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"unlimited executive fisc"
really bonkers stuff, looks like Kash Patel is about to criminalize Biden-era environmental funding as fraud
https://www.do entcloud.org/do e...-citibankpaus/
You've nary room. Your Biden climbed into bed with Z for 4 years and his Ukraine chock full of Nazi's the entire time. Nary room, Homer. Nary!!!
"unlimited executive fisc"
really bonkers stuff, looks like Kash Patel is about to criminalize Biden-era environmental funding as fraud
https://www.do entcloud.org/do e...-citibankpaus/
More power to that wonderful Hindu!!!
https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/news/...a/82318426007/Gateway megachurch founder, former Trump spiritual adviser, indicted on charges of lewd acts with Oklahoma girl
A grand jury in Oklahoma on Wednesday indicted Texas megachurch founder Robert Morris, accusing him in five felony counts of lewd or indecent acts with a girl beginning when she was 12 years old in the 1980s.
Robert Morris, who was once a spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, resigned as senior pastor of Gateway Church in June after admitting to "inappropriate sexual behavior" in the 1980s.
His accuser has said she was 12 when Morris first sexually abused her on Christmas in 1982 during a visit to her home in Hominy, Oklahoma. He was then 21.
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What happened to the statute of limitations, Little v?
"isn't there some legal technicality we can get this guy off with?"
Trump has spooked consumers
https://www.wsj.com/economy/consumer...evels-ab32d5d5American consumers have had a lot to fret about so far this year, between never-ending tariff headlines, stubborn inflation and most recently, fresh fears about a recession. These concerns seem to be hitting spending by both rich and poor, across necessities and luxuries, all at once.
Take low-income consumers: At an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago in late February, Walmart Chief Executive Doug McMillon said “budget-pressured” customers are showing stressed behaviors: They are buying smaller pack sizes at the end of the month because their “money runs out before the month is gone.” McDonald’s said in its most recent earnings call that the fast-food industry has had a “sluggish start” to the year, in part because of weak demand from low-income consumers. Across the U.S. fast-food industry, sales to low-income guests were down by a double-digit percentage in the fourth quarter compared with a year earlier, according to McDonald’s.
Things don’t look much better on the higher end. American consumers’ spending on the luxury market, which includes high-end department stores and online platforms, fell 9.3% in February from a year earlier, worse than the 5.9% decline in January, according to Citi’s analysis of its credit-card transactions data.
Costco whose membership-fee-paying customer base skews higher-income, said last week that demand has shifted toward lower-cost proteins such as ground beef and poultry. Its members are still spending but are being “very choiceful” about where they spend, Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip said. He said consumers could become even pickier if they see more inflation from tariffs.
people are souring on Trump's stewardship of the economy because it sucks
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/12/tru...isapprove-poll
- The National Federation of Independent Business’s uncertainty index for small businesses rose to it’s second-highest reading ever last month since the 1980s, and many small businesses report raising prices, Marke ch reported.
- In fact, a slew of small business owners have spoken out about the detrimental impacts Trump’s tariffs will have on their ability to maintain their businesses.
- Delta, Southwest and American airlines all warned this week that their first-quarter revenue or earnings forecasts will fall below expectations due to weaker consumer demand.
economic pain for the rest of us is "what needs to be done," but Trump thinks El0n Musk -- the richest man in the world -- shouldn't get hurt at all
https://archive.is/zxFOM#selection-2195.0-2231.314“What I have to do is build a strong country,” the president told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo in an interview that aired Sunday. “You can’t really watch the stock market. If you look at China, they have a 100-year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters. And you can’t go by that.”
Trump’s no-pain-no-gain excuse will likely be deployed for many months — possibly many years — and certainly for many scenarios. Some bumps in the road because thousands of federal workers aren’t on the job? No worries, prosperity and efficiency are just around the corner.
As my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Timothy L. O’Brien wrote on Monday, Trump’s only concern is Trump. And for the president, this is a power play akin to a wrestling match — if you apply enough pressure, your opponent gives up and Canadians become Americans, the streets are paved with tariff gold and the trillions in debt are wiped away.
On Tuesday, as the markets tumbled and many older Americans saw their retirement accounts dwindle, Trump stood on the White House grounds with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, head of DOGE. Musk’s company has taken a hit because of tariffs and his ties to Trump. So Trump, standing in front of a fleet of Teslas, wanted to help his biggest donor by purchasing one of his cars and making a big show of it.
“When someone is a great patriot, they shouldn’t be hurt,” Trump said, when asked if he wanted to boost Tesla’s stock price and sales. “He’s a great patriot.”
America is full of great patriots and many will be hurt by Trump’s tariff plans. Yet, there is no intervention on the horizon to blunt the economic hardships ahead for those ordinary Americans, among them, millions of Trump voters. And that says much about where Trump’s priorities are and who he cares most about.
what this gets wrong is that it's not willy-nilly, it's all designed to evade checks and balances and increase Trump's power
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/...-of-governanceThe Willy-Nilly System of Governance is a hybrid model that brings together both definitions of the term willy-nilly: “in a careless way without planning” and “whether you want it or not.” That’s right; the word the system is named after is nonsensical and has two completely different meanings, which is in no way a metaphor for the chaos it has already caused seven weeks into its implementation.
