Matthew

Gross.

Didn't trump claim a few days ago that gas was now under $1.98 per gallon? When facts are in the way, they just lie and gaslight.

What process decides if a person is here improperly? If ICE arrests someone and claims they are illegal, what process checks to see if that's factually legit?

I'm questioning whether even a billon in savings has been confirmed. I don't need a source to ask a question lol. What we do know is that the doge bs has been wasteful--taxpayers paying hundreds of millions to fire and rehire tens of thousands of people. 75,000 buyouts involving 8 months of full pay and benefits (while doing no work). Meanwhile cutting 40% of the IRS which will mean hundreds of billions in lost revenue from lack of enforcement of tax law. And these are just a few simple direct costs.

Because the maybe 1 billion is half of a percent of what they claimed they were going to be able to do and more like a negligible quarter of a percent of actual federal spending.

Lets see, if you're wanting to send everyone you don't like to a foreign concentation camp then the thing you would need to do is get rid of immigration courts. Just claim everyone you don't like is MS13 or some shit and kick them out right? No part of the process in your way to question any facts or consider evidence?

For all the theatrics, chaos, costly economic uncertainly, and privacy violations caused by the entire DOGE stunt, the actual budget savings is practically nonexistent. Has there even been $1 billion in savings from anything (let alone fraud and waste)? Literally everything trump and musk teams have claimed about DOGE savings has so far turned out been a lie.

Checking in with our November 2024 predictions. As of today, the headline is: U.S. economy shrinks 0.3% in first quarter If it shrinks again this next quarter economists will call it the start of a recession. Combine that with a spike in trumpflation and it could be the beginning of a dismal and costly period.

No, they manufacture a lot because they have infinite cheap highly repressed labor and 76 years of intense government projects to build up industries.

Yeah I just read a story today on the NYT about how the right wing social media bubble still has a love affair with ivermectin, with influencers claiming it reverses cancer, autism, etc.

You would lose that bet. They some kind of doctor at their megachurch who would host a clinic during the pandemic where he would dole out ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. So she did that instead of going to a real doctor, at least before her condition escalated.

My aunt believed this shit. She died of covid. Turns out the horse dewormer medcation she got from her church did not help.

No problem, bud. They have 1.4 billion people and a mixed economy with a large, decades-long poltical program of intense economic development. That many people going from agricultural poverty to high tech manufacturing in a 50 year span means it will eventually overtake US gdp. However the average person in China is still quite poor by currect US standards. US GDP per capita is 83k, while China's GDP per capita is 12k. So if you're argument is that tarrifs are good because look how great China's citizens are faring, that's going to be a weak argument. Finally, they have the most diversified economy in the world and manufacture goods for every corner of the world. Tarrifs on imports mean very little to China because they domestically manufacture so much. It's basically a luxury tax for them. The 12% share they export to the US is important but they are not utterly dependent upon it.

Basic economic reality is woke now.

Tell that to the republican Senators who feel pretty certain that the House bill makes a clear pathway for drastic medicaid cuts and are not wanting that section 409 language included. Their bill doesn't specify any spending reductions. The word "cuts" appears zero times in the 86 page resolution. The whole thing is general policy statements. And with that in mind, their policy statement about Medicaid leaves it open to being changed, while it's language about medicare leaves no room for it being changed. Hence Senate Republicans not yet having condensus on a budget plan.