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In addition, Inflation Expectations hit the highest rate since 1981. The guy who campaigned on his supposed ability to bring down prices isn't fooling anybody. Oh, and eggs hit an all time high price, despite Bird Flu now somewhat under control.

As you undoubtedly know, MAGAs are losers. They weren't tops in their class, nor star athletes, they didn't date the prom queen, and as adults they have achieved next to nothing and lived mediocre, nondescript, banal lives. They have spent their entire existence jealous of the "cool kids" in school, and they never outgrew that childishness. They have woeful insecurity complexes. POTUS came along and sang his siren song. Their failures were some other person's fault, not their own. Weaklings that they are, they bought into his lie and his con (to get their votes). It's "lefties" fault, or women, or Blacks, or some other minority. Rather than accept their own responsibility, they jumped in. They live vicariously through him, too stupid to understand he thinks they are losers, but he used them solely to get the votes he needed to win. They think they are "owning the libs", when they are owned, used and abused by their messiah. Pitiful. Look at the goobers who stormed the Capitol on 6 Jan 2021....fatties, dumbos, "Camp Auschwitz" types or QAnon Shaman. Their collective IQ is turnip level. They do not understand actual American ideals, but absorb their talking points from MAGA media like Fox and Newsmax. His rallies are similarly filled with bozos and clowns, people so desperate for anything positive in their miserable lives that pie-in-the-sky nonsense is the only hope they have, false as it is. Alexander Hamilton saw both MAGAs and POTUS coming, as he wrote in the Federalist Papers: “The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion… When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper, possessed of considerable talents, despotic in his ordinary demeanor---known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty---when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity---to join in the cry of danger to liberty---to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government and bringing it under suspicion---to flatter and fall in with all the nonsense of the zealots of the day---it may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind’” H.L. Mencken saw MAGAs coming a hundred years ago, when he wrote: "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

No, it does not. Sen Tillis is one of the few R Senators who is not a MAGA sycophant. It is just as likely the lunatic was a MAGA. Last week, in a confirmation Hearing for the new Trade Rep, Sen Tillis asked nominee Greer about the flip flop on tariffs and what the actual intent is. Greer gave the silly MAGA response, to which Tillis replied: "I just want to know who to choke if this fails."

It passed in the House in May, 1929 BEFORE the October crash. It passed the Senate in early 1930, and was signed into law by Hoover in June 1930. This is similar to how POTUS enacted his tariffs, albeit Smoot Hawley did flip flop. The US market began to fall once POTUS started barking incessantly about his tariff plan, even though the tariffs did not take effect until this week. The market was already down a lot in anticipation. POTUS caved yesterday, as he got too much pressure from financial markets and certain market players, such as Bill Ackman and Jamie Dimon. Smoot-Hawley took a Recession and turned it into a Depression. POTUS will be instrumental in history repeating, unless he caves again.

It's going to be fun to watch POTUS gag when China and Gov Gavin Newsom announce their own separate trade deal. 39 million California consumers are an attractive market. That's more consumers than ND, SD, WY, AK, AR, MS, WV, TN, KY, IA, NE, NV, UT, ID, KS, MT and AL combined.

Back in November I said POTUS47 would cause a 20% drop in the market. Cult members here gave it the thumbs down, but of course that's their sycophancy evidencing itself. I kind of thought it would take him until summer to be that bad, but he is such a "overachiever" he's way ahead of schedule. He might even do a 40% drop in his first year. If anyone can eff things up that much, it's him. I still think Biden's last full month (Dec 2024) represents a generational high similar to 1929 US (until 1954) and 1989 Japan (until 2024). I saw POTUS boast about egg prices two days ago. I guess he doesn't eat eggs, because here's reality: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/egg-prices-continue-increase-despite-124116007.html Record high egg prices. Groceries, groceries, groceries....what was that rant about? The guy is losing it. Oh, and yesterday was little more than a dead cat bounce. If he could keep his flapper shut for a day, there might be a little more recovery and a chance to leg out of positions, but he won't. Mr Flip Flop...the market is getting sick of it. I also wouldn't get hopes up on a trade deal. The Us-Canada-Mexican deal in term 1 took 2 years to put together, and the trade rep called that "breakneck speed". How long is it going to take to do 184 trade deals? POTUS is going to cave again if the market resumes its tanking.

POTUS will cave first, when prices at places MAGAs shop, like Walmart, double. He either caved last night, or else he and his buddies played the market for personal gain. China can start unloading its UST holdings, as well as "nationalize" US investments in China, which will have POTUS' phone ringing off the hook from angry CEOs. China holds the cards. By the way, isn't it sweet of POTUS to sign that EO yesterday authorizing him to prosecute critics? What is Free Speech when you have lese majeste laws by decree.

