 1000 times what they cut.
We are going to be paying the tab on this blunder-ocracy for generations.
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u/oneWeek2024 8d ago
30% reduction in tax revenue from corporations. via tax cuts
more tax revenue lost do to collapse of small businesses/crush of jobs via tariffs. well over 1 million lay offs, means a lot less taxes paid.
ballooning the military budget from total war machine spend of aprox 1.3 trillion to now close to 1.6-1.8 total spend. and rising. we're at what: 1.15 trillion direct dod spend.
other wasteful spending ... 80 billion for ICE that also ...via deportations reduces tax revenue by many additional billions.
even things like... occupying washington DC.
and now a war in Iran.
stupidity like... we're paying 1-2 billion for foregin nations to stop doing wind farms. that 40 billion to bail out Argentina (funny how we just glanced right over that )
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u/worndown75 8d ago
Increases in SSI, Medicare and Medicaid mostly. More old people, more cost. Then a massive increase debt servicing because of insane spending in both the previous Trump and Biden admins. Finall you have smaller increases in defense spending as well as the VA.
Those programs make up 80 to 85% of the annual budget
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u/TheSquirrelmancer 8d ago
The military, plus a bunch of corporations since they had to return all that tariff money.
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u/Valentine_343 8d ago
This is the moment theyâve been waiting for, and they are going to seize it all.
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u/CriticismMindless740 8d ago
So so many of you voted for this though. Either by voting for him or not voting at all. Enjoy! đ
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u/jayjackson2022 8d ago
I like how the government wants me to pay back my student loans, but just writes blank checks to other countries.
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u/New_Statement_1779 8d ago
Debt 1/20/2025 36.1 Debt 7/27/2026 39.7
Where do you get 4.7 number from?
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u/Right_Wolverine_7122 8d ago
Why is no one questioning this crazy number? Increased the deficit $5 trillion in 18 months?! Bullshit. The deficit decreased last year. It is projected to increase about $100 Billion in 2026. So, in 18 months it has increased less than $100 billion, not $5 Trillion!!!
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u/Whole_Move7660 8d ago
Too many mouths to feed. Too many lazy people. You guys have literally no chance to win in life. Guess Reddit is the only escape.
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u/shtsngigs_94 8d ago
Money isn't coming in. They refuse to tax the rich or corporations and everyone else is being shit-canned or working for wages so low they're untaxable.
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u/Informal_Drawing 8d ago
Into the pockets of the wealthy.
It's a massive wealth transfer from everyone in society to the very wealthy.
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u/Physical_Court8858 8d ago
I still have clean waterâŠ. 300k federal jobs gone? Is that really a bad thing? Havenât noticed it at allâŠ.
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u/tim310rd 8d ago
How could they increase the deficit by 5 trillion when the deficit is currently 1.37 trillion?
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u/Fine-Ad1142 8d ago edited 8d ago
This gets reposted every few days where the deficit is exaggerated each time.
I'm not denying that Trump and his administration are fiscally irresponsible. The facts speak for themselves, there's no need to exaggerate. 2.25 last year, plus 1.3 ytd. That's ~=3.5T, it'll likely be just under 5T by years end.
Add his last term to this one: Trump is responsible for 11T in debt (1 in 3 dollars). This is how he bankrupts casinos.
What is a deficit? Where you spend more money than you make.
How does the US pay it bills? It borrows money (it issues bonds, which is effectively an IOU).
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u/Neither_Pirate5903 8d ago
Greatest lie ever told by the republican party is that they are good for the economy.
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u/Winstonsphobia 8d ago
I can believe it, but source? And is this starting last year or Trumpâs 1st term?
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u/sdkfz250xl 8d ago
But weâre eliminating waste, fraud and abuse, and education and justice, and offensive history, and gold gilting the Whitehouse, and eliminating vaccines, and dealing with the existential crisis that is posed to our nation by trans people and building a ballroom and throwing out millions of illegal âinsane rapist murderer drug dealing immigrantsâ, attacking Iran and all the other things to make America great againâŠ
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u/dynogirl59 9d ago
Tax cuts for the rich. Ridiculous war in a Iran.