Debt Rattle March 26 2025
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle March 26 2025]Florida is giving back $900 million! Does that mean Happy Days Are Here Again?
How long before that $900 million lands on apartment buildings in Yemen or hospitals in Gaza?
“abuses of the legal system and the federal court”
“Universal injunctions have reached epidemic proportions since the start of the current Administration,” Harris said.
“..we have this phenomena of nation-wide injunctions where the lowest level judge, district judges, try to bind the entire nation and bind the president in their initial decision.
That is not what we have meant by the judicial power under our Constitution.”“There’s a pattern whereby these district court judges are trying to usurp the responsibility of the president in the national security area.
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Trump is now considering ‘a two-step approach,’ which would split tariffs into two stages; targeted emergency tariffs now to raise money for planned tax cuts,Kush Desai said the final details of the reciprocal tariff plan remain under wraps, but emphasized internal alignment on the broader goal: “Although the final reciprocal tariff plan for April 2 has yet to be unveiled by President Trump, every member of the Trump administration is aligned on finally leveling the playing field for American industries and workers.”
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Keeping the boss informed – Jeffrey GoldbergAtlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was also invited to the chat, which discussed planned strikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen aimed at unblocking trade routes on the Suez Canal.
He subsequently made the frank exchange public.
(Representative), Goldberg was only supposed to Report to Israel not to divulge his source.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg
Michael Massing, an editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, called Goldberg “the most influential journalist/blogger on matters related to Israel”,[19]
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Pretending to seek peace.
• White House Reveals Details Of US-Russia Talks In Riyadh (RT)30 day ceasefire on Energy infrastructures , and now Blacksea ceasefire will be similar to Israel – Gaza ceasefire.
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Still the half-assed “full” release of the JFK Assass. Files continues apace.D will be splooging for The National Guardsmen Pete and Tulsi.
“They showed them by calling their bluff”The Dialectic in Action
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One hundred percent—they’re no angels here, but no classified information was disclosed
Oh what a concession!!
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You can bluff that the other 2 cards in your hand we can’t see make a full house—until the other players call your bet.
Gabbard & Hegseth called the bet—show your cards or fold.
Notice they still can’t talk directly…about…..it.
So they talk about an analogy Third Person Style.Flying Monkeys
Wingmen
Apologists
Fellow TravelersTeam!!!!
Still they were talking about War With The Houthis On Behalf of SoS’s Rubio’s “Our People” “The Jews” and “Israel”. D we are permitted to quote Maria Rubio here, right?
Annihilating The Houthis.
Well, at least Tulsi and Pete acquired some gravitas AND The Big Boss SIGNALed his approval.
Win
WinD, watch that Intel Hearing again.
How would you describe that look on Tulsi’s face?
Pete’s?Feigned ignorance?
Performative art?
The Lit look of the shit-faced?“Trump Stands By Waltz, Hegseth As Dems Gun For Their Jobs After Signal Leak
The more I think about this, the more I think it was intentional. Too predictable, negotiating from strength, etc. But if you think it’s fake, that is, if he does it too much, it stops working, like on me. …That is unf the opposite of the Atlantic just “Making s–t Up” which also seems to be true.
“Ukrainian Command Kills Its Own Soldiers to Stop Surrender – PoW”
Clearly new level, perfected Mass Formation Psychosis. When you see it happen, it’s amazing, like I don’t see the Scarecrow drop a poison gas on Kiev. I can tell it happens, but the traces of how all seem so innocent. And been going on since the 14th c? All of us outside are floundering, how do normal, even Phd people fall so easily for this then will die for it? Keep grabbing at shadows, I don’t understand how this tech works.
“From investigative reporter John Leake, U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett is Likely an Agent Provocateur
The Democrat from Texas is apparently taunting Pam Bondi, in effect daring the Attorney General to arrest her.”She actually can since you can’t arrest sitting congressmen. Really. ..And rightfully so. However, anyone who follows her orders is fair game.
““It’s not as though I wanted to insource manufacturing, it’s just that I was unable to outsource it effectively. The idea, at the beginning of Tesla, was that we would outsource almost all the manufacturing.”
Exactly my point. You’re outsourcing which takes transition cost and pisses people off and then get a WORSE outcome. With less profit (ask Boeing). That’s Capitalism! When you lower profit and nobody buys your products voluntarily, so you have to have the government MAKE them.
Or…you could keep control of your process and supply chain which allows you to have intelligence on the assembly that keeps you competitive, (R&D) and therefore do NOT go bankrupt. Take 3M for example.
“HUGE Elon Musk’s DOGE is targeting Consulting Firms”
As Kunstler says, they pay Coie to do lawfare, this is how they get them the money. So we need to shut OFF lawfare, then we need to shut OFF the money. Done. Since this was all illegal, overpriced, and not like-for-like transactions, super easy. The minute we go back to buying honest, competitive services the money firehose stops.
