These guys don't work and just cosplay for Instagram photoshoots. Or maybe this midget is working on those elusive Epstein files that were promised.

10 year treasury yields up to 4.45%. Holy shit. Someone is unloading our debt

Rhymes with buy knees lover mint?

I read that Trump's plans to take over Greenland involves A> Appealing to their Inuit ancestry (with this administration??) or B> giving each resident $10,000

I'm seeing people say it's Japan which makes sense. They hold the most debt and are likely trying to get out. There is no chance of a rate cut anytime soon.

Nobody in the world trusts us.

And for good reason.

Maybe this will make them trust us.:lol:

BREAKING: Treasury Department has started slashing offices, not just at IRS. Bureau of Fiscal Service is cutting employees who service U.S. Treasury bonds for investors. That work will be outsourced.

Much more significant cuts expected soon.

— Eric Katz (@EricM_Katz) April 10, 2025

Gut the public sector and privatize it by outsourcing. How do you spin this?

By their actions, they have told every other government that they're not allies, they're just a set of transactions. And then when those other government decide to make new allies that are more reliable, Trump starts pouting and threatening.

This time the USA doesn't have the cards, they outplayed their hand. They should have brought the world together against China, and instead they're driving everybody towards them.

Like I said already: the door is already wide open, but nobody wants them.

We've reached the point of GOP politics that, at least on deficit spending/spending bill accounting tricks, Thomas Massie is the voice of reason.

Trump opening up chopping down our forests for lumber to bring down home prices when our lumber isn't suited for home building is as MAGA as it gets.

When has the GOP ever not been delusional on deficit/spending bill accounting tricks? Certainly not anytime since Regan.

Deficits only seem to matter when Democrats are in power.

Is it good when the Dow looks like a rapid heartbeat EKG?

China matched Trump's tariffs again and called his tariffs strategy a joke. The oval office walls were probably covered in ketchup packets this morning.

lol

Today I introduced my first bill in the U.S. Senate, and its to ban Chinese vehicles in the U.S. market.

Learn more here:https://t.co/YUWrLD7lPJ pic.twitter.com/leNhhtrLx0

— Sen. Elissa Slotkin (@SenatorSlotkin) April 10, 2025

In the day and age of 100k pickup trucks and car payments that are ballooning into being bigger than house payments, I’m glad that our politicians can find common ground in making sure that these sub 10k electric cars can never be sold here.

All full-time employees of the CDC's vessel sanitation program have been let go, including the epidemiologist who leads the agency's outbreak response on cruise ships.

That sounds crazy but totally something Trump/Musk/RFKJr would do, right? Well, it's even crazier, because the cruise ship companies pay for the program, not taxpayers. So these "cuts" have nothing to do with cutting government costs (or waste, which aren't necessarily the same thing, of course).

WTF?

The most predictable move was the Democrats seeing all this chaos and deciding they needed to run further right than Trump on all this.

I do feel like there isn't enough attention being paid to what is taking place on the bond market. People or countries are unloading treasuries. We're being treated like an emerging market. Mortgage rate is over 7%.

To be fair, we're behaving like an emerging market.

Our auto manufacturers have decided to specialize in massive SUVs and pickups that don't fit on European and Asian roads . Meanwhile, those countries are focused on smaller, safer, more efficient vehicles. We then complain that we can't sell our vehicles in those markets.

The Bulwark has an article today entitled, "Trump Finally Met an Adversary Totally Immune to His Bullshit."

This is an excerpt:

I, for one, would definitely encourage Senator Slotkin to "lay down on the border to keep Chinese vehicles from entering the U.S." Is the assumption here that's she's lying down in the path of said vehicles, or just anywhere on the border? Do Chinese vehicles come across a land border, or will she be floating somewhere offshore of the Port of Los Angeles? Will sharks be involved?

Don't forget that one of the leading 2028 candidates did this.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...dem-rcna200530

In a weird twist of fate, Jeffries has actually been one of the better Dems of late. One of the few who understands the messaging on the economy. Also thought it was smart for him to call out Johnson for a debate on the budget. Johnson would get crushed and it makes him look weak.

But thing is, this is actually a Labor policy. The unions are very much for protecting American car jobs, and have always been pro-tariff on union based jobs. This more going back to old pro-union pro-labor policy than being conservative. No surprise it was the Senator from Michigan that would sponsor the bill, if they want to stay the Senator from Michigan.

It's more of an anti-China policy than protecting car jobs. We aren't putting 145% tariffs on German, Japanese, and Korean cars.

They would if they could.

You have to be f-ing joking.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X | WIRED

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/04/11/...ould-cost.html


Feels like the next step in dumb America is to reduce the minimum wage so we can really compete with the Chinese

Didn't have to worry about minimum wage with prison camps.

One aspect that doesn't get much attention is how a lot of this is straight from Peter Thiel's ideology. They want a techno feudalism. A monarch who has full control of everything and the serfs working under them.

