Avant d’accuser le gouverneur de Californie et la mairesse de Los Angeles de mentir, Donald Trump s’est félicité ce lundi d’avoir sauvé la deuxième ville américaine d’une destruction totale en y déployant des membres de la Garde nationale. « Nous avons pris une excellente décision en envoyant la Garde nationale pour faire face aux émeutes violentes et provoquées en Californie. Si nous ne l’avions pas fait, Los Angeles aurait été complètement détruite. Le très incompétent “gouverneur” Gavin Newscum et la “mairesse” Karen Bass devraient dire : “MERCI, PRÉSIDENT TRUMP, VOUS ÊTES TELLEMENT MAGNIFIQUE. NOUS NE SERIONS RIEN SANS VOUS, MONSIEUR.” »
Le locataire de la Maison-Blanche a ajouté : « Au lieu de cela, ils ont choisi de mentir au peuple californien et américain en disant que nous n’étions pas nécessaires et qu’il s’agissait de “manifestations pacifiques”. Il suffit de regarder les images et les vidéos de la violence et de la destruction pour savoir tout ce qu’il y a à savoir. »
Deux commentaires : 1) les membres de la Garde nationale ont été déployés pour protéger les immeubles et employés fédéraux et ne sont pas intervenus pour « faire face aux émeutes violentes » ; 2) des affrontements entre représentants de l’ordre et des manifestants, de même que des actes de vandalisme, se sont produits samedi et dimanche dans une ville qui est par ailleurs demeurée paisible dans la plupart de ses quartiers.
La photo qui coiffe ce billet montre des manifestants défilant paisiblement dimanche de la mairie au centre de détention de Los Angeles.
P.S. : À son retour à la Maison-Blanche après un week-end au New Jersey et à Camp David, Trump a offert cette réponse à la question de savoir si son tsar des frontières, Tom Homan, devrait arrêter Newsom, qui l’avait mis au défi de le faire dimanche : « Je le ferais si j’étais Tom. Je pense que c’est super. Gavin aime la publicité. J’aime Gavin Newsom, c’est un type sympa, mais il est grossièrement incompétent. »
(Photo AP)
Bande de Gaza #2
Criss de dément !
Les manifestations étaient pacifiques jusqu’à ce que les chemises brunes paniquent et attaquent les manifestants.
Il y a une vidéo d’une journaliste australienne qui a clairement été attaqué par un membre de la Gestapo trumpienne.
En passant, est-ce que quelqu’un ici sur ce blogue qui peut me donner une idée à quel moment il va commencer à travailler pour son pays?
À part, signer ses déchets et attiser la haine jour après jour, que fait-il?
Réponse facile: RIEN.
Faux! Il joue souvent au golf, c’est là qu’il planifie l’avenir du pays
Il joue au golf…
FAUX! Il TRICHE au golf!
Et avec les nerfs des gens
Pas seulement sur le vert, sur le bleu aussi : Gulf of America.
@Jeani il pense à des projets amusants😉
Hello Layla,
Des concepts de projets ! 😉
Ça c’était en 2024, en fin de semaine , il parlait de projets amusants.🤪
Jamais, il ne sait qu’il doit le faire.
Triste à pleurer
.
Insupportable.
https://x.com/9NewsAUS/status/1931885297203347706?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1931885297203347706%7Ctwgr%5E483c943584d1c440d45622515c71b99877e50d78%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fmedia%2F2025%2Fjun%2F09%2Faustralian-reporter-shot-with-rubber-bullet-while-covering-anti-ice-protests-in-los-angeles
Trumpty Dumbty fait tout pour que les gens manifestent et lorsque ça arrivera, ça lui permettra de déclarer l’état d’urgence national et de prendre le pays tout comme l’a fait un certain Adolf Hitler.
Le pompier qui met le feu et qui se vante de venir l’éteindre.
@Pierre Belley
Merci pour le clip ! 💥😱
Lors d’une autre manifestation pacifique à Washington, D.C., Black Lifes matter, celui qui tenait la bible à l’envers aurait tant voulu envoyer la Garde nationale contre les manifestants et leur dire: « tirez-leur dans les jambes ». Son souhait est maintenant exaucé.
Un photojournaliste britannique a reçu lui aussi une balle dans sa jambe.
Le sadisme fait homme. Quelle vidange.
A quoi s ‘attendre d’ autre d’ un mégalo? c’est même pas une surprise, c’est un apprenti dictateur 🍀🍀🍀
Il ne mérite même pas le titre d’apprenti dictateur. Les vrais dictateurs ont le mérite d’avoir du vocabulaire pour haranguer les foules et les convaincre.
Cet idiot inculte, n’a aucun verbe, et son vocabulaire se limite à des superlatifs qu’il distribue ça et là, à des idiots cosanguins plus incultes que lui.
Oui mais, il est une grosse Vidette de la Tivi « réalité ».
Enfermez- le quelqu’un! Trop fou pour se rendre compte que les images prouvent le contraire de ses inventions..
25e amendement et ça presse!!
La seule chose détruite avec le clown orange c’est le gbs. Depuis longtemps.
Il voudrait provoquer une guerre civile il ne pourrait faire mieux. Ça doit le faire fantasmer.
Si la réincarnation existe il était Néron dans une vie antérieure ?
Tout comme Elon, le gros orange a perdu la tête….
Musk n’a pas perdu la tête à ce que je sache.
Really ?!?!?!?! vraiment pas un seven-up flat Farty-seven
📣 COMMUNIQUÉ SOLENNEL DU COMITÉ GLORIEUX POUR LA STABILITÉ DE LA GRANDE NATION ÉTERNELLE
Aujourd’hui encore, les vents de l’Histoire se sont tus pour écouter la Parole sacrée de Taco Suprême parmi les Suprêmes, Sauveur en Chef, Stratège Infaillible et Architecte Tanifié de la Vérité Ultime.
Par la seule puissance de son verbe et la noblesse de son ego colossal, notre Guide Doré a sauvé Los Angeles d’un destin plus tragique que la saison finale de Game of Thrones. Les émeutes, pourtant invisibles à l’œil nu, ont été neutralisées par l’arrivée prophétique de la Garde nationale, dont le déploiement fut ordonné avant même que la réalité ne réalise qu’elle avait un problème.
Malgré les tentatives minables des sous-dirigeants de la zone rebelle connue sous le nom de « Californie » – l’inconsistant gouverneur Newscum et la mairesse Bass, nullité incarnée – le Taco Suprême parmi les Suprêmes a tenu bon, tel un phare recouvert de poudre de Cheetos face à la tempête woke.
🧠 Message de l’IA nationale déclassifiée :
« Simulation complète. Aucun scénario ne prévoyait une destruction de L.A. Mais tous prévoyaient une conférence de presse avec beaucoup de majuscules. »
Que résonnent les trompettes dans les parkings de Mar-a-Lago,
Que s’inclinent les tacos du peuple,
Et que vive pour mille ans notre Président du Spray Tan Éternel,
Taco Suprême parmi les Suprêmes.
👍👍 !!
ah, c’est nouveau ca, le president peut envoyer la garde nationale, le pensait que seulement le président, ou présidente avant, avait le pouvoir de le faire…..les temps ont changés
vous voulez dire: gouverneur/re?
Sans lui, L.A. « aurait été complètement détruite », dit Trump…
Avec lui ce sera tout le pays qui le sera.
QUAND L’ÉGO POSTILLONNE SUR LA VÉRITÉ
Donald, tu ne changes jamais. Tu continues de déformer la réalité comme un mauvais illusionniste qui s’émerveille de ses propres tours. Te voilà qui claironnes que tu as « sauvé » Los Angeles, comme si tu étais un demi-dieu tombé du ciel survolant les flammes imaginaires de ta propre paranoïa.
Mais soyons clairs : tu n’as sauvé personne.
Tu n’as fait que t’imposer, une fois de plus, en jetant la Garde nationale sur des citoyens qui, pour la plupart, manifestaient paisiblement. Tu dis que tu protèges l’Amérique, mais en vérité, tu ne protèges que ton image, ton pouvoir, ton miroir.
