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On the plus side, it would at least show that Trump has a sense of irony.

I agree on that part. So that it is clear, my reference to Republicans wanting war with China was not about Trump himself, or a trade war. Trump appears to be loving his role as a peacenik. And maybe he is angling for a Nobel Prize. I do believe he does not want a war, least of all on his watch. I think the militarists are the ones that feel that an invasion of Taiwan, or China's overall hostility and aggressiveness and unwillingness to play by the rules (in their view) is what will ultimately trigger a war with China. So it's funny to hear examples I did not know about regarding the West (meaning the UK in this instance) being the one to break the rules. Why am I not surprised? 🙄 I've read a few things enough times that they sound plausible to me, even though these ideas are outside my experience and above my pay grade. One idea I have read a lot is that for most Chinese (mainland) the idea of unification with Taiwan is so deeply felt that it is just a matter of time and method. The argument usually goes like this: Westerners who think this is even negotiable for China basically have no clue. So the best hope is to just keep the status going for as long as possible. The other idea I have read that surprised me at first, but also seems plausible, is that a maritime invasion of Taiwan will be very difficult for China, especially if the US is involved. It is true that, regardless of how advanced China's military technology is, they have not fought a war in a long time. And the experience of Russia in Ukraine (or Afghanistan) suggests that these things are not as easy as they seem on paper. Hopefully, the world will never have to find out. Your points about the economy in China suggest that the US and China have every reason to make some kind of trade deal. Which is what I suspect Trump, Xi, and the world all want.

I think we are all right, in different ways. What you are talking about is that Trump is an asshole and criminal who has no respect for the Constitution or the rule of law. All true. If I had to decide who is a better person, I would probably say Bush. And obviously if you are the "leader of the free world" what kind of person you are has an impact on everyone. But this is not really a personality contest. The main reason I pick Bush is his actions, not his character. He did tremendously bad and stupid shit in a way that Trump has not done yet. Again, Exhibit A is the Iraq War. Bush started that. It was on him. Exhibit B is subprime and the global financial crisis. Bush did NOT start that. But I do blame him for letting it fester and blow up on his watch. All those loans were made when he was POTUS. And an army of do-gooders was screaming that this is predatory, and it will end badly. Here is an interesting question. What is Trump doing now that is most likely to end badly for the US, or the world? I'm not sure. If the US did suspend democracy, I would say that is the worst thing. But we are not there yet. And even a Trump appointed SCOTUS is pushing back and setting limits. I think my pick is that Trump is the king of bankruptcy. I'm a liberal but a deficit hawk. And Trump is just going to fuel a massive debt crisis that he certainly did not start. But it may blow up on his watch. Check back with me in a few years.

That was a very thoughtful post. I assumed you were responding to me, but you did not quote me. So I had to go back a page to re-read what I wrote last month. I'll add a few things, around one theme: there is a direct causal link between Bush and Trump, I think. In at least two ways. As that article I quoted cites, Trump learned a lot of his bag of dirty tricks from Bush. The article goes through W's post-9/11 attacks on civil rights in detail. In my view it was an uglier time. In part because people were legitimately freaked out by 9/11. Bush had a sort of mandate, at least in opinion polls on civil rights issues, that Trump has never had. Basically, while Bush came off as a nicer guy and perhaps is a nicer guy, his actions were far more egregious. So far. (Big exception: the Jan. 11 Jubilant Patriotic Cop Beating. Hanging chads is nothing compared to Trump sending a mob to the Capitol to stop a peaceful transfer of power._ On an even deeper level, I see Trump as a direct reaction to Bush and his failures. A part of the Republican Party, which now seems to be the majority of the Republican Party, basically said "No more of this shit." No more Iraq Wars, no more globalization, and more working class flavor. As one Republican Senator said, kind of distastefully, his party is now the truck driver party. If I had to choose, I would take this Republican Party in a heartbeat - so far. The worst two things Bush gave us were the Iraq war and the subprime lending crisis. The global economic meltdown happened on his watch. And since he ran all the regulatory agencies that looked the other way while Wall Street and Mortgage USA drove the global economy off the cliff, I do believe Bush has blood on his hands for that. Granted, MAGA is ladled with contradictions. They still pander to fat cats like Elon Musk with huge tax cuts, while they cut Medicaid and SNAP for the working class. But I think it is better that they now feel at least some accountability to the working class and moderate Hispanics. They know they have to pander to them now, too. So now it is Republicans who want a $500 increase in the child tax credit for working class families. And no tax on tips. So it is not just Elon Musk. Even though of course Elon is THE GUY who matters the most to Trump, since he paid for his election. Trump's recent speech about the nation builders actually being the nation wreckers was a good speech. I'm a lifelong liberal Democrat. And I mostly agree with what he said, which some speech writer obviously wrote. My Dad fought in WW2 and was a Reagan Republican. He was fully on board for the Iraq War and how these Iraqis would throw roses at our feet to thank us. Oops! They threw bombs at us and slaughtered each other, thanks to us opening Pandora's Box. So if this Republican Party now has it in their brain that these misadventures like Iraq are now verboten, that's mostly a good thing. That said, I feel Trump and MAGA have betrayed Ukraine and are empowering Putin. But that is a different issue. If we just stop launching stupid wars, that would be a plus. Assuming this new MAGA GOP means it. Because some of them sound like they still want a war - with China.

