Someone should write a white paper on it.

I’m seeing headlines saying that Trump got a big win with the China trade deal. What exactly did he win? The ability to lower his own tariff? I honestly don’t understand what Trump won here. Is this like shooting your self in the left foot but claiming victory because you didn’t shoot yourself in the right foot too?

Some products are already more expensive and if I know anything about big companies it that they will always walk back those price increases when the market allows it. Right?

He's soooooo close!



Trump promised U.S. dominance. Instead, energy companies are faltering.

Imagine being so cucked you'll destroy your livelihood for some guy who doesn't know or give a shit about your existence. Just pathetic men if you can even call them that.

It's also just a 90 day pause so no one is lowering prices for 90 days hoping for a deal. They'll wait for something more permanent.

So I guess the factories aren't coming back and the tariffs won't replace the income tax?

I for one, am shocked I tell you.

Get ready for our tech dystopia. The GOP has inserted language into the reconciliation bill that would make it illegal for any state to regulate AI in any way for 10 years.

I'm ready to accept our AI overlords. Can't be worse than the human ones.

I can’t remember a time in my lifetime where existing tech got more expensive but NVIDIA GPUs are up 5-15% MSRP and XBoxes are up, what, 30%?

It's hard to find a 9800x3D under $500 right now and it had pushed up to near $600 a couple weeks ago.

Great timing for all of us who have to replace aging computers that don't qualify for Windows 11 (when W10 goes out of support in October).

I'll never understand why conservatives aren't furious about all of the myriad scams to steal their money.

Pretty sure you can bypass any requirements by creating a custom install iso with Rufus (or similar)

I like that the Qatari jet revolt from MAGA isn't about the gross abuse of the office, but that it's from brown people.

This party is still so cooked. Why bother?

Hakeem Jeffries calls Qatar - which hosts the largest U.S. military base in the Middle East - "a close ally of Iran and Hamas." pic.twitter.com/2ZLWxZsICV

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) May 13, 2025

But I won't be getting security updates, right?

No, not any downsides as far as I’m aware. A TPM 1.2 chip is required (versus the 2.0 the upgrade tries to force upon you) though, but most should have that already.

2001 - Never forget
2025 - Eh, never mind

Trump's Saudi speech was actually not bad. I mean you can question the morality but at least it was somewhat honest about America and its handling of the Middle East.

Yeah, we have been shit in the Middle East forever. The problem is he is pretty schizophrenic about the Middle East himself, and it really seems his main goal is to personally pull as much money out there as he can.

Not Trump related but the stuff coming out about Biden’s handlers having no faith he could respond to a middle of the night emergency and intentionally keeping cabinet members away from him so they wouldn’t realize how demented he was should result in charges being filed.

Made-up headline / True Phenomenon?:
“98% of MAGA identifiers approve of the way Trump is mishandling the economy.”

We sure are playing with fire here.

Not that it matters since performative cosplay and adherence to lies/beliefs vastly outweigh the truth/reality, but...

If only people had been saying this very thing from the start. As I've said countless times on here, the fraud and waste aren't in the areas most people think they are and it's not as widespread as the right makes it out to be.


A lot of the waste is because of antiquated systems. It requires massive amounts of resources to update and deploy new systems throughout these agencies. My site was the first to deploy MHS Genesis to replace AHLTA/CHCS and it was a nightmare.

You also see vendors take advantage of government contracts, especially when it comes to IT. We have departments in the hospital that will try to purchase their own computers for specific needs and if it doesn't go through my IT department then these companies (Dell, HP, etc) will try to sell them extra stuff they don't need to drive up the cost.

Most actual waste comes from bad contracts. You'll see senior officers and high level civilians push certain companies for a contract and then once they get out of the military they're working for that company. You also see companies that are just in over their heads because they weren't prepared for the scope of supporting a large hospital or agency. They won the contract legitimately but just do a bad job and have to be replaced and the contract gets rebid.

But I was told China would pay the tariffs?

Walmart says higher prices could hit this month due to tariffs

1000% this, which is also why the DOGE kiddies couldn't find it.

Convicted serial killer Glen Rogers, who was known as the "Casanova Killer," was put to death in Florida yesterday, and his last words were praise for Trump. That totally tracks.

Comey sees seashells by the sea shore
Secretary seeks jail spell
for what she says sea shells spell

For a group that constantly calls for civil war and killing the libs there sure is a lot of pearl clutching over some sea shells.

The reaction from Gabbard, Patel, Noem, etc...are so over the top it's laughable.

Sea shells?

Yeah, it's ridiculous.