Et pendant que tu parles de crachats, permets qu’on te rafraîchisse la mémoire :
c’est toi qui craches en permanence. Tu craches sur les maires, sur les gouverneurs, sur les juges, sur les scientifiques, sur les journalistes, sur les femmes, sur les migrants, sur les Noirs, sur les pauvres, sur les artistes, sur les manifestants, sur les soldats morts — et même sur ton propre pays.
Tu réclames qu’on te dise : « Merci, Président Trump, vous êtes magnifique » ?
Non. Ce que tu mérites, ce n’est pas une ovation, mais un mur de mépris, un silence qui t’étouffe et une porte qui t’aplatie le visage en se refermant.
Car au fond, tu n’es pas un sauveur. Tu es une sirène d’alarme qui s’époumone à provoquer la panique pour justifier sa propre brutalité. Tu n’as rien reconstruit. Tu n’as rien guéri. Tu n’as rien élevé. Tu n’as fait que diviser, souiller et salir.
Alors voici la morale, Donald :
Quand un homme crache partout, tôt ou tard, c’est le vent qui change de direction. Et crois-moi, le vent tourne.
Je souhaite que votre conclusion se produira. Il va certainement se noyer sous son « slime ».
D’abord et avant tout, qu’il souffre un bon coup avant de mourir.
Otez lui son téléphone quelqu’un.
Parlant de téléphone:
Donald Trump continue d’utiliser son téléphone personnel malgré un piratage chinois avéré
https://www.slate.fr/monde/donald-trump-telephone-personnel-utilisation-piratage-maison-blanche-chinois-communications-securite
Comme il est un agent de la Russie, la Chine espionne la Russie indirectement.😉
@Lanaudoise,
Cest le seul dont il a réussi à mémoriser le fonctionnement
Et sa capacité de respirer…. en top priorité…
Ça se frotte les mains un peu partout sur la planète présentement, notamment en Russie, en Chine, en Iran et en Corée du Nord.
Mythomane, mégalomane, égocentrique, etc… Qu’il se croit lui-même, c’est une chose. Peut-être y-a-t-il un traitement.
Mais que d’autres croient ses propos, et ils seront nombreux, cela dépasse l’entendement.
Il a déjà sauvé Los Angeles. En faisant ouvrir un barrage, il l’a sauvée de l’incendie. Petit problème: cette eau ne pouvait s’y rendre. Pas grave. Dieu est avec lui.
@lanaudoise
Bon rappel ! 👌
Cette eau était pour les agriculteurs. Ils vont en arracher bientôt.
Oui, en effet. Une pensée pour ceux qui y produisent une bonne partie de la nourriture de l’Amérique du Nord. L’Ignorant n’a rien à faire de la réalité. L’important, c’est de faire de la bonne Tivi!
HORS SUJET EXCELLENT ARTICLE AUJOURDHUI DANS ROLLING STONE : Making america backward again
President or Mad King?
How Donald Trump and MAGAnomics
are destroying the economy and waging war
on the middle class and the poor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Illustration by VICTOR JUHASZ
MAY 1, 2025
I
f you weren’t deeply afraid months ago of what a second Trump administration would mean, you weren’t paying attention. The attack on democracy and rule of law — the transformation of the land of the free into a nation where masked government agents kidnap people on
the streets and opposition to the Leader is criminalized — was completely predictable.
Even those who knew that bad things were coming, however, have been startled by the damage MAGA has done to our strengths — the speed, if you like, with which it has undermined American greatness. It was obvious that Donald Trump and Co. would pursue some bad economic policies, but few expected them to create a full-blown crisis in a matter of months. It was obvious that Trump’s allies would degrade governance, but not that they would rapidly bring the whole apparatus of government to the point of collapse. It was predictable that MAGA would go after inconvenient research like the study of climate change, but not that it would move so decisively to destroy American science and intellectual endeavor in general.
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And much of the damage will be permanent. Even if MAGA is eventually driven from power and its policies are reversed, we may never go back to being the nation we were just a few months ago.
Let’s start with a brief portrait of who we used to be.
The America That Was
America at the end of the Biden years was in a sour mood, mostly because people were still angry about the surge in consumer prices as the economy recovered from Covid. Neither the bout of inflation nor the bad feelings, by the way, were unique to the United States. For example, the cumulative rise in consumer prices between the eve of Covid and January 2025 was almost exactly the same in the European Union as it was in the U.S., while, as the financial journalist John Burn-Murdoch has said, 2024 elections were a “graveyard of incumbents” almost everywhere. (Canada’s Liberal Party was set to join that graveyard with a historic defeat — until Trump came to its rescue.)
But if you look past the bad vibes, America at the beginning of this year was in good shape in many ways. Prices rose a lot between 2021 and 2023, but most workers’ wages had outpaced inflation since the start of the pandemic, while the rate of inflation — the change in prices over the past year — had fallen dramatically from its peak in 2022. Furthermore, disinflation took place without the extended period of high unemployment many economists had said would accompany it.
Taking a longer perspective, the performance of the U.S. economy in the 21st century had made it, as The Economist put it, “the envy of the world.” Productivity and per capita income had grown much faster than in any other wealthy nation, with leading voices in Europe like Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, calling for urgent efforts to narrow the growing dominance of U.S. companies in advanced technology, a gap that many attributed to inadequate investment, a lack of entrepreneurs willing to take risks, and the absence of high-tech clusters comparable to Silicon Valley.
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Part of that technology gap also probably had to do with the dominance of U.S. science and our superb system of higher education.
Many non-economic indicators were looking good, too. Right-wingers liked to portray a nation terrorized by immigrant crime, but the reality is that the Covid bump in crime rates quickly receded, and by 2024, America’s homicide rate was near its lowest level over the past 65 years. New York had 2,262 murders in 1990; it had only 382 in 2024.
Not everything was going well. Income inequality declined somewhat during the Biden years, with bigger wage gains at the bottom than at the top, but remained extreme. “Deaths of despair,” that is, deaths from suicide, alcohol abuse, and especially opioids remained high. And one way in which America has performed poorly compared with our peers was our low and lagging life expectancy. If you look at a map of the electorate, low life expectancy and high mortality show an obvious correlation with low rates of employment among men — and large majorities for Trump.
All in all, however, Trump took power in a nation that, despite its dark mood, was doing well on many fronts. But he has moved quickly to fix that.
MAGAnomics
While many voters expected Trump to bring back the prosperity over which he presided during most of his first term (whether or not he caused it), most economists who looked at his platform during the 2024 campaign gave it poor reviews. Three things in particular looked disturbing.
First, Trump proposed large increases in tariff rates — much bigger than anything he did during his first term. These tariffs, according to basic economics, would cause inflation and reduce real incomes.
Second, he called for large-scale deportations, which would be highly disruptive for industries, like agriculture and construction, that are highly dependent on foreign-born workers, some of them undocumented.
Finally, he made it clear that he wanted to politicize the Federal Reserve, the institution that both fights recessions and tries to keep inflation under control.
All of this chaos is on Trump’s head: The economy would be doing fine if he had left it alone.
The deportations we’ve seen so far have been brutal and illegal, but haven’t yet involved large numbers of workers. Trump has raged a lot against Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chairman, but hasn’t yet tried to take control. So these are still potential rather than ongoing threats to the economy.
But the tariffs are here, belying the belief of many business supporters of Trump that he wouldn’t go through with everything he talked about during the campaign. In practice, the Trump tariffs have been more extreme and, well, crazier than anything he suggested back then.
I do mean extreme. America had fairly free trade, with an average rate of 2.4 percent, when Trump took office. Trump, however, imposed huge tariffs. Imports from China temporarily faced a tariff of 145 percent! That rate has been provisionally reduced to 30 percent, but even after that climbdown, the average tariff rate was 17.4 percent — the highest level of tariffs since 1934, not much lower than the rate after the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930.
All indications are that these tariffs will do large economic damage, much larger than pre-inauguration analyses predicted. Why will the damage be so severe?
For one thing, there’s a big difference between imposing 10 or 25 percent tariffs on a few imports and imposing 10 percent on everything and 30 percent on everything one of our major suppliers of both consumer goods and industrial imports produces. As I write this, West Coast ports are reporting a sharp drop in ships arriving from Asia; in fact, the latest report says that no container ships are departing China for America right now.
The results of this collapse in trade could probably show up in a few weeks, as inventories are exhausted. We’ll soon see soaring prices, quite possibly empty shelves, and widespread layoffs — even bankruptcies — among businesses that depended on the flow of goods from abroad, including trucking companies, retailers, and quite a few manufacturers.