It sounds conspiratorial but he talks openly about it. He owns many members of the administration including the Vice President. That's ultimately what they want. Living as lords because they got lucky with an investment 30 years ago or were born into wealth.

Imagine how much more malevolent these tech billionaires could be if they didn't hitch their wagons to the most incompetent people.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193930/...tariffs-glitch

To put things into perspective, Tesla was the second best selling brand in the Netherlands in 2024. It has been an erratic brand since 2018 (flipflopping between top3 and outside the top20), before 2018 it was niche. In 2025 Tesla has dropped outside the top10 again, presumably because car buyers no longer want to be supporting the wallet of Elon Musk (and Donald Trump's USA in general).

Ford used to be a well selling brand in the Netherlands. Sales in 2022, 2023 and 2024 were all a record low in the sales figures I could find for 1983 through 2024, but it seems to be picking up a bit in 2025.

Aside from those, there is no market for brands from the USA. Indeed, SUV's/trucks are too large for roads, they won't fint in parking spaces and garages either. And I'll repeat what I wrote twice already: nobody is buying a Chinese car, the well selling brands (not in order) are from Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan and South Korea.

This video does a pretty good job of humorously and self-deprecatingly capturing the Canadian attitude to the US right now: - YouTube

I wonder what percentage of talking heads that talk about the awesomeness of factory jobs have actually worked in a factory. It has to be close to 0%. I worked in multiple factories (7, I think?) and they were all absolutely horrible.

"The coal miners, they tell me, 'Sir, sir, we don't want a desk job. We love working in the coal mines!'"

I love Julie Nolke. Her channel was one of the highlights of the stay-at-home COVID era.

ETA: It makes me sad that there won't be another season of Letterkenny. I'd love to hear what Wayne has to say about the degens from down south.

Watch Shoresy instead and see my hometown. :)

Also, she's wearing a Sonic Boom t-shirt, that's my record store! Love that place.

The WSJ had a column calling for Trump's impeachment over the tariffs and the Kochs are funding a lawsuit over the tariffs yet when push comes to shove Mudoch and the Kochs will still carry water for him. Fox, especially, will continue to sanewash him.

We need Stephen Miller on TV as much as possible. I don't think anyone can possibly come off worse and more unlikable.

Every single Senator voted to approve his appointment.

Rubio: "No court in the United States has a right to conduct the foreign policy of the United States." pic.twitter.com/s5L1vAzDHg

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) April 14, 2025

Just ignoring court orders left and right. The AP was barred from a WH event as well. Good times.

The fact that the headline on CNN isn't that he literally said he intends to send Americans, or that NBC only says it's "legally questionable" instead of treasonous is legitimately insane.

It's pretty easy to connect what the nominee for counter-terrorism said about designating BLM and Antifa as terrorist orgs with Trump saying we need to ship home growns to El Salvador's concentration camps.

I hate to defend the president of El Salvador and I think he would be best served staying the fuck out of American politics, but in a bubble outside of this stuff it is pretty impressive the turnaround on violent crime they have had there in the last decade. I imagine those prisons are just full of the worst of the worst.

You can reduce crime with massive human rights abuses. Crime was reduced in Italy under fascist rule and in Germany under the Nazis after all. It doesn't solve the root of the problem (poverty).

Got cold called by a firm that does staffing for some of the legal administrative roles in the justice department. They sent an email, but then called like 5 minutes later. I just said i'm wasn't interested and they asked why? I said that I'd rather not state but it has nothing to do with you personally. They awkwardly said OK and that was that.

I was tempted to say actually say why, but it wasn't the right person to unload on. Although, I researched the company after, and literally all the recruiters are of Hispanic origin. So maybe they should hear it.

Got cold called by a firm that does staffing for some of the legal administrative roles in the justice department. They sent an email, but then called like 5 minutes later. I just said i'm wasn't interested and they asked why? I said that I'd rather not state but it has nothing to do with you personally. They awkwardly said OK and that was that.

I was tempted to say actually say why, but it wasn't the right person to unload on. Although, I researched the company after, and literally all the recruiters are of Hispanic origin. So maybe they should hear it.

30-year mortgage now at over 7.5%!

Blessing in disguise. It's much easier to simply forfeit a rental security deposit than get foreclosed on when your random family member gets whisked away to El Salvador!

I read it got as high as 8%, but has now dropped back to 6.86%. The volatility doesn't seem to be affecting sales at least locally. I have dealt with several sold in the last two weeks. It is a hot time of year, and it is picking up as normal.

We have 3 weeks until the sale of our house closes. Seems the buyers already got locked in so hopefully shit doesn't deteriorate too much in next couple of weeks.

Scene on Bluesky:


Post: China is making decisions based on math and experts


Response: Well jokes on them because we have neither!

The Trump administration went from bragging about how many countries had reached out to them regarding the tariffs to now begging them to negotiate. They're offering a favorable deal to the first country that negotiates and finalizes a deal.

