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It’s the Stupid, Stupid
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The president who said his policies would never change changed his tariff policy today, after telling the nation to chill out, but not before China struck back with a threat to deny American filmmakers access to their lucrative market.
Desi Lydic tracks Trump’s “Tariff Day” roller coaster ride, from his shock announcement of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, to slapping even more tariffs on China. Plus, Olivia Munn explains how Trump’s tariff chaos is all just brushstrokes in the art of his deal.
China is one of the largest owners of U.S. debt. All told the People’s Republic of China (PBOC) owns about $750 billion in Treasuries. And by the look of things, China is starting to dump these bonds as part of the trade war.
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Put simply, China’s financial system is in VERY serious trouble. And they are in desperate need of capital which is why it is highly likely they are beginning to dump their Treasury holdings, forcing Treasury bonds to collapse alongside stocks.
If this doesn’t improve soon, we could soon see an international crisis as China’s financial system breaks down in a major way. Which means…
This crisis/ bear market is NOWHERE near over.
Put simply, all of the above items are MAJOR warnings that a crisis is about to hit. This is no longer about tariffs… the Everything Bubble is bursting right before our eyes.
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stupid is as stupid does – like maybe provoking china into war, a trade war or otherwise.
every day I wake up and I can’t believe the country made this grand asshole president
Have a great day
All he got was phone calls
lol “they explain”
trump’s a weak, foolish cuck
there saved you some time
(additional note: “cuck” is the new male form of “bitch” among the younger set, very appropriate in this case)
“The world economy is gyrating wildly, war rages in Ukraine and Gaza and the president of the United States just signed an executive ordered titled: “MAINTAINING ACCEPTABLE WATER PRESSURE IN SHOWERHEADS.” — Peter Baker (NYT)
They’re just kidnapping people and asking questions later. DOJ is dropping its prosecution of a man it identified as an MS-13 leader and whose capture was celebrated with a huge press conference by AG Bondi, Kash Patel and Glenn Youngkin.
trumpco = terrorist org
Message from YouTube. My Lazy Man Cooks! is catching on.
Inflation cooled significantly in March, giving consumers a bit of a break before a wave of new tariffs began to kick in this month.
A key gauge of inflation — the consumer price index — showed Thursday that prices rose by 2.4 percent in March from a year earlier. That was much cooler than a 2.8 percent annual gain reported for February and a welcome sign of progress in combating high inflation.
Oval Office conversation between Bessent and Dumbass last Tuesday:
B: The report on inflation coming out next week is looking good. Looks like it will be in the mid 2s for March, so you’ll be able to claim your policies are working to reduce prices.
D: I’ll get right on that – Later today I’m announcing tariffs on everyone and steep tariffs on China.
B. You understand that will cause prices on imported good to rise and American consumers will have to pay more for anything they buy from overseas.
D. Foreign leaders will be coming to kiss my ass to get a better deal.
B. But prices will still rise, hurting Americans, and the stock markets will all tank when you make that announcement, killing Americans’ 401Ks and pensions that are invested in the markets.
D. Well. I’ll look tough. They can kiss my ass.
ya gotta impeach this clown GOP
yes, you are all also clowns, i understand your dilemma
do the right thing regardless
No signed warrant is kidnapping. Are they all ICE, or private bounty hunters?
Then, the kidnap victims are moved across state lines, which is human trafficking.
The conditions in US facilities have included denial of food, water, or medical care. There have been at least 3 deaths at the KROME concentration camp in Florida. WHO know what the conditions are in El Salvador? Those are human rights violations.
I hope Adolf, Vance, Elon (that Ebola funding never restarted), Vought, RFKJ, Leavitt, Hegseth, and every Republican/Heritage Foundation member is tried (Nuremberg-style), and their lives are ruined the way they are ruining (and taking) the lives of others.
By the way, Joseph Coors was the primary funder of Heritage, so boycott Coors products, in addition to WalMart, if you can.
April 12th will be here soon. My new thought: SFB is having his physical on Friday. Maybe all of his arteries are blocked, he has surgery and kicks off on the 12th, giving The Simpsons another prophetic win.
Everyone hates JD and Smarmy Johnson, and the probably hate each other. It will unravel.
Also, just because the media is afraid to report honestly (or maybe some are in cahoots with this administration) doesn’t mean that journalists aren’t out there talking to folks, collecting documents, and getting ready for a moment to spring the big story via non-legacy media.
Trump’s ‘buy’ tip on social media before his tariffs pause made money for investors who listened Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs.
Trump caught out as he’s overheard making outrageous brag to his friends “I guess they say it was the biggest day in financial history. That’s a pretty big change. And I think the word would be flexible. You have to be flexible.”
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*There is also video of him inside the WH, bragging about how much money his friends made. Here the deal: We still lost TRILLIONS, and some folks will never recover the losses in their retirement accounts because they don’t have enough years left.