We here at the Trump administration are proud to combine the best aspects of both meanings of willy-nilly to make governing decisions that are both haphazard and unpopular.
Some people seem stumped about our strategy of flipping positions back and forth seemingly at random on matters of huge importance, like tariffs and wars. But that’s only because they think we have a strategy. We’re just doing whatever we feel like with no foresight, illustrating one of the Willy-Nilly System’s central tenets: There are no wrong answers because we should not assess any of our decisions before implementing them.
Whether it’s brainstorming ideas or making consequential foreign policy decisions, the Willy-Nilly System posits that we should just randomly throw a bunch of things no one asked for at the wall and see what sticks. Even when those “things” are rash, unpredictable policy changes that undermine our nation’s power and trustworthiness on the world stage and the “wall” is carefully maintained, mutually beneficial relationships with allies around the globe.
Regarding our approach to reducing the federal workforce, sure, we could find out what agencies and departments do, understand what positions entail, or talk to literally even one person who actually works somewhere before we fire people and then scramble to rehire those who were accidentally and/or illegally fired. And yes, we could have talked to the heads of agencies before firing their employees with no regard for whether they agreed or not, and then pretended that we didn’t.
But why would we do any advance planning around this downsizing when we could instead disrupt civil servants’ livelihoods for political grandstanding? Doing that would violate another tenet of the Willy-Nilly System: Sometimes, you have to dismantle the plane while flying it. Coincidentally, that is also our new slogan for the FAA.
When it comes to decisions about government funding, coordination across branches and agencies has historically been considered important—the left hand should know what the right hand is doing. But our Willy-Nilly System doesn’t adhere to that sensical approach. No, it adheres to the tenet that not only does the right hand not need to know what the left hand is doing, but the right hand doesn’t even need to know what the right hand is doing.
We hope this explanation answers your questions about the puzzling, accidental, and terrifying decisions we have made and will continue to make, and convinces you that we have kind of just been bumbling through all this, often without the input or support of key stakeholders. While our administration might do things in an unorthodox manner and ultimately cause the complete, irreparable collapse of the United States of America, we are using the Willy-Nilly System exactly as designed, and we assure you we would never do anything namby-pamby or loosey-goosey.
if the Dems don't vote no on the CR and on cloture, they're giving more power to El0n/Trump to do what they've already been doing -- shutting down the government
why should Congress pass a budget at all if Trump gets to decide which appropriations to honor and which to can?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog...-elon-trump-cr
Bloomberg: "Stagflation trade beats market"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ck-market-rout
Of course he has. He and his bootlicks are the only ones that don't see the obvious repercussions of these ridiculous tariffs
perhaps Trumplandia thinks we'll be easier to control if we're poor and afraid
It could not go on as before with us getting our pants pulled down decade after decade.
Thieves never like to have their livelihood stopped or interrupted. But that is what is happening here. Trump has stopped the theft and mitigated it on our behalf.
But does this old man have the nuts & guts to see it thru to the bitter end?
We shall see.
on more serious news...JD almost going back in drag and going full smoky eye...lololol maga "manliness"
"But I'm President, and their not."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/p-500...192434963.htmlS&P 500 Falls Into First Correction Since 2023
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The market’s last correction was a slow burn. The S&P 500 slid 10.3% between July 31 and October 27, 2023, as the Federal Reserve signaled it would need to keep interest rates higher for longer to return inflation to its 2% target. That correction was a long time coming, but it was short-lived. Stocks rebounded out of the correction on the next trading day, October 30, and have been trending higher ever since.
Stock market corrections tend to end more quickly than they come on. Since World War II, the average S&P 500 correction has taken five months to bottom and about four months to recover, according to Covenant Wealth Advisors. The average drawdown has been about 14%.
The current downturn has been swift in comparison. The S&P 500 closed at a record just three weeks ago, on February 19, as promising earnings reports offset creeping tariff uncertainty. Stocks have fallen precipitously since then as Trump has threatened, imposed, and delayed a slew of tariffs that some economists say could raise consumer prices and slow economic growth.
In for penny.
In for pound.
Think F.D.I.C..
Recession is good!
We're going to rehab!
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...fic-rcna195994Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say
The White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal, according to two U.S. officials familiar with the planning.
During a joint address to Congress last week, Trump said, "to further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.” Since then, administration officials have not said what "reclaiming" means.
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Warmonger.
They'll/They'd give it back without a shot being fired.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11080463/...ada-greenland/Trump threatens to acquire Canada, Greenland while next to NATO chief
U.S. President Donald Trump repeated his frequently-voiced desire to acquire Canada and Greenland on Thursday — this time with the leader of NATO sitting next to him.
“I think it will happen,” Trump said when asked by a reporter about the U.S. taking over Greenland during an Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.
“I’m sitting with a man that could be very instrumental — you know Mark, we need that for international security,” he continued, turning to Rutte.
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