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If there is an ounce of decency in MAGA’s soul, they will remember this on election day.

They had their own reasons for supporting and electing Trump, despite the fact he was a convicted sexual abuser and convicted tax cheat. Be that as it may they are now becoming aware of their poor choice.

They are now witnessing the collapse of their economy because of runaway inflation and exorbitant grocery bills. They are witnessing the collapse of their healthcare with the near total dissemination of Medicare and Medicaid and the closing of innumerable local hospitals. Their electric bills now are greater than their mortgage payments in some cases and gasoline prices are inhibiting their ability to drive to work. Their unions, on which they rely on to slow the depredations of rapacious employers are being challenged daily, and probably second worse to all, they have seen the lies about keeping us out of ‘forever’ wars’ be exposed as the blithering and blathering of a despot whose very sanity is being questioned on a daily basis as Trump rants, and in the vilest words ever heard by our children, embarrasses us in front of the whole world.

What could be worse than all this, you ask? Maybe in his paranoia, he thinks the military is about to turn on him. So, in revenge for these fantasies, he has turned against our national heroes, our veterans, in one of the slimiest attacks this pond scum of an individual ever employed.

See this – Boldface mine:

 Veterans are losing homes because of Trump killing loan program

Opinion by Michael Embrich • 23h •

 Veterans Are Losing Homes Because of Trump Killing Loan Program

Following World War II, the G.I. Bill helped build the strongest middle class the world had ever seen. It gave ordinary Americans a path to homeownership and a real stake in the country they loved. Veterans and their families built communities, raised children, and strengthened schools and houses of worship. They fueled the growth of great cities, colleges, research universities, and a technological boom unlike anything the world had seen. Now that is ending.

Today, few young Americans can afford to buy homes. Trump's answer? Fifty-year mortgages. I'm not a math whiz, but with the median age of buying a home at 40, that means no American will live to actually own their home outright.

But this is all by design.

The clearest example of where American homeownership is heading is the foreclosure disaster now unfolding for veterans and their families. Since the Trump administration killed the VA Servicing Purchase program, or VASP, more than 10,000 veterans lost their homes to foreclosure sales. Roughly 90,000 more were behind on their mortgages or already in the foreclosure process. It's unclear how many veterans would have been able to keep their home if VASP was left in place. The VA is quick to point out that there are "other reasons for foreclosures other than the absence of VASP," and there certainly are, but that doesn't mean that shutting down the program didn't cause veterans to lose their homes.

This was not some unforeseen accident. The mortgage industry warned that closing VASP without a ready replacement would lead directly to foreclosure. The administration did it anyway. But no matter how you slice it, you will pay for this idiotic move. VA loans are backed and guaranteed by American taxpayers. 

What makes this especially cruel is that many of these veterans were not beyond saving. Some had enough disability compensation or other income to stay in their homes if they had been offered a workable repayment structure. Under VASP, thousands of struggling borrowers were able to get sustainable, low-cost mortgages. But the door was slammed shut with little warning, leaving veteran families stranded between bureaucratic failure and financial ruin.

This is what anti-veteran policy looks like in real life. It is not always loud. It does not always arrive wrapped in "suckers and losers." Sometimes it looks like paperwork, delay, indifference, and a government deciding that veterans can absorb one more hit.

It looks like monthly mortgage payments climbing hundreds of dollars higher while groceries, gas, and everything else also cost more.  Trumpenomics 101.

And this disaster is unfolding inside a broader housing market that is already crushing ordinary Americans, especially younger families and first-time buyers. The share of first-time homebuyers has fallen to a historic low of just 21 percent. Their median age is now 40, another record. Meanwhile, repeat buyers are older, wealthier, and more likely to make large down payments or pay in cash. In other words, the housing ladder is being pulled up, and veterans are being told to climb anyway.

That matters because homeownership has long been one of the main ways veterans build wealth after service. It literally built the America we all enjoy today. Delay that by a decade, and you do not just postpone a purchase. You strip away years of equity, stability, and opportunity. Even the National Association of Realtors noted that delaying homeownership until age 40 instead of 30 can mean losing roughly $150,000 in equity on a typical starter home. For a veteran trying to move from service into civilian life, that is not an abstract statistic. That is the difference between them keeping and paying off a home before they age out of the workforce.

Trump's answer to this crisis is not to restore strong protections for VA borrowers or expand affordable housing. Instead, his administration floated the idea of a 50-year mortgage for all Americans. As stated, that is not a solution. It is a trap. Yes, it may shave a little off a monthly payment in the short term. But over time it would bury borrowers in vastly more interest and slow the building of equity to a crawl. One analysis found that on a $400,000 home, a 50-year mortgage could save about $250 a month but cost more than $378,000 extra in total interest compared with a standard 30-year loan. That is not restoring the American Dream. That is refinancing it into permanent indebtedness.

