Quote from: RE on Today at 04:46 PM

Quote from: TDoS on Today at 04:05 PMDo you think this is how the MIB talk among themselves? Except on a much larger scale of course, but maybe the same basic mindset? Watching, always watching, keeping track, looking for the organizers?

Sure.  They've been doing that since the days of the SDS and Weathermen.  Further back too with the Wobblies.  Easier now with the internet and social media.

RE

Easy enough for the website owners themselves as well. Sort of like a domino effect, "if folks can do it to me, I can do it to anyone who shows up at my site too!". Sort of like....exactly what Haniel did.

You would think that folks who object to what's done to them wouldn't so easily do it to others, wouldn't you? If they meant what they said about it being done to them anyway. 

Quote from: RE on Apr 20, 2025, 10:20 AMFar as the alternate definition of knowing it when you see it being arbitrary, if it's good enough for the SCOTUS, it's good enough for the Diner.

RE

Really? Good enough for SCOTUS works for the Diner? I'll keep that in mind as their decisions continue to come out and we'll see how wonderfully "good enough for SCOTUS, good enough for the Diner" works out overall.

Quote from: TDoS on Today at 04:05 PMDo you think this is how the MIB talk among themselves? Except on a much larger scale of course, but maybe the same basic mindset? Watching, always watching, keeping track, looking for the organizers?

Sure.  They've been doing that since the days of the SDS and Weathermen.  Further back too with the Wobblies.  Easier now with the internet and social media.

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Quote from: K-Dog on Apr 21, 2025, 03:44 PM

This one joined up with something like 20,000 at the Seattle center.  As news coverage is minimal what is the point of protesting?  These photos came from a small local paper.

I am keeping track of them and who organizes them.

Do you think this is how the MIB talk among themselves? Except on a much larger scale of course, but maybe the same basic mindset? Watching, always watching, keeping track, looking for the organizers?

Happy Days are Here Again!  Powell keeps his job and China's tariffs get slashed.  Trump was read the riot act by the Illuminati.  Back up goes the YoYo.



The problem with YoYo-nomics is nobody can plan anything, because policy changes every time the economic wind changes direction or his Trumpness has a bad day on the golf course.  There is no economictheory here, it's all the "art of the deal" which is Trumpspeak for bullying.  You can't bully the Bond Vigilantes, there's no one person you can sit down and make deals with.

So, now that the stock market is all perky again, how long till the next crisis?  2 are waitingg in the wings, the Fed Budget and the CRE market which has a reckoning coming.  There is also no guarantee China will just forget about the Tariffs and all the threats.  They can still quietly dump USTs to keep the pressure on interest rates.

Expect further bounces of the YoYo.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/23/business/stock-market-dow-jerome-powell-fed-trump/index.html

Trump was warned of empty shelves and financial turmoil from tariffs and firing Powell. His U-turn pushed stocks higher

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From your article.

QuoteThat potentially disastrous combination of slowing growth and rising inflation is difficult to overcome. Although economists don't yet expect anything close to the so-called stagflation of the 1970s, the rapid reordering of global trade dynamics is causing tremendous confusion and unease among consumers, businesses and traders.

High unemployment should keep prices down.  But when 'Make America Great Again' means returning to 1973 via inflation introduced by Trump tariff, we get a shitshow.



Trump Calls Groceries an 'Old-Fashioned' Word During Tariff Speech:    -  It Sort of Says a Bag with Different Things in It

Tariffs are a national sales tax on imported goods.  Trump does this, and at the end of the year he makes tax breaks on the rich permanent.  One tax merely replacing the other, and Trump gives America new regressive taxes.  Nothing else changes, and here is the important thing which is missed.

A national plan to bring manufacturing back to America would be Socialist.  Trump and other republicans would never allow it.  The same people who exported manufacturing are not going to import it. 

All Trump is doing is moving taxes to the lower class so his base will kiss his royal ass.  Any plan to move manufacturing to America would reduce profit.  Trumps base is all about getting as much as they can for themselves.  They are Nazis.

They think their way is the American way.  All you can for yourself, and fuck everyone else.  The not so secret handshake of the rich.

In Trumpspeak, it's a "Great, Big, Beautiful Depression".

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/investing/dow-great-depression-sell-america-trade/index.html

We're suddenly talking about the Great Depression when discussing Trump's stock market

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3521%  HTF did they come up with that number?  This shit is like stories from The Onion or the Harvard Lampoon.        

Not a good week to quit sniffing glue.


US to impose tariffs of up to 3,521% on south-east Asia solar panels

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/22/us-huge-tariffs-south-east-asian-solar-panels-energy-summit

RE

Total theater.

A new SEC chairman is named Today. so the Trump team bought on the close yesterday.  MTG probably made another killing playing shorts with inside info.  They cashed out at the end of the day.  They wait for their leader to tell them when he is going to drive the market down next.  Then when it is low, they will short the market again.  This new Trump lackey will make sure the game stays fixed.  Giving him the job brought the market up.

Trump picks crypto backer Paul Atkins as new Securities and Exchange Commission chair.

The source of all value is labor, and crypto has zero labor content.  Crypto is intended for the sole purpose of worship at the church of unearned riches. 

The American people never asked for crypto and I for one think it is a really fucking bad idea.  There is substantial evidence showing that in areas where gambling is legal, young men suffer from gambling-related debt and addictions.

Not everyone has a brain and we should not be creating social institutions that prey on the ignorance of the stupid.  Particularly when the social institution is nothing more than a new way to gamble.  Crypto will contribute nothing but pain to the social corpus.

Crypto serves absolutely no social need.  Zero, nada, nothing.

Could the economic newz possibly be any WORSE for the Trumpenator?  He absolutely WILL NOT STOP,ever,  until the economy is DEAD!


lol.

Now, futures market is predicting a Dead Cat bounce for early trading, but with the onslaught of negative numbers, I'll bet by late day trading any gains will be lost.  Still predicting a major sell off for Thursday.

On top of the tariffs,Trumpernutter proposes to charge Chinese flagged tankers a $5M port fee! Does he reallyy think the Chinese can't find another country to sell the oil to?

El Trumpo is the Collapse Gift that keeps on giving.

Dow Headed for Worst April Since 1932 as Investors Send 'No Confidence' Signal

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/dow-jones-stocks-worst-april-1932-74fe82ac

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