It's a razor's edge, sucking up to Agent Orange while trying to retain a shred of professional credibility.
It's a razor's edge, sucking up to Agent Orange while trying to retain a shred of professional credibility.
Should be fairly simple, since none of them are legally binding. š¤”
I'm sure that's right around the corner
Who wouldn't want to lend 30 yr money to a multi-bankrupt charlatan with orange facepaint? What a deal!
Future famous quote hopefully my grandchildren will be free to read about it
Zero credibility. What. A. Sellout!
You win!
Iāve seen this movie beforeā¦..
Tell that to Waller lol
Hello Impeachment!
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In the coming days, we expect to see what's playing out in LA and DC happen in Chicago. These efforts are not about fighting crime or making communities safer. This is about Donald Trump testing his power and producing political drama to cover up his own corruption.
Pritzker: When did we become a country where it's okay for the president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything, especially something we don't want? Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?
Didn't take long for the guest list to run short lmao
I wish we could do that . . .
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Trump and his greedhead cronies may get a big surprise in spite of their efforts to rig the 2026 election. They could find themselves swamped by a blue wave. Americans are wising up to the fact that Trump is turning the American dream into a nightmare.
Troops in the streets and he thinks heās going to get a Nobel, peace begins at home
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Does Modi realize he's the leader of a democracy?
That's Jim Cramer's old buddy. So weird that he still platforms him.
not the first person to make this observation but its rules that the "i wont let my body temple be defiled by putting seed oils or processed food in it" people and the "let me go behind the gym to inject these steroids i bought from a guy i met here" people have merged into the same group.
A federal appeals court reminds us that presidents are, indeed, not emperors who can impose massive taxes by whim and decree open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
There is nothing covert or subtle about Stephen Millerās id. He is not the source of Trumpās fetish for cruelty or brutality. But he feeds and inflames Trumpās worst instincts. More important: Miller is the chief ideologue and architect of their implementation. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
No notes
Trump will build him a statue tomorrow.
US GDP: * 2nd half of last year: 2.8% * 1st half of this year: 1.4% * rest of this year: (projected) 1.1% @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
Did I mention ICE arresting firefighters who were LITERALLY fighting a massive fire at the time of their arrest? š„ #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
Between RFK decimating the CDC, normalizing Ashli Babbitt & the umpteenth school shooting... I'm losing the will to post. #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
ā.. democracy often erodes slowly at first .. But with each concession, autocrats become bolder.. and reversal becomes harder. Responses that, early on, can feel pragmaticāwaiting it out, remaining silent, cutting a dealāonly embolden ..ā @dziblatt.bsky.social www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
As the CDC descends into chaos, this seems like a good moment to re-up this piece about the senator who helped give us RFK Jr. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Ashley Babbit dishonored her service by committing insurrection against her country. While her death is absolutely tragic and I wish it hadnāt happened, the Air Force giving her honors is in itself a dishonor.
Dystopian.
A ātariff rebate checkā is like setting your kitchen on fire and then mailing yourself a bucket of water. There's an easier way to avoid the burn.
YELLEN: ā.. Trumpās attempted sacking of Cook should be met with outrage, not with shrugs. .. And the financial community must raise its voice against a direct assault on the credibility of the dollar itself.ā @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d2ea...
āI have the right to do anything I wanna do. Iām the President of the United States.ā ā Donald J. Trump, August 26, 2025 āL'Ćtat, c'est moiā ā Louis XIV, April 13, 1655 open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Republicans: Mass shootings: āitās the price of freedom. Send thoughts and prayersā Homelessness: āDeploy the National Guardā
This is batshit insane *NAVARRO: FED'S COOK WEAPONIZED THE FED
The Veruca Salt presidency. šš¼
Do not forget. Itās about control of the Fed. This is a very dark day.
āMany Americans wrongly believe there would be one clear unambiguous moment where we go from ādemocracyā to āauthoritarianism.ā Instead ā¦ you wake up one morning and our country is different.ā You should read this www.thehandbasket.co/p/america-ti...
We need a whistleblower, stat.
".. unless Pulte somehow had particular knowledge about issues with Cook's application, which is unlikely, then one has conclude that Pulte handed Fannie and Freddie a list of political enemies and asked for their loan files for review."
Just wait til Powell steps down next year. Who the hell is buying long-dated paper from this clown?
Turkey, China, Russia & Hungary fair comps?
