Consider three of the biggest developments in our politics right now: We just learned that the economy lost 92,000 jobs in February, a capstone to a terrible year in terms of job creation. President Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations. And reports are indicating that the killing of scores of Iranian schoolchildren might have been the handiwork of the United States.

What links all these things? In addition to the massive human toll they’re inflicting, they suggest that Trump is about to pull off a unique trifecta. He is squandering the advantage he and Republicans have enjoyed in recent years on three major GOP-friendly issues: The economy, immigration, and national security.

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    I’m so very tired of hearing notices that Trump’s in “free fall,” newsletter headlines that he’s had “a very bad day,” headlines saying person or other “slams” him, and he just keeps on destroying things, killing people, directly harming my country and others. He outright passes off the deaths of people in Iran with “it’s war, people are gonna die,” and until something directly stops him I will find it impossible accept told things are going badly for that ABSOLUTE IMBECILE, and anyone who ever supported him, including basically my entire family. UGH.

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      Oh this, I can’t stand YouTubers for this.

      “Trump dealt devastating death blow bombshell in court”

      Sure, sure,… but what will you say when something actually happens to change all this shit?

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        Recommend DeArrow extension to drastically reduce YouTube clickbait. PeerTube of course is preferable to YouTube but DeArrow makes YouTube tolerable

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    Good thing Gallup stopped doing presidential approval polls JUST in time for this, otherwise we would be getting objective scientific measurements of how pissed people are.

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    It’s not the presidency falling, it’s the country. And as long as he breaths it will continue to fall. And as long as Americans allow him to breathe, they are responsible for allowing his actions.

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      Breathes*

      Remember, the e on the end sounds like eeeeee. Without it, it ends in h and sounds like ehhhhh

      UNFORTUNATELY, you don’t spell breathing breatheing, because you get rid of the e on the end when adding ing. English is certainly a language.

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        I once thought people who corrected spelling without being asked were just pompous twits. Then I read a paper that explained how people with low reading comprehension have trouble parsing sentences with spelling errors, so now I feel sorry for them.

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        I’m so happy you could get your dopamine and show everyone what a cunt you are at the SAME TIME!

        I’ll just assume you have hardon for all Nazis, since you’re a “Grammar Nazi”

        P.s. I left one in there for you to correct. Let’s see you explain it.

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    Not to mention the fact the child rapist is referred to more than 30,000 times in just the released Epstein files, and more than a million times in the rest of them.

    The Grand Old Pedophiles and Maggots love the fact that one of their own is in the White House, the rest of us not so much.

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    Can it really be in a free fall when it’s been at rock bottom?

    Oh, of course it can. Everyday is a new low.

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      it’s been at rock bottom?

      It’s not at rock bottom until the US collapses as a country and Trump gains the dubious honor of being the last president of the United States.

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      His presidency is declining every day when a few hundred Maggot cultists have those leopards snack on their faces. One or two of those regrets their vote but would still vote for him again.

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        How do you know that when literally every single interview with a magat who has had their face eaten and gone bankrupt has said “I would vote for home again”?

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    Trump has fired widely despised Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, a key architect of his mass deportations.

    What? How did this happen without me hearing about it at all?

    First, thank fuck she’s gone. But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?

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      A community college graduate (Construction Technology) with zero experience doing anything that job or anything like it. We’re in for a new kind of Trump dumpster fire.

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        Well the primary, and in fact only, skill required is being able to say yes to trump.

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      But second, what horrible creature will be (or already has) replaced her?

      Markwayne (somehow, that’s his actual name) Mullin.

      He’s perhaps best known as the senator who challenged a union leader to a fistfight during a Senate hearing.

      He’s also a former MMA fighter (3-0-0), loves violence against women, and hates limits on profiteering off holding political office.

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      She still works for the administration, just got moved to something less public facing… And Markwayne Mullin, the asshole senator from OK.

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    None of that matters. The rulers are the ultrarich and they are pleased. The mouth speaking for them is interchangable, depending on the mood of the masses.

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    The problem though is that he’s insane, so his response is to move to expand his powers and crush dissent, and all too much of the rest of the corrupt and compromised political establishment - the vaunted checks and balances - are, if not actively assisting him, conveniently failing to stop him.

    Popularity only matters in a democracy.

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    So “score” is 20.

    Killing scores if children would be twenties of children.

    165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.

    Also Noem isn’t fired, she’s being shuffled.

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      165 is eight score, so I don’t feel “scores” is clearly articulating just how many children were killed.

      But it’s also not “hundreds”, which is the next step up from “scores”. And anything more accurate would require more than one word to convey.

      IMO, “scores” is fine to refer to anything between 40 and 200.