Is Trump going full retard?

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Here's your wake up call...



Here are the steps, and they're trying to do Step 6:
 
How a society collapses see if it doesn't fit in with a Color Revolution

 
Whenever things are looking dark, I just keep one thought in my mind.


It could have been a whole lot worse. We could have had Willie Brown's cackling whore as President and her gay, China-loving retard as Vice President.


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Cigarlover said:
Iran should reply with
"You stupid mother fucker. The straight was open before you illegally decided to destroy a country of 90 million people."
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I hear you, but I think we were all getting a little tired of Iran constantly stirring up trouble and chanting "Death to America". One can only take so much of that before one is forced to punch the bully in the mouth.
 
CiscoKid said:
I hear you, but I think we were all getting a little tired of Iran constantly stirring up trouble and chanting "Death to America". One can only take so much of that before one is forced to punch the bully in the mouth.
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And the Iranians have punched Israel and America in the mouth...
 
Goldhedge said:
How a society collapses see if it doesn't fit in with a Color Revolution

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All true; but I don't see a solution in there.

Re-educating the populace is virtually impossible. Not in time to prevent our degradation into tyranny.

And in any event, we now have over ten percent of the population (30-40 million) as illegal invaders from third-world hellholes. Somalia has a mean IQ of about 65. Haiti, I believe it's about 70 average. You aren't going to make these geniuses into liberty-loving voters.
 
Any one think T will drop the big N on Iran?
 
searcher said:
Any one think T will drop the big N on Iran?
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Not I.

Trump isn't calling the shots - Nuttin' Yahoo is.

HE will not drop, or order a drop - because he's gonna play games. He wants to goad Iran or Russia as proxy, to launch FIRST, so he can play Victim, and demand Daddy America to go fix that big bad evil Ayatollah and The Putin.
 
searcher said:
Any one think T will drop the big N on Iran?
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I would hope not and I would think even the rest of our allies in the Middle East would be against that. The whole world would be against that.
Imagine being the only country in history to use nukes against another nation and then having the audacity to tell others they aren't allowed to have them. So only we are allowed to use them whenever we want? Maybe Iran wanted one so they could insure they would never be attacked? We all know Israel has them. Are they worthy to have them after the genocide in Gaza?
 
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WATCH: Fox News: “Do you believe the price of oil and gas will be lower before the midterm elections?” TRUMP: “I hope so. It could be, or the same, or maybe a little bit higher…”
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If you didn't know it was him saying it you would guess it was Kamala or Biden.
 
Trump was always against FISA 702 without warrant requirements because it was abused and used to spy on Trump himself and well as hundreds of thousands of Americans?So why is he now demanding Congress reauthorize FISA 702 clean??Without warrant requirements!!
 
Fatrat said:
More and more, he sounds like confused Joe Biden...
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Has he sniffed and groped any children on live television lately? Also, I noticed that Easter has come and gone and apparently President Trump has decided to not continue with the Easter tradition of having transvestites flash their fake tits on the White House lawn on Easter Sunday. The question is whether or not the democrats will decide to impeach him over this obvious slap in the face to their valued traditions.
 
CiscoKid said:
Has he sniffed and groped any children on live television lately? Also, I noticed that Easter has come and gone and apparently President Trump has decided to not continue with the Easter tradition of having transvestites flash their fake tits on the White House lawn on Easter Sunday. The question is whether or not the democrats will decide to impeach him over this obvious slap in the face to their valued traditions.
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Biden is a low bar.
 
CiscoKid said:
Has he sniffed and groped any children on live television lately? Also, I noticed that Easter has come and gone and apparently President Trump has decided to not continue with the Easter tradition of having transvestites flash their fake tits on the White House lawn on Easter Sunday. The question is whether or not the democrats will decide to impeach him over this obvious slap in the face to their valued traditions.
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I get that he's not in pResident Autopen's league.

These don't matter much, though, when Trump will NOT do ANY of what is essential, that was pledged to be done, that MUST happen.

REMOVAL OF THE ILLEGALS. STOP THE GOVERNMENT WASTE OF WELFARE MONIES. BAN THE JAB AND EXPLORE WHAT FILTH IS IN THOSE OTHER holy-majik injections they call "vaccines."

