Hi there. Looking forward to the weekend? I sure am.
Our closest trading partners had a meeting on Thursday to discuss living without us. They are trying to work around the problem of the tariffs that POTUS imposed on them. POTUS did not get an invite. I wonder why???
Now I know we all love our cars and Mexico knows that too because they are a big source of vehicles and vehicle parts to this country. They also provide us with electrical machinery, computers, and medical devices. These are things we cannot live without.
Canada exports petroleum products to us. The thing that makes our cars, trucks and boats go, we get from them. They are our biggest source of these natural resources. I know you think that the Middle East is where we get most of our oil, but that's not true.
Sure they both could find replacement customers, but what happens when the tariffs end and, these two long time friends don't want to sell to us anymore?
POTUS is not a friend of the average American. He doesn't care what happens to us because he is not in the same boat with us. If he needs car parts he can get them custom made. If he needs gas, he can have it imported at will. That is what the wealthy do and, the rest of us can just go to h___!
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POTUS has decided that any speech about him which he doesn’t like is retaliation which he believes is hate speech. Really??? I always thought that Americans enjoyed a First Amendment to the pesky Constitution which guaranteed free speech. Now POTUS believes that anything said about him which he doesn’t like should be a reason to sue. You know what that sounds like? “WAAAAAAAAA Donnie not happy.” He sounds like a child that didn’t get his way.
OK, are you the person that voted for this guy? I guess you know that was a mistake. This nation needs more than a kindergartener in the Oval Office. We need a POTUS who doesn’t throw a hissy fit when someone exercises their rights.
This country has enemies who want to seriously hurt us and we need a president that is willing to defend us 24/7. The oath which a president takes before taking office requires that he swear to “Preserve, Protect and Defend” the Constitution, not use it to punish those that don’t like him. I think we might need someone who understands the duties of the office, this guy doesn’t.
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POTUS, with the help of the US Senate majority leader, John Thune of South Dakota, has decided to change the rules of that distinguished body by permitting a single up or down vote on groups of POTUS nominees for federal positions. So, if there is one really good nominee in the group and dozens of really bad ones. the Senate must vote on the whole bloc at once. No picking and choosing!
Part of the job of the Senate is to “advise and consent” on the people that POTUS has picked for federal positions. Since the beginning of the Republic the Senate has done this one candidate at a time. POTUS has lots of positions to fill, and in order to get some really bad actors into those roles, he has asked that the traditions of the Senate be modified.
Traditions are the rules which both sides have agreed on. This agreement allows for majority rule with minority rights. The problem with the changes that John Thune is proposing is that it does not take into account the distinct possibility that his party may not be in the majority in the Senate after 2026 and people he doesn't like will be put into positions he would object to, or worse yet, not be filled. Many public positions are required to be filled in order to make the government run efficiently.
Let me give you an example. If 'Organization A' is supposed to be run by 'Director A' and 'Deputy Director A', and those positions are not filled by the Senate, then 'Organization A' won't get anything done when documents require a signature from 'Director A' or 'Deputy Director A'. There is no appointee there to do the job.
So, to ensure that all the organizations are running, John Thune has decided to lump the baddies in with the good ones. Many of the baddies are simply sycophants who want to be paid for bowing to the demand of POTUS. Is that what we really want? Well, ready or not, here come the clowns.
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POTUS has applauded the removal of Jimmy Kimmel from late night TV. He had his Chair of the FCC threaten Kimmel's network with loss of its license just because Kimmel made comments on his show that POTUS didn't like. The comments, whether true or not, were contrary to what POTUS wanted people to see and had the network threatened. Now Kimmel is not a newsman but, he did comment on current events and made people laugh. It's probably that second part that POTUS doesn't like.
This looks and feels very much like what a guy named Hitler did in the 1930's. In order to ensure control of his message to the exclusion of all others, The Little Corporal gagged any media he could not control. POTUS is doing the same thing.
Unfortunately POTUS never served in the military because of “bone spurs”. Yeah that's the reason that was arranged for him never going anywhere near Vietnam. Even back then ““bone spurs” could be taken care of with a tiny bit of surgery. POTUS wasn't having any of that because he was never willing to fight for his country. Seems like he still isn't.
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Lately it seems that POTUS is not getting any proper legal advice. POTUS apparently wants to make burning the US Flag a crime. I guess he never heard that the US Supreme Court decided that burning the flag was protected speech. This decision was made a long time ago so maybe his advisors don't know about it. POTUS should drive up the street to the Court and ask to see their records.
POTUS has also decreed that the LGBTQ Pride Flag should be banned. Apparently, he made the comment while being shown a picture of what he assumed was the Pride Flag. The picture he was shown was of the Progress Pride flag, which represents acceptance for the entire LGBTQ+ community, not the Rainbow Flag. Can't these folks get anything right? POTUS needs better help. The current group is not cutting it.
I'm sure any LGBTQ+ person that POTUS stopped on the streets of Washington, DC would be happy to provide him with correct information. If this event ended up on a report card the grade would read “Must Do Better.”
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Today the Federal Reserve, America's Central Bank, lowered its interest rate by one quarter of a percentage rate. The purpose of the Fed is to promote maximum employment and stable prices. These are the two goals set by Congress. The Fed must be independent of all politics, or at least as independent as possible. Why? In order to do the job Congress set for it, the bank cannot be seen as promoting any one politician's desire over that of any other. In other words the Fed cannot be see approving the demands of one person or party over that of any other.
POTUS wants to control the Fed so that he can control the interest rates that banks charge him, and, lets face it, the guy has a lot of loans. Practically every piece of property he owns probably has a mortgage or two. If he can lower the interest rates on loans, he will pay less, and have more money.
