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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 22 hours ago • 999 comments

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 1 day ago • 465 comments

This is why he loves tariffs. It's a way to extort businesses and hand out monopolies. It's literally Henry VIII style governance

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

One of many problems with tariff policy is that big businesses have a direct phone line to Trump, he can dole out exemptions as favors or withhold them as extortion, meanwhile small businesses/consumers just have to bare the costs of all this.

submitted 29 days ago • 45 comments

Republicans are lining up to denounce Zelensky because their base was seduced by a cranky old racist with a fondness for dictators. Just wild how the whims, prejudices, and weird obsessions of a senile 78-year-old have completely supplanted the party’s priorities — and reshuffled the world order.

submitted 34 days ago • 80 comments

Just a reminder that Trump’s DOJ just dropped a criminal fraud investigation into Ogles, including allegations that he used a photo of his stillborn child to raise tens of thousands of dollars for a burial garden for children that was never built. He has never accounted for that money.

submitted 35 days ago • 37 comments

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks. Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

submitted 36 days ago • 299 comments

I'm trying to put together a list of the many debunkings of DOGE's claims of savings. Email these to your Republican Members of Congress, who still credulously claim DOGE is finding things. Let me know what I'm missing. www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-it...

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

Economists worry a Trumpcession is on the way www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 36 days ago • 131 comments

We wrote about how Musk is using X as a propaganda tool to demonize each of the agencies and programs that DOGE targets for cuts, providing air cover for his engineers' incursions — with the truth as collateral damage. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... w/ @drewharwell.com

submitted 47 days ago • 75 comments

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

submitted 47 days ago • 479 comments

Now here, dear readers, here is really what you want to know about Pam Bondi. She is a hatchet-for-hire, willing to do the bidding of anyone who pays her.

submitted 133 days ago • 42 comments