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Seriously. The statement I’m going to make isn’t political in the least. WTF is going on with this guy. One day DOGE is in charge, the next it isn’t. The tariff situation is a complete mess. His deportation agenda is going nowhere. Markets are uneasy to say the least. Military and business partners can’t trust us. Consumer confidence is falling. Food prices still climbing. And he’s played a ton of golf. I don’t like trump at all, but I’m rooting for success because I’m an American. He’s gotta get it together because this is an incompetent poop show. Easily the most chaotic and inept first 100 days of my lifetime. He’ll testify after they satisfy all of the conspiracy theorists by releasing all of the Epstein files. Which will be never. We know who the leopards will eat next.

This. And I’m the meantime, Canada and Mexico string trump along while looking for different partners. They’re buying time, and we accomplish nothing other than aggravating allies and partners.

It’s the stock market. Pretty ugly since Trump took over. Lots of private sector job cuts too. Looks like the business world doesn’t much like the whiplash approach of the White House.

Yeah, sure, dead people in social security. It’s been debunked. Meanwhile, the flip flopping of this bozo on tariffs is giving rise to another bloody day in the markets. Needles destruction of wealth. and, by the way, he’s getting played. Canada and Mexico are just buying time to find new trading partners. But she’s not right, either. Trying to bring this production back domestically has to happen in phases and over time. The car dealer hit the nail on the head. Gradual tariffs, or sunrise tariffs in a few years, make more sense than this BS.

Biden inherited an economy that wasn’t shambles because of COVID.

That’s a hoax if ever there was one. You know what has hurt the economy? Trump. His tariffs are stupid. Trading partners don’t trust the guy. Inflation is creeping back up. New job creation is slowing. I wish he took the “don’t fix it” approach to the economy he inherited.

There’s a difference between prevention and enforcement. I said enforcement. You confused the two. And yes, border crossings (prevention) are better under Trump. But his eviction of these criminal illegals that he scared people with the campaign is no different from Biden. So, again, he either invented a problem that didn’t exist or is failing in his effort to solve it.

I get the play against China. And I would handle Mexico differently, but I somewhat understand the play. The Canada approach, however, is profoundly stupid.

Thanks. I’m sorry you had to learn here that the pace of deportations under Trump is equal to the pace of deportations under Biden. Either Trump invented a problem that didn’t exist or he’s failing in his effort to solve it. Compound annual growth rate I believe was better under Biden. But yes, the market did well under both presidencies. Unfortunately Orange 2.0 is not off to a good start.

Im hoarding cash but holding everything. I learned from the first go round with this bozo not to overreact. Also making it tougher for his base to eat. Maybe they can have cake. Or leftovers from Mar a lago. I’ll give you one. These tariffs. Stupid. Serve no purpose, other than to tax middle America. There you go.

Because there’s nothing good to say. A few dozen trannies no longer play girls scholastic sports. Immigration enforcement is a storyline, but really no different from what was done under last administrations. And to accomplish that we’ve damaged a good economy to the point that it’s teetering and probably inevitably headed toward a significant recession. I hope the culture wars were worth it for MAGA.

Which was on orange man time. It has been brewing for awhile, no doubt. But orange man promised prosperity and huge paychecks and lower taxes and a smoking stock market. So he owns it. And his tariff idiocy certainly isn’t helping anything. So maybe he should get off the golf course and get back to work.

But what security? That's the point of Zelenskyy's question. Which neither Trump nor Vance answered. Putin can't be trusted, Zelenskyy wanted some sort of answer about what happens when Putin inevitably breaks his words, and MAGA lapped up the boorishness and ignorance on the part of our leaders that followed. It was and remains a fair question as to what happens when Putin breaks his word. Perhaps not only his recent history with Putin but Saigon 1975 are fresh in mind.

It’s a good time to hoard cash and buy when the panic sets in.

What threats would those be?

ultimately this is what it’s going to take to resolve. This is the point Zelenskyy raised immediately before the oval blowup - what’s the guarantee of we take the deal, because Putin can’t be trusted. There’s still no answer to the question. that piece, I think, is fixable. Don is a businessman and this stuff happens in negotiations. He’ll make Ukraine grovel, and at some point there could be a deal. The bigger issue is future relations with traditional allies. They now do not trust us because of stuff like this.

So you’re a commie? Inflation happens in free market economies. And it’s trump inflation then and now. This is what happens when you butcher a pandemic (trump) and print free money (trump and Biden) during a period of pent up demand (trump and Biden). also, Trump told you that this was temporary. He said it was a day one fix. Now it’s getting much worse and he’s playing golf. When he’s not trying to impose new taxes and cut interest rates (both bad for inflation ). Great stuff.

Departure. Leave the land you invaded. Then we have peace. It’s very simple, actually. Then don’t embolden him, like we are.

The other option would be to achieve peace by Russia leaving Ukraine. Seems pretty simple to me. The invader leaves, and there's peace in the realm. If we're going to play the socialist game, those subsidized farmers should step right up. And the host of red states that contribute less to the federal government than they take from the federal government. We also shouldn't forget all of the trailer park slobs on Medicaid. They're the poster people for socialism.

Yeah sure that’s what it was. Hoax. What you really did was make something up without having a clue what you’re talking about. On brand for you.

You just made up a number. Making it up as you go along. As usual, you don’t have a clue what you’re taking about. Lots of people are saying that, too.

Blah blah blah. You don't know the number. You made it up and you're talking out of your rear. As usual.

Again, so how do you know the number?

Realistically, how on earth would you know how many employees are "at most" required for data collection? You're a math teacher with a tenuous grasp of the English language. Give me a break. Do I think that forecasting is probably going to become a creature of AI sooner than later? Yes, I do. And I think it's probably going other support job cuts at the NOAA. But I know exactly as much about the personnel required to collect data to be fed to forecasters, whether human or AI. Which is absolutely nothing.

I hate to say it, because I think weather forecasts and warnings are hugely important. But this one struck me as a quintessential AI replacement issue. I don’t like it, but I can’t say that I’m surprised by it. Or that I don’t sort of understand it.