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No. of Recommendations: 13
The Wall Street Journal published a piece, Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine, that explains the transactional nature of the Trumpedo administration's plan to surrender Ukraine to Russia in exchange for business deals for himself, special envoy Witkoff, their families, and their friends.
For Trumpedo, Russia is another land of bountiful opportunity where multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals abound in exchange for allowing Moscow to reshape the economic map of Europe.
Trumpedo likes to call others 'traitors,' but, well, pot, kettle.
Sing it, Randy.
I don't love the mountains
I don't love the sea
I don't love Jesus
He never done a thing for me
I ain't pretty like my sister
Or smart like my dad
Or good like my mama
It's money that I love
It's money that I love
They say that's money
Can't buy love in this world
But it'll get you a half-pound of cocaine
And a sixteen-year-old girl <---sounds like Newman wrote this about Trumpedo
And a great big long limousine
On a hot September night
Now that may not be love but it's alright
One, two
It's money that I love
Want to kiss you three, four (money)
It's money that I love (money)
Used to worry about the poor
But I don't worry anymore
Used to worry about the black man
Now, I don't worry about the black man
Used to worry
'Bout the starving children of India
You know what I say now about the starving children of India
I say, oh mama
It's money that I love (money)
It's money that I love (money)
It's money that I love, it's money that I love
It's money that I love
It's money that I love, it's money that I love
It's money that I love
It's money that I lovehttps://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-...
No. of Recommendations: 1
commonone,
Yeah we get it. Trump is just totally corrupt, it's traumatized a lot of people.
But, living in reality means if you want to actually solve problems, you need to play the hand that has been dealt.
In this case, you have been dealt the Trump Joker and that is the hand that we all have to play at least until 2026 midterms and a Dem takover of the House in Jan 2027, at which point, Trump will be impeached (On Midnight Jan 1 no doubt).
So, are you just willing to wait another 13 months before trying to end the Ukraine war? Just going to post thousands of "Trump SUX!" posts for the next 13 months? That doesn't seem very productive.
Let's take Trump out of the equation for a minute.
Zelensky is running a totally corrupt regime. His Chief of Staff got raided and was evidently sent to the front to fight the Russians as punishment.
Also, a number of other high-ranking officials in Zelensky's regime have been accused/discovered to actually be totally corrupt.
How exactly is it possible for Zelensky to negotiate with any credibility when his entire regime is corrupt?
If his own government is filled with officials who are more concerned about lining their own pockets than the war with Russia, i.e. they don't give a sh*t, why should anyone else care what happens to Ukraine?
Other than of course as to how it might impact NATO. But Ukraine itself? It's always been corrupt, it still is corrupt, their leaders don't care about the people at all.
Again--other than geopolitical aspects which might affect NATO--why should anyone else care if Zelensky doesn't care enough to have non-corrupt people working for him?
And the biggest geopolitical issue affecting NATO is that Russia doesn't want Ukraine in NATO and Russia wants to keep the Donbass and the Russian speaking parts of Ukraine.
Why would NATO want to add Ukraine to NATO? How is that helpful to NATO? I'm not saying it is or isn't. The question needs to be answered.
It seems like NATO's best strategy is to let the war grind on forever and let Ukraine and Russia continue an endless war of attrition against each other. Perpetual warfare.
Yeah a lot of people have died and a lot more people will die but if they're Ukrainians and Russians how is that bad for NATO?
If I was a young Ukrainian man of military age in good health I sure as hell wouldn't be fighting in this war risking my life for a totally corrupt regime. And hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men of draft age have left the country because this war is simply not worth it.
I agree.
No. of Recommendations: 8
Yeah we get it. Trump is just totally corrupt, it's traumatized a lot of people.
But, living in reality means if you want to actually solve problems,
And the biggest problem we have right now, the problem making other major problems immeasurably worse- is Donald Trump.
No. of Recommendations: 2
No. of Recommendations: 2
Used to worry about the poor
But I don't worry anymore
Used to worry about the black man
Now, I don't worry about the black man
Used to worry
'Bout the starving children of India
You know what I say now about the starving children of India
I say, oh mama
Apt...except for that part. Trump has never given a shit about anyone but himself.
