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Old 01-26-2025, 11:27 AM   #1
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Below is percentage of GDP given as aid to Ukraine.
Wonder why FFOTUS is mad at the Danes.

Denmark 1.83%
Estonia 1.66%
Lithuania 1.43%
Latvia 1.35%
Finland 0.88%
Sweden 0.76%
Poland 0.68%
Slovakia 0.64%
Netherlands 0.6%
Norway 0.54%
Czechia 0.49%
United Kingdom 0.45%
Croatia 0.42%
Canada 0.39%
Germany 0.37%
Belgium 0.36%
United States 0.35%
Bulgaria 0.3%
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Old 01-26-2025, 01:42 PM   #2
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Old 01-26-2025, 02:25 PM   #3
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Old 01-26-2025, 02:32 PM   #4
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Here’s a look at the evil enemy, I think they have cameras on the streets though.
Like the ones that you watched the United Healthcare killer on.
And they too have billionaires.

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Here’s a look at the evil enemy, I think they have cameras on the streets though.
Like the ones that you watched the United Healthcare killer on.
And they too have billionaires.

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Never been to China though the people are supposed to be great and food incredible. The tradeoffs of liberty at the expense of government control wouldn’t really fly in the US, which is why I’m flabbergasted as to what the GOP is thinking letting Trump push us toward authoritarian rule.
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Never been to China though the people are supposed to be great and food incredible. The tradeoffs of liberty at the expense of government control wouldn’t really fly in the US, which is why I’m flabbergasted as to what the GOP is thinking letting Trump push us toward authoritarian rule.
I don’t know much about it though the people I know who have gone were very impressed, that is true of much of Asia.
So of course I had to look up some stuff
Can they travel?
Pre Covid in 2019 3 million Chinese visited the United States, and 2.3 million Americans visited China so they can travel.
Guns?
As far as liberty, you can’t have a gun though you can have one for sporting purposes. Somehow they got the most medals in shooting sports at the 2024 Olympics?
Usually if you have world class athletes in a competition, you have athletes to choose from.
Any billionaires?
The Chinese Billionaire who tried to push the government around was arrested and now lives in Japan, some people in the world would not be brokenhearted to see that happen to a few American ones.
Who can work for the government?
Right now in the USA you won’t be working for the federal government unless you’re a MAGA Party member.
In China you have to be a CCP member to be in the government, that membership also get you the right to vote.
Crime and drugs?
Crime and drug abuse are not issues in China, children go outside and play like we did as children.
They don’t have armed police and their prison population per capita is 20% of ours.
Life expectancy is a year more than the USA.
Mao has been gone for forty-nine years and Chinese wage growth looks to be catching up.
Corporate tax rate is 25% but if it’s something the CCP is pushing you get a more favorable rate, just like America.
They have almost 35000 miles of high speed rail, USA has?
There are issues just as in any country, Xijiang province?
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Between Trump doing absolutely nothing about the egg supply/price crisis and Trump imposing a tariff on Colombia that could increase coffee prices by 25%, breakfast is about to become VERY expensive across America.

Let’s make sure everyone knows that he’s to blame.
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MAGA is clapping like seals that FFOTUS is trying to stick it to liberal cities and states by deporting illegal immigrants.

Which means MAGA neighborhoods will end up with them staying.

The irony is lost on them.
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Old 01-27-2025, 03:09 AM   #9
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MAGA is clapping like seals that FFOTUS is trying to stick it to liberal cities and states by deporting illegal immigrants.

Which means MAGA neighborhoods will end up with them staying.

The irony is lost on them.
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WINNING....DEPORTATIONS UNDERWAY... faster than you can type.
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Let it out Pete.
WINNING....DEPORTATIONS UNDERWAY... faster than you can type.
Answer this why no deportation actions in Red states. ? Are there no illegals? In the meat packaging industry. How about dairy farmers

Nowhere would mass deportation have a bigger impact than on Wisconsin’s dairy farms, where an estimated 70% of the workforce is made up of immigrants, mostly from Mexico and Central America. Because Congress has never created a year-round visa for low-skilled farm workers, almost all of Wisconsin’s immigrant dairy workers are undocumented. Without them, experts say, the whole industry would collapse.

