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Market ‘Geniuses’

According to Politico, “Donald Trump’s election helped turbocharge an already surging bull market in the U.S., sending stocks and cryptocurrencies to record highs. Now, some on Wall Street are beginning to sound the alarm that the fast times can’t last. … ‘For good or bad, depending on your politics, we’re back to the chaos presidency,’ said Jim Chanos, a hedge fund manager who famously bet against Enron and other failing companies. ‘Whatever you might think about the Biden administration, if you were a market participant, you generally didn’t need to check your Twitter feed the first thing in the morning when you woke up just to see what was said. But we’re back to that, and with that, comes probably more volatility.’ … But the bullishness is running into economic headwinds — adding to the volatility in the markets. (The S&P 500 followed its record highs last week with a two-day slide.) Inflation jumped more than expected in January, effectively guaranteeing that the Fed is unlikely to cut interest rates any time soon — much to the dismay of stock and crypto traders. And a lack of clarity about Trump’s plans is bound to weigh on the economy, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Chief Global Strategist David Kelly warned.”

The key “insight” here is “we’re back to the chaos presidency.” No sh*t Sherlock! Wow! No one saw this coming! Who could have guessed? Dictator Don is turning the stability of the markets and the federal government on its head, and people are just now starting to rethink his presidency? I’m sorry, but what part of a return of The Don! to the White House was supposed to instill confidence and reassurance of steadiness and placidity in the markets? Once again, we are to the point of these market “gurus” being a day late and a dollar short. All of this was foreseeable, yet the market reeved up to all-time highs following the election — inexplicably. I guess morons are finally starting to catch on. I wondered when the markets would begin to price in the inevitable Dictator Don chaos. And these market makers and movers — who no doubt voted for The Don! — are supposed to be the experts? To some extent, volatility is desirable for these market manipulators. You can make just as much money betting on a declining market as a rising market. In fact, the more ups and downs, the more profit opportunities there are. But then again, no one wants to catch a falling knife, I guess, except for Dictator Don voters. But whatever! Comeuppance is a b*tch, and we’re just at the nascent stages of finding out. Welcome to stupid America! Always dumber and soon-to-be poorer because this is what people — knowingly and proudly — voted for!

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2025 Crash?

According to CNBC, “The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers may ultimately amount to the biggest job cut in U.S. history, which is likely to have ramifications for the economy, especially at the local level, according to economists. The White House, with the help of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, has fired or offered buyouts to workers across the federal government, the nation’s largest employer. While the precise scale of the job cuts is as yet unclear, evidence suggests it’s at least in the tens of thousands so far, economists said. The Trump administration directed federal agencies to dismiss ‘probationary’ employees. Probationary workers are more-recent hires who have been with the federal government for only a year or two and who do not yet have full civil service protections. There were about 220,000 federal employees with less than a year of tenure as of May 2024, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. … ‘We may soon find out the hard way that people drive the U.S. economy,’ Cox [chief market strategist at Ritholtz Wealth Management] wrote.”

Um, wow! Does this epiphany fall under the no-sh*t-Sherlock category? I’m surprised that it took four weeks for these “genius” business reporters, economists, and wealth managers to finally understand the risks of the government terminating hundreds of thousands of employees, coupled with the domino effects of cutting off sources of revenue to countless other American-based businesses and enterprises. Seriously! What could possibly go wrong is a question these idiots are just now asking. I can’t with these f***ing idiots who constantly give Dictator Don the benefit of the doubt, a man who’s bankrupted a casino for f*** sake. But that’s what this sh*t-for-brains country voted for: Someone to disrupt the status quo. Be careful what you wish for, you f***ing American morons. You can’t shake up the government this large, this quickly, with this much haphazardness, and not expect the entire system to seize up. Christ! I live in f***ing Trump Stupid hell! Welcome to stupid America! Yes! Just f***ing yes!

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What’s Your Job?

