The BLS just released the February jobs number. It was expected to be +50,000. It came in at -92,000, and UE climbed to 4.4%. Not good.

Despite Trump's promise to escort ULCCs through Hormuz and also to insure carriers, WTI jumped $10/bbl in the last day.

Trump boasted in his SotU borefest that "gas is $1.85 a gallon (a lie). Now he says about gas prices, "If they go up, they go up."

A few Saudi refineries are offline. Qatari LNG production is halted. Both will filter through to higher prices at the pump, to heat homes, to transport goods, and to fly. It will impact any product based on petroleum, from plastics to fertilizer.

In his SotU speech Trump said "many people are telling me there's just too much winning".

It doesn't look that way. Not much winning in employment or prices or peace. Maybe Trump's meme coin is doing okay? For those unable to grift off their position, however, things are turning quite sour.

To continue with the weed metaphor, Trump's EPA---which should be known as the Environmental Destruction Agency---has just made the use of the Monsanto weed-killing pesticide Roundup legal again, despite mountains of evidence that show it is a dangerous known carcinogen. While the glysophate that is Roundup is not directly detrimental directly to the human energy transport pathways, it is detrimental to the trillions of bacteria that make up the human guy microbiome. More ingested Roundup means a bad gut microbiome. Sorry American kids. But hey, trhat means you might not need to worry about unemployment when you're an adult, because you might already be dead, or else have such metabolic disorder that you'll be on SSDI.

Interesting video here:

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17 minutes ago, Wingate said:

To continue with the weed metaphor, Trump's EPA---which should be known as the Environmental Destruction Agency---has just made the use of the Monsanto weed-killing pesticide Roundup legal again, despite mountains of evidence that show it is a dangerous known carcinogen. While the glysophate that is Roundup is not directly detrimental directly to the human energy transport pathways, it is detrimental to the trillions of bacteria that make up the human guy microbiome. More ingested Roundup means a bad gut microbiome. Sorry American kids. But hey, trhat means you might not need to worry about unemployment when you're an adult, because you might already be dead, or else have such metabolic disorder that you'll be on SSDI.

Interesting video here:

Monsanto are influential, millions of dollars influential...

1 hour ago, Wingate said:

To continue with the weed metaphor, Trump's EPA---which should be known as the Environmental Destruction Agency---has just made the use of the Monsanto weed-killing pesticide Roundup legal again, despite mountains of evidence that show it is a dangerous known carcinogen. While the glysophate that is Roundup is not directly detrimental directly to the human energy transport pathways, it is detrimental to the trillions of bacteria that make up the human guy microbiome. More ingested Roundup means a bad gut microbiome. Sorry American kids. But hey, trhat means you might not need to worry about unemployment when you're an adult, because you might already be dead, or else have such metabolic disorder that you'll be on SSDI.

Interesting video here:

Veritasium is awesome, not just this video. Worth to spread the word.

NY Times headline this morning:

Iran War Poses Test for Justice Dept. After Firings Deplete National Security Ranks

Firings, resignations and diversions to the president’s priorities have left elite counterterrorism and counterintelligence units stretched thin, current and former officials say.

And this as posted on NY Times Facebook

The extent of Trump's economic destruction in just 14 months has been absolutely devastating and that was before the war started. Now it's been amplified by many times that.

I don't know who is sponsoring this destruction, I'm not sure who is pulling Trump's strings as there's no doubt he's just a dumb puppet following the dictates of greater powers, but I have no idea what their intent and purpose is. It seems truly evil and diabolical.

2 hours ago, Wingate said:

To continue with the weed metaphor, Trump's EPA---which should be known as the Environmental Destruction Agency---has just made the use of the Monsanto weed-killing pesticide Roundup legal again, despite mountains of evidence that show it is a dangerous known carcinogen. While the glysophate that is Roundup is not directly detrimental directly to the human energy transport pathways, it is detrimental to the trillions of bacteria that make up the human guy microbiome. More ingested Roundup means a bad gut microbiome. Sorry American kids. But hey, trhat means you might not need to worry about unemployment when you're an adult, because you might already be dead, or else have such metabolic disorder that you'll be on SSDI.

Interesting video here:

Trump is likely in the pocket of nearly any lobbyist in America today, and he's totally beholden to corporations, Big Pharma, Banks, the Healthcare industry, and other toxic organizations who barely paid taxes worldwide.

Don is a total and complete sellout, and he is the polar opposite of the man who he portrays himself to be, which makes him a phony of historic proportions. And a con of epic proportions, when you consider the hundreds of millions of people that he has completely fooled.

It would appear that the administration is heading down hill at this point, Trump's power base seems to be eroding, there are a lot of people in the Congress senate, in the GOP that are standing up to him now, there are a lot of podcasters that were very loyal to him who now seem to hate him and feel betrayed, and it appears that the firings are just beginning. Woe is Don.

In addition his health seems to be failing rather dramatically, his mental facilities seem to be declining rather rapidly, and if you question the state of his health just watch him walk up or down a set of stairs the next opportunity you get. It's scary to consider how frail the man is at this moment.

His health truly is heading down. I got sent this by a friend, a photo of Trump on Thursday he is trying to keep out of the press. Dont know the validity of it, but it does look bad. I personally dont think its a photoshop but my goodness.

3 hours ago, Wingate said:

To continue with the weed metaphor,

With apologies to Stephen Sondheim, the official White House version for u-know-hoo

I am swell, I am great

I have got the whole world on a plate!

Starting here, WINNING now

Honey, everything's coming up roses!

43 minutes ago, marin said:

His health truly is heading down. I got sent this by a friend, a photo of Trump on Thursday he is trying to keep out of the press. Dont know the validity of it, but it does look bad. I personally dont think its a photoshop but my goodness.

He looks even more like Jabba The Hut than usual?

49 minutes ago, marin said:

His health truly is heading down. I got sent this by a friend, a photo of Trump on Thursday he is trying to keep out of the press. Dont know the validity of it, but it does look bad. I personally dont think its a photoshop but my goodness.

The first showups were on Instagram and Facebook on the 10th December last year. But no reliable news source has ever used this as far as I found out.

EDIT:

This particular image is a digitally altered photograph, significantly modified with Photoshop. Compared to the original, this version includes the addition of a quadruple chin and more pronounced age spots, among other things.

4 hours ago, nick supreme said:

This item needs to be relocated to the cannabis section for better visibility and accessibility.

You must be MAGA. Nothing to to with marijuana (weed). It's about weeds, AKA unwanted plants.