That didn't take long. At the beginning of January, the Biden Administration had built the U.S. economy to be the most robust in the world, the price of groceries be damned. Now this fool has tanked us in a matter of months, and things aren't going to get better. They're trying to steal the mid-terms, and if they get away with that... I shudder to think.
It really didn't take long at all. Lingering pandemic-caused inflation was a big factor in last year's U.S. elections, along with those of other democracies. The roiling economic disaster in the offing, caused by Trump's idiotic tariff policies, would ensure a wipeout for the GOP in the House next year, only, as you note, their trying to rig the election by the most outlandish gerrymandering.
The question is, how can we stop them? Fighting fire with fire is one option, and perhaps the only one, given that SCOTUS's majority is in the tank for this fascist regime.
I don't let my fellow countrymen off so easily. "Lingering pandemic-caused" inflation is a gussied-up way of saying Americans have no brains, no knowledge of how economics actually works, and no interest in learning. Even the most cursory glance at all global industrialized economies at the time shows how much we were spared. Inflation rates all over the world were far worse than ours and lasted far longer. We weathered a great storm the way you would expect the world's strongest, most resilient economy to have.
Really, isn't it time people actually learned something rather than just stood around, bleating like goats?
But even Dems I know tuned out of reading/watching any real news. Just didn't want to know. "Too depressing". So many of them were also complicit, always expecting someone else to do the job, knock on the doors, work the phones, fight the fights. Every time I hear someone blame Biden I remind them the American voters' apathy & arrogance is really to blame. Americans always want to find someone else to point fingers at rather than be accountable.
It’s not just economics. Many people, not just MAGATs , have no clue how government works and blame the president for everything - even when the opposition has control of Congress and refuses to consider anything from the other side.
Can't blame their teachers for lack of reading or seeking facts as grown-assed adults. Granted, this has been a long term plan of the repugs but Americans willfully tuned out.
Cyn B: I think also that teachers are and have been mostly so well-meaning that they turn that attitude into a projection onto nefarious others, and so those others have it easy to get their way by the naive neglect of teachers. A longer view, then, can see that most have forgotten that democracy needs to be front-and-center in the thinking of the "demos" to be maintained. The big dividing point I think was that before and during WWII, most everyone understood what was at stake.
Bill: Yes--we are living in the watershed of around 60 years of neglect of foundation education in the U.S. (e.g., political, moral, historical, etc.) and an over emphasis on STEM, and whether deliberate or not (not everyone but way too many). Unfortunately, screaming "fire!" in the face of such ignorance NOW won't do either.
It's also time for citizens of the United States to learn about the Constitution and American history. Its time for Americans to learn about world history and the nature of authoritarian and fascist regimes. They might recoil in shock! OMG, the Trump regime seems to be trying to make the United States into a autocracy. In order to do that, they have destroy the Constitution and the rule of law, subordinate the Congress and coopt the Supreme Court! How could I have been so dumb? How can we get out of this? The mirror on the wall says, "Look over here, you fool!"
I wonder if they (MAGA) are waiting for their own hair to catch fire. I used to think I was being too hard on those who stayed with Trump. Now I think they deserve whatever "dumb" related label one chooses to apply. "Sorry" doesn't mean a damn thing when the damage is unrepairable and done.
We have a serious lack of critical thinking in this country. How many times have I heard intelligent people say "Oh I don't watch the news. I don't want to know. It's too depressing." Well here we are. You got just what you voted (or didn't vote) for.
They won't get away with it! It's not going to be easy...but, if everyone gets involved somehow in the resistance, we WILL stop it. For some ideas, go to Indivisible.org and/or VoteBlue.org :-)
We wuz robbed. Jen, please interview Adam Zarnowski.
“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.”
Daniel Solomon, I respect your comments, having read many of them and even (forgive me) fact-checked a few. This morning I read some very disturbing information concerning Democratic fundraising, specifically an organization named Mothership Strategies. (Robert Hubbell's substack) This outfit is apparently linked to the Democratic national party. Hubbell provides a link to information from Adam Bonica, who seems, by what I have been able to learn, to be a legitimate academic. If you have time to look into this, I would be grateful. At this moment, I'm having some trouble placing my trust in my own mother!