Between stock manipulation/insider trading, cutting benefits for average Americans to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, and possibly ending SS (or making it harder to access), we might have the equivalent of folks jumping out of windows when the market died in the 1920s. Folks will die because of what SFB & his mobsters do.
Anon – I’ve called my Rep daily since late January, and several times I’ve brought impeachment. Dem & Repug need to hear it. Make some noise.
Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Looking at the markets this morning all I can say is that Thursday ain’t Wednesday.
Six hills of russets, one row of beets, one row of lettuce, one row of carrots next to the radishes, a second row of onions (red/yellow/white), two jalapeño plants. I’m done until tomorrow.
They are stupid, to be sure, but less stupid than dishonest. Dishonesty to the core, to everyone, to each other, and above all to themselves.
New White House tip line to report immigrants bombarded with calls to arrest Musk
The uproar was spurred by a post to X on Sunday, where the White House promoted a 24-hour tip line for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“ICE 24/7 TIP LINE,” the post said. “866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423).”
Musk, who also owns X, illegally worked in the U.S. for a brief period in 1995, according to a report from the Washington Post.
In addition to the tip line, the White House also shared a link to an online form operated by ICE where undocumented immigrants could be reported.
Aside from the comments directed at Musk, critics of the billionaire also called for the phone number and online form to be bombarded.
“absolutely do NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES flood this line with prank calls,” one user wrote. “that would be horrible.”
Over on Bluesky, users likewise urged their followers to overwhelm the tip line alongside the hashtag #DeportElonMusk. “Flood those lines,” one user said.
*Despicable to snitch on your neighbors. I would NOT test the waters on reporting MuskRat, but it’s fun to think about.
Vladimir Putin targets Ukraine civilians as Russian drone attacks set Kyiv ablaze
As UK and France hold ‘coalition of the willing’ meeting to discuss Ukraine mission the Russian President steps up his ruthless Kremlin attacks on Kyiv’s civilians
Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been rocked by explosions as Russia launched another brutal drone attack aimed at hitting civilians. Drone attacks sparked fires across the city hours after Ukraine ’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Kremlin of ‘dragging’ China into the war.
He was commenting having earlier revealed that two Chinese nationals have been taken prisoner whilst fighting alongside Russian troops. The Ukraine leader stormed: “Such an overt involvement of Chinese citizens in combat operations on the territory of Ukraine is a deliberate step towards expanding the war.” Beijing’s foreign ministry has denied the involvement of Chinese troops in Ukraine and it is possible the two men were hired mercenaries.
Zelensky has stressed that “many more” Chinese citizens are involved in the war, whilst avoiding the word “soldiers.” The midnight attack on Kyiv left one person trapped and three injured.
Locals were rushed to air-raid shelters as sirens rang out. An overnight drone attack on the southern city of Mykolaiv injured ten from falling debris after drones were shot down and dozens of buildings were hit.
Tales from the real world: Tomorrow will be the last day for one of the best workers in the son’s unit. She has always worked remotely do to have a disabled son at home and hiring someone to care for him during work days would defeat the whole idea of being employed. When ordered back to work by the DOGE idiots, she had to resign so is taking the buyout and departing. End result, they lose a good employee, pay for several months while she does no work except for looking for remote work elsewhere.
Republicans fall in line to pass Senate budget framework, paving way for Trump’s tax plans Lawmakers voted 216-214 to advance the budget blueprint, narrowly overcoming the majority threshold needed to pass the chamber. Only two Republicans voted against the measure, including Reps. Thomas Massie and Victoria Spartz.
“Our first big, beautiful reconciliation package here involves a number of commitments, and one of those is that we are committed to finding at least $1.5 trillion in savings for the American people while also preserving our essential programs,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Thursday.
That number emerged as a key sticking point for fiscal hawks in the House, who balked at a provision in the Senate blueprint calling for just $4 billion in spending cuts — far below the $1.5 trillion marker in the original House budget.
To further sweeten the deal, Johnson said the $1.5 trillion deal would act as a minimum target, vowing to “aim much higher and find those savings because we believe they are there.”
Trump played a heavy hand in negotiations, meeting with a number of holdouts at the White House on Tuesday as he urged lawmakers to advance the package and negotiate finer details down the road. The president was also active on social media and posted several missives on Wednesday and Thursday pressing Republicans to get the resolution over the finish line.
Now with the blueprint advanced, House and Senate committees can get to work drafting their portions of the reconciliation package. GOP leaders hope to get those components finalized and passed by Memorial Day, an ambitious timeline that could get delayed if House and Senate Republicans continue to disagree over spending cut totals.
*So long Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, SNAP (farm subsidies), etc.
FBI Director Kash Patel was removed from his role as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, U.S. officials confirmed on Wednesday.
Four Democrats join Republicans to pass SAVE Act bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote
Voting rights advocates warn GOP bill would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters
The measure — predicated on the GOP’s baseless claims that noncitizens are fraudulently voting in federal elections —would disproportionately impact women and rural and disabled voters, according to election law experts.