END THE ELECTION FRAUD. END THE TYRANNY BY DEEP-EARF LOONS THROUGH THE EPA AND OTHER NON-LEGISLATIVE BUREAUCRACIES.


And, guess what? NONE OF IT IS HAPPENING.

Instead, Trump - nearly as demented as Biden, although as you noted, not so sexually twisted - Trump gets goaded into starting a war for a blackmailer-leader of a foreign power who CONTROLS most of CONgress!

This is better, how? Maybe public outrages in WH Easter-egg rolls would help steel the cultists' minds. But we're not getting that.

Trump has turned into the greatest gift to the Left that could have been made. NO arrests, and diversions away from their crimes. Which they can resume once they re-steal CONgress.
 
Not to argue with you, but my local liberal rag is wining about how many illegals have been arrested here. Ranked-choice voting is getting hammered, economy is “doing as well as past years.” Gas price is still off its ATH. China just recommended its spies, er students, not travel through SeaTac because of increased scrutiny.

Mass decrease in fed govt employees. Mass loss of funding for pork projects. LOTS of whining from libs and folks wanting on the free-shit wagon.
 
Trump, like Brandon, is suffering age-related dementia.

Not really a surprise - they're about the same age, and both had sedentary lives. Brandon liked his liquor; Trump was teetotal; but BOTH of them took the Holy Majik Jab - and by all appearances, it's doing to Trump what it does to many who don't Died Suddenly.

Brandon probably got saline - his stupidity was natural, lifelong and genetic.

But with dementia, both of them reverted to their worst personality characteristics. Trump, beyond having deeply-ingrained manners (the courtesies he showed his military guards and WH staff, when no one was looking or expected it)...beyond that, his basic nature is that of a belligerent. He's confrontational - like most successful New Yorkers.

Brandon, by contrast, was weak, passive, led by others who were using him as a puppet...as he has been...while reveling in gratifications, from a steady ice-cream diet, to inappropriate contacts with little kids. Learned from his own daughter.

So now we have a completely-jackass war, instigated, maybe driven, by an Israeli nihilist and sociopath...maybe blackmail, maybe just his ingratiating and flattering the impaired Trump. We don't know.

We can sure see the results for the whole industrialized world.

Trump of ten years ago would IMHO never have done something this insane. He might have THREATENED, but this is a lose-lose and plays right into the hands of the enemies of America and of civilization, all across the spectrum.
 
Is it his fault?

If regulatory limitations (i.e. mini-nuclear power installations) are not waived, are made MOAR impossible; if billing regulations are loosened (as they have been) to allow power companies to start charging for "capital improvements" and capacity expansion IN ADVANCE of completion

(as in, DATA CENTERS, multiplying power needs by 2 or 3 times where they're built)

then, power rates are gonna launch.

Of course if you listen to your Philadelphia friend who JUST HAPPENS to be the Prime Minister (read that, "Supreme Overlord") of an important ally (read that, "Dominant Superstate") who convinces you (with promises of destruction of OTHER friends and your own reputation, for your two-arms-length connection to Jeffy's Pedo Palace)...that it's SUPERLY IMPORTANT that Iran's head of state be @$$@$$inated...and then, when that only makes things worse, that Hormuz, whatever it is, be blockaded...I mean, Bebee said, you have enough oil, you don't need any of that stuff...so worldwide energy prices rise, and there's NO fertilizer coming out (but Bebee said, you can just spread manure!)...this WHILE we promise lower interest rates, to keep the Dow and home prices HIGH (because that's good, right, Howard?)

...then, this is what comes of it.

I ascribe no malice or intentional dishonesty. We took a man who was an economic illiterate (of which we have MANY in this nation) and made him Chief Executive, just about the time he came down with Joe-Biden Disease.

That's the trifecta of bad luck for us. And, if you believe in Destiny, that shows how the Fourth Turning WILL BE, as it has for most of recorded history.
 
searcher said:
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You may not agree with what he said, but what in there isn't true?

Is the WSJ actually a failing political rag?
....and the guy you voted for would have had unpronounceable words in half the, oh you know the thing, sentences.
 
