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Većina ljudi oko mene očekuje njihov strmopizd na mid-terms, ali ja još nisam ubijeđen, republikanska baza je u velikoj mjeri transformisana u sektu, a uspjeli su i (kao ovaj naš zločinac) da u velikoj mjeri ogade ljudima politiku sveukupno. I vidimo da se uveliko radi na izbornom inženjeringu, ovo oko prezimena žena u biračkim spiskovima i u ličnim dokumentima (djevojačko vs. muževo) uopšte nije za potcijeniti jer su žene u globalu znatno manje oduševljene dnevnom dozom od prosječnog ljombera bježača od čkolovanja, vidjećemo šta se na tom planu još sprema.

Zastrašeni su prijetnjom da će za bilo koji pokušaj neposlušnosti na sledećim primaries imati protiv sebe čitavu stranku, tako da mora da se nađe nekoliko likova spremnih da bace svoju političku karijeru u smeće da povedu neposlušnost, a to nije jednostavno, sasvim je realno da se neće desiti prije mid-termsa, tek tada neko ko dobije novi mandat i bude siguran da će biti duže na funkciji nego što će trump biti predsjednik može da se ohrabri da kaže šta stvarno misli o svemu ovome.

Moram da kažem da mi prva reakcija bila da će prosječno glasač sila mraka i bezumlja najviše najebati i da je to baš lijepo, ali kad vidim nemoćne ljude koji su šutnuti kako niko ne bi smio da šutne ni pseto da crknu meni ih je uprkos svemu žao. Naslađivanje ću čuvati za vrijeme kad na dnevni red dođe suđenje za izdaju dnevnoj dozi i drugarima.

Štedlja, bajo, štedlja: Trump cuts hit struggling food banks, risking hunger for low-income Americans WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Food banks across the country, already strained by rising demand, say they will have less food to distribute because of at least $1 billion in federal funding cuts and pauses by the Trump administration, according to Reuters interviews with organizations in seven states. Hunger in the U.S. has ticked up in recent years with rising inflation and the end of pandemic-era programs that expanded food aid. President Donald Trump's administration has vowed to lower inflation by cutting back on government spending, including two U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that helped schools and food banks buy food from local farms. Reuters spoke with food banks in seven states who said cancellation and pauses of the programs meant they expected to offer less produce, meat and other staples in the coming weeks and months, leaving scarcer food for those reliant on free supplies that helped stave off hunger. One reason is fewer expected shipments from USDA's The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), one of the agency's core nutrition programs that buys food from farmers and sends it to food pantries, some of the organizations said. Vince Hall, chief government relations officer for Feeding America, the nation's largest food bank network, said the USDA is reviewing the program and had paused half of TEFAP funding - $500 million - sourced from the Commodity Credit Corporation, which generally gives the department a broad discretionary funding pool for various programs. A USDA spokesperson told Reuters the agency is still making purchases to support food banks but did not respond to detailed questions about TEFAP spending and why food banks are seeing reduced deliveries. Feeding America has spoken with the Trump administration about the pause and urged it to make a quick decision on whether to unfreeze the funds, Hall said. That pause compounds losses from the agency's cancellation of the Local Food Purchase Assistance (LFPA) program, which funded about $500 million annually for food banks, the organizations told Reuters. Chad Morrison, head of Mountaineer Food Bank in West Virginia, said he saw on a weekly forecast from the state of West Virginia that about 40% of the organization's expected April deliveries of products like cheese, eggs and milk from TEFAP would be canceled. That will reduce the amount of food its network of 450 food pantries and other feeding programs provide, Morrison said. Food banks are handling unprecedented demand as U.S. hunger rates climb after years of decline. In 2023, 13.5% of Americans struggled at some point to secure enough food, the highest rate in nearly a decade, according to the most recent USDA data. In rural America, the hunger rate is even higher, at 15.4%, the data shows. Anna Pesek, a farmer in Delaware County, Iowa, said about 20% of sales from her Over the Moon farm last year were from the LFPA,, opens new tab which sent her turkeys and pork to food banks across the state. Funding for that program has also been cut. She expects her pasture-raised products will no longer make their way to pantries without the agency funding. "It feels really devastating," she said. 'IT'S FRIGHTENING' Food banks and pantries in West Virginia, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, California and Nebraska have together lost millions of dollars of federal funding and food deliveries in recent weeks, according to Reuters interviews. Julie Yurko, president and CEO of Northern Illinois Food Bank, which serves 13 counties in the state, said that over the last 18 months, her organization received $3 million from the LFPA to buy onions, potatoes, apples and other produce from local farmers. Without that program, "we are going to have less produce to give to our neighbors," she said. Illinois had $14.7 million in funding terminated and another $6.4 million in other USDA funds frozen in recent weeks, halting a food box program that paired local farmers with food pantries, said Jerry Costello, director of the state's Agriculture Department. Savannah Oates, advocacy and public relations manager at Community Action Partnership of Kern in Kern County, California, said about half the food for the organization's food bank comes from TEFAP. With deliveries paused, she said the group has about two to six months of supplies in stock and is hoping to supplement their offerings with leftover food from local restaurants. In Charleston, West Virginia, Sara Busse, volunteer coordinator for Trinity's Table, a food aid group, stood in a parking lot and surveyed a meager delivery of USDA-supplied food: two boxes each of dried potato flakes and shelf-stable milk and two cases of vegetarian baked beans. Before the Trump administration began, the deliveries filled an 18-wheeler, she said. Now, the program may need to halt its meal service to senior groups altogether, she said. "It’s dreary, it’s very frightening. We’re all losing sleep," she said. At Charleston's East End Resource Center, Martha Ross, 78, looked over Trinity's Table's sparse donations during a recent senior meal, noting it was far less than usual. "I guess we’ll get real skinny," Ross said, her voice tinged with dry humor.

