I said yesterday that the narrative about doom — OMFG THE MARKETS ARE CRASHING, TRUMP IS A MORON WHO IS DESTROYING THE GLOBAL ECONOMY — was probably exaggerated.
One thing I learned as a fighter pilot, “When you are over the target, the flak is the thickest.” Everyone who was wrong about everything in the Scamdemic is against tariffs. That tells me Trump is over the target.
You have to be a little careful though, as those same people were for tariffs when Obama raised them. What people are arguing for often has little to do with the subject and everything to do with whether it is their team doing it.
I saw a really interesting study proving this point. People were asked for their opinion of certain position statements and the SAME EXACT STATEMENTS were evaluated as “good” if they purportedly were made by a politician on the respondent’s side of the political spectrum, and “bad” if vice versa. Obviously they couldn’t do a perfect internal control (couldn’t present the same statement to the same person with two purported speakers) but it did seem otherwise well structured. Wish I had the reference but don’t have it offhand.
Yes I recall that as well... around 2014 or so I think. It seems that most people don't have strong beliefs about most things, and pick from their leaders or team's accepted beliefs when asked for an opinion.
That's why it's up to citizens to avoid making partisan-based decisions. Unless of course one thinks that correct party registration is a badge of honesty.
I suspect what he’s doing about tariffs has a whole lot to do with the national debt. But if we can’t get the uniparty to stop spending (as has been revealed by DOGE), no matter how wealthy we are as a nation, we’ll never eliminate the debt.
My suspicion: in order to reduce the debt he needs to either (or both) reduce interest rates and trade deficits. Interest rate reduction will only come from rich people losing money (a recession), but high rates make our existing debt more expensive, and so increase budget deficits. Trade deficits decrease wages and therefore tax income, increasing budget deficits.
In a speech to coal miners, Trump said of the tariffs, “they’re already bringing in $2 billion a day — or more than $700 billion a year.” That might make a dent in the debt, if the grifter uniparty doesn’t steal it.
The difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians: Israelis use their arms to protect their children. Palestinians use their children to protect their arms!
The Israelis didn’t start this bullshit but they’re damn sure gonna finish it!
If your listening to or paying attention to Berenson, that tells says a lot about you. He a bit of a horse’s ass IMO. I stopped following him years ago. The “stripes don’t change much” on a former NYT ‘journalist.
I agree that Berenson can be petty, self-centered and abrasive, but he was out in front during the Covid crisis, with plenty of important news that challenged the official narrative. I follow him because of that. Anyone who was willing to stand up to all the attacks he withstood definitely has some redeeming qualities in my humble opinion.
Well he may have been “out in front”, but so were a lot of others of less prominence than him.
Doctors, healthcare professionals and such.
He just had a higher profile/status of being a ‘former NYT journalist” with a book or two under his belt, that pushed his ‘messaging’ to the forefront.
But I always felt he was a “self absorbed know it all “.
The wound was entirely self-inflicted because Alex spent all day yesterday saying the sky was falling and Trump was an idiot. Obviously today he can't do NOTHING........
But doing nothing was always the best option until the story was finished.
Come writers and critics, who prophesize with your pen and keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again, and don't speak too soon for the wheels still in spin, and there's no telling who it is naming, for The Times They are changing.
I followed him because of that. I no longer follow him. Just because he can be on the mark about 1 thing, doesn't mean he's on the mark about anything else.
But you have to say (even though you don’t like the Donald and think “he’s evil) his overwhelming reelection was a “mandate from the people”. They were sick of all The BS we have had to endure over the past 5 years with the previous President and the Dems and the ‘insane policies and ideas’ they introduced and promoted. They saw DJT as a person who would ‘institute change’ and blow a lot of s**t up. Which he is doing. Not that it’s all good, but I believe it’s what needs to happen. I never voted for DJT in all of the previous elections (nor did I vote for a Democrat either).
Astrologically we are in a time of change, in all areas of our life…medicine, healthcare, financial systems, politics, education (all levels), social and cultural norms. There’s no denying it and there will be “no turning back” to the old ways of doing things. They just don’t serve us in any way, any longer.
