On 7/21/2026 at 7:13 PM, Effective altruism said:

At least inflation has not reached the levels seen during Joe Biden's presidency, which is a positive development.

Inflation has not reached the low levels seen during Joe Biden's 2024 presidency, because Trump's tariffs and Iran wars of choice increased those levels — which is a negative development.

Fun fact: Global shocks and pandemic-era conditions caused worldwide inflation between 2021 and 2023 — not Biden.

Edited July 23Jul 23 by LosLobo

I said this right after the election. Many of us agree that the country needed change and it is quite obvious that the Democratic party was broken.

The big question, is Trump the change that we needed?

Is Trump the man that he says he is?

Is Trump the man that his supporters think he is?

Is Trump sincere about the well-being of the nation and its people?

Will Trump put the well-being of the nation above himself?

Will he destroy alliances and will he coddle dictators?

Will he golf less than 150 times a year on the nation's dime? 

 

All that remains to be seen. 

There's no question that he's a major coward, he would never have the guts to fight a true battle, or do something dangerous. Not only that but he's a derelict, he's a delinquent, he's a felon, he's a lifetime career criminal, he's somewhat of a dimwit, he is a hater, and a racist, he is highly misogynistic, he's a terrible negotiator, and a fraud, and he's a horrific leader.

 

And it seems like he's hellbent upon bringing chaos down upon the US and world economies. Which makes him very dangerous too. 

 

Overall he's a stain on the face and the history of America.

Looking back on that I sure hit the nail on the head.

On 7/21/2026 at 8:27 PM, FolkGuitar said:

@Effective altruism , would you please explain why trump needed to lie to the American people about the cause of damage to the reflecting pool?

He said he had PROOF.

I heard him say it. And it was a lie. Pure and simple, bald-faced lie.

Please tell us why the leader of the United States lies to people and blame others for his mistakes. Why?

Well @FolkGuitar the non MAGA cult members know that he is a compulsive liar, but don't want to admit it, and of course there are a few on AN just like that......

So, Donald Trump lied about the money his father gave him, he lied about his bone spurs, he lied about where his father was born, he lied about where Barack Obama was born, he lied to his first wife while sleeping with the second, lied to his second wife while sleeping with his third and lied to his third wife while sleeping with a playmate and porn star.

He lied about his fake university, his fake charity, and his fake net worth, he lied about helping clear rubble at Ground Zero, about his businesses, about his taxes, about the size of his inauguration crowd, about his "perfect" phone calls, about the hush money paid, the sexual abuse he committed, the classified documents he stole, the insurrection he incited and the election he lost.

 

And sure – – he is telling the truth about Epstein, and the dumb American public voted him into office, how stupid can they get??

 

 

16 hours ago, Yagoda said:

do you support gender affirming care?

If that's what you wanna do, knock yourself out. Who am I to stand in the way of your search for happiness and self-fulfillment!

19 hours ago, Effective altruism said:

I noticed you didn't challenge the information in the link. Are you supporting crime?

19 hours ago, Effective altruism said:

Classic strawman fallacy - par for the course with you lot though.

But yes. I'm all for crime. We need more crime. The world doesn't have enough crime. Go crime, go!!!

Post containing a table of unsourced claims removed @Screaming

On 7/21/2026 at 11:16 AM, FolkGuitar said:

Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.

Please meet the President of the United States:

ExecutiveBranch

Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.

Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.

34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying.

91 criminal charges.

Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.

6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.

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5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.

4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.

2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.

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2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.

1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.

Even his charity was a grift.

Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.

Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second.

A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.

Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.

Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.

Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.

First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.

Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.

Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.

Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.

PublicFinance

Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.

Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.

Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.

Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back.

Efficient, if your goal is chaos.

Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.

At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.

His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.

Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.

Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.

Politics(Right)

His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.

You’re paying for this. Not China. You.

Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.

None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.

It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.

So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.

How long did it take you to gather all that information?

What are you stalking the president or what?

1 hour ago, save the frogs said:

How long did it take you to gather all that information?

What are you stalking the president or what?

About 10 minutes. Which begs the question, 'Why don't the MAGAs see it?'
Or perhaps the real question is, in seeing it, 'Does it change their opinion of the man?' 'And if not, what is wrong with these people?'

On 7/21/2026 at 5:16 AM, FolkGuitar said:

Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.

Please meet the President of the United States:

Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.

Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.

34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying.

91 criminal charges.

Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.

6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.

5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.

4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.

2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.

2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.

1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.

Even his charity was a grift.

Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.

Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second.

A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.

Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.

Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.

Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.

First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.

Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.

Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.

Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.

Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.

Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.

Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.

Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back.

Efficient, if your goal is chaos.

Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.

At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.

His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.

Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.

Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.

His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.

You’re paying for this. Not China. You.

Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.

None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.

It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.

So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.

And not forgetting Folkguitar Trump cheats on the Golf Course.

On 7/21/2026 at 11:16 AM, FolkGuitar said:

Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.

Politics(Right)

Please meet the President of the United States:

Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.

Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.

34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying.

91 criminal charges.

Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.

6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.

5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.

4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.

2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.

2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.

1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.

Even his charity was a grift.

Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.

Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second.

A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.

Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.

Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.

Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.

First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.

Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.

Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.

Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.

Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.

Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.

Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.

Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back.

Efficient, if your goal is chaos.

Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters on his very first day back in office, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Law and order, except when it’s inconvenient.

At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.

His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.

Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.

Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.

His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.

You’re paying for this. Not China. You.

Now sitting at one of the lowest approval ratings of his second term, stuck in the high 30s while inflation and gas prices make everyday life harder.

None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.

It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.

So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.

Come on! He may not get the Peace Prize, the Booby Prize or the Darwin Award but he must be up for a Guinness! At least the dictators of history knew how to hide their thefts. Trump just doesn't care.

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I said this right after the election. Many of us agree that the country needed change and it is quite obvious that the Democratic party was broken.

The big question, is Trump the change that we needed?

Is Trump the man that he says he is?

Is Trump the man that his supporters think he is?

Is Trump sincere about the well-being of the nation and its people?

Will Trump put the well-being of the nation above himself?

Will he destroy alliances and will he coddle dictators?

Will he golf less than 150 times a year on the nation's dime? 

 

All that remains to be seen. 

There's no question that he's a major coward, he would never have the guts to fight a true battle, or do something dangerous. Not only that but he's a derelict, he's a delinquent, he's a felon, he's a lifetime career criminal, he's somewhat of a dimwit, he is a hater, and a racist, he is highly misogynistic, he's a terrible negotiator, and a fraud, and he's a horrific leader.

 

And it seems like he's hellbent upon bringing chaos down upon the US and world economies. Which makes him very dangerous too. 

 

Overall he's a stain on the face and the history of America.

Looking back on that I sure hit the nail on the head.

Waddya think he's going to do with that finger? E. Jean Carroll some teenager?

4 hours ago, BLMFem said:

If that's what you wanna do, knock yourself out. Who am I to stand in the way of your search for happiness and self-fulfillment!

your trolling hypocrisy exposed again.

Posts with derogatory nicknames, intentional misspellings, or personal remarks will be removed. Spell names correctly for all sides of the debate.

Donald Trump due to a combination of an extraordinary level of arrogance, combined with stunning ignorance, a lack of intelligence and an extreme lack of planning is up against the weight of history right now.

The economy is always a big deal when it comes to elections and the American economy is suffering right now with a far greater inflation than the government goons are willing to admit. Unfortunately Trump has inflicted that pain upon the world also.

Since he never reads and he likely never listens to his briefings, the goon is probably blissfully unaware of the fact that since World War I there has never been a war fought anywhere in the world, and won, without boots on the ground. Never ever.

So that means that likely within the next week Trump (or more likely the Deep State that's running him like a puppet) has a big choice to make. Do the Americans put boots on the ground inside Iran? This type of escalation would likely require tens of thousands of troops and it could lead to the slaughter of thousands upon thousands of American soldiers. That would not only mean annihilation during the midterms, but I could also mean that nothing is accomplished after thousands of American lives are lost. Being the psychopath he is, I doubt that means anything to Trump personally, other than as a political calculus.

There's no question that both Don and Little Pete have been off way more than they can do and they never expected this kind of staying power from Iran much less this kind of fight. It is completely in character for them to underestimate their adversary, while thumping their chests like lost forest apes.

How this is going to turn out is anybody's guess, but I don't think it's going to be a pretty picture for America, and it would appear humiliation has arrived, and massive amounts of humble pie are about to be consumed.

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

The economy is always a big deal when it comes to elections and the American economy is suffering right now with a far greater inflation than the government goons are willing to admit.

I find your statement on inflation to be complete bull stein. Do you have any credible data to support your claim?

4 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

So that means that likely within the next week Trump (or more likely the Deep State that's running him like a puppet) has a big choice to make.

I thought the deep state was a right-wing conspiracy theory promoted by individuals like Trump. Are you suggesting that Trump is correct?

