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China isn’t an enemy. It’s simply a competitor of the US and now the leading economic power. Why? China didn’t waste trillions on endless stupid wars. They invested in innovation, manufacturing and education. US politicians hate China’s success because it makes them look like clowns.... 🤡🤡 (Matthew Whitaker, US Ambassador to NATO)

Does he realize what he just admitted lol

Trump's economy summed up in a badly decided press stunt. A grandmother, forced to DoorDash to pay for her husband's cancer treatments, delivers food to an entitled Trump's golden ballroom. Whoever thought this was going to paint the president in a good light has clearly never worked in PR.

A grandma getting a tax credit on $11k of doordash tips so she can pay for cancer treatments is being celebrated as a win. If you're wondering why Gen Z is like... "fuck this," this is why.

The term “DoorDash grandma” is not a feel-good story. It’s a failed society. Older workers shouldn’t have to depend on gig work to survive. We could be expanding Social Security—instead of giving tax breaks to billionaires and spending billions on war.

So I saw that DoorDash grandma stuff today. Am I the only one who thinks it’s absurd in the richest nation in human history (that is currently spending $2 billion a day on Trump’s war and gave $3T for rich people’s tax cuts), a grandma had to deliver DoorDash to pay for her husband’s cancer treatments? And instead of talking about how to fix that (UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE), that STRUGGLE was celebrated as a WIN by the president of the United States. Absolutely shameful! She deserves healthcare!

I’d like to live in a country where a grandma doesn’t have to work as a Door Dash driver to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside. She couldn’t afford her bill. This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America. The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box. Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success. Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix. Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world. In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths. There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name. The first man’s country has the higher GDP. The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon. MAGA America calls that losing. Ask anyone. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Grandma shouldn't have to rely on DoorDash tips to make up for Republicans doubling the cost of health care.

reminder that the IRS built a direct file program because doing your taxes should be free and easy, and then Trump and Republicans killed the program as a favor to TurboTax

Imagine using a grandma from Arkansas who drained her life savings on medical bills as a prop for no tax on tips. I can’t, y’all.

Trump’s “Door Dash Grandma” is from Arkansas, a long way from the White House. This stunt was staged by Door Dash in coordination with Trump’s White House.

absolutely wild that Fox & Friends's 3-hour morning broadcast, which included coverage of the Pope, did not mention once the president of the United States committing blasphemy

A perfect image of the Trump era: A grandmother has to work at DoorDash in order to get by, while the president decorates his office in gold accent pieces.

What’s the line for you Christians? What’s the final straw? “Epstein is a hoax” wasn’t too far. No new wars to war with Iran wasn’t too far. F bombs on Easter morning wasn’t too far. $5 a gallon gas wasn’t too far. Threatening a “whole civilization” that they would die in a night wasn’t too far. Attacking The Pope wasn’t too far. What about this? Trump posting himself as a Jesus like messiah figure. Complete blasphemy and antichrist vibes.

Excited for Mike Johnson to not have seen this tweet.