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Been sayin’ for years, mess with California’s refineries and they’ll leave.
Seems every few months a democrat politician’ puffs up their chest
announcing more red tape or a new bill or regulation.
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“…study by USC Professor Michael Mische found that the factors
which have contributed to California’s high gasoline prices over
50-years are self-imposed by state officials and politicians.
It turns out that California is its own worst enemy.”
https://tinyurl.com/3x5zptu7
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Valero Announces it Will Shut Down Benicia Refinery April 2026,
“The decision reflects the growing impact of California’s increasingly
aggressive energy policies, which have made it more difficult for in-state
refineries to continue operating. ”
https://tinyurl.com/y294ez3y
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An after refiners let it be know they’ve had enough, newsom panics.
“I write to direct you to redouble the State’s efforts to work closely with refiners
on short- and long -term planning, including through high-level, immediate
engagement, to help ensure that Californians continue to have access to a safe,
affordable, and reliable supply of transportation fuels,” Newsom wrote.”
https://tinyurl.com/bddnyhcx
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“…to help ensure that Californians continue to have access to a safe,
affordable, and reliable supply of transportation fuels,” REALLY ? ? ?
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With refineries closed there’s only three options to get gasoline and
diesel into the state, by railroad tank cars, by tanker trucks or by ship.
Think prices are high now, wait until the added transportation costs
are tacked onto prices.
Transport cost by rail tank car $12 to $14 per barrel.
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Transport by truck, . . .
‘A fiery tomb’: Remembering one of the Bay Area’s most terrifying
disasters, the Caldecott Tunnel fire”
https://tinyurl.com/yt7uh2jc
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“Tanker fire destroys part of MacArthur Maze /
2 freeways closed near Bay Bridge”
https://tinyurl.com/42t5ytdf
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Greg, …. Just a bit more on democrats and violence,
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Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) is calling for an “uprising” in the streets
of the United States until President Donald Trump stops his agenda
of increased interior immigration enforcement.”…
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This week, Wilson joined other House Democrats in touring the Immigration
and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Krome Detention Center, which holds
criminal illegal aliens while they await their deportations from the U.S.
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Following the tour, Wilson held a press conference where she told voters
to call the offices of congressional Republicans and “threaten” them.” …
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“I’ve been giving out the phone numbers to the House of Representatives
and the Senate, it’s one number. That number you call, and you threaten them ,”
Wilson said:
https://tinyurl.com/2ys33n67
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From a duly elected member of United States House of Representatives,
“…call the offices of congressional Republicans and “threaten” them .”
I read yesterday that Valero posted notice of intent to cease operations or sell the refinery in the LA area next year too ….. way to go Newscum
Largest problem with democrat politicians, their short shortsightedness
and the fact they have ZERO adult supervision.
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They use our tax dollars to fund their green utopian fantasies.
I’m so glad I’m no longer a registered Democrat! The party is totally gone off the rails. You know it when their priorities are to protect foreign repeat -criminals above American citizens and favor biological men playing women’s sports. They are also against making voters prove they are a citizen to be able to register to vote. And now, this week, 2- democrat judges have been found hiding /helping to escape tren de aragua gang members. And you’ve got Nancy Pelosi out there again saying that the middle class is hurting because of Donald Trump’s trade tariff plans yet she was totally silent the last 4 years when we were really hurting under outrageous inflation! Dems are out of touch.
I personally think a lot of them are deranged.
Oh come on, ya have to admit, they are FUN to watch as rhetoric from
them and the propaganda wing of the party on TV.
It’s like I used to say at work, can’t get entertainment like this
on daytime TV.
Are Andrew Tate and Conor McGregor not foreign criminals?
Also you need to be a citizen to vote, the GOP bill is just grandstanding.
How would Pelosi know what’s hurting the middle class?
There is a wee bit of a buffer between pelosi and the middle class.
Last time she grocery shopped,
https://tinyurl.com/32fyfutj
Sooo….uhhh…those Epstein files, any day now, amirite?
Someone was suicided today that was to testify against him.She accused Prince Andrew of going to Epstein island.They needed to hush her.Sssshhhhh…….
The technical term is Arkancide
We’re busy arresting your democrat cry baby judges and deporting your MS-13 rapists and criminals for now. Which is loads of fun by the way.
Nobody needs epstein files to know what happened on that island. The evidence is obvious.
The poor girl killed herself today, I bet you feel good about that.
You’re braging about having the power to suppress information about disgusting sexual crimes that happened to children. You’re not a good person. Why are democrats so sick?
It is pretty obvious what’s happening. The same admin that employed Alex Acosta, same admin in which Epstein was suicided in their possession; same admin that’s lead by one of Epstein’s clients. We agree, Sam, it could not be more obvious as to what happened and what is happened.
Judges across rhe country of every political stripe have told Trump to get effed. Nothing Stephen Miller has autopenned will take effect. Only real life consequences thus far are they’re destroying the economy and forcing the world to workaround us. I feel so owned. Oh the owning.
Judges around the country are being arrested for breaking the law and acting as political pawns. The economy is fantastic, china is in a full on panic. Our markets are flourishing. Unless you dumped your shillings into Pfizer or EVs you’re doing great. Stephen Miller is an advisor and doesn’t sign anything with or without auto pen. On the other hand your buleanon homies are convincing the cult JD Vance murdered the pope. But no, you’re good, definitely owned by your own responses.
I recently saw a report on China and layoffs occurring there because the Trump tariffs. China doesn’t appear to play poker very well. I recently even bought a high speed mini-PC to replace my 9 year old development PC which was starting to be lagging. I had really not planned to get it so soon but figured it might not be available if I waited. A week after it arrived it was listed as “currently unavailable” to it was a smart buy.
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Some of us into medial research issue post plandemic occasionally catch up on Dr. John Campbell’s videos on YouTube. He has now caught up on the tic-tac-toe planes that up to no good in England too. You know this is very unusually cold weather for the Bay Area this time of the year and they’ve were busing this last week putting up fake cirrus clouds to block the sun. Think you can survive a possible ice age (predicted by Pentagon research in 2003)? They seem to be creating it.
https://youtu.be/h4vxsLwEMhM
Cloudbusting anyone?
Oh,the whining…..
What about the kids with cancer that ICE deported?
Cool story, Bro!
Make up a an incendiary headline and conveniently leave out all the facts.
These people actually think that some little one liner will peel away his supporters.All it does is make them like him less as they believe any tiny scrap of unproven negativity they hear.
When they hear someone in public say something like “this is going to be so bad for the country” they get a huge smile on their face.This is pure mental illness.Alot of these people live on the govt dole so if they economy collapses they believe they will still get their check with no losses and that everyone else that has a job will get what they deserve because they voted for Trump.
