seeing the modern mainstream media running around all dazed and confused on how to handle this president is nauseating.
Both Sides: Why we don't fuck with the GOP
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seeing the modern mainstream media running around all dazed and confused on how to handle this president is nauseating.
Trump can openly tell the media to go fuck themselves unlike any President in history. It is what it is.
Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’
Wallace had said she felt “joy” about the “genuinely beautiful moment,” adding that DJ “likely benefited from some sort of cancer research.”She criticized Trump’s gutting of medical infrastructure and then made an incendiary comment about “suicide” that caused a MAGA meltdown. Trump led the charge in an Oval Office address Thursday, railing against MSNBC and the two media personalities. “She should be forced to resign,” he said of the “not very talented” Wallace.
“Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst,” Trump responded. “And the good news is very few people watch them anymore. They have lost such credibility, and, frankly, what Nicolle Wallace said—I’ve never been a fan of hers, and she’s not very talented—but I’ll tell you, what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. She should be forced to resign."
Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’
The president was angered by the hosts’ response to his honoring of DJ Daniels, a teenage cancer survivor sworn in as a Secret Service agent.
Nobody is watching but Trump apparently.Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’
Wallace had said she felt “joy” about the “genuinely beautiful moment,” adding that DJ “likely benefited from some sort of cancer research.”
She criticized Trump’s gutting of medical infrastructure and then made an incendiary comment about “suicide” that caused a MAGA meltdown. Trump led the charge in an Oval Office address Thursday, railing against MSNBC and the two media personalities. “She should be forced to resign,” he said of the “not very talented” Wallace.
“Worse than CNN is ‘MS-DNC,’ which is the worst,” Trump responded. “And the good news is very few people watch them anymore. They have lost such credibility, and, frankly, what Nicolle Wallace said—I’ve never been a fan of hers, and she’s not very talented—but I’ll tell you, what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. She should be forced to resign."
Trump Demands MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace Be ‘Forced to Resign’
The president was angered by the hosts’ response to his honoring of DJ Daniels, a teenage cancer survivor sworn in as a Secret Service agent.www.thedailybeast.com
'Shut Up About Egg Prices': Trump Shares Brazen Message About High Costs
The president posted a column from conservative activist Charlie Kirk telling people to stop complaining about egg prices.
I just can't leave it there.
Wtf is going on?
WHY is he allowed to do something no other sitting president has been able to do?
Everyone that can hold him accountable is currently on his side/team.
He needs to realize that his words have consequences, before America reaches a point of no confidence.
I agree but this goes all the way back to,
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters, OK?"
No repercussions to be had.
He is running this Country the same way he ran his now defunct businesses... into the ground.
^^^
my POINT exactly
Why in the HELL did so many so called journalists have ALWAYS give this asshat a pass?
Because he could probably end their careers with a mean x tweet or truth (lies) post. They are afraid of this monster. If a collective number of them had the balls to challenge his every idiotic statement and actions, he would probably crumble to bird food due to the unexpected pressure and blowback from the swelling opposition.
Lord, help us all...
i need to see more reporting on this to believe the the article
Jews funded the Colombia protest btw.
He did an interview with Maria Bartoromo (sp?). Check it out.
This fool father was screwing over black tenants then he setting bounties on innocent black boys and questioned a sitting president hertiage...
And the national press wants us to think the MEDIA has no responsibility for this fuckery?
Look at the source
The media went from not taking him seriously while enjoying the bumps in ratings, to being outright afraid of him.
normalizing his bullsh*t in the process.
And they REFUSRE to take any accountability
If they all stood together and made a stand, they could force genuine change.
But the system is set up to make them adversarial, and one or more groups inevitably try to gain power or influence instead of holding the line.
Coincidentally, this is also the answer for why Trump ever gained power the first time, and why he continues to have it now. The collective groups that could hold him accountable won't. Too concerned about everything but doing the right thing.
I guess you could say that’s the part people went deaf too. Ukraine and its’ allies spent a couple of years saying that’s what they are also fighting to prevent WW3 and/or escalations by Putin and Ping to try and amass more territory.
