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 Sadly the MAGA horde. somehow see this kind of reposting   as Just trolling the Libs.  Completely void of the basis understanding that it is being done by  THE POTUS the supposed leader of the free world ! Reposting this .  gives it credibility..  to both our enemies  and some twisted friends  
		
		
		
		
		
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		 just saw this from Trump and Musks cabinet meeting 
  
The emails sparked confusion among federal workers and apparent tension among members of Trump's Cabinet, some of whom told their workers not to immediately respond to it. At the Cabinet meeting, Trump told reporters that "everyone at this table is very much behind it." 
 
Trump invited Cabinet members to speak up to express any dissatisfaction with Musk but quickly added "we'll throw them out" if they actually spoke up, eliciting laughter in the room. 
 
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		 Marsh That’s it?  Oh yeah one trick pony boy.  Musk for president Marsh? 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
				  
				
					
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		 The Trump administration will require all unauthorized immigrants in the United States who are 14 and older to register with the federal government or face civil and criminal penalties, including up to $1,000 in fines and up to six months in prison. 
 
 
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				The Trump administration will require all unauthorized immigrants in the United States who are 14 and older to register with the federal government or face civil and criminal penalties, including up to $1,000 in fines and up to six months in prison. 
 
 
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 All they’ve done is push undocumented people further underground. Nobody of sound mind is going to show up to check in with ICE or their parole board knowing it’s really just a detainment ruse.
 
Today Trump is sending detainees, most of which have committed no sin other than a civil violation, to GTMO where they are held without representation and treated like terror suspects.
 
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		 Wonder why? 
 
 
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“You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you,” Greene said. “Those jobs are paid for by the American taxpayers who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs.” 
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		 I have an example of a FB post from someone I served with . a 30 year veteran.  this is the level of delusion is beyond explanation . this is how dangerous  MAGA movement is  and many who support Trump without question.     
 
But yet He believes every single word he has Written.  this in response  to the tragic helicopter airliner  Potomac  
   
Because everybody that was in that bird was already dead and strapped into their seats. That was remotely flown into that American Airline plane. We need to get our hands on the manifest and find out who exactly was on that plane that they wanted to get rid of. It was a whistleblower somebody that knew too much or was about to drop a bombshell of information. 
 
 
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		 Amazing isn’t it, plots everywhere  
 
Now they’ll blame Biden for the economy  
Output in goods and services is at a 17-month low, consumer confidence is dropping like a stone, and long-term inflation expectations are higher than they’ve been in 30 years. Except for dissatisfaction in the bond market, none of these problems existed before Biden left office. 
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“You can protest all you want, but the American people disagree with you,” Greene said. “Those jobs are paid for by the American taxpayers who work real jobs, earn real income, pay federal taxes, and then pay these federal employees. Federal employees do not deserve their jobs.” 
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 Considering they’ve managed to make civil service the worst job in less than two months who the hell would want to work for the government.
 
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Now they’ll blame Biden for the economy  
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		 Influencers say they received Jeffrey Epstein files at White House
A meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI director Kash Patel included documents tied to the convicted sex offender 
 
 
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		 Why would this not surprise me  
 
Trump has now fired more veterans than any other American president. 
 
“Shame on you, Donald. The Commander-in-Chief turning his back on our nation's heroes doesn't make our country greater or any more efficient-it makes us weaker.” 
 
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		 All the maga Influencers. Got played by the Trump administration who was looking to change the media  coverage  
 
 
Well it seems it was a scam.  There was nothing in the binders that everyone already knew. 
		
		
		
		
		
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		Perhaps these fired federal "workers"  .....can find a real job....doing real work.....you know...like the rest of us....well... like some of us do.......rather than contemplate suicide. Yes..I heard this on NPR....including the hotline number.  
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		 Anyone getting a chuckle out of mini me Marsh?  Just like Trump claims, he is the smartest, the most skilled, the hardest worker, what’s next; claiming he could solve all the budget and deficit issues because he is the best problem solver EVER! 
		
		
		
		
		
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Here he comes again. Trying to get a sniff. Poor GS. 
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 That is the tip of the iceberg, the proposed cuts in the VA budget are a shameful treatment of our true patriots.  No surprise when potus dodged service (coward), called our veterans losers and suckers (coward), pardoned thugs that beat and killed police officers (coward) and now plans to strip our true patriots of benefits.  
		
		
		
		
		
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 You’re not a racist are you marsh. I tried to give you the benefit of doubt based on your age your generation but you’re just genuinely. A scumbag.   Willing to take money from a black person to do a job.. I bet all nice and nicely in person then your online life post pictures look at me. I dropped the kids off at the pool. That is the definition of being a coward.
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				Perhaps these fired federal "workers"  .....can find a real job....doing real work.....you know...like the rest of us....well... like some of us do.......rather than contemplate suicide. Yes..I heard this on NPR....including the hotline number.  
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 You’re such a moron you actually think all federal workers are liberals or Democrats
 
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				You’re not a racist are you marsh. I tried to give you the benefit of doubt based on your age your generation but you’re just genuinely. A scumbag.   Willing to take money from a black person to do a job.. I bet all nice and nicely in person then your online life post pictures look at me. I dropped the kids off at the pool. That is the definition of being a coward. 
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 I say kindly that he is a piece of work, but you know that doesn't describe this mini me and cult member aka one trick pony.  Not once in all these posts has he even attempted to defend policy decisions, unconstitutional firings, the qualifications of appointed cabinet members, WTF Musk is doing running the show, he just barks at the liberals and the hated left.  I wouldn't be surprised if his property is plastered with Trump banners even after the election was won by Elon.  
		
		
		
		
		
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		 Is this guy stupid or what? 
 