So one can choose to live in a state of “having one’s panties in a wad” on a continual basis, or turn our attention onto ourselves, resolve all our inner demons and shadows, and choose to Live in the Light, rather than continue to seek the darkness, (which we didn’t create and we can’t control). How are WE are going to contribute to this new way of being and thinking?
Yes indeed…we at the only ones that can change US.
If people would allow themselves to move out of constant fear mode and move into their heart space, learn to trust that all is unfolding as it should, then they could relax. And start to develop a conscious contact with God, or whomever they see as a “power greater than themselves”, their angels, guides or ancestors, they will see and come to know that we are ALL Children of God and we are being guided and protected on this journey we are now on, on a daily basis.
What I have to say has nothing to do with “organized religion” (Christianity, Judaism, Islam or whatever organized religion one identifies with), but is more of a ‘spirituality’ that resides within us all.
But that has been squelched out of the majority of the people, now.
And it is my feeling that anyone that took the EUA mRNA ‘injections’, their “connection with ‘spirit” has been seriously messed with as well as the cognitive functions in their brain.
I agree with you! You understand because your spiritual light shows😉! I am the same.
There are times that I don’t know how I got (karma/choice) here-lol! I feel no connection with what is happening today, and CONvid ramped that up, big time! I feel like I can see everything for what it actually is now.
I believe everything we are seeing has been planned and set up. It will be accelerating, which I think you already know-Intuition…
Yes we are in a “time of acceleration” for sure. Astrologically it shows this as well. We are on an ‘accelerated timeline of ascension’. Some will get this, others not. We ALL chose to be here at this time.💓🙏🏼
I was reading the headline from the email not paying attention who sent it and immediately thought oh shit Alex really lost it. Then I busted out laughing when I realized it was coming from Chris. Thank God!
I READ Berenson - doesn't necessarily mean I agree with him! We all need to get out of our comfort bubbles and learn what the "other side" is saying. Triangulation is the only way...
No, you don't understand. It is difficult to negotiate with 50 to 70 countries and be unfair with the order the countries enter into negotiations with tariffs in place.
Hahaha! In my defense, you may not have seen liberal posts in response to mine and others' well reasoned opinions backed by genuine data and facts. They are equivalent to, "Oh, yeah?".
I worked alongside him for two years in the then brand new NYC Trump World Tower. A guy who can. build a 90 story residential structure in Manhattan is hardly a neophyte.A guy who can build two skyscrapers in NYC, another in Chicago, promote the first woman.. a Jewish woman, too boot, as the construction forewoman to oversee the skyscrapers is not a misogynist or antisemite.A guy who purchased Mar-A-Lago and sued the city of West Palm Beach to open the club to Jews, Blacks, Latinos , gays and all ethnic minorities and won is not a racist, antisemite, homophobe or hater of Hispanics and immigrants . A guy, who when told by a pool boy that Ghislaine Maxwell was scouting teenage girls for Epstein after seeing Maxwell preying on Virginia Giuffre, a latchkey kid who worked after school folding and distributing towels in the ladies spa after school- publicly tossed out Maxwell and Epstein, called the police and acted pro bono to help the attorneys for the plaintiffs is not a sexual predator or deviant. Trump was the ONLY one to stand up for the girls.
A guy who has the most incredible Golf and Country Club Resorts around the world is not a spoiled rich kid living off his daddy. A guy who employs a staff of 3500 at Miami’s Doral,75% of whom are Latino and love working there and are very well paid doesn’t abuse his workers. A guy who had the most popular show on NBC for years due to his business acumen and larger than life personality is not a moron. A guy who was honored as the Grand Marshall of the NYC Israel Day Parade and was given the Rosa Parks Award is not a bigot.A guy who restored the NYC Rockefeller Skating Rink in 2 months time for a pittance.. that nobody else was able to, understands every building process, economic budgeting and the value of time isn’t a failure.
I can list pages of achievements, random acts of kindness and his undeniable patriotism and Herculean feats, but the miserable haters and destroyers - who once adored him- won’t back down. They’d rather see America fail.
The opposition hate him because he is the embodiment of everything they will never be. Envy is at the heart of it. Bitterness will kill them if all the other rot they indulge in doesn't do it first. I have no pity for them.
