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Saturday, April 19, 2025
Friday, April 18, 2025
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Trump's failure in rare earth minerals leadership means he needs the deal more than Ukraine, but note: Ukraine isn't even a top 10 producer: pic.twitter.com/ADToqlvUWQ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 2, 2025
Neo-con Lindsey Graham should STFU. The hypocrite once faced down Trump's illegal 2019 hold on Ukraine aid in his attempt to extort Zelensky into investigating Biden. Now he has no upport even among neo-cons. Never mind the last time I checked, Graham had a 34% approval
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
Whatever Zelesky popularity issues he has in thre middle of a war against Russian war criminals :
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
"According to a recent survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) published in early February, 57 percent of Ukrainians said they trust Zelensky." https://t.co/so22DnQG5D
STFU, Trumpkin. I have loved Daryl Hannah since she played the world's sexiest mermaid. https://t.co/TM8sFGzyfR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
You assume Trump is putting America first. He has NEVER put America first. You just believe gullibly in his BS.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
I have never voted for Trump or his Democratic opponent.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
I believe in a small general government. I believe USAID needs to be streamlined, but ultimately Congress has the power of the purse, not Trump.
I was born in a bilingual household & French was my dominant language until kindergarten. I took a couple of years of high school Spanish and picked up enough Brazilian Portuguese to work and live in Brazil by myself several weeks. I don't have an issue with multi-lingual others
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
RE: tomorrow night will be big
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
I will boycott Trump's speech. Trump is seriously overexposed. He's not smart enough to realize less is more. He spends at least a third of the time hyping himself and bashing others. He lies and misleads on nearly everything he discusses.
Dummies like Navarro and the Treasury Secretary mislead people on Trump's illegal Chinese tariffs. No, obviously consumers ultimately pay the tariffs although importers & the retail chain could absorb some on their margins. What they're really saying is Chinese suppliers get hit
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
If the Chinese company has a large market share, it has less incentive to lower its own margin, meaning the customer takes more of the hit of Trump's tariffs. The point is there is only so much the supply chain can absorb to offset Trump's tariffs.https://t.co/YBwMMn7cR6
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
I still don't know why Trumpkins are angry with Blondie Bondi. It has something to do with the delayed promised exposure of Epstein's black book of clients. Bondi is pointing fingers at the FBI. Trumpkins are having buyer's remorse with Bondi and ludicrously lust for Gaetz
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
Trump has a form of dementia when it comes to Zelensky. He ludicrously argues Zelensky doesn't want peace. Russians are occupying Ukraine and killing Ukrainians, an ongoing war crime. It is as incoherent as Trump accusing a rape victim of not wanting the rape to stop.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
Trump lost the right to be taken seriously when he unilaterally renamed a centuries-old internationally recognized body of water. Maybe Marco Rubio was okay with thousands of Trumpkins calling him "Little Marco" but Trump is no explorer.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
I don't listen to Russian propagandists like Trump, Gabbard or Musk.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
Trump seems oblivious to the fact that the trade balance (which he doesn't understand) has been in deficit since the early 70's, but we had far higher growth under Reagan and Clinton than in his own term, and in fact the deficit ballooned in his first term.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
The one thing I like about DOGE more than anything else is the trimming of the Unconstitutionality Index. Recall last summer's Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (ending Chevron deference)?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 3, 2025
Regulation is an indirect tax on consumers.https://t.co/ao6NWBr2DV pic.twitter.com/MB5cDxoEky
Trump extended his Oval Office unprecedented Trumper tantrum of phony outage, evicting Zelensky over refusing to join WWE-style Trump Kiss-My-Ass Club. Yeah, Putin ordered Trump to suspend urgently needed Ukrainian aid Biden signed into law. Trump would deny a drowning man aid
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
The Trumpkins are upset that Ossoff helped kill a GOP effort to write Trump's unconstitutional anti-trans sports participation policy. There is zero constitutional basis for general government intervention in sports, for or against sports rules. https://t.co/nHJJbzrszF
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
But if I had been a Senator I would have voted against Tuberville's bill on the basis of constitutionality.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
You are insane. Putin is evil. Putin is illegally occupying Ukraine territory. Arguing Zelensky wants a forever war is like arguing women want to be continuously raped. Trump is parroting Russian propaganda. He is still blaming Zelensky for his 2020 defeat.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
You are knowingly incompetent on HFCS, just like crackpot RFK, Jr. First of all, there is zero nutritional basis for HFCS fearmongering. Second, if you had done casual research on when Coca Cola first used HFCS you would know it was a response to a 70's global sugar shortage.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
