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“Just remember: what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”

By Mark | July 24, 2018

I wanted to write something tonight about this news that Donald “trade wars are good and easy to win” Trump was going to be asking the American taxpayers to pony up $12 billion to help offset the losses of the American soybean and dairy farmers who got totally fucked by his bright idea to jack […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged dairy, Donald Trump, international trade, Orwellian, post-fact, post-truth, reality, soybeans, the nature of reality, trade war | 138 Comments

Making enemies of our adversaries, and embracing our foes… The Trump Doctrine

By Mark | June 9, 2018

[above: A petulant child, forced to interact with adults, pouts.] I don’t have the time right now to put this in the proper context, but I wanted to pass along this video of our President, moments before leaving the United States for the G-7 meeting in Canada, declaring himself to be “Russia’s worst nightmare,” and, […]

Posted in Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Barack Obama, Canada, collusion, Crimea, Donald Trump, election hacking, foreign policy, France, G-7, G-8, Germany, Group of 7, international trade, Italy, Japan, John McCain, Justin Trudeau, Kim Jong Un, lies, Max Boot, Robert Mueller, Russia, Russiagate, The Trump Doctrine, trade agreements, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vladimir Putin | 373 Comments

“The Committee to Defraud America”

By Mark | March 3, 2018

In a move that the conservative Wall Street Journal said would “hurt the economy and his voters,” Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the United States would be imposing steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. [The tariff on steel would be 25%, while the tariff on aluminum would be 10%.] As for why Trump […]

Posted in Economics, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, aluminum, Apollo Global Management, background checks, blue wave, Brad McMillan, Carl Icahn, Carlos Gutierrez, carried interest, Commerce Department, Donald Trump, Dow Jones, Greg Valliere, gun control, gun rights, guns, hedge fund loophole, hedge funds, Hope Hicks, hypocrisy, hypocrisy watch, impeachment, insider trading, international trade, Jared Kushner, jobs, Joshua Harris, lies, Manitowoc Company, manufactured goods, manufacturing, NRA, Pennsylvania, pro-life, Qatar, Rick Saccone, Rosneft, security clearance, special elections, steel, stock market, Tim Murphy, trade war, white lies | 78 Comments

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