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Zuckerberg, Ellison, and Huang are now Trump's AI advisers.
Silicon Valley just joined the White House.
President Trump has appointed the first 13 members to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a highâprofile advisory body tasked with shaping U.S.
AI policy, national security strategy, and emerging technology regulation .
The council includes Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Oracle Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, Google coâfounder Sergey Brin, and AMD CEO Lisa Su .
It will be coâchaired by White House AI and crypto czar David Sacks and technology policy director Michael Kratsios .
The appointments signal a major shift: tech leaders who once clashed with Washington are now shaping its AI agenda from the inside .
The council's stated mission is to ensure the U.S. maintains "global technological dominance" amid intensifying competition with China .
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WHO ARE THE COWARDS AFRAID TO STAND UP TO TRUMP's MADNESS?
While the vast majority of Republican senators currently support President Donald Trump's military campaign in Iran, the support is not unanimous. As of March 25, 2026, GOP support for the month-long conflict has been tested through several Senate votes on "war powers" resolutions aimed at requiring congressional approval for the war: Lone Republican Opponent: Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.) has consistently been the only Republican to vote with Democrats to limit Trump's military authority in Iran. He has labeled the conflict an "unauthorized presidential war" and cited constitutional concerns regarding the power to initiate war.... Not all GOP House representatives support the military campaign against Iran. While the vast majority of House Republicans have voted to support President Trump's actions, a small group of "isolationist" Republicans has consistently broken ranks to vote for measures that would limit the president's war powers. As of March 25, 2026, the status of GOP support in the House is as follows: Dissenting GOP Members: Representatives Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Warren Davidson (R-OH) are the primary House Republicans who have voted against the party line. Massie even co-sponsored a War Powers Resolution with Democrat Ro Khanna to require congressional authorization for further military action.
Video contains lengthy / detailed reports from- first CBS NEWS -and second from NBC NEWS. Reco that you watch and hear BOTH of these Watergate/Nixon reports. Provocative American History.
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Last night's State of the Union address (February 24, 2026), delivered by President Trump, was watched by approximately 36.6 million television viewers.
APPROXIMATELY 74% of the viewing audience either strongly or somewhat --leaned GOP
Top Network: Fox News Channel led all networks with 11.5 million viewers.
Network Rankings: ABC followed in second with 6.3 million, with CBS (4 million), NBC (3.9 million), and the Fox broadcast network (2.7 million) rounding out the top five.
Cable News: Both CNN and MSNBC each pulled in roughly 1.9 million viewers.
Record Length: The address set a record for the longest presidential speech to Congress, clocking in at approximately 108 minutes.
Viewer Sentiment: According to a CNN poll of speech-watchers, about 62% had a positive reaction to the address.
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President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver his first official State of the Union (SOTU) address of his second term on Tuesday, February 24, 2026, at 9:00 p.m. ET.
Economic Strategy: Trump is expected to highlight the "big, beautiful bill"-the tax cut legislation passed in 2025-predicting it will lead to larger-than-expected tax refunds. He will likely push back against economic skepticism following a Supreme Court ruling that struck down his global tariffs.
Immigration and Border Security: Expect a focus on mass deportations and the $170 billion allocated to Homeland Security for these operations.
"Inherited Mess" Rhetoric: Advisers indicate he will repeatedly blame his predecessor, Joe Biden, for inflation and border issues, a tactic he used in his 2025 address.
Law and Order: The White House has previewed a "Law and Order" theme, emphasizing federal deployments and support for law enforcement.
[And MAYBE just maybe.. some talk about Iran. Maybe?]
Patriotic Symbolism: He is expected to promote "America 250" (the 2026 semiquincentennial) and his "Freedom 250" initiatives.
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GUESS WHAT?
Our computer analytical program (here at DTRI) predicts that the likelihood of Trump leaving the role of POTUS by the end of April 2027... is (currently, all things considered at this moment in time) projected as a 76% probability. And could result from health issues, invocation of the 25th Amendment, or impeachment with a guilty verdict. PROGRAM ALSO predicts 83% chance GOP will lose both the House and Senate due to midterm voting. Program says key issues of danger are .. Inflation, Tariffs, Trump's political betrayals, Feeling Trump is not of sound mind or health, Anger over Ep files coverup, Anger over Gaza genocide, the Impending Iran war, Zionist hold over Trump Admin, ICE Agency thuggery.
