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Deanna J Marquart's avatar

Whenever these guys finally do get their comeuppance, and we know they will if there is any justice at all left in this world, I hope I live long enough to see that day.

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Larry Phifer's avatar

Same here Deanna!

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Linda Leee E E's avatar

My poster for 4/5/25 read Protect and Preserve our National Parks and Federal Lands NOT For Sale or Lease !!! In Trump one didn't he say something like 'its there we just have to take it.' USMCA?

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clinton & susanne hollister's avatar

Trump's approach to "governing" has always been through money. It's really all that this genius knows. And rewarding his fat feline buddies is his way of making sure of their loyalty and support. Does anyone really believe that this makes America great? As Deanna says, there will be a day of reckoning, and we can only hope to see it! BTW, the fat cat photo is priceless.

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Elizabeth Brown's avatar

Don't insult cats! I'd call them fat porcine buddies, but I also don't want to insult pigs.

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clinton & susanne hollister's avatar

Sorry, didn't mean to. (Just an expression.) No animals deserve to be compared to human creatures like Trump & Co. Animals are honest and just the way God intended.

Apologies!

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Elizabeth Brown's avatar

I actually wasn't criticizing your post, just making fun of the usage. They are all RATS, I have no good feelings about those creatures!

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clinton & susanne hollister's avatar

Thanks! Here we were thinking you might be a childless cat lady and we had insulted your babies LOL . Let's all try to keep our sense of humor - we will get each other throught this!

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Murray Smart's avatar

It is about MONEY!!! Dictator Donnie is ALWAYS about MONEY!! How to get it and how to steal it from others. He is a sell out to Americans. He ONLY cares about MONEY for himself and his buddies - ALL THE TIME........ And he uses his supporters all the time and they still do not get it. He does not give a damn about them, only how to use them to get even more MONEY from them and us...........

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Rafi Simonton's avatar

To those unfamiliar with the stats, "mainly squeeze...from low income working families" may sound like a small minority. However, as of 2022, 42% of Americans have less than $1000 in savings; 10% of whom have nothing at all. Another 16% have $1000-$5000. That's 58% scraping by.

Therefore no cushion for emergencies except for credit cards. Since they (plus many with higher incomes) already live paycheck to paycheck, they don't totally pay off what they owe. So they already face interest rates compounded daily, adding interest on the interest. Additionally, a grace period for payments only applies if there's nothing already owed, thus the common additional hit of late fees.

Reality is the system of econopathic trickle-up has been grossly unfair for decades. This latest gambit is pouring coarse usurious salt into a festering wound.

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David Balfour's avatar

Tyrant Trump rewards his financial backers:Muskrat,the oil companies and now,the big banks.Make no mistake, this is Trumpolini's constituency...not you.

And let's include the cryptocurrency industry which will make him richer beyond your wildest dreams.Talk about,conflict of interest,this is it!

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Myrna Klupenger's avatar

And now that mail delivery is slower, the CC payment you make promptly after receiving the bill, may miss the due date.

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carolyn semiglasow's avatar

We need to be out in the streets with pitchforks.

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TruthBeTold's avatar

And tumbrils and guiyotines.

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TruthBeTold's avatar

Guillotines

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Sandra M. Watson's avatar

Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse 😠

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Patricia DeVea's avatar

Thanks for the update. But this is TRULY UNBELIEVABLE! Deanna--me too. Well, remember the saying "Love of money is the root of all evil." Seeing it very big time now.

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Dorothy Knudson's avatar

Is there no end to how much money the rich want? Evidently not.

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Patrick Copeland-Malone's avatar

Great reporting on another highly disturbing topic. Thanks Jim and team.

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Gary Harper's avatar

Hood winked again, go figure. Republicans continue to support our new Dictator. POTUS, Puppet Master, of the Un-United States of Trump’s America. Only CONgress can correct the problem. Maybe after they get past the fear of doing something, they can join forces with the vast majority of their Constituents and their elected colleagues to turn our new King back into the Presidental human WE the PEOPLE expect the leaders of our Country too be.

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clinton & susanne hollister's avatar

Gary, Trumpkins likes to think he is the puppet master. But we believe that the guy who really pulls his strings is Vladimir the Terrible, a direct descendant of Ivan the Terrible.

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William Politt's avatar

It's simple. He's Making America Gross (or should that be Greedy?) Agian.

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Gordon Kruse's avatar

Another opportunity for the rich to fleece everyone else. The worst part of this is what it does to people trying to feed a family on poverty wages. There is no 'fellow feeling' among the greedy.

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Linda Leee E E's avatar

Watching "Music of the Heart" with Meryl Streep and Joshua Bell

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Kate Daniel's avatar

I cannot understand on any level how anyone would choose Evil. But it was the choice of all who preferred power.

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