For Their Own Ends

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July 24, 2026

Federal officials have admitted that cuts from clean energy
projects were based on whether states had voted for Kamala Harris
in the 2024 presidential election, Rather than combatting waste,
the administration is trying to use the power of the American
people for its own ends, Trump has levied tariffs again, on goods
from more than 80 countries that make up just short of 100% of US
trade, Trump is frustrated as he cannot seem to find a way out of
the Iran War, The Pentagon is restating the number of military
personnel who have been killed in the course of the Iran War, The
White House appears focused on the goals of Trump alone, Trump's
actions are in sharp contrast to FDR’s radio broadcast of July 24
1933 which urged Americans to act “in a group [to] accomplish
things which no individual acting alone could even hope to bring
about."

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