Tell us all about it.Then someone will say what actually happened.
Actually, under the law as it stands today…those children could have stayed. Their criminal mother could have asked our Children’s services to take charge of them. She chose to have them “accompany” her when SHE got deported. Now, unlike when she invaded our country illegally, she chose to try to do the right thing by her children. Trust me, she’ll still apply for welfare funds to care for them out of country.
Fine line. Technical… but at least its truth…unlike your take on it.
@ I’m New Here……………. So tell us, what happened?
I’m New Here
April 20, 2025 – 8:07 PM 8:07 PM
“Hegseth is an embarrassment, even in this administration. He’ll be gone by the time the next “Talk about Politics” appears on April 25th”
They live in an imaginary future..everything is going to happen fer shure,and you’re going ta be sorrreeee…..,just you wait n see.you nasty ole righties.So old and boring,but it keeps their spirits up to the point of being like a house fly.Annoying but very short lived.And they feed on $ht and leave it in random places.
We don’t have to wait for the future, Trump layoffs have already started. In construction, in biotech to name just two. Stock market has tanked under Trump. Markets have lost confidence in U.S. economic policy, dollar has been weakened.
yeah, I don’t know where you’re living that Trump’s incoherent tariff policy hasn’t already created chaos.
Your team arrested political opponents. Your team arrested a former president. Your team brought the chaos. Gaslighting us about “chaos” is peak liberal behavior. The stock market is healthier than ever. Corrections are part of investing. Acting like a 12% correction after going up 20% since the election is peak liberal ignorance. Thank you, come again
S&P500 closed on November 7, 2024 at 5,973.10
DOW closed on November 7, 2024 at 43,729.34
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S&P500 closed yesterday at 5,525.41
DOW closed yesterday at 40,113.50
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I have no idea under what math a decline of 7.5% for the S&P500 and 8.3 for the DOW can be cause by an intial 20% rise followed ty a 12% correction?
JWB should have stuck with “I have no idea” instead of wasting our time with the rest of his irrelevant babble.
in the last 2 days my investments rose past any red from 2 weeks ago and excelled past their projected income and continue to climb.All loses have been paid back with much more top.Being a drop out from reality can’t possibly be serving you well,but you get to vent,which may or may not be a healthy thing.Why so worried bout money when its like worrying about the price of gas when one doesnt have a car?
The more we are forced to compete with China on their terms, the more our society will resemble that of the CCP.
There are lots of content makers showing the toll the tariff war is taking on China – buildings and bridges made of cheap concrete are starting to crumble, entire neighborhoods devoted to menial factory work are collapsing. So, no I’m not concerned about slumping stocks. There are bigger things at stake here. Better dead than red.
And you seriously believe that the US is winning a trade war with China by pissing off each and every ally we ever had? This only let’s China win.
Is the US allowed to get POed?
What does pissing off other countries have to do with winning a trade war against China? It’s a trade WAR. Not a Ms Congeniality contest.
It’s what some call a buying opportunity,
market corrections are normal. Larger the correction
the more money you’ll make when markets recover and
go on to greater highs resulting in larger net dollar profits.
Cherry picking is what ad revenue dependent media does.
Best called for what it is, click baiting and fear mongering.
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IMPORTANT;
Being in market should mean a person already has ample savings and
a fully funded retirement plan. Money in the markets is money you won’t
need for 8 to 12 years. Your decisions and financial plans should be
reviewed at least yearly by your trusted and accredited financial planner.
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What country should be far more concerned about is
consumer debt and how badly Federal Reserve has
blown it this time, as they have done so often in the past.
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=hgMc
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No one should invest in stock markets until sufficient knowledge
has been attained and a trusted financial planner has been selected
and is regularly consulted.
steps off soap box . . . .
Maybe Greg is right… all this kerfluffle over reciprocal tariffs.
The USA ought to just cower like a leftist wussiecrat and continue to let other countries rip us off…. we deserve it! America Last! right Greg?
One thing for sure is that the Dow goes up and down. Sometimes for no good reason and often because of paranoia. It is after all a gambling den. If it was a “sure deal” then we would all be rich. 🙄
Who is being ripped off and how? When you shop at Piggly Wiggly, for instance, you walked out with a deficit. Probably because piggly wiggly doesn’t need to buy anything from you. That’s not being ripped off. But if you understood how tariffs worked, you wouldn’t have voted for Trump. Yikes.
We don’t have that store in California. So where are you posting from greg and why are you posting here? Also if you had any connection to this area you would know that. You guys are getting sloppy
Some people are paid to post political comments and other things to make money too
Look at this copy & paste from an online ad.
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All kinds of dishonest BS going on – You don’t know who you’re dealing with or how many different sites they troll to make a few bucks.
It happens on Facebook and Tik Tok too.
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https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/from-facebook-to-tiktok-us-political-influencers-are-paid-for-posts-idUSKBN27E1SE/
Been saying it for years. During COVID HOAX gavin newscum spent millions of our tax dollars on “combating online misinformation”. We have been paying to be propagandized for years. Obama did it. He should be in prison.
https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5736
If you had spent just 1 minute in California you would know there is no Piggly Wiggly.Do they have good prices usually?That means it’s not in California,explained in simpleton terms for you to understand.
Dr. J!
You really did have me on your calendar! But I’ll admit: I had this one wrong.
How many people stopped receiving their social security checks because of Elon Musk and his band of teenage hackers at DOGE?
You are a classy commenter INH.
We didn’t bet money on that comment did we?…. I can’t recall.
It’s OK, you can owe me.
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“Trump had a judge arrested today trying to defend immigration’ I almost fell out of my redneck duckblind with a loaded shotgun.This is getting dangerously hilarious…
Ps Below this comment is what the spin is
100 days in and Trump is the most unpopular potus in history. The good news for him is the full impact of his incoherent tariff policy hasn’t even hit yet. Imports from China are way down, shelves will be empty and whatever is on them will spike up in price. “JOE BYE-DON” isn’t gonna be a super convincing argument for why our economy is in the toilet under Trump. Again.
Trump is the more popular president in history. The economy is doing great. What are you talking about? Is this that blueanon conspiracy tinfoil? Definitely doesn’t line up with reality
Oh No!!!
How will the country ever survive without all the junk from China???
Really!
Where will I be able to find XL shirts that will fit a 3 year old child?
And those tennis shoes that never get stinky (because they will fall apart and be tossed in the garbage in 6 weeks or less).
Our economy will collapse!
