Democrats united under Hakeem Jeffries in the US House are the only ones in American politics above water right now

 US House Democrats voted unanimously against the Republicans' continuing spending resolution under -4.2 underwater Republican Speaker Mike Johnson (except for Democrat Jared Golden [ME-2], a Blue Dog Democrat who under ranked choice voting in Maine wins by being the second choice of people who voted for someone else).

Senate Minority Leader Democrat Chucky Schumer (-19.6) led eight other Democrats in the US Senate to pass the continuing spending resolution. 

Republicans are jumping the shark. Opposing that is popular. 

Democrats, are you listening?

Core pce inflation in February 2025 was 2.8% year over year, 75% higher than the 1.6% average 2017-2020

 The last eleven months have seen the year over year measure fluctuating between 2.88% and 2.63%.

Zero progress since April 2024, when the measure rounded to 2.9%, same as in December. 

Yeah, but your leaders wear Tiffany and Rolex, that's what counts.

 

 

Phhh, I go 25 times the sound of speed after one espresso

 Drink coffee, say stupid things faster.

Why do the UniParty's bitches feel they must flaunt their expensive bling from Tiffany and Rolex at the southern border and in El Salvador?

 

Headlines to remain illiterate as before

 Wather forecasts may be less accurate due to govt cuts...

Real GDP update for Mar 27, 2025

 The third report for real GDP for 4Q2024 and full year 2024 was released today here.

The annual rate of economic growth in 4Q was 2.4%, and 2.8% for 2024.

But here's the big picture.

Real GDP for the 79 years 1929-2008 grew at a compound annual rate of 3.405%.

Real GDP for the 16 years 2008-2024 grew at a compound annual rate of 2.074%, a rate 39% lower.

We have not had, and do not now have, the greatest economy ever at any point since the Great Recession.

 

 

Russia repeatedly violates ceasefire on Ukrainian energy infrastructure

 Zelenskiy says Russia hit Ukraine’s power infrastructure, US should react 

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Russian artillery had damaged Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in the front-line city of Kherson, two days after the U.S. announced that each side had agreed to a truce on energy strikes. ...

Russia, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and now holds about 20% of the country, contends that it has observed an energy strike truce since March 18. Ukraine says Russia has attacked eight Ukrainian energy facilities since that date. ...

It's important to remember that screw-up Pete Hegseth is SECDEF because of J. D. Vance

 

... Vice President Vance had to break a tie vote to get Hegseth confirmed after three Republicans — Sens. Susan Collins (Maine), Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Mitch McConnell (Ky.) — voted no. ...

More.

LOL Stefanik stays in the House even though Democrats are down two seats due to recent sudden deaths

Whipping the vote for Trump in the GOP-led House must be getting harder and harder given all the mayhem he's causing for Republican voters in Republican districts, who are losing their government jobs and are becoming afraid for their Social Security among other things.

Assuming Republicans keep FL-1 and FL-6, they'll be back to 220 since Stefanik isn't leaving for the UN, but apparently a temporary seven-vote majority is needed because for some legislation the GOP still doesn't have the votes.

 

 

 

 White House withdrawing Stefanik nomination to serve as U.S. ambassador to UN 

... House Republicans had expressed concern that if Stefanik was confirmed, it would have made it tougher to get Trump’s agenda through the lower chamber because Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) would have lost a vote in his conference and didn’t have a clear idea how long it would take New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to schedule a special election to fill the seat.

 

 

Holy cow, if this is true FL-6 must be in peril: Trump considering pulling nomination of Elise Stefanik to the United Nations to preserve small US House majority

 

Gold made another new record high price today at $3,059.30, the 17th new high of the year

 

According to CNBC here.

An earlier version of the story incorrectly stated a futures price as the new high spot price.

None other than Bernard-Henri Levy, the French Jewish author of the book The Will to See, puts then Representative Mike Waltz (FL-6) and Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic together in October 2021, thanking them for coming to his book launch

 Trump National Security Adviser Mike Waltz denies ever meeting the guy he was standing near.

 

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz lied through his teeth with the cameras rolling to President Trump at the White House on Tuesday, saying he never met Jeffrey Goldberg

 

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announces that he will dedicate the rest of his life to finding out who really killed Nicole

 

As with the Biden administration after the Kabul debacle, there won't be any accountability for people at the top in Signalgate while tens of thousands lose their gubmint jobs

 "One law for me, another for thee."

Signed, The UniParty.

But look on the brightside. You just lost your job working for Uncle Sam, you didn't get killed or left behind in a hellhole to rot.

 

 

Meanwhile the main story goes unaddressed, as usual: The Trump administration is a materialist horror show without a soul, whose god is money, which treats our allies as freeloaders

Everything is reduced to a mere transaction.

It is libertarianism writ large.

 

 

The incompetence of Signalgate comes on the heels last month of a Tass News Agency journalist gaining access to the Oval Office meeting with Zelenskyy

It's all part of a pattern of incompetence which includes Elon Musk firing people indiscriminately and then having to scurry and rehire people in critical positions who never should have been fired in the first place.

 Amateur Hour 2.0

 

There's already been a lawsuit filed against Hegseth et alia in Signalgate, and Judge Boasberg won the lottery lol

 

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz actively added Jeffrey Goldberg to the Signal chat about the coming Houthi attack

 

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said he never met Jeffrey Goldberg but stood right next to him at the French Embassy in 2021 lol