Lying cunt
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Why would Trump do this now, really? Powell’s term ends on February 4th, he doesn’t even have a month left. Trump could get his Fed Chair in next month and maybe follow up on his grudge instead of unnecessarily complicating things right now.
When is there a good time to annihilate your own economy from orbit?
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Possible answers include:
- One of the people in his inner circle wanted to do it for individual reasons
- Trump figures since nobody is stopping him with other stuff, why not?
- He didn’t mean to do it, but someone interpreted one of his tantrums as orders to do it
- Someone else is just doing it with the assumption nobody will stop them
It’s really hard to narrow down a singular motive with the current administration
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Because he’s an idiot and an asshole, so rational decisions aren’t involved.
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Protests in Iran
On December 28 2025, small-scale protests demanding that the Iranian government address the devaluation of the Iranian rial and high inflation rates started in Tehran and Hamadan City, western Iran, amid a rapid collapse of the Iranian currency since November 2025.
Quickly protests spread in the entirety of Iran.
- They involve millions of citizens.
- They involve the entirety of the population. Previous protests were frequently centred on generational, or ethnic/regional demographics.
Protesters are now calling for a complete regime change.
- The number of protesters is the highest in the country history since the one that installed the current regime in 1979.
- Contrary to past protests, since 2019, that were first called for the preservation or expansion of rights, current protests are economical.
- In a, relatively, diversified economy such as Iran it means protesters hold actual powers and that they now consider the government illegitimate to its duty towards it.
- The protests expanded its scope to a larger call for a new Iran in service to its People/Nation.
- The Iranian government possess the military power, and the power of its larger industries (given to inner circles, and frequently to IRGC retirees). They are expected to stay loyal.
- The first is seen as illegitimate, the second as being disastrously misused/corrupt/only for the first/not in service of the general population, by protesters.
Border regions also see protests and militancy.
- They are separate from the rest of the protests.
- They might strain the government capabilities.
On a quick recent timeline:
- After losing some steam in the first days of January, protests since regained it.
- An internet blackout was instated by the government on January 8.
- Since evaluation of the protests from outside observers have become difficult, but indirect signs indicate that they continue across the country.
- The government has organised counter protests.
- The government has fired into crowds of protesters among other crackdown and arrests.
The death toll, as of today, is of:
- 2000 per the Iranian government
- 5000 per Mossad intelligence
- 12000 per Iran International
It is currently unknown if and how international actors, chief among them the United States of America, will act.
- To note: the US does not have a Carrier Strike Group in the region at the moment. Could use allies capabilities.
- A “cyberattack on security forces” is seen as probable.
- Any attacks would be “days away”.
- The US has cancelled dialogue with the Iranian government, seeing them as delaying tactic from them
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Apparently Teamsters hate AOC for some reason.
Because the Teamsters upper brass are pro-Trump and have been for the last few years.
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Bari Weiss is a shill and her failure would benefit journalism.
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The Teamsters in the US have always had this weird situation where they seem to regularly side with the most corrupt members of the far-right. Famous Teamster leader Jimmy Hoffa was vehemently anti-Kennedy and made huge donations to Richard Nixon.
A large part of it seems to be because trade unions in the US like the Teamsters often handle their members pension funds, the leadership quickly develop a conflict of interest where they want to support decisions that will allow for high returns on investment, and mistreating of their own staff, so they can give themselves high salaries, more perks, bigger bonuses, etc.
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What does this mean? Some union leaders misuse pension funds and Republicans are more lax on corruption?
Well, yeah. You hear corruption and white collar crime, 9 times out of 10, you think Republican. And if you’re that 1 out of 10 who doesn’t, you’re probably a Republican involved in corruption and white collar crime.
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Two dollars and I’ll tell you where he is buried.
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It’s less that the funds are misused (though I expect there’s plenty of that), and more that the funds are invested in areas that can be manipulated through lobbying. For example, a $100 million pension fund is invested in stock in a natural gas company. The union donate to the re-campaigns of a couple congresspeople in a district where fracking is on the table, with the agreement that they will pass laws to benefit the value of that stock investment. Pension funds are huge, so even a 1% difference is a million dollar difference
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There’s other perverse incentives in the mix too. If the currently truck drivers only get a benefit when they’re teamsters, and the Democrats want to make it a universal benefit while the Republicans want to take away other standard benefits, the Republican who will be happy to draft the changes to benefit teamsters is the better candidate from a pure “business” perspective of getting paying members.
It’s a potential problem with unions, but its particularly a problem with the Teamsters since they are an old union from the pro-capitalism, anti-communism period who are weirdly conservative and right leaning for a trade union.
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Which Trump property is he buried under?
He didn’t start out anti Kennedy. Joe got his son Jack elected anyway he could and that included using the mafia and the unions to crank out votes. Then Bobby Kennedy (attorney general under his brother Jack) decides he’s going after the labor unions and the mob ties. Had Bobby just left it all alone the Teamsters would have kept giving to the dems, and who knows, maybe he and his brother wouldn’t have ever gotten shot.
And now for some lighter news…
He was really a power ranger 
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Fucking Ace Attorney plots are writing themselves.
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Things would be different, if they were different, but the fact the Hoffa went full anti-Kennedy and the Teamsters all got behind him, in itself makes them a weird trade union.
Not as weird as police unions, but weird.
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