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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Megyn Kelly: "Adelson (big donor) paid Trump hundreds of millions to push the U.S. into war with Iran."pic.twitter.com/oHXKVudnvA https://t.co/KExB6MvNd7 — Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 20, 2026
Tucker: US is gearing up for a "big war" as the Pentagon's 2027 budget has boosted up to $1.5T. “That's a war budget, a big war budget. So I think it's fair to expect, and all the signs suggest, that we're going to have a big war soon.” pic.twitter.com/ylSOJkKxlg — redpillbot (@redpillb0t) March 13, 2026
The US tested a doomsday ballistic missile off the California coast Tuesday night — as war raged in the Middle East. The Minuteman III ballistic missile — which is capable of carrying nuclear warheads 20 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima — launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara …
Donald Trump claims that Barack Obama acted improperly by allegedly sharing classified information with Americans when he said that aliens exist. Podcast host Brian Tyler Cohen asked the former president if extraterrestrials were real in an episode that aired January 14. ‘They’re real, but I haven’t seen them,’ Obama replied. He joked that they are …
The busiest week of the year wasn’t enough to save airport passenger numbers, as Las Vegas posted yet another decline in air traffic. It’s the tenth straight month of declines at Harry Reid International Airport. According to the airport’s November data, traffic was down 9.6% year over year, falling to 4.3 million passengers. That’s a …
Third-quarter earnings are indicating a divided economy With more consumer companies preparing to report third-quarter earnings this week, Wall Street will be watching for signs of a bifurcated or “K-shaped” economy as consumers diverge in their spending behaviors. There have been increasing signals that wealthier Americans are spending more while lower-income Americans are significantly paring …
TRUMP: IF CHINA DON’T DO BUSINESS WITH US, THEY’RE IN BIG TROUBLE “And if they don’t do business with us, I think China is in big trouble. I’ll be honest with you. I think China is… I don’t know that they even make it. I believe that they’re in big trouble. But we have to …
Like Amazon, now Walmart and Target are holding similar “fall” savings events promising to offer big savings. All three of them know the consumer economy is in deep trouble, thus the overemphasis on savings. But it’s not just what these retailers are doing for customers, it’s what they aren’t doing for workers. According to a …
Trump: We are very unhappy — I am, with Russia.. We will be doing very severe tariffs if we don't have a deal in 50 days. Tariffs at about 100%.pic.twitter.com/cC9FurVUhg — The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) July 14, 2025 Trump sitting next to NATO secretary: "One of the reasons that you're here today is to hear that …
by David Haggith The congressional budget bill has become the most bloated bill to ever waddle and slide through congress. Donald Trump tries to lead his “Big Beautiful Blob” on a journey from Congress to the Offal Orifice for signing. “Big Beautiful Bill” can’t stop growing. This pile of pork that required two pallet boards …
DOGE’s mission to slash waste and enforce accountability doesn’t hinge on any single individual. The department’s $175B in verified savings—$1,086.96 per taxpayer—speaks for itself. Contracts like the $2.9B Office of Refugee Resettlement termination and $1.9B Treasury EPPIS… — Watch DOGE (@dogeai_gov) June 24, 2025
CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten on Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill”: “I’m rarely really surprised when I look at polling data. I look at it every day. But the amount of disapproval for this bill, holy cow, my goodness gracious pic.twitter.com/WT9gfpOpcm — Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) June 18, 2025
It didn’t come with sirens or warnings. It came wrapped in applause. Trump called it the “One Big Beautiful Bill” and the crowd roared like it was the second coming. But while they were chanting, while they were waving flags and soaking in the show, the real payload slipped through unnoticed. The bill isn’t beautiful. …
Watch live as the United States and Britain announce a trade deal aimed at easing President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and delivering a political victory for U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Trump posted that the agreement will be “full and comprehensive.” WATCH
by David Haggith “Big Beautiful Bill” Even Trump boasts that his “Big Beautiful Bill” surpasses the scale of anything in history. In fact, if this Bill were a man, he’d have to be transported on doubled pallet boards, across which his exposed fat would sprawl in bruised ponds of blubber like Jabba the Hutt. Therefore, I want …
Watch live as the U.S. House Committee on Rules meets on “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill. Read more here: https://bit.ly/43mUz3R
The European Union has just made a major move in trade policy that could reshape the auto industry in the U.S. They’ve slashed the tax on American-made cars from 12.5% to a mere 2.5%, effectively matching the U.S. tariff on European-made vehicles. This is a game changer, especially for automakers like Honda, who will now …
Pete Hegseth orders defense leadership to draw up plans for huge budget cuts as DOGE enters the Pentagon: report Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly asked Pentagon officials Tuesday to draw up plans to slash defense spending for each of the next five years — as the department became the latest target of the Elon Musk-led …
Despite massive outflows in the mid-20th century, the U.S. still officially has the world’s single largest gold reserve. About 8,100 tons of gold altogether – or 3.3% of all gold ever mined in human history. Today we ask, can the federal government mobilize the nation’s gold reserve to patch up our fiscal position? What could …
Meta is on fire. Up 25% since the start of the year, the stock is riding an unprecedented 20-day winning streak, leaving the rest of Big Tech in the dust. The secret? AI dominance, metaverse expansion, and a major hardware breakthrough. At $736.67 per share, Meta is now worth a staggering $1.87 trillion. The company’s …
The company also issued a full-year 2025 adjusted earnings outlook of $5.75 to $6 per share, which was in line with Wall Street’s expectations. But CVS did not provide a revenue forecast for the year. It caps off the first full quarter with David Joyner, a longtime CVS executive, as CEO of the troubled retail …
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump LOOKS LIKE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS HAVE BEEN STOLLEN AT USAID, AND OTHER AGENCIES, MUCH OF IT GOING TO THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA AS A “PAYOFF” FOR CREATING GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS. THE LEFT WING “RAG,” KNOWN AS “POLITICO,” SEEMS TO HAVE RECEIVED $8,000,000. Did the New York Times receive money??? …
Chinese AI company DeepSeek shocked the West with a groundbreaking open-source artificial intelligence model that beats huge Silicon Valley Big Tech monopolies. The US government is already trying to ban it, like TikTok, using “national security” as an excuse. Ben Norton explains.
Social Security has been due for a revamp for a long time, but during Trump’s 2nd term is when it may actually happen mainly out of necessity. As it currently stands after 2033, Social Security will only be able to pay out roughly 79% of promised benefits and continue to dwindle from there. If something …
by AdDisastrous7191 China’s #DeepSeek could represent the biggest threat to US equity markets as the company seems to have built a groundbreaking AI model at an extremely low price and w/o having access to cutting-edge chips, calling into question the utility of the hundreds of billions worth of capex being poured into this industry. DeepSeek was built …
The last significant trade conflict between the U.S. and Canada was indeed during the Great Depression in the 1930s. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 led to increased tariffs on thousands of imported goods, which resulted in retaliatory tariffs from Canada and other countries, exacerbating the economic downturn. The last big trade war between the …
by Tom McClellan Bitcoin is the modern era’s #1 speculative trading asset. But the public mood waxes and wanes concerning enthusiasm toward Bitcoin, just like any other type of speculative vehicle. There is nothing like seeing Bitcoin prices zooming up to new all time highs to get everyone excited, and that excitement shows up in …
