5.4% gasoline Inflation in March, that’s 64.8% per year, galloping inflation, like Brazil and Argentina, thank you Republicans. Hyperinflation is next. And Trump is worried about a 900 person, 1 Billion dollar ballroom, and gold statues and obliterating Iran, again and again and again. How many times can you obliterate Iran.
Lisa Graves: “And this ignores the reality of what’s happening, which is that you have a president who’s not actually executing the laws passed by Congress; who’s thwarting those laws. When you look at Article One and Article Two of the Constitution, what you see is that the president’s primary job is “to faithfully execute the laws of the United States.” And what’s happening here is that the president is circumventing those laws, thwarting those laws, and doing so in ways that raise serious questions of corruption or potential corruption or undue influence.”
“Donald Trump’s stunning failure in Iran has weakened America on many fronts. The world now perceives us as neither a reliable ally nor an invincible enemy, with an extortionately expensive military that is losing its best and brightest to Pete Hegseth’s prejudice and incompetence. We are now four months into a war that was supposed to last a couple of weeks.There is no end in sight as strikes and counter-strikes continue despite Trump’s farcical proclamations of American victory and Iranian surrender. Sixteen months into his presidency, Trump has squandered all of America’s credibility with the rest of the world.” Krugman.
Michael McFaul: President Trump’s war with Iran and now peace with Iran -- formally codified in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Iran and the United States signed by Trump on June 17th in Versailles, France -- have deeply damaged American national interests. The short-term failures have rightly generated considerable attention, but the secondary and tertiary negative consequences must also be included in the assessment to fully appreciate why Trump’s unnecessary war is his biggest foreign policy blunder so far and should rank among America’s greatest foreign policy disasters in decades.
Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) notes that the $70 billion in tax money Republicans just gave to ICE and Border Patrol could provide free childcare for 1.3 million children through September 2028, cover the annual cost of groceries for about 10.7 million U.S. households, provide a year of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to 31 million Americans, expand the Affordable Care Act premium tax credits for at least a year, cancel about 31.5% of Americans’ medical debt, and end homelessness for about eight years.
@WhiteHouse The crack down on CIA INSTIGATORS AND SABATOURS, IN VENEZUELA should not be held against Maduro, THE TRUMP propaganda call these CIA SABOTEURS, dissidents but they are CIA PLANTED SABATOURS.
@StateDept Fake news: US marks first $500M Venezuelan oil deal, this could have been done by lifting sanctions, without kidnapping Maduro, or spending a billion dollars per day on the Navy presence.
@WhiteHouse You are doing Ethnic Cleansing under the guise of getting the worst of the worst off the streets. Just like Nazi Germany. Now the Nazi salute, is standard for your followers. Your Ethnic Cleansing goes back to the 1920’s in America, you are the fringe.
Removing the Sanctions that killed the Venezuelan people, not private companies will make Venezuela great again. These private companies Trump loves will only bleed the people of Venezuela dry. Lifting the sanctions and releasing the stolen billions, America stole from the Venezuelan people is a start.
Maduro and Chavez, never nationalized oil in Venezuela that was done in the 1970’s. Saudi nationalized their oil, and USA accepted and embraced a murder of American citizens and still does. Who is worse an international murder of Americans, or a leader handicapped by crippling sanctions on its people. Private enterprise can’t build Venezuela’s oil unless the sanctions are lifted. And if they are lifted the government could do it easily. High prices, free trade (without sanctions) yield success regardless of ownership.
Paul Krugman: the fact that Trumpists are attributing stalled job growth to reduced immigration is astonishing, because it’s an admission that the fundamental economic premise behind mass deportations was always false. After all, the claim was that immigrants were taking jobs away from the native born. Now MAGA officials are saying that deporting foreign-born workers reduces employment, which implies that previous immigration was creating new jobs, not taking them away.
@StateDept Marco Rubio is a first-rate cynic with a third-rate intellect, who is a spokesman for an international gangster and American fascist named Trump.
@StateDept Marco Rubio’s words are an insult to American values and an embarrassment to the American people. It is a repudiation of our values and the sacrifices of those who fought, struggled and died so that we may live in freedom, peace and prosperity
Even the genocidal Adolf Hitler didn’t kill the Pope, even though he didn’t like his religion and what he believed and said. Ali Khamenei was to Muslims, what the Pope is to Catholics. How can the United States of America, Kidnap the president of Venezuela, because he was head of the Cártel de los Soles, drop the charges. steal their oil, kill Ali Khamenei, (the Pope to Muslims) and destroy Iraq, because of a fake claim, that Iraq had an Atomic Bomb, which was a lie. This is not my AMERICA. This is not what I voted for. America cannot violate all the laws and policies of the United Nations without accountability. These are the biggest mistakes made in American history.