July 16, 2025
Epstein just won't go away
My brother in law Carl is here for 5-7 days, it’s always great when he comes to visit. He enjoys bbq’g and cooking in general. He plays weekly warrior with me on his bicycle and is generally up to help out in any way and always does. Of course, Michael enjpoys seeing her brother!!
1/2 of National Guard troops have been released from LA…..talk abut a waste of money, they were all highly paid extras by the USA taxpayer for Trumps propaganda commercial.
So far, I see lots of waste with ICE agents and the National Gurad and Marines being used as Trumnps personal law enforcement body. He’s auditioning this scheme to cancel the next Presidential Election and stay in office.
The Supremes just ordered a stay on an injuction to stop the disbandment of the Department of Education. What’s all that legal double negative gobbly goop say really. Trump is getting his way due to the high court and the DoE is being disbanded. The DoE was created in the 1970’s under Jimmy Carter. I was educated in the Public School System in New York before that and received a very good education so I’m not sure what the DoE would have done for me unless they could have stopped bullying. But, they have the money to give for those with needs and now where will that come from, the individual states I believe. States like CA give more than they get when it comes to the Feds.
And then there are the Epstein files. Personally, I don’t think Trump is in them other than as a person using poor judgement by hanging out with that creep. That’s bad enough but can be explained..maybe. The Trump base is mad, they were promised the reveal of the deep state for which nothing is there. Pam Bondi was the FL AG during soms of Epsteins sentencing in that state.....hmmmmmm, I don’t think she was a clinet but did she mishanble it? Maybe so.
A pretty good reead from Robet Reich. I like that Jhamie Dimon is standing with Powell on insterest rates.
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Jamie Dimon's Last Stand (Hopefully)
Jul 15
Friends,
A few days ago, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States, said at an international forum in Dublin, Ireland, the tax-haven capital of Europe:
“I have a lot of friends who are Democrats, and they’re idiots. I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out failed.” NOT!
Failed? Like the Affordable Care Act? Medicare and Medicaid? Social Security? Spending on basic research and infrastructure? On protecting Americans from dread diseases? On protecting workers from death and injury on the job? On protecting the environment?
As distinct from policies rolled out by the Republicans? Such as their subsidies to Big Oil? Their racist attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion? Or Trump’s Big Ugly Bill that will take $1 trillion out of Medicaid, cause over 11 million Americans to lose their health coverage, and increase the national debt by more than $3 trillion — all to cut the taxes of the ultra-wealthy, such as Jamie Dimon?
Why do I even mention Jamie Dimon? Who cares what he thinks?
Well, many people do. He’s the business person the mainstream media turns to for his views on the economy and the direction America is heading.
For years he’s also been the darling of corporate Democrats.
Dimon was the business person Democrats turned to when they needed someone to say (as he did, truthfully) that “forty percent of Americans make less than $15 an hour [and] can’t afford a $400 bill, whether it’s medical or fixing their car,” or that “middle class incomes have been stagnant for years. Income inequality has gotten worse. More than 28 million Americans don’t have medical insurance at all.”
In those days, Dimon was a truth-teller. He also sounded like a Democrat, which he used to claim he was.
Until Donald Trump came along. Then Dimon became a dimon in the rough (sorry).
This morning after JPMorgan Chase’s second-quarter earnings exceeded forecasters’ expectations, Dimon called the economy “resilient” and opined that Trump’s policies were responsible. “The finalization of tax reform and potential deregulation are positive for the economic outlook,” he said.
Oh, please. Trump’s cockamamie tariffs and his Big Ugly bill could cause the economy to tank within weeks. We learned today that inflation grew in June as the weight of Trump’s tariffs started to affect the economy.
But big banks and their CEOs have reaped a bonanza from high interest rates. They’ll do even better from Trump’s tax cuts and further deregulation of Wall Street.
Yet the real tragedy for America has to do with Dimon himself.
At a time in this nation’s history when our most influential business leaders need to stand up loudly and clearly — for the rule of law, for democracy, for decency, for America’s moral authority in the world, and against Donald Trump — Jamie Dimon is calling Democrats “idiots” and otherwise staying silent in the face of Trump’s cruelty and brutality.
Dimon is the quintessence of Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous admonition: “The silence of the good people is more dangerous than the brutality of the bad people.”
This is how fascism takes root and spreads. The roots are spreading.
Isn’t it time we held Jamie Dimon accountable? My strong recommendation for those of you who have an account with JPMorgan Chase is to consider moving your money to another bank headed by someone with more integrity. I don’t have money at JPMorgan.
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All the best
Bruce
PS:AOC has something to say………..