Amen! I despise the Dhimms and have very little love for the RepubliConservacraps. Trumps best appointments are the disgusted former Dems and Indepents. The pragmatic patriots.
You’ve highlighted a point for me, BIGLY. I hear from so many ignorant people how evil Trump is yet they can’t account for all the good things he’s done. NYC seems especially ungrateful.
It was evident she fabricated her “ encounter” with Trump when she claimed he didn’t use a condom. Trump, in his own words, during an interview in the 80s was asked what his greatest fear was. Without skipping a beat, he replied, “ Contracting an STD”. He wasn’t kidding. He’s a known germaphobe. Furthermore, with Melania 7 months pregnant, he certainly wouldn’t risk infecting her, nor would he have risked impregnating another woman- imagine the consequences. And as he made clear, Daniels was not his “ type”. He doesn’t have any interest in bimbos and he has a definite “ type”. Eastern European women. He always did. The exception was Marla Maples.. who he met when she was a member in his church congregation and his marriage to Ivana was already on the skids.When she ultimately became pregnant months after his divorce was finalized, he married her.
After Stormy’s bullshit claim to fame, she admitted it never happened.
OHHHHHH!!!THE BOTTOM IS DROPPING OUT, THE SKY IS FALLING ALL BECAUSE OF THAT DICKHEAD TRUMP, FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!
(Stock market climbs)
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? THE MARKETS ARE RISING DESPITE THAT DICKHEAD TRUMP AND HIS DESTRUCTIVE TARIFFS!!! THANK GOD WE HAVE WALL STREET TO SAVE THE DAY!!! MAY TRUMP ROT IN HELL!!!
It makes sense for Trump to pause the tariffs on everybody but China, because, unlike China, most of those other nations responded as he intended (and as he repeatedly said he intended), by agreeing to renegotiate not just their tariffs but their entire range of trade barriers (as he repeatedly said). In all these cases, Trump has brought other countries to the table to renegotiate the terms of trade. That is what he wanted, and he said so.
Trump's goal, in my view, is to restructure all relationships in the global economy to reflect real values of goods and services by removing these distortions created by other governments' trade barriers: https://stkarnick.substack.com/p/liberation-from-what. That appears to be going forward as planned. It is an exceedingly ambitious goal, but one that I argue must be achieved to prevent the U.S. economy from declining into disaster.
Trumps sites are set on the main adversary China, And turning many countries against them. There is opportunity there for countries like Viet Nam to take some of that trade from China.
The Stock and Bond markets are essentially a confidence racket. Rapid movement there is not, for the most part, about value, or productivity or long term viability. Its about a sudden loss of confidence, the apparent dissolving of assumptions based on "a story I tell myself" about the reality of this stock in the minds of the core investors.
The fact that we can't read DJT's mind, and he is disinclined to forecast the end goal because he loses all his leverage, I expect there will be a number of these wobbles in the market.
My question is, and it would be easily researched but I've not the time right now, During the correction and rebound, how did the market cap of the Dow alter, if at all. During the sell, lots of stocks lost market cap, in the rebound, was it proportionally regained? Or were there winners and losers?
A few years ago, I read part of a transcript of Trump being deposed in a lawsuit in the 1990s about some of his real estate activity. One thing he said, apparently in all sincerity, was that the value of his properties varied with his own mood that day. As I recall, it sounded pretty unhinged, like he was saying that his properties were actually worth more on the market on days he felt positive about them and vice versa. But now it seems like we’re watching the whole stock market swing in response to his mood — or, perhaps more accurately, what investors think his mood is. Crazy days.
He was right. The value of something is completely subjective. Its exchange price is a compromise between what someone is willing to pay for it and what the owner is willing to sell it for, provided the former is greater than the latter.
And don’t forget the shorts, who gamble moment to moment to take advantage of swings (which their actions can often trigger—to their advantage). The handwringers wring/protest/resist/wail AFTER the movement. They don’t have a clue what’s actually in play.
