April 15, 2026
Prosecutors Blocked from Federal Reserve Offices
Timothy Birdnow
Hmmm....the shape of things to come?
Prosecutors from Jeanine Pirro's office tried to access Federal Reserve headquarters, but were turned away
Fed chairman Jerome Powell is under investigation for fraud over the renovations of the Federal Reserve HQ. Turning prosecutors away is a sign they are hiding something.
I imagine some shredders are working overtime right about now.
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Biodegradable Plastics
Timothy Birdnow
I snoozed and now I've lost. Remember, not long ago I said someone needed to invent a biodegradable plastic utensil.
Science Talks
April 13 at 6:55 AM
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Scientists in Japan have developed a groundbreaking plant-based plastic that maintains its strength during daily use but dissolves completely in seawater within hours. Created by researchers at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science and the University of Tokyo, this material is derived from plant cellulose rather than petroleum. Its chemical bonds are specifically designed to break upon contact with saltwater, allowing natural bacteria to finish the decomposition process in as little as three hours.
This innovation addresses a critical gap in environmental technology by providing a material that behaves like traditional plastic until it enters the natural environment. Beyond the ocean, laboratory tests show that samples buried in soil disappear within approximately ten days without leaving behind harmful residues. This rapid degradation offers a promising solution to the global crisis of long-term plastic pollution in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems.
While currently in the research stage, the potential for mass production could fundamentally transform the global packaging industry. By replacing persistent petroleum-based materials with cellulose-derived alternatives, this technology could significantly reduce the amount of waste accumulating in our oceans. This breakthrough represents a major step toward a future where functional convenience no longer comes at the cost of permanent environmental damage.
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The Stop Nick Shirley Act in California
Timothy Birdnow
This will never pass judicial review.
This act would allow fraudsters to demand the removal of any video showing misconduct from the public view, and also impose fines on citizen journalists who expose such crimes.
Assemblyman Carl DeMaio introduced this bill, which was passed by the Democrats. DeMaio is a REPUBLICAN from San Diego married to another dude. He was originally from Dubuque Iowa but I suppose that midwestern city was too tame for him.
With Republicans like these...
At any rate this is wildly unconstitutional and will almost certainly be overturned by the courts at some point.
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Schiff the Leaker
Timothy Birdnow
Now that Eric "grabby hands" Swalwell, the Bill Cosby of American politics, is gone it's time to turn our attention to another Trump-hating creep, this time Adam Schiff.
With luck we'll bring Schiff down as well and then perhaps some justice will be served. And with even more luck we'll flip his Senate seat (not holding my breath over that though).
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Dems Trying to Invoke 25th Amendment
Timothy Birdnow
The Democrats, ever eager to remove President Trump from office, have gone back to one of their older ideas, and are trying to create a commission to examine removing Trump from office using the 25th Amendment under the claim he is mentally ill.
They never quit and never disappoint, do they!
TDS King Jamie Rskin introduced the bill to create the commission, which would be full of "medical professionals" which would no doubt include luminaries like Anthony Fauci, to examine Trump and report back to Congress. Based on their recommendation Trump's cabinet would then declare him unfit for office.
Good luck with that; it would have to pass the Senate and then be signed by the President. Oh, and Trump's cabinet would have to approve his removal; that's how the amendment works.
Of course this is just a nuisance bill, but the GOP ought to be talking about this on every Sunday show. Every time the Demcrats attack Trump in this fashion his poll numbers go up. The American People see through this.
And if they were to eliminate Trump before his term of office expires? We'd have an incumbent J.D. Vance finishing his term, which could potentially give us two extra years for a Vance Presidency. There will be no stigma attached to Vance over this, unlike the stigma that dogged Gerald Ford. Ford pardoned Nixon and took it in the shorts for that. But times have changed and even if Vance pardoned Trump the pubic would understand, especially if he's removed for being "mentally unfit".
So bring it on Raskin! You're only digging your own grave.
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The Dream that was America
Timothy Birdnow
What does it mean to be an American?
