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LESSON for NOVEMBER
ELEVENTH, 2024
“HI, HITLER!”
Don Jones voted
Tuesday (at least some seventy percent of Dons and Dawns did) and the verdict is in... on the candidates, the country
and Democracy.
Before, even, the
first ballots were being counted, un- (small “d”) democratic intimidation was
working its magic upon, among others, the institutuionally
institutional Washington Post and its never-Trumper
Jeff Bezos, pivoting to a maybe-Trumper by refusing
to endorse anybody – thus proving the slogan “Democracy dies in darkness” (or,
perhaps, Democracy just goes off into a new place so as to find itself).
After years of
adulation and abuse, tragedy and triumph, Donald John Trump has become only the
second American President to win two non-consecutive terms to the White House –
Grover Cleveland did it first, in 1893.
Ol’24 and older ’22 bucked the post-Civil War trend, winning as a
Bourbon Democrat (in which capacity the comedian Steven Colbert noted, more
than a few Biden/Harris stalwarts, sought solace on Wednesday). On his back rode a pack of downballot Congressrats,
Governors, Senators, local elections officials... a whole drunken boat of MAGA-icians prepping their top hats and rabbits to give America
just the things that it deserves.
(With the
addition of Nevada and Arizona today, Trump’s final margin of victory is 312 –
226 and about four million popular votes
. The Senate flipped red,
presumably by as many as six solons, while the House... where counting is still
incomplete but also trending red... should give President Trump and his
Supremes an unbreakable (tho’ close) wall of
dominion, from which ramparts he can rule with all the friendliness or
fearsomeness he deems appropriate. (See
results as Attachment A… see charts/graphs on websites.)
Now, some
Democrats bitterly spit slanders that Trump wants to take us back to the
nineteenth century – a Golden Age (not unlike 1893), in the verdict of history,
that is – a Golden Age of gold for the wealthy, lead for the rest. Of corporations hiring detectives to shoot
down strikers, voteless women, of even greater
poverty and inequality than at present and... stretching back a little
further... to slavery and (as well as, to MAGA) massive immigration that
devalued the value of human labor. (Just
as the rise of machines and now, AI, has which made slavery economically
pointless... overclassmen freed of need to feed and
house the industrial and informational surplus can be greateful
for the New World Order – and, since the landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth
Rock, there are and have always been, immigrants to hate.)
After his
overwhelming victory, Republicans allowed that Trump wanted to take us back
too... but just a little; to his first administration when prices were lower,
streets safer and the MidEast and Ukrainian wars and
plague were unheard of.
Those were truly
Happy Days, but as a few dark corners nibbled their way into the American
Dreamscape, Americans tuned in and turned out Djonald
UnWanted and elected an even older American
President, as well as his female Veep from Africa, or
India or somewhere.
And then, as a
minority of the media, but a majority of the voters maintain, it all went to
hell.
Old White Joe,
stumbling and bumbling along towards oblivion finally resigned... well, from
the campaign, not the office... leaving Kamalala, her
baggage and boxes of promises to carry on the good fight. Except, as the results proved, Americans not
only pivoted towards a “populism” in which white working class voters (and a
satisfactory sample of blacks and browns) rejected the increasingly elitist
and, to introduce the buzz-tude of the times –
liberal “disdain”.
What now?
Time (Attachment
One) enumerated a roster of nine “dates that matter” as transpire between now
and the Jan. 20 transition... these being...
November
7: State certification of results begins with Delaware...
November
11: Presidential transition briefings must begin...
November
26: Trump sentenced in hush money trial...
December
11: Ascertainment... i.e. “(o)nce the states have
certified their results, each state’s executive—the governor in most
cases—signs “certificates of ascertainment” formally allocating that state’s
electors to the winning candidate.”
December
17: Electors vote. Their choice is
recorded and sealed and the whole packet is sent to Congress (with a presumed
copy to the National Archives)...
December
25: Electoral votes arrive in Washington, D.C.
(Unless a postal worker goes postal driving the truck between the
station and Capitol.)
Jan. 3,
2025: House and Senate convene
Jan. 6,
2025: Counting the electoral votes
The sitting Vice President—as president of the Senate—has a
ceremonial duty to oversee the final step of the Electoral College process at 1
pm on Jan. 6, 2025 during a joint session of the House and Senate. “Whether or
not she wins the election, that role will be handled by Vice President Harris,
who will preside over the ceremony as electoral certificates for each state are
counted and tallied and a winner is declared.”
Humiliation is the best retribution.
Pay particular attention to November 26th...
that’s the sentencing date for 45/47 in Stormy case. Legal experts say only a lunatic judge would
sentence a President to prison... but Merchan is, at
the least, an angry man.
As is often the case, like begets like – especially in
the matter of Donald Trump, who has mastered the knack of turning the most
grievous of insults around and celebrating them as virtues. Thus he, like the Capitol protesters, are no
longer criminals and insurrectionists; they are patriots – many, if not all,
destined to be pardoned and thanked for their service (even if they did not
capture and hang Mike Pence).
“(G)iven that Trump’s never been convicted of a crime before,
he could receive a lighter sentence or probation. There’s nothing preventing a
convicted felon or a person in prison from serving as President of the United
States,” Time disclosed, but if Trump becomes President (as he did), “he would
not be able to pardon his New York convictions, because a President doesn’t
have power over state charges.”
If consigned to the Big House, inquiring minds may inquire
whom his “cellie” might be. Steve Bannon has
been recently released, Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide, the Menendez
Brothers are seeking to get sprung due to allegations of abuse against the
father they murdered.
If character outs, Djonald
Chained may well welcome a short, safe incarceration to cement his status as a
martyr, just in case the 25th Amendment is repealed and he has an
opportunity to motivate his base to go to the polls again in 2028.
Democrats have been crying “wolf” about a Trump fascist
takeover for so long, it is likely that MAGA will give in and give then the
thrashing they seek. (“May I have
another, Master!”)
And Djonald UnShamed
has mastered another trick of the trade – taking the themes, attributes and,
even, policies of the opposition and adapting them to his own end.
After Harris tried to make a case for herself as
supporting more equality and better pay and conditions for the working
classes... one of her few deviations from a relentless middle- and
professional-class agenda that, true, would probably tax the billionaires
somewhat but, for the lowest third or quarter of the population, offered
nothing better than prisons, (Thus the
appropriation of left-populist peanuts like from Kamalala
and Time – with Trump adding a Halloween pumpkin of his own to the sack o’goodies... recusal of the tax on overtime.)
