Ah, you quoted a very recent blog that might as well be fox. Try a real source, https://www.congress.gov/crs-p... As I said, things like,

In dozens of statutes, Congress has authorized the President to adjust tariff rates in response to specific trade-related concerns related to U.S. foreign policy and national security interests, or that require an administrative finding by a U.S. agency. For example, Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 empowers the President to adjust tariffs on imports that threaten to impair U.S. national security. Section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act and Section 203 of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act empower the President in a time of war or national emergency to regulate imports. Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 empowers the President to raise tariff rates temporarily when the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) determines that a sudden import surge has caused or threatened serious injury to a U.S. industry. Congress has also empowered U.S. agencies to impose duties to offset certain injurious trade practices.

You see a pattern, dynamic issues. Not I want to be a dicktator.

Just be glad they grandfathered you. My utility unilaterally changed from net to a we pay you for your solar power and you buy your power from us as if you don't have panels. Guess what. I pay 11+ c/KWh and they currently pay me 9. And oddly they keep lowering the 9 because they tell me wholesale power prices are going down and they raise the 11 because wholesale power prices are going up. If you are tied to the grid and don't have a contract that guarantees the rate structure, you are their bitch. I'm feeling a bit used myself.

are going to be ordering these things by the dozens to speed up the slurping.

yet.

If your household income is miles above, then why should you get free gov healthcare? With ACA until recently you could get help if your premiums were more than 10% of your household income. Those immigrants who were here legally, working for peanuts at places like amazon, were getting help. It is the way of amazon/walmart. Let the gov subsidize our low paid workers.

Something seems amiss in that statement. You should have been eligible for ACA coverage as SS disability does not pay that much. So it should have put you in the 100-400% range with discounts for coverage. SS would put you above poverty line I think, so medicaid would not cover.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. They have already said any official act is above the law.

But the US is not paying, the NATO EU members are. Which just delights trump of course. He revels when others pay. https://www.foxnews.com/politi... And must be true, fox is reporting it. Can you even imagine going to dinner with the man. Even if you dined at maro with him, I'll be he'd stick you with the bill.

Well even Bezos got some family money. This article pretty much sums it up how it works. https://www.theguardian.com/bu... And a specific amount is in this one, 300K for Jeffy. https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-j... Not the kind of money trump got, but still, not chump change. Most people can barely make rent & groceries. Getting out of the cycle of working for someone else is quite difficult.

They are fixing that. By adding work requirements to medicaid they'll be getting people who can barely walk applying for those jobs. I expect amazon may end up with a problem with getting deliveries out in the coming months.

They all now kiss the ring, good enough. But they also know full well when they stop kissing, they are out. See Musk. From BBF to outcast for daring to not back the BBB. And we will see in the coming months if Musk doesn't back down from his 3rd party thing how far the don will go. Deport him, maybe. Fall of a balcony, maybe. Nah, the real hope is the man is old and fat and eats very poorly. He could easily just die. Putin on the other hand at least appears to be fairly fit and likely watches his diet. He is not in his 3rd trimester like don.

Lunatics is right. https://www.tmz.com/2025/07/10... "A deranged Pennsylvania man says he executed and beheaded his own dad -- and then posted the grisly aftermath online -- all 'cause, according to him, his dad was standing in the way of his dream to become the next Donald Trump."

Spot prices still go negative in TX, less now with around 13GWh of storage. But if Enron wants into the retail game, different I think. TX allows most areas to have 3rd parties use the lines and a customer can choose different retail plans. They have lots of competition already. The money I suspect is the guys with the wires, who are the "house" and get a cut of every KWh. Generation is more iffy, spot prices are pretty volatile. Negative-zero-ish to 8 bucks/KWh.

Bernie's not the president. I don't think much of Bernie, a nut just like trump, just a different side of the coin. But as I said, Bernie is NOT the president and is NOT the guy throwing tariff's on in a way that at least in my view is unconstitutional because it is NOT an emergency situation. Couple that with him now throwing tariffs on Brazil (a net importer of US) because the clown doesn't like how his fellow dictator wanna be is being treated and you have full on crazy. Well, no full on crazy is him now saying that Rosie should be stripped of her US citizenship. You know someone born in the US to US parents. Truly, the house is remiss in not filing impeachment for him shitting all over the constitution.

Oddly, I don't do any financials on my phone. Really I don't do almost anything except maps, and I recognize the data is being sold. Oh and calls/text, cause its a phone!