The important thing to always realize is that Trump optimizes for one thing only: himself. Everyone else doesn't matter.

You mean Trump did what Putin wanted

We also have some the cheapest, because solar covers my 90% of my usage for the whole year.

We are a net exporter but all Americans still exist in the same market where oil is $100+ and very few benefit from that.

Trump has added $4T to the debt in one year:

From https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/debt-to-the-penny/d...

3/19/2025 $36,214,467,819,348.16. --> 3/17/2026 $39,016,762,910,245.14

Yet strangely all Republicans are silent

Republicans just play whatever meta will win them power until they get into office. It's a time-honored tradition at this point, so any time they tell you what they believe, what they say their beliefs are and what they actually do, will often be two separate things.

They're not allowed to voice criticism.

Shhh, you don't shout at the money hose, you just keeeeeeep drinking!!!!!!

Republicans are only deficit hawks when it comes to spending money on things every day people benefit from. If they actually gave even a single shit about the deficit, they wouldn't hand billionaires massive tax breaks every single time they take power.

Reagan campaigned against Carter’s profligate spending.

It really is like our body politic is still mentally stuck in 1980. It's crazy. Republicans still campaign on "balancing the budget" while demonstrably being responsible for all the major explosions of debt we have experienced in our lifetime.

The whole thing is absurd.

And then blew up the deficit and started our massive accumulation of debt. A pattern gleefully followed by every single Republican administration since. Every single Democratic administration since has reduced the deficit the "spend and give tax breaks" Republicans have run up. But it's a losing battle clearly.

Carter reduced the deficit as well until the recession hit in 1979 and tax revenues decreased.

And then proceeded to blow up the deficit even more himself. What they campaign on and what they actually do are different things.

Are those numbers backwards or am I seeing things?

Sorry, copy and paste error. I copied the public debt number for 2026 instead of the total debt number. Fixed.

The wind is actually blowing towards EVs.

China: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/electric-vehicle-sales-i... Europe: https://eleport.com/ev-sales-in-europe/ USA: https://www.statista.com/outlook/mmo/electric-vehicles/unite...

We have blocked Chinese EVs precisely because they are 1) super cheap and 2) would wipe out our automakers.

The dude is a moron: to think there was any thought behind this is to be insane.

$30 per kill approval