All of them. — Banno

I like the crude oil futures market. As with any free market, the price reflects all the information in the market, things like what season it is, what pipeline was just destroyed, etc. Donald Trump doesn't want to control any markets, in fact he just gutted regulations that were put in place after 2009.

Donald Trump doesn't want to control any markets — frank

Sure. The question being asked is, to what extent does the market control Trump?

Donald Trump doesn't want to control any markets, in fact he just gutted regulations that were put in place after 2009. — frank

Interesting that someone who purportedly does not want to "control any markets" guts legislation put in place to protect consumers from all sorts of financial injury knowingly and inevitably caused by certain business practices all of which were possible as a result of a lack of those same regulations. This lack of regulation leading up to 2008 played a key causal role of the 2008 financial crisis that left millions of innocent Americans financially injured without recourse. He gutted the measures put into place to stop such practices.

For someone who claims to be focusing upon waste fraud and abuse... well... that's a bit too fucking rich for my tastes.

Disgusting.

60 Minutes on Trump’s Illegal Firings of Inspectors General.

Interesting that someone who purportedly does not want to "control any markets" guts legislation put in place to protect consumers from all sorts of financial injury knowingly and inevitably caused by certain business practices all of which were possible as a result of a lack of those same regulations. — creativesoul

I don't know. When it comes to trade, Americans are much more heavily regulated that Europeans, or really just about anybody else in the world. This is coming from attempts by Americans to mitigate the worst aspects of capitalism (that it occasionally crashes). Why doesn't anyone else in the world care about that? I'm asking, I don't really know.

Reportedly, flights from Pearson airport (Toronto, Canada) to the US were more or less empty on the weekend; they're usually bustling with students and such around this time.
Vacations canceled, refundable or not.
American liquor taken off shelves here and there (voluntarily).
Canadians have been putting properties in the US up for sale.
Seems like a trend; don't know the effects, or how easy/difficult it'll be to recover the relationship.

, the youtube isn't accessible from here ("The uploader has not made this video available in your country").

FYI, this one is:

Watchdogs fired by Trump raise alarms over future of independent government oversight (— Scott Pelley, Aliza Chasan, Maria Gavrilovic, Alex Ortiz · CBS · Mar 9, 2025)

I suspect this is a Johnson or Vance thing, or from someone in those circles:

Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias
^{— The White House · Feb 6, 2025}

The title might as well be read as "Promoting Christianity".

Project 2025 (Wikipedia)
Who are the Dominionists backing conservative candidates? (Northeastern University · Nov 15, 2022)

A large amount of government waste disappeared in a matter of weeks from the CIA cutout USAID. Grifters and dependents are no doubt angry but that’s a small price to pay for less cultural imperialism and corruption.

Donald Trump doesn't want to control any markets, in fact he just gutted regulations that were put in place after 2009. — frank

The trade wars Trump is kicking off are an attempt at controlling markets. They are a sharp departure from the "Neo-liberalism" that touted the benefits of unfettered capitalism.

The need for regulation is not only to protect the public from financial and environmental harm. The rules place the competing companies on a level playing field where some do not gain advantage by doing bad things. A lawless future combined with massive tax cuts will make the crony capitalism of the 19nth century look quaint.

, did you copy that from a meme? :D

Can't wait to read the review. There is mounting skepticism, however, emerging from such claims being made:

The Trump administration has given almost no details on which aid and development efforts abroad it spared as it mass-emailed contract terminations to aid groups and other USAID partners by the thousands within days earlier this month. The rapid pace, and the steps skipped in ending contracts, left USAID supporters challenging whether any actual program-by-program reviews had taken place. — AP

Rubio's statement about 'consulting with Congress' is odd:

“In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping ... to be administered more effectively under the State Department,” he said. Democratic lawmakers and others call the shutdown of congressionally-funded programs illegal, saying such a move requires Congress’ approval. — ibid.

The way such consultation worked previously is that the Inspector General reported to Congressional committees. Here is last year's report on: Fraud and Abuse in USAID.

Rubio's statement sounds like a reversal of who is advising who.

This is terrible policy of the Trump administration, and a violation of human rights, possibly the constitution. Nothing good can come of this.

He's a non-citizen who provided material support for a foreign terrorist organization. Hopefully the first of many more to come. Non-citizens can absolutely be removed if they engage in terrorist activity or provide support to one.

