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1. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   DEMENTIA

   “Trump is not long for this world. His Alzheimer’s is pretty far along now, and getting worse. If he lives to see the end of this term, he will be so far gone he won’t know whether he is president or not.”

   If Article 25 is implemented then we are stuck with J-VD who is walking-redneck-diseased-cruelty. Hopefully it’s a long shot because the ones who can do it most likely want to retain unchecked power along with their compatriots who want unhindered corruption so they can depart very wealthy. They need the figurehead.

   In fact they may find a demented fat orange clown doppelgänger as a substitute to pose in rare public outings. He won’t even have to make sense when he talks. If the real FOCer croaks they probably will have him stuffed and mounted sitting at the Resolute Desk holding a KFC bucket.

2. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Continued…

   Academic and governmental studies find the Trump-Biden tariffs have raised prices and reduced output and employment, producing a net negative impact on the US economy.

   —————-My wife and I have decided to move our big ticket items related to imports earlier than scheduled originally. We think that if the demented FOCer’s plan is implemented then the inflation and unemployment rates will increase by at least 50% by the end of 2025.

3. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   TARIFFS- Findings from the Tax Foundation

   The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products valued at approximately $380 billion in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decades.The Biden administration has kept most of the Trump administration tariffs in place, and in May 2024, announced tariff
 hikes on an additional $18 billion of Chinese goods, including semiconductors and electric vehicles, for an additional tax
 increase of $3.6 billion.We estimate the Trump-Biden tariffs will reduce long-run GDP by 0.2 percent, the capital stock by 0.1 percent, and employment by 142,000 full-time equivalent jobs.Altogether, the trade war policies currently in place add up to $79 billion in tariffs based on trade levels at the time of tariff implementation and excluding behavioral and dynamic effects.Before accounting for behavioral effects, the $79 billion in higher tariffs amounts to an average annual tax increase on US households of $625. Based on actual revenue collections data, trade war tariffs have directly increased tax collections by $200 to $300 annually per US household, on average. Both estimates understate the cost to US households because they do not factor in the lost output, lower incomes, and loss in consumer choice the tariffs have caused.Candidate Trump has proposed significant tariff hikes as part of his presidential campaign; we estimate that if imposed, his proposed tariff increases would hike taxes by another $524 billion annually and shrink GDP by at least 0.8 percent, the capital stock by 0.7 percent, and employment by 684,000 full-time equivalent jobs. Our estimates do not capture the effects of retaliation, nor the additional harms that would stem from starting a global trade war.
4. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   When discussing what he might do for the government, Musk said in a Pittsburgh town hall that major cuts to government spending would be necessary: “Step No. 1 is to spend a lot less of it,” Musk said. “Let’s start from scratch.”

   “That necessarily involves some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity,” said Musk.

   The mouth breathing knucklewalkers probably believe that the demented fat orange clown and the multi-billionaire abused-as-a-child also will experience the disruption and loss in their lives “for the greater good”. Again, many of us will have to conserve our resources to try to survive the next four years and hope we see another fair and free election.

5. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Nice thought but if they rejected an intelligent experienced Black/Asian female I doubt that they will vote for a gay guy. The only way to make it happen is if the quality of life deteriorates so badly as we are expecting that even the mouth breathing knucklewalkers can see the light.

   Then we face another reality. Will we have another fair and free election in this country again?

6. 4 days ago on Doonesbury

   Yep. Each year from here on the whining and angst from those who voted for the demented fat orange clown, as they blame anyone and everyone else for the worsening of their lives, will increase…as if I care.

   Unfortunately there will be collateral damage to the sane and informed who tried to protect democracy. As someone else said, take a screenshot of the inflation and unemployment rate this month. It will be quite some time before we see them again.

7. 11 days ago on Doonesbury

   You mentioned that “They even talked to illegal (still) immigrants rooting for trump – “I’ve been here for decades! He’s talking about the new riff-raff! Throw them out!” Completely ignoring trump promising to deport 20 million people (do the math; that includes you).”

   It reminded me of the interview of an Hispanic couple that I saw several days before the election. She mentioned that they had come here illegally and worked hard to get citizenship but today her children born here now were unable to buy a house. They were going to go MAGAt because he had an economic plan and was a strong leader.

   She goes on in response to another question that it was good to have the deportations because all those people were criminals who were running away from something. Almost wonder why she didn’t use the slur for Hispanics.

   Then when she is asked about her extended family she replies that there are some who have green cards and others are undocumented. Then she’s asked if she is worried about them. Replied “no because they are hard workers and not criminals and he said they would only deport the criminals”.

   Would the demented FOCer lie to them? Guess not according to their vote. If it was not so pathetic I would throw in a ROTFLMAO here.

8. 11 days ago on Doonesbury

   A2’s with an S/…not Sosnik’s reaction

9. 11 days ago on Doonesbury

   HOW DID WE GET HERE?

   Doug Sosnik, a wise, clear-eyed Democratic strategist who bases analysis on empirical data, not emotion, is a good place to start.

   He sent us a post-election deck attached to a one-word email: “bloodbath.”

   Sosnik’s report captures the blunt reality: “The 2024 election marks the biggest shift to the right in our country since Ronald Reagan’s victory in 1980. … [Trump’s victory this week] was due to support from a multi-racial working-class group of voters.” The coalition includes:

   One in three voters of color voted for Trump.*Trump increased his support with Hispanic voters by double digitscompared to 2020.Trump carried Hispanic men by 10 points.Trump improved his support with voters ages 18-29 by 10+ points.

   [My reaction based on these numbers: Isn’t it great that since 1964 so many did so much for Civil Rights so these wonderful listed voters could have the freedom to vote as they wanted?]

10. 11 days ago on Doonesbury

    The Rascal

    “Got Nuthin’ “? WTF? Based on 11/5/24 there’s a boatload of excrement coming toward us in 2025-2026 for any creative writer like the Rasacal to develop. It’s my hope that the MAGAts and the 10M who voted D in 2020 but dropped out this year are the beneficiaries. Collateral damage is inevitable though.

    —- The recession will start in 3rd Q of 2025 and the depression becomes visible in 2026.

    —- Unemployment will be over 6% (trending upward) and inflation is a close runner up along with shortages of some goods. There’s minimal checks on corruption.

    —- Police brutality incidents increase unchecked which increases protests and other civil unrest in large populated areas. The model and example has been elected again. The blatant misogyny and overt racism has started already in the general population..

    —- Insufficient planning for the infrastructure including the grid, healthcare and national defense which will be steered toward assisting the dictators in the world.

    There’s a lot more that can be foreseen and listed based on the demented fat orange clown’s campaign “promises”. The botched handling of COVID will be nothing compared to the imminent mismanagement of the country.

    Bottom line is that those who have any resources should develop a strategy to protect and conserve as they hunker in the bunker for a nasty four years now in the works. Good luck trying to discern what if anything coming from the new administration is truthful.