If All You See…

February 23, 2025 – 1:00 pm

…is a world turning to desert, you might just be a Warmist

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12 Responses to “If All You See…”

  1. Elwood P Dowd says:
    February 23, 2025 at 7:52 pm

    Wise guys such as Teach and Dana are too savvy to believe Big Donnie’s lies, but most of his less “intelligent” devotees lap up his lies.

    The United States sent $50 million in condoms to Hamas!
    Diversity programs caused a plane crash!
    China controls the Panama Canal!
    Ukraine started the war with Russia!
    The 2020 election was stolen!
    Canada wants to join the US!
    The US has every right to Greenland!
    Our militaries are weak and incapable of defending America!
    Women, fags and trannies are ruining our military!
    Russia did not interfere with the 2016 election!
    He delivered the greatest economy in history!
    January 6 2021 was a “Day of Love”!
    He “won a landslide” in 2024!
    USAID paid the media for favorable stories!
    America is the only country with “birthright” citizenship!
    The US has given Ukraine $350 BILLION and half of it is “missing”!

    Trump said as long as “something sounds good” go with it. He said repeating the lies make them “true”.

    Do you believe that Donnie and Elonva will cut YOUR federal taxes signficantly? Do you believe they’ll cut your Social Security and Medicare that you’ve paid into for decades?

    If they want to cut the debt (now $37 TRILLION) AND cut taxes by $4.5 TRILLION over 10 years AND cut 33% of goverment spending to balance the yearly deficit they’ll have to make deep cuts in spending and/or large increases in workig class taxes.

    Canning USAID will reduce yearly spending some 1%. Firing half the federal “workers” will save another 1% or 2. But Defense/VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the debt make up about 90% of federal spending! The courts, FBI, NASA, EPA, NIH, Trump has suggested cutting interest payments (as he did with his casinos) or negotiating (refusing to pay) our bills.

    Defense contractors will fight decanting their gravy train, but the VA and those programs for old folks and poor people have TRILLIONS in “fraud and waste” according to Elonva (with no proof). And thats where all the money is! Don and Elon will put off the meaningful cuts as long as they can, and as long as they can entertain “the people” with chainsaws and condoms! The MAGAts are working hard at the state levels to assure that they can withstand the outrage of citizens who will vote Nov 2026 and Nov 2028. Democracy is the greatest challenge faced by the MAGA movement!

    • david7134 says:
      February 23, 2025 at 7:57 pm

      WINNING…..MAGA

    • Dana says:
      February 24, 2025 at 7:04 am

      Our spendthrift from St Louis wrote:

      Canning USAID will reduce yearly spending some 1%. Firing half the federal “workers” will save another 1% or 2. But Defense/VA, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the debt make up about 90% of federal spending!

      President Trump has already requested that DoD find ways to cut spending there as well.

      But I find your argument specious. We spend scads more than we take in, so any and every reduction in spending helps, even if it helps only a little bit.

      Mrs Pico surprised me by bringing home some Kroger store brand stick butter, because she doesn’t particularly like Kroger and has resisted buying their store brand before. I asked, “Who are you, and what have you done with my wife?” She explained, a bit half-heartedly, that it was less expensive than the brand where they got rid of the Indian but kept the land.

      We’re not wealthy by any means, but we’re not poor, either. She could have spent an extra buck on Land o’ Lakes butter, and it wouldn’t have hurt us at all. But she still had the good, common sense to buy the cheaper brand, and if she detects no qualitative difference, that’s what she’ll keep buying.

      • Elwood P Dowd says:
        February 24, 2025 at 11:03 am

        Our Krogerite from Kentucky ignores that Kroger is on the list of companies that remains “woke” and famously very DEI!!! Welcome to the fight, comrade!!

        Of course, common sense (in even shorter supply in the White House these daze) dictates that expenditures be balanced against results. We could balance our budget today by eliminating all military expenditures and stopping all Social Security payments. If your doctor says you need to lose 25 lbs, she will not suggest you do it but cutting off your leg.

        I find your argument specious. In fiscal year 2024, the US government spent $6.75 TRILLION and collected $4.92 TRILLION in revenue, resulting in a deficit of $1.83 TRILLION. Most of that spending comes from Defense/VA, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and Interest on the debt. Our current debt is about $35 TRILLION. The interest alone is about $0.9 TRILLION.

