Trump…Trump…Trump…we’re as tired of the subject as you are. But no person will have more effect on the economy or the Primary Trend than the man in the White House. Politics is ascendant.
Finally, a fair assessment. My rebuttals have not been over his positions but on the constant bombardment of the man. You would think after the last 8+ years you would be tired of it. I agree with your prose, however, and its a big however, he is attempting to right a sinking ship. We may not agree with his methods, the alternative of status quo is even more brutal. The crooks keep crookin....
I maintain we MUST give his plan a chance. The fact that Scott Bessent is there should steady nerves, along with the rest of what is by far the most exceptional cabinet we have seen in decades. Fair game to criticize his policies (especially since we don't see all the moving pieces meshing together, yet.) but get off the mans arse! There was never a political post that I recall ( I have been around awhile) on the Biden disaster, no not one. Where was your critique then?
And what if these plans do indeed work? What would your narrative be then, would it be a retraction or would it be like the MSM's predictable response " These success are do to the policy changes Biden implemented" - as if anyone would ever believe that or anything else they have to say. Be interesting to see...
And in what world ws, will adding further debt to an seemingly insurmountable $38T government debt, be solved by spending a single dollar more, than that which is taken in?
Businesses are not allowed to spend more than they make. At least not for long. Neither are households. Otherwise bankruptcy ensues, as the trust involved in the intial deal - for the repayment of borrowed money - erodes. Causing the bank to call in the loans.
Pray that doesn't happen to all those holding US Treasury bills. Regardless of who is living at the White House.
What Bill and the other naysayers are saying, is that the guy in the WH right now, today, is a sham. Doing stuff for himself. And his buddies. Not for you. Or your neighbor. Or the rest the GOP lovers on this forum. For himself.
Power corrupts. Continues to do a great job with POTUS.
Don't have to, I knew someone would call me on it. Thanks! I Disagree with your perspective, I seriously believe he has the best interests of the country at heart. The fact is you and others have been so blinded by the corruption, you think it falls on everyone. Personally, My money is on the man who gave up a luxurious lifestyle to deal with the BS corruption bankrupting the US. AS opposed to the A-holes who came in broke and are now worth 8 figures. Hmmm, wonder how that happens. You will be proven wrong. Just takes a bit more time
Bill, you made it sound like Dan Goldman is a Republican ("his colleagues"). I asked Copilot about him and it said:
Rep. Dan Goldman is a Democratic congressman representing New York’s 10th District. Before entering politics, he was a federal prosecutor and served as lead counsel in the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump in 2019.
Recently, Goldman has been vocal about Trump’s leadership, questioning his competence and economic policies. He has also criticized the Republican-backed bill that allocates $300 million for Trump’s security costs, arguing that it prioritizes Trump’s golf outings over disaster relief funding
Bill, Bill, Bill... a little over the top here, I mean come on... "He has transformed the US government from one of laws passed by Congress to one of executive orders"... that happened many Presidencies ago as I know you well know. Congress is filled with a bunch of lazy, accountability avoiding, corruption addicted jackasses... now I'm sounding like you.
I suspect we share in the desire for regular order to be restored, for the Executive, Legislature and Courts to do the job that is given them by the Constitution and nothing more. Let the States, should their citizens choose their representatives poorly, engage in all the abuses that government are capable of from time to time.
Spending is going to get cut one way or the other. While I would hope it might occur through the action of honest men with courage it could be chaos itself that forces the issue likely sooner than later. Politics may be ascendant and it offers nothing in the way of truth or clarity.
Look what these, "Congress is filled with a bunch of lazy, accountability avoiding, corruption addicted jackasses" have accomplished in the last 75 years. Most of them have gotten wealthy while reducing our once great county to what it is today. Trump is the first person ever in the White House to attempt to stop this suicidal plunge into disaster. It takes a wrecking ball. We have heard these lying demigods for decades. The Congress is nothing more than a social club holding all the cards to control the game. They would rather offend us than one of their colleagues. Nothing but a can of worms.
