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"When I cast my vote for Trump in the most recent election, I did so out of my own ignorance. I simply thought — with little to no policy-based research — that Trump would be the better choice. My bias, social influence, and the echo chambers surrou…
https://www.buzzfeed.com/lily_grossinger/former-trump-supporters
trump voters share their "immense shame"
"My opinion has changed. The handling of the Epstein files has shown me that he is truly evil. It’s almost like every harmful thing he claims…
After years of violent crime statistics going down, maga has found a way to reverse that trend, via government sanctioned murder. Someone definitely needs to dox this murderer. A disgruntled co-worker, an angry neighbor, a disgusted family member.
After a year of "fixing" everything in our economy, we have a job situation that is being described by "most economists as far from stellar but at least stable."
Is that what all the taxation, and micromanagement has accomplished? "Far from stellar…
Let us not focus on the fact that the new taxes (tariff income) have now been promised to be returned to taxpayers, pay down debt, increase the defense budget by $500,000,000,000 (yeah, that's 11 zeroes), and a dozen other specious purposes.
The G…
'Trump’s social media account first threatened the defense contractor Raytheon, saying that “[e]ither Raytheon steps up, and starts investing in more upfront Investment like Plants and Equipment, or they will no longer be doing business with Departm…
Yes, a group of people that see "election stealing" at every turn, would absolutely consider a Democrat asking the GA SoS to "find" exactly 11,780 in votes, when they were behind by 11,779, to be election tampering. 100% guaranteed, they would be to…
When you fear that responsible Law Enforcement will not confirm your hokey version of events, and are unwilling to hold your own accountable, you get to this point.
Fascism is no longer "on the rise", it is in full-fledged application. Welcome to …
It would be ill-advised to expect anything but subservience from SCOTUS. Let's get that inflation roaring!
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They also believe that the Court is very hesitant to strip a President of economic weapons (sanctions/tariffs) used during a declared "na…
Exploding the War budget , as opposed to fixing Social Security or health care, really illustrates where this maga GOP is heading! Like flashing strobe lights of warning to all the folks who thought they were going to be helped with much higher cost…
Free market conservatives were never real things. Just a false image trotted out when convenient.
A $1.5 trillion defense budget may be exactly what it takes to break the debt camel's back. Via the velocity of money, that should be very inflationa…
We can readily assume that both Greenland and VZ are at the forefront of trump's failing frontal lobe, because he is stymied by China's rare Earth bargaining position.
We should assume that the stable brain trust, that ihe relies on for advice, ha…
IMO, "strong" would be getting impeached by your own party. If they wanted respect they should have done that the first term. Now they have dug the hole deeper.
Packers -Bears Sat. night Prime & 2 local channels.Hopefully very good game to be missed by a lot of Football Fans.
Yes, should be fun to watch. Better if GB wasn't suffering so many injuries.
If Congress wanted to be viewed as a "co-equal branch", they should have nipped this in the bud many years ago. Now, they have proven just how easy it is to steamroll our Constitution by ANY POTUS with the will. And every single one of these "caucs"…
We have seen the pattern: trump trying to steal from other countries, under the guise of "taking back'. Judge, Jury and executionary, all in one!
He has tried with Ukraine, He is trying with Greenland. He is doing it with VZ. He is trying to squee…
^Mainly what I was thinking. Plus, overweight mag 7 can also result in big reversion, I imagine. AGTHX 5-yr return of 12.46% doesn't beat S&P 13.13%. Which matters to me, as I don't really trade mutual funds. 9% non-US certainly helped for 2025…
Hilton is an INTL entity, so this may backfire on them outside the U.S.
I never stay at Hilton. Always look for Kimpton first. Then other boutique brands.
Now let us ask ourselves, "If this is such a windfall, why would it be necessary to promise taxpayer dollars (more debt!) to entice oil companies to participate?"
I could envision a new administration, in three years, forcing renumeration from any participants in improperly profiting from a resource grab. I would assume oil executives are considering this eventuality. In a world awash with oil reserves, is th…
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BTW, I read a report that 70% of Canadian oil goes to Midwest, 20% to California, and only 10% to Gulf coast. So, the worst case for Canada is the loss of only 10% of its oil exports to US.
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Why Keystone XL was set to raise the price of gas…
No one actually needs to use such weapons, just wave them about like Putin and the DPRK and Israel, it keeps the solicitors off the front porch.
Remember the furor when Russia was thinking about putting nukes in Cuba? Canada is much bigger and eve…
