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Trump wants to spend .5 TRILLION on war
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@qasimrashid.com) 2026-04-04T02:03:34.215Z
Universal 4 year college costs B. Meaning, for the cost of 1 year of war, we could educate 45M Americans a year for 20 years
But instead we have a fascist & likely PDFile sending our kids to war to bomb kids in another nation
Remove Him From Office NOW
jfz9580m
(17,239 posts)Scholars warn that DOJs declaration that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional could impact other administrations.
The Trump administrations abrupt declaration that the federal law governing presidential records for the past 48 years is unconstitutional is creating confusion about access to records of past presidencies, including documents that are on the verge of public release.
The Wednesday memo from the Justice Departments Office of Legal Counsel, which challenges the Presidential Records Act, appears intended to give President Donald Trump the legal leeway to destroy White House records from his current term. It also gives him legal backing to refuse to hand over any remaining records to the National Archives and Records Administration when he leaves office in 2029.
That could block public access to more than 700 million White House emails, among countless other records, in Archives possession since the law went into effect in 1978, Baron said.
(Trump doesnt seem to have any intention of leaving in 2029. Trump has definitely followed through on ruling like a dictator from Day 1.)
calimary
(90,100 posts)Wish it could happen now, but thatd leave us with J.D. Vance.
jfz9580m
(17,239 posts)calimary
(90,100 posts)HOWEVER, then the game changes.
Under THAT scenario, were stuck with Vance, then. How much are we really stuck with him? There might be a brief respite in there. Study the polls. What are they telling us? Is Vance in deep doodoo or is he making a few good moves and decisions? Is he starting to impress people? Could he be earning a pass from a public so exhausted after the Trump misadventure that they can find a way to be okay with Vance (cuz at least he ISNT trump, thank You, God!).
I hope and pray to My Sweet Lord that we only have another two-and-a-half years of Trump AND pence both, and then we can turn a GIGANTIC page because AT LAST were done with the both of them.
And then a Democratic president for a change, and preferably with TWO terms of his/her own. (Yeah, itll be a man, not a woman leading that ticket. And Im okay with that. Resigningly so, however. Mainly because, being as objective as I can be, unfortunately I cant see America with a female president yet. I hope and pray that I live to see it, but I seriously doubt a woman Democrat would voted into the Oval Office, behind that desk.
That said, I hope I live to see that. For real. Not just for the sake of argument.
mcar
(46,068 posts)malaise
(296,263 posts)Rec
PatrickforB
(15,429 posts)The second coup was November 22, 1963, when Kennedy was killed in part because he did not want to send troops to Vietnam and the military industrial complex had a whole bunch of death toys they wanted to PROFIT from.
The drivel coming out of Trump's mouth now reminds me of the LBJ quote: "We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves". He was lying there, and Wall Street was rubbing its hands in glee!
And now the billionaire boyz are rubbing their hands in glee at more PROFITS. Fresh off the giant tax cuts and huge government contracts, they are anticipating an American Empire taking all the oil so they can keep them profits coming. Because hey, who cares about all other life on the earth, right?
When will we stop cooperating and take back our government from this kakistocracy? From the Nazis Musk, Thiel,
Bannon and Miller? The government of the corrupt and incompetent, designed to strip forever the public treasury to line evil pockets while still heavily taxing us and giving the American middle and working classes NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING.
I've told all of you before I'm done. No donations to any 'cause' or candidate. I want healthcare, childcare, free college, clean air and water, sane energy and immigration policies, corporations NOT legally considered people, and no Citizens United. THAT is what I want from my fucking national government - for the thousands I pay in taxes each year to be used for programs that actually help me at my kitchen table.
Instead we have this shit show - a bunch of greedy little billionaire boyz taking everything we have so they can feel just a little bit more secure, feel just a little better about how great they are, and a congress whose majority is too fearful of not being reelected to act in the interests of the people.
And the right-wing propaganda apparatus is in FULL HUE and CRY driving wedges and keeping hatred fresh. The plan is to mess with the elections to stay in POWER, use AI to create a surveillance state, drive wage earners into fearful poverty and reinstitute the 'pure capitalism' of the Robber Baron era. WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS???????????
It does not.
National Strike May 1
This May Day strike, unfortunately, is only a dry run for when we will have to face longer-term deprivation after the Republicans CHEAT in the upcoming election which they are going to.