The public needs to have a phone number or email available to report any university administrators not complying with ending DEI or men in a women’s sport or in their facilities using bathrooms or showers.
Trump makes this 13-year old who has lived with brain cancer for six years an honorary member of the Secret Service. Because Trump honors him, we can't stand and clap for him. Imagine how the Republicans would get hammered if they had done the same. Just disgusting. Fits to a tee the doubling down on crazy.
If you voted for this guy, you own it just as much as he does. Yeah I get that there were no good choices, but like in the movie Wargames, "sometimes the only winning move is not to play.”
If you didn't play, at least your conscience is clear. I call that winning.
Democrats are going to take the mid terms and sweep 2028. Why? Because as of today, Trump significantly increased everyone's cost of living with his absurd tariff policy.
A basic fact of politics which Trump seems unaware of is that people vote their wallets. Not everyone has a daughter on a high school swim team, or a relative addicted to fentanyl, but EVERYONE has to eat, heat their homes, and fill up their car, and the cost of all that just went up significantly. Once the realization sets in that Trump's strategy is NOT bringing jobs back home in any meaningful amount, the people who voted for him are going to vote to get rid of him because he's obviously incompetent and a serious threat to everyone's well being.
No one cares about Russia, Ukraine, China or Iran. Those are too abstract and distant for average Americans to care about compared to what it's going to cost them just to get by in the next few years. The reality is that while Trump's heart may be in the right place, he has zero understanding of the complexity of what he set in motion and just how much damage that will have caused by the time 2026 rolls around.
Even if he backtracks it won't make any difference because he just woke the whole world, including America's closest allies, to the fact that the USA can't be relied on to be balanced or consistent in its national policies. Whatever you do that involves the USA now has a risk premium attached to it that won't go away, because while it may be Trump making these calls, it's the structure of the US government that makes that possible. That much power should never be vested in a single individual, but that's what you have now. A completely polarized system where the grand prize is being able to dictate national policy from the oval office with little or no debate in congress. Basically a dictatorship.
"A completely polarized system"? You mean like the one we just left on Jan. 20th? The one that denigrated women, lawfare all over the place (speaking of dictatorship), funding for go go dancer lessons in Belize? Okay. I'll take my chances.
You just described one pole. I'm looking at both of them. I don't know about go-go dancers in Belize, but I've seen what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and Trump's supporters seem to be OK with that. Are you?
As for denigrating women, hang out on Zero Hedge for a while and count the number of times you read "the 19th amendment was a mistake, or "make me a sandwich" as if that was something witty and not just a worn out cliche. As I see it, there's just as much misogyny on the right* as there is on the left, but then I'm not on either team so perhaps I see things a bit more clearly than the average MAGA fanboi or TDS sufferer.
* Read this guy and his cheering section if you don't believe me:
The default assumption from Trump supporters seems to be that anyone who criticizes him is a disgruntled democrat. I'm not even American, I just call them as I see them. Sorry if that upsets you.
You didn't really upset me, ebear, but you did use quite inflammatory language that deserved a response! And yes, it It's perfectly fair to criticise Trump. However, you seem to be judging all Trump supporters by the very worst ones. Anglin is a neo-Nazi and is not representative of the vast majority of people who support Trump. And as a Trump supporter, I hate what he is allowing the Israelis to get away with in Gaza, as do many other Maga folk. It's not as black and white as you suggest.
If you want to actually criticize tariffs why not present the whole story. Gosh, some costs could go up. Annnnnd what else might happen? One of the foreign automakers just decided to put a new factory in Indiana instead of Mexico.
As to the can't be relied on spiel, oh dear, not that! Anything but that! You mean they won't be able to rely on us to be suckers for them?! Please get me a fainting couch!
Your comment is about what I've come to expect from somewhere like Zero Hedge which is why I've given up on the place. Long on sarcasm, short on actual analysis.