*Also, military serving overseas would be impacted.
Lawmakers approved the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in a 220-208 vote, with four Democrats —
Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii;
Henry Cuellar of Texas;
Jared Golden of Maine;
and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state
— joining every Republican present in support of the measure.
*Four traitors! Primary their asses!
ok learn how to protect that lettuce from regional pests, nice job, keep it up 💪
A Dem woman voted for the SAVE Act! WTF?
BB – Was the attempt to make Vlad go boom in a limo an inside job?
I know their vehicles have to be armored like “the beast.”
Why not fill the car with bees and lock the doors?
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change.
*What happened to leaving everything up to the states?
So far no one or group has claimed ownership of making the limo look like it was at the Ukraine front. Very unusual. If Ukraine special services type group did it, they do not want to give anything away. If it was internal, KGB (new version) does not want to give anything out which might make it look like there are people actually trying to do in puttie. There is no evidence of a Ukraine drone hitting it. So there you have it -a something nobody wants to talk about.
Two LAUSD schools denied entry to federal agents amidst immigration enforcement fears
LAUSD Superintendent Carvalho said he would put his job on the line to protect students
Two federal officials attempted to enter Lillian Street Elementary School and Russell Elementary School on Monday — both located in L.A.’s Florence-Graham neighborhood. School administrators turned them away, following Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) protocols.
The agents were from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the district later confirmed.
The attempt to enter two LAUSD schools comes after Trump’s administration authorized federal agents to enter “sensitive areas” to conduct immigration-related investigations — something that was against the Biden administration’s guidelines.
*They will kidnap children!?! ~Hardened criminals, I’m sure~ Signed warrant to arrest a third-grader? If not, kidnapping and child endangerment. Do they want to snatch the kid as leverage to smoke out the parents/relatives?
At the White House Thursday, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump admitted that U.S. troops have been deployed to the Panama Canal.
“We’re taking back the canal. China’s had too much influence, Obama and others let them creep in. We along with Panama are pushing them out, Sir,” Hegseth said to Trump at a Cabinet meeting held in front of the press, adding that after his trip to the country earlier this week, President José Raúl Mulino spoke positively of partnering with U.S. troops to get “the Communist Chinese out.”
*China already made a deal (long ago) with Mexico. Goods will reach a Chinese port on the West coast of Mexico, move by rail (already under construction) across the narrowest part of Mexico, and leave a Chinese port on the East coast of Mexico.
Trump Administration Opens More than 50% of Protected U.S. Forest Land for Logging: What That Means Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claims that turning trees into timber will help prevent wildfires, though experts have deemed it a harmful and inefficient method
Congress Is Seriously Considering Public Land Sales as Part of Its New Budget
It’s the most stark signal yet that congressional Republicans are seriously considering disposal of federal lands. Now, they’ve apparently identified the budget reconciliation process as the vehicle to achieve that goal.
“This is being framed around the idea of addressing housing, but the risk we see is that this could touch down in communities that aren’t asking for this,” says Joel Webster, chief conservation officer for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
“If you’re in a community that has public lands in and around it, you could be caught up in a mandate to sell lands that have nothing to do with addressing housing costs.”
Gabbard’s Pick to Run Counterterrorism Center Aided Start of a Right-Wing Paramilitary Group
…Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, past CIA officer, and twice-failed MAGA congressional candidate in Washington state, who, as the Associated Press reported, “stands out for the breadth of his ties to a deep-seated extremist fringe.” During his first campaign in 2022, Kent consulted with white nationalist Nick Fuentes on social-media strategy. He also had a member of the Proud Boys on his campaign staff, and he embraced as a supporter and ally Joey Gibson, the leader of Patriot Prayer, a Christian nationalist group.
On September 20, 2020, Robert Patrick Lewis, a former Green Beret and QAnon supporter, posted a long thread on Twitter (now X) that announced the formation of the group. Lewis declared that a band of “military, law enforcement & intel community veterans” had come together to protect the First Amendment rights of conservatives. He presented a harsh, conspiratorial, and paranoid view, claiming, “There are Marxist & leftist politicians aiming to lock down total control over our populace.” He asserted, “Their tyrannical, Marxist subversive groups such as ANTIFA & BLM demand total subservience to and adulation of their specific view of the world.” And he maintained the “corrupted Main Stream Media does their best to tarnish the reputation and destroy the lives of any public or private citizen who dares step up to them or fight back against their narrative.”
Soon after forming 1Ap, Lewis presented it not only as a security service for the right but as an intelligence operation. He told Fox News, “Our intelligence shows that no matter who wins the election, they [Antifa] are planning a massive ‘Antifa Tet Offensive,’ bent on destroying the global order they are not beholden to any one party. Their sole purpose is to create havoc, fear, and intimidation.” (No such uprising occurred.) After the election, 1AP claimed it was collecting evidence of fraud. On January 6, as the riot began at the Capitol, Lewis tweeted, “Today is the day the true battles begin.” (He later said he was at the Willard Hotel, not Capitol Hill, that day.)