Liberals were left counting their fingers, if only to be
sure that MAGA hadn’t stolen them, too.
And, since his momentous and near-complete smackdown of the donkeys and their fears, Ol’ 45 (and, now,
Older 47) lifted the campaign slogans, manifesto and themes from another
candidacy... that of the DJI’s own endorsed Vermin Supreme – namely, the
victor’s concept of “friendly fascism” as will be operable until... well...
whenever Djonald D’Autocrat
decides it is no longer necessary.
In the course of the campaigning, Democrats (and more
than a few Never Trumpy Republicans) termed the
former President (who allowed as to how he was a strong man, if not a
strongman) an autocrat, a wannabee dictator, even a
fascist... tropes and topics repeated in the liberal press. (Attachment Two)
Fascist or not, Djonald UnOriginal proved himself a clever borrower – taking Harris’
accusations of insufficient support for taxes and kitchen table issues, sufficientizing them and then adding a promise of his own
to repeal all taxes on overtime. And,
knowingly or not, his pledge of a temporary, one day fascist regime when he
took office was a steal from the playbook of our own endorsee... the headboot wearing, pony promising Vermin Supreme (profiled here two weeks ago) whose advocacy of “friendly fascism” as
reiterated in Trump’s acceptance speech (below) was summed up on FaceBook as...
“I’m a friendly fascist, a tyrant you can
trust and you should let me run your life because I do know what is best
for you.” – Vermin Supreme
So far, observers and examiners of post-victory,
pre-regime Presidents (and other masters of other systems of government among
various nations) find that Trump, at least in his victory speech and promises
to meet and confer with President Joe, is hewing to the ordinariist
line... surprising and puzzling the cynics and critics by behaving, well...
New York nice?
Florida friendly?
Newsweek (Nov
6 at 7:33 AM EST, Updated at 12:52 PM EST - Attachment Three) reported that Wednesday saw protests
in New York, California, Chicago and a few of the usual university towns, some
of which had the dissidents calling Trump (not Vermin) a “fascist clown”. And even these, in a legal, if not truly
friendly fashion, were largely peaceful... nobody was shot nor beaten to death,
arsons and riots were few and far between and... while rhetoric largely hewed
to the liberal complaints about brutal police, harassed and harried immigrants
and support for racial, sexual and cultural minorities, a new and recent
borrowing from the far right... anti-Semitism, specifically support for the
most misogynist and terrorist Islamic factions like Hamas, Hezbollah and ghosts
like ISIS emerged. Still, overt acts of
insurrection were minimal.
"Now after another Trump victory, we continue resisting
the racist reactionary agenda of his forthcoming administration, the ongoing
U.S. funded genocide in Gaza, and the rise of the far right here in the U.S.
That's why at this protest,” Chicago demonstrators said, “we'll be further
building our movement around demands for a free Palestine, an immediate arms
embargo on Israel, and an end to all U.S. aid to Israel—as well as people's
demands: Stop police crimes! Community control of the police now! Immigrant
Rights and Legalization for All! Defend LGBTQIA+ & Reproductive Rights!
Defend the right to unionize and strike!"
Several dozen people also gathered for a protest in
Brooklyn's Cadman Plaza Park, according to videos on social media.
They chanted "for Palestine, women's and trans rights,
and peace, and against police violence and president-elect Trump," @protest_nyc, an X account that covers demonstrations in the
city, wrote on the platform.
A protest against Trump also took place in Philadelphia,
with videos on social media showing several dozen people gathered outside the
City Hall.
"FIGHT TRUMP AND THE FAR RIGHT!" the Philly
Socialist Alternative, who organized the protest, said in a post on Instagram.
In contrast to these protests, Newsweek reported,
“social-media platforms have also been flooded with videos of young people celebrating Donald Trump's presidential victory at college
campuses across the country, showing the broad support
the Republican candidate enjoyed among Gen Zers,
despite Kamala Harris' efforts to get first-time voters on her side.
A
student shared a clip on TikTok of students rushing into the streets on the
Grand Canyon University campus in Phoenix, Arizona, "after hearing Trump
won." Hundreds of young people can be seen running toward a green space on
campus and chanting "USA! USA! USA!"
Exit poll data by CNN showed that 54 percent of
voters aged between 18 and 29 (which include Gen Zers
and younger millennials) voted for Harris, while 43
percent voted for Trump.
“Compared to 2020, this is a huge swing of 13 points toward
Trump. Four years ago, 60 percent of those aged 18 to 29 voted for Joe Biden, and only 36 percent cast their ballot for Trump.”
Since doubters remain unconvinced and many are also
strangely consumed with the vicissitudes
of victimology in turning anti-Semitism into a
liberal virtue, the Restoration has acquired a humanitarian shield, the New
Republicans having earned plaudits as defenders of Israel, ergo of the
democracy and decency they are accused of having abandoned – even if MAGA
support for Ukrainian independence remains problematical.
This New World Order, as Vladimir Putin has termed it,
has gone global – turning deadly in uber-liberal Amsterdan when a mixture of victimologists
and Neo-Nazis attacked Israeli fans and soccer players, eliciting condemnation
from Dutch, American and other NATO-ist leaders.
So... in his victory speech, delivered three hours before
the media called his win, the restored, re-elected revenant rattled his bones
and launched into his address... not the customary compendium of grievances and
grim prophecies enjoyed and/or endured by partisans over the last four years
but, rather, an elephant’s trunkful of tributes and
hosannas as well as achingly sincere pleas for all of us to just get along,
now. (Transcript from Newsweek, Attachment
Four)
Nothing stirring... no FDR appeals to beat depression and
win the war, no JFK challenges to Don Jones to do his best for his country, not
even a Reganesque celebration of “morning in
America”... just a stone-cold sober pledge to turn things around and make life
better, whether for the billionaires, the ordinary millionaires or the lumpens.
A few excerpts...
“We're going to help our country heal. We have a country
that needs help, and it needs help very badly. We're going to fix our borders,
we're going to fix everything about our country...”
“Winning
the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you. It's a great, a
great feeling of love. We have a great feeling of love in this very large room
with unbelievable people standing by my side...”
“(Veep-elect J. D.) he is a feisty guy, isn't he? He and I have said, go into
the enemy camp, and, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks and a lot of
people don't like to, sir, do I have to do that? He just goes, OK, which
ones, CNN, MSDNC, he'll say, all right, thank you very much, he
actually looks like, he's like the only guy I've ever seen, he really looks
forward to it...
“Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star. A star is born, Elon. No, he is. Now he's an amazing guy. We were sitting
together tonight. You know, he spent two weeks in Philadelphia and different
parts of Pennsylvania campaigning. You know, he sent the rocket up two weeks
ago and I saw that rocket and I saw it coming down. I saw it. It was when it
left. It was beautiful, shiny white...”
"And you know, when we had the tragic Hurricane Helene.
And it hit it, particularly it hit North Carolina. They were really devastated.
The water. This was big water. As big as we've ever seen, water hurricane. It built
lakes out of nothing, fields became lakes. And the danger was unbelievable...”
“We're gonna pay you back. We're gonna do the best job,
we're going, we're going to turn it around. It's got to be turned around. It's
got to be turned around fast, and we're going to turn it around. We're going to
do it in every way with so many ways, but we're going to do it in every way...”
“Robert F Kennedy Jr. He came out. And he's going to help
make America healthy again. And now he's a great guy and he really means it. He
wants to do some things, and we're gonna let him go to it. I just said, 'But
Bobby, leave the oil to me. We have more liquid gold, oil and gas. We have more
liquid gold than any country in the world. More than Saudi Arabia. We have more
than Russia. Bobby, stay away from the liquid gold. Other than that, go have a
good time, Bobby.'”
“It was a historic realignment. Uniting citizens of all
backgrounds around a common core of common sense. You know, we're the party of
common sense...”
“America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer,
safer and stronger than it has ever been before. God bless you and God bless
America. Thank you very much. Thank you very much." [Walks off stage to YMCA].
Kamala, meanwhile, slunk back into the woodwork like a
spider after the fly has escaped its web; leaving her followers stewing in
dreams in delusions until later on Wednesday when Time (November 7, 2024 4:17 PM Est | Originally Published: November 6, 2024 5:32
PM Est, Attachment
Five) transcribed her... what to it... losing speech? Failure speech?
Anyway, she also thanked her staff and said stuff...
stuff like...
“(L)et me say my heart is full today. My heart is full
today, full of gratitude for the trust you have placed in me, full of love for
our country, and full of resolve. The outcome of this election is not what we
wanted, not what we fought for, not what we voted for. But hear me when I say,
hear me when I say, the light of America's promise will always burn bright as
long as we never give up and as long as we keep fighting.”
“I am so proud of the race we ran. And the way we ran it.
Over the 107 days of this campaign, we have been intentional about building
community and building coalitions, bringing people together from every walk of
life and background, united by love of country with enthusiasm and joy in our
fight for America's future...”
“I am here to say, while I concede this election, I do not
concede the fight that fueled this campaign—the fight: the fight for freedom,
for opportunity, for fairness, and the dignity of all people. A fight for the
ideals at the heart of our nation, the ideals that reflect America at our best.
That is a fight I will never give up...”
“There's an adage a historian once called a law of history,
true of every society across the ages. The adage is, only when it is dark
enough can you see the stars. I know many people feel like we are entering a
dark time, but for the benefit of us all, I hope that is not the case. But
here's the thing, America, if it is, let us fill the sky with the light of a
brilliant, brilliant billion of stars...”
She, hopefully, was not referencing the possibility of a
Trump-started or Trump-blundered-into World War Three.
President Joe had a few words to say, too, and Time and Time Again reported that, because... after
all... he was still the President, still a resident of 1600 Pennsylvania and,
for ten more weeks, still the leader of the Free World (howsoever diminished in
statures past, present or future), Biden schlepped into the Rose Garden on
Thursday, congratulated the victor and offered to prep him on the issues of
times to come and said that: “In
a democracy, the will of the people always prevails. (Nov. 7th, 12:15 PM, Attachment Six)
While praising Harris’ “inspiring” campaign and reminding
Don Jones of Trump’s
unwillingness to accept his electoral loss in 2020, he declaimed: “You can’t
love your country only when you win.”
Just as election workers did their duty as citizens, Biden
said he would do his duty as President to ensure Trump can take office in
January. “I’ll fulfill my oath and I’ll honor the Constitution and on January
20, we’ll have a peaceful transfer of power here in America.”
Indeed, if the results were not all about love, as the
Restored President said after the One Six, or about joy, as Harris
maintained... up to and over the edge of the cliff... at least all talk of
retribution and revenge was muted in the language of the winners and the
losers, the partisans and even the more hyperbolic media mouths.
Public reaction, on the other hand, was predictably
partisan though far from the vicious pledges of retribution and appeals to
treason as highlighted 2021. The MAGA
faithful celebrated, their insiders started glancing over rosters of soon-to-be
available jobs and started placing calls to the Trump transition team... which,
as expected, was strange in and of itself, with Linda McMahon, wife of the WWF,
then WWE, then deposed leader Vince checking out resumes and making recommendations.
Secretary of Defense... easy, the Hulkster.
Attorney General... Rudy G. (can he also pardon himself.
DHS... the Iron Sheikh
Climate Czar... Stone Cold Steve Austin (who can
hopefully put an end to the endless summer and its wildfires)
Democrats will be playing the succession game too, sooner
or later, but first comes the blame game.
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi alleged that Trump’s victory,
as well as that of his surrogates in Congress, the statehouses and elsewhere
was due to President Joe’s remaining in the race until his disastrous debate
performance and subsequent endorsement of Harris without her having to go
through a primary as would have toughened her up for the campaign.
Other Dems like Congressman Tom Suozzi blamed
political correctnessk – giving Republican the
opportunity to deride Team Harris as a bunch of neo-Nazi faggots, planning
"anarchy on college campuses, defundingthe
police, biological boys playing in girls' sports, and a general attack on
traditional values" (BBC)
Ritchie Torres, another New York Democratic congressman,
posted on X, formerly Twitter, blaming "the far left”.
He said radicals within the party had “managed to alienate
historic numbers of Latinos, Blacks, Asians, and Jews from the Democratic Party
with absurdities like ‘Defund the Police’ or ‘From the River to the Sea’ or ‘Latinx’”.
While Pelosi was pointing her finger at Biden, the
moderate Democats blaming the woke progressives with
their war on statues and comedians while the likes of AOC and The Bern pointed their
fingers at the ass-inine cultivating of the
billionaires, the ordinary people Harris repeatedly promised to uplift... the
middle class, that is, not the poor... cursed a bit, maybe drank too much,
yelled at the kids, or kicked the dog... and then went back to the daily dailiness... checking their Wednesday coupons for discounts
at the grocery, or, for the better-off, Starbucks.
The even-better off, fortunate enough to have investments
or pension equity, could not help but smile, no matter whom they voted for.