Trump is being very foolish in dealing with the press... being so encouraging of them being around him all the time. He's detached from reality, living in a mental bubble, thinking it's still 2017. It's absolutely NOT, and at the present moment in time, almost no one in the press has a kind word to say about him. And the overwhelming majority of journalists are giving negative coverage... regarding every move he makes and goofy lie he voices. So what he's doing is amplifying his own negative coverage..... Is that delusion in motion --or what?
[Survivors are not focused upon civil relief, they want the predators in jail. THAT's.. a DOJ issue. ALSO - Trying to fame the scandal as a stunt to 'get Trump' is absurd... And, DJT's 2006 phone call was a ploy to distance himself -since he now had a TV show on NBC].
The once politically insightful Bill O'Reilly has lost his sobriety, fallen prey to blurred vision, and gone considerably deaf. Resultantly, what he thinks is the current American political landscape is literally a delusion, an imaginary image of wishful thinking, and while he fancies himself a friend of Donald Trump and claims to speak with him on a not infrequent basis, he's not helping Trump at all and is doing great disservice to Trump and the nation... By so WANTING to believe Trump's outdated view of the political landscape, and we mean SOOOOOOOOOO desperately wanting to believe it, and so flattered that Trump talks to him and watches his show... He's playing echo chamber to Trump's delusion, rather than being a wake-up-call sounding abroad.
What both Trump and, concurrently, Bill are fighting with all their emotional might, trying to resist --is the recognition of an earth change in American politics. The entire political landscape has been upended and reset. The key causative factors being:
Realizing COVID and its lunatic protocols were a psyop.
Realizing Trump is a traitor to the nation and to his promises and is owned by Israel and the tech bros.
Cognizing that Inflation is not going to be seriously addressed or significantly rectified.
Dollar devaluation is going to keep rolling.
Trump buckled under to the neocon-deepstate on Ukraine and that wicked war of money laundering proceeds at the taxpayer's expense.
Trump's "bribes and blackmail-driven" enslavement to Israel has had him supporting and funding a mass murder genocide in Gaza.
The Ep files scandal is not a hoax or a stunt or a 'get-Trump mission for the Dems' (remember they had the files for four years and did nothing -so to charge them with running a 'get-Trump' is stupid and obviously not the crux of the matter). It's a non-partisan scandal uncovering the satanic wickedness of the world's most powerful figures.
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THE EARTH CHANGES AND SEA CHANGES that have transpired from all of the above (and which both Trump and Bill O' want to be in denial about) are that America no longer sees things as red / blue.. left and right, but rather as a class war. The uber-powerful and their organized evils--- against the rest of us. We're currently in a culture war. Us versus the deepstate uniparty. Failing to see and accept that transformation of the USA political landscape is a denialism that makes Bill and Don into Flintstonian relics of an era gone by.
The old game is over. Ppl have seen thru the duopoly charade. And the more Bill and Don double down on 'blaming blaming blaming blue-Democrats', the more they foster themselves into political irrelevance.
Once you fully SEE the uniparty, you don't ever ..un-see it.
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FLAILING WHILE THE CLOCK WORKS AGAINST HIM
What you often see when an entity has "jumped the shark" is flailing. Useless desperate flailing. Vain attempts to get back on track. Which almost always fall flat. Trump's nonsense speech, his bushel basket of lies, was a waste of time, and the networks should have insisted he convey to them the gist of the speech before they decided to grant him airtime. It was a bunch of hot air filled with lies and chemtrails (air dangerous to inhale).
Editor's comment -- Our first hunch is that it is due to threats to the safety and welfare of her herself and her family. And because of the Kirk snuff-out in Utah, she knows the evil zios may just act on such threats.
Trump is living in a metal bubble of denial and disconnection from reality. He's desperately trying to reboot the red-blue tribalism. Won't work. That scam is seen-thru, its OVERRR. The Ep scandal -and the uniparty support of Gaza genocide.. destroyed the red-blue theatrics of the DeepState-controlled uniparty. Now the question is-- are you-- still in that fake red/blue duality of mindset?