” In January, 1AP posted on Telegram that there were “mumblings” that Kent could be appointed to lead the National Counterterrorism Center and that this “would be a very good thing. I could not support this more strongly.”
Kent has an established record as an extremist and promoter of conspiracy theories. During his 2022 run, he called for charging Dr. Anthony Fauci with murder to hold him “accountable” for the “scam that is Covid.” He promoted Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him. He backed the idea the January 6 riot was orchestrated by the Deep State to discredit Trump and his supporters. He referred to the J6 rioters as “political prisoners.” He pushed the notion that billionaire Bill Gates was seeking to “control the food supply” and “control housing” to force people to “live in the pod eat the bugs.”
Like Gabbard, Kent has no experience in leading a large intelligence organization. (After serving in the Army, he was a field operative for the CIA for a short time.) Both Kent and Gabbard were on the infamous Signalgate chat. As head of the NCTC, Kent will have the responsibility for monitoring and preventing both foreign and domestic terrorism. But his past as a conspiracy theorist and his association with far-right extremists raise questions about his analytical abilities and his capacity to assess threats of domestic terrorism that arise from the right.
There has been increasing attention in recent weeks on travelers being hassled at the U.S. border with searches of their digital devices—and in some cases, denied entry as a result of what was found. Therefore, it’s worth keeping in mind that there is a possibility when you arrive to the U.S. from abroad that law enforcement will pull you aside and request to search your phone, computer, and other electronics.
Supreme Court says Trump officials must ‘facilitate’ return of wrongly deported man
Kilmer Abrego García, a Salvadoran immigrant who is married to a U.S. citizen, was deported to a mega-prison despite a court ruling forbidding his removal.
About fuckin’ time.
Craig – But my family all believe the Faux reports of fraud. It’s sad. None of the broadcast networks do much to dispute anything.
They do not want Garcia returned to the US, and that’s IF he is still alive. Can you imagine the details of the whole operation he could spill?
Not flying until MTV guy is gone. Need to find out which members of Congress were on the plane that had its wings clipped today. If y’all fly, even domestically, I’d get a burner phone, zero contacts, zero social media, minimal apps.
BID, don’t travel. You’re active enough here that you’re 98% likely to be grabbed when you go through TSA checkpoints.
Plane with at least 6 House members clipped by aircraft on taxiway at Reagan National Airport near D.C.
Reps. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.; Grace Meng, D-N.Y.; and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., all confirmed on social media that they were aboard the American Airlines plane that was clipped at about 12:45 p.m.
Two of them also confirmed that Reps Adriano Espaillat and Ritchie Torres, both Democrats from New York, were also aboard.
Meeks said seven “members of Congress were on board along with dozens of other concerned passengers.”
Recommendation: Smart Girl Dumb Questions podcast with guest, Mark Cuban: Can Billionaires Save Us?
Ha! China’s original retaliatory tariffs were 34%.
34 for 34
Mr. Trump has now surrounded himself with loyalists who want him to be able to do whatever he wants, in contrast to some of his first-term lawyers and other appointees who sometimes raised legal objections or tried to curb policy ideas they saw as too extreme. And he has been emboldened by a Supreme Court ruling last year that granted presidents immunity from prosecution over their interactions with the Justice Department.
It’s widely known that during his first term, the so-called adults in the room thwarted some of Trump’s most destructive whims. There have been far fewer such figures in the Trump sequel, resulting in the wholesale degradation of American governance. The conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer just directed a purge of the National Security Council. Thanks to Elon Musk’s haphazard cuts, employees who once worked to prevent the spread of diseases like Ebola are gone, as are nuclear safety experts. There’s no one in the executive branch willing to publicly push back on Trump’s threats to take over Canada. Somehow, traders failed to recognize that there would eventually be economic fallout from such profound misrule.
“The markets should have put two and two together that if you’re talking about annexing Greenland, Canada, the Panama Canal, you’re probably going to be more radical on trade as well,” said Berezin.
But Wall Street professionals, like so many other ostensibly smart people, refused to see Trump clearly, mistaking his skill as a demagogue for wisdom as a policymaker. “I don’t think this was foreseeable,” a mournful Ackman posted on X on Monday. “I assumed economic rationality would be paramount.” What an odd assumption to make about a man who bankrupted casinos.
The president who said his policies would never change changed his tariff policy today, after telling the nation to chill out, but not before China struck back with a threat to deny American filmmakers access to their lucrative market.
