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Trump Reversing "Humphrey's Executor" Is NOT Priced In
Tuesday, Dec 09, 2025 - 07:00 AM
By Michael Every of Rabobank
There are key central bank decisions this week, starting with the RBA today. However, the market has already priced in their expected outcomes. What it’s failing to price in, though it’s more important, is the stream of political and geopolitical developments in which it operates...
Rather, the US Supreme Court appears ready to overturn decades of precedent to grant Trump the power to fire a swathe of government officials. Reversing ‘Humphrey’s Executor’ will allow him to overcome legal and bureaucratic resistance to the Gramscian* changes he’s introducing to the political economy. That isn’t priced in. Indeed, despite Justice Kavanaugh’s opposition, it could put the Fed in the firing line too, with Governor Cook’s court case in January and a Fed Chair nominee, likely Hassett, promised within weeks. That isn’t priced in either.
Neither is Friday’s US National Security Strategy (NSS) even if for some countries and many markets it implies staggering changes ahead.
It’s America First, starting with “protecting the country and its way of life” and ending with “restoring US spiritual and cultural health”.
Its working principles are a focused definition of national interests; peace through strength; a predisposition to non-interventionism; flexible realism; the primacy of nations; a balance of power; pro-American worker; fairness; and competence and merit.
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*I had to look this up. Gramsci was an Italian Communist, and neo-Marxist philosopher fiercely opposed to Mussolini and fascism, jailed and died in prison after 11 years.
Unlike Marx, who thought that economies determined society and social relations between the classes, Gramsci thought that the elite maintained social dominance through cultural institutions instead of violence, economic force, and open coercion.
Personally, I don't think this is an either-or question. The ruling class, oligarchs, use all tools at their disposal to maintain their status.
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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."- Henry Kissinger
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What they really need to figure out is how to destroy idea of the family unit completely and just grow us in farms like in Brave New World.
Then, just like in that story, everybody who's job it is going to be to break rocks down into smaller rocks is given just enough IQ points to wipe their asses without help and eat without choking themselves.
The "elite"'s problem has always been that there are so many poor people that are smarter than they are, and a few billion more who are at least too smart for their station in life, which leads to depression, misery and civil unrest.
Make everybody too stupid to realize how bad they've got it and most of the problems go away overnight.
Taking the Oligarchs down isn't going to accomplish shit. It's been done before. Quite a few times. And at the end of the day the top 1% are always going to own a majority of everything in the end. It's just the way things go.
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Quote:Everything is perfect. Why aren’t you grateful?
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Make everybody too stupid to realize how bad they've got it and most of the problems go away overnight.
By Paul Krugman | Dec 10, 2025
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-says-that-you-are-the-problem
Last night Donald Trump gave an important speech on the economy in Pennsylvania — supposedly in a working-class area, although the actual venue was a luxury casino resort. The event was initially touted as the start of an “affordability tour,” the first of a series of speeches intended to reverse Trump’s cratering approval on his handling of inflation and the economy. A number of news analyses suggested that he would use the occasion to blame Democrats for the economy’s troubles.
That was never going to happen. Trump did, of course, take many swipes at Joe Biden, as well as attacking immigrants, women and windmills. But to blame Democrats for the economy’s problems he would have to admit that the Trump economy has problems. And the speech was important because it revealed that he won’t make any such admission, and will continue to gaslight the public.
On Monday Politico interviewed Trump, asking him, among other things, what grade he would give the current economy. His answer: “A-plus-plus-plus-plus-plus.”
In fact, until very recently Trump wouldn’t even accept the reality that ordinary Americans don’t share his triumphalism. When Fox News’s Laura Ingraham asked him a month ago why people are anxious about the economy, Trump replied
I don’t know they are saying that. The polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we’ve ever had.
Since then Trump and his minions seem to have come around to admitting that Americans are, in fact, unhappy with the state of the economy. But if the economy is A+++++, why don’t people see it? The problem can’t possibly lie with him — so it must lie with you. “The American people don’t know how good they have it.”
I put that line in quotes because it isn’t a caricature or a paraphrase. It is, in fact, literally what Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, said the other day:
We’ve made a lot of gains, but remember, we’ve got this embedded inflation from the Biden years, where mainstream media, whether it’s Greg Ip at the Wall Street Journal, toxic Paul Krugman at New York Times or former Vice Chair, Alan Blinder, all said it was a vibecession. The American people don’t know how good they have it.
Incidentally, I appreciate the personal plug. Trump has already called me a “deranged bum.” Now Bessent says I’m “toxic.” Give me a fake peace prize, and I’ll have all the honors anyone could ask for.
Anyway, I may not be a political strategist, but I don’t think “You’re all a bunch of ingrates” is a winning message. It was, however, really the only message Trump could deliver, given his utter lack of empathy or humility.
At this point I could bombard you with a lot of data showing that the economy is not, in fact, A+++++. But it isn’t a disaster area, at least not yet. So why are Americans feeling so down? The main culprit is Trump himself.
