America is Fucked

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  • yuekit3

    America risks ‘moron premium’ after Trump’s tariffs chaos

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/busi…

    • I think this headline gets it wrong. There’s a downward trend (indicating increased confidence) until past the 2nd. Tariffs were well publicized and priced in.monNom
    • There was additional talk about removing fed swaplines. Hedge fund basis trades blowing up. Failed 2year bond auction. Something happened. Just not tariffs.monNom
    • From what I've read it was a Japanese fund leveraged 60x on the 10Ys that blew up and they needed to pause the tariffsgrafician
  • PhanLo2

  • grafician0

    • Discuss.grafician
    • The situation is like Nazi Germany subsidizing concentration camps in a distant banana republic.Salarrue
    • Disturbing.grafician
  • grafician0

    ^

    • is that the bitcoin president?_niko
    • yup :))grafician
    • https://www.bnnbloom…grafician
    • Trumpy ignoring all US's allies and being buddies with banana country dictatorsgrafician
    • Not to mention ignoring the Supreme Court rulings on this case :)) unrealgrafician
    • Hey, anything to ignore the fact that your country is about to elect an antisemitic extremist, with nearly full support.monospaced
    • Romania is hosting the Trumps too this month, and the conservatives there LOVE them.monospaced
    • Uhm no not really :))grafician
    • Where do you even get your news? 4chan?grafician
    • < this is AFP, The White House banned them for posting objective news :))grafician
    • But monospaced, don't try to divert the discussion, comment on topic :)grafician
    • My country is not in question here, YOURS is :))grafician
    • In El Salvador BUKK is known as Don Cerote "Mister Shithead" the guy barely finished high schoolSalarrue
    • His dad gave him the money to open businesses (night club and a communication agency)Salarrue
    • Given the low literacy and limited access to the internet, he has consolidated a very successful propaganda system.Salarrue
    • He made a pact with the gangs to lower the homicide rate and for the last 3 years there has been a pseudo martial law in the country.Salarrue
    • That new jail, besides many gang members, is where many innocent and poor people end up and now immigrants from other countries.Salarrue
    • Graf you're kicking stumps. America is in question here? Absolutely not.garbage
    • America is fucked thread so absolutely yes!
      Sending innocent people into a gulag in El Salvador feels right to you?
      grafician
    • Not at all, what part of "kicking stumps" did you not understand? We're decades beyond questioning how fucked we are, so hit us with something new.garbage
    • FFS yall made Georgescu boring, so don't @mono or any American and think you're scoring some points.Spoiler, we've got real problems and we're also the problem.garbage
    • So yeah. Your holocaust denying top presidential contender is friends with Trumps.monospaced
    • https://www.cnn.com/…monospaced
    • https://www.ft.com/c…monospaced
    • https://www.euractiv…monospaced
    • https://agerpres.ro/…monospaced
    • LOL you posted the losers

      Just like YOUR president
      grafician
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  • BusterBoy0

    So will my Twitter feed full of anti Trump stuff get me turned around and deported if I try to enter the US?

    • only one way to find out!pango
    • doesnt matter... will do if u south american or central amercian to be sent to el salvador mega prison.... even supreme court order wont bring u back...neverscared
    • Just wear a stars and stripes suit and a red hatPhanLo
  • neverscared1

  • neverscared2

    Marjorie Taylor Greene bought thousands of dollars in stock right before Trump's tariff pause sent markets soaring

    • https://www.nytimes.…neverscared
    • On some Pelosi style, stonks!PhanLo
    • Well, so did I. Like I was gonna miss out?monospaced
    • I picked up a ton more PLTR and AAPL knowing they would rebound.monospaced
    • sure... palantir über alles... right side of history right there... right as in alt right .. am i right project 2025- peter thiel- good guys to mingle with...neverscared
    • keep it up..neverscared
    • I’m not mingling with them. Derp.monospaced
    • And playing the market isn’t alt right.monospaced
    • no, you just profit from the deaths of children and civilians who are killed using their products. as long as you make money, why give a shit?face_melter
    • *yawn, grow up, acting like my pennies are part of the problem is naive and childishmonospaced
    • Military defense spending has nothing to do with the "right," nor does it mean I support the deaths of any civilians. Please.monospaced
    • @face, should we just assume that since you buy and use Apple products that you support child labor and slave conditions in factories? Grow up.monospaced
    • mono = magagrafician
    • PLTR down 5% AAPL down 6% and not a Trillion company anymore

      Great stock pics when the entire tech sector will stay down :))
      grafician
    • When everybody smart stays in cash or gets gold, monospaced picks up "ton more" tech stocks

