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slightlv

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50. Well, there goes trump's promised low gas prices! (LOL)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:04 PM
4 hrs ago

And I'll lay odds all that gas and oil the American corporations are hoarding and selling at exorbitant prices aren't going to be returned to the people of America at rock bottom dollars.

In fact, we're going to be lucky if the "dollar" is anything after this foray by trump. Can we start calling Iran "Trump's Folly"... even today, we remember "Seward's Folly"... perhaps this is one way to remember that trump started WWIII for all times. But, whatever happened to the military not following illegal orders? Does no one in this man's army have the intelligence and knowledge we once went into boot camp with? And the backbone to stand up for the constitution? GW made sure that a great numbers of really smart people were mustered out, to be replaced by anyone they could find -- no matter what crimes they were charged with on the outside. The intelligence level needed to be join was lowered and lowered because he was running out of cannon fodder during the first gulf war. We're dealing with mad children who have nuclear weapons and are jonesing to use them on someone. If trump does it first (which I think he will), we, as a country, will never come back from that.

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