First, during the 2024 campaign Trump repeatedly promised to bring consumer prices way down beginning on “day one.” We’re now 11 months in, prices are still rising, and voters who believed him feel, with reason, that they were lied to. Last night Trump insisted that prices are, in fact, coming way down. Again, “Who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?” is a self-destructive political strategy.
Second, Trump would be in much better political shape right now if he had basically continued Biden’s policies, with only a few cosmetic changes. When he took office inflation was on a declining trajectory. Consumer sentiment was relatively favorable at the start of 2025. Americans were still angry about high prices, but the inflation surge of 2021-3 had happened on Biden’s watch and was receding into the past. My guess is that many voters would have accepted Trump’s claims that high prices were Democrats’
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There hasn't been any cratering on Trump's approval. He's still above where Biden, Obama and GWB were all at during this time in their 2nd term.
Keep dreaming, Paul.
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Quote:6ixStringJoker, you are a lying sack of shit, as is Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
There hasn't been any cratering on Trump's approval.
How popular is Donald Trump?
Silver Bulletin approval ratings for President Trump
https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bullet
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Just before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter—a seismic test of presidential power—on Monday morning, Donald Trump himself showed why the case is so dangerous. The president posted a screed about 60 Minutes’ critical coverage of his administration under its new ownership, Paramount, complaining: “Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!” Anyone familiar with Trump’s playbook would understand the implication of his post. Prior to his rant, news broke that Paramount would try to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, muscling out Netflix’s megamerger bid. The Federal Trade Commission has the power to block the Netflix deal and hand Warner Bros. to Paramount on a silver platter. The FTC was designed by Congress to be an independent agency, so Trump’s Truth Social posts should be meaningless. If Slaughter goes the way SCOTUS is signaling, though, Trump will be able to strongarm the agency into doing whatever he wants—including by rewarding censorship of a news program like 60 Minutes or punishing media companies whose journalists question his absolute rule.
The choice for Paramount will be simple: Want the FTC to block Netflix’s bid and then pave the way for your takeover? Don’t worry about antitrust compliance. Just bring your journalists to heel.
Slaughter supplies the blueprint for this very kind of corrupt regulatory retaliation. The case asks whether the president has constitutional authority to fire FTC commissioners, and virtually any other agency leader, in pursuit of absolute control over the executive branch. Congress has given agencies significant independence from the president since the earliest days of the republic in an effort to shield them from political pressure. Today, more than two dozen agencies are insulated from direct presidential control by removal protections. For the last 150 years, Congress has built much of the modern government around this principle. Now Trump wants to destabilize this foundational framework by seizing the power to fire anyone he wants and assert direct control over independent agencies. As expected, on Monday, six Republican-appointed justices signaled that they are eager to let him do so.
Here is a sampling of who will be better off following this legal earthquake: Trump, Republicans loyal to Trump, corporations kowtowing to Trump, billionaires ingratiating themselves to Trump, media moguls flattering Trump, and foreign governments courting Trump.
Here is a partial list of the casualties: Congress, the First Amendment, journalists, whistleblowers, the civil service, unions, and everyday investors. In short: everyone and everything that this Supreme Court deems a hindrance to Trump’s monarchical consolidation of power. As Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson put it on Monday: “Under our constitutional design, given the history of the monarchy and the concerns that the Framers had about a president controlling everything,” one might assume that courts should defer to Congress’ decision that the chief executive should not have an iron fist on the administrative state. But the collective will of the people’s representatives is no match for six unelected justices with a trendy political theory they’re itching to superimpose upon the Constitution.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/12/paramount-netflix-fight-su
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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The Enfeebling of the President
Trump is showing signs that he’s lost the physical stamina to do the job.
By David A. Graham | December 9, 2025, 5:56 PM ET
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2025/12/trump-lost-physical-st
amina/685203/
The president of the United States can expect to face tough questions, but one that ABC’s Rachel Scott asked Monday wasn’t among them. In fact, it was nothing more than a recitation of his own words. “You said you would have no problem with releasing the full video of that strike on September 2 off the coast of Venezuela,” Scott began. President Donald Trump immediately snapped at Scott: “I didn’t say that. You said that. I didn’t say that. This is ABC fake news.”
In fact, as Scott reminded him, that’s exactly what he said. “I don’t know what they have, but whatever they have, we’d certainly release. No problem,” he said on December 3 in the Oval Office. After Scott pointed that out, Trump shrugged it off, as though he’d simply forgotten. Perhaps this was willful obfuscation. But moments of apparent forgetfulness—whether one calls them senior moments, wandering attention, or spacing out—have been happening a lot recently.
In late October, Trump said he received an MRI. For valid reasons, this has raised questions: MRIs aren’t a routine part of annual physicals, and the president’s most recent physical was way back in April; his doctors’ public disclosures about his medical exams have often been vague but full of puffery; he’s been seen with bruises, makeup, and bandages on his hands, which the White House has attributed to frequent hand shaking and his use of aspirin. Voter concerns about the health and vigor of his predecessor, Joe Biden, were one reason that Biden was forced into a late withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race.
