I’m a little concerned that this will be even worse than 29, if I’m being honest. The global economy is even more interconnected than it was then, it seems to me.
Evil fuck.
This is not going to end well.
How martial of him.
They kicked out the AMA, American Academy of Pediatrics, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Physicians, the American Geriatrics Society, the American Osteopathic Association, the National Medical Association and the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
Because they are special interest groups and have bias based on the people they represent.
We’re doomed.
let’see, 2016… so mark meadows didn’t think a trump department of pedophilia would be a good first year initiative?
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s former butler has surfaced with some wild claims about his boss and President Donald Trump.
Valdson Vieira Cotrin, who ran Epstein’s Paris home and worked for the disgraced financier for 18 years, gave a wide-ranging, on-the-record interview with The Telegraph.
Cotrin recalled having a conversation with his boss in 2016 about Trump while picking Epstein up in Paris from the airport.
“A few days after Trump’s election, Mr. Epstein arrived in Paris on Monday or Tuesday, and I went to pick him up at the airport,” Cotrin told The Telegraph. “He said, ‘Valdson, you saw that Trump is the new U.S. president?’ ‘Yes,’ I replied, ‘I saw it on the news in Paris.’”
“‘Well, Trump asked me to work for him in the new government,’” the butler claimed Epstein said. “I said, ‘Congratulations. I’m happy for you,’ in my bad English. He said, ‘No, I didn’t accept.’”
I still don’t want his billionaire ass to run for president, but good on him. More democrats should be doing this shit.
I sincerely hope that in the vacuum created by all this anti-vax bullshit at the gov’t level insurers and HMOs and hospitals can band together to figure out this fall’s flu shot, as it would be in their interest to do so. I’m wondering if we’ll have to travel to get flu/covid boosters outside the US.
I just got my flu shot this morning actually. They’re apparently not advertising them very well, obviously the government isn’t, but they’re out there.
If it’s between him and Newsom - I’ll take him.
I’d take him over Buttigieg as well
Seconded.
Agreed. I just would like better options for all of us… No transphobes, no billionaires, no cowards. We deserve that much at least.
So I was thinking today, as I drove with someone who insisted that “it’s not as bad as the news makes it out to be” and “he’s losing tons of support every day”, what happens next?
I mean, let’s pretend time stops right now and we move forward 3.5 years, and miracle of miracles, a Dem wins the Presidency. It’s John Q. Average, a middle-aged white guy with standard Dem beliefs, if that helps you set your brain space.
What do they do? The country, our country, has tens of thousands of people in pop-up jails right now. We have hundreds (?) in a black site, off book, out of country jail. We have tens of thousands of armed, at least semi-trained right wing militia who believe that they can and should arrest anyone who is of wheat bread coloring or darker. We’ve destroyed relations with our neighbors and most other countries and have proven to be as reliable as a damp match in a hurricane.
What in the world do we do next? I was trying to figure it out and all I know is I am not smart enough to know where we go from here. Unwinding the things we can now (the brain drain is impossible to fix short term) is massive in scale for each single thing. You need to have some sort of hybrid FDR/Obama/Lincoln at the helm to get anything done even.
More chaos at the IRS with the ouster of another agency leader. (Not that he ever should have had the job in the first place.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/politics/trump-billy-long-irs-commissioner.html
Paul Krugman keeps making the argument that although the current tariffs are more impactful than Smoot-Hawley, the impact on the domestic economy (beyond causing inflation) is relatively minor - at least compared to the chaotic effect of Trump policies and the uncertainty around the tariffs, which are hugely damaging.
I saw that Ford cars had record revenue last quarter - but actually lost money because of the tariffs. Like many companies, they were waiting to see what happened with the tariffs, so ate the added costs, like Trump wanted. (Making it clear that Trump’s demand amounts to forcing companies to lose rather than make money under his regime.) But that clearly isn’t a viable long-term strategy, especially now that the tariffs are even higher.