I’d love to think that Putin is on dangerous ground. During covid, reports made it seem like he was damn near acting crazy, then with the Ukraine escalation…generations of youth and men have been killed, a lot more oligarchs falling out of windows and off buildings, tons of people exported or thrown in jail for calling the war a WAR. At some point, Russia will have to wake up from the brainwashing BUT I can only say so much bc of idiots here in the US.
The MAGA plan to cripple DC
Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
Mar 11
At a rally in Washington, DC, the day before his second inauguration, President Trump promised to restore the capital city to greatness. "We will rebuild our once great cities, including our capital in Washington, DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. And we want to make this city again safe," Trump told a crowd at the Capital One Arena downtown. "We're going to beautify it. We're going to make it the most beautiful capital in the world."
DC is already a beautiful city and is getting safer — violent crime dropped 35% last year and is down another 27% so far this year. But any city would undoubtedly welcome federal funds to enhance beautification and public safety efforts.
Instead of rebuilding DC, however, Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are rapidly advancing a plan that would cripple the city. Tucked into a budget bill that would fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year is a provision that would devastate public schools, decimate police and fire departments, and deteriorate city services.
Since last October, the start of the 2025 fiscal year, the federal government has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions. That means the federal government has been funded at the same levels as the 2024 fiscal year. These continuing resolutions, however, have allowed DC to operate at levels determined by its own 2025 budget. The city passed a balanced 2025 budget, funded with local tax revenues, in July 2024.
Now, Republicans in Congress are advancing a final continuing resolution that would fund the federal government at 2024 levels for the entire 2025 fiscal year. However, unlike previous continuing resolutions, it would also require DC to cap its spending at 2024 levels. This would require DC to cut $1.1 billion from its annual budget, even though the fiscal year is nearly half over. This would likely require immediate layoffs of teachers, police officers, and firefighters.
The massive reduction in city spending would not save the federal government money.
Around 75% of DC's budget comes from local revenues. The remainder comes from the same kind of federal grants that states receive. Direct federal payments, which cover the city's support for federal government facilities and activities, make up just 0.8% of the city budget.
There appears to be no particular rationale behind the provision other than to punish a city that is overwhelmingly Democratic and where Trump is particularly unpopular.
The budget resolution has the near unanimous support of Congressional Republicans. Its passage, however, is far from assured. The House can pass the budget with only Republican votes if the GOP caucus stays united. But to pass the Senate, it would need 60 votes. That means at least seven Democratic Senators would need to support the bill for it to become law. Most Democratic Senators have yet to take a public position.
Popular Information is an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism since 2018. It is made possible by readers who upgrade to a paid subscription.
How the proposed federal budget would devastate the city
According to a memo sent to lawmakers by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, the proposed budget cuts would “decimate critical services DC delivers every day” and “result in immediate and unanticipated layoffs of direct service workers and reduction or elimination of direct services residents and visitors rely on.”
The proposed $1.1 billion cut would “require a 16% cut to all remaining funds that are not expended.” Seventy percent of the city’s local funds budget goes to ten agencies, including the Metropolitan Police Department, DC Public Schools, DC Public Charter Schools, and Fire and Emergency Medical Services. These agencies would face “large cuts” if the proposed budget is passed.
“Being forced to cut police officers, teachers, bus/rail service, and first responders would contravene the Trump Administration’s vision of making DC a world class national capital,” Bowser’s memo states.
According to a Washington Post analysis, in order to revert back to the 2024 budget levels, the budget for the city’s police department would be decreased by $67 million, public schools would lose $192 million, and charter schools would lose $166 million. The Department of Human Services, which leads “much of D.C.’s homeless services and poverty aid programs” would face $28 million in cuts.
Further, the Bowser memo states that, if the proposed budget cut passes, it would force the city to cut around “$600 million in projects” before fiscal year 2029 for the approved 6-year capital improvements plan. The capital improvements plan is mostly designed for “school improvements and modernizations” and “horizontal infrastructure,” which includes “roads, bridges, sidewalks, alleys, road safety improvements,” and support for DC’s public transportation system, WMATA.
As the city has been operating under the approved 2025 budget since October, if the proposed budget cut passes, the city could also be forced to renegotiate or terminate leases, decrease security and janitorial services, and would have to make “deeper cuts elsewhere” in order to pay energy bills. The budget cuts could also hurt the city’s credit rating, resulting in higher borrowing costs in the future.
