Trump says it's 'not possible' for the U.S. to pay for Medicaid, Medicare and day care: 'We’re fighting wars' - Comments

Around a third of Americans would like more of this.

Off-topic: please tag your posts; some of us aren't American, and don't want to see Trump plastered across the front page every time he farts and kills a million of your citizens. You can see which tags might be appropriate by searching for a keyword (e.g. "trump") and pulling tags from another, similar post.

Instead of asking OP to worry about the tags, you should message Deimos and ask to be granted tagging permission so you can add them yourself.

Tags are not compulsory. When someone posts a topic on Tildes, they have no responsibility or obligation to add tags to their topic. I think that's a good thing because it reduces "friction to post".

Tags are cool though, and having more people involved in tagging stuff would also be cool.

Okeydoke, I'll stop asking. This is mostly because CW: Donald Trump is a reasonable ask in my mind, but I appreciate that that's not a universally held opinion.

(I've ignored this post btw, so I won't see replies. Please feel free to DM if urgent)

Noodly appendages move in mysterious ways.

That's a completely elective war you started, you asshat. And now you want to use the money fire you started as an excuse to hurt even more people? Fuck you, you asshole.

Glad that we have our priorities straight as a country. Having Medicaid, Medicare, day care, and universal healthcare is such a waste of money when we could just spend our money turning the middle east to dust.

Hey, we need to do this for the oil so we can burn it all up! It’s way better than all of that communist renewable energy that Trump and his cronies have managed to fight off, like The time they spent $1 Bn to prevent a huge installation. I’m sure without that we would have ended up killing tens of birds to the turbines, who are so much more valuable to the ecosystem than the billions of sea critters dying from the ocean being acidified and boiled.

An important part to this story is that this admission was not supposed to have gone public. MS NOW reports that this video was "accidentally" uploaded to the internet by the White House, and then quickly taken down. This is the President of the United States admitting to a closed-door meeting something that the rest of the world was not supposed to know about.

So we’re finally admitting it’s a war and not just a “military action”?

Hoping someone (FSM, are you listening?) puts an end to this man soon.

Its a strange way to put it, but he's not necessarily wrong. A lot of what funds our governments fiscal deficits is foreign money buying dollars to buy oil on the petrodollar. The petrodollar couldn't last forever, but the war in Iran isn't extending its lifespan.

Bad news for our friends in America: when the petrodollar is replaced by the petroyuan, or the bancor, or something else, the deficit spending that funds these wars (sure) but also Medicaid, Medicare, etc. will also end. Also, super-high prices in dollars for energy.

I don't think that will happen within the next... two years (seems safe), as the most compelling alternative, the petroyuan, is much smaller and also has several other serious problems, but the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are certainly incentivizing other nations to develop systems to relieve them from dependency on the dollar and the venerable Bretton-Woods system that has provided the U. S. with the Exorbitant Privilege ever since.

I'd say even some Americans don't want to see posts about our Idiot-In-Chiefs latest mouth noises.

Around a third of Americans would like more of this.

Off-topic: please tag your posts; some of us aren't American, and don't want to see Trump plastered across the front page every time he farts and kills a million of your citizens. You can see which tags might be appropriate by searching for a keyword (e.g. "trump") and pulling tags from another, similar post.

Instead of asking OP to worry about the tags, you should message Deimos and ask to be granted tagging permission so you can add them yourself.

Tags are not compulsory. When someone posts a topic on Tildes, they have no responsibility or obligation to add tags to their topic. I think that's a good thing because it reduces "friction to post".

Tags are cool though, and having more people involved in tagging stuff would also be cool.

Okeydoke, I'll stop asking. This is mostly because CW: Donald Trump is a reasonable ask in my mind, but I appreciate that that's not a universally held opinion.

(I've ignored this post btw, so I won't see replies. Please feel free to DM if urgent)

Noodly appendages move in mysterious ways.

That's a completely elective war you started, you asshat. And now you want to use the money fire you started as an excuse to hurt even more people? Fuck you, you asshole.

Glad that we have our priorities straight as a country. Having Medicaid, Medicare, day care, and universal healthcare is such a waste of money when we could just spend our money turning the middle east to dust.

