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    By Mike Schroeder

    Sedona, AZ — The problem the left has, is making a quick negative analysis on any Trump program, not realizing that it is based on 5%, or just the launch of the deal. They assume “that’s the deal.”

    So, liberal’s heads explode, and they write big rants and make big speeches before the deal unfolds and end up eating their words and embarrassing themselves. (TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing).

    You would think that if something is good for the country, at home or internationally then they should at least appreciate it. That’s a “maybe”, more likely, not a chance.  They DO NOT root for America’s success.Then they repeat and do the same thing over and over again on every deal.  Strategy, it is an unknown process in the minute-by-minute daily decisions liberals and Democrats make. They react.  No plan
    No future, No programs (unless it is buying votes) just the NOW. And of course, it’s all about President Trump making money for him and his billionaire friends.

    Which is weird for two reasons: 1) The Democrats have more billionaire supporters, and 2) If you are already a billionaire what’s the point of stressing yourself to make more? Most billionaires are already philanthropists. The whole “billionaire” talking point is a liberal fraud.  Who doesn’t want to be a Billionaire? We have 902 in the US. The majority did not start there.

    How many millionaires, and other success stories for 100s of thousands of families have been made by those that achieved that lofty status.  It should be celebrated.

    Bernie Sanders proved that he used to rant on Millionaires and Billionaires, then he dropped the Millionaire from his rant speech because he became one…on a Senator’s salary.  Strange.

    Let’s take the recent oil deal. Trump works with the Saudi’s and others, opens up our resources, oil drops in price, everything plastic drops in price (Petrochemicals), Inflation goes down and gas is under $3. More money in your pocket last I checked.

    Sidebar…Russia gets screwed as its number one export is oil and gas. Well, well, how is Russia going to afford to make war when they have no money. Unintended consequences? Hardly, just another brilliant move. Russia loved Biden. Oil prices skyrocketed. Russia had the money to invade Ukraine.  Not under the first Trump administration. There were no wars under the first Trump Administration.

    Trump plays 3D chess, and the rest can’t figure out how to set up a checkerboard.

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    With Trump, its business, not war.  Countries don’t fight each other if they’re trading. Think about it, the Abraham Accords, which Biden ignored, was all about trade, and profits for all involved.  Result, potential long-term solid peace in the Middle East.  Nobody is dying.  Trump hates war and what it does to people. And trade lifts an entire society.  ALL societies.

    Brilliant? Just logical. Common sense. Historically accurate. And there isn’t anyone else that can pull this off.

    Certainly, the last 4 years were a disaster, and we are now learning what we all could see then with our own eyes and ears.  A propped up mentally lost president, putting our country in jeopardy run by God only knows who.  Still waiting on those results.  Maybe the “tell all” books that are flooding out into the market will give us a clue as to who was in charge.

    Trump is all about the USA, our manufacturing and OUR citizens. Especially our middle class.  That’s his end game. The 1% are already rich, and this business of “tax cuts” for the rich, is BS. A Democrat fake talking point.  Trump’s tax cut in his first term increased taxes on the wealthy as it substantially, and I mean substantially reduced the SALT deductions.

    Maximum deduction is now $10,000. Before, your state income taxes, and personal property taxes were deductible on your federal income taxes.  And in MANY cases that was 100s of thousands of dollars.  Of course, you can’t divide the voters if you actually tell the truth, now can you?

    And for the naysayers about taking a free 747 for our DOD, Trump just secured the LARGEST ORDER FOR BOEING EVER, OVER $1 TRILLION IN NEW PLANES.  Do Not Prejudge.  Think his trip is now paid for?  The United States has always accepted gifts, the White House is full of them.  In fact, I clearly remember seeing one with a crown on her head in the harbor in New York City.

    Trump and the smart Republicans (there are some dumb Republicans) get votes by making OUR legal citizens successful and bringing opportunities for self-fulfillment and personal growth. Unlike the Democrats who try to bribe people with tax dollars (like free student loan forgiveness (unconstitutional) and programs that don’t do anything to improve people’s lives. If you make voters reliant on Government Programs you have a captive voter audience.  Giving taxpayer money away is easy.  Even an ex-bartender from New York can do that.

    When you build an economy, you build futures, secure the family unit and generate personal wealth for anybody who wants to work. And IF we as a country want to help the poor and destitute around the world, you don’t flood our country with them and take us down, you make us STRONGER so we can go to THEIR country and teach them how to do it there.