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs as US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick holds a chart during an event in the Rose Garden entitled « Make America Wealthy Again » at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new « Liberation Day » tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump’s escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“Liberation Day,” when Trump declared worldwide tariffs, including islands inhabited only by penguins.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/getty images
Adding to this direct impact of tariffs is the huge uncertainty Trump’s tariff policy has created. If you’ve been following the story so far, you know that on April 2 — insanely dubbed Liberation Day by the president — Trump imposed huge tariffs on countries and territories around the world, including islands inhabited only by penguins. Then a week later, he put those tariffs on a 90-day pause, replacing them with a new set of tariffs that were equally extreme on average but quite different in detail. According to press reports, the big change came when two Trump Cabinet members managed to corner him in his office while his trade czar was in another meeting.
So who knows what tariff rates will be, say, six months or a year from now? And how are businesses supposed to plan in the face of such instability? If you’re a company deciding whether to invest in, say, a factory in Mexico or a factory in the United States, you know that either investment could easily turn out to be a waste of money. A Mexican factory will be worthless if Trump keeps 25 percent tariffs in place; a higher-cost U.S. facility will be worthless if he decides to take the tariffs off.
It’s worth noting that Trump’s tariffs violate all of our existing international trade agreements and have run into opposition in the courts. One of the main purposes of such agreements is precisely to help make future policy predictable. Now, we have a U.S. government that treats solemn compacts with other countries as worthless pieces of paper.
In this environment, the rational thing for many businesses — and many consumers, too — is to sit on their hands, accumulating cash rather than making investments.
The result is that we’re facing a substantial risk of stagflation — rising prices and shortages because tariffs have cut off imports, and rising unemployment because erratic policy is deterring spending. And all of this chaos is on Trump’s head: The economy would be doing fine if he had left it alone.
Demolishing Government, Waging War on the Poor
Although the news media keep calling Trump a populist, it was clear before he regained power that his administration would follow a right-wing fiscal agenda: big tax cuts for the rich, savage benefit cuts for the poor and working class.
Even so, the budget bill that passed the House in May has been incredibly extreme. According to the Congressional Budget Office, it cuts almost $700 billion from Medicaid, which will deny health care to millions — we may be talking about 15 million or more people losing insurance by the time this budget and other Trump policies go into effect. The budget also cuts close to $300 billion from SNAP, a.k.a. food stamps, which means that many Americans will go hungry.
These cuts to social programs will, the CBO estimates, reduce the purchasing power of lower-income U.S. households by around four percent; some independent estimates are even bigger. And Trump’s tariffs will also weigh heavily on working families, which will be hit hard by higher prices for clothing, food, and other essentials. It’s a good guess that Americans in the bottom 10 or 20 percent of income distribution, who are already struggling, could find themselves on average seven percent or more worse off, with many suffering even more than that.
The dollar’s value has plunged, suggesting that investors are losing faith in U.S. credibility.
Yet despite these savage cuts at the bottom, taxes at the top are cut so much that the CBO estimates the budget will add $3.8 trillion to the deficit.
If you don’t believe the CBO’s dismal deficit forecast, look at the bond market: Long-term interest rates on U.S. debt have soared to levels not seen in many years, while the dollar’s value against foreign currencies has plunged, suggesting that investors are losing faith in U.S. credibility, maybe even solvency.
Beyond the viciousness and irresponsibility of its budget, the Trump administration has been destroying the ability of the government to carry out its most basic functions.
When Trump created Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, it was obvious that DOGE couldn’t possibly deliver the huge cost savings Musk was promising. Of course there’s waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, as there is in any large organization, but the great bulk of federal spending goes either to the social safety net or the military, and there was no reason to believe the Muskenjugend — the young tech bros Musk was parachuting into agencies they didn’t understand — could save significant sums without creating chaos.
The skeptics were right. DOGE’s “receipts,” listing purported savings, have itemized only a tiny fraction of the sums Musk claimed he would deliver — and they’re riddled with accounting errors. If DOGE has managed to cut overall spending at all, the amount has been too small to show up in budget data.
DOGE has, however, created a lot of chaos. Stories keep surfacing of sudden dismissals of government workers who turn out to fulfill crucial functions, followed by desperate attempts to hire them back. Agencies the public depends on, like Social Security, are fraying at the seams, with more and more tales of beneficiaries missing their checks, then finding it nearly impossible to get help.
The monetary hit many Americans are about to take is one thing, but if you ask me, the psychological damage of this sabotage will go beyond the loss of money. Even if seniors, veterans, and others who depend on government aid eventually get what they’ve been promised, many will go through long periods of panic and frustration because they’ll never know when or if they’ll be helped.
Moreover, the federal government isn’t a bloated, pointless bureaucracy. It is, instead, largely staffed by millions of good people who care about their jobs — often working for much lower salaries than they could make in the private sector. Subjecting them to arbitrary firings and treating them with contempt amounts to destroying a valuable public asset.
As with Trump’s tariffs, much of this damage will be irreversible. Even if DOGE is eventually shut down and the tech bros sent home in disgrace, how many of the dedicated civil servants we’ve lost will come back? How many young people will be willing to enter government service, knowing what happened to their predecessors?
The pretty good federal government we had just four months ago has been degraded, and it may take decades to restore it.
The War on Knowledge
America leads the world in science and intellectual inquiry of all kinds. Or it did a few months ago. It’s hard to overstate the devastation Trump has wrought since then.
I don’t know how many people realize the extent to which the Trump administration has already brought scientific research in America to a screeching halt. The 2026 budget proposal released by the administration would cut funding for the National Institutes of Health by 40 percent and funding for the National Science Foundation by more than half.
We may see 15 million or more people losing insurance by the time this budget goes into effect.
But support for research has already dried up well in advance of the next fiscal year. On April 30, NSF staffers were instructed to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice.” This doesn’t just mean no new grants, it means no disbursement of increments of money on existing grants. Worse, the NIH appears to be “ghosting” grantees — not formally canceling their grants but simply failing to send the promised funds.
Nor is the war on science just about money. Everywhere you look there’s a push to shut down any research that MAGA types think is woke or touches on “DEI.” This doesn’t have to mean, say, gender studies. It could mean any study that might provide evidence for climate change or suggest that vaccines work and don’t cause autism. This is a frontal assault on intellectual inquiry of any kind.
Here, too much of the damage is likely to be permanent. Even if a future administration were to restore funding and end the campaign against perceived wokeness, who will want to begin a major research project in a nation that behaves this way? How many leading scientists — or talented foreign students — will want to accept positions at U.S. universities knowing that they’re one election away from persecution, maybe even arrest? As far as science is concerned, the American century may well be over.
Crypto’s New Gilded Age
One of the more surprising developments deserves mention: the Trumpian boosting and exploitation of cryptocurrency. It may seem hard to believe, but Bitcoin is an elderly idea as informational technologies go: It was created in 2008, which makes it almost as old as the iPhone. In all the years since, the vast legions of cryptocurrency salesmen have failed to find any real economic role for their products. Most legitimate businesses don’t accept payment in crypto, even in countries like El Salvador that have spent large sums trying to promote the digital currency.
But illegitimate business, where being able to transfer large sums that legal authorities can’t track, is another matter. Cryptocurrencies, especially “stablecoins” like Tether, have come to play a huge role in criminal activity, especially in blackmail and extortion.
Now, crypto has found an even more remarkable use: bribery, with useless $TRUMP and $MELANIA coins being used to transfer billions to the president and his family, likely in return for influence. The president even threw a party for crypto enthusiasts, charging them $1 million for the pleasure of his company. It all makes the corruption of the Gilded Age look petty and quaint.
The Triumph of Resentment
The obvious question, given this landscape of devastation, is one of motive. Why are Trump and those around him doing this?
Quite a few people on the U.S. left and even the center-left hold the Bernie Sanders view: What we’re seeing is government by and for oligarchs. That is, we’re looking at a cabal of billionaires who want to get even richer. They want to slash government spending, especially spending that helps the vulnerable, to make room for tax cuts. They want to dismantle government so it can be privatized, with contracts going to them and their friends.
