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More Detail on Trump’s “Big, Beautiful, UGLY Bill”

On July 3rd, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the single most inhumane piece of legislation in modern American history – a budget that strips healthcare away from 17 million Americans, takes food assistance away from 3 million Americans, eliminates school meal access for more than 18 million kids, adds nearly $4 trillion to national debt, sends electricity costs surging, and substantially raises health care premiums for older adults with ACA coverage.

All for what? Just so that 84 of the wealthiest people of the world get a tax break. So Donald Trump got what he wanted. His so-called  “Big Beautiful Bill” has now become law. Say goodbye to Medicaid, and say goodbye to SNAP.

The “Big, Beautiful Bill” slashes food and health benefits for the poorest Americans, while giving tax cuts to higher earners – blowing a hole in the nation’s safety net, accourding to healthcare experts and advocates for lower-income people.

Why it matters…  Experts say the cuts could unleash a tadal wave of pain – overcrowded emergency rooms, an increase in chronic health care issues, more medical debt, and more folks going hungry.

While a handful of the wealthiest people of the world get richer, the middle class and some of the poorest people of the world will die, because they will be denied health care. So now there is “No tax on tips” which gives just a few people a break, but that provision in the bill expires in a few years. But what about “Lower taxes for the rich” because of the bill. The bill extends the 2017 tax break that Trump gave to the rich in his first term. This bill cements this tax break permanently for the rich.

What happened about “No taxes on Social Security”? That provision was pretty much cut out of the bill, even though Trump promised that he would eliminate taxes on Social Security. A tax deduction on Social Security was added, but capped at $6,000. 95% of people who collect Social Security will continue to pay taxes on their benefit.

The people still do not know what’s in a bill that the Senate and House approved of and that Donald J. Trump signed into law. The lawmakers didn’t even have time to read the whole bill. But what is known is that the rich benefit and the middle class and poor are now behind the 8-ball.

So again, let’s go through some of the highlights that will haunt the Republican party in the mid-term elections.

  • $1.1 Trillion in Health Care Cuts.
  • 17 million losing health care.
  • Medicaid will disappear.
  • Kids with disabilities and the ones needing insulin are about to loose that.
  • All government assistance, including food stamps, housing and government assistance is lost just to give a massive tax break to 84 of the richest people in the world.
  • $4 Trillion tax cut for the rich would lock in many of the 2017 tax cuts passed in Trumps first term for the richest Americans.
  • It turbocharges funding for Trumps massive deportation.
  • It begins a seismic shift in the nation’s fiscal trajectory and raises the risk of a debt crisis. The national debt rises substantially, with $3.5 Trillion to $5 Trillion added.
  • In the Quinnipiac poll, only 29% support the bill, and 55% oppose it. The lawmakers that represent their people did exactly the opposite of what the majority wanted, just so that they could please Donald J. Trump. In a Fox News poll, only 39% support the bill, and 59% oppose it.
  • This bill will damage small cities and towns, many of which are Republican strongholds. Why? Because it stops money from being destined to local hospitals, approximately 1,000 hospitals across the country. Many of these hospitals will close because of the lack of funding. These hospitals are in rural areas, where the hospital itself is one of the largest employers in the area, and people will lose jobs. Towns will file for bankruptcy. They can no longer stay solvent.

Medicaid will no longer be approved for people that do not qualify for Medicare.

The so-called fiscal conservatives fell in line with the bill. The Republican party caved in. No longer can they ever own the moniker of being a fiscal conservative. The Republican party is a joke, and they do not represent their constituents, but instead they represent Donald J. Trump, a convicted felon, a tax cheat, a fraudster and a convicted rapist.

Trump Devastation Continues in America

March 23, 2025

Well, I’m done talking about the stock markets until April 2nd. I think everyone gets the drift. Donald Trump is destroying America. Let’s talk about him!

Trump is a FRAUD.

Trump is a CON-ARTIST.

Trump is a SEXUAL-PREDATURE.

Trump is a HORRIBLE PERSON who is an IDIOT.

Trump is a COVICTED FELON who is the President of the United States.

I cannot and will not ever support such a sick individual.

TRUMP’S PLAN IS NOT WORKING !

Canada has his number. Mexico has his number. Europe has his number.  The Federal judges have his number. Even the Supreme Court has his number. Yet, he’s such an IDIOT that on April 2nd, he plans to go through with his tariff plan that will be sent to countries around the world. He will continue to be sued, and eventually SCOTUS will put Trump and Elon Musk in their place !   IT’s COMING !

April 2nd will become the NEXT big news around the world, as stocks will again crash, so hard they may even close the markets early on April 2nd. Everyone knows that Canada plans to reciprocate every added tariff that Trump puts on Canada, so it’s about to get much worse for the American consumer. Trump claims that the United States does not need Canada. But we actually do. If the markets collapse on April 2nd, watch Trump cave in and remove the tariffs he just put in effect just 24 hours earlier. He’s testing the patience of the world now, and the world will not take his bull sitting still. They will ALL fire back!

Can the economy ever recover? Trump already caused people to loose at least $5 Trillion dollars who support the stock markets. And 401K Accounts and pensions are getting raped. Medicade in on the chopping block and the future of Medicare is uncertain. There is no end in sight, except an oncoming recession, followed by a depression if the markets can’t settle down. It is inevitable.  We cannot stay on this path. So many jobs have been lost.