The Dow (see our weekly index) rocketed upwards to a new
record, even topping the 44 thousand threshold.
The New York, SP and Nasdaq indices also
gained, with a particular vigor attending the tech stocks and... thanks to Elon Musk, who made a $26 billion profit on rising stocks the week after his $130 million investment in the campaign and
his crypto cronies... the black financial markets veered headlong into the
black.
Prior to the election, the Wall Street gamblers had
expressed a certain division, even ambivalence, over the prospect of Team
Trump, Term Two.
A peek into the minds of Wall Street money movers by Politico
before Tuesday (10/30, Attachment Seven) found that... while the rich folks
appreciated the once and future tax cuts and, especially, the “drill baby
drill” thrill killers looked forward to happy days, economists and investors at
the annual
Greenwich Economic Forum in Greenwich, Connecticut, exchanged their “anodyne
observations about allocation strategies and private credit markets.”
And while they enjoyed their windfall, some told Politico’s
Sam Sutton that... seeing as what comes up can go down, they would have
preferred a little of the Biden/Harris stability to the MAGA joyride as sent
the tech-infused SP above the 6,000 ceiling and rewarded cryptocrats
with a 30% bonus in just the one week since the election.
“All of us
would do better if one side wins,” one financier told Sutton, referring to
former President Donald Trump, as she made a circular gesture over the din of a
cocktail hour on a dockside patio. “The rest of the country just might crumble
around us.”
On the other hand, other degenerate capitalists polled by
Politico expressed a stake in the general welfare of the country, “since a
strong economy tends to boost their bottom lines and Vice President Kamala
Harris’ pledge to deliver stability would (have) help(ed)
it expand.”
And no factor vexed the ruling class more than the
possibility of instability, or even a close and disputed election that would
see another One Six.
Kathy Wylde, the president and CEO
of the Partnership for New York City, a nonprofit organization that represents
top executives at some of the city’s largest firms, told Sutton that many on
Wall Street were now anxious about the unrest that could occur if Trump — once
again — tries to undermine the election.
“What they want most is stability — political stability,”
she added.
The final takeaway is that Wall Street’s preferred candidate
isn’t in this race. The closest thing I could find to consensus in this
particular swing electorate is a hope that control of Congress remains divided,
with the House controlled by one party and the Senate controlled by the other.
That way, Congress would impede the agenda of either a Trump or Harris
administration, limiting their ability to deepen deficits, weaken markets or
inflame the geopolitical landscape.
“Our clients would generally say they just want gridlock,”
said Rich Nuzum,
the global chief investment strategist at the consulting firm Mercer,
adding that his firm’s clients are hopeful that either candidate would be
forced to work with moderate members of Congress. “Gridlock is good for
markets. Gradualism is good for capitalism.”
A week later, Time’s Philip
Elliott let the Bern bend his ear over why Kamala kamalost,
precipating a “dark moment for Democrats who had as recently as ten
days ago thought they might control the trifecta of power in Washington and one in which answers are hard to be had.” (Attachment Eight)
With an imminent population decline among both domestic
Democratic stalwarts and illegal aliens (whom MAGA alledged
had voted, tho’ most didn’t owing to the law), the
legal matters surrounding the Restored have taken precedent over any prosecutons of liberals as might arise after Jan. 20th
CNN (Nov. 6), declaring that Trump had “said multiple times he plans to fire special counsel
Jack Smith and
end the federal cases against him for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential
election and mishandling classified documents”... even throwing in the
occasional reprisal that his own AyGee would
prosecute the prosecutors for something, anything, has now reported that, as of
Wednesday, Smith was in “active talks with Justice Department leadership” about
how to end the federal cases against Trump, including the violent attack upon
the Capitol.
“It clearly paid off to aggressively push to delay these
cases as long as possible,” said Jessica Levinson, a constitutional law
professor at Loyola Law School.
(Attachment Nine)
With so much controversy as to what did and did not
constitute actions and officenses committed in the
performance of his Presidential duties, in at least three of the cases against
him, all Trump has to do is stay out of jail until he takes office, then
pardons himself.
In the fourth, the so-called Stormy conviction (which is a
state, not Federal, case with self-pardoning off the table).
Trump is scheduled to appear in a New York courtroom on
November 26 to receive a sentence for his conviction earlier this year on 34 counts of
falsifying business records
to cover up a hush money payment made during the 2016 campaign to adult-film
star Stormy Daniels, who alleged a prior affair with the president-elect.
(Trump denies the affair.)
Judge Juan Merchan has
given himself a November 12 deadline to decide whether to wipe away the
conviction because of the Supreme Court’s decision this
summer granting
a president some presidential immunity. If Merchan
does that, the charges would be dismissed, and Trump would not be sentenced.
“Trump’s election victory is poised to have the greatest
impact on the two federal criminal cases brought against him by Smith in
Washington, DC, and Florida,” CNN opined.
Trump’s main legal strategy has been to delay the trials
until past the election so that, if elected, he could fire Smith, leading to
the end of the two cases. In late October, the former
president said he
would take such a step without hesitation.
“Oh, it’s so easy. It’s so easy,” Trump said when asked by
conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt whether he would “pardon yourself” or “fire
Jack Smith” if reelected.
“I would fire him within two seconds,” Trump said.
It now appears that Smith intends to deny the Prez the privilege by wrapping up both cases before Jan. 20th,
then resigning.
The fourth criminal case, charging Trump for attempting to
overturn the 2020 presidential election results is effectively on hold while
the appeals court decides whether to disqualify the Fulton County District
Attorney Fani Willis, a decision that is not expected
until 2025.
Trump is also still facing civil lawsuits brought by
Democratic lawmakers and others over his role in the January 6 Capitol attack,
by defamation victim E. Jean Carroll and by a $454 million civil fraud judgement against him, in which a New York judge found he,
his adult sons and his company fraudulently inflated the value of Trump’s
assets to obtain better loan and insurance rates.
The Daily Beast (Attachent Ten)
reported that, with Trump’s re-election, it’s not even clear if Stormy
prosecutors and Judge Merchan
will seek jail time against an incoming president. “Nobody has ever
had to figure out Secret Service protection at Rikers
before,” the Beast pointed out.
But if prosecutors do ask for a tough sentence, Trump’s
lawyers will probably request an indefinite sentencing delay—and they’re likely
to get it, some experts say.
Constitutional questions about whether a state judge can
sentence a president-elect could tie up the case for years, and at a very
minimum Trump’s lawyers will argue he can’t be sentenced until after he
finishes his second presidential term, experts told CNN.
