prescient (from 3 months ago)

I do seem to remember that, yeah.

What a dumb time to be alive

California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A.

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Whether that’s a food pantry they support, school supplies provided, winter coats/hats/gloves and providing community to believers, comfort to shut ins, or emergency money provided to a member ?or non-member) who is in financial difficulty. All churches aren’t the same but most have good intentions.

Not all churches, of course, but the very average size church we attend in a small midwestern community. Also, most churches have an annual meeting every year where the members get to review the entire budget, line by line. Most churches serve a public good…

When the shit goes down everybody meet up at the library. The MAGAs don't know about that place.

BREAKING: This is unusual trading by a politican.

Representative Greg Landsman sold up to $50,000 of United Health, $UNH, on 03/26/2025.

Since, $UNH is down 53%, and it was disclosed that the DOJ was investigating $UNH for possible Medicare fraud.

He sits on the House Subcommittee of Health.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out.

Good lord. 🤡

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Oh.

UPS is out there — telling Americans what the administration won’t.

But then again, “these companies don’t employ lobbyists who can push the administration for tariff exemptions.”

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LONGSHOREMAN UNION: “.. Tariffs are taxes. These and other reckless, shortsighted policies have begun to devastate American workers, harm critical sectors of the economy, and line the pockets of the ultra-wealthy at the expense of hardworking families.”

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It's hilarious when the stock market rallies just because the President doesn't double-down on the crazy that day.

I think we’re starting to wear on Bespoke’s patience.

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. Trump thinks he can bully everyone into submission, but he can’t bully Adam Smith, who deals in reality. Markets know tariffs are taxes, and taxes are anti-growth. The Trump tariffs are the biggest economic policy mistake in decades ..”

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BREAKING: $1.4 trillion was wiped from the stock market today.

The market is on pace for its worst April since 1932!

Are you tired of winning yet?

Sharing this from the other place. Just some good arguments to bring to your family Easter brunches tomorrow.

It’s couldn’t care less. You obviously could care a lot less. Either way, each of these women earned their money, they can do with as they please. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that each will pay more in federal taxes and give more to charity than you will in a 1000 lifetimes.

So you know what they give to charity? You’ve seen their tax returns?

WOLF: “.. We know that nobody can be trusted with absolute power, least of all the demagogues who seek it. The one good thing Trump’s trade policies are achieving is to demonstrate this yet again. .. The world’s challenge is to survive the folly. The US’s is to end it.”

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Unless a mega church they don’t make money—so you can tax them, it’ll be the same as taxing a family of four making 50k per year. Zero fed income tax. Btw if churches have payroll (pastor, office manager, etc) they do pay payroll tax.

Normally, U.S. Treasuries rally (interest rates go down) in a market downturn, because they are seen as a safe harbor. The fact that this isn’t happening is a serious red flag.

Give me some of what he’s smoking.

CNBC Host Hammers Trump Over Tariff Plan ‘Made Up’ on the Fly: ‘There Are Still Trillions Lost’ "...you could see this as a failure of policy and leadership on the part of the White House." The post CNBC Host Hammers Trump Over Tariff Plan ‘Made Up’ on the Fly: ‘There Are Still Trillions Lost’ first appeared on Mediaite.

CNBC Host Hammers Trump Over Tariff Plan ‘Made Up’ on the Fly: ‘There Are Still Trillions Lost’

So much of the US Constitution is designed to keep an autocrat from amassing too much power. At this moment, the constitution is failing. Or perhaps our elected representatives are failing the constitution. When a single person can wreck the economy by fiat, something is badly broken.

The debate over whether to take Trump literally or seriously is over. He has now learnt how to be the tyrant he always wished to be. That took a while. But, with the help he has received, he is there. His administration is engaged in a comprehensive assault on the American republic and the global order it created. Under attack domestically are the state, the rule of law, the role of the legislature, the role of the courts, the commitment to science and the independence of the universities. All these were the pillars on which US freedom and prosperity rested. Now, he is destroying the liberal international order. Soon, I presume, Trump will be invading countries, as he proceeds to restore the age of empires.

Martin Wolf is not messing around here

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From back-to-back 20%+ years — and “envy of the world” — to this.

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