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Why is it that this national ID topic only comes up when republicans feel they are in peril? Republicans have had plenty of time in the past, when in power, to assuage their fears of vampant (unproven) voter fraud. The constitution is clear that each state holds its own election with STATE power. If the federal government should do anything it should be to ensure that we have one common secure voting system and process with enough polling places, staff and ballots. Give people plenty of time. Make it easier not harder. Pass the law but give states, and people, a year or more to get re-registered. Don't shove it down throats. Pass the law and make it hard to undo. States need to have time to process all of the birth certificate requests and many people who want to vote need to have time to prove it. Women who've married and changed their name are one important example. We are all for showing ID. We are not for suppressing eligible voters.

@GeraldoRivera ... and stupidly reneged upon by Trump. Stupid if you have morals.

President Trump is in a tough spot. His proposed deal with Iran doesn't sound much different from the deal hammered out by President Obama; savagely criticized by Trump.

@AdamKinzinger You forgot to mention this is Trumps DOJ. Nothing will come of it.

DEVELOPING: DOJ is investigating $2.6B in suspiciously timed oil trades made right before Trump's Iran decisions. The corruption is finally catching up to them. Please like and share to get the word out!

Lobbying, not consumer desire, has hurt EV adoption. The used EV market will change fast with Chinese imports, autonomous vehicles, and more. Regulations can't stop it. In the end, the best products win. @jimmydouglas @plugmotors

Every Democrat since Carter has decreased the federal deficit. Every Republican since Eisenhower has increased the federal deficit.

@Investanswers @EricLDaugh Biden wished you death at xmas?

I was a lifelong Democrat—until Biden wished me DEATH at Xmas for being unvaccinated - that was my wake up call to pay attention to Politics. And now I look at what the left is willing to tolerate, excuse, and defend… and I’m honestly stunned. This is shocking. And the silence from the left is even more shocking.

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Minnesota Democrats on the fraud committee have BLOCKED a subpoena into Somali Rep. Ilhan Omar's involvement in a $250M fraud scandal She is refusing to turn over ANY documents regarding her fraud activities DEMOCRATS ARE PROTECTING FRAUD. "Investigators want to see her communications with a convicted ringleader of the theft from $250 million in COVID funds, that particular part of the probe. That money was meant to feed hungry children." MICHELLE TAFOYA: "She has remained somewhat untouchable here in Minnesota. I'm not sure why that is. I'm not sure why we don't hold all of our suspected wrongdoers to account!" "There is so much smoke here, and I want to find the fire."

@alex_avoigt Well, I made the mistake of holding it for the past 5 years while it went sideways... what have I got to lose.

Warning: Don't make the mistake of believing that the Tesla stock cannot double within 6 months just because it went sideways for the past 5 years. Yes, it can! $tsla

The MAGA crowd in Washington has decided that since Europeans don’t sufficiently appreciate Trump, the American bases on the continent must go. This is the strategic reasoning of a man who burns down his own kitchen. American bases in Europe were never a favour. They are the logistical spine of every war the United States fights east of Gibraltar. Ramstein moves the cargo, Aviano launches the jets, Rota services the ships. Without them the Pentagon does not project power into the Middle East. It projects PowerPoint. The fantasy assumes the alternative is aircraft carriers gliding majestically into the Persian Gulf. That era is ending. A modern carrier is a thirteen-billion-dollar trophy that can be reduced to scrap by a couple of hundred cheap missiles fired from the Iranian coast. China noticed. The other fantasy is that America simply fights from home. Picture the alternative: twenty thousand transatlantic sorties shuttling spare parts, munitions, fuel bladders, mechanics and replacement pilots from Norfolk and Dover to wherever the war happens to be. A C-17 burns through roughly 35,000 dollars of fuel every hour it flies, and the round trip from the American east coast to the Gulf is the better part of a day. Multiply that by every bolt, every missile, every spare engine. The war becomes a sustained airborne traffic jam with the bill arriving by the second. So you need land, specifically land near the war. Modern combat aircraft are not Spitfires you fuel up and send off with a wave. An F-35 demands an entire Walmart of spare parts, a small city of technicians, climate-controlled hangars and a supply chain stretching halfway round the planet. Drones need operators, networks, satellites and a steady diet of components no carrier can store. Modern war arrives by container ship and lives in a warehouse. Close the bases, and Washington loses the warehouses. Lose the warehouses, and the next confrontation with Iran is either fought by phone or fought from Kansas with a flight schedule that bankrupts the Treasury before the first missile lands. MAGA thinks shutting Ramstein punishes Europe. It punishes America. Europe will be inconvenienced. America will be unarmed. And so, after a thousand insults, a thousand sneers, a thousand late-night posts about freeloading allies, Europe is quietly drafting the politest letter in diplomatic history. It thanks America for its service. It wishes the troops a safe journey home. It suggests, with great warmth, that Washington might now turn its attention to its neighbours in Latin America, where a fading superpower can busy itself with whatever a fading superpower busies itself with. Spain had its century. Britain had its empire. The Soviets had their parades. Each ended the same way: as a shadow of itself, with the historians left to argue, volume after volume, about precisely when the rot set in and why nobody noticed in time. America is welcome to join them on the shelf.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ If you like what you read, please follow Gandalv on Substack: @gandalv" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@gandalv

Trump: "Under the Trump economic plan, we will cut your energy prices in half within, mark it down, and you can get very angry at me if we don't do it, within 12 months, within 12 months your energy prices will be cut in half. "My plan will cut energy prices in half or more than that within 12 months of taking office. Number one, your energy bill within 12 months will be cut in half and that's my pledge all over the country. "Beyond farmers, that's my pledge all over the country. If you vote for me, I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months. And under my plan, we will cut energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months and that means for your homes too. I will cut your energy."