Trump’s approval ratings in the latest opinion polls keeps going down. New York Times approval rating shows only 42% approval. Even the Fox News poll shows only 44% approval.
gavi newsom is 18%. So what does this actually mean for anything? Nothing is what it means. Absolutely nothing. “Even fox news” who is even that? Nobody but old boomer republicans watch that. You guys are so scared of fox news when they are on your side anyway 🤣🤣
Well golly….. pollsters were telling us the Presidential Election was too close to call back in November, LoL! We all know how that went…. but now we’re supposed to buy all their skewed “opinion polling” as accurate ? again?
OK go right ahead… but Mother Jellyfinger never raised such a foolish child.
Trump won the presidential election by 39.8%. That was well within the margin of error of every reputable poll.
Correction. That was 49.8%
You just proved my point!
Where did you see 39.8%?
Sorry. I mistyped a digit. Correction in place now.
Only 44?Find another leader,not in communist country with that much popularity.Why look so uneducated.. ? tryin to hide it with copied BS like other liberals never works.
Trump’s ratings will continue to go down as his incompetence will become even more apparent to moderate Republicans and independents who voted for him.
Only among your people ,while he continues to make the country and economy better and better everyday.He didn’t take the job and work for free to be popular,but you seem to think he did.He did it because he knew America was coming to and end if he didn’t get elected.He hasn’t been wrong yet.And he never loses.Popularity?Can you get some new material Jughead?Me and Archie are gettin bored with the same ole same ole.and so is Betty and Veronica…..
Spetssvyaz is the Russian communications intelligence agency. Hegseth seems determined to make Russian intelligence operations easier by doing things like having the insecure Signal communications program installed on two computers in his office. This guy can’t exit soon enough.
He’s going nowhere.Gd lk w/negative dreams.
With his Presidential hopes burned to the ground, Gavin Newsom is considering throwing his papal tiera in the ring to be the new Pope.
After all, he does claim to be Roman Catholic.
Although he was likely referring to his “Roamin’ hands”.
No more worrying about pesky budget deficits and ballot harvesting.
He could probably bankrupt the Vatican as well … wonder how he would sell his bullet train over there?
Liberals don’t want coal, don’t want peaker power plants.
Instead solar and wind is their utopian fantasy.
They take off line power generation that is scalable, output can be
ramped to meet demand, instead opting for “renewables”.
Solar is only works when sun is up and wind is not constant and
neither are scalable.
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Diablo Canyon nuclear plant should already have been decommissioned,
funny thing that. Closing Diablo Canyon would quickly demonstrate the
fallacy of “renewables”.
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‘Grid Expert: Replacing Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant with Renewables
‘Can’t Be Done’ ‘
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“To go 100% renewable would drive electricity prices four to five times higher”
https://tinyurl.com/56kfwujb
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Fix is simple, build more nuclear plants.
382113 simple cypher
AP/NORC POLL:
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Trump Approval
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Approve: 39% (-20)
Disapprove: 59%
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The only thing dropping faster than your 401(k) is Trump’s approval numbers.
Isn’t interesting how some can only focus on the superficial and inconsequential? – Like popularity contests?
It reminds of my junior high school days.
Oh boy are the walls closing in on orange man now? 🤣🤣
Whats it like to have been wrong about everything the last 8 years and have me run your credibility into the ground? You literally are treated like a volleyball every time you post. Everyone laughing at your TDS little man
@JWB, keep posting these made up numbers. It shows how desperate the left is.
AssPress Polls are created to support DNC views. They just ask the right people to get the results they want and use it as proof. Then they act all surprised when the election results are the opposite of their poll results.
Any yet you seem very worried about the dismal polling.
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BTW Rasmussen who I believe pretty much only polls Don Jr., Eric, Iwanka, Barron and Melania in their daily tracking poll is not brilliant either.
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“The latest figures include 32% who Strongly Approve of the job Trump is doing and 42% who Strongly Disapprove. This gives him a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10. ‘
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Sad
What is sad is JWB’s utter lack of comprehension. I explained how the AssPress poll numbers bore no semblance to reality, and he thinks I’m worried. So, I’ll repeat, please keep posting those made-up numbers. Your desperation is inspiring!
its like a zoo animal rattling a cage for the next 4-8-12-16-20 forever years.
Yawn..you ARE so sad.
Youre the only one doing all the worrying for everyone.Not very healthy,but par for the course in the hood.
Clinton will win by a landslide.From that day on they may as well never speak again.They couldnt tell the truth if their head was on fire.,and even their own people know it,they just hate Trump and don’t know why.
All you do among his supporters when you put him down with your imagination and little fake news is make his popularity rise and make them laugh.Anytime he goes “down “with the left is because they are one direction on everything.There’s no such thing as improvement in their eyes.And the entire last 4 year never happened.This not only the best presidential term for the country,but the enjoyment of the left’s suffering and self torment is at a level I only hoped to see.Lot’s of loose change being found by left as they stare at the ground.They are going to need it.
Gas prices all over the country have fallen dramatically except california. This is an attack on our people
China just folded in the tariff war. Unilaterally removing tariffs on all kinds of goods. Trump haters will say is against democracy
Trump chicken out first. Thank god China have some mercy on him and lower tariffs on some products (semiconductor) to save Trump face. Yet trump says that he is negotiating with china ( China embassy says that it is fake news, which is pretty most of things coming out out Trump’s mouth). Let’s China win this one
China is crumbling under tariffs. They have nobody to sell their crap to.
Paul you have no clue who’s negotiating about what with who. You actually believe communist china. You’re a communist sympathizer. You’re on the enemy of Americas side. You have treasonous thoughts in your mind. You should be under surveillance due to your unpredictable nature. We don’t need any more luigi’s running around. I really hope you change your ways before you find yourself locked away for your own good.
Paul sides with China… what a surprise!
And in broken Engrish!
I believe he uses a translation program to post here.He was pretending to be offended over truckers needing to speak english to make the country a better place.EVERYTHING TRUMP DOES is making America a better place,prove me wrong…
Trump,and America wins again.but this is bad news for the left.All wins are a loss for them.What;s it like to live in BIZZAROWORLD???/
Hey Sam, this is a thing that totally happened! Thank god for making things up, otherwise maga wouldn’t have any good news these days.
youre about desperate.tell us whats made up.youre regressing,and it shows.
Joe Robinnett Bindman broke the dress code at the pope’s funeral.You were supposed to wear and dark suit and a BLACK tie.J Robinette B did not.And they TRIED to say Trump broke the dress code.
oops”Blindman” Biden.
i meant to type Blindman
The Piggly Wiggly comment just gave away the location of most of the leftist commenters here.They are not even in Calif,but it’s meant to look like everywhere,everyone hate Trump.California is RED, they just get over yelled,and liberals do the vote counting when there’s a gubernatorial election.Nobody in that office will say a word about voting fraud.To work there you must be certified brain dead.
