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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Sat May 16, 2026, 06:22 PM 17 hrs ago

Trump Is A Fool, A Coward, And A Traitor

Greetings all. I try to keep it light on the weekends but we are getting a clearer picture now of what happened in China, and where our addled, weakened, desperate leader is headed. In an interview with Fox’s Bret Baier yesterday Trump threw Taiwan under the bus, and gave it the “stop being so uppity” Ukraine treatment:




Whether through compromise, or a deep desire to be like them, Trump has a history of yielding to and appeasing strongmen. He has done it for years with Putin, giving him so much and getting nothing in return for the US. He did with Bibi in February, yielding to his ill-thought through total war with Iran. He’s now doing with Xi on Taiwan, again, yielding so much and getting nothing in return for the United States. He just gets played like a fool again and again, and accelerates our global geopolitical and economic decline. He gets admission to this club of autocrats, and as he walks in the door they pick his pockets, give him the table without a view of the stage, and howl with laughter for at their ridiculous good fortune.

In that interview when asked about the pain the war is bringing to our economy he repeated his magical thinking “COVID is just going to go away one day” line about short term pain, long term gain. We are way, way passed that now Mr. Trump:

Brent crude starts the day at one its highest points of the war:

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Trump Is A Fool, A Coward, And A Traitor (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 17 hrs ago OP
We've known that for over 10 years, it doesn't seem to make a difference. dem4decades 17 hrs ago #1
And Those Are Some of His Least Repulsive and Most Obvious Personality Traits! The Roux Comes First 17 hrs ago #2
He certainly is and the MSM will never report that simple fact LymphocyteLover 4 hrs ago #3
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