I donāt think weāve hit double digit amounts of US reporters immediately fact checking to Trump sycophants/congresspeople this year, which is sad.
Iād watch more news if they actually stood up for journalistic integrity rather than clickbait and views. Iād follow that with youād get more views if you pressed hard.
Hereās the video of him cheating.
ah. so trump is now admitting heās all over the epstein files, but that Biden(Comey(Obama(garlandā¦))) put his name in there. (as to all the myriad photos/vids with trump and epstein together: These are not the pedophiles youāre seeking)
TMZ:
Donald Trump Suggests Biden Admin Put His Name in Epstein Files As Payback
Published July 28, 2025 7:34 AM PDT
Donald Trump just suggested his name appears in the Epstein files because his
enemies ā Joe Biden, James Comey and Merrick Garland ā put his name in the
files to smear him.Trump was speaking in Scotland Monday when he casually dropped the conspiracy
theory. He called the Biden trio the āworst scum on Earth,ā adding they
controlled the Epstein Justice Dept. files for 4 years.Now the conspiracy theory ā¦ Trump said, āI was running against someone who
ran the files ā¦ They can easily put something in the files thatās a phony.āTrump went on to say the Biden Administration had the ability to release the
files if there was something in them, but there was no smoking gun, so that
never became public. Trump called Biden and Co. his āenemy,ā so the suggestion
is either during or after the election, they put Trumpās name in the filesā¦
is signaling to them to keep going - and itās not just going after the homeless. Itās chipping away at privacy rights, as well as the ability to use public and private property as we did before the regime started monetizing poverty. As @KeybillyJefe pointed out, the more people they can impoverish, take their property, eliminate their freedom, and push into prison puts more money into the pockets of the oligarchs. As a bonus, they get to test all of their new tech toys - AI, drones, and robots - to identify / locate their targets.
Hereās a vanlifer pointing out how this is affecting people now:
The number of people who donāt realize how easy it is to become homeless (made worse by the regime supporting mass layoffs and elimination of the social safety net) seems to be very low. They need to get the memo that they wonāt be able to just sleep in their cars, couch surf with friends, or camp somewhere if they lose their housing.
The other day I caught myself thinking about this phrase. I prefer to think Iām immune to it. But life changes so quickly. Honestly, I donāt even know what to do if something like this happens to me.
So Trump just announced a framework agreement on trade with the EU that involves the EU importing $250 billion worth of fossil fuel from the US. This isā¦ unlikely, because a) itās about four times more than the EU currently imports from the US, b) itās more than the EU imports, period, c) itās substantially more than the US produces for export. (Trump apparently delusionally believes that the Department of Energy dictates the amount of drilling and mining, but in reality itās not like the US is suddenly going to increase our production, because prices wonāt have changed and there will be no incentive to produce more.)
(Edit: given the recent explosion of solar - it was the largest electricity source in the EU last month - and other renewable energy in the EU, demand is likely to go down, in fact.)
Of course, that doesnāt mean the EU didnāt sign on, knowing full well (unlike Trump) that itās impossible, because it seems like the trend with these things (started with China in 2019) is that countries agree to impossible deals because their plan is simply to ignore them. China did that in 2019 and Trump did nothing in response. (Heās in it for the headlines, so he has an incentive to not point out the agreement failed and go back and make a big deal about it.) Since all of Trumpās demands on trade are based on delusional premises, every country must ultimately be signing onto agreements they have no intention - or ability - to follow. Theyāre just humoring a delusional president, hoping to front it out until a sane adult takes over.
Good info. Thanks!
At least there are some grownups in the room. Wish they were Americans with power and influence, but here we are.
Iām really curious what the other delusional bits are with all the various āagreementsā theyāve come up with. The agreement with Japan includes some investment numbers where Japan has a very different idea about how they work than what Trump has publicly claimed. I suspect that, ultimately, the only real bits of the trade agreements will be the tariffs imposed on US consumers. All the rest will be some degree of bullshit, which means that functionally there are no agreements at all - the only real bits are what Trump can impose domestically.
Well, yes, but in this particular context Iād say itās not entirely relevant. Trump lacks the most basic grasp on reality, unlike everyone else (it feels a bit overgenerous to say that makes anyone āadultsā though). Everyone else realizes, from even a brief interaction with Trump, that heās delusional, canāt be reasoned with or educated, so all thatās left is to humor him. (Although it might be more accurate to say that theyāre ignoring his demands and hoping he goes away.) Even if they didnāt realize that, and tried to educate/reason with him, it wouldnāt work and theyād be in the same place. Thereās really nothing else they can do.
And yet the equivalent politicians and other public figures in the U.S. donāt seem to be able to manage even that.
(Except for a few, of course, who are fighting the good fight.)
Heās only instigated conflicts. He is insane though, so, you know, why bother listening?
ISTM that what youāre saying fits very well with this Guardian essay that Mindy linked to yesterday, except that I think the writer implies that Trump knows what heās doing (i.e., that heās not doing it out of stupidity or delusion). Worth a read, if you havenāt read it, or was for me anyway.
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Deals, whether in finance, real estate, or in any other part of the economy, are just one step in the process of reaching full-fledged, binding agreements subject to the force of law. They are a stage in the negotiation process that has no force until it is finalized as a contract. It is, at best, an agreement to agree, which can turn out to be premature, poorly conceived or unacceptable to one or other party. Put another way, it is an engagement, not a wedding. A deal allows a negotiator like Trump to claim victory and blame the other party or some other contextual variable if things do not work out.In fact, in the hands of someone like Trump, deals are ways to evade, postpone or subvert the efficient work of markets. Trump does not like markets, precisely because they are impersonal and invisible. Their results ā for corporations, entrepreneurs, investors and shareholders ā are subject to clear measures of success and failure.
Because deals are personal, adversarial and incomplete, they are perfect grist for Trumpās relentless publicity machine, and allow him to polish his brand, massage his ego and signal his prowess to opponents ā without the regulations and measurable consequences of regular market risks. The downside risk for an aborted or interrupted deal is negligible, and the upside is guaranteed by the legal power of fully completed contracts.
Trump has figured out to an exceptional degree that dealmaking does not need to be successful in order to massively increase his wealth. ā¦
You know, Kamala would have prevented 20 major wars.
Since weāre talking hypothetical wars, and all.
I donāt know - the problem seems to be that ignoring him and hoping he goes away is too often exactly the main Democratic responseā¦
Yeah, this is doubly true with the trade agreements. On the one hand, Trumpās understanding of the economics is entirely composed of delusional beliefs, and heās making delusional demands in trade agreements. On the other hand, all he cares about is the headline of his supposed achievements. He doesnāt care what the actual outcome is of the agreement (heās got nothing material on the line himself, what does he care that the US gains nothing, or is even hurt?), all that matters is that heās given credit for an achievement, even if the achievement doesnāt exist in reality.
Iām not a paying member so didnāt get to read it all 