Don't be fooled, this isn't about Cook's one vote skewing policy marginally more dovish. Its about putting the whole FOMC under Trump's control. Waller and Bowman already complicit. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
SCOTUS thought they could ride the tiger and get what they wanted ideologically. In exchange, they would give him everything he wanted except the Fed. Just leave the Fed alone and you can ignore all federal law. But it ended the same way it has for everyone who tried to ride the tiger since 2016.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
What's the proper PE multiple for an authoritarian, "one man" ruled market?
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THE LYING LIARS & NEWS STINKERS OF FOX "NEWS" SO WE DON'T HAVE TO! IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED BY THOSE OF US WHO VALUE HONESTY, INTEGRITY & DECENCY WHILE ALLOWING US TO CONSUME ACTUAL FACTS WITHOUT THEIR BRAINWASHING TECHNIQUES & ABILITY TO TRIGGER BOUTS OF VIOLENT NAUSEA. š¤®
> @govwesmoore.bsky.social
ā.. It confirmed for him his view that the Justice Department he had been honored to work for was now helping to whitewash a traumatic event in American history ..ā @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/n...
Dad, what kind of sandwich did you toss at ICE during the war?
And not a single Fed governor or potential nominee defended her. Shameful.
Worked at $WFC!
Long before she joined the Fed, Lisa Cook stood out in a field dominated by white men. She talked about how her experience with racism informed her approach to economics. Now, she is Trumpās latest target in his effort to exert more control over the central bank. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/b...
ā.. the first to use the presidency to be a gadfly, flitting around and sticking his vindictive nose where it doesnāt belong .. Itās going to take a long time to fix all the horrible overreaches of this president.ā - Dowd @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/23/o...
ā.. perverting the justice system to serve their political interests .. Americans long had reason to trust that federal officials would not target people for investigations without evidence. .. ā.. that assumption is disappearing.ā @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/o...
See Russia a couple of years ago, when rogue troops almost reached Moscow
"You tell your fuckin' board we want TEN PERCENT of your company."
Facts
Powell without the courage to stand against political pressure. Someone needs to tell the FOMC the "commitment" to a 2% mandate lacks any credibility when inflation has been above it for 52m and the Fed signals rate cuts as inflation rises and the economy is at full employment.
Disturbing/scary that our Sec of Treasury is this stupid.
Breaking news: The FBI has raided the home of John Bolton, who served as Donald Trumpās national security adviser during his first term and has emerged as a staunch critic of the US president in recent years on.ft.com/4lK8YOS
What a surprise, said no one. $WMT
Tim Cook gets South Parkād. @wutangforchildren.bsky.social $AAPL @stevekovach.bsky.social
They shouldn't take it personally. *Every* Nutlick remark is an insulting remark.
*watch
Agreed. That's why I no longer her, as well as Kernen.
This is the post of the week.
i love that trump of all people wants to open up "real estate-related fraud" as a political angle of attack
Bankrupt their clientele, in the end.
Trump calling himself a "war hero" is another one of those things that would've once ended a politician's career
Trump: "I worked with your friend Bibi...He's a war hero. I guess I am, too. Nobody cares, but I am too."
Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor? All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!* *victim's names redacted, of course
Thank god for Carl. Do any other biz media ask tough questions any more?
I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."
Gavin Newsom responds to Fox's Dana Perino melting down over his tweets:
Proof yet again they are making this shit up as they go.
QUINTANILLA: When do you think markets can get its hand on written documentation on the deals with Japan, UK, Vietnam, Korea? LUTNICK: You're not gonna find a big long 250 page trading agreement
Oops. ā”ļø
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administrationās failures.
Boston doing it again. Read the letter. This is how you respond to a fascist. (In addition to throwing a sandwich.)
Look at this hot nonsense and then look at Trump's abysmal polling numbers - he's hot garbage in all categories - and remind me again why politicians and corporate leaders are allowing this to happen. The arrow pointing to the right side of history is brighter than the sun.
Arent we arguably at stall speed even including all the good stuff?
Vladimir Putin is now an advisor to the US president about voting rights
iT's An AsSeT cLaSs!!
I'm not sure anything will ever illustrate the state of The Discourse quite as well as Stephen Moore misreading his own pie chart while opining about the state of our national statistics.
So this is a genuinely vertiginous moment. The President of the United States was once the leader of the free world. But now the free world is rallying to protect itself against an America that seems ready to switch sides in the great historical struggle. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...