States bear the brunt of House GOP Medicaid plan We now have an initial estimate of how many working class people Republicans will screw. All so they can pander to Elon Musk and other deserving billionaires who need government help with tax cuts. Meanwhile, the Republicans will argue that these 8.6 million people are just not deserving. How many of these people voted for Trump? It's one thing for Elon Musk to kill the poorest children in the world by taking life saving medications away. Why kill Americans? But the insolent pig Trump is willing to do so in order for Musk and the other fat cats who paid for Trump's Presidency to get their tax cuts. If Republican House members vote for this American Cruelty Plan they deserve to be slaughtered at the ballot box next year.

I think this belong here, too. Bill Gates to give away $200 billion by 2045, says Musk is 'killing' world's poorest children As far as I am concerned, Elon Musk deserves to burn in hell for all eternity. Some part of me hopes this evil pathetic excuse for a human being, who is filled with his own hubris and sickness and cruelty, burns in agony for the rest of time. He is a sick evil fuck who considers his own child dead because that child is queer. This is a sick evil man. Truly evil. In my own mind, if anyone deserves to burn in hell forever, in agony for all time, it is this sick evil fuck called Elon Musk. Just because it made me feel good, I rewatched Invictus last night. It made me feel sad that we don't have that right now. Nelson Mandela was never Pope. But I'd argue he was as beloved, if not more beloved, than any Pope in my lifetime. I'd also argue he embraced a philosophy of leadership that has not been matched by any President of South Africa since. But these people don't come along every election. My point is that it made me think about Elon Musk. Mandela represented the best South Africa had to offer the world. And that was intentional on his part. Musk represents the worst South Africa has to offer the world. And that is not intentional. He is just a sick evil fuck. Trump represents the worst of America. Our new Pope represents the best that America - the US, and Peru - have to offer the world. The fact that he was born in the US and embraced the poor in Peru is itself a powerful symbol. I'm not God. So I don't get to decide whether Musk and Trump deserve grace. But I can decide they are cruel, evil men. In the interview, Gates trolled or baited Musk and said maybe Musk will create some great new charity. He should. If Musk wants to be a decent man, and a good citizen of the world, he could work with Gates and Pope Leo to replace some of the USAID money cut that saves the lives of poor children all over the world. But he won't.

Everyone in the world wants one thing: to NOT be like our stupid piece of shit Trump. The insolent pig changed the course of the election in Canada and got Carney elected. Stupid pig! Very stupid pig! The insolent pig helped get the Labour Party re-elected in Australia. Sheinbaum won in Mexico before Trump on a mandate for the progress made for the poor - "First, the poor!" and the Mexican working class. But her approval ratings in Mexico are up to 80 % in part because she is NOT the stupid raping insolent pig. She is a great leader. And now the raping loser Trump, who prefers retribution and hate, gets a new Pope elected, with a particular passion for the poor and a life of service Trump could never understand. Just like he can't understand why American military die for their country. Robert Prevost Criticized JD Vance Months Before Becoming Pope Hopefully this means the world can distinguish between their contempt for Trump and their respect for the best of the United States. God bless Pope Leo. God bless the world. God bless abundance. Especially an abundance of love.