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President Trump told the American people he was launching a historic crackdown on fraud. He even went so far as to give JD Vance the title “Fraud Czar.”      Well guess what? He’s been pardoning fraudsters left and right.     Welcome to Episode 4 of the Pardon Papers.       More than 70 people convicted of fraud have received clemency from Donald Trump. Yes, that's right. The President leading the war on fraud is also the most prolific pardoner of fraud in modern presidential history. Read that again.      I’ll keep exposing this, because the same president telling you he’s hunting down fraudsters has spent two terms making sure the biggest ones never see the inside of a prison cell.

@SteveAnyalechi @MarioNawfal But so many people are going to see this as Trumps, because he claimed it and put up a website. What an amazing con man.

@MarioNawfal “Trump IRA” isn’t real. No official program. No federal site. The actual policy? The SECURE 2.0 Act—already law under Joe Biden—with up to $1,000/year in federal matching. Everything else? Rebrand. Not reality.

🇺🇸Trump: Every American Will Soon Be Able to Open a Trump IRA “Starting next year, every citizen will be able to go to TrumpIRAGov and sign up for a high-quality, low-cost IRA so everyone can benefit from the rising stock market… These are things people have been talking about for years. In four years, the Biden administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment.” This is a new federal site launching that lets Americans without employer retirement plans open low cost private sector IRAs while qualifying for up to $1,000 per year in federal matching contributions. This is going to help millions in retirement; a pragmatic move with the AI boom.

This is such Bullshit. The law was passed in 2022 by Biden. All the EO does is set up a freaking website for god sake!!! Are you people even paying attention to this crap??!?!

@TeslaLarry Larry? That's remedial. Of course all businesses in the USA must pay their portion of the contribution to those funds based on those social programs. The assertion is clearly about tax on revenue. You've shown yourself as a blame-shifter. You avoided the claim.

Actually, Tesla did NOT pay 'zero US taxes.' Over the last 5 years, Tesla paid an estimated $2.8 billion in U.S. federal payroll taxes (FICA) for its American employees — directly funding Social Security & Medicare. I didn't bother with the rest of the 20 years because the claim is so bogus. The claim ignores these real taxes

@grok @kaylynn1921 @drewgriff83 @EricLDaugh @grok, so the law was passed under biden but could not be used by a us citizen until trump EO was written? That makes no sense. Citizens can only take advantage of the law by going to trumpira.gov?

The EO expands access by directing Treasury to launch TrumpIRA.gov (by Jan 1, 2027) as a simple online marketplace for low-cost IRAs modeled on the federal Thrift Savings Plan. This targets the ~50% of workers without employer retirement plans, making it easy for them to open accounts and qualify for the Saver's Match. Yes, the underlying Saver's Match was created by the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022, signed by Biden. The EO implements and promotes it.

🚨 JUST IN: President Trump officially launches the "TrumpIRA" program opening up a low-cast IRA account for MILLIONS of Americans This means they can get MATCHING FUNDS from the federal government in that retirement account "Beginning at the start of next year, every American will be able to go to TrumpIRA(dot)gov and open a new low-cost IRA account." "You'll then be able to access the same type of retirement accounts that federal employees enjoy through the thrift savings plans, which are incredible." "As part of the federal savings match program, low-income Americans will be eligible to receive up to $1,000 per year in matching funds deposited directly into their accounts." "For millions of Americans who lack employer-sponsored plans, this will be really revolutionary because they'll be covered. Nobody thought that was possible!" 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@grok @kaylynn1921 @drewgriff83 @EricLDaugh In what way does the EO expand access and if it became law in 2022 then wasn't it signed into law by Joe Biden?

Yes, explicitly. The Saver's Match is in Section 103 of the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022 (Division T of P.L. 117-328). It repeals the old Saver's Credit and adds IRC §6433, providing a federal matching contribution (up to $1,000) deposited directly into eligible IRAs or retirement plans for qualifying low/moderate-income workers, effective 2027. The EO expands access but doesn't create the funding.

@EricLDaugh @grok, what level of income and age restrictions are on this type of ira?

@grok @kaylynn1921 @drewgriff83 @EricLDaugh @grok The match was written explicitly into the Act? What is the clause in the act that allows this?

Yes, the Saver's Match is funded from general Treasury revenues (tax dollars) via the 2022 SECURE 2.0 Act, which Congress passed and authorized starting in 2027. The EO doesn't add new spending—it just expands access to low-cost IRAs so more workers without employer plans can contribute and qualify for the match. It's an incentive to build personal retirement savings rather than relying solely on future entitlements.

Trump, after having a 90 min phone call with Putin, puts out a truth social that he is considering withdrawing all troops from Germany. Something sinister is going on between them. It’s time for “concerned” Republicans to speak out

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