Exactly. What the heck even is a Piggly Wiggly? 🤣🤣 This California bro
Their western most store is located in Sherman, Texas.
https://www.pigglywiggly.com/store-locations/texas/
Kinda suspect, someone could possibly a paid poster,
NAW, couldn’t be.
Dear haters:Elon Musk wealth went up again on Wed when he made $7.5 billion.He loses more than any of you will ever make make in 100 lifetimes.Wow,what a loser he is.
The female pilot that crashed the helicopter into the plane in DC after repeated warnings to change her course that she ignored and joked around in cockpit was an aide to Joe Biden and only had 45 hours of flying experience.More DEI tragedy.They waited 3 days to release the female pilots name so they could “scrub her social media” that they did.Now she only exists in a crash report that they hope gets swept under a rug.
Trump has already lost his trade war. Our ports are empty, and nothing at this point can change that due to the logistics of international shipping. China has eaten Ttump’s lunch on the issue as it turns out the world needs china’s goods more than they need our…whatever it is we produce anymore. This is why consumer confidence has tanked and the economy, the envy of the world just six months ago, is now swirling the drain.
On that note, the attack on our economy makes sense when you consider the man Trump turned our economy over to – Elon Musk – has business interests in China that literally require a strong China. Must be a total coincidence.
Good Lord, angry Greg. You’re going to stroke out if you keep the blood pressure so high.
The trade war has only begun. Trump fired the first shots a few weeks ago and now we will see how the world responds. At this point, pretty much everybody is talking to the White House about some sort of deal. What will these deals look like? We don’t know yet, but your news sources will surely drum the “end of the world” outcome into your head.
“Whatever it is we produce anymore.” is the only part of your comment that is pertinent. Over the last 30+ years, we have surrendered our manufacturing abilities to China and the third world. That manufacturing is returning as companies re-shore their production to the US to avoid tariffs. It will take some time but the process has already started. Not fast enough for your liking I’m sure, but things are beginning to move in the right direction.
As far as Elon goes, TSLA probably has more down days ahead. Elon sells a ton of cars in China, but the reality is that there is so many cheaper alternatives to Teslas that his market share will keep on dropping. Strong China or weak China won’t really matter to Elon because the Chinese buyers will purchase cheaper Chinese made EVs irregardless to their economic strength.
Finally, put your money where your mouth is: If you believe in your scenario and think my scenario is a bunch of hooey, then INVEST IN CHINESE STOCKS and make the killing that your contrarian views deserve.
The world has responded to Trump’s tariffs: pointing and laughing. Our ports are empty which means the summer will see shortages and gouging. Billionaires telling Americans they need to endure pain until Q4 is hilarious if it weren’t sick. Nothing is being “re-shored”. This is just nonsense you’re repeating from Trump, who literally doesn’t know how tariffs work. And what is the plan, anyway? Are your kids gonna earn slave wages to screw in little screws as Lutnick promised was coming? real world data has already told you Trump has failed. “Nuh uh” isn’t as compelling as you think in terms of an argument.
right right, everyone is angry. Just not the people who voted for the guy promising revenge against his own country.
He;s on a tirade now that his east coast location and pointless not even in California comments are exposed for all to see.He is like a child having a tantrum right now from being caught with his hand in the cookie jar,but slightly less mature.
“our ports are empty” where do you get this imagination?you should write childrens books.
Paul and Greg sure like shaking their slave labor made-in-China pom-poms while serving as Chinese Communist cheerleaders. Well done, Comrades.
Unlike Donald Trump, I dont have merchandise lines produced in China. Unlike Elon Musk, I have zero business interests that require a strong China. I support nor voted for either of these men. Seems to me the commie sympathizers might be the folks actually profiting from being in business with the Commies.
Where is your “thank you” for all the electronics and among others things that are produced in China? Without the cheap Chinese laborers, we won’t have those fun toys, yes. Again where is the “thank you” for the Chinese and also the illegals for putting foods on ours tables.
The last time the Democrats got this riled up about a Republican President blocking their source of cheap labor they started a civil war. And just look at how that worked out for them.
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Low quality BS. So are China’s products.
Only poor people buy that crap and still cry about it.The way to beat tariffs is to buy American.Class dismissed.
Trump to sign executive order mandating that truck drivers are proficient in English
well well well…American truckers are threatened and can’t compete with foreigners so Trump has to protect American truckers by placing barriers to entry (English proficiency in this case). There goes my dream of becoming a trucker and exploring America. 😔
Paul,
I usually try to avoid comment on your posts because it is clear that you’re just trying to get a rise out of folks on this board. Thought a bit of advice was warranted:
Your trolling would be much more effective if it wasn’t so obvious. Try some subtlety and people might begin to believe your bs.
America First!
Promises made, promises kept!
Its called assimilating. Try it sometime.
So you’re sticking with being a leech on society.
Exactly what we all expected.
In Case You Missed Ir. The City (Concord) ~~ likely the most corrupt in the County, certainly the most inept and incompetent ~~ is, finally, planning and repairing our streets. The notice received indicated that they would ALSO be R&Ring the curbs and sidewalks as well.
“YIppeeee” I say. Since I complained loudly when they recently also sent notices that homeowners must pay for sidewalk and curb R&R themselves, I think “Wow, complaining does work! At last they are showing good sense. Homeowners I say, should not have to pay for 70 yr old sidewalk abutments to their property that they have ZERO legal control of including Utility Easements running several feet into their properties that they also have ZERO control of.”
SO, here we are today. They have started in my neighborhood. HOWEVER, are they ripping out cracked, heaved (from city planted trees that you cannot remove without a City permit) … heaved, cracked, pitted, worn to where gravel is chipping out… Those sidewalks?
OF COURSE NOT!
They are ripping our the ADA compliant ‘sloped Corners’ of the sidewalks that were just installed a few years ago, which are pristine since~ 1 )their practically new, and 2) as far as I know NOT ONE handicapped person has ever needed the flattened access for a wheelchair, walker, white-cane or anything else. The ADA curbs do allow water to rise & flood half the sidewalk when it rains…because they have NO curb to hold the water back — So, people who do use them, with their feet, walk through standing water or step outside the safety of the crosswalk area, into the street to avoid the water. Hmmm.
I’m sure the city will say they did diligent planning of what NEEDED to be done to actually improve neighborhoods for (you know) the people who live there. What it would cost vs. should cost — Got proper bids, and didn’t take any “favors” and all that good stuff. I wonder what the cost was just to hire the outside “STUDY and RECOMMENDATIONS.”
