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Blender Boy retweeted
Here is a thought experiment that several analysts keep returning to: if a president actually wanted to dismantle American superpower status, what would he be doing differently from what Trump is doing right now?
Consider the record. He has feuded with NATO and cast doubt on the alliance guarantee that anchored Western security for 70 years. He has slapped tariffs on the EU and individual European allies, and this week launched a 50 percent trade war against Canada, America's closest partner.
He has pressured South Korea and Japan over troop costs while courting their adversaries.
Gulf states, battered by the Iran war, now question the American security umbrella so openly that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan just signed their own mutual defence pact.
Sanctions and Hormuz chaos are pushing oil trade toward the yuan, eroding the dollar's reserve role while national debt passes 40 trillion. And through it all, he speaks warmly of Putin and Kim Jong Un while insulting the billion people living under allied flags.
Superpower status rests on three pillars: alliances, the dollar, and credibility. All three are being sawed at simultaneously.
So what explains it?
Option A: sheer ignorance, a government that simply does not understand how the world works.
Option B: revenge, a man settling scores with an establishment he believes wronged him.
Option C: outside pressure, someone else's interests being served.
None of these options is comforting. And the pattern remains the same whichever one you pick.
Blender Boy retweeted
Robin Williams warned the US about Donald Trump and his links to Miss America Pageants and underage girls in 2012.
Really should have listened.
Blender Boy retweeted
An Amazon customer in Texas was not enthused when her first drone-delivered order was dropped into her swimming pool. After hearing the loud buzzing of the drone arriving, she ran outside to record the delivery, and to her surprise, it landed in her pool.
Blender Boy retweeted
The FBI began investigating a New York Times reporter after she wrote about the bureau’s director, Kash Patel, using bureau personnel to provide his girlfriend with government security and transportation, according to a person briefed on the matter. nytimes.com/2026/04/22/us/po…
ALT A quote card reads: “The FBI’s attempt to criminalize routine reporting is a blatant violation of Elizabeth’s First Amendment rights and another attempt by this administration to prevent journalists from scrutinizing its actions. It’s alarming. It’s unconstitutional. And it’s wrong.” — Joseph Kahn, executive editor of The New York Times
Blender Boy retweeted
Let's see...
The Governor of Texas is a Republican.
The Attorney General of Texas is a Republican.
The Texas House is controlled by Republicans.
The Texas Senate is controlled by Republicans.
ALL NINE JUSTICES on the Texas Supreme Court are Republicans.
But Governor Hot Wheels @GregAbbott_TX @GovAbbottPress wants to blame Democrats for the economy and every other problem in Texas.
Make that make sense.
Blender Boy retweeted
On Friday, @Mic joined @Shields245AM as he finally went to his local police precinct to get rid of his #AR15, after he was inspired by the #Parkland teens.
bit.ly/2BQ9vw7
Blender Boy retweeted
Everyone says they’d pay more for “Made in the USA.”
I tested it.
We make a $129 filtered showerhead manufactured in China. With tariffs surging to 170%, we explored reshoring. We found a U.S. supplier. Our costs nearly tripled.
I ran a clean A/B test:
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Blender Boy retweeted
Imagine being a small business with debt, that you used to import products you had manufactured in china. In the time it took to make the products, tariffs were added, that more than doubled your cost. They are crushed. They will default on their debt.
Are there any states or banks offering support for their businesses ?
Blender Boy retweeted
#stockmarketcrash 10% of Americans: Trump's DJIA TARIFF THURSDAY and RED FRIDAY stock market crashes are both in the Top 10 point drops ever and exceed 3,900 in two days. He now has 8 of the Top 10 of all time. So he's golfing! Is BLACK MONDAY next?
Blender Boy retweeted
Trump knew he was going to crash the stock markets, that's why he moved to sell Truth Social stocks right before announcing the tariffs.
Source: msn.com/en-us/money/markets/…
Blender Boy retweeted
Seth Meyers’ brilliant take on the stock market crash due to Trump's ridiculous tariffs is sad and funny at the same time.
Watch:
Blender Boy retweeted
BREAKING: Trump says he inherited a terrible economy when asked about today’s stock market crash. The opposite is true. Our economy under Biden was the envy of the world. Trump’s actions are sending our market crashing.
Blender Boy retweeted
What Rachel Maddow is reporting on is Elon Musk's DOGE conducting themselves as if they are in 1934 Germany. The Nazi ideology these fascist motherfuckers are adopting could not be more pronounced. 😳👇
Blender Boy retweeted
Austin airport issues ground stop for flights from Houston and Dallas due to FAA staffing issue abc13.com/post/austin-texas-…
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BREAKING: Yale University exposes Donald Trump and the entire Republican Party by revealing that their proposed budget plan would transfer a massive amount of wealth from the poorest 40% of Americans to the richest 1%.
The numbers simply do not lie...
According to Yale's Budget Lab, the MAGA plan to dish out $4.5 trillion in tax cuts paired with $1.5 trillion in spending cuts will disproportionately affect the poorest swath of the population.
Researchers Harris Eppsteiner and John Ricco explain that the MAGA budget includes a staggering $230 billion in cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) over ten years, as well as an $880 billion gutting of Medicaid in the same time span.
While Trump has insisted that he doesn't want to cut Medicaid, experts agree that there is simply no way to finance the budget plan without such cuts.
"The overall effect of these three policy changes would be regressive, shifting after-tax-and-transfer resources away from tax units (members of a household filing a tax return together) at the bottom of the distribution towards those at the top," they write.
"Tax units at the bottom of the income distribution would see a reduction in after-tax-and-transfer income of 5%, those in the middle of the distribution would see a modest increase of 0.6%, and those in the top five percent of tax units would see an increase of 3%. More than 100% of the net fiscal benefit would accrue to the top quintile," they add.
Of course, this is what MAGA always stood for. The gullible voters who thought that Trump actually cared about the working class are going to see their benefits slashed so that billionaires can buy more yachts.
Please retweet and ❤️ if you oppose the MAGA budget — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: tribel.app.link/okwPIHYCIqb
Blender Boy retweeted
Hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never, and if it is never, I will not continue to work here."
ALT Jeremy and colleagues, Many deals I work on have concepts of conditional notice. This is mine. Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment, which should include at minimum (i) signing on to the firm amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie in its litigation fighting the Trump administration's executive order against it, ii) committing to broad future representation, regardless of whether powerful people view it as adverse to them, (iii) refusal to cooperate with the EEOC's request for personal information of our colleagues clearly targeted at intimidating non-white employees, (iv) public refusal to fire or otherwise force out employees at the Trump administration's directive or implied directive and (v) public commitment to maintenance of affinity groups and related initiatives. This is not what I saw for my career or for my evening, but Paul Weiss' decision to cave to the Trump administration...