Radi se o biranim kadrovima dnevne doze, bukvalno očekujem svaki dan da pročitam da su počeli usjeve da zalivaju Gatoradeom... EDIT: redovni godišnji raport (odnosno saslušanje, što bi rekli u juesovej) na temu prijetnji po nacionalnu bezbijednost je igrom slučaja danas u House i sjutra u Senatu, allah će biti roštiljanja MAGAradi

Rezultati, bajomoj: Stagflation on the radar for the US economy, but no repeat of the '70s Summary Stagflation risks appear higher in response to Trump tariff policies Unlikely to fully repeat the high inflation and joblessness of the 1970s Fed official: 'Nothing more uncomfortable' than a stagflationary environment WASHINGTON, March 25 (Reuters) - Recent economic projections from Federal Reserve officials had shades of "Stagflation-lite," in the words of one economist, a sentiment increasingly echoed among other observers of the U.S. economy and central bank wondering if the country's outperformance during the pandemic is about to slide. So what is stagflation and why is it suddenly on everyone's mind? THAT (BAD) 70s SHOW Stagflation, or a period of both high inflation and high joblessness, hit the U.S. notably in the 1970s, which may have featured the worst U.S. economic leadership since the Great Depression. Fed officials had their data and their framework wrong, and elected officials flailed against inflation with price controls and what now seem quaint public relations efforts, most notoriously the Ford administration's "Whip Inflation Now (WIN)" button campaign. As economists in recent weeks have begun marking down their estimates of economic growth and marking up estimates of inflation in the face of dramatic economic policy shifts under President Donald Trump, it has sparked debate about whether that could be unfolding again now. In theory, a weak economy with rising unemployment undercuts inflation, so the two should not coexist. But as with oil price shocks in the 1970s that drove prices higher, the tariff shock anticipated from Trump's trade policies now has the world guessing. The Trump administration says the tariffs are part of what they bill as a transition for the economy that, coupled with other efforts to deregulate industry and cut taxes, will produce both plentiful jobs and lower inflation. The hints of stagflation in current forecasts aren't near as bad as the 1970s, a decade in a league of its own when a surge in the so-called "misery index" combining the unemployment and inflation rates still stands out in charts of postwar economy. But the direction of travel for major aspects of the economy has caught economists' attention. When Fed officials this week assessed the risks they see ahead they pointed uniformly towards higher inflation and higher unemployment than previously expected. "Stagflation-lite," is what RSM chief economist Joe Brusuelas titled his analysis of the Fed's meeting last week. Policymakers' forecasts "implied mild stagflation ahead in the near term as growth slows and inflation increases," he said, noting the "pervasive uncertainty around the size and magnitude of the trade shock." 'NOTHING MORE UNCOMFORTABLE' Fed policymakers last week left interest rates unchanged but still anticipate two quarter-point cuts by year-end. Their new economic projections, however, laid bare their conundrum. Growth is anticipated to slow, unemployment to rise a bit more than expected, and inflation to accelerate in the face of existing and widening tariffs. Implied by their forecasts of rate cuts and higher inflation is a belief that tariff-triggered price increases would be one-off jumps, the same assumption the Fed made early in the pandemic when it called rising prices "transitory" - and was proven wrong. Things are different now. Factories and ports are open and goods are flowing. But given the scope and breadth of what Trump is planning, officials say the outcome remains unpredictable. Hard macroeconomic data, as Fed Chair Jerome Powell noted in his press conference last week, remain solid. The misery index is rather low in fact. But softer measures like sentiment are sliding, something policymakers feel could cause businesses to stall investment and hiring and households to cut back, even as tariffs lead prices to keep rising. Fed officials note growing concern among business contacts, and have begun discussing the difficult choice moments of stagflation pose for a central bank tasked with controlling inflation while sustaining employment. “There is nothing more uncomfortable than the stagflationary environment...where both sides of the mandate start going wrong. There is not a generic answer...Which is worse? Is it bigger on the inflation side? Is it bigger on the job market side?" Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee said Friday on CNBC. "Higher tariffs raise prices and reduce output so that is a stagflationary impulse." NOTHING TAKEN FOR GRANTED If the Fed is caught in the middle, their priority is clear: To ensure that not just inflation, but public expectations about inflation, remain under control. Perhaps the key mistake of the 1970s was a failure to understand better the role that public psychology plays in future inflation. Scarred by rising prices, Americans' belief that costs would keep on rising kept pushing prices higher even as the economy weakened. It took punishing interest rates and two successive recessions under Fed chief Paul Volcker to begin to establish the Fed's credibility and reset expectations through the rest of the 1980s and into the 1990s. That's a lesson Powell has said he takes to heart, and one he says he won't repeat. "I don't see any reason to think that we're looking at a replay of the '70s or anything like that...Underlying inflation is still running in the twos, with probably a little bit of a pickup associated with tariffs," Powell said at a press conference after the Fed's most recent meeting. "I wouldn't say we're in a situation that's remotely comparable to that. But stable inflation expectations are "at the very heart of our framework," he said. "We will be watching all of it very, very carefully. We do not take anything for granted."

