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modrepub

(4,065 posts)
13. Put It On His Tab
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 02:49 PM
Monday

We’ll just release oil from strategic reserves and put the proceeds in some untraceable Middle East bank account then suspend federal gas taxes and pressure states to do the same blowing up state budgets in the process. Both will increase the National debt on top of whatever money we’ll need to feed the industrial weapons complex to maintain this non forever forever war.

My only hope is the Billionaire class is leveraged to the hilt and Congress refuses to bail their asses out like was done for the 2008 housing crisis.

Grokenstein

(6,335 posts)
4. Yep. Moscow now gets to sell oil to everyone at jacked-up prices.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:18 PM
Monday

Putin's ass is saved! (For now.)

BaronChocula

(4,440 posts)
9. "Moscow now gets to sell oil to everyone at jacked-up prices."
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:50 PM
Monday

Including us if the stupidest person in history removes U.S. sanctions on Russian oil.

bmichaelh

(1,149 posts)
3. Kakistocracy
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:18 PM
Monday

Per Wikipedia:

The word was coined as early as the 17th century[4] and derives from two Greek words, kákistos (κάκιστος, 'worst') and krátos (κράτος, 'rule'), together meaning 'government by the worst people'.

OddMom20

(66 posts)
7. This is a GREAT word bmichaelh -
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 12:42 PM
Monday

Thank you for sharing. My 10 year old and I try to read a page of the dictionary a day - maybe today she gets a “bonus word” since we’re nowhere near ‘k.’ 😏

BaronChocula

(4,440 posts)
10. Well, he's pretty stupid too.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:54 PM
Monday

He ain't curing disease or penning historical tomes. He's just championing things good people were raised not to do.

calimary

(89,787 posts)
16. THIS is the absolute most EVIL man in Republican politics.
Tue Mar 10, 2026, 12:29 AM
Yesterday

Or, heck, just make it the most EVIL man who walks the earth these days. You’ll know where he’s just been. It’ll smell like sulfur.

BaronChocula

(4,440 posts)
11. The new party line
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 01:55 PM
Monday

"This spike is temporary and prices will be plummeting in about two weeks."

Norrrm

(4,783 posts)
14. The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 06:51 PM
Monday

The Trumps are not shy about proclaiming how much they have 'sacrificed'.

Visit to Arlington Cemetery reminded Donald Trump Jr. of all his family's 'sacrifices,' he writes

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Visit+to+Arlington+Cemetery+reminded+Donald+Trump+Jr.+of+all+his+family%27s+%27sacrifices%2C%27+he+writes+

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212910508

"I gave up my life to move to Washington to help Americans," Ivanka Trump says in Davos interview.
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Poor babies!









Kid Berwyn

(24,094 posts)
15. Lucian K. Truscott IV observed...
Mon Mar 9, 2026, 09:52 PM
Monday
How Trump described watching the returning fallen at Dover AFB:

All this is just more willful ignorance contained within his usual fog of lies. But it was his description of the grief of families meeting the bodies of their dead at Dover Air Force Base that was most illustrative of his abject disdain for human life. “They scream, like I’ve never seen anything before. They’ll break through military barriers. They’ll run to the coffin and jump on top of the coffin. Crying mothers and wives. Crying desperately.”

https://www.salon.com/2019/10/19/america-is-being-held-hostage-by-a-bloody-madman-and-hes-in-the-white-house/

ETA I believe this was what happened, but not covered by Corporate McPravda, but preserved for the visuals FOX used to cover his pimply ass while wearing MAGA merch.
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