That is what isn't being addressed so often in the debate over birthright citizenship, and the Supreme Court arguments seem to have largely missed this important question. Granted, the Solicitor General touched briefly on this by saying the matter doesn't involve English Common law, not blood nor soil, and he was right. But I fear he was a bit opaque for some of the Justices, notably the liberal wing, but also for John Roberts, alas.
So what does it mean to be an American?
Well, why do we call it the "Revolution" rather than rebellion?
Because we made a radical, fundamental break from the traditional way government and it's citizenry relate. And it is that difference in how we relate compared to the rest of the world that sets our experiment apart from other "democratic systems" which are usually the same old same old as the monarchial systems with a corrupt parliament holding the power rather than just the monarch. We are different, or were anyway, and our system holds that the People retain all rights NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTED to our elected representatives in Congress and the Executive branch of government.
America is an idea, not just a nation, and what makes an American is an acceptance of the kind of liberty which we were endowed with by our Creator, not by our government. Natural rights impose a serious restriction on the power of the state in America, or is supposed to at any rate, and being an American means recognizing that and bowing to the sacredness of the individual as made in the image of God Almighty. As such everyone is autonomous, and supposed to be self-governing, a nation unto himself in a society that is ruled by common agreement but that agreement in no way obligates others to anything except not intruding on your rights.
This is very different from the old order which presupposed the king was not just your chief executive officer but actually your owner "my king" and you had better obey or else.
This was also at odds with the new ideas coming out of Rousseau and the nineteenth century about "the collective will" meaning a radical democracy where what the People demand, no matter how unfair or stupid, is law and the individual must subsume himself into the collective or else. That is the guiding principle in most of the rest of the world these days and indeed here in many ways.
But America was supposed to be different and that's why we have the ninth and tenth amendments in the Constitution, and why the Constitution itself stated plainly "any power not expressly granted by this constitution devolves to the states or the People". Our government was intended to be quite limited in it's power over the public. It was supposed to honor the autonomy of the people (small p) and at the same time guarantee the rights that were theirs by Divine gift.
So what does this mean to immigration, especially illegal immigration?
The people coming here are not culturally American and most have no idea what America is or is intended to be. They only know it's rich and they want to get as much as they can grab from her.
As such the children of illegal immigrants (and many of the legal immigrants these days such as Ilhan Omar) have no connection with the concept of America.
It's one thing for them to come here legally; we agreed to let them in (even though we need to rethink THAT too as we take in far too many immigrants than we can enculturate and we aren't enculturating them anyway with modern Progressive education). But illegals are outside the jurisdiction thereof; they bring their home country with them. Just being born here does not in any way make them Americans, any more than it makes them Puritans if they settle in Massachusetts or Mormons if they settle in Utah. It's not the where or the blood but the philosophy, the doctrine, the belief. America is a belief system. Strip her of that and it's just an empire full of disparate groups that will eventually tear it to pieces as each and every group fights to get the biggest share of the pie.
Time was immigrants came here with the hope of joining us, and not just for what they could grab. There was a real desire to become American, to adopt our customs and beliefs and to find the FREEDOM that being a soverign citizen, master of your own destiny, offered. But now we are letting a host of peoples invade here with no connection to this fundamental idea of America and use us as a cash cow and nothing more. In fact many are here to do us harm one way or another. Certainly many Chinese and Iranians and the like are not becoming American out of love of liberty. And a lot of Hispanics are coming too with the intent of a "Reconquista", to steal American land and make it part of Latin America, no more freedom but instead the same rotten institutions that drove them to leave home in the first place.
But again, America is not so much a place as a thing you carry with you. It's an idea. And letting in people with different ideas means ultimately erasing America and replacing it with the tired, exhausted visions of the past, the ones that did not work and everyone hated.
These are, in short, barbarian invasions. The Germanic tribes invaded the Roman empire peaceably, by and large, and as Rome became more and more corrupt it enforced enculturation less and less and near the end there were two civilizations occupying the same space, one Roman the other Germanic. Guess which one won? The Romans had forgotten who they were and stopped enforcing their culture and the Germans never forgot who THEY were. Rome died not because they were beaten militarily or because of economic or other collapse but because Rome as an idea faded away, and was replaced by alien concepts - which gave us the Dark Ages.