      Amazing investment skills
      grafician
    • Also buying products because we actually need them for work and not other options IS NOT supporting companies BY ALSO BUYING STOCKgrafician
    • monospaced the maga stock investergrafician
    • Buying shares ≠ giving money to the company. That only happens during IPOs or stock offerings. Buying a product gives them cash. Duh!canoe
    • I thought you were going to take a break from your relentless trolling?canoe
    • smhcanoe
    • if you think investing in PLTR and AAPL is MAGA, then you're a fucking retardmonospaced
    • Or you're just so ignorant about how the market works, you end up confident in your nonsense conclusions. I"m as far from MAGA as an American can get.monospaced
    • You're as far from American as anyone can get, so really your input is worthless.monospaced
  • PhanLo0

    • I'm sympathetic to Wolff's commie perspective, but I don't care for his pompous bloviating. I prefer Hedges, he seems more thoughtful.nuggler
    • I like Hedges too, seems a more interesting person. Not the most fun to listen to though.PhanLo
  • Nutter1

    Ice deports 19 year Venezuelan teen despite reportedly knowing he was not a target:

    “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said: ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said: ‘Take him anyway,’” he recalled.

    Gutiérrez has no criminal record either in Venezuela or the US, his family said. He also did not have any tattoos, which is a feature that US law enforcement often use to link people to the Tren de Aragua gang – a transnational criminal organization from Venezuela – and to justify their expulsions from the country.

    Despite this, Gutiérrez was arrested and later deported to El Salvador, to which he has no ties.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-n…

    • Nobody is being sent to El Salvador because they have "ties" to that country.i_monk
  • bainbridge0

    Cutting the FDA but not military?

  • Nutter2

    The NLRB story is wild, so much going on about how fucked DOGE are:

    "Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming.

    Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts — and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis."

    "DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter.

    DOGE engineer Jordan Wick had been sharing information about coding projects he was working on to his public account with GitHub titled "NxGenBdoorExtract."

    Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests."

    and then threats to NLRB staff:
    "...Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone..."

    https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n…

    • Selling the country for scraps to the highest bidder LOLgrafician
    • that's actually mentalPhanLo
    • I guess some clowns like being overreacting fucktard wrong all the time.monospaced
    • < you live there clowngrafician
    • wasn't talking to you, idiotmonospaced
  • renderedred6

    American Concentration Camps
    Once a regime starts to send people to concentration camps — including those in El Salvador — it creates a system of detention that eschews due process and disappears citizens into black holes.

    https://chrishedges.substack.com…

    • Did you watch Bukele kissing DT's butt? Vommaquito
    • Guantanamo 2 Electrocution BoogalooPhanLo
    • lol phan_niko
    • yeah, saw a bit of the ass kissing by Bukele. "Shits fucked up man."renderedred
    • ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID? Bukele started the prison to lock up gangs, making E.S. the safest country in the world. The USA is sending its worst there. FAFO.bigrobot
    • So?renderedred
    • Bukele made a pact with the gangs, he is a fraud and now he is being exposed as he really isSalarrue
    • sure no monospaced comments here, he avoids the heavy topicsgrafician
    • Bukele is a banana country Trumpygrafician
    • no matter how much you WANT the USA to decline to the level of some shithole eastern euro nation, it won'tmonospaced
    • It declined to a kakistocracy pretty fast, and going for kleptocracy right now

      Total idiocracy in a few more years
      grafician
    • Amerika i Engleska biće zemlja proleterska!renderedred
    • some optimism @graf hey? ;)renderedred
  • neverscared1

    • Justify this shit guysgrafician
    • It's not ICE, just another MAGA terrorist. Not sure which is worse...formed
  • bigrobot-10

    Good riddance you piece of shit. Why do democrats actively support keeping terrorists in the USA? Because they're trash. Our new admin is cleaning up the mess they made. MAGA.

    • Pretty sure the entire world thinks the MAGA people are trash but sure, continue the propaganda.grafician
    • The Supreme Court ordered this guy back home, and the Trump regime ignoredgrafician
    • You are NOT living in a democracy anymore, you are living in a kakistocracy!grafician
    • yes we are thoughmonospaced
    • you aren't maybemonospaced
    • Did you read that? Fucking pathetic. Are you really that lazy? Regurgitate, deny, deflect, regurgitate...aren't you bored of lies yet?formed
  • bigrobot-15

    Remember - Democrats are the ones who actively supported the Trans agenda. They lobbied to make child sexual mutilation an acceptable practice.

