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Timothy Teter's avatar

I’m thinking malice disguised is simple stupidity. These people don’t even want the United States and its allies to succeed anymore .

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Mary Schweitzer's avatar

But Elon, the US collected over a trillion in social security TAXES this year to pay for it.

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Mark Hayes's avatar

Why not both?

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Marlee's avatar

This is first time I have seen the white dog. Where did he come from...besides France.

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Robyn Boyer's avatar

Elon/Trump/Project 2025 are gutting the US government, cowing the media, academia and lawyers as a predicate to taking over the country. No more elections. No more free speech. No more freedom of assembly. No more due process. Wake up everyone! To the streets! Shut the fucking country down. Make the Republican congress fear you more than Elon. April 5, nationwide protest. Be there for democracy and your children's sake. It's a start.

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Sarah Grove's avatar

Ohhh! Zokami is gorgeous! Does this mean she’s visiting America or that you’re visiting France?

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Rod Wheeland's avatar

Yes!

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Gdub's avatar

Yes

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Ana-Maria Troast's avatar

I’d say a hefty helping of both ingredients made this mess of a crap cake.

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Ryan Groff's avatar

I never want to hear shit about HILLARY CLINTONS EMAILS EVER AGAIN!!!

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Don Smith's avatar

Great insights as always. Thank you. Regarding the malice side of SSA gutting, do you think the Mar-a-Lago Accord comes into play here? They want to devalue the dollar to increase trade while massively cutting/restucturing the national debt. This will likely get very ugly very fast.

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Ycnay's avatar

I believe that it is overwhelmingly malice, with a base of stupidity with this regime. Take a serious look at how tailored each idiot/lacky was chosen for each job. What else would explain a conspiracy nut/anti-vax airhead (literally, i.e. brain worm) for the HHS Secretary, Lake for VOA, a pro-Putin (or anyone else that is a threat to our country) turncoat like Gabbard as DNI.... I mean, seriously, she's over ALL the intelligence agencies? The Fossil Fuel overlord for Interior. Bondi? Patel? Enough said.

I really am beginning to wonder if we will survive this. I just heard about the 12 billion-dollar cut in health spending to the states, and no funding for supplying food banks. State budgets will be decimated. Since his followers are going to be hit harder than most, one has to wonder: How can someone have so much hate, contempt, malice AND stupidity within them? I'm really afraid things are going to come to a head soon.

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Sandra Tuttle's avatar

In keeping with the theme of this article, I just got this text from my sister in a small suburban town in NC.

(FYI, Rural Hall, Pfafftown and one more post Ofc close to here were closed a few weeks now, closed down and we r now getting our mail from northpoint. Also, they closed down the SSA in Asheville this week. I wondered where all our mail trucks were because they're never up there any more. I guess they took them away. They r quietly doing this.

Also, all that money Trvmp went up there and promised the people in western NC, he hasn't sent one dime. And they haven't sent them any money since the original week. So I guess they're just SOL.

The US govt has taken ALL the SSA credit cards and they aren't able to buy supplies, nothing for their offices, nothing like even pens and paper. Guess they have to bring toilet paper from home. No office supplies. Nothing.)

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Sandra Tuttle's avatar

Great article Charlie. Love the pictures of Zokami

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dch's avatar

Thank you.

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Cascadian's avatar

“Trump Demands That Colorado Take Down His Jowly Portrait.”

That portrait seems to be doing a Dorian Gray sort of thing.

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed."

― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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