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As do I, old friend.

Is the White House trying to engineer a recession? They keep saying the U.S. economy will experience a "period of transition". That sounds more and more like a planned recession. During a recession, economic activity slows and unemployment rises. When consumers spend less, the demand for goods and services falls. Prices then drop and inflation falls. And one may expect turmoil in the stock market, and possibly a crash (which is the ideal time to buy). Creating a recession to fix the ills quickly is alike nuking a weed-filled yard with Round-up and reseeding to get a new yard in a short time frame, rather than using selective fertilizers for three years with incomplete results.

I'm shocked that Boeing won the competition, given it's continuing display of aircraft design and manufacturing incompetence. I would have expected the Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin) to deliver the best 6th gen aircraft design.

After a wild month for the U.S. stock market, investors have one more potential obstacle to overcome before the weekend. Today, options contracts tied to more than $4.5 trillion in stocks will expire during the latest quarterly “triple-witching” event. Calculations to determine the notional value of these contracts can vary, but Goldman Sachs puts the figure at $4.7 trillion, based on values as of Wednesday’s close.

Elon Musk has openly threatened Pentagon employees who leaked information that he was due to get a briefing on a potential American war with China. “They will be found,” Elon warned. Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal cited two U.S. officials who said that Musk was getting a look at 'top secret' war plans if America and China came into conflict. These officials should go to prison. It showcases the cultural decline at the Pentagon. “Loose lips sink ships”

Billionaire financier Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's standing in the administration has fallen in recent weeks after he caused the stock market plunge following tariff threats. Lutnick is disliked by the president's allies in the banking sector. "Lutnick is in one of two places, he's either on TV or he is in the Oval Office. Trump's friends on Wall Street have called him directly and said Lutnick should not be talking about the economy, get him off TV." Financial leaders have told Trump that Lutnick doesn't understand tariffs and that the president should rein him in and ban him from doing further interviews.

We are witnessing an attempted coup of American democracy by radical left activists posing as judges. There need to be some repercussions above zero for judges who make truly terrible decisions. When judges egregiously undermine the democratic will of the people, they must be fired or democracy dies. Elon Musk

Elon Musk and DOGE have come to realize that "undocumented immigrants" are fraudulently accessing hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of entitlements, including Social Security, Medicaid and disability programs, as part of a Democratic scheme for votes. “By using entitlements fraud, the Democrats have been able to attract and retain vast numbers of illegal immigrants,” says Elon. “And buy voters. Basically bring in 10, 20 million people who are beholden to the Democrats for government handouts and will vote overwhelmingly Democrat, as has been demonstrated in California.” Elon says his efforts to end the alleged fraud are why people on the left “hate my guts and want me to die.” The fraud has cost the government $100 billion to $200 billion.

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House Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) has filed Articles of Impeachment against Judge James E. Boasberg, appointed by Obama, after he issued a temporary restraining order blocking President Trump from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members. Over the weekend, the President invoked the Alien Enemies Act to begin deporting hundreds of illegal alien gang members with Tren de Aragua and the MS-13 gangs, both of which are now designated as terrorist organizations. The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Soros-linked Democracy Forward sued the Trump administration on behalf of 5 illegal alien gang members to stop the deportations, though planes of nearly 300 gang members had already taken off for El Salvador. Boasberg issued a temporary restraining order blocking the Trump Administraton from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien gang members. House Representative Brandon Gill says Boasberg’s order is “illegal and unconstitutional” and announced Articles of Impeachment against the federal judge whose family has deep ties to Democrats. “The purpose of Judge Boasberg’s unconstitutional ruling is to tie up President Trump’s time and resources in litigation, stopping him from executing on the democratic mandate voters gave him,” Gill wrote. “The ruling is a fundamental attack on our democratic system.” “Judge Boasberg directing deportation flights to turn around midair and return to the United States is tantamount to a Circuit Court Judge directing troop movements abroad or directing the Executive how to conduct foreign policy. It’s illegal and unconstitutional. Time to impeach,” Gill wrote, posting the Articles of Impeachment:

"It turns out when you take away people's, you know, the money that they're receiving fraudulently, they get very upset. And they basically want to kill me because I'm stopping their fraud, and they want to hurt Tesla because we're stopping the terrible waste and corruption in the government. And, well, I guess they're bad people. Bad people do bad things.' I think there are larger forces at work as well. I mean, who's funding and who's coordinating it? Because this is crazy. I've never seen anything like this. Tesla is a peaceful company, we've never done anything harmful. I've never done anything harmful, I've only done productive things, so I think we just have a deranged... I think there's some kind of mental illness going on here." Elon Musk .