Your cult hero is playing you .. with his dog and pony show. With his sanctuary city enforcement only. He know people like you are easily distracted with shining objects…. And have no idea what a sanctuary city is

When he goes after illegals in all states and arrest people who hire them then maybe I’ll believe him.

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Answer this why no deportation actions in Red states. ? Are there no illegals? In the meat packaging industry. How about dairy farmers

Nowhere would mass deportation have a bigger impact than on Wisconsin’s dairy farms, where an estimated 70% of the workforce is made up of immigrants, mostly from Mexico and Central America. Because Congress has never created a year-round visa for low-skilled farm workers, almost all of Wisconsin’s immigrant dairy workers are undocumented. Without them, experts say, the whole industry would collapse.

Your cult hero is playing you .. with his dog and pony show. With his sanctuary city enforcement only. He know people like you are easily distracted with shining objects…. And have no idea what a sanctuary city is

When he goes after illegals in all states and arrest people who hire them then maybe I’ll believe him.

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/0...mers-carry-on/
Trump’s educated advisors must have determined the criminals went to the blue states and the hard working illegals went to the red states.
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Old 01-27-2025, 05:58 AM   #12
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More TDS suckers up early...typing away about their buthurt.
I hate to go to work when the fishing is this good.
Be back tonight to see how many more pages you losers can put together.
Venezuela caved pretty quickly....smart move.
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Answer this why no deportation actions in Red states. ? Are there no illegals?
I believe Miami and Atlanta were also targets.
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Moving the goalposts as usual
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The typical FFOTUS win

Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity

Felon: Trade war!

Colombia: OK

Felon: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Felon: They gave in!
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The typical FFOTUS win

Colombia: We're not taking shackled detainees returned on military flights. Transport them with dignity

Felon: Trade war!

Colombia: OK

Felon: Fine, no more shackled detainees returned on military flights

Colombia: Good. Was that so hard?

Felon: They gave in!
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It’s even more stupid than that

Looks like Biden allowed 424 deportation flights to Colombia with 124 in 2024 alone. These were all on non-military aircraft and cleared by the Colombian government.

Trump by contrast ordered two unannounced military flights in defiance of regular international protocol which were refused. And here’s the kicker, the Colombian nationals being deported were all detained by the Biden administration and scheduled for deportation before Trump even took office!

Columbia is a strategic US national security partner in South America and runs a trade deficit importing over a billion $ in corn alone from US farmers. It’s quite likely Colombia will now look to China as a more reliable trading partner.

So Trump is chest thumping over this mess which hurts national security and the US economy all to show how tough he is with an ally whose entire GDP is a tenth the size of California. To further demonstrate his petty narcissism he posts an AI photo of himself as a gangster to taunt others.

I guess at least we get to watch Dr Phil ride around with ICE in a bizzaro episode of COPS where the MAGA faithful cheer on a made for TV prime time event then blame the liberal media for the skyrocketing price of food, all because Trump told them the sky was green.

Sweet Jesus.
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I stand corrected its only 20 times per week. But according to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, it happens more than 4,000 times per year, at a rate of 20 times per week.Even a rookie carpenter is taught measure twice cut once.
Surgeons are waay smarter...like you.....and you are scared of bugs? OMG what a pus.

Plumbers solve more problems than a bs artist like you....and deserve the money. Keep crying
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I stand corrected its only 20 times per week. But according to a recent study by Johns Hopkins, it happens more than 4,000 times per year, at a rate of 20 times per week.Even a rookie carpenter is taught measure twice cut once.
The numbers you’re looking at refer to “wrong site surgeries” which include very small errors, actual wrong limb amputations are very rare in the US these days.

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I had one of those common little yellow sac spiders land me in the hospital once. Generally I’m a friend of spiders but not these, they deserve to die.
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The numbers you’re looking at refer to “wrong site surgeries” which include very small errors, actual wrong limb amputations are very rare in the US these days.


