Trump Is Destroying Everything He Touches
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Post my beautiful picture at least 10 times per day on average for the next 3.5 years, screen bitch.
Good girl.
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Trump Is Sleepwalking Into Political Disaster
A health-care battle tarnished the president’s first term. Here he goes again.
By Jonathan Chait | October 29, 2025, 1:43 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/10/trump-obamacare-s
hutdown-fight-healthcare-subsidies/684750/
The most glaring self-inflicted wound from Donald Trump’s first term in office was his decision in 2017 to let Paul Ryan and other traditional Republicans push him into a futile war to repeal the Affordable Care Act. From Ryan’s perspective, the decision made perfect sense: He and his allies despised the welfare state in general and the ACA in particular, and saw Trump’s presidency as a final chance to destroy the hated law before its roots grew too deep.
From Trump’s perspective, the move was a fiasco. By dint of the threat to repeal it and take health insurance from millions of Americans, the ACA became more popular. The repeal effort exposed the hollowness of his grand promises to give everybody “terrific” insurance, and drove a midterm-election backlash that handed Democrats control of the House of Representatives.
Eight years on, Trump has plainly failed to learn his lesson.
His signature One Big Beautiful Bill Act, signed into law over the summer, already wreaks havoc on the country’s health-care system by gutting Medicaid; it’s expected to eliminate coverage for about 7.5 million people by 2034. The legislation also failed to extend pandemic-era subsidies, which are set to expire at the end of the year, for health insurance bought through ACA marketplaces. Without these subsidies, premiums will spike for about 20 million Americans—many of them small-business owners and self-employed workers—in January. Republicans in Congress have refused to add these subsidies to their budget bill, and congressional Democrats refuse to pass a budget without these subsidies. This is the main reason for the federal-government shutdown, now entering its fifth week.
The 2018 elections reflected public anger over the Republican Party’s efforts to make health care less affordable for millions of Americans. In 2026 and 2028, Republicans will face an electorate that is already experiencing the surging costs and loss of coverage that was merely hypothetical in 2018. But instead of trying to contain this catastrophe, Trump is doing nothing.
Health care is not a hill on which Trump is willing to die. He detests Barack Obama and delighted in the prospect of eliminating his predecessor’s signature domestic-policy legacy, but his goal in 2017 wasn’t to make health insurance impossibly unaffordable for Americans. He either believed Republicans’ propaganda that Obamacare was such a “trainwreck” that they could easily write a better law, or somehow believed he could simply lure Democrats to the negotiating table for a new plan. His failure was humiliating and politically costly.
The politics of rolling back Obamacare have not improved since then. Nearly 80 percent of the public wants to extend the ACA subsidies that are set to end.
Trump himself at least seems to grasp the risks, and has sought to position himself as a problem-solver on the issue. “I’d like to see a deal made for great health care,” he told reporters earlier this month. “Yeah, I want to see great health; I’m a Republican, but I want to see health care, but much more so than the Democrats.” The president has long recognized the Democratic Party’s advantage on social-insurance programs and has tried to rhetorically co-opt it. But the populist slogans don’t help if people are actually losing their health coverage or paying way more for it, both of which are slated to occur on his watch.
Why, then, is Trump back on this hill?
One possible reason is that Trump blames the shortcomings of his first term almost entirely on his enemies: the media, the “deep state,” and the disloyal members of his first administration who refused to follow his most authoritarian impulses. His second term has focused, with chilling success, on knocking down these obstacles. He has intimi
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Trump directs Pentagon to start testing nuclear weapons
By Julia Manchester and Filip Timotija - 10/29/25 9:35 PM ET
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5580424-trump-directs-pentagon-to-s
tart-testing-nuclear-weapons/
The U.S. halted the explosive testing of nuclear arms in 1992.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump and Petro Revive the Colombian Cocaine Industry |
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Former Intelligence Officials Warn Trump Poses Existential Threat to U.S. Democracy
More than 340 of them from the CIA, FBI, Department of State, Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security.
Not that this is any sort of news flash.
https://steadystate1.substack.com/p/former-intelligence-officials-warn
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The Steady State Assessment of U.S. Democracy
https://thesteadystate.org/
An open-source evidence based report identifying clear indicators of accelerating democratic backsliding — consolidation of executive power, weakening of institutional checks, politicization of justice and intelligence, and deliberate erosion of civil-service neutrality. The trend lines point toward what analysts call competitive authoritarianism — a system where elections and courts still exist, but are increasingly manipulated to entrench power.
This document was written by members of The Steady State — former officers of the CIA, NSA, DIA, State Department, and other national-security agencies — using the same structured analytic standards (e.g., confidence levels, key judgments, and scope notes) that guide official intelligence assessments. It is not a partisan argument; it is an analytic warning.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Trump is in way over his head. China promises to buy 180 thousand metric tons of soy beans. Last year they brought 27 million metric tons. See the difference? Next year our farmers will plant soy beans again and China will do the same thing to them again putting them out of business.
Trump is destroying everything he touches.
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Trump is in way over his head.
We've heard that thousands of times out of you, and you've been wrong every single time. What makes this one different, Ted?
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“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” - Niccolò Machiavelli
https://thedecisionlab.com/thinkers/political-science/niccolo-machiave
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” - Niccolò Machiavelli
https://thedecisionlab.com/thinkers/political-science/niccolo-machiave
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
And the Democrat Party's entire thing is catering to those who need their immediate fixes and free everything, no matter the cost and what it means for everyone's future.
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