Well, yes, you are right on concerning the Executive Orders. Just another one of Bonner's "half-truths" and distortions. Unfortunately, our government is full of elected politicians who have no courage and Trump believes the only way to get things done is by Executive Order. Certainly not optimal. Government budgets must be slashed everywhere with the help of DOGE finding corruption and waste. But, beyond that, the whole welfare state needs to be dismantled over time. Unfortunately, I don't think it will happen. Trump is the only President who seems inclined to cut government spending, but will he do enough of it. That is the issue.
Bill, for once I am generally agreeing with this article. There should be no increase in the deficits, the US already cannot afford the interest payments on the debt.
I would like to see the waste and corruption removed from entities such as Medicare and Social Security. If that were accomplished, there might even be a reduction in the SS tax. Ha, not holding my breadth on that, as Congress is a do nothing organization.
Unfortunately, any Theft, Waste or Abuse that Trump and Congress DOES try to cut will be presented to the Sheep as cuts to the basic services. And at least 30% of them are too stupid or apathetic to acknowledge the Truth of said "cuts", while the "media" and particular sub stack authors will chime right in to reinforce the disinformation, aka Lies....
Bill, I appreciate that you are against DEI. But you wrote that Pres. Trump should follow some of the government reforms of Pres. Milei, but you didn’t list even one of those reforms. Also, you know that the Argentine government and the U.S. government have many different responsibilities, such as national defense, for example.
And you demanded for the millionth time that the federal budget should be balanced, but for the millionth time you have not indicated how that should be accomplished or how fast. You know that if the budget was balanced quickly, the enormous job loss among tens of millions of defense workers, health sector workers, and welfare program workers in the private sector would cause a depression, and the GOP would be completely wiped out in Congress in the next election. (The Dems will never balance the budget because they only believe in borrow and spend.) I would think you would at least propose some cost-cutting/saving measures. How about selling federal properties and land to private entities and mechanizing large portions of federal government operations, as a couple of examples?
When you just cry about things without providing solutions you must realize that this sounds very childish; that any third-grader can do this.
Frank , why should He provide solution? We have readers that provide any and all answers that are needed! Love the rebuttals of all the members . Good or bad, depending on ones perspective. Or which side of the fence one is sitting on. I for one appreciate all the writers of this forum.
Everyone talks as if cuts to Social Security benefits are inevitable, and it will go bankrupt in [pick a date], whereas reform will actually do the job. Just three small tweaks: raise the retirement age by one month, each month for a year; modestly raise the maximum in taxable income; and means test. The fine points would have to be worked out and there would be understandable resistance to any increase in taxation. But most changes would barely be noticed, yet they would make Soc Sec solvent for the foreseeable future...
The curtain has dropped on the American illusion, and behind it isn’t liberty, it’s a ritualized hellscape where lobotomized lawmakers chant debt spells over the corpse of the Constitution.
The “land of the free” now runs on a business model scrawled in crayon by a lunatic during his electroshock session: $65 trillion expected in revenue, $94 trillion in spending, and a Congressional calculator smeared with blood, blind faith, and the tears of unborn generations.
The Pentagon gorges on blank checks while domestic programs drown in patriotic syrup, and any suggestion of trimming the fat is met with the holy veto of a man who governs by Sharpie and grievance. If you’re waiting for the fiscally faithful to rise from their shallow graves, keep dreaming, they’ve long since replaced calculators with pom-poms at the bone-and-gold carnival of The Tangerine Antichrist, a bankrupt oracle in a sagging suit, dancing on democracy’s grave while whispering sweet nothings to authoritarianism. The only math that adds up is the sum of WWIII, amplified by fear, sold wholesale, and paid for in the blood of future generations.
