@#16 ... The decomposing------------- is mentioned many more times than Clinton. ...

@#37 ... Terryl Farnsworth is the TPUSA employee who immediately following the shooting then stood on Charlie Kirks chair - disrupting a crime scene, and then took down the two 4K cameras and removed their SD cards tampering with evidence, then posed filming himself videoing Charlie Kirk's body moved for transport to a hospital while claiming "They just shot Charlie. He's dead." He was not arrested or questioned and the SD cards were not requested by FBI. ...

Well, that looks to be troubling.

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... The top 10 percent of U.S. earners spent $20.3 trillion through the first half of 2025 " nearly matching the $22.5 trillion shelled out by everyone else, according to the Royal Bank of Canada. That splurge has been primed by a buoyant stock market, elevated real estate prices and solid wage gains for the wealthy.

Bank of America says its top account holders saw take-home pay climb 4 percent over the last year, while income growth for poorer households grew just 1.4 percent.

That spending power has kept Trump's economy humming. The Commerce Department on Tuesday reported that the U.S. grew at an eye-popping rate of 4.3 percent during the third quarter, thanks to a surge in personal consumption, which the president labeled as a sign the "Trump Economic Golden Age is FULL steam ahead."

But the robust numbers mask the extent to which the wealthy are driving growth. And while business leaders from Manhattan to South Florida are bullish on the outlook -- "It's the Roaring '20s here in Palm Beach County," said Douglas Evans, the president of the Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce -- that view is not shared by most voters.

In survey after survey, a majority of Americans say they're straining under the pressure of rising living expenses and a softening job market.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston says low-income consumers have "substantially" higher levels of credit card debt than they did before the pandemic. ...

Another view ...

@#1 ... Consumer spending this year has increasingly been characterized by a growing divide between wealthy households that aren't changing their habits amid rising costs of living, and middle- and lower-income households that have cut back in response to a weaker labor market and tariffs and inflation that both drive up the cost of daily expenses. ...

More evidence of the "K-shaped" economy, where the wealthy are doing well, and the middle- and lower-class workers are struggling.

Since Pres Trump has surrounded himself with billionaires, he does not (or does not want to) see the effects of his economy on the working class.

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... Consumer spending this year has increasingly been characterized by a growing divide between wealthy households that aren't changing their habits amid rising costs of living, and middle- and lower-income households that have cut back in response to a weaker labor market and tariffs and inflation that both drive up the cost of daily expenses.

"The TARIFFS are responsible for the GREAT USA Economic Numbers JUST ANNOUNCED," Trump wrote on Truth Social after the GDP announcement. "AND THEY WILL ONLY GET BETTER!"

Trump also said there is "NO INFLATION," however inflation has increased notably since April, hitting 3% in September before declining to 2.7% in November. However, economists widely believe the November decline to be due to the lack of data that was collected during the government shutdown. ...

@#41 ... All the MSM do it ... <

When your current alias is flailing, put the blame on MSM.

That seems to be a tactic of Pres Trump, and also used here..

@#7 ... You tell me. Is there even such a thing? ...

From what I've heard, there do exist such American-made vehicles (GMC, Ford and such) but they were quoted to be so much more expensive than the BMW X5 sports cars that Dir Patel wanted.

That raises some questions ...

For starters, is Dir Patel blatantly saying that US car manufacturers are unable to provide a competitive vehicle to the one supplied by a German manufacturer?

And, perhaps as a follow-up question, I might ask ... WTF does Dir Patel need a vehicle like this for?

There's this ...

Such senior diplomats are not easily replaced.

imo ...

That is, unless Pres Trump and the Senate care more about loyalty to Pres Trump instead of loyalty to the Constitution and capability for the position.

But the Republicans in the Senate have already shown their lack of a spine in the confirmation hearings regarding that matter. Can you say Sec Hegseth? I knew you could. (apologies for channeling Mr Rogers there...)

/imo

@#2 ... From an investor perspective, not prosecuting crypto fraudsters has the effect of taking the bloom off of crypto. ...

I do not agree with that opinion at this point.

Not prosecuting crypto fraudsters would make crypto more valuable because of how it might be used.

@#8 ... Imagine calling something affordable but then needing subsidies to make it actually affordable. ...

Is that actually all that the affordability concern of the voters is about?

