Just a few thoughts after glancing at the news…
Trump Tariffs Threat Bloats Trade Deficit to Record High
This news wasn’t a surprise. US companies built up stockpiles in anticipation of the impact from Trump’s tariffs, officially referred to as Trumpriffs. It was curious that other nations’ businesses didn’t do a like buildup.
More interesting, later in the article, Trump claims that deals are coming. First, will those deals actually help the entire nation, or just a select few Trump cronies, aka Trumpnies? Two, are these deals on the same sliding timeline as Trump’s repeated claims that his ACA replacement plan was coming soon? He never did release such a healthcare plan. I suspect these deals will be small and meaningless in the greater scheme of the global environment, but the Trump Regime will trumpet them as the greatest thing since bottled beer.
Supreme Court allows Trump to implement transgender military ban
This news also wasn’t a surprise. The Roberts Court lists heavily to the right and gives Trump the legal standing to stick the nation in reverse and drive us backwards at very high speed. The Trump argument was based solely on ‘facts’ from Trump’s first term. Americans in polls support transgenders in the military. As usual, Trump doesn’t allow facts outside of his prejudiced and narrow scope to stand in his way.
Michael Seidel, writer 
What disturbs me more than the transgender ban is Hegseth’s order to reduce 10 percent of overall general-level officers in the military, and a 20 percent cut of four-star positions in the National Guard. These are the people who KNOW how to run the military. Hegseth certainly doesn’t!!
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Yep. Infuriating, and so demeaning to military personnel who did this stuff as their profession. Like many professionals which requires specialized training, education, and insights, Trump dismisses those things, insisting he knows better. He’s consistently demonstrated, he does not.
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