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Trump was warned by 400 leading economists that his tariffs would result in serious economic damage. It appears as if he genuinely has no idea how tariffs work and believes he can impose taxes on another sovereign nation. Or, he is economically totally illiterate. Both?

In any event he is worsening relationships with our traditional allies over his ridiculous tariff threats. It wasn't enough to threaten to leave NATO or praise every vile dictator in the world. He has proven his grasp of economics is as poor as his understanding of foreign policy.

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Trump does NOT care! He gives no fucks! He and his billionaire users will be just fine. He is selling off the US in pieces. He doesn’t care what happens to regular people and their awkward lives.

Steve said he trusts the American people. I did, too. I don’t anymore.

Taylor Lorenz is a spoiled and privileged idiot. She isn’t an example of any Democrat I know. She is an example of a spoiled and privileged idiot.

Trump is going to release criminals out upon the streets and into the community. The seditionists will also have a “mandate”. Stuart Rhodes’s wife is afraid he will return to kill her, since she cooperated with the FBI to send his deserving criminal ass to prison. Does Trump just pardon these people over and over again?

Trump is going to ruin the environment for good. He’s going to put the finishing touches on an environmental tragedy that has been unfolding for decades. He’s also going to bring back disease and death for many Americans through RFK2. He is very likely going to bring about a civil war through the drunken debauchery of Pete Hegseth, or maybe WW3. Trump can’t wait to push the big red button. We won’t have any allies in the world other than the despots and dictators Trump loves. We will have Kash Patel. And Tulsi Gabbard. And Kristi Noem.

I can go on and on. We’re on the brink of pulling the trigger and committing national suicide.

It’s sickening and heartbreaking.

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Exactly, Trump is a lame duck already. He and Musk are only out to screw our

nation’s natural resources to get $$$$$$, and make foreign deals for $$$$$.

He could not care less for our nation’s natural resources, its story, the people who are suffering. He pretends to be human, but really is not.

The damage will be done by Trump but particularly the creeps hanging on for

access/power/retrebution.

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He's clueless about it ALL.

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Absolute superb Warning today. Think I finally get it Steve. America's "Ideas and Ideals". I hate to say this again but Mom and I got into another argument again today. She just doesn't seem to get what I'm fighting for until I brought up Janaury 6th again. 🙄 I wish I could get her to listen to this. Abe's speech had me in tears. I'm going to listen to it again. Absolutely beautiful. I checked out Orwell's 1984 too from the Library. I read it a long time ago but thought it was time for a re-read.

Thanks for a GREAT video Steve. Happy Hump Day!! 🎉❤️😘

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I had never heard of this Taylor person until the shooting. She sounds as completely juvenile and utterly brainless as the young men saying your body, my choice.

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For the journalist assigned to count the number of Trump lies during his second term, the total will be six by the time he finishes the Oath of Office.

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Chuck Schumer reminds me of Confederate General Braxton Bragg. A completely bumbler who should never have commanded anyone. Yet we’ll be seeing Chuck Schumer again next year, and we will also be seeing Braxton Bragg when one of the largest military bases on earth is named again in his honor.

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Schumer needs to go.

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What was wrong with PM Justin Trudeau? He, a leader of a sovereign, independent nation, bent his knee at Mar a lago to the grifter! What could have been his reasoning? And then, he gets insulted by the grifter and has to eat s--t! Awful, awful. I hope he grows a spine after this, and avoids future humiliation.

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Superb Warning.

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That's what did it for me back in 2008 when I switched Party's and became a Democrat then an Activist. The country was in economic crisis, We'd just experienced Katrina and here comes this dashing, erudite young Senator called Barack Obama.

I heard John Kennedy's voice say "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.". It was a spiritual awakening for me. An awakening to the ideas and Ideals of America like Steve was saying. I cried so hard when he was elected that night in Chicago. Changed my life then became my passion. ❤️🇺🇸💙

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Lisa, me as well. Life long Republican, worked at the WH for GHWB, loved him! Last great R President. Left the party after Jr’s awful first term and never looked back.

As my Bush friends say, the Party left us. I would add that the weirdos took over.

Now, they are all threatening our democracy. Maybe have succeeded?