A visa is a privilege and to use it spit in the face of a country which gave you it deserves repercussions. Khalil led crowds which attacked police.

the youtube isn't accessible from here — jorndoe

Ah, interesting. It’s a current US 60 Minutes feature, I guess it’s geoblocked where you are. I won’t post any more of same.

Now we read that Trump has started to attack the CHIPS act, which is aimed at boosting US self-reliance in advanced chip manufacturing. It has strong bipartisan support and has been seen as successful on both sides of the aisle.

So far, the Commerce Department has signed contracts to grant more than $36 billion in federal subsidies under the CHIPS Act. Samsung, Intel, Micron, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, known as TSMC, and others in response have pledged to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. chip-making facilities …

In late February, Michael Grimes, a senior official at the Department of Commerce and former investment banker at Morgan Stanley, conducted brief interviews with employees of the CHIPS Program Office, which oversees the grants.

In interactions some described as “demeaning,” Mr. Grimes asked employees to justify their intellect by providing test results from the SAT or an IQ test, said four people familiar with the evaluations. Some were asked to do math problems, like calculate the value of four to the fourth power or long division.

Last week, the Commerce Department laid off 40 of the CHIPS office employees, nearly a third of the entire team, these people said. ~ NYT

And why is Trump saying ‘it’s a horrible thing’? Because Biden passed it, and it’s a success. In typical Trump style, any success attributable to his perceived foes must be destroyed, no matter the cost to the country or to business.

Perhaps you’re right. But if his crime is “aligning with Hamas”, or anti-semitism, it’s not a good enough reason to deport him, especially if he was in the country legally.

Tulsi doing God’s work. All the election-meddling conspirators lose their security clearances.

Unprecedented political retribution.

It's counter productive to attack CHIPS, because it's purpose was to wean the US of its dependency on China for semiconductor chips. As you said, the only thing "wrong" with it is that it passed under Biden.

It looks like justice to me.

Now they're coming for public medicine:

WASHINGTON — Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were emailed an offer to leave their job for as much as a $25,000 payment as part of President Donald Trump’s government cuts.

The workers have until 5 p.m. on Friday to submit a response for the so-called voluntary separation offer. The email was sent to staff across the department, which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and the National Institutes of Health as well as the Food and Drug Administration, both in Maryland.

The mass email went out to a “broad population of HHS employees,” landing in their inboxes days before agency heads are due to offer plans for shrinking their workforces. HHS is one of the government’s costliest federal agencies, with an annual budget of about $1.7 trillion that is mostly spent on health care coverage for millions of people enrolled in Medicare and Medicaid.

There was no immediate comment Sunday from HHS. — AP

Doesn't it matter to anyone that Trump is attacking and dissolving essential government services from within? Will it matter when people start dying and disease outbreaks begin to occur? Can't Americans see what is being done to their country?

Doesn't it matter to anyone that Trump is attacking and dissolving essential government services from within? — Wayfarer

That's not what this AP article indicates. It's a voluntary buy-out that's been offered, although $25,000 is chump change for a buy-out. But if someone was going to change jobs anyway, it might be tempting.

Elon describes the political terrorism he is facing.

That's not what this AP article indicates — frank

It ‘indicates’ that most of the 80,000 workers were offered $25,000 to quit their jobs.

Poor Elon! Must be just awful for him. When all he’s doing is trying to help out!

That's not what this AP article indicates. It's a voluntary buy-out that's been offered, although $25,000 is chump change for a buy-out. But if someone was going to change jobs anyway, it might be tempting. — frank

And if someone was planning to work in this field of research for their entire career, hearing:

landing in their inboxes days before agency heads are due to offer plans for shrinking their workforces. — AP

is tantamount to saying:

"Take this chump change or leave with nothing."

, well, you know what they say: "Don't like the USA? Leave." ;)

Poor Elon! Must be just awful for him. When all he’s doing is trying to help out!

It’s true. There is no reason for it nor any reasoning behind it. All of his cuts are available for anyone to see yet no one can choose one that was a bad idea to remove. Maybe you will take the challenge?

https://doge.gov/

Until then it’s just a blizzard of lies and conspiracy theories, and it’s activating violent psychos to take it upon themselves to take matters into their own hands outside the democratic process.

All of his cuts are available for anyone to see yet no one can choose one that was a bad idea to remove. — NOS4A2

Where is all this information sharing happening?