You can argue on a point by point basis about specific industries, but the net effect of hitting everyone with the same heavy costs all at the same time (I'm talking about the American public here, forget Canada and Mexico) is bound to have a negative effect.
Just to be clear, I'm not a democrat supporter, which is the assumption most seem to make when I criticize Trump, but I don't believe in wishful thinking either, and I see that by the carload with his supporters, not to mention them turning a blind eye to his undying support of Israel and their ethnic cleansing program.
As for relying on America as a partner in anything, the Russians have it right. In their own words, The US is "agreement incapable." I don't think I need to list all the nations who the US has betrayed over the years, do I? It's fairly common knowledge.
Me too. All of this is very fluid. Tariffs have effects on the exporting countries and gives them an incentive to come to a settlement. What the rest of the world sees is not so much that the US can't be relied upon as that the US is coming to terms with changing trade and economic realities. They'll be watching and looking for their own advantage in all this. In other words, they'll looking to see if there are deals to be made.
Trump is using tariffs for leverage rather than as a purely economic move. I don't know enough about economics to know how this will work out. I guess we'll see.
Good response. There’s so much going on it’s difficult to keep up. Essentially the plan. I believe those who scare monger about tariffs are riffing off an old economic paradigm that may no longer hold true. We are in a completely different time frame despite some similarities to past events. Jeff M keeps bringing up the digital world and he is in the zone.
Lutnick said the Mexicans and Canadians were coming around.
"Both the Mexicans and the Canadians were on the phone with me all day today trying to show that they'll do better, and the president is listening because you know he's very very fair and very reasonable. So I think he's gonna work something out with them. It's not gonna be a pause. None of that pause stuff. But I think he's gonna figure out, you do more, and I'll meet you in the middle."
So Democrats predicting doom once again are likely to have to eat it. They still don't get Trump is all about the deal, that you have to follow through to the end of the story ...
This editor is not working properly. I also meant to say, but couldn't include it in the main body of my previous post, that politicians only look as far ahead as the next election, but economic planning can take decades, especially in primary industries, and when you pull the rug out from under that you risk all sorts of unintended consequences.
I guarantee that right now Canadian energy producers are talking to potential Chinese customers. They have to, or they wouldn't be good corporate managers. What Trump has done here is given the Chinese an opportunity to deprive the US of a reliable energy partner that's right next door. It may very well be worth it to them to absorb the major costs of that realignment, and if so, I see no reason why Canada shouldn't accept such an offer.
You're missing an important element here. Sure, politicians are going to try and weasel their way out of this, no surprise there. What you also have to account for though is how this affects long range economic planning by the people who actually manage the economy, i.e. the corporations.
Take energy as one example. You had all these sunk costs in anticipation of a US market for Canadian oil somewhere down the road, and then along comes some politician and cancels the contracts. After a few events of this nature you start looking for other customers, and they're not hard to find. Not only will China buy all the oil that Canada (and possibly Mexico) used to sell to the USA, they'll even help finance the pipelines and liquefaction plants, not to mention the ships to carry the gas.
Speaking of ships, there's another of Trump's impending economic fiascoes. He's going to tax non-US ships entering domestic ports in an attempt to compete on ship building with China.
Not saying you'll lose every current exporter because of this, but in corporate management prudent governance dictates that you have a plan B (and C) in the event that your primary customers become, for whatever reason, unreliable.
Hickenlooper? Best thing I ever read about him was some comment on a blog when he was the Colorado governor. The commenter called him Gov. Chickenpooper. That cost me a keyboard.
Hick opened the first microbrewery in downtown Denver called the Wynkoop, back in the late 80s. Back then, downtown Denver was a dump, as it is again today, due to the stewardship of Hick, with all the potheads and homeless roaming around. So sad.
I only had one time in Denver in ‘76 for a night. Didn’t really experience what the town was. Had just heard it was nice. But I’ve spent a lot of time on the western part of Colorado. I love the mountains, camping and fishing. Great country and I can’t believe it has ever elected that asshole.
