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fishonjazz said:

Consumer confidence plummeted in February, indicating worry about the direction of the U.S. economy under President Donald Trump.

A gauge of consumer confidence registered its largest monthly drop since August 2021, the nonpartisan Conference Board said on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the share of consumers who expect a recession within the next year surged to a nine-month high, the data showed. A growing portion of consumers believe the job market will worsen, the stock market will fall and interest rates will rise, the report added.

Earlier this month, Trump announced 25% tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada as well as 10% tariffs on products from China.

Trump paused the tariffs on Mexico and Canada for one month after striking a deal with each of the two countries on drug trafficking and border security. On Monday, Trump said he plans to go forward with the tariffs when that pause lifts next week.

Seven of every 10 American adults believe tariffs will raise prices, an Ipsos survey found last week.

"Consumers who fear the impact of higher tariffs, spending cuts, and deportations are getting worried and are likely to be more cautious," Bill Adams, chief economist at Comerica Bank in Dallas, told ABC News.
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It's always that Trumptard 30% who have zero ability to think for themselves.
 
Bucknutz said:
Do you know who they are talking about in this clip?
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Did you give us your list yet? Why can't you just tell us the 10 best things this administration has done? Can't you acknowledge the awesome good they are doing?
 
LogGrad98 said:
Welp, here is Zelensky giving in to the terrorist.

abcnews.go.com

US, Ukraine agree to terms on mineral deal, Ukraine says

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to visit Washington on Friday.
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“Trump said the U.S. has spent $350 billion toward Ukraine, though he has not cited where he's gotten that figure.”

Classic

What kind of infrastructure, money, and time will it take to begin extracting minerals? I bet we never see any of this and Zelensky is just playing along knowing Trump has no idea how to begin that operation. I think Zelensky is playing tbe odds that Donald won’t be around long enough for it to matter.
 
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Step-Back Lauri said:
Anyone please join the alliance in banning this person and his naive "sources" spewing fake propaganda, who has zero understanding of nation under attack, how martial laws work, and what it means to be under a war from Russia. It's disgusting how JF allows this kind of Kreml minded propaganda that has zero understanding. And you just let this keep coming. I'm off. You gotta choose either he goes or I go. Bye, and thank you.
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Okay troll. Or a bot. You seriously cannot be a real person.
 
enchilada_style said:
“Trump said the U.S. has spent $350 billion toward Ukraine, though he has not cited where he's gotten that figure.”

Classic

What kind of infrastructure, money, and time will it take to beginning extracting minerals? I bet we never see any of this and Zelensky is just playing along knowing Trump has no idea how to begin that operation. I think Zelensky is playing tbe odds that Donald won’t be around long enough for it to matter.
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Trump thinks he's getting diamonds for his illegal wife and gold for his tacky apartment.
 
Not easy keeping up at times. Like daily or hourly.


A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal to carry out mass deportations through a network of “processing camps” on military bases, a private fleet of 100 planes, and a “small army” of private citizens empowered to make arrests.

The blueprint — laid out in a 26-page document President Donald Trump’s advisers received before the inauguration — carries an estimated price tag of $25 billion and recommends a range of aggressive tactics to rapidly deport 12 million people before the 2026 midterms, including some that would likely face legal and operational challenges, according to a copy obtained by POLITICO.

The group, which includes some former immigration officials, is led by Prince, who has close ties to Trump, and Bill Mathews, the former chief operating officer of Blackwater, the military contractor known for its role in providing security, training and logistical support to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan during the war on terror.

The emergence of the proposal, marked “unsolicited,” is indicative of the major hurdles the administration faces as it struggles to find the resources to fulfill Trump’s ambitious deportation agenda. The administration’s desire to make good on that signature campaign promise has created an opening for private contractors who see a rare area in which the Trump administration is likely to increase spending.

Deporting 12 million people in two years “would require the government to eject nearly 500,000 illegal aliens per month,” the document says. “To keep pace with the Trump deportations, it would require a 600% increase in activity. It is unlikely that the government could swell its internal ranks to keep pace with this demand …in order to process this enormous number of deportations, the government should enlist outside assistance.”
 