Anyone intelligent should be discarding this red/blue political food fight (which is a long-running divide and conquer scam) and girding up instead against the Digital ID tyranny. And its attendant evils.
BTW, stuff like this below is very troubling. WHY do Dems want to support VAXXING? That's ignorant. ALL vaccines are harmful-ALL of them. VAXXING is a big pharma scam. A very evil scam. Why do Dems want to stick their head in the sand and keep supporting this horrid scam?
Anyone who still believes there is any value in skewing red or blue and promoting the red-blue duopoly model needs to hear this interview all the way through.
Excellent interview revealing the scale of the Ep network
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BREAKING: The House votes to force the U.S. Department of Justice to release all files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The measure now heads to the Senate for approval. The House voted 427-1 to advance the measure, with GOP Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana the only member voting against it.
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As of Wednesday, November 5, the day after the elections, it is not possible to provide a single nationwide percentage breakdown of Democratic versus Republican wins. This is because "yesterday's" (November 4, 2025) elections primarily involved off-year, state, and local races in a limited number of areas, rather than a nationwide general election for federal offices.
Key points regarding the results and data:
Nature of the elections: The major races were for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia, Mayor in New York City, and a significant ballot measure in California. These were not federal elections that would provide a uniform national metric.
Regional results: In the high-profile races, Democrats secured significant victories in New York, New Jersey, and Virginia, which provided a morale boost for the party. The results in these specific races were decisive, with some being described as "sweeping victories" in those areas.
No nationwide popular vote:
Because the elections were not for a single national office, there is no single "nationwide" popular vote tally or simple percentage of Dem vs. GOP wins across all states.
Data tabulation: While the outcomes of major races are known and data has been analyzed to understand voter sentiment (e.g., as a potential rebuke of President Trump), a comprehensive national percentage is not a meaningful or available metric for these localized contests.
Analysis focuses on trends: Political analysts are using the results from these key states to gauge national political trends and momentum leading into next year's congressional midterms, rather than a total win/loss percentage.
WE'LL REMIND YOU ONCE AGAIN (and bravo to Kim Iversen for researching this): Government shutdown is a stupendous scam that both parties play into for what they can emotionally get out of it from the public. IT IS TOTALLY UNNECESSARY and can be ended this second. THERE IS NO LAW MANDATING a government shutdown when we are calendar-overdue for a new budget. SHUTDOWN IS NOT LEGALLY MANDATED; it began as a one-time stunt.. and turned into a ritual. IT IS NOT LEGALLY MANDATED. This shutdown is a total scam being run for drama by BOTH parties. Repeating there is no law mandating shutdown. Until a new budget is approved, you just keep the other budget running -until you pass the new one. That's how it always used to be before one year some decades ago- when this stunting began. THERE IS NO LAW MANDATING such shutdowns. Maybe you want to let people in legacy media know this also, so they start doing their job and asking the WH.... Why the shutdown if it is not legally mandated?
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As for Trump and his minions saying, "Pass the temp budget GOP has put on the table, and then we can talk later about the healthcare costs-mess." LOL, yeah, that might have worked in 2017 when he was brand new. But now? His word isn't worth a bit of piss in a dental rinse cup. So whatever he says on the subject is hot air for the moment and cannot be banked on. That's why you can't expect Dems to stop their girded standoff over an airy promise from DJT. As for the subsidies which pay some part of many Americans' healthcare costs... DJT is taking the completely wrong approach. Trying to sledgehammer down the payments. If there's any reason left in the halls of the WH, what they should do is extend the subsidies at a fraction. HALF OR LESS. Until "something" more reasonable and lasting might be done about the absurd costs of health care. Don't know who's going to do it, though. This seems like a job for Superman... Clark, can you give him a call?
Query - Previous to the 1980's if Congress did not pass a new budget "on time" government simply ran on the previous budget until a new one was passed.. Correct? Prior to the 1980's there were no shutdowns over budget timing; correct?
Google's AI Overview ANSWER:
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Yes, that is correct. Prior to the early 1980s, the federal government typically did not shut down even if the new fiscal year started without all appropriations bills passed.