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According to CBS News, “Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and Elon Musk said those who don’t reply would risk losing their jobs. The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, had the subject line, “What did you do last week?” It instructed recipients to reply with five examples of what they got done last week, excluding any classified information, and asked workers to include their supervisor in their response. Musk, who is overseeing the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, said in a post on X that ‘Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.’ He said the directive was ‘Consistent with President [Trump’s] instructions.’ The email itself did not include the threat of forced resignation.”

While Office Space memes abound with this asinine request from the “Department of Government Efficiency,” it is a prime example of just how f***ing stupid Elona Musk is. I’m sorry, this is not the type of sh*t that comes from the mind of a brilliant man; this is jejune B.S. At the time of this writing, there are about 3 million people in the civilian workforce, per Pew Research. Even if we were to believe that a fraction of those individuals received an email asking them to justify their work productivity — let’s say 100,000 — and they replied, then who and how the f*** are their responses to be evaluated? Is some “DOGE” fanboy going to match an employee’s response to their job title? I assume an accountant in any given department would not get away with saying they solved a logistics problem. So, how is “DOGE” going to evaluate the substance of employees’ lists? I assume Musk sycophants and other assorted f***tards in the MAGA moron universe will instantly claim, “AI can do it.” Not! And what counts as an “accomplishment?” What if Musk is underwhelmed by said “accomplishments?” What if said accomplishments are not “hardcore enough?” What if only four of five items on a person’s list are considered worthy accomplishments? Are the people fired? Demoted? Put on probation? This is all silliness.

And spare me with Musk’s reasoning. As The Hill reports, “Tech billionaire Elon Musk said Sunday the email to federal employees asking them to report back on their weekly accomplishments is meant to spot ‘outright fraud’ from people on the payroll who aren’t working at all. ‘The reason this matters is that a significant number of people who are supposed to be working for the government are doing so little work that they are not checking their email at all!’ Musk wrote on his social platform X, responding to a post about the email. ‘In some cases, we believe non-existent people or the identities of dead people are being used to collect paychecks,’ Musk continued. ‘In other words, there is outright fraud.’” Christ-on-the-m*****f***ing-Cross. What a load of sh*t! People not checking their email?!?! Doing so little work?!?! Dead people?!?! Unbelievable. You know, there are ways that an entity (governmental or a publicly traded firm) can check if someone is reading their email and/or logging into the system. Or, at the very f***ing least, a person’s direct supervisor might have some inkling if an employee is doing their job or not — or is alive! Once again, Musk’s retrospective explanations for his bizarre behavior are all lies and misdirection to cover up his mismanagement “style.” F***! This guy sees conspiracies everywhere, yet people think he’s the man who will save America from itself. F*** me! We are so screwed!

So, in the end, let me see if I understand this latest Musk gimmick correctly: The oxymoronic-named “Department of Government Efficiency” demands that each government employee waste time and effort — no matter how di minimus — to explain what they did the prior week only to have whatever they wrote most assuredly go unevaluated. Perhaps this is a test for individuals to see if they can follow directions or yet another fabricated means to terminate workers. Who knows? But what’s certain is that this ask is not efficient at all. In fact, it is meaningly, busy work that only distracts from people’s primary job functions. But, hey! This is the new world of idiocracy that we live in now. Thanks to the dumbest electorate on the planet. Welcome to stupid America. Always one-upping itself — daily!

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Why Dems Lost

According to NPR, “Protesters chanted across Washington, D.C. on Monday to demonstrate against executive orders signed by President Donald Trump. But outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, one of the performing arts landmarks of the United States, there was a different kind of protest: a dance. Thirty-four dancers performed The Nelken Line, a piece by choreographer Pina Bausch that pays homage to the seasons. It’s been performed widely since Bausch created it in 1982. There’s even a tutorial. In the piece, dancers walk in a single-file line and make synchronized movements. ‘It felt symbolic in that we’re moving in unison,’ says dancer and educator Kelly King who organized the protest, ‘And there’s something just compelling to see a straight line of movers dancing this way in a march.’”

