The Trump Administration, as usual, is a bit late for the dance, but it finally figured out what everyone with half a brain already knew:
"If we renew tax cuts for the rich paid for by throwing people off Medicaid, we're gonna get f--king slaughtered," the White House official said."

Scoop: Trump might let taxes rise for the rich to cover breaks on tips


https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/trump-taxes-wealthy

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Not sure if anyone has talked about this one yet. Honestly, no one should be traveling to the United States at all. If you happen to overstay for even a day or two, you could get tossed into jail with no way of getting out for weeks or months. This time they f***ed up and did it to a Canadian actress who could make an embarrassing stink in the media.

"To put things into perspective: I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks" https://t.co/O4NUALkJip

— Nick Field (@nick_field90) March 20, 2025

I talked to @jasminemooney, the Canadian actor who ICE detained for nearly two weeks across three prisons with absolutely no explanation.

This is what she experienced

pic.twitter.com/07B082RNxs

— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) March 28, 2025

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The hilarious thing about this post is neither the Guardian, nor you cared about this prior to January 20, 2025. The past four years, Democrats suddenly stopped talking about "babies in cages."

But I'm sure in your mind these kind of abuses only started then.

Kamala and Biden *more than doubled* the amount of people abducted by ICE after taking over from Trump.

Liberals just stopped caring for 4 years - welcome back! https://t.co/D5fRSzG47x pic.twitter.com/mUv4ref5l9

— Hold Dems Accountable (@PushDemsLeft) March 28, 2025

You talk about "building a popular political movement", but that's not possible with people like you. You're just a political partisan who feels good about himself pointing out government abuses when his party is out of power for being worthless, but when they get back in power, your interest in government abuses goes away and you go to the closet and pull out the pom poms for four years.

Fortunately, the people who are disgusted with both parties continues to grow. Hopefully one day we will outnumber the Democrat and Republican sheep combined. That's the only movement I give a damn about.

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No, my argument is and always has been that everything you complain about when Dems are in power would be worse if Trump won again. And I am being proven right about that.

Not sure if these folks even understand what due process is? This is a Congresswoman.

Indiana congresswoman says, “You violated the law, you don’t get due process.” These are the same lawmakers who oppose Red Flag Laws because they don’t provide armed domestic abusers with … due process. pic.twitter.com/VcQK09P1Yl

— Shannon Watts (@shannonrwatts) March 29, 2025

Greenland has gotten inspiration from the words of Baghdad Bob:

ICE BREAKING: The US ordered new ice breakers in 2019. The DoD has spent $1.7B and yet we still have no ships. Best guess is that we’ll get the first one in 2030 at a cost of over $5B for 3. Instead Trump is going to pay Finland $250M each for actual ships - we could have six for… pic.twitter.com/Ia6KAhhAzx

— @amuse (@amuse) March 30, 2025

The history of Trump's man to negotiate world peace should worry us all | The Independent


https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-steve-witkoff-putin-signal-b2723343.html

Why trust blind pro-war Progs?

🚨President of United Auto Workers Shawn Fain: "I've had companies tell us point blank that they're going to have to bring product back here if those tariffs are implemented."

pic.twitter.com/lcjAqdbFTQ

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 30, 2025

"The disaster this week with Mike Waltz's astonishingly reckless Signal messaging brings it all together. This is a crew of bigots, sycophants, Fox News drunks and bimbos, Hollywood loonies, Claremont nutters, and uber-online edge-lords cosplaying as statesmen. But they aren't even faintly serious as Russia and China now fully understand. And their response to being found out was classic Trump: lie, lie, lie and call journalists scum. By any objective standard, this is a clown car.

…..But this embrace of indecency, aggression, and lawlessness is also itself fragile. Trump has always known how to craft a reality show. But behind the curtain, there is still a small, bitter, vengeful, incompetent man, surrounded by third-rate sycophants and hacks with no coherent strategy for economic or political success, no serious experience in government, and a record of making enemies of everyone and losing long-loyal friends.

A president who uses ancient laws and police-state tactics shows not only that he is a degenerate and a disgrace, but that he is too weak to do things the right way; he pushes executive orders because he doesn't have the votes in Congress to achieve anything lasting; he has alienated allies he may well soon need; he has already had his lunch eaten by Putin and Xi and Netanyahu; and he is heading toward a period of tenacious stagflation when his most resilient advantage that he manages the economy well may evaporate overnight.