Vidim sad, izgleda da ic not gona bi grejt i još manje da ic gona bi fentestik. peskov je rekao i da se za sada ne planira telefonski razgovor između putlera i dnevne doze.

Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe At heart, the disagreement indicated that Vance’s views of foreign policy are not quite aligned with Trump. Trump broadly sees the world as transactional and optimists in Europe have claimed he could force a positive outcome by forcing those nations to spend more on defense budgets. But Vance appears far more confrontational and principled in his antipathy toward the transatlantic alliance, and has attacked European leaders for backing values that he says are not aligned with the US.

Saopštenje je najavljeno za danas, znači tokom popodneva ili večeri.

Nestašica jaja u SAD je sve akutnija - niko od veselih dječaka nije uspio da ih skupi u mjeri dovoljnoj da ispriča dnevnoj dozi o Houthi PC Small Group prije nego što ga novinari pitaju za to ☹️ https://apnews.com/video/trump-says-he-knows-nothing-about-his-defense-officials-texting-war-plans-to-the-atlantic-editor-b9bc8e3788d14b239609992a88d804cc

U međuvremenu, vitez Donald the Shithead nastavlja da jaše u legendu: LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, March 24 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's plan to revitalize the U.S. shipbuilding industry is likely to backfire because it relies on proposed fees on China-linked vessels that will hurt domestic ship operators, seaports, exporters and jobs, industry executives said at U.S. Trade Representative hearings on Monday. ... Nate Herman, senior vice president of policy for the import-dependent American Footwear and Apparel Association, said the port fees would result in a loss of jobs for American workers, higher costs for American exports and imports as well as shortages and rising prices for American consumers. He cited a new study by several trade groups showing that higher costs from the fees would cause U.S. exports to fall by almost 12% and reduce GDP by 0.25%

I štakaeš, ne postoji izvor za podatak koji si navela, ali te to ne sprečava da nastavljaš da insistiraš na svojoj izmišljotini? Izvolite nestati iz moje (forumske) egzistencije.

Kratkonogitis acutus

Da li postoji neki izvor za ovu tvrdnju? Ustav je interni pravni akt i podložan je promjeni kao i svaki drugi pravni akt, prilično lako kada jedna stranka ima većinu u oba skupštinska doma, predsjednika i većinu u Vrhovnom sudu. Analogija nije relevatna, EU je međunarodna organizacija 27 nezavisnih država koje su svaka ponaosob imale puni suverenitet prije udruživanja i nezavisno od udruživanja. Jedina savezna država SAD koja je prije ulaska u sastav federacije imala nešto što bar formalno podsjeća na suverenitet je Teksas. 49 ostalih ništa. Ne, ja samo vas prepravljače sistema na kome počivaju Sjedinjene Države (npr. podjela moći između grana vlasti, što je znatno veća i dublja prepravka od ovoga o totalno hipotetičkom scenariju koji sam ja naveo) pitam zašto se sistem prepravlja na jedan način, a ne na neki drugi način. I dalje sam zainteresovan da čujem odgovor. Kako, zar nije bitna prosto najveća moguća ušteda? Ili se štedi samo na način koji se tebi sviđa? Nešto kao držim dijetu - strogo izbjegavam kupus i boraniju, ali zato kidam tepsiju bureka svaki dan? 😄

