Mar 18, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, ECONOMY, MISCELLANEOUS, SECOND REICH
U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed current and former USAID employees and contractors who had challenged the efforts to shutter USAID, which were mounted by DOGE and Musk, a senior White House adviser who...
Mar 18, 2025 | ECONOMY, MISCELLANEOUS, QUOTES, SECOND REICH
From Twitter/X: “We need 7 million affordable homes in America and 20% of America’s landmass is owned by the Department of Interior. Today, @SecretaryBurgum and I are announcing a partnership between @HUDgov and @Interior to identify and open under-utilized...
Mar 15, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, ECONOMY, MISCELLANEOUS
Tesla Accused Of Gaming Canada’s EV Rebate Program After 4 Stores Sold 2 Cars Per Minute Wiping Out $43M in Grants Tesla sold over 8,600 cars in just three days at four stores before the rebate program ended. The surge in sales amounted to more than $43.1 million in...
Mar 15, 2025 | ECONOMY, MISCELLANEOUS, QUOTES
“A world in which human wages crash from AI — logically, necessarily — is a world in which productivity growth goes through the roof, and prices for goods and services crash to near zero,” Andreessen wrote. “Consumer cornucopia. Everything you need...
Mar 15, 2025 | ECONOMY, SECOND REICH
In an emergency address from the Oval Office on Monday afternoon, Donald J. Trump commanded the American people not to check their 401k accounts. “Anyone caught checking their 409s (sic) can and will be deported,” he warned. Borowitz
Mar 14, 2025 | ECONOMY, SECOND REICH
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Jan. 20, freezing all funds appropriated under the Inflation Reduction Act, which farmers say are necessary to keep their farms and certain projects running. Courthouse News
Mar 8, 2025 | ECONOMY, MISCELLANEOUS, SECOND REICH
H/T to Ed Krassenstein on X (@EdKrassen) For the ignorant Americans who don’t understand what US Aid to Ukraine actually looks like, please read and share this list: – The vast majority of the military aid we’re providing Ukraine comes directly from...
Mar 7, 2025 | ECONOMY, RUSSIA!, SECOND REICH
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) signaled Thursday that President Trump’s threat to levy tariffs on key trading partners of the U.S. is hurting his constituents. “Almost every industry in Kentucky has come to me and said, ‘It will hurt our industry and push up prices of homes,...
Mar 6, 2025 | CRIME WATCH, ECONOMY, SECOND REICH
Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago. But the recent actions at the U.S. Social Security Administration by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government...
Mar 5, 2025 | ECONOMY, SECOND REICH
Note: Biden left with a 3.9% growth rate. Trump turned that into a NEGATIVE 2.5% growth rate in just 6 weeks while he golfed 12 times and threw taxpayer funded parties at Mar-a-Lago. The Atlanta Fed’s GDP tracker now indicates that the economy is headed for a 1.5%...
Mar 1, 2025 | ECONOMY, MISCELLANEOUS, RUSSIA!, SECOND REICH
After humiliating the U.S. on the world stage, Trump just jetted off to Florida—to golf. He’s now spent 35% of his presidency on vacation, burning through $20M+ in taxpayer dollars. The laziest “president” in U.S. history. Republicans came down heavily on...
Feb 25, 2025 | ECONOMY, SECOND REICH
U.S. consumer confidence plummeted in February, the biggest monthly decline in more than four years, a business research group said Tuesday, with inflation seemingly stuck and a trade war under President Donald Trump seen by a growing number of Americans as...