“Pam Bondi just confirmed they will be criminally investigating the fraud uncovered by DOGE!”
Show me.
““District courts have issued more universal injunctions and TROs [Temporary Restraining Orders] during February 2025 alone than through the first three years of the Biden Administration,”
That is an alarm, however, suppose Trump really were Hitler. Then that sort of response would be reasonable. I can’t say they can’t just out of hand. Just like Phoenix. Yes, I can’t just have Homel pick up people – say DNC protestors – randomly and “Accidentally” deport them. There has to be something.
Obviously I think there’s overreach, not only in decisions, but that every one is an injunction, and every one a national injunction. This is pretty easy to demonstrate as you can do a thing but specifically chose to maximalize. That’s like saying a guy was mouthy so you shot him. No, there are like 4 steps before then as we attempt to keep to the minimum and only escalate when necessary. They maximalize to CAUSE the court cases and “Crisis”. …Then idiot Schumer goes out and admits they’re doing this illegal thing on purpose. Smooth.
Bill Burr: Like Roberts, the problem isn’t the cases, it’s that this limits unlimited dictatorial power of the President. Like the Romans, the President is king, the Senate is just performative to them. Kind of like the EU.
“• Trump Eyes Two-Stage Tariffs On April 2 To ‘Strengthen Legal Framework’
Everything is too complicated, and the numbers involved are each a trillion. History going to shake their heads at us later going “Trillion? Really??? Wtf were you thinking?” But for example, talking to business, they’re like BUY ALL THE THINGS!!! in anticipation of the (possible) tariffs. So you have economic pull-forward. Again, MORE economic effects, and MORE in the billion/trillion number. That can be expected or unplanned by the models. Just saying they exist. And one of these WILL pop off the “Event” but since we thought a flock of black swans and now you haven’t seen the sun in days for all the swans, don’t know what to say. What, actually, is keeping the system together?
Have we re-estimated “Black Swan” that they can circle for years on the “Law of Nothing Ever Happens”?
“• EU Could Slap Meta With €1 Billion Fine, Trump Vows To Retaliate (RMX)
That’s Capitalism. Governments get broke then “Suddenly remember” some law where you have to give them a billion dollars. …Nothing to do with whether they’d a monopoly or not…it’s about the enforcement of law.
Dr, you are aware that everyone reads what both you and I say, yes? So therefore slandering me is already debunked ahead of time as everyone already has all the information and can make their own decision? I don’t need to add anything. My outlook has been made pretty clear.
DBS
there is nothing inherently wrong with Capitalism IF it is used with the purpose and intent of doing unto others as you would wish done unto you in similar circumstances. If you love your neighbor as well as you love yourself, and can use Capitalism to accomplish those purposes, then great.It is my observation that many -isms and human organizations work well when the participants follow traditional morals. Hence, the importance of such morals.
“He’s an angry old man”
No, that was my great grandfather who never got over his 2yo daughter dying amidst The 1917 Flu Pandemic. Family and Society blamed him for bringing the flu home.
Legitimate public emotions.
We’ve come so far, medicating with ETOHPresidential Actions
Protecting America’s Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse
Executive Orders
March 25, 2025…and thus we usher in digital ID. The government’s EFTPS program requires digital ID, and single accounts per individual — if you work for a company and make EFTPS deposits you must log in with your digital ID, not with one for the business.
And, individual tax refund checks not by preference but only for those individuals who do not have access to banking services or electronic payment systems;
Um. How is this going to be determined? I have a bank account, but barely use it. There are debt judgments against me. They could be used to seize funds from my bank account. Tax refunds already can only be electronically deposited into a bank account that bears the recipient’s name. Because of these judgments I don’t have a joint bank account with anyone. My spouse’s credit union won’t deposit my federal tax refund check into my spouse’s account. They say that they cannot, as if it were against the law. It is not against the law, it is the policy of that credit union. Walmart won’t cash the check — because I don’t typically cash checks with them, they decline to do it, even though it is a government check. So, the last few years I have gone with my father to the local branch of his banking institution, I sign the check to him, and he deposits it. Another day he goes, withdraws the funds, and gives them to me. Last year, the assistant branch manager where we had done this in the past explained that they cannot do this. My father called his broker, his broker did some asking around, and no, this isn’t bank policy, but appeared to be the policy of that branch. My father found a branch that was for “investors,” located 2 miles further. We went to that one. They were polite, and had no problem with me signing the check over to my father. My only other option would be check cashing places that take cuts of the check. But, technically, I have “access.”Pro-Kamala Harris Tech Titan Admits Democrats Destroyed California
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pro-kamala-harris-tech-titan-admits-democrats-destroyed-california“We live in California. It should be like the greatest place on Earth on every dimension. How do you beat this weather? You’ve completely created the atmosphere of every major tech company,” Levie explained. You have Stanford, Berkeley, Caltech. You have institutions and all the venture capital. You’re sitting on this incredible asset and then literally you can’t make it affordable to live here. That’s just insane.”
