Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?
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Quote:6ix, you and Trump really are committed to the idea that you are the smartest guys in the room. That hasn't worked for either of you, yet you keep repeating it.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Did you bother looking at the side-bar on the right to see where this information was sourced from, you stupid fuck?
The question was rhetorical and we both already know the answer to that question is no.
So shut your fucking big stupid mouth for once and allow me to enlighten you...
Here is another set of facts you will refuse to believe:
The government first began gathering detailed information on benefits use by citizenship status in 1994. The data show:
• For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government.
• Over that period, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
• Without immigrants, US government public debt at all levels would be at least 205 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—nearly twice its 2023 level.
https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-
budgets-1994-2023
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Quote:In contrast to the poorest people in America paying taxes that keep the government operating, the richest people aren't paying, thanks to the Republican Party's manipulation of the tax collection system, particularly under Donald Trump:
Originally posted by second:
The government first began gathering detailed information on benefits use by citizenship status in 1994. The data show:
• For each year from 1994 to 2023, the US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government.
• Over that period, immigrants created a cumulative fiscal surplus of $14.5 trillion in real 2024 US dollars, including $3.9 trillion in savings on interest on the debt.
• Without immigrants, US government public debt at all levels would be at least 205 percent of gross domestic product (GDP)—nearly twice its 2023 level.
https://www.cato.org/white-paper/immigrants-recent-effects-government-
budgets-1994-2023
The Ultra-Rich Are Different from You and Me
Only the little people pay taxes, redux
By Paul Krugman | Feb 20, 2026
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ultra-rich-are-different-from
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Supreme court ruled, 6 to 3, that the President does not have the authority to impose tariffs. The constitutional structure reserves tariff powers to Congress.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/24-1287
Trump told a news conference he’s “absolutely ashamed” of justices who voted to strike down his tariffs. Trump called the majority decision “a disgrace.”
https://fox4kc.com/news/national/ap-the-latest-supreme-court-strikes-d
own-trumps-tariffs-upending-central-plank-of-economic-agenda
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Ask Google if this is true: “THE UNITED STATES TRADE DEFICIT HAS BEEN REDUCED BY 78% BECAUSE OF THE TARIFFS BEING CHARGED TO OTHER COMPANIES AND COUNTRIES,” Trump wrote in a social media post.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Uh huh...
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/who-what-why/
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Google's answer:
Based on 2025 data, that statement is false. The U.S. trade deficit for goods and services in 2025 dropped by only about 0.2% ($2.1 billion), not 78%, according to Census Bureau data released on February 19, 2026. The claim likely used a selective, short-term, or volatile monthly figure rather than the total annual reduction.
Key Details:
• The 78% Figure: This likely refers to a volatile monthly, short-term reduction between a peak in March and a low in October 2025, rather than a sustained annual decrease.
• Actual 2025 Data: The total annual trade deficit only decreased by $2.1 billion (0.2%), a "meager decrease" compared to the high percentage claimed.
• Tariff Impact: While tariffs were intended to reduce the deficit, imports of goods actually increased to a record $1.24 trillion, indicating the trade gap did not shrink as claimed.
• Costs: Research indicates that U.S. businesses and consumers, rather than foreign countries, paid for the bulk of these tariffs.
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Did you bother looking at the side-bar on the right to see where this information was sourced from, you stupid fuck?
The question was rhetorical and we both already know the answer to that question is no.
So shut your fucking big stupid mouth for once and allow me to enlighten you...
Trump’s Trade Deficit Lie Gets Exposed Within a Day
https://whowhatwhy.org/economy/business/trumps-trade-deficit-lie-gets-
exposed-within-a-day/
Gee... I think we've seen them before. Actually I believe we've seen this very article before, haven't we?
Here are the other two sources for that Google AI slop you chugged down greedily like it was Dick Cheney's cock when he said he supported Kamala Harris...
LEX 18's (Kentucky's NBC Affiliate)
https://www.facebook.com/lex18/posts/trade-deficit-reduction-president
-donald-trump-stated-that-the-us-trade-deficit-/1422356303269256/
They simply posted an image with Trump's quote. They made no comment one way or another about it. It's very likely that Google AI grabbed this source because of one or a plurality of the 580 comments, and very likely citing your bullshit website "whowhatwhy.org" as their source.
And the third...
Trump says US trade deficit reduced by 78% due to tariffs
Foreign trade deficit to ‘go into positive territory’ in 2026 for 1st time ‘in many decades,’ US president says
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-says-us-trade-deficit-reduced-
by-78-due-to-tariffs/3834413
Written by FUCKING Mucahithan Avcioglu from an outfit called https://www.aa.com.tr
What country uses the TR domain? Turkey.