"Once considered a juggernaut in the Democratic digital space, Mothership Strategies is no longer in mainstream politics following fierce criticism over its aggressive fundraising tactics and allegations that its huge money hauls were being funneled back to the company itself.
"But rather than disappear from the political scene, Mothership has found a lower-profile roster of clients. And it’s continuing to deploy the same business practices that gave it pariah status in the first place."
I haven't noticed any super-free produce or other items in the supermarkets. Am I wrong in thinking that reducing drug prices by 1200 percent means that the drug makers would be giving the drugs away and paying people to take them?
Not a single statistic, not a speck of tax, revenue, employment, tariff, inflation, growth, deficit, trade data out of this Looney Tunes Administration and its shrieking, whiny little gasbag waving his tiny hands is to be trusted. And that's just the economy. Believe any figure connected with "illegal voter fraud" or election turn-out, registration, polling, at your dumb peril. Double for any and all data reported by the Department of Homeland Insecurity in connection with arrest, incarceration, and deportation of "violent criminals" off our streets. Not one word of it.
"Now does he feel his secret murders sticking on his hands;
Now, minutely, revolts upbraid his faith breach;
Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.
Now does he feel his title hand loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief."
But Trump lacks the conscience of a Macbeth, so....
Add to that a charge of firing without cause. Reporting the truth is not cause for firing, it's a revenge/retribution move and we know it. The big orange baby said "you can't play by my rules, so you have to go."
Is anyone tracking Trump’s dark money network, major tech firms that covertly bankroll his political machine while shielding their involvement from public scrutiny. E.G. Qualcomm contributed $1 million to Securing American Greatness, a Trump-aligned nonprofit that bankrolled his 2024 campaign and is now funding ads to push his tax agenda and elect GOP candidates. The group, run by Trump insiders, spent $81 million during the election while keeping its donor list hidden.
Meanwhile, General Motors, Amazon, Microsoft, and USAA admitted to Congress that they contributed far more to Trump’s 2025 inauguration than originally reported to the FEC. GM gave $1.54 million vs. $1 million reported, Amazon nearly $2 million vs. $1 million, Microsoft $1 million vs. $750K, and USAA also revealed discrepancies. Trump’s committee amended filings but blamed corporate “documentation errors.”
Just the tip of the iceberg. It’s the billions already collected from his tariffs he’s got his eye on. And let’s not forget the “help” he’s gotten from the Russians. What may turn out to be the real scandal with Epstein is less the pedophilia and more the real estate deal he screwed Epstein over. He bid $40 million for a house and didn’t have the money until a Russian oligarch ponied up. Then a year or so later, the same oligarch bought the house for more than twice what trump paid for it. The whole affair was one big money laundering scheme, and Epstein had the goods on him. That’s the real reason trump killed him. Maxwell got a sweet deal last week in payment for her silence.
From yesterday:. 1. Trump allegedly handed Prince Andrew a list of masseuses after the two men engaged in a sick conversation about “p---y.” The interaction reportedly happened in the year 2000, not long after they had been introduced by their mutual friends, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. The claim was made in a report in the Daily Mail on Saturday by the respected royal writer and historian Andrew Lownie. Lownie is the author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, a new investigative biography of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entitled-Rise-Fall-House-York/dp/0008775451 Please follow up. The Daily Beast: Prince Andrew and Donald Trump’s Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed Tom Sykes.
2. Please interview Zev Shalev. I watched a discussion about Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems Trump knew Maxwell when she worked on her father's NY paper, the New York Daily News. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell Rumors and investigations surrounding Robert Maxwell have alleged ties to multiple intelligence agencies, including the Soviet KGB.
These intelligence connections are reportedly viewed as being financially driven rather than ideologically motivated. "[Gislaine] Maxwell, the Oxford-educated daughter of a billionaire publishing tycoon, was exactly the kind of company the future US president [Trump] liked to keep in New York in the 80s. The pair were regular fixtures in the elite Manhattan and Palm Beach social scenes, attending the same parties at private clubs and on million-dollar yachts." The Telegraph: Trump’s friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell was once a liability. Now it could save him. Benedict Smith Trump supposedly spent time with Roberty Maxwell on his yacht in New Yrork about the first time he went to Russia.
