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highplainsdem

(62,134 posts) Thu Nov 6, 2025, 09:25 PM Nov 2025

Ron Filipkowski FTW

And Jesus said, thou shall not feed the poor and the hungry from your bounty because you must build ballrooms with lots of gold to honor the Lord while remaining liquid in case Argentina needs another bailout. - Book of Trump, 11:06. bsky.app/profile/atru...
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-11-07T01:22:23.276Z

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Ron Filipkowski FTW (Original Post) highplainsdem Nov 2025 OP

Don't remember exact numbers, but... The Blue Flower Nov 2025 #1

Excellent point. Irish_Dem Nov 2025 #3

Which is weird because he gives to billionaires all the time Johonny Nov 2025 #2

FTW, for sure. yellow dahlia Nov 2025 #4

The Blue Flower

(6,490 posts)

1. Don't remember exact numbers, but...

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Thu Nov 6, 2025, 09:28 PM

Nov 2025

I seem to remember there was an initial shortage of military recruits at the beginning of WW2 because so many were malnourished and unhealthy at the end of the Great Depression. Starving our children is, in addition to all moral considerations, a security issue.