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Who were these leftists saying Harris would win by a landslide. Stop making things up.

The fish rots from the head: https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114370361342759621

Deflecting much? Australia runs a deficit with the USA and Trump is imposing tariffs on them anyway. Not a way to win allies.

The court’s late-night intervention is an extraordinary and highly unusual rebuke to the government, one that may well mark a turning point in the majority’s approach to this administration. For months, SCOTUS has given the government every benefit of the doubt, accepting the Justice Department’s dubious assertions and awarding Trump immense deference. On Saturday, however, a majority of justices signaled that they no longer trust the administration to comply with the law, including the court’s own rulings. https://archive.ph/cbWaZ#selection-1055.152-1055.665 And with good reason they don't trust the Trump Justice Dept. A federal judge in the southern district of Texas ruled that they couldn't send the detainees out of the country. Subsequently all the detainees were moved to the northern district. The Justice Dept. denies that the move was designed to circumvent the decision of the judge or that they were planning to send the detainees to El Salvador. Clearly, the majority of the Supremes didn't believe the Justice Dept.

Actually that idiot would have to be a kind of genius to know when the market was at a high and when it was at a low.

Just because you never ordered anything from China, that doesn't mean that the stuff you ordered wasn't made in China,

White House Responds to Pete Hegseth Second Signal Chat Reports The White House has insisted no classified information has been shared on messaging platform Signal after reports emerged that U.S. Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, shared information about upcoming military strikes in a second group chat that included his wife and brother... "No matter how many times the legacy media tries to resurrect the same non-story, they can't change the fact that no classified information was shared," White House deputy press secretary, Anna Kelly, said in a statement carried by multiple outlets. https://www.newsweek.com/white-house-pete-hegseth-signal-group-chat-wife-brother-lawyer-donald-trump-2062012 This is what's called a non-denial denial.Nowhere did the NY Times say the information was classified. And nowhere does the Deputy Press Secretary accuse the Times of lying, The Administration is free to classify information how it wishes. But clearly, there was no need for Hegseth to share this information with his wife and brothers.. And it was obviously sensitive.

Thanks for sharing with us your speculative fiction.

Since when is fiscal policy being tightened? Trump wants to push through a huge tax cut. He's slashed staffing at the enforcement division of the IRS? Musk's promised 1 trillion dollar tax cut is down to 150 billion and still shrinking.

But in the USA it's not a flaw thanks to the constant influx of immigrants. Maybe we should put that in the past tense? "Once most of the old people have died it will get better."? Because the people younger than the elderly won't grow old themselves? Have they discovered the secret of eternal youth?

I just noticed this detail in a photo of Hegseth: He's wearing an American flag handkerchief! So when he has to blow his nose, he's going to do it on the flag? This seems to me even more disrespectful than burning the flag. Which raises the question: Why does Pete Hegseth hate America?

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Let's see what happens on May 2 when the "de minimis" exemption is supposed to expire.

Well, if that's the case, then it looks like Trump's effort to increase manufacturing employment in the USA is doomed. The problem with your argument is that Japan needs taxpayers to support the social services that its aging population will need.

What prognistications of mine are you referring to? I supported Harris but I never predicted her victory. In fact, I expressly wrote several times that I didn't know who was going to win. The polls were too close. And I haven't claimed she really won but was cheated out of her victory. I leave that kind of denialism to the deluded and the dishonest. Like Pam Bondi, the current AG Are the Houthis on the run? Got some evidence for that? As for the Iranians, yes they're in big trouble. But what has Trump got to do with that? His administration is in the process of attempting to negotiate a nuclear deal with them. I didn't predict that. I don't recall you predicting that either. Is the market back up? Maybe from the depths but still not where it was. And it only recovered to some extent because Trump backed down on his tariff threat. We know that he backed down because he said so. The bond market spooked him. That was after Bessent said that the bond market had nothing to do with it. Actually, the border ended up being pretty much closed during the last months of Biden's term. Thanks to the Mexican govt. Did I predict that the Supreme Court wouldn't be ruling on Trump's executive order re: birthright citizenship. What do you think a hearing signifies? That it's going to support Trump? How could it avoid hearing the case? As the story develops about the "scum" it seems that in most cases the evidence against them turns out to be insubstantial. Of course, if by "scum" you mean undocumented aliens in general, then it's going a lot slower than Trump expected. A lot slower. And he's not happy about it.

