Commerce Sec Lutniks math

 

No wonder the economy is fucked.

OriginalPrice - OriginalPrice * PercentReduced = TotalCostNow

Original Price = $100

Percent Reduced = 87%

Total Cost now $13

100 - 100 * 0.87 = 13

It's not down 700%, it's 13% of the original. The original $100 cost is 7.7x higher than the $13 cost, but you don't just get to keep making up bigger numbers to make yourself look better especially when none of the prices they're talking about are actually less than the original price--and in the rare case the prices have gone down, it's not significantly down.

These dudes are gonna start claiming math is fake news. They’re dumb as humans can possibly be given the technological advancements they have.

They've always claimed math was fake news. Republicans have been calling legitimate science fake news since long before Trump took to the scene. For at least 50 years Republicans have been screaming at our education system for making kids dumber because when kids learn the correct stuff it completely nullified any republican talking point. They've made up their facts for decades.

No, there was no attempt to math. There was an attempt to deceive. And a lot of people in this country will buy right into the deceit and repeat it as fact. Think of how many people believe every single word that he slurs our of those juicy lips.

Demended Sleepy Thin skinned Facist Pedophile Russian Asset Convicted Rapist Felon Grandpa Donald Trump takes a peek (1991)

 Peeking? Naw, that’s more “checking out.” He’s never hid this behavior, and his base prides him on it.

So about 6 months ago I watched this documentary. I was able to access all 3 parts, sorry if it is blocked in your country.

One of the conclusions that I got to after watching this was that basically anyone running a modeling agency that seems even a bit sleezy is very likely doing some sort of shady sex stuff.

I'm a straight dude with fairly normal sexual preferences. One of the things that I didn't get when looking at pictures like the above one was 'why go after girls that young?'. 20 through 25 year old women are attractive (so are others, I'm not a 'after X years women are too old' kind of guy) and 100% legal. Why insist on women that are either barely legal or over that line and not of the age of consent?

Prior to the documentary I thought it was some sort of boundary testing thing. Or maybe some of these guys really do like the 'child like' look (this is pretty gross).

But after the documentary I was exposed to a different idea: by 22 or 23 women are more worldly and more likely to say 'no'. One of the models interviewed (I think the one in the blue shirt) was a bit older but lied about her age. Basically if you have a model agency that is a bunch of 23 to 25 year olds and you try to pimp them out to the wealthy (private jet wealthy, not owns a house in the Bay Area wealthy) then you get push back. The 19 year olds don't push back. That is the major difference.

Demended Sleepy Thin skinned Facist Pedophile Russian Asset Convicted Rapist Felon Grandpa Donald Trump in on the Epstein Files

 Trump Chief of Staff Says POTUS Is in the Epstein Files, Says They Were 'Young, Single Playboys Together'

Wiles Confirms Trump in the Epstein Files

During the interview, Wiles shared that she also read what she described as an 'Epstein file'. She further confirmed that Trump is in the file.

You know it’s gonna be bad tomorrow when they’re still trying to justify his behavior

Of course they were actually 50+ years old and Trump was married at the time. And the victims were, in many cases, actually CHILDREN who were given lots of illegal drugs to keep them pliable and compliant.

Didn't he cheat on each of his first two wives with their replacements? When was he single?

Calling them young implies this has been going on even longer than estimated.

Trump and Epstein hung out during the 1990s-2004. In 1990, Trump was 43. In 2004, he was 57. "Young" ? Not really.

Trump was married to Marla Maples from 1993-1999. "Single" ? No.

So he was a creepy, married, middle aged guy, hanging out with his creepy middle aged pal raping children together.

Official Presidential Portrait

 Over 500 pages in Epstein files were entirely blacked out, CBS News finds

The newly released files included photos of several prominent people in Epstein's orbit, images from his homes and investigative records that detail disturbing allegations against the late sex offender. But the heavy redactions in many of the records have drawn criticism from Democrats and some Republicans, as the department defends its handling of the files.

500 pages that Bondi claimed didn’t exist mind you.

Damn, Trump had over 500 pages dedicated to him? Impressive.

It has been proven now time and time again that there are no consequences for these guys breaking the law, so why would they stop?

Anyone who thought they were going to release anything but information that incriminated their political opponents was dreamin.

Until there is accountability, nothing changes. 

It's sure something they don't want you to see. If it's just about protecting the identities of victims, you could redact only minimal information.

500 hundred pages, with pictures, on Trump alone.

Prove me wrong.

prime time to broadcast an Alzheimer’s rant.

He really got prime time to broadcast an Alzheimer’s rant.

I was just watching ABCs analysis and Jesus they were pulling things out that he said and made it sound like he was talking with authority on the subject only to shoehorn actual facts in after.

The only announcement of note was the military checks. Otherwise there was no policy announcement or anything of note.

Got to bribe them for the upcoming unconstitutional orders.

That was one weird-ass dementia shit storm from a man whose own Chief of Staff just confirmed he spent decades deeply involved with the largest pedophilia and child rape trafficking organization in modern history.