The weakest country will be the first to negotiate, and get the best bad deal.

My division at work just paid our first tariff bill, 60K on a 10% tariff, just great. The American corporation is taking the hit for now. Make America less profitable.

Trump now threatening a 245% tariff on China.

Dartboard must have missed the number I had money on which was 242.587%

Grow some balls. Just ban imports.

This freaked me out, but I'm seeing 6.62 average at Freddie Mac. Still, it got me looking at rentals for when we move this summer instead of buying.

Yeah, we are renting the next 2-3 years on the assumption the US implodes.

I dont think Powell is going to last much longer. That'll be the next legal fight.

I just don't know how you can lower rates after putting in an inflationary policy while bond yields rise.

I don't think they care about inflation. It seems like there plan is completely crash the dollar.

An interesting opportunity for a Dem Governor to step up and do something about the El Salvador situation. Refuse to do business with any company that has any investment in the country. Refuse imports. Tax imports. Lot of little things that you can do for positive press. I know they don't care but it'd at least be something.

The one thing that America did better than everyone else was have insanely prestigious universities that the whole world wanted to study at. Exporting our culture and beliefs around the world. Hundreds of years of influence being thrown away for fucking Israel.

IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status | CNN Politics

Massive cuts to all health services coming

Smh

Elections have consequences


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This will really help the crashing international tourism numbers.

Rubio was confirmed 99-0

Awesome, DOGE (in addition to trying to install themselves at non-profits) is firing volunteers now.

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs | WIRED

As insane as all of this is it’s going to be small potatoes when he tries to order the military to do something unconstitutional and that’s definitely coming at some point before midterms.

Can we change the title of the thread to The Stephen Miller Presidency?

I have zero faith in the military standing up to him. It's going to either come down to states and/or citizens revolting to something the administration does, or war against an ally (Greenland/Mexico/Canada). But this doesn't end without violence, and the longer it goes the worse it will be.

Cue Trump's comments on Truth Social.

Can he just wait a month so my house sale goes through. if he's hellbent on destroying America, at least let me have 1 good thing beforehand.

I always find selling a house to be one of the most stressful things outside of serious illness in the family. I'm also hoping I can be back in that position within a few years.

Closing is the first week of May. Inspection is done, their funding is set, everything is ready to go. i really just want them to push it up. Like they can have it today if they want it. I'm just trying to run out the clock and hoping someone doesn't just Leeroy Jenkins this shit in the last minute.

You're not wrong. It's stupidly stressful. I had a breakdown when we sold our family home in '23. Between the buyers, the agent, and the contractor that fucked us, I was just so happy when it was done.

FFS, Trump is going to kill Head Start.

dola

This is bananas. A missile system on subscription to Musk?

When they say everything is becoming subscription-based, they mean it!

I’m currently at EPCOT. They are closing large parts of the world showcase because not enough foreign born workers for the different countries.

My Trumper mom texted me asking if I'd seen the news about the active shooter at FSU. She told me "they" are targeting colleges. Let me guess what she means by that...

It could be the gays, trans, the blacks, the Mexicans, antifa. So many options to choose from without who Fox News is blaming yet.

Also bananas when you realize that it's a pointless system that is already outdated. This is just a fancy way to disguise welfare for billionaires.

It won't matter, but it's some crazy shit that David Brooks is calling for a general strike.

Do you say it won't matter because you don't believe it will happen or you don't believe it would accomplish anything?

I don't think a call from Brooks motivates anyone, but the fact that he's saying it is a sign of how far down the rabbit hole we are. I wouldn't be surprised with a strike in the summer or fall.

So who had son of LEO who was kicked out of debate club for having far right white supremiacist views?

Could have been way worse. At least a drag queen wasn’t reading to a child.

His backstory is a little more complicated. I believe the LCSO officer is his step-mom. He was born Christian Eriksen and is a dual Norway-US citizen. About a decade ago, his mom was jailed for removing him from the country and has had no contact with him since then. Hence, the new name "Phoenix" (how original). Ikner is the dad, I believe, and has been in custody dispute with the bio mom for pretty much the kid's entire life.

These people are definitely weird. This is a PA state Senator talking to a sixth grade girl.

I mean, that's basically grooming.

Saw this the other day.

It’s really
Impressive how the gop has taken things that virtually never happen and made them into election winning tactics while their base votes against their own interest. These people literally are going to lose their benefits, farms, savings, and basic rights because Riley gains lost to a trans swimmer in a race she had no chance of winning.

If someone in drag did that they'd be calling for their arrest.

It maddens me every time I see a legit news org talking about the 'DOGE dividend checks' as if that's a thing that will ever fucking happen.

Still waiting on arrests for all that "fraud" they found.

I can see it happening as a stimulus measure once the recession is full swing.

Not sure we can afford to do much borrowing if other countries continue to unload our treasuries and inflation hits.