That's the good news. The bad news is that this sh@it-show is even worse than many of us expected. It is far more overtly authoritarian than in the first term, far more dangerous in foreign policy, far more reckless in economic policy, far more intolerant of opposing views, completely contemptuous of free speech and free trade and free markets. The two aspects of tyranny I did not see in the first term war-like territorial expansionism and contempt for habeas corpus and due process have now fallen into place."

"Two Perfect Months" - by Andrew Sullivan - The Weekly Dish


https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/two-perfect-months-506

Art imitating life:




*This skit literally wrote itself.

Tariff Man is going to be costing you a lot of money.

Well, you won't be happy how he "negotiates" the end of the Gaza Police Action. My guess is you could not care less how he "negotiates" the end of the Ukrainian Invasion.

*Guaranteed: Bibi and Putin are going to be tickled sh@itless how the conclusion of their respective dust ups are negotiated. They are literally laughing themselves to sleep watching a bunch of amateurs playing dress up.

We're talking. Biden-Blinken-Sullivan didn't talk to Putin for four years.

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Well, you won't be happy how he "negotiates" the end of the Gaza Police Action. My guess is you could not care less how he "negotiates" the end of the Ukrainian Invasion.

*Guaranteed: Bibi and Putin are going to be tickled sh@itless how the conclusion of their respective dust ups are negotiated. They are literally laughing themselves to sleep watching a bunch of amateurs playing dress up.

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I don't think he'll even be able to negotiate a real "end." He'll get maybe another temporary ceasefire with more concessions to them and then those guys will find a reason to start up again.

Hope to be proven wrong, but that's how I see it going.

No rigor behind this at all.

NEW: An ACLU filing sheds light on how "Andry," the gay make-up artist sent to rot in a prison in El Salvador, ended up labeled "Tren de Aragua" by ICE.

Documents filed by ICE shows that the ONLY evidence ICE listed for membership in TdA was a tattoo of a crown with "mom" below. https://t.co/KDBcNopYTo pic.twitter.com/xnaCYUrjev

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) March 30, 2025

Trump Leaves Presidency To Become Even More Powerful District Court Judge https://t.co/HAwBpO5hQ9 pic.twitter.com/JDDCA4izJp

— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 28, 2025

PANAMA CANAL: President Trump has once again been proven correct. Panama claimed that the Hong Kong-based company, CK Hutchison, which operates the two ports at either end of the Panama Canal, was free from Chinese influence, despite Trump's assertions to the contrary. China's… pic.twitter.com/ajGmD64hjx

— @amuse (@amuse) March 31, 2025

Right off the bat, JD Vance went to Europe and warned the Europeans that they were sliding into authoritarianism and that the US might have to reconsider its security guarantees since there’d be nothing worth saving. They responded by doubling down on authoritarianism.

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 31, 2025

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Right off the bat, JD Vance went to Europe and warned the Europeans that they were sliding into authoritarianism and that the US might have to reconsider its security guarantees since there’d be nothing worth saving. They responded by doubling down on authoritarianism.

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 31, 2025

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good dodo brain . You are too easy. Has this guy ever been to a cal game or got his ass kicked as an undergraduate?

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Right off the bat, JD Vance went to Europe and warned the Europeans that they were sliding into authoritarianism and that the US might have to reconsider its security guarantees since there’d be nothing worth saving. They responded by doubling down on authoritarianism.

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 31, 2025

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Just as we are here at home! Euros are following our example.

Sorry lover of movies...

But I do give you credit for consistently being terribly uneducated, uninformed, ignorant, and shockingly vacuous.

Tucker Carlson's favorite Euro leader is Hungary's Viktor Orban

"Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, has been speaking for nearly two hours now on the Senate floor warning of cuts to Social Security and Medicare, beginning after the Senate advanced the nomination of Matt Whitaker for U.S. ambassador to NATO. In an announcement on social media earlier, Booker said that he intended to "speak for as long as I'm physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis."

MSNBC

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Sorry lover of movies...

But I do give you credit for consistently being terribly uneducated, uninformed, ignorant, and shockingly vacuous.

Tucker Carlson's favorite Euro leader is Hungary's Viktor Orban

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the "lover of movies" drop the mic I should fight ideas, facts and such but a complete waste of time

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Right off the bat, JD Vance went to Europe and warned the Europeans that they were sliding into authoritarianism and that the US might have to reconsider its security guarantees since there’d be nothing worth saving. They responded by doubling down on authoritarianism.