In The Art of the Deal, Trump writes: “In January 1987, I got a letter from Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, that began: ‘It is a pleasure for me to relay some good news from Moscow.’ It went on to say that the leading Soviet state agency for international tourism, Goscomintourist, had expressed interest in pursuing a joint venture to construct and manage a hotel in Moscow.”
"There were many ambitious real estate developers in the United States—why had Moscow picked Trump?
"According to Viktor Suvorov—a former GRU military spy—and others, the KGB ran Intourist, the agency to which Trump referred. It functioned as a subsidiary KGB branch. Initiated in 1929 by Stalin, Intourist was the Soviet Union’s official state travel agency. Its job was to vet and monitor all foreigners coming into the Soviet Union.
“In my time it was KGB,” Suvorov said. “They gave permission for people to visit.” The KGB’s first and second directorates routinely received lists of prospective visitors to the country based on their visa applications. "As a GRU operative, Suvorov was personally involved in recruitment, albeit for a rival service to the KGB. Soviet spy agencies were always interested in cultivating “young ambitious people,” he said—an upwardly mobile businessman, a scientist, a “guy with a future.”
Apparently Trump, Epstein and Maxwell used the same bank-- Deutsche Bank. Two deaths are connected to Deutsche Bank, which had a significant lending relationship with Donald Trump:
*Valentin Broeksmit: A whistleblower who reportedly provided documents related to Deutsche Bank's dealings with Trump to the FBI was found dead in Los Angeles in April 2022. Broeksmit was 45 years old. The Los Angeles Police Department stated that no foul play was suspected, but the cause of death was deferred pending further investigation.
*Thomas Bowers: A former Deutsche Bank executive who had approved loans to Trump was found dead in November 2019. Authorities later ruled his death a suicide. While Bowers had worked at Deutsche Bank when some of the loans to Trump were made, he had left the bank years before his death, and no signs connected his suicide to his previous work in any financial institution, according to Newsweek.
This information, if nothing else, screams for campaign finance reform, and the removal of the Supine Court's Citizens United decision. We are being bought out.
Remember McCain feingold? The attempt at campaign finance reform didn’t last long. Our whole way of campaigning needs to be reformed. Too long. Too expensive. Unpopular candidates who don’t represent constituents. It’s mess. The 107 days of Kamala Harris’s campaign was long enough. We saw America not ready for a competent woman.
"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) slammed Trump’s move as 'the act of somebody who is soft, weak and afraid to own up to the reality of the damage his chaos is inflicting on our economy.'"
That says it all. Trump takes the bad numbers as a personal affront to him. He is so stupid he does not accept that data is data and he cannot change what has already occurred. Rather than learn and pivot, as a REAL president would do, he would rather destroy our country. Can someone, preferredly a Republican, speak up?
With six business bankruptcies under his belt, and a bunch of other failed enterprises, would it make any sense to put such a person in charge of the nation's economy?
The key is - how can this kind of information trickle down to the people who need to see it? Those in the Fox/OAN/Breitbart?etc. bubble. The fact silos need to be broken down. Therein lies the problem. The answer? Part of it is in the efforts of taking over the town halls. If anything has a chance to take the message to the grassroots, that is it. It is worth supporting these tours.
Agreed. The Democrats need to keep taking over town halls in red states. The GOP rep in my district not only won't do town halls, he won't do Zoom town halls. All he does is release propaganda videos.
The truth is going to hit them in the wallet at the grocery store. It will also hit at other stores, as we enter the busy back-to-school shopping season and into the holiday seasons of Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas (that last shopping season usually starts at the end of October.)
The average MAGA voter does go to grocery stores. The upper level of MAGA may use Amazon, but those prices are already increasing. I do, however, take your point, that the oligarchs and tech bros do not go to grocery stores.
Hmm. I sniff nope. My take: he knows that he's lying. Every single time. He lives and breathes to lie. Every lie he tells is a little orgasm for his fetid feral demagoguic nature.
I'm afraid it won't matter if the information trickles down and leads former DJT voters to vote Democratic in the mid-terms. The president's lackeys will by then have perpetrated a mass takeover, by gerrymandering, by suppression of voting, and by cyber-manipulation, of voting. If the Democrats are thinking ahead (to 2026), thinking outside the box, planning ahead, and working to outsmart the biggest election-fraud machine ever seen, they sure aren't letting on.
