Showing posts with label Donald Trump 2025. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Donald Trump 2025. Show all posts

Saturday, November 1, 2025

Nothing shows that Trump is still a Democrat at heart more than his restated support for ending the Senate filibuster

Imagine the ten worst things either side would pass with a simple majority as soon as it got it.

Republicans could repeal Obamacare right now without the filibuster, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

In the future Democrats could easily pass Medicare For All without it, and close the Department of Defense.

Elections would become even more desperate contests for power than they already are, and a deeply divided America would plunge into chaos.

Everything would become far less predictable, which would poison the economy.

Americans and their employers would become even more vulnerable to the federal pickpockets who populate the halls of Congress. 

Just say No to Mad King Ludwig. 

 




 

  

 

Thursday, October 30, 2025

In other news, our misinformed, out of touch, SAT verbal section flunker Mad King Ludwig thinks other countries are testing nuclear weapons and, by golly, we should too!


 

 Trump directs nuclear weapons testing to resume for first time in over 30 years

... No country except North Korea has conducted a nuclear test explosion in this century, according to the Arms Control Association (ACA) - and even Pyongyang announced a moratorium in 2018.

... The US-based ACA ... estimates ... America's nuclear stockpile sits at about 5,225 warheads, while Russia has approximately 5,580.

... "Trump is misinformed and out of touch," Daryl G Kimball, executive director of the ACA, wrote on X. "The US has no technical, military, or political justification for resuming nuclear explosive testing for the first time since 1992."

"Trump will trigger strong public opposition in Nevada, from all US allies, and it could trigger a chain reaction of nuclear testing by US adversaries, and blow apart the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, " Mr Kimball added. ...


 

 

 

Trump keeps escalating the domestic militarism in order to foment unrest where none exists, so that he can justify federal martial law if unrest does occur

Trump wields the military like it's his own personal plaything, just itching to violate the Posse Comitatus Act.

Meanwhile those liberal fanatics at the American Enterprise Institute have really gone off the deep end in their Trump derangement.

 

 
... Trump has mobilized thousands of National Guard members in D.C., Los Angeles and Memphis, with deployments to Chicago and Portland, Oregon, delayed by court decisions. He has claimed unfettered authority to deploy military personnel onto American soil, including active-duty troops, which by law are prohibited from performing law enforcement duties except in extreme cases or if the president invokes the Insurrection Act.
 
... “They are increasing their ability to mobilize National Guard forces, federalize them and use them over the opposition of localities and governors,” said Kori Schake, director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
 
... While the courts have at times contested Trump’s domestic military deployments, Congress has abdicated its oversight responsibility, Schake said, prompting larger concerns of institutional decay.
 
 “They’re behaving like a parliament, not like a presidential system,” she said. “And it’s going to break the American order, our constitutional order, if Congress and governors can’t check executive power.”

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Who needs to run if elections are suspended in yet another phony national emergency?



Trump is not allowed to stop spending money which was lawfully appropriated by the Congress for specific purposes, or to spend it on other things, but that's exactly what he's doing anyway.

He's illegally taxing every American with his tariffs under a phony emergency power granted him by our servile Congress. 

He's not allowed to shake down and detain citizens on the pretext that they may be illegally present, but that's exactly what he's done. He's made a mockery of citizenship.

He's not allowed to search without a warrant, but he's doing it anyway. You let him do it every time you fly, so what's the big deal if now he's invading homes and businesses without warrants in search of illegal aliens? You don't care.

He uses his bully pulpit literally to bully people, to suppress their speech. He threatens investigations of his opponents, and makes good on them with actual probes and charges. Some in Congress admit they are afraid of him.   

No one made him the judge, jury, and executioner, but that's who he thinks he is. He is in fact murdering non-combatants pure and simple every day, and Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio are his accomplices, as is the U.S. military, to its everlasting shame.

Trump is the greatest . . . violator of civil rights and the rule of law since Lincoln.

He's made an ass of the law.

He's flooded the zone with illegality, impropriety, personal corruption, crime, and ugliness. 

And Congress just lets him. The courts just let him. The people just let him.

They all just shrug. They're the French, and he's their Napoleon. 

 

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Tyrant Trump wants the American military in our streets just like the PLA is in China, in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act which prohibits the use of federal troops to enforce domestic law

Maybe that all-volunteer-army idea wasn't such a great one after all.

A "large standing Army in time of Peace hath ever been considered dangerous to the liberties of a Country".  -- George Washington

The "means of defense against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home".  -- James Madison

"When once a standing army is established in any country, the people lose their liberty". -- George Mason   

 

 Trump Says He Is Prepared to Send ‘More Than the National Guard’ Into U.S. Cities 

... “We have cities that are troubled, we can’t have cities that are troubled,” Mr. Trump said. “And we’re sending in our National Guard, and if we need more than the National Guard, we’ll send more than the National Guard, because we’re going to have safe cities.” ... 