Desi Lydic tracks Trump’s “Tariff Day” roller coaster ride, from his shock announcement of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs, to slapping even more tariffs on China. Plus, Olivia Munn explains how Trump’s tariff chaos is all just brushstrokes in the art of his deal.
from Forbes: US Rally at Risk as China May Be Dumping Treasuries
from cainspainscapital.com yesterday:
What Happens if China Dumps Its Treasury Holdings? – GAINS, PAINS & CAPITAL
stupid is as stupid does – like maybe provoking china into war, a trade war or otherwise.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FknkZEcXkAMR2MT?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
every day I wake up and I can’t believe the country made this grand asshole president
Have a great day
All he got was phone calls
lol “they explain”
trump’s a weak, foolish cuck
there saved you some time
(additional note: “cuck” is the new male form of “bitch” among the younger set, very appropriate in this case)
“The world economy is gyrating wildly, war rages in Ukraine and Gaza and the president of the United States just signed an executive ordered titled: “MAINTAINING ACCEPTABLE WATER PRESSURE IN SHOWERHEADS.” — Peter Baker (NYT)
Lazy Man Cooks! on Chicken Economics.. https://youtu.be/4jRvOLrjjic?si=80YPlWojm6MqybBH
lol they tried to replace Keith Moon
not possible
They’re just kidnapping people and asking questions later. DOJ is dropping its prosecution of a man it identified as an MS-13 leader and whose capture was celebrated with a huge press conference by AG Bondi, Kash Patel and Glenn Youngkin.
trumpco = terrorist org
Message from YouTube. My Lazy Man Cooks! is catching on.
Stupidity reigns at the WH. From WaPo.
Oval Office conversation between Bessent and Dumbass last Tuesday:
B: The report on inflation coming out next week is looking good. Looks like it will be in the mid 2s for March, so you’ll be able to claim your policies are working to reduce prices.
D: I’ll get right on that – Later today I’m announcing tariffs on everyone and steep tariffs on China.
B. You understand that will cause prices on imported good to rise and American consumers will have to pay more for anything they buy from overseas.
D. Foreign leaders will be coming to kiss my ass to get a better deal.
B. But prices will still rise, hurting Americans, and the stock markets will all tank when you make that announcement, killing Americans’ 401Ks and pensions that are invested in the markets.
D. Well. I’ll look tough. They can kiss my ass.
ya gotta impeach this clown GOP
yes, you are all also clowns, i understand your dilemma
do the right thing regardless
No signed warrant is kidnapping. Are they all ICE, or private bounty hunters?
Then, the kidnap victims are moved across state lines, which is human trafficking.
The conditions in US facilities have included denial of food, water, or medical care. There have been at least 3 deaths at the KROME concentration camp in Florida. WHO know what the conditions are in El Salvador? Those are human rights violations.
I hope Adolf, Vance, Elon (that Ebola funding never restarted), Vought, RFKJ, Leavitt, Hegseth, and every Republican/Heritage Foundation member is tried (Nuremberg-style), and their lives are ruined the way they are ruining (and taking) the lives of others.
By the way, Joseph Coors was the primary funder of Heritage, so boycott Coors products, in addition to WalMart, if you can.
April 12th will be here soon. My new thought: SFB is having his physical on Friday. Maybe all of his arteries are blocked, he has surgery and kicks off on the 12th, giving The Simpsons another prophetic win.
Everyone hates JD and Smarmy Johnson, and the probably hate each other. It will unravel.
Also, just because the media is afraid to report honestly (or maybe some are in cahoots with this administration) doesn’t mean that journalists aren’t out there talking to folks, collecting documents, and getting ready for a moment to spring the big story via non-legacy media.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-truth-social-djt-tesla-musk-tariffs-pause-fccfa6b06c8f1ec0cd7844641ca52669
Trump’s ‘buy’ tip on social media before his tariffs pause made money for investors who listened
Less than four hours later, Trump announced a 90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs.
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https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-caught-out-hes-overheard-35027508
Trump caught out as he’s overheard making outrageous brag to his friends
“I guess they say it was the biggest day in financial history. That’s a pretty big change. And I think the word would be flexible. You have to be flexible.”
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*There is also video of him inside the WH, bragging about how much money his friends made. Here the deal: We still lost TRILLIONS, and some folks will never recover the losses in their retirement accounts because they don’t have enough years left.
Between stock manipulation/insider trading, cutting benefits for average Americans to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, and possibly ending SS (or making it harder to access), we might have the equivalent of folks jumping out of windows when the market died in the 1920s. Folks will die because of what SFB & his mobsters do.
Anon – I’ve called my Rep daily since late January, and several times I’ve brought impeachment. Dem & Repug need to hear it. Make some noise.
Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Looking at the markets this morning all I can say is that Thursday ain’t Wednesday.
Six hills of russets, one row of beets, one row of lettuce, one row of carrots next to the radishes, a second row of onions (red/yellow/white), two jalapeño plants. I’m done until tomorrow.
They are stupid, to be sure, but less stupid than dishonest. Dishonesty to the core, to everyone, to each other, and above all to themselves.