America is being erased, fading away, and is being replaced by alien concepts. What will the resulting dark age look like, and when and how will we emerge from it?
I hope SCOTUS ponders THAT before they write their legal opinions. They are only in their position in the first place because America is an idea that created their roll.
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Beating Boasberg
Timothy Birdnow
James Boasberg, the Trump-hating dufus Obamaite judge, has taken it in teh shorts, being slammed by a higher court for his efforts to get Trump.
From the Wall Street urnal:
A federal appeals court delivered an embarrassing spanking to U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Tuesday, ordering him to shut down his "intrusive” criminal contempt of court investigation against the Trump administration.
The circuit court of appeals said not only is Judge Boasberg’s continued investigation "improper,” but his reasoning for why Trump officials could be prosecuted for contempt of court is a "dead end” because the judge is misreading his own orders.
Circuit Judge Neomi Rao said Judge Boasberg has crossed too many lines, risking damage to the separation of powers between the president and the courts.
You may remember Boasberg was the FISA judge who approved the warrants to investigate Trump. He was also the judge who ordered Trump to halt deportations to El Salvador (where they were being sent since their homeland of Venezuela refused to take them back and the law says this is perfectly legal). Boasberg ordered a plane be turned around and flown back to the U.S. and when Trump was unable to do that he began an investigation into criminal contempt.
Bosoberg was demanding DOJ communications to which he had no right in order to prove collusion and hopefully find it went up to Trump. He has no legal right to any such things but here we are.
In the higher court's spanking of Boasberg Judges Neomi Rao gave a scathing rebuke:
"The district court proposes to probe high-level Executive Branch deliberations about matters of national security and diplomacy. These proceedings are a clear abuse of discretion,
The district court has launched an intrusive criminal contempt investigation into whether the government acted willfully when it transferred suspected Tren de Aragua members to Salvadoran custody. But the end of this investigation is a legal dead end,”
Boasberg, often unwilling to obey any authority save his own, may well try to ignore this ruling and continue the witchhunt. If he does he should logically be impeached, but Congress won't do that. So the Administration should completely ignore him at this point. If he issues any demands just say "thanks but no" and suggest he enforce his ruling himself.
But of course the Democrats and their fellow travelers in the GOP will lose it over that action and it will go into another article of impeachment against the President when the Donkeys retake Congress.
The Democrats are fond of saying Trump is destroying "our democracy". But who has been doing the destroying all along? Putting a tyrant like Boasberg on the bench and letting him take these sorts of actions is the King stuff, not what Mr. Trump has been doing.
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The Graft of Omar and Civilizational Jihad
Timothy Birdnow
Ilhan Omar tried to steal a million dollars, attempting to sneak it in to a funding bill to give to a "rehab clinic" in a Somali restaurant.
How much longer are we going to tolerate this woman in Congress? She is little more than a pirate.
FTA:
Republican Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said a far-left Democrat in Congress tried to sneak through an earmark of over $1 million for a suspicious "substance abuse clinic” housed at a Somali-owned restaurant.
In the Jan. 8 interview on "Varney and Company” that resurfaced via the Libs of TikTok X account early Tuesday morning, Ernst highlighted the supposed clinic and said that fraud like the Somali day care scandal could extend to earmarks requested by "members of Congress.”
"One of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork,” Ernst told Varney. "Tons of red flags.”
"So this is what we saw with the fraud involving the daycare centers,” Ernst continued. "Now we see other earmarks coming directly from members of Congress where it seems fraud is being perpetrated as well.”
Ernst said that after she raised the issue, the earmark was stripped from that spending bill.
And Ernst just figured that out? Woman's not to quick on the uptake, is she?
Democrats have been doing this sort of thing for years. It's only coming out now because Trump is in office and his DOJ will listen to people investigating this sort of thing. It's become much harder for the Democrats to hide the graft.
At any rate Omar should be stripped of her naturalized citizenship and deported to Somalia. She has used the great gift of citizenship to loot America and that should not be tolerated.
