Let me get this straight: the Republican Party now favors concentrating power in one individual to impose protectionist tariffs, centrally plan the economy, nationalize stakes in private businesses, and use the Fed to create massive inflation to monetize soaring budget deficits.

Yes, the stake are large. Very large.

LOL... that's PuzzledRaccoon

We know the inclusion of a bunch of these guys in Mullen Automotive/Bollinger $MULN $BINI was to generate uncertainty via naked shorts/spoofing while the company diluted into the market via toxic lenders. What other companies did they do this in while diluting? #MULN #MULNScam

On the appeals court ruling tariffs as unlawful, regardless of if it is overturned at the Supreme Court countries will now adjust how they negotiate with Trump. Also, if the #SCOTUS rules them unlawful, only parties to the lawsuit will get reimbursed, everyday Americans won't.

Responding to the bad jobs numbers in the 9 a.m. hour: Kevin Hassett told Fox News that it is a function of survey response rates and will be revised upward. Lori Chavez-DeRemer told Fox Business that bad numbers are Jerome Powell's fault for not cutting rates. Can't be both!

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Reminder: the account that posted a photo said to show Iryna Zarutska, with a BLM poster in the background, drew 18 million views. In May 2025, France’s defense and security secretariat tied this account to Storm-1516, a state-backed Russian disinfo group. But there’s more:

In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll cover the agenda-setting and flood of disinformation that spread on X and other platforms right after Charlie Kirk’s assassination. It’s far from the first or last time a tragedy has been weaponized for political purposes. 1/18

It’s worth noting that these claims came before any evidence at all about the shooter emerged. This is a textbook example of agenda-setting 101, showing how MAGA Republicans have borrowed a strategy from the Kremlin’s authoritarian playbook. 10/18

Watch Tesla Full Self-Driving v13.2.9 drive straight over a sidewalk! @ElonMusk’s dangerous and defective software should be banned immediately.

There are some of the most brilliant men and women in that room wearing a uniform listening to this right now. Wildly experienced women and men listening to Trump tell them how their war machines work and how he likes battleships because he saw them on TV.

Trump's CEA is circulating its estimate of the economic cost of the government shutdown. But, BREAKING: It's wrong. It makes a simple arithmetic error. And it's dishonest. Surprising, I know. 🧵

Are there any Mullen cheerleaders still left? $MULN $BINI #MULNScam #MULN

Just gonna point out that Trump's attorney spent the last 3 hours adamantly insisting to the Supreme Court that tariffs are not taxes...

Per the Treasury Department’s own data, tariffs in total generated $195 billion for the U.S. government in fiscal year 2025. Only a portion of that ($90 billion as of September) is from the emergency tariffs and would have to be refunded if they aren’t upheld by the Court.

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released emails, says Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ per POLITICO

The Nov. PPI, a leading indicator of CPI, rose more than expected. YoY prices jumped by 3%, versus expectations of 2.7%. The Oct. YoY core PPI increase of 2.9% was revised up to 3.4%, and the Nov. gain was 3.5%. Immediate rate hikes are needed to cool inflation that’s heating up.