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We are all living in strange times! The bad guy (Putin) is defended like he’s the good guy and the victim (Zelensky) is criticized like he’s the aggressor. This is so weird and negative like an episode of the Twighlight Zone! I think I can understand how Trump is viewing things. Bill O’Reilly seems to know how Trump thinks. Nevertheless, things are upside down! USA voting at the UN with North Korea and Putin and Belarus and against the EU and UK and NATO alliance nations … against the victim Ukraine? This is unheard of! Yet this is so ironic because Leonid Brezhnev, who was the USSR leader, when Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Afghanistan, and Vladimir Putin was a young KGB agent at that time, working for Brezhnev, is now in his position as leader, and he invaded Brezhnev’s sovereign homeland of Ukraine. Brezhnev must be weeping from hell and regretting his invasion of Afghanistan! Crying from hell, seeing his servant, Putin, in his seat of authority, and invading his homeland like he did to Afghanistan, I’m sure Brezhnev regrets but it’s too late now. He’s burning in hell and he can’t get out of hell! \n\nThe bad deal that Clinton and Yeltson and John Major dealt to Ukraine in the 1990s when they moved all of her nuclear weapons to Russia was like declawing the Ukrainian cat and now the cat can’t defend herself against aggressors because she has no claws to defend herself from aggressive attackers!\n\nCanada and Mexico are our friends not our enemies! China and North Korea still idolize the USSR/CCCP flag and Soviet Union hammer and sickle. Putin is a thug and gangster like Joseph Stalin. Everyone forgot what happened to Alexander Litvinenko except for those like John Bolton. \n\nWe are all living in perilous times! The wrongdoer (Putin) is called good and the victim (Zelensky) is called bad! This is so negatively bizarre and wrong! Isaiah 5:20 warns against this! Putin is not pure evil but he’s definitely not a good guy! He’s a gangster and thug like Al Capone! I think President Trump is walking on a tight rope by trying to make a good deal with Putin. And that tight rope spans from one high rise building to another - the senate and house chambers of the US legislature. The midterms are coming soon and if President Trump loses the house and senate, that tight rope could snap! And all those shock and awe executive orders etc. could come back to haunt him like a boomerang thumping his head.\n\nNever in my wildest imagination would I ever imagine Canadians harboring bad feelings towards the USA! This is 180 degrees opposite of how things were when Ronald Reagan and Brian Mulroney were in the political arena!

I loved the speech of PM Trudeau- but one thing he kept saying is wrong. Our government did not do this - One man did this via executive orders. He does not care who he hurts. He does not care about the American people. Trump only cares about himself and his relationship with Mother Russia and Putin. TRUMP doesn't want peace. He is thriving on the chaos that he and Musk are initiating. Trump needs to be impeached immediately but our Congresmaen and women, who are supposed to represent their populations are too scared to do anything other than what Trump tells them to do. Our Government is supported to have a Check and Balance function, but none of the branches have the guts to stand up to TRump. I really believe that Trump's American first policy is to end up as America ALONE.

Thank you for your servive Commander Emily Shilling! The Supreme Court already ruled that rolling back transgender rights is akin to gender and sexual discrimination. Any one praising Trump for his atrocious actions does not understand the implications of his intention to roll back everyones civil rights. He wont stop with the transgender community. Any cisgender woman threatened by trans gender women has PTSD, Im talking to you Nancy Mace. Get some help. The hate needs to stop. We need an inclusive military and trans people are the latest group to hit the glass ceiling. Women in the 90s and black folks in the 40s had to overcome prejudice from within the armed services but have proven our military is more dynamic and innovative when we have diversity in leadership. ACLU is challenging these transphobic executive orders in court if you feel inclined to support them. We must fight against hatefulness and ignorance on every front including this one.

A disaster from day 1 is no surprise. The Trumpet executive ordered the halt of railroad project funds on his first day in, subverting our democracy. Those funds had already been approved and allocated by Congress. That is not the purpose of executive order to serve the interests of your petroleum company buddies or for over-ruling Congress with a defacto retro veto.\n\nTo be Constitutional, executive orders have to be within presidential jurisdiction. For example, while a president cannot force Congress to de-illegalize cannabis at the federal level, the president could executive order (has far more weight than an instruction or directive that might be defied) that DEA, ATF, DOJ, FBI, and any other agency under executive department (i.e. the office of the president) jurisdiction to not participate in investigation or prosecution of any person or persons solely on grounds of violating federal and state cannabis restrictions but are to maintain a priority focus on investigation and prosecution of the manufacture, distribution, and sale of toxic narcotics and other aspects of organized crime.\n\nGot notice last week of $20 per month food stamp reduction (per person in the household!) in February that is second cut this year and IT'S STILL JANUARY!\n\nReducing food stamps while food prices are still rising is a purposeful plan to increase crime.\n\nDisaster from day 1.

LMAO what a clown. Get ready for more expensive coffee and anything else coming from Colombia.\nRemember, Columbia does not pay the tariff, WE DO. Every product that Americans use that contains\ncaffeine will now go up in price so that importers can recoup the tariff the AMERICAN company had\nto pay to import it. So, your Starbucks coffee will go up, ground coffee, instant coffee, energy drinks, etc.\nwill ALL GO UP IN PRICE.\n\nThe Orange Traitor sticking it to Americans once again. He grifted off of MAGA for years and they\nvoted him back in. He's constantly signing illegal and unconstitutional executive orders, all of which\nare or will be challenged in court. And now he begins his dumbass tariff wars to skyrocket prices and\ninflation in THIS country.\n\nHey MAGA, when are you going to figure out this criminal president doesn't give a f*** about you. He \ndoesn't need your vote anymore, and he's a lame duck president. He's gone insane trying to use \nbully tactics to enact his racist immigration ideas. He's destroying the immigrant workforce in \nAmerica. Gas prices up, food prices up. Inflation up already. Violence up already. THIS is what you\nvoted for.