Trump signed an executive order to get rid of birthright citizenship. Birthright citizenship was explicitly added to the Constitution in 1868 when the 14th Amendment was adopted following the Civil War.  His action is TOTALLY ILLEGAL. But he doesn’t care because he believes his newfound executive powers of presidential immunity given by SCOTUS oversees any action that he makes as president, so he believes he now has the right, regardless of what the U.S. Constitution says. 

USAID is Gone!

Several FBI Agents are gone! Probationary Employees are Gone!

According to government data maintained by OPM, 220,000 Federal employees had less than a year on the job as of March 2024. They are gone!

The Department of Veteran’s Affairs lost 1000 temporary employees. They are gone!

The civilian workforce is heading to a 5 to 8 percent decline. GDP is no longer growing.

There has been $900 million dollars in cuts in the departments of Education services. Just gone!.

About 350 Federal Employees that maintain and guard our nuclear weapons are now gone!

The Center of Disease Control and Prevention has lost about 1300 probationary employees which is 1/10th of the agency’s workforce.

Probationary employees were also fired at public health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, but HHS has not released a final number.

From the Department of Homeland Security, 405 people lost their jobs, why, because they were probationary.  They are gone!.

The Internal Revenue Service will lay off thousands in the middle of tax season. They will be gone, just when you need them during tax season.

The National Parks service has laid off about 1000 people.

The Consumer Protection Financial Bureau has been shut down. Completely gone!

The Agriculture Department has been hit. There were at least 2000 Non-Fire Fighting Employees terminated.

Trump put a 90-day hold on most foreign assistance right after he was elected. All Federal Grants and Loans have been frozen as of last month.

Trump has fired 17 Inspectors General.

The Department of Justice fired at least a dozen attorneys that served in politically appointed positions that pursued prosecutions of Trump before he was president. He fired them because they tried to prosecute him!

Trump just signed an executive order to close down the Department of Education, which he has no authority to do. The U.S. Congress voted and approved the formation of the Department of Education, and he cannot get rid of it with a stroke of a pen. It can only be elimitated by 2/3 of a vote in both the U.S. House and Senate. Lawsuits are now pending. 

Now that he’s destroyed so many people’s lives, but now it’s back to tariffs. Another option can be that Donald Trump will again CHICKEN OUT and not put out more tariffs to countries around the world on April 2nd.

As an ignorant idiot and con-artist that he is, I think that even Trump will see the catastrophic damage he is causing to America, or is he just not smart enough to realize how this country is bleeding Democracy thanks to his policies and the permanent damage he is causing to people’s lives?

Canadians are told by their Prime-Minister not to visit the United States this year, and to make other vacation plans. Canadians are no longer flying the American flag next to the Canadian flag. Rather than accept higher tariffs on imports, Canada is refusing to receive the goods. They have taken American imported liquor off of their shelves. Trump is causing long-term damage to our closest friend and neighbor – Canada.

This is nothing less than a trade war that is back-firing on Donald Trump. He is becoming to be known as “The Art of the No-Deal”.

American prices are about to skyrocket. Food, fuel, merchandise from retail stores, restaurants, car dealerships, computers and utilities are now going up. The egg prices he vowed to go down are now going up. Fuel has jumped 50 cents per gallon in the last 30 days.

So this is the guy that’s going to fix the economy. In what way? I’m still trying to figure out why people thought it was broke, and now they our economy to a fraudster that has gone bankrupt many times. So many people voted for this fool.

Trump’s meme coin has absolutely crashed in the market, going from about $45.00 a share to now only $11.65 as of this post. The stock has lost billions of dollars.

He has destroyed peoples savings, the very people that have supported him to become president.

Trump was right. He said there will be “pain” before things get better. Well, the pain has arrived, and his hard supporters are also really feeling it now.

What about his media company called ‘TruthSocial’? He claims that’s his voice is the real voice of America, as he continues his con-artist skills to get people to sign up and donate money to him. He claims that he has never let people down. Really, Mr. Trump?

The stock price for Trump Media, known on the NASDAQ Market as ‘Trump Media and Technology Group (DJT) down down 40.48% in value to date in 2025, now setting at $20.25 per share, down $13.77 per share.

This is devastating news if you invest in Trump Truth Social. So in his mind, he’s not letting people down. But in his supporters minds now that have been directly affected by the markets, they are now looking at Trump in a different light.

Unfortunately, people who support Trump are realizing the hard way that Trump is not a good leader in America. Actually he belongs in prison. You cannot trust such a con-artist and convicted felon that he is. It is unimaginable to me on how SICK this specimen of a human being is. All of the billionaires are going down the dark road now, loosing money along with his followers.

Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, stock shares are now down at least 50% worldwide. The prices of the Tesla has gone up 100% in Canada. The sales of Tesla in China are just about extinct. China has their own electric vehicle made by a company called ‘BYD’ that is so much cheaper in China, that there is no competition. Exports of BYD vehicles from China to other countries is picking up big time. Even import fees to these other countries from China still make their vehicle more popular than the Tesla. These Chinese vehicles use a Blade Technology, and the Chinese have figured a way to charge their electric car in just about 5 minutes of time and there are literally millions of charging stations across the country that can handle the charging requirements of the Chinese car.

The world is about to leave America behind, Thanks to Donald J. Trump! And Americans will continue to feel the ‘pain’ long after Trump is finally gone.

