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Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2026-01-04

Trump has begun to address affordability a bit more
—rhetorically, that is.
He’s never fully acknowledged that the affordability problem has continued into his administration,
nor how his own policies
—from tariffs raising prices on myriad goods to the chaotic interruptions in crucial benefits like food stamps
—have contributed to Americans’ economic sufferings.
But he has been making more claims about what he’s supposedly doing to bring down the cost of living, a tacit nod to the polling.

He says inflation has “stopped.”
He sayshis policies will cut drug prices by “400, 500, even 600 percent.”
He says he has brought down the price of food and gas.
He says that electricity costs “will fall dramatically.”
He says that wages are up and that manufacturing jobs are flooding back to the United States.
Trouble is, none of that is true.
Inflation has not “stopped.”
Grocery pricesare up even from the Biden era.
His claims about drug prices are not only false but, as CNN points out, “mathematically impossible.”  
Wage growth for workers without college degrees slowed, from January to September, and within the same time frame, workers lost 361,000 jobs.
From April—the month Trump announcedhis “liberation day” tariffs—to September, manufacturing in the U.S. fell by 58,000 jobs.
On gas, his claims are exaggerated, as are his claims on egg prices.
Electricity has spiked by 9 percent during his administration,
and while it’s impossible to predict the future, there’s certainly no reason to believe his claim that he’s just about to bring it down.

⭐️But an equally big problem is that Americans’ struggles just don’t interest him. -- That’s why he can’t stay focused on them.
That’s why he rolls his eyes when he says the word “affordability.”
It’s also why in every recent speech, when he’s not lying about the affordability problem, he’s changing the subject.

Trump raises the issue only to pivot to his preferred topics:
tariffs (which he said recently was his “favorite word”),
immigration,
his personal beefs,
himself,
Ilhan Omar,
Somalians in Minnesota, and so on. 

In his December 17 speech on the economy, he opened with three sentences on the cost of living,
and immediately after saying the word “affordability,” he launched a rant about immigrants -- as if to wake himself up.
Two days later, in a speech in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, he shifted from affordability to his weird obsession with immigrants coming from insane asylums
(presumably he is equating those seeking “asylum” with mental patients, a long-standing Trumpian muddle)
without even the pretense of a logical transition, just because he couldn’t wait to get there.

Hardship bores Trump.
And why wouldn’t it?
He’s a rich guy who likes to hang out at Mar-a-Lago with other rich guys.
He doesn’t have any answers to the affordability crisis because he doesn’t care
—he really should borrow his wife’s infamous jacket
—and because some of the easiest and most obvious solutions to the crisis involve #rolling #back his own policies -- not to mention #alienating Republican #donors.
No wonder he’d rather rant about Somalis in Minnesota—or reminisce about the good old days of his #attempted #assassination.
Trump’s utter disengagement and mendacity on the affordability crisis create a huge opportunity for Democrats,
✅and some have been running with it.
On Thursday, democratic socialist #Zohran #Mamdani was sworn in as the new mayor of New York City.
He campaigned on making New York more affordable through universal childcare,
free buses,
a rent freeze for rent-stabilized buildings,
as well as increasing the supply of housing for poor, working-class, and middle-class New Yorkers.
He is backed by a grassroots campaign to tax the rich to make all this possible.
On January 20, #Mikie #Sherill, the Democratic governor-elect of New Jersey, will also be sworn in.
She too campaigned on lowering costs
-- while also 💥strongly opposing the construction of new data centers, which will increase energy bills, line tech billionaires’ pockets, and only flood the world with more slo
In a sense, they will face the same challenge that Trump is facing:
how to deliver on their campaign promises to address the affordability crisis.
🔥The difference is that they have actual policies they plan to advance in their respective legislative bodies.
All Trump ever had was his favorite word, and every respected economist knew back in 2024 that astronomical tariffs were certain to accomplish one thing:
higher prices on American consumers.
But the president is not one to acknowledge his mistakes, let alone learn from them.
So it’s a safe bet that he’s not going to suddenly find any solutions to the affordability crisis ... not when he can barely bring himself to say those words. 
newrepublic.com/article/204856

2025-11-04

Auckland businessman Hun Min Im jailed for attempted multi-million dollar Covid-19 fraud

In the Auckland District Court, Im was sentenced to four years and four and a half months’ imprisonment.…
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newsbeep.com/227805/

Osna.FMosnafm
2025-10-16

The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main has initiated a primary legal proceeding to seize over €720 million from a Russian financial institution, a move... news.osna.fm/?p=19578 |

2025-10-03

Whangārei mum’s warning for women after pedestrian attempts to open car door

The man, who was dressed in a rain jacket, shorts and not wearing shoes, walked up to the…
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newsbeep.com/160956/

2025-10-01

Alleged burglar armed with samurai sword tried to steal Porsche from Wellington home

Speaking to the Herald, a neighbour alleged a man had entered the complainant’s garage with the sword and…
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newsbeep.com/157228/

2025-08-20

Why was a NZ soldier guilty of attempted espionage trying to defect to foreign country?