Great institutions, science, natural resources, etc etc…. this sounds familiar
“Democrats can’t out message that with their policy views because their policy views are in many cases just the wrong policy views.”
Sir! Oh sir! Question! Were any of these policy views NOT socialist? Because you seem to think more socialism fixes this.
some choice Zerohedge comments
If you endorsed Kamala Harris, that means you endorsed total government censorship, and you endorsed nuclear holocaust, and you endorsed forced experimental medical procedures and the death of medical ethics
My leftist relatives in California still believe in the leftist Ideal. I kid you not. The state is falling apart and they believe it is all because the politicians in the state don’t institute the leftist ideology correctly.
That sounds a bit familiar historically as well
It’sa good point above – it should be remembered what happened in 2020. ACCURATELY remembered, without willing amnesia due to not wanting to admit people are this evil.
Do you remember? Leftist messaging dominated every medium while silencing any other voices.
MANY different components of socialist thinking from 70’s-2000’s academic marxist thought went mainstream. We all know them. We can list them off by heart now, since it is now 2025 not 2015 and time exists.
At that time, we had people and institutions, set to Ludicrous Speed, turned up to 11, continuously pushing every idea from the last 4-5 decades of academic marxist thought (which we later found to be massively funded)
They brooked no opposition, silencing, cancelling, slandering, ruining people that opposed them. Or even just anyone that failed to agree And then silence itself became violence.
The same institutions, these same people, at the same time, just as insistently pushed masking, lockdowns, and most importantly, the notavax.
Do you want to try to make the case that wall to wall cutting edge socialism was being jammed down our throats through every available medium with massive funding behind it while silencing all opposition and turning on even PASSIVE unresisting people….
but due to the lax, laissez-faire attitude of authoritarians who silence everyone, allowed a totally separate entity to push masks, lockdowns, and a genocidal notavax? PLEASE MAKE YOUR CASE.
Same people, same institutions, same methods, at the same time, justified by the same kind of socialist argument even. (you must do it for everyone ELSE, not yourself, you must make everyone ELSE safe, etc) These were the people and institutions simultaneously pushing the ideology nonstop.
Admit it. They did it again. JUST now. Socialists and another genocide.
It’s bad enough when you hear “150 million murdered in the 20th century” and say “yeah but….”
But another one JUST FUCKING HAPPENED. You don’t even need to crack open a history book. You practically don’t even need short to long term memory conversion. Fucking hell.
But historically, Socialists do not reconsider – because to do so would be to think of something BETTER than socialism and not be Socialists anymore. Still destroying California with not even a thought that fixing things and making them work would be the most effective way of proving themselves right. Still making people miserable on the heels of another genocide. No mercy, no empathy, no heart.
Fuller Signal Chat Is Published As Dems Call For Hegseth, Waltz To Resign
[They targeted individuals in apartment buildings full of people.]
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fuller-transcript-signal-chat-published-dems-call-hegseth-waltz-resignWaltz responded: “Typing too fast. The first target – their top missile guy – we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”
Vance responded a minute later: “Excellent.”
Boo f*”king hoo. 3000!
SIGNALgate just keeps getting better by the minute.
NY Mag
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Maybe J.D. Vance Isn’t Trump’s Puppet
Hahahaha!
It’s all scheme to position JD Vance Hamel Bowman BLANTON for an injection of Presidential Timber….while ordinary Houthis are annihilated by Rubio’s “Our People” the reading audience is treated to ludicrous specter of Veep Vance Hamel Bowman as The Voice of Reason, The Elder Statesman of Moderation and All Around Man About Town.
Well, okay, but TAE Headline today said it was all a lie-
Apart from everything that’s notable about that, also J.D. Vance disagreed with Trump in the group chat. The person who appeared to be Vance wrote that delaying bombing in Yemen might be best:
I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.
For ten days now, the U.S. has stepped up bombing Yemen, with the stated goals of preventing further attacks in shipping lanes in the Suez Canal and the Red Sea. (We have low-key been at war with the region since January, 2024; President Biden had also bombed lots of people.) Vance’s point was that, while the U.S. does ship plenty of material through those lanes, it is a small percentage of our total intake, compared to Europe at large. “3 percent of US trade runs through the suez. 40 percent of European trade does,” he said. “There is a real risk that the public doesn’t understand this or why it’s necessary.”
Love that JD Vance BLANTON Bowman appeal to stupidity. There’s gotta be something nuanced about blowing Houthis to smithereens that is well beyond Average Joe’s understanding. Splain it to us D. Plz
Enjoy:
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/jd-vance-disagrees-with-donald-trump-signal-group-chat.html
He was a vicious Trump critic.