    That’s how the United States used to be.  Time to live that dream again. I can’t wait to wake up in the morning to see what Trump is going to do today. What a team he has assembled.

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    35 Comments

    1. Jill Dougherty on May 15, 2025 4:03 pm

      “Trump and the smart Republicans (there are some dumb Republicans) get votes by making OUR legal citizens successful and bringing opportunities for self-fulfillment and personal growth. Unlike the Democrats who try to bribe people with tax dollars (like free student loan forgiveness (unconstitutional) and programs that don’t do anything to improve people’s lives. If you make voters reliant on Government Programs you have a captive voter audience. Giving taxpayer money away is easy. Even an ex-bartender from New York can do that”

      Oh really now? And how exactly is he helping the poor and working class Americans who struggle every single day to get by? He’s certainly helped the wealthiest of Americans to include himself to the tune of one billion dollars a day since taking office! I don’t get a billion a day I get $60-$80 if I am lucky and that includes tips!
      Oh my, other Democratic Presidents attempted to eleviate the financial hardships caused by predatory lenders and sham universities like Criminal Trump U! Remember that? So just more lies and propaganda to justify having elected America’s first Convicted Felonious President ever and one who is following the playbook of every dictator in the world to self enrich himself in absolute luxury while us peasants have to eat ramen and live in our cars. You know, us scary unhoused servants you don’t want seen nor heard from unless serving you? As Daffy used to say, “you’re despicably conflicted”!

      • Michael Schroeder on May 17, 2025 11:36 am

        You wouldn’t even make a good writer for MSNBC.

        We would all appreciate any rousing positive comments on the last 4 years.

        A billion dollars a day? For who? That doesn’t even make sense.

        If you like wars, human trafficking, killing Americans, supporting China, having our country and cities overrun by criminals, gangs and leeches destroying our welfare systems then we’d like who you would support.

        Can’t be the Democrat Party. We just watched that horror show for the last 4 years. And it’s now coming out what was really going on, which anyone who had sight and sound senses already knew.

        • Susan on May 20, 2025 3:10 pm

          The Biden auto-pen discovery is the greatest frauds in our governments history. The corruption of the the last administration also goes beyond historical record.

          • JB on May 21, 2025 3:29 pm

            Really a debunked auto-pen used by every US President since Harry Truman to include Donald J Trump in his last term to sign duplicated documents en mass to save time and carpal tunnel of one’s hands is a “worse fraud” than the Fake Slate of Fake Electors purposely engaged in overturning a free and fair election that Donny Boy LOST bigly!

            Guess you really can’t tell an elephant’s ass from is trunk can you?

            • Michael Schroeder on May 22, 2025 9:45 pm

              The use of the autopen is used under the approval of the president. Sorry JB whoever you are, Biden had no idea what was being signed from Executive orders to pardons, and has admitted as much.

              And the coverups of his failed mental condition is getting worse.

              This is criminal.

              • JB on May 23, 2025 11:16 am

                “And the coverups of his failed mental condition is getting worse.

                This is criminal.“

                No my delusional frenemy the Criminality is covering up a Fake Slate of Electors, A violent Insurrection’s that resulted in 4 lives lost and over 120 Law Enforcement officers several wounded, to thwart a free and fair election, the Theft of truck loads of Classified Documents stolen from NARA and the refusal to return them, The SCOTUS Judges who lied through their Pseudo Evangelical Extremist teeth about upholding precedent only to immediately do a 360• and overturn precedent, The “missing” un redacted DOJ Epstein report that was promised to be released in full and un redacted (until certain names appeared in it and then it all got disappeared), These are CRIMES that had any other person of either party committed they would have automatically been excluded from running for, let alone holding political offices.

                Biden preemptively pardon his family and those like General Mark Miley who stood up against Trump’s “fascination with Fascism”, “Fascist ideologies” and “Abuses of Power and Authority”. Trump pardoned Law Enforcement CRIMINALs like Joe Arpaio, half a dozen War Criminals to include CPO Gallagher whose fellow SEALs turned him in for his War Crimes, big money donors who had Felony Convictions for Grift such as the sale of Obama’s Senate seat.

                Not being fully transparent about Biden’s failing health is not optimal but it is also NOT a crime. If it were Mr “Man Woman Camera TV” “divinely ordained” King, “wannabe Pope” wouldn’t be POTUS due to his mental shortcomings.