Please do. I'll take the other side of that bet. Riddle me this: What possible reason did Campaign Manager Paul Manafort have to go to Spain to meet GRU asset Konstantin Kilimnik, where he gave him internal polling data from the campaign. Kilimnik then passed the data to the GRU's Internet Research Agency, who then microtargeted voters in key swing States like MI, WI and PA, with fake stories about Hillary and others? The Republican-led SSCI issued the report where they noted this Kilimnik contact. Russia cooperation was 100% real.

Read the quote you posted. What possible other explanation is there? Even a MAGA should sometimes be able to see reality. Note the look on the female pathology expert's face. You may also have forgotten that when media called him out on that, the White House issued a statement saying he was just joking. A pandemic is ravaging the world, but a President thinks it's a joke? It's the same nonsense with his siding with Putin in Helsinki. After being called out on his statement about "I don't know why he would", the WH "corrected" his statement by saying he meant "wouldn't". MAGAs believe every lie the guy spews, even when they conflict, like "He declassified all those documents with his mind", later fol.lowed by "The FBI planted them". Oh, though this is minor and just shows his woeful insecurity, his Sharpie to include Alabama in the path of hurricane Maria, when the National Weather did not include Alabama.

It's all true. 100%. Facts are anathema to MAGAs. MAGAs say critics have to make up stuff about their messiah. Make up? Like he stole hundreds of highly classified documents and lied about returning them? FACT That he called his goobers to DC for 6 Jan 2021, Tweeting "It'll be WILD!" in order to try to stop the certification. Oh, maybe you have another excuse? That he called the GA SecState and pressured him to alter the voting records? That he didn't know his goobers would engage in wanton violence at the Capitol, after his rant where he said "fight" 34 times and "peaceful" just once? Or maybe you're admitting he is so stupid he couldn't have guessed a mob of clowns frothing at the mouth might be violent? I don't know if he assaulted E Jean Carroll, but a jury of his peers said he did. I did see the evidence of the bank and insurance fraud related to the Stormy payoff and his various tax filings and loan or insurance applications, and I cannot imagine there is any answer other than fraud. I know he was found guilty of charity fraud, where, among other things, he used donations to commission a painting of himself. He and his spawn are barred from charity activities. No need to make stuff up. He is a serial felon, and that has already been proven by one of the few trials he could not stop. Had the classified doc case gone to trial, he could have been jailed for the rest of his miserable life.

You must have missed this. ^

We're not Danish Cartoonists, so the MAGA-jihadis here can relax. I know they live vicariously through him and take it personally when anyone suggests the clown is anything other than the Second Coming, but you have to accept that you're a cult, and if there is a "syndrome" it's cult members who suffer from it.

DISINFECTANT, not bleach. Watch the video. Enter reality.

LOL! Even you could be a "billionaire" if daddy gave you the allowance he got from age 3, co-signed all your loans, and left you the inheritance he got when dad died. The only actual success he has had was his Game Show, and that was the invention of Mark Burnett. Maybe his campaign finance vehicle masquerading as a social media site gave him some money, but everything else is living on borrowing. Oh, and he LOST in 2020. It was in all the papers. ANd courts. And the Earth is round. Don't worry, you won't fall off the edge.

He's an idiot. He's also willfully ignorant. (Daddy got him into Wharton; I turned down Wharton, as well as Harvard B-school. I'd be happy to sit down with him and take an IQ test. Want to bet on who wins?) Getting elected twice? I just look at the IQ Bell Curve, and realize half of it is below the mean, and those people can vote. Kim Kardashian is richer than you. What is her "talent"? Justin Bieber sells millions of records...Baby, baby, baby, oooh! There's no accounting for taste. As for his "success", that's daddy. Look at his tax returns before he became a Game Show Host. Loss, loss, loss----and not fancy RE accounting gimmicks, genuine losses. Daddy allowance, daddy co-signed loans, daddy inheritance. His international businesses require public P&Ls, and from those we see his golf courses lose money. Not fancy accounting, but losses. Save for his Russian oligarch money through Deutsche Bank SIVs, he's belly up.....again. Maybe if he can cash out his campaign funding vehicle (Truth Social), he might have some money, but for the most part he lives on debt and leverage. Note he lacked the money to pay E. Jean Carroll. Not counting his Game Show, he's the answer to that old question: How do you make a small fortune? Answer: Start with a large one. I don't like him because he's destroying my country and everything better people than him or any MAGA fought to build, defend and improve.

He should have appointed qualified people. Your attempt at "Gotcha" is silly and childish, very MAGA-esque. I'm surprised you haven't somehow tried to work in Hunter's laptop. Maybe a remedial course in Whataboutism at POTUS eponymous university would help. In POTUS 1.0 he had Gen Mattis, Steve Cohn, Dan Coats, Rex Tillerson, even John Bolton (who at least can point out Russia on a map, even if I disagree with his policy views.) Now, he has a gaggle of Carnival People.

