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Rob Hadley

As it becomes increasingly obvious #Trumps idiocy around tariffs will backfire, one has to wonder how he plans to fund the policies he touted during his election campaign. More debt? Devaluations? Maybe just increase taxes?

His legacy will be very simple: the impoverishment of the US population.

#USpoli#GOP#Trump
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Martin Holland

Today, Gingrich’s campaign offers the #Democrats a playbook. If they want to undermine Trump’s support, this model suggests that they should pursue a relentless, strategic, and thematic campaign branding Trump as America’s most corrupt president. Almost every development could provide fodder for such attacks, which would connect #corruption not with generalities like the rule of law but with kitchen-table issues. Higher prices? Crony capitalism! Cuts to popular programs? Payoffs for #Trump’s fat-cat clients! Tax cuts? A greedy raid on Social Security!
(🎁) https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/corruption-trump-administration/681794/?gift=cg1XdqsyWjCIPVWKLR2XUwvPjfDHyDMHCfVyiAVkIAY #DonaldTrump #Patrimonialism
The Atlantic · One Word Describes TrumpBy Jonathan Rauch
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Martin Holland

🇪🇺 is the prey 👇🏼

Hostility to #Europe, and the #EU in particular, is where the various strands of a potential #Maga-#Putin front come together. The Russian and US presidents share a venomous resentment of the soft power that Brussels wields through the aggregation of many national markets into one trading bloc.

From #Trump’s point of view, the #EU is a wicked cartel, denying US farms and businesses their inalienable right to sell to millions of European consumers. For Putin, it is an enemy apparatus, part of the post-cold war western expansion that locked #Russia out of its natural sphere of influence.

For both men, the idea of pooling sovereignty among democratic nations for mutual economic advantage is incomprehensible. To negotiate as equals with the EU – a flimsy paper entity without any tank divisions to call its own – is absurd and abhorrent. Their answer to soft power is to confront it with the hard stuff, connive in its dismemberment and share the spoils.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/12/donald-trump-vladimir-putin-europe-us-ukraine-moscow
The Guardian · A Trump-Putin pact is emerging – and Europe is its targetBy Rafael Behr
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Maddad ☑️

This is a much better idea...
Suck it #tRump 🖕

"The Egypt plan is now an Arab plan," announced the secretary general of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the end of this hours-long gathering.

Without referring specifically to #tRumps ideas, he underlined that "the Arab stance is to reject any displacement, whether it is voluntary or forced".

The issue of security was dealt with by calling on the UN Security Council to deploy international peacekeepers.

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A $53bn (£41.4 billion) reconstruction plan to rival President Donald Trump's idea for the US to "take over Gaza" and move out more than two million Palestinians has been approved by Arab leaders at an emergency summit in the Egyptian capital Cairo. "The Egypt plan is now an Arab plan,” announced the secretary general of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the end of this hours-long gathering. ‘Without referring specifically to President Trump's ideas, he underlined that "the Arab stance is to reject any displacement, whether it is voluntary or forced". Egypt had produced a blueprint, with a 91-page glossy document including images of neighbourhoods to counter a US scheme labelled as a "Middle East Riviera" which shocked the Arab world. ‘What sets this new plan apart is it is not just about property development; its banners are politics and the rights of Palestinians. In his opening remarks, Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi also called for a parallel plan alongside the physical reconstruction to move towards what is known as the two state solution — a Palestinian state alongside Israel. This is widely seen by Arab states, and many others, as the only lasting solution to this perpetual conflict, but it is firmly ruled out by Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies. This new plan proposes that Gaza would be run, temporarily, by a "Gaza management committee under the umbrella of the Palestinian government" comprised of qualified technocrats.
It glosses over the issue of what role, if any, Hamas, will play. There is a vague reference to the "obstacle" of militant groups and said this issue would be resolved if the causes of the conflict with Israel were removed. Some Arab states are known to be calling for the complete dismantling of Hamas; others believe those decisions should be left up to the Palestinians. Hamas is said to have accepted it will not play a role in running Gaza but has made it clear that disarming is a red line. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has described President Trump's plan as "visionary", has repeatedly ruled out any future role for Hamas, but also for the Palestinian Authority.
The other sensitive issue of security was dealt with by calling on the UN Security Council to deploy international peacekeepers. And a major international conference will be held next month to raise the huge sums of money necessary for this rebuilding project. ‘Wealthy Gulf states appear willing to foot some of the colossal bill. But no one is ready to invest unless they are absolutely convinced buildings won't come crashing down in another war. A fragile ceasefire which now seems to be on the brink of collapse will only amplify that hesitation. This new Arab plan to rebuild Gaza would unfold in three phases including an initial period of about six months, called the early recovery stage, to start clearing the massive amounts of rubble as well as unexploded ordinance. Two subsequent stages ‘would last several years. During this time displaced Palestinians, said to number 1.5 million, would be housed in temporary containers. Photographs in the glossy brochure present them as well- built and designed housing units set in pretty landscaped areas. President Trump continues to wonder aloud "Why wouldn't they want to move?" His description of Gaza as a "demolition site" underlines how the territory lies in utter ruin. The UN says 90% of homes are damaged or destroyed. All the basics of a life worth living, from schools and hospitals to sewage systems and electricity lines, are shredded.
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holgerpatzelt

@Remittancegirl there will be a JD to tell you, why it’s not.
Modern day American society has forgotten about the truth of democracy, the fundamentals of human rights and the reasons why the strength of democracy lies in the power of making compromises. #trumps most disgraceful poison to the US society is him telling the people that his views are the only truth, instead of showing the humility that nobody always knows THE TRUTH.

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