"When Donald tells us the American economy is great and can withstand anything, he is talking about his own economy. He is talking about the fact that for him, his useless children, and his obscenely wealthy cohorts, everything is just fine."
~ Mary Trump
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Paul Krugman notes that on Sunday, Kuwait shot down three US F-15s in a friendly fire incident. And:
"A new F-15 costs U.S. taxpayers $97 million. So that’s almost $300 million lost in seconds."
As he notes, taxpayers foot the bill.
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/war-is-expensive-for-the-little-people
"It is easy to pay a bill if you’re not using your own money.
That’s the thought that kept ringing through my head as I watched the 'Secretary of War' smirk and chortle his way through a war time press conference wherein he disparaged our allies for 'clutching their pearls' and dismissed what he called 'stupid rules of engagement.'”
~ Michele Hornish
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https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/the-fortunate-son-sends-us-to-war
"The war in the Middle East has plunged financial markets into turmoil for a second day, with oil and gas prices surging, global stock markets slumping and chances of a UK interest rate cut later this month plummeting."
~ Julia Kollewe and Graeme Wearden
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"In the hours before the strike, six newly-created accounts on the prediction market Polymarket raked in nearly $1 million by betting that the U.S. would strike Iran by February 28."
~ Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, Noel Sims
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"We will learn at some time in the future that Donald Trump’s war has been all about one thing, his thing, the only thing he has ever cared about: Money.
It’s perfect. He can hear the pile drivers for his ballroom, but he can’t hear the bombs."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/i-watched-trumps-medal-of-honor-ceremony
"Americans have short memories, but they do recall that Trump was reelected to accomplish three things: First, to get prices down. ...
Second, he promised to get control of the nation’s southern border. ...
His third promise was to avoid foreign entanglements."
~ Robert Reich
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https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trump-has-no-fcking-idea-what-hes
All of this cements the need to recognize and identify Trump not only as monstrous grifter, accused multiple rapist and court-sanctioned sex offender, but also as a mass murderer.
Added to his assassinations of Caribbean fishermen and supposed 'drug runners' (and outside of the domestic deaths arising from his administration's grossly negligent and gratuitously hostile policies) his kill count will now number in the hundreds if not thousands.
William Lindsey 
Kyle Memoir 🍉🐧
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