Trump fudging numbers on crowd size is very on brand, it mirrors his admin fudging employment numbers; we just got new disastrous employment numbers and they had to admit the previous employment numbers were much worse than they originally reported.
While the top 1%, and even top 10%, are doing fine, the rest of us are likely in a recession and heading for worse.
On brand for Republicans , who have a storied history, dating back to before Nixon, of being disastrous for the economy c/w Democrats. Which only got worse when Reaganomics began shoveling money into the pockets of the top 1%.
We have an agreement with Canada and Mexico that makes collaboration across borders economically profitable. Moving production from Mexico to Texas may be a sign that Toyota doesn't trust Trump to honor that treaty any longer. That is a bad thing, not a victory.
3.6 billion is a lot of money until you consider the crypto scam, Qatar plane and multitude of other grifts that the Trump crime family has engaged in that exceed that total value. Those billions are not worth mentioning to MAGAt trolls like DiC. The total cost to taxpayers of the tariffs so far dwarfs any job benefits accrued from the proposed plant as to make it a rounding error type benefit if it is built at all. Trump may be out of office before the ground is broken, saving the American taxpayer far more money that would otherwise be spent supporting his bullshit wars and vanity projects.
Steve M suggests that the main goal of Republicans is every day and always to tarnish the left because the left is their opponent. He says:
"Democratic Establishment politicans and mainstream journalists have no idea that the primary daily goal of Republicans and Republican propagandists is to sow hatred and division, to send the message that Democrats and liberals do nothing but commit evil acts, while Republicans in good standing are never in error and are always heroic, or at least innocent and virtuous.
It's easy to blame Donald Trump for this, but Republican conspiracy theories long predate Trump's entry into politics. Kitty Dukakis burned an American flag! Bill Clinton had dozens of people killed and ran drugs out of Mena Airport! John Kerry lied about his service record in Vietnam!
Partisan smears aren't just a feature of Republican rhetoric -- they're the party's central message. Republicans have learned that they can't sell their agenda (more tax breaks for billionaires, fewer services for ordinary Americans, second-class status if you're not straight, white, and male), so this is what they lead with, every damn day. If we have a crisis of toxic partisanship in America, it's because Republicans are leading the way."
This gives us a way to determine whether Somerby is working for the right or the left. For each essay he writes, ask yourself whether it tarnishes the left or not. If you find that each and every post by Somerby criticizes the left, then that is the hallmark of right wing propaganda and talking points. Sometimes it is necessary to read to the very end of his work. Do not be confused about the criticism of Gutfeld along the way. That is not criticism of the right, but a complaint about a single individual who Somerby considers a substandard comedian. Call it professional jealousy. Ditto for the digs at female journalists and black writers/hosts. His main purpose every day is to throw shade on the left, just like his Republican peers do.
"The piece is bracing and worth reading in full, but the core observation is one that the right-wing media ecosystem genuinely can’t process: their voters are suddenly discovering that their daughters and sons and nieces and old college roommates no longer want to come to July 4th, Thanksgiving, and other holidays.
They’re treating this as some inexplicable “progressive cruelty,” as if the rest of us simply woke up one morning and decided to be petty.
Greg Gutfeld did a whole monologue on it on Fox “News.” The framing, of course, is that you’re the unreasonable one for refusing to “look past” a single political choice your father or your uncle made:
“Can’t you just love them anyway? Why are you being so hateful?”
Here’s the thing they can’t quite bring themselves to say out loud, because saying it out loud would require admitting what they actually did: they didn’t vote for lower egg prices, although that’s the cover story most of them have settled on by now.
They voted for a man who descended an escalator in 2015 and called brown-skinned Mexicans rapists, who described non-white immigrants as “vermin” who were “poisoning the blood of our country,” language historians of fascism noted at the time was lifted almost verbatim from Mein Kampf.
They voted for him again in 2024 knowing exactly who he was, knowing what he’d promised to do, knowing that Stephen Miller had spent two years describing on podcast after podcast a deportation operation that would, in Miller’s own words, require building “very large staging facilities” and deploying the military against the civilian population.
They also voted for a man that called the KKK "good people".
Concerning egg prices, it turns out egg inflation was the result of the two leading producers/distributors of eggs colluding to set the price high. They were found liable for this in a court case a couple years back.
The primary actionable driver of inflation is entities acquiring enough power (monopoly) to raise prices at will.
The party that jettisoned Al Franken for a few sophomoric jokes years earlier will get rid of Platner according to the prediction markets. The DnC will not fund his campaign, says Schumer. Let’s see those Epstein files.
ANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump lashed out at NATO on Tuesday, spoiling the feel-good mood at an alliance summit and reminding allies that he’s not letting go of his grievances.
The fucking art of the fucking deal. Maybe if NATO chip in to put Trump's face on Mt. Rushmore?
"Power detailed the impacts in a July 1 post to Musk’s social media site. It was the anniversary of USAID’s dissolution:
• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose. • According to Boston University’s Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children. • Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths. • USAID’s 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history. • Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed. • 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion. • 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months. • $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated. • 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed. • Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That’s more than half of USAID’s annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people. • American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.