I agree that there's too much emotionally driven anti Trump stuff out there but here's the thing: For a company who has invested heavily in infrastructure to produce a product in a competitive environment that is partially dependent on foreign input, it matters very much whether Trump intends for the tariffs to be a temporary tool for the purpose of deal making or a permanent feature to promote onshoring. It also matters to those who are choosing to buy or sell stock in that company. When Trump’s message regarding tariffs, their amount, and their purpose varies from day to day large stock fluctuations are inevitable. It might be fun, or effective, to keep your "opponents" guessing but it has real costs for Americans.
There are no guarantees! All we can do is trust that Trump "will try" to do what he said he would. So far, I'd say he's batting close to 1000. Will it all turn out OK in the end? Who knows, but I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that how ever it turns out, it'll be better than it was. We were on an untenable path that foretold nothing but disaster for our children and grandchildren. Unlike his predecessors, Trump is attempting a course correction, and as long as he's trying, he's got my support.
Any predictions on what the focus of the hysteria will be in a few months time? DOGE and Musk seems to be dying out as part of the daily rage. I am predicting China and Taiwan. Why? I will be touring Taiwan in June and it would seem very appropriate at that time.
The funny thing is people in North America would always ask me when I lived in South Korea if I was worried about the Kim family and the North. My answer was the same as South Koreans: nope. Life must go on.
One thing I learned as a fighter pilot, “When you are over the target, the flak is the thickest.” Everyone who was wrong about everything in the Scamdemic is against tariffs. That tells me Trump is over the target.
That's the most beautiful explanation I ever heard.
You have to be a little careful though, as those same people were for tariffs when Obama raised them. What people are arguing for often has little to do with the subject and everything to do with whether it is their team doing it.
I saw a really interesting study proving this point. People were asked for their opinion of certain position statements and the SAME EXACT STATEMENTS were evaluated as “good” if they purportedly were made by a politician on the respondent’s side of the political spectrum, and “bad” if vice versa. Obviously they couldn’t do a perfect internal control (couldn’t present the same statement to the same person with two purported speakers) but it did seem otherwise well structured. Wish I had the reference but don’t have it offhand.
Yes I recall that as well... around 2014 or so I think. It seems that most people don't have strong beliefs about most things, and pick from their leaders or team's accepted beliefs when asked for an opinion.
That's why it's up to citizens to avoid making partisan-based decisions. Unless of course one thinks that correct party registration is a badge of honesty.
Perfect!
What’s Trump doing about the National Debt, and mRNA vaccines? Good thing he has RFK Jr. on it 😂.
I suspect what he’s doing about tariffs has a whole lot to do with the national debt. But if we can’t get the uniparty to stop spending (as has been revealed by DOGE), no matter how wealthy we are as a nation, we’ll never eliminate the debt.
My suspicion: in order to reduce the debt he needs to either (or both) reduce interest rates and trade deficits. Interest rate reduction will only come from rich people losing money (a recession), but high rates make our existing debt more expensive, and so increase budget deficits. Trade deficits decrease wages and therefore tax income, increasing budget deficits.
In a speech to coal miners, Trump said of the tariffs, “they’re already bringing in $2 billion a day — or more than $700 billion a year.” That might make a dent in the debt, if the grifter uniparty doesn’t steal it.
It’s not the “uniparty”. It’s the Bankers…it always has been the Bankers.
Trump could end the Federal Reserve today if he wanted…debt slavery.
Agreed. Haven’t the Bankers bought off the Uniparty members?
Everything in place today will be converted to something else…digital. National sovereignty will no longer exist (it’s already happening).
You are seeing (hopefully seeing) the implementation of a “one world government”.
I thought more people would wake up after CONvid. They didn’t.
This is for total control of everything you do. This has been the plan for decades.
Trump was selected for this reason.
All the talking points are bs. The “old world order” is being dismantled.
Selected by whom?
Hear hear!
That is the ring.
The National Debt is 34 Trillion dollars. It will never be paid.
Trump just gave 1 billion dollars to Israel…for what? Why are Americans paying for Israel’s land grab, and murder of innocent human beings?
Trump should be raising interest rates, backing up the Petro dollar with gold, and revaluation of gold-now!
When all else fails, ((they) take you to war. War and debt is what keeps America afloat…it’s an illusion.
"Innocent human beings."
Yes, innocent. Do you think children (ANY CHILDREN) deserve this? Let alone any human being.
It’s psychopathic behavior.