New White House tip line to report immigrants bombarded with calls to arrest Musk
The uproar was spurred by a post to X on Sunday, where the White House promoted a 24-hour tip line for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
“ICE 24/7 TIP LINE,” the post said. “866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423).”
Musk, who also owns X, illegally worked in the U.S. for a brief period in 1995, according to a report from the Washington Post.
In addition to the tip line, the White House also shared a link to an online form operated by ICE where undocumented immigrants could be reported.
Aside from the comments directed at Musk, critics of the billionaire also called for the phone number and online form to be bombarded.
“absolutely do NOT under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES flood this line with prank calls,” one user wrote. “that would be horrible.”
Over on Bluesky, users likewise urged their followers to overwhelm the tip line alongside the hashtag #DeportElonMusk. “Flood those lines,” one user said.
*Despicable to snitch on your neighbors. I would NOT test the waters on reporting MuskRat, but it’s fun to think about.
today’s meme…
https://the-express.com/news/world-news/167643/moment-limo-putins-fleet-fire-167643
Limo from Putin’s fleet explodes and catches fire in Moscow amid assassination paranoia
*Why would US news suppress this? It happened last month.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/vladimir-putin-targets-ukraine-civilians-35030245
Vladimir Putin targets Ukraine civilians as Russian drone attacks set Kyiv ablaze
As UK and France hold ‘coalition of the willing’ meeting to discuss Ukraine mission the Russian President steps up his ruthless Kremlin attacks on Kyiv’s civilians
Ukrainian capital Kyiv has been rocked by explosions as Russia launched another brutal drone attack aimed at hitting civilians. Drone attacks sparked fires across the city hours after Ukraine ’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused the Kremlin of ‘dragging’ China into the war.
He was commenting having earlier revealed that two Chinese nationals have been taken prisoner whilst fighting alongside Russian troops. The Ukraine leader stormed: “Such an overt involvement of Chinese citizens in combat operations on the territory of Ukraine is a deliberate step towards expanding the war.” Beijing’s foreign ministry has denied the involvement of Chinese troops in Ukraine and it is possible the two men were hired mercenaries.
Zelensky has stressed that “many more” Chinese citizens are involved in the war, whilst avoiding the word “soldiers.” The midnight attack on Kyiv left one person trapped and three injured.
Locals were rushed to air-raid shelters as sirens rang out. An overnight drone attack on the southern city of Mykolaiv injured ten from falling debris after drones were shot down and dozens of buildings were hit.
Tales from the real world: Tomorrow will be the last day for one of the best workers in the son’s unit. She has always worked remotely do to have a disabled son at home and hiring someone to care for him during work days would defeat the whole idea of being employed. When ordered back to work by the DOGE idiots, she had to resign so is taking the buyout and departing. End result, they lose a good employee, pay for several months while she does no work except for looking for remote work elsewhere.
https://www.deseret.com/politics/2025/04/10/republicans-unlock-reconciliation-process/
Republicans fall in line to pass Senate budget framework, paving way for Trump’s tax plans
Lawmakers voted 216-214 to advance the budget blueprint, narrowly overcoming the majority threshold needed to pass the chamber. Only two Republicans voted against the measure, including Reps. Thomas Massie and Victoria Spartz.
“Our first big, beautiful reconciliation package here involves a number of commitments, and one of those is that we are committed to finding at least $1.5 trillion in savings for the American people while also preserving our essential programs,” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., announced alongside Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., on Thursday.
That number emerged as a key sticking point for fiscal hawks in the House, who balked at a provision in the Senate blueprint calling for just $4 billion in spending cuts — far below the $1.5 trillion marker in the original House budget.
To further sweeten the deal, Johnson said the $1.5 trillion deal would act as a minimum target, vowing to “aim much higher and find those savings because we believe they are there.”
Trump played a heavy hand in negotiations, meeting with a number of holdouts at the White House on Tuesday as he urged lawmakers to advance the package and negotiate finer details down the road. The president was also active on social media and posted several missives on Wednesday and Thursday pressing Republicans to get the resolution over the finish line.
Now with the blueprint advanced, House and Senate committees can get to work drafting their portions of the reconciliation package. GOP leaders hope to get those components finalized and passed by Memorial Day, an ambitious timeline that could get delayed if House and Senate Republicans continue to disagree over spending cut totals.
*So long Medicaid, veterans’ benefits, SNAP (farm subsidies), etc.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/kash-patel-removed-acting-atf-170935951.html
FBI Director Kash Patel was removed from his role as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and replaced by Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll, U.S. officials confirmed on Wednesday.
Real ID Deadline May 7
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/10/nx-s1-5355902/real-id-enforcement-may-7
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/house-vote-save-act-voter-id-b2731102.html
Four Democrats join Republicans to pass SAVE Act bill that requires proof of citizenship to vote
Voting rights advocates warn GOP bill would disenfranchise millions of eligible voters
The measure — predicated on the GOP’s baseless claims that noncitizens are fraudulently voting in federal elections —would disproportionately impact women and rural and disabled voters, according to election law experts.