How the process worked... Continuous Operations: When a funding gap occurred, government agencies would generally continue their operations, albeit often minimizing non-essential activities like new grants or travel. There was an expectation that Congress would eventually pass the necessary funding bills (often through continuing resolutions or supplemental bills), and employees would be paid retroactively.
No Automatic Continuation Law: There wasn't a formal law for an "automatic continuing resolution" at previous year's levels. Instead, it was simply a common-sense long-standing practice, an "easygoing attitude" based on the assumption that Congress intended for government services to continue without disruption.
The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 created a new fiscal year (starting October 1st) and a more formal, challenging timeline for passing spending bills. This new process led to more frequent funding gaps in the late 1970s.
The Civiletti *Opinion* (1981): The crucial change that led to modern-style shutdowns came from a legal *opinion* issued by Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti under President Jimmy Carter. Civiletti interpreted the Antideficiency Act (a long-standing law prohibiting agencies from spending money in excess of what was appropriated) much more strictly, stating that agencies had no legal basis to operate during a funding gap and had to cease non-essential functions. THIS WAS SIMPLY AN OPINION, not a law, not a statutory mandate.
Modern Shutdowns Begin: Following the *opinion*, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) began requiring agencies to develop shutdown plans. The first major shutdowns involving employee furloughs began in the fiscal year 1982 appropriations process.
Prior to these modern-era ritualized shutdowns, operations continued fluidly till passage of a new budget.. without the wide-scale, disruptive shutdowns seen in modern decades.
TRUMP IS A LIAR!!! (That part is not news to you, but what follows may be...) The shutdown is totally unnecessary, and there is no legal mandate for a shutdown just because a budget bill was not passed "on time." Legally, the government can be open and running, just working off the previous budget. Kim Iversen has done excellent research on this. Government shutdowns are a complete political stunt scam. Nobody's holding anybody else's political hostage. This is a stunt scam; both parties play into it to create drama. REPEAT: there is no legal mandate on the books for a government shutdown in such politically haggling circumstances. It could be open right now and running on the previous budget parameters. But as for the struggle, yes, Dems must win to avoid a healthcare cost catastrophe.
ALSO ...MOST LIKELY Trump knows nothing of what we just said. Knows little to nothing about the issue haggle. And someone else is dictating talking points to him about the shutdown. Probably Russ Vought and Kevin Roberts.
Well Steve's got a point. Valid criticism. But folks let's face it, this red / blue duopoly thing is over. It's done. PPL have woken up to the real conflict, WE THE PEOPLE versus the Zio-NWO Deepstate... of which DJT is a part of, btw. A trojan horse deceiver/traitor.
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BREAKING BULLETIN
Patel's chaotic meltdown rocks the walls in Congress
Boom Boom Boom Boom BOOOOM
If you're a fan of volcanoes, this has been a good week for you. THREE massive political vocations erupted on the American NEWS scene in less than 48 hours. First Candace Owens' shocking info about Bibi's attempt to bribe Kirk with 150 million dollars. And when the offer was rejected, Bibi implored Kirk to get on a plane and come for a gangster-style sit-down talk with Bibi over in Israel. Again, Kirk said no. A handful of weeks later, he's a dead.... Plus, the volcanic unleashing of forensic info indicating Kirk was shot from the side in a well-organized psyop that Mossad/CIA, the FBI, the WH, and the Gov. of Utah are all involved in.
Now, today, Wednesday...MORE volcanic eruptions. And this time from "Mount Epstein-Coverup". The ruined reputation FBI boss, Pinocchio "Ass" Patel was grilled in a congressional committee and came off like the absurd and insensible personality that he obviously is.... Evading questions -and yelling like an adolescent in a raging tantrum -at CONGRESSPEOPLE.
Here are 5 clips of note.
First one up is Massie calmly confronting Patel's lies about Epstein's clients (Patel saying there were none).
Next is the yelling match Patel launches into when confronted about Trump's name -in the files. Skip today's TV soap operas. Your drama fix is right here.
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DEVELOPING -- IMPORTANT .....
DEVELOPING -- IMPORTANT .....
DEVELOPING -- IMPORTANT .....
