“It’s ok, Jack. The Dow is over 50,000.”
Trump's Policies XI
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This is the modern day "Let them eat cake" meme...
Yep, and the difference is Marie Antoinette didn't say that, either.
Just like Mayor Cermak never said he was glad the bullet hit him instead of FDR.
Just like Al Capone (in all probability) never beat a guy (or 3) to death with a baseball bat.
LBJ never made the comment about the Democrats losing the south for 200 years (Bill Moyers repeated it quite softly, but even he said LBJ said it more as a sarcastic crack than a prediction. Moyers pointed out there are so many variations of the quote, it's absurd).
Almost none of the garbage we're fed actually happened.
Or if it did - it didn't happen the way it was presented as happening (Oliver Stone's "JFK" is a tour-de-force in presenting as "fact" things that happened but not the way he showed them happening).
Every time I hear how about the DOW or how good the economy is doing, it makes me want to cringe. The economy has sucked under Ds & Rs since 2000 and has only 'appeared' to look good based on being propped up by massive deficit spending which is now in the record high and catastrophic territory. JMK is rolling over in his grave.
Trump privately lashes out at GOP lawmakers over racist video blowback, sources say
Hours after refusing to apologize for a racist video posted to his Truth Social account, President Donald Trump hadn’t let go.He spent last weekend complaining to allies about Republicans who had condemned the video depicting the Obamas as apes, questioning the lawmakers’ loyalty and vowing consequences, sources familiar with his comments told CNN.
The president railed against South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott — the sole Black Republican senator and chair of the Senate GOP’s campaign arm — throughout the weekend at Mar-a-Lago, arguing one of his top congressional allies was out of line to call his White House racist, the sources said.
“The president felt he could’ve handled that matter privately,” a senior Trump administration official told CNN of Scott. “He was like, ‘We work together all the time. He didn’t need to comment publicly.’”
Trump had even stronger words for Alabama Sen. Katie Britt, one of the sources recalled, using expletives to denounce her and declaring that she was dead to him.
Britt’s office slammed that account as “fake news” and touted her strong working relationship with the president, while the White House praised her as “an incredible ally” whom the president has “great respect” for. Scott’s office declined to comment.
Some good news:
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Consumer prices rose 2.4% annually in January, less than expected
The consumer price index was expected to increase 2.5% from a year ago in January, according to the Dow Jones consensus.
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The short version - as always - is Trump did something stupid and is blaming it on an invisible person and then attacking his own people who condemn the act. (Why is he after them if a staffer did it - unless he agrees with the staffer?).
Because HE did it.
Of course even if a staffer did it then yes he would agree with it anyway.
By the way why hasn’t that staffer been outed and fired?
That's the bigger point.
I think of, say, GHW Bush on this. If this had occurred under his watch - well, it wouldn't because none of his aides would have EVER thought he would have approved of this, and he wouldn't have tweeted something like it but anyway - suppose an aide REALLY DID do something like this. He would have publicly apologized for it, said that while he didn't do it he was still in charge and thus responsible, he would have called in the Obamas for a photo op of unity, and he would have QUIETLY fired the aide to not embarrass the person or scar him/her for life in the job market.
Pretty much all of the other leaders in my lifetime from Nixon through Biden would have done something very similar.
But that's the difference when your country is led by a person who has actual leadership experience compared to a person born with a silver spoon in his mouth who spent his entire life evading leadership and then became the equivalent of electing Otis the Drunk from "Andy Griffith" as the President.
That's an insult to Otis. Otis would never have done anything this despicable. Otis had a drinking problem but he had a soul and cared for his friends.
I get selma's point, and agree with where he's headed. But I would have chosen Ernest T. Bass.
Difference there is Ernest T. wasn't mean. Not real smart. Erratic. Unpredictable. Zero self awareness. The patience and strategic thinking of a three-year-old on a sugar buzz. But not mean. Trump is all those things, plus mean on top of it.
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Well, I have a vague familiarity with the characters but in all honesty the only time I ever watched "Andy" was when the Braves were rained out, too.
Trump attacked Rep. Thomas Massie — the lawmaker pushing to force the release of the Epstein files — calling him a “loser” who should “see a psychiatrist.”
Notice the pattern.
Not angry at Epstein.
Not angry at abusers.
Not angry at cover-ups.
Angry at the guy demanding transparency.
Ask yourself why.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
Believe them when they say it.
Just trying to discredit him and by extension anything having to do with the Trumpstein Files.
Last night someone leaked a completely non redacted photo dump of Epsteins 1997 Little Black Book.
Trump has about 11-12 Phone Number contact entries.
Also expected financial names like Rockefeller and Rothschild.
Some surprising names and numbers like Joan Rivers and Morgan Fairchild.
It was about 30-40 pages of contacts.
There was some correspondence found earlier in the week about Robin Leach allegedly murdering a woman and burying her on Trump’s Golf Course in CA at ‘The 19th Hole’.
Sure enough Robin Leach’s contact info is in that 1997 Black Book.
It’s going to take time but people are going to uncover a lot of these dirty little secrets whether Orange Dryer Lint cooperates or not.
This is not going to be allowed to go away.
I hope you're right about not going away. But when it comes to politicians of any stripe, I'm an avowed cynic.
I'll believe it won't go away when I see real consequences for a lot of people. So far gazillions of names. But very few paying any consequences, legal, financial or otherwise.
Bet Larry Summers wishes he'd pulled a page out of the Auburn / Trump / Bruce Pearl playbook -- deny, deny, deny, point fingers everywhere but at yourself, claim AI-generated fakes, question the motives of the accusers (rather than the validity of the accusations) and throw waste matter into a fan hoping that it slings some of it somewhere that it sticks.
Given that the news cycle, what passes for "journalism" these days, and the American public in general have the attention span of a gerbil on meth, it often works.
“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes.
The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.
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