I can’t! I just f***ing can’t with these m*****f***ing weak dumbass Democrats anymore. I swear to f***ing God, if our country were not a two-party system, then I would never f***ing vote for the Democratic Party again. I am so f***ing sick of this ridiculousness. I’m sick of the weakness and the stupidity. How the f*** did we go from a party that led us out of the Great Depression and to victory during World War II to a party that can’t for the life of them (not to mention the survival of our democracy) get their f***ing act together to defeat creeping American fascism on our homeland?

What the f*** went wrong with us? What is it with this iteration of the dumbass Democratic Party that it lacks a modicum of strength? We rarely, if ever, get unmitigated ruthlessness with this party! Nope! God forbid we get a party with a spine. But what do we get instead? We get m*****f***ing interruptive dance! Un-f***ing-believable! What a f***ing joke! And then one of these idiot dancers proclaims some profound insight, saying, “There’s something just compelling to see a straight line of movers dancing this way in a march.” Kill me know! This dance — I have no doubt — is a paragon of the level of fight embued by the typical, pathetic dumbass Democrat, progressive, and liberal.

Seriously, tell me what the difference is between these dancers and idiot-boy Schumer proclaiming “shame” on RepubliKKKlans — as the highest form of insult — during yet another monotone speech on the Senate floor or him fecklessly trying to lead a group in an inane “fight” chant that embarrassed every onlooker and Democratic leadership? There is no difference! It’s all pathetic all around. Democrats look like fools! No wonder the party is derided from the right and the center. No wonder Independents are reluctant to side with the dumbass Democratic Party. I would not admit such affiliations publicly, either.

Now, is it wrong to ascribe this one group of passionate dancers, who are expressing themselves in the only way they know how, to the pusillanimousness of the Democratic Party? Perhaps not, but it is an exquisite metaphor, to be sure! How often are dumbass Democrats lambasted for bringing a knife (or, in some cases, a pillow) to a gunfight? A group of performers bringing a dance routine to a protest is the height of being the group of p*ssies about which the right loves to ridicule the left. I give up! The symbolism is almost certainly too much to bear.

How many f***ing times have I said it? How many f***ing times? This current version of the Democratic Party is too weak, too incompetent, and too feckless to save us from RepubliKKKlans, MAGA morons, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks. Unless and until the dumbass Democratic leadership learns how to fight, then they will never win back power. But I’ll tell you what: Interruptive dance isn’t going to cut it. Welcome to stupid America. Put on your dance shoes, morons! The ballot is coming to get you!

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₵a$h Patel

Once again, allow myself to congratulate myself for warning all you morons out there that Dictator Don would get the cabinet picks he wanted come hell or high water. It would appear, in either case, Senators — RepubliKKKlans and dumbass Democrats alike — were more than willing to give The Don! precisely what he wanted. To be sure, all of his new heads of the Intelligence Agencies, Health and Human Services, Department of Defense, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are dangerous sycophants, but the one that will likely do the most visible damage the quickest is newly confirmed Kash Patel, who will — I promise you — re-imagine the FBI into America’s Gestapo. Arguably, Director Hoover beat Patel to the punch during his reign, but I have a feeling Darky Himmler will best the Hoover years. This guy is the absolute manifestation of Dictator Don’s vengeance administration, as promised. But this is how it all starts. This is how democracies morph into autocracies. It starts with establishing a police state that disappears people, harasses political opponents, or simply concentrates the “others” in “re-education” “camps.”

Yet, this sh*t-for-brains country elected The Don! anyway, entirely oblivious to the obvious — Dictator Don’s own words! Whatever! The law no longer matters, and no one cares! Mark my words, f***tards. Mark them well! I’ve been right all along! I’ve been warning you idiots for years — years! — but no one listened. Oh, well. The modern English language cannot adequately describe the depths of the stupidity of Americans that has brought us to this point in history; the correct word or phrase has not yet been invented to communicate the notion of a country that is literally too stupid to keep its democracy. During the Roman Empire, it may have been lead poisoning that caused the intellectual collapse of society, ushering in the Dark Ages. In our times, it could very well be microplastics. But I digress. Welcome to stupid America! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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A New Pope

Prediction: Pope Francis will not survive the year; a new pope who will forsake Christ is crowned. Instead, this successor to the Prince of Peace will hold the reigns of the Four Horsemen, ushering in ages of the past.

The fact that Pope Francis is going to die this year requires no great insight. It’s obvious. What may be least apparent is that the new Pope will take the Church backward. Dare I say backward in the direction of the rest of the world, which is being dragged to a yesteryear where hate and bigotry reign supreme and the super-rich steal from the rest of us. Now, the Catholic Church will want to get into the game lest they be left behind, poorer and less relevant. To be sure, religion in this day and age — if ever — is not the beacon of righteousness by which humans aspire to do good and be better. No, it is the mirror of humanity’s collective flaws magnified and beautified to the rest of the world, lending peoples’ failings a veneer of acceptance and morality as they abhor with abandon. Where the people are, this new Pope will follow.

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Democrats Suck!

According to Spectrum News, “New York Democrats hit the brakes on a controversial bill allowing the governor to delay congressional special elections until Election Day. The bill was introduced Friday to fierce Republican opposition, which prompted a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi asking her to open an investigation into the move. Multiple sources say the directive came straight from Gov. Kathy Hochul, who depending on whom you ask, is either looking for leverage in her negotiations with President Donald Trump as he targets congestion pricing, or simply felt the optics of the bill were bad. The governor’s office did not respond to a request for comment.” Of course, they did!

Eh, it never f***ing fails: Democrats see their own shadow and flee in terror! I hate dumbass Democrats — hate them — sometimes more than RepubliKKKlans. Ya know, when I first heard of New York Democrats’ plan to pass legislation that would postpone a special election until November, thereby delaying RepubliKKKlans in the House from adding to their already slim majority, I thought to myself: Wow, now that is a baller move! That is the political hardball they should be playing all the time! Good on dumbass Democrats for finally dishing out to RepubliKKKlans the bitter medicine they deserve. Good thing I only thought it and did not write about it, for in the usual blink of an eye, dumbass Democrats backed down because maybe they “felt the optics of the bill were bad.” This is precisely why RepubliKKKlans win, and dumbass Democrats lose more often than not. F*** Democrats! I’m so f***ing sick of their fecklessness. Do you seriously think RepubliKKKlans would care about the “optics” of a bill that advantages them and hurts Democrats? No! They always plow through — always! But not dumbass Democrats! Nope! They back down with the smallest of pushback or criticism!

And to think pausing this legislation can be used as a negotiating chip with Dictator Don to protect congestion pricing only evinces that dumbass Democrats still — to this f***ing day — do not understand The Don! You can’t make any deals with him. He’ll stab dumbass Democrats in the back every chance he gets, and, apparently, Democrats are more than willing to hand him the knife. Un-f***ing-believe. Whatever! I expected nothing less. I don’t know how many times I must repeat myself before people finally believe me: The dumbass Democratic Party needs to dissolve completely and reinvent itself into a political faction that actually understands how to politic! Welcome to stupid America! The end is here, and dumbass Democrats, at this point, are helping to write America’s final chapter.

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Marko Elez

According to NPR, “Marko Elez, a 25-year-old software engineer, was working inside the Treasury Department to cut costs and root out fraud, as part of Musk’s DOGE effort. Elez, who formerly worked at Musk companies X and SpaceX, was one of two temporary appointees at Treasury connected to DOGE who have been granted access to a highly sensitive Treasury system that processes trillions of dollars in payments every year. ‘You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity,’ the [Elez Twitter] account wrote in September. ‘Normalize Indian hate,’ a separate post from that month read. In July of last year, the account posted: ‘Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.’ In other posts, from December, the account pushed for repealing the Civil Rights Act and shared: ‘I just want a eugenic immigration policy, is that too much to ask.’”