He became a vicious Trump sidekick.
He’s individuating himself from Daddy, Trump.
Changing like his many first and last names.
That’s entirely normal.“8 year olds”
.That’s too kind.
3 or 4 year old is more accurate.Xymph:
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All we really learned from (((Goldberg))), other than the scandal of his access, is that Trump’s entire cabinet talks and thinks at the level of eight-year-olds, which we already knew.
(((Goldberg))) was obviously invited, as a scribe for Netanyahu, to create an heroic description of the Trump Cabinet working to make the world safe from ‘terrorism’ (while of course in reality blocking the heroic efforts of the people of Yemen to stop the actual terrorism of the
Rubio Our People/Jew Genocide). Everything was proceeding well until Vance stepped in, with a peculiar objection.Sure he did.
He objected.-
“I object!”
I’ll explain it to you in tiny words: He can 1) Oppose it, quit, and get out or 2) Stay in, have power, and pull/influence in the right direction. Those are your two choices, grow up.
You’re like a closet leftist: if anyone disagrees in the SLIGHTEST way, we ban/oppose/ostracize/kill them. There are only two modes: God-like purity and perfection and, the person is evil/ill/irredeemable. Vance changed his name, so he is on list 2. He is against bombing Yemen, which only proves he is evilly-evil.
Meanwhile in the real world, any human activity involving more than two people involves agreeing to stuff you don’t prefer, even organizing the spaghetti dinner at the baptist church. Ah but they want PAPER plates and believe in post-rapture dispensationalism, so I QUIT. That’s what a Church is: when everyone does/thinks/acts EXACTLY LIKE ME.
…Or is that what narcissistic disorder is?
- “The same institutions, these same people, at the same time, just as insistently pushed masking, lockdowns, and most importantly, the notavax.”
on february 4th, 2020, the sec of hhs declared a crbn event, and colonel matt hepburn contacted the pharma people and told them to gear up for the injection.
thus, the “marxist” measures you outline above were carried out by the trump administration for approximately 350 days.
you may hate the socialists and the commies, but don’t forget the “real” capitalists, the ones who make the decisions the politicians announce,
hate
you.
thus, the “marxist” measures you outline above were carried out by the trump administration for approximately 350 days.
A cluster-b malignant narcissist is mentally impaired. Experts say that even when a narc has higher than average iq, they are nevertheless – the term they use – “cognitively challenged”
Anyone who has had to work with an NPD knows this already. They come off as “bright” and may be “educated,” yet one has to laboriously explain things to them, ridiculously getting down to the most basic things about human nature or nuts and bolts reality.
They are impaired in regards to context. Because meaning is an emergent property of context, they have trouble with meaning itself.
socialism consistently proves itself to be a framework for narcs/npds’s/cluster-b’s. It aligns perfectly with their internal workings. We all know in 2025, Leftists only double down.
Malignant Narcissists, when they are having a conversation with you, do not see the meaning of the words. They are impaired – to them there is nothing there All they know is that you are playing ping pong, you managed to hit the ball across the net, so they need to hit it back harder. There shall be no discussion.
Maybe narcs just slot right into socialism due to its structure. Maybe socialism, by its “there shall be no discussion,” canalizes the thoughts of normal humans into narc-like structure and limitation by sheer repetition.
This is how you end up with a socialist banging a ping-pong ball back claiming that Trump waged lawfare, reputation-destruction, and all the massive continual attacks and obstructions that were SIMULTANEOUS with all the wall-to-wall leftist talking points… these individuals and institutions who brooked no different opinions or even silence mind you
Somehow, he wielded these socialist-captured institutions on himself!
Like if a narc is hitting you with a stick and you point it out or object, they might smirk and say “Iiiiiiiiii’m not hitting you. The stick is. sneersnarkwhack”
They double down and it is word salad. It is obviously ridiculous. Because hitting the pingpong ball back is all they see. On a structural basis, there really IS no discussion.
LOOK at the absurdities they so glibly fire off.
Dem’s (& Rino’s) Taxpayer Gravy Train:
I suspect the Uniparty’s automatic taxpay’s gravy train started rolling down the tracks full steam shortly after the CIA installed Obama and Congress started using continuing resolutions inplace of yearly budgets.
Continuing Resolutions used the previous budget’s total as it’s starting point.
No need to haggle over last year’s hard won grifts, as they automatically renewed themselves.
B
Of course it didn’t take Congress to avail themselves of NGOs to disburse the taxpayer’s gravy with legal plausible deniability.
No funds flowed directly to any politician but rather indirectly since they controlled and often setup the NGOs.For the Dems, the rot quickly shows up, if we look back at past events.
During Obama’s second election the appearance of more paid party hacks verses volunteers showed up.