On Tuesday, federal judge Theodore D. Chuang in Maryland ruled that DOGE’s dismantling of the USAID was unconstitutional on multiple fronts—including the role Elon Musk played to orchestrate it. Chuang ordered DOGE to halt its work to shutter USAID and reinstate access to electronic systems for employees. Biden and the democrats made sure the courts were stacked with radical left judges on their way out the door. .

Federal judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday blocked the Pentagon from implementing President Trump’s executive order that bans transgender individuals from serving openly in the military. She alleges the executive order is unconstitutional. The White House in January directed the military to adopt a policy that said transgender individuals are unable to meet the military's necessary standards. It is the policy of the United States Government to establish high standards for troop readiness, lethality, cohesion, honesty, humility, uniformity, and integrity. This policy is inconsistent with the medical, surgical, and mental health constraints on individuals with gender dysphoria. This policy is also inconsistent with shifting pronoun usage or use of pronouns that inaccurately reflect an individual’s sex.

The Treasury Department is bringing on two IRS whistleblowers to probe the Biden administration’s handling of the investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax practices. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Tuesday that Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, who revealed the political interference in the Hunter Biden investigation, will be senior advisers at the department. Hunter Biden receiving special treatment in the tax inquiry. Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to a string of federal tax crimes last year in California, after a previous plea agreement collapsed. Biden pardoned his son late last year before leaving office. Shapley, Ziegler and their congressional allies also charged that the IRS illegally retaliated against the two whistleblowers. Shapley and Ziegler will have “a year to investigate the wrongdoing that’s going on at the IRS,” Bessent said. “We’ll learn what’s been going on at the IRS, what’s been wrong, how could this Hunter Biden nonsense have happened. And we’re going to make sure it doesn’t happen to anyone again, whether they’re Republicans, Democrats or independents,” Bessent said. Bessent said they will also “help further the agency’s focus on collections, modernization, and customer service, so we can deliver a more effective and efficient IRS experience for hardworking American taxpayers.” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a senior tax writer and longtime advocate for whistleblowers, praised the move, after urging Bessent last month to offer leadership roles to Shapley and Ziegler at the IRS. “If we reinstate whistleblowers who have been retaliated against, it will send a clear signal that pointing out wrongdoing is an honorable thing to do,” Grassley said.

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The Trump Administration has cut taxpayer-funded grants for transgender experiments on animals. Two National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants awarded under the Biden administration, both to Harvard, were terminated early on March 12. One of the grants, worth $299,940, was titled “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy on Breast Cancer Risk and Treatment Outcomes” and used toward “transmasculine” animal experiments, in which female mice were administered testosterone and had their ovaries removed. The “Gender-Affirming Testosterone Therapy” grant began in September 2023 and was set to end in August 2025, but President Trump’s NIH succeeded in cutting its lifespan short earlier this month. The Trump NIH likewise put a stop to a second grant focused on “Molecular Mechanisms of Hormone-Mediated Sex Differences in Wound Healing” that began in September 2024. The $442,444 project was set to receive $2.2 million total through 2029 before the Trump NIH killed its funding last week.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14509707/Elon-Musk-reveals-DOGE-14-magic-money-computers.html#v-8446048574333235675 .

President Trump is ending “immediately” the Secret Service protection details assigned to Biden’s adult children, which the former president had extended to July shortly before leaving office in January. President Trump was shocked to learn that 18 agents were assigned to a protective detail for Hunter Biden while in South Africa this week. The President said Ashley Biden has 13 agents assigned to her detail and that she too will be taken off the list. “Hunter Biden has had Secret Service protection for an extended period of time, all paid for by the United States Taxpayer. There are as many as 18 people on this Detail, which is ridiculous! He is currently vacationing in, of all places, South Africa, where the Human Rights of people has been strenuously questioned. Because of this, South Africa has been taken off our list of Countries receiving Economic and Financial Assistance. Please be advised that, effective immediately, Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection. Likewise, Ashley Biden who has 13 agents will be taken off the list.”