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U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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Is Flint, Michigan still living off of bottled water or did the USA finally fix that?

Still bottled water. The lede was buried in that it was a confirmed Legionella outbreak that killed an excess 150-200 on top of the lead poisoning of 100k sacrificial brown and poor people that the sociopathic governor and emergency manager poisoned because of their incompetency, recklessness, and egotism.

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That creates a lot of work for the next administration.

This is fairly routine -- for Democratic executive administrations to unfuck financial / other poor performance / bad health promulgated by prior Republican ones: Republicans since Reagan have prioritized tax cuts as an end in themselves, treating deficit concerns as secondary Democrats have generally accepted the post-1990s norm of PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budgeting more consistently Trump has been remarkable effective…

We're well beyond what a democratic administration following the Trump one can undo, there is a large amount of permanent damage.

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The Trump administration seems eager to pit America against the rest of the world's nations, which altogether comprise 8 billion people. The USA has a population of around 0.4 billion. Until a future administration corrects course, the future will be one demoralizing failure after another.

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The Trump administration seems eager to pit America against the rest of the world's nations, which altogether comprise 8 billion people. The USA has a population of around 0.4 billion. Until a future administration corrects course, the future will be one demoralizing failure after another.

I am sorry, but the damage is already done. It cannot be repaired. NEVER!

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So, according to your logic, the appropriate punishment for allegedly blocking federal LEO operations is to get killed? Who decided that she was'blocking' any operations? It seems to have been an ICE agent. So, now it's ok for an ICE agent to be the judge, jury and executioner? Sometimes, it's hard to believe the level to which we seem to have sunk. What's worse is that the partisan divide is so great that even norma…

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> That does not make ICE better, but it does make gene pool cleaner.

Wow. Just wow.

Re: U.S. is withdrawing from 66 international bodies

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The Trump administration seems eager to pit America against the rest of the world's nations, which altogether comprise 8 billion people. The USA has a population of around 0.4 billion. Until a future administration corrects course, the future will be one demoralizing failure after another.

I am sorry, but the damage is already done. It cannot be repaired. NEVER!

With a little bread and circus, the voters and "the allies" will forget everything. Happenes all the time.

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post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is fairly routine -- for Democratic executive administrations to unfuck financial / other poor performance / bad health promulgated by prior Republican ones: Republicans since Reagan have prioritized tax cuts as an end in themselves, treating deficit concerns as secondary Democrats have generally accepted the post-1990s norm of PAYGO (pay-as-you-go) budgeting more consistently Trump has been remarkable effective…

We're well beyond what a democratic administration following the Trump one can undo, there is a large amount of permanent damage.

Democratic measures against Republicans is always one step forward for every two steps back. It’s not enough and has never been enough because liberals don’t fight a fraction as hard to help people as conservatives do to fuck people over. Every single democratic administration wastes months to years trying some sort of reconciliation path with people who actively hate them and wonder why politics as usual isn’t working.

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> American taxpayers have spent billions on these organizations with little return, while they often criticize U.S. policies, advance agendas contrary to our values, or waste taxpayer dollars by purporting to address important issues but not achieving any real results. >By exiting these entities, President Trump is saving taxpayer money and refocusing resources on America First priorities. Taking a look at the actual…

For a long I've wondered when, in the view of the current administration, the US was great the last time. I'm trying to decide when in the 1800s that was.

Years ago someone tracked this down by looking at interviews Trump has done over the decades, and IIRC it was the 1980s or so when he switched from "is great" to "was great". They put together all the clips they found on youtube somewhere.
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