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BREAKING🚨 A Trump voter just told NPR he gives Trump an “A+ on everything” — then admitted gas prices are so high he and his wife are “fasting” to save money. That one call is almost too on‑the‑nose, but it fits what the numbers are screaming. Polls from NPR, Marist, Reuters, and the New York Times all show the same thing: gas prices and the Iran war are crushing people’s budgets, and most Americans — including a big chunk of Republicans — blame Trump. In one NPR/PBS/Marist survey, 81% of respondents said gas prices are a burden on their household budget. A majority flat‑out said Trump is responsible for the spike. Other polls show his economic approval underwater, his overall approval near record lows, and independents fleeing in droves. Why? Because everything in people’s lives is getting more expensive at once. Trump’s Iran war has pushed the average price of gas past $4.50 a gallon nationwide. That hits every commute, every delivery, every grocery bill. When fuel costs jump, food and rent follow. Surveys find that around two‑thirds of Americans say the war isn’t worth the financial pain, and majorities report cutting back on basics — driving less, skipping trips, delaying medical care, even skimping on groceries — just to keep up. And yet, there’s this hard core of Trump supporters telling pollsters and public radio that they’d do anything for him. They’ll call the economy “great” while they’re rationing groceries. They’ll say he’s “strong on the world stage” while his blockade drives up their own utility bills. They’ll praise his “toughness” while admitting they’re one car repair away from disaster. That’s not normal politics. That’s what it looks like when a leader convinces people that admitting pain is disloyal, so they twist themselves into knots to explain away what’s right in front of them. The truth is simple: if you’re skipping meals, working extra shifts, or draining savings to pay for gas and groceries while a billionaire president hands out slush funds and tax breaks to his friends, you’re being robbed — and then asked to say thank you. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. BREAKING🚨 Jasmine Crockett just exposed Trump’s $1.7B slush fund as reparations for white supremacists. Trump cut a secret deal with his own Justice Department to drop a $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns. In exchange, DOJ created a $1.776 billion “Anti‑Weaponization Fund” inside the Treasury’s Judgment Fund — a giant pot of taxpayer money meant to “compensate” people who say Biden’s DOJ was too mean to them. January 6 rioters, pardoned Proud Boys, MAGA influencers, and Trump officials are already lining up to file claims. It’s so blatant that two January 6 officers who defended the Capitol are suing to stop it, calling it exactly what it is: a slush fund for insurrectionists. At the same time, Trump’s DOJ is hauling the Southern Poverty Law Center into court for sending informants into white supremacist organizations — the Klan, neo‑Nazis, accelerationist groups. In other words, the government is trying to punish the people tracking domestic terrorists, while Trump’s new fund is set up to cut checks to some of the very circles that produced them. Crockett stepped up to a hearing about that SPLC case and refused to pretend those two stories were separate. “It is clear that neo‑Nazis as well as Proud Boys joined in on January 6th, yet this slush fund … is specifically to give them money,” she said. “So how dare this majority sit here and try to lecture this organization about money?” Then she went straight for the jugular: “This country still hasn’t thought that reparations made sense for Black folk in this country, but at the same time they’ve decided that people that are in organizations that are absolutely white supremacy organizations should get our tax dollars because they decided to tear apart — or attempt to tear apart — our democracy.” That’s the core hypocrisy. The same Republican majority that has blocked every reparations commission, fought against basic voting rights, and can’t even agree whether slavery should be taught as a moral evil is now defending a program that may literally write checks to people who beat Black officers on January 6. The system can’t find the political will to compensate descendants of enslaved people, or the families of those lynched and redlined and locked out of the GI Bill — but it can move at light speed to build a payout machine for Trump’s “political prisoners.” Crockett’s point is bigger than one fund or one lawsuit. It’s about who this government chooses to value. Under Trump, Black communities get voter suppression, book bans, and lectures about “law and order.” Neo‑Nazis and Proud Boys get pardons, PR campaigns, and now a shot at taxpayer money. That’s not a bug. It’s the design. “They are being rewarded,” she said of the white supremacists. She’s right. And until more elected Democrats talk like Jasmine Crockett just did — naming names, connecting the dots, and saying out loud that reparations are overdue while insurrectionists are cashing in — this slush fund will be just one more chapter in a very old American story about who gets paid and who gets played. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.