Does Trump have BDS (Biden Derangement Syndrome)?

Stemming from his rampant ODS.

He’s just can’t accept he lost to Biden and was teased by Obama at a big dinner. Those two events take up a lot of space in his crazed mind.

The speech was brutally difficult to watch. It was a propaganda speech that mostly shit on the Biden administration and blamed a bunch of problems on him. He also stated numerous lies about wages going up, the cost of generally everything from food, gas, and homes going down.

He mentioned a Warrior dividend that would give 1776 dollars to US service members. I’m still waiting for my tariff checks and DOGE dividends.

His plan for lowering healthcare costs is to get rid of ObamaCare and give the money to Americans instead. The problem with that is it’s easier and better to collectively bargain to get insurance than it is to negotiate individually.

He also stated the same lie about illegal immigrants who are drug dealers, rapists, thieves, etc who came here from insane asylums and mental institutions.

He also mentioned trillions of dollars of investment in the US and factories being built. Where exactly are these factories being built?

He also said more Americans are employed than at any point in US history. If that was the case then why have thousands of Americans been laid off within the past few months?

....so he basically cut all TV networks to do a 20 minute Truth Social rant?

To stop drug traffickers but same time pardoning the biggest drug lord

 

Hernandez trafficked 400 TONS into the US. That's 800,000 POUNDS of cocaine. Trump is pardoning him. Trump is saying he's blowing up (illegally) Venezuelans over drugs and now invading... but he'll pardon Hernandez. Republicans are such fucking assholes.

It's all about how much money Trump gets for the pardon.

It really is this simple. Everyone knows a pardon can be bought. It used to be reserved for members of the global elite who did low profile crimes, and it happened right as the president was leaving office. This is similar to how Trump ignores every accepted norm of politics if it suits him in any way. He truly is a walking example of all the political classes excesses.

Peter Thiel wanted it, so it happened.

Hernandez was a big backer of Prospera, a city on Roatan that is a testing ground for a sort of of technocracy run by tech bros and corporations. It has its own laws, taxes, governance, and is backed/supported by Peter Thiel and a former founder of Binance (among others).

The current Honduran administration is trying to undo the laws that allowed for these special economic zones, and the corps making up the backers have recently lost cases seeking to stop the administration.

My bet is that this guy is going to be pushed to get back into some position of power to gum up the works and save the billionaire paradise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/magazine/prospera-honduras-crypto.html

https://www.irreview.org/articles/2025/10/23/prspera-honduras-a-controversial-experiment-in-corporate-governance

https://fpif.org/crypto-bros-are-trying-to-bankrupt-honduras-for-scuttling-their-private-cities/

We don't need any more evidence. We don't need any more questions. We need action against this asshole, tout de suite. Stop going after him and the Executive Branch, when it is ineffective.

It is very clear, that the Judicial Branch, is the issue. They are bought and enabling this. It's the judges, so go after them, not Trump. Stop paying attention to him, they want that, pay attention to who can stop him and isn't.

If we were the system of checks and balances we claimed this whole time, they should be stopping him. The fact this inaction has happened this long, tells you exactly where the issue lies.

Go to their houses, protest on their lawns. Scream at their faces. Make them prosecute this asshole, because every day that goes by is wider spread systemic damage.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/biographies.aspx

Welcome to America

 A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: A parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars 

LONG BEACH, Calif. — When Edgar Rosales Jr. uses the word “home,” the second-year college student with a linebacker’s build isn’t referring to the house he plans to buy after becoming a nurse or getting a job in public health. Rather, the Long Beach City College student is talking about the parking lot he slept in every night for more than a year. With Oprah-esque enthusiasm, Rosales calls the other students who use LBCC’s Safe Parking Program his “roommates” or “neighbors.” 

The thing is sleeping in your car is illegal in most cities, so this is actually somehow an improvement. When I was homeless I dreaded waking up to the knock on the window by the cop shining his light in my eyes, and I had it better than most. I would have loved for a safe place to sleep even just a few nights, let alone a whole semester. 

Agreed, I mean fuck capitalism but the fact that sleeping in your car is illegal it total BS as far as im concerned.

Next thing you know, you’re renting a spot in a parking lot for a month to park your car there. The rent is 650$, less than rent at an apartment, but still just as profitable. 

Richest country in the world, everyone!

And after you're done wrecking your back you get years of debt too!

And we are deporting everyone who builds housing, and don't want to build affordable housing or dorms, and don't want to build anything that doesn't have parking, home garages, etc. that take up more space and cost.

Solution??? This is what we have become?

 

Grifter in Chief

Company backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s firm nabs $620M government contract

Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnets startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s VC firm 1789 Capital, has secured a $620 million contract from the U.S. Department of Defense, as reported by the Financial Times.

Trump Jr. joined 1789 Capital as a partner in 2024. The firm is said to have invested in Vulcan Elements around three months ago, according to Bloomberg. In August, the company announced a $65 million Series A led by Altimeter Capital.