Inconsequential in any grand scheme, but another way of seeing the cultish nature of MAGA, and the cult of personality that is Trumpism…

“The Trump bubble is a counter-revolutionary movement that bucks the trends of the moment to become the new mainstream. It is a movement based on denying reality,”

english.elpais.com

The popularity of the ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ soars in Trump’s inner circle

Botox, visible facial fillers and exaggerated tans comprise the aesthetic popular among Donald Trump’s entourage. What’s behind this new fad?
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The so-called Mar-a-Lago face has undergone exaggerated Botox, visible facial fillers and extreme tanning. Social networks were responsible for this trend going viral by showing the before and after of several women in Donald Trump’s inner circle. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Greece, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem all featured in this line-up highlighting the striking differences in their faces over time. “Their faces had all, over an unspecified period, morphed from conventionally human to makeup-caked, angular cheekboned, full-lipped, Fellini-esque exaggerations of the dolled-up Fox News anchorwoman look,” according to Hollywood Reporter journalist Julian Sancton. “And it’s not just the women: Few of us can remember the content of former Florida Rep. (and former prospective attorney general) Matt Gaetz’s RNC speech last summer, so fixated were we on the new elfin arc of his eyebrows. (And the less said about George Santos and his Botox habit the better.)”

Sancton notes that the look is indicative of Trump’s brash departure from the well-established norms of Washington DC and wonders if his return to the White House could be a challenge to the aesthetic discretion that reigned in 2024. “The Trump bubble is a counter-revolutionary movement that bucks the trends of the moment to become the new mainstream. It is a movement based on denying reality,” fashion and celebrity journalist Joan Callarissa tells EL PAÍS. “If they have a face they don’t like, they change it without caring if it looks natural or not, because reality does not matter to Trumpism. Traditionally, the right as a more central force tried not to be so flagrant, but given the current polarization of American society, it was impossible that the change would not also affect aesthetics. Polarization leads us to live in bubbles in which there is a marked tribal factor that means if the leaders have an artificial look, then so will those around them, because [the tribal bubble means] they only see people like themselves.”

“In the world of Trumpist conservatism, there’s a lot of dogmatism and scorn directed at science, and in the face of that, there’s obviously going to be more homogenization, because critical thinking is done away with,” says Callarissa. “No one can criticize what the leaders of the movement do, and supporters will imitate it because of the tribal factor.
 
Trump to sell "Gold Card" as an alternative to a green card that peasants get. The Gold Card will cost $5,000,000 and will allow the ultra wealthy to skip the line on immigration, because waiting in line is for the poors.

When asked if the card would be available to Russian oligarchs Trump said, “Yeah, possibly. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people.”

Huh, ya don't say? Just like Trump to always see the good in people, as this is not the first time he's mentioned "very nice people" when discussing absolutely abhorrent people.

 
Al-O-Meter said:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and wager that you had no clue this clip was from 7 years ago during his first administration.

Remarks by President Trump in Meeting with Local and State Officials on School Safety – The White House

trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov

While here under Trump 2.0...

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Dude chill!

I’m just flooding the zone.

Relax.


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Red said:
Inconsequential in any grand scheme, but another way of seeing the cultish nature of MAGA, and the cult of personality that is Trumpism…

“The Trump bubble is a counter-revolutionary movement that bucks the trends of the moment to become the new mainstream. It is a movement based on denying reality,”

english.elpais.com

The popularity of the ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ soars in Trump’s inner circle

Botox, visible facial fillers and exaggerated tans comprise the aesthetic popular among Donald Trump’s entourage. What’s behind this new fad?
english.elpais.com english.elpais.com

The so-called Mar-a-Lago face has undergone exaggerated Botox, visible facial fillers and extreme tanning. Social networks were responsible for this trend going viral by showing the before and after of several women in Donald Trump’s inner circle. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Greece, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem all featured in this line-up highlighting the striking differences in their faces over time. “Their faces had all, over an unspecified period, morphed from conventionally human to makeup-caked, angular cheekboned, full-lipped, Fellini-esque exaggerations of the dolled-up Fox News anchorwoman look,” according to Hollywood Reporter journalist Julian Sancton. “And it’s not just the women: Few of us can remember the content of former Florida Rep. (and former prospective attorney general) Matt Gaetz’s RNC speech last summer, so fixated were we on the new elfin arc of his eyebrows. (And the less said about George Santos and his Botox habit the better.)”

