A Reminder of where America is heading

[Cooke]

Expected consequence.

As an aside we are having a bumper cherry crop in BC this summer and actually get to enjoy them.

Deportation fallout: This farmer lost half his workforce. Now he’s losing his...

[The_Polymath]

Just putting this one here..

The US president may have delivered a booming stock market, but economists warn he is pushing many sectors into recession. His working class Maga support base will be the worst hit.

“Manufacturing is in recession. Construction is in a deep recession. Transportation and distribution is in recession. Wholesaling is in recession. Retail is holding on by its thumbs, it’s very close,” says Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics.
He believes that as much as a third of the US economy is already effectively in recession.

“The industries that are going to get nailed, they’re the kind of working class, low-to-middle income kind of job,” Zandi says.

Trump’s redneck recession hits his working-class base the hardest

[dr_t_non-fan]

Eh. Just let people onto your property, pick however much they want, and charge them for it.
Like every farmer’s market farm.
Might be more insurance or something. Maybe a new business permit. I’m no expert, but I do have a farm like this just down the road from me. Has a stand, but one can also pick their own fruits and veggies for some different price per pound.

[Cooke]

The pick your own option is pretty standard here as a supplement to the paid pickers. I’m sensing the US model is different? Maybe most of the US fruit farm operations are bigger and more corporate?

[vjvj]

@The_Polymath

The US president may have delivered a booming stock market,

Or may not have.

[knoath]

I’ve seen quite a few PYO for berries in the NE. Haven’t seen it for cherries but I haven’t driven through Central Washington during cherry season for a long time.

[now_samantha]

Of course he now works for the DOJ.

Less than five years after urging rioters to “kill” police at the Capitol, a former Jan. 6 defendant is working as a senior adviser for the Department of Justice, which has been dramatically remade under the second Trump administration.

NPR has obtained police bodycam footage from multiple angles of the former defendant and current administration official, Jared Wise, berating officers and calling them “Nazi” and “Gestapo.” NPR located the footage, which has not previously been published, in a review of thousands of court exhibits from Jan. 6 criminal cases, obtained through legal action by a coalition of media organizations. The Department of Justice had introduced the footage as an exhibit in Wise’s trial. NPR also obtained the transcript of Wise’s testimony, in which he acknowledged that he repeatedly yelled “kill 'em” as officers were being attacked and tried to explain his actions. Wise was not convicted of any crimes related to Jan. 6, due to President Trump’s order to end all Capitol riot prosecutions.

A Department of Justice spokesperson said in a statement, “Jared Wise is a valued member of the Justice Department and we appreciate his contributions to our team.”

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/07/nx-s1-5493197/doj-trump-jan-6-defendant-jared-wise-capitol-riot

[Indy]

Also works in the “Milestones …” thread.

Using gov’t power to reward people who used violence to try to keep you in power pretty much screams “road to dictatorship”.

[now_samantha]

Yeah, I was split on where to put it.

[Cooke]

Evangelical movement: Inside one Idaho pastor’s crusade for Christian...

[The_Polymath]

Projected International student enrollment in the US has collapsed by over 20% (sorry for the crap graph)

[SredniVashtar]

@The_Polymath

(sorry for the crap graph)

Lol. I don’t know which part I like better, all those 11 digit numbers or how the Y axes are needlessly truncated in an unequal manner.

[SteveGrondin]

It’s amazing. Someplace we actually had a trade surplus, and Trump is dead set on destroying that business.

[The_President]

20% for the coming year based on what has happened since January. I wonder how many of those students were locked in to coming to the US, as in they had 5 possible schools picked out as options, and they were all here, and thus had no other alternaative. Those numbers will crater even further next year when everyone has had a full year to finalize plans.

[The_President]

Doesn’t Excel force you to pretty much manually line of the left and right axis? Or maybe it picks something at first that works but once you try to adjust anything you have to mess with things to get it lined up again? That chart result should come with a warning about how poorly it is configured.

[Rastiln]

U.S-Politics-Leger-338Canada-Maintenantmedia-FINAL.pdf

Of likely Republican voters, 47% would not have their vote affected by Trump being implicated in Epstein’s child sex trafficking.

Of that cohort, older people (55+) followed by men are the least affected with 58% and 55% not changing their vote. Women are at 38%.

Youth of 18-34 are most likely to change their vote away from a child sex trafficker.

[Cooke]

@Rastiln

Of likely Republican voters, 47% would not have their vote affected by Trump being implicated in Epstein’s child sex trafficking.

Maybe they didn’t know what “implicated” means?

[FormerActuary]

The poll is flawed. They limit it to a different party, or Trump. I lean Republican, but I didn’t vote for Trump in the last election. I also didn’t vote Democrat. I’d do the same as I did last time - support a different Republican in the primary, and then wrote in the Republican I had supported.
Besides, Trump can’t run in 2028 anyway.

[Maphistos_Sidekick]

@FormerActuary

Trump can’t run in 2028 anyway.

Who will stop him if he chooses to do so anyway?

[EimonGnome]

SCOTUS rules that the Constitution prohibits a person to 2 terms, but that does not apply to the case in question. Hair samples taken from the candidates head, analyzed DNA, show the candidate is actually an orangutan, and hence is not limited to just 2 terms.