We respond…
Well. The guy is nothing, if not predictable. Here he argues that the able USDC Judge in Rhode Island… couldn’t have meant what he plainly said, in enjoining the lawless Freeze.
Shumate believes he can essentially pat a federal judge on the head, and say (effectively) “silly boy, we don’t need to listen to you….” We are… MAGA — “your puny laws don’t apply… to US!”
Here’s that latest nonsense, from Shumate.
Ugh.
Out.
Yes. This is how the real world sees… Tangerine 2.0’s lunacy — of reinvigorating 19th Century tariff battles (as opposed to the view from inside his MAGA reality distortion bubble).
He thinks the tariffs are his best “billy club”. But, in point of fact, they primarily, and mostly… bludgeon his low income, under-educated, mostly unemployed rural whyte MAGA base. Along the way, too, they will likely crater already struggling US sectors… like steel, and smaller farm agriculture. G E N I U S.
He’s a super-stable genius I tell you. [Or… maybe he said that. Heh.]
So the Dow falls 600 points. Hilariously, he continues to shill his sh!tcoins on Truth Social. But the coin is off 75% since launch, immediately before the inaugural. And “$mellainia” (pronounced SMELL-ania) is off even more, now down 85% from the opening frenzy. Almost everyone (except for the Trump family, of course — since they got the coins free of any charge) who bought in, has now lost the vast bulk of their “invested” funds.
Just like the ’34 Act NASDAQ listed and traded DJT stock itself (that’s the holdco for Truth Social — where Devin Nunes and Trump essentially are the only ones among a small handful of people still making money on their “investments”, since both got the entirety of their shares for free) — it is a staggering conflict of interest, compared to his elected “take care” duties — that the guy is actively touting / trying to prop-up the value of these sh!tcoins and stocks (for his own personal fortune)… each of which are getting hammered by… yep, his own official government “Executive Branch economic policies” — called tariffs. Here’s the latest:
…Donald Trump’s TRUMP token spiraling further down in the past 24 hours, bringing losses from the peak to a staggering 75%….
Meanwhile, the $MELANIA meme coin from First Lady Melania Trump is trading around $1.45. The $MELANIA coin launched on Sunday, Jan. 19 and briefly spiked to $13.63. But the digital asset quickly fell below $4 and has continued to slide….
Might anyone (not ignorant of US History) ever imagine Ronnie Reagan or Dwight Eisenhower… loudly shilling for their own personal business assets, while in the White House? And doing so, against the interests of the American people they were elected by?! Damnation.
Onward, smiling into the audio dial-up for the preliminary injunction hearing in DC — against his flip-flopping “freeze” memos. I’ll likely liveblog it if it seems it will end up in any unexpected fashion. But it will remain enjoined, to a near certainty. Out — buckle up, for more market chaos — courtesy the dotard.
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Yet again, Tangerine 2.0’s lies… are already catching up to him — not even three weeks after his inaugural. He claims to be arresting and deporting thousands every week. But only the “arresting” is accurate.
In point of fact, US law prohibits his detaining them, without hearings. And federal judges respect the US Constitution. They set hearing dates, and release them — since the vast majority are not the violent criminals Tangerine has forever lied about.
This means perhaps 90% of those listed in the arrest totals posted daily on X-itter… are being released back into the US, to await their hearings — many several months from now.
If they skip the hearing date, ICE will have to go out and find them, again. And on and on.
Soon enough, Tangerine will depart 1600 Penn. — and most of them will likely be able to run the clock on him. What an ineffectual — but malign — idiot. Here’s that story:
…The Trump administration aggressively publicized the arrests of more than 8,000 immigrants by federal agents since Inauguration Day, with the promise that those detained would be part of a historic mass deportation. But NBC News has learned that some have already been released back into the United States on a monitoring program, according to five sources familiar with the operations.
Since he took office, President Donald Trump and his allies have promoted immigration operations in cities like Chicago and New York, where agents across federal agencies were called in to increase the number of arrests….
Yes, I support keeping law abiding, tax paying hard working honest people here in the US — regardless of documents, so this is welcome news. Trump is continuing Biden’s policies here.
And the federal judges are honoring their duties to uphold the US Constitution.
Onward….
It is being reported that the City of Minneapolis has had to settle with another of Derek Chavin’s police brutality victims.