Some might argue excess production intended for foreign market but lost to retaliatory trade restrictions if anything exasperated domestic deflationary tensions
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
As one of my high school teachers would say, "Stop being an idiot." The US has no constitutional enumerated power to oversee sports. We should leave it to sports officials to ensure fair competition, not political whores playing culture wars.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025As one of my high school teachers would say, "Stop being an idiot." The US has no constitutional enumerated power to oversee sports. We should leave it to sports officials to ensure fair competition, not political whores playing culture wars.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025It is true that analysis-paralysis of the Fed, never mind a limited toolkit, exacerbated said money supply contraction but Hoover's protectionist policies clearly worsened the prospects of economic recovery. We had a widening trade surplus at the time, and other nations responded
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
China is responding to Trump's trade war with mercantilist policies of its own aimed at American businesses. We can expect other retaliations from Mexico & Canada. Trump is like the dude who bangs his head onto a wall, is hurt, but bangs it again, hoping for a different result
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
I'm amused by how many people misspell Warren Buffett 's surname (one t). Yes, Trump's tariffs are an act of war. Otto T. Mallery correctly wrote "If soldiers are not to cross international boundaries, goods must do so." "America First" is a hoax on American consumers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
Almost as bad as you and the rest of you Trumpkins.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
Not nearly true. For one thing, Presidents have limited influence over the economy. Second, Carter appointed Volcker to the Fed and Volcker raised interest rates over 2-digit percentage, and Reagan inherited a
This has got to be one of the most idiotic trends ever. No, Trump is not some genius for bullying Zelensky , Canada and Mexico, bringing the Godfather's thuggery to the Oval Office. You don't put a gun to the heads of US consumers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
"Art of the Deal"I turn on CNN and some economically illiterate GOP Congressman Lawler praising Trump for pushing "fair trade" over free trade. No, idiot: the only fair trade is when consumers can buy what they want at the price they want without some political whore getting in the middle of it
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025deep recession. The Nasdaq melted down late under Clinton, not Bush.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025So when other people get tax free income at my expense or our grandchildren's) it's grossly unfair and unjust. This isn't a case of deferred income like a regular IRA; these people get paid a bribe by corrupt Trump to vote for him. It's like his redistributing tariffs to farmers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
The GOP Congress must take back its power of the purse. Delegation of trade policy was intended to expand free trade pacts, which benefits American consumers, not to enable an economically illiterate megalomaniac Trump's insanely destabilizing tariff actions.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
"Trump's 25%"
Well, first of all, we have a paygo system, so a comparison with a 401K otr IRA is disingenuous. Second, the reserve is limited to investing in low-earning US debt. Third, the system has certain redistributionist aspects favoring low balance beneficiaries
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
We get a lot of produce from Mexico and things like meat, egg products, and grains from Canada. So, thank Trump and his unprovoked trade war with China, Mexico and Canada for your subsequent rising grocery billshttps://t.co/KxptqL3tpo
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
Racist Trumpkins are calling for RINO Felon-in-Chief Trump to pardon killer cop Chauvin. Killer Chauvin kas 2 sentences being served concurrently: the homicide sentence in state cou
rt & Trump has zero power over that sentence. The second sentence involves federal civil rights.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025How many times do I need to point out Pocahontas was not a Cherokee? Not that Trump cares. He and his equally racist minions probably think all Native Americans look alike
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
Pocahontas
Xenophobe Trumpkins want you to forget (1) native Americans rape women, (2) immigrants are filtered for criminal records, and (3) immigrants tend to have lower than native crime rates. I would rather deport Trumpkins.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
Kind of makes you wonder about the war criminal Putin who launched this war and the moron US Felon in Chief enabling him.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
They've picked up some tactics from Trumpkins cloning tweets
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
I was listening to some leftist woman on GML accusing DOGE of preparing for (gasp!) privatization of (unconstitutional) governmental functionality (perish the thought! #sarcasm) I wish Trump and Musk were smart enough to do that!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
Oh, God. I don't want The Onion to give Trump ideas on immigration policy. We all know Trump used to own the Miss Universe competition and Melania would have done well on this test. https://t.co/Fu43AmV1dP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