Joe King said:
Is the WSJ actually a failing political rag?
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Hard to know, in this age where the dead-tree medium is being rapidly replaced. AND, that thoughtful reportage is eschewed in favor of hype, lurid bullet-points, and clickbait.

That said, I know that the WSJ lost a LOT - both in standards and in cred - when News Corp. took over the Dow Jones & Company's media arm, the WSJ. It used to be a thoughtful paper. I never read it as a young man, but when I got online, the WSJ's free page, OpinionJournal.com, was a great read, insightful and witty.

The free stuff ended with News Corp. ownership. THEN came the crude political cheerleading and attempts to ingratiate and capture various GOP and RINO officeholders.

And I'm not hearing the WSJ discussed as an important voice anymore. The few times it's mentioned it's with derision. I haven't checked, but I'm sure they're all onboard with this newest Forever War and it's promise for the MIC.
 
Joe King said:
Is the WSJ actually a failing political rag?
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Casey Jones said:
Hard to know, in this age where the dead-tree medium is being rapidly replaced. AND, that thoughtful reportage is eschewed in favor of hype, lurid bullet-points, and clickbait.
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My question to Search was, what else in there was factually wrong? The only question is whether or not the WSJ is a failing rag or not. Trump asserted it was.
 
Joe King said:
My question to Search was, what else in there was factually wrong? The only question is whether or not the WSJ is a failing rag or not. Trump asserted it was.
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Which is odd, because it's been trying (insincerely, crudely posturing) to be a MAGA cheerleader.

It's Murdoch's kids trying to repeat what Rupert and Roger Ailes did 35 years ago - without understanding why it worked.

It's Trump's way to publicly lambaste anyone who's critical of whatever it is he's doing - and now that he's demented, he does it louldly, illogically, like a child.

But the WSJ, like the Faux Nooze Liars...have a public posture ordered from on high. TRUMP IS MAGA AND MAGA IS GOOD.

MAGA WANTS ENDLESS WAR. MIC is part of the DOW; and a rising DOW is GOOD.

LOW INTEREST IS GOOD.

Yada yada...

You get as much nooze from the Wall Street Urinal as you do from the Gnu Yuck Slimes. Opposite postures, neither correspond to reality.

Its WWF in the newsrooms.
 
Joe King said:
Is the WSJ actually a failing political rag?
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Personally I have no clue. It's a bit too pricey for me. Let's see what Grok says:

No, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) is not failing. It stands as one of the strongest performers in the struggling legacy newspaper industry, with steady digital subscription growth, rising revenue at its parent division (Dow Jones), and a clear shift toward a profitable digital-first model.

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Subscription Trends
  • Digital-only subscriptions reached about 4.13–4.3 million as of mid-2025 to early 2026, with overall subscriptions (including print) around 4.5–4.7 million.

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  • Under editor-in-chief Emma Tucker (since early 2023), digital subs grew ~30% and total subs ~20%.

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  • Recent quarters showed continued gains in digital circulation revenue (up 7–8% in some reports), even as print circulation declined (a broad industry trend).

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  • WSJ ranks as the U.S. leader in print circulation (~412,000) but trails the New York Times in total digital subs. It outperforms many peers, including the Washington Post, which has faced steeper declines.

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There have been occasional quarterly dips (e.g., a small sequential drop in one 2025 period), but the multi-year trajectory shows net growth driven by consumer and enterprise subscriptions.

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Financial Performance (Dow Jones/News Corp)Dow Jones (WSJ's parent within News Corp) is the fastest-growing segment at News Corp:
  • Revenue for Dow Jones hit ~$2.3 billion in FY25, with strong contributions from consumer and professional/enterprise products.
  • EBITDA reached $588 million in FY25, on track for further growth and a target of ~$1 billion in profit within five years.
  • In recent quarters, Dow Jones revenue rose 8%, with 82% of its revenue now digital. Circulation/subscription revenue grew, offsetting broader ad challenges.

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News Corp overall reported revenue increases in fiscal Q2 2026, boosted by Dow Jones.