The people, on the other hand already (and for free) KNOW (without paying for a good-buddy-study) what really needs to be done.
Think of the money that could be saved with a simple city-employee drive/walk-through or paper survey.
Enough for now. They will never admit that the giant jackhammer actually caused that new crack in the sidewalk.
When they did that at 5th and Clayton.when it rains there is a puddle 10 feet across and 18 -24 inches deep.Anyone in a power wheel chair or any wheel chair would not get thru that or even want to try.CLUELESS CONCORD pandering to things that get them big checks that they give themseklves a raise with.Complete corruption in Concord.They are getting paid to make the city less useable.
Same here when it rains…wide swooping corners. I have care and compassion for handicapped. Especially war wounded But there really needs to be some regulation that stops .01% from dictating what 99.99% must do on their behalf.
Today they worked slicing, chopping, clean out of a “like new” section… and halfway refill dirt on ONE ADA corner. Started around 9:15, Counting … with 1-2 backhoes and 1 front loaders, 1 slicer and 1 grinders, a clean dirt truck and a concrete refuse truck..one man on Flag duty, 3-4 men with shovels ~~ 11 or 12 men and equipment made noise till noon… then silence! All equipment and men gone! == I just figured they were taking a lunch break. Half hour later, one came back and put safety tape on cones around the hole. ALL Gone before 1pm.
Three hour day. A dozen men, Half done on one corner. Taxes at work. I suppose they may get the opposite corner Half-done tomorrow.
Always suspected some graft and kickback in city hall and maintenance yard.
When they said:
–You can get your own sidewalk contractor, but the city will charge you at least $1000 or more for a Permit. OR, you can use the contractor the City contracts with and there is NO permit fee.–
Right then, I knew I was right.
That Jamie Raskin is really pushing the envelope with his militant rantings.
If a Republican Congressman had made such inflammatory statements during the Biden regime, in less than 24 hours Merrick Garland would have had him in the basement gulag being fitted for the evening gown competition.
A drunk Nancy Pelosi blurbed at a podium yesterday and every 2 or 3 words was actually some kind of english,the rest were a drunken stumblebum mumbling.
Goldman Sachs is now projecting that the United States will have the lowest economic growth AND the highest inflation rate of any developed economy in 2025.
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https://x.com/SpencerHakimian/status/191700732048104660
When these people complain they also don’t lift a finger to try and fix or prepare for a problem (in their warped definition of problem) they say will be happening soon or is happening now.
We did, we voted for Harris. Enjoy your recession.
@The Professor: Re: we don’t make anything here anymore.
No, we don’t. Yes, that’s too bad but the problem isn’t globalism so much as corporate America which would never pay the kind of wages Americans would expect to manufacture items that China uses essentially slave labor at a scale that rivals the size of cities. I don’t know if you have ever watched Shark Tank. Used to love the show. The one piece of advice they’d give literally every entrepreneur standing in front of them was to off shore their manufacturing. This wasn’t specific to the shark tankers, they were expressing what is considered just standard operating procedure to profit. So the idea that these same folks are eager to bring back jobs to America at higher wages and benefits…does that strike you as a reasonable belief?
It’s like the immigration debate. All I hear from Republicans is about how evil the illegals are yet not a word about the men and women who create the employment infrastructure for illegal labor. These companies *do not* wish to pay Americans fair wages, thus using illegal labor. We keep going after the symptom of illegal labor and not the source, which makes sense when you consider Trump and his buddies rely on illegal labor in a number of their interests.
Interesting movie from 2010 … made right in the middle of the Drop-dead Banks Recession. (it’s free on Youtube. No question about it, the writers producers in Hollywood give us clues to what’s happening way before we catch on and politics shows its ass.
“The Company Men” GREAT Cast of favorites … Nine minutes in the Big Money Boss says:
“American heavy manufacturing is dead. Steel, Autos The price of Ship building,”
His Next Line is Pure Insider Prophecy of where (we should have) put our money for the future!
“The future is in Health Care, Infrastructure and Power Generation.”
In the future I hope I’ll be paying attention to what they are warning us about.
Now, as much as it pains me to admit it…. I don’t think Trump’s “re-build manufacturing” will work without “Importing the cheap labor that we are currently kicking out.” Pray I’m wrong. But I think we have raised a generation or two of the “Trophies for everyone” who would rather live at home, walk your dogs, and deliver your groceries than work in a factory.
LOVE The Company Men!
I do think attitudes about working have changed for sure but then again so has working for a living. It was the most normal thing ever to be able to afford an apartment one one salary, for example. Live in a nice area. Go on vacation. Remember pensions? Corporations have held wages back for decades. They’ve eroded the middle class of companies by firing good paying middle manager roles, yknow the people who actually work with the boots on the ground, so their shareholders see bigger profits. Working for a living now is mostly seen as a hamster wheel in which people are paid less so they can barely afford crappy things corp America needs us to buy. I’d rather walk dogs too.
Greg,
You’re close, but you haven’t thought it all of the way through.
“So the idea that these same folks are eager to bring back jobs to America at higher wages and benefits…does that strike you as a reasonable belief?” Yes, it is a reasonable belief when you factor in the tariffs. Tariffs raise the costs to the seller, who then decides how much he can pass on to the buyer and how much of it he needs to eat. If you make the tariffs is high enough then he can neither pass it on because nobody is buying, eat all of the tariff but then that eliminates his profit, or manufacture the goods in the America AND COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE TARIFF. This is Trump’s end strategy.
High tariffs eventually mean more goods produced in the US, more employment, economic freedom for the employees, less govt dependency, increased tax revenue, etc, etc, etc. This is the part of tariffs that you are missing.
Now the part that we agree on: There needs to be strict laws enacted that severely penalize companies and individuals who employ, house, and support illegal aliens. It does not matter if you are Joe Palooka hiring a guy in the Home Depot parking lot, a fortune 500 company, or a judge. When you aid and abet a criminal, you become a criminal too.
Your tariff scenario requires that the U.S. is the only buyer of these goods; that China can’t absorb pain. Both of these are wildly inaccurate. The entire globe depends on China’s manufacturing for everything from cheap crap to medical items. Entire international supply chains are based on China. So the idea that if they cant sell their products to us they’re SOL is just wrong. Then add in they don’t care how much their people suffer. Plus, this type of scheme has been tried before – it led to the Great Depression. And we can see how.