US President Donald Trump appeared to be unaware of Australia's $368billion military pact with the United States when a journalist questioned him about the deal.   
 
When asked by a British reporter ahead of a meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House whether the two leaders would be discussing AUKUS, Mr Trump responded 'what does that mean?'  
 
When the reporter described it as a three-way defense technology partnership between the US, the UK and Australia, Trump agreed it was on the agenda.  
 
When Australia confirmed its first $800million payment under the deal earlier this month, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth said Trump was both supportive and 'very aware' of the deal.  
 
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				I say kindly that he is a piece of work, but you know that doesn't describe this mini me and cult member aka one trick pony.  Not once in all these posts has he even attempted to defend policy decisions, unconstitutional firings, the qualifications of appointed cabinet members, WTF Musk is doing running the show, he just barks at the liberals and the hated left.  I wouldn't be surprised if his property is plastered with Trump banners even after the election was won by Elon. 
			
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				I say kindly that he is a piece of work, but you know that doesn't describe this mini me and cult member aka one trick pony.  Not once in all these posts has he even attempted to defend policy decisions, unconstitutional firings, the qualifications of appointed cabinet members, WTF Musk is doing running the show, he just barks at the liberals and the hated left.  I wouldn't be surprised if his property is plastered with Trump banners even after the election was won by Elon. 
			
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 GS makes ASS umptions again.....congrats on being consistent....you have reached angry sackless hypocrite status.....a coveted prize there are others in the running..but they are a little incoherent at this point.
 
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The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial. 
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The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial. 
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		 The following canc. programs shows the empathy (or lack of) of maga. 
 
A $131 million grant to UNICEF’s polio immunization program, which paid for planning, logistics and delivery of vaccines to millions of children. 
 
A $90 million contract with the company Chemonics for bed nets, malaria tests and treatments that would have protected 53 million people. 
 
A project in the Democratic Republic of Congo that operates the only source of water for 250,000 people in camps for displaced people located in the center of the violent conflict in the east of the country. 
 
All of the operating costs and 10 percent of the drug budget of the Global Drug Facility, the  main supply channel for tuberculosis medications, which last year provided tuberculosis treatment to nearly three million people, including 300,000 children. 
 
H.I.V. care and treatment projects run by the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation that were providing lifesaving medication to 350,000 people in Lesotho, Tanzania and Eswatini, including 10,000 children and 10,000 pregnant women who were receiving care so that they would not transmit the virus to their babies at birth. 
 
A project in Uganda to trace contacts of people with Ebola, conduct surveillance and bury those who died from the virus. 
 
A contract to manage and distribute $34 million worth of medical supplies in Kenya, including 2.5 million monthlong H.I.V. treatments, 750,000 H.I.V. tests, 500,000 malaria treatments, 6.5 million malaria tests and 315,000 antimalaria bed nets. 
 
Eighty-seven shelters that took care of 33,000 women who were victims of rape and domestic violence in South Africa. 
 
A project run by FHI 360 that supported community health workers’ efforts to go door-to-door seeking malnourished children in Yemen. It recently found that one in five children was critically underweight because of the country’s civil war. 
 
Pre- and postnatal health services for 3.9 million children and 5.7 million women in Nepal. 
 
A project run by Helen Keller Intl in six countries in West Africa that last year provided more than 35 million people with the medicine to prevent and treat neglected tropical diseases, such as trachoma, lymphatic filariasis, schistosomiasis and onchocerciasis. 
 
A project in Nigeria providing 5.6 million children and 1.7 million women with treatment for severe and acute malnutrition. The termination means 77 health facilities have completely stopped treating children with severe acute malnutrition, putting 60,000 children under the age of 5 at immediate risk of death. 
 
A project in Sudan that runs the only operational health clinics in one of the biggest areas of the Kordofan region, cutting off all health services. 
 
A project serving more than 144,000 people in Bangladesh that provided food for malnourished pregnant women and vitamin A to children. 
 
A program run by the aid agency PATH, called REACH Malaria, which protected more than 20 million people in 10 countries in Africa from the disease. It provided malaria drugs to children at the start of the rainy season. 
 
A project run by Plan International that provided drugs and other medical supplies, health care, treatment of malnutrition programming, and water and sanitation for 115,000 displaced or affected by the conflict in northern Ethiopia. 
 
More than $80 million for UNAIDS, the United Nations agency, which funded work to help countries improve H.I.V. treatment, including data collection and watchdog programs for service delivery. 
 
The President’s Malaria Initiative program called Evolve, which did mosquito control in 21 countries by methods that include spraying insecticide inside homes (protecting 12.5 million people last year) and treating breeding sites to kill larvae. 
 
A project providing H.I.V. and tuberculosis treatment to 46,000 people in Uganda, run by the Baylor College of Medicine Children’s Foundation, Uganda. 
 
Smart4TB, the main research consortium working on prevention, diagnostics and treatment for tuberculosis. 
 
The Demographic and Health Surveys, a data collection project in 90 countries that were crucial and sometimes the only sources of information on maternal and child health and mortality, nutrition, reproductive health and H.I.V. infections, among many other health indicators. The project was also the bedrock of budgets and planning. 
		
		
		
		
		
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 But at least billionaires got tax cuts and they can make cuts to Medicaid.  
		
		
		
		
		
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"For once I agree with Spence. UGH. I just hope I don't get the urge to go start buying armani suits to wear in my shop"
 
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		 Worse, the IG for USAid appearantly has two devastating reports on the damage the sudden funding cuts will cause but isn’t releasing them for some, unknown, reason. 
		
		
		
		
		
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		 WASHINGTON (AP) - Most drastic cut in spending by US consumers in three years last month despite decline in inflation. 
Time will tell whether consumers or stock traders are smarter 
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