Sure, sure, a pro-Trump anarchist.
I'm glad we got that cleared up.
... While in custody, Cole confessed to planting the pipe bombs, which did not detonate, two sources familiar with his interview with the FBI told MS NOW. ...
Showing posts with label CNBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CNBC. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Trump cuts vehicle fuel economy goal to 34 mpg by 2031 from 50 mpg by 2031 under Biden
CNBC.
AI says the current US light duty vehicle fleet gets about 26 mpg.
Vladimir Putin found that the Trump, Kushner, Witkoff appeasement offer was one he could indeed refuse
... The talks in Moscow came after Putin launched a tirade against Europe, saying that its counter peace proposals were “absolutely unacceptable” for Russia, and that the region’s leadership had “no peace agenda.”
“We’re not going to war with Europe; I’ve said that a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts, we’re ready right now,” Putin told journalists ahead of his meeting with Witkoff and Kushner.
European officials have expressed consternation in recent weeks that they, and Ukraine, were excluded from initial talks between the U.S. and Russia that led to an original draft peace plan seen to heavily favor Russia. ...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
Silver hit new record high $58.83 yesterday, not $558.49 lol
... Silver retreated from the record high of $58.83 hit on Monday, easing 1.1% to $57.30 per ounce. It has risen over 100% year-to-date. ...
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Monday, December 1, 2025
Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!: $57.86/ounce
... Silver was up 1.3% to $57.12 per ounce after hitting an all-time high of $57.86 earlier. ...
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
Gen X is sucking you dry now, not the Boomers lol
... Visa defines “affluent” households as those who either earn at least $210,000 or have a net worth of about $1.8 million, a level that places them above 90% of U.S. households.
About 12.2 million U.S. households qualify under that definition, and Gen X makes up 57% of them, compared with 12% for boomers, the analysis shows. Millennials and Gen Z together account for the remaining 31%.
It may not be surprising that Gen X leads the affluent group, given they’re in their peak earning years, while many boomers are retired. ...
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Trump is a phony populist and his tax code continues to make chumps of Americans who work
In 2026 a single filer making $97,000 in salary or wages will pay an effective tax rate of about 12.9%.
About 83% of the country earns no more than $97,000/year.
The single filer who takes $97,000 in income exclusively from long term investments, however, will pay an effective tax rate of only about 4.9%, a rate 62% lower.
In 2021, 20% of tax filers did not report any wage or salary income.
In 2026, such people can receive income from long term capital gains up to $545,500 and pay an effective tax rate of only about 18% vs. a single filer earning that much in salary or wages who pays an effective rate of about 29.6%.
In 2Q2025 the top 10% by wealth in America owned 87.2% of the stocks and mutual funds.
Friday, November 28, 2025
Monday, November 24, 2025
DOGE ends with a whimper as Elon Musk's chainsaw for bureaucracy goes back on the shelf, hardly used
... “That doesn’t exist,” Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about DOGE’s status.
It is no longer a “centralized entity,” Kupor added, in the first public comments from the Trump administration on the end of DOGE. ...
A government-wide hiring freeze - another hallmark of DOGE - is also over, Kupor said. ... “There is no target around reductions” anymore, Kupor said. ...
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Sounds like the universal blowback against the Trump-Russia plan being jammed down Ukraine's throat has Trump and the administration trying to walk it back and failing miserably
Maybe AXIOS released the plan in the first place to sabotage the whole thing, to which I say Hurrah!
Ukraine peace plan in chaos after Marco Rubio 'told senators Russia had authored proposal'
Marco Rubio was forced on the defensive last night after a bipartisan group of senators claimed he told them the US's peace plan for Ukraine was authored by Russia.
The US Secretary of State denied their account, with a spokesman calling it "blatantly false", but the dispute threatens to derail President Trump's push for a peace deal to be achieved this week.
Rubio took the extraordinary step of suggesting online that the senators were mistaken, even though they said he was their source for the information.
The secretary of state doubled down on the
assertion that Washington was responsible for a proposal, which has
faced push back in Europe for being so favorable to Moscow.
The widely leaked 28-point US-backed peace plan was, according to the White House, the result of a month of work between Rubio and Trump envoy Steve Witkoff along with input from what it said was both Ukrainians and Russians.
The plan accepts many Russian demands that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has categorically rejected on dozens of occasions, including giving up large pieces of territory.
