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Thursday, May 29, 2025

A federal court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law, swiftly throwing into doubt Trump's signature set of economic policies that have rattled global financial markets, frustrated trade partners and raised broader fears about inflation intensifying and the economy slumping. The ruling from a three-judge panel at the New York-based U.S. Court of International Trade came after several lawsuits arguing Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs exceeded his authority and left the country's trade policy dependent on his whims.


Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Elon Musk's bromance with President Donald Trump has taken a hit after the tech billionaire blasted the White House for 'undermining' him and treating DOGE like 'whipping boys.' The billionaire Tesla CEO spoke to the press before launching a SpaceX Starship into the stratosphere on Tuesday night and unleashed on Trump's $3.8 trillion spending bill. 'It undermines the work that the DOGE team is doing,' Musk bluntly told CBS. 'I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill, frankly, which increases the budget deficit, not just decreases it.'


Wednesday, May 21, 2025

Joe Biden was not for Open Borders, he never talked about Open Borders, where criminals of all kinds, shapes, and sizes, can flow into our Country at will. It wasn't his idea to Open the Border, and almost destroy our Country, and cost us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars to get criminals out of our Country and go through the process we are going through now. It was the people that knew he was cognitively impaired, and that took over the Autopen. They stole the Presidency of the United States and put us in Great Danger. This is TREASON at the Highest Level! They did it to destroy our Country. The Joe Biden that everybody knew would never allow drug dealers, gang members, and the mentally insane to come into our Country totally unchecked and unvetted. All anyone has to do is look up his record. Something very severe should happen to these Treasonous Thugs that wanted to destroy our Country, but couldn't, because I came along. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!


Sunday, May 18, 2025

Pay attention to an important shift in tone in Washington as Republicans evolve with President Donald Trump's brand of populism. read more


Saturday, May 17, 2025

And when thyself with silver foot shall pass Among the theories scattered on the grass Take up my good intentions with the rest And then for Christ's sake stick them up your ass.


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Ronald Reagan claimed that the Russian language had no word for "freedom." (The word is "svoboda"; it's quite well attested in Russian literature.) Ronald Reagan said that intercontinental ballistic missiles (not that there are any non-ballistic missiles"a corruption of language that isn't his fault) could be recalled once launched. Ronald Reagan said that he sought a "Star Wars" defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R. Ronald Reagan professed to be annoyed when people called it "Star Wars," even though he had ended his speech on the subject with the lame quip, "May the force be with you." Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars. Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the "End Times" foreshadowed in the Bible. In the Oval Office, Ronald Reagan told Yitzhak Shamir and Simon Wiesenthal, on two separate occasions, that he himself had assisted personally at the liberation of the Nazi death camps.

There was more to Ronald Reagan than that. Reagan announced that apartheid South Africa had "stood beside us in every war we've ever fought," when the South African leadership had been on the other side in the most recent world war. Reagan allowed Alexander Haig to greenlight the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982, fired him when that went too far and led to mayhem in Beirut, then ran away from Lebanon altogether when the Marine barracks were bombed, and then unbelievably accused Tip O'Neill and the Democrats of "scuttling." Reagan sold heavy weapons to the Iranian mullahs and lied about it, saying that all the weapons he hadn't sold them (and hadn't traded for hostages in any case) would, all the same, have fit on a small truck. Reagan then diverted the profits of this criminal trade to an illegal war in Nicaragua and lied unceasingly about that, too. Reagan then modestly let his underlings maintain that he was too dense to understand the connection between the two impeachable crimes. He then switched without any apparent strain to a policy of backing Saddam Hussein against Iran. (If Margaret Thatcher's intelligence services had not bugged Oliver North in London and become infuriated because all European nations were boycotting Iran at Reagan's request, we might still not know about this.)

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Alright, buckle up buttercup, because we're diving headfirst into the political mosh pit, and let me tell you, it ain't pretty. We're talking about that glorious, shambolic institution we lovingly (and sometimes less than lovingly) call the GOP. Now, they've been flogging this line about Donald Trump being the savior, the only guy with the guts to finally, *finally* punch the "establishment" square in its pasty, moderate face. It's been their mantra for, what, a decade now? Ten years of MAGA-splaining, where every dipstick with a red hat will tell you the same tired fairy tale. Before Trump, they moan, the Republican Party was overrun by a bunch of pantywaist, country club types, all talk and no trousers. They *said* they'd cut taxes, dismantle Obamacare, and whip those welfare slackers into shape. But when push came to shove? Zilch. Nada. They were all hat and no cattle, and they reserved their special brand of venom for the actual conservatives trying to rattle the cage.

And then, boom! Along comes The Donald, riding in like a platinum-haired, golden-escalator-descending Valkyrie, ready to "fight." He was the corrective measure, they say. The one to fix all the "failures." Well, color me unimpressed. This whole narrative? It always smelled fishier than week-old mahi-mahi, and now? It's a full-blown comedy. Because guess what? Trump and his crew have turned out to be exactly the same as the so-called "establishment" they claimed to despise. Old Donnie promised to balance the budget, for crying out loud! Said he'd do what hadn't been done in 24 years. Two months later? He's throwing money around like a drunken sailor on shore leave, blowing up the deficit, and attacking any Republican who dares suggest a hint of fiscal responsibility.

Honestly, it's like watching your grandpa put on your dad's old leather jacket and trying to convince you he's now a rebellious biker. He's still your grandpa, and he's still wearing plaid pants under that leather. You can dress it up, but it's still the same song and dance. Politics is not some newfangled invention. Coalitions? They need wrangling. Electoral math? It's as constant as gravity, and it doesn't change just because some reality TV star decided to run for president. So, save me the sermons about Trump being "different." He's just another guy playing the same game, and frankly, he's not playing it any better.

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This good, detailed NPR article serves as reminder is that the White House is full of Nazi sympathizers and that the Trump Regime's constant claim to be "fighting antisemitism" is a transparent pretext to punish protesters, universities, and other people and entities they hate.

Remember that the next time you come across a news article or a piece of commentary which credulously repeats the claim that the Regime's authoritarian crackdown is somehow being done to "combat antisemitism" or that it in any way constitutes a defense of Jewish people. It shouldn't be hard, as such patently disingenuous statements are published nearly every day.

Trump and many of his senior advisors at best, see Jewish people as mere tools they can use to advance their own agenda. At worst, they view them with hatred and disdain. Their words, their deeds, deeds such as granting political asylum and permanent residency to a man who posted Jews are dangerous' and who shares Holocaust denial content online and their associations make that plain.

Trump just granted asylum to a man who posted Jews are dangerous'

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