So here’s the punchline in the graveyard: if you’re LGBTQ+, born on foreign soil and blessed with that little blue book of naturalization, or part of an educational institution, congratulations! You are the newest cast member in the American horror farce. The Star-Spangled Banner? Ripped to bloody confetti and fed to a bald eagle on antidepressants. Land of the free only if you’re a defense contractor, a bloated bureaucracy, or a tax-dodging billionaire with a golf cart. The hope of the brave has been repo’d. The nation doesn’t sing an anthem anymore, it wails a eulogy while Congress fiddles, the deficit explodes, and truth leaps from the 30th floor, leaving a note that just reads “I give up.” Welcome to the end, darling. Dress accordingly.
Ah yes, the great American illusion, glittering like a golden turd polished with the blood of the working class. Sure, millions found success… the same way a few lottery winners justify the existence of gambling addiction, or how one functioning lightbulb makes you forget the rest of the grid’s been fried for decades.
People aren’t risking their lives to partake in the American Dream, they’re fleeing burning buildings and jumping into a flaming dumpster labeled freedom. It’s not hope they’re chasing, it’s the absence of open sewage and death squads. And guess what? Even that dream’s backordered until further notice.
Global leader? Of course. Number one in military spending, number one in people who believe angels are real, number one in opioid deaths, and number one in billionaires hoarding wealth like dragons while kids eat lunch out of vending machines and schools do active shooter drills between math tests.
Why do I bother getting up in the morning? Same reason the Titanic band kept playing, because if the ship’s going down, I’m gonna make damn sure I narrate the collapse with jazz hands and a snarl, not sleep through it in a coma of denial and flag-waving stupidity.
The American illusion isn’t success. It’s convincing people that endless struggle under a boot is called “liberty,” and if you question the boot, you’re ungrateful for the privilege of being stepped on.
Basically what BB has been saying all along. But only you can get away with saying it without getting a million reply’s. I guess I need to take up poetry to enhance my bland prose.
So... no mention or thought to the $8 trillion of foreign and corporate investment into domestic manufacture as messaged by the Trump Admin? Seems such an increase in domestic production would eliminate a lot of the current hand wringing.
At least you touched on the real problem....for years, Congress! Can't be a Milei type with our political system. I will give props to Bessent for doing an IMPOSSIBLE job(which Bill generally leaves out) and ignore Yellen's short term higher interest financing of huge amounts of debt! I'm a simpleton who has no idea how this will play out but my gut says we're on the right track. In the current conditions, that's the best we can hope for.
Chris Murphy (D) of Conneticut, summed up Trump's first 100 days. Of corruption. The best one (of 40 points) was Trump "selling meeting time" with CEO's at Mar-a-Lago. For $1M dollars.
As Murphy said, "if you were a mayor of a city in the US and you sold tickets to a meeting for $200, you'd be arrested."
You know what DOES "change" things and has inevitable repercussions? Being open to straight-up BRIBERY for you and your family members by a communist sworn ENEMY of the United States, our Citizens and our Way of Life. There is more than ample EVIDENCE in the form of certified bank records, wire transfers, email chains, etc. that show just how dirty Joseph R. Biden is - he should absolutely be indicted, tried, convicted and punished to the full extent of existing law, regardless of the fact that he is a decrepit, dementia-ridden piece of absolute garbage. So even if this fake news about Trump was true, you need to just STFU if you're stupid enough to try and use that to excuse Biden's TREASON....
PS - I don't play nice with people who support the domestic enemies of our Country - the group I would put you in based on your shallow, ignorant comment. Have a nice day!
Sure am glad to hear that Bill loves DEI, especially as run by the Democrats over Republicans. I just hope, when he is traveling all over the world to his "holdings", that he would love to know that his pilots, co-pilots, and flight attendants are all a direct result of "DEI" training. However, if Bill can still hold it together until 2026 and 2028 (when those "wonderful" Democrats take over again), everything will be "fantastic", as it was under Biden. Sure! Anyone believing that thinks he/she will be a millionaire/s, when the Democrats regain power. Have a great weekend, youngsters.
Bill should write for The NY Times; according to them Trump is creating a Spy state. Didn’t Snowden, in 2013, tell us that the NSA was recording and storing billions of phone calls, a day, texts, internet searches, all financial transactions.