Campaign crowds diminished.During Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, she relied heavily on paid Dem party hacks instead of volunteers because she wasn’t able to generate much grassroot support.
Because Hillary had the money, she didn’t bother wasting her time with volunteers.
The proof is in the small crowds (paid party hacks) she generated during her campaign run remotely out of NYC without leaving NYC.
Then combine that with Hillary’s notorious inability to organize, and her ability to antagonise the deporables, she blew a sure win.Then we have 2020 Joe Biden who didn’t even bother campaigning at all but instead hid in his basement.
There were no Dem volunteers at all, just the paid party hacks.More hollowed out Dem campaigning, with only paid party hacks, haunted Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign where she had to pay influencers to draw crowds for her to speak to!
Again notice no Dem party volunteers.When you always have plenty of money to spend, certain traits start to appear.
You tend to take the easy way out.
You tend to get lazy.
You tend to be more aloof and isolated from your parties grassroots because you don’t need them as much anymore.
It is much easier to deal with paid staff than volunteers.
Another bad trait is pushing ideas that don’t reflect what voters want.
No need to be grounded in reality, anymore.Now that much of the automatic taxpayers gravy train has been derailed in 2025, it will be interesting to watch what happens to the DNC.
I suspect the DNC still has deep reserves of money hidden away.
If so, the DNC insiders will resist making any changes.
But maybe there isn’t much money left in the Dem’s party coffers?
Maybe those paid Dem party hacks need to get used to being unpaid volunteers?Recently AOC and Bernie Sanders have been out rallying their Dem supporters.
However phone data of their rally attendees, showed over 88% of them had attended 9 past Dem rallies/protests.
So these folks may reflect the Dem’s paid party hacks.
What will happen if the money runs out?
Will BLM still be burning down black neighborhoods?
Where are the Dem’s party volunteers, many likely shoved aside unwanted?Anyways, there is a pattern created by too much easy money.
* Jesus endorses Capitalism: For to everyone who has, more will be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken away
* The DOGE in the manger won’t let the cash cows feed; Move the money from domestic corruption to bombing Gaza; DOGE robs Cheater to pay Appalling
* Judges Rule: One Man, None Vote
* MAGA hates virtue signaling and opts for vice signaling instead
* Us: I thought you were going to turn my immune systems around, not upside down. You used me.
– Pfizer: Well you’re walking around like a blind man without a cane. A fool and his health are lucky enough to get together in the first place.
– Us: But why do you need to wreck my immune system?
– Pfizer: Because it is wreckable, alright! I took another look at it and I changed my mind!IT WASN’T A MISTAKE. IT WAS A PLAN.
Embarrassing!
(((Goldberg))) was obviously invited, as a scribe for Netanyahu.Better question:
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When hasn’t she?
At this point it’s pure entertainment but The Houthis are being annihilated for Marco Rubio’s “Our People”.
And that’s just goddam despicableTulse:
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After the Atlantic published the texts this morning, Tulsi Gabbard is confronted today on why she lied in her testimony to the Senate yesterday. She says she misremembered.
Her visage on that testimonial video was a dead give-away or she was Lit. Choose.
Here’s one for JB, Women always chained in basement and beaten daily, right up to 1980, maybe 1995, who knows? …Except every BW movie from 1940 shows the opposite, because they were really tricky like that: they knew although it was perfectly approved then, it WOULD be naughty 4 generations in the future! See? How can anyone compete with such devilry? That’s better than when Joy Bahar fought off that internet time traveler.
Anyway, here you have Charlie Chan (who is actually Swedish) Being top detective in America, with two all-American kids, everyone likes and no one has a problem with. Considered perfect Americans, with American problems, although Chinese. …Because everyone in America was racist like that, shot foreigners on sight, thought other races were vermin, and they were all too poor and oppressed to buy shoes. …But the FILM studios in 1940 were super-clever, they knew what we would think if them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlNa1eIExvo (Easy 5 min, opening scene) Love his kids/family: super fun.
Charlie Chan was the biggest thing. Also they TRIED to use an Asian actor, but it didn’t click. Although this guy is Swedish, he looked Sami, and had whatever that magic film thing is. So the problem is now that he’s a foreigner, but the WRONG foreigner. You see, if the movie is about a Swede, you can’t cast a Norwegian…you bigot. Etc, etc, umbrage, dander, pearls.
JD Vance BLANTON Bowman = polished fecklessness
Tulsi = presentable ravenous ambitiousness
Whaddaya think D, accurate?
Guys like Ramaswamy and Tulsi seem to always give it away with a smile containing about 16 extra teeth.
AI perhaps??Daniel Sheehan in a double header interview by Ross Coulter that covers the JFK and UFO stories in one fell swoop. Danny Sheehan ain’t no lightweight, and he isn’t talking shit, either. Pay heed to what he says in this interview. Neither of those issues is “unknown”. There are tons of people who have known all about both of them, for a very long time, and just won’t tell. The data is “unknown” only to us, and that’s about to change.
