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@mthierry
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Interviewer: what are your thoughts on trade policy
Trump: there are friendly mice in my brain, they help me cook delicious ratatouille [shits his pants]

Media Headlines: Trump's Trade Recipe Offers Pungent Critique of Harris Policies

World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity, as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly,” says Oxfam

https://lemmy.ml/post/20836594

World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity, as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly,” says Oxfam - Lemmy

@TonyStark
Trump's tariffs when he was POTUS cost us billions of dollars.

Trump used the proceeds from those tariffs to buy votes from rural red agricultural communities.

Sixty-six billion dollars were collected from tariffs coming in to USA. Trump provided additional subsidies to farmers of sixty-one billion dollars.

I don't think that our legacy MSM explains this well to their audience.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/92-percent-trumps-china-tariff-proceeds-has-gone-bail-out-angry-farmers#:~:text=American%20farmers%20have%20indeed%20laid%20claim

92 Percent of Trump’s China Tariff Proceeds Has Gone to Bail Out Angry Farmers

  

Council on Foreign Relations
Well, it's lunchtime and I'm going to leave you until tomorrow ✌
💙💙💙
Chris Coons: If we had been able to pass the tough bipartisan border security deal, we would have $20 billion more being invested in deportations and prioritizing the deportation of violent criminals. That bill didn’t pass only because Trump called his allies in the Senate and said, don’t pass it. He wanted an issue, not a solution.
Pennsylvania Governor Calls Out Trump For Promoting "Complete And Utter Bullsh*t"

In a podcast interview for news organization The New Republic, Pennsylvania Democratic Governor Josh Shapiro blasted recent comments from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump denigrating Haitians who are now living in Pennsylvania. The commentary was the latest in a long line of antagonism towards such communities. Perhaps the most prominent recent target has been Haitians...

Bipartisan Report
Chris Coons on the 13,000 non-citizens convicted of homicide: That’s a misleading number. Most of the 13,000 are in prison and will be deported as soon as they finish serving their prison terms. The Biden-Harris admin prioritized the deportation of those who committed violent crimes, deporting them at a 50% higher rate than under Trump.
This hurricane shows it's not just about living near the coast anymore.

Jeff Flake, a Republican and former senator from Arizona who recently left his position as U.S. ambassador to Turkey,

💖announced he is supporting Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

“I think Republicans believe in the rule of law in particular -- And it’s difficult to support a candidate who, having lost an election, tries to use the powers of the presidency to overturn that election
— đŸ’„that is anything but respect for the rule of law,” Flake said on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.


Flake said he was🔾 glad to hear policies Harris recently announced while at the U.S.-Mexico border, adding that he wants to see a tougher immigration stance than President Joe Biden has.

Lindsay Graham’s rant about immigrant crime dismantled to his face by CNN’s Jake Tapper https://www.alternet.org/lindsay-graham-jake-tapper/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Lindsay Graham’s rant about immigrant crime dismantled to his face by CNN’s Jake Tapper

On Sunday morning, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) sat by silently while CNN "State of the Union" host Jake Tapper thoroughly ripped apart claims he made about violent immigrant criminals entering the U.S. under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.With the CNN host calling out Donald Tru...

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