Turkey, who's pissed off about the flat 15% tariff levied against them, despite the fact that they levy tariffs on American goods at percentages ranging anywhere from 15.4% to 145.8% on agricultural goods, and up to 220% on vehicles, as is evidenced here:
https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/Turkey.pdf
No... I'm SURE there's no bias and/or incentive for Turkey to help spread lies to you stupid brainfucked white college "educated" America-Hating liberals.
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Originally posted by second:
Supreme court ruled, 6 to 3, that the President does not have the authority to impose tariffs. The constitutional structure reserves tariff powers to Congress.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/607/24-1287
Trump told a news conference he’s “absolutely ashamed” of justices who voted to strike down his tariffs. Trump called the majority decision “a disgrace.”
https://fox4kc.com/news/national/ap-the-latest-supreme-court-strikes-d
own-trumps-tariffs-upending-central-plank-of-economic-agenda
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Originally posted by THG:
Supreme Court says no to Trumps tariffs!!! Oh no, I was right again and again, Jacks is wrong.
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No. You weren't, dummy.
The Atlantic (A FAR left news outfit): The Tariffs Will Be Back
Even after losing at the Supreme Court, the president has plenty of ways to reconstruct his trade regime.
https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/02/supreme-court-trump-tariff
s/686083/
https://archive.ph/cci5O
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The Trump tariffs are dead. Long live the Trump tariffs?
This morning, in a 6–3 opinion, the Supreme Court struck down the bulk of the president’s sweeping global tariffs. The majority ruled that the law Donald Trump had used to carry out most of his trade policies does not, in fact, allow the president to impose tariffs at all. This is a major setback for Trump’s trade agenda, but it is far from a fatal one. The president has several alternatives that he can use to reconstruct his tariff regime, and his administration has spent months putting a plan in place to do so. Those efforts, too, may eventually be challenged in court, but fully litigating them would take years. Unless the president suddenly has a change of heart, Trump’s tariff adventure is far from over.
The case before the court centered on a 1977 law called the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or IEEPA, which authorizes the president to “regulate” the importation of goods in a national emergency that arises from an “unusual and extraordinary threat.” The Trump administration had interpreted this vague statute, which had never been used to justify tariffs, to mean that the president can issue tariffs of whatever kind he wants, whenever he wants, on any country he wants, so long as he says an emergency exists, all without getting congressional approval. IEEPA was the basis of Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China last February, the “reciprocal” tariffs he levied on almost every country in the world on Liberation Day, and most of the one-off tariffs he has issued or threatened to impose on trade partners such as Brazil, India, and, more recently, Europe and Canada. (Industry-specific tariffs on goods like steel and aluminum have been imposed under separate, more legally sound authorities, and are not affected by the ruling.)
Last year, the lower courts ruled that although IEEPA might allow some tariffs, it certainly didn’t allow these tariffs—many of which were set at arbitrary levels, on an arbitrary set of countries, using justifications that could hardly be thought of as a true national emergency (such as the existence of a trade deficit or an imaginary surge of fentanyl shipments from Canada). The Supreme Court went even further. “We hold that IEEPA does not authorize the president to impose tariffs,” Chief Justice John Roberts declared.
But even as it insisted that the law was on its side, the administration spent much of the past year preparing a backup plan to rebuild Trump’s tariff wall in case the courts ruled against them. Because, as the president observed on Truth Social a few hours after the ruling, “the Supreme Court did not overrule TARIFFS, they merely overruled a particular use of IEEPA TARIFFS.”
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Quote:Trump lost the election in 2020, but he said he won and he would stay in the White House, except Congress threw him out of office. Trump lost on tariffs in 2026, but he will keep collecting the money until Congress throws him out of office.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You too, Second.
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JD Vance Accuses the Supreme Court of ‘Lawlessness’ After Trump Tariff Ruling
Trump insisted that he still didn’t need Congress, directly contradicting the SCOTUS ruling.
Feb 20, 2026, 4:38 pm
https://www.mediaite.com/politics/jd-vance-accuses-the-supreme-court-o
f-lawlessness-after-trump-tariff-ruling/
With these justifications, tariffs must continue. If the Supreme Court doesn't approve, tough titty, according to Trump/Vance, the two finest legal minds in the administration.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Trump lost the election in 2020, but he said he won and he would stay in the White House, except Congress threw him out of office. Trump lost on tariffs in 2026, but he will keep collecting the money until Congress throws him out of office.
Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
You too, Second.
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Oh yeah?
How, pray tell, are they going to do that?
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From Venezuelan oil to the Board of Peace, Trump is constantly looking for new sources of cash he can control.
Trump’s dream is a giant slush fund Congress can’t touch
By Tad DeHaven | Feb 20, 2026
https://www.vox.com/politics/479821/trumps-slush-fund-venezuela-oil-ga
za-board-of-peace-tariffs
After President Donald Trump launched a military operation that captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro, he announced that America planned to take control of its oil revenue. More specifically, one American.