JD bb Vance and Peter ‘sexy beast’ Hegseth are The Mank in the Arena.
Give ’em space to operate and breath, I Say!!The image of Two FatAss FratBoys in Charge immediately comes to mind.
War crimes also. Jokin’ and Smokin’ about it too. Great form!
West Point’s motto “If you’re making an omelet you’re gonna crack a few eggs, Bucco!”All done for Marco Rubio’s “Our People, in his words “Jews” and “Israelis”
From Emptywheel
Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Adjusts Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts into the United States
The White House
March 26, 2025
COUNTERING TRADE PRACTICES THAT THREATEN TO IMPAIR U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a proclamation invoking Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to impose a 25% tariff on imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts, addressing a critical threat to U.S. national security.President Trump is taking action to protect America’s automobile industry, which is vital to national security and has been undermined by excessive imports threatening America’s domestic industrial base and supply chains.
The 25% tariff will be applied to imported passenger vehicles (sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans) and light trucks, as well as key automobile parts (engines, transmissions, powertrain parts, and electrical components), with processes to expand tariffs on additional parts if necessary.
Importers of automobiles under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement will be given the opportunity to certify their U.S. content and systems will be implemented such that the 25% tariff will only apply to the value of their non-U.S. content.
USMCA-compliant automobile parts will remain tariff-free until the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), establishes a process to apply tariffs to their non-U.S. content.
The President is exercising his authority under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 to adjust imports to protect our national security.
This statute provides the President with authority to adjust imports being brought into the United States in quantities or under circumstances that threaten to impair national security.
MAINTAINING A RESILIENT DOMESTIC INDUSTRIAL BASE: President Trump is taking action to end unfair trade practices that jeopardize U.S. national security.The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities and choke points in global supply chains, undermining our ability to maintain a resilient domestic industrial base.
Legislation, pre-existing trade agreements like the USMCA, revisions to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, and subsequent negotiations have not sufficiently mitigated the threat to national security posed by imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts.
These new tariffs aim to ensure the U.S. can sustain its domestic industrial base and meet national security needs.
STRENGTHENING AMERICA’S MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY: President Trump’s decision to implement tariffs on imports of automobiles and automobile parts will protect and strengthen the U.S. automotive sector.Foreign automobile industries, bolstered by unfair subsidies and aggressive industrial policies, have expanded, while U.S. production has stagnated.
In 1985, American-owned facilities in the United States manufactured 11.0 million automobiles, representing 97% of overall domestic (American- and foreign-owned) production of automobiles.
In 2024, Americans bought approximately 16 million cars, SUVs, and light trucks, and 50% of these vehicles were imports (8 million).
Of the other 8 million vehicles assembled in America and not imported, the average domestic content is conservatively estimated at only 50% and is likely closer to 40%.
Therefore, of the 16 million cars bought by Americans, only 25% of the vehicle content can be categorized as Made in America.
The United States trade deficit in automobile parts reached $93.5 billion in 2024.
Currently, the U.S. automobile and automobile parts industry (American-owned and foreign-owned firms) employs approximately one million U.S. workers.
Employment in automotive parts manufacturing totaled approximately 553,300 jobs in 2024, a decline of 286,000 jobs or 34% since 2000.
In 2023, Research and Development (R&D) by American-owned automobile manufacturers amounted to only 16% of global R&D spending. R&D by American-owned firms lagged behind the EU, which controlled 53% of global R&D.
TARIFFS WORK: Studies have repeatedly shown that tariffs can be an effective tool for reducing or eliminating threats to impair U.S. national security and achieving economic and strategic objectives.A 2024 study on the effects of President Trump’s tariffs in his first term found that they “strengthened the U.S. economy” and “led to significant reshoring” in industries like manufacturing and steel production.
A 2023 report by the U.S. International Trade Commission that analyzed the effects of Section 232 and 301 tariffs on more than $300 billion of U.S. imports found that the tariffs reduced imports from China and effectively stimulated more U.S. production of the tariffed goods, with very minor effects on prices.
According to the Economic Policy Institute, the tariffs implemented by President Trump during his first term “clearly show[ed] no correlation with inflation” and only had a temporary effect on overall price levels.
An analysis from the Atlantic Council found that “tariffs would create new incentives for US consumers to buy US-made products.”
Former Biden Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen affirmed last year that tariffs do not raise prices: “I don’t believe that American consumers will see any meaningful increase in the prices that they face.”