Haven’t we had The Imperial Presidency since Roosevelt?
DOGE uncovered some egregious spending; the backdraft was astounding; Musk must have lost a couple of billion.
I would not cut SS, Medicare, or Medicaid; why go after poor Americans when there are bigger fish to fry.
Bill went to a funeral recently, his glasses fogged up. The guy was strong and burly, forty something, with a few bad habits. He died of pneumonia, takes time to develop, helped with antibiotics and steroids. Had it myself and I don’t chew coca leaves.
Don’t they sell antibiotics, in pharmacies, without a prescription, in most SA countries.
Why is it Bill didn’t have a contingency medical kit on hand?
I am disappointed in Trump. He has been too haphazard. He hasn’t stopped the war in Ukraine although his original proposals were right on; it’s just that the politicians in Ukraine and Europe didn’t like it. Guess more hundreds of thousands will die but the MICC will make money. He also supports genocide and is against free speech if you criticize Israel.
Trump is the exact cause of everything, everything that has been occurring and expanding for 100 years.
Let’s agree to speak problems, solutions and stupidity without blaming everything on Trump. He is only responsible for the immediate. He is now causing a recession, and Bill’s boys have said we have been in a recession, but they changed the definition.
There is a campaign in the WAPO AND NYT that is blaming Trump for everything! It’s all funded by the ones that destroyed America; I guess Bill is a member of that group.
Why do so many commenters on here think that a man in his late seventies after a lifetime of bullying, corruption, incompetence, grifting, cheating and self-aggrandisement has now somehow - no, miraculously - changed and become altruistic and competent? Seriously, why do you think that?
And no, just because saying it is obvious the emperor has no clothes on does not mean also saying the old emperor(s) were clothed in the finest silks. They weren't. Corruption is endemic in American politics (as it probably is in the body politic everywhere) it's just some people are not as blatantly greedy and perhaps not as nasty or vindictive.
Many politicians are corrupt, but very few are corrupt, insulting, nasty and vindictive. Not to mention compulsive liars - or maybe you ARE able to buy gas at $1.98 a gallon....?
TDS is a real thing - on both sides of the aisle. Detractors regularly exaggerate or disingenuously edit or alter Trump's various 'episodes'. It's wrong and worse it's unnecessary, by sticking to the facts it's bad enough.
"Why do so many commenters on here think that a man in his late seventies after a lifetime of bullying, corruption, incompetence, grifting, cheating and self-aggrandisement has now somehow - no, miraculously - changed and become altruistic and competent? Seriously, why do you think that?"
No president, no congress or anyone else is going to reform and rein in the big entitlements. What ever is going to happen will happen but the outcomes may be modified.
When it hits the fan, which it has to, maybe what Trump does while in office will keep things from being as bad as they could be.
When you think of all the things that have happened in the past; wars, depressions, civil strife and anarchy; if some of the most severe consequences of our profligate past can be avoided maybe that’s the best we can hope for.
Finally, a fair assessment. My rebuttals have not been over his positions but on the constant bombardment of the man. You would think after the last 8+ years you would be tired of it. I agree with your prose, however, and its a big however, he is attempting to right a sinking ship. We may not agree with his methods, the alternative of status quo is even more brutal. The crooks keep crookin....
I maintain we MUST give his plan a chance. The fact that Scott Bessent is there should steady nerves, along with the rest of what is by far the most exceptional cabinet we have seen in decades. Fair game to criticize his policies (especially since we don't see all the moving pieces meshing together, yet.) but get off the mans arse! There was never a political post that I recall ( I have been around awhile) on the Biden disaster, no not one. Where was your critique then?
And what if these plans do indeed work? What would your narrative be then, would it be a retraction or would it be like the MSM's predictable response " These success are do to the policy changes Biden implemented" - as if anyone would ever believe that or anything else they have to say. Be interesting to see...
