Towns near the Canadian border are suffering. From Bellingham, Washington, to Calais, Maine, the United States has dozens of communities that are not so much linked to Canada's economy as interwoven with it. read more
President Trump is planning to attend the National Republican Congressional Committee's big donor event Tuesday night, on the eve of a consequential House vote on the budget package that passed the Senate Saturday. read more
We just haven't seen anything like this': Facing higher inflation and economic uncertainty, farmers have less cushion to face tariffs than they did during the first Trump administration. read more
Tom Rogers: Like Trump, Clinton and Gore used presidential directives and executive orders to implement many of their downsizing efforts. But unlike the current effort, the cutting didn't start until they had gone through a six-month study process and developed a blueprint of how to best reinvent the federal government. read more
Mike Masnick: The program that promised efficiency through targeted destruction is instead delivering chaotic and costly destruction through incompetence. read more
Of course, Trump himself would be dead by now if science and medicine hadn't saved him, but how does Trump respond to the medical miracle that saved him? With gratitude and the desire to help others? Nah:
Trump Just Fired the Doctor Who Saved His Lifewww.dailykos.com
At the height of the pandemic, Trump got COVID. He was airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center. Dr. Peter Stein approved giving Trump monoclonal antibodies. Trump recovered. He called this treatment a "miracle."
Yesterday, Trump fired Dr. Peter Stein. He also fired the people tracking Bird Flu and all kind of other diseases. If there's another pandemic, and Trump catches whatever it is, there will be no one to save him. On a more positive note, the money the government saves by doing this means that instead of 342 billion dollars, Elon Musk will soon have 342.1 billion dollars.
You people are stupid.
Trump isnt begging for anything. We hold all the cards, as we have in the U.S. for some time. We just had spineless liberals who cater to the world instead of their own nation.
It's 2025, we dont do that "hate America" thing anymore progressives.
#9 | Posted by boaz at 2025-04-12 07:01 AM | Reply
Boaz is correct.
China needs us way more than we need them. They have to feed their population and they need someone to buy the things they make. Without the US consumer economy their economy would implode.
#10 | Posted by THEBULL
The devil is always in the details, which neither you nor Trump pay much attention to, emphasis mine:
When economist Justin Wolfers commented: "I just want to tip my hat to the crack team of White House economists who were able to discover"in just a few short days"that the U.S. is dependent on China for smartphones, computers and semiconductors." Dr. Soumya Rangarajan noted that "a basic medicine we use 1000x per day in the hospital, heparin, is also dependent on China, and people will die without it." As Sabrina Malhi of the Washington Post explained, about 12 million people hospitalized in the U.S. need heparin every year, and it is only one of the many medications that will be affected by Trump's tariffs on goods from China.heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
#ETTD The truthfulness of the statement Everything Trump Touches Dies is getting scarier by the day.
Angry
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Jamie Dimon says the *best case* scenario for the US is now a recession.
Cool, cool. From the best economy in the world to a self-inflicted recession in 4 months.
Gotta be some kind of record.