Probing journo pulls together medical facts which would justify postulation that Trump is in serious ill health and recently had a stroke. 15 minutes of info here:
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We asked the google AI TAB -- "How should Trump handle the Epstein scandal?"... It answered:
Different options exist on how Donald Trump should handle the Epstein scandal.
Release grand jury transcripts and relevant documents: This approach emphasizes transparency, aligning with earlier statements from Trump administration officials and satisfying calls from within the MAGA movement.
Cooperate with Ghislaine Maxwell: Working with Maxwell as a potential government cooperator could lead to new information about Epstein's network and activities.
Prioritize other issues and downplay the scandal
Shift focus: Trump should prioritize his policy agenda (e.g., tax cuts and border bills) and encourage supporters to move on from the Epstein case.
Discredit conspiracy theories: Dismiss calls for further investigation, claiming it's a "Democratic hoax" and that some Trump supporters have been misled.
Distance himself from Epstein: Trump asserts that he cut ties with Epstein long ago due to inappropriate behavior and that he wasn't in contact with him for many years.
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"THE UN-MAKING OF A PRESIDENT"
Friday == Trump pathetically, dizzily off balance, and disoriented. The scandal worsens by the hour as pushback against DJT lies and misdirections.... intensifies.
BREAKING -- Tuesday -- Gilly/Jeffrey heinous scandal is being suppressed by the global DeepState to keep THEEEEE SECRET SOCIETY.. hidden (hear this to end)
BREAKING -- Archives video finds Giuffre saying GILLY was the key Mossad agent and she DIRECTED the Mossad/CIA/DOD-funded Jeffrey-project of abuse, trafficking, blackmail.
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Saying she has no evidence Jeffrey was Mossad/CIA is like saying there's no evidence tomatoes are used to make spaghetti sauce. But hey we we'll let you know we run across any such evidence. lol lol
Entire DJT regime sinks deeper into the quicksand of "DIS-CREDIBILITY" by the hour. In case you are LITE on American history, this so mirrors Nixon's sinking ship of the Watergate scandal.....
"Where there's smoke, there's fire. Where there's Trump, there's liars."
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As for Russiagate, OF COURSE the Obama regime manufactured the whole bogus psyop, but that's OLD NEWS. Also, what's weird about the current spin on the story is the claim that Obama and company LEFT their conspiratorial memos in government files when they left office, mindlessly allowing them to be discovered later. That just sounds very numskull and weird. We don't know what to make of this claim. Pretty dumb crooks if true.
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The latest verbal meltdown from Trump is a real doozy. We're not surprised at all by him lashing out with a further insult tirade. But yes, we are surprised at how "shooting one's own foot" dumb-- is the hysterical wording of the tirade.
There is a silver lining to this latest ranting, though; it shows you who he is under pressure. He doesn't think well under pressure. In fact, he clearly doesn't think at all and just reacts, rather foolishly.
(His whacked new talking points are so looney sounds like Lutnick penned them)
But also it must be noted, he doesn't think carefully when NOT under pressure. He lacks discipline and does not do that night-before homework, folks were taught in youth-- to do before facing your real world challenges the day upcoming. He's mentally lazy/undisciplined and constantly flips from the hip. Which thus led to this really ultra-stupid rant. A normal mind would realize how important are the social and political leaders who've fallen out with him over this cover-up of the Epstein scandal. A normal mind would realize the importance of reaching out to them and having dialogue aimed at mending the bridge. Instead, he blows up the bridge. This is indeed a mentally unhinged individual. And he's increasingly dangerous to the nation to be in the POTUS role. We've been saying it for weeks now. He's jumped the shark and should be impeached/removed.
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Dissecting Dirty Donny's looney-toon rant from 7/16
1) Calling the Epstein scandal a hoax is beyond absurd. EVERYONE KNOWS it's a real scandal of heinous reality and mind-boggling scale. So DJT calling it a hoax is like calling the recent LA mass fires a figment of imagination. Both things were/are very real. -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OPVzTGE-DY
2) Claiming the DEMS created the Ep files as a fake news psyop is also truly absurd. As The Daily Show pointed out.. WHA? Created a hoax they never used --and currently claim is a vacuous fiction? Uh, not likely... LOL. The Ep scandal is a real story, a real scandal, and the FILES are simply the case lore which was developed over years of investigation. The DEMS did not create a paper trail of fiction to manufacture a false scandal. That's brain-warped nonsense.