The difference between the Israelis and the Palestinians: Israelis use their arms to protect their children. Palestinians use their children to protect their arms!
The Israelis didn’t start this bullshit but they’re damn sure gonna finish it!
Behold the tariffs and the DOGE activities, which are among the things he is doing to address the debt. 🙄
Surely you jest…😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂.
No, but I'm embarrassed for you that you needed it pointed out.
I’m embarrassed for you and many other human beings.
It was a mistake for Krupp not to trademark FLAK. Now anything is "flak".
Indeed. Great point.
Well, to be fair, everyone who was wrong previously about the pandemic and numerous other things, is against the tariffs.
But so are a lot of other people who were not.
If the tariffs are left in place long term (leaving China aside for a second), then I am with all of them.
As a tactic to get other countries to lower their tariffs, then I’m with you and Trump.
I was correct about everything Scamdemic.
I oppose forcing Americans at gunpoint to pay higher taxes just because they choose to buy from people I don't like.
Trump missed the target the moment he chose Force over Liberty.
You don' understand - Trump is still really stupid and doesn't know what he's doing, he's just panicking because the market dropped.
https://x.com/AlexBerenson/status/1910029029169848409
Market goes down - orange man bad
Market goes up - orange man bad
Markets unchanged - orange man bad
Trump cures cancer - Orange man bad.
Trump ends hunger, poverty, war, miscarriages and toe fungus - orange man Hitler.
Trump pulls school bus full of children out of a raging river with his teeth to swim with both hands - Orange man bad.
Trump walks on water.
Trump can’t swim.
😆🤣
I really like that one!
Curing cancer throws oncologists out of work. That *bastard*.
Orange man bad.
If your listening to or paying attention to Berenson, that tells says a lot about you. He a bit of a horse’s ass IMO. I stopped following him years ago. The “stripes don’t change much” on a former NYT ‘journalist.
I agree that Berenson can be petty, self-centered and abrasive, but he was out in front during the Covid crisis, with plenty of important news that challenged the official narrative. I follow him because of that. Anyone who was willing to stand up to all the attacks he withstood definitely has some redeeming qualities in my humble opinion.
Of course!
But he's wrong on a lot of stuff, too. Makes sense, he worked at the NYT.
Well he may have been “out in front”, but so were a lot of others of less prominence than him.
Doctors, healthcare professionals and such.
He just had a higher profile/status of being a ‘former NYT journalist” with a book or two under his belt, that pushed his ‘messaging’ to the forefront.
But I always felt he was a “self absorbed know it all “.
The wound was entirely self-inflicted because Alex spent all day yesterday saying the sky was falling and Trump was an idiot. Obviously today he can't do NOTHING........
But doing nothing was always the best option until the story was finished.
Come writers and critics, who prophesize with your pen and keep your eyes wide, the chance won't come again, and don't speak too soon for the wheels still in spin, and there's no telling who it is naming, for The Times They are changing.
I followed him because of that. I no longer follow him. Just because he can be on the mark about 1 thing, doesn't mean he's on the mark about anything else.
Well I'm obviously mocking him here for saying the sky was falling yesterday and today it's not falling but Trump's still bad.....
You bet he’s bad👿. I’m a former Trump supporter who voted for him in 2016, and in 2020. I didn’t vote in 2025.
He’s evil. I would think people would have remembered OWS, and what that did/does.
How soon people forget. People want a savior. It isn’t man.
But you have to say (even though you don’t like the Donald and think “he’s evil) his overwhelming reelection was a “mandate from the people”. They were sick of all The BS we have had to endure over the past 5 years with the previous President and the Dems and the ‘insane policies and ideas’ they introduced and promoted. They saw DJT as a person who would ‘institute change’ and blow a lot of s**t up. Which he is doing. Not that it’s all good, but I believe it’s what needs to happen. I never voted for DJT in all of the previous elections (nor did I vote for a Democrat either).
Astrologically we are in a time of change, in all areas of our life…medicine, healthcare, financial systems, politics, education (all levels), social and cultural norms. There’s no denying it and there will be “no turning back” to the old ways of doing things. They just don’t serve us in any way, any longer.
