Trump and his Sharpie will direct the storms away from his voters. Musk will take a break from doodling rocket ships and tweet about how much fraud his incel pirates have found in NOAA and FEMA. All is well.

That's what women do.

"Darling, you're only a woman, you're not expected to have either judgment or intelligence!"

Authoritarian landslide

I wouldn't mind an authoritarian landslide. Things would run smoother. What bugs me is that Trump is a joke. The tiny-fingered vulgarian always has been. I still laugh when he says what he says. I can't take buffoons seriously.

That said, if someone like Mark Cuban or Emily Ratajkowski (for reasons that appeal to me personally)were to take power, I'd be interested.

Told you. It's all theatre. All they care about is fundraising.

It's a Biden spending bill. The only reason the Democrats are protesting is to make Trump explain why he's in control of all branches of government and can't pass a budget.

Democrats will cave, like they always do, but they will get much of what they want. It's all theatre.

If Canada becomes a state, we'll have thirty million more people on welfare. Wanton Canucks will overrun Florida and Arizona. What a disaster.

says that you need to detox, that it will be good for you

Jimmy Carter said the same thing.

Republicans, remember: You asked for this. Given the choice between a dozen solid conservatives and one Clinton-supporting con artist and game-show host, you chose the con artist.
You chose him freely. Nobody made you do it.

Countries have always wanted a real reason to hate the United States. Now they have one.

How did y'all even survive this:

It's almost like the deck was stacked intentionally.

1. Lower the bar to getting a loan
2. Sell the loans in bundles to REITs
3. Foreclose on those in default
4. Wholesale properties to corporate investors
5. Rent homes back to the foreclosed on
6. Sell stocks to buy more/ build more high-density urban dwellings
7. Squeeze farmers out for environmental do-goodism
8. Outsource farming to countries without environmental standards
9. Claim you are saving the world

FFS

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We're heading for the day of blessings, I'm telling ya.
It's all building up to something.
Something that can only be redeemed with fire.

I didn't vote for Kamala or Trump.

The middle of the road is the most dangerous place to be.

This is Trump flunkies crashing the market so that they can reap the inevitable rebound.

Much like the tariff threats, it's all market manipulation.

Get used to it.

They had JFK killed for less

They're going to privatize everything.

Many of my European friends are reeling from the events of the past two weeks. They feel the way many US allies felt on the night of Sunday, Aug. 15, 1971, after President Nixon had gone on TV to announce a 10% surcharge on all imports, a supposedly temporary suspension of the convertibility of the dollar into gold, and a 90-day wage and price freeze.

WASHINGTON: In what is being called a historic performance, on Tuesday night Donald J. Trump set a new world record for delivering the longest speech that did not include a single fact.

Congressional Republicans were awestruck by their leader's ability, at the age of 78, to give such a sustained fact-free oration.

"To stand up there for 99 minutes and not accidentally slip up even once by saying something true?" House Speaker Mike Johnson said. "He's still got it."

Republicans contrasted Trump's address favorably with the Democratic response of Sen. Elissa Slotkin, who spoke only briefly but whose remarks were riddled with facts.

-The Borowitz Report

Yeah, all that cash to boost people's self-esteem is a total waste of $$$. Let'em go to therapy and get prescribed happy pills. That's the way lobbyists like it.

They're going to privatize everything. This is what happens when a group of assets liquidating robber barons get elected.

Canada generates 1/5th of its GDP by selling into the US

Mexico generates more than 1/3rd of its GDP by selling into the US

The US generates just 1/50th its GDP selling into both

Trade wars hurt everyone but Trump "has the cards" and he knows it

This will increase consumer prices, no doubt. But it has the potential to drive both Mexico and Canada into a depression which is why they are panicking. Trump intends to use this to negotiate border security and to bolster domestic industry.

Will it work? TBD

But don't let people lie about who has the leverage here. The US economy is the golden goose and the whole world knows it.

This is partly the Dems fault. They put up perhaps the worst presidential candidate of all time. Handing the election to Trump. Thanks Dems.

And thanks Republicans for not picking a better Republican candidate for president. Both sides flunk.

That's the five things I did last week.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat