Project 2025 is very real and it was engineered by Trump's people. Notice that Trump says "I know nothing about it" and in the same breath says "it has some interesting parts." The people who create it, and others who bought in and are training others on managing it, are all from the Trump campaign or even his cabinet. If you don't know that Project 2025 is the blueprint for Trump's next administration, you're not paying any attention.

Harris' plan to get first time homebuyers $25K assistance isn't as direct as you seem to think. First of all, it's only for first-time homebuyers, so this would be for lower-end buyers. Not mansions. not for corporations. It would have to go through Congress, anyway, so all the details would have to be worked out, and along with other programs to increase housing inventory, would help get families into homes.

Lastly, bringing up the top marginal corporate tax rate to 29% is not handcuffing job makers. It's just getting them to pay more of their share. Corporations already pay taxes ONLY on their profits. Not on income. Talk about "make America great again" but the US economy was strongest when its top marginal rate was over 90%, and this plan doesn't even touch 30%, while we're racking up a record national debt. Not raising taxes after all the easy cuts were made decades ago, to partially balance the budget, is stupid. Wealth inequality is already crazy high.

One Trump's worst ideas was to give away $trillions to corporations to "protect jobs" with his PPP "loans."

The inflation argument might make more sense if Trump actually had a way to fix it. He wants to "make other countries pay" by imposing tariffs on imports, which is really just a sales tax that hurt middle & lower-class Americans with higher prices. He won't care whether it works, since he'll already be the dictator he promised he'd be. Once he gets his tax cuts, and rakes in all the foreign cash at his resorts, and installed countless sycophants to unquestioningly carry out Project 2025, it won't matter to him. Vote for Trump if you want Trump above the country and hate anybody getting to vote anymore.

1. The yen's only fallen back to where it was back in March. I follow the dollar/yen market pretty closely--it's one of the "majors" and it's interesting that it's correcting, but nowhere near historic or "crash" levels.

2. "Disappointing" jobs numbers aren't that big of a deal, either. The latest number is down to what would've been an average month under Trump, before the pandemic.

3. Microsoft did not layoff 80% of their workforce. Only about 3% over the past two years. Maybe you're thinking of Elon Musk's X.com, where he fired up to 75% of them, but that's Musk self-destructing, and not the US economy.

Nothing wrong with being prepared for unforeseen disaster, but the price dip the other day is not a leading indicator of collapse of the US market. Lots of people tell us the economy will collapse. Then they try to sell us goods or services. So, what are you selling?

You're right. It shows cognitive acuity to give a broadcast interview while his dentures are soaking.

Sure. Let's pretend the orange fraudster is the honest one.

Even when he sounds like Sylvester the Cat?
http://youtube.com/shorts/QhuYoTcXsLk?si=mdD6MHIC561SCUMg

It's a pretty good profile. You did put together a nice text blurb to describe who you are and where you are in life. And the photo is pretty good. You left the headline as the default "Hi.." and you left a couple of the biographical questions unanswered.

Writing explicitly about sexual acts may be a bit of a turn-off for people, so maybe consider rewriting that part, unless you insist that the person you seek must be comfortable talking about that right away. In fact, you might consider including some information about the person you seek, unless you're just not very picky.

I like that your photo shows your face, and with the hat and necklace, there's a style going on. Maybe also post a photo without a hat. Maybe in brighter light.

Anyway, you seem like a good guy, and women will probably see it differently than I do, so you'll probably do alright. If the woman you seek has the naughty side you seem to like, she may be intrigued by this. But for the profile with a somewhat shady photo, the jarring text blurb, and a few details left out, I can only rate it 8/10. Overall a pretty good job.

Good luck!

In another self-inflicted wound for The Donald, He went on X.com to be interviewed by Elon Musk. Bizarrely, he spoke with a lisp--apparently conducting the interview without his dentures.

This was after starting almost an hour late, as x.com couldn't get the site to work for a while.
http://youtu.be/5TLDfC6wez0?si=gZm_N719y-RKn9bq

And because Trump is abandoning Truth Social, his stock took another hit in the market.
http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/DJT/?.tsrc=fin-srch

Harris is part of the current administration, so if she was all about the things you imply, they'd already do it now. But they're currently working to lower prices and rebalance the tax code so that the wealthy pay their fair share, while not raising taxes on us making less than $400K/year.

