This is not about China. This is about private equity being so desperate for money they want new laws that allow the shadow PE banking system access to government money. Tax payer money.

Be very careful around this topic. Reading headlines isn’t going to cut it and this is very dangerous territory.

The house of cards needs money urgently. Your money and they are done asking nicely.

What was Trump’s strong progressive message in 2016?

No leader.

Gebbia spent six months at DOGE before taking his current role. The senior staff at the National Design Studio, when you pull the bylines from their blog posts and run the names against court filings, come back from the same place, DOGE, the same DOGE currently named as defendant in multiple federal lawsuits for letting engineers without proper security clearance access Social Security data and Department of Homeland Security data, and for sharing sensitive federal information with outside parties.

The National Design Studio is not a successor to DOGE. It is DOGE with a better logo and a design philosophy.

I’m going out on a limb here but maybe Musk wasn’t calling the shots for Project 2025.

Quantum communication satellites. Enough renewable energy to power the entire USA. Massive strategic petroleum reserve. Thorium power plants.

Just the usual.

This exactly. That people don’t understand this is worse than the actual incident.

Any other day this post would be no issue, not memorial Day.

Nations are learning the fast way how much sunshine costs in China.

Yup. Beware anyone predicting the future while not predicting a time line.

The market isn’t predicting anything. The market is reacting to tweets and the longer this goes on the longer China keeps selling solar panels.

Things have changed since the '70s oil crisis people like to dig up.

Trump can’t math enough to use dice. Magic 8 Ball is more plausible.

Recycling used to be shipped to China. A couple of years ago China made that illegal.

It was not immediately clear how far the move ⁠altered the situation on the ground, given Iran had already indicated during the war that neutral vessels, notably those linked to China, could transit the ⁠Strait as long as they coordinated with Iranian armed forces.

The source told Fars news the move followed requests by China’s foreign minister and ambassador to Iran, with Tehran agreeing to facilitate the passage of a number of Chinese ships in line with the two countries’ strategic partnership.

It’s not a dream. It’s a requirement.

The alternative is a nightmare.

The Great American Fire Sale isn’t over yet.

Whoosh.

The system requires people to be unemployed. If everyone had a job and paid their bills on time the country would collapse.

Remember that the next time they talk numbers and labor supply.

I thought voting was important?

Fix poverty and you’ll see a bunch of completely unrelated problems magically disappear.

Which is exactly why rich people love poverty so much. Revenue stream.

The plan was China was going to sell cars like legacy auto has been doing for the past 120 years. USA said no. USA created China’s over capacity. Not China.

If it were staged why would they tell the patsy that?

just how deep and systemic this disease really is

Because it was never about Trump. It’s half the USA government.

For decades.

By focusing on the clown in the spotlight causing distraction people have not been talking about the number of elected public servants raping children for the past few decades.

“No one could have predicted this.”

Now it’s 2026 and some people are overwhelmed.