*Also, military serving overseas would be impacted.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-passes-bill-requiring-proof-citizenship-vote-federal-elections-rcna200586
Lawmakers approved the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act in a 220-208 vote, with four Democrats —
Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii;
Henry Cuellar of Texas;
Jared Golden of Maine;
and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state
— joining every Republican present in support of the measure.
*Four traitors! Primary their asses!
ok learn how to protect that lettuce from regional pests, nice job, keep it up 💪
A Dem woman voted for the SAVE Act! WTF?
BB – Was the attempt to make Vlad go boom in a limo an inside job?
I know their vehicles have to be armored like “the beast.”
Why not fill the car with bees and lock the doors?
maybe the best video on youtube
Good song
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-issues-order-to-block-state-climate-change-policies/ar-AA1CAuow
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to block the enforcement of state laws passed to reduce the use of fossil fuels and combat climate change.
*What happened to leaving everything up to the states?
So far no one or group has claimed ownership of making the limo look like it was at the Ukraine front. Very unusual. If Ukraine special services type group did it, they do not want to give anything away. If it was internal, KGB (new version) does not want to give anything out which might make it look like there are people actually trying to do in puttie. There is no evidence of a Ukraine drone hitting it. So there you have it -a something nobody wants to talk about.
Two LAUSD schools denied entry to federal agents amidst immigration enforcement fears
LAUSD Superintendent Carvalho said he would put his job on the line to protect students
***
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/2-l-a-schools-deny-entry-for-federal-agents-as-immigration-enforcement-fears-ramp-up/
Two federal officials attempted to enter Lillian Street Elementary School and Russell Elementary School on Monday — both located in L.A.’s Florence-Graham neighborhood. School administrators turned them away, following Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) protocols.
The agents were from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the district later confirmed.
The attempt to enter two LAUSD schools comes after Trump’s administration authorized federal agents to enter “sensitive areas” to conduct immigration-related investigations — something that was against the Biden administration’s guidelines.
*They will kidnap children!?! ~Hardened criminals, I’m sure~ Signed warrant to arrest a third-grader? If not, kidnapping and child endangerment. Do they want to snatch the kid as leverage to smoke out the parents/relatives?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/cleanup-underway-after-keystone-pipeline-spills-3-500-barrels-of-oil/ar-AA1CGNUv?ocid=socialshare
The history of voter registration. Basically white men have made it difficult for anyone who wasn’t one, https://ivn.us/2014/09/08/brief-history-voter-registration-united-states
https://newrepublic.com/post/193871/trump-troops-panama-canal
At the White House Thursday, Secretary of State Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump admitted that U.S. troops have been deployed to the Panama Canal.
“We’re taking back the canal. China’s had too much influence, Obama and others let them creep in. We along with Panama are pushing them out, Sir,” Hegseth said to Trump at a Cabinet meeting held in front of the press, adding that after his trip to the country earlier this week, President José Raúl Mulino spoke positively of partnering with U.S. troops to get “the Communist Chinese out.”
*China already made a deal (long ago) with Mexico. Goods will reach a Chinese port on the West coast of Mexico, move by rail (already under construction) across the narrowest part of Mexico, and leave a Chinese port on the East coast of Mexico.
What is this really about?
https://people.com/trump-administration-opens-protected-forest-land-for-logging-11710807
Trump Administration Opens More than 50% of Protected U.S. Forest Land for Logging: What That Means
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claims that turning trees into timber will help prevent wildfires, though experts have deemed it a harmful and inefficient method
https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/congress-considering-federal-land-sales/
Congress Is Seriously Considering Public Land Sales as Part of Its New Budget
It’s the most stark signal yet that congressional Republicans are seriously considering disposal of federal lands. Now, they’ve apparently identified the budget reconciliation process as the vehicle to achieve that goal.
“This is being framed around the idea of addressing housing, but the risk we see is that this could touch down in communities that aren’t asking for this,” says Joel Webster, chief conservation officer for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership.
“If you’re in a community that has public lands in and around it, you could be caught up in a mandate to sell lands that have nothing to do with addressing housing costs.”
Gabbard’s Pick to Run Counterterrorism Center Aided Start of a Right-Wing Paramilitary Group
…Joe Kent, a former Green Beret, past CIA officer, and twice-failed MAGA congressional candidate in Washington state, who, as the Associated Press reported, “stands out for the breadth of his ties to a deep-seated extremist fringe.” During his first campaign in 2022, Kent consulted with white nationalist Nick Fuentes on social-media strategy. He also had a member of the Proud Boys on his campaign staff, and he embraced as a supporter and ally Joey Gibson, the leader of Patriot Prayer, a Christian nationalist group.