                Here’s some more evidence of MAGA Criminality-

                More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
                Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

                https://apple.news/ADu1y13QJTOWWFN0fCPQvVg

                Where’s your outrage? Of course you have non because so long as the crimes committed are committed by MAGA/Trump it’s all Honky Dory and goes un criticized because it is done by a Criminal who should not be in the White House to begin with.

              • JB on May 23, 2025 11:17 am

                “And the coverups of his failed mental condition is getting worse.

                This is criminal.“

                No my delusional frenemy the Criminality is covering up a Fake Slate of Electors, A violent Insurrection that resulted in 4 lives lost and over 120 Law Enforcement officers several wounded, to thwart a free and fair election, the Theft of truck loads of Classified Documents stolen from NARA and the refusal to return them, The SCOTUS Judges who lied through their Pseudo Evangelical Extremist teeth about upholding precedent only to immediately do a 360• and overturn precedent, The “missing” un redacted DOJ Epstein report that was promised to be released in full and un redacted (until certain names appeared in it and then it all got disappeared), These are CRIMES that had any other person of either party committed they would have automatically been excluded from running for, let alone holding political offices.

                Biden preemptively pardon his family and those like General Mark Miley who stood up against Trump’s “fascination with Fascism”, “Fascist ideologies” and “Abuses of Power and Authority”. Trump pardoned Law Enforcement CRIMINALs like Joe Arpaio, half a dozen War Criminals to include CPO Gallagher whose fellow SEALs turned him in for his War Crimes, big money donors who had Felony Convictions for Grift such as the sale of Obama’s Senate seat.

                Not being fully transparent about Biden’s failing health is not optimal but it is also NOT a crime. If it were Mr “Man Woman Camera TV” “divinely ordained” King, “wannabe Pope” wouldn’t be POTUS due to his mental shortcomings.

                Here’s some more evidence of MAGA Criminality-

                More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging
                Records show well-timed trades by executive branch employees and congressional aides. Even if they had no insider information, ethics experts say such trading undermines faith in government and the markets.

                https://apple.news/ADu1y13QJTOWWFN0fCPQvVg

                Where’s your outrage? Of course you have non because so long as the crimes committed are committed by MAGA/Trump it’s all Honky Dory and goes un criticized because it is done by a Criminal who should not be in the White House to begin with.

    2. Jill Dougherty on May 15, 2025 5:19 pm

      “(TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing).“

      Yes we know, we see it daily in your lies and propaganda you spout like a Trump cheerleader. Hope you get better eventually. I hear TDS can be fatal as it is a contagion ?

      Just drink some bleach and you’ll be fine!

      • Michael Schroeder on May 18, 2025 7:03 am

        Jill, then please come up with some policies and ideas that actually work. So for it is like reading the Atlantic. You can’t just sit and throw rocks and slogans. So far all we get from Democrats and the propaganda news outlets is rants, songs, curse words and demonstrations.

        Copy and pasting a website.from any known left media source is not a discussion as there are never any solutions.

        Trump has solutions. Trying to build an economy that s not structured on continuously exponentially increasing our debt.

        The only way to decrease debt is robust economic growth.

    3. JB on May 15, 2025 10:31 pm

      Price tag for Trump’s military festival could reach $45 million
      Service members will be housed in the Agriculture Department and General Services Administration buildings for days.

      https://apple.news/Acg3_pOAzQxKyJpiPvv5P2w

      So much for the DOGE elimination of Fraud Waste and Abuse! The King must have his Rusher style “love me” parade no matter the expense to us taxpayers or the poor men and women in uniform who have to suffer the indignity of giving a Military Parade to the Criminal who slanders each and every single one of them other than his MAGA White Nationalist who wear the uniform just as MAGA White Nationalist the incompetent Pete Hate Filled Hegseth did for 10 years while most Sec Defs throughout history have had 30 + years service and experience. Hope they all bring their Hegseth/Trump make up kits with them. It would be ashamed to have Ugly Losers and Suckers on parade, after all it’s a taxpayer funded completely unnecessary birthday stunt to project the fake tough guy illusion of Power and Supremacy by a Privileged Draft Dodger.

      Pretty damned sickening!