@billybinion.bsky.social on Bluesky

The party that loves calling other people snowflakes sure are upset about some seashells and what Bruce had to say.

I have to assume they're about to do something truly heinous with all the nonsense posts about Comey, Springsteen and Swift. Bury it with all the stupid fluff.

Also, his comment at the end of his Springsteen rant sounds an awful lot like he's suggesting Bruce could or should be 86'd:

“This dried out ‘prune’ of a rocker (his skin is all atrophied!) ought to KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT until he gets back into the Country, that’s just ‘standard fare.’ Then we’ll all see how it goes for him!”

Mob boss shit to be certain

Kid Rock is temporarily closing his restaurant to protect his employees from ICE raids.

Not from ugly liberal women? The spin was right there!

More corruption.


MSN

Perhaps if someone was actually planning on assassinating the president, they wouldn't tweet about it first on the "state media".

Trump telling Walmart to eat the tariffs. Lol buddy. That’s not how this works

If Wal-Mart should "eat the tariffs" as Trump says, then that's an acknowledgement of what we all have known and has been repeatedly said, right? We (whether our companies or consumers) pay the tariffs, not the other countries. Just another twist of pretzel logic.

Someone bombed a fertility clinic in downtown Palm Springs today. It will be interesting to see how "Mr. In Vitro" will respond to this.

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Yeah, wonder why they were not as concerned about the 8646 T shirts on amazon when Biden was president......You can still find those shirts for sale BTW.

The attorney general of the Untited States said it was illegal to call yourself "The Boss" if your not in charge of the entire country. This is the world we live in.

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These are the unserious leaders our unserious country deserves.

Come on, is this real? Gawd, it's so ridiculous its gone beyond funny into scary...

At least since they don't believe in trials we can skip straight to their hangings.

Like that is shit you learn in Junior High in social studies or whatever.

I don't know whether or not Noem knows what habeus is, but lying about it is just part of the strategy. They know that most persuadable voters are low info voters. Those voters may or may not hear about this, but if they do they'll hear what she said and have no reason to search out whether or not she's telling the truth. They almost certainly agree with the premise she said and will instead think that Dems or the media are crazy for opposing habeus.

It's Bannon and Flynn psych warfare crap and everyone in the admin is doing it.

The party of personal freedom


F.D.A. Poised to Restrict Access to Covid Vaccines

Wait, so we're building a golden dome here? Uhhhh...does he know what the golden dome does?

Protects from golden showers?

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Ironically, the scientists and doctors approved the new vaccine, but the admin overruled (or appointed people at the FDA to overrule) the vaccine and make it only available to those who are "at risk", which most doctors have very different criteria.

Kamala is considering running for Governor of California? Or is that just pundit speculation?

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Another Dem dies in office. 3rd one this term. Giving the Republicans a bigger majority with a tight vote coming up. Remember they gave him the leadership position on Oversight over AOC and others.

Rep. Gerry Connolly, 75, has died, family statement says | CNN Politics

The big beautiful bill is fascinating to watch. It feels like one of those last heists before everything crumbles. Bond markets hate it. Probably not going under 7% interest on mortgages for awhile. Massive increase to debt with nothing to show economically for it.

Kind of running out of things to cut that can be transferred to weatlhy people. Especially with the military budget increasing.

Another wild stat. The median home buyer in 2007 was born in 1968. The median home buyer in 2024 was born in 1968.

RM has been focusing on the wrong genocide. We've all missed it. Finally it's being addressed.

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The thing with this bill is maga embraces it because they believe everything they are told. Fox is saying how great it is and it will cut the deficit etc. and they believe it.

They're going to get the rug pulled out from under them, especially when they see how the no taxes on tips stuff actually works, and then blame Biden.

So many sheep that support eveeything no matter how bad it is for them.

Its actually a benefit for us personally. We own our home and our cars with no plans to buy anything major soon. And the bill would increase our take home by 3k or so and more once i start working again. But even that minimal benefit is not worth the downsides of it at all.

So many sheep that support eveeything no matter how bad it is for them.

Its actually a benefit for us personally. We own our home and our cars with no plans to buy anything major soon. And the bill would increase our take home by 3k or so and more once i start working again. But even that minimal benefit is not worth the downsides of it at all.

Hundreds of billions being transferred to the wealthy and medicade getting cuts and MAGA is celebrating paying a little less at the pump and "no taxes on tips" that only applies to cash tips that they likely weren't reporting as income anyway.

The combination of social media, 24/7 partisan news and the realization that you can make many low information voters believe whatever you state the loudest and most often has pretty much broken everything.