Biden critique below. This year even. One amongst a pile of them. Try the search button. Works wonderfully.
https://www.bonnerprivateresearch.com/p/bye-bye-biden?utm_source=publication-search
And in what world ws, will adding further debt to an seemingly insurmountable $38T government debt, be solved by spending a single dollar more, than that which is taken in?
Businesses are not allowed to spend more than they make. At least not for long. Neither are households. Otherwise bankruptcy ensues, as the trust involved in the intial deal - for the repayment of borrowed money - erodes. Causing the bank to call in the loans.
Pray that doesn't happen to all those holding US Treasury bills. Regardless of who is living at the White House.
What Bill and the other naysayers are saying, is that the guy in the WH right now, today, is a sham. Doing stuff for himself. And his buddies. Not for you. Or your neighbor. Or the rest the GOP lovers on this forum. For himself.
Power corrupts. Continues to do a great job with POTUS.
Don't have to, I knew someone would call me on it. Thanks! I Disagree with your perspective, I seriously believe he has the best interests of the country at heart. The fact is you and others have been so blinded by the corruption, you think it falls on everyone. Personally, My money is on the man who gave up a luxurious lifestyle to deal with the BS corruption bankrupting the US. AS opposed to the A-holes who came in broke and are now worth 8 figures. Hmmm, wonder how that happens. You will be proven wrong. Just takes a bit more time
Thx, appreciate your perspective
Bill, you made it sound like Dan Goldman is a Republican ("his colleagues"). I asked Copilot about him and it said:
Rep. Dan Goldman is a Democratic congressman representing New York’s 10th District. Before entering politics, he was a federal prosecutor and served as lead counsel in the first impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump in 2019.
Recently, Goldman has been vocal about Trump’s leadership, questioning his competence and economic policies. He has also criticized the Republican-backed bill that allocates $300 million for Trump’s security costs, arguing that it prioritizes Trump’s golf outings over disaster relief funding
Good pickup James, BB fudging again?
Bill, Bill, Bill... a little over the top here, I mean come on... "He has transformed the US government from one of laws passed by Congress to one of executive orders"... that happened many Presidencies ago as I know you well know. Congress is filled with a bunch of lazy, accountability avoiding, corruption addicted jackasses... now I'm sounding like you.
I suspect we share in the desire for regular order to be restored, for the Executive, Legislature and Courts to do the job that is given them by the Constitution and nothing more. Let the States, should their citizens choose their representatives poorly, engage in all the abuses that government are capable of from time to time.
Spending is going to get cut one way or the other. While I would hope it might occur through the action of honest men with courage it could be chaos itself that forces the issue likely sooner than later. Politics may be ascendant and it offers nothing in the way of truth or clarity.
Chant it with me Bill... aummmm.... aummmm...
Look what these, "Congress is filled with a bunch of lazy, accountability avoiding, corruption addicted jackasses" have accomplished in the last 75 years. Most of them have gotten wealthy while reducing our once great county to what it is today. Trump is the first person ever in the White House to attempt to stop this suicidal plunge into disaster. It takes a wrecking ball. We have heard these lying demigods for decades. The Congress is nothing more than a social club holding all the cards to control the game. They would rather offend us than one of their colleagues. Nothing but a can of worms.
Indeed. I’m always astounded that so many people are sp dishonest. It almost make me lose faith in humankind.
Well, yes, you are right on concerning the Executive Orders. Just another one of Bonner's "half-truths" and distortions. Unfortunately, our government is full of elected politicians who have no courage and Trump believes the only way to get things done is by Executive Order. Certainly not optimal. Government budgets must be slashed everywhere with the help of DOGE finding corruption and waste. But, beyond that, the whole welfare state needs to be dismantled over time. Unfortunately, I don't think it will happen. Trump is the only President who seems inclined to cut government spending, but will he do enough of it. That is the issue.
"but will he do enough of it. "
No. Nobody could. That ship sailed long ago....
Bill, for once I am generally agreeing with this article. There should be no increase in the deficits, the US already cannot afford the interest payments on the debt.