It was Trump's backwards tax policies that incentivize corporations to rake in record profits. And Trump cozies up with North Korea and Russia at the peril of Ukraine and our European allies. Harris has a history of advocating for improving personal medical insurance, and crime is lower now than at any time under Trump, so your fears of "increase and infest" just looks disconnected from reality.

I'm not sure about all that. The defense coach is a pretty significant member of the staff. That said, I wasn't even aware his team made it to the playoffs.

Actually, having been in the Guard, I saw more than a few senior NCOs of which Walz reminds me. Just like how Republicans and Democrats like to use each others' ideas, it would be good for Republicans to recruit new leaders from the military senior enlisted. Some officers, too. We could probably find several that don't reek of MAGA, and could really turn around the Republican Party. That would be something!

Trump Confusing Seeking Asylum With ‘Insane Asylums’ Is Latest Hint Of Cognitive Decline
http://newsone.com/5466426/donald-trump-asylum/

This is a silly thing to get hung up on. A soldier in the Army statistically has little chance of seeing combat. Only about 10% of US soldiers actually pull any trigger, as in serve as infantry, artillery or cavalry. Not all of those even see real combat.

If (then) MSG Walz had deployed, unless his command post was overrun by the enemy (super unlikely) he wouldn't have seen combat. Even if he didn't deploy, he's guaranteed to have at least carried his assigned rifle, during that time.

Anyway, you're getting upset about something the guy said years ago about how dangerous assault rifles are. Being a hunter, he knows that they would rip apart anything you shot with them, so there wouldn't be much left to eat.

Uh oh. Looks like Trump's losing out on some of his biggest topics (despite never actually doing anything about them)

Trump seems "disoriented" by his advisers over the fact that he won't be facing President Joe Biden in November.

If Trump's cognitive health is as you say, then why is he insisting, still, that it's Mayor Willie Brown while it's obvious it never was Willie Brown? This is just getting ridiculous. The dope is threatening to sue the NY Times.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/4821889-donald-trump-new-york-times-willie-brown-helicopter-story/

The old man's losing it.

There are several ways to splice the story, but when Walz submitted his retirement request, he was still a CSM. Rank insignia right there on his uniform. Go ahead and check the timeline if you wish.

http://apnews.com/article/walz-national-guard-military-ae43d684bf1319e535f9f620552155d7

That's not all I've got. The title of the thread really should put emphasis on "of the week" because this junk happens all the time, and the tale of Willie and the helicopter is bonkers. Trump is a fountain of nonsense. In the same week, he held a press conference at Mar A Lago, and again, spewed nonsense.

http://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/08/08/us/trump-press-conference-fact-check

Now that Biden is out, and Trump is filling in as the old man who's slipping, Trump's craving attention leaves him making up stories to create headlines.

This week, Trump insists he was in a helicopter forced to make an emergency landing with former San Francisco mayor, Willie Brown (Kamala Harris' ex-boyfriend).

* When asked to confirm, Brown denied he ever rode a helicopter with Trump
* Suspecting Trump confused Mayor Brown with California Governor Jerry Brown, Governor Gavin Newsom said he was in a helicopter with both, and the helicopter had no problems.
* Trump insists that he didn't confuse the two Browns, and that the helicopter was in New Jersey--begging the questions: Why would Willie Brown be in a helicopter in New Jersey with Trump, and why doesn't anybody else know about this?

"OK Grandpa. Time to get you back to bed!"

http://www.cnn.com/2024/08/08/politics/trump-helicopter-story-willie-brown/index.html

1. I'm not performing mental gymnastics. I'm just clarifying what seems to confuse you. I know the National Guard because I was in the California National Guard for decades, myself. A Guard soldier can retire at will after completing at least 20 years of service. However, when you retire, you don't get to retire at your highest rank unless you've held it for at least two years. That MN Gard officer is saying that Walz didn't retire as a CSM/E-9, but rather a MS/E-8. Walz was a CSM. At the moment his retirement took effect, he was a Master Sergeant. Both are true.

2. Saying he "carried weapons in war" isn't the same as serving in combat. Wars come and go, and one's place in them isn't always in combat. During the first Gulf War, I was in Texas, and we had our weapons, even though I didn't leave that state. Soldiers in my neighboring unit deployed to Iraq. They never saw combat, either. We all carried our issued weapons during that time. However, Walz's statement that those M-16 rifles have no business in civilian use, is just as true.