Stock Markets Tumble Big Time – Recession is Knocking

March 11, 2025

What happened today was predictive and preventable. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 2.08% in value which doesn’t seem to be a large number, but anyone following the markets today can tell you that the fall was astronomical. That’s one word to best describe it. The market lost 890.01 points, and now rests as 41,911.71, down from 42,801.72. All of this was cause from the Trump chaos that he wants us to witness.

Usually some time during the day, in a normal trading day one would see the Dow Futures recover and at least break even, then fall, or move up and down in a normal trading day. Today was different. It was far from being a normal trading day. It was one of the worst trading days since 2009. The DOW ended on Friday at 42,801.72 compared to todays close of 41,911.71, thus a loss in market shares of -2.08% or -890.01.

Loosing almost 900 points in the DOW in one day is a disaster, on top of previous disasters from all the declines of last week. And what’s coming is predictable, more of the same. Professional investors that know how to play the markets when the value is high or when it is low benefit even from a bad day such as today. But country as a whole suffers on days like this. Let me explain…

Most of us just watch what’s happening and realize that a drop in the markets is not a good thing, but we think for the most part that it won’t affect us, thinking that the only ones who feel Trump’s pain is the people who actually trade in the stock market and that the markets will recover. But I’m not so sure that this market can now recover.

On a normal day, that would be true for the most part, as investers and people with lots of money to invest in the market make some real money or loose some real money each day. But experienced investers know how to read the markets, as they know how to buy, when to buy, how to sell and when to sell.

But days like today are not normal days, as the market is so volitile that even investers may be having problems trying to determine when to buy or sell a stock. Normal people like you and me notice what’s happening as we check our 501K values and other investments that we have as we are concerned about what’s happening, but we don’t have any daily personal experience that we can control during times like this. Investors do but we do not for the most part.

How many people are ready to buy and sell some of their stocks, risk less or more and follow the markets intently as trading investors do? Hardly none of us. We work for a living and that’s where we put in our time each day, and when we get home for the day, we listen to the news, watch Youtube and catch up what happened during the day and maybe watch the stock tickers throughout the day, but don’t have any real interaction with stocks each day. By then, it’s too late. The markets are closed, and we are left to see the results of trading for the day, hoping that the stocks that the stocks that ride with our personal 501K are doing well. Today was one of those days that you do not need a rocket scientist to know that EVERYONE of US lost bigly today.

You may think that there will be good days and there will be bad days, and that’s true. But what happened today, why it happened today, and the fallout of what happened is nothing less than as if today you watched one of the scariest movies that you’ve ever watched in your life time.

If you happened to be living on October 29, 1929 which the majority of us were not (96 years ago), you can remember the start of the great depression. So almost ALL of us don’t remember that day because most of us weren’t even born back then. But that’s when it started. The height of the great depression is told to be in March of 1933, when the commercial banking system collapsed and President Roosevelt declared a national banking holiday. Sweeping reforms of the financial system accompanied the economic recovery, which was interrupted by what is known as a double-dip recession which hit in 1937. It all started with the stock market crashing in 1929, with bank failures and GOVERNMENT POLICIES. The government policies we are dealing with at the moment are TARIFFS, a direct result of Donald Trump, DELIBERATELY tanking our economy. So yes, as it did then, now Donald Trump’s tariff policys is leading us right back into depression territory.

Somehow we have to right the ship, but right now the ship is sinking and our government is not doing a darn thing to stop it, but doing everything to cause the ship to sink. Our economy is in desperite trouble at the moment. Canada has continuedd 25% tariffs against the United States in retaliation of Trump’s tariffs that he issued against Canada just one week ago. Even Trump said he was lifting Canadian tariffs for at least a month until March 2nd. Canada did not stop tariffs they put on the United States.

Trump is now threatening new tariffs against Canada, on products like Aluminum and Steel. The Canadaians will reciprecate. So where does that take our markets. It makes them nose dive to hell, and that’s where the markets are heading now.

Trump said that we need to “feel the pain” before things get better, and in that regard, that’s exactly were we are heading. If Trump instigates more tariffs against Canada, our closest friend and neighber, they are going to turn out the lights in at least 3 northern states in America. The power is about to get turned off, instead of just the 25% tariff that is now in effect that Americans must now pay for their electricity. There electric bills now have just gone up by 25%.

So Donald, who paying these tariffs? Not you or your partner in crime Elon Musk. Not Canada, but the people of the United States. Now they may experience TOTAL BLACKOUTS, including New York. Our New York Stock exchange is obviously located in New York City. So what’s going to happen with the traders loose their power and the market computers go down. That is the real posibility that we face today, because of the igorance of Donald Trump, thinking that he is the ‘Powerful Almighty’.

The world is so much interconnected these days, that having that stance especially with Canada, a country that we are so interconnected with, is just outright suicide. 97% of Canada’s export of oil came directly across the border into the United States. We were their largest trading partner, but since they cannot depend on us, they are going elsewhere for business right now. They are now working the the EU, China and Japan. Why? Because Donald J. Trump, our fearless leader when was supposed to save our economy, the reason why many people voted for him, has decided to instead, crash our economy.

How far will he go? That is the 50-million dollar question, but as of this morning, he’s not done and plans to continue on a path that will destroy America.

I’ll report on the market futures for tomorrow in my next post, and we will see where our ship is now pointing for tomorrow. This week is already turning out to be one of the worst weeks in American stock trading history as a government shudown is also scheduled for Friday. At the end of trading on Monday, if the markets stay open will already tell us if we are going into a recession.

A recession is a time in econonomicy activity that lasts longer than a few months. In other words, what Trump is doing may take a long time to turn around. Trump says we may need to feel the pain first. Well, that’s what’s coming, and it’s not something thay you can just turn off like a spicket of water.

In a nutshell, a common rule that indicates a recession is here is that there are at least two consecutive quarters of negative gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Contributing factors can be a loss in industrial production and retail sales and other indicators. The effects of a recession sometimes are not felt immediately, but are gradual and sometimes only last for a few month or longer, but the economy may not recover to its former peak for years.

Telltale signs are a dropoff in employment, as unemployment will remail high well into the economic recovery, so it’s a time that seems to drag on and on along with markets tumbling, which is EXACTLY what is happening now.

Why is this happening now? The U.S. economy just a short few months ago was one that was the best in the world. So what happened?

Donald Trump happened! Our country decided to elect a convicted felon as their president. That’s what happened. Look at his cabinet. Most of his cabinet would never even qualify for the positions that they hold during normal times.

None of this would have happened if Kamala Harris was president. All of the mass layoffs wouldn’t have happened. Peoples private information, social security information and all personal information now being shared with Donald Trumps minions like Elon Musk and his people who are pouring through our personal data would have NEVER happened. Social Security would not be threatened. Medicade and Medicare wouldn’t be in danger of disappearing. World aid programs throughout the world would still be running, but they are not. The markets would be strong, not constantly falling and the world would not look at us as no longer a leader in the world economy.

There is GROSS INJUSTICE happening in our government now, and our Supreme Court is also responsible for allowing a convicted felon, an insurrectionist who under our laws in the Constitution of the United States that we are supposed to follow should never have qualified to be a president, has relinquished our Democracy to let who I consider an autocrat, someone who cozys up to Putin, and someone who would sell his soul and is doing just that to get his name on EVERYTHING, IS DESTROYING AMERICA.

Passionite about this I am, as I’m just as disgusted that this had to happen to our country, in a time that democracy and America was admired by the entire world. Now, the world is treating America as an outcast. The American dollar value s falling, and all of a sudden America is not as strong as we had hoped. Democracy is fragile, and what is happening now is a test of the American people to push past this, but first we still must figure out how to.

An update to the markets for Tuesday will be published soon.

 

Donald Trump is a WEAK COWARD !

March 6, 2025

You might get the impression by the title of this article that I’m a little upset. Well, you are right.

Trump backed down again,  and of course I’m glad that he did, just one month after he backed down the first time over tariffs. I’m not mad because he backed down. I’m mad because of the chaos he has personally created, the pain that people have already suffered, and now he can stop the pain by HIS choosing, when he didn’t have to inflict it in the first place. He thinks he is more than a king. He thinks he is God. He feels he has the right to play with our lives at his whim. That’s why I am mad. TRUMP IS EVIL.

The second thing I’m mad about is because the U.S. Congress is allowing the president to initiate tariffs, when in fact POTUS does not have that power. It belongs to Congress and ONLY Congress can initiate a tariff. So why are we going through this? It’s because Republicans control all three branches of government so they continue to be silent and let Trump do his damage because they themselves are also COWARDS.

Wall Street was the greatest example today that has caught on to Donald Trump’s tactics and what it would take to get him to back down from tariffs. Trump watched the stock market intently today, and just 20 minutes from closing, he makes the announcement that he is suspending his own tariffs. But by then, it was too late. Does Wall Street know that he means that he won’t initiate them again?  The markets still crashed. Well they don’t have to guess, because in his announcement, he stated that he was suspending the tariffs until April 2nd. No big deal right? Even though it just so happens to be a few days before TAX DAY. That is and will be ANOTHER stupid and cowardly move by president Trump if he implements tariffs right before tax day, or ever for that matter.

Wall Street knows that Trump is a pathological liar. When it comes to economics, Trump doesn’t understand a thing. So why did he back down? For one thing, the actual definition of a tariff forced him to back down. SO HE REALLY KNOWS WHAT A TARIFF IS! It doesn’t hurt the countries exporting to the United States, it hurts the American consumer who will use those products. It hurts people who purchase imported goods. That’s who it hurts. When the stock markets started to tank because of tariffs today, and millions of people and major businesses were being immediately effected, Trump backed down and now every country in the world knows that Trump is a COWARD. He stopped the tariffs just one day after he implemented them. It was important for him to inflict “pain”. Donald Trump labeled himself a coward when he initiated tariffs that he knew would hurt the American people and that he couldn’t posibilly continue with them, long term. He now realized that he can’t keep them in place in short term. Everyone knew that Trump would back down. And on April 2nd, he will back down again, but maybe a miracle will happen and he won’t initiate tariffs at all. He knows that the only citizens that will be most effected, especially by our closest neighbor of Canada will be the U.S. citizens. Will he ever apologize for implementing “PAIN” on the American people? Trump doesn’t even know what a simple apology is. He should be on the side of Americans, Canadians, Mexicans, Ukraine and people within Europe. But he’s not. He’s on the side of Putin. All democratic countries are outraged.

