Lone Candle
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Trump may have gotten the US into a trap. He left the deal Obama made with Japan, and similar ones were on the offer, but he rejected them and instead chose war. Now the US may be stuck between either a massive ground invasion of Iran or Iran as a new great power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDKlaJM_vys
Iran says that the reason they enriched uranium past the agreed upon amount was because Trump betrayed the deal Iran made with the United States. They only did it as retaliation for the United States backing out of an agreement both countries agreed to, not because they wanted a nuke.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DepJ5PkKBSs
Obama was interested in military force in Syria after Syria crossed Obama’s redline, but Obama wanted authorization from Congress. Congress didn’t want to be on the record one way or the other, and told Obama to act if he wanted to act.
Then for Libya, some of the Congressmen who said they didn’t want to be on the record and they wanted Obama to act if he wanted to, complained that Obama didn’t get authorization for Libya.
Not only were Congress people derelict of their duty to discuss and vote on military action, but they dishonestly portrayed their true feelings to the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5EYWoIrb_A
Before the war, Trump’s Iran negotiators were unrealistically looking for an Iranian capitulation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Ns6EbCplY
“Many conservatives are embracing big government, from police-state immigration tactics to socialist economic policies.”
There were some true believers, but for the most part, don’t tread on me Republicans were just anti-Obama reactionaries who globbed on to whatever justification they could to complain about Obama.
https://reason.com/2026/01/23/where-have-the-dont-tread-on-me-republicans-gone/
“More Americans are turning to cheaper Obamacare plans to avoid premium sticker shock, according to preliminary data from states.
But the switch comes with a caveat: thousands in extra out-of-pocket costs that policy researchers say may make people hesitate to get medical care when they are sick or injured.
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The subsidies’ expiration on Jan. 1 caused annual premiums to spike more than $1,000 on average for subsidized enrollees, according to one estimate from the health research organization KFF.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/04/more-americans-are-picking-higher-deductible-obamacare-plans-possibly-risking-their-health-00763306
‘We Have a Border for a Reason’ | “The Opinions” podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0zLPQl5iMM
Some leaders and elected representatives of the Tea Party really believed in their supposed motivations about government spending, debt, and pork. But for the most part, the Tea Party was a big, damn lie. If all those Tea Partiers really cared about such things, they would be protesting and organizing just as hard against Trump right now.
https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-the-republican-party/
“A decade ago, only a fairly small group of congressional Democrats voted to support President Barack Obama’s free trade agenda. Protectionism was on the rise, helping fuel the campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Most of the “yes” votes for Obama’s trade program were Republicans.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/05/jared-polis-trump-democrats-campaign-free-trade-inflation-00592744
Tea partiers give Trump a higher proportion of their support than do non-tea party Republicans, but Trump has always had a significant amount of support from both. The tea party as a movement motivated by debt and government spending was a myth. Someone truly angry about debt and spending does not support Trump.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/05/16/trumps-staunch-gop-supporters-have-roots-in-the-tea-party/#:~:text=GOP%20tea%20party%20supporters%20were%20most%20likely,stands%20for%20in%20a%202016%20postelection%20survey