trump yesterday on the market sell-off:
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trump yesterday on the market sell-off:
"I think it’s globalists that see how rich our country’s going to be and they don’t like it.
Big market out there.
But again, they’ve been ripping off this country for years. And they’re going to do great — everyone’s going to do great.
But we can’t let this continue to happen to America. Otherwise we’re not going to have a country any longer"
Is anyone buying this BS?
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-blames-globalists-market-slides-blame-rcna195356
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Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk
Musk to Rubio: You have fired nobody.
Rubio: Musk is not being truthful. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts? Didn’t they count as layoffs?
Musk told Rubio he was “good on TV."
Similar clash with transportation sec. Sean Duffy.
Throughout all of this, trump sat back in his chair, arms folded, as if he were watching a tennis match.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/politics/trump-musk-doge-power.html
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US Secretary of Commerce Lutnick: “Things are not gonna rise in price if you make them here”
Reporter: “But sir, wages are higher here”
Lutnick: “Then Robots will make them, millions and millions of jobs will be created and people don’t have to go to college”These guys really know their base - dimwits who will believe anything these guys say. Add in a few dollops of cruelty towards others and the base will be frothing at the mouths and sending them money.
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Keith Kellogg, trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, says Ukrainians brought the pause in U.S. intelligence sharing "on themselves."
It's "sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose," Kellogg said of the impact of the intelligence pause on the battlefield. "Got their attention."
This is extortion and sadism. It's - we will get hundreds more killed until you agree to give us everything.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/keith-kellogg-ukraine-intelligence-sharing-pause/
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"Behold Donald Corleone, the US president who behaves like a mafia boss – but without the principles.
Both the substance and the style are pure mafia.
... issuing threats and menaces that sound better in the original Sicilian.
... power is exercised arbitrarily and inconsistently.
Note too the humiliation of subordinates.
Trumpism does not confine the Cosa Nostra tactics to foreign affairs.
These are despicable people, lacking even the morality of the hoodlum."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/donald-trump-america-mafia-state
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trump administration will use AI-based scans of social media accounts to identify and deport foreign nationals and students who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups or are pro-Palestine.
This is chilling.
We can guess what comes next. Think Thought Police, Thinkpol and thoughtcrime.
Should we be cautious of what we write or is it too late anyways?
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/state-department-ai-revoke-foreign-student-visas-hamas
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Fascist corruption at work.
Red states like Oklahoma will get exemptions, carve outs and probably extra tax-dollars, while blue states and blue cities will be punished and starved. Similarly with businesses. And nations.
Nothing new. This is the way republicans have always operated.
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