Federal cuts have already damaged DC
Even if Congress does allow DC to maintain its 2025 budget, sweeping layoffs in the federal workforce have already done significant damage to the city, where federal workers make up a quarter of the workforce and bring in a quarter of the city’s GDP.
DC has lost over 60,000 federal jobs so far in 2025. By this time in 2024, it had lost 60.
With a steep decline in jobs, economists say that DC’s economy will take hits from all sides. Laid-off employees will stop spending money at local businesses, decreasing sales tax revenue and hurting lower-income workers in the service industry. Income tax revenue will falter and housing prices will decline. More office space will be left vacant — a problem DC has already been trying to combat for years.
City officials estimate that the job cuts will cost DC $1 billion over the next three fiscal years and warn that a “mild recession” is imminent. But other policies from the White House and Congress are likely to push the city’s losses past $1 billion.
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget have ordered federal agencies to work on plans to move their offices out of DC to less expensive areas and submit those plans to the White House by April 14. With federal workers making up a quarter of DC’s workforce, a mass exodus of agencies could mean that the city’s economy takes an even bigger hit over the next few years.
If Congress passes cuts to Medicaid, DC’s budget woes would grow even more. Currently, the federal government pays for 70% of the city’s Medicaid expenses.
As Trump and Congress rapidly weaken DC’s economy, they are also working to undermine what political autonomy the city has.
In early February, Senator. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) introduced a bill to repeal the Home Rule Act, which was passed in 1973 to allow the city to self-govern through a mayor and city council, although the federal government still controls aspects of its budget and judicial system.
Last week, Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced a bill that would withhold $185 million in federal transportation funding just this year if Bowser refuses to erase the two block-long, 35 foot-tall “Black Lives Matter” street mural painted in June 2020 just north of the White House and rename the area from “Black Lives Matter Plaza” to “Liberty Plaza.”
Bowser announced the next day that the mural would be removed — at a cost of $610,000.
Judd Legum, Rebecca Crosby, and Noel Sims
Mar 11
At a rally in Washington, DC, the day before his second inauguration, President Trump promised to restore the capital city to greatness. "We will rebuild our once great cities, including our capital in Washington, DC, making them safe, clean, and beautiful again. And we want to make this city again safe," Trump told a crowd at the Capital One Arena downtown. "We're going to beautify it. We're going to make it the most beautiful capital in the world."
DC is already a beautiful city and is getting safer — violent crime dropped 35% last year and is down another 27% so far this year. But any city would undoubtedly welcome federal funds to enhance beautification and public safety efforts.
Instead of rebuilding DC, however, Trump and his Republican allies in Congress are rapidly advancing a plan that would cripple the city. Tucked into a budget bill that would fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year is a provision that would devastate public schools, decimate police and fire departments, and deteriorate city services.
Since last October, the start of the 2025 fiscal year, the federal government has been operating on a series of continuing resolutions. That means the federal government has been funded at the same levels as the 2024 fiscal year. These continuing resolutions, however, have allowed DC to operate at levels determined by its own 2025 budget. The city passed a balanced 2025 budget, funded with local tax revenues, in July 2024.
Now, Republicans in Congress are advancing a final continuing resolution that would fund the federal government at 2024 levels for the entire 2025 fiscal year. However, unlike previous continuing resolutions, it would also require DC to cap its spending at 2024 levels. This would require DC to cut $1.1 billion from its annual budget, even though the fiscal year is nearly half over. This would likely require immediate layoffs of teachers, police officers, and firefighters.
The massive reduction in city spending would not save the federal government money.
Around 75% of DC's budget comes from local revenues. The remainder comes from the same kind of federal grants that states receive. Direct federal payments, which cover the city's support for federal government facilities and activities, make up just 0.8% of the city budget.
There appears to be no particular rationale behind the provision other than to punish a city that is overwhelmingly Democratic and where Trump is particularly unpopular.
The budget resolution has the near unanimous support of Congressional Republicans. Its passage, however, is far from assured. The House can pass the budget with only Republican votes if the GOP caucus stays united. But to pass the Senate, it would need 60 votes. That means at least seven Democratic Senators would need to support the bill for it to become law. Most Democratic Senators have yet to take a public position.