The soldier said he was terrified he had become a target of his own country and all he…
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newsbeep.com/72152/

Osna.FMosnafm
2025-07-29

The German Federal Prosecutor's Office has filed charges against a Syrian man for attempted murder at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin. The announcement, made T... news.osna.fm/?p=9856 |

ABDELAZIZstarnews
2025-07-08

Ten Antifa Members arrested and Alvarado, attempted a murder of the Embush of Ice Agents in Texas star-news.press/wp

,Ten Antifa Members arrested and Alvarado, attempted a murder of the Embush of Ice Agents in Texas star-news.press/wp, 2025-07-08 04:57:00

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2025-04-01

Hawaii doctor allegedly FaceTimed son, admitting he tried to push wife off cliff #Crime #Trending #US News #Attempted Murder #Doctor #Gerhardt Konig #Hawaii

globalnews.ca/news/11109058/ha

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-09-24

More than 200 pregnancy-related prosecutions in first year post-Roe

In the year Roe v Wade was overturned, at least 200 people in the US were💥 prosecuted for conduct relating to their pregnancies 💥
– the highest number of cases in a single year ever recorded,
according to a new report released on Tuesday.

The report, compiled by the advocacy group #Pregnancy #Justice, is the first comprehensive accounting of pregnancy-related #criminal #charges between June 2022 and June 2023
-- but researchers warn that it is still likely an #undercount.

“To be perfectly honest, I think we’re scratching the surface of what is happening,” said Wendy Bach, a University of Tennessee law professor and the report’s principal investigator.

The vast majority of prosecutions documented in the report do not involve abortions. However, five cases mention allegations of an abortion, an 🔸#attempted abortion, or 🔸“researching or exploring the #possibility of an abortion”, according to the report.
Only one was charged under a statute meant to 🔸criminalize abortions.
The rest involved a bevy of other laws, such as a statute that bans the 🔸“abuse of a corpse”.❗️

Four of those cases took place in states that #ban abortion or are hostile to the procedure.

More than 200 of the 210 recorded prosecutions involve allegations of substance use during pregnancy.
In almost 200 of the cases, prosecutors charged people using statutes that criminalize child abuse, neglect, or endangerment
– charges that 🔸treat an embryo or fetus as a person,
complete with rights and protections that may compete with that of the person carrying them.

More than 100 prosecutions recorded by Pregnancy Justice took place in #Alabama, a state whose supreme court recently ruled that embryos are 🔸“extrauterine children”.

Most of the cases also involved statutes where⚠️ prosecutors do not need to prove that any harm was done to a fetus or infant.
Rather, prosecutors must show that a defendant posed some “risk” to the pregnancy
– which could lead to 🔸criminalization of behavior that is not actually dangerous, advocates say.

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/s

Chuck Darwincdarwin@c.im
2024-09-16

Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old man who was arrested on Sunday in connection with what the F.B.I. described as an #attempted #assassination on former President Donald J. Trump, had expressed the desire to fight and die in Ukraine.

On the messaging application Signal, Mr. Routh wrote that “Civilians must change this war and prevent future wars” as part of his profile bio.

On WhatsApp, his bio read, “Each one of us must do our part daily in the smallest steps help support human rights, freedom and democracy; we each must help the chinese.”

Mr. Routh, a former roofing contractor from Greensboro, N.C., was interviewed by The New York Times in 2023 for an article about Americans volunteering to aid the war effort in Ukraine.

Mr. Routh, who had no military experience, said he had traveled to the country after Russia’s invasion and wanted to ⭐️recruit Afghan soldiers to fight in Ukraine

nytimes.com/2024/09/15/us/poli

2024-07-14

you know, in moments of great anger, I make jokes about hypothetical violence

but now that such has actually happened, I am far more worried about the fallout

his fanbase was already volatile and while they are in no way a well-regulated militia, they are dangerous and have firearms and are brainwashed enough to incite further violence

one of the causes of WWI was the assassination of a politician...not to mention nationalism, imperialism, and economic strife.

I am not dancing in celebration...I'm terrified. Because history doesn't repeat, but it rhymes. Please stay safe.

#terrified #donaldtrump #attempted #assassinationattempt

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