I miss the good old days when Al Gore invented the internet

 

Democrats force out Graham Platner like they forced out Joe Biden

 

 Platner quits Maine Senate race; Democrats set to pick new nominee

...  “We did it the right way, we built a campaign, we engaged in electoral politics, we motivated people, we banded together,” he said. “We did it the way we are told we are supposed to make change, and we won, and now they are not going to let us have it. Not if it’s me.” ...

 

Two tier Keir calls it quits after the biggest Labour victory in decades in July 2024, had said he wouldn't and would fight

Joe Biden was once king of the heap, too, until his enemies to the left pushed him off.

That's the story in the UK, too, which CNBC doesn't tell you.

Socialist Andy Burnham led the rebellion against Starmer from within the Labour Party.

Burnham is a self-described enemy of British nationalism.

 

UK PM Starmer resigns as Britain faces its seventh leader in 10 years 

... Keir Starmer’s resignation comes almost 10 years to the day since the U.K. voted to leave the European Union. His successor will be the country’s seventh leader in that period, underscoring how political and economic turmoil continue to unsettle British politics long after the Brexit process was concluded.

 ... Starmer’s government was ultimately weakened by dwindling poll ratings, Labour infighting and growing public frustration over its failure to deliver quickly on growth and the cost of living. ...

Aside from the fact the president thinks this is a good thing when he normally doesn't, Why in June 2026 is the president linking to a Reuters article from January 2026 talking about the 94.6% increase in the trade deficit in November 2025?

Aside from the fact the president thinks this is a good thing when he normally doesn't, Why in June 2026 is the president linking to a Reuters article from January 2026 talking about the 94.6% increase in the trade deficit in November 2025, the largest increase since March 1992, is the question you should be asking yourself. 

Of course the numbers have been revised in the interim, but the November 2025 percent change was still YUGE.

And yes, what does that have to do with the report of the April number today, which is the occasion of the president's post?

The answer is nothing. 

Needless to say, Trump thinks trade deficits are a bad thing when he has all his marbles together, which this evening he clearly does not.

And we called Joe Biden President Applesauce Brains. 

And incidentally, President Trump has a cumulative trade deficit to date of $1.154 trillion. 

 

Progressive Dems wanted Biden to just shut up and disappear in 2024, and nothing has changed

 They have learned nothing.

When you adopt the narrative of your enemy, you lose. 

Jill Biden’s Book Is Last Thing Dems Need Right Now

Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian

Jill Biden Still Trying To Gaslight Us

Washington Times

 

That's unfair to Harris, she came in fourth in California

Again, what doomed Democrats was betraying their sitting president in the ninth inning. 

 

Autopsy? Unhappy Biden Term Doomed '7th String' Harris

Joseph Campbell, The Hill

 

 

 

Gold and silver are still up 5+% year to date

 SPX +10.52% ytd

WTI +53.11% ytd

 

Meanwhile in April: 

Hamburger +18.9% yoy

Coffee +29.0% yoy

Unleaded regular gasoline +28.0% yoy

Electricity +7.2% yoy

Natural gas +3.1% yoy

[Trump 9/21/2024: "We will cut your energy prices in half. Mark it down . . . within 12 months . . ."] 

Milk +1.5% yoy

Whole Chicken -1.6% yoy 

Eggs -56.1% yoy

Tomatoes +50.0% yoy

 

And: 

30-year mortgage average monthly, above 6% since August 2022

Full time jobs above 50% of population just 6 of the last 25 quarters, all under Joe Biden

 

Another story deliberately buried in the holiday weekend by the Democrat jerks who bailed on Biden at the eleventh hour and blame him for Kamala's loss to Trump

  Democrats’ draft autopsy report on 2024 Kamala Harris loss blames Biden’s political operation

Speaking of corruption, Trump makes Biden & Co., Clinton & Co., et alia, look like pikers

 Democrats blast Trump over ‘slush fund’ in possible IRS lawsuit settlement

... “This administration is dripping with corruption from top to bottom, but rushing a settlement to steal $1.7 billion taxpayer dollars for a slush fund before a judge can toss your junk lawsuit would be among the most corrupt acts in American political history,” Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., the top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee.