This same defense was offered in the case of Waltz at first. A sensible comment from you would have been something like "Let's wait and see." But now you've locked yourself into a stance of denial. Good luck with that.

Had I launched it on its own, and not as a reply, your point would be a good one.

You can prove you're not making this up by offering actual evidence. For a change

You got a quote to back that up. But you think that's bad? What about what Kevin Warsh who supposedly is set to replace Powell. Throughout 2008 Warsh predicted that inflation would rise despite financial turbulence and economic weakness: March 2008: "On the inflation front, there is little reason to be confident that inflation will decline. There are reasons to believe that our inflation problems will become more pronounced and, I fear, more persistent."[34] June 2008: "Inflation risks, in my view, continue to predominate as the greater risk to the economy."[35] September 2008: "I'm still not ready to relinquish my concerns on the inflation front."[36] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Warsh If he had been in charge, the Great Recession would have become the Great Depression Part 2. He also backed letting Lehman fail which opened the floodgates in 2008.

Thanks for providing no evidence to back up your generalizations. What your observations amount to is a sample of your biases.

Too much bickering? The US is mostly in debt because of massive tax cuts enacted by Republicans. It's that simple. And all the attempts to invoke complexity and various factors are merely camouflage and evasion to hide that fact.

What has this got to do with QE?

Why do you think Biden's bragging about it is incompatible with the fact that Shokin was fired because of his failure to prosecute corrupt actors? "It wasn't because Shokin was investigating a natural gas company tied to Biden's son; it was because Shokin wasn't pursuing corruption among the country's politicians, according to a Ukrainian official and four former American officials who specialized in Ukraine and Europe. Shokin's inaction prompted international calls for his ouster and ultimately resulted in his removal by Ukraine's parliament. Without pressure from Joe Biden, European diplomats, the International Monetary Fund and other international organizations, Shokin would not have been fired, said Daria Kaleniuk, co-founder and executive director of the Anti Corruption Action Centre in Kiev." https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110331/documents/HMKP-116-JU00-20191211-SD440.pdf "It is true, Archer said, that in December 2015, Zlochevsky and Burisma were under a lot of pressure. But Shokin was not a cause of that pressure, he testified — Shokin was an asset..." https://archive.ph/b6w9k "In 2015, Shokin became the prosecutor general, inheriting the investigation. The Obama administration and other governments and non-governmental organizations soon became concerned that Shokin was not adequately pursuing corruption in Ukraine, was protecting the political elite, and was regarded as "an obstacle to anti-corruption efforts".[27][44] Among other issues, he was slow-walking the investigation into Zlochevsky and Burisma and, according to Zlochevsky's allies, using the threat of prosecution to try to solicit bribes from Mr. Zlochevsky and his team – to the extent that Obama officials were considering launching their own criminal investigation into the company for possible money laundering.[42]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Shokin

Republicans are acting like there’s a Blue Wave coming https://www.natesilver.net/p/republicans-are-acting-like-theres

Still repeating the same falsehood? Most of the lenders who gave subprime mortgages were not bound by the CRA acct.. Ellen Seidman, formerly the director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, points out that the surge in subprime lending occurred long after the enactment of the CRA, and that in 1999 CRA Lending During the Subprime Meltdown Elizabeth Laderman and Carolina Reid* Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco regulators specifically issued guidance to banks impos- ing restraints on the riskiest forms of subprime lending.4 In addition, researchers at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors have reported that the majority of subprime loans were made by independent mortgage lending companies, which are not covered by the CRA and receive less regulatory scrutiny overall.5 In addition to be- ing excluded from CRA obligations, independent mort- gage companies are not regularly evaluated for “safety and soundness” (a key component of the regulatory oversight of banks) nor for their compliance with con- sumer protections such as the Truth in Lending Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act.6 https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/cra_lending_during_subprime_meltdown11.pdf