    4. TJ Hall on May 16, 2025 5:10 pm

      JB
      That figure doesn’t include TRASH collection and removal does it? It’s certain to generate loads of TRASH just as every MAGA White Nationalist Rally since 2015 and there has been hundreds at taxpayer expense that also require massive security that draws from local law enforcement assets and Trump has a long long track record of not reimbursing municipalities for any of it. It’s all trash isn’t!
      Wonder what the “lowlife”GI’s will get for Per Diem compared with the Public Servants who will make money off of just being there. Then there’s the damage to the roadways that heavy vehicles will most certainly cause. He’s literally doing the exact same things Hitler did following his Criminal Insurrection and subsequent rise to power and yet the MAGA drones claim they can’t see it. It’s tragically funny to see your country do a backflip from a Democracy to a Criminal Autocracy. I feel for you Mate.

    5. Jill Dougherty on May 16, 2025 8:58 pm

      Education Department rescinds $37.7 million fine against GCU https://www.azfamily.com/2025/05/17/education-department-rescinds-377-million-fine-against-gcu/

      Just more evidence of Criminals ignoring crimes to their financial benefit. It’s the Grift that keeps on Grifting!

      • Michael Schroeder on May 19, 2025 8:52 am

        You’re talking about the Biden administration’s fine in 2023 that was reversed by the Trump Administration.

        Thank you President Trump.

        As far as the Department of Education, student loans have been transferred to the SBA, and the school lunch programs and support for the needy have been transferred to HHS. So another Democrat talking point shot down.

        Love it.

        Congress will get around to closing the wasteful department that Carter formed (used to be HEW – Health Education and Welfare) when Trump takes the good parts and puts those with other agencies. Especially when a slew of states have gone to school choice. Let the public schools compete. Education sysyem is a disaster especially after COVID.

        Let’s see Randy Weingarten out of a job.

    6. Joetta Winter on May 17, 2025 3:46 pm

      Mike, thank you for this excellent opinion. You are right on target! Good lord, reading these psychotic deranged hate filled 🙄 comments from people that seem to lack any ability to see through the main stream media propaganda blows my mind. It seems most people with TDS are ungrateful and full of envy. I have a brother in law from Argentina and my sister in law from Brazil who both
      migrated to America legally and LOVE ❤️ America and LOVE President Trump! They both have lived in corrupt socialist Marxists countries and clearly see what the radical left/democrats are trying to do to our Country. I also have a friend in Sedona from El Salvador who loves America and President Trump. She grew up during their civil war and has shared the horrors she saw. It’s amazing how ignorant many Americans are. They have NO idea what living under a dictator is like but it sure as heck isn’t President Trump. The people Parish for lack of knowledge.

    7. Cara on May 17, 2025 7:47 pm

      Thank you Mike S. for the reminder that Trump is doing the hard stuff we voted for, and that we expected a backlash as he fixes decades of corruption and mis-management, especially the last 4 years.

      A very small, regular group of commenters on this blog demonstrate their hate for all things Trump at every chance they get. I’d like to remind them that a majority of this readership lives in Yavapai County and that 67% of voters in Yavapai County voted for Donald J Trump on November 5, 2024 for President of the United States. Harris only got 32% of the Presidential vote*. We local conservatives call that a landslide.

      Recently, one of the regular Trump-haters actually asked why Republicans don’t comment here more often. I think perhaps they should go visit a vortex and meditate on why that is. The answer may surprise them. Perhaps no one bothers with their rants. Its a waste of time, and achieves nothing.

      I’d like to give a special shoutout to our elected Congressional warriors Rep. Eli Crane and Rep. Andy Biggs who are also doing what their Constituent voted for and standing up to the bullies and mis-information campaigns they deal with daily.

      source:https://www.yavapaivotes.gov/files/assets/elections/v/1/documents/results/2024/november/summary_officialfinalresults.pdf

    8. Jill Dougherty on May 18, 2025 10:23 am

      You’re too damned tragically funny!

      “Recently, one of the regular Trump-haters actually asked why Republicans don’t comment here more often.“

      Saying Trump is the things he is such as a Convicted Felon and Insurrectionist may be hade to his sad cult of cheerleaders but to normal Americans it is a despicable thing to have ruining the free world!

      Nobody asked why MAGA sycophants do not comment more on here. They and I asked specific pointed questions as to why we need a Convicted Felon Insurrectionist as President and not one of you cowards will answer.

      So give it a break. Nobody believes the gaslighting, lies and spin of WEALTHY MAGA Corruption beneficiaries or their ridiculous incoherent blind support for a Criminal Insurrectionist Administration.

