Just another Manic Monday.
Real Clear Politics platforming Barnes tells you it really is 1984.
Does Israel have a stronger supporter in the world than Donald Trump? Is he a political pariah, too?
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No ads, no remuneration. Die Gedanken sind wirklich frei. The tyrant "has desires which he is utterly unable to satisfy, and has more wants than any one, and is truly poor, if you know how to inspect the whole soul of him: all his life long he is beset with fear and is full of convulsions, and distractions, even as the State which he resembles."
Just another Manic Monday.
Real Clear Politics platforming Barnes tells you it really is 1984.
Does Israel have a stronger supporter in the world than Donald Trump? Is he a political pariah, too?
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You can access the Treasury's Monthly Treasury Statement here to see for yourself.
The OUTLAYS BY FUNCTION for September 2025 in the Figure 1 graphic DO NOT ADD UP TO $346 BILLION, as stated.
They add up to $560 billion.
The receipts DO ADD UP, almost, to $543 billion.
That the graphic indicates $544 billion, not $543 billion, is another clue that the entire thing is a tendentiously fabricated interpretation of the data from within the report, obviously.
Well duh.
Meanwhile that "Other" category isn't a Red Flag for nothing!
"Hello! Hey! Yes, you! We're about to pull a fast one! Pay Attention!"
In the end outlays of $560 billion minus receipts of $543 billion = a September DEFICIT of $17 billion, NOT A F^@KING SURPLUS OF $198 BILLION.
They are asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes, and they know it.
It's a total lie, as in Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
When you can't trust the U.S. Treasury Department, who can you trust?
The upshot is that Fiscal Year 2025 ends with a deficit of $1.973 trillion, far worse than FY 2024's $1.816 trillion . . . by 8.6%.
But the Trump Regime wants you to think the deficit is smaller than in 2024, at $1.775 trillion, that they're cutting spending by closing agencies and departments and firing federal employees, and increasing revenues through tariffs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and that the Big Ugly Bill is working.
LIES, DAMN LIES, I tell you.
Trump tariff revenue expected to offset tax bill impact, S&P says in U.S. credit rating hold
... "We could lower the rating over the next two to three years if already high deficits increase ..." lol.
These people are afraid of Trump.
They don't want to be singled out for Trump's daily Two Minutes Hate.
They don't want to be the next Jerome Powell, or Lisa Cook, or Volodymyr Zelensky.
Meanwhile year to date the Trump deficit is running $112 billion ahead of Biden's last deficit. DOGE so-called spending cuts and Trump Tariffs have done nothing to reduce it.
Now they all take two weeks off.
House Republicans on Thursday adopted the Senate’s framework that will be used to enact key parts of President Trump’s legislative agenda, getting the blueprint over the finish line after a last-minute scramble to win over conservatives who had spent days railing against the measure.
The largely party line 216-214 vote marks a big win for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), who has pushed an aggressive timeline to advance Trump’s domestic policy priorities, and President Trump, who endorsed the legislation and lobbied those on the right flank to get on board.
Only two Republicans — Reps. Thomas Massie (Ky.) and Victoria Spartz (Ind.) — voted against the measure. ...
More.
But our Orwellian Republicans put the cart before the horse.
You can't return to something which no longer exists. The net trade deficit for 2024 is nearly $1 trillion, instead of flat like during the post-war up until Reagan, who first ran in 1976 against Ford, when tariffs still had something to protect but we listened to the siren song of free-trade instead.
That is why the Trump administration has had to cast about for at least six different reasons for instituting tariffs at the present time, none of which are at all convincing otherwise there wouldn't be six of them, not to mention that the math used for them is preposterous, or that they are the farthest thing from reciprocal.
The real reason for them, however, is that the tariffs, like the executive orders which now number over 100, are the immediate strings available to our Puppet Master, which he can pull this way one day and that way another, your ever present reminder of who is in charge around here. Suck up to him and he'll make a deal.
Trump's White House laughably brags about these things.
New taxes, which is what these tariffs are, are liberating don't you see!
Our mad King Ludwig needs this constant adulation. The tyrant has desires which he can never fulfill, Plato warned us.
But of course all this can be undone by the next president, which is no way to run a country. It makes for deep institutional instability and distrust throughout the global economy, for which few can reasonably plan.
The message remains the same: Expect Kaos.
The Party now says ignore the evidence of your memory.
Reported here:
... At this point, senior House Republicans privately say they think House Republicans will accept the Senate’s push to use the “current policy baseline” accounting tactic to extend the 2017 tax cuts and claim it costs nothing. The biggest hurdle now is the vast discrepancy between the Senate’s targeted spending cut minimums and the House’s $1.5 trillion spending cut target. ...
If you're not changing the tax code, you're simply extending current policy—you are not increasing the deficit. The bottom line here is that it's a $4.3 trillion tax increase, not a $4.3 trillion deficit increase.
-- Mike Crapo
Most of the tax cuts passed by Republicans during President Donald Trump’s first term, in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), which raised deficits by $1.7tn, are set to expire at the end of 2025. ... Without new legislation, current law requires tax rates to return to their pre-TCJA levels. Maintaining the current policy would cost nearly $5tn in lost revenue over the next 10 years.
-- Oren Cass
Passing economic legislation through the US Senate can by-pass the 60-vote rule if the legislation does not increase deficits beyond 10 years.
The total public debt has ballooned by over $16 trillion under the Trump tax cuts.
Levin almost never disagrees with Trump. It's very revealing of Mark's priorities, which include the absolute rectitude of George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq.
... I’m waiting for the first free election for Vladimir Putin. I mean, this
is almost comical in a sick way that Putin is demanding an election.
Why is he demanding an election in Ukraine when he doesn’t have free and
real elections in his own country? ... I don’t know why there are people that not only oppose Zelensky, but
seem to support Putin,” said Levin, attributing said position to a
handful of pseudo-intellectuals” pushing “policies that in many ways are
un-American in my view, and policies that if they had espoused these
policies not that long ago, people would have wondered if they were on
the take, or who they’re working for, something like that. Not that they
are, but they would wonder.” ...
Levin sounds like Democrats at the end there, getting uncomfortably close to their charge that Trump has always been on the take from Putin, working for Putin, "something like that" lol.
Somebody should check the audio though, because, holy smokes, this whopper was in there:
There is no peace without slavery.
Four Haitians took off in a gray, Toyota Tacoma, two men, two women, each with a goose in their hands.
You read that right, the Taliban.
How did we not understand this 100% crackpottery for what it was at the time?
Down is up, evil is good, enemy is friend.
Starting at about the 3:15 mark.