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With inflation rising, how do Trump and the US resolve the war with Iran and the trouble in the Strait of Hormuz without essentially capitulating to Iran?
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A nation can only withstand so much selfish and delusional undermining of its foundation before it collapses, and then those claiming fraud in California will find out what true fraud and injustice look like.
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In an interview on Meet the Press, President Donald Trump lied about having repeatedly promised to start no wars. Will it matter to Trump-voters, or will they gloss over it as usual?
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The House essentially voted to sternly disapprove of the President's continuation of the war with Iran, refusing to do something substantive to reel in the President, reassert Congress's war authority, and maintain the separation of powers between the branches of government.
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SpaceX is an unprofitable company with no reliable track record. Yet, within weeks, millions of American's retirement money may be shifted into SpaceX stock, which SpaceX has itself valued at an unprecedented $1.75 trillion.
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About 20% of all lawyers employed by the federal government left in the 14 months following Trump regaining office. If you are an attorney who still retains a moral compass or believes in the foundational principles on which our justice system and nation were based, it is hard to imagine how you can justify continuing to work for the federal government.
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The Department of Justice, which is overseen by Trump, is criminally investigating a woman a jury essentially found Trump raped, not because she supposedly lied about the rape, but because she may have initially lied about whether somebody helped pay a portion of her legal bills, which her attorneys corrected on the legal record before the trial began.
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In nominating Paxton, Republicans have shown once more that they have become morally unmoored, if they ever seriously cared about morality and right and wrong at all. As long as a Republican politician slavishly supports Donald Trump and hates the right people loudly and nastily enough, he can be thoroughly corrupt and disregard the law without losing the support of Republican voters.
And so it is that on the country's 250th anniversary, the president is not putting on a celebration of the principles on which our nation was founded or its great accomplishments, but instead is putting on the modern equivalent of Roman gladiatorial games on the lawn of the White House. And to add insult to injury, unlike the Romans, the American people aren't getting bread.
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Jeff Bezos's positive shift toward Trump is emblematic of how many top tech executives have similarly shifted. As soon as it became more economically advantageous to support and work with Trump than to resist him and voice platitudes about American democracy, they all flocked to him.
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