She too was knelt upon by Chauvin, while cuffed face down on the pavement, by this cretin with a badge (formerly).
I’m sure that makes you proud, John & Scott…
You know, you people are… what’s the word I’m looking for, here?
Right.
Deplorable.
Out.
Tonight, as a supposed deflection — from Trump’s loony tariff/trade wars (which even the WSJ has called the stupidest of foreign economic “policies” decision, in US history, BTW!), Hinderaker shows the world a chart of customs revenue — and notes that it was higher under Mr. Biden, than it was toward the end of Tangerine 1.0’s time.
Well… Duh.
That’s… stultifying, because from it, Hinderaker falsely infers that the NYT is “being mean” — in picking on Trump’s tariffs.
But Hinderaker admits that those revenues shot up under Trump, right after his tariffs 1.0. See image at right — he spiked customs revenue, but TANKED international trade for the US businesses. Idiot.
And Hinderaker admits these revenues then declined late in his term. [We all know he pulled the whole tariff idea about eight months after he started that lunacy, in 1.0. But it all takes a while to unwind through the supply chains.] Here’s how John (in an utter lie) puts his nonsense, tonight:
…So
tariff[Ed. Note: No John, you show only CUSTOMS revenue in your chart!] revenue, on average, was higher during the Biden Administration than the first Trump administration. Were the newspapers hysterical about a trade war during Biden’s term in office? Maybe I missed it….
What a dipsh!t. No, John — they were NOT, because Mr. Biden GREW our international trade, and with it, CUSTOMS duties (your revenue bars), naturally also rose.
Pure increased economic activity is the source of the increase John foolishly decries. It was precisely the removal of tariffs, by Biden — and the stimulus packages he enacted, that drove the increase Hinderaker is complaining about here.
In fact, under Tangerine 1.0… our international trade levels WITHERED. Do see my pair of charts, above right (domestic US steel was particularly hard hit), due to his tariffs, after the initial shock spike from paying for freight already on board — inbound to the US.
What a dipshit. I strongly suspect this is less about stupidity on John’s part, and more likely… just willful, wholesale… lying.
Well, this is very… discouraging. While we believe GAVI was funding work on a vaccine for the Sudan variant of Ebola, we are only aware of one candidate close enough to be used on the ground — right now: that would be the Soligenix candidate. And that one has (as the legacy graphic at right indicates) received FDA’s promising “orphan drug” designation.
But unlike with the Zaire variant, there are no approved vaccines for the Sudan variant. This presents yet another layer of difficulties, in securing informed consent from the contacts in Kampala (and the contacts of those contacts, obviously). Yikes. Here’s the latest:
…There are no approved vaccines for the Sudan strain of Ebola that killed a nurse employed at Kampala’s main referral hospital. The man died on Wednesday and authorities declared an outbreak the next day. Officials are still investigating the source of the outbreak, and there has been no other confirmed case….
But per STAT’s reporting of the morning, we know six are already ill, and there are 44 direct contacts to check up on. And to track down THEIR contacts.
All as… meanwhile, Nero fiddles — with idiotic tariff theatrics (bread and circuses) rather than putting out the fires ragin’ already inside Rome. Damn.
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The full bench trial on the merits in this case of lawless, barbarian action — which resulted in at least two deaths, and scores of lacerations, on the Rio Grande — is now set for July 8, 2025.
In the course of updating the calendar, the able USDC Judge took note of Tangerine 2.0’s purported “executive orders” (which we all know, are right now, as we speak — being challenged in the federal courts).
Admirably, USDC Judge Ezra sua sponte remarked, on these pieces of paper, and those signed by MAGA Gov. Abbott, down in Texas — saying even if they are held capable of doing what they attempt to do — they would likely violate the US Constitution. So his standing injunction has been modified in only the smallest of ways: local Texas troopers will not be arrested, if they simply aid federal ICE and border agents, in apprehending undocumented persons, so long as the local troopers remain “under the control and supervision” of the federal forces.
Here’s that, in a full seven pages, just entered on Friday:
…It is evident to this Court that Executive Order Nos. GA-50 through GA-546 issued by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, referenced above, are in response to President Trump’s invitation to work with the various states to secure the United States border and to direct Texas State and local law enforcement to work with, as allowed by law, federal authorities in doing so….