There’s clearly something to that. But I don’t think that’s the whole story. It doesn’t explain the trade war, which hurts almost everyone. It doesn’t explain why these people want to make infectious disease great again and destroy American science.
What I think is happening is the triumph of resentment. Try reading Trump’s Truth Social posts, or Musk’s tweets, or RFK Jr.’s speeches, and the overwhelming impression you get is that these are angry, insecure people. “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’” Trump said on Truth Social. Does this sound like a rational policymaker? Or like someone with a grudge?
These men clearly aren’t suffering from “economic anxiety.” They’re wealthy and hold positions of great power, and are likely enriching themselves through epic corruption as we speak. Yet anyone who’s spent time around men in privileged positions knows how easy it is for some of them to feel bitter and angry, despite lives 99.9 percent of the population would envy, because privilege isn’t as fulfilling as they thought it would be. (Hey, I’ve spent much of my life around elite academics, and I see it all the time.)
The common feature of MAGA’s leading figures is that they appear to feel that they have, as Trump would put it, been treated “very badly.” Trump senses that many people consider him an ignorant boor, and it drives him crazy. Musk is furious that he no longer receives the admiration he did when Tesla was cool. RFK Jr. seems determined to prove that he isn’t the crank he is.
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I would argue that almost all of the administration’s policies have been shaped by this resentment. Trump is going wild on tariffs in large part to get back at economists who think they know how these things work better than a real-estate developer who doesn’t read much. Musk wrecked the federal government to prove that he really is a genius who understands everything better than anyone else. RFK is destroying medical research to silence anyone who might contradict his snake oil.
Obviously there’s something deeply wrong with a body politic that could put such people in power. I do, however, have enough faith in America to believe that their reign will eventually end. In the meantime, however, they’re doing incredible damage. And I don’t expect to see a full recovery in my lifetime.
@darrylfzanuck
Merci du partage !
À bon entendeur, je prédis qu’il n’y aura pas d’élection de mi-mandat. Une urgence quelconque sera déclenchée et un décret pour y mettre fin promulgué.
Les élections relèvent des États. Il n’y a aucune loi électorale au fédéral.
Bien d’accord. Tout comme la demande de la garde nationale doit être faite, pour l’ensemble des besoins, par le gouverneur de l’état. Si les temps étaient normaux je ne penserais pas de cette façon. Mais il n’y a rien de normal présentement dans ce pays
En 2020…
Trump in 2020: We have to go by the laws. We can’t move in the National Guard. I can call insurrection but there’s no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case.
We can’t call in the National Guard unless we’re requested by a governor.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1932121748373479632
Uh oh !! 😅👍
correction de l,article désolé ! Making america backward again
President or Mad King?
How Donald Trump and MAGAnomics
are destroying the economy and waging war
on the middle class and the poor
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Illustration by VICTOR JUHASZ
MAY 1, 2025
I
f you weren’t deeply afraid months ago of what a second Trump administration would mean, you weren’t paying attention. The attack on democracy and rule of law — the transformation of the land of the free into a nation where masked government agents kidnap people on
the streets and opposition to the Leader is criminalized — was completely predictable.
Even those who knew that bad things were coming, however, have been startled by the damage MAGA has done to our strengths — the speed, if you like, with which it has undermined American greatness. It was obvious that Donald Trump and Co. would pursue some bad economic policies, but few expected them to create a full-blown crisis in a matter of months. It was obvious that Trump’s allies would degrade governance, but not that they would rapidly bring the whole apparatus of government to the point of collapse. It was predictable that MAGA would go after inconvenient research like the study of climate change, but not that it would move so decisively to destroy American science and intellectual endeavor in general.
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And much of the damage will be permanent. Even if MAGA is eventually driven from power and its policies are reversed, we may never go back to being the nation we were just a few months ago.
Let’s start with a brief portrait of who we used to be.
The America That Was
America at the end of the Biden years was in a sour mood, mostly because people were still angry about the surge in consumer prices as the economy recovered from Covid. Neither the bout of inflation nor the bad feelings, by the way, were unique to the United States. For example, the cumulative rise in consumer prices between the eve of Covid and January 2025 was almost exactly the same in the European Union as it was in the U.S., while, as the financial journalist John Burn-Murdoch has said, 2024 elections were a “graveyard of incumbents” almost everywhere. (Canada’s Liberal Party was set to join that graveyard with a historic defeat — until Trump came to its rescue.)
But if you look past the bad vibes, America at the beginning of this year was in good shape in many ways. Prices rose a lot between 2021 and 2023, but most workers’ wages had outpaced inflation since the start of the pandemic, while the rate of inflation — the change in prices over the past year — had fallen dramatically from its peak in 2022. Furthermore, disinflation took place without the extended period of high unemployment many economists had said would accompany it.
Taking a longer perspective, the performance of the U.S. economy in the 21st century had made it, as The Economist put it, “the envy of the world.” Productivity and per capita income had grown much faster than in any other wealthy nation, with leading voices in Europe like Mario Draghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, calling for urgent efforts to narrow the growing dominance of U.S. companies in advanced technology, a gap that many attributed to inadequate investment, a lack of entrepreneurs willing to take risks, and the absence of high-tech clusters comparable to Silicon Valley.
Part of that technology gap also probably had to do with the dominance of U.S. science and our superb system of higher education.
Many non-economic indicators were looking good, too. Right-wingers liked to portray a nation terrorized by immigrant crime, but the reality is that the Covid bump in crime rates quickly receded, and by 2024, America’s homicide rate was near its lowest level over the past 65 years. New York had 2,262 murders in 1990; it had only 382 in 2024.
Not everything was going well. Income inequality declined somewhat during the Biden years, with bigger wage gains at the bottom than at the top, but remained extreme. “Deaths of despair,” that is, deaths from suicide, alcohol abuse, and especially opioids remained high. And one way in which America has performed poorly compared with our peers was our low and lagging life expectancy. If you look at a map of the electorate, low life expectancy and high mortality show an obvious correlation with low rates of employment among men — and large majorities for Trump.
All in all, however, Trump took power in a nation that, despite its dark mood, was doing well on many fronts. But he has moved quickly to fix that.
MAGAnomics
While many voters expected Trump to bring back the prosperity over which he presided during most of his first term (whether or not he caused it), most economists who looked at his platform during the 2024 campaign gave it poor reviews. Three things in particular looked disturbing.
First, Trump proposed large increases in tariff rates — much bigger than anything he did during his first term. These tariffs, according to basic economics, would cause inflation and reduce real incomes.
Second, he called for large-scale deportations, which would be highly disruptive for industries, like agriculture and construction, that are highly dependent on foreign-born workers, some of them undocumented.
Finally, he made it clear that he wanted to politicize the Federal Reserve, the institution that both fights recessions and tries to keep inflation under control.
All of this chaos is on Trump’s head: The economy would be doing fine if he had left it alone.
The deportations we’ve seen so far have been brutal and illegal, but haven’t yet involved large numbers of workers. Trump has raged a lot against Jerome Powell, the Fed’s chairman, but hasn’t yet tried to take control. So these are still potential rather than ongoing threats to the economy.
But the tariffs are here, belying the belief of many business supporters of Trump that he wouldn’t go through with everything he talked about during the campaign. In practice, the Trump tariffs have been more extreme and, well, crazier than anything he suggested back then.
I do mean extreme. America had fairly free trade, with an average rate of 2.4 percent, when Trump took office. Trump, however, imposed huge tariffs. Imports from China temporarily faced a tariff of 145 percent! That rate has been provisionally reduced to 30 percent, but even after that climbdown, the average tariff rate was 17.4 percent — the highest level of tariffs since 1934, not much lower than the rate after the infamous Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930.
All indications are that these tariffs will do large economic damage, much larger than pre-inauguration analyses predicted. Why will the damage be so severe?
For one thing, there’s a big difference between imposing 10 or 25 percent tariffs on a few imports and imposing 10 percent on everything and 30 percent on everything one of our major suppliers of both consumer goods and industrial imports produces. As I write this, West Coast ports are reporting a sharp drop in ships arriving from Asia; in fact, the latest report says that no container ships are departing China for America right now.
The results of this collapse in trade could probably show up in a few weeks, as inventories are exhausted. We’ll soon see soaring prices, quite possibly empty shelves, and widespread layoffs — even bankruptcies — among businesses that depended on the flow of goods from abroad, including trucking companies, retailers, and quite a few manufacturers.