But it will be and Congress will do nothing unless and until the situation makes such a huge public spectacle that they have to take some sort of action, then they will do the least they can get away with. Why? Because they all have their fingers in the cookie jar and don't want it to end. That includes Republicans.
Omar just got greedy about it, but she's far from alone.
They will all try to ride this out and when Trump is gone get back to "business as usual"; that's why both parties tried to destroy Trump in his first term. It's also why they keep secretly undermining him with things like the Amnesty bill put forward by Republicans recently (despite immigration security being their top winning issue) and why John Thune, like his predecessor, refuses to recess the Senate to prevent President Trump from filling vacant positions that Thune won't move forward to fill. The Republicans are in some ways worse than the Democrats; Democrats clearly define themselves as enemies and a scorpion stings because it can. Republicans are in some ways worse because they are our friends to our faces but secretly put the knife in our backs when we are not looking. There is a reason why people like Brutus, or Judas Ischariot, or Benedict Arnold are reviled in the annals of history; a traitor is a far greater danger than an acknowledged enemy. An enemy is at least honest about his intentions.
At any rate we may at least get rid of Ilhan Omar at some point. Of course we'll get someone as bad or worse in that district. Omar was a civilizational jihadist and the next Somali up will be the same, no doubt.
We need to send all these Somalis out of the U.S., every one of them not born here. Time for them to go home.
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The Abolition of Man
Timothy Birdnow
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
Rev. 13:15
Now Zuckeberg is known to be a less-than warm and fuzzy fellow, and having him staring at you from a computer screen all the time is going to give employees nightmares at a minimum. This is a mental health crisis in the making. Imagine having your boss hovering around you all day, popping up on your computer all the time. Now imagine your boss could clone himself so he is watching EVERYONE all the time...
And what does it say about Zuckerberg that he wants to clone himself on computer? It suggests a little man with a HUGE God complex.
The above qute is apt here and this is just the beginning; AI is going to start cloning people now, and in the process it will be turned to ppolitics. Imagine a politician being able to give speeches without ever going anywhere or even speaking; he just let's his image do it for him.
At some point the man will become irrelevant and the AI take over. I wonder; the Antichrist is said to miraculously heal from a mortal head wound. Maybe he actually dies but his avatar lives on, running things from it's server farms and whatnot. Not saying that is what is going to happen but it could. And he'd get elected, too; here in Missouri we elected a dead guy to the U.S. Senate a while ago (Mel Carnahan) and his widow served his term. He was already room temperature on election day! (that was the last time a Democrat won at that high a level in Missouri, thankfully.) If we could elect a dead guy here, why can't a dead guy ne elected and then an AI operate in his place? Doesn't being deceased fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act?
It's not as far-fetched as it seems.
At any rate this is the first step and naturally a big ego narcissistic type like Zuckerberg would be all in.
He may regret it too if the AI does a better job than he did.
There was a Dudley Doo-right cartoon where Snidley Whiplash replaced Dudley with a robot. He used a record of Dudley's voice saying stock phrases which were always wildly inappropriate but the mechanical Do-Right was a far better Mountie than Dudley, and he and Snidley teamed up to get rid of the mechanical Do-Right. Zuck may find the machine makes a better CEO, and perhaps even a person, than he himself.
This is but one more step towards the abolition of Man.
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Light Blogging for the Next Few Days
Timothy Birdnow
Apologies for light blogging for the next few days. I am very busy, with doctor's appointments (both for myself and my brother) and a lot of other stuff that is going to make it hit-or-miss. I'll do what I can when I can but I should be fairly quiet for the next few days. But keep checking back in; I'm going to push as hard as possible in the time I have.
Prost!
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April 13, 2026
Hungry in Hungary; Orbin Out
Timothy Birdnow
It's a sad day; Orban was a bulwark against the insanity of the E.U.
Peter Magyar, the victor, has also won a big majority in parliament.
Orban was a stout ally of President Trump and we had very good relations with Hungary as a result.
Six million people voted in a country of nine million, with the vote going 53% Magyar and 38% Orban.
Makes me wonder; it sounds remarkably like the election of 2020 in the U.S., does it not?