This is low-hanging fruit for when the killing starts, and it will sooner rather than later. Mark my words. If one were to believe that the only way out of this not-so-slow-motion demise of America’s democracy and the only way to save our way of life is to take the fight to the enemy of the people, then one must not hesitate to eliminate these MAGA morons, RepubliKKKlans, evil evangelicals, and QAnon kooks. If one wanted to send a message, then this would be a good target to communicate to the far right that Americans are not going to tolerate this hostile takeover of America. One would need to start with easy, soft targets; people like Elez should not feel safe colluding with Dictator Don and Elonna Musk. Gather your list of names, my fellow freedom fighters. Soon, all of you will become the true heirs to the Sons of Liberty, who fought against the tyranny of an autocrat. Be prepared to take up arms! The moment approaches! This is the resistance for which we’ve been waiting.

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Mini ‘Protests’

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According to ABC News, “Protesters gathered nationwide Wednesday as part of a movement opposing the Trump administration’s policies and Project 2025, the controversial conservative presidential wish list. The protests, which took place largely in state capitals, were organized by an online movement dubbed 50501 — meaning 50 protests, 50 states, one day.”

Christ! What the f*** is it with dumbass Democrats always getting things half right? Mass protests on a Wednesday? I don’t know about you, but I assume that most people, like myself, actually have a day job that keeps me tied up Monday through Friday from 8 AM to 6 PM, give or take. If you really want to show strength in numbers, then don’t call for protests during the f***ing week unless you plan on conducting a general strike. To adequately demonstrate the power of the people, demands that protests happen on the weekend. You can’t gather massive numbers during business hours. As usual, dumbass Democrats get everything half right. It’s half-planned out. Half the energy. A quarter of the impact. It never f***ing fails. In fact, it would appear that the protests were a flop, underwhelming by any measure. F***! Why can’t dumbass Democrats get even the simplest tasks right? Whatever! We’re f***ed. This iteration of the Democratic Party is not the version we need to fight against Dictator Don. When and until dumbass Democrats understand this, then we will never win enough elections with the margins required to save our democracy. Welcome to stupid America. Dare I say, it’s too late!

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The Riviera — East

According to Axios, “President Trump declared during a press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday that ‘the U.S. will take over the Gaza Strip’ and ‘own it.’ … [Two] million Palestinians live in Gaza, which was largely destroyed by Israel in its war with Hamas militants. Trump has contended those Palestinians should be moved out and the U.S. should take control in order to rebuild — a startling proposal with no legal backing, but which Trump presented as a done deal. … He has frequently remarked on what valuable ‘real estate’ Gaza could be, and suggested at the press conference that it could one day be ‘the Riviera of the Middle East.’”

Congratulations, you f***ing Palestinian Americans, Palestinian sympathizers, and “uncommitted” voters who could not bring yourselves to vote for Harris, abstained from voting, or incomprehensibly voted for Dictator Don. This is all on you, and this is everything you deserve! And I’m happy for it. I laugh in your faces because you are that f***ing G.D. stupid! Honestly, given the utter damage you’ve done with your vote (or lack thereof) to America’s democracy, you should self-deport. Get the f*** out of America! Go join your clan in the Middle East. Find your displaced relatives wandering the Gaza Strip and immigrate with them to Egypt, Jordan, or elsewhere. Good luck! Buh-bye!

On the political side, take Dictator Don seriously on this matter. I hear the general reflexive commentary from the MSM that ranges from befuddlement to astonishment to dismissiveness of this new shiny object as if it is just The Don! saying sh*t to say sh*t. In other words, don’t believe him. He doesn’t mean it. To that, I say, nonsense. Believe him if for no other reason than to understand what his thinking is. Also, remember that Dictator Don has something in his second term that he lacked in his first: Power. Not only power but power coupled with impunity and a staff that will effectuate his wish list, which grows by the day. Mark my words on this. If he wants to send troops to occupy the Gaza Strip, then that is precisely what his government will do. Again, you should recognize a theme here in all his — dare I say — musings: He wants to be the 21st-century president to expand America’s borders, and he’s going to do it! Mark my words! He’s literally scoping out real estate in Greenland, Canada, Panama, and now Palestine! Get ready. Dictator Don is going to get us into a war, which directly contradicts his campaign pledge to keep America out of foreign wars and entanglements. And guess what? No one f***ing cares, especially his MAGA moron base, who will support Dear Leader no matter what he does. Oh, well. Welcome to stupid America. The end is here!