Why limit yourself? He's an all-around domestic terrorist. Ignoring court orders, violating the Constitution and destroying our freedoms and democracy are more parts to the story.
Lutnik was reported elsewhere to talk to Trump late at night, laugh a lot, and enjoy a warm and convivial relationship with our President. I don't think one can exaggerate how open to persuasion our President is. So, the powers behind the throne appear to be Lutnik for the economy, Loomer for personnel, Bondi for the law, Miller for immigration, and Hegseth for the Pentagon. What can possibly go wrong?
He acted in typical Agent Orange fashion...fire anyone who cites a fact in his presence. His skin is thinner than tissue paper, which will now cost a lot more except in his fantasy world. And his cult will also close their eyes, even as the powerhouse economic engine of the US blows itself to pieces. They will sing about his greatness as the inferno swallows them all.
I wonder if the head of the bureau of labor statistics had been male would the Felon have summarily fired him? It seems to me that unless she is a Stepford Wife he finds women in positions of authority automatically disposable
Particularly a mathematics, PhD statistics woman. I think it’s easier to undermine her credibility with the public-at-large, as well. Implicit negative bias. I watched Hidden Figures over the weekend. Just three white men recognized that the space program would not succeed without the three black women. Sure it’s dramatized, and the bias was overt. I guess my point in mentioning the movie is to note how one’s credibility in the eyes of others hasn’t got much to do with true integrity or ability. Many won’t give Trump’s claim that she cooked the books for political purposes a second glance.
that movie was literally shocking to me ! I had NO IDEA those women were even there, let alone know they were the brains of the operation !! NASA made us believe those crew cutted guys did it all...looks like fake news is not new...
I know, right?? When it came down to it, it was one white man, John Glenn, who opened the door. It occurs to me that there was (is) plenty of racism in the north. The difference was that there was more room not to be.
And, come to think of it, if the mathematician, the self-taught computer programmer, and the soon-to-be engineer had been black men, they wouldn’t have been permitted to step foot on campus.
I think you’re right. Except, when the markets reacted to his reaction, he might have taco’d if it had been a white man. (I’m going to press enter because I feel intense pressure to delete this. How many times do I capitulate to social pressures to keep quiet about things I believe are important? That’s what so many of us—all of us—are facing!)
That didn't take long. At the beginning of January, the Biden Administration had built the U.S. economy to be the most robust in the world, the price of groceries be damned. Now this fool has tanked us in a matter of months, and things aren't going to get better. They're trying to steal the mid-terms, and if they get away with that... I shudder to think.
It really didn't take long at all. Lingering pandemic-caused inflation was a big factor in last year's U.S. elections, along with those of other democracies. The roiling economic disaster in the offing, caused by Trump's idiotic tariff policies, would ensure a wipeout for the GOP in the House next year, only, as you note, their trying to rig the election by the most outlandish gerrymandering.
The question is, how can we stop them? Fighting fire with fire is one option, and perhaps the only one, given that SCOTUS's majority is in the tank for this fascist regime.
I don't let my fellow countrymen off so easily. "Lingering pandemic-caused" inflation is a gussied-up way of saying Americans have no brains, no knowledge of how economics actually works, and no interest in learning. Even the most cursory glance at all global industrialized economies at the time shows how much we were spared. Inflation rates all over the world were far worse than ours and lasted far longer. We weathered a great storm the way you would expect the world's strongest, most resilient economy to have.
Really, isn't it time people actually learned something rather than just stood around, bleating like goats?
"Americans have no brains, no knowledge of how economics actually works, and no interest in learning."
You just described MAGAts to a T.
But even Dems I know tuned out of reading/watching any real news. Just didn't want to know. "Too depressing". So many of them were also complicit, always expecting someone else to do the job, knock on the doors, work the phones, fight the fights. Every time I hear someone blame Biden I remind them the American voters' apathy & arrogance is really to blame. Americans always want to find someone else to point fingers at rather than be accountable.
It’s not just economics. Many people, not just MAGATs , have no clue how government works and blame the president for everything - even when the opposition has control of Congress and refuses to consider anything from the other side.
If Americans don't know anything, we must blame our system of "education" which, since the Reagan regime, has been systematically gutted.
This has been a long time coming, and will be a long time gone.