None of these Trumpkins ask, what the hell happened when the nuclear-armed USSR invaded Afghanistan? Do you think the Russian people want a second Afghanistan on their hands?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
As one of my high school teachers would say, "Stop being an idiot." The US has no constitutional enumerated power to oversee sports. We should leave it to sports officials to ensure fair competition, not political whores playing culture wars.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 4, 2025
This has got to be one of the most idiotic trends ever. No, Trump is not some genius for bullying Zelensky , Canada and Mexico, bringing the Godfather's thuggery to the Oval Office. You don't put a gun to the heads of US consumers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
"Art of the Deal"
I turn on CNN and some economically illiterate GOP Congressman Lawler praising Trump for pushing "fair trade" over free trade. No, idiot: the only fair trade is when consumers can buy what they want at the price they want without some political whore getting in the middle of it
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
So when other people get tax free income at my expense or our grandchildren's) it's grossly unfair and unjust. This isn't a case of deferred income like a regular IRA; these people get paid a bribe by corrupt Trump to vote for him. It's like his redistributing tariffs to farmers.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
First of all, I run a trade deficit with Walmart: I buy lots of stuff from Walmart, and they buy nothing from me. In Trump's version of reality, I'm getting ripped off. No, I don't need Trump to tell me whether I'm getting a good value on their (Mexican?) strawberries.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
I don't give a damn what Trump thinks about my decision to buy strawberries. It's none of his gd business. (Well, he whores his surname brand so much I wouldn't be surprised if he repackaged Mexican strawberries under his name at 5 times the cost abd sold them to Trumpkins
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
First of all, I run a trade deficit with Walmart: I buy lots of stuff from Walmart, and they buy nothing from me. In Trump's version of reality, I'm getting ripped off. No, I don't need Trump to tell me whether I'm getting a good value on their (Mexican?) strawberries.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
I was hoping Pelosi would continue her tradition of ripping up stupid Trump speeches. Actually, I would like to see her burn it but that probably violates some fire code. https://t.co/i5jFzjeP2q
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
I kept my word. I didn't listen to Trump's speech. It must have been as bad as I expected. I have a lot of news alert email subscriptions. And not one alert beyond the were covering it.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
How many times do I need to point out Pocahontas was not a Cherokee? Not that Trump cares. He and his equally racist minions probably think all Native Americans look alike
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
Pocahontas
They are already planning his tombstone.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
"Trump 2028"
I wish political whores like Trump would stop exploiting people as political props
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
"Debbie Wasserman Schultz"
No, stupid. Not even Musk has claimed that. All he claimed was some field was not getting used at some stage. I think if they actually traced some one getting checks, Blondie Bondi would be prosecuting them. It could be there are testing issues as to why a field is not enforced.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
Good to hear SCOTUS slap down Trump's attempt to freeze foreign aid. We libertarians tend to be suspect of foreign aid, but the issue is the POTUS doesn't have the power of the purse.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
American smuggling eggs from Mexico and Canada is sure to ramp up since Trump has slapped 25% on legal imports. (I can just see it now: dudes selling loosies on street corners. LMAO.)https://t.co/PdTmto5Ksm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) March 5, 2025
During my month hiatus from the Internet, I had a major health incident. A stranger knocked on my door, enabling my medical rescue. likely saving my life. God bless kind-hearted strangers!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 10, 2025
Trump's economic illiteracy on trade deficits is fundamentally a distrust of American consumers. Nearly half of them prefer foreign auto makes. They make their own decisions. based on quality, reliability, cost, styling or other preferences, not wily foreign trade officials.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
Democrrats are not helping themselves by applying the "good war" logic to Trump's unprovoked tariff war sabotage of the global and US economy. Tariffs are anti-consumer taxes applied regressively to lower-income groups which benefit from competition.https://t.co/efmP1RANzR
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
By far the stupidest Trumpist talking point on trade is the assertion that American consumers are getting ripped off by competition of foreign goods or services. Corrupt politicians rip off consumers by taxing their politically unpopular choices.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
Trumpkins are absurdly trying to give Trump credit for a modest decline in egg prices. Why? Did he start laying eggs? #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
It's beyond hypocritical for Trumpkins to bitch about the Chinese responding to his unprovoked tariff attacks. The US is violating trade agreements ratified into law. The WTO ruled Bush's steel/aluminum tariffs were illegal, and Trump has now repeated Bush's mistake twice.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