That would keep him a free man until at least January 2029. By
then he will be 82 years old and can ask for leniency based on his age and lack
of a prior criminal record.
“Just a kindly old man with no prior convictions,” was the
Beast’s beastly assessment, “seeking to spend his final days putting around the
golf course he so loves.”
But it’s still possible that Merchan
goes off the rails, a Newsweek survey of litigators back in August suggested
(Attachment Eleven).
Bush administration official John Yoo
pointed out that “Merchan has ruled against Trump
many times and could jail him as the
sentencing hearing.”
On Wednesday, Kermit Roosevelt III (a great-great grandson
of Teddy and professor of constitutional law at the University of Pennsylvania)
suggested to Time (Attachment Twelve) that Trump might even attempt to bend the
Constitution to his own purposes, adding or replacing amendments... abetted by
a Supreme Court with at least six supporters who’ve expressed a hunger for fame
and retribution in matters of...
“(D)irecting prosecutions of
critics or rivals, which he has threatened to do.”
Earlier judicial decisions are being undone at a remarkable
rate: recent years have seen the Court take away the right to abortion and ban affirmative action.
Freedom of the press is also “ripe for originalist
reconsideration.”
“It would not be surprising if the Supreme Court whittled
free speech down to allow the government to silence some critics: Justice
Clarence Thomas has suggested this already.
What Trump will not
be able to overturn, Kermit believes, is the sort of court-packing scheme that
his other ancestor, Frankie D, attempted to do and failed, or repealing the 22nd
Amendment to enable Trump to garner a third time (by the end of which he would
be well on his way into his nineties)
If the lesson of 2024 is indeed that different segments of
the population have irreconcilable visions of what America is and should be, KR
3 concluded, “that realization of Trump’s ascendence
back into the White House is only the first step.”
Today, being Veterans’ Day, not just the nation but the
world is looking backwards into history and to Tuesday’s results, and forward
to Jan. 20th when said Restoration takes place.
The holiday memorializes (one can hardly say celebrates) Americans
who fought in the First World War... subsequently extended to the Second, to
Korea and Vietnam and to numerous other “police actions” since. War, and the American involvement in same,
ranked far down the list of reasons why the voters voted as they did but, now
that the deed is done, the United States, its friends and enemies and
interested neutrals are all looking to Djonald UnCommitted’s contradictory expressions of isolationism and
belligerence as to the possibility of American boots on the ground in actions
ranging from small campaigns against isolated terrorists that did not justify a
declaration of war, to joining alliances, taking actions against lesser “bad
actors” up to the chances of all out nuclear war against Russia, China or both.
We’ll tackle the prospect of Trump administration foreign
relations next week... as regards not only military actions but trade and
tariffs and international concerns, as those certain to be raised in next
week’s “Cop 29” environmental summit – this year in Russian-influenced
Azerbaijan... and confine this week’s remarks to a CBS survey of foreigners and
their congratulations (or other sentiments) towards or against President Trump
II first published before the election, then updated shortly after noon on Wednesday:
tallying up the supporters (Israel, Hungarian President Viktor Orban) adversaries (NoKo, Iran
and its surrogates) and the largest bloc, by far, the cautiously optimistically
or pessimistic skeptics (most of NATO save Hungary, Russia and Ukraine, the Far
East... including China... and most of what Americans call the “Third
World). (Attachment Thirteen, updated on: November 6, 2024 / 12:57 PM)
"Your historic return to the White House offers a new
beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between
Israel and America," PM Netanyahu told the no-longer Ex in what, (with Trumpian bombast) he also called ‘history’s greatest
comeback.” "This is a huge victory!"
The Hungarian Viktor (Orban) not only
congratulated the American victor (Trump) but “suggested he had even helped to
craft Trump's future statecraft”, claiming to have "entered the
policy-writing system of President Donald Trump's team," with "deep
involvement there."
America’s avowed enemies such as North Korea, Iran and global
terrorist movements tended to deny that the re-election would change
minds. Fatemeh
Mohajerani, a spokesperson for Iran's ruling Islamic
regime, said the policies of both the
U.S. and Iran were "fixed and do not change with the change of individuals,"
and said there would be be no "impact on
people's livelihoods" in Iran regardless of who occupies the White House.
Hamas spokesman Basem Nain called
Trump's reelection, "a private matter for the Americans," but said in
a statement Wednesday that "Palestinians look forward to an immediate
cessation of the aggression against our people, especially in Gaza, and look
for assistance in achieving their legitimate rights of freedom, independence,
and the establishment of their independent self-sovereign state with Jerusalem
as its capital."
Dream on...
A slightly more optimistic view was voiced by Afghanistan's
Taliban rulers who, perhaps encouraged by the gender aspects of the Republican
blowout, expressed their hope that "the incoming U.S. administration will
adopt a pragmatic approach to ensure tangible advancement in bilateral
relations, allowing both nations to open a new chapter of relations grounded in
mutual engagement."
CBS reminded those still in the dark that Ukrainian
President Zelenskyy has warned that if the resolve of Ukraine's Western backers
crumbles and Russia is allowed to seize Ukrainian territory, “the war his
country is fighting could spread, with direct implications for Americans.
"This aggression, and Putin's army, can come to Europe,
and then the citizens of the United States, the soldiers of the United States,
will have to protect Europe because they're the NATO members," he told CBS News early this year.
As for Russia itself... although, CBS noticed, not Putin
himself... Leonid
Slutsky, who heads the Committee on International
Affairs in Russia's State Duma, or parliament, was
quoted Wednesday by the country's state-run RIA Novosti
news agency as saying a Trump victory offered "a chance for a more
constructive approach to the Ukrainian conflict," before turning darker
and diversionary...
Judging by the election rhetoric (if such can still be
believed), the Republican team is not going to send more and more American
taxpayers' money “into the furnace of a proxy war against Russia," Slutsky was quoted as saying. "Perhaps there is a
chance for a more constructive approach here."
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
said he was unaware of any plans for Putin to congratulate Trump directly,
saying the former U.S. leader had made "quite harsh statements" about
Russia during the campaign and calling the U.S. an "unfriendly country
that is directly and indirectly involved in a war against our state."
Nor was there immediate public reaction from President Xi Jinping. Trump has often described China as a primary U.S.
adversary, and he's has pledged to continue a tit-for-tat tariff feud with the
Asian nation.
Under President Biden, the U.S. tightened export controls to
try to keep some sensitive U.S.
technology
out of China, and tension between Washington and Beijing has increased in
recent years over China's stance on Taiwan, the democratically ruled island off
its east coast that Xi has vowed to bring back under the control of the Chinese
government for the first time in about 70 years.
