Lone Candle
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In Iran, Trump is unlikely to achieve anything better than Obama got in his Iran-deal.
Cuban officials may be open to a Venezuela-like deal, but US domestic politics would not support it. Too many in the US want the Cuban regime completely gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUYWquzpekk
Trump has been brazenly enriching himself and his family with his presidential powers. His base doesn’t care.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zb7oJPYwlw
Secretary of Defense Hegseth is inviting US military men and women to commit war crimes. “no matter what” he and Trump will have their back. No matter what? Part of being a professional in any profession is that you have ethics and rules, and if you act unethically, your leadership expects you to be punished or/and removed from your profession.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt4j77ZlhE0
When the Trump administration temporarily cuts certain science funding, some studies can’t just start up again. They require specialized people, equipment, and biological specimens, and those can’t just wait for funding to return. Our knowledge about the world, and the medical benefits some of this knowledge would have led to, have been hurt by these shortsighted actions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCULe4p3-AQ
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