7 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

I find your statement on inflation to be complete bull stein. Do you have any credible data to support your claim?

Do you have any credible data to support yours?

7 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

I find your statement on inflation to be complete bull stein. Do you have any credible data to support your claim?

I just came back from a two-month trip to America and virtually everything has gone up dramatically. Labor costs are out of control, groceries continue to spin out, gasoline of course is $6 a gallon in California, and virtually everybody that I spoke to talked about inflation, without exception.

The only people that are denying inflation are guys who live comfortably in Thailand and haven't been back to America or Europe in years, and are just reading fictitious government data, or the very wealthy amongst us.

Inflation in America is raging at this very moment, the official numbers and statistics are totally made up and weighted in such a way that has nothing to do with the average consumer, and Trump and the GOP are going to pay a very heavy price for all this in the midterms.

Just now, spidermike007 said:

I just came back from a two-month trip to America and virtually everything has gone up dramatically. Labor costs are out of control, groceries continue to spin out, gasoline of course is $6 a gallon in California, and virtually everybody that I spoke to talked about inflation, without exception.

The only people that are denying inflation are guys who live comfortably in Thailand and haven’that’s been back to America or Europe in years, and are just reading fictitious government data, or the very wealthy amongst us.

Inflation in America is raging at this very moment, the official numbers and statistics are totally made up and weighted in such a way that has nothing to do with the average consumer, and Trump and the GOP are going to pay a very heavy price for all this in the midterms.

You need to bring some data to the table. Put up or Shut up.

1 minute ago, spidermike007 said:

Inflation in America is raging at this very moment, the official numbers and statistics are totally made up and weighted in such a way that has nothing to do with the average consumer, and Trump and the GOP are going to pay a very heavy price for all this in the midterms.

Show me your numbers.

6 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

I thought the deep state was a right-wing conspiracy theory promoted by individuals like Trump. Are you suggesting that Trump is correct?

I am suggesting that there is a Deep State runs anybody who's in power, they don't care about political affiliation, they only care about money. They are working Trump like there's no tomorrow, and they are dangling Don on a string like a weak, confused, and feeble marionette.

Just now, Mr Awesome said:

Show me your numbers.

You want me to show you some invoices for my recent trip where I had a retail space built out? People were telling me that if I was able to find a carpenter for $85 an hour I was getting a good deal.

A friend of mine owns a frame shop and he's offering immigrant laborers $300 a day cash under the table and he can't find anybody who wants to work. The stock market paints a different picture, but it only represents a tiny slice of America and the economy.

In my opinion America is irreparably broken.

Edited July 23Jul 23 by spidermike007

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Do you have any credible data to support yours?

Those claiming the data is incorrect must provide evidence.

2 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

You want me to show you some invoices for my recent trip where I had a retail space built out? People were telling me that if I was able to find a carpenter for $85 an hour I was getting a good deal.

A friend of mine owns a frame shop and he's offering immigrant laborers $300 a day cash under the table and he can't find anybody who wants to work. The stock market paint a different picture but it only represents a tiny slice of America and the economy.

Wow, that’s impressive! You must be an economist with a background in data science.

6 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

I am suggesting that there is a Deep State runs anybody who's in power, they don't care about political affiliation, they only care about money. They are working Trump like there's no tomorrow, and they are dangling Don on a string like a weak, confused, and feeble marionette.

You create your own reality about inflation and also believe in conspiracy theories.

9 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

Those claiming the data is incorrect must provide evidence.

Those telling fellow posters they must do something, must shut their traps.

Hope this is clear.

4 minutes ago, Mr Awesome said:

Those claiming the data is incorrect must provide evidence.

The current oil price is $97/barrel for the global benchmark, Brent crude. Prior to the Iran war, it was $67/barrel.

If you don't think that is evidence of inflation, the only thing awesome about you is your ignorance.

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The current oil price is $97/barrel for the global benchmark, Brent crude. Prior to the Iran war, it was $67/barrel.

If you don't think that is evidence of inflation, the only thing awesome about you is your ignorance.

Could you please explain how this proves that the official inflation numbers are incorrect?

8 minutes ago, BLMFem said:

Those telling fellow posters they must do something, must shut their traps.

Hope this is clear.

You are not armed with the knowledge to engage in any discussion that requires critical thinking. Go back to X.

14 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

The current oil price is $97/barrel for the global benchmark, Brent crude. Prior to the Iran war, it was $67/barrel.

If you don't think that is evidence of inflation, the only thing awesome about you is your ignorance.

Yes. That's why he landed on my ignore list...