Šta se dešava kad se vlasti dočepa banda mentalno hendikepiranih kriminalaca White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist Senior members of Donald Trump’s cabinet have been involved in a serious security breach while discussing secret military plans for recent US attacks on the Houthi armed group in Yemen. In an extraordinary blunder, key figures in the Trump administration – including vice-president JD Vance, defense secretary Pete Hegseth, Marco Rubio, and the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard – used the commercial chat app Signal to convene and discuss plans – while also including a prominent journalist in the group. Signal is not approved by the US government for sharing sensitive information. Others in the chat included the Trump adviser Stephen Miller; Trump’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles; and key Trump envoy Steve Witkoff. The breach was revealed in an article published on Monday by Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of the Atlantic magazine, who discovered that he had been included in a Signal chat called “Houthi PC Small Group” and realising that 18 other members of the group included Trump cabinet members.

WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) - U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism on Sunday ahead of high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia over the war in Ukraine and said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to end the three-year-old conflict. "I feel that he wants peace," Witkoff told Fox News Sunday. RIYADH, March 24 (Reuters) - A Russian missile strike damaged a school and a hospital in Ukraine on Monday, wounding at least 74 people, as U.S. and Russian officials discussed a narrow proposal for a ceasefire at sea in the hope it could lead to wider peace talks. Ovi ljudi su kupljeni, nema drugog objašnjenja. Ostaje samo da se nadamo da će američka demokratija da pokaže svoju snagu i da će im za nekoliko godina suditi za izdaju.

March 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court judge said on Monday that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal from the United States during World War Two than Venezuelan migrants deported by the Trump administration. In a contentious hearing, U.S. Circuit Judge Patricia Millett questioned government lawyer Drew Ensign on whether Venezuelans targeted for removal under a little-used 18th-century law had time to contest the Trump administration's assertion that they were members of the Tren de Aragua gang before they were put on planes and deported to El Salvador.

Nebitno, republikanci sad imaju institucionalnu moć da mijenjaju zakon, tako da to nije argument. Niko normalan nije ni za ukidanje saveznog ministarstva obrazovanja, ni za brisanje visoko odlikovanih pripadnika manjina iz vojnih memorijala, ni za najave aneksije Kanade i Grenlanda, ni da otpušta hiljada ili desetina hiljada zaposlenih sa pristupom povjerljivim podacima uključujući i one najosjetljivije, pa se sve to dešava. To što se centralizacija tebi lično ne sviđa nije argument u diskusiji. Dakle, kad je jasno kao 1+1=2 da je centralizacija vlasti učinkovitija sa stanovišta troškova, a sama kažeš da je štednja najbitnija, zašto se rade stvari koje iz tog ugla nisu optimalne?

Sendvičar

Ima i nastavak: ‘A second-rate movie star and failed political pundit’: Donald Trump criticises George Clooney after comments on press freedom Predsjednik Sjedinjenih Država sjedi nedjeljom veče ispred TV-a, cijevči pivo i rantuje po mrežama Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt i Lincoln na nebu iskopali sebi oči da ne gledaju više naslednika.

Zašto savezne vlade (uzgred, ne radi se o smanjivanju savezne vlade, nego o smanjenju savezne administracije ili savezne birokratije)? Ukoliko se vodimo striktnim cost-cuttingom, onda je učinkovitija centralizacija vlasti i poreskih prinadležnosti na nivou savezne države/administracije, jer na tom nivou imaš sinergije između različitih konstituenata savezne države, i istovremeno smanjenje administracije i njenih troškova na lokalnom nivou. Na primjer, na taj način bi dobio da imaš jedno ministarstvo obrazovanja, umjesto da svaka država članica ima svoje ministarstvo obrazovanja i da plaćaš jednog saveznog ministra za obrazovanje, ne 50 lokalnih ministara obrazovanja.

Ignorisanje stvarnosti neće ukinuti tu stvarnost, samo će sudar sa njom učiniti pogibeljnijim.

Au, dnevna doza probio na masu zato što je loše ispao na nekom portretu "Full-Blown Meltdown": Trump Flips Over A Not-Very-Flattering Official Portrait Trump slams ‘radical left’ Colorado governor for ‘purposefully distorted’ portrait hanging in state capitol building

Da citiram mudre riječi Mila Đukanovića: bravo, kreteni! Concerns about espionage rise as Trump and Musk fire thousands of federal workers