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It’s a mistake to ask this question because it assumes Trump’s rationality.

He wants to do this because it makes him feel powerful. He doesn’t care if the effects are good or bad. Indeed, the more destruction he causes, or the more people fear destruction he may cause, the more powerful he feels.
A question I've been debating with economist friends is what Trump is trying to accomplish with his tariffs. I mean, he can't be demanding that Canada and Mexico — with whom we have a free trade agreement! — open their markets. Now he says it's about immigration and drugs 2/
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 PM
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BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard is on a TSA watch list because of her suspicious foreign travel patterns

Maybe — just maybe, hear me out here — the nominee for Director of National Intelligence should NOT be someone who made a TSA watch list for her suspicious foreign travel patterns
November 22, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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It's FOLLOW FRIDAY! Let's build the Resistance together, right now

Until midnight
- Follow me, I'll follow you
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November 22, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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By the way, some of the payments went through Nestor. Matt’s “adopted son.”
NBC News confirms:

Matt Gaetz paid two women for sex while he was a member of the House, the women's attorney told NBC News.

Joel Leppard said one of the women told the House Ethics Cmte. that in 2017 she saw him having sex with her friend, who was 17 at the time.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Matt Gaetz allegedly paid an adult woman for sex in 2017, attorney says
The woman, who was 19 at the time, said she encountered Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department at an invitation-only party in Orlando, Florida.
www.nbcnews.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:44 AM
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Don't we deserve to know the truth about Matt Gaetz?

Call the GOP House Ethics Committee Reps - tell them to RELEASE the Gaetz report

Michael Guest 202-225-5031
David Joyce 202-225-5731
John Rutherford 202-225-2501
Andrew Garbarino 202-225-7896
Michelle Fischbach 202-225-2165
November 14, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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Well I'm fucked.
November 13, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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This is epic.
November 12, 2024 at 8:37 PM