Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
I’m not surprised by the Trump phone like I’m not surprised by the Trump presidencies.
https://tech.yahoo.com/phones/article/is-the-trump-phone-finally-here-here-are-six-things-weve-learned-about-trump-mobile-151836199.html
“The president has been executing the program for white South Africans while canceling refugee programs for other groups.
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Initially, Trump’s resettlement program aimed to admit 7,500 South Africans, but on Monday, the White House said it will add 10,000 to that target, saying “unforeseen developments in South Africa created an emergency refugee situation.” Though Trump has become empathetic to this cause, his administration has otherwise mainly executed anti-immigration policies, like suspending the Refugee Admissions Program when he took office in 2025.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-brought-6-000-white-204425513.html
Trump has left Europe looking for alternatives to US weapons, even if they are worse, weakening the alliance and losing US sales. If the world does take big strides away from US weapons, the US will have lost a lot of leverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifDBZ504vRc
Trump praised Xi like a sycophant. Xi did not return the words.
Trump has accelerated American decline. Further polarizing the country, getting the US into a so-far unsuccessful war with Iran, weakening relationships with allies, removing quality immigrants along with the bad ones, increasing corruption, weakening the ability of the country to tax its wealthy citizens, broad and unstrategic tariffs that weaken the US economy, etcetera…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V48nZHKih8
Trump and his supporters grossly exaggerated political corruption and falsely called things corruption that were not. Trump was supposed to drain the swamp of corruption and clean the government. Instead, he has made the United States the swamp he and his supporters claimed it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIBCjzz-bmk
The Room Where It Happened: What the Media Missed About the Trump-Xi Meeting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V17o5SEY9So
So many days of unprecedented corruption in the Trump administration, and lots of people don’t care or are in denial.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVK1OjKTUEk
ICE officer reports discrimination against him by ICE and other ICE officers. An ICE officer said that criminal investigations, including reports of pedofilic activity, were dropped to focus on deportations. An officer said that many Border Patrol agents are not properly trained and led to do internal deportations. An officer said that connections in surge cities were damaged by deportation surges, making criminal investigations more difficult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkjvJRiHEq4
North Korea has put into law that if its leader is killed in an attack, it will start launching nukes.
North Korea is still building more nukes and their nuclear missiles can reach the US. North Korea is determined to keep its nukes to defend the regime’s survival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlkCC4d3_Po
For a long time, a lot of people who really just wanted a smaller government pretended to care about debt (or fooled themselves into thinking they cared about debt).
Three quarters of US government spending make the federal government an insurance company with an army. As a percentage of the total spending, waste fraud and abuse is very small. DOGE was a failure because it didn’t understand the US federal government. If you want to significantly reduce spending, you have to stop sending Americans checks (like Medicare and Social Security), or/and have to weaken the military, although the check cutting part is much bigger than the military spending part.
Republican politicians used to lie, or be misinformed, by saying that tax cuts pay for themselves; now they lie, or are misinformed, by saying Trump won the 2020 election (he did not). It’s hard to make a tough compromise under such politics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXKAfcgl7eU