3) DJT claiming the establishment/lefty media and the political left are fanning a faction regarding the EP scandal is also mentally deranged. The fact is, those media and those politicians he alludes to on the left are doing their own version of a cover-up on the scandal right now. Claiming it was all a fiction created by Trump's campaign to bring voters out for him. They are not fanning the fire of a conspiracy. They are claiming that the Ep case was never real. DJT doesn't even get the facts straight --when trying to spin his own deluded fiction.
This is an unfolding political nightmare, LSD style. And the most deluded person of the mess is the one in the center, Dirty Donny (doesn't do his homework) Trump.
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Latest unforced error... He declares that only truly "bad people" and "weaklings" have sustained interest in the Epstein scandal. i.e. -- He just grossly insulted most of America and most of the MAGA movement.
Hey, remember several years ago when people in DC and in media were shouting down Pizzagate scandal as fiction? Well, do you realize now it was not fiction, it was fact, and the shout-down was a cover-up effort?
Meanwhile, NOTICE how legacy--establishment media is now PART of the Epstein cover-up by declining to cover the ongoing fallout of this scandal. That shows you such media is totally controlled by the DeepState, which is protecting the Illuminati's pedophile rituals [and using them for politicians and celebrities being controlled through blackmail]. The whole NBC evening newscast on Monday was nothing but a police blotter of various regional/local fire stories (pretty much), and there was not a word of the ongoing national furor over the Epstein cover-up.
ABC covered it limply for only 2 minutes and buried the item about halfway into the broadcast. When this is IN FACT the biggest news story in the nation, still, right now.
Another way legacy media are assisting the cover-up is to embrace and voice a DNC talking point that there never was any trove of Epstein horrors, and it was all just a made-up conspiracy of MAGA.
Listen, when even Jon Stewart IS DISCUSSING THE UNFOLDING SCANBDAL BUT SO-CALLED NEWS ENTITIES ARE BURYING IT, THAT TELLS YOU A LOT ABOUT POWER STRUCTURE IN THIS SO-CALLED "FREE" COUNTRY.
Monday late in the day GOP'ers in the House pulled a dirty trick in trying to assist the coverup. They voted down a call to preserve and release the files. Hear this news report on it -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IqXvpo7HJA
"List scandal" is quite similar to the WATERGATE coverup.. And the suppressed files are the equivalent of the WHITE HOUSE NIXON TAPES ... The mess over the tapes, forced Nixon to resign.
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Dirty Donny's feeble attempt to distract the public away from the Epstein cover-up by having shills try to replay emotions over two psyops-- [[the Russia Hoax and the Butler Hoax]]-- IS NOT going to work and just indicates how out of touch with reality Looney Don has become.
The backlash spreads to--- Chicago .. DC.. NYC .. Austin .. Dallas .. San Antonio .. Atlanta .. Seattle .. Spokane .. Las Vegas .. Omaha .. San Francisco .. Santa Ana CA
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We at DTRI heartily agree. DJT is so mentally unhinged and doing so many things severely harmful to the nation... it's time for conscience to take the lead over politics- and remove the sitting POTUS legally.. ASAP.
"They are people who always have their eye on the bottom line, but they also are, obviously, titanically sized egos," says author Quinn Slobodian, professor of international history at Boston University. "This is just a sign of how dangerous it is to put ... the whole future of the American economy and the political scene in the hands of two sole human beings."
President Donald Trump's approval ratings for handling the economy and inflation have dropped, according to a new poll from CBS News, as a broad majority expects at least short-term price increases and economic harm from his tariff policies.
Here are a few key takeaways:
• The economy and inflation: All told, 44% approve and 56% disapprove of Trump's handling of the economy, while only 40% approve and 60% disapprove on his handling of inflation. His approval numbers for both measures are down four points since late March.
• Overall approval rating: This metric now stands at 47% in the CBS poll, down from 50% in March.