So why in his right mind does Trump continuously hurt his citizens? He takes pleasure out of it. He thinks it’s right that his people have to experience “PAIN” as he stated more than once and even indicated this admission in his ridicules 99 minute speech to a joint session of Congress last night. He rambled on and on in the longest speech to joint members of Congress, EVER. He always has to do everything more, including the ability to inflict punishment on his people.

Did you notice that he didn’t mention Medicaid and Social Security even once? Again, that will be in another post. Why not? But I’ll briefly touch on it here. Because he didn’t want to say publicly in that speech what he planned to do with those programs.  It’s right out of the 2025 Republican playbook. But it’s no secret. He wants to cut the funds from both programs, and let’s not forget about Social Security. Just before the speech last night, he mentioned Social Security and stated that there would be no cuts. Like I said, Trump is a pathological liar. If he had his way, he would take funds from Social Security and believe me when I say that he will try. Mark my words., or prove me wrong.  If Social Security is still around in another 6 months, your benefit will be drastically reduced, and at the same time Medicaid may not exist, with many slashes to Medicare. Costs for everything concerning medicine, services and anything medical will go up. But of course, Donald Trump just doesn’t care. He has the government take care of his medical needs at taxpayers expense of course.

Regarding imports, let’s talk about  an import that Americans take advantage of every day and cannot live without. I will also discuss this in detail in a later post. That would be about COFFEE. Do you realize that not one ounce of coffee is every grown here in the United States? Really! Think about if the American people couldn’t make a cup of coffee in the morning because we could no longer import coffee. What would happen to Starbucks in the United States and Starbucks World Wide?  Do you know that Starbucks employs almost 500,000 people world wide. People working to support coffee products total into the millions of people. No coffee, lost jobs, and lots pissed off people. There would be massive layoffs and business closings if we didn’t have that simple luxury of coffee. That’s what you would have. But Trump’s idea is that America should not be buying a single thing from another country. Not even coffee beans. He wants America to be completely self sufficient. That would be great in a Perfect World, but we all know that this is not the case. Every country in the world except North Korea, including Russia is involved in international trade, but Donald Trump doesn’t want that, because he wants everything his way or no way. He’s doing a super great job trying to isolate the United States of the America from the world. He’s trying to play God, but what he is demonstrating is that he is a Coward, not a leader that anyone can respect. He thinks he needs to be in the news each and every day. If the news is not about him, it’s not important. Even his Republican base is abandoning him because his policies and his actions are affecting them too, not just Democrats. Many voted for him, and now he’s taking their jobs. Why would he care? He will never run for re-election under the present rules in the Constitution unless he gets the ability to change the Constitution in his favor. And he is such an autocrat that he will try to do that at the end of his term, unless he finally gets tired enough as being the oldest president of the United States. After all, the way he is thinking, because the Chinese President XI now to be  China’s permanent president just because he said he wanted to and has decided never to step down, Trump thinks he can do that too. Who cares what the Constitution says, because Donald Trump doesn’t care what’s in the Constitution. Will anyone stop him. Yes, tough times are ahead, but Americans need to push through all this nonsense and in four years, welcome in Democracy while hopes are up that the Democratic countries around the world will accept us back with open arms.

Final Stock Market update March 6, 2025 – Removal of Tariffs

March 6, 2025

I have never been a great predictor for stocks, but even I must say that my conclusions of what’s happening in todays US Stock Market has been nothing less ‘right on’. Yes, I deserve to pat myself on the back at times, and for the last 6 weeks I’ve been more right than wrong.

So again, at the beginning of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 400 points, by just looking at what happened throughout the night in Europe. And I was hopeful that the market would really pick up. Early in the morning, it picked up most of the value it had but then something happened, which I will detail later when I know what happened.

But in its present course, the market will end the day of more than 400 points lost. Just one more day to go and the week of trading will be over and the country will know that what I have been saying all this time is actually what is happening. Investments, savings, and so much more is being lost by investors, who only want the markets to do better so that they can do better, so that their companies and portfolios can grow.

Unfortunately, that’s not what’s on Donald Trump’s mind. Sometimes you wonder what the heck is on his mind. The markets have now officially closed.  The DOW lost another 1% of it’s value. The closing figure is 42,579.08. I can report what I have been seeing each and every day. What is interesting and especially evident at the end of a trading day, if the markets are doing well throughout the day, there will be a spike at the very end before closing. Likewise, if the markets are doing bad, and as of this minute in time, the stock market values of DOW will drop.

So what’s the fallout for today. For the Dow, it spiraled down another 516 points or 1.2% after falling 600 points earlier today. and other major markets, the NASDAQ and S&P500 both fell.

Obviously Donald Trump was aware of the stock market drops today. So what does he do? Our weak president now put on the brakes to Mexico tariffs and Canada Tariffs. But it’s a little to late for that. Canada is already dealing with new trading partners and Mexico said that Trump had until tomorrow before they would decide the tariffs they were going to put on the U.S.