The E.U. has accused Orban of "attacking democracy" and the opposition has claimed Orban was trying to "steal the election" Do either of those accusations sound familiar? It is what they accused Trump of doing when THEY stole the election and attacked democracy. I'll bet they did exactly that.
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Swalwell Out
Timothy Birdnow
Eric Swallows, er, Swalwell, the home of the Fang Fang, is out of the California gubernatorial race.
The deranged Trump-hating, Chinese spy loving has been brought down by accusations of sexual abuse by staffers, who have accused the Congressman of very inappropriate behavior.
No surprise; this is a guy who took up with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
There is no word from Democrats if they will support Republican efforts to remove him from Congress but you can bet your bottom dollar (all that you have left if you are from California) that they will fight to keep him in, arguing it's the "people's decision" and not theirs. On the other hand maybe they will choose to go the special election route after all, since they still have a good chance of winning the seat with a replacement.
Even Adam Schiff called for Swalwell to step down. That's something to lose Schiff.
One must suspect that the Democrats looked at internal polling and decided Swalwell would lose and forced him out this way. It's their MO.
We'll know if they don't hold a special election to replace him in Congress; if they do then it means his numbers were too low. If they don't it means they just feared the political fallout. But the point is moot; either way they threw this guy under the bus.
I wish he'd stayed in, frankly; we'd have a great opportunity to retake the Governorship there if he had.
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Trump Closes Strait of Hormuz
Timothy Birdnow
It's a pleasure to watch Trump in action, isn't it!
Hopefully we'll start confiscating any ships that do pay the Ayatollahs.
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April 12, 2026
Storm Intensity Declining
Timothy Birdnow
I thought Climate Change was causing more and worsening storms!
Bjørn Lomborg
April 6 at 6:15 AM
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Did you know that hurricanes hitting the US are not more but slightly less frequent? That climate disaster costs are declining?
That our current climate policies costs a lot and deliver little?
You can read more in my peer-reviewed article here https://sciencedirect.com/.../article/pii/S0040162520304157
A word from Tim:
One commenter suggested this is a coefficient of better warning systems. I pointed out that warning systems won't let you move your house out of the path of a hurricane. I also pointed out that drownings have been declining for twenty years now despite allegedly increasing weather disasters - how could that be? In the end it's clear that extreme weather events are declining if anything. oh, and this despite the fact that we are now building in flood plains and other places that in bygone days we avoided for just such a problem.
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China Directly Arming Iran?
Timothy Birdnow
It's not surprising they want to do this but it is a major escalation and President Trump will retaliate.
The report said that China was supplying hand-held anti-aircraft weapons to shoot down our planes. The Pentagon says that is what the Iranians used to take down a fighter jet recently.
Naturally the Chicoms denied it.
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Iran to Head U.N. Counterterrorism
Timothy Birdnow
You can't make this stuff up.
As if we needed any more evidence the United Nations is just a sad little joke.
This is obviously a slap at the United States and intended as a direct insult to President Trump and the American People, nothing more.
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The Irish are Revolting
Timothy Birdnow
Ireland is mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore!
Mad about high fuel prices and a host of other things caused by Ireland's leftist government (such as massive Muslim immigration) people are taking to the streets on the Emerald Isles and blocking traffic and otherwise forcing the Irish economy to a halt.
I fear it's too little too late and it was the Irish People who put these radicals in power in the first place. This will probably peter out like the trucker protests in Canada or the farmer protests in the Netherlands did.
But maybe not; you never know.
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April 11, 2026
Did the Maunder Minimum Cause the Salem Witch Trials?
Richard Cronin
Just got to thinking about the folly of even declaring a "global temperature” and the assumptions of a homogeneous terrestrial system for heat distribution tied to radiation.
Anyone who has sailed on the open ocean will observe that on a relatively balmy day the bottoms of the clouds are invariably as flat as a pancake. The clouds sit at a uniform height above the flat ocean surface. But as warm, moist ocean air moves over land the air mass flows up over coastal plains and uplands. It gains elevation to start condensing and forming the aerosol droplets of clouds. Clouds shade the land and provide reflective albedo, cooling things off. Then precipitation.