On September 20, 2020, Robert Patrick Lewis, a former Green Beret and QAnon supporter, posted a long thread on Twitter (now X) that announced the formation of the group. Lewis declared that a band of “military, law enforcement & intel community veterans” had come together to protect the First Amendment rights of conservatives. He presented a harsh, conspiratorial, and paranoid view, claiming, “There are Marxist & leftist politicians aiming to lock down total control over our populace.” He asserted, “Their tyrannical, Marxist subversive groups such as ANTIFA & BLM demand total subservience to and adulation of their specific view of the world.” And he maintained the “corrupted Main Stream Media does their best to tarnish the reputation and destroy the lives of any public or private citizen who dares step up to them or fight back against their narrative.”
Soon after forming 1Ap, Lewis presented it not only as a security service for the right but as an intelligence operation. He told Fox News, “Our intelligence shows that no matter who wins the election, they [Antifa] are planning a massive ‘Antifa Tet Offensive,’ bent on destroying the global order they are not beholden to any one party. Their sole purpose is to create havoc, fear, and intimidation.” (No such uprising occurred.) After the election, 1AP claimed it was collecting evidence of fraud. On January 6, as the riot began at the Capitol, Lewis tweeted, “Today is the day the true battles begin.” (He later said he was at the Willard Hotel, not Capitol Hill, that day.)
Months later, Lewis and 1AP provided security at a QAnon conference in Dallas, where Flynn essentially called for a military coup in the United States.
” In January, 1AP posted on Telegram that there were “mumblings” that Kent could be appointed to lead the National Counterterrorism Center and that this “would be a very good thing. I could not support this more strongly.”
Kent has an established record as an extremist and promoter of conspiracy theories. During his 2022 run, he called for charging Dr. Anthony Fauci with murder to hold him “accountable” for the “scam that is Covid.” He promoted Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him. He backed the idea the January 6 riot was orchestrated by the Deep State to discredit Trump and his supporters. He referred to the J6 rioters as “political prisoners.” He pushed the notion that billionaire Bill Gates was seeking to “control the food supply” and “control housing” to force people to “live in the pod eat the bugs.”
Like Gabbard, Kent has no experience in leading a large intelligence organization. (After serving in the Army, he was a field operative for the CIA for a short time.) Both Kent and Gabbard were on the infamous Signalgate chat. As head of the NCTC, Kent will have the responsibility for monitoring and preventing both foreign and domestic terrorism. But his past as a conspiracy theorist and his association with far-right extremists raise questions about his analytical abilities and his capacity to assess threats of domestic terrorism that arise from the right.
https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-lock-down-your-phone-when-crossing-the-us-border
Hang on to your hat.
BREAKING: Supreme Court holds that Trump administration must attempt to “facilitate” the return of Wilmer Armando Abrego García from El Salvador, but remands to the district court to sort out exactly what the administration can and must do going forward.
https://go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs3.documentcloud.org%2Fdocuments%2F25894464%2F24a949-order.pdf
They keep putting out all these fraud stories with eye popping numbers, but not a single prosecution so far of anyone, no FBI investigations opened, not even a civil lawsuit???
https://trailmix.cc/home/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/1bdfff99-0cc7-4e6b-9bfd-76b0601e6dce.jpg
A glimmer of sanity from SCROTUS.
About fuckin’ time.
Craig – But my family all believe the Faux reports of fraud. It’s sad. None of the broadcast networks do much to dispute anything.
They do not want Garcia returned to the US, and that’s IF he is still alive. Can you imagine the details of the whole operation he could spill?
Not flying until MTV guy is gone. Need to find out which members of Congress were on the plane that had its wings clipped today. If y’all fly, even domestically, I’d get a burner phone, zero contacts, zero social media, minimal apps.
BID, don’t travel. You’re active enough here that you’re 98% likely to be grabbed when you go through TSA checkpoints.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/plane-5-house-members-clipped-aircraft-taxiway-dcs-reagan-national-air-rcna200692
Plane with at least 6 House members clipped by aircraft on taxiway at Reagan National Airport near D.C.
Reps. Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; Nick LaLota, R-N.Y.; Grace Meng, D-N.Y.; and Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., all confirmed on social media that they were aboard the American Airlines plane that was clipped at about 12:45 p.m.
Two of them also confirmed that Reps Adriano Espaillat and Ritchie Torres, both Democrats from New York, were also aboard.
Meeks said seven “members of Congress were on board along with dozens of other concerned passengers.”
Abigail Disney: ‘Every billionaire who can’t live on $999m is kind of a sociopath’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/07/abigail-disney-every-billionaire-who-cant-live-on-999m-is-kind-of-a-sociopath?CMP=share_btn_url
Recommendation: Smart Girl Dumb Questions podcast with guest, Mark Cuban: Can Billionaires Save Us?
Ha! China’s original retaliatory tariffs were 34%.
34 for 34
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/trump-officials-justice-department.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-stock-market-wall-street.html
They’re not stupid people. They’re just rotten.
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