Trump caved, just like he always does. The leaders of other countries now know what he’s going to do. They will always be one step ahead of him to keep him in check. This morning he stopped tariffs from those two countries on just the products the auto makers need to make cars in this country. After his not so teriffic speech to the joint session of Congress, the big three auto makers in the United States gave Trump an ear full.  So he backed down, just like the coward he is and always has been. But to keep chaos on track, he now moved the next tariff implement date to April 2nd. Now that’s just great Donald Trump. Right before tax day, just when everyone has to dip in their savings in some cases just like me to pay their taxes.  He thinks that will help the stock market and his rich buddies who invest in it. Maybe he’s right, but all indications say that the markets will continue to be very volitile until he elliminates them all together. When April 2nd comes around and Trump lets the tariffs kick in again, prices are going to soar in this country.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad that he did remove the tariffs,  but it shouldn’t have taken the auto makers to complain or the stock markets to plummit before he would listen to reason. So you may ask if I think Trump is a reasonable man, and of course I would say NO. He doesn’t know what ‘stands to reason’ means.

What’s his first 100 days so far look like. Well that’s a story for another day, but so far, it’s going to be pretty bad. Maybe the people will wake up. Maybe the Repubicans and my friends will wake up and admit that Trump is no good for our economy, after he ran on saying he was going to do so much to bring down prices. Did he say that the country will have to experience some “pain” first before things get better?

Where are we when it comes to “NO TAXES ON TIPS”? Where are we now about when Trump claimed that Social Security Taxes should be eliminated? I can tell you at this moment, Trump is nowhere on those topics. Congress hasn’t a clue on what they want to do. The one thing he kept his promise on was that America will ‘feel PAIN’ before things get better. Did Trump ever say that he was going to gut all the Federal programs and furlow so many Federal workers, gut Medicade and Medicare, which is what he plans to do next? He has the Republican votes to do just that in Congress in the near future, but will they wake up in time like John McCain did during the vote on Obamacare to save Medicade and Medicare? That would free up tons of money that he can use to be able to give a tax break to the rich. Then it’s Social Security on the block. Will it end? Hopefully it will end before everyone looses everything and he completely destroys our country.

 

What has Trump done for Russia lately? What has Trump done to help Americans?

March 4, 2025

For starters, Trump’s actions directly benefit Russia. For example, he is limiting enforcement of foreign agents. He has disbanded the task force to fight foreign interference in elections. He has closed the Justice Department Kleptocapture Unit which was responsible for providing and initiating sanctions against Russia, and he has shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

Last week, Trump ended U.S. support of the Ukraine Energy Grid. Trump is now siding with Russia in UN resolutions on Ukraine. He is advocating for Russia to rejoin the G7. Recently he held U.S. – Russia talks in Saudi Arabia as Ukraine was not invited, and Trump says he is looking forward to meeting with Putin once again.

Trump appointed Kash Patel as his FBI director. There have been mass firings at the FBI and the CIA and he has suggested breaking up 5 eyes intelligence sharing, that’s when 5 countries share their intelligence to help keep the world safe.

Does any of this seem to be good for America. The answer is an obvious NO.

The United States is no longer acting as a democracy. Donald Trump is not acting as the leader of the free world. Donald Trump is now siding with a dictator, and he is willing to allow his dictator friend Putin to completely destroy Ukraine and make the land part of Russia.  If Russia is successful, I would predict that Putin will now call his country the Soviet Union once again. And I do not believe that Putin is finished with his aggression after he concurs Ukraine with the help of the United States. If that were to actually happen, the United States would deserve the same fate as Russia did years before. The United States should be kicked out of the G6.

NATO is the only thing standing in Vladimir Putin’s way to take over the world. The United States is proven to be weak country, and will now implode within with Trump tariffs that will affect Americans. Trump indicated that he may even pull out of NATO, which would be a direct blow to the security of the United States and to the rest of the free world.

So this is what he has done on the foreign front and what he’s doing to Americans directly. But I expect so much more damage  to be done within the country which all begins with the tariffs that have gone into effect just today against Canada, Mexico and China.

There is one thing that not to many people are taking about. But they soon will if my prediction of the future becomes reality.

Before I state this idea I believe will come fact, please understand that this is only my idea and my vision for the immediate future of America.

I PREDICT A TOTAL FAILURE OF SOCIAL SECURITY WITHIN 3 MONTHS. That’s after Trump completely wrecks the economy in this short period of time. I hope I’m wrong. Immediately after, a recession will follow.

Yes, many people will laugh at this statement saying that I’m crazy for making it. But what if I am right?

There are so many disgusting things that Trump has done in the first 6 weeks of his 2nd term as president, that it’s hard figure out what is worse than the other. The fact is that he has done nothing for the American people, except for them to loose jobs and a sustainable living wage. All because he claims he wants to eliminate waste starting with the government, and he doesn’t care who he hurts in the process.

Tuesday – The Day of Recogning

March 4, 2025

It didn’t take a rocket scientist to predict what was about to happen today. The DOW dropped nearly 500 points today and the markets are not even closed yet, and the Nasdaq is flirting with correction territory. Why? Because Donald J. Trump has foolishly initiated a trade war.

People close to me, including my wife have been checking their stock values all day. My wife is upset, but I informed her that this day was coming. In a single day, she lost $500.00 in less than 4 hours. The markets have a few hours to go.

U.S. stocks saw losses mount on Tuesday as our felon president, Donald J Truimp put tariffs on key trade partners, which our partners were waiting for a signal to initiate their own tariffs on the United States. So what we have now is a global trade war and escalating fears of the national economy cracking.

Our fearless president instituted 25% duties on Canada and Mexico that took effect at midnight. Trump also slapped an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods.