That was the plan all along, leading the U.S. to exactly where we are now!
Can't blame their teachers for lack of reading or seeking facts as grown-assed adults. Granted, this has been a long term plan of the repugs but Americans willfully tuned out.
Cyn B: I think also that teachers are and have been mostly so well-meaning that they turn that attitude into a projection onto nefarious others, and so those others have it easy to get their way by the naive neglect of teachers. A longer view, then, can see that most have forgotten that democracy needs to be front-and-center in the thinking of the "demos" to be maintained. The big dividing point I think was that before and during WWII, most everyone understood what was at stake.
Bill: Yes--we are living in the watershed of around 60 years of neglect of foundation education in the U.S. (e.g., political, moral, historical, etc.) and an over emphasis on STEM, and whether deliberate or not (not everyone but way too many). Unfortunately, screaming "fire!" in the face of such ignorance NOW won't do either.
It's also time for citizens of the United States to learn about the Constitution and American history. Its time for Americans to learn about world history and the nature of authoritarian and fascist regimes. They might recoil in shock! OMG, the Trump regime seems to be trying to make the United States into a autocracy. In order to do that, they have destroy the Constitution and the rule of law, subordinate the Congress and coopt the Supreme Court! How could I have been so dumb? How can we get out of this? The mirror on the wall says, "Look over here, you fool!"
That's a disservice to goats. They're not expected to know better. With a modicum of effort we could know better- but just can't be bothered.
I wonder if they (MAGA) are waiting for their own hair to catch fire. I used to think I was being too hard on those who stayed with Trump. Now I think they deserve whatever "dumb" related label one chooses to apply. "Sorry" doesn't mean a damn thing when the damage is unrepairable and done.
They tuned out and now we're all in the shithouse.
We have a serious lack of critical thinking in this country. How many times have I heard intelligent people say "Oh I don't watch the news. I don't want to know. It's too depressing." Well here we are. You got just what you voted (or didn't vote) for.
I say it’s high time the Democrats slipped on the metaphorical brass knuckles and got down in the ditch with these heathens.
They won't get away with it! It's not going to be easy...but, if everyone gets involved somehow in the resistance, we WILL stop it. For some ideas, go to Indivisible.org and/or VoteBlue.org :-)
MAGA math. The same guy who claimed, "You know, we’ve cut drug prices by 1,200, 1,300, 1,400, 1,500%,” said Trump.
We wuz robbed. Jen, please interview Adam Zarnowski.
“In December 2024, I was personally involved in an NSA‑authorized forensic audit of the 2024 election. Kamala Harris and Tim Walz won—by a wide margin. Trump lost dramatically. There are multiple layers of complexity to this cover‑up, including transnational organized crime syndicates that extend far beyond the United States and our elections. To that point, I work in the human trafficking sector, which intersects with the stolen election(s) and has ties to Trump and Epstein—not to President Biden, Vice President Harris, or Governor Walz, but to the Democrats and other allied interests responsible for burying the audit.”
https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/ex-cia-whistleblower-the-nsa-audited
Did Trump admit that Musk stole Pennsylvania?
I believe this this. It makes sense and is truly frightening.
I believe Kamala and Tim won too
Daniel Solomon, I respect your comments, having read many of them and even (forgive me) fact-checked a few. This morning I read some very disturbing information concerning Democratic fundraising, specifically an organization named Mothership Strategies. (Robert Hubbell's substack) This outfit is apparently linked to the Democratic national party. Hubbell provides a link to information from Adam Bonica, who seems, by what I have been able to learn, to be a legitimate academic. If you have time to look into this, I would be grateful. At this moment, I'm having some trouble placing my trust in my own mother!
https://www.opensecrets.org/campaign-expenditures/vendor?vendor=Mothership+Strategies
Total reported payments, 2024 cycle: $80,275,486
"Once considered a juggernaut in the Democratic digital space, Mothership Strategies is no longer in mainstream politics following fierce criticism over its aggressive fundraising tactics and allegations that its huge money hauls were being funneled back to the company itself.
"But rather than disappear from the political scene, Mothership has found a lower-profile roster of clients. And it’s continuing to deploy the same business practices that gave it pariah status in the first place."
