The State Of The Onion

Remember Kelly Ann and the Alternate Facts?

Perhaps not.

Anyway, here's an analog.

SOME RANDOM FACTS

Inflation, once imbedded in prices by a surge of the rate of inflation, stays imbedded; prices continue to rise, varied only by whatever the rate might be at any time slice in which a price is measured.

1. So, you are not paying less for stuff.

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If prices were "plummeting" (C‑SPAN’s summary of his speech on State of the Onion notes that “President Trump claims prices are plummeting”) ground beef wouldn't be $13 a pound. Also, if prices were plummeting, we would be on the edge of or deeply immersed in a major economic depression.

2. So, prices aren't plummeting; whew!

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Tariffs are paid by the importers importing the tariffed items; importers pass the tariff cost on in the price they charge their customers; their customers pass those tariff costs on to their customers - and so on, until the typical garden variety American pays the tariff.

3. So, the three hundred billion dollars in tariff money in the government's coffers have been paid by typical garden variety Americans, not China, kinda like a tax - a sneaky tax, but a tax, nonetheless.

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The tax breaks in the BBB for typical garden variety Americans are at best a mirage, at worst a sham: they are in most cases either not applicable, undocumentable or miniscule and not worth the trouble of applying for; most are all of the above.

4. So, donnie's tax breaks for typical garden variety Americans, are like an AI hallucination.

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donnie has to pay back $180,000,000,000 in tariffs to typical garden variety Americans and businessmen because they were collected illegally; donnie always stiffs the help. 

5. So don't count on it.

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A woman (identified only by case number 3501.045) told the FBI she met Epstein at age 13 in South Carolina around 1983-84. She alleged that Epstein later introduced her to Trump, who then assaulted her. (The asserted details of that assault, as I have seen them recounted, are he tries something, she bites something, and he beats her up.) Her allegations appear in a 21‑page internal FBI slideshow still publicly accessible. The slideshow places the alleged Trump incident in 1983-1985, when she would have been 13–15. The FBI interviewed her multiple times - but only one interview remains. Documents show the FBI interviewed her at least four times in 2019. Only one of those interview summaries is still available on the DOJ’s Epstein site. The others - including August and October 2019 interviews - have been removed. 

FIFTY-THREE PAGES ARE MISSING.

But, guess what? Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers have copies. Maybe a pardon in the offing?

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6. So, this picture is probably a deep fake; I did feed it to my favorite AI and she gave it a clean, no deep fake found, bill of health; but who knows; or, really, who cares? "When a people have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes" (or what he chooses to do). 

Lotta the old kings were rich perverts and liars, after all.