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs as US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick holds a chart during an event in the Rose Garden entitled « Make America Wealthy Again » at the White House in Washington, DC, on April 2, 2025. Trump geared up to unveil sweeping new « Liberation Day » tariffs in a move that threatens to ignite a devastating global trade war. Key US trading partners including the European Union and Britain said they were preparing their responses to Trump’s escalation, as nervous markets fell in Europe and America. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP) (Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“Liberation Day,” when Trump declared worldwide tariffs, including islands inhabited only by penguins.
Adding to this direct impact of tariffs is the huge uncertainty Trump’s tariff policy has created. If you’ve been following the story so far, you know that on April 2 — insanely dubbed Liberation Day by the president — Trump imposed huge tariffs on countries and territories around the world, including islands inhabited only by penguins. Then a week later, he put those tariffs on a 90-day pause, replacing them with a new set of tariffs that were equally extreme on average but quite different in detail. According to press reports, the big change came when two Trump Cabinet members managed to corner him in his office while his trade czar was in another meeting.
So who knows what tariff rates will be, say, six months or a year from now? And how are businesses supposed to plan in the face of such instability? If you’re a company deciding whether to invest in, say, a factory in Mexico or a factory in the United States, you know that either investment could easily turn out to be a waste of money. A Mexican factory will be worthless if Trump keeps 25 percent tariffs in place; a higher-cost U.S. facility will be worthless if he decides to take the tariffs off.
It’s worth noting that Trump’s tariffs violate all of our existing international trade agreements and have run into opposition in the courts. One of the main purposes of such agreements is precisely to help make future policy predictable. Now, we have a U.S. government that treats solemn compacts with other countries as worthless pieces of paper.
In this environment, the rational thing for many businesses — and many consumers, too — is to sit on their hands, accumulating cash rather than making investments.
The result is that we’re facing a substantial risk of stagflation — rising prices and shortages because tariffs have cut off imports, and rising unemployment because erratic policy is deterring spending. And all of this chaos is on Trump’s head: The economy would be doing fine if he had left it alone.
Demolishing Government, Waging War on the Poor
Although the news media keep calling Trump a populist, it was clear before he regained power that his administration would follow a right-wing fiscal agenda: big tax cuts for the rich, savage benefit cuts for the poor and working class.
Even so, the budget bill that passed the House in May has been incredibly extreme. According to the Congressional Budget Office, it cuts almost $700 billion from Medicaid, which will deny health care to millions — we may be talking about 15 million or more people losing insurance by the time this budget and other Trump policies go into effect. The budget also cuts close to $300 billion from SNAP, a.k.a. food stamps, which means that many Americans will go hungry.
These cuts to social programs will, the CBO estimates, reduce the purchasing power of lower-income U.S. households by around four percent; some independent estimates are even bigger. And Trump’s tariffs will also weigh heavily on working families, which will be hit hard by higher prices for clothing, food, and other essentials. It’s a good guess that Americans in the bottom 10 or 20 percent of income distribution, who are already struggling, could find themselves on average seven percent or more worse off, with many suffering even more than that.
The dollar’s value has plunged, suggesting that investors are losing faith in U.S. credibility.
Yet despite these savage cuts at the bottom, taxes at the top are cut so much that the CBO estimates the budget will add $3.8 trillion to the deficit.
If you don’t believe the CBO’s dismal deficit forecast, look at the bond market: Long-term interest rates on U.S. debt have soared to levels not seen in many years, while the dollar’s value against foreign currencies has plunged, suggesting that investors are losing faith in U.S. credibility, maybe even solvency.
Beyond the viciousness and irresponsibility of its budget, the Trump administration has been destroying the ability of the government to carry out its most basic functions.
When Trump created Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, it was obvious that DOGE couldn’t possibly deliver the huge cost savings Musk was promising. Of course there’s waste, fraud, and abuse in the federal government, as there is in any large organization, but the great bulk of federal spending goes either to the social safety net or the military, and there was no reason to believe the Muskenjugend — the young tech bros Musk was parachuting into agencies they didn’t understand — could save significant sums without creating chaos.
The skeptics were right. DOGE’s “receipts,” listing purported savings, have itemized only a tiny fraction of the sums Musk claimed he would deliver — and they’re riddled with accounting errors. If DOGE has managed to cut overall spending at all, the amount has been too small to show up in budget data.
DOGE has, however, created a lot of chaos. Stories keep surfacing of sudden dismissals of government workers who turn out to fulfill crucial functions, followed by desperate attempts to hire them back. Agencies the public depends on, like Social Security, are fraying at the seams, with more and more tales of beneficiaries missing their checks, then finding it nearly impossible to get help.
The monetary hit many Americans are about to take is one thing, but if you ask me, the psychological damage of this sabotage will go beyond the loss of money. Even if seniors, veterans, and others who depend on government aid eventually get what they’ve been promised, many will go through long periods of panic and frustration because they’ll never know when or if they’ll be helped.
Moreover, the federal government isn’t a bloated, pointless bureaucracy. It is, instead, largely staffed by millions of good people who care about their jobs — often working for much lower salaries than they could make in the private sector. Subjecting them to arbitrary firings and treating them with contempt amounts to destroying a valuable public asset.
As with Trump’s tariffs, much of this damage will be irreversible. Even if DOGE is eventually shut down and the tech bros sent home in disgrace, how many of the dedicated civil servants we’ve lost will come back? How many young people will be willing to enter government service, knowing what happened to their predecessors?
The pretty good federal government we had just four months ago has been degraded, and it may take decades to restore it.
The War on Knowledge
America leads the world in science and intellectual inquiry of all kinds. Or it did a few months ago. It’s hard to overstate the devastation Trump has wrought since then.
I don’t know how many people realize the extent to which the Trump administration has already brought scientific research in America to a screeching halt. The 2026 budget proposal released by the administration would cut funding for the National Institutes of Health by 40 percent and funding for the National Science Foundation by more than half.
We may see 15 million or more people losing insurance by the time this budget goes into effect.
But support for research has already dried up well in advance of the next fiscal year. On April 30, NSF staffers were instructed to “stop awarding all funding actions until further notice.” This doesn’t just mean no new grants, it means no disbursement of increments of money on existing grants. Worse, the NIH appears to be “ghosting” grantees — not formally canceling their grants but simply failing to send the promised funds.
Nor is the war on science just about money. Everywhere you look there’s a push to shut down any research that MAGA types think is woke or touches on “DEI.” This doesn’t have to mean, say, gender studies. It could mean any study that might provide evidence for climate change or suggest that vaccines work and don’t cause autism. This is a frontal assault on intellectual inquiry of any kind.
Here, too much of the damage is likely to be permanent. Even if a future administration were to restore funding and end the campaign against perceived wokeness, who will want to begin a major research project in a nation that behaves this way? How many leading scientists — or talented foreign students — will want to accept positions at U.S. universities knowing that they’re one election away from persecution, maybe even arrest? As far as science is concerned, the American century may well be over.
Crypto’s New Gilded Age
One of the more surprising developments deserves mention: the Trumpian boosting and exploitation of cryptocurrency. It may seem hard to believe, but Bitcoin is an elderly idea as informational technologies go: It was created in 2008, which makes it almost as old as the iPhone. In all the years since, the vast legions of cryptocurrency salesmen have failed to find any real economic role for their products. Most legitimate businesses don’t accept payment in crypto, even in countries like El Salvador that have spent large sums trying to promote the digital currency.
But illegitimate business, where being able to transfer large sums that legal authorities can’t track, is another matter. Cryptocurrencies, especially “stablecoins” like Tether, have come to play a huge role in criminal activity, especially in blackmail and extortion.
Now, crypto has found an even more remarkable use: bribery, with useless $TRUMP and $MELANIA coins being used to transfer billions to the president and his family, likely in return for influence. The president even threw a party for crypto enthusiasts, charging them $1 million for the pleasure of his company. It all makes the corruption of the Gilded Age look petty and quaint.
The Triumph of Resentment
The obvious question, given this landscape of devastation, is one of motive. Why are Trump and those around him doing this?