      • Cara on May 18, 2025 10:48 am

        Jill,
        You just proved Mike’s point. That comment was made on another post. You over-reacted, claimed things were said that are not true and talk crazy jibberish. Seriously, get a life and enjoy this amazing place we live. You may not have noticed but the cactus are blooming all around us.
        Thank you.
        Best,
        C.

        • Harold Macey on May 18, 2025 4:26 pm

          DHS considering reality show in which immigrants compete for citizenship
          The series was pitched by Rob Worsoff, a Canadian-born writer and producer who was behind A&E’s “Duck Dynasty.” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has not reviewed the proposal, officials said

          https://apple.news/AcHpSCMNDQhSoLjRWs2cjKA

          Of course MAGA would come up with a “Game Show” for Immigration rights. After all they reside in an Alternative Fact Universe where nothing is real and everything is about ego, money and hate.

    9. West Sedona Dave on May 18, 2025 11:59 am

      Wait? Your saying that Trump wasnt convicted of 43 felonies?

      He didnt say he likes to crab women by the P word?

      He didnt do a gesture of oral sex in public?

      He dint say under oath when your a star you can get away with sexual behaver?
      https://www.wsj.com/video/in-deposition-trump-says-historically-stars-can-grab-women-by-genitals/9925F3D8-9B68-45F9-9DC1-83467D65F42C

      He didnt say he would end the war in Ukraine the first day?

      He said on the first day groceries would be cheaper?

      He didnt say that he invented the word groceries?

      Trump officials that went to prison in Trumps first term?
      Here is the short list:
      Michael Flynn: Trump’s first National Security Advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador. However, he was later pardoned by Trump.
      Paul Manafort: Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted of tax and bank fraud and later pardoned.
      Michael Cohen: Trump’s former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations, tax evasion, and lying to Congress.
      Roger Stone: Longtime Trump associate, was convicted of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements to Congress. He was later pardoned by Trump.
      Rick Gates: Deputy chairman of Trump’s 2016 campaign, pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to the FBI.
      George Papadopoulos: Former Trump campaign advisor, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with people connected to Russian officials. He was later pardoned by Trump.
      Allen Weisselberg: Former CFO of the Trump Organization, pleaded guilty to tax fraud.
      Steve Bannon: Former Trump campaign and White House strategist, was convicted of contempt of Congress.

      Other Trump associates and administration officials charged or convicted:

      Peter Navarro: Convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena from the January 6th committee.
      Mark Meadows and Rudy Giuliani: Charged in connection with efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, but not convicted.

      For the recoerd Obama had none.
      So would you like me to put a real list up? That took like a few minutes the criminality that was proven. Then he gets elected and many more crimes just go away.

      So you stick up for this human piece of filth, and you attack others as they are the ones lying?

      So I could go on and on, if you would like.

    10. Paul B on May 19, 2025 8:30 am

      Mike Shroeder, thank you for being a voice of reason in Sedona. Yes, TDS is a real thing, I’ve seen a lot of it. Much of what passes for debate in a democrat mind is emotional ranting and weird conjuring of ‘facts’ out of thin air. I don’t participate in that anymore.

      • LJehling on May 19, 2025 9:42 am

        Mike, thank you. Nice to know both sides exist in Sedona. Seems the left is over the top and over represented here.

        • Sue Pecardin on May 19, 2025 11:18 am

          The left isn’t the left it’s Democratic not Democrat Americans who care that there is a Criminal Insurrectionist pulling the levers to destroy Democracy. It’s nice to know MAGA only cares about $ over people.

      • TJ Hall on May 19, 2025 10:13 am

        Emotional ranting in the form of Facts and Truth over MAGA’s hysterical ranting of lies, spin and propaganda that has zero factual basis or relevance to anything other than lies, spin and propaganda.

        TDS is the failure to admit you blindly support a Convicted Felon Insurrectionist Grifter for personal financial gain and racially charged ignorance. It is not people trying to wake your blind and lying arses up to the truth. When you admit why we must have such a Swamp Monster for President then you can accuse others of your “snowflake” mud slinging hate.