Popular Information is an independent newsletter dedicated to accountability journalism since 2018. It is made possible by readers who upgrade to a paid subscription.
How the proposed federal budget would devastate the city
According to a memo sent to lawmakers by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser, the proposed budget cuts would “decimate critical services DC delivers every day” and “result in immediate and unanticipated layoffs of direct service workers and reduction or elimination of direct services residents and visitors rely on.”
The proposed $1.1 billion cut would “require a 16% cut to all remaining funds that are not expended.” Seventy percent of the city’s local funds budget goes to ten agencies, including the Metropolitan Police Department, DC Public Schools, DC Public Charter Schools, and Fire and Emergency Medical Services. These agencies would face “large cuts” if the proposed budget is passed.
“Being forced to cut police officers, teachers, bus/rail service, and first responders would contravene the Trump Administration’s vision of making DC a world class national capital,” Bowser’s memo states.
According to a Washington Post analysis, in order to revert back to the 2024 budget levels, the budget for the city’s police department would be decreased by $67 million, public schools would lose $192 million, and charter schools would lose $166 million. The Department of Human Services, which leads “much of D.C.’s homeless services and poverty aid programs” would face $28 million in cuts.
Further, the Bowser memo states that, if the proposed budget cut passes, it would force the city to cut around “$600 million in projects” before fiscal year 2029 for the approved 6-year capital improvements plan. The capital improvements plan is mostly designed for “school improvements and modernizations” and “horizontal infrastructure,” which includes “roads, bridges, sidewalks, alleys, road safety improvements,” and support for DC’s public transportation system, WMATA.
As the city has been operating under the approved 2025 budget since October, if the proposed budget cut passes, the city could also be forced to renegotiate or terminate leases, decrease security and janitorial services, and would have to make “deeper cuts elsewhere” in order to pay energy bills. The budget cuts could also hurt the city’s credit rating, resulting in higher borrowing costs in the future.
Federal cuts have already damaged DC
Even if Congress does allow DC to maintain its 2025 budget, sweeping layoffs in the federal workforce have already done significant damage to the city, where federal workers make up a quarter of the workforce and bring in a quarter of the city’s GDP.
DC has lost over 60,000 federal jobs so far in 2025. By this time in 2024, it had lost 60.
With a steep decline in jobs, economists say that DC’s economy will take hits from all sides. Laid-off employees will stop spending money at local businesses, decreasing sales tax revenue and hurting lower-income workers in the service industry. Income tax revenue will falter and housing prices will decline. More office space will be left vacant — a problem DC has already been trying to combat for years.
City officials estimate that the job cuts will cost DC $1 billion over the next three fiscal years and warn that a “mild recession” is imminent. But other policies from the White House and Congress are likely to push the city’s losses past $1 billion.
The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Management and Budget have ordered federal agencies to work on plans to move their offices out of DC to less expensive areas and submit those plans to the White House by April 14. With federal workers making up a quarter of DC’s workforce, a mass exodus of agencies could mean that the city’s economy takes an even bigger hit over the next few years.
If Congress passes cuts to Medicaid, DC’s budget woes would grow even more. Currently, the federal government pays for 70% of the city’s Medicaid expenses.
As Trump and Congress rapidly weaken DC’s economy, they are also working to undermine what political autonomy the city has.
In early February, Senator. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Congressman Andy Ogles (R-TN) introduced a bill to repeal the Home Rule Act, which was passed in 1973 to allow the city to self-govern through a mayor and city council, although the federal government still controls aspects of its budget and judicial system.
Last week, Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-GA) introduced a bill that would withhold $185 million in federal transportation funding just this year if Bowser refuses to erase the two block-long, 35 foot-tall “Black Lives Matter” street mural painted in June 2020 just north of the White House and rename the area from “Black Lives Matter Plaza” to “Liberty Plaza.”
Bowser announced the next day that the mural would be removed — at a cost of $610,000.
I guess trump ain't going to have niggas eating this time around.
NBC News
Trump made the stock market a marker of success. Now he's hedging as markets dip.
Shannon Pettypiece
Mon, March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM EDT 5 min read
When President Donald Trump wanted to make the case for his first term’s success in an interview last month, he turned to the stock market.