Apparently Trump wants to tax Penguin product imports. The Batman told Trump the Penguin heads a criminal organization. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
Wow. People are already boycotting Starbucks and we haven't seen the double whammy of a bad bean harvest and Trump's tariffs yet.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
"boycott starbucks"
Kelly made her fortune as a news anchor, not as a lawyer. "Lawfare" is fake jargon.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
When Trump spoke of reciprocal tariffs I naturally assumed Trump was speaking from a common sense perspective. Never expect Trump to speak coherently. He is not saying foreign nations should tax American widgets the same rate we tax foreign widgets.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
Another inconvenient fact: "But we sell far more services than we purchase from other countries. This means the US service sector enjoys a trade surplus with almost every trading partner around the globe, including those at the center of the trade battle"https://t.co/3VBK1G576B.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
Unlike ignorant, counterproductive Trumpist trade warriors, economics-savvy individuals eagerly embrace unilateral free trade. Anyone who thinks a political whore like Trump can micromanage the transactions of over 330 M Americans is as clueless as himhttps://t.co/OkYc34gSFw
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 12, 2025
China, unlike Trump, does not tax materials and parts imports, extending cost advantages over American producers beyond labor. Never mind Trump's nativist policies and limited slack labor force make his naive goal of insourcing production infeasible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025
Trump compares taking his tariff/tax hikes to taking your medicine. Tariffs are a type of government parasite. Plus, Trump is no gd physician. Physicians abide by the maxim "First, do no harm."
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025
The government must be using a new antigravity scale to weigh Trump. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025
224lbs
The timing of the arson attack (Passover) on Gov. Shapiro (D-PA)'s residence is suggestive of an unconscionable antisemitic hate crime. The suspect must be fully prosecuted under both state and federal law.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025
The transparent twisted logic of using "emergency" powers and 200+ year laws to bypass due process requirements in federal legal adjudication is more evidence of an anti-constitutional power grab of the rogue imperial Presidency of Trump.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025
I dislike the comparison of Trump's unconstitutional tariff authority with Smoot-Hawley. Yes, both were unprovoked and toxic to economic growth and recovery, but Hoover operated within the scope of
It's not just that Trump's irrational trade war is toxic for everyday Americans as inflationary, job-killing and lowering our standard of living, but CNN shows his economic job approval among independents is almost 30 points under water. The enabling Congressional Republicans?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025Congress' power of the purse. Congress cannot delegate its power of the purse.— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025Idiotic Trumpkins don't know how to read. Senator Van Holland is part of the government which deals with foreign relations. "Nothing in section 953 [Logan Act], however, would appear to restrict members of the Congress from engaging in discussions with foreign officials" https://t.co/P6eD8TmMZP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
As a UH graduate (2 advanced degrees), it was disheartening to watch the Cougars blow a second double-digit second half lead in the NCAA basketball championship in over 40-odd years.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 13, 2025
Well, Trump is still under 100 days in office and his net job approval is already 4 points underwater and stands just under 47. Ironically, he is getting killed on his #1 election issue, the economy. He is mucking up economic uncertainty as bad as Obama.https://t.co/22YTn5ti8O
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
Trump is begging his voters to keep faith his historically failed economic policies will bear the seeds of an American economic renaissance. No, government policies unduly limit economic opportunities, obfuscate capital investment and corporate planning.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
The fact neither Trump nor the outlaw El Salvador President are working to return a knowingly wrongly deported man is a violation of international and US law. For Felon-in-Chief Trump, it's yet additional impeachable misconduct.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
This country owes its greatness to the backs of immigrants; a disproportionate number of them are job-producing entrepreneurs.(A nephew engineer works for Musk's SpaceX.) I'm sick and tired of Trump's grossly immoral smears of good. hard-working people who have sacrificed to come
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
As a student and former professor, I have encountered a number of international students. The outlaw Trump regime's repression of foreign students exercising their academic freedom and God-given free expression rights is unconscionable; criminals Trump and Rubio are responsible.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
What's the deal with Katy Perry going into space? So she can sing about kissing an astronaut and liking it?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
"Dana Bash responds to President Trump calling out CNN: "I think they hate our country, actually.""
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
Felon-in-Chief Trump needs to stop using the royal "we"; he's a bastard who doesn't speak for the US. He's a traitor. We don't hate our country. We do hate political whores.