        • Susan on May 20, 2025 3:27 pm

          This is exactly what President Trump praised Saudi Arabia and Qatar for accomplishing for their people, i.e. investing in the well being of their people, health, culture, infrastructure, and secondarily investing in the world. They did the math. Welfare programs in the US are about enslaving people. Create the fake problem; Present the fake cause; Propose the fake solution. It is a very profitable practice for politicians make millions from NGO slush funds and insider trading, thus looting America and driving up the debt for further enslavement. There is a better way that we can take to rehabilitate the U.S. and perhaps we can take a similar route as other countries not just these, by investing in our citizens, culture, etc.Not that our cultures are the same but because they are different.
          Major Points in Trumps speech at the Saudi Investment forum.

          https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/05/in-riyadh-president-trump-charts-the-course-for-a-prosperous-future-in-the-middle-east/

        • D w on May 20, 2025 5:31 pm

          Thank you for reminding R’s what they support.
          They have amnesia !

    11. Paul Chevalier on May 19, 2025 10:36 am

      There are clearly two very different points of view about Trump. as shown by the above comments. In the next short period of time – say 6 months at the most — the truth will be evident.

      • Lakin Reallium on May 19, 2025 1:55 pm

        6 months is an eternity for small businesses to make sense of the very turbulent market since the very failed tariffs were announced by a very failed President. It is also an eternity to people who have been struggling to buy food and pay bills since the very failed economy began to flat line due to failed COVID inaction during the same failed presidents first term of impeachment, indictments and insurrection.

        • JB on May 21, 2025 8:43 am

          DOJ ends Biden-era investigation into Phoenix Police, retracting violations https://www.azfamily.com/2025/05/21/doj-ends-biden-era-investigation-into-phoenix-police-retracting-violations/

          Don’t pre-judge just consider a convicted criminal POTUS directly interfering and directing the DOJ to engage in the illegally destroying evidence of crimes committed by criminal cops while pardoning criminal sheriff’s. Giving the green light for more criminals wearing the badge to be more criminally engaged in violating the rights of the public they as “public servants” “protect and serve” took an oath to protect not abuse.

      • Susan on May 20, 2025 3:31 pm

        Yes, Paul. Amazing how impatient people are. So much is unknown. In the US I feel like I am listening to two blind men arguing whether an elephant has a Trunk OR a Tail and there is no man that can see there is a body. Insanity!

        • JB on May 20, 2025 6:10 pm

          Well Susan there is truth and fact and there are lies, propaganda and conspiracy. If you are unable to decipher one from the other you aren’t trying very hard.

    12. mkjeeves on May 19, 2025 9:47 pm

      A wise person once said, “laws are like sausages. You don’t want to see how either are made.”, Getting a deal that makes everyone happy is the same. Sometimes it is a messy process to obtain a satisfactory result.
      President Trump is a strong negotiator. He asks for the moon, and negotiates from there. The jury is still out on many of Mr. Trumps polices. But there is no argument that now the US Border has been secured. The stock market is at its high point for 2025 and reinvestment in the United States is at its highest level in years. Let the facts speak for themselves.

    13. TJ Hall on May 20, 2025 9:41 am

      Federal officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots https://www.azfamily.com/2025/05/20/federal-officials-will-no-longer-routinely-approve-annual-covid-19-shots/

      Sure why not have a return of COVID variants that are not under medical control added to the mix of smallpox, measles, TB and even Polio which are very much rapidly spreading due to this very sort of anti vaccine ignorance which is basically Negligent Homicide committed by those unwilling to take the most basic precautions to not only protect themselves but everyone their non vaccinated arses come into contact with from infants to the elderly and everyone in between. Just brilliant and all based on the word of a man with worm brain who says not to take medical advice from the man in charge of medicine and a man who told us to drink bleach!

    14. JB on May 20, 2025 4:10 pm

      No wars under Trump? Really now, and all those soldiers with TBI’s from mortar and rocket attacks on US Bases in Iraq in Syria all just had “headaches”.

      Love how so called Patriots lie through their teeth about Wars, our GI’s and Veterans in order to prop up a Draft Dodging Insurrectionist Liar! Putin may have loved Biden (highly doubtful as Biden gave Ukraine the ability to inflict over 600,000 casualties upon Russia in very short order. Biden definitely did not “love” Putin like the man who just today said what a “loving love filled conversation” he had with the Russian Dictator he believes over our US Intelligence Community, while weaseling his way out of his “I alone within 24 hours of taking office can solve Ukraine!” Quite obviously he is aiding Putin by buying time for him to rebuild his decimated country economy and military (no thanks to Trump) very much thank you to Biden, the EU and NATO!