Trump has no coherent tariff policy as it is. The admin claimed 90 deals in 90 days 3 weeks ago or so. So far zero deals. Countries have openly stated they will find new partners to trade with. We don’t produce anything the world needs. We just have nukes and up till this point a rock solid economy and institutional underpinnings governments could trust. GOP has taken a wrecking ball to that. We in trouble.
Thanks for your reply.
The deals I’m describing are not from countries that are in the process of tariff negotiations. I’m talking about deals that are actual investments in America.
https://www.newsweek.com/business-trump-biden-investments-manufacturing-recession-2048775
So far there has been approx $2.7 Trillion already pledged. This is predominately $ that is used to build manufacturing in the US. $2.7 Trillion to onshore the manufacturing that currently happens elsewhere. $2.7 Trillion pledged in under 100 days. This is very good news.
China’s economic issues are bigger than most people realize. There is high unemployment among young males. Their real estate market is in a bigger mess than ours was in 2008. Local govts cannot raise money for local improvements. The US is THE buyer of Chinese crap. Without a US buyer, China’s manufacturing goes kaput.
Where Trump erred was in the chart that he pulled out of his a** at the now famous press conference. Everyone was expecting10%-20% tariffs. That chart had numbers on it that no economic analyst had modeled for. It wasn’t the tariffs, per se, that are caused the stock market to swing all over the place. It was the surprise of the unexpectedly high numbers on the chart that he displayed. If you didn’t know before, you know it now: the market hates surprises.
Just in? This was reported in 2021 in the NY Post. Also Hunter Biden doesn’s own an art gallery. It’s the art gallery that repped Hunter Biden but the owner is Georges Berges. And to top things off you might try to remember under which administration Covid relief was provided.
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But if you want something a little bit more current. Do you want to comment on a new club which just opened in Washington DC? It’s called “The Executive Branch” it promises the member access to government leaders. The membership fee is $500,000 and that fee goes to the owners of the club. Guess who the owners are? Right Don Jr.,Omeed Malik and Chris Buskirk from 1799 Capital which is connected to JD Vance as well as sons of Steve Witkoff.
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Now, you can tell us how you feel about these kids selling access to government leaders? BTW I thought Hunter selling overpriced art was creepy and you will not find a single posting of me supporting it. But now let’s hear your view.
So tell us.oh outspoken liberals,what should we have done on election day?(sound of crickets from the left of course)Set the course for us we so should have followed.You have nothing times infinity.In the words of Billy Preston : “Nothin from nothin leaves nothin”
Wow even my IRA went up today with my brokerage account,and usually that only happens to my IRA on the first of the month.Thanks King Trump!!!I have had nothing but positives happen,all negatives wiped away,as they are only temporary under TRUMP,with Biden things just got worse and worse.Had they faked the giggler into office gas would be $10 a gallon right now and $2 for 1 egg.
Breaking news:
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OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals win election, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects.
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Until two months ago Canada’s liberal party was projected to lose in a landslide to the Conservative party lead by Pierre Poilievre. But then Trump involved himself in the Canadian election supporting Poilievre and the Conservative party started to slump. That’s how toxic MAGA is, at least in Canada.
Trump says he will eliminate income tax with tariffs.This is great and historical news,but this doesn’t matter to a liberal because they don’t have a job.Somehow this will be harmful to them when it happens.Because any Trump victory harms them greatly and it is wonderful.
Explain why you think you would be better off by paying your taxes through a regressive consumption tax instead of a progressive income tax?
This guy trying to act like everyone in a “blue state” is a complete idiot voting for democrats. Without conservatives holding everything down your world collapses instantly. All the wealth is created in the RED COUNTIES. Liberals produce nothing except lies
How could anyone argue that the wealth in CA is generated in some rural red county vs. the blue costal counties. That must be the reason that homes are really cheap in San Francisco but very expensive in Yuma City.
Dude you are completely wrong. The price of your house is irrelevant. Everything that was purchased to build that home came from red counties. Everything you put in your face was grown and processed in red counties. Everything delivered to your city is delivered by MAGA. Sure there’s banking and tech companies in the city but the coast would die without red counties. Try feeding yourself with computer chips (those are even produced in red counties) Try flushing your toilet with a with an app. Just try to do anything without us. You’ll be starving while drowning in your own crap wondering why nothing works and uber eats won’t bring your mcdonald’s. You need us 100x more than we need you. But if I’m honest, everyone needs each other and this little game of blame the other side is lame. California is a red state with a strip of blue on the coast. Contra Costa County is on the edge. For you to pretend I’m wrong is just foolish, but here we are
The discussion was about why a consuption tax would be better or worse for an average person compared to an income tax? And I pointed out that blue states and even blue counties in blue states have higher income compared to red states or red counties in blue states. And of course this is reflected in the home prices it’s not irrelevant. Because nobody could sell a house in an area where people would not earn enough to buy them.
Also do you really think farmers could produce without banks financing their seeds and their equipment. Do you not understand that modern farming is quite computerized? But aside from that what do you think tariffs do to farmers? Most of the fertilizer comes from Canada. You cannot farm at the level of today without fertilizer. Also lots of the parts for farmequipment are imported. Higher farm equipment prices will hurt farmers.
Do you understand that the taxpayers had to bail out the farmers in the first Trum administration for $28B due to tariffs?
Because I have no say in how much I must pay in taxes. I can always consume less, and therefore get “taxed” less, if I so choose.
Well I can tell you think you would be better off with a consumption tax, fair enough. I believe you are wrong but that is simply my opinion and I respect that your opinion is different from mine. No need on my side to chang your views on this.
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But since you bought into the tariffs will replace income tax narrative, I was hoping you could explain to me what Trump’s tariff strategy acually is. Because one day it’s about replacing the income tax and another day it’s about getting manufacturing jobs back to the US. You realize that these two goals are mutually exclusive, because if you want to replace the income tax you need to increase imports and if you want to decrease imports you will reduce amount of consumption tax you collect.
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So, what is it? It has to be one or the other but it cannot be both.
Your interpretation of my comments is wrong. Never said that I bought into anything, fool. I just bought into the idea that I have some control over how much I consume and have 0 control over what the Govt taxes me. Your first paragraph is a lame attempt to butter me up and your second paragraph starts with a false premise that you attempt to expand upon. Your post is a waste of band width. Learn to read.
Let’s just make it easy. Flat tax and everybody gets charged the same and has skin in the game.
In fiscal year 2024, the U.S. collected approximately $2.5 trillion in individual income tax revenue, based on data from the U.S. Treasury and related analyses. Total U.S. imports of goods and services in 2024 were around $3.3 trillion, according to trade data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis and other sources.
