Profiteer in his own Land

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/4791069-project-2025-farming-food-aid/ “Steep increases in logging. An end to federal environmental enforcement for farms. Work requirements for food aid. Fewer school meals for children. And the demolition of the network of farm subsidies that have backstopped Big Ag since the New Deal.” “These are some of the sweeping changes that would be made to American agriculture under Project 2025…” “The project proposes ending “safety nets” such as the Agriculture Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) programs, which pay farmers of selected commodities when the prices of those commodities fall below a predetermined level.” “It also pushes to cut government subsidies for crop insurance — for which taxpayers currently pick up about two-thirds of the cost — and to end the sugar program, which manages U.S. sugar production to keep prices high.” “The project’s agriculture section proposes moving SNAP from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Health and Human Services. Bakst also argues that a future administration should make recipients work or apply for jobs for more than 20 hours a week.” “Additionally, it proposes reversing the Biden administration’s 2021 reforms that sought to increase SNAP disbursements to reflect the real-world costs of healthy food — and rejiggering the federal math that determines whether all students in a district have access to free meals. The next administration, Bakst argues in the project, should “reject efforts to create universal free school meals.” “…the plan seeks to ban the use of prescribed burns to reduce the amount of fire-prone vegetation in forests — something Republican lawmakers have also pushed for. Instead, Project 2025 would fight wildfires with increased logging — a strategy that many ecologists argue makes fires worse.” “The project also seeks to constrict or eliminate the Conservation Reserve Program, which was established in 1985 to pay farmers to fallow sensitive land to give it time to recover. Its creation was part of a broader attempt to slow the loss of American topsoil, which is both the basis of the food system and is vanishing 25 times faster than it is generated.” ps – They also plan to deport a lot of your farm labor, so any… Read more »

Craig – tRUMPsky has brought up nukes a few times, associating them with different things, but it always seems like a threat of Russian (or N Korean) nukes if he isn’t re-elected.  
 

The nude modeling thing is actually her attempt to help Putin’s puppet.  It’s just another distraction, so folks aren’t paying attention to policy.  Probably self-serving, too, if she’d putting out a book.  

His followers have no issue with him being an adjudicated rapist.  If someone is actually ~undecided~ after his abysmal presidency and his disgusting and illegal behavior, nude pics won’t sway them. 

If the media isn’t talking about their policy, that’s a win for the orange fascist.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/federal-reserve-interest-rate-09-18-24/index.html

“In a significant shift for the US economy, the Federal Reserve is expected Wednesday to announce its first interest rate cut since Covid.”

Folks will make even less interest on savings, unless they gamble with it in the market.  In the olden days, my great-aunt lived off of laddered CDs that made about 12%.  They already dropped from between 5 and 6% to between 3 and 4%.  Game over.

The Fed screwing with interest rates helps those seeking loans, but hurts the other side of the equation; the bank is a middleman on whom the aforementioned screwing has no impact. Making out like bandits.

“Dow jumps 300 points after Fed cuts rates by a half point”

And, we know gains can be wiped out in no time at all.

“The most apparent effect: An interest rate cut could help ease the upward pressure on mortgage rates, making one piece of the home buying equation more affordable.”

The other side would be limited supply of affordable housing, because vultures have bought houses to make money, not to live in.

“Sales at US retailers, which are adjusted for seasonal swings but not inflation, rose 0.1% in August from the prior month, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday. That was some unexpected good news about the economy’s health because economists projected retail sales to decline 0.2%.”

Consumers are paying more for less. As noted, those numbers aren’t adjusted for inflation.

Too bad the NV & MI Teamsters didn’t announce soon enough to make an addendum to the evening news.   Sure glad they broke ranks, though.   

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/media/elon-musk-trump-rally-bomb-election-misinformation/index.html

“Elon Musk boosts fake Trump rally bomb threat and false claims about the election”
 
“Elon Musk is using his social media platform to promote misinformation about the presidential candidates in the lead up to the November election, amplifying false claims Wednesday about a Trump rally bomb threat and immigrants eating pets in Ohio.”
 
“…Musk wrote in a now-deleted X post that “no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala.” 

“…Musk also joined a chorus of conspiracy-minded X users circulating a hoax “affidavit” from a purported “whistleblower” that claimed last week’s ABC News debate was rigged to help Kamala Harris. ABC has since confirmed the typo-ridden document was fake.”

“Then on Wednesday, Musk reshared a bogus claim that a bomb had been discovered near the site of a planned Trump rally in Long Island. Police said in a statement that “reports of explosives being found at the site are unfounded.”

“While Musk’s pithy reaction to the fake threat is still live on X, the initial post has since been deleted. Musk’s own post has been earmarked with a crowd-sourced “community notes” fact-check that makes clear the claim was false. Still, in the post’s first two and a half hours, it garnered 4.3 million views and was reshared 9,800 times.”

“Also on Wednesday, Musk reshared a video falsely claiming the city manager of Springfield, Ohio, admitted in March that there had been reports of Haitian immigrants eating pets, captioning the post “Always Be Cheating News,” a clear knock on ABC’s moderators, who had fact-checked Trump’s false claims on the matter at the debate.”

“Musk’s post, which boosted false claims about Haitian immigrants that have been promoted by Trump and his running mate, JD Vance, leading to dozens of bomb threats at schools and municipal buildings in the Ohio city, garnered more than 7.9 million views and 36,000 reshares.”

“Hours later, Musk shared a map purporting to be from Nate Silver, the renowned statistician and FiveThirtyEight founder, projecting a 312-226 electoral college victory for Trump in November, saying the election was “trending well.” The map, however, was a fake.”
 
Elon really wants that tax break from the orange felon. Please revoke his US citizenship and deport him.