Vance says Gulf Arabs "love" the Trump deal over Obama's. Cool. 4 months ago: 13 brave soldiers were still alive and hundreds not wounded Gas was $2.98/gallon, now $4.07 The average family is $450 poorer just in fuel costs We were $50 billion less in debt, and climbing Hormuz was open Iran is getting $25 billion in frozen assets BACK plus a $300 billion reconstruction fund Obama's deal cost zero American lives, zero military spending, and actually constrained Iran's nuclear program. This deal? The nuclear question is STILL not resolved, they have 60 days to figure it out. Gulf Arabs love this deal because the U.S. fought a war, paid the bill. Americans paid for it in blood, debt, and gas prices. But sure, Vance, tell us again how this is "winning." 🤡

Trump's war with Iran moved $23.5 billion out of your gas tank and into the hands of 41 energy billionaires. Oxfam counted the transfer down to the second: a thousand dollars every time one of them blinks That is not a figure of speech. It works out to about $300 million a day landing with the men who own Chevron, Shell, Exxon, BP, ConocoPhillips and TotalEnergies, tracked on Forbes' own real-time list from the first week of the strikes through mid-May. Here is the mechanism, because it is worth understanding. A war in the Persian Gulf spikes the price of crude. You feel it the next morning at the pump. The companies pump the same oil they were already pumping, charge you more for it, and the gap drops straight into a shareholder's account. No new wells. No extra workers. A war and a markup. Regular billionaires saw their fortunes inch up less than half a percent this spring. The oil and gas barons got nearly eleven percent richer. The pump did that. You are the pump. And you paid. American families have absorbed an estimated $60 billion in extra energy costs since the bombing started. The UN projects the war will push another 32 million people into poverty by year's end. Food prices this spring climbed three times faster than the same months last year. Here is the part to keep in your back pocket. The money is not gone. It changed hands, and it can be sent back. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Representative Ro Khanna wrote a bill that taxes the wartime windfall and returns it to consumers as a rebate, around $33 billion a year. Whitehouse and Elizabeth Warren just sent letters ordering the oil giants to explain their profits. So the decent thing would be to claw it back. Instead, the G7 leaders gathered this week at a lakeside hotel in Evian, where Emmanuel Macron reportedly kept Iran off the agenda entirely, rather than embarrass the president whose war handed his biggest donors a fortune. Read that twice. The men who cashed in are honored guests. The war that fed them is the one topic no one at the table is allowed to raise. Oxfam's director Amitabh Behar had a name for leaders who tiptoe around the man who caused the damage instead of confronting him. He did not call it diplomacy. He called it cowardice. A ceasefire may finally be taking hold. Crude will drift back toward seventy dollars. But the $23.5 billion already moved, and it is not moving back on its own. It is sitting in the accounts of Trump's donors right now, growing by another thousand dollars every time one of them blinks

LET'S PUT THIS ALL INTO PERSPECTIVE Trump and Republicans cut funding to American healthcare. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. Trump and Republicans cut funding for American SNAP food assistance. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. Trump and Republicans cut funding to the ACA. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. Trump and Republicans cut funding for the DOE. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. Trump and Republicans cut funding for environmental and climate protection. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. Trump and Republicans cut funding for low-income housing and rental assistance. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. Trump and Republicans cut funding for medical research at the NIH. But, we have $324 billion to give to Iran. _________________________________________ That whole "America first" mantra is just a pipe dream. It was just a political catchphrase to get MAGA to think @realDonaldTrump cared about this country, when in reality, he's running a plutocracy — American citizens be damned.

This is what Trump and his cult have done to public opinion of America abroad. If this is the first you’ve heard of it, Google it yourself.

He started it. He fucked it all up. He lied & lied & lied & lied about it. He made them stronger. He made us weaker. He surrendered. He lost. And then he gave them billions & billions & billions. MAGA, MAGA.

Fiscal responsibility

Staggering that the NYT reports Trump/Miller are plotting to suspend habeas corpus (i.e. end the constitution) & by the end of the day it's treated as a non-story, not anywhere near top of major news' outlets websites.

Americans had $1 billion stolen from them, and they’re not getting it back because of Donald Trump’s pardons. Time and time again, Trump has sided with criminals over the people they cheated.