"We will continue to view and handle China-U.S.
relations in accordance with the principles of mutual respect, peaceful
coexistence and cooperation for win-win," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson
Mao Ning said Wednesday. "We respect the choice
of the American people and congratulate Mr. Trump on his election as
president."
As with NATO, Trump tied support for Taiwan to its
willingness to shell out more shekels... or whatever they call their money,
over there. In a July interview with The
Associated Press, he said Taiwan should pay the U.S. more for helping ensure its defense.
The prospect of Presidential Restoration left a
significant majority of the media, ranging from the overtly liberal to
guardedly “institutional” wetting their pants and de-worming their brains.
But the
one inescapable fact is that a lot of people simply do not like the left opined John Harris in the leftish Guardian
U.K. “In the UK,” he pointed out, In the
UK, that is part of the reason why Brexit happened,
why Nigel Farage is back, and why our new Labour government feels so flimsy and fragile. In the US,
it goes some way to explaining why more than 75
million voters just
rejected the supposedly progressive option, and chose a convicted criminal and
unabashed insurrectionist to oversee their lives.”
Around the world, in fact, “the left looks to many voters
like a coherent bloc that goes from people who lie in
the road and shut
down universities to
would-be presidents and prime ministers – the only difference between them, as
some see it, is that radical activists are honest about their ideas, whereas
the people who stand for office try to cover them up.”
Is it that the progressive ideals are perceived as aspirational and effeminate, or that... in trying to
enforce them... leftists fail and fail again because the people, themselves,
are unpleasant and arrogant (and more often far wealthier and more comfortable
than the lumpens they deride?
“(C)ompared with 2008, 2024’s Democratic coalition was skewed towards
the higher
end of the income range,”
Harris declares, “whereas Trump’s tilted in the other direction. The same
kind of fracturing now
seems to be affecting many ethnically based political loyalties: as Trump well
knows, there are now large numbers of voters from minorities – and immigrant
backgrounds – who largely accept rightwing ideas about immigration. That is
partly because modern economies create such a desperate competition for
rewards.”
Unmentioned,
but perhaps also relevant is the fact that... as wars and plague arise and the
world becomes more dangerous, it is safer to be evil than to be weak. Or woke.
“Because
the cutting edge of left politics is often associated with institutions of
higher education, ideas that are meant to be about inclusivity can easily turn
into the opposite. The result is an agenda often expressed with a judgmental
arrogance, and based around behavioural codes – to do
with microaggressions, or the correct use of pronouns
– that,” Harris contends, “are very hard for people outside highly educated
circles to navigate.”
Or, on the
other hand, even uneducated slobs can “navigate”
the leftish litanies, have done so,
and have arrived at the conclusion that they are a pile of shit.
Thus the Republicans’ over and over commercials of Kamala
and her trans prisoners in pink frocks and lipstick... Team Trump smartly
realizing they couldn’t dilute the message by making their eye-cons illegal serial killers, so they just stuck
with and stuck it to the queers... and the message GUK called crass and cruel,
but grimly effective: “Kamala is
for they/them. President Trump is for you.”
Some hyper-paranoid posies have even begun making plans
to get out of what they perceive to be a fascist Trumptatorship
that will have become increasingly unfriendly by Jan. 20
Perhaps a few extra bucks also aided the die-hard
high-living Democrats, some of who have begun taking steps to follow up on
their threats to themselves and others by getting the hell out of America
before a (presumably peaceful) inauguration, followed by Trump’s “one day of
dictatorship” – followed be a defriending and a
launch of revenge and retribution that gets personal... some fearing
prosecution for crimes real or imagined, more just expressing their disgust...
a latenite kamikaze displaying Internet search data
revealing a 1,270% spike in “move to Canada” searches since the election.
No less an
authoritative source on left-wing angst than the New York Post reported that “Californians (are) reportedly
preparing to flee country,” which means that those, at least, who own their own
and/or other people’s homes that they can cash out before the crash-out will be
rich enough to gentrify Greece, or Mexico, or Uruguay... not Hungary, nor
Haiti, nor the formerly sybaritic Amsterday (if they
are or look Jewish)... and, as one expat wannabee
told the Post: “I just
feel like it’s time to enjoy a life that’s free from any American worry.” (Attachment Fifteen)
“They want
an option to escape,” said Basil Mohr Elzeki, who
leads the North American operations for Henley & Partners, a consultant
company that helps clients obtain residency and citizenship in other
countries. Sources from the L.A. Times to Fox News allege that about 80% of expats want to leave the country
because of political issues.
“Jen
Barnett, founder of Expatsi, another company that
helps US citizens looking to move abroad, said her website’s traffic spiked
900% after the first presidential debate between President Biden and former
President Donald Trump. She said traffic climbed again in the final weeks of
the 2024 race,” and has soared since Election Day (above).
White Americans with ancestral routes in countries like
Italy and Ireland, as grant especial privileges to returning generational émigrés
(especially those with money or useful skills) began looking to live abroad after the 2016 election – which
number continued to grow during the Biden administration and is now
skyrocketing.
“We came
to the conclusion there is a
sense of fear in
general, and that affects people from both sides of the political spectrum,”
Marco Permunian, founder of Italian Citizenship
Assistance told the Fox.
Since we are going to assess foreigners next Lesson...
their reaction to Trump’s victory, Cop 29, climate and some reflections on a
global turn to the right, we’ve looked into other non-American soures of data on this week’s overriding topic.
Not only was the most comprehensive Presidential election
results listings compiled by the Qatari Al Jazeera
(Attachment “A”, with other race results), a massive compilation of takeaways
was also compiled by Dawn.org (a Pakistani goulash of nibbits
and squibs from everywhere and nowhere) including the likes of Reuters, CNN, Axios, AP and AFP as well as their own reportage... all duly
included as Attachment “B”.
