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Don’t you feel a little uneasy that they so easily played you for stooges?

By BILL BARROW and WILL WEISSERT PHOENIX (AP) — Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the United States “foolishly” ceded to its Central American ally, contending that shippers are charged “ridiculous” fees to pass through the vital transportation channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Panama’s conservative president José Raúl Mulino, who was elected in May on a pro-business platform, roundly rejected that notion as an affront to his country’s sovereignty. The Republican president-elect’s comment came during his first major rally since winning the White House on Nov.

President Joe Biden warned that Republicans would attack our safety nets, specifically Social Security. Republicans booed Biden, but after Donald somehow won the election, his party was eager to gut Social Security, and three Republicans voted to raise the retirement age to 70 to receive benefits. Twenty Republican senators voted against legislation bolstering Social Security benefits for over 2 million American citizens working in various occupations.

A truly sickening crime on the New York subway with a cowed public not wanting to step in and stop it.