Monday’s plunge in the market didn’t phase Trump, because it ONLY amounted to a 1.2% drop. That drop was about 650 points. The S&P shed .8%. But that small percentage amounted to millions of dollars lost.

Nasdaq Composite didn’t feel the crunch as much, as they were cushioned by gains by Nvidia and Alphabet.

In reality up until today, the trading was not as bad as it will start with today’s free fall. That’s because the traders really weren’t sure if Trump would pull off this sick stunt, but now he has.

After Trump imposed tariffs on Canada of 25%, Justin Trudeau initiated their retaliation tariff on the United States of 25%. So what does Trump do? He said that he would add even higher tariffs on Canada.  So what’s next? Will oil now be cut off by Canada? Before Trump became president, Canada was exporting 97% of all of their oil production to the United States. No tariffs, as a result of the Trump USMCA agreement made by Trump and his neighbors of Canada and Mexico. But Trump has decided that he would no longer be bound by the USMCA agreement, the one that he instituted and our neighboring countries accepted during his first term.

Trump is no less than a RAT. He is undermining our economy, and hurting the world with his selfish actions. The markets were at an all-time high before he came into office. Now they are tanking. Millions and millions of dollars of investments by Americans have already been thrown out the window. Some Americans will never recover from this.

Trump was right when he stated that the country will feel ‘PAIN’. Is this what the people elected him to do? What about lowering prices for the middle class. What about NO TAX ON TIPS. Oh wait. The only thing Trump wants to do is help is rich friends with tax cuts.

I am making a very bold prediction here. I can feel it in my blood. If things continue with the way things are going with the economy, things like Social Security can fail within the next 3 months. You can laugh at this prediction saying that you have been paying into the fund your whole life. Well if that doesn’t get your gander up, nothing will, because I have been predicting this day for the last 6 weeks, and noone, not even my close friends and family members beleived it would happen. But here we are. Actually, I was suprised that my social security check arrived on time this month. Again I hope I’m wrong.

I will give another update here when the markets close later today. In the meantime, I need to console my wife as she is pretty upset with her investment strategy at the moment.

 

Trump’s Second Term – Already a Disaster

November 23, 2024

I would like to preface my article here is to say my dear Republican friends have no idea what will be in store for them and for the country as they supported a rapist, a criminal felon, a fraudster and made sure that he reached the White House. It was not a fluke. He not only acquired the electoral votes to become president, he also had the popular vote, so there is no question that he won fair and square in 2024. Project 2025 did not scare the Republicans. Donald Trump’s first term didn’t scare them. His obsession in working with dictators like Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin didn’t scare them.

Do any of my dear Republican friends have their eyes open? Donald J. Trump, a man that only wanted to save himself from prison, is now President-Elect and will be our 47th President. He gets an out of jail for free card, for now. But in 4 years, when he can no longer run for president of these United States, Donald J. Trump will be sentenced to prison. He has been convicted in a court of 34 counts of felony. It was a unanimous decision. There was no question of his guilt. For the first time in Donald Trump’s life, he was being held accountable for his actions. The only thing left was his sentencing, and I got to give him credit, he pulled the biggest political trick on the American people, mainly Republicans, to have ever been seen in modern times. The Republicans showed their ignorance as at least half of the country voted for this criminal felon as their president. So, the people of the United States will now take a back seat and watch a want-to-be dictator destroy this county and he will have some success.

I made the previous statements because now the American people must deal with Donald Trump’s regained power as president, and they will pay the consequences for at least the next 2 years. In the midterm elections in 2026, I predict that the Democrats will regain control of the House of Representatives, and maybe control over both chambers to include the Senate. But what do I know? I was 100% wrong, believing the Kamala Harris could win the election. Since Trump literally beat her in this election as he never once lost the lead when the voting was being held, I’ve struggled since then to try and determine why Kamala Harris lost to Trump. I’ll try to explain my thoughts on this later in this article.

But, let’s start from the top.

Trump’s disastrous pick for Attorney General, Matt Gaetz, a test to Senate Republicans, was withdrawn as Republicans in the Senate say NO to Gaetz as the nominee for a position that needed to be confirmed in the U.S. Senate. That was never going to happen. Why? Because the Republicans in the Senate are joining the resistance, and there are a few of them left that will stand up for the right thing, but there IS enough of them. So what did Donald Trump do when he couldn’t get his number one choice to become Attorney General, he then picks a woman who most likely will be confirmed by the name of Pam Bondi, who is just as bad as Gaetz for the position. Remember Trump’s pick for the leader of the next Senate didn’t get chosen, as in a secret ballot, the Senators chose John Thune to replace McConnell who did not want the position in the next Senate.

Another great Trump pick, Pete Hegseth, nominated by Trump to lead the Department of Defense, has been accused of rape  and is a know drunkard.  You can’t make this stuff up, but only Donald J. Trump has the balls to try and pull the wool over the eyes of the American people, but at least for now, the Republicans in the Senate will have nothing to do with it. If he even makes it to the Senate confirmation process, he will most certainly fail. From all the reports that I read about him, he is the least qualified.  Lloyn J Austin III is Biden’s Secretary of Defense is a retired military officer and is very qualified in the position. PeteHegseth left FOX News as co-host of “FOX and FRIENDS” to take Trump’s nomination as Secretary of Defense. If this was a joke, it would be truly funny. But nominating Hegseth as the next Secretary of Defense is not a joke, but very scary. This man will be in charge of all men in uniform.