SCOTUS was trying to speak tactfully to Trump. That doesn't work with a jackass like Trump. You need to kick his teeth in, spell things out. Due process is not optional. The fact that Trump's thugs are unlawfully deporting people proves its requirement
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
"Constitutional crisis"
Trump is getting political advice from the poster boy of literally a banana republic. https://t.co/gDNIPCHSdU
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 14, 2025
The last statement is a knowing, deliberate lie. The Court explicitly noted POTUS is not above the law, in particular private behavior vs. official duties.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
I never thought in a million years I would favor Harvard's side in a dispute with a GOP administration but the rogue Trump regime is that damn evil.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
Trump's idea of privatizing and outsourcing prisons seems to include sending American citizens to unaccountable banana republics. It's like he's trying to make the USSR gulag relevant again.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
I oppose the left's DEI agenda. But the Trump Administration has gone far beyond defunding initiatives to censoring minority milestones and accomplishments and trying to micromanage university policies. This overtly partisan agenda is counterproductive and needs to stop now.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette)Once a young Democrat, I left the GOP over the RINO Trump heresy's 2016 hostile takeover of the GOP. I think for decades the only Dem vote I cast was for an unopposed Congressman. As a real libertarian- conservative, I am 100% opposed to Trump's immoral protectionism & nativism
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Forget Jerome Powell. We cannot terminate Donald J. Trump fast enough. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
The big point is only 14% of China's exports go to the US, and much of that is low-margin goods. American consumers are overextended, and around a third of tax revenues are servicing a growing national debt that anemic American savers cannot finance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Thought-provoking piece explaining the monumental miscalculation of Trump's fatal decision to launch a futile trade war with China. It reminds me of the US automobile industry's historical failed response to the emerging Asia competitors.https://t.co/B431dOJCyJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
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I don.t buy Trump recently passed a cognitive test, I just saw a CNN clip where the Moron-in-Chief accused Ukraine of "starting" the war with Russia.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
It's not just that Trump's irrational trade war is toxic for everyday Americans as inflationary, job-killing and lowering our standard of living, but CNN shows his economic job approval among independents is almost 30 points under water. The enabling Congressional Republicans?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
Idiotic Trumpkins don't know how to read. Senator Van Holland is part of the government which deals with foreign relations. "Nothing in section 953 [Logan Act], however, would appear to restrict members of the Congress from engaging in discussions with foreign officials" https://t.co/P6eD8TmMZP
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 15, 2025
Leftists lose all credibility when they try to compare the Trump Administration to Hitler, The rogue Trump regime is incredibly incompetent, unqualified, counterproductive and evil, and gutless GOP enablers in Congress will pay a price, but Naziism is worse.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
"Nazi Germany"
Thought-provoking piece explaining the monumental miscalculation of Trump's fatal decision to launch a futile trade war with China. It reminds me of the US automobile industry's historical failed response to the emerging Asia competitors.https://t.co/B431dOJCyJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
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The reason the Dems lost last year had nothing to do with Trump; Biden totally mishandled inflation and post-COVID migration. It's not that Trump's protectionism and nativism are/were credible alternative solutions, but Trump benefited from not being Biden/Harris.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025It's bad enough that Trump is such a dumbass politician that Mr. Art of the Deal got taken in a prison deal by a banana republic dictator who argues he can't return a prisoner, unlike Hamas or Israel. Just a reminder: Trump argued he would end the Russia war before taking office.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
I can't speak to the cognitive test administered to Trump, but I bet it didn't include:
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
-who won the 2020 election
-is Trump eligible for a third term
-who lost 9-0 in SCOTUS over returning a wrongly deported individual.