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I believe Democrats should emphasize Trump's trampling on our Constitution, values, norms, and traditions in their attempt to stop his power grab. However, Steve seems to feel that is not compatible with a push toward a more leftist government and economy. Our entire history has been a story of the fight for greater equality, a more just economy and society. Our greatest presidents have fought for those values. Abraham Lincoln and FDR are two shining examples. Conservatives have always stood in the way. Putting the sillier aspects of DEI aside, it is right to extend respect to all people unless they have done something that takes away their right to be respected. It is wrong to assume things about people that share something in common be it race, sexual orientation, ethnic background, or gender dysphoria. Government should protect minorities with any necessary, not frivolous legislation.

And to imply all Democrats are like the Taylor person who felt joy at the assassination of the CEO of United Health Care is simply unfair. I have said I cried no crocodile tears over the killing because I don't like the way insurance companies often abuse the desperately ill and their families, nor do I like excessive profits, excessive executive compensation, or the waste of health care dollars on sickening ads. We should be crying daily over people who have lost their lives and savings to greedy insurance companies. However, assassinating CEO's is not the way to protest or seek changes in how our country delivers medical care to people. It is also unfair to imply all those supporting DEI are flaky and want to legislate pronoun use and the rules of sport leagues.

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The people have been played by the Corporations running our politicians and their lives for far too long and the death of the CEO wasn’t partisan, if you were in touch Steve with the people’s burdens you’d know this. Perhaps, it maybe played against the left as a false flag, which you might be cautious about. However, you constantly keep bringing up the history that got reframed from the right about the repurposing funds for the police reform that they turned into “defund the police”. Only a small, loud, and crazy part of the left were actually saying such nonsense as defund the police. The issue is the left never countered the rights nonsense talking points of stoking fear because they did not have solidarity with setting their values clearly in the message campaign.

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Exactly!

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I saw that Mitch McConnell had a fall. Normal people, when they reach that age, retire and enjoy the idylls of retirement. Nothing wrong with that and it brings with it peace and joy as your health allows. But clinging to power for power’s sake is full time work for the decrepit and dastardly.

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The irony of it all!

"Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) reportedly said that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory puts Americans in “a very, very dangerous world,” stressing that he plans to spend his final two years in the Senate pushing back against the growing Trump-fueled isolationism within the GOP.

While McConnell has worked to significantly move the country to the right — much of it under the first Trump administration — he is no fan of Trump and his isolationist worldview that’s spreading throughout the Republican Party.

“We’re in a very, very dangerous world right now, reminiscent of before World War II,” McConnell told the Financial Times on Wednesday. “Even the slogan is the same, ‘America First.’ That was what they said in the '30's."https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mitch-mcconnell-trump-americans-dangerous-world_n_675a09cae4b02802b83c4117

Didn't this selfish disgusting excuse for a Senate leader endorse Trump? Didn't he say Trump was responsible for the 1/6 insurrection? Didn't he imply Trump would be held responsible for his crimes on 1/6 by the judicial system?

Too little too late from a truly gaping asshole.

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Counting on the AITOW...always in their own way..Dems to get ANYTHING right is a fools errand. Bumbles Schumer is representative of that. We desperately need a third Party. A Party that is run by wise, historically educated, common sense driven patriots who will show America just how pathetically sordid and seditious Trump and his MAGA horde are.

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He is total drek.

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Everyone everywhere need to Keep ALL the Receipts of Everything Trump and his gang of thugs and goons does and blast it everywhere. Do NOT let him or them get away with anything anywhere. Make him and them own and wear everything he and they do. Make sure it sits on top of him and them for everyone to see. Remember he is blind to the damage he does, because he just doesn't care and never has. And make sure the stain of their evil doings never washes away............

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We need a leader, or a group of them who will act in concert so as to amplify their message. They need to begin a campaign - now - unlikely as that may seem to you. Ultimately, it will be a campaign for the presidency and only one of them can ultimately win the nomination to run for that office. All of them must be prepared to win that office or prepared to lose that nomination. It's not about them - it's about the nation that Lincoln spoke of in the Gettysburg Address. They need a campaign chairman. I nominate Steve Schmidt of New Jersey to be that chairman.

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