I thought I would never say this, but Rand Paul, who is a Republican from Kentucky whom I’m no fan of, but over the years he has proven himself to be a principled libertarian. He is a pretty respectable person. He ran for president in 2016, he is a doctor, he’s been vetted in the past, and I doubt if you will find any facts that he raped someone, or anything negative that would force Paul to bend to the will of Trump like the two nominees already mentioned for Trump’s choices. Rand Paul is aware of the fact that as soon as Trump becomes president, he will declare a national emergency and will use the military to round up undocumented people around the country. Trump always gives us an idea of what he is about to do, and just last week he mentioned that he will begin to round up people as soon as he becomes president. Rand Paul is not in favor of having the military go to the cities and hunt for people. It’s actually been illegal for the last 100 years to bring in the Army to our cities.

So going back to my initial points in this article, why were the Republicans so desperate in choosing Trump to become president? Well, they say he is the best person to fix our economy. And I get it. Prices have gone up substantially since Joe Biden has become president. But the ignorant Republicans do not realize that it didn’t make any difference of who became president in 2020, that the economy was going to take a hit.  But economists around the world will tell you that if they had a choice today, they would trade their economy for our economy without question. We literally have the best economy in the world, and we have Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to thank for it.

So let’s try and determine how Trump is going to make the U.S. economy better. Let’s start with California.

In California, undocumented people comprise up to 2-million people who contribute to the U.S. economy, but they comprise half of the state’s agricultural industry. For example, to demonstrate their clout, 30% of all construction workers in Los Angeles are undocumented. About 18% of all manufacturing jobs in southern California are performed by undocumented workers. Trump made a promise during the election to deport at least 5% of the undocumented workers from this county. THIS ACTION WILL DESTROY THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. The entire economy of southern California runs on undocumented workers.  Is this Trump’s way to punish California for being a sanctuary State?

It is fact, that in 2022, undocumented people paid billions of dollars in Federal, State and local taxes. They pay into Medicare, Medicaid, employment insurance and Social Security, even though they are not entitled to any of it. They subsidize our benefits. Furthermore, they are not the takers of our tax revenue, but the makers of it. They receive very little in return. In my eyes, there is no migrant or an immigration crisis. If anyone believes that the crisis exists, they are believing in lies. This country is a nation of immigrants. Our roots began in other countries. But let’s see what happens to the U.S. economy if mass deportations begin in January, as Donald J. Trump promises. One thing is for sure, he will close the southern border in January. He will begin deporting people from families that voted for him. That’s how Trump is going to show thanks to his voters, because he has nothing to lose while he is in office. He can’t run again, so his decisions will be taken right out of the Project 2025 playbook.  God help us all!

Yes, Donald Trump, who is nothing less than a lunatic, hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but his administration is going to be a disaster. Just for starters, we have 3 sexual assault scandals in one week. Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and we cannot ignore Linda McMahon who gave a blind-eye of the child rape over the WWE is now poised to be the head of the Department of Education. What a role model. All of Donald Trump’s picks, from Tulsi Gabbard to Robert Kennedy Jr. is a mental defective.  The biggest disaster of them all is Donald J. Trump, and as the saying goes, it takes one to know one. Trump is incapable of nominating decent human beings to run his government.  So this is what the American people wanted, is it? Well, this is what we got, and we got to take the punishment for at least the next few years.

What do we have to look forward to? Well, there is going to be another tax cut for the rich that will add trillions to our national debt. The Republicans are going to try to make cuts to medicare, medicaid, food stamps, aid to dependent children and unemployment insurance and Social Security, even though they cannot benefit from it in their future. Trump will fire at least 50,000 Federal employees, or at least he will try to. The EPA will become part of the Fossil fuel industry. That’s if Donald Trump has his way. He will try and roll back a lot of what Joe Biden accomplished in his four years in office. But his number 1 target will be the undocumented people, because he will want to satisfy the bloodlust of his supporters by destroying the lives of innocent people. Then it’s the LGBTQ community.  What happened to the hearts of the Americans that voted for him. Each one of them is responsible for what Trump will do in his tenure as 47th President of the United States. Most ALL of my friends must take the blame too.

So let’s look back to the past four years. We did not get medicare for all, the oil companies were not outlawed and billionaires were not taxed as they should have been. But my thoughts for why Kamala Harris lost the election is not because of Donald Trump, although I would love to make that argument, but it’s because Joe Biden successfully put in motion the most progressive legislation since Lyndon Johnson and she is Biden’s Vice-President. Biden did most of it within the first 2 years in office. He passed the Chips Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the bi-partisan infrastructure deal that Donald Trump claims he was going to do in his first term, but never got done and the Stimulus bill. Joe Biden will be known in history for great things, not like Donald Trump will be remembered for. Some will argue that Joe Biden did more good in his first 2 years as president than Obama did in eight years. Getting back to Kamala Harris, this is one of the main reasons she did not get elected as president. Now in hindsight, she didn’t stand a chance to win. I can’t even begin to tell you how much it pains me to say that. But it’s true. As another saying goes, “Let the Truth Be known”, and now we know it. But we should also know what is about to come. I just hope that this country is ready for it. The disasterous term of Trump’s presidency will be witnessed for the world to see. Hopefully the eyes of my Republican friends will be opened, as another saying goes, “Will they see the light?”.