Now then, 2/3rds of the continental land mass is in the Northern Hemisphere. We witness how the Japan Current delivers moist air, clouds and precipitation from the Aleutian Islands down to the rainy Pacific Northwest. The North Atlantic Gulf Stream delivers clouds and precipitation across Iceland, Norway, Ireland, the UK, all the way down to the Iberian peninsula.
In the Southern Hemisphere we have the clouds and rains across the Argentinian pampas and Tierra del Fuego but the interiors of Australia and South Africa are quite arid and cloudless.
Overcast conditions dominate in the Northern Hemisphere.
This relates to solar activity and Forbush Reductions wherein solar proton events diminish cloud cover. The Solar Cycle runs every 11 years. Notable exceptions were the Maunder Minimum (1645 - 1715) and Dalton Minimum.
The Dalton Minimum spanned 1790 to 1830. It was overcast, with invariable gloom and damp.
In 1850, John Tyndall gazed out on a sunny day in the Alps and worried that his favorite glaciers seemed to be retreating. Of course, in sunlight and dry, elevated low pressure conditions of the mountains there is sublimation. Water vapor produced directly from ice.
Nope. The first thought that sprang to Tyndall’s mind: "Man did this by burning coal.”
Wait !! There’s more !!
The Maunder Minimum provided sustained overcast conditions. Damp and gloomy conditions produced several poor harvests in the late 1600s. In 1692 a fungus developed on rye crops in New England. It caused allergic and hallucinogenic reactions in the farm girls.
The Salem Witch trials ensued.
We haven’t progressed so very much further in understanding gloomy weather.
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Loss of Confidence Caused by Media Gaslighting
Timothy Birdnow
Proof people are really stupid and have the attention span of gnats:
Gaslighting by the media to the contrary all of the numbers show a strong, vibrant economy, yet the public is fooled by the doom and gloom of the media into believing it's the Great Depression all over again.
The media did this to George H. W. Bush; they created a recession by talking about how a recession was coming and eventually the public believed it. This led to the election of Bill Clinton and the nation began a slow, horrible decline that has only just now been reversed.
This is all based on University of Michigan data.
FTA:
"Many consumers blame the Iran conflict for unfavorable changes to the economy,” the survey’s director, Joanne Hsu, wrote in a report about the survey. Consumers responded by saying they now expect inflation to rise 4.8% in the next year, a full percentage point jump from March’s survey.
Consumer sentiment is a closely watched economic indicator given that consumer spending accounts for roughly two-thirds of America’s gross domestic product each year. The University of Michigan consumer sentiment index previously registered a 6% decline in March, with declines seen across all ages and political parties,
The University of Michigan index reading was even lower than it was during 2008’s Great Recession when consumers were forced to confront harsh economic conditions that resulted from massive defaults in the housing and financial sectors and was also lower than it was during former President Joe Biden’s administration, when inflation peaked at 9.1% following the passage of massive spending bills on COVID and the climate.
The consumer price index increased 0.9% in March, pushing the annual inflation rate to 3.3%, largely due to a 10.9% spike in energy costs resulting from the war in Iran.
The annual rate reading was the largest recorded since April 2024 and increased from 2.4% in February, CNBC reported. Gasoline prices skyrocketed by 21.2% in March as the Strait of Hormuz, a major route for shipping oil, remains largely closed due to the war, accounting for three-quarters of the inflation increase.
Inflation is still quite low and came in below expectations. And wages are up. And the job market improved.
But the media won't tell anyone about any of that. This is gaslighting.
You know what this is like? Most of the gloomy numbers are FORECASTS. Just like the climate models which wind up not describing reality, these are predictions, prophecies by political actors and not actual discussions about the numbers themselves. The fact is inflation is far lower now than under Joe Biden (9%) and all the other numbers are doing much better.
Wars often lead to economic booms, I might add, and not economic downturns. The downturns usually come after a war is over, like the economic depression of 1919 or the brief return of the Great Depression after in the late forties.
Don't believe this; it's just a lie. But sadly a lie can succeed if nobody makes it their mission to call it out.
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