Vladimir Putin found that the Trump, Kushner, Witkoff appeasement offer was one he could indeed refuse

 

Putin threatens Europe with war if it wants one, as Ukraine peace talks falter

 

... The talks in Moscow came after Putin launched a tirade against Europe, saying that its counter peace proposals were “absolutely unacceptable” for Russia, and that the region’s leadership had “no peace agenda.”

“We’re not going to war with Europe; I’ve said that a hundred times. But if Europe suddenly wants to fight us and starts, we’re ready right now,” Putin told journalists ahead of his meeting with Witkoff and Kushner.

European officials have expressed consternation in recent weeks that they, and Ukraine, were excluded from initial talks between the U.S. and Russia that led to an original draft peace plan seen to heavily favor Russia. ...

 

Trump's Golden Age of ADP Payroll losses: Biden had only one month of losses, but Trump already has four! MAGA!

 

Trump is a con job of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires

 'Affordability is a con job by the Democrats,' Trump says

You need to earn $158,000/year [2.6x = 410,800] for the median home in the United States to be affordable.

93% don't.

 

 

Trump's indefensible kill-everybody-policy in the Caribbean means up to 20% of those he's murdering could be entirely innocent according to none other than the U.S. Coast Guard

Instead of pouring money into the military to kill people, Trump should have poured the money into the Coast Guard, which apprehended, without murdering anybody, about 171 drug boats in the last fiscal year. 

Every American should be ashamed about what Trump & Company is doing. 

Oh what heroes these warriors imagine themselves to be, killing noncombatants in the Caribbean Sea, like shooting ducks in a barrel

 

Hegseth to Reporters: "This Is Called The Fog Of War," "That's What You in The Press Don't Understand"

$250 lol

omg

$6 billion Dell ‘Trump accounts’ donation provides more kids with free money: Here’s how to claim it

 

 

This morning's drug boat crime cabinet meeting got one thing right

 

Silver hit new record high $58.83 yesterday, not $558.49 lol

  ... Silver retreated from the record high of $58.83 hit on Monday, easing 1.1% to $57.30 per ounce. It has risen over 100% year-to-date. ...

More.

 

 

Comrade Karoline claims war crime was legal even as she said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth knew nothing about it but Admiral Frank Bradley did

White House Throws Admiral Under the Bus on Boat Strike

S.V. Date, HuffPost

 

... Killing survivors of a destroyed vessel is literally an example of a war crime in the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual. “For example, orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual reads.

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt, nevertheless, repeatedly stated that it was legal – even as she further claimed, as President Donald Trump did Sunday, that Hegseth was unaware that it had happened.

“On Sept. 2, Secretary Hegseth authorized Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes. Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated,” she said.

At the time of the attack off the Trinidad coast, Frank Bradley was head of the Joint Special Operations Command. According to a Washington Post report about the incident, it was he who relayed the order from Hegseth to “kill everybody” by sending Navy SEALs back to the disabled boat to have them kill the two people clinging to the wreckage.

In October, Bradley was promoted to run the U.S. Special Operations Command. ...

Real Clear Politics is part of the problem, not the solution

 

Tom Bevan: Anonymous Sources, Convenient Timing, and Past Drone Strikes Undercut Caribbean Boat-Strike Outrage

 

Past drone strikes by Obama were also murder, making us the terrorists.

 

We don't have the guts to declare an actual war, so we pretend this is OK instead. That's the problem. 

No you don't

 

White House: "If Narco-Terrorists Are Trafficking Illegal Drugs To the U.S., We Have The Authority To Kill Them"

 

If you let these people get away with this, anything they call terrorism can be murdered.

 

It's not terrorism, and it is murder. 

Michigan's Pete Hoekstra, a phony baloney plastic banana good time libertarian free trader, now touts tariffs as Trump's ambassador to Canada which kill jobs in his congressional district

 

In Congress, He Said Tariffs Were Bad for Business. As Trump’s Ambassador to Canada, He’s Reversed Course. 

 

FBI Chief Keystone Kash Patel has not divested from suspected counterfeiter Shein, received $5 million in stock in parent company for consulting services

 

U.S. Republican senator calls for DOJ and Homeland Security to investigate Shein, Temu for counterfeiting: Reuters

Hi-Yo, Silver! Away!: $57.86/ounce

 

... Silver was up 1.3% to $57.12 per ounce after hitting an all-time high of $57.86 earlier. ...

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Gen X is sucking you dry now, not the Boomers lol

 

... Visa defines “affluent” households as those who either earn at least $210,000 or have a net worth of about $1.8 million, a level that places them above 90% of U.S. households.

About 12.2 million U.S. households qualify under that definition, and Gen X makes up 57% of them, compared with 12% for boomers, the analysis shows. Millennials and Gen Z together account for the remaining 31%.

It may not be surprising that Gen X leads the affluent group, given they’re in their peak earning years, while many boomers are retired. ...

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Trump spending in October 2025 was the second highest for outlays in thirteen months, with a deficit 92% higher than the FY2025 monthly average of $148 billion

October revenues were 7% below average.

I thought the tariffs meant we were swimming in money?

Trump is a phony populist and his tax code continues to make chumps of Americans who work

In 2026 a single filer making $97,000 in salary or wages will pay an effective tax rate of about 12.9%.

 

About 83% of the country earns no more than $97,000/year. 

 

The single filer who takes $97,000 in income exclusively from long term investments, however, will pay an effective tax rate of only about 4.9%, a rate 62% lower.

 

In 2021, 20% of tax filers did not report any wage or salary income.

 

In 2026, such people can receive income from long term capital gains up to $545,500 and pay an effective tax rate of only about 18% vs. a single filer earning that much in salary or wages who pays an effective rate of about 29.6%.

 

In 2Q2025 the top 10% by wealth in America owned 87.2% of the stocks and mutual funds.

 

 

Silver climbed to a fresh record high of $55.33 per ounce on Friday

 CNBC/Reuters.

Russian fox endorses pro-Russian fox who opened the henhouse door

 

Kash and Kristi of the most talented and impressive administration in history do Vegas F1 just like the regular folks, four days before the DC National Guard shooting on Wednesday