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Marco Rubio on Monday: “Imagine an Iran that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of Iran.”

Donald Trump on Wednesday: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection. We have to guard the country.”

Irony is dead.

Scott Michaud 1d ago

@augieray I strongly believe, as with the religious establishment in the New Testament, that a significant portion of life is a hypocrisy test.

It explains basically everything about Donald Trump... a born rich, wise-as-a-stump person who prides himself on all seven deadly sins.

Smith Travis 20h ago

@scottmichaud @augieray yo wsg

@augieray I feel so much safer with Passout Pete with the Nazi tatts at the helm, knowing he has our demented president's ear & access to nukes. That is so much better than health care.

yesthatstevengrant 23h ago

@augieray Unrecognized is not the same thing as dead.

Augie Ray 22h ago

@stevengrant Have you never heard the phrase "irony is dead" before?

yesthatstevengrant 56m ago

@augieray I have, of course, but I tend to hear it said by people who have no idea what irony actually means. (I'm not accusing you of this, just citing my experience.)

JebKFan 23h ago

@augieray Well Rubio sort of had a point (roughly).

elprimo 22h ago

@JebKFan @augieray not really, no. i'm the last person who will defend the islamic revolution, they're degenerates, but if they had spent their money on their people instead of the means to defend their oil fields they would have become East Iraq in the 1980s, and don't think they didn't know it then and know it now.

JebKFan 22h ago

@elprimo @augieray Not wrong... what I meant is that a lot of money went into their pockets as well, probably.

Ham on Wry 23h ago

Tone deaf … these fools are absolutely tone deaf.

lefthandmonki 22h ago

“Imagine an America that, instead of spending their wealth, billions of dollars, supporting terrorists or weapons, had spent that money helping the people of America.”

(((Ttown)))🌐✌21h ago

@lefthandmonki @augieray
Imagine if the US, instead of building the largest military in the world, had spent the money on it's citizens.

Cluster Fcku 18h ago

@Ttown @lefthandmonki @augieray you'd then have the Norway he so admires

grrl_aex 22h ago

@augieray Irony may be dead....

But hypocrisy seems to be thriving!

cwicseolfor 21h ago

@augieray They are relying SO MUCH on their base upholding the American exceptionalism narrative to resist clueing in on the call coming from inside the house. It feels like a really dicey gamble at this stage in a way it never has in my life.

@augieray jeez they are stupid!

mcSlibinas 19h ago

@kcpoole @augieray so stupids vote for them. Like stupids see stupid Trump and co and say yo! Our people!

@augieray it died the day he rode down the escalator.

Shadow, First of His Name

@augieray I feel it in my bones.

Roadskater, Ph.D.17h ago

@augieray "The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people." — Dwight D. Eisenhower, Republican

@augieray
beauty!

@augieray @cachondo Trump chose to go to war with Iran and not fund day care, Medicaid, or Medicare. He could have chosen negotiation instead, which is what presidents for the last 40 years have chosen. Unless Isreal made Trump do something he didn't want to, he definitely had a choice.

Sepia Fan 11h ago

»Hitler rejected to formally define the new system of government. He phrased his directives so vaguely that they allowed for different approaches to implementation; or he kept matters in limbo until a power group … appeared to be gaining the upper hand. … Particularly in domestic and social policy, #Hitler showed himself to be increasingly unwilling to make clear decisions. The situation was different in foreign policy, which bore his mark ever more clearly.«

🇩🇪https://www.bpb.de/themen/nationalsozialismus-zweiter-weltkrieg/dossier-nationalsozialismus/39550/ausbau-des-fuehrerstaates/

Ausbau des Führerstaates | Nationalsozialismus und Zweiter Weltkrieg | bpb.de

Verklammerung von Partei und Staat, Instrumentalisierung von Recht und Justiz, Entrechtung und Verfolgung der Juden: Die Jahre 1934-1938 waren gekennzeichnet durch den Umbau Deutschlands zum "Führerstaat". Durch gezielte Propaganda wurde der Personen

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Francis Cook 6h ago

@augieray to non Americans this is just vindication the US never knew what it meant anyway.

Augie Ray 5h ago

@dianshuo That's a broad statement. A lot of Americans still believe in the values we espouse.