Trump continues his war on reality. The problem is that no matter how elaborate and widely believed a fantasy, eventually it will bump up against reality, and reality wins every time.
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2025
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The US seems to be entering it's "Emperor's New Clothes" phase before it even throned the upcoming king.
- Climate data is denied/scrapped
- Medicine data is denied/scrapped
- Job reports are denied/altered
- Tariff damage is denied/must be altered
- The Insurrection must not be labeled as such
- The Epstein Files are denied and scrubbed of the name Trump
- Crime data is altered to trumps demand.
And the list is much longer.
Next state of the union address, or whatever Trump will call it, everything will be blatant lies and everyone will go "ooohhh and aaahhhh what grandeur you have brought us", afraid of speaking out on what really is going on.
It's the War on Truth.
The Devil is the father of lies.
"State of the union" will be rebranded to "Beautiful state of the super-great union".
“Tariffs have not caused Inflation, or any other problems for America, other than massive amounts of CASH pouring into our Treasury’s coffers,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
You know, I'd chuckled at the "Truth" part of "Truth Social", but it hadn't really occurred to me until now:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
Pravda (Russian: Правда, IPA: [ˈpravdə] ⓘ, lit. 'Truth') is a Russian broadsheet newspaper, and was the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, when it was one of the most influential papers in the country with a circulation of 11 million.[1]
Pravda became an official publication, or "organ", of the ruling Soviet Communist Party. Pravda became the conduit for announcing official policy and policy changes and would remain so until 1991. Subscription to Pravda was mandatory for state run companies, the armed services and other organizations until 1989.[17]
As the names of the main communist newspaper and the main Soviet newspaper, Pravda and Izvestia, meant "the truth" and "the news" respectively, a popular saying was "there's no news in Pravda and no truth in Izvestia". Though not highly appreciated as an objective and unbiased news source, Pravda was regarded – both by Soviet citizens and by the outside world – as a government mouthpiece and therefore a reliable reflection of the Soviet government's positions on various issues.
- Jan Hatzius, Goldman’s chief economist, warned in a research note on Sunday that American consumers will end up absorbing an increasing share of the cost of Trump’s tariffs.
I would love to see what the class distribution looks like for who is actually absorbing these costs.
From Trump Term 1:
https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/us-tariffs-are-arbitrary-and-regressive-tax
Tariffs – taxes on imported goods – likely impose a heavier burden on lower-income households, as these households generally spend more on traded goods as a share of expenditure/income and because of the higher level of tariffs placed on some key consumer goods. This column estimates the tariff burden by income group and by family structure using a new dataset constructed by matching of granular data on trade and consumer spending. The findings suggest that tariffs function as a regressive tax that weighs most heavily on women and single parents.
Damn, this is exactly what I would expect though!
The findings suggest that tariffs function as a regressive tax that weighs most heavily on women and single parents.
It's working as intended. And now he's signed his executive order making it easier to put homeless people in "long-term institutional settings". They'll be even more desperate to take whatever slave-like working conditions they can get. Imagine if you won't only lose your home, but be locked up in a concentration camp on top.
Like I said though, working as intended.
David Solomon "Yesss, precious Trump. We will fire them, yes, all the nasty economists, yesss."
Honestly, this 'economist' had it coming. Did they think that economists' work is doing actual economic predictions? Lmao. Your work is to say what rich and powerful people want you to say.
Edit: grammar
Is there anything trump doesn't want to be lying about at this point?
I hate Donald Trump as a president, but God damn we could use more public officials who tell the head of a major investment bank to stick to DJing.