Perhaps he can play with my Steve Mnuchin doll. I think they'd make a hot couple. Wow! Hard play with no guard rails with Trump-devoted fat cats. What could possibly go wrong?

I am gonna be super-pissed if I only get one Trump doll this Christmas. I can't tell you what I do with them, because it may be against the law or something. Let's just say they are not sex dolls. But it is my way of giving Trump what he deserves. And if I can only get one doll to ..........................well, it may just mean a mental health crisis. If I only get one fucking Trump doll, please pencil me in to the nearest insane asylum. Assuming there are any pencils left. 😉

I'm shocked! Since we are cock-sucking twins, I have of course known you my whole life, Sis. And you don't look a day over 27. Which is my age, of course. 😉 @lookin says his an octogenarian. So when the Wicked Witch melts away - or the Pope, or whatever he is - and we go down to Puerto Vallarta to celebrate with @lookin, we will still be the pretty young girls in the room. Since @lookin is wise beyond his years, I'm guessing that will be fine by him.

Agreed. Being tender of heart as we are, Sis, we can't send him packing to Hell. As much as we'd like to. How about the Vatican instead? Time for a Donclave?

Silly. If we are going to Puerto Vallarta to learn something from Claudia Sheinbaum, it is going to have to be in pesos. And I'm a picky bitch. If Trump throws in a bottle of real Mexican tequila, we might have a deal.

I've been bitching for months that nobody in the US media seems to have heard of a country called Mexico. At least when it comes to things other than deporting bad hombres. Mexico beat the incumbent curse in 2024 and elected a leftist Jewish woman to succeed AMLO in a whopping landslide. Why couldn't the US do that? And why isn't the media talking about it? It was funny that The Liberal Patriot, which is Ruy Teixeira's perma-scold on unpopular Democratic policies that turn off moderates, did very quickly come up with an article about what Democrats can learn from Carney's win in Canada. Mostly: be more moderate. But I would think they'd be a natural to sing the praises of Morena in Mexico. Since Teixeira keeps ranting, appropriately, about how Democrats are losing the Latino working class. So I was delighted to finally see this informative article from The New Republic appear: The Democrats Could Learn a Lot From Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum I think a lot of the formula about what Democrats need to do is right there. I will highlight two parts: One analysis I read quoted someone saying it was this simple: we literally put money in people's hands. I will go to the grave believing Harris would have won if Democrats had picked a few things - especially the expanded child credit that helped tens of millions of working class families during peak inflation, and cut child poverty in half for one year - and fought like holy hell to keep them in 2022 and then to fight for them in 2024. Child poverty versus tax cuts for Elon Musk? Harris could have won. I don't think Bidenomics ever passed that test. This goes to Ezra Klein's scolding about how it's not about how much money Democrats spend. It's about building shit fast that people feel improves their lives. Where is all the rural broadband? Where are all the electric chargers? I don't know any more about Plan Mexico than what I just read in that article. But I just took a big swipe at progressive climate changers in another post. What this article strongly suggests is you can push things like electric cars in ways that mean creating good jobs. As I posted elsewhere, Democrats seem to have lost fossil fuel states where we used to win Senate races, like Montana and the Dakotas and maybe now Pennsylvania, because we basically convinced people we would take their fossil fuel jobs away. Maybe we should be deporting our best and brightest to Mexico .... to learn something