Another idiotic talking point during my hiatus was the idea judges were hampering deportations by questioning the inapplicable Alien Enemies Act, which does not confuse gangs with militaries. Funny: Deporter-in-Chief Obama managed to deport record numbers working within US laws.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
I don't know who insults my intelligence more: Trump arguing centuries of economists are wrong in rejecting his failed protectionist policies, nativist advisor Stephen Miller arguing Trump's 9-0 loss in SCOTUS was a victory, Blondie Bondi or Press Secretary Blondie talking points
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
The fact is social spending cuts are more myth than substance. We have a nearly baked in $2T annual deficit. A de facto tax increase via expiring tax cuts would exacerbate existing economic challenges with a recessionary global economy.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
Trump and his gaslighting Press Secretary on his own Blondie figure China has no alternative but to capitulate on Trump's terms. Who's the dumbass who declared an unprovoked trade war on his USMCA and NATO partners, never mind quadrupling tariffs on his trade suplus partn
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
Trump has badly miscalculated his hand in starting a trade war with China. China has already hinted it is cutting off critical rare earth supplies and canceling aircraft and agricultural orders. It could roil the US debt market. It can aggressively undercut Tromp's trade deals.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
Trumpkins are nothing but inconsistent. Trump tries to excuse his 2020 loss on good news about COVID vaccines deferred until after the election. On the other hand, meatheads like MTG are trying to repeal approvals of proven vaccines.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
I think Garcia has an American wife and child. He was denied asylum by an immigration judge but due to the threats to his safety in El Salvador ruled against his deportation there. By any objective analysis, Trump and ICE's actions against Garcia are purely evil and indefensible
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 16, 2025
Once a young Democrat, I left the GOP over the RINO Trump heresy's 2016 hostile takeover of the GOP. I think for decades the only Dem vote I cast was for an unopposed Congressman. As a real libertarian- conservative, I am 100% opposed to Trump's immoral protectionism & nativism
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Forget Jerome Powell. We cannot terminate Donald J. Trump fast enough. #sarcasm
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
The big point is only 14% of China's exports go to the US, and much of that is low-margin goods. American consumers are overextended, and around a third of tax revenues are servicing a growing national debt that anemic American savers cannot finance.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Thought-provoking piece explaining the monumental miscalculation of Trump's fatal decision to launch a futile trade war with China. It reminds me of the US automobile industry's historical failed response to the emerging Asia competitors.https://t.co/B431dOJCyJ
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
I was a huge ABBA fan before Trump ever expressed interest in being POTUS in the 80's. Trumpkins are pissed because ABBA refuses to let Trump exploit their music for his political agenda. I love ABBA even more!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Powell is holding firm on interest rates noting Trump's unprecedented tariff wars have exacerbated inflationary worries. The resilient economy undercuts cutting rates for the second mandate.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
I literally knew when a red state university started trending, it was a school shooting, not a scholarly achievement.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
"Florida State University"
Trumpkins are generally morons. First of all, Flynn was not charged with violating the Logan Act, and Flynn was never a member of Congress. Second, Sen Van Hollen's duties include votes referencing foreign affairs and the Logan Act is not relevant.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Why do atheist leftist have to bore us with repetitious rubbish every time there is a shooting incident? No doubt they bitch at God each time one man kills another.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Pray for FSU https://t.co/0tVWJjOSXa
Didn't anyone notice Felon-in-Chief Trump vow to primary Massie a second time for opposing his big beautiful bill?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
Retaliation
Getting an award from Trump is like others seeing the picture of your ugly cousin kissing you on social media and they think she's your girlfriend
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 17, 2025
"Congratulations Mark"
I thought the 2 presidential whores in the Oval Office insisted this meeting wasn't possible. The idea that American taxpayers are funding Trump's corrupt dirty deals with banana republics working around American justice with guarantees of due process for residents!
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 18, 2025
"HE'S ALIVE" https://t.co/C4qd7yjIQ0
Why is the American taxpayer picking up corrupt Trump's politically motivated expenses?
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 18, 2025
Van Hollen represents taxpayer Garcia against a rogue POTUS working around the Constitution.
Scostt Jennings is an idiot Trumpkin. Garcia's native family was persecuted by violent gangs, and he sought asylum. He has no criminal record and ICE's sketchy case is mostly based on a dubious uncorroborated criminal tip. https://t.co/NybsQl4opy
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 18, 2025
Wow, Trump's RCP job approval rating is down to 46.5, 3 points below November. Gallup and others have him at 41-44. Next fall is going to be ugly if this trend continues.
— raguillemette (@raguillemette) April 18, 2025
Post #7170 M: Weekend Update; McClanahan on Are Woke Museums Destroying American Culture? ; No, The UK Doesn't Have Free Speech
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Weekend Update
McClanahan on Are Woke Museums Destroying American Culture?
No, The UK Doesn't Have Free Speech
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Musical Interlude: 1960 Top 100 Hits
Marv Johnson, You Got What It Takes
Thursday, April 17, 2025
Post #7169 M: Weekend Update; McClanahan on Impeach Federal Judges! ; Shrinking the State is Against the Rules!
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Weekend Update
McClanahan on Impeach Federal Judges!
Shrinking the State is Against the Rules!
