My savings for retirement has been obliterated. Fortunately I'll be dead soon from tuberculosis.

If you didn't buy stocks or bonds and instead bought gold, you would be doing well now.

I don't believe for a second that a majority of Americans hate Trump or his administration. And they certainly won't hate him once he renegotiates our foreign trade deals.

In fact, we best hire the sculptor now, because Trump is going on Mt. Rushmore sooner or later.

I'm pretty thrilled with Leavitt's answer about pronouns. Sorry, homey don't play that game any longer. Brilliant!

If we want to beat obesity, it's time to stop affirming people's choice to overeat. Nothing good comes from being fat.

Using the preferred pronoun for a transgender person is critically important, polite, and respectful. But having to parse the plural v nonbinary eggshell walking and on all the other variations annoys the best of folks. Just sayin' as they say.

Whatever you think about pronouns it's unbelievably childish to not respond to reporters based on what's in their social media profile. How is this real life?

@3 BabyBack: "Nothing good comes from being fat"

That kind of sentiment will land you on TrumpleThinSkin's Enemies' List.

Is there any action Hamas/Gaza Ministry of Health could take if it doesn't want 60,000 children to starve?

@5: Agreed

Just to expand on what Swiftress says @2. If you decided years ago to become a survivalist living off the grid thoroughly decoupled from the global economy, you would be doing well now too.

I was hearing a couple days ago that, in the 11 weeks of Trump's presidency, $11 trillion of wealth has evaporated. A trillion dollars per week of wealth destruction--that's pretty impressive. I was hearing a couple days ago that these tariffs now constitute the largest tax increase in American history. And of course, it's effectively a highly regressive tax increase. And all pulled off without the consent of the branch of government that has the power of the purse. The largest tax increase in American history, pulled off through an end-around.

I'm hearing the MAGA minions trying to spin the stock market collapse by saying Wall Street was due for a correction. Or that this is a great opportunity now for young people to get the hang of investing, or something like that--I guess with the money they don't have. You really have to feel bad for the MAGA minions with the shit sandwich they're having to sell these days.

AND... 90 day Tariff pause. It was all a feint. Markets shoot up in relief.

President Chaos. Trolling the planet.

@9 Cressona. You don't have to be a survivalist to invest in gold. Maybe you just like pretty coins.

"Gold is money. Everything else is credit." - JP Morgan

@5, If you understand trumpism as an expression of profound insecurity, everything they do makes sense. By the time we finished high school, most of us realized the bullies were just projecting their own weakness and self-doubt onto others to make themselves feel stronger, but some people never grew up and a bunch of them run the country now.

@3 Trump is literally morbidly obese...

Swiftress @11, acknowledged that gold is an easier investment that abandoning human civilization. Plus, it has added upside when Trump next exercises his unchallenged unitary monarchic powers, embarks on his next quest to return our nation to its 1890s glory days, and returns us to the gold standard.

@6 - it's true that Trump is overweight but the man has perfect genes. He'll likely live into his 90s like his father. For those of us who did not hit the genetic lottery, watching our weight is still quite important.

The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has just ruled that Trump can continue with his mass firings of probationary employees. This coming after yesterday's Supreme Court ruling.

Hey do you see that? The swamp is draining. Woo hoo!

@3, 4 What about those of us who state our pronouns in written communications because our first names are common to both sexes and it lets the recipient know whether to use "Mr." or "Ms." in response? Do we also not care about "biological reality or truth"?

@6 Perhaps his body will live into its 90s but do you seriously think his mind will? Someone remarked during his first term that "nothing he says ever has a second paragraph." Nowadays a second coherent sentence seems beyond his ability.

@15 His dad had perfect genes except for the whole dementia in his mid 80s thing that he very, very clearly passed directly to Donald who started displaying dementia symptons many years ago already. Whoops

@2 If you are THAT offended by preferred pronouns, congratulations. You look like your assigned gender AND you're a thin-skinned snowflake. I know there are a lot of butch women and effeminate looking men in this world that get misgendered on a daily basis, and preferred pronouns theoretically help to cut down on it.

Trump's approval rating is currently tanking and is down to 43%. So you saying, "I don't believe for a second that a majority of Americans hate Trump or his administration" is absolutely comical. 57% of Americans think he's a douche and a shit leader. Oh, and a gentle reminder that Biden's approval rating in April of 2021 was 57% & didn't dip into the 40s until he was 8 months on the job.

I struggle to believe you're a real human and not just a pack of English-speaking weasels in a human skin suit.

The Stranger should sue for using their copyrighted material without permission or payment:

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/15wQ2Q6w3w/

@19 his account reminds me of a troll account I would have made when I was 14 just to argue with random people. I assume that's what it is.

@19 & 21 it's tensorna doing a bit, best to just ignore it until it goes away

@17: That's all fine. I guess it comes down to a question of whether only those who prefer to specify pronouns do so, or whether everyone should specify pronouns by default.

@19, 21, 22: it's been established that he's Edwin P. Wilson's nephew and carries a lot of resentment over that miscarriage of justice. hence the focus on "draining the swamp".

It’s been established or this is something he said? He comes across like a sockpuppet to me but i suppose he could be who he claims to be and is giving out identifiable personal information for no good reason.

could a savvy prez
manipulate the markets
for favors or personal gains?

another
Win for the
Pro-Schweeps camp

Trump Guts Agency Devoted to Fighting Homelessness

President Trump escalated a conservative war on how billions in federal aid gets spent, a fight that could have life-altering stakes for people sleeping on the streets.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/09/us/president-trump

send in the
Bulldozers
bibi app-
roves.

I’m not convinced werebackbaby is a real person. At least raindrop had (very minor) sense of sort and was not trolling just for trolls sake like werebackbaby. I feel like they literally have no function but to negate the reporting and praise trump

that'd be a Bingo
@28, 25, 22
et al.

is Anyone
truly Surprised
wormmy'd employ
a Smackbott (or two?)
to say Out LOUD the quiet
parts, far better left Unfucking

said? when one's Narrative is
Suffering, one cannot Expect them
to Alter their insidious, hate-filled Narrative:

much
like thedjt,
expect instead
a doubling, trebling, a
fucking quadrupling down

and you'll
Most Likely
be Correct. sad, af.

therefore The Question is is the
Donation larger than
the Cost?

Tough Times for
a Left-leaning
rag, albiet
Seattle's
ONLY
news
pap
er.

mayhaps
we all need
to chip tf In?

and,
on a related note
This from the NY Times:

The Next Generation of
Democrats Don’t Plan
to Wait Their Turn

Younger Democrats are announcing
runs for office — sometimes against
incumbents — in an expression of
frustration with the establishment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/us/politics/young-democrats-trump.html

perhaps
Oodles too
fucking Late but bet-
ter fucking Late than Never?

can we not also just say
fucking Adios! to the
‘democratic’ nation-
al committee?

@30 kristofarian: In addition to Club Phallus Impudicus, aka (f)Elon Mu$k and its equally ugly, fat sock puppet, Mein Trumpf, I'd love to say adios to the RNC, NRA, RWNJs, the Heritage Foundation, Proud Boys, Patriot Players, down to the dumbest of MAGA tools like Baby Doofus, ad nauseum, too. The best way to hurt 'em as well as finally oust 'em is to make 'em into the very demographic they all taunt and hate so much: among the poorest among us. Grab 'em by their cowardly lil 'shrooms! No kings! Death to the RepubliKKKan Lie, the outdated electoral college, and two-party system that illegally conned We, the People!
I have been wearing my pink pussy hat proudly, by the way.