Andy Bichara

Be wary of those who admire self-centered or narcissistic qualities, for those are the traits they're cultivating in themselves. When people applaud the ruthless and manipulative out of insecurity, believe them. It's a direct preview of how they will treat you.

Out at lunch today, I overheard a guy at the next table tell his wife that it’s ICE’s “God-given right” to kill migrants at will. Hate to say it, folks, but this kind of casual, out-loud brutality has become too common. It’s a reminder that evil isn’t always dramatic, it can be unbearably mundane.

This isn’t just a Trump scandal. It really exposes the utter depravity and abusive tendencies of many elites. It’s a culture of coverups, entitlement and enabling. These webs of protection that shields power from consequence need to come down.

We’re being governed by a gaggle of conspiracy theorists who believe their own bullshit. apnews.com/article/gaza...

@mariaprh.bsky.social — More evidence that they are attempting a demolition of the global economy.

Of course! Let’s blame minorities and stoke more racist hatred. It’s a useful distraction away from the fact that he fired several key aviation safety officials before this crash, leaving those positions unfilled. Expect more accidents like this moving forward due to lack of oversight.

Low rates (below 3-4%) do more damage to the economy than its main goal of increasing asset prices every year. 10% is too high, but 4% is fine -- good for savers and 80% of the population. Anything lower only serves to benefit speculators and private equity, and their asset stripping activities.

Triggering an economic depression to own the libs. Gov’t employment is not inefficient, it literally holds the country and the economy together. This is true for every nation that has ever existed. It provides services to the public, not for profit. These people will find out the hard way.

And there are reactionary theocrats like this being installed all over the federal bureaucracy.

Hubristic actions can trigger consequences that may not be easily anticipated. A hard lesson that many will learn in the coming years.

The Democratic leadership is completely useless. They are not up to the task of responding to the severity of this political crisis.

Their end game is ON, folks. Expect the worst.

This will backfire. Why should the U.S. pay more for the most advanced technology in the world? This will be a massive blow to American tech companies, hurt national security, slow down the pace of scientific research & development, and raise costs for consumers.

One of the central problems that America has is that we aren’t in the leading edge of innovation anymore. We’re more interested in financialization and rent-seeking instead of building useful products that are efficient and cost-effective. That’s the back story of today’s market crash.

They seem intent on gambling away our entire reserve currency status on short term tough guy posturing. What happens when other countries get tired of our shit and reduce trade with us? Get ready for hyperstagflation and perhaps a major financial crisis.

Assume that a tariff-only revenue structure really does result in the revitalization of industry and a drop in imported goods, that would mean the complete evisceration of our tax base. This will leave our gov’t with no money to do anything. It would be catastrophic for our economy.

History offers us a guidebook as to what to expect moving forward. Too few heeded the warning signs and now we will have to live through it.

The corruption that is going to come out of this administration is going to be historic. Right up there with post-Soviet Yeltsin’s Russia.

A huge mass of people have become politically aware before they became self-aware thanks to social media. They think in terms of sound bites, not connected to reality and therefore are easily manipulated by bad actors.

There's an inverse correlation where the most reactionary someone is, the faker and more disingenuous their Christianity is.

Instead of telling people exactly what we know, what we don’t know, and how we intend to find out what we don’t know, the new administration seeks to cover up public health threats. Not a good augur for what’s to come.

This basically is a scheme to corruptly make the Bitcoin market more liquid by getting the U.S. government to subsidize it, with no obvious benefits to the public and a great risk that the we will be stuck with illiquid, volatile, and useless digital assets, while early investor cash out.

How I think the U.S. economy will play out over the next four years.

Their goal is to intimidate journalists from reporting the news. Big media outlets since the campaign have been pulling punches in their coverage of Trump because they have threatened them with litigation. This is how the media climate looks like in an authoritarian order.

Welcome to oligarchy, Russian style. This is how he will consolidate control of the country at the elite level. Corporations will have no choice but to cooperate with Trump or face state sanction.

Information is power in any autocratic state. Oligarchs aligned with Trump will buy up every major newspaper, cable network and social media outlet, with the goal of neutering a critical press, while manipulating social media algorithms to flood the zone with their propaganda.

The definition of insanity is doing the same failed thing over and over again and expecting a different result. When Democrats were on the attack against Project 2025, their political prospects improved. When they pivoted away from that, they fell behind.

I’m self-employed and on an Obamacare PPO policy. Fully expect to pay more than triple for health care thanks to GOP plans to defund the exchanges. Elections have consequences…

The biggest risk from Trump and his appointments comes from their sheer stupidity and desire to break institutions without realizing the implications. It isn't just their corruption. No doubt China & Russia are licking their chops at the prospects of this.