LOL Idiots and imbeciles. The poor Trade Rep nominee had to appear before the Senate yesterday for his confirmation hearing. He was deputy in POTUS 1.0. He boasted about "50 countries calling....blah blah blah". A Senator asked him about the USMCA, the trade agreement between US, Canada and Mexico passed by POTUS 45 (which POTUS then called "unbelievably great....nobody ever thought we could do it....blah blah blah", and who recently called it "horrible", until reminded he had done it). The Senator asked how long it took to put that deal together. "We did it in breakneck speed", answered nominee Greer. "How long is breakneck?", asked the Senator. "We did it in 2 years", answered Greer. So a single deal took two years, and now there are 184 countries under POTUS' new tariffs. I think "a little pain" means decades. Rational people might begin to get the impression none of this was thought out at all, and POTUS truly is an idiot.

He's losing some of his billionaire backers, too, like Ken Langone and Ken Griffin. Even his sycophantic podcasters are turning against him, like Portnoy, Ross and Shapiro. His bozo SecCommerce claims Americans want to put in those tiny screws in iPhones (which will cost $2100 if tariffs hold and $3500 if made completely in the US). MAGAs, maybe, but B O R I N G! As for manufacturing jobs, comedian Dave Chapelle said it best: Americans want to wear Nikes, not make Nikes. By the way, America is already the world's 2nd largest manufacturer, behind only China. The difference is the US produces higher value added. The margin on NVIDIA chips is 60%; on a Mercedes it's 8%.

Might be tough for a MAGA to grasp, but you're confusing Narcissism with brains. POTUS is the kind of guy who loves people who will sniff his flatulence and say it smells like jasmine, lavender and vanilla, so rather than being Chanel #5, it's POTUS #47. It's still flatulence and he's still an idiot.

Congress has authority over tariffs, but they have decided to be cheerleaders and not legislators. POTUS can be removed using the 25th Amendment, but that requires a majority of the Cabinet to agree he is unfit. Since he hand-picked incompetent sycophantic goobers for his Cabinet, that is unlikely.

Of course he's an idiot. He is also revealing who else is an idiot, which turns out to be all of those who believed a life-long business failure---save for daddy's money and eventually a fantasy personna created by Mark Burnett---actially knew what he is doing or has some sort of plan. Only idiots think this tariff plan was well thought out. GUARANTEED POTUS did not think his plan would send world stock markets crashing. AFTER the fact he might issue some pointless statement about "short term pain", but it's entirely obvious he had no friggin clue the tariff rollout would cause this much damage. Because the clown is woefully insecure, he cannot admit he effed up. He cannot back down. Undoubtedly he will continue to make silly statements about how "it's all going according to plan". Yesterday was "50 countries" have called (they are not confirming, and "called" could mean to tell him to go eff himself), I'm sure it will be 70 tomorrow, and by next week he'll quote a number higher than the number of countries who exist on the planet. A Recession is now guaranteed. A Depression is maybe a 70% chance. Wall Street is hobbled....no IPOs, no bond issuance, rates climbing for anything other than Triple A corporate debt (and likely to lead to defaults if a Recession comes), hiring plans on hold or shelved, and earnings likely to tumble. POTUS considered all of that? Only a fool believes he did. 401ks getting hammered. Insurance funds squeezed. Both sentiment and the physics of the economy tumbling at the same time. US debt, well below a good many developed nations, was sustainable absent tax breaks and own goals. POTUS scored an own goal in overtime in the World Cup, completely clueless about the consequences of his silly actions. A Recession isn't going to help the deficit. Tax cuts are not going to help the deficit. ALienating foreigners who used to buy 30% of USTs is not going to help the deficit. What POTUS wrought, as we shall see with time (and EXACTLY as I expected) is: Recession if lucky, Depression if not Soaring unemployment Soaring deficit Soaring inflation, or Stagflation (exacerbated by a falling dollar, or "The Mar-a-Lago Accord". Hurt most will be MAGAs. Like him, they are also idiots, although some are now coming around and seeing the emperor has no clothes.