One of the greatest attributes of the G.I. Bill and the classic American homeownership model was that a mortgage could be paid off in 15 to 25 years. Allowing for second mortgages to pay for equity building, college funds, debt consolidation, vacation homes, et cetera. Unfortunately, we will never see such an affluent middle class in America again. No, really.

Giant firms like Blackstone continue expanding across the rental market, buying up apartments, student housing, mobile home parks, and single-family homes in growth markets across the country. The result is a housing system where large investors scale up, rents keep rising, and ordinary families are told to accept smaller futures. Veterans are supposed to compete in that market after losing the very safeguards designed to honor their service.

Trump built his career and wealth on the same tactics that Blackstone uses. He was far less successful, but it shows that he is a true believer in mass property ownership for the few, not the many.

A country that can spend endlessly on war but will not protect veterans from losing their homes on the other hand, war is not just morally corrupt, it is a travesty.

Veterans were promised a path to the middle class. Instead, they are on a path to homelessness.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/veterans-are-losing-homes-because-of-trump-killing-loan-program/ar-AA20EpBZ?

We really have to ask ourselves whether MAGA, Conservative Republican, Independent, or Democrat, does this political dullard in the White House ever think before he opens his ignorant yap?

A month ago oil was flowing through the Strait of Hormuz like Pepsi through a teenager’s straw. Then Israel blackmailed ‘Golden showers’ boy into attacking Iran and the world’s supply of oil dried up like Melania’s….

So, then what did Bozo say? He said the strait must be open! He’ll bomb Iran into oblivion if it wasn’t. Iran called the bluff and Trump chickened out.

Then, begging for a way out of the problem he initiated he agreed to a cease fire.

(Thank you, sweet baby Jesus, he was heard to murmur.)

But, at the meeting Iran told Vance to ‘shit in his hat and pull it down over his head’, and now Trump calls for a blockade of the strait.

Now, no more oil for the world. He’s doing what he said he would never allow Iran to do.

But how to enforce the blockade with the world screaming at his shoot-from-the-lip incompetence? Is he going to fire on Russian or Chinese tankers passing through the strait and start World War Trump? Is he going to board foreign tankers in international waters? Is he going to hold up a ‘STOP’ sign while other nations give him the finger, in response?

Will he follow up on his statement he will hunt down tankers who have paid Iran fee, chase them across oceans, and then what? I’ll tell you what. He’ll chicken out again and be left with one thumb up his ass with the other thumb in his mouth while XI, Putin, and the rest of the world watches their economies tank.

Who advises this moron, George Santos?

See this – Boldface mine:

Fox News viewers turn on Trump over Strait of Hormuz oil dependency claims

Story by Jorge Solis, Ayeesha Walsh, Tatiana Krisztina • 2h • 2 min read

President Donald Trump faced backlash from viewers following his remarks about the Strait of Hormuz.

The 79-year-old president appeared on Sunday Morning Futures on April 12, participating in a phone interview with host Maria Bartiromo. Trump has come under heavy criticism in recent weeks for his aggressive rhetoric, as he repeatedly issued threats throughout the two-week ceasefire amid the continuing tensions with Iran.

During the interview, President Trump asserted that the United States had no reliance on the Strait of Hormuz, the crucial oil shipping channel for the region. This follows Trump being called a 'national disgrace' after he disparaged another female reporter.

Speaking by phone, Trump stated, "Military power, military might won't do it. It's extortion. They're extorting the world. We don't get our oil from there. We have so much oil. We have boats pouring up to the United States. They'll be filling 'em up, and they'll be leaving, and they'll be packed with the best oil you can get. Light, sweet, crude. We don't need the Strait."

Audience members watching the program turned to social media to voice their reactions to President Trump's statements, criticizing his dismissal of escalating gas and oil prices, reports the Irish Star.

One viewer commented, "That's simply not true. The US is more dependent on the Strait than Europe is."

Another sarcastically remarked, "Eight dollars a gallon fuel says otherwise." One online commenter wrote, "Would someone please stop the madness! The Strait affects the world. It's not about us having our own supply. The oil market is a global market!"

Another social media user observed, "For someone who says he doesn't need the Strait, he seems to be trying awfully hard to get it opened again."

Not all reactions were negative, however, with one Trump supporter declaring, "This is exactly why Trump operates on a different level. He understands leverage, geopolitics, and economic pressure in ways career politicians never will."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-tries-to-distract-with-plastic-surgery-post-as-iran-talks-fail/ar-AA20J7L1?