I had one of those common little yellow sac spiders land me in the hospital once. Generally I’m a friend of spiders but not these, they deserve to die.
Just last summer painting my house on a 32' extension ladder can of paint on a hook and a brush in my hand I enraged the bees and hornets under the rake boards. Smashed some of them with the paint brush the others just snagged and smashed with my free hand. I think I went eleven for twelve with zero stings that morning. OK my lumber just showed up.
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It’s even more stupid than that

Looks like Biden allowed 424 deportation flights to Colombia with 124 in 2024 alone. These were all on non-military aircraft and cleared by the Colombian government.

Trump by contrast ordered two unannounced military flights in defiance of regular international protocol which were refused. And here’s the kicker, the Colombian nationals being deported were all detained by the Biden administration and scheduled for deportation before Trump even took office!


I guess at least we get to watch Dr Phil ride around with ICE in a bizzaro episode of COPS where the MAGA faithful cheer on a made for TV prime time event then blame the liberal media for the skyrocketing price of food, all because Trump told them the sky was green.

Sweet Jesus.
Nuance and facts don't matter Jeff. Because Dr. Phil wasn't out rounding up immigrants with Joe Rogan under Biden's term, it didn't happen....

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Nuance and facts don't matter Jeff. Because Dr. Phil wasn't out rounding up immigrants with Joe Rogan under Biden's term, it didn't happen....
Can you put that in a meme please?
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Can you put that in a meme please?
I could try, but I won't.
Interesting that I am in Wilmington, NC for a conference. There are frequent adds on the local TV from Ontario all about trade and partnership... trying to gin up purple state support??

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Can you put that in a meme please?
Just when I thought I had gut hooked the last TDS sucker in the pond.
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What you’re seeing in the market today is what happens when you invest in education vs the stock market.

A million and a half engineering degrees vs billions to oligarchs

In Merica, Republican lawmakers are considering a change that would make college more expensive for students receiving grants and scholarships to help pay their tuition bill by making those taxable income.
Need to pay for those tax cuts
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A pardoned J6er, Matthew W. Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Indiana, was shot and killed in Jasper County during a traffic stop yesterday.

This happened after an "altercation took place between the suspect and the officer, which resulted in the officer firing his weapon and fatally wounding the suspect."

Gee, ya think he felt empowered in some way???
It's almost as though he thought he was above the law...
Like, he was unpunishable almost..!

Jan 6ers are cop Killers, they are going to have a hard time with any law enforcement .

Good work Jasper County Police.
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A pardoned J6er, Matthew W. Huttle, 42, of Hobart, Indiana, was shot and killed in Jasper County during a traffic stop yesterday.
Cop must have been a DEI hire.

Trump just fired Jan 6 prosecutors on the grounds they wouldn’t enforce the President’s agenda. Since when is that the job of the DOJ????

Seriously, it won’t be long before Trump starts imprisoning political enemies in the name of law and order.
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Thanks John ...its been a rough first week for the TDS afflicted
I'll lay off while they lick their wounds and continue their catharsis. And oh the attachment wasn't a real picture...right spence. No sense of humor with these stiffs. Seven pages of

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I'll lay off while they lick their wounds and continue their catharsis. And oh the attachment wasn't a real picture...right spence. No sense of humor with these stiffs. Seven pages of
Well, it’s not a lack of humor, it’s just really kind of sick and gross along with being stupid.

As for crying, I think you’re confusing this for genuine shock at the direction our country is heading. To be fair, many didn’t like elements of our direction for decades, I can appreciate that. But this is different, it’s no longer about democrats and republicans but rather about erosion of traditional American values that have allowed the country to flourish.
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Sure, FFOTUS broke the law by firing inspector generals without 30 days’ notice.

But here’s the bigger issue: inspector generals find fraud, waste, and abuse, saving taxpayers money. This wasn’t for the people—it was done to cut off checks and balances for FFOTUS’ corrupt administration.
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Sure, FFOTUS broke the law by firing inspector generals without 30 days’ notice.

But here’s the bigger issue: inspector generals find fraud, waste, and abuse, saving taxpayers money. This wasn’t for the people—it was done to cut off checks and balances for FFOTUS’ corrupt administration.
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So what!


FFOTUS....Did you come up with that by yourself?
That's gonna catch on....i can feel it....gold i tell you! Genius!
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