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 31, 2025

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good dodo brain . You are too easy. Has this guy ever been to a cal game or got his ass kicked as an undergraduate?

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It would be impossible for you. But I enjoyed my time with Cal hoopster Michael Pitts (hat tip to Kuchen's secretary for the intro... she was a tall glass of water). I saw Mr. Pitts got the Pete Newell Lifetime Achievement Award a few years back.

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Right off the bat, JD Vance went to Europe and warned the Europeans that they were sliding into authoritarianism and that the US might have to reconsider its security guarantees since there’d be nothing worth saving. They responded by doubling down on authoritarianism.

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 31, 2025

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good dodo brain . You are too easy. Has this guy ever been to a cal game or got his ass kicked as an undergraduate?

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It would be impossible for you. But I enjoyed my time with Cal hoopster Michael Pitts (hat tip to Kuchen's secretary for the intro... she was a tall glass of water). I saw Mr. Pitts got the Pete Newell Lifetime Achievement Award a few years back.

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. Pitts was one of my favorites (kuchen notsomuch). But somehow you pull this stuff out and I know you are an imposter. Nice try catfish man.

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Right off the bat, JD Vance went to Europe and warned the Europeans that they were sliding into authoritarianism and that the US might have to reconsider its security guarantees since there’d be nothing worth saving. They responded by doubling down on authoritarianism.

— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) March 31, 2025

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good dodo brain . You are too easy. Has this guy ever been to a cal game or got his ass kicked as an undergraduate?

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It would be impossible for you. But I enjoyed my time with Cal hoopster Michael Pitts (hat tip to Kuchen's secretary for the intro... she was a tall glass of water). I saw Mr. Pitts got the Pete Newell Lifetime Achievement Award a few years back.

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. Pitts was one of my favorites (kuchen notsomuch). But somehow you pull this stuff out and I know you are an imposter. Nice try catfish man.

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Imposter yes.

I believe he was found posting on the UC Davis Aggies board long before Bearinsider.
I guess they got tired of him there too.

cal83dls79 said:

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Sorry lover of movies...

But I do give you credit for consistently being terribly uneducated, uninformed, ignorant, and shockingly vacuous.

Tucker Carlson's favorite Euro leader is Hungary's Viktor Orban

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Amen brother.

#13 - we'll see.

Here’s a quick refresher on where we’re at:

1. Border is now closed
2. MS-13 & Tren de Aragua being deported
3. No more men in women’s sports
4. Food prices going down
5. Gas prices going down
6. Housing becoming more affordable
7. Inflation going down
8. $5 trillion in new…

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 2, 2025

Read below for the story of Andry, the gay makeup artist imprisoned in El Salvador by the Trump admin because of tattoos reading "mom" and "dad" with crowns next to them.

It also quotes an expert who literally wrote a book on Tren de Aragua saying they don't do gang tattoos. https://t.co/CN9ppAxwJV pic.twitter.com/B1khrFbQSo

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) April 1, 2025

Trump is really grating on me with the never ending announcement / press conferences. Dude loves to hear his own voice. I'm reminded of the Talking Heads lyric from "Psycho Killer"

You start a conversation, you can't even finish it
You're talking a lot, but you're not saying anything
When I have nothin' to say, my lips are sealed
Say somethin' once, why say it again?

pic.twitter.com/nlCLoSpfaY

— litquidity (@litcapital) April 2, 2025

UK only a 10% hit.

Almost every major country charges a high tariff on American goods

So Trump is issuing equal treatment right back, except at only half the cost

If other countries drop their tariffs, we’ll drop ours

And if they don’t drop them, companies will be built in America

Win win pic.twitter.com/PupKFbqllU

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 2, 2025

Vietnam gives US tax breaks ahead of tariff announcement

The government also approved a trial period for Elon Musk-owned SpaceX's Starlink internet service.

Vietnam trade rep flying to the US.

There is no plan. They're just stupid.

The economic damage from the 2025 tariffs could be so much more devastating than Smoot-Hawley.

Back in 1930, imports were 3% of GDP.

Today imports are 15% of GDP.

The economy is 5x more exposed to tariffs today than it was 100 years ago when we learned our lesson against… pic.twitter.com/duwuEKtFAH

— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) April 1, 2025