Hey, we need to do this for the oil so we can burn it all up! It’s way better than all of that communist renewable energy that Trump and his cronies have managed to fight off, like The time they spent $1 Bn to prevent a huge installation. I’m sure without that we would have ended up killing tens of birds to the turbines, who are so much more valuable to the ecosystem than the billions of sea critters dying from the ocean being acidified and boiled.

An important part to this story is that this admission was not supposed to have gone public. MS NOW reports that this video was "accidentally" uploaded to the internet by the White House, and then quickly taken down. This is the President of the United States admitting to a closed-door meeting something that the rest of the world was not supposed to know about.

So we’re finally admitting it’s a war and not just a “military action”?

Hoping someone (FSM, are you listening?) puts an end to this man soon.

Its a strange way to put it, but he's not necessarily wrong. A lot of what funds our governments fiscal deficits is foreign money buying dollars to buy oil on the petrodollar. The petrodollar couldn't last forever, but the war in Iran isn't extending its lifespan.

Bad news for our friends in America: when the petrodollar is replaced by the petroyuan, or the bancor, or something else, the deficit spending that funds these wars (sure) but also Medicaid, Medicare, etc. will also end. Also, super-high prices in dollars for energy.

I don't think that will happen within the next... two years (seems safe), as the most compelling alternative, the petroyuan, is much smaller and also has several other serious problems, but the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are certainly incentivizing other nations to develop systems to relieve them from dependency on the dollar and the venerable Bretton-Woods system that has provided the U. S. with the Exorbitant Privilege ever since.

I'd say even some Americans don't want to see posts about our Idiot-In-Chiefs latest mouth noises.

Around a third of Americans would like more of this.

Off-topic: please tag your posts; some of us aren't American, and don't want to see Trump plastered across the front page every time he farts and kills a million of your citizens. You can see which tags might be appropriate by searching for a keyword (e.g. "trump") and pulling tags from another, similar post.

Instead of asking OP to worry about the tags, you should message Deimos and ask to be granted tagging permission so you can add them yourself.

Tags are not compulsory. When someone posts a topic on Tildes, they have no responsibility or obligation to add tags to their topic. I think that's a good thing because it reduces "friction to post".

Tags are cool though, and having more people involved in tagging stuff would also be cool.

Okeydoke, I'll stop asking. This is mostly because CW: Donald Trump is a reasonable ask in my mind, but I appreciate that that's not a universally held opinion.

(I've ignored this post btw, so I won't see replies. Please feel free to DM if urgent)

Noodly appendages move in mysterious ways.

That's a completely elective war you started, you asshat. And now you want to use the money fire you started as an excuse to hurt even more people? Fuck you, you asshole.

Glad that we have our priorities straight as a country. Having Medicaid, Medicare, day care, and universal healthcare is such a waste of money when we could just spend our money turning the middle east to dust.

Hey, we need to do this for the oil so we can burn it all up! It’s way better than all of that communist renewable energy that Trump and his cronies have managed to fight off, like The time they spent $1 Bn to prevent a huge installation. I’m sure without that we would have ended up killing tens of birds to the turbines, who are so much more valuable to the ecosystem than the billions of sea critters dying from the ocean being acidified and boiled.

An important part to this story is that this admission was not supposed to have gone public. MS NOW reports that this video was "accidentally" uploaded to the internet by the White House, and then quickly taken down. This is the President of the United States admitting to a closed-door meeting something that the rest of the world was not supposed to know about.

So we’re finally admitting it’s a war and not just a “military action”?

Hoping someone (FSM, are you listening?) puts an end to this man soon.

Its a strange way to put it, but he's not necessarily wrong. A lot of what funds our governments fiscal deficits is foreign money buying dollars to buy oil on the petrodollar. The petrodollar couldn't last forever, but the war in Iran isn't extending its lifespan.

Bad news for our friends in America: when the petrodollar is replaced by the petroyuan, or the bancor, or something else, the deficit spending that funds these wars (sure) but also Medicaid, Medicare, etc. will also end. Also, super-high prices in dollars for energy.

I don't think that will happen within the next... two years (seems safe), as the most compelling alternative, the petroyuan, is much smaller and also has several other serious problems, but the war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz are certainly incentivizing other nations to develop systems to relieve them from dependency on the dollar and the venerable Bretton-Woods system that has provided the U. S. with the Exorbitant Privilege ever since.

I'd say even some Americans don't want to see posts about our Idiot-In-Chiefs latest mouth noises.