“I was very proud to have handed over the country when the stock market was higher than it was, previous to the pandemic coming in,” he said in a Fox News interview Feb. 9. “It was an amazing achievement.”
And in his second term, he has promised that trend would continue.
“The stock market is going to be great,” he told the crowd at an investor conference Feb. 19.
But after stocks began a downward spiral last week on fears Trump's use of tariffs will tip the United States into a recession, his tone has changed.
“You can’t really watch the stock market,” Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News. “If you look at China, they have a 100-year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters.”
On Monday, stocks sank further, erasing all of their gains since Trump’s election. The S&P 500 had its worst day since September, and shares of technology companies were among the hardest hit as the Nasdaq had its biggest one-day drop since 2022, wiping out $1 trillion in value.
None of the more than two dozen posts on Trump’s Truth Social account Monday addressed the market sell-off. A White House official downplayed the market moves in a statement to reporters.
“Since President Trump was elected, industry leaders have responded to President Trump’s America First economic agenda of tariffs, deregulation, and the unleashing of American energy with trillions in investment commitments that will create thousands of new jobs," White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement. "President Trump delivered historic job, wage, and investment growth in his first term, and is set to do so again in his second term.”
The White House cited several surveys showing improved confidence among business leaders, though the surveys were conducted before Trump imposed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico last week.
After Trump’s first term in office, he frequently used the stock market like an EKG tracking the health of his presidency with posts like “Stock Market at all-time high. That doesn’t just happen!” At rallies, he would often cite the market and talk about workers’ thanking him for making them rich because their stock portfolios were doing so well.
While the stock market had its ups and downs during Trump’s first term, including a dramatic fall at the start of the pandemic, it was largely on an upward trajectory, with the S&P 500 index increasing nearly 70% during Trump’s first term. The market continued its overall rise during President Joe Biden’s time in office.
NBC News
Trump made the stock market a marker of success. Now he's hedging as markets dip.
Shannon Pettypiece
Mon, March 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM EDT 5 min read
When President Donald Trump wanted to make the case for his first term’s success in an interview last month, he turned to the stock market.
“I was very proud to have handed over the country when the stock market was higher than it was, previous to the pandemic coming in,” he said in a Fox News interview Feb. 9. “It was an amazing achievement.”
And in his second term, he has promised that trend would continue.
“The stock market is going to be great,” he told the crowd at an investor conference Feb. 19.
But after stocks began a downward spiral last week on fears Trump's use of tariffs will tip the United States into a recession, his tone has changed.
“You can’t really watch the stock market,” Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday on Fox News. “If you look at China, they have a 100-year perspective. We have a quarter. We go by quarters.”
On Monday, stocks sank further, erasing all of their gains since Trump’s election. The S&P 500 had its worst day since September, and shares of technology companies were among the hardest hit as the Nasdaq had its biggest one-day drop since 2022, wiping out $1 trillion in value.
None of the more than two dozen posts on Trump’s Truth Social account Monday addressed the market sell-off. A White House official downplayed the market moves in a statement to reporters.
“Since President Trump was elected, industry leaders have responded to President Trump’s America First economic agenda of tariffs, deregulation, and the unleashing of American energy with trillions in investment commitments that will create thousands of new jobs," White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement. "President Trump delivered historic job, wage, and investment growth in his first term, and is set to do so again in his second term.”
The White House cited several surveys showing improved confidence among business leaders, though the surveys were conducted before Trump imposed the tariffs on Canada and Mexico last week.
After Trump’s first term in office, he frequently used the stock market like an EKG tracking the health of his presidency with posts like “Stock Market at all-time high. That doesn’t just happen!” At rallies, he would often cite the market and talk about workers’ thanking him for making them rich because their stock portfolios were doing so well.
While the stock market had its ups and downs during Trump’s first term, including a dramatic fall at the start of the pandemic, it was largely on an upward trajectory, with the S&P 500 index increasing nearly 70% during Trump’s first term. The market continued its overall rise during President Joe Biden’s time in office.
I was just looking at this and thought about posting it as a separate thread....you may want to do that because I think there needs to be a separate discussion on how all of this affecting the black community in real time and going forward...
Please feel free to post new thread