The Wynkoop had a great run (and LoDo a pretty good one) for several years when Coors Field opened in the mid-90s. I was home-based in Denver (LoDo) at that time, though working mostly overseas (Moscow). Owners (don't know if Hick specifically) used to let my colleagues who represented them drink mostly for free, so, I tagged along whenever in town. Good spot for a while, which, as you point out, has turned to shite again.
If you think about it a bit, Trump has the Dems in the position of demanding more war, while he's demanding peace. Trump has the winning hand, and he and the GOP get to play that hand in 2026.
These "hive mind" displays aren't exactly helping with the "we're totally not a cult" vibe. Now up to 25+ Dem Senators reading the same exact script. Sad.
Gotta hand it to the Ds. At least they all go down with the sinking ship. Not a single dissenter! What’s not to admire about that? The Rs always have the Murkowskis or the Collins or the McConnells, or whoever else wants to be infamous and get the press to like them.
The public needs to have a phone number or email available to report any university administrators not complying with ending DEI or men in a women’s sport or in their facilities using bathrooms or showers.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/monstrous-democrats-remain-seated-refuse-clap-child-brain/
Trump makes this 13-year old who has lived with brain cancer for six years an honorary member of the Secret Service. Because Trump honors him, we can't stand and clap for him. Imagine how the Republicans would get hammered if they had done the same. Just disgusting. Fits to a tee the doubling down on crazy.
Art of the deal, or an offer you can't refuse?
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/trumps-finish-the-genocide-plan-the-ugly-american-on-steroids/
If you voted for this guy, you own it just as much as he does. Yeah I get that there were no good choices, but like in the movie Wargames, "sometimes the only winning move is not to play.”
If you didn't play, at least your conscience is clear. I call that winning.
Getting chippy in the House of Representative tonight.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-choose-fake-women-over-real-women-again
Democrats are going to take the mid terms and sweep 2028. Why? Because as of today, Trump significantly increased everyone's cost of living with his absurd tariff policy.
A basic fact of politics which Trump seems unaware of is that people vote their wallets. Not everyone has a daughter on a high school swim team, or a relative addicted to fentanyl, but EVERYONE has to eat, heat their homes, and fill up their car, and the cost of all that just went up significantly. Once the realization sets in that Trump's strategy is NOT bringing jobs back home in any meaningful amount, the people who voted for him are going to vote to get rid of him because he's obviously incompetent and a serious threat to everyone's well being.
No one cares about Russia, Ukraine, China or Iran. Those are too abstract and distant for average Americans to care about compared to what it's going to cost them just to get by in the next few years. The reality is that while Trump's heart may be in the right place, he has zero understanding of the complexity of what he set in motion and just how much damage that will have caused by the time 2026 rolls around.
Even if he backtracks it won't make any difference because he just woke the whole world, including America's closest allies, to the fact that the USA can't be relied on to be balanced or consistent in its national policies. Whatever you do that involves the USA now has a risk premium attached to it that won't go away, because while it may be Trump making these calls, it's the structure of the US government that makes that possible. That much power should never be vested in a single individual, but that's what you have now. A completely polarized system where the grand prize is being able to dictate national policy from the oval office with little or no debate in congress. Basically a dictatorship.
"A completely polarized system"? You mean like the one we just left on Jan. 20th? The one that denigrated women, lawfare all over the place (speaking of dictatorship), funding for go go dancer lessons in Belize? Okay. I'll take my chances.
You just described one pole. I'm looking at both of them. I don't know about go-go dancers in Belize, but I've seen what Israel is doing to the Palestinians, and Trump's supporters seem to be OK with that. Are you?