• Who's responsible? A majority, 54% see Trump's policies as more responsible for the state of the economy than former President Joe Biden's policies, with 21% saying Biden is more responsible and 20% that both bear equal responsibility.
• State of the economy: A little over half (53%) say the economy is currently getting worse, and most see its current state as poor (59%).
• Impact on Americans: About half of respondents, 49%, said Trump's policies are making them financially worse off, more than double the 21% who say their finances are benefitting from his policies. The rest, 30%, say his policies are not impacting them financially.
The CBS News poll was conducted online among 2,410 adults nationwide and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points.
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Democratic Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz is blocking more than 300 of President Donald Trump's nominees from swift confirmation votes despite previously criticizing efforts to stall nominations during the Biden administration.
Schatz's blockade on hundreds of Trump nominees and at least nine bipartisan foreign relations bills comes as Senate Democrats are escalating opposition tactics against the Trump administration.
Schatz expanded his holds on Trump nominees to include individuals tapped to serve across 12 agencies, such as former New York Republican Rep. Anthony D'Esposito whom Trump appointed to a Department of Labor position, Axios reported.
"Their lawlessness is escalating and they are intentionally destroying the economy, and so I don't think we should make anything easy going forward," Schatz told Axios Monday.
"Every senator has enormous power," Schatz said in the speech. "I could probably block the defense bill this week if I wanted to, but I won't - you know why? Because I'm not a maniac, because I understand that when you vest someone through your voters with this kind of power, you have to be very careful how you exercise it."
Schatz, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is also placing holds on at least nine bipartisan foreign affairs bills.
Senate Republicans have vowed to continue processing Trump's national security nominees despite Schatz and other Senate Democrats' attempts to slow down the pace of confirmations.
Reindustrializing the USA, to whatever extent it COULD be done, is a 10-15 year proposition. But it also must be noted that MOST of the lost manufacturing cannot be restored due to automation AND the reality that moving manufacturing BACK from lower overhead countries would be VERY EXPENSIVE. What's the incentive to do that if you're a big corporation? The cost to manufacture things BACK in the USA would be so high consumer prices will fly out of the ballpark.
Karoline Leavitt in the video on this page is talking a COMPLETE bunch of BS. The trade imbalances were deliberately created by the US government to put more dollars in circulation. All the rhetoric from the WH over tariffs is a bunch of gobbledegook nonsense. This whole thing is some kind of very wicked scam from the Rothschild NWO (who secretly control DJT).
Manufacturing Jobs are NOT coming back.There is a reason that household appliances - refrigerators,
freezers, washing machines, air conditioners, stoves, ranges, toaster ovens, ect.. are all built in China and Mexico.
Mexico's average labor cost is about $4.50 per hour.
IF Whirlpool, Maytag appliances, Electrolux, LG, ect..
have to pay minimum wages and health insurance and
contribute to an Appliance Workers Union Pension, a
washing machine will cost $8,000.00 at Best Buy.
Manufacturing Jobs are NOT coming back. Trump is a LIAR
Understand this... DJT falsley declared a state of emergency, then legislated from the Oval office. That's not legal but will Congress counteract? ...What do you think?
Ongoing news coverage, tariff fallout: Take a breath, ignore Gavin and yet LISTEN ---to Anthony, because his remarks are incisive, knowledgeable, trenchant. VERY VERY IMPORTANT to hear this analysis and commentary from Anthony. He's on point. 99% accurate.
Editor's note: (TWO things he said that are INACCURATE, though: ONE- is about Biden opening the border and why. No, no, no, that was a NWO-ordered policy with a massive, underhanded, organized effort, using NGOs and USAID money, to intentionally harm the USA with a migrant invasion. It was not a Biden policy; it came from the Zio-NWO Rothschild Cartel. As did the Covid psyop and the Covid shot in the arm... SECONDLY- AS's criticism of the Zelensky drama in the WH, is 180-degree misplaced. But there was a key fault of DJT that day, and it was ALLOWING the presser to go on more than 8 minutes. The presser being too long enabled the drama to arise.)
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• Legal setbacks: A series of rulings from federal judges blocked Trump administration plans last night, including efforts to fast-track deportations, dismantle Voice of America and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and go after a law firm tied to Robert Mueller's investigation into Trump.