Yes, yes, yes. But what I am realizing more and more is that all that may be a blessing in disguise. The problem is this: how do you elect a racist Chicago Jew or a moderate Kentucky farm boy as President? AOC and her minions will have none of that! I'm referring to Rahm Emanuel and Andy Beshear. And the racist Jew dig is based on all the turmoil in Chicago when he was Mayor about racist cops killing Blacks, that peaked in 2020 of course. Rahm also pissed off lots of teachers. He claims it made schools better. So if I had to bet on either of these two, it would be that a moderate farm boy from Kentucky might be viewed as less offensive to progressives. The point is that Trump is creating a sort of existential crisis. Not only for democracy, but for progressives. Like we will wipe you out. Totally. We will bury your woke asses in coal. Fuck you, and fuck your climate change woke bullshit that most people hate. You are wrong. You are fucked. And you will die. And you fucking deserve to die! Did I scare you, Sis? I didn't mean to. But that is basically what Trump says, and means. And the climate change crowd has to survive four years of that. Better get some Democrats elected in 2026 to at least put a check on it. John Judis is as leftist as it gets, back in the day. So if he is saying Democrats have to moderate on issues like climate change, or we die, that is a big shift. But if he is right, how does that even happen? The only way I can see is basically how it did when Clinton got elected. Moderate, or die. The question is does it take 12 years like it did from 1980 to 1992? Reagan won two landslides, Trump barely won twice. And he is scaring the living shit out of people. Especially progressives. So I'm optimistic four years of this horror may be enough. I have my eye on Ruben Gallego. He won in Arizona. And the gap between his vote and Kamala's was bigger than the gap between Harris and any other Democratic Senator who won in a swing state she lost. He is a guy, he says Latino men all want to own a big ass truck (gas version), and he takes his son to box in a gym. That may be less offensive, and a reason for young Zoomer men who already regret voting for Trump to shift back.

That's far from clear. I'm now changing the subject from immigration, and the impact on the Democratic Party, to the more general topic of how Democrats dig out of the hole we are in. To sum up on immigration, my point is this. The Republicans will do the heavy lifting for us. Trump will attack judges. So then the issue becomes defending due process and the rule of law. People, including many Republicans, don't think Trump follows the law. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress will do perfectly democratic things - pass laws - moving the immigration debate as far right as they can. So then the issue may not be should we deport criminal wife beaters? (Duh! Yes.) It may be should we deport US citizens because Trump doesn't like them? (Duh! No.) I mostly think Republicans will solve the problem for us. Last night I read a series of recent essays from John Judis. Along with Ruy Teixeira, he co-authored The Emerging Democratic Minority in 2002. Which seemed way too optimistic at the time. Now they are kind of the scolds who have been pragmatically warning Democrats for years. So the best of his recent essays is this one: The Emerging Democratic Minority There's a hyperlink there. But in case you miss it click here. Sounds bleak. But the well-documented facts are not as bleak as it sounds. One of the things that is not as bleak as it sounds is Millennials and Zoomers, and especially young Zoomer men, under 24. The action is always in the reaction, to quote Alinksy. So they got pissed about - you name it - high rent, lockdowns, toxic masculinity, feeling they were ignored. So Trump went after them and a lot of them shifted. Part of the idea is most of these guys were too young to vote for Biden in 2020 anyway, and were not tuned in for Trump 1.0. So why not give it a try? And they did. And now, as Judis and others document, they are one of the groups moving away from Trump the quickest. There's been a lot of headlines about the new Harvard Youth poll that shows young voters trust Congressional Democrats even less than Trump, which is the opposite of four years ago. I think that is overstated. Because some of the young that don't trust Democrats are AOC/Bernie types. They really don't like Trump. And they want Democrats to be more aggressive in opposing him - which moderates mostly don't. The most recent generic ballot polls all show Democrats up. Two of the most recent ones show Democrats up 5 to 7 points. So if it's a battle of which awful party is less awful, right now Democrats are winning. We are less awful! Woo hoo! To that point, another great essay Judis just wrote argued we are stuck in this period of the lesser evil party winning. In 2018 and 2020, that was Democrats. In 2024, it was (barely) Trump and Republicans. Recall, Democrats did not get wiped out in 2022, like in 1994 and 2010. They gained one House seat in 2024. Judis argues Democrats could win, narrowly, in 2026 and 2028 simply by being less awful. And young voters shifting back to Democrats who are willing to do things like tax Elon Musk more could be one of the things that help. The thing that really jumped out at me as the most toxic thing for Democrats is not young men and "toxic masculinity". It is rural areas and small towns. This is NOT a news flash, of course. And the two key toxic words are: fossil fuels. Like you can take Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Louisiana, Ohio, and maybe now even Pennsylvania off the map thanks to fossil fuels. I just named places where Democrats could win Senate seats for sure, and in several cases electoral college votes. In 2008 Democrats won Senate seats in Alaska, Louisiana, Montana, South Dakota, and West Virginia. All fossil fuel states. All places where Democrats can no longer win, seemingly. The silver lining in that cloud is that Judis and Teixeira both argue that climate change progressives who want any climate change policy that can pass will have to either accept winning moderate things, or losing to Trump's all out war on climate change. So, again, Republicans may do the heavy lifting. In this case by severely crippling and beating climate changers to the point where they decide being able to win small things is better than massive losses. The particular nephew I named above, a Millennial, despises Trump as a dimwit and loves nuclear energy as a pragmatic solution. So these emerging ideas about "abundance" and just getting shit done quicker (like building homes and bridges) and being pragmatists about nuclear power as a transition fuel that is a lesser evil would probably help Democrats a lot at the ballot box. My question about nukes now is less safety and - as always - can you actually deliver on affordability? But that would be a great debate to have that would not send Iowans running away. To sum up, Democrats' best hope does seem to be that Trump does so many awful things that moving toward the center is less awful for progressives than losing. And enough to convince people in the states I named to vote for Democratic Senators and Presidents again.

