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October 5, 2025

Kevin Hassett, Director of the Nat'l Econ Council, has a shit eating grin while talking about firing federal employees.

This total asshole is smiling and sneering through his entire interview with Tapper while talking about cutting ACA/Obamacare subsidies and firing federal employees during the shut down. He is making jokes about baseball while defending TSF cutting funds already appropriated through congress and primarily in blue states. Another example of the mentally ill, egotistical, out of effing touch, unserious, unqualified, multimillionaire gleefully harming the majority of Americans.

September 10, 2025

Please take a look, I don't this request got much attention yesterday. Thank you.

Just wanted to shine a little light on this post. Sometimes afternoon posts don’t get seen by enough wonderful DUers.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=2222836

August 25, 2025

Here's my example of tariffs not only causing prices to increase but also causing long delays.

Normally this company ships out in a few days after an order and I receive the items a couple days later. After realizing it had been over 2 weeks since the earliest of my orders I sent an email to the company’s customer service. They said all their orders since Aug 6th are all sitting in customers and they aren’t hearing back from customs. This must really be hurting the company’s cash flow. It will also mean I order less as I’ll likely be paying 15% more than I would have before the tariffs. I’d read that changing trade agreements usually take a long time in part to allow country’s systems to catch up with the new amounts/restrictions etc. Who knows when I’ll get what I ordered.

Tariffs = taxes on Consumers.

June 24, 2025

Nobel Peace Prize nominations: One door closes and another opens all within mere hours. Hope they hit him on the ass.

Two paragraphs from the article:

Rep. Buddy Carter (R-Ga.) has nominated President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for the president’s role in brokering this week’s ceasefire agreement between Iran and Israel.



A senior Ukrainian lawmaker who nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize has withdrawn it, as peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow slip under the radar and the president keeps his sights fixed on the Middle East.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/trump-gains-loses-nobel-peace-prize-nomination.html
June 19, 2025

In talking about what TSF will do regarding Iran Leavitt said Trump will use his great instincts.

I can’t name an American President who relied on his instincts rather than intel, logic, experience, understanding of history and foreign policy and their own rational intelligence to make critical decisions.

‘Instincts’ is all TSF has and they aren’t very good instincts or he wouldn’t have had so many bankruptcies, failed businesses and marriages.

June 15, 2025

Reuters et al need to correct their reporting about the program/budget cuts.

The below is snippet from a recent Reuters article:

‘The Trump administration gutted a program that aimed to prevent targeted violence as part of its sweeping bid to downsize the federal government, a move that could come und ... (Reuters)’

** The part I bolded above needs to be changed to ‘sweeping desire to maintain tax cuts for billionaires’. Everytime the cuts are mentioned they need to say it’s to fund billionaire tax cuts. **

May 14, 2025

Would this be enough to make TSF turn down the Qatari jet?

Remind him all presidential gifts are the property of the US and by all means accept it because AOC and Bernie will look great in it.

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