MelaniaTrump [undecided]

He’s going to 1) raise tarrifs, which will drive inflation (along with other inflationary moves like cutting taxes for the rich) but 2) massively cut federal jobs, which will raise unemployment. The fed has a dual mandate of maximum employment as well as price stability, so he’s hoping they will prioritize employment and cut interest rates.

Wired declined to publish the names of two of the people because of their age. One graduated from high school last summer.

“We are very grateful to the thousands of Americans who have expressed interest in helping us at DOGE. […] We need super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting. If that’s you, DM this account with your CV. Elon & Vivek will review the top 1% of applicants.”

I guess the top applicant was a big-brained Redditor.

lol imagine you literally print paper out of nothing (issue treasury bill debt) and people hand you any physical object you want and yet you want to fuck up that system to score cheap political points at home

So many rich and managerial class Americans have no idea what it’s like to actually work and provide value to the economy and they’re about to FAFO.

so after all that whining on the campaign trail, he’s changing nothing?

Aren’t like 99% of roses in the US imported from Columbia? They should just embargo flowers to the US and basically cancel Valentine’s Day

Cocaine is a schedule II substance. We’re just some prompt injection techniques away from the mother of all ski trips

The US has been discriminating against Chinese researchers for government funding and accusing them of spying on behalf of the Chinese government. It’s no surprise at all when top researchers go over to China as a result.

I mean he’s on the record in the last few days demanding EU countries import more USian oil and gas so that seems to be the plan yes

Literally just a matter of time before this becomes incredibly contagious in humans

Apparently it’s to own the libs: “The scum that worked to convict him were some of the same lunatics who were involved in the modern day weaponization of government against me.”

And yes that’s a direct quote from the current President of the United States

Shows what happens when you trust the US to be geopolitically stable

lol, after the 737 max fiasco and the last round of tariff backlash that hit farmers, the US has no exports other than hydrocarbons. Good luck trying to fix your trade imbalance Mr Trump.

Yep. Basically everyone he commuted vs pardoned is a militia leader

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Rhodes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_Meggs

etc

Full pardons or commuted sentences for every January 6th conviction, even the violent ones. Real “Andrew Johnson’s Proclamations” vibes out here

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/

He just signed an executive order to withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

haha, even North Korea is a member of the WHO.

Don’t worry, 12 Democratic senators (including darlings like John Fetterman, Mark Kelly, and Mark Warner) voted for it.

Thank u blue MAGA, very cool

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate voted today to advance S. 5, the Laken Riley Act, teeing the bill up for a final vote on Monday. The first immigration bill of the new Congress, the proposed law would require the government to detain people who pose no risk to their communities. Under the bill, individuals would be mandatorily locked up – potentially for years – because at some point in their lives, perhaps decades ago, they were accused of nonviolent offenses like shoplifting.

Retroactive internment camps are coming. A lot of lives are going to be profoundly negatively affected by this administration.

Yeah I can’t imagine Elon lasts long at a desk job at the White House

There’s a whole thread on the Donald Trump forums saying that Hillary also raised her arm once so it’s okay if Elon did the Nazi salute.

I shit you not.

Lorenzo Sewell, the pastor who delivered a blessing at Trump’s swearing in ceremony, announced a new meme coin named for him just hours after he prayed in the Capitol Rotunda.

“The crypto community was kind enough to send me $Lorenzo, so I have permanently locked my tokens into a Liquidity Pool, so that I will never sell on the community but rather just earn fees as our token continues to flourish,” Sewell wrote in an X post.

He added: “Amazing day, all the Glory to God!”

Even the prayer dude is a crypto grifter now. Holy shit.