As for denigrating women, hang out on Zero Hedge for a while and count the number of times you read "the 19th amendment was a mistake, or "make me a sandwich" as if that was something witty and not just a worn out cliche. As I see it, there's just as much misogyny on the right* as there is on the left, but then I'm not on either team so perhaps I see things a bit more clearly than the average MAGA fanboi or TDS sufferer.
* Read this guy and his cheering section if you don't believe me:
https://www.unz.com/author/andrew-anglin/
Did your side lose an election or something?
The default assumption from Trump supporters seems to be that anyone who criticizes him is a disgruntled democrat. I'm not even American, I just call them as I see them. Sorry if that upsets you.
You didn't really upset me, ebear, but you did use quite inflammatory language that deserved a response! And yes, it It's perfectly fair to criticise Trump. However, you seem to be judging all Trump supporters by the very worst ones. Anglin is a neo-Nazi and is not representative of the vast majority of people who support Trump. And as a Trump supporter, I hate what he is allowing the Israelis to get away with in Gaza, as do many other Maga folk. It's not as black and white as you suggest.
If you want to actually criticize tariffs why not present the whole story. Gosh, some costs could go up. Annnnnd what else might happen? One of the foreign automakers just decided to put a new factory in Indiana instead of Mexico.
As to the can't be relied on spiel, oh dear, not that! Anything but that! You mean they won't be able to rely on us to be suckers for them?! Please get me a fainting couch!
Your comment is about what I've come to expect from somewhere like Zero Hedge which is why I've given up on the place. Long on sarcasm, short on actual analysis.
You can argue on a point by point basis about specific industries, but the net effect of hitting everyone with the same heavy costs all at the same time (I'm talking about the American public here, forget Canada and Mexico) is bound to have a negative effect.
Just to be clear, I'm not a democrat supporter, which is the assumption most seem to make when I criticize Trump, but I don't believe in wishful thinking either, and I see that by the carload with his supporters, not to mention them turning a blind eye to his undying support of Israel and their ethnic cleansing program.
As for relying on America as a partner in anything, the Russians have it right. In their own words, The US is "agreement incapable." I don't think I need to list all the nations who the US has betrayed over the years, do I? It's fairly common knowledge.
Me too. All of this is very fluid. Tariffs have effects on the exporting countries and gives them an incentive to come to a settlement. What the rest of the world sees is not so much that the US can't be relied upon as that the US is coming to terms with changing trade and economic realities. They'll be watching and looking for their own advantage in all this. In other words, they'll looking to see if there are deals to be made.
Trump is using tariffs for leverage rather than as a purely economic move. I don't know enough about economics to know how this will work out. I guess we'll see.
Good response. There’s so much going on it’s difficult to keep up. Essentially the plan. I believe those who scare monger about tariffs are riffing off an old economic paradigm that may no longer hold true. We are in a completely different time frame despite some similarities to past events. Jeff M keeps bringing up the digital world and he is in the zone.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/03/04/lutnick-says-likely-deal-in-works-with-canada-and-mexico-n2186275
Lutnick said the Mexicans and Canadians were coming around.
"Both the Mexicans and the Canadians were on the phone with me all day today trying to show that they'll do better, and the president is listening because you know he's very very fair and very reasonable. So I think he's gonna work something out with them. It's not gonna be a pause. None of that pause stuff. But I think he's gonna figure out, you do more, and I'll meet you in the middle."
So Democrats predicting doom once again are likely to have to eat it. They still don't get Trump is all about the deal, that you have to follow through to the end of the story ...
This editor is not working properly. I also meant to say, but couldn't include it in the main body of my previous post, that politicians only look as far ahead as the next election, but economic planning can take decades, especially in primary industries, and when you pull the rug out from under that you risk all sorts of unintended consequences.
I guarantee that right now Canadian energy producers are talking to potential Chinese customers. They have to, or they wouldn't be good corporate managers. What Trump has done here is given the Chinese an opportunity to deprive the US of a reliable energy partner that's right next door. It may very well be worth it to them to absorb the major costs of that realignment, and if so, I see no reason why Canada shouldn't accept such an offer.