Quite a few people on the U.S. left and even the center-left hold the Bernie Sanders view: What we’re seeing is government by and for oligarchs. That is, we’re looking at a cabal of billionaires who want to get even richer. They want to slash government spending, especially spending that helps the vulnerable, to make room for tax cuts. They want to dismantle government so it can be privatized, with contracts going to them and their friends.
There’s clearly something to that. But I don’t think that’s the whole story. It doesn’t explain the trade war, which hurts almost everyone. It doesn’t explain why these people want to make infectious disease great again and destroy American science.
What I think is happening is the triumph of resentment. Try reading Trump’s Truth Social posts, or Musk’s tweets, or RFK Jr.’s speeches, and the overwhelming impression you get is that these are angry, insecure people. “Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting ‘Sickness?’” Trump said on Truth Social. Does this sound like a rational policymaker? Or like someone with a grudge?
These men clearly aren’t suffering from “economic anxiety.” They’re wealthy and hold positions of great power, and are likely enriching themselves through epic corruption as we speak. Yet anyone who’s spent time around men in privileged positions knows how easy it is for some of them to feel bitter and angry, despite lives 99.9 percent of the population would envy, because privilege isn’t as fulfilling as they thought it would be. (Hey, I’ve spent much of my life around elite academics, and I see it all the time.)
The common feature of MAGA’s leading figures is that they appear to feel that they have, as Trump would put it, been treated “very badly.” Trump senses that many people consider him an ignorant boor, and it drives him crazy. Musk is furious that he no longer receives the admiration he did when Tesla was cool. RFK Jr. seems determined to prove that he isn’t the crank he is.
I would argue that almost all of the administration’s policies have been shaped by this resentment. Trump is going wild on tariffs in large part to get back at economists who think they know how these things work better than a real-estate developer who doesn’t read much. Musk wrecked the federal government to prove that he really is a genius who understands everything better than anyone else. RFK is destroying medical research to silence anyone who might contradict his snake oil.
Obviously there’s something deeply wrong with a body politic that could put such people in power. I do, however, have enough faith in America to believe that their reign will eventually end. In the meantime, however, they’re doing incredible damage. And I don’t expect to see a full recovery in my lifetime.
Une simple copie de l’URL aurait suffit.
Ce qu’il y a d’intéressant de nos jour avec toute notre technologie, on peut faire bruler un Reichstag de façon tout à fait virtuelle.
Alors Californie…. Le canada est juste la 🙂
Kash Patel un des lèhes-cul de Trumpty Dumpty qui en ajoute une couche:
« Le directeur de la police fédérale (FBI), Kash Patel, a balayé d’un revers de main l’opposition politique à l’intervention de ses services : « Pour que les choses soient claires, le FBI n’a besoin de l’autorisation de personne pour faire respecter la Constitution. Je rends compte au peuple américain, pas aux politiciens qui lancent des phrases chocs. Los Angeles est assiégée par des criminels en maraude, et nous rétablirons l’ordre public. Je ne vous le demande pas, je vous le dis. »
Relisez bien cette phrase de sa déclaration: « Je rends compte au peuple américain, pas aux politiciens qui lancent des phrases chocs. »
https://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/2025-06-09/garde-nationale-contre-des-manifestations/le-centre-ville-de-los-angeles-boucle-la-situation-toujours-tendue.php
Correction :
Des communautés paisibles sont assiégées par ICE (i.e. des criminels en maraude)
Des manifestants s’opposent à ICE
la Garde nationale vient troubler l’ordre public (au profit d’un ordre publicitaire).
Bon, ils connaissent la Constitution maintenant.🤔
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25 ieme amendement et ça presse, ce type est dangereux et halluciné ..
Le temps est proche ou il lancera la garde nationale contre la population
civile sur la base d’une de ses perception psychotique.
Prochainement: grâce à son Sharpie magique, Sa Dorure efface la faille de San Adreas.
“MERCI, PRÉSIDENT TRUMP, VOUS ÊTES TELLEMENT MAGNIFIQUE. NOUS NE SERIONS RIEN SANS VOUS, MONSIEUR.”
@lanaudoise
Trop drôle ! 😅
Correction: il l’a renommée la faille d’Amérique! 😉
Bonjour à tous, je ne sais décidément pas si c’est la traduction littérale de l’anglais vers le français mais c’est pas possible d’avoir des phrases aussi débile venant d’un président. Ce type est juste, faut vraiment avoir le QI d’une anémone pour pouvoir prononcer ce genre de discours à 78 ans. Ce qui me rend encore plus fou c’est qu’il ait été élu, ce qui veut dire que des millions de personnes ont le même QI que lui c’est à 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Vous n’êtes pas gentil envers les anémones. J’utiliserais le QI d’un ballon de plage, plus juste dans le cas de Trumpty Dumbty.
Plus les élus et les citoyens qui n’approuvent pas les décisions de Trump laissent passer des décisions inacceptables et dangereuses, plus les choses risquent de s’aggraver.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-something-much-bigger-parnas/
@Louise
Effectivement l’article est très révélateur !
Merci du partage !
« Au lieu de cela, ils ont choisi de mentir au peuple californien et américain… »
Et ce n’était pas un mensonge de dire au peuple californien et américain
Le 8 juin « À 2:41 am le DJT « le Dé-Jan-Té » a écrit « La Garde nationale a fait un excellent travail à Los Angeles… »
– [ ] Billet de M. Hétu « Au moment, où il a publié son message, les militaires n’étaient pas encore arrivés à Los Angeles. »
C’était un mensonge de dire au peuple californien et américain?
Le 8 juin « À 3:22 am la mairesse a écrit: « Pour être clair, la Garde nationale n’a pas été déployée dans la ville de Los Angeles. »
C’est encore et encore de la diversion, pour cacher l’incompétence de ce mémorandum, comme on peut le comprendre dans la lettre via un mail à Pete Hegseth.
« Le mémorandum ordonne en outre « au secrétaire à la défense de prendre les mesures nécessaires
* pour coordonner avec les gouverneurs des États et le Bureau de la Garde nationale
* l’identification et l’affectation au service fédéral des membres et unités appropriés de la Garde nationale en vertu de cette autorité ».
La section 12406 stipule en outre que « les ordres à ces fins seront délivrés par l’intermédiaire des gouverneurs des États ».
Et il continue…
« Hier soir, l’adjudant général de Californie a reçu un mémorandum de votre bureau ayant pour objet
« Appel aux membres de l’armée nationale californienne ».Guard into Federal Service », qui stipule que “deux mille membres de la Garde nationale californienne seront appelés au service fédéral avec effet immédiat pour une période de 60 jours”. Notamment, cette directive n’a pas été émise « par l’intermédiaire du gouverneur de l’État » comme l’exige la section 12406 ;
le ministère de la défense n’a pas transmis cette directive au bureau du gouverneur, et elle n’a pas été approuvée ou ordonnée par le gouverneur de Californie.
* Cette directive est également incompatible avec le mémorandum du président, qui prévoit une « coordination avec les gouverneurs des États » pour l’identification et l’affectation des unités de la Garde nationale au service fédéral. »
Le gouverneur a dit que dès ce lundi il entreprendrait des poursuites, j’ai bien hâte de voir ce qui va se passer.
Les avocats de « D***** » doivent l’avertir que ce mémorandum demande de suivre certaines règles pour que son exécution soit légale… Ben oui, des règles le DJT « le Dé-Jan-Té » n’en à rien à cirer.
Quelque soit le niveau d’éducation et d’instruction des populations, il demeure toujours un fondement de « gros bon sens » qui éclaire le discours des gens. Ça peut parfois nous sembler long!
À l’heure actuelle Trump a commencé son déclin. Il avait été élu une première fois parce qu’il était devenu le haut-parleur de beaucoup de monde qui ne comprenait plus où s’en allait le pays et qui se sentait ignorés des pouvoirs politiques. Il a été élu une deuxième fois à cause de la faiblesse de son adversaire et de l’indifférence de millions de personnes qui ne se son pas déplacées pour aller voter. Comme Trump fait preuve de son incapacité à administrer le pays, sa crédibilité se fissure et commence à décliner. Il ne peut pas en faire plus que ce qu’il prétend pouvoir faire. Peu à peu il détruit son propre environnement politique.
Dans ce contexte, il a besoin d’illustrer sa force et son pouvoir en provoquant des crises qui n’existent pas.