Kristof reported last September:
It’s difficult to know how many children are dying worldwide as a result of the Trump aid cuts, but credible estimates by experts suggest that the child death toll may be in the hundreds of thousands this year alone — and likely an even higher number next year. In short, President Trump’s cuts appear to be by far the most lethal policy step he has taken.
And all in the pursuit of saving taxpayer money the cuts will not save."
Apparently Gym Jordan, famous protector of rapist coaches on college wrestling team, has moved on to protecting right wing nazis from oversight investigations. You maggots must be very proud.
and remember,
when the fucking media refers to the fucking DOJ, the fucking media actually means trump's fucking lawyer!
They looked carefully in northern Ohio for the rottenest hateful motherfuckers they could find South of the Great Lakes and then drew a line around them and called it Jordan’s congressional district. Fittingly, it looks like a snake.
Trump fudging numbers on crowd size is very on brand, it mirrors his admin fudging employment numbers; we just got new disastrous employment numbers and they had to admit the previous employment numbers were much worse than they originally reported.
ReplyDeleteWhile the top 1%, and even top 10%, are doing fine, the rest of us are likely in a recession and heading for worse.
Modern Republicans are destroying America.
On brand for Republicans , who have a storied history, dating back to before Nixon, of being disastrous for the economy c/w Democrats. Which only got worse when Reaganomics began shoveling money into the pockets of the top 1%.
DeleteTo heck with Israel.
ReplyDeleteI do not see how Somerby's musing about the inadequacies of democratic government are an exception to July 4th commemorations.
ReplyDeleteThis is not a holiday for most working people, so what the hell is Somerby talking about?
A victory for the tariffs
ReplyDeleteToyota to invest $3.6 billion to move Tacoma pickup truck production from Mexico to Texas
We have an agreement with Canada and Mexico that makes collaboration across borders economically profitable. Moving production from Mexico to Texas may be a sign that Toyota doesn't trust Trump to honor that treaty any longer. That is a bad thing, not a victory.
DeleteA victory is when trucks get cheaper.
DeleteGo take a flying fu k you fascist freak
DeleteIn a country with a $32.4 trillion GDP idiot thinks what?
Delete3.6 billion? Won’t quite cover what Trump has stolen from the taxpayer and deposited in his personal bank account, but it’s a start.
Delete3.6 billion is a lot of money until you consider the crypto scam, Qatar plane and multitude of other grifts that the Trump crime family has engaged in that exceed that total value. Those billions are not worth mentioning to MAGAt trolls like DiC. The total cost to taxpayers of the tariffs so far dwarfs any job benefits accrued from the proposed plant as to make it a rounding error type benefit if it is built at all. Trump may be out of office before the ground is broken, saving the American taxpayer far more money that would otherwise be spent supporting his bullshit wars and vanity projects.
DeleteA billlion today just isn’t what it was in the old days.
Delete6:51,
DeleteAs long as they can keep every cent from benefitting a black person, the Right doesn't give a shit about the deficit at all.
Steve M suggests that the main goal of Republicans is every day and always to tarnish the left because the left is their opponent. He says:
ReplyDelete"Democratic Establishment politicans and mainstream journalists have no idea that the primary daily goal of Republicans and Republican propagandists is to sow hatred and division, to send the message that Democrats and liberals do nothing but commit evil acts, while Republicans in good standing are never in error and are always heroic, or at least innocent and virtuous.
It's easy to blame Donald Trump for this, but Republican conspiracy theories long predate Trump's entry into politics. Kitty Dukakis burned an American flag! Bill Clinton had dozens of people killed and ran drugs out of Mena Airport! John Kerry lied about his service record in Vietnam!
Partisan smears aren't just a feature of Republican rhetoric -- they're the party's central message. Republicans have learned that they can't sell their agenda (more tax breaks for billionaires, fewer services for ordinary Americans, second-class status if you're not straight, white, and male), so this is what they lead with, every damn day. If we have a crisis of toxic partisanship in America, it's because Republicans are leading the way."
https://nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-republican-party-is-toxic.html
This gives us a way to determine whether Somerby is working for the right or the left. For each essay he writes, ask yourself whether it tarnishes the left or not. If you find that each and every post by Somerby criticizes the left, then that is the hallmark of right wing propaganda and talking points. Sometimes it is necessary to read to the very end of his work. Do not be confused about the criticism of Gutfeld along the way. That is not criticism of the right, but a complaint about a single individual who Somerby considers a substandard comedian. Call it professional jealousy. Ditto for the digs at female journalists and black writers/hosts. His main purpose every day is to throw shade on the left, just like his Republican peers do.
Spot on.
Delete"If you find that each and every post by Somerby criticizes the left, then that is the hallmark of right wing propaganda and talking points."
DeleteHe also criticizes the right, dumb shit.
He frequently says that beneath Gutfeld’s bs is some valid truth. Does he ever say that about liberals?
DeleteSomerby doesn't have to write about how liberals are correct about everything, because everyone already knows that.