To replace $2.5 trillion in income tax revenue with tariffs on $3.3 trillion in imports, a tariff rate of about 76% would be required, assuming import volumes remain unchanged ($2.5T ÷ $3.3T ≈ 0.7576). However, higher tariffs typically reduce import demand, shrinking the tax base. Estimates suggest that a 50% tariff rate maximizes revenue due to this effect, potentially yielding $780 billion annually—far less than the $2.5 trillion needed.
Realistically, tariffs cannot fully replace income tax revenue because imports would decline significantly at such high rates, and retaliatory tariffs from other countries could further reduce trade and economic output. Posts on X reflect similar skepticism, estimating tariff rates of 65–140% to match income tax revenue, but these assume no reduction in imports, which is unlikely.
Therefore, a tariff rate of roughly 76% would theoretically be needed, but practical constraints make this unfeasible without massive economic disruption.
2.5 trillion from American citizens. That’s sickening man. And they can’t even fix the roads? No, no more
I don’t think the Feds are in charge of fixing your roads. You really should learn a bit how the government works.
The feds are in charge of funding the freeways including maintenance and new freeways.
In the USA, freeways are primarily maintained by state departments of transportation (DOTs). Each state has its own DOT responsible for the planning, construction, and maintenance of highways, including freeways, within its borders. For example:
For interstate highways, which are part of the federal Interstate Highway System, maintenance is still handled by state DOTs, but they receive federal funding through the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), a division of the U.S. Department of Transportation. The FHWA sets standards and provides oversight, but states execute the work.
In some cases, local governments or toll authorities may maintain specific freeways or toll roads under agreements with the state. Private companies may also be contracted for maintenance tasks, but oversight remains with the state DOT.
“Treating English as a Backseat Language Jeopardizes Roadway Safety”
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy
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“Federal law is clear, a driver who cannot sufficiently read or speak
English—our native language—and understand road signs is unqualified
to drive a commercial motor vehicle in America. However, President
Obama sacrificed driver safety when he lowered the penalty for violators
of the English proficiency rule on the road.”
https://tinyurl.com/mts7szh5
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No English, No drive, sounds good.
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“Every immigrant who comes here should be required within
five years to learn English or leave the country”
–Theodore Roosevelt
I think it’s safe to say we should all get used to this.Republicans will be in office for at least the next 40 years and the liberals will moan endlessly about it.It just becomes the norm after a while.They can cry and put down till the cows come how,but it’s just for self stimulation,and if they don’t comment they feel left out,and wont get paid for skipping an article.Par for course 21st century.
I have one quastion about Canada’a election.They are calling it a ” minority’ govt.How is that for the people?Sounds a little voter fraudish too.If the majority doesnt welcome them,how are they elected?A flood of new arrivals,that’s how.
The United States is currently living under a minority rule regime.
In response to Trump’s tariffs China tweeted a Ronald Reagan speech.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZrkVsXfDRuU
Oh no! The Chinese point out that 45 years ago Ronald Reagan objected to tariffs being imposed (were were in a trade war with Japan at the time) BFD. We don’t have to agree with everything Reagan did (remember the Immigration Reform and Control Act?).
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Doh, please explain to me how throughout history all the tariffs imposed by the USA have always been bad for the USA and paying higher tariffs than any of the nations we trade with is good for the USA. How does the left have that figured?
Actually, why don’t you explain to us how these tariffs will move manufacturing back here and what the costs of that manufacturing are expected to be? Wages for Americans to screw in little screws and such? Cmon, Doc. Show us some of that legendary GOP economics-knowing.
When i saw a clip of what was labeled as dems “embarrassing messages” about Trump,it made me realize the media is telling anyone willing to listen that everything Trump is doing is a complete failure and the country has never been in such bad shape,with nothing more than headlines and nothing to back it.saying 100 days of failure.They released 9 people into the country this year under Trump.And most are asking why did they even let those 9 in.That alone along with hundreds of billions in savings for the American people is an incredible success that they again.say everyone will lead up to everyone loseing their SSI.SO REVOLT NOW!!!!!They rely on no facts or fact checking and pure blind allegiance.They are begging for riots,and financial ruin.This has been the best 100 days the country has had in years,and they are literally saying its the worst 100 days they ever seen.Can you say brainwashed?Why dont they just say “lets organize,wreck the country,and blame it on Trump(he made us do it)”
Schumer should be put in prison,he’s not only trying to incite a riot,he;s trying to start a civil war that their side could never win,and he think’s he Mr Tough Guy,with the fake barbeque.He proved to the country on camera you cant believe a word hes says.If he will lie about something so trivial,you cant expect the truth on any real issues.
Amazon will now be showing the Trump Tariff Tax itemized so folks now why things are more expensive. UPS just laid of 20k employees, which is in prep for the slow down of deliveries. Ports are empty. We have not yet really seen the destructive nature of Trump’s self-inflicted economic gut punch to the country.
Midterms gonna be fun.
Fake news, Greg. Amazon has already corrected that “info”. Amazon’s spokespeople say “It was never a consideration”.
White House attacks reported Amazon move to display the price of tariffs: “A hostile and political act”
thank you bezo for letting us know that who really pay the cost of trump tariffs war.
Since Amazon makes it difficult to see where items are manufactured, now we can see what was made in China. And people who approve of such things are free to pay the slave labor tax.
Amazon showing Americans how globalism and slave labor has destroyed our country isn’t the own liberals think it is.
The ports are active. Companies are back loaded for 12-18 months in anticipation of this. What do you think all the huge warehouse space constructed over the last 8 years was for? Liberals will be the ones getting price gouged because they are gullible and will rollover. We will be charging more for Tesla owners with stupid little stickers on the back and surbru outback’s.
The only thing they could do better than that would be to make a “MADE IN THE USA” filter selection and come with zero items 🤣🤣🤣. Welfare collectors will disagree.
December 2024,
‘Congress Hammers EDD: They Really Are That Bad at Their Jobs’
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“While sending out upwards of $50 billion dollars to fraudsters,
the EDD was denying proper claims because of a lack of supporting
paperwork, even as it had rooms full of unopened mail, presumably
which contained the paperwork the agency demanded from California citizens.”
https://tinyurl.com/mr6px77m
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Prop 47, raised level for charging some Felonies up to $950 ?
An look how well that worked out, gave us incredible level of thefts?
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An now this,
California senate bill 560
“Increases from $950 to $25,000 the threshold for prosecution of welfare fraud“
https://tinyurl.com/ma66rmch Bill Analysis
https://tinyurl.com/bdhcheem Text
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Is it possible welfare system is so screwed up this bill is necessary ? ?
Are CA democrats trying to head off / hide another huge embarrassment
that might result in democrats not being elected?