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Industry Context and ChallengesThe broader newspaper sector continues to face headwinds: declining print circulation/ad revenue, shifting audience habits, and competition from digital natives/social platforms. WSJ has responded with newsroom restructurings (e.g., shifting to more topic-driven, nimble teams) and pricing adjustments, which are common across the industry (including at the NYT).

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Print is shrinking industry-wide, but WSJ's digital pivot—emphasizing high-value business/finance/professional content—has helped it outperform many competitors. Subscriber engagement metrics (visits and time spent) are also up.Comparison to Peers
  • New York Times: Larger total digital subs (~10+ million across products) but similar reliance on subscriptions to offset print/ad weakness.
  • Washington Post: More pronounced struggles with circulation and staff cuts.
  • WSJ benefits from its niche in business/finance news, which supports premium pricing and enterprise deals (e.g., via Barron’s, MarketWatch, and professional info services).
In short, while no traditional news outlet is immune to industry disruption, the WSJ shows resilience and growth in the metrics that matter most today: paid digital subscribers and digital revenue. Claims of "failure" appear overstated or anecdotal, often ignoring the successful transition many legacy brands are attempting. The model isn't without risks—further ad softness or economic slowdowns could pressure results—but current data points to stability, not decline.


Just because T says something doesn't mean it's true.

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False or misleading statements by Donald Trump - Wikipedia

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Joe King said:
...and the guy you voted for would have had unpronounceable words in half the, oh you know the thing, sentences.
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Could be wrong but I don't think the guy (actually gal) I voted for would have gotten us into a war in the middle east on the behest of Netanyahu that has totally disrupted the worlds oil supply, screwed up the supply chain in a way that's going to increase the cost of living for peoples worldwide and screw with agriculture on a global scale and take years to undo.


Cost of the U.S.–Iran War, Oil Supply Impact, and Economic Ripple Effects​

The U.S. war with Iran has already cost taxpayers over $11 billion in the first six days, with Harvard economist Linda Bilmes warning the total could reach $1 trillion over the next decade CNBC. Pentagon figures for the first week were around $11.3 billion, but Bilmes estimates the real cost is closer to $16 billion due to higher replacement values for military assets and long-term contracts for interceptors and missiles CNBC. Beyond direct military spending, the war has triggered massive indirect costs — including $7 per gallon gas prices, trillions in long-term veterans’ care, and billions for evacuations of stranded Americans govfacts.org+1.

Impact on the World’s Oil Supply and Industry​

The war has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow waterway through which about a fifth of the world’s oil, plus fertilizer, LNG, and other critical commodities, pass TIME. Iran has allegedly laid mines, and U.S. forces have targeted Iranian minelaying ships. This disruption has caused:

  • Immediate oil price shocks at the pump, with gasoline surging to $6.50/gal in some U.S. markets TIME.
  • Global supply chain bottlenecks for oil, fertilizers, and industrial chemicals, as shipping lanes are blocked or rerouted.
  • Industry-wide cost increases for energy, manufacturing, and agriculture, due to higher transportation, packaging, and input costs TIME.

Effects on Agriculture and Supply Chains​

The Strait’s closure and broader conflict risks:

  • Higher fertilizer and feedstock costs for U.S. farmers, as these are shipped via the strait TIME.
  • Disruptions in food supply chains from Asia to the U.S., affecting imported goods like electronics, pharmaceuticals, and batteries TIME.
  • Rising food prices as transportation and packaging costs climb, worsening affordability for households already facing high living costs TIME.
  • Longer lead times for agricultural inputs and machinery parts, potentially reducing crop yields and livestock production.

Broader Economic Consequences​

  • Inflationary pressure from higher energy, food, and freight costs TIME.
  • Market volatility in energy, commodities, and financial markets govfacts.org+1.
  • Strain on U.S. fiscal deficit from both military spending and reconstruction costs CNBC.
In summary: The war has already cost U.S. taxpayers billions in direct and indirect expenses, triggered sharp oil price spikes, and threatened global supply chains. Agriculture and food supply chains face higher costs and potential disruptions, with long-term effects on affordability and production. The Strait of Hormuz’s closure is a critical chokepoint whose disruption could reverberate through global trade for months or years.
 
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