      Trump The Anti-War President Was Always A Myth
      Let the record show: Trump poured fuel on our endless wars and kicked diplomacy to the curb.
      ANALYSIS | GLOBAL CRISES
      Global Crises Endless War
      MICHAEL GALANT
      JAN 21, 2021

      https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/01/20/trump-the-anti-war-president-was-always-a-myth/

      Trump’s Wars
      The president is doubling down on the Middle East quagmires he once criticized.
      https://www.cato.org/commentary/trumps-wars

      Fact check: Which U.S. presidents led the nation into new wars?
      By Reuters
      February 2, 20211:49 PM
      https://www.reuters.com/article/world/fact-check-which-us-presidents-led-the-nation-into-new-wars-idUSKBN2A22QR/

      So stop with the lies and disinformation already. It is extremely offensive to those who served this country in combat combating people and regimes like Trump and MAGA.

    15. JB on May 20, 2025 6:07 pm

      Trump announces he’s selected final ‘Golden Dome’ space missile defenses that would cost billions https://www.azfamily.com/2025/05/20/trump-expected-announce-golden-dome-space-missile-defenses-that-would-cost-billions/

      Bet it proves to be just as unnecessary, unsuccessful and a waste of taxpayer dollars just like his “bigly beautiful impenetrable” wall that blew over onto Mexico!

      Another criminal president by the name of Ronnie “Iran Contra” Raygun announced a strikingly similar multi billion dollar taxpayer waste of money

      The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as “Star Wars,” cost taxpayers approximately $90 billion in research and development. While initial estimates ranged from $76.6 to $146.7 billion, the final cost was significantly lower. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) initially estimated that the first phase of the SDI system would cost between $76.6 billion and $146.7 billion in 1987. In 1988, they reduced their estimate to $69.1 billion

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

      Why Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ Defense Plan Remained Science Fiction
      Reagan said he wanted to avoid nuclear Armageddon, critics called the Strategic Defense Initiative far-fetched and expensive.

      https://www.history.com/articles/reagan-star-wars-sdi-missile-defense

      Try as they might, the US Military has failed to produce any effective Aircraft or Spacecraft mounted weapons systems.

      https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/05/17/air-force-abandons-plan-mount-laser-weapon-fighter-jet-after-scrapping-similar-gunship-project.html

      We do have some very costly very ineffective energy sapping vehicles and ship mounted defensive weaponry (we signed a non blinding laser weapons pact against)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons

      but nothing that is going to give troops an edge over our much further technologically advanced weapons of the much larger than our own strategic enemy the People’s Republic of China or even Russia’s hypersonic weapons (despite only having a skeleton crew military still alive).

      An Iron Dome like that of Israel’s will not be a cost effective option either especially considering that the US is approximately 448 times larger than Israel plus given the fact that our military had to supplement their defense with US Patriot Battery’s and Fighter Aircraft when Iran was striking it earlier this year. Covering the entire US would

      So in essence America will just be wasting $542 billion (plus whatever other incidental expenses are needed after each budget installment fails to produce anything it was supposed to) on a “Golden” Taxpayer Funded Turd!

      So glad we have a President focused on helping Americans in need rather than one who is a multi billionaire getting rich off of those in need by selling them a load of lies and bullshit! Just kidding of course because quite obviously we do not!

      He wants to use nukes on wild fires, hurricanes, our enemies in Denmark and Canada and now he wants to put them in space. Likely because he or someone in his family or cabinet saw them use nukes in Three Body Problem since he thinks Sicario and the Alcatraz movie were just “so real”
      they had to be 100’s true.

    16. JB on May 21, 2025 9:48 am

      Don’t prejudge outright racism?

      After criticizing South Africa for months, Trump is meeting with its president
      The U.S. admitted 59 white South Africans as refugees this month after they claimed they were fleeing violence and discrimination.

      https://apple.news/AaJKta6-uR–0qqOBef1jVQ

      Trump just had the nerve to lecture the very black South African President about his “wealthy famous South African friends “ – (Elonia) and how the White Afrikaner Boers are the victims of (a made up) “Apartheid” and “Genocide” by Black South Africans who are truly victims of Apartheid and Genocide legally and lawfully taking Afrikaner Boers to court and being granted “their lands” long ago stolen by Afrikaner Boers during the very real Apartheid against very black South African’s so they could rape their lands of it’s value while suppressing and oppressing the black majority of legal land owners.

      This is the equivalent of Hitler claiming the Jews orchestrated the holocaust. Such utter racist nonsense.

      No pre judgement just facts!

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