So one can choose to live in a state of “having one’s panties in a wad” on a continual basis, or turn our attention onto ourselves, resolve all our inner demons and shadows, and choose to Live in the Light, rather than continue to seek the darkness, (which we didn’t create and we can’t control). How are WE are going to contribute to this new way of being and thinking?
I am on no side, except the side of God, which is Truth. I am pro-Humanity.
I think Humanity has some major work to do spiritually.
We can only change ourselves individually. I think people don’t understand that.
Yes indeed…we at the only ones that can change US.
If people would allow themselves to move out of constant fear mode and move into their heart space, learn to trust that all is unfolding as it should, then they could relax. And start to develop a conscious contact with God, or whomever they see as a “power greater than themselves”, their angels, guides or ancestors, they will see and come to know that we are ALL Children of God and we are being guided and protected on this journey we are now on, on a daily basis.
What I have to say has nothing to do with “organized religion” (Christianity, Judaism, Islam or whatever organized religion one identifies with), but is more of a ‘spirituality’ that resides within us all.
But that has been squelched out of the majority of the people, now.
And it is my feeling that anyone that took the EUA mRNA ‘injections’, their “connection with ‘spirit” has been seriously messed with as well as the cognitive functions in their brain.
I agree with you! You understand because your spiritual light shows😉! I am the same.
There are times that I don’t know how I got (karma/choice) here-lol! I feel no connection with what is happening today, and CONvid ramped that up, big time! I feel like I can see everything for what it actually is now.
I believe everything we are seeing has been planned and set up. It will be accelerating, which I think you already know-Intuition…
Yes we are in a “time of acceleration” for sure. Astrologically it shows this as well. We are on an ‘accelerated timeline of ascension’. Some will get this, others not. We ALL chose to be here at this time.💓🙏🏼
They want somebody to not be utter shit (like Biden).
They want somebody who is not going to screw them over (like 95% of congress and the senate).
He does however, need to disavow OWS and the jab.
He also needs to designate antifa as a terrorist organisation and start arresting the "experts" behind convid and the jab.
I do wonder if his bullishness towards Gaza and Iran are the price he has to pay for not being assassinated.
My observation is that you may be utterly asleep.
Why would tRuMp “disavow” OWS when he was responsible for implementing it, and all that went with it. WHO do you think his buddies are?
He has no economic plan…tariffs, and war are not an economic plan.
I think you fell for the bs, meanwhile people are injured, and dying everyday from tRuMp’s “beautiful vaccine”.
I truly had more Faith in Humanity. I am wrong…
Then you would be utterly wrong.
I was reading the headline from the email not paying attention who sent it and immediately thought oh shit Alex really lost it. Then I busted out laughing when I realized it was coming from Chris. Thank God!
I READ Berenson - doesn't necessarily mean I agree with him! We all need to get out of our comfort bubbles and learn what the "other side" is saying. Triangulation is the only way...
lol, so true
No, you don't understand. It is difficult to negotiate with 50 to 70 countries and be unfair with the order the countries enter into negotiations with tariffs in place.
Trump isn't stupid. I can't say the same for you.
lol you might want to check your sarcasm detector before you start calling people stupid
Hahaha! In my defense, you may not have seen liberal posts in response to mine and others' well reasoned opinions backed by genuine data and facts. They are equivalent to, "Oh, yeah?".
“Daily noise” is an understatement
I laughed put lout at this, because I just spent ten minutes on social media. Yes.
Unfortunately, I have to spend my days telling people why they are going to lose money listening to the daily noise.
I worked alongside him for two years in the then brand new NYC Trump World Tower. A guy who can. build a 90 story residential structure in Manhattan is hardly a neophyte.A guy who can build two skyscrapers in NYC, another in Chicago, promote the first woman.. a Jewish woman, too boot, as the construction forewoman to oversee the skyscrapers is not a misogynist or antisemite.A guy who purchased Mar-A-Lago and sued the city of West Palm Beach to open the club to Jews, Blacks, Latinos , gays and all ethnic minorities and won is not a racist, antisemite, homophobe or hater of Hispanics and immigrants . A guy, who when told by a pool boy that Ghislaine Maxwell was scouting teenage girls for Epstein after seeing Maxwell preying on Virginia Giuffre, a latchkey kid who worked after school folding and distributing towels in the ladies spa after school- publicly tossed out Maxwell and Epstein, called the police and acted pro bono to help the attorneys for the plaintiffs is not a sexual predator or deviant. Trump was the ONLY one to stand up for the girls.