One of my Millennial nephews has a great line when I goad him about his own, and his generation's, cynicism about government. He points out he and his wife probably won't ever get the benefits of Social Security like his Mom and Dad do. Fucking Boomers. To which I reply he is both the symptom and cause of cynicism. If Ronald Reagan could fix Social Security for a generation, and Trump could barely put together a coalition that elected him twice, Millennials and Zoomers should find demanding politicians fix Social Security for another generation or two a piece of cake. (It is set to go bankrupt in 2033.) Ever the data geek, he replied that the problem is arithmetic. Americans are just not making enough babies anymore to make the math work. So maybe it is not the Fucking Boomers after all. Maybe it is simply Fucking. Who knew? 🙄 This exchange happened two days ago. I wondered what the impact of immigration is. So I checked. The Overlooked Impact of Immigration on the Size of the Future U.S. Workforce That report does not specifically address Social Security. But it's clear that today's immigrants will also increasingly be keeping us out of poverty by paying for our Social Security benefits. In fairness, Trump is only talking about illegal immigrants. Not legal ones like his wife. Oh, as well as getting rid of birth right citizenship if he can. And speaking of older Americans, Warren Buffet just got off a great line about what sucks about tariffs. He said he just doesn't think it will work out well when we piss off 7 billion people who don't like us, when there's only 340 million of us. Not that there is any recent evidence that Canadians or Australians don't like us. Is there? So one wonders if at some point even our former friends and allies decide they don't want to live in our shit hole of a country. The math works well. The generation that always tends to support Trump and his policies the most is Gen X. They are 45 to 60 today. So right around when they are coming into the retirement system expecting the benefits is when it is supposed to go broke. Getting rid of the people funding Social Security, or discouraging them from coming in the first place, will clearly help. 🙄 Fucking Trumpers! (A geeky P.S. Brookings put forth a "centrist" proposal that says increasing legal immigration would pay for about 5 % of the needed amount to make Social Security solvent for the next 75 years. Less immigration obviously just makes the problem worse, earlier. The big ticket items basically target the rich: higher earners paying SSI taxes on a higher percentage of their earnings, and high earners paying taxes on all SSI benefits. Trump clearly plans to rob from the poor to help the rich. With luck, I hope Millennials and Zoomers at some point have the clout and will to rob from the rich to help themselves.)

I think it is genius. The Catholic church has a big problem. They harbor a number of child abusers. Who would have thought that Trump could possibly lower the standards even further? One other upside. Once she is beatified, I think everyone will agree that Melania Trump deserves to be thought of as a saint.