    Men are not women and women are not men.
    The Trump administration corrected this mess and now the entire world is following us. Truth is making a comeback. The world is healing.

    • Trump didn’t correct anything.monospaced
    • it's not an 'agenda'! try meeting a trans person, you might find out they are real peoplenuggler
    • Fuck offmaquito
    • This has been going on since at least 2022. Never mind the truth, it's like the Donk's hair, around 20% will do.MrT
    • is the trans agenda in the room with you now?jonny_quest_lives
    • Go fuck yourselfBusterBoy
    • Oh look another bootlicking, right wing cunt.mrAtor
  • PhanLo2

    Families in disbelief after hundreds of bodies found buried behind Mississippi jail
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    • 'And the ground coughs up some roots, wearing denim shirts and boots...'PhanLo
    • Fuckn helld_gitale
    • Yeah, grim. Loads of other stories in the comments too about folk not getting to see family members on visits and finding out they'd died.PhanLo
  • sted0

    Is there any requirement like a college degree to become an elected office and hold office in the US?

    • rich parentszaq
    • A desire to do poorlyrobotinc
    • *elected officialsted
    • Current reality succinctly illustrates .."no".
      Age, residency, citizenship. Few years ago I would have given a clean record honorable mention... not so much now
      theonlyengineerhere
    • Based on the MAGA cult alone. You can be a convicted criminal and felon and still hold any office in the USA.utopian
    • What is democracy?palimpsest
  • PhanLo2

    Can't even go for a hike any more. :-(
    https://www.instagram.com/p/DIbr…
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  • mg332

    There was an armed robbery in front of a home in my town last night that was captured on a Ring camera. A couple was walking from their driveway to their front door, and a car pulled up and three guys jumped out with guns, asked for their phones, the woman's purse, etc.

    I live in the suburbs north of Chicago, which are generally relatively safe and don't experience anywhere near the level of crime that plagues the city of Chicago. Something like this is incredibly rare, but more and more, criminals, bangers, and now many immigrants living in Chicago are spreading out to hit the surrounding suburbs.

    I took a look at the convos about it on Facebook. Naturally, the story is being shared hard by local Republican groups who want to blame Illinois, a Democrat run state (where we do indeed have concealed carry), want to blame Dem voters. Their posts and comments are full of the same tropey pro-gun, "this wouldn't happen at my home!" "Blue states aren't safe!" stuff, along with "they should have been concealed carry people!" despite the fact that even with concealed carry laws, not everyone wants to or needs to become a gun owner.

    The level of myopia amongst these pro-gun people is really astounding but not surprising. They blame blue states for their laws and leadership when they see a crime happen there, yet willfully disregard the very real fact that in every single red state across the country, every single day, crime occurs, people get robbed, people get killed.

    Like, do people even stop and think about that as they so singularly blame blue state crime on blue state policies? What do they blame red state crime on when red state policies exist in those states?

    It makes my brain hurt.

    There is indeed an ever-present crime problem in Chicago, and it does at times spill out into the suburbs. Gang problems in the city, and the influx of immigrants who are committing crimes, is growing (note: not ALL immigrants. There's been a steady increase in arrests of immigrants who committed crimes here). But the way those conditions get blamed in the context of a blue state, as if to say those are the only places that crime exists, is so outrageously ridiculous.

    • Seems a big risk low reward for 3 guys, maybe they'd get about $150 dollars each? Would be better torturing a crypto broPhanLo
    • They took their phones, a purse, and stole their Jagaur SUV, which was found hours later abandoned.mg33
    • I don't think there's a crime anywhere in or around Chicago that's committed without stolen cars anymore.mg33
    • What you experienced is a daily occurrence in countries south of the border – robbing at gun point for something as petty as a cell phone.hotroddy
    • Get used to it because Democrat's priority is protecting gang members and not incarcerating them.hotroddy
    • You're still a few years away from 'express kidnappings' (where they kidnap you and take you bank machine) and force you to take cash out of your accounthotroddy
    • Rotboddy, it'll be like your old place soon enough. You'll be sad again, no Disneyland for you.PhanLo
    • hotroddy in with the severe myopia described in this postmonospaced
    • its simple math boys. let in the third world, and you'll get third world culture. I know your feeble minds can't digest that because facts are offensive.hotroddy
    • i don't expect you to understand. Just don't act surprised as it makes you look like a naive sheltered bitches.hotroddy
    • Capitalism killed America Rotters.PhanLo
    • simple math? yeah, show me how republican run cities are so crime free, you simpletonmonospaced