A 2024 economic analysis found that a global tariff of 10% would grow the economy by $728 billion, create 2.8 million jobs, and increase real household incomes by 5.7%ADJUSTING IMPORTS OF AUTOMOBILES AND AUTOMOBILE
PARTS INTO THE UNITED STATES
Proclamations
March 26, 2025
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAA PROCLAMATION
1. On February 17, 2019, the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) transmitted to me a report on his investigation into the effects of imports of passenger vehicles (sedans, sport utility vehicles, crossover utility vehicles, minivans, and cargo vans) and light trucks (collectively, automobiles) and certain automobile parts (engines and engine parts, transmissions and powertrain parts, and electrical components) (collectively, automobile parts) on the national security of the United States under section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862) (section 232). Based on the facts considered in that investigation, the Secretary found and advised me of his opinion that automobiles and certain automobile parts are being imported into the United States in such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States.
2. In Proclamation 9888 of May 17, 2019 (Adjusting Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts Into the United States), I concurred with the Secretary’s finding in the February 17, 2019, report that automobiles and certain automobile parts are being imported into the United States in such quantities and under such circumstances as to threaten to impair the national security of the United States. I also directed the United States Trade Representative (Trade Representative), in consultation with other executive branch officials, to pursue negotiation of agreements to address the threatened impairment of the national security of the United States with respect to imported automobiles and certain automobile parts from the European Union, Japan, and any other country the Trade Representative deems appropriate.
3. The Trade Representative’s negotiations did not lead to any agreements of the type contemplated by section 232.
4. In Proclamation 9888, I also directed the Secretary to monitor imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts and inform me of any circumstances that, in the Secretary’s opinion, might indicate the need for further action under section 232 with respect to such imports.
5. The Secretary has informed me that, since the February 17, 2019, report, the national security concerns remain and have escalated. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed critical vulnerabilities and choke points in global supply chains, undermining our ability to maintain a resilient domestic industrial base. In recent years, American-owned automotive manufacturers have experienced numerous supply chain challenges, including material and parts input shortages, labor shortages and strikes, and electrical-component shortages. Meanwhile, foreign automotive industries, propelled by unfair subsidies and aggressive industrial policies, have grown substantially. Today, only about half of the vehicles sold in the United States are manufactured domestically, a decline that jeopardizes our domestic industrial base and national security, and the United States’ share of worldwide automobile production has remained stagnant since the February 17, 2019, report. The number of employees in the domestic automotive industry has also not improved since the February 17, 2019, report.
6. I am also advised that agreements entered into before the issuance of Proclamation 9888, such as the revisions to the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement and the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), have not yielded sufficient positive outcomes. The threat to national security posed by imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts remains and has increased. Investments resulting from other efforts, such as legislation, have also not yielded sufficient positive outcomes to eliminate the threat to national security from such imports.
7. After considering the current information newly provided by the Secretary, among other things, I find that imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts continue to threaten to impair the national security of the United States and deem it necessary and appropriate to impose tariffs, as defined below, to adjust imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts so that such imports will not threaten to impair national security.
8. To ensure that the imposition of tariffs on automobiles and certain automobile parts in this proclamation are not circumvented and that the purpose of this action to eliminate the threat to the national security of the United States by imports of automobiles and certain automobile parts is not undermined, I also deem it necessary and appropriate to establish processes to identify and impose tariffs on additional automobile parts, as further described below.
9. Section 232 provides that, in this situation, the President shall take such other actions as the President deems necessary to adjust the imports of the relevant article so that such imports will not threaten to impair national security.
10. Section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2483), authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) the substance of statutes affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder, including the removal, modification, continuance, or imposition of any rate of duty or other import restriction.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, United States Code; section 604 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended; and section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, as amended, do hereby proclaim as follows:
(1) Except as otherwise provided in this proclamation, all imports of articles specified in Annex I to this proclamation or in any subsequent annex to this proclamation, as set out in a subsequent notice in the Federal Register, shall be subject to a 25 percent tariff with respect to goods entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 3, 2025, for automobiles, and on the date specified in the Federal Register for automobile parts, but no later than May 3, 2025, and shall continue in effect, unless such actions are expressly reduced, modified, or terminated. The above ad valorem tariff is in addition to any other duties, fees, exactions, and charges applicable to such imported automobiles and certain automobile parts articles.
(2) For automobiles that qualify for preferential tariff treatment under the USMCA, importers of such automobiles may submit documentation to the Secretary identifying the amount of U.S. content in each model imported into the United States. “U.S. content” refers to the value of the automobile attributable to parts wholly obtained, produced entirely, or substantially transformed in the United States. Thereafter, the Secretary may approve imports of such automobiles to be eligible to apply the ad valorem tariff of 25 percent in clause (1) of this proclamation exclusively to the value of the non-U.S. content of the automobile. The non-U.S. content of the automobile shall be calculated by subtracting the value of the U.S. content in an automobile from the total value of the automobile.