Qui donc va croire qu’il a sauvé Los Angeles de la disparition de la carte? Personne, sauf ses ouailles qui aveuglément le croient sur parole. Et ils sont de moins en moins nombreux à lui faire confiance. Il va lui-même s’éjecter de la carte politique des USA.
Malheureusement, il y a des gens pour le croire, le gros épais. Plus le mensonge est énorme, plus ça passe dans certains esprits…
Plus le mensonge est gros, mieux il passe. Joseph Goebbe
https://citations.ouest-france.fr/citation-joseph-goebbels/mensonge-gros-mieux-passe-111326.html
« Chacun sait que Donald Trump vit dans sa propre réalité »
– H. Clinton lors du premier débat en 2016.
Gilles Gougeon
Votre optimiste vous honore.
Où voyez-vous un déclin chez trump?
il était le même en 2016, il est encore ce trump erratique et menteur.
Le but des mensonges de trump n’est pas de persuader qui que ce soit.
Il les dit pour lui-même.
Ils sont de moins en moins nombreux à lui faire confiance, croyez-vous? Ah bon…
Il a été un incapable de 2016 à 2020 et il est encore un incapable depuis le 20 janvier 2025.
Il décline? pas vraiment.
Il se fissure? pas vraiment.
les gens sont encore satisfaits de son administration. Plusieurs croient toujours aux bienfaits des tarifs… plusieurs le félicitent d’avoir sécuriser les frontières… plusieurs approuvent le nettoyage des abus des fonctionnaires et organismes qui volaient le gouvernement… plusieurs sont fiers qu’il ait fait disparaitre les wokes et non genrés… plusieurs applaudissent de ne pas aider l’Ukraine à coups de milliards…
trump est bien en selle…..
Il n’y a aucun mouvement populaire aux E-U en ce moment contre trump.
Pour une majorrtié d’étasuniens le Gros bon Sens c’est ce que trump fait.
Regardez-le reculer lorsque les gros joueurs menacent de déménager leur production en Chine pour mieux s’approvisionner en terres rares? Observez le plafonnement de ses appuis dans les derniers sondages. Observez le fractionnement de ses appuis dans son propre parti face à sa proposition de budget. Ce sont des signes qui ne trompent pas. Je ne suis ni optimiste, ni pessimiste mais le plus froidement réaliste.
En politique domestique les signaux sont plus faciles à décoder qu’en politique étrangère. La Banque centrale lui résiste. Son taux de désapprobation est le plus élevé des récents présidents après moins de six mois en exercice:
Seulement 44 % des Américains se disent aujourd’hui satisfaits de leur président, contre encore 49 % en mars.
Le pourcentage de mécontents grimpe même à 59 % quand la question porte plus spécifiquement sur la gestion du coût de la vie, et à 58 % sur la politique commerciale. Concentrez-vous sur les faits et non le rêve de le voir disparaître.
Justement, vendredi matin, oubliant un instant sa chicane avec Felon, Trump a publié ceci. Visiblement irrité par ce que deux grands quotidiens aient publié à quel point il est devenu impopulaire.
“The Failing New York Times and the Washington ComPost, two ‘papers’ that have ruthlessly fought me for years, have each done Polls where a vast majority of those sampled are Democrats. In other words, the Polls, just like their writings, are RIGGED – It is not possible for a Republican to do well in such a Poll!” Trump claimed in a Friday morning post on his Truth Social platform.
“They are ‘corrupt as hell.’ The real Polls out there have me doing better than ever before, JUST LIKE ELECTION DAY, 2024, where I WON seven out of seven Swing States, the Popular Vote, and Districts by 2,750 to 505. I won the Election in a landslide! The Fake News Media is Failing Our Nation at levels never seen before. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” the president continued.
Elon Musk isn’t the only thing Trump is melting down over: ‘Corrupt as hell’
https://www.al.com/politics/2025/06/elon-musk-isnt-the-only-thing-trump-is-melting-down-over-corrupt-as-hell.html
« Pour une majorrtié d’étasuniens le Gros bon Sens c’est ce que trump fait. »
Une majorité ? D’où tenez-vous ça ?
Consultez les sondages!
@G.G
En reprenant la phrase de monsieur le chat, je m’adressais évidemment à monsieur le chat.
Gilles Gougeon
trump amène l’Occident en récession, malgré tout…
Les sondages… pour ma part….
Quand on entendra la rue rejeter les actions du gouvernement trump je me rangerais dans votre camp…
Faire des marches ça ne donne jamais rien de concret. sinon une illusion aux marcheurs….
Quand les gens seront dans la rue pour résister, alors là, ça va bouger…
Y’a pas grand chose qui déstabilise un gouvernement étasunien, une fois élu.
Il y a les élections de mi-mandat…. ça demeure flou qu’il y en aura….
En 21 semaines, ce gouvernement n’a rien foutu…. et on voit mal pourquoi, subitement, il changerait sa philosophie….
Ils n’ont pas fait tout ça pour ensuite baisser les bras…
Ce gouvernement ne se préoccupe pas des sondages.
Rien ne peut le chasser de la Maison-Blanche.
Le gouvernement contrôle tous les leviers…
Ils ne plieront pas.
Voyons voir si la Cour Suprême osera….
infophile2
Le Gros Bon Sens est un slogan de droite, très conservateur. Ça représente les E-U…
Gros bon sens et la Loi et l’Ordre sont les 2 piliers de la droite profonde.
Ça les sécurise le Gros Bon sens…. Moins de bandits dans les rues, des rues plus sécures, être riche. être respecté, être les plus armés, moins de taxes et d’impôts, être avec Dieu, être croyant, patriote, avec trump… Gun, Cash, God …c’est le Gros Bon sens aux E-U….
La majorité adhère à ça…
@lechatderuelle
« Le Gros Bon Sens est un slogan de droite, très conservateur. Ça représente les E-U… »
Ce que vous évoquez n’est pas faux; cela s’applique assurément à un certain nombre d’Américains et de Canadiens, soit dit en passant.
Ce dont je doute toutefois, c’est lorsque vous outrepassez votre perception en écrivant en parlant d’un forfait de valeurs extrêmement conservatrices : « La majorité adhère à ça… »
Permettez-moi d’en douter. De plus, il y a une marge entre l’adhésion aux valeurs conservatrices et l’approbation des politiques de Trump. Selon les sondages, celle-ci ne correspond pas à l’assentiment d’une majorité.
Salut m’sieur le chat 😉
Et ça marche son histoire: Epstein et Elon sont tellement « loin » aujourd’hui, après ce show de pacotille.
Ciao
Très bon point ! 🎯
Newsome devrait commencer à parler d’une sécession, ça calmerait peut-être les ardeurs.
Aucunement, Trumpty Dumbty va envoyer l’armée cette fois-ci et non la garde nationale.
Selon Trump, si le soleil brille, c’est grâce à lui.
Con au cube et fier de l’être.
P.S. J’ai eu un message de quelqu’un de New York pour me dire de surveiller les manifestations qui auront lieu le 14 juin. Je ne sais pas si c’est un mouvement organisé. Pas de confirmations.
Ce qui me surprends c’est qu’il y a très peux d’info sur ce sujet sur le web.
Le 14 juin est la fete du donald avec sa parade militaire
J’ai lus que les manifestation sont planifié dans 1500 ville amariciane et plus d’une centaine d’organisme d’impliqué
Aucun grand media n’en parle
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/07/no-kings-protest-trump-military-parade-june-14
Quand le gros se lève, il dit à Dieu qu’il peut aller se coucher.
Le bon peuple des Étatsdésunis ont encore choisi d’élire :
L’aliéné,le mentalement dérangé ,le psychopathe fou pour diriger le pays le plus puissant ( encore pr l’instant )de la planète
Et on assiste à leur dégringolade , leur décrépitude ,la naissance de leur autocratie en direct tous les jours Mais on ne voit rien de ce qui devrait être en ce moment même ,une très forte opposition quotidienne
Comment pourrions-nous nous avoir de la compassion pour eux?
De plus en plus difficile à mon avis
On devrait proposer à la Californie de devenir la 11 ième province du Canada !
Un État ne peut pas se retirer de l’Union.