A guy who has the most incredible Golf and Country Club Resorts around the world is not a spoiled rich kid living off his daddy. A guy who employs a staff of 3500 at Miami’s Doral,75% of whom are Latino and love working there and are very well paid doesn’t abuse his workers. A guy who had the most popular show on NBC for years due to his business acumen and larger than life personality is not a moron. A guy who was honored as the Grand Marshall of the NYC Israel Day Parade and was given the Rosa Parks Award is not a bigot.A guy who restored the NYC Rockefeller Skating Rink in 2 months time for a pittance.. that nobody else was able to, understands every building process, economic budgeting and the value of time isn’t a failure.
I can list pages of achievements, random acts of kindness and his undeniable patriotism and Herculean feats, but the miserable haters and destroyers - who once adored him- won’t back down. They’d rather see America fail.
The opposition hate him because he is the embodiment of everything they will never be. Envy is at the heart of it. Bitterness will kill them if all the other rot they indulge in doesn't do it first. I have no pity for them.
Amen! I despise the Dhimms and have very little love for the RepubliConservacraps. Trumps best appointments are the disgusted former Dems and Indepents. The pragmatic patriots.
You’ve highlighted a point for me, BIGLY. I hear from so many ignorant people how evil Trump is yet they can’t account for all the good things he’s done. NYC seems especially ungrateful.
In the famous words of Jonny Carson, “ I did not know that!”
Thanks, Gail, for taking the time to post that. It will come in handy when arguing “Orange Man Bad” types!
Here’s another outrageous miscarriage of justice Trump dealt with- E Jean Carroll
https://thenationalpulse.com/analysis-post/kassam-the-trump-carroll-case-is-blatantly-the-greatest-miscarriage-of-justice-in-modern-american-history/
And another-Stormy Daniels.
It was evident she fabricated her “ encounter” with Trump when she claimed he didn’t use a condom. Trump, in his own words, during an interview in the 80s was asked what his greatest fear was. Without skipping a beat, he replied, “ Contracting an STD”. He wasn’t kidding. He’s a known germaphobe. Furthermore, with Melania 7 months pregnant, he certainly wouldn’t risk infecting her, nor would he have risked impregnating another woman- imagine the consequences. And as he made clear, Daniels was not his “ type”. He doesn’t have any interest in bimbos and he has a definite “ type”. Eastern European women. He always did. The exception was Marla Maples.. who he met when she was a member in his church congregation and his marriage to Ivana was already on the skids.When she ultimately became pregnant months after his divorce was finalized, he married her.
After Stormy’s bullshit claim to fame, she admitted it never happened.
OHHHHHH!!!THE BOTTOM IS DROPPING OUT, THE SKY IS FALLING ALL BECAUSE OF THAT DICKHEAD TRUMP, FUCK FUCK FUCK!!!
(Stock market climbs)
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON? THE MARKETS ARE RISING DESPITE THAT DICKHEAD TRUMP AND HIS DESTRUCTIVE TARIFFS!!! THANK GOD WE HAVE WALL STREET TO SAVE THE DAY!!! MAY TRUMP ROT IN HELL!!!
There's just no pleasing some people.
Well, they’re ramping up the outrage (example: last week’s AWFL “Hands off!”tantrum) Anything he does is “dark, authoritarian, and racist.” Yawn.
Yes, and reducing the size and power of government is ESPECIALLY authoritarian.
Not as authoritarian as creating a tyranny where everybody gets to keep their guns.
What?? Abolish the income tax!! How dare he!
It makes sense for Trump to pause the tariffs on everybody but China, because, unlike China, most of those other nations responded as he intended (and as he repeatedly said he intended), by agreeing to renegotiate not just their tariffs but their entire range of trade barriers (as he repeatedly said). In all these cases, Trump has brought other countries to the table to renegotiate the terms of trade. That is what he wanted, and he said so.
