Jim Stewart 🍁

Yep.

Prediction: By Remembrance Day this year (Nov. 11, 2025) the US will be experiencing the Mother of All Buyer's Remorse. The Reaganesque question "Are you better off than you were 1 year ago" will hit home with a sledgehammer "NO" for an answer.

Thank You for Your Attention to this Matter.

"A clown with a flamethrower still has a flamethrower" wrote Charlie Sykes on The Bulwark in what seems like an eternity ago, but it was only 2022. It was remarkably prescient.

Charlie has a great podcast with great guests called To the Contrary, also available on YouTube.

Today is the beginning of the end of MAGA. It starts to unravel NOW. The Tariffs+DOGE cuts+BBB+rounding up 30% of your cheap labour (America's dirty little secret) is going to make the chickens come home to roost. By September--November things should be getting interesting.

mayor vaughn from Jaws: "For Christ's sake, tomorrow is the fourth of July"

see, he wasn't wrong about everything

YouTube video by PPR Mundial US Wheat Shipments REJECTED as Buyers Replace US With Canadian Markets! Trump Didn’t See This Coming

Interesting.

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Here's the skinny...

You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism.

It's a lie.

YouTube video by Mallen Baker How China Is Exploiting Trump’s Global Blunders

Pretty much.

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People actually elected this moron. Twice.

YouTube video by The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel Chris Hedges: Rule of Idiots

Yep, pretty much sums it up.
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YouTube video by Mallen Baker Will Trump REALLY Jump Into War With Iran?

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YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Why the Trump Administration Is Rushing the Budget Reconciliation Bill Through

Alert! While we’re all focused on Iran there is this going on…

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From Riches to Rags: Causes of Fiscal Deterioration Since 2001 | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget In 2001, the federal government ran a $128 billion budget surplus and was projected to pay off the national debt by 2009.

Fact check:
37% of the increase in the national debt since 2001 has come from tax cuts.

Source:
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Thanks for posting this. Cheers!

YouTube video by What's Going on With Shipping? What the Ship (Ep 125): Ship Updates | Rate Spike | US Shipbuilding | Red Sea | DOJ Charges Master

Interesting stuff. I find Sal represents the best of YouTube as he doesn’t appear to have an agenda.
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YouTube video by Mallen Baker Trump Sends National Guard To LA - Why It’s Just The Beginning

Plain spoken.
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What a shameful day for America.

Would not this provision, if they decided to implement it, completely discourage those of us in other countries from investing in US companies? Seems a bit insane.

Kinda like, "Hey sucker, come over here so we can hang the Sword of Damocles over you. Have a nice day."

Seems to me this will affect all foreign pension funds and investment houses holding US dividend paying equities if they deem us to be "bad" countries, like Canada and the EU.

Here in Canada people are trying to stay calm, but the overall thrust is to get the hell out of US equities.

@jessicabriedl.bsky.social
Jessica- Any thoughts on Section 899 of Trump’s 1,000-page bill--section titled “Remedies against unfair foreign taxes” which will increase the withholding tax on dividends eventually to 50% in retaliation for the Digital Services Tax some countries, like Canada, impose.

YouTube video by World Affairs In Context $28 Trillion Bond Market Crash: Stagflation Fears Rise as Defaults Loom and Debt Rises| L. McDonald

“Smoking in the dynamite shed.” Worth watching.
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No kidding. Instead of waiting for a left Joe Rogan to take up the lance, how about a respected, centrist Democrat standing at a podium, not woke, not running for office, just pointing out the corruption and stupidity of this mess.

Why clutch our pearls when fish are in a barrel saying "Shoot Me."

Well said, thank you.

To be technically correct Richard M. Nixon wasn't president at the time, he was running as Vice-President with Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Checkers | dorothystewart.net When Qatar gave Donald Trump a jet, I started thinking about past gifts to politicians. Checkers, a Cocker Spaniel pup, and a $400 million 747

Two Presidents, a world apart, one got a gift, the other got a grift.
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Excellent article by Benjamin Wittes on Trump's sale of the Indulgences. I added the Trump as Pope photo because I believe that's where we are now.

This is good, a bit hilarious, and also a bit sad we even have to do this.

“WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE?”

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