I would like to see the waste and corruption removed from entities such as Medicare and Social Security. If that were accomplished, there might even be a reduction in the SS tax. Ha, not holding my breadth on that, as Congress is a do nothing organization.
Unfortunately, any Theft, Waste or Abuse that Trump and Congress DOES try to cut will be presented to the Sheep as cuts to the basic services. And at least 30% of them are too stupid or apathetic to acknowledge the Truth of said "cuts", while the "media" and particular sub stack authors will chime right in to reinforce the disinformation, aka Lies....
I will add my own Yogi-ism to the general malaise in D.C.
“No matter how much things change in Washington, nothing really changes”.
Democrat, Republican, makes no difference.
We”re screwed!
Well yes and no, If I was president, I would have elite forces of my own, (wink) oh well im not the President.
Bill, I appreciate that you are against DEI. But you wrote that Pres. Trump should follow some of the government reforms of Pres. Milei, but you didn’t list even one of those reforms. Also, you know that the Argentine government and the U.S. government have many different responsibilities, such as national defense, for example.
And you demanded for the millionth time that the federal budget should be balanced, but for the millionth time you have not indicated how that should be accomplished or how fast. You know that if the budget was balanced quickly, the enormous job loss among tens of millions of defense workers, health sector workers, and welfare program workers in the private sector would cause a depression, and the GOP would be completely wiped out in Congress in the next election. (The Dems will never balance the budget because they only believe in borrow and spend.) I would think you would at least propose some cost-cutting/saving measures. How about selling federal properties and land to private entities and mechanizing large portions of federal government operations, as a couple of examples?
When you just cry about things without providing solutions you must realize that this sounds very childish; that any third-grader can do this.
Frank , why should He provide solution? We have readers that provide any and all answers that are needed! Love the rebuttals of all the members . Good or bad, depending on ones perspective. Or which side of the fence one is sitting on. I for one appreciate all the writers of this forum.
Sounds like Bill was hoping for cuts to Medicare and social security.
Everyone talks as if cuts to Social Security benefits are inevitable, and it will go bankrupt in [pick a date], whereas reform will actually do the job. Just three small tweaks: raise the retirement age by one month, each month for a year; modestly raise the maximum in taxable income; and means test. The fine points would have to be worked out and there would be understandable resistance to any increase in taxation. But most changes would barely be noticed, yet they would make Soc Sec solvent for the foreseeable future...
Good points. Also, raising the taxable income amount might help satisfy those who want higher taxes on the rich.
The curtain has dropped on the American illusion, and behind it isn’t liberty, it’s a ritualized hellscape where lobotomized lawmakers chant debt spells over the corpse of the Constitution.
The “land of the free” now runs on a business model scrawled in crayon by a lunatic during his electroshock session: $65 trillion expected in revenue, $94 trillion in spending, and a Congressional calculator smeared with blood, blind faith, and the tears of unborn generations.
The Pentagon gorges on blank checks while domestic programs drown in patriotic syrup, and any suggestion of trimming the fat is met with the holy veto of a man who governs by Sharpie and grievance. If you’re waiting for the fiscally faithful to rise from their shallow graves, keep dreaming, they’ve long since replaced calculators with pom-poms at the bone-and-gold carnival of The Tangerine Antichrist, a bankrupt oracle in a sagging suit, dancing on democracy’s grave while whispering sweet nothings to authoritarianism. The only math that adds up is the sum of WWIII, amplified by fear, sold wholesale, and paid for in the blood of future generations.
So here’s the punchline in the graveyard: if you’re LGBTQ+, born on foreign soil and blessed with that little blue book of naturalization, or part of an educational institution, congratulations! You are the newest cast member in the American horror farce. The Star-Spangled Banner? Ripped to bloody confetti and fed to a bald eagle on antidepressants. Land of the free only if you’re a defense contractor, a bloated bureaucracy, or a tax-dodging billionaire with a golf cart. The hope of the brave has been repo’d. The nation doesn’t sing an anthem anymore, it wails a eulogy while Congress fiddles, the deficit explodes, and truth leaps from the 30th floor, leaving a note that just reads “I give up.” Welcome to the end, darling. Dress accordingly.