Trump says he wants Ukraine to accept the plan by late next week.
"This administration was not responsible for this release in its current form," said Republican Mike Rounds from South Dakota, speaking at a security conference in Canada. "They want to utilize it as a starting point."
Rounds said "it looked more like it was written in Russian to begin with." ...
Tommy Pigott, a State Department spokesperson, said the senators' account was "blatantly false." ...
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Thursday, November 20, 2025
The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the Alcee Hastings tree, Democrat representing majority-black precincts of Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach under investigation since at least May 2024 finally charged
A federal grand jury charged U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., with stealing $5 million in Covid-19 disaster funds — a chunk of which was then illegally contributed to her 2021 congressional campaign, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. ...
Cherfilus-McCormick joined the House in 2022 after winning a special election that January to fill late Rep. Alcee Hastings’ seat representing Florida’s 20th Congressional District. ...
Cherfilus-McCormick has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the panel revealed in late May.
The Office of Congressional Conduct sent a referral to that committee in May 2024, laying out a number of possible violations. Cherfilus-McCormick “may have requested community project funding that would be directed to a for-profit entity,” the office said in that referral. ...
Perfidious Mad King Ludwig has continued to work behind the scenes with Russia and without Ukraine and the Europeans on a Ukrainian capitulation plan
... Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said that if the
reports are true, the 28-peace plan would amount to “Ukraine’s full
capitulation and would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression
against Ukraine.”
“The reported proposed peace plan would deprive Ukraine of critical defensive positions and capabilities necessary to defend against future Russian aggression, apparently in exchange for nothing,” the ISW analysts said Wednesday.
They noted it would “give this significant land to Russia — apparently for no specified compromise — sparing Russia the time, effort, and manpower that it could use elsewhere in Ukraine during renewed aggression.”
The ISW concluded that the plan, if verified, showed Russia’s maximalist territorial demands on Ukraine had essentially not changed since the initial invasion in 2022. “This reported peace plan is fundamentally the same as Russia’s 2022 Istanbul demands, which Russia presented to Ukraine when the circumstances on the battlefield appeared to favor Russia more heavily.”
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
The guy on the left beheaded a record high 345 people, mostly for non-violent drug offenses, in Saudi Arabia in 2024, but he says he still feels pain for the 9/11 families of America
Trump, Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman brush off criticism of Khashoggi killing
... On Tuesday, bin Salman said, “You know, I feel painful about, you know, families of 9/11 in America. But, you know, we have to focus on reality.”
“Reality based in CIA documents, and based on a lot of documents that Osama bin Laden used Saudi people in that event, for one main purpose, is to destroy this [relationship], to destroy the American-Saudi relation,” bin Salman said.
“It’s really painful to hear .... anyone that been losing his life for you know, no real purpose or ... not in a legal way,” bin Salman said, referring to Khashoggi.
“And it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia,” the prince said. “We did all the right steps of investigation ... in Saudi Arabia, and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that. And it’s painful, and it’s a huge mistake, and we are doing our best that this still doesn’t happen.” ...
Trump threatens ABC after reporter Mary Bruce exposes the kabuki dance around the Epstein files
President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for ABC’s broadcast license to be revoked as he angrily lashed out at a reporter from the network who asked why he has not released files on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his former friend.
“I think you are a terrible reporter,” Trump told ABC News White House correspondent Mary Bruce.
The president said he did not like Bruce’s “attitude.” ...
Trump’s tirade came shortly before the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to compel the Department of Justice to release all of its records on Epstein.
The DOJ earlier this year refused to release those documents, despite prior promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials.
Trump does not need to wait for Congress to pass a bill. He could order the DOJ to release more Epstein files.
“Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files?” Bruce asked the president. “Why not just do it now?” ...
Trump has repeatedly called the Epstein matter a “hoax” created by Democrats, even though members of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement were leading advocates for releasing the files. ...
Last week, the House Oversight Committee released emails showing Epstein discussing Trump.
In one email from 2019, Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.”
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
The US House and Senate wanted this Epstein business out of their hands so fast it makes your head spin
So the legislative branch is ordering the executive branch to D O S O M E T H I N G.
The legislative branch ordered TikTok to do something by last January, you'll recall, but the executive and its Department of Justice found a way around that.
They'll find a way around this, too.
The foxes remain in charge of the henhouse.
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