Sorry. I am beating it to death. But these two new articles simply reinforce my opinion about Judge Dugan. Which is that it was political malpractice for Trump and Homan to shift the target from the bad hombre to the social justice judge. Trump’s immigration ‘shock and awe’ is losing in the court of law Dozens of judges across the country — appointed by presidents of both parties — have ruled against Trump’s audacious immigration policies. If we are going to set aside "legal nuances" and focus on the larger point, that is the larger point. Trump is going way too far, legally. And as a result he is losing in the court of law. You can say that is just because Politico is a bunch of radical socialist whack jobs, as are some of these far left socialist judges - who by the way like to drink the blood of Christian children. But that is the point. That is why Trump is now losing in the court of public opinion as well. And that is not my opinion. That is a fact. Evers calls White House border czar’s immigration enforcement threats ‘chilling’ White House Border Czar Tom Homan threatened consequences for the Wisconsin Democrat, alluding to the possibility of criminal charges. Evers has specifically defended Judge Dugan. And while it is a "legal nuance", there is a difference between intentionally helping someone evade arrest, and legally refusing to cooperate with ICE. I'm not a lawyer. But I am guessing Dugan and her lawyer will argue it was the latter. And if Team Trump prosecutes her, which I think only makes their problem worse, Evers will say - or more likely imply - that in the US dissent or being a Democrat now means citizens get threatened with being sent to El Salvador. Without mincing words, I think it is clear this is not going well. Trump is committing political malpractice by shifting the target, in all sorts of ways, from bad hombres who did break the law to judges who argue they are fighting for the law. That said, what I think is going well is that judges, including SCOTUS, are mostly holding the line. While conservatives, who have the barest of majorities in Congress, are moving the line as far to right as they can. I'm a liberal Democrat, and I will argue that is what they got elected to do. And they are doing it.

I actually think the working class and middle class are fucked either way. The scenario you state is the direct line to "you are fucked" ASAP. Recession, high unemployment, stock bear market, etc. At this point, if I had to bet, the more likely scenario is some big stock recovery. A WSJ headline that says "Deal With China" would do it. And I'll even throw in that some of it may make sense as fair trade policy, if the policy and negotiations were done by Bill Clinton. Or Carney. Or even a smart money guy like Scott Bessent, were he freed from having to pander to Trump's every irrational whim and constant policy reversals. Even if we have a market recovery and good times, it ain't gonna help the working class. Millions are probably about to lose health care thanks to Medicaid cuts. So it's like trying to kill Obamacare all over again. The tax cuts favor the billionaire and corporate class. In a stock market rebound, it will help much of the middle class as long as it lasts. But not the people who voted for Trump because rent costs too much. Prices are going up, not down, for those folks. So even a recovery doesn't help the working class in Trump's rags or riches economy. I very much doubt this stock bull market since 2009 will last to 2028. Warren Buffet, who is smarter than Trump, has been systematically piling up cash. And that ain't because of Trump. But Trump has a very good chance of being the lucky guy who first had to manage COVID, ineptly, and now may have to manage a market crash like 2008. I really can see a replay: he gets a huge negative reaction in the midterms like in 2018, and then his sorry ass party loses in 2028. Although it will probably be worse than 2020 for Republicans. Assuming Democrats can moderate and not scare natural allies with far left culture wars or "toxic masculinity" of whatever.

Sweetie, I did. I never want to get on JD's dark side. (Does he have a light side, by the way?) After all, we all saw what he did to the Pope, no less. And one can't ever be grateful enough. Especially to Donald Trump. So I will just repeat myself - something I rarely do! 🙄 Thanks, President Trump. You ignorant raping lying law breaking pig-brained worthless piece of shit! And, speaking of repeating myself, here is yet another example of the pig-brained traitor just not giving a shit about "legal nuances". Senate Democrats urge DOJ to drop plan to repay some Jan. 6 defendants Actually, there is no legal nuance here. It was the worst attack on the US Capitol and the peaceful transfer of power in US history. And the pig-brained traitor really does want to turn it into the Jubilant Patriotic Cop Beating.