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Musical Interlude: 1960 Top 100 Hits
Johnny Preston - Cradle Of Love
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Post #7168 J
Pandemic Report
The latest weekly stats from CDC:
Clearly the winter surge has largely tailed off at least overall nationally since my last report over a month ago, Congressional Republicans and the White House are trying to claw back unspent state/local federal COVID relief funding. NIH is cutting back research arguing the pandemic is over. The military has started rehiring those who refused a COVID vaccine, including backpay, although that may require a multi-year commitment and deduction for any interim income, Novovax's COVID vaccine approval got deferred. Military games in China in Oct. 2019 reported early COVID-like illnesses.
Other relevant news items of interest:
- "Certain nasal bacteria may boost the risk for COVID-19 infection"
- "5 years on, true counts of COVID-19 deaths remain elusive − and research is hobbled by lack of data"
- "mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines train the 'long-term memory' of the immune system"
- ?Food insecurity may have driven increased tuberculosis mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic"
- "Three companies recently announced progression in their clinical research for next-generation Covid-19 vaccines: INOVIO, Ocugen, and Pfizer.:"
- "COVID-19 vaccination induces long-lasting antibody B-cell responses."
- "1 in 7 US working-age adults report long COVID, with heaviest burden on the poor"
- "New quinoline-based antiviral shows strong promise against SARS-CoV-2"
- "COVID-19 Linked to Increased Kidney Risks in Children"
- "Scientists hope far-UVC light could help stop the next airborne pandemic before it starts"
- "PET/CT detects vasculitis following COVID-19 vaccination"
- "Using a study design from the past, researchers again show COVID-19 is airborne"
- "Scientists stop long-COVID symptoms in mice using a new antiviral compound"
- Prosecution of COVID relief and other crimes continues, including
- "San Diego restaurant owner sentenced for $1.7M COVID fraud"
- "KC realtor indicted for tax evasion, COVID-19 loan program fraud"
- "Scammer admits to defrauding investors with fake COVID-19 protection products during pandemic"
- "Husband of former Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush charged with COVID fraud"
- Legal and political issues continue to be pursued including
- "North Carolina family can sue over COVID-19 vaccine administered without consent, court rules"
- "H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics"
- "Greene calls for yanking FDA approval of COVID-19 vaccines: 'Causing permanent harm and deaths"
- "US COVID-relief funds lost to fraud likely total hundreds of billions of dollars"
- "Feds probe disputed tip Pfizer held Covid vaccine results until after 2020 vote: WSJ"
- "CDC doctor monitoring bad COVID vaccine reactions may have deleted files, alleges Sen. Ron Johnson"
- "New York spent $452 million on medical equipment to fight COVID. Barely any of it got distributed"
- "States sue Trump administration over termination of Covid recovery grants for schools"
More Notes
A recent month-long hiatus from the Internet interrupted all but a couple of prescheduled blog posts. A family member finally retrieved a laptop and cellphone and I've been able to resume publication on Blogger and X.
I'm not going to discuss the details of my health incident, which lasted probably 2-3 days (my bedroom alarm has 2 settings daily). My cellphone had been unavailable during the incident, preventing an emergency call. so I became obsessed whether I was close to a heart attack or even possibly facing my mortality. What led to my medical rescue was an unexpected knock on my door. From others, it seems that an ISP cable rival was doing an unsolicited sales call. I pleaded through the door for the stranger to call emergency services, which probably saved my life, thanks to this kind-hearted stranger. I am in the process of recovering in a rehab facility.
Post #7167 M: Weekend Update; McClanahan on Heather Cox Richardson is a Really Bad Historian; What Happens When The Debt Hits The Fan?
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Weekend Update
McClanahan on Heather Cox Richardson is a Really Bad Historian
What Happens When The Debt Hits The Fan?
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Political Cartoon
Courtesy of Steve Kelley via Townhall
Musical Interlude: 1960 Top 100 Hits
Mule Skinner Blues; The Fendermen
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Post #7166 M: Weekend Update: Chen Biao on Trump's China Tariffs; McClanahan on How "Democracy" Lost Its Meaning;
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Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.
Weekend Update: Chen Biao on Trump's China Tariffs
McClanahan on How "Democracy" Lost Its Meaning
Bad Ideas Ruin Good People
Choose Life
Musical Interlude: 1960 Top 100 Hits
Brenda Lee I Want To Be Wanted
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