No. of Recommendations: 3
Pastor WBaloney,
I already agreed with your premise that "TRUMP SUX!!!" He only has a 36% approval rating which means most of America agrees with you. Who am I to deny the polling?
But...you again beg the question(s):
Who is the strong leader on the Dem side who can unify the country? Or, at least get enough independents and disaffected Republicans on board to create a working majority? And most importantly--get the radical Left now in full control of the Democrat Party to agree to realistic solutions--which will require compromise?
It's you choice. Who do you think on the Dem side can actually create a working coalition and lead?
Lead, not bitch, whine and moan.
No. of Recommendations: 1
grease,
I agree that "TRUMP SUX!!!"
Who do you feel can lead the Democrat Party and create a working coalition including moderate Democrats, disaffected Republicans, independents, and your core radical Left voters?
What is the plan you suggest?
What is the proposal?
Not mantras, not platitudes, and certainly not griping, whining and complaining.
Propose a realistic solution.
No. of Recommendations: 13
Who is the strong leader on the Dem side who can unify the country?
And I’ve already answered your nonsense. If you didn’t read it, or didn’t comprehend it, then too bad. I’m not going to waste my time patiently answering your repetitive nonsense.
The MAGA juggernaut is stalled, even rolling backward, and making sure it rolls into a ditch and implodes completely should be our #1 priority.
You can dance and yell all you want about how Democrats need to set out an agenda, and that will certainly become more important in the next year or two.
But the first, and overriding priority at the moment is to keep the focus on Trump and his destructive agenda. Go ahead and stomp and scream if you wish. It only serves to highlight the utter failure of MAGA.
Until we clean house, and visit real consequences on the lickspittles in this administration who have done so much damage to the architecture of this republic, nothing of consequence will be possible.
After that, we can talk about rebuilding this shining city on a hill. I look forward to having those conversations with you……after MAGA has been totally discredited and its leadership laughed out of town or incarcerated. It’s not too late to get on board.
But the reckoning is fast approaching.
No. of Recommendations: 2
Pastor WBaloney/Road Apples,
No, you actually didn't answer a simple question, yet you took a lot of words to not answer it.
You filibuster but you can't answer a simple basic question.
You ARE the problem.
No. of Recommendations: 6
It only serves to highlight the utter failure of MAGA.
And I think this is so. The border is the big highlight that Trump can point to, and he didn't do that much there, it just looks like he did to MAGA. Border crossing had already slowed to a trickle due to the switch to right way, wrong way for Asylum appliers. (If you cross at designated border point, you may apply for asylum, anywhere else and you go back across the border and cannot apply for a year (IIRC it might've been two years). But we were flying in plane loads from 4 countries. I was watching and the trickle got shut down and then began later, but two weeks after inauguration, Trump cancelled the planes loads coming in. None of the MAGA here knew it had happened and it took me two months of sporadic looking to find out the planes were cancelled. I always wondered about the planes.
Then ICE couldn't get the deportation numbers up without the money that was in the bill so they were grabbing the easy pickings for deportation and Trump screamed about sanctuary cities. We can't trust any of the numbers liked we could before, tru8mp fires everyone to get to someone who will break, and bread the law too, maybe with veneer of plausibility, or completely toss out norms created so there is respect and not chaos. So we have chaos.
Fee fi
"Crime rates
began a significant decline across the U.S. in 2023, a trend that has continued through 2024 and into 2025, which includes the current period of Donald Trump's second term. Experts largely agree this downward trend started before his current administration's policies could have taken effect and is a continuation of post-pandemic recovery.
The current decline in crime is considered a continuation of a downward trend that began in 2023, following a national spike in homicides and violent crime in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic." Fo Fum
Trump hasn't kept his promises, inflation has increased .3%, groceries aren't down, ICE is using gestapo tactics, but the worst part is we are shipping out people who've lived peacefully here for 30 years. We are being cruel, destroying peaceful people's lives, and MAGA is cheeering it on. We're bastards and led by a man who it strongly looks like fucked kids.
Rant over. :)
No. of Recommendations: 2
Lamb Chop,
More whining about Trump.
No solutions?