I'd add a key word .... RETRIBUTION. Steven Bannon, to his credit, will be honest and tell Trump to publicly promise retribution. Which is a very Trump thing to do. Susie Wiles is the kind of power hungry pragmatist who will clean it all up and get Trump to say, gosh darn, I just want lower prices. And making sure you don't get raped by an illegal immigrant who is not a billionaire like me. Or something like that. Raping and retribution actually kind of go hand in hand. So it's a chicken and egg question. But I would argue Trump's natural tendency for rape and retribution came first. We saw plenty of that in the first shit show. SCOTUS simply encourages it, rather than causing it, by saying, "Ah, who cares?" Well, apparently the American people care. That's the way I read these polls, so far. And it is the problem with saying, "I care about the law, of course. But not these legal nuances." The law is basically a vast collection of legal nuances. So if you don't care about them, you basically don't care about the law. Trump is Exhibit A through Z of that. And the American people don't really like it, it seems.

My theme of the day is that Trump doesn't give a shit about legal nuances. So this is another example of that. At the very least it was bad form, if not breaking the law. The larger point, though, is that his approval is dropping like a dumb rock precisely because the US middle class is losing money thanks to his stupid antics. And most people in polls do see them as stupid. Even many Trumpy Republicans think tariffs will raise prices without suddenly causing factories with good jobs to magically appear in Iowa or Alabama. And the uncertainty is a killer for Wall Street, too. As well as for the large corporations that are supposedly going to build these factories. Speaking of MTG, two new polls show Ossoff would beat MTG by double digits if the 2026 Georgia Senate race were held today. I don't think we have to wonder why. They are going to fuck, fuck, fuck, and fuck the middle class. Tax cuts for Elon Musk, take away health care for Trump working class voters on the Medicaid expansion, and economic misery for the middle class. Fuck you, middle class. Fuck you. We are for the rich. Which is US, you stupid fuckers. Enjoy your misery. The interesting question is whether Democrats can get past the hard NO by a lot of working class voters in places like Iowa, which does have a lot of do with the culture war. We'll see. And, in fairness, some of that windfall is just because most people on Wall Street are not a dumb fuck like Trump. He creates havoc and hurts middle class people who do it the normal way, which is like a 401k and dollar cost averaging. But investors use it to their advantage. Thrill-Seeking Investors Just Made a Fortune on Triple Leveraged ETFs As of today, so far, I booked $22,000 in profits on shares of FNGA and SOXL I bought on April 4 or 7, when the hysteria hit bottom. And I have not sold half the shares, since the rally seems to still have legs. So it will be 40 to 50k when its sold probably. But, if we get our Trump recession, it won't last. And that's not counting the shares of FNGA I sold in Dec. and Feb. Mostly because it seemed like we were headed for a correction, anyway. But the tariff bullshit sure pushed us over the cliff fast. So I suppose I should thank Donald. Thanks, President Trump. You ignorant raping lying law breaking pig-brained worthless piece of shit! 😨

Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump’s attacks on judges I think this is exactly why the polls show Trump went from having majority support for his border policy to majority opposition. Kudos to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. Assuming the House Republicans get most or all of what they now have in their immigration bill, the legal pendulum will swing further right. Like Republicans opposed an amendment to prevent ICE for deporting US citizens. So the political pendulum will probably swing more as well if these attacks on judges and citizens and the law keep escalating. Trump is great at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Thank you for restating your opinion, again. You can mince words all you want. But you've been quite clear. You don't think legal nuances are relevant. You find her actions stupid and immoral. Case closed. The polls are on my side regarding Trump's stupidity on this issue, which is my main point. Although polls can always change quickly. Trump had the public on his side when he was going after bad hombres who break the law. As soon as he started going after judges and due process, he lost public support.

There ya go. You said it yourself. The law is irrelevant to you. You have decided Dugan is stupid and immoral. The law, as it pertains to Dugan or this immigration action, is "irrelevant" to you. That is where most Americans, and I, seem to disagree with you. But you are very clear. You keep saying it. Dugan is stupid, stupid, stupid. She is immoral, immoral, immoral. Whatever the law says, which is always nuanced, is irrelevant to you. And you love to insult people you disagree with.