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/politico_democrats-shunned-a-top-firm-over-its-controversial-activity-7135380241887166465-bE-U
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=151344
"...a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent." .
Thank you, especially for the links - reading now.
Nope. Left side crap is as stupid as right side crap. He presents no evidence. Just blather.
You mean drug companies AREN'T paying us to take their medications? But, but, but... Trump said prices would go down by more than 100%! /s
Trump is innumerate
I haven't noticed any super-free produce or other items in the supermarkets. Am I wrong in thinking that reducing drug prices by 1200 percent means that the drug makers would be giving the drugs away and paying people to take them?
Not a single statistic, not a speck of tax, revenue, employment, tariff, inflation, growth, deficit, trade data out of this Looney Tunes Administration and its shrieking, whiny little gasbag waving his tiny hands is to be trusted. And that's just the economy. Believe any figure connected with "illegal voter fraud" or election turn-out, registration, polling, at your dumb peril. Double for any and all data reported by the Department of Homeland Insecurity in connection with arrest, incarceration, and deportation of "violent criminals" off our streets. Not one word of it.
"Now does he feel his secret murders sticking on his hands;
Now, minutely, revolts upbraid his faith breach;
Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love.
Now does he feel his title hand loose about him, like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief."
But Trump lacks the conscience of a Macbeth, so....
Those lines from Shakespeare have also been going through my head.
Ms. McEntarfer should sue his fat stinking ass for libel.
Add to that a charge of firing without cause. Reporting the truth is not cause for firing, it's a revenge/retribution move and we know it. The big orange baby said "you can't play by my rules, so you have to go."
Trumpster Dumpster - all rubbish
Is anyone tracking Trump’s dark money network, major tech firms that covertly bankroll his political machine while shielding their involvement from public scrutiny. E.G. Qualcomm contributed $1 million to Securing American Greatness, a Trump-aligned nonprofit that bankrolled his 2024 campaign and is now funding ads to push his tax agenda and elect GOP candidates. The group, run by Trump insiders, spent $81 million during the election while keeping its donor list hidden.
Meanwhile, General Motors, Amazon, Microsoft, and USAA admitted to Congress that they contributed far more to Trump’s 2025 inauguration than originally reported to the FEC. GM gave $1.54 million vs. $1 million reported, Amazon nearly $2 million vs. $1 million, Microsoft $1 million vs. $750K, and USAA also revealed discrepancies. Trump’s committee amended filings but blamed corporate “documentation errors.”
Just the tip of the iceberg. It’s the billions already collected from his tariffs he’s got his eye on. And let’s not forget the “help” he’s gotten from the Russians. What may turn out to be the real scandal with Epstein is less the pedophilia and more the real estate deal he screwed Epstein over. He bid $40 million for a house and didn’t have the money until a Russian oligarch ponied up. Then a year or so later, the same oligarch bought the house for more than twice what trump paid for it. The whole affair was one big money laundering scheme, and Epstein had the goods on him. That’s the real reason trump killed him. Maxwell got a sweet deal last week in payment for her silence.
From yesterday:. 1. Trump allegedly handed Prince Andrew a list of masseuses after the two men engaged in a sick conversation about “p---y.” The interaction reportedly happened in the year 2000, not long after they had been introduced by their mutual friends, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein. The claim was made in a report in the Daily Mail on Saturday by the respected royal writer and historian Andrew Lownie. Lownie is the author of Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, a new investigative biography of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Entitled-Rise-Fall-House-York/dp/0008775451 Please follow up. The Daily Beast: Prince Andrew and Donald Trump’s Sick ‘P***y’ Conversations Revealed Tom Sykes.
2. Please interview Zev Shalev. I watched a discussion about Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell. Seems Trump knew Maxwell when she worked on her father's NY paper, the New York Daily News. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Maxwell Rumors and investigations surrounding Robert Maxwell have alleged ties to multiple intelligence agencies, including the Soviet KGB.
These intelligence connections are reportedly viewed as being financially driven rather than ideologically motivated. "[Gislaine] Maxwell, the Oxford-educated daughter of a billionaire publishing tycoon, was exactly the kind of company the future US president [Trump] liked to keep in New York in the 80s. The pair were regular fixtures in the elite Manhattan and Palm Beach social scenes, attending the same parties at private clubs and on million-dollar yachts." The Telegraph: Trump’s friendship with Ghislaine Maxwell was once a liability. Now it could save him. Benedict Smith Trump supposedly spent time with Roberty Maxwell on his yacht in New Yrork about the first time he went to Russia.