Well, if stuck, one could just do the opposite of what POTUS is doing. Can't hurt. The economy was doing just fine under Biden, though lack of skills and talents in the modern economy did leave out lots of MAGAs. Sadly, they is nothing anyone can do for them. They are being selected out in a world of Darwinian Capitalism. Giving them pie-in-the-sky fantasies and telling them their failure is not their fault gets votes, but doesn't alter reality. Those with marketable skills and talents saw their net worth soar during the Biden years, where the US experienced its best growth since the late 1990s under Clinton. Had the new POTUS done nothing, he could have reaped the rewards Biden handed him and ridden Biden's coattails, at worst into a soft landing. He blew it. Badly. One thing that DOGE revealed---much to everyone's surprise---is that other than the Pentagon, the government was rather efficient, and there wasn't anywhere near as much waste, fraud and abuse as the average person thought. Sadly, defense was largely off the table, so the budget is stuck with massive cost overruns and delays produced by defense contractors. The deficit wasn't even the problem so many love to claim it is, owing to the fact that the system is based on debt and suspension of disbelief. SO long as debt is serviced, it can continue for a long time. Yes, eventually a reset is required, but the US was decades away from it, running a debt-to-GDP ratio much better than most major nations such as the UK, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Japan and others. Japan's debt-to-GDP dwarfs the US, but even its day of reckoning hasn't yet come. Spend within reason, pay interest, and keep the GDP level in mind, and the US could have continued into the 22nd Century. As for trade, there has long been a kind of quid pro quo: the US runs a trade deficit in products, but foreigners then fund 30% of the deficit. The US does run a service surplus, so that mitigates much of the trade in products. Yes, jobs were shifted offshore, but offshore was merely a way station to oblivion, as technology replaced human labor. Steel plants built in the last decade or so employ maybe 3% of the people they did a few decades ago. Human labor has been obviated. That gets back to the MAGA forlorn: they simply have precious little to offer the modern economy. As for Immigration, yes, there must be a policy, given many want to come live and work in the place the current POTUS claimed was 'carnage'. Funny the migrants had a far different view of Biden's economy. It wasn't carnage, but a chance to live the American Dream. Net net Americans benefited from the migrant flow, as lower paying jobs most Americans did not want were snapped up by migrants, legal and illegal. They worked farms, harvesting crops machinery cannot yet pick, working in meat plants that put food in our stores at affordable prices, or even doing jobs such as working at POTUS' country clubs and golf courses. Migrants did commit some crimes, but at a rate far below legal Americans. While Dems have been a bit slow to act on Immigration, a workable bipartisan Bill was brought to Congress in early 2024, but the R candidate quashed it. How about wars? The US did not start either of the two major conflicts, but certainly POTUS has no clue how to stop them. Rewarding the aggressor in Ukraine is certainly not it. POTUS is unaware of history, but Europe did not simply give in to Hitler, nor did the US give in to Japan. Similarly, the people of Ukraine did not want to be subjugated by a self-serving brutal tyrant. In the Middle East, sadly, Netanyahu has been given the green light to eliminate the Palestinians, most of whom are innocent. GAZA might have been ruled by Hamas, but why the killings in the West Bank and the continued settlements? That simply creates more "terrorists". Hamas now has more fighters than before October 2023. Nobody can kill an ideology, something the US should have learned in Vietnam and Afghanistan. IN any event, POTUS has no solution to either conflict. None of the issues POTUS claimed "Only I can solve" are anywhere near being solved, and some are much worse for what he has done. The markets have tumbled, the US, and likely the world, is moving into a Recession or worse, relationships with allies have been shattered, the US is mistrusted and is losing influence by the minute, the deficit may well become a problem due to slashed tax revenues (staff cuts at IRS are expected to cut tax collection by $500 billion per year), the slowing economy, foreigners pulling back from funding the 30% of the deficit they have been funding, and the unnecessary and pointless tax cut POTUS wants to do in order to benefit the Donor Class. So, in sum, a good start is to do the opposite of whatever POTUS wants to do. There is a reason he has been a failure for his entire life---save for daddy's money and loan co-signing---until Mark Burnett made up a fantasy. POTUS has one major talent, which is fooling the ignorant, the naive, the gullible and the forlorn. Slowly, even the most dimwitted MAGA is going to come to the realization the guy is a total fraud, willfully ignorant and incompetent, though for most MAGAs it will be too late. The damage will have been done. So long as POTUS remains in power, and Congress fails to do its job, we will have a crashing market, Recession or Depression, and a deficit that will become an issue decades before it needed to be...and with no solution POTUS can muster. These will be the worst of times, but at least the MAGA fantasy will be crushed and tossed into the dustbin, orcesspool, of history.

1) Sell all USTs and boycott funding any more of the US budget deficit 2) Cut a trade deal with Gov Gavin Newsom and California's 37 million people. Newsom is ready to deal, POTUS can do nothing, and should it come to it, CA can secede and take it's $4 trillion economy and stop overfunding the Federal Govt.

He doesn't need Elon anymore. He's got Laura Loomer again, that white supremacist, Neo Nazi sympathizer and 9-11 Truther. As always, the Best People.

MAGAdumb. That's how dumb. It's its own category of ignorant. I suspect MAGAs bring down the collective IQ of humanity by at least 20 points.