"American illusion"? ...is that the illusion millions have found success with?
That "illusion" millions are risking their lives to partake in?
That "illusion" that continues to be the global leader in most every field?
Very dark diatribe there my friend.... I wonder why you bother getting up in the morning...
Ah yes, the great American illusion, glittering like a golden turd polished with the blood of the working class. Sure, millions found success… the same way a few lottery winners justify the existence of gambling addiction, or how one functioning lightbulb makes you forget the rest of the grid’s been fried for decades.
People aren’t risking their lives to partake in the American Dream, they’re fleeing burning buildings and jumping into a flaming dumpster labeled freedom. It’s not hope they’re chasing, it’s the absence of open sewage and death squads. And guess what? Even that dream’s backordered until further notice.
Global leader? Of course. Number one in military spending, number one in people who believe angels are real, number one in opioid deaths, and number one in billionaires hoarding wealth like dragons while kids eat lunch out of vending machines and schools do active shooter drills between math tests.
Why do I bother getting up in the morning? Same reason the Titanic band kept playing, because if the ship’s going down, I’m gonna make damn sure I narrate the collapse with jazz hands and a snarl, not sleep through it in a coma of denial and flag-waving stupidity.
The American illusion isn’t success. It’s convincing people that endless struggle under a boot is called “liberty,” and if you question the boot, you’re ungrateful for the privilege of being stepped on.
Dude - if Dorothy is upvoting your stuff, well...
So... are you saying things can't get worse?
Or is it too optimistic to think they can?
ES: Loved it!
Basically what BB has been saying all along. But only you can get away with saying it without getting a million reply’s. I guess I need to take up poetry to enhance my bland prose.
So... no mention or thought to the $8 trillion of foreign and corporate investment into domestic manufacture as messaged by the Trump Admin? Seems such an increase in domestic production would eliminate a lot of the current hand wringing.
At least you touched on the real problem....for years, Congress! Can't be a Milei type with our political system. I will give props to Bessent for doing an IMPOSSIBLE job(which Bill generally leaves out) and ignore Yellen's short term higher interest financing of huge amounts of debt! I'm a simpleton who has no idea how this will play out but my gut says we're on the right track. In the current conditions, that's the best we can hope for.
Chris Murphy (D) of Conneticut, summed up Trump's first 100 days. Of corruption. The best one (of 40 points) was Trump "selling meeting time" with CEO's at Mar-a-Lago. For $1M dollars.
As Murphy said, "if you were a mayor of a city in the US and you sold tickets to a meeting for $200, you'd be arrested."
Unless of course, you're Donald Trump.
https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1917557297179472290
Cool story, bro.;
Now do the cost of getting access to Biden - please present your figures in USD and not Chinese Yuan...
Done in the paper bag so no audit trail ha ha
What-about'ism at its finest.
What's the point you're making? Because Biden did it it's ok for Trump to do it?
Following that logic nothing changes....
Just a rebuttal for a onesided post...
You know what DOES "change" things and has inevitable repercussions? Being open to straight-up BRIBERY for you and your family members by a communist sworn ENEMY of the United States, our Citizens and our Way of Life. There is more than ample EVIDENCE in the form of certified bank records, wire transfers, email chains, etc. that show just how dirty Joseph R. Biden is - he should absolutely be indicted, tried, convicted and punished to the full extent of existing law, regardless of the fact that he is a decrepit, dementia-ridden piece of absolute garbage. So even if this fake news about Trump was true, you need to just STFU if you're stupid enough to try and use that to excuse Biden's TREASON....
PS - I don't play nice with people who support the domestic enemies of our Country - the group I would put you in based on your shallow, ignorant comment. Have a nice day!