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Would increasing the threshold of $25,000 have the effect of
INCREASING attempts to commit fraud ?
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Then again if there is a massive screw up,
it’s not like it’s THEIR money . . . . . . . . . .
Why does it seem when there is a problem,
democrats decide to make it not their problem? ? ? ?
‘California Dem introduces bizarre new bill that would
effectively legalize welfare fraud under $25,000′
https://tinyurl.com/3p7ut24s
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So we are supposed to just accept a flawed system ? ? ?
WHY NOT FIX IT ? ? ?
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Would system have already been fixed if fraud dollars
came out of bureaucrat’s pockets ? ? ?
Are there any classes that I can take to improve welfare fraud game? I want to be ready to cash in if the Sacto Nut Cases actually pass this travesty.
You should check out Senator Rick Scott Florida, I think he still holds the record for the nations largest wefare fraud case.
You mean the one where his company was fined $1.7 Billion? I’m well aware of it. The penalty seems appropriate to me. Do the crime, pay the fine.
Under the proposed Dem plan, every Tom, Dick, and Harry gets to pocket $25k with no risk. We all saw what happened when Sacto decided to decriminalize shoplifting by raising the criminal threshold to $950- the thieves just increased their looting. Guess what will happen if we allow a $25k threshold to anything before there are consequences? Let’s keep the stealable limit at $0 and aggressively pursue and prosecute perps.
I think the inmates at San Quentin filing for Covid and unemployment has that beat.
Just a bit more on democrats and violence,
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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D), 27 April in New Hampshire,
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“Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption. But I am now,” Pritzker said. “These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” …
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“The language is all too familiar and can only be described as
assassination prep — carefully cloaked in moral outrage —
designed to incite the most egregious acts of political violence.
His words follow the same formula of other leftists: frame the political
opposition as not merely wrong, but evil and tyrannical, then justify any
means to defeat them. Such language is meant to dehumanize their
.opponents and provide moral permission for violence.” …
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“In 2021 Rep. Maxine Waters, D-CA, called on protesters to
“get more confrontational” if they didn’t like the verdict in the Derek
Chauvin-George Floyd trial. Her comments came three years after
she called on people to harass Trump administration officials.
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up.
And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a
department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd,”
she said back in 2018″…
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“Then-Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, stood on
the steps of the Supreme Court in March 2020 and threatened
Justice Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh: “You have released
the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
Two years later, a man armed with a gun, knife, and zip ties traveled
to Kavanaugh’s home intending to assassinate him.”…
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“But this type of incendiary rhetoric isn’t an outlier — it’s part of a broader
pattern of political conditioning. This language primes support for
confrontation and, in the minds of the most unstable, legitimizes violence.
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When Democrats talk about “fighting back” they increasingly mean it literally
— and the results have been both tragic and undeniable.”
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“Congressman Steve Scalise was nearly killed in an assassination attempt
in 2017 by a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter.”
https://tinyurl.com/357c75fc
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An as evidentially happens, an act of violence after which democrat politicians
acting dumbfounded call for CIVILITY, which might last three or four weeks.
Good for Pritzker. The Dems who will take back the Senate and WH are not anyone the GOP will enjoy dealing with.
Another excellent day in my bank accounts.Thank you King Trump.
When I saw that dems had named the last 100 days”100 days of chaos”I realized how truly sad and desperate these people are.Someone please name on one thing that was chaotic for a person with any intelligence in this country?Tell us all how you or the country has suffered.There is NOTHING, but the left gives their leaders (that dont have one they can name right now) permission to lie to their faces everyday,and provide comedic material to the right.When this is all put in a book will be a best seller.The left are so tragicomedy right now this is classic and unbelievably entertaining.They eat up ANYTHING this broken party mumbles as if it’s biblical.They set out to leave their own people in a dismal state of depression ,but the exact opposite happens if you were born with common sense.
Trump just secured another $150 billion deal.Wow,the economy sure is failing.You guys on the left….get a hug.it’s gonna be ok.They will dream up a way you can feel you shot this down imaginary number and perpetual failure is all that lies ahead.Do me a favor though..cry more.
The funny part is anything that’s said you don’t agree with,you just say”he’s lying.That is textbook denial of reality.And pretty damn funny.”Popularity!!!Popularity!!! Don’t you see,he’s way down.” And the last 4 years..you said what????????????a %15 approval was puffed up to 30 so countries wouldnt attack us when they see Biden just not trusted or in charge.
Trump picked up right here he left off: worst GDP quarter since he left office. Gee, so the economy contracting was the plan all along?
Statement from Black and Decker:
Stanley Black & Decker – “In response to the United States’ recent policy actions and to safeguard gross margins, the Company has implemented a high-single digit U.S. Tools & Outdoor price increase in April, with plans to introduce a second price increase effective the beginning of the third quarter”
https://newsroom.stanleyblackanddecker.com/2025-04-30-Stanley-Black-Decker-Reports-1Q-2025-Results
Don’t blame me, I voted for Harris. Enjoy your recession
Indeed. The destruction heaped the country by China Joe Biden is going to take a long long time to remedy.
Today’s Q1 GDP data:
+0.4% Eurozone
+0.3%Italy
+0.2% Germany
+0.2% Austria
+0.1% France
+0.2% Mexico
-0.3% U.S.
Ruh roh !
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“The Army created a “buffer zone” along 170 miles of the border
with Mexico in cooperation with federal immigration authorities.
On Monday, federal prosecutors applied a charge for incursions
into this defense area against illegal aliens who were detained by
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP).”
https://tinyurl.com/4tpu2bbt
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Assuredly there will be lawsuits, perhaps ending up at The Supreme Court.
The frantic flailing of the left this week is confirmation that things are going well in America right now.Prove me wrong.
In the last 2 days my IRA and my investment account have all exploded into huge numbers.To add to my IRA 3 times in one month is unheard of.Thank King Trump.The people saying stocks are down,the economy is bad,must have misunderstood the last meme they saw on instagram,and proving they dont have $20 to thier name. Go ahead keep saying the economy is in the toilet.The guy that keeps say”enjoy your recession’ you dont understand that all a recession is,is a slowing of commerce,and that ain’t happnin’ either…Where do you get your info..from Dracula?
Ain’t it, FUN ! !
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Friday,
Nonfarm payrolls,
Unemployment rate
Factory orders
Same here with my IRA.
NPR is “left leaning” Really?!!!
Well derr……
https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-editor-found-registered-democrats-outnumbered-republicans-87-zero-newsroom
So what – fox “news” had to pay out a $787M settlement because they lied about voting machines to help trump lie. I don’t think using fox to make a point is the winner you think it is.