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Rod Bates retweeted
You could also balance the federal budget by replacing all the money Trump has stolen.
🚨 Stephen Miller says the scale of welfare fraud is SO MASSIVE that eliminating it alone could balance the ENTIRE federal budget
"The amount that has been fleeced from us is in the HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of dollars."
"We could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them."
This should infuriate EVERY taxpayer.
Rod Bates retweeted
Trumpism IS communism.
Trump is losing his sh*t, and when an injured malignant narcissist loses their sh*t, there's lots of PROJECTION.
Projection, of course, is "the pot calling the kettle black." It's putting onto others that which one is guilty of themselves.
The #1 issue in the recent election per Gallup was Corruption - Trump's rampant profiteering and enrichment. The issue even surpassed grocery prices!
So - this morning, Trump began railing against Dems, accusing THEM of corruption.
I wasn't the first to say it, but I've repeated it often - every projection Trump makes is a confession.
Psychological projection was first described by Freud, wherein individuals transfer their own unacceptable impulses, desires, or emotions onto someone else. Carl Jung expanded this idea with the concept of a shadow self - when we project, we cast a shadow onto others, seeing in them what we refuse to acknowledge in ourselves.
It's not a leap to see this in Trump every f*cking day. He deflects and distracts all the time. And when he's especially fearful and desperate - he projects constantly.
Psychological projection by Trump relies on the ignorance of his base. In order for the projection to resonate, he needs people to put feeling before fact, dopamine rushes before reasoned thought, and demonization before everything. He wants them to fall back on "Dems are bad" so the attribution of Dems as Corrupt can play. Because it's a lot easier to feel than to think.
But tens of millions of Trump supporters just told him to shove his sh*t back up his ass in the recent midterms. These were places like Kansas and Mississippi. So, Trump's screaming about Dem corruption - is overreach.
Just like his previous screaming about Dems being Communists. This was also textbook projection.
Let's look at what Communism is - the government wields power; it exerts control over the economy; it buys or takes stakes in businesses and industries; the government is weaponized to silence adversarial dissent; and the government glorifies its leadership.
You want to see Communism in America? Look at Trumpism.
And now we have the Nvidia scandal - HUGE - and Trump and Lutnick are in it up to their eyeballs and stand to be implicated as willing national security patsies. Their corrupt greed compromised America.
Again.
Trump is projecting because he feels weak, under attack, desperate, and mostly - it's all he knows.
Trump 2.0 is led by a malignant narcissist in decline, nursing severe injury, desperate to regain narrative, trying to force-feed it to whoever is still listening to him. Lying. Deflecting. And Projecting.
Trump 2.0. Where every projection IS a confession.
Rod Bates retweeted
The Senate just confirmed Charles "Chuck" Sams III as head of the National Park Service, making him the first Native American EVER to lead the agency!
Rod Bates retweeted
He better NOT have anything to worry about because WE THE PEOPLE are ALL behind him!!
Rod Bates retweeted
Don’t be intimidated.
Investigate Everyone in the Trump Administration. They’re ALL Complicit.
Nothing but Criminals
Rod Bates retweeted
Zelenskyy:
“It’s not my job to make Trump happy; It’s my job to save my country.”
The free world stands with the people of Ukraine.
#millesini
Rod Bates retweeted
MAGA's are saying Nancy Lacore doesn't out rank Pete Hegseth. Yes, SHE FUCKING DOES.
Lacore attained Vice Admiral (0-9), five pay grades above Hegseth's highest rank of Major (0-4). Secretary of Defense is a civilian position, not a military rank.
Hope this clears things up!
Rod Bates retweeted
Excellent! Sean Hannity no longer considers himself a Catholic because Pope Leo does not support Trump’s illegal war in Iran. Hey Sean, don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya on the way out! 🤣😂👍👍🙏
Rod Bates retweeted
Marco Rubio was born in 1971. His parents became citizens in 1975. Without birthright citizenship, Marco Rubio is not American.
And yet Rubio — the president’s Secretary of State AND National Security Adviser AND National Archivist — supports Trump’s quest to end it.
Even though Rubio himself was born in Miami in 1971 to Cuban immigrant parents who did not become U.S. citizens until 1975.
Under the policy he now backs, HE WOULD NOT BE AN AMERICAN CITIZEN.
But that’s not all…
In 2016, during his own presidential campaign, Rubio filed a court briet that defended birthright citizenship. He has not publicly addressed the contradiction.
More 250,000 babies born in the U.S. each year would be affected if the order is upheld — “little Marcos,” if you will, would no longer have the same opportunities as THE “Little Marco.”
Critics say it violates more than a century of settled law. So does Chief Justice John Roberts: “It’s the same Constitution.”
But the administration argues the 14th Amendment has been misinterpreted.
Thankfully, THIS time, the court ruled against them. But the hypocrisy cannot be overlooked. This guy is going to try to run for president again.
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