Sure am glad to hear that Bill loves DEI, especially as run by the Democrats over Republicans. I just hope, when he is traveling all over the world to his "holdings", that he would love to know that his pilots, co-pilots, and flight attendants are all a direct result of "DEI" training. However, if Bill can still hold it together until 2026 and 2028 (when those "wonderful" Democrats take over again), everything will be "fantastic", as it was under Biden. Sure! Anyone believing that thinks he/she will be a millionaire/s, when the Democrats regain power. Have a great weekend, youngsters.
Bill should write for The NY Times; according to them Trump is creating a Spy state. Didn’t Snowden, in 2013, tell us that the NSA was recording and storing billions of phone calls, a day, texts, internet searches, all financial transactions.
Haven’t we had The Imperial Presidency since Roosevelt?
DOGE uncovered some egregious spending; the backdraft was astounding; Musk must have lost a couple of billion.
I would not cut SS, Medicare, or Medicaid; why go after poor Americans when there are bigger fish to fry.
Bill went to a funeral recently, his glasses fogged up. The guy was strong and burly, forty something, with a few bad habits. He died of pneumonia, takes time to develop, helped with antibiotics and steroids. Had it myself and I don’t chew coca leaves.
Don’t they sell antibiotics, in pharmacies, without a prescription, in most SA countries.
Why is it Bill didn’t have a contingency medical kit on hand?
I am disappointed in Trump. He has been too haphazard. He hasn’t stopped the war in Ukraine although his original proposals were right on; it’s just that the politicians in Ukraine and Europe didn’t like it. Guess more hundreds of thousands will die but the MICC will make money. He also supports genocide and is against free speech if you criticize Israel.
Trump is the exact cause of everything, everything that has been occurring and expanding for 100 years.
Let’s agree to speak problems, solutions and stupidity without blaming everything on Trump. He is only responsible for the immediate. He is now causing a recession, and Bill’s boys have said we have been in a recession, but they changed the definition.
There is a campaign in the WAPO AND NYT that is blaming Trump for everything! It’s all funded by the ones that destroyed America; I guess Bill is a member of that group.
Agree with most, of the above, Bill is a fiscal Conservative/ Republican, thats why he writes like he does.
XN: If the shoe fits......
...she upgrades from her janitor gig...
"Trump: If it cuts it, I would not approve."
Any remember the fact how much fraud has already been uncovered?
And that´s another way of reducing spending without cuts into the regular recipients.
Why do so many commenters on here think that a man in his late seventies after a lifetime of bullying, corruption, incompetence, grifting, cheating and self-aggrandisement has now somehow - no, miraculously - changed and become altruistic and competent? Seriously, why do you think that?
And no, just because saying it is obvious the emperor has no clothes on does not mean also saying the old emperor(s) were clothed in the finest silks. They weren't. Corruption is endemic in American politics (as it probably is in the body politic everywhere) it's just some people are not as blatantly greedy and perhaps not as nasty or vindictive.
Many politicians are corrupt, but very few are corrupt, insulting, nasty and vindictive. Not to mention compulsive liars - or maybe you ARE able to buy gas at $1.98 a gallon....?
TDS is a real thing - on both sides of the aisle. Detractors regularly exaggerate or disingenuously edit or alter Trump's various 'episodes'. It's wrong and worse it's unnecessary, by sticking to the facts it's bad enough.
Perfect framing. You read a few books ;-))
Problem: it devaluates your post for those who see it.
"Why do so many commenters on here think that a man in his late seventies after a lifetime of bullying, corruption, incompetence, grifting, cheating and self-aggrandisement has now somehow - no, miraculously - changed and become altruistic and competent? Seriously, why do you think that?"
Thats what I refer to.
No president, no congress or anyone else is going to reform and rein in the big entitlements. What ever is going to happen will happen but the outcomes may be modified.
When it hits the fan, which it has to, maybe what Trump does while in office will keep things from being as bad as they could be.
When you think of all the things that have happened in the past; wars, depressions, civil strife and anarchy; if some of the most severe consequences of our profligate past can be avoided maybe that’s the best we can hope for.