🚨US layoffs have surged to recessionary levels:

US employers announced 1,206,374 job cuts in 2025, up +58% YoY, the highest since the 2020 Crisis.

Excluding 2020, this was the worst year since the 2008 Financial Crisis.👇https://t.co/uUozprTZNo

— Global Markets Investor (@GlobalMktObserv) January 15, 2026

I want to thank and highlight for my own audience the brave House members I saw champion this measure to defund NED. They are fighters, and this long-term fight is still far from over -- @RepEliCrane, @RepLuna, @RepKeithSelf, @RepMichaelCloud, @chiproytx, @RepThomasMassie,…

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 14, 2026

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I want to