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Our Lesson: November Fourth through November Tenth,
2024 |
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Monday,
November 4, 2024 Dow: 41,674.74 |
In the
last of Djonald’s Dark Days before the Judgment,
Trump... having stumbled into a garbage truck to express his contempt for the
(voteless) Puerto Ricans... warned off any putative
assassins by warning that: “To get me, they would have to shoot through the
fake news – and that’s alright with me,” and also declared that he should have
refused to leave the White House, thus starting a full-blown Civil War rather
than just the little Capitol skirmish – prompting an anonymous Team Trumper to opine: “He’s trying to lose!” Early voting ended with 78,003,222 ballot
cast and pollsters and poets and pirates and pundits stumped. Refusing to denounce The Donald by name,
Kamala Harris opted for a final day of more promises. In other signs and portents, Hurricane
Rafael gained strength in the Caribbean – targeting Cuba and the garbage as is
Puerto Rico – while tornadoes ravaged Oklahoma; a volcano blew its top in
Indonesia and, out there in the animal planet, doggie detectives rescued 150
canines while searching for ten allegedly mistreated Chihuahuas. And a man in Kentucky shot his neighbor’s
cat for leaving paw prints on his vehicle. The repeat box office winner... reflecting
the American mood... was “Venom Three”.
The nice Tom Hanks – Robert Zemeckis movie
flopped. |
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Tuesday,
November 5, 2024 Dow: 42,221.88 |
It’s
Election Day. (Some of) those who
haven’t early voted troop to the polls as the candidates reiterated their
final promises... Kamalala will lower prices, Djonald will deport aliens. Midnight finds always-first Grover’s Notch,
NH splitting six votes (down one due to death or emigration) Trump inspires his supporters by telling
them that, if he loses, “we have only you to blame.” ABC holds a three-quarter Round Table with
all regulars – Chris Christie says RINOs “want to vomit”, Donna Brazile tells people to stop talking about politics and
talk about “joy”. Reince
Priebus predicts that, if he loses, Trump will
accept the results. But he doesn’t. |
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Wednesday,
November 6, 2024 Dow: 43,729.24 |
Around 2:30
AM, Trump declares Himself the winner... and the tired media agrees. With more states leaning and the rest
declaring, the three-quarters round tablers (above)
said it was over... not only Trump, but the GOP House and Senate were with
him. “The mandate was massive,” said Priebus, Brazile said that even
“blue wall” backups like Illinois and New Jersey were still in play, Christie
opined that Trump now had two years to decide what his “legacy” would be,
before becoming a “lame duck”. With the dawn, Dawn.org (a Pakistani compendium of elections
timelines and takeaways) noted that
Trump had quickly made his first appointments, selecting Linda McMahon
(Vince’s wife) to head the transition team.
(Hulk Hogan for Attorney General?)
Winner and loser both spoke of healing and niceness and progress while
talking heads talked eagerly of an end of days that were more sensational
than Nixon’s resignation (Jonathan Alter, NBC) and “would be studied for
generations” (George Stephanopolous, ABC). Amidst foreigners (see above), Putin and
Netanyahu were happy, Iran and NATO
sad. China’s response was deemed
“cautious” and Little Marco (R-Fl) said Ukraine would have to accept reality. The results, and particularly the lack of
contention over another steal (as well as settlement of the Boeing strike)
drove the Dow up to record heights – billionaires like Musk reaping more
billions from the Wall Street – covering his campaign congributions
and million dollar giveaways two hundred times over.. |
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Thursday,
November 7, 2024 Dow: 43,729.24 |
The cloudy,
clowny downballot results
are becoming clearer... Trump’s landslide carrying between 52 and 55
Republican Senators into office while the House, still undecided, assumedly
would remain red. The Fed did what was expected, cutting
interest rates by 0.25% (even though bitter liberals said that the banks and
credit card companies would do as they’d done after the last cut... keep all
the money for themselves), Biden and
lame duck state officials also did as expected, filling vacant judicial seats
as quickly s possible with Midnight Judges before a presumably peaceful
transition Jan. 20th. Trump, busy too, selected campaign staffer
Susie Wiles to be the first female Chief of Staff. In a horror movie scenario, 43 monkeys
escaped from a research laboratory in South Carolina and the authorities,
while saying that they were not mutant killers or bearers of lethal diseases,
ordered all residents to shelter in place, have fear and panic. One primate was captured Sunday, the rest
continued to menace their nervous genetic neighbors as had hope to use the
enslaved to test strange and potentially dangerous technologies. |
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Friday,
November 8, 2024 Dow: 43,988.98 |
God,
perhaps, voiced HIS view on the American election as the bells of Notre Dame cathedral
began ringing for the first time since the catastrophic fire five years
ago... while the Dow briefly broke through the 44,000 ceiling with similar
leaps and bounds on NASDAQ and the NY Stock Exchange and SP indices. There was no ending to the workweek for Djonald’s cabinet of curiosity shapers... as numerous
aides reiterated that his principal character asset would be “loyalty”, two
Term One holdovers were given the bums’ rush out of consideration: former UN
Secretary and primary challenger Nikki Haley and former defense chief Mike Pompeo. The media
was having fun and profits handicapping the rest... favorites named, dark
horses endarkened. “You can’t love your country only when you
win,” said President Joe, drawing a distinction between this power handover
and that of the One Six, perhaps drawing a belated comparison as the blame
game escalated and Dems were huddling to protect
reproductive rights, checking out emigration destinations and a million
Federal bureaucrats were polishing resumes in advance of deportation to the
private sector. |
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Saturday,
November 9, 2024 Dow: Closed |
Authorities
kept busy tracking Iranian-backed Trump assassination plot. Iranian mastermind – assisted by vengeful
Revolutionary Guards hiding in Iran, two American suspects arrested. (Worried Secret Service dispatches robotic
dogs to prowl Mar-a-Lago... hoping they won’t go
Commander on Djonald’s creatures.) Unrelated, sort of, cyberhackers
send out notices ordering blacks to report for “cotton picking” dury in slave camps... Feds trace the racists to
Poland. And a FEMA supervisor is
accused of ordering workers not to help hurricane victims in Florida if they
have a Trump sign on their flooded lawns. Havoc in Havana as Rafael, a Cat. 3, pummels
the already compromised Cuban power grid with 150 mph winds. In the USA, wildfires raging in trendy
Malibu, CA and even by the George Washington bridge between New York and New
Jersey. In between – tornadoe and record heat east of the Rockies, record snow
west. Beyonce garners
record Grammies on what is called a women’s night. One exception: a nomination for best spoken
word goes to 100 year old Jimmy Carter. FDA cracks down on cold medicines with
ingredients, doctors say, aren’t poisonous, just ineffective. Mister Mucus celebrates. |
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Sunday,
November 10, 2024 Dow:
Closed |
Trump
declared winner in Arizona, making a sweep of the seven battleground states
and running up the electoral vote to 312-226 with a popular vote mandate of
over four million. Sunday talkshows
profile happy MAGAnauts and Democrats pointing
fingers. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) blames ivory
tower far left students with their woke language, pro-LGBTQ, anti-Semitic
antics and pollster Frank Luntz blames (or credits)
misogynistic “bros” a 52% of Latino men and 52% of Puerto Ricans vote
Trump. Charlemagne the God expresses
surprise that a third of all minorities went MAGA, blames “kitchen table
issues” and denies that he will emigrate.