Trump Jr.-Backed Company Cashes In on Massive Pentagon Contract 

A start-up funded by a Donald Trump Jr.-backed venture capital firm has been awarded a $620 million contract from the Pentagon, reports the Financial Times.

Vulcan Elements, a small rare earths start-up, will receive the funds as part of a larger deal from the Defense Department. This $620 million loan is the largest made by the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital.

When the true scale of Trumpian corruption eventually becomes apparent, and that might take years, this will be the biggest story of the Trump regime. These rich pieces of shit are literally taking money out of all of our pockets and enriching themselves.

Trump’s only business - ever - has been money laundering for the Epstein Class, every dumb, baffling, creepy, hateful thing he produces makes perfect sense.

 

 

MAGA mindset

Literally what happened to public pools after segregation ended.

“He would see this country burned if he could be king of the ashes.”

Hell I've seen this on a small scale. Someone argued against getting a benefit at work because the younger people would enjoy it too, and they didn't have that when they started out.

It’s genuinely so baffling to me that the older generations in some places would want the younger generations to suffer just like they did rather than work to make their lives a bit better or easier.

"Go ahead and hurt me, just so long as you hurt those people more!"

There’s a quote from someone “The salient fact of American politics is that there are fifty to seventy million voters each of whom will volunteer to live, with his family, in a cardboard box under an overpass, and cook sparrows on an old curtain rod, if someone would only guarantee that the black, gay, Hispanic, liberal, whatever, in the next box over doesn’t even have a curtain rod, or a sparrow to put on it.”

Even in black and white, you can tell his hat is red.

Can't spell hatred without RED HAT.

 

Peak Maga Mindset

Maga brings stupid to the highest magnitude.

MAGA is so focused on genitalia, they can't stop punching themselves in the dick.

Schutzstaffel Scumbag didn't have a membership in the first place.

They don't have Costco in Russia anyways soooo.....

They're canceling their ability to buy stuff at wholesale over wanting to be taxed more. These are the dumbest motherfuckers to ever breathe.

What’s funnier is that Costco will use the membership cancellation in their lawsuit. The person almost certainly would have put “prices too high” as the reason they’re cancelling. Costco is going to gather all those cancellations and go “see! Trumps tariffs increasing our prices have led to a decrease of x amount in active memberships, causing a loss of x dollars from membership subscription and x number of sales”

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1pebkea/damning_new_poll_americans_say_cost_of_living_is/

 

Demended Sleepy Thin skinned Facist Pedophile Russian Asset Convicted Rapist Felon Grandpa Donald Trump targets media outlets

White House Publicly Targets Media Outlets... Launches 'Hall of Shame' Section

In the 'Media Offenders' menu on the website, the phrase 'Mislead. Bias. Expose.' is displayed at the top. As of the 29th, three media outlets-The Boston Globe, CBS News, and The Independent-have been named as 'Media Offenders of the Week.' In the 'Hall of Shame' section at the bottom of the page, The Washington Post, CBS News, and CNN are also listed. The site allows users to search for journalists' names and related articles, which are categorized under labels such as 'Bias,' 'Misconduct,' and 'Leftist Madness.'

There's literally a law that says they have to be nonpartisan. Of course, nobody in this administration who has the power to enforce it is actually willing to so that means jack shit. 

When Hitler gained power he requires the major newspapers to print stories that they had lied about him previously.

Remember this. REMEMBER THIS ADMINISTRATION AND DO NOT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN. VOTE, FFS

Trump humiliated as he is forced to take down anti-media website hours after launch

Trump was forced to take down his new “media bias” website just hours after it was launched. The White House was asked to correct an error by Fox News.

Every news outlet and individuals being target should sue. Let the regime get caught lying under oath.

Having a leader board where you can search for individual journalists is setting them up even more to be targets...

 

 

 

Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals

Many prominent Maga personalities on X are based outside US, new tool reveals

Many of the most influential personalities in the “Make America great again” (Maga) movement on X are based outside of the US, including Russia, Nigeria and India, a new transparency feature on the social media site has revealed.

Surely this is new information and not well fucking known since 2016

This isn't even the well-organized, state-sponsored actors.

For example, Russian government knows how to get US IP addresses and can surely do so without using public VPNs.

Basically, this is just the tip of the iceberg as far as foreign influence campaigns go.

Either that or they simply pay off american influencers like Russia has been doing. Not that the revelation really led to anything.

Russia pays orgs like Fox News and the NRA to have Americans scared of each other and armed to the teeth.

Remember 7ish years ago when the news broke that the NRA was a front for Russian dark money into US politics and the Republican Senate's immediate response was to order an instant yes/no vote along party lines within 24 hours to prevent Robert Mueller from investigating the NRA as part of his Russia probe. And somehow that wasn't suspicious enough to lead anyone else ever looking into the matter later after Trump was gone.

The Russian govt was literally handed access to our government servers within minutes of DOGE getting into our Social Security systems.

Seeing that so many top MAGA trolls aren’t even in the U.S. is wild, but at least we can finally see where the accounts are coming from. It makes it easier to spot inauthentic activity and gives people a clearer picture of what’s real versus coordinated online chaos.