So, why might this be good for borrowers like POTUS and not so good for others. When businesses get lower interest rates, they borrow and invest more. This means they will have more loans to pay off. Businesses need money to pay the banks. To get more money, businesses increase the price of the products they make. When prices go up it is called inflation.
Some businesses will take out loans so they can invest more in stocks or property. This can cause a bubble in prices. Bubbles are generally not sustainable and eventually cause a collapse in prices.
The other problem that this causes when interest rates are low is that banks cannot pay much to savers for the use of their money. You loan your money to the bank when you put it in a savings account. Many save for a down payment for a home. When inflation is low the bank pays less to use your money.
POTUS wants to control interest rates for two purposes. First, low interest rates allow him to borrow more money. During the up side of a low interest rate bubble, POTUS could say “See what I did! Credit Card interest is low.” During the down side of the bubble POTUS can say “Look what the FED did. Someone should control them.”
Stable prices and full employment make living easy. The Fed needs independence to give us both of these. Stay well and be happy with your friends and family,
How are you today? I hope all is well with you and yours.
Have you noticed that Pam Bondi, the attorney general, has announced that businesses must obey the POTUS command to print a poster announcing the Charlie Kirk vigil or she will prosecute them. So, let me get this. POTUS demands that businesses print a poster commemorating the bigot Kirk whether they want to or not. Even if a businessman disagreed with everything Kirk stood for, he will be forced to print the poster or be prosecuted according to Bondi. I don't have any idea what law a business would violate if they refuse to do so. Maybe its the “Make POTUS happy or else” law.
I would never comply with such an illegal demand from the AG. As an assumed attorney, she should know better. Perhaps Bondi needs to go back to school to learn what is legal and illegal in this Democracy, especially since she appears to have such a disdain for our laws and that pesky Constitution.
If you are a business or even just an individual, you have the choice to ignore POTUS and his ignorant attorney general.
Hello, I hope you and yours are well. While you were working to provide for yourself and family, POTUS was busy working too. Under his orders, his military are busy killing people they find in the open ocean under the supposition that the boats are actually carrying narcotics to America. There is never any attempt to verify that the boat is actually carrying drugs. Trump, as in the past, has determined that due process is just an unnecessary bump on the road to murder. No need to actually PROVE the boat was carrying illicit drugs. POTUS “knows” that they are. It's uncanny that such ability to see what boats have in their holds without actually looking, is possessed by POTUS.
I wonder what this is doing to our military. It's one thing to attack an enemy under the usual rules of war. It is quite another to order people to murder individuals for no reason at all other than the alleged ability to “know” what a boat is carrying. Our military personnel are among the most honorable individuals anyone can know. You cannot “know” what is on a ship without really looking but, POTUS can't be bothered with that little step in the campaign to sink boats in the middle of the open ocean. I hope the soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are not hurt by this situation as they honor their oaths to obey their superiors.
It must be unbelievable to have such ability. Thanks POTUS for keeping us all safe?
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I hope your day is going well. It certainly is for POTUS. He just made a deal with a middle eastern potentate for $2 Billion. First came the plane, now he is selling access to an AI chip in exchange for the BILLIONS. I bet he doesn't even own the chip or have a stake in the manufacturing process. All he is selling is access to the chip. Nearly all high end data processing equipment like this is prohibited from leaving the country, because this is the stuff that smart bombs and military planes are made with. Protect the country and keep the stuff away from your competitors.
But really, what do you expect from a guy like POTUS. I know there's that pesky Emoluments Clause (Article I, Section 9, Clause 8) in that irritating Constitution. It pretty much says, if you are getting paid by the government, you can't be getting stuff from from anyone else.
As with most of the Constitution, POTUS doesn't think it applies to him, at least that's what his cohorts are telling him. I hope he knows that he doesn't get to keep the plane when he goes in 2028. POTUS knows that he can manipulate the courts to do what he wants. Who else do you know was convicted 30+ times and is still walking the streets? What he can't do is manipulate the calendar, at least not yet. Be well.
POTUS has decided to have a trade war with China, the biggest buyer of soybeans from our farmers. These beans are incredibly useful. We use them to feed to farm animals because of the potency of their protein. We use them in our food. Ever go to an Asian restaurant and wonder what that black stuff in the bottle on the table is? It's Soy Sauce, and its delicious. People have been using soybeans for centuries, for thousands of purposes.
So here is the problem with all those tariffs and the trade war. Our farmers work very hard to produce crops which they want to sell so they can take care of their families and also buy equipment. When our farmers are effectively denied a market, which is what tariffs do, they cannot sell their products.
This problem is not just one for the farmers who grow our food, they need equipment to do it efficiently. If they don't have the funds to buy new equipment, the folks that make the equipment begin to lose their jobs, because no one is buying what they make. All because POTUS decided to up the price on all Chinese goods coming into our country, and China did exactly the same to us. Thanks POTUS, you did us all a favor!
So, how does this get fixed? Well for starters we should probably not anger the buyer of our products. Tariffs are a tax paid by an importer for the privilege of bringing things into this country to sell. When one country wants to protect its own products from what may appear as unfair competition, they put a tariff on that product. However, when a country wants to increase revenues and doesn't care about the result, it will put a tariff on everything coming from a rival country. POTUS doesn't care who gets hurt in the process.
As you drive through the countryside, look at the amazing fields of plants and the pastures of animals. All this is being done for you. So, lets not screw it up. Thank the Farmer. Nobody eats without them.