Why are large businesses afraid to reclaim their tariff losses?
Do they believe Trump will retain power as a dictator?
Are they supporting a shift to a dictatorship?
Do people realize federal economic data is now mostly inferred?
If Trump nukes Iran will the world respond in kind to the US?
This is the dream many of us have. I hope you are able to achieve it.
All those fake medals and awards makes the label, “Tin pot Dictator”, understandable.
This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.
Ultimately, profits require consumers. If you destroy the consumer base, eventually profits will decline.
Plus, high marginal tax rates are seldom paid. Rather, the tax code is used to spur investment into areas beneficial to society. Museums, hospitals, affordable housing, etc
Expect Trump to attempt control of Hormuz Straight through some shadow organization like Trump’s Board of Peace.
100 ships at $500k per transit on a daily basis = Over $18 billion per year.
IMHO: Iran is not agreeing to the % Kushner and Witkoff want for tolls on the Straight.
Trump uses secret private negotiators for the deal so he can avoid public scrutiny and personally monetize Hormuz.
Who runs Iran? Will it be gangsters who accept a deal or religious zealots who refuse?
He might as well answer in Russian.
On the right is someone NFL doctors say is 6’3, 230 lbs with 5% body fat
On the left is someone White House doctors say is 6’3, 224 lbs with 4.8% body fat
If the White House is THAT dishonest about something so clear, why should we believe anything they say about anything?
It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.
IMHO he wants Iran to work a deal with Kushner and Whitcoff so they and Iran will collect tolls on passage through Hormuz.
Meanwhile, the various Gulf States will need to keep paying Kushner to keep Trump from pulling Patriot Missiles.
Multi-prong protection rackets require a credible threat.
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” —James Madison
The DOJ is now 5 month in breach of releasing the Epstein files.
Holding these criminals accountable should be the Nuremberg of our time.
In the meantime, our GOP-run Congress has decided it really doesn't want to know who is making inside trades with foreknowledge of Trump's tweets... because it knows exactly who.
The FBI responded with a statement, attributed to Patel: “Print it, all false, I’ll see you in court—bring your checkbook.”
The @theatlantic.com story:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Pay attention folks. This is how it's done. Trump sues his own DOJ, run by his private attorney, for $10 billion. Normally that would go through the courts with the DOJ arguing AGAINST giving Trump $10 billion.
Instead, his DOJ will negotiate a settlement OUTSIDE of court. Literally inside dealing.
1/The NYT is releasing internal SCOTUS documents re: 2016 creation of the modern “Shadow Docket” noting Justice Roberts & “other conservative justices have repeatedly empowered [Trump] through their shadow docket rulings. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Now that we’re embroiled in war with Iran, it’s time we check in on this again.
Name one thing Trump has done that was not beneficial to Putin.
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I think they were in a relationship, don’t you?
Oops, maybe I spoke too soon. From Google AI: “Broader Demands: Iran's longer-term conditions for a permanent reopening include the unfreezing of $6 billion in assets, full sanctions relief, and a new legal regime for the strait.” … So, legal regime sounds a lot like that commission I mentioned.
Take heart. After Trump leaves office and the damage is done, Jake Tapper will write a book agreeing with you and detailing everything he could have reported to show the world Trump’s condition.
So, they announced the straights were open. Thank goodness my concerns were wrong. Let’s hope everything goes well.
This is a well-documented pattern in medical research and reflects systemic gender bias in pain assessment and treatment.👇
🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did on J6 🩸🩸🩸
So, IMHO, the US military will act as the muscle for state sponsored extortion that benefits Trump personally.
Add the royalties for money signatures and name use, = first trillionaire.
When you elect a crook, you get a criminal government.
All just my humble opinion.
100 tankers at $500,000 per transit = $50 million per day = over $18 billion per year. Collected by a Trump (like Trumps UN personal development fund). = over $18 billion controlled by Trump, some of which will go to Trump development for reconstruction.
Enforced by US military. Benefits Trump.
9) Control of global oil prices would allow Trump to charge fees to oil companies in exchange for maintaining certain cost thresholds, a backdoor monopoly.
10) If you think Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing you’re wrong.
11) State sponsored extortion.
12) Trump said MAGA applies the gilded age.
6) If the criminal faction of Iran has control this is possible. Joint extortion among larger & smaller criminals is common.
7) Any commission would use monies for reconstruction funneled through Iran & Tump development companies.
8) Tolls would allow Trump to control global oil prices.
4) Trump called Iran’s tolls extortion but he considers tolls split with him acceptable.
5) Private negotiators can establish a joint public/private commission to charge tolls, theoretically for rebuilding and repayment of US military cost. Tolls could be paid to Iran & a Kushner/Trump fund.