DeleteGet real, Somerby is a right winger, as many "liberals' are.
DeleteAs every simple minded person knows, if you're criticizing both sides, it must mean you are correct.
Delete"With the exception of this morning's report, the Fourth of July continues."
ReplyDeleteWhat does this even mean?
We are fucked.
DeleteWe fuck.
DeleteThis is important for Republicans to understand:
ReplyDeletehttps://hartmannreport.com/p/theyre-shocked-we-wont-pretend-anymore-401
"The piece is bracing and worth reading in full, but the core observation is one that the right-wing media ecosystem genuinely can’t process: their voters are suddenly discovering that their daughters and sons and nieces and old college roommates no longer want to come to July 4th, Thanksgiving, and other holidays.
They’re treating this as some inexplicable “progressive cruelty,” as if the rest of us simply woke up one morning and decided to be petty.
Greg Gutfeld did a whole monologue on it on Fox “News.” The framing, of course, is that you’re the unreasonable one for refusing to “look past” a single political choice your father or your uncle made:
“Can’t you just love them anyway? Why are you being so hateful?”
Here’s the thing they can’t quite bring themselves to say out loud, because saying it out loud would require admitting what they actually did: they didn’t vote for lower egg prices, although that’s the cover story most of them have settled on by now.
They voted for a man who descended an escalator in 2015 and called brown-skinned Mexicans rapists, who described non-white immigrants as “vermin” who were “poisoning the blood of our country,” language historians of fascism noted at the time was lifted almost verbatim from Mein Kampf.
They voted for him again in 2024 knowing exactly who he was, knowing what he’d promised to do, knowing that Stephen Miller had spent two years describing on podcast after podcast a deportation operation that would, in Miller’s own words, require building “very large staging facilities” and deploying the military against the civilian population.
They knew."
Yes they did absolutely know what a depraved piece of shit corrupt felon they were voting for.
DeleteThey also voted for a man that called the KKK "good people".
DeleteConcerning egg prices, it turns out egg inflation was the result of the two leading producers/distributors of eggs colluding to set the price high. They were found liable for this in a court case a couple years back.
The primary actionable driver of inflation is entities acquiring enough power (monopoly) to raise prices at will.
Don’t eat eggs.
DeleteMay the Holy Spirit grant you wisdom.
ReplyDeleteMay Zeus zap you in your dumb superstitious ass with a lightning bolt
DeleteHe did, and it felt so good. Mm.
DeleteTrump is clinging to life because he knows he is headed for that Lake of Fire, along with his supporters.
DeleteAnyone here know the address of the Salvadoran gulag Trump and Miller shipped Balogun to this morning?
ReplyDeleteIt’s a shame we don’t have Charlie Kirk around to tell us what a bunch of unAmerican pansies the team is.
DeleteNot the team. The black players.
DeleteBob is exhausted.
ReplyDeleteDemocrats decided their candidate in Maine, a Nazi scumbag can't win because he did one too many rapes.
ReplyDeleteTime to put some cash in the prediction markets for a Susan Collin’s win. Good luck with that.
DeleteMissed opportunity for the Dems. Maine voters chose a Nazi rapist the last three Presidential elections.
DeleteNote that Democrats got rid of their “Nazi rapist”. Republicans elected theirs president.
DeleteThe party that jettisoned Al Franken for a few sophomoric jokes years earlier will get rid of Platner according to the prediction markets. The DnC will not fund his campaign, says Schumer. Let’s see those Epstein files.
DeleteCollins
ReplyDeleteANKARA, Turkey — President Donald Trump lashed out at NATO on Tuesday, spoiling the feel-good mood at an alliance summit and reminding allies that he’s not letting go of his grievances.
ReplyDeleteThe fucking art of the fucking deal. Maybe if NATO chip in to put Trump's face on Mt. Rushmore?
From Digby via Samantha Power and Kristof:
ReplyDelete"Power detailed the impacts in a July 1 post to Musk’s social media site. It was the anniversary of USAID’s dissolution:
• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University’s Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID’s 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That’s more than half of USAID’s annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.
Kristof reported last September:
It’s difficult to know how many children are dying worldwide as a result of the Trump aid cuts, but credible estimates by experts suggest that the child death toll may be in the hundreds of thousands this year alone — and likely an even higher number next year. In short, President Trump’s cuts appear to be by far the most lethal policy step he has taken.
And all in the pursuit of saving taxpayer money the cuts will not save."
Republicans are ghouls.
DeleteNone of this is true.
DeleteIt’s all true.
DeleteApparently Gym Jordan, famous protector of rapist coaches on college wrestling team, has moved on to protecting right wing nazis from oversight investigations. You maggots must be very proud.
ReplyDeleteand remember,
when the fucking media refers to the fucking DOJ, the fucking media actually means trump's fucking lawyer!
Gym is a bad hombre.
DeleteThey looked carefully in northern Ohio for the rottenest hateful motherfuckers they could find South of the Great Lakes and then drew a line around them and called it Jordan’s congressional district. Fittingly, it looks like a snake.
Delete