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Casey Means, the wacko Trump nominated to be Surgeon General, talked to trees to help her find a boyfriend.These people are totally insane....

Casey Means, the wacko Trump nominated to be Surgeon General, talked to trees to help her find a boyfriend.

These people are totally insane. They belong nowhere near public policy https://www.caseymeans.com/learn/newsletter-32

The United States needs China far more than China needs the United States. Trump's stupidity is not only elevating China as a world...

The United States needs China far more than China needs the United States. Trump's stupidity is not only elevating China as a world power, it is barely harming China internally https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3308223/chinas-food-energy-supplies-secure-without-us-imports-official-says

Too many privileged people being "apolitical" is how Trump won his victories. Now the normies are having to learn the hard way...

Too many privileged people being "apolitical" is how Trump won his victories. Now the normies are having to learn the hard way that politics actually affects them.

Trump is deliberately ruining people's lives. Use this opportunity to let them know he did it.

Example: This Reddit thread by someone who didn't realize Temu prices went up because of tariffs. https://www.reddit.com/r/TemuThings/comments/1k6zf1c/did_everything_on_temu_just_get_way_more_expensive/

Fox and Friends host eats banana off floor as hosts boast about Pete Hegseth never washing hands, eating bagels dropped upside-down on the...

Fox and Friends host eats banana off floor as hosts boast about Pete Hegseth never washing hands, eating bagels dropped upside-down on the floor. We need this to be a mandatory Fox policy, for the good of America https://www.rawstory.com/joe-concha-dirty-banana/

The only actually effective way to boost manufacturing capacity is for the government to invest money. Private businesses simply do not have...

The only actually effective way to boost manufacturing capacity is for the government to invest money. Private businesses simply do not have the cash or the scope to pull it off.

China spent decades and hundreds of billions developing manufacturing capacity. It's idiotic to pretend the private sector can magically duplicate this in 4 years. https://www.wired.com/story/tariffs-small-businesses-why-make-things-in-china/

European tourists learn the hard way that "holy water" can still have cholera bacteria...

European tourists learn the hard way that "holy water" can still have cholera bacteria https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/04/holy-water-brimming-with-cholera-compels-illness-cluster-in-europe/

RFK Junior's worldview seems to be a sort of soft eugenics. He wants Americans to get sick and cull the "unhealthy" people....

RFK Junior's worldview seems to be a sort of soft eugenics. He wants Americans to get sick and cull the "unhealthy" people. Everything he does fits within this worldview to encourage diseases and infections.

The latest example is that HHS has fired its cruise ship inspectors who detect norovirus. https://www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/04/12/cdcs-cruise-inspectors-laid-off-as-ship-arrives-in-florida-with-a-norovirus-outbreak/

Anthropologists find evidence of 23,000 year old tracks indicating use of travois hauling, far earlier than previously believed for humans...

Anthropologists find evidence of 23,000 year old tracks indicating use of travois hauling, far earlier than previously believed for humans https://www.sfgate.com/national-parks/article/national-park-discovery-rewrites-human-history-20265734.php

Dartmouth researchers trained a chatbot to be a therapist, they seem to be ok with the results, although say that the product is not ready...

Dartmouth researchers trained a chatbot to be a therapist, they seem to be ok with the results, although say that the product is not ready for public release.

NPR covered the announcement but did not mention the original chatbot, ELIZA, which had a mostly parody therapist module: https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/07/nx-s1-5351312/artificial-intelligence-mental-health-therapy

The Trump regime has been censoring pool news reports from inside the White House, an unprecedented move in support of its unconstitutional...

The Trump regime has been censoring pool news reports from inside the White House, an unprecedented move in support of its unconstitutional banning of the Associated Press.

Very disturbing censorship of the free press for the "crime" of insisting that the Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico https://archive.is/5nOOh

Trump and his team of dunces think they can completely remake the entire global supply chain in just two years rather than seeing the...

Trump and his team of dunces think they can completely remake the entire global supply chain in just two years rather than seeing the obvious: Companies don't need American customers.

Chinese manufacturers and Vietnamese product assemblers can much more readily find a customer in another country.

Chinese exports to the US were only about 2.8 percent of its GDP in 2023. Most Chinese companies do not need the American consumer. Only the megacorps like Apple and Foxconn do.

Elon Musk knew Trump was going to nuke the economy with tariffs. This is why he restructured his Xitter debt, which was leveraged against...

Elon Musk knew Trump was going to nuke the economy with tariffs. This is why he restructured his Xitter debt, which was leveraged against his Tesla stock.

The sale to xAI seems like it was insider trading.

Trump wants to make gonorrhea great again.The regime closed down the CDC's tracking lab for STIs last week. RFK Jr must have gotten...

Trump wants to make gonorrhea great again.

The regime closed down the CDC's tracking lab for STIs last week. RFK Jr must have gotten tired of having to provide samples all the time. https://archive.is/nmE30

Republicans were crazy long before Donald Trump. In 1980, Ronald Reagan claimed he wanted schools to teach creationism....

Republicans were crazy long before Donald Trump. In 1980, Ronald Reagan claimed he wanted schools to teach creationism. https://ncse.ngo/reagan-favors-creationism-public-schools

Christian nationalist extremist pastor Andrew Isker is afraid that airport security scanners will make him turn gay, this is why he insists...

Christian nationalist extremist pastor Andrew Isker is afraid that airport security scanners will make him turn gay, this is why he insists that that the burly security men touch his body instead.

Unsurprisingly, one of the economists cited by the Trump White House has come forward to say that his tariff work has been terribly...

Unsurprisingly, one of the economists cited by the Trump White House has come forward to say that his tariff work has been terribly misquoted by the administration https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/opinion/trump-tariff-math-formula.html

Here's the XKCD original in case you haven't seen it https://xkcd.com/2347/

Here's the XKCD original in case you haven't seen it https://xkcd.com/2347/

Everyone hates Ivanka Trump, but it's really starting to look like she was the person who kept Trump in his high chair last time. (With...

Everyone hates Ivanka Trump, but it's really starting to look like she was the person who kept Trump in his high chair last time.

(With apologies to XKCD)

Flashback: Trump's top tariff adviser Peter Navarro made up a LARP of himself named "Ron Vara" which he repeatedly quoted in...

Flashback: Trump's top tariff adviser Peter Navarro made up a LARP of himself named "Ron Vara" which he repeatedly quoted in multiple books.

He even gave himself fictionalized biographical details, including being an Iraq war veteran.

There are so few economists who think Trump is smart that his adviser made up someone to cite in support.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/16/politics/peter-navarro-ron-vara-trump-china-intl-hnk/index.html

2/2 They've been wanting a crash so they can strip-mine the economy and privatize everything, including schools, water plants,...

2/2 They've been wanting a crash so they can strip-mine the economy and privatize everything, including schools, water plants, electricity, the military, policing.

This is what happened in Russia after the USSR fell. They want that in the US and every other nation.

In their grand future, you will own nothing. All jobs will be menial. Robots and AI will do all even slightly skilled jobs. This is the dream of Musk, Trump, Bezos, etc.

Technofeudalism.