(3) If U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) determines that the declared value of non-U.S. content of an automobile, as described in clause (2) of this proclamation, is inaccurate due to an overstatement of U.S. content, the 25 percent tariff shall apply to the full value of the automobile, regardless of the actual U.S. content of the automobile. In addition, the 25 percent tariff shall be applied retroactively (from April 3, 2025, to the date of the inaccurate overstatement) and prospectively (from the date of the inaccurate overstatement to the date the importer corrects the overstatement, as verified by CBP) to the full value of all automobiles of the same model imported by the same importer. This clause does not apply to or otherwise affect any other applicable fees or penalties.
(4) The ad valorem tariff of 25 percent described in clause (1) of this proclamation shall not apply to automobile parts that qualify for preferential treatment under the USMCA until such time that the Secretary, in consultation with CBP, establishes a process to apply the tariff exclusively to the value of the non-U.S. content of such automobile parts and publishes notice in the Federal Register.
(5) For avoidance of doubt, clause (4) of this proclamation does not apply to automobile knock-down kits or parts compilations. Clause (4) of this proclamation applies only to individual automobile parts as defined by Annex I to this proclamation that otherwise meet the requirements of clause (4) of this proclamation.
(6) The Secretary, in consultation with the United States International Trade Commission and CBP, shall determine the modifications necessary to the HTSUS to effectuate this proclamation and shall make such modifications to the HTSUS through notice in the Federal Register.
(7) Within 90 days of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary shall establish a process for including additional automobile parts articles within the scope of the tariffs described in clause (1) of this proclamation. In addition to inclusions made by the Secretary, this process shall provide for including additional automobile parts articles at the request of a domestic producer of an automobile or automobile parts article, or an industry association representing one or more such producers, where the request establishes that imports of additional automobile parts articles have increased in a manner that threatens to impair the national security or otherwise undermines the objectives set forth in any proclamation issued on the basis of the Secretary’s February 17, 2019, report or any additional information submitted to the President under clause (3) of Proclamation 9888 or clause (9) of this proclamation. When the Secretary receives such a request from a domestic producer or industry association, the Secretary, after consultation with the United States International Trade Commission and CBP, shall issue a determination regarding whether to include the articles within 60 days of receiving the request. Any additional automobile parts articles that the Secretary has determined to be included within the scope of the tariffs described in clause (1) of this proclamation shall be so included on or after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time the day after a notice in the Federal Register describing the determination of the Secretary. The notice in the Federal Register shall be made as soon as practicable but no later than 14 days after the Secretary’s determination.
(8) Any automobile or automobile part, except those eligible for admission under “domestic status” as defined in 19 CFR 146.43, that is subject to the duty imposed by this proclamation and that is admitted into a United States foreign trade zone on or after the effective date of this proclamation, in accordance with clause (1) of this proclamation, must be admitted as “privileged foreign status” as defined in 19 CFR 146.41, and will be subject upon entry for consumption to any ad valorem rates of duty related to the classification under the applicable HTSUS subheading.
(9) The Secretary shall continue to monitor imports of automobiles and automobile parts. The Secretary also shall, from time to time, in consultation with any senior executive branch officials the Secretary deems appropriate, review the status of such imports with respect to national security. The Secretary shall inform the President of any circumstances that, in the Secretary’s opinion, might indicate the need for further action by the President under section 232. The Secretary shall also inform the President of any circumstance that, in the Secretary’s opinion, might indicate that the increase in duty rate provided for in this proclamation is no longer necessary.
(10) No drawback shall be available with respect to the duties imposed pursuant to this proclamation.
(11) The Secretary may issue regulations and guidance consistent with this proclamation, including to address operational necessity.
(12) CBP may take any necessary or appropriate measures to administer the tariffs imposed by this proclamation.
(13) Any provision of previous proclamations and Executive Orders that is inconsistent with the actions taken in this proclamation is superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.In relation to the leaked group chat scandal there are only two possibilities. Either they were discussing legitimately and actual classified information IN AN INSECURE MANNER, or they were NOT talking about anything classified at all, in which case they have absolutely no legitimate excuse for withholding the transcript of what they said. We have the constitutionally guaranteed RIGHT to demand and know what they said word for word.
Either way you look at it it’s a screw up and failure of such monumental magnitude that it belongs in the record books right up there with Watergate.
I don’t know exactly who is “advising” the current Executive branch, but if it’s not God or Satan himself then those fools have got no excuse for how badly they are performing their sworn duties to one or the other.
You know, that’s the one thing that every politician that I have ever known or heard of has failed to know, remember and adhere to. It is the fact that when they swear their oath of office, they are making an oath to serve the people but they are swearing that oath to God!
The “news” is now a LARP (Live Action Role Play) where narratives compete, not facts. Your best tool is epistemic paranoia—assume everything is propaganda until proven otherwise. ~ deepseek a.i.
- “The same institutions, these same people, at the same time, just as insistently pushed masking, lockdowns, and most importantly, the notavax.”
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