In 3.5 years when the majority of the country is far worse off, they'll find new boogeymen to blame and whip up even more hatred and distrust. If not Trump, it will be somebody even further to the right and more populist.

I think the issue with anyone who benefits that isn't super wealthy is who in the world is buying your house? Pretty much narrowing down the buyer pool to private equity at this point and soon they'll be able to set their own market.

Reading up on the coming screw worm infestation. Looks very likely with the only question being how far north the fly gets. Buy your beef now and freeze it.

One of the biggest success stories for federal aid to other countries keeping Americans safer is the fight to push back screw worms in the 1950s and 1960s.

This crypto dinner trump is having tonight shows just how much the gop has normalized absolutely fucked up corruption. They arent even hiding it anymore.

Thanks to Learned League, I went on a wikipedia crawl through the Vietnam War, and ended up on the 1955 referendum. So much of that seems plausible here and now.

1955 State of Vietnam referendum - Wikipedia

I forget where the Jamie Dimon is fantastic thread is, so I'll put this here. ;)

Lord Business: Jamie Dimon Is the Dumbest Smart Guy in America

The guy essentially bankrupted a 150 year old business stalwart and required a trillion dollar bailout by the Feds to keep it afloat. Probably not as smart as people think he is.

Worth noting that 16 Senate Democrats supported the GENIUS Act that allows this. Bipartisan support on this type of corruption.

Also part of the bill...

Proposal to limit courts' contempt power, part of spending bill, is 'terrible idea,' Chemerinsky says

This is exactly what they've been angling for and ACB is actually the one that saw through it when DOJ attorneys were in front of SCOTUS last week. She pointed out that, when it comes to injunctions, based on what the DOJ is asking for they could simply ignore any court ruling without consequence.

They're in a weird spot. They know they have to be subservient to their owners but they also have to realize that if they give up that kind of power, they have no leverage anymore.

Passes the House with one vote. Sure would be nice if 3 members didn't die this session.

They would have just gotten the GOPers who weren't there to show up. So long as the GOP was basically unified there was nothing Dems could do at the vote.

Where I think they yet again failed is in the lack of a coordinated messaging plan to put pressure on GOPers in NY/NJ/PA. There are a lot of seats there that are vulnerable and Dems did next to nothing to make a guy like Lawler feel the heat.

Trump is effectively speaker of the house and controls the vote there. There's no chance for anything Trump really wants to fail there. Johnson's job is to carry water for Trump and not fuck things up too bad before Trump puts pressure on them with threats to primary.

Deep down, most of them support this bill too. And their donors absolutely do.

Nonsense. The deficit busting is absolutely toxic to the people with money.

I'll give you that Trump could have probably peeled off Dem votes for a smaller bill, but not this monstrosity. This is going to fuck things up for decades.

It's incredibly beneficial to extremely wealthy people, which is who the Democrats serve as well. That's why they aren't putting up much of a fight.

Yeah i agree witg rainmaker, most of them probably are happy about it in secret.

"Most" seems like hyperbole. "Many" I could agree with.

Chris Hedges has a really great breakdown of the two parties. Boils down to Democrats are corporatists and Republicans are for oligarchs. It kind of sums up our "democracy".

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I am not wealthy, but I live in a state where the SALT deduction increase will be a nice addition and we are high earners, top 2% by all accounts. If this bill passes as is, it likely means an additional tens of thousands of dollars a year for us from what I am hearing.

When he got elected I said I did my part and I won't feel bad any benefits I get from the GOP being in power, so yes, I am happy about this.

Banning a private university from being able to enroll students and placing tariffs on individual companies is exactly the sort of small government the Confederacy was fighting for, right?

What about demanding where a private company make their phones with the threat of government imposed fines if they don't do as told?

Incredibly funny how all the folks screaming about commies are now all in on a command economy.

They wouldn't know a communist or a dictator if they painted him orange and elected him president.

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Trump's now okay with Nippon Steel buying US Steel.

Wonder how many Trump coins Nippon Steel needed to buy for that?

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He's ok with it because nip is in the name.

See, it's even dumber than that because he says they can sell them for the same price because the factories they build here will be fully computerized.

So what's the point of bringing manufacturing back to America if people won't actually be working there?

I just assumed he meant everyone would be hired as middle management. Now THAT's American!

Mike Johnson would be the most ineffective house speaker in history if he didn't have Trump. Johnson said he agrees with Rand Paul and Ron Johnson that deeper spending cuts are needed on the bill HE pushed to senate.

MAGA is trying to turn saying Happy Memorial Day into Happy Holidays and then Trump goes out and tweets Happy Memorial Day.