TheMeaningofLife @LifeMeaningof

Siding with Russia over our allies is bad for business. The world’s major democratic market economies have a total GDP over $60 trillion dollars. The US does trillions of dollars of business with these countries. Russia has an annual GDP smaller than a US state. Tap to read free.

There is NO “neutrality clause” in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. No ban on NATO membership. No Russian veto over Ukraine’s foreign policy. There IS an explicit commitment to refrain from economic coercion against Ukraine. Before invading Crimea and intervening militarily in Donbas in 2014, Russia was already using economic pressure to dictate Ukraine’s choices. In 2013, Moscow obstructed Ukrainian exports and explicitly threatened further trade restrictions if Kyiv signed an agreement with the EU. Putin’s adviser warned of billions in losses and default. That is precisely the kind of coercion paragraph 3 prohibited. Russia’s disregard for its commitments didn’t begin with the invasion. The economic pressure came first. Stop inventing obligations Ukraine never accepted to excuse Russia breaking the ones it actually signed. Sources: treaties.un.org/doc/Publicatio… interfax.com/newsroom/top-s… ksl.com/article/news/w…

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs. After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher. Please meet the President of the United States: Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess. Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business. 34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges. Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy. 6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money. 5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty. 4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four. 2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president. 2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted. 1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down. Even his charity was a grift. Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually. Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second. A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke. Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity. Stealing from a charity with his own name on it. Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway. First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point. Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term. Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money. Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for. Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars. Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again. Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway. Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back. Efficient, if your goal is chaos. Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters. At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody. His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office. Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets. Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone. His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year. You’re paying for this. Not China. You. No more foreign wars. Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One. None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat. It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look. So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out. Credit: Charles Curtis Rone

Can any of the anti-fraud Republicans tell us: -Who owns the offshore account in Qatar that holds $400M in seized Venezuelan oil money? -What happened with the $1B sent to Trump's "Board of Peace"? -Who owns the Qatari gifted Air Force One? -Why more than 50 people who received pardons did so after major donations to Trump or major partnerships with his family's businesses? -How much public money has been spent at Trump golf courses? -Who front ran market moving announcements on the war to the tune of more than $20B? -Why public contracts are going to businesses of Trump allies and cost more than 10x the normal rates? If not, maybe it's time to shut the hell up about corruption.

Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill

3 days ago

Vote straight ticket Republican if you want our committees to continue doing things like investigating fraudsters and going after birth tourism companies instead of being turned into weapons of political retribution against people whose only crime was wanting to make government

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JD Vance just said that ''America isn't obligated to stand by Ukraine because they aren't in a formal alliance.'' Dear JD. Vance, Look up ''Budapest Memorandum 1994.'' You are welcome.

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Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer

2 days ago

A top Trump advisor, Steve Witkoff, speaking to Putin: "You talk so much about my president, Trump, being a humanitarian. You are a humanitarian also, sir, and I salute that, I commend you, and I thank you again."

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I’ll stipulate that Trump is an agent of Putin. Go down the checklist. 1. Destroyed the Western alliance? Putin wanted that. 2. Threatened a NATO ally over Greenland? Putin wanted that. 3. Pulled out of the intermediate nuclear pact? Putin wanted that. 4. Withdrawing 25-40,000 troops from Western Europe while Russian bellicosity is rising? Putin wanted that. 5. Russian satellites giving coordinates to Iranians killing our soldiers, and his response is “they kill us, we kill them”? What American president says that? I think he’s been compromised. The election of Donald Trump may be the greatest foreign policy success in post-Czarist Russian history.

Trump says Biden gave us “the worst inflation in American history.” It peaked at 9% (far lower than historic records) and was down to 3.0% when Trump took office. My @Morning_Joe Chart

Trump: "We are running low on ammo, not because of my war on Iran but because Biden gave 'massive amounts' of Tomahawks to Ukraine." The U.S. didn’t supply a single Tomahawk to Ukraine. Trump is literally and physically the biggest liar in world history! 🤥

The White House claimed there were 16,000 non us citizens in Nevada that were on the voter rolls… after being forced to provide data to this they dropped their made up number to 185… Nevada investigated the 185 names and discovered that all of them were legal us citizens that were legally allowed to vote. Meaning the Trump White House was only off by 100%.

Trump says he brought in “$21 trillion” of investment vs. “less than $1 trillion” under Biden. Actual business investment: $14.5 trillion under Biden, $6.7 trillion so far under Trump. My @Morning_Joe Chart

"Federal law prohibits 'troops or armed men at any place where a general or special election is held.' It’s a law with a five-year statute of limitations, which means violations of the law in 2026 could be prosecuted by an administration elected in 2028." lnk.thebulwark.com/4inGNqh

Either this is true, which would be a terrible sign that the President is not in control of his own Pentagon, or it's false, in which case the President is lying about a crucial national security issue for some reason.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

a week ago

Q: If it wasn't you, then who gave the order for Starlink to go down in Ukraine? TRUMP: I don't know

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James Talarico: "I know that October 7th was the deadliest day for the jewish people since the Holocaust. And I believe that Israel, like any nation, has a right to defend its people. But I don't believe that Benjamin Netanyahu has a right to wage war against civilians, or use collective punishment, or restrict aid to civilians."

Trump says we’re building “more factories and plants right now than at any time in our history.” Factory construction hit a historic record under Biden and has fallen 31% since Trump took office. My @Morning_Joe Chart

There you have it.

Hey Congress, remember this 2022 law? I think it was called the "Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act." And it passed 100-0 in the Senate and 413-9 in the House....