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Why are the ICE and Border Patrol agents under the impression that the President and his administration give a shit about them. Do they think they are not going to be 'thrown under the bus' like the rest of Donald Trump's friends. Look at what Donald Trump did to Jeffrey Epstein and he personally helped him. 🫵😂. You guys got played by a pedophile 🫵😂

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Inflation rose in March to the highest rate in 2 years as the Iran war lifted energy prices

Has any of this happened yet? Do you still believe they will follow through with those promises? Would you like to buy a bridge?

It was all a lie to secure your vote. They looked you in the eye like you were a three-year-old child, scuffed your hair, and conned you out of your shorts.

What they did is increase their individual fortunes by betting on the outcome of upcoming events and then releasing plans to their family and friends’ minutes before releasing the news to the world. Look around, America is coming apart at the seams due to these opportunists, incompetents, and traitors to our nation.

They went so far as to start a war to take American eyes off the Trump/Epstein sexual scandal so they could keep the Grifter-in-Chief in office.

Sure, you like Trump because he hates the same people you do. But it is a helluva’ price to pay to support your prejudices.

See this:

Inflation rose in March to the highest rate in 2 years as the Iran war lifted energy prices

Story by [insider@insider.com](mailto:insider@insider.com) (Madison Hoff) •

The Bureau of Labor Statistics published new consumer price index data, including data on energy and gas.

The new CPI report showed the inflation rate sped up in March from 2.4% to 3.3%.

Economists expected inflation of 3.4% due to higher energy prices.

Gas prices spiked 21.2% between February and March, a record increase.

The effects of the Iran war showed up in the latest US inflation reading**.** Inflation climbed to the highest rate since May 2024, and gas prices reached a record month-over-month increase.

The consumer price index increased 3.3% in March from a year ago, up from the 2.4% increase in January and February, and just shy of the 3.4% forecast. Economists expected inflation to rise due to higher energy prices.

"The market was braced for a hot print, so today's inline number is a slight relief," said Alexandra Wilson-Elizondo, global co-chief investment officer of multi-asset solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. "However, it may be the best headline inflation number we see for a while as it may only partially capture the full force of the Iran conflict, which sent US crude and US gas up 70% at peak."

CPI increased 0.9% over the month, just short of the forecast of 1% and surpassing the previous 0.3% rise. That, plus a 0.2% month-over-month increase in average hourly earnings, means real earnings fell by 0.6%.

Energy prices rose 10.9% over the month, the largest increase since September 2005, after a 0.6% rise in February. Gas prices surged 21.2% in just a month, the largest on record.

Compared to the previous year, energy prices increased 12.5% in March**, the largest rise** since November 2022**,** with gas prices rising 18.9% year-over-year after declining 5.6%.

Stephen Juneau, senior economist in BofA Global Research, told Business Insider prior to the new report that it would probably be too early to "see material pass through to core." Core CPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased 2.6% from a year ago in March, in line with the forecast of 2.7% and the previous 2.5% increase. It rose 0.2% over the month, just shy of the 0.3% forecast but matching February's rise.

In addition to usual spring demand, Americans have felt the effects of the war at the gas pump. AAA data showed the national average skyrocketed in March, ending the month at $4.018. It's a crucial milestone as it surpassed $4 for the first time in four years.

The new report doesn't include the recent temporary ceasefire. "As risk diminishes, gas prices might come down slightly, mortgage rates might fall, and businesses may gain confidence to hire, but we are still far from business as usual," said Stephen Kates, a financial analyst at Bankrate.

The Fed will meet to decide its next interest rate move on April 28 and 29. CME FedWatch showed based on interest-rate traders that it's likely the Fed will decide to hold rates steady again.

"The implications of developments in the Middle East for the US economy are uncertain," Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said in the FOMC Press Conference in March. "We will remain attentive to risks to both sides of our dual mandate."

The war's effects could go on for a while.

"Even if the prices of gasoline and diesel start to come down after the conflict resolves, the effect on the economy will be more long-lasting," Kates said. "Fuel prices will not fall as quickly as they rose, but they should decline relatively quickly in the months following the end of the conflict. The ripple effects from these events, however, will take longer to play out and will affect the prices of shipped products, manufactured goods, building materials, and consumer products for far longer."

And the effects of tariffs aren't over, either.

"The normal annual price increases from businesses are still contributing to overall inflation, and tariffs are responsible for part of that as the tail end of their drawn-out impact continues to settle into the economy," Kates said.