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[leedswolf]

 

[AndyWolves]

Scope downgrades US credit rating on public finance, governance deterioration; revises outlook to 'stable'

European rating agency Scope downgraded the United States' credit rating by a notch on Friday, citing sustained deterioration in public finances and a weakening of governance standards.

www.reuters.com

 

[lemonjelly]

Types of food support are due to run out apparently.
Obviously there will be a massive community movement from many kind hearted people, but will be interesting to observe the extent to which trump supporters will be comfortable watching other Americans go hungry.

 

[AndyWolves]

Types of food support are due to run out apparently.
Obviously there will be a massive community movement from many kind hearted people, but will be interesting to observe the extent to which trump supporters will be comfortable watching other Americans go hungry.

I don't think they'll give a fuck and will blame them for being in such a position

 

[Del Woppio]

I have a friend over there, single mom two kids, one of which has complex needs. She's absolutely fucked basically because they're withdrawing food support, it's absolutely devastated her. I'll let you guess who she voted for

 

[leedswolf]

From Mary Geddry;

Trump doesn’t build; he extracts. He’s the only developer in history to bankrupt a casino, and now he’s doing the same with the Constitution. The man treats government authority like one of his old Atlantic City shells: strip the wiring, sell the marble, pocket the proceeds, and call it patriotism.

And he’s not doing it alone. The same corporations that once funded the Gilded Swam are still in the game, the contractors, crypto firms, and defense giants lining up to sponsor the new “Presidential Ballroom,” a monument to excess and self-dealing. These are the same donors who underwrite Trump’s deregulation rallies and sit on the boards of the very agencies he’s gutting. The construction firms behind the East Wing demolition were promised future contracts and tax breaks; the energy conglomerates, debt forgiveness and drilling rights.

It’s less an administration than a syndicate of self-investment, a government run as an inside-trader’s Ponzi scheme, where political loyalty doubles as a building permit.



This is the final stage of plutocracy: when money no longer buys influence, it simply becomes government itself. The White House is literally being reshaped to suit its investors, gold trim and all. Trump isn’t defying institutions; he’s flipping them, one grift at a time, turning the people’s house into an equity offering.

Here’s a little dose of reality for anyone who still believes Donald Trump’s claim that he has “killed inflation.” It’s payday in America, or it should be, and 1.4 million federal workers are instead staring at zeroes on their pay stubs. Half of them are furloughed; the other half are working without pay, officially labeled “essential” but treated as expendable.

In Prince George’s County, Maryland, the line for food boxes stretched around a parking lot, middle-class professionals, not the unemployed or destitute, waiting for pasta and bread because the federal government can’t pay its own. The Capital Area Food Bank started the day with 300 boxes. They ran out before Wanda Bright reached the front. Two hours she waited, only to be told there was nothing left. When the second truck finally arrived, she sighed with relief, clutching loaves of bread and canned goods to get her family through the week. “A lot of us are stressed,” she said. “Some people can handle this. A lot of people cannot.”

In Tampa, Social Security worker Tierra Carter still goes to work every day, answering calls for seniors who do get their checks, while she takes out loans and raids her 401(k) to feed her kids. “It’s like I’m swimming to the surface and keep getting knocked back down,” she said.

Using funds allocated for one purpose to pay for another is flatly illegal, a clear violation of Congress’s Article I power of the purse and yet another sign of how far this administration has drifted from even the pretense of legality. Trump, meanwhile, calls this chaos “strategic budgeting.” Last week at the White House, he bragged, “We got the people that we want paid, paid.”

The Gipper, the Grifter, and the Wrecking Ball

Ronald Reagan warns against tariffs from beyond the grave, Canada packs its bags, and Trump keeps demolishing America, one institution at a time.

marygeddry.com

 

[Dennisons Wrong Foot]

I have a friend over there, single mom two kids, one of which has complex needs. She's absolutely fucked basically because they're withdrawing food support, it's absolutely devastated her. I'll let you guess who she voted for

Yesterday I drove past a small church based Food Bank less than a mile from our house. Busy during covid, but had got progressively quieter. Yesterday a hundred cars queuing down the street.

 

[Del Woppio]

Jesus

 

[Alan]

The healthcare and social security cuts are hitting his "base" harder than almost any other cohort. The Heartland is absolutely boiling over about this. Even Marjorie Taylor-Green has started talking sense!

Trump's (obviously) never given a fuck about any of them.