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/
In The Art of the Deal, Trump writes: “In January 1987, I got a letter from Yuri Dubinin, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, that began: ‘It is a pleasure for me to relay some good news from Moscow.’ It went on to say that the leading Soviet state agency for international tourism, Goscomintourist, had expressed interest in pursuing a joint venture to construct and manage a hotel in Moscow.”
"There were many ambitious real estate developers in the United States—why had Moscow picked Trump?
"According to Viktor Suvorov—a former GRU military spy—and others, the KGB ran Intourist, the agency to which Trump referred. It functioned as a subsidiary KGB branch. Initiated in 1929 by Stalin, Intourist was the Soviet Union’s official state travel agency. Its job was to vet and monitor all foreigners coming into the Soviet Union.
“In my time it was KGB,” Suvorov said. “They gave permission for people to visit.” The KGB’s first and second directorates routinely received lists of prospective visitors to the country based on their visa applications. "As a GRU operative, Suvorov was personally involved in recruitment, albeit for a rival service to the KGB. Soviet spy agencies were always interested in cultivating “young ambitious people,” he said—an upwardly mobile businessman, a scientist, a “guy with a future.”
Apparently Trump, Epstein and Maxwell used the same bank-- Deutsche Bank. Two deaths are connected to Deutsche Bank, which had a significant lending relationship with Donald Trump:
*Valentin Broeksmit: A whistleblower who reportedly provided documents related to Deutsche Bank's dealings with Trump to the FBI was found dead in Los Angeles in April 2022. Broeksmit was 45 years old. The Los Angeles Police Department stated that no foul play was suspected, but the cause of death was deferred pending further investigation.
*Thomas Bowers: A former Deutsche Bank executive who had approved loans to Trump was found dead in November 2019. Authorities later ruled his death a suicide. While Bowers had worked at Deutsche Bank when some of the loans to Trump were made, he had left the bank years before his death, and no signs connected his suicide to his previous work in any financial institution, according to Newsweek.
Did they have connections to Epstein and Maxwell?
This information needs to go to Wall Street Journal, if they don’t already have it. Trump needs to have an apoplectic stroke!
WSJ = Murdock.
did she ? now she's easier to "get to"
This information, if nothing else, screams for campaign finance reform, and the removal of the Supine Court's Citizens United decision. We are being bought out.
Remember McCain feingold? The attempt at campaign finance reform didn’t last long. Our whole way of campaigning needs to be reformed. Too long. Too expensive. Unpopular candidates who don’t represent constituents. It’s mess. The 107 days of Kamala Harris’s campaign was long enough. We saw America not ready for a competent woman.
Hear hear! We would do well to follow other countries in their much shorter campaign season to the vote timeline.
This country's politicians have put us into "constant campaign mode" with them and the media making clicks and profits all the way from it.
Unfortunately, we are going to have a right-wing SC for the next 40 to 50 years, and no campaign finance law with teeth will get by them.
"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) slammed Trump’s move as 'the act of somebody who is soft, weak and afraid to own up to the reality of the damage his chaos is inflicting on our economy.'"
That says it all. Trump takes the bad numbers as a personal affront to him. He is so stupid he does not accept that data is data and he cannot change what has already occurred. Rather than learn and pivot, as a REAL president would do, he would rather destroy our country. Can someone, preferredly a Republican, speak up?
With six business bankruptcies under his belt, and a bunch of other failed enterprises, would it make any sense to put such a person in charge of the nation's economy?
The key is - how can this kind of information trickle down to the people who need to see it? Those in the Fox/OAN/Breitbart?etc. bubble. The fact silos need to be broken down. Therein lies the problem. The answer? Part of it is in the efforts of taking over the town halls. If anything has a chance to take the message to the grassroots, that is it. It is worth supporting these tours.
Agreed. The Democrats need to keep taking over town halls in red states. The GOP rep in my district not only won't do town halls, he won't do Zoom town halls. All he does is release propaganda videos.