Le « Gish gallop », c’est l’art de balancer une avalanche de faussetés ou de demi-vérités à une telle vitesse qu’il devient impossible de tout débunker sans y passer la semaine. Le « Felon Don », en a fait sa marque de commerce. Il enchaîne les outrances comme d’autres boivent du café : pas pour convaincre, mais pour saturer l’espace, « flood thé zone with shit » comme le suggère Bannon, noyer la critique, et surtout empêcher qu’on s’attarde à un sujet trop longtemps.
Quand il lance, sans sourciller, qu’il faudrait arrêter le gouverneur Newsom, il ne cherche pas la justice , il cherche la distraction. Parce qu’au même moment, il ne veut surtout pas qu’on parle du déploiement douteux de la Garde nationale, du silence gênant autour des « Epstein files »,ni de l’absence criante de sanctions contre la Russie.
Et comme à chaque fois, les médias mordent à l’hameçon — exactement comme prévu.
ÉTATS DÉM: Ce qu’il faut retenir de tout ce spectacle, c’est que n’importe quel prétexte va être utilisé par les zigotos au pouvoir fédéral pour aller délivrer les populations des états DÉM d’un danger inventé ou amplifié. Une façon de montrer la force des RÉP, de leur gourou et de ses pouvoirs. Une façon aussi de menacer les dirigeants de l’état, ce qui n’améliorera pas l’économie, le tourisme, les emplois, la qualité de vie en général. On va en faire des zones de conflits jusqu’aux élections de mi-mandat, pour jouer sur la peur et l’inquiétude des électeurs DÉM. Ajouté aux impacts des tarifs de douanes, cela commence à faire de nombreuses raisons pour les états-uniens de s’appauvrir encore plus. Ah en passant, Put fait cela aussi en Russie…
FUITES: Non pas les fuites du 47e dans sa couche Poise. Je parle plutôt de la fuite d’information qui va sans doute arriver de quelque part, auprès de journalistes à l’affût, au sujet de l’Empereur et ses maîtresses pubères chez Epstein. Cela fera oublier la Californie pour un temps, histoire de nous emmener en Californication (comme le dit la chanson du même titre)! 😅🙀🤪
Je croyais que le commentaire de Mme Bass était ironique…Ben non, elle est aussi stupide à genoux qu’assise.
Quel commentaire?
C’est le phantasme du donald de e qu’il aimerit entendre de la part du gouverneur et de la mairesse.
C’est ce que le donald a écrit dans son twit: il devraient s’agenouiller et me dire….
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Pmurt a dit
« Nous avons pris une excellente décision en envoyant la Garde nationale pour faire face aux émeutes violentes et provoquées en Californie. Si nous ne l’avions pas fait, Los Angeles aurait été complètement détruite. Le très incompétent “gouverneur” Gavin Newscum et la “mairesse” Karen Bass devraient dire : “MERCI, PRÉSIDENT TRUMP, VOUS ÊTES TELLEMENT MAGNIFIQUE. NOUS NE SERIONS RIEN SANS VOUS, MONSIEUR.” »
Qui le croit ?
Malheureusement, un certain pourcentage de la population aux States.
Haïku, vous dîtes un certain pourcentage mais quel est il ce pourcentage ?
Voilà un message parfaitement inutile qui fait du millage en Amérique. Nous même on le commente. Comment ça
Ce qui m’intéresse, pourquoi porte t’on une attention si heu….. Soutenue quotidiennement ?
Attention, je ne dis pas qu’il ne faut pas le faire, je me pose des questions sur le phénomène.
NStrider à 14h46 terminé son commentaire par ceci
« Et comme à chaque fois, les médias mordent à l’hameçon — exactement comme prévu. »
Et il a raison.
Pmurt à cette qualité de venir nous chercher, de nous jouer dans la tête.
Mon fil de presse est envahi par des nouvelles, si on peut dire, de pmurt. J’ouvre la télé et il est là en gros titre. Je vais me détendre sur you tube, et là on a le summum de l’information et désinformation, tout et rien .
Alors je me dis que j’embarque dans son jeu, fait chier !
Quel angle pourrais-je emprunter pour prendre le pas sur le pmurt ?
J’y réfléchi !
@Richard Dufour
« Haïku, vous dîtes un certain pourcentage mais quel est il ce pourcentage ? »
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Réponse amicale:
D’après mes recherches il s’agit de 45%.
C’est plutôt ironique, car le 47 pense qu’il a battu tous les records ! 😉
L’humilité est la plus grande qualité de Dummy Trump
Un défaut est souvent une qualité poussée à l’extrême. Il en a trop 😉
Et comme les habitués du blogue le savent : trop de quelque chose (dans ce cas-ci l’humilité) rend sourd.
C’était on ne peut plus prévisible. Le mégalomane est en pleine crise narcissique. Il s’est encore enfoncé dans une réalité qui n’existe tout simplement pas.
Son esprit tordu a créé de toutes pièces un monde imaginaire ou tel un « super héros de bandes dessinées », il sauve L.A., que dis je, le pays tout entier, de la destruction. Ce type n’a plus toute sa tête. Il est en plein délire. Son fantasme a atteint des dimensions qui relèvent de la maladie mentale.
Le seul qui aura réussi à détruire ce pays est lui même mais il ne l’admettra jamais. Tel un pyromane, il a créé les conditions idéales pour un incendie majeure et il fait en sorte d’alimenter ce dernier en répandant la haine, la violence, l’intolérance, le fanatisme.
Même les avions cargos du Canada ne viendrait à bout d’éteindre cet incendie dans ce pays gouverné par une bande de malfrats, de criminels, de psychopathes.
Voilà qu’il demande rien de moins au gouverneur Newsom et la mairesse Bass (L.A) de se prosterner devant lui pour le remercier « d’avoir sauvé la ville » de la destruction causé par des gens dont le seul crime est d’avoir osé exprimer leur désaccord face à une grave injustice.
Le gouverneur Newsom et la mairesse Bass devraient dire à la POURRITURE EN CHEF, d’aller se faire foutre. « Va te faire entuber connard ». Il existe des expressions encore plus vulgaires mais je m’abstiendrai de les utiliser mais vous devez avoir une petite idée ce dont je veux parler.
Détails intéressants qu’on retrouve sur ce post. Il semble que la Garde Nationale n’est pas intervenu afin de faire face aux « émeutes supposément violentes ». Elle ne fait que du « piquet » devant les édifices fédéraux, et ce, afin de « protéger les employés ». Grosse « job ». On laisse le « sale boulot » à la police locale. Combien croyez vous que cela va coûter aux contribuables américains?
En fait, ce serait plutôt calme depuis Dimanche et les autres quartiers de la ville n’auraient pas été touché par ce qui s’est passé. Les seules actes de violence documentés proviennent de la « petite Gestapo (ICE) du Fuhrer » (Mes excuses pour le point Goodwin).
Ne comptez surtout pas sur les enfoirés de médias et « les encore plus enfoirés de journalistes » pour vous rapporter ce genre d’informations. Les raisons sont bien connus. Nul besoin de répéter ce que j’ai déjà dit sur le sujet. On va endormir le bon peuple avec du sensationnalisme dont les médias ont le secret et celui-ci gobera le tout sans poser la moindre question.
« Tout va pour le mieux dans le meilleur ders mondes car L’ÉLU veille sur nous et nous sauvera du feu destructeur de l’enfer » (Sarcasme !!!).
Y a t il un psychiatre dans la salle? Le dernier à sortir aurait il l’obligeance d’éteindre les lumières?
Mon respect pour les médias américains en général, sauf quelques exceptions, est en constante baisse et il devrait atteindre le point de non retour très bientôt.
Quel parfait imbécile. La planète se porterait beaucoup mieux sans lui. En fait, la planète se porterait beaucoup mieux sans ces deux psychopathes, Poutine et Trump, qui dirigent les deux plus grandes puissances (militaires) au monde. À cause d’eux, nous sommes obligés d’allouer des sommes astronomiques pour nous réarmer au lieu de les utiliser pour combattre le réchauffement planétaire, entre autres.
Le show habituel: on modifie les faits pour glorifier sa conduite… Churchill avait dit avec humour: l’histoire me donnera raison… parce que c’est moi qui l’écrirai… C’est ce que le Donald fait… Il invente une crise et la résout… Notre ineffable PE « watch me » Trudeau a fait la même chose en 1970… Les bouffons ne sont pas tous drôles…