        The huge accumulation of debt resulted from increased spending and decreased collections due to the Afghhanistan/Iraq wars, the Great Recession and Covid pandemic. Unemployment payouts, lower tax receipts and stimulus spending contributed.

        We can kill USAID, NASA, Courts, FBI, EPA, NIH, CDC, NOAA, CIA, FAA, NTSB, USDA, Secret Service, HUD, Interior, DHS and still be in debt!!

        We (gubmint) spend about twice as much (per capita) on healthcare as other advanced nations. How do France, Sweden, Israel, Belgium, Japan etc cover ALL their people for half of what we spend? Nearly 25% of our spending is on federal healthcare (Medicare, Medicaid, ACA, CHIP)! Yes, it will be hard work to construct the much “cheaper and better” healthcare system that Trump promised. He has a concept of a plan. Making jokes about condoms to Hamas IS easier, but has no significant effect on the budget. Much of our added healthcare expense goes to execs, investors, managers etc who have more political ‘pull’ than ‘the people’.

  2. Elwood P Dowd says:
    February 23, 2025 at 9:25 pm

    Alnur Mussayev isn’t some Twitter conspiracy theorist with a tinfoil hat and a podcast. He’s the former head of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, which means he knows exactly how Russian intelligence works—because he was part of the system. And what he’s saying should make every American’s blood run cold.

    According to Mussayev, Trump was identified, recruited, and compromised by the KGB in 1987 during his first trip to Moscow. They saw him for what he was: a narcissistic, greedy, attention-starved buffoon who could be easily manipulated. The KGB flattered him, promised him business deals, and planted the seeds of political ambition in his empty little head. And from that moment on, he was their man.

    But Mussayev isn’t alone. Former KGB major Yuri Shvets said the exact same thing in 2021: Trump was cultivated by Soviet intelligence because he was an easy mark—too stupid to realize he was being played, too egotistical to care. They saw him as a useful idiot—a man who could one day be nudged into power, a walking, talking Trojan Horse for Russian interests.

    Trump spent his entire first term doing exactly what Russia wanted. He attacked NATO, calling it “obsolete” and threatening to pull the U.S. out. He tried to blackmail Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on Joe Biden, because weakening Ukraine helps one man and one man only: Vladimir Putin. He pulled U.S. troops out of Syria, handing power over to Russian forces. He picked fights with Canada and Europe while cozying up to dictators.

    Even now, in his second term, he is more openly pro-Putin than ever. He has made it clear that he will not protect NATO allies from Russian aggression. He is actively dismantling America’s alliances, just as Russia planned. And while Americans scream at each other over whether Target should sell rainbow t-shirts, Trump is quietly selling the country to the Kremlin.

    At some point, you have to stop calling it a coincidence and start calling it what it is: treason.

    This is not new information, just added evidence.

  3. Elwood P Dowd says:
    February 24, 2025 at 12:39 am

    So today Krazy Donnie reversed his stance on who invaded Ukraine. Earlier he said that Ukraine made Russia invade them.

    Today he reversed his comment.

    Do you think he misspoke earlier? Do you think someone he respected or feared said “that’s nuts”?

    Maybe Elonva told him how wrong he was. Maybe Hannity. Maybe Putin.

    Weird.

  4. Elwood P Dowd says:
    February 24, 2025 at 9:48 am

    Big Donnie hates Ukraine because he hates President Zelenskyy.

    Why does Petty Don hate the Ukrainian leader?

    President Zelenskyy is brave. Donnie is not.
    President Zelenskyy is a hero. Donnie is not.
    President Zelenskyy is respected. Donnie is not.

    Donnie works for Putin. President Zelenskyy does not.

    Donnie wants to give Ukraine to Putin. President Zelenskyy does not.
    Donnie wants to take 50% of Ukraine’s resources. President Zelenskyy said no.
    Putin hates NATO. So does Donnie. President Zelenskyy does not.

    But mostly…

    President Zelenskyy is brave. Donnie is not.
    President Zelenskyy is brave. Donnie is not.

    Donnie is a coward and a middle school bully, LOL.

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