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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.