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#donniedumbass

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@br00t4c
Remember before #FatMasterson's first term, he was "promising" to hand off every complicated (boring) job to his unelected SIL Jared while he went golfing all day. Public push-back stopped that.

But in his 2nd term, he did it again by putting #Musk in charge of everything.

Now, #TheElongatedMuskrat is leaving. So he's dumping all these jobs on #Rubio. And #LilMarco will (attempt to) do both jobs until someone complains and forces #DonnieDumbass to replace #Waltz.

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#100Days in, #FatMasterson is expected to fire his Nat'l Security Advisor Mike Waltz (the guy who inadvertently invited a Magazine Editor to a secure #Signal chat where they were discussing an IN-PROGRESS military strike on Yemen.)

BUT I SUDDENLY REMEMBERED: #DonnieDumbass had to first his FIRST Nat'l Security Advisor Mike #Flynn just 14 days into his first term.

Two terms, and the first person to go in each was his Nat'l Security Advisor? 🤔
#DisasterPresidency
politico.com/news/2025/05/01/t

#SundayShowdown

Dear #MAGAts: Remember when #DonnieDumbass claimed "#Russia never would have invaded #Ukraine while HE was president [b/c they'd fear his reaction]" and that he would "end the war BEFORE his first day in office"?

Here we are nearly 100 days in. The war is no closer to being over than it was when he made those ludicrous claims, and it's pretty clear #Putin does not fear his puppet. #YouCanFoolAllOfTheMagatsAllOfTheTime #TooStupidForPolitics #FnS

#DonnieDumbass is demanding #Zelensky #Ukraine cede land seized by #Russia AS WELL AS giving up #Crimea (taken by #Putin in 2014) in order to end the war *that Russia started.*

Reporter: "WHAT CONCESSIONS ARE YOU ASKING OF #RUSSIA?"

T: "Stopping the war. Stopping taking the whole country. Those [sic] are pretty big concessions."

Begging Vlad to "Stop invading another country & murdering civilians" ISN'T A "Concession". I think someone needs to explain to #PutinsPuppet what a "concession" is.🤦‍♂️

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@EndIsraeliApartheid
#Europe is not an island unto itself.

If the #DonnieDumbass Admin doesn't start a second #pandemic, how many more #Gazans & #Ukrainians will die before he's dragged out of office wearing a straight jacket?

Europe can't make up for 320 million lost consumers by selling to China.

Europe won't be able to bring down global temperatures if Mr. #TakeAWizzard continues to... not only *deny* #ClimateChange but PROMOTE fossil fuels out of spite. 😒

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@jenzi @Sibshops @theintercept
The "art world" story is a great metaphor for what you're missing:

As you may know, T**** is a massive business failure. The ONLY "successful" business #DonnieDumbass has ever run is engaging in illegal "no-questioned-asked" real estate deals, laundering crime money for the Russian Mob (many of his sold-out condos are 60% empty b/c he sells to people looking to launder money.)

Sure, HE knows the owner of the apt, but the money has been laundered.

That's Crypto.

#Bessent & #Leavitt appeared in the WH Circle today and said of #DonnieDumbass' #tariff reversal, “This was his strategy all along! This is 'The Art of the Deal'!" 🙄

I REMIND EVERYONE, the entire point of this pointless #TradeWar was (supposedly) TO BRING JOBS BACK TO THE UNITED STATES.

If all #DonnieDumbass achieves is to get foreign countries to drop their #tariffs (in exchange for us dropping OURS), then THOSE JOBS AREN'T COMING HERE!
csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/202

The Christian Science Monitor · Markets got a tariff pause. But damage to global confidence in US could last.By Simon Montlake
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@br00t4c
If Americans can't afford your product b/c #TheOrangeMenace made them too expensive, foreign corporations will just look for customers elsewhere.

And *smart* countries (#China) looking to destroy the American economy (even more than #DonnieDumbass is doing on his own), they'll make it cheap & easy to sell in *their* country so that FEWER products are sent to the U.S., creating a shortage that causes prices to rise, tossing the U.S. into a deep #Recession. #DisasterPresidency

@mastodonmigration
I've been saying the same thing, except I don't think #DonnieDumbass is smart enough to have thought it up himself.

He once heard somewhere (Schoolhouse Rock?) that Colonial America "funded the entire gov't using #tariffs" before Lincoln (temporarily) instituted an Income Tax. And #TheMangoMoron thought OTHER countries were paying US (initially, this is how he described tariffs, but seems to be learning).

Someone in his WH came up w/the idea of using them to extort support.