You're missing an important element here. Sure, politicians are going to try and weasel their way out of this, no surprise there. What you also have to account for though is how this affects long range economic planning by the people who actually manage the economy, i.e. the corporations.
Take energy as one example. You had all these sunk costs in anticipation of a US market for Canadian oil somewhere down the road, and then along comes some politician and cancels the contracts. After a few events of this nature you start looking for other customers, and they're not hard to find. Not only will China buy all the oil that Canada (and possibly Mexico) used to sell to the USA, they'll even help finance the pipelines and liquefaction plants, not to mention the ships to carry the gas.
Speaking of ships, there's another of Trump's impending economic fiascoes. He's going to tax non-US ships entering domestic ports in an attempt to compete on ship building with China.
https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/trump-administrations-bold-plan-to
Not saying you'll lose every current exporter because of this, but in corporate management prudent governance dictates that you have a plan B (and C) in the event that your primary customers become, for whatever reason, unreliable.
The perpetual revolution picked a weird hill to die on.
The ideologically rigid will ride the same tactics again and again hence the seeming mental instability one attributes to leftists.
Hickenlooper? Best thing I ever read about him was some comment on a blog when he was the Colorado governor. The commenter called him Gov. Chickenpooper. That cost me a keyboard.
So many of these progressives are such pencil neck pricks. Walz of Minnesota gave us a deep look into their psychosis.
Absolutely. Walz is a fucking psychopath, so how does that ever get elected to anything without voter fraud?
Voter stupidity and there's tons of stupid in Minnesota.
Hick opened the first microbrewery in downtown Denver called the Wynkoop, back in the late 80s. Back then, downtown Denver was a dump, as it is again today, due to the stewardship of Hick, with all the potheads and homeless roaming around. So sad.
I only had one time in Denver in ‘76 for a night. Didn’t really experience what the town was. Had just heard it was nice. But I’ve spent a lot of time on the western part of Colorado. I love the mountains, camping and fishing. Great country and I can’t believe it has ever elected that asshole.
The Wynkoop had a great run (and LoDo a pretty good one) for several years when Coors Field opened in the mid-90s. I was home-based in Denver (LoDo) at that time, though working mostly overseas (Moscow). Owners (don't know if Hick specifically) used to let my colleagues who represented them drink mostly for free, so, I tagged along whenever in town. Good spot for a while, which, as you point out, has turned to shite again.
If you think about it a bit, Trump has the Dems in the position of demanding more war, while he's demanding peace. Trump has the winning hand, and he and the GOP get to play that hand in 2026.
He's doing a reverse Rules for Radicals: forcing them to live up (or down) to their insane values.
They are truly rattled and they digging that hole.
Many of us me included likely under estimate his deal acumen -- he knows how to wedge into an issue to force his adversary onto the losing side
These "hive mind" displays aren't exactly helping with the "we're totally not a cult" vibe. Now up to 25+ Dem Senators reading the same exact script. Sad.
https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1896953966610768048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1896953966610768048%7Ctwgr%5E4d7847a89d69a5ef9928f76c2f75112cce782de0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj%2F2025%2F03%2F04%2Fmore-and-more-democrats-caught-reading-a-script-its-getting-worse-rofl-n2409316
saw that earlier today. Like a chorus line getting their hopes up to prepare people for tonight's address.
Gotta hand it to the Ds. At least they all go down with the sinking ship. Not a single dissenter! What’s not to admire about that? The Rs always have the Murkowskis or the Collins or the McConnells, or whoever else wants to be infamous and get the press to like them.
This is all good news because it guarantees that the Dems will lose the midterms. What would be worrying is if they suddenly started becoming sane.
I can only add, as the Dems go, so go the Euros, doubling down on crazy.
But we do it in French. Sounds much more sophisticated, but with same results!
As in “plus ça change…?!”