Trump's goal, in my view, is to restructure all relationships in the global economy to reflect real values of goods and services by removing these distortions created by other governments' trade barriers: https://stkarnick.substack.com/p/liberation-from-what. That appears to be going forward as planned. It is an exceedingly ambitious goal, but one that I argue must be achieved to prevent the U.S. economy from declining into disaster.
Trumps sites are set on the main adversary China, And turning many countries against them. There is opportunity there for countries like Viet Nam to take some of that trade from China.
Trump do Trump thing.
Anti-Trump scream and cry.
Trump thing work out fine.
Anti-Trump not admit wrong about Trump thing.
Trump do next Trump thing.
Anti-Trump scream and cry.
Trump thing work out fine.
Anti-Trump not admit wrong about Trump thing.
Trump do next Trump thing....
Yep. You can't please people who have no self awareness.
Live Laugh Love. …. Despise fear porn
I think the last time I could stomach NPR I was 22. All the Peter Pans need to grow the hell up .
Just the title of this piece got me laughing.
Because that is the headline of every single story on CNN, MSLSD and NPR.
The Stock and Bond markets are essentially a confidence racket. Rapid movement there is not, for the most part, about value, or productivity or long term viability. Its about a sudden loss of confidence, the apparent dissolving of assumptions based on "a story I tell myself" about the reality of this stock in the minds of the core investors.
The fact that we can't read DJT's mind, and he is disinclined to forecast the end goal because he loses all his leverage, I expect there will be a number of these wobbles in the market.
My question is, and it would be easily researched but I've not the time right now, During the correction and rebound, how did the market cap of the Dow alter, if at all. During the sell, lots of stocks lost market cap, in the rebound, was it proportionally regained? Or were there winners and losers?
A few years ago, I read part of a transcript of Trump being deposed in a lawsuit in the 1990s about some of his real estate activity. One thing he said, apparently in all sincerity, was that the value of his properties varied with his own mood that day. As I recall, it sounded pretty unhinged, like he was saying that his properties were actually worth more on the market on days he felt positive about them and vice versa. But now it seems like we’re watching the whole stock market swing in response to his mood — or, perhaps more accurately, what investors think his mood is. Crazy days.
He was right. The value of something is completely subjective. Its exchange price is a compromise between what someone is willing to pay for it and what the owner is willing to sell it for, provided the former is greater than the latter.
And don’t forget the shorts, who gamble moment to moment to take advantage of swings (which their actions can often trigger—to their advantage). The handwringers wring/protest/resist/wail AFTER the movement. They don’t have a clue what’s actually in play.
https://youtu.be/4KB2xignE6c?si=XY35yR1P2ebd9Viu
I agree that there's too much emotionally driven anti Trump stuff out there but here's the thing: For a company who has invested heavily in infrastructure to produce a product in a competitive environment that is partially dependent on foreign input, it matters very much whether Trump intends for the tariffs to be a temporary tool for the purpose of deal making or a permanent feature to promote onshoring. It also matters to those who are choosing to buy or sell stock in that company. When Trump’s message regarding tariffs, their amount, and their purpose varies from day to day large stock fluctuations are inevitable. It might be fun, or effective, to keep your "opponents" guessing but it has real costs for Americans.
There are no guarantees! All we can do is trust that Trump "will try" to do what he said he would. So far, I'd say he's batting close to 1000. Will it all turn out OK in the end? Who knows, but I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that how ever it turns out, it'll be better than it was. We were on an untenable path that foretold nothing but disaster for our children and grandchildren. Unlike his predecessors, Trump is attempting a course correction, and as long as he's trying, he's got my support.
Any predictions on what the focus of the hysteria will be in a few months time? DOGE and Musk seems to be dying out as part of the daily rage. I am predicting China and Taiwan. Why? I will be touring Taiwan in June and it would seem very appropriate at that time.
Who can even say, at this point? The PETE HEGSETH IS RUINED thing lasted for about a week.
https://x.com/BillKristol/status/1904957922943119778
We seem to be on a weekly rage cycle, which will require 52 new hysterical things a year.
The funny thing is people in North America would always ask me when I lived in South Korea if I was worried about the Kim family and the North. My answer was the same as South Koreans: nope. Life must go on.
That’s just embarrassing. Poor BK