“This lawsuit has never been anything more than a shakedown of the American people by a crook president and his crook lawyers,” Wyden said.

Trump, his two eldest sons, and his family business sued the IRS and the Treasury Department in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida over the 2019 leak of the president’s tax returns. It was an unprecedented move that raised concerns about conflicts of interest at the time. ... 

News of the potential settlement comes ahead of a May 20 deadline set by U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams, who asked the Justice Department and Trump’s legal team to explain whether the case with the president on both sides can even be heard by a federal court.

″(A)lthough President Trump avers that he is bringing this lawsuit in his personal capacity, he is the sitting president and his named adversaries are entities whose decisions are subject to his direction,” Williams wrote in a court filing in April.

“It is unclear to this Court whether the Parties are sufficiently adverse to each other so as to satisfy” the constitutional requirement that federal cases only adjudicate cases or controversies. ...

Trump cares as little for freedom in Taiwan as he does in Ukraine

 Trump told Xi ‘I don’t talk about’ whether U.S. would defend Taiwan from China

Biden meanwhile publicly committed to the defense of Taiwan right out of the gate in 2021 after a U.S. freedom of navigation exercise in the South China Sea by the USS Theodore Roosevelt strike group in late January, and multiple times thereafter in 2021, 2022, and 2024.

Trump is truly disgraceful.

Barron's/AFP, Feb 5, 2021:

... The new US administration has said its commitment to Taiwan is "rock-solid," with officials in Washington signalling that they will not tolerate any expansionist moves by Beijing. ...

 

Adjusted for consumer price index inflation since October 2019, a traditional American breakfast should cost you 29.4% more in April 2026, instead it's 54.9% more!

29.4% more is bad enough, right? 

The ingredients for a traditional American breakfast in April 2026, adjusted for consumer price index inflation since October 2019, should cost $29.91.

Instead they cost $35.79, $23.11 plus 54.9%.

Menu: Bacon and eggs, whole wheat toast with butter, coffee with milk and sugar, and a glass of orange juice.

The Biden high for all this was $33.20 in January 2023.

The all-time high to date was in March 2025 under Trump at $37.67.

The April 2026 Trump price is still 7.8% higher than the Biden high three-plus years ago.

  

The Democrats abandoning Eric Swalwell are the same Democrats who abandoned Joe Biden

 Allies yank support for Swalwell’s California governor run after sexual assault allegations

 

Oh Gee, who could have predicted another hot inflation number?

 Core wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected

 

The not-seasonally-adjusted increase in Jan 2026 was 3.58% year over year and a whopping 1.037% on a monthly basis.

Wholesale prices climbed at an average rate of 3.3% in 2025 under Trump, higher than either 2023 or 2024 under Biden, with no let up in sight.

 

Core producer price inflation in 2025 under Trump was actually higher than under Biden in either 2024 or 2023

2025: 3.26%

2024: 2.86%

2023: 2.89%

Way to go, Brownie!

 

2025

2H2025

December 2025

You talkin' to me?

 

Net tons through the Suez Canal in 2025 came to 0.52 billion vs. 1.41 billion in 2022, down 63%

 Trump's 7-week Operation Rough Rider against the Houthis was a total, and expensive, failure, compounding Biden's.

The pirates and terrorists won in the Red Sea.

... The first month alone of Trump’s bombing campaign cost more than $1 billion in weapons and munitions. ... 

 

 

 

End Wokeness deletes the under-reported story of the year lol

Because it was the under-reported story of the year 2024, when Joe Biden was still president, when overdose deaths for a single year declined the most       e v a h .

 

 

Trump has done little to speed replenishment of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve gutted by Biden: 413.4 million barrels as of 1/2/26 vs. 695.1 million in Jan 2016