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underpants

(195,224 posts) Sun Jan 18, 2026, 02:21 PM Sunday

WELKER: What is the national emergency that justifies this new slate of tariffs?

BESSENT: The national emergency is avoiding a national emergency

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Highlight:

The National Emergency is "Saving our Asses"... haele Sunday #1

If SCOTUS decides against the tariffs... underpants Sunday #3

The money in Qtar? Moscow? SheltieLover Sunday #6

The Venezuelan oil money went to a Qatar account underpants Sunday #7

Ty SheltieLover Sunday #8

And the paranoid bedwetters House of Roberts Sunday #2

Release the TRUMP EPSTEIN FILES SheltieLover Sunday #5

What does that even mean? duckworth969 Sunday #9

WMD! WMD! WMD! moondust Sunday #10

WHAT does Cheato have on this guy? flamingdem Sunday #11