Rather than quiet these concerns with transparency, however, the Trump administration played coy for weeks. When Trump was asked about the MRI on November 14, he insisted both that he didn’t know what it was about and that it had a great result: “I have no idea what they analyzed,” he told reporters. “But whatever they analyzed, they analyzed it well, and they said that I had as good a result as they’ve ever seen.” When pressed more recently, he continued to brag that he had “aced” a test designed to assess baseline cognitive function, as though it was an IQ test—a boast that raises more questions than it answers. When the president’s physician eventually released a letter about the procedure, which referred to his October scan only as “advanced imaging,” it was similarly heavy on superlatives and light on detail. (That’s a contrast with the practice prior to Trump’s first term, when administrations publicly shared more medical information. When George W. Bush went through MRI machines during his presidency, for instance, the White House explained that they were intended to understand the reasons for a sore shoulder in one case and assess possible damage to his knees in another.)
Trump has always seemed more interested in the pomp of his office than in doing the actual work, but he’s begun expressing lack of interest more physically in this term. Last week, Trump appeared to doze off repeatedly during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. To be fair, these are boring events: I am also not interested in sitting through several hours’ worth of secretaries and aides delivering obsequious praise, but they’re doing it for his benefit. If he wants more efficient meetings, he has the power to make it so. During one moment, Secretary of State Marco Rubio prattled on about how only Trump could achieve a cease-fire in Gaza. Trump himself slumped slowly forward with his eyes closed, then sat up before his eyelids fluttered again. The president did rouse himself at the end of the meeting, finding the energy for a racist rant about Somalis.
This is not the first instance of Trump appearing to nap during public meetings, as The Washington Post reported last month. When he repeatedly snoozed during his Manhattan trial, last spring, it was a curi
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Trump calls media reports on his health 'seditious'
Danny KEMP | Wed, December 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM CST
US President Donald Trump has been seen closing his eyes periodically at a number of events
US President Donald Trump has blasted media reports questioning his state of health as "seditious, perhaps even treasonous," sparking pushback Wednesday by one of the major outlets behind the stories.
In a long, late-night social media post, the oldest elected president in US history raged about stories in The New York Times and elsewhere suggesting that at the age of 79 he is slowing down.
"There has never been a President that has worked as hard as me! My hours are the longest, and my results are among the best," Trump said in the nearly 500-word screed on his Truth Social network.
"I actually believe it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean 'THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.'"
The Republican added that he had been through "long, thorough, and very boring" medical examinations and had been able to "ace" cognitive tests that he claimed other presidents had not taken.
Trump added that the "best thing that could happen to this Country would be if The New York Times would cease publication because they are a horrible, biased, and untruthful 'source' of information."
The outburst comes despite the fact that Trump regularly accuses the media of having failed to cover the health of his predecessor Joe Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 election after a shambolic debate performance raised concerns about the Democrat's age.
He has also long contrasted his vigor with that of Biden -- whom he dubs "Sleepy Joe" and described at the rally in Pennsylvania on Tuesday as a "sleepy son of a bitch."
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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GOP says it'll take a lot more than eyewitness testimony, photos, DNA, toxicology reports, victim statements, wire transfers, emails, flight manifests, phone records, surveillance logs, bank records, audio, video, & total confessions for them to believe Trump's Epstein ties were more than coincidental.
Yes, Trump's Epstein ties were "more than coincidental“. But were they CRIMINAL? So far, there's no evidence that Trump was anything more than a creepy peeping Tom with young teens.
This is you just posting bullcrap. TRUMP! RUSSIA! COLLUSION! all over again.
There most be something probative in that pile of info, right?
So if you've got it, post it.
If not STFU.
Trump was convicted of sexual assault which the judge during sentencing told Trump, under our current system of laws what you did was rape.
During the Hollowood tapes he said he, repeatedly grabbed women by the pussy. That is him confessing to many sexual assaults upon women. And then there is this Epstein affair.
Comrade, first you’re disgusting. Second, when you post of any form of corruption, it is not because you are outraged, but instead to fulfill your Russia commie agenda.
It’s gross how you think finding someone doing something wrong somewhere, always lets Trump off the hook. And yes, Putin as well. Where I come from, people like you are considered trash.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:6ixStringJoker, you are a lying sack of shit, as is Trump.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
There hasn't been any cratering on Trump's approval. He's still above where Biden, Obama and GWB were all at during this time in their 2nd term.
Keep dreaming, Paul.
No. I'm not.
You should probably ask yourself how many other times you've allowed them to lie to you today and how many more of their lies you've helped them spread.
*NOTE: I guess my "lie" here was mistakenly putting Joe Auto-Pen Biden* on that list. He was a one term loser and didn't make the graph.
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