Round tabler Julie Pace (AP) says both
Torres and far-left Bernie were right in alleging that Kamala did not offer
white middle and working class voters anything more than contempt and empty
promises. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa) cites liberal “disdain” for young white
males while failed primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy
lobbies for a job amidst friendly Fascists by saying “Success will be our
retribution.” Other round table opinions: Chris Christie
blames DEI “hate white people” and “defund the police” talk, alleging that
Trump just wants to be “loved”, former
GOP chair Reince Priebus
says Dems chose the “progressive left’ over the
“populist left” and predicts that far right Republicans will rule America for
“generations”. Police capture one SC lab mystery monkeys,
42 remain out there, doing what monkeys do.
Harris tries to rally Dems, saying “this is
not a time to throw up your hands” – other asses just throw up – period. |
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The two
most volatile indices of the DJI... the Dow and the balance of trade...
squared off and, despite a banner night for the billionaires (who feasted off
the stock market, especially tech and crypto) it was the kitchen table (and
living room, and garage and yard)
issues that rolled to “victory” – tho’ not for the
Joneses except for those who, anticipating tariffs of 10 to 50% on imports
with 60% to 100% on China’s myriad substances, rushed out to do some early
post-election, pre-Thanksgiving shopping before Djonald
UnThrifty takes office. In addition to the thousand trunks of
Chinese junk, they scurried to big box, small corner and outside vendor
markets to stock up on new cars from Japan, French cheeses and Chilean
grapes, Scots scotch and German beer, Italian fashions and illegal Mexican
laborers to trim the bushes and repair the roofs before winter sets in and
ICA hauls them all off to from wherever they came. We’ll keep a close (and watchful eye) on
the inflation reports coming out this week as well as climate change panic
and the response of foreign traders to the upcoming tariff tariffs...
remembering, workers, that retaliation will occur and American exports will
crater until manufacturers upgrade (and, likely, robotize) their facilities
to produce all that foreign stuff priced out of the Jones’ budgets. We didn’t endorse either party or
candidates except Vermin Supreme and, in the spirit of friendly fascism,
healing, bringing us together and all of those nifty things, will refrain
from calling Trump a tyrant or Harris a bumbler but, rather, employ a Chinese
blessing, or curse, before MAGA gets round to slapping a tariff on it, too... adjudicating the next four
years as, likely, interesting
times. |
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CHART of CATEGORIES w/VALUE
ADDED to EQUAL BASELINE of 15,000 (REFLECTING…
approximately… DOW JONES INDEX of June 27, 2013) Gains
in indices as improved are noted in GREEN. Negative/harmful indices in RED as are their designation. (Note – some of the indices where the total
went up created a realm where their value went down... and vice versa.) See a
further explanation of categories here… |
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ECONOMIC
INDICES |
(60%) |
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CATEGORY |
VALUE |
BASE |
RESULTS by PERCENTAGE |
SCORE |
OUR SOURCES and COMMENTS |
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INCOME |
(24%) |
6/17/13 revised 1/1/22 |
LAST |
CHANGE |
NEXT |
LAST WEEK |
THIS WEEK |
THE WEEK’S CLOSING STATS... |
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Wages (hrly.
Per cap) |
9% |
1350 points |
10/21/24 |
+0.20% |
11/24 |
1,537.40 |
1,537.40 |
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Median Inc. (yearly) |
4% |
600 |
10/28/24 |
+0.028% |
11/18/24 |
675.42 |
675.61 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 39,771 782 793 |
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Unempl. (BLS – in mi) |
4% |
600 |
9/24 |
-2.44% |
11/24 |
556.38 |
556.38 |
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Official (DC – in
mi) |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
-0.13% |
11/18/24 |
234.38 |
234.01 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
6,872 882 891 |
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|
Unofficl. (DC – in mi) |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
-0.24% |
11/18/24 |
256.76 |
256.14 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 12,439
469 499 |
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Workforce Participation Number Percent |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
+0.06% +0.05% |
11/18/24 |
300.19 |
300.34 |
In 161,902 Out 100,483 Total: 262,285 61.696 73 |
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WP % (ycharts)* |
1% |
150 |
9/24 |
-0.16% |
11/24 |
151.43 |
151.19 |
https://ycharts.com/indicators/labor_force_participation_rate 62.70 62.60 |
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OUTGO |
(15%) |
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Total Inflation |
7% |
1050 |
10/24 |
+0.2% |
11/24 |
954.79 |
954.79 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.2
nc |
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Food |
2% |
300 |
10/24 |
+0.4% |
11/24 |
271.07 |
271.07 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm +0.4 |
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Gasoline |
2% |
300 |
10/24 |
-4.1% |
11/24 |
249.31 |
249.31 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm -4.1 |
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Medical Costs |
2% |
300 |
10/24 |
-0.7% |
11/24 |
286.34 |
286.34 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
+0.7 |
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Shelter |
2% |
300 |
10/24 |
+0.2% |
11/24 |
259.22 |
259.22 |
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
+0.2 |
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WEALTH |
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Dow Jones Index |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
+7.00% |
11/18/24 |
331.31 |
354.50 |
https://www.wsj.com/market-data/quotes/index/ 43,981.99 |
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Home (Sales) (Valuation) |
1% 1% |
150 150 |
10/21/24 |
-0.52% -2.69% |
11/24 |
124.43 284.61 |
124.43 284.61 |
https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics Sales (M):
3.84 Valuations (K): 404.5 |
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Debt (Personal) |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
-0.028% |
11/18/24 |
264.03 |
263.96 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 75,966
6.009 6,030 |
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GOVERNMENT |
(10%) |
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Revenue (trilns.) |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
+0.20% |
11/18/24 |
426.91 |
427.76 |
debtclock.org/
5.012 022 032 |
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Expenditures (tr.) |
2% |
300 |
10/28/24 |
+0.23% |
11/18/24 |
292.88 |
292.22 |
debtclock.org/ 7,036
052 068 |
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National Debt tr.) |
3% |
450 |
10/28/24 |
+0.05% |
11/18/24 |
374.06 |
373.86 |
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ 35,829
969 988 |
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Aggregate Debt
(tr.) |
3% |
450 |
10/28/24 |
+0.09% |
11/18/24 |
386.56 |
386.23 |
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