The president delivered his speech on the U.S.S. George Washington, an aircraft carrier docked south of Tokyo, at an American military base in Japan that was set up in the aftermath of World War II. It was an unsubtle show of force as Mr. Trump prepares to meet China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, this week, for talks that hold great stakes for the global economy. ...

 


Monday, October 27, 2025

In the United States Canada has a net popularity of +48 vs. -10 for Donald Trump

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Prices of 20 food items posted new all time highs on a quarterly average basis under Donald Trump in 3Q2025

 The 20 foods shown making new all time highs represent 43% of the 46 foods I have been tracking in the FRED database at the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank. Prices are per pound unless otherwise noted.

Beef Products:

Round Roast $8.182
All Uncooked Roasts 8.72 
Choice Chuck Roast 8.839
Round Steak 9.04
All Uncooked Steaks 12.12
Choice Sirloin Steak 14.003
Ground Chuck 6.43
100% Ground Beef 6.298
All Uncooked Ground 6.593
 
Other Meats:
 
Whole Chicken 2.072
Pork 3.716
 
Dairy Products:
 
Ice Cream 6.425/half gallon
Cheddar Cheese 6.071
 
Other Foods:
 
Orange Juice 4.682/12oz. frozen
Coffee 8.808 
Sugar 1.043 (two quarters in a row)
Bananas 0.664
Potato Chips 6.84
Chocolate Chip Cookies 5.179
Beer 1.832/pint 

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Trump 2028: If they want me, they will have it their way, to hell with the 22nd Amendment




The president's tariff retaliation against Canada is purely out of personal pique and is a tyrannical abuse of power

The Congress has the tariff authority, not the president, according to the constitution, and needs to reign in the powers it has delegated to the executive if it cares what is good for the country.

65% of the country disapproves of the GOP-controlled Congress. 

 



Mad King Ludwig is delusional, Reagan loathed tariffs in principle

 



Saturday, October 25, 2025

As Mad King Ludwig speeds a carrier strike group from the Med to the Caribbean, American failure to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea is highlighted by the latest Suez Canal navigation report for 3Q2025

 It's a picture of dismal failure.

The U.S. Navy has not made the Red Sea safe for free trade.

The Houthis remain a potent threat to shipping. 

3Q2025 statistics compared with 3Q2023 show the number of ships transiting the Suez Canal down 49.8%.

Net tons passing through is down 65.8%.



 

 

Friday, October 24, 2025

Lying Trump will never rise to the level of Reagan, let alone of any other president

 If Reagan were alive today, he'd reject Donald Trump and his trade war against the whole world, including and especially against our friends and allies in Canada.

Reagan's full remarks from April 1987, excerpted by Doug Ford in the ad, are shown below.  

 





One man is about to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Venezuela

 The more the Uniparty changes, the more it stays the same.

Bush invades Iraq. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump invades Venezuela. 

Expect Xi to invade Taiwan at any minute.

One big happy family of invaders, carving up the world.

 

  • U.S. Sending Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to Waters Off Latin America
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    When Trump does 911 it's OK

     


    Core cpi inflation year over year in September 2025 coming in right between volatile food and energy is not comforting

    Core cpi inflation year over year in September 2025 was 3.0%, a rate 52% higher than the 1.97% average rate under Trump I.

    Food yoy was 3.1% and energy yoy was 2.8%.

    None of this is good news!

     


    The energy inflation rate year over year under Trump I averaged 1.2%, under Trump II in September 2025 it is 2.8% or 133% higher

    It averaged nearly 10% under Joe Biden, so there's that, but prices are still rising off that!


     

    The food inflation rate year over year under Trump I averaged 1.89%, under Trump II in September 2025 it is 3.1% or 64% higher

     


    I hope you didn't leave the lights on at home, because the electricity will cost you 38% more in September 2025 than it did under Trump I

     Electricity averaged $0.136 per kWh under Trump I.


     

    And that stop for gasoline on the way to work is going to cost you 34% more than under Trump I

     Gasoline used to average $2.49 per gallon under Trump I.

    Under Trump II in September 2025 it's $3.34, 34% more. 

     


     

     

    Don't forget to turn down the thermostat before you leave for work after your 66% more expensive Trump breakfast

     Piped utility gas used to average $1.04 per therm under Trump I.

    Under Trump II it's $1.61 in September 2025, 55% more.