Trump is basically pressing all the “do not touch” buttons simultaneously: mass layoffs, increasing prices, undermining consumer and international confidence. Not sure what else he could be doing to trigger a recession, let alone longer term US decline

Donald Trump on eggs and other high-priced groceries:

August 2024: “When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One."

March 2025: "Shut up about egg prices."

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Trump: "We're gonna be selling a gold card. You have a green card, this is a gold card. We're gonna put a price on that card of about $5 million and that's going to give you green card privileges, plus. It's gonna be a route to citizenship, and wealthy people will be coming into our country."

All my life I have studied democratization and autocratization. My 1st field trip was to newly democratic Argentina. I then added autocracies to my portfolio: Cuba, Ven, etc. I think I can recognize the stages of transition to authoritarianism. Here are the boxes Trump has already checked off.

Agree, but apartheid hugging South Africans shouldn’t be f*****g around in the OPM & SS database stealing data. I blame Garland for not seriously prosecuting Trump

Me too…Aimee has been trying to turn off Gemini AI in Google which is why I started researching

Congress allows it?

“Just give me the f***ing links!”—Cursing disables Google’s AI overviews The latest trick to stop those annoying AI answers is also the most cathartic.

For my anti-AI friends