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The President's Trap
American Thinker ^ | D. Parker

Posted on 02/12/2025 3:40:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux

[It] was Candidate Trump talking about retribution and the Left merely thought it was what they were projecting -- namely going after them, when in reality he’s going after their raison d'être for living -- forcibly taking taxpayer dollars and transforming society into their ideal of a communist ‘Utopia.’

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So, when candidate Trump talked about retribution, his plan was the dismantling of the governmental leviathan, aiming directly at where the Left lives.

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They thought he was going to come after them, and they were correct. But he’s going after their fundamental way of thinking that will shrink the budget and be wildly popular with the people.

They’ve spent years taking our hard-earned dollars -- that they think they’re entitled to take -- and doling them out to their pet projects and their own pockets. President Trump is going after this process directly, hitting them where they live.

Trump set them up to be on the losing side of the argument. He chose an agency that hardly anyone had heard of before, that from all outward appearances is a massive money laundering scheme for the far Left, and forced them into the untenable position of defending wasteful government spending. It was more than hilarious to see them try to defend the indefensible. Even worse for them is the fact that they had no other choice in the matter -- they had to defend the funder of their pet under-the-table projects, even though it would take away their thunder for future fights. They were obligated to defend USAID...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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1 posted on 02/12/2025 3:40:23 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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2 posted on 02/12/2025 3:41:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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Actually, I think that, after all their crimes have been exposed by DOGE, the criminals on the Left will be dragged into court.

But it won't be political lawfare for trumped-up charges. These bums will face real charges for real crimes.

3 posted on 02/12/2025 3:46:29 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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These bums will face real charges for real crimes.

I hope so. Has Bondi moved into her office yet?

4 posted on 02/12/2025 3:47:50 AM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: RoosterRedux

Notice that NOT ONE COUNTRY has RAILED against these WASTES of our money, but EVERY DAMN DEMOCRAT HAS!!! What does that tell you!!


5 posted on 02/12/2025 3:49:43 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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I'm amazed that members of Congress make $200K/yr yet have managed to amass tens of millions of dollars in net worth, yet Americans have not questioned .. how?

It's like we're NYC and the mafia is extorting businesses, running unions, trafficking in girls and heroin, and everybody just ignores it.

6 posted on 02/12/2025 3:53:07 AM PST by LouAvul (1 John 2:22: He that denies that Jesus is the Christ is a liar and antichrist. )
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To: RoosterRedux

Great article.


7 posted on 02/12/2025 3:54:43 AM PST by Reddy (BO stinks)
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BTTT


8 posted on 02/12/2025 3:55:54 AM PST by nopardons
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To: LouAvul

Government IS organized crime.


9 posted on 02/12/2025 3:56:26 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: RoosterRedux

Trump went right for their jugular vein, the tax dollars they were stealing.


10 posted on 02/12/2025 4:00:34 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Ann Archy

If an African leader howls in protest at the cutoff of AID money for LGBT and “climate change” that puts a target on their back—because their citizens know it is a scam and will know whose head needs to be removed.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 4:15:11 AM PST by cgbg (The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Where are you generating those....? Chat GPTo1 no longer does images....


12 posted on 02/12/2025 4:17:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (The BEST birthday present I ever got WAS DONALD TRUMP WINNING IN 2024!!!)
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This is Trumps revenge and it is sweet!


13 posted on 02/12/2025 4:22:00 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Lazamataz

I got it from the source for this article (American Thinker).


14 posted on 02/12/2025 4:32:57 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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341 million Americans v 535 + some bureaucrats and judges. What did they know and when. did they know it? Are ANY of these SCUMBAG CRIMINALS praising/thanking/helping Elon Musk and President Trump?

Thank you Elon Musk. Thank you President Trump.


15 posted on 02/12/2025 5:08:06 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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By summer, it’s over. The Republicans will cave to their spouses crying about the funds they no longer receive.


16 posted on 02/12/2025 5:12:30 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: RoosterRedux

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.


17 posted on 02/12/2025 5:13:59 AM PST by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: LouAvul

I’m amazed that members of Congress make $200K/yr yet have managed to amass tens of millions of dollars in net worth, yet Americans have not questioned .. how?

oh we’ve questioned. just took this long for us to be heard


18 posted on 02/12/2025 5:16:11 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Ann Archy

“NOT ONE COUNTRY has RAILED against these WASTES of our money, but EVERY DAMN DEMOCRAT HAS!!! What does that tell you!!”

It tells me:

The foreign countries don’t miss what they never had.

Every damn Democrat (1) WILL miss the steady stream of OUR money streaming into THEIR accounts via the back door, and (2) they have nightmares of their possible futures gazing our from behind prison bars.


19 posted on 02/12/2025 5:23:23 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Ann Archy

> Notice that NOT ONE COUNTRY has RAILED against these WASTES of our money, <

I’ve said it before. I doubt the money was really going to the stated cause. It was being doled out to NGOs being run by good, crony, dem foot soldiers and then being redistributed among the tribe.

To any dem that says Trump can’t do this because Congress voted on the expenditure, ask them to point to the line item they voted for. They cannot.

EC


20 posted on 02/12/2025 6:01:45 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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