[A]t the time the injunction in this case was issued there was no authorization from the then-current President or Congress which would have permitted Texas State or local law enforcement agents to engage in those activities, apart from arresting individuals who were otherwise violating State or Federal law….
The injunction is hereby clarified/modified to permit Texas State or local law enforcement, including but not limited to the Texas State Guard, to cooperate with and act under the direction of Federal authorities….
[And to date, there is STILL] nothing in President Trump’s Executive Orders which would purport to permit any State of Texas Judge or law enforcement officer to engage in the actual deportation of undocumented persons from the United States as is contemplated in [a local Texas state “law” called] SB4.
Even were there such language, it would likely violate both Federal Immigration statutes and the United States Constitution. However, since no Executive Order issued by either President Trump or Governor Abbott suggests that the State of Texas possesses deportation powers, this Court need not rule on that issue beyond what is already the law of this case….
Now you know. It would seem that even Tangerine 2.0’s agents realize they lack the power to sua sponte dismiss these pieces of federal litigation — and the existing, in force injunctions previously entered by a federal court.
Onward, grinning…
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Tucker Carlson… is a classic nihilist.
He believes — truly believes — in almost nothing, other than making money for himself, alone. And at whatever costs there may be imposed on others… by his hateful rhetoric? He could give a rip.
What is almost… charming, in a sad sort of way… is that it took Scott and John 20 years — to figure this out. [For about 19 years, Tucker was saying the things they liked — demonizing people who don’t look like those three, together — with Paul.]
Now, he’s shifted gears — and can get more eyeballs, and ad money — all on his own, since he needs no broadcast network behind him any longer (he is literally his own “brand” now!)… by saying insipid, hateful and controversial sh!t — about Jews.
And Hitler. And sullying Churchill’s legacy.
And these boys are… shocked… shocked, I tell you. Get the fainting couches and smelling salts, you butlers.
D A M N.
Out.
This latest news would be tough, in any event — that six people are now ill, including the original nurse’s wife, from what will test out to be… ebola. It would be tough, but it is now… tragic, that certain hack political forces (now occupying DC, in key agencies’ offices) will work to impede (by blocking funding and logistics communiques), rather than foster — the ongoing vaccination efforts in Kampala.
In any event, here’s the update, on the outbreak, from STAT’s Helen Branswell:
…The head of the World Health Organization’s health emergencies program said Saturday that six people who were in contact with Uganda’s latest Ebola case have become ill, though it’s not yet clear if they too are suffering from the dangerous viral disease. One is the wife of the patient, who died Wednesday, and several others are health workers.
Mike Ryan, who spoke to STAT from Kampala, the Ugandan capital, said the response to the outbreak is proceeding rapidly, though he noted the Trump administration’s freeze on aid has created shortfalls in key areas that the WHO has had to cover….
Now you know. What a putz that Tangerine guy is. Hopefully, even without American input and leadership — or perhaps, in spite of American idiocy — the outbreak will be small and short-lived, thanks to the solid scientific efforts of WHO, and Ugandan public health workers, on the ground in Kampala.
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We did talk (in Iteration 1.0, at great length) about what a stupid, discredited, self-defeating 19th Century idea Tangerine’s tariff policies represent. There was a reason he ended them in a matter of months: US consumers saw that they were paying for his tariffs, in higher prices on lots of goods. [B2B noticed too.]
But this time around, the goof has targeted a much wider array of goods and industrial categories, in Mexico, China and Canada.
And he has signaled that if any of the three impose reciprocal tariffs on US goods — he will escalate. As we saw last time, that is simply mutually-assured self destruction, on various economic fronts. In a word, what a… putz.
Here’s just one MSM report — as Tangerine 2.0 walks us all to the cliff’s edge — with no discernible policy goal (of any kind, logically related to the tariffs) in mind, let alone well-communicated. [To blame our domestic street drugs problem on Canada is probably the most laughable lie he’s ever told.]
…Among the common Mexican imports that will now get pricier to bring into the country: fruits, vegetables, beer, liquor and electronics. And from Canada: potatoes, grains, lumber and steel….
D A M N A T I O N.
The man is a walking… talking… economics disaster, on the hoof.
Minor Update: the WSJ opinion pages quite agree with us — even down to articulating the same rationale for calling this the dumbest US economic policy move, in history. Yes, that is the capitalists’ paper of record. Onward.
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