Healthcare costs may be one part of the affordability concern, but I doubt it is the entire concern.

Stated differently, unless and until MAGA understands the issues they face from the voters, will they be able to earn the votes they need?

@#5 ... What? They can't afford up armored SUVs for their brass? ...

Ya mean like Dir Patel's tax-payer-funded new BMW super car?

And, if I may ask... why a German car instead of a US-made car?

A song that I can feel with (understatement ...)

@#21 ... Well, it will have a complement of at least three currently nonexistent naval weapons, so there's that.

Yeah, the usual lies from Pres Trump?

To be honest, my concern through this escapade of Pres Trump is not about the battleships.

My concern is... what is Pres Trump trying to pull attention away from?

imo, Pres Trump is all about one thing... himself.

But in [a distant?] second place seems to be optics of whatever may be his current focal point.

And those battleships seems to be his current focal point.

...

But, how does all that relate to what the public actually cares about?

@#53 ... That would kind of make it like the "Gulf of America". ...

So... more political than factual?

@#47

An excellent question.

Was the DoJ at the time just trying to stay non-political, or trying to hide something?

To be honest,I've not yet formed an opinion on that.

...

@$46 ... Drip drip drip ...

Spkr Johnson put the House in an inactive state a couple three months ago to, apparently, try to avoid an embarrassing vote in which a new member would have pushed that vote against Pres Trump.

That decision by Spkr Johnson seemed only to escalate public awareness of the problem.

The outcome of that decision did not divert public attention away from the Epstein files, as Pres Trump seems to have hoped.

Quite the contrary, that decision seemed to be a focal point for increasing the clamor to Release the Epstein Files.

Pres Trump seems to want this issue to just go away.

imo, that ain't gonna happen.

What's you opinion?

@#18 ... So, the USS Lewzer Class is nowhere near the biggest. Not even in the top 10. ...

But the other aspect of the question seems to be ...

@#16

... "They'll be the fastest, the biggest and by far, 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built," Trump said at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. " ...

... OK, maybe not the biggest, but the most powerful?

... 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built ...

Of course, Pres Trump said it, so, it must be true.

/s

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... The US economy added 64,000 jobs in November, but the slide in tech jobs continued, with the telecom sector and computer systems design seeing declines.

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics said the number of people employed in November totaled 163.7 million, while the number of unemployed was 7.1 million.

The overall unemployment rate rose to 4.6%, up from 4.4% in September. (The BLS did not release a jobs report in October because of the government shutdown going on at the time.)

The telecom sector lost 600 jobs, with the number of people employed in November pegged at 598,800, down from 599,400 in the previous report, according to a sector-wise breakdown provided by BLS. The telecom sector employed 614,500 in November 2024.

The hardest-hit area involved computer systems design and related services, which lost 3,200 jobs. The number employed in that sector was 2,403,200 in November, declining from 2,406,400 previously. The employee count in that sector was 2,444,700 a year ago.

According to the US Census Bureau, these jobs include tech support, programming, and systems integration positions.
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@#49 ... Asked differently, was Ms Weiss' censorship intentionally applied only to the United States? ...

I offer that question once again.

@#50 ... Lewzer tried to ban a book and now everyone wants to read it. That's what usually happens. ...

Really?

I found this ...

@#2

Yeah, that seems to be the level that Pres Trump has reduced the Country to be.

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...Before Todd Blanche could be confirmed as the second-highest official at the Justice Department, he had to satisfy the concerns of ethics officials.

Blanche, President Donald Trump's personal attorney during his New York criminal trial last year, was a cryptocurrency investor with holdings of between $159,000 and $485,000, records show.

To prevent possible violations of the federal conflicts of interest statute, Blanche promised to dump his digital assets no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March, according to his government ethics agreement. He also pledged not to participate in any matter that could have a "direct and predictable effect on my financial interests in the virtual currency" until his Bitcoin and other crypto-related products were sold.

But about a month into the job -- before divesting -- Blanche issued a memo that ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges launched during President Joe Biden's term. He also eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes.

And his memo said the Justice Department would assist Trump's crypto working group of experts and Cabinet members that went on to issue a list of recommendations aimed at making the United States the global leader in digital coins.

Blanche's directives, while he still owned significant crypto investments, violated the conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, legal experts and former federal ethics officials told ProPublica. ...