Sancton notes that the look is indicative of Trump’s brash departure from the well-established norms of Washington DC and wonders if his return to the White House could be a challenge to the aesthetic discretion that reigned in 2024. “The Trump bubble is a counter-revolutionary movement that bucks the trends of the moment to become the new mainstream. It is a movement based on denying reality,” fashion and celebrity journalist Joan Callarissa tells EL PAÍS. “If they have a face they don’t like, they change it without caring if it looks natural or not, because reality does not matter to Trumpism. Traditionally, the right as a more central force tried not to be so flagrant, but given the current polarization of American society, it was impossible that the change would not also affect aesthetics. Polarization leads us to live in bubbles in which there is a marked tribal factor that means if the leaders have an artificial look, then so will those around them, because [the tribal bubble means] they only see people like themselves.”

“In the world of Trumpist conservatism, there’s a lot of dogmatism and scorn directed at science, and in the face of that, there’s obviously going to be more homogenization, because critical thinking is done away with,” says Callarissa. “No one can criticize what the leaders of the movement do, and supporters will imitate it because of the tribal fact
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Red said:
Inconsequential in any grand scheme, but another way of seeing the cultish nature of MAGA, and the cult of personality that is Trumpism…

“The Trump bubble is a counter-revolutionary movement that bucks the trends of the moment to become the new mainstream. It is a movement based on denying reality,”

english.elpais.com

The popularity of the ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ soars in Trump’s inner circle

Botox, visible facial fillers and exaggerated tans comprise the aesthetic popular among Donald Trump’s entourage. What’s behind this new fad?
english.elpais.com english.elpais.com

The so-called Mar-a-Lago face has undergone exaggerated Botox, visible facial fillers and extreme tanning. Social networks were responsible for this trend going viral by showing the before and after of several women in Donald Trump’s inner circle. Republican National Committee Chairwoman Lara Trump, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to Greece, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer and South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem all featured in this line-up highlighting the striking differences in their faces over time. “Their faces had all, over an unspecified period, morphed from conventionally human to makeup-caked, angular cheekboned, full-lipped, Fellini-esque exaggerations of the dolled-up Fox News anchorwoman look,” according to Hollywood Reporter journalist Julian Sancton. “And it’s not just the women: Few of us can remember the content of former Florida Rep. (and former prospective attorney general) Matt Gaetz’s RNC speech last summer, so fixated were we on the new elfin arc of his eyebrows. (And the less said about George Santos and his Botox habit the better.)”

Sancton notes that the look is indicative of Trump’s brash departure from the well-established norms of Washington DC and wonders if his return to the White House could be a challenge to the aesthetic discretion that reigned in 2024. “The Trump bubble is a counter-revolutionary movement that bucks the trends of the moment to become the new mainstream. It is a movement based on denying reality,” fashion and celebrity journalist Joan Callarissa tells EL PAÍS. “If they have a face they don’t like, they change it without caring if it looks natural or not, because reality does not matter to Trumpism. Traditionally, the right as a more central force tried not to be so flagrant, but given the current polarization of American society, it was impossible that the change would not also affect aesthetics. Polarization leads us to live in bubbles in which there is a marked tribal factor that means if the leaders have an artificial look, then so will those around them, because [the tribal bubble means] they only see people like themselves.”

“In the world of Trumpist conservatism, there’s a lot of dogmatism and scorn directed at science, and in the face of that, there’s obviously going to be more homogenization, because critical thinking is done away with,” says Callarissa. “No one can criticize what the leaders of the movement do, and supporters will imitate it because of the tribal factor.
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LOL
 
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