#BREAKING: Deposing Attorney: Do you regret that people lost income to support their lives?
DOGE Bro: “No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero.”
Deposing Attorney: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
DOGE Bro: “No, we didn’t.”
Deposing Attorney: So you weren’t able to reduce the federal deficit and you still don’t regret that people lost some of their livelihood based on your actions?
DOGE Bro: “No.” 🤦♀️
@AlertWavenews@KTiereny They're a publicly traded company that answers to investors, and investors will say why are you spending here when profit margin for another part of the business is higher. Line needs to always go up.
@Brandon03344418@jemillerbalt Unironically, it was Trump (CARES act), Biden (IRA) and Putin (Ukraine invasion), but COVID supply chain disruption mostly
@ModernDayInves@itsthewealth4me With a fixed mortgage only property taxes would increase the monthly payment, and there’s homestead tax credits in 38 states that can cap yearly property tax increase up to a certain amount or percentage
Inflation is so high that it's erasing all wage gains.
Inflation: 4.2% in May for the past year
Wage growth: 3.4% in May for the past year.
Americans are getting squeezed financially. This isn't just "bad vibes" about the economy. There is real pain, especially for middle-class and lower-income households. It's tough because so many basic items are seeing sizable price increases: gas, electricity, food, medical care.
The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.
As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.
Texan here
A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!
Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.
Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.
This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.
How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.
This predates Nick Shirley and Trump 2.0, but yes, virtually all "independent"/new media on the right is neither independent nor really media but propaganda. Doesn't matter if it's Jack Posobiec or Nick Shirley or Nick Sortor or Libs of TikTok. I was personally told by TPUSA staff in 2023 that the Trump campaign carefully monitored affiliated podcasts to pressure hosts into inviting only Trump-friendly guests. This kind of top-down pressure and control over right-wing media pervades every aspect of it. You can't work in it if you're honest and care about objectivity, and it's arguably worse in the fake independent/new media space, which is much more corrupt and pernicious than legacy media, precisely because it exploits the trust people put in it as a truthful alternative.
@UMFanJosh It’s also because the NFL doesn’t have guaranteed contracts. So there are still guys playing hard at the end of the season because they’re still fighting for their roster spot and another contract
@davinyandere Arise has good combat and presentation, but the pacing and story absolutely nosedive. The back half is pure misery. Endless exposition dumps, zero momentum, and HP-bloated enemies that don’t stagger and exist solely to waste time.
Farewell to Stephen Colbert! I will miss your laundering the reputations of war criminals, like when you danced with Kissinger. It's a shame Trump got you fired because he made you a liberal martyr instead of the parable of the Obama era’s humorless and empty corporate moralism.