“This Oil will be sold at its Market Price, and that money will be controlled by me, as President of the United States of America, to ensure it is used to benefit the people of Venezuela and the United States!” he proclaimed in a statement.
This wasn’t the first time he’d used that kind of language. Earlier, he announced “deals” with allies Japan and South Korea, in which the countries received tariff relief in exchange for pledging massive investments in the United States that Trump himself would allegedly oversee.
And in Davos, Switzerland, Trump unveiled a new international initiative called the “Board of Peace.” It’s being pitched by the White House as a global problem solver, starting with Gaza.
According to an alleged draft charter, countries would serve limited terms unless they pay $1 billion to fund the board. And, not coincidentally, the chairman (Trump) would have substantial control over its operations. Many American allies quickly balked at the arrangement, with France’s foreign minister citing the “very extensive powers” granted to the board’s chairman.
These recent episodes are all part of a broader story of Trump’s second term: his endless quest to secure a slush fund that he can use to personally control large sums of money.
The slush fund, explained
To say that Trump is in an endless quest for a slush fund is not to suggest that there’s to be a literal White House bank account with his name on it (he’d love that, though).
Rather, it’s a description of a disturbing approach to governing: a relentless push to create discretionary pools of money and leverage points of control that can be used to reward, punish, and command, all while trying to dodge legal and constitutional constraints.
When convenient, he’s gone through Congress, whose decision to grant him a massive $170 billion immigration enforcement fund in a party-line vote outside the normal appropriations process is now central to policy arguments about Immigration and Customs Enforcement after Minneapolis. Of that, ICE is slated to receive $75 billion — tripling its annual budget.
But he’s also looked for ways to find control over investments through the levers of foreign policy — tariffs, trade deals, foreign mergers, military seizures, diplomatic programs — that were never intended to be used this way.
If you’re thinking, “Okay, but governments negotiate deals all the time,” that’s true to a point. What’s striking is that the tariffs Trump unilaterally imposed are being used as leverage to shake down allied countries to feed his insatiable appetite for grandiose headlines about alleged incoming investments.
Instead of enforceable trade agreements, these deals are more like political commitments. Locking in binding obligations and durable tariff changes typically requires congressional action. The enforcement mechanism for these deals is basically his never-ending threat of higher tariffs. For example, the administration reached a trade deal with Europe in July, but the truce didn’t last. After Trump escalated pressure over his demand for Greenland, he revived tariff threats against several European countries.
The concessions Trump announces in these deals are also sometimes less than they seem when the countries fill in the details. Trump claimed: “I got a signing bonus from Japan of $550 billion. That’s our money. It’s our money to invest, as we like.” But Japanese investments are being structured as equity, loans, and guarantees routed through Japanese public finance institutions and an investment c
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Feb. 20, 2026, 9:51 PM CST
The Department of Justice fired longtime litigator James Hundley from his appointment to interim U.S. Attorney of the Eastern District of Virginia, just hours after federal judges unanimously appointed him to the position.
Chief U.S. District Judge M. Hannah Lauck signed off on Hundley's appointment Friday evening and administered the oath of office in Richmond, Virginia, according to court documents.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted on X shortly after, announcing Hundley had been fired.
Hundley's appointment to the Eastern District of Virginia followed the departure of Trump loyalist Lindsey Halligan, who left the job in late January after a federal judge ruled that she held the role unlawfully.
Halligan, who was a former insurance attorney with no prosecutorial experience, led unsuccessful cases against New York Attorney General Leticia James and former FBI Director James Comey, both perceived Trump foes.
Federal law allows judges to appoint a U.S. attorney if a presidential nominee has not been confirmed within 120 days of their appointment.
This is not the first time the Justice Department has fired a U.S. attorney appointed by federal judges.
In July, Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Desiree Leigh Grace after she was appointed as U.S. attorney for New Jersey. Grace was set to succeed the state's interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump.
Just last week, a New York prosecutor was fired by the Justice Department the same day he had been appointed by federal judges to serve as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York.
Veteran attorney Donald Kinsella — who had been appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York — told NBC News that he was fired after receiving an email from the White House stating that the “president directed that I be removed."
In both cases, federal judges appointed U.S. attorneys after a judge had ruled that the interim U.S. attorney appointed by Trump was serving in the role unlawfully.
Hundley has more than 30 years of experience litigating complex criminal and civil cases, having represented clients in state and federal courts across Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Maryland. He has successfully argued before the U.S. Supreme Court and has been appointed by the Virginia Supreme Court to serve as a Council Member at Large to the Virginia State Bar.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/deputy-ag-fires-
interim-us-attorney-rcna260012
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