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The Party of the Working Class
Read more . . . →The Trump administration just gutted joint-employer rules and independent contractor protections in the same month. Corporations can now wash their hands of the workers who make them rich while those same workers lose every legal avenue to fight back. The “party of the working class,” everyone.
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The Only Thing He Reshored Was the Recession
Read more . . . →The Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal and now US businesses are owed $130 billion in refunds while 98,000 manufacturing jobs vanished on his watch. The only thing he reshored was the recession.
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"Winding Down" Is a Weird Way to Say Deploying More Marines
Read more . . . →Trump posted that he’s “winding down” the Iran war while the USS Boxer and thousands of Marines are literally sailing toward the Persian Gulf right now. He also had to lift sanctions on Iranian oil because his own war spiked gas prices so bad his Treasury Secretary is panic-buying barrels like it’s a Costco run. Starting a war you can’t afford and then buying your enemy’s oil to clean up the mess is peak American foreign policy.
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Read more . . . →The guy who sells deodorant sweated through his suit at a Trump rally. Sometimes the meme makes itself.
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Accused Rapist Gets His Travel Ban Lifted by Trump's Friends, Posts Selfies
Read more . . . →Andrew Tate is posting nightclub selfies in Hong Kong right now because US right-wing figures close to Trump pressured Romania into lifting his travel ban — the same guy facing rape and trafficking charges in two countries. Meanwhile his associate is bragging about dinner with Barron at Mar-a-Lago on a Netflix documentary, because apparently the first family’s guest list and a sex trafficking indictment aren’t mutually exclusive anymore.
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Bringing the Factories Back Was Always Just a Red Hat
Read more . . . →98,000 manufacturing jobs gone in 12 months. The tariffs that were supposed to bring the factories back got ruled illegal by the Supreme Court, and the government won’t even refund what they took from importers. “Bringing the factories back” was always just a red hat.
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Winding Down
Read more . . . →The man is sending thousands more Marines to the Gulf while posting about “winding down.” Namaste, I guess.
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Diplomatic Immunity from Good Taste
Read more . . . →Trump brought up Pearl Harbor to the Japanese PM like it was tight five material. Diplomacy is dead and this man is doing an open casket.
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Open Mic Night at the White House
Read more . . . →Trump told Japan’s PM he didn’t warn allies about the Iran strikes because “Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?” Diplomacy is dead and its body is doing a tight five at the Chuckle Hut.
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