CNN Data Guru Warns Why Trump Is Facing ‘Double Trouble’
IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Harry Enten said surveys on the economy don’t look so good right now for President Donald Trump. Usually the sitting president is blamed for the nation's economic woes. Is Mr. Trump getting worried yet? Trump doesn't look like he still enjoys being president. He often appears tired and has been falling asleep in daytime meetings. He has been dubbed The Nodfather.
Google says: Excessive sleepiness can be a symptom of serious underlying medical conditions.
Mr. Trump has said that he loves everything gold, not gold leaf, not gold paint, but items made of pure solid gold. Is it true that only pure gold now adorns his presidential office and the entire White House? There is some doubt about his claims. How then are these objects being paid for? And when Trump leaves office, will he take all these gold objects with him?
Justice now at last for E. Jean Carroll who has won a $5 million verdict against Trump.
Will she ever be able to collect it?
‘Schumer is no longer effective’: Dems outraged over shutdown deal
Daily Beast, Trump Publicly Throws Top Goon [Sergio Gore] Under the Bus Over ‘Mistakes’
PASSING THE BUCK
The president seemed to have a few bones to pick with the adviser he had previously trusted to staff the White House.
Damning with faint praise: “Some people, when they don’t like Sergio, they don’t like him, but when they like him, they like him more than anybody,” Trump, 79, said, while also mentioning that Sergio Gore has made "mistakes." Despite his own misgivings, Trump has appointed Gore as the new ambassador to India.
Sergio Gore
Trump downplays economic woes as partisan spin, saying, 'Costs are way down'
"So are you ready? Costs are way down," Trump said
Costs are not actually "way down." as Trump insists, quite the opposite, as the public can readily attest. He characterizes news reports of citizen concerns about the economy as simply "fake."
ICE agents in Chicago are accused of pepper spraying a one-year-old being held by her father,
Kiluea, an active volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, is again spouting lava, something I have often witnessed there myself. A bright river of lava often flows down to the sea, erupting there below in huge clouds of steam, most dramatic when seen at night. This has been happening now for many years. I first saw the lava flow about 30 years ago.
Kīlauea is one of the world's most active volcanoes, famous for its nearly constant eruptions that create new land and its significance as the home of the Hawaiian goddess Pele.
Kilauea is said to have been erupting for at least the last 1000 years.
ABC News, Nov. 11, 2025, Hawaii's Kilauea volcano is once again shooting lava more than 1,000 feet into the air.
NBC News, Trump officially requests pardon for Netanyahu, Israeli president's office says.
| What follows is a rather long recent post on Communitas, a lay Catholic group's website. When I lived in DC, I was a member of Communitas and attended its local religious services. There, I met some local Catholics like myself, tending toward more inclusive and less dogmatic religious expression. This comment seemed worth reposting in full, though it's already somewhat out-of-date.. Edward McCarthy <ecmccar@gmail.com>: Nov 10 I have not recently gotten around to expressing myself on my usual focus of concern, the obscenities of the ongoing tragedy of Israel/Palestine. I will get to that, but in the present context of the Government shutdown, which has my son and many others out of work, a few thoughts on the present occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW and other miscreants. Donald J Trump’s stock of negative capabilities is enormous. His self-absorption, his callousness, his complete lack of capacity for empathy or compassion are all too well-known. In the present situation, his irresponsibility and unhelpfulness are particularly clear. He knows that ending the filibuster is a non-starter even for many of the most sycophantic Republican Senators, yet he makes that, rather than joining in negotiations, his principal recommendation for ending the shutdown. Most recently, he has proposed that subsidies authorized by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) be paid directly to individuals rather than, as at present, insurance companies. There is an attractive plausibility to this, the lure of which diminishes once it is realized that, among other things, debating and implementing the change would delay and disrupt, rather than expedite, an end to the shutdown. There is no guarantee that the recipients, especially the young and healthy among them, would use the money to buy insurance. We can also expect that a public broader than the 22 million entitled to ACA subsidies would want to know why they too should not be included in any such handout. At best, this Truth Social brainstorm is not presently useful. Not that others don’t have much to answer for as well. On this Sunday’s Meet the Press, Oklahoma Senator James Lankford, made clear the more ambitious Republican agenda: repeal of the ACA, and throwing of the public back on the private insurance market where, it is said, free market competition will result in much reduced costs. Well, maybe. Republicans want to lay all the ills of our health care system at the ACA's door. Perhaps it should be borne in mind why the ACA came about, and what it was, and was not, intended to do. By 2010, the inadequacies of the private sector insurance system, especially in terms of providing coverage for most Americans, were manifest. Consistent with President Obama’s penchant for caution and compromise, the ACA was shaped to mollify a range of interests who might have derailed it including Unions, and businesses, used to the system created after World War II by which most Americans still get health insurance through their employers. Corporate insurers, prone to seeing proposals for change as threatening their demise, were seen as needing reassurance as well. Those skeptics were not easily won over, and it took a long time after passage for the Act itself to gain broad public acceptance. In other words, Lankford and other Republicans are proposing to go back to a failed system, with no assurance of better outcomes this time. If anything, logic and history appear to point not backward but toward a national health insurance system. But that too is not what is needed at the moment. Beyond the indeed much needed subsidies, the Democrats need to make the case for the ACA, for why it came about and why it and Medicaid are important. They also need to make the case with the passion of an AOC, a Mamdani or a Bernie Sanders. Perhaps in the longer run of 2026 or ‘28, moderation may be the electoral key, but for now the plodding earnestness of a Schumer or Jeffries will not do. There is something at stake. It should not be obscured. |
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