The truth is going to hit them in the wallet at the grocery store. It will also hit at other stores, as we enter the busy back-to-school shopping season and into the holiday seasons of Labor Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas (that last shopping season usually starts at the end of October.)
The people who put us here don’t go to grocery stores.
The average MAGA voter does go to grocery stores. The upper level of MAGA may use Amazon, but those prices are already increasing. I do, however, take your point, that the oligarchs and tech bros do not go to grocery stores.
The new tariffs and customs fees are going to destroy the Dollar Trees and Dollar Generals where many of the poor and retirees have to shop.
Trump’s MAGA followers will never leave him or believe that he is wrong. Their identity is emotionally merged with Trump. That’s why it is a cult.
They can’t admit they were wrong , and neither can Trump. He’s convinced himself that he won the 2020 election . He won’t waver.
> convinced himself that he won
Hmm. I sniff nope. My take: he knows that he's lying. Every single time. He lives and breathes to lie. Every lie he tells is a little orgasm for his fetid feral demagoguic nature.
Well put.
I'm afraid it won't matter if the information trickles down and leads former DJT voters to vote Democratic in the mid-terms. The president's lackeys will by then have perpetrated a mass takeover, by gerrymandering, by suppression of voting, and by cyber-manipulation, of voting. If the Democrats are thinking ahead (to 2026), thinking outside the box, planning ahead, and working to outsmart the biggest election-fraud machine ever seen, they sure aren't letting on.
Nothing like giving up in advance.
Mad King Donald is an economic terrorist.
Why limit yourself? He's an all-around domestic terrorist. Ignoring court orders, violating the Constitution and destroying our freedoms and democracy are more parts to the story.
Lutnik was reported elsewhere to talk to Trump late at night, laugh a lot, and enjoy a warm and convivial relationship with our President. I don't think one can exaggerate how open to persuasion our President is. So, the powers behind the throne appear to be Lutnik for the economy, Loomer for personnel, Bondi for the law, Miller for immigration, and Hegseth for the Pentagon. What can possibly go wrong?
It's a cast of characters that should only exist in an outrageous satire; but unfortunately this is real life, our lives!
With FOX broadcasting experience as the common denominator
Let us stay focused on the only numbers that matter: Trump’s cholesterol count and the number of days until midterms.
He acted in typical Agent Orange fashion...fire anyone who cites a fact in his presence. His skin is thinner than tissue paper, which will now cost a lot more except in his fantasy world. And his cult will also close their eyes, even as the powerhouse economic engine of the US blows itself to pieces. They will sing about his greatness as the inferno swallows them all.
I wonder if the head of the bureau of labor statistics had been male would the Felon have summarily fired him? It seems to me that unless she is a Stepford Wife he finds women in positions of authority automatically disposable
Particularly a mathematics, PhD statistics woman. I think it’s easier to undermine her credibility with the public-at-large, as well. Implicit negative bias. I watched Hidden Figures over the weekend. Just three white men recognized that the space program would not succeed without the three black women. Sure it’s dramatized, and the bias was overt. I guess my point in mentioning the movie is to note how one’s credibility in the eyes of others hasn’t got much to do with true integrity or ability. Many won’t give Trump’s claim that she cooked the books for political purposes a second glance.
that movie was literally shocking to me ! I had NO IDEA those women were even there, let alone know they were the brains of the operation !! NASA made us believe those crew cutted guys did it all...looks like fake news is not new...
I know, right?? When it came down to it, it was one white man, John Glenn, who opened the door. It occurs to me that there was (is) plenty of racism in the north. The difference was that there was more room not to be.
And, come to think of it, if the mathematician, the self-taught computer programmer, and the soon-to-be engineer had been black men, they wouldn’t have been permitted to step foot on campus.
I think he would have fired a male head anyway. Hard truths are kryptonite to Trump.
I think you’re right. Except, when the markets reacted to his reaction, he might have taco’d if it had been a white man. (I’m going to press enter because I feel intense pressure to delete this. How many times do I capitulate to social pressures to keep quiet about things I believe are important? That’s what so many of us—all of us—are facing!)
Trump thinks America is 'hot' because his pants are on fire.
Remember the quote: "I wouldn't believe anything that came from his mouth if his tongue was notarized." ? More true today than ever before.
That will be the last accurate report from the BLS during this administration.
and marked as the beginning of the end