Remember when the Obamacare provisions in March 2010 were deemed to have passed when they hadn't?
Remember how the Big Ugly Bill which passed last summer under reconciliation rules deemed that the Trump tax cuts of 2017 which had had a cost in 2017 no longer had a cost in 2025?
Remember how your mother told you "Saying doesn't make it so?"
That's how all this works now, including son saying to mom, "Mom, I'm a girl now".
Our rotten society views reality as the enemy.
When the Democrats can't get what they want, a Republican chump comes along who does it for them.
The power of existing businesses will only get stronger thanks to Trump, so mum's the word.
The Trump administration’s portfolio of equity stakes in U.S. companies has reached a scale that is unprecedented outside economic crisis or wartime....
“It is a invisible barrier to startups and new market entrants,” said Scott Lincicome, an international trade lawyer affiliated with Cato Institute. “Why would you ever want to enter a market that you know your chief competitor is backed by the U.S. government?”...
The Trump administration’s approach is a major ideological departure for the Republican Party, which has traditionally championed free market capitalism and excoriated government intervention. The Democrats have typically been the party of industrial policy and intervention in markets.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, for example, introduced an amendment to Biden’s CHIPS Act that would have allowed the government to take stakes in companies that accept federal funding for semiconductor manufacturing. The measure ultimately died in the Senate....
Top executives have voiced virtually no public criticism of the Trump administration taking stakes....
Before the U.S. took its stake in Intel, Trump said CEO Lip-Bu Tan was “highly conflicted” and called for his resignation over his ties to Chinese companies. The comments sparked a brief sell-off of Intel shares....
Trump bought 433.3 million shares of Intel in August 2025 at $20.47, about $3 off its recent lows around $17.66, risking taxpayer money, not his own.
Just like Obama abandoned the Green Movement in 2009.
The Uniparty. You can count on not counting on it.
The Golden Age . . . for business, not for you.
3Q2025, updated Jan 8, 2026:
The perfect storm of government MBS purchases and sub-3% mortgages through ZIRP in 2021 combined to rocket housing values by 50%.
Housing reached record low affordability a year later, falling to 17.22%.
Yeah, let's do more of that.
Back in the 1990s, before Bill Clinton and the Uniparty got a hold of it and turned it into a commodity, housing was stable and affordable as median income bought 25% of a home.
Trump hasn't gotta clue what to do.
... In the first two months of the Covid pandemic, as markets reeled, the Federal Reserve purchased $580 billion in agency MBS. It then continued buying more throughout the year. From March 2020 through June 2021, the Federal Reserve increased its agency MBS holdings from $1.4 trillion to $2.3 trillion, according to the Dallas Fed.
The Federal Reserve also lowered its own lending rate to zero. The combination brought the average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage to record lows, hitting just 2.75% at the start of 2021, according to Mortgage News Daily. ...
... But Zelman also points out that in the broader home market it’s not just the mortgage rate, but overall affordability that is keeping buyers sidelined. Consumers are stretched, and home prices are close to 50% higher than they were pre-pandemic, ironically because of those record-low mortgage rates brought on by MBS purchases. ...
Government of the Uniparty, by the Uniparty, and for the Uniparty.
Trump fancies that he's different from George W. Bush, but he's the same guy.
Flashback: July 1, 2002
Striking First: President Bush's Preemptive Strike Policy
... We can't have one kind of law for the rest of the world that we impose on the rest of the world and an imperial law, if you will, a law of empire, that applies only to the United States. ... We were seeing the possibility of a new kind of law of empire where we would stand above the rest of the world, and the bottom line when we look at the question of attacking civilians, what happens when we're wrong? Like we were today in Afghanistan, where civilians died because of bad intelligence? ...
... Our current strategy of nation-building and regime-change is a proven, absolute failure. ...
Here.
Then: "The U.S. properly worked for China's inclusion".
Now: "An era of folly began in the new century. Leaders of both political parties supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization".
I can't wait for the Wall Street Journal to admit that America's decline actually began under Reagan forty years ago, not twenty-five, because at this rate I'll be dead before they do.
Trump last night reversed himself and said the House should vote to release the Epstein files.
Vote they will, except Speaker Johnson has rigged it so that the vote will be under suspension of the rules.
Which means they don't need a mere majority to pass it. They'll need 2/3 . . . of those present.
It's a 219 GOP to 214 Dem U. S. House.
If they all show up the bill needs 286 Yeas to pass.
Good luck with that.
"See, we voted. But aw shucks, it didn't get enough votes to pass. Oh well, time to move on as Trump said."
Why people vote is emotional to these people, not rational.
"I'm insulted Trump thinks Americans have no talent so I'm voting for the other guy".
OK whatever.
Trump meanwhile pretended in the interview with Laura Ingraham that he had nothing to do with the round-up and deportation of hundreds of Koreans from the Georgia battery plant, which was basically Obama's MO throughout his presidency when a problem occurred in the country under his watch.
"You didn't build that over there, and I didn't do that other thing over here."
... The Georgia facility, operated by Hyundai Motor Group and LG Energy Solution, saw 475 of its workers arrested on allegations that they were in the U.S. illegally, or without the proper work permits, with hundreds of detained South Koreans sent home Thursday.
The raid was part of a broader deportation drive by the Trump administration, which the White House has described as central to fulfilling U.S. President Donald Trump’s election campaign promises. Stephen Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff and homeland security adviser, has pushed for 3,000 arrests a day. ...
He has no clue what to do about Obamacare, so he proposes murdering it.
It's his solution for everything else, so why not?
Kill the lawfully allocated federal spending, kill the federal workers administering it, kill the agencies they worked for, kill the inspectors general making sure you comply with the federal laws you break with every breath, kill Greenland, kill Canada, kill the Houthis, kill the Iranians, and kill the drug boat operators.
Are Venezuelans next? Nigerians? And how many U.S. citizens swept up in ICE raids will die in custody, like the 20 foreigners who already have?
Bankrupting the insurance companies overnight as he is suggesting is simply the political equivalent of what Luigi Mangione did to the United Healthcare CEO.
These pronunciamentos he keeps uttering are piling up into one great heap of nothing more than a mountain of irritable mental gestures, if you don't count the actual bodies left behind.
Republicans repealed Obamacare 37 times after 2010, but it's still alive.
They still have nothing.
A sane person observes that the options are limited with a five seat majority in the U.S. House and a three seat majority in the U.S. Senate, but sane does not describe Mad King Ludwig. He is intent on shoving down the throats of the American people whatever he can no less than Democrats did with Obamacare fifteen years ago. The Uniparty, folks.
Everything Trump does is done with the subtlety of a brick. If only he restricted himself to building.
But that is impossible for him, because he has desires . . ..
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.
And you thought only National Popular Vote liberals were capable of end-runs.
A president for all the people, the bi-partisanly hateful public!
