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Shipping data from our major ports indicates a steep drop in shipments from China. Many analysts say this signals a coming recession and possibly more inflation as well. I don’t know what do you think?

The Trump administration likes to float trial balloons to test the waters for its radical ideas and agendas. One of its favorite targets is Social Security. It’s hell bent on destroying this popular program asap. The latest trial balloon on the topic comes from Prof. Scott Galloway. The wealthy Professor & businessman suggests kicking 33% of its present recipients off because they have too much money and property and bc he sees SS as a welfare system not what it is a Social Insurance system. In short he wants it means tested. He complains that Boomers are greedy old people stealing from the younger generation whom haven’t been doing very well lately. The political game here is to divide the generations against each other. It’s always about dividing with people like Scott. So, expect to hear more about this idea as we go forward in this nightmare. Trump & his cronies want Social Security’s trust fund and they intend to get it.

If you store firewood in the shade it eventually rots. America is like a huge pile of rotten firewood sitting in the darkness / Shade of Trumpism. The wood is now starting to burn and how much of America is going to be consumed by the fire is unclear.

Since Trump’s return to power the US has rapidly changed sides in the Russian vs Ukraine war. The two Dictators are not really negotiating as much as coordinating the surrender and the eventual destruction of Ukrainian sovereignty.

We’ve been here before haven’t we?

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/path-american-authoritarianism-trump Read @ the link above. I couldn’t get this article to copy here. It’s a must read if you want to understand where we’re at right now.

He put Martha Stewart in prison for supposedly doing insider stock trading, yet here he is openly admitting he just did far worse.Trump thinks his open breaking of the laws is ok for some reason? Maybe bc he always seems to get away with it. Maybe bc He’s blessed with a weak and feckless opposition? Regardless, sooner or later he’s going to run out of luck.

Trump declares coal clean & beautiful the fuel of the future!! You can’t make this crap up folks and you don’t have to. So much for the environment just add it to the growing list of things he’s breaking.

The Trump regime is apparently dragging & dropping innocent Americans into a notorious El Salvadoran prison and then claiming they can’t do anything about it because they no longer have any authority over them. If this nasty scheme is allowed to continue nobody in this country will be safe from it’s increasingly violent and corrupt government.

The Conservative American Enterprise Institute is claiming in an article at Axios that Trump’s tariffs announced on Friday are based on a faulty mathematical formula & are on average 4x to high!

Huge demonstrations happened today in major cities and towns across the nation as Trump gave the protesters plenty to complain about the last few months.

Ah, watch out You might get what you're after Cool babies Strange but not a stranger I'm an ordinary guy Burning down the house Hold tight Wait 'til the party's over Hold tight We're in for nasty weather There has got to be a way Burning down the house Here's your ticket, pack your bags Time for jumpin' overboard Transportation is here Close enough but not too far Maybe you know where you are Fightin' fire with fire Ah, all wet Hey, you might need a raincoat Shakedown Dreams walking in broad daylight 365 degrees Burning down the house Ah, it was once upon a place Sometimes I listen to myself Gonna come in first place People on their way to work And, baby what do you expect? Gonna burst into flames, ah Burning down the house My house Is out of the ordinary That's right Don't wannna hurt nobody Some things sure can sweep me off my feet Burning down the house No visible means of support And you have not seen nothin' yet Everything's stuck to...

Donald has started a trade war to enrich himself it’s that simple. If you want to do business here you have to pay him a fee. He’s trying to take us backwards to the tariff wars of the 19th century and the results are going to be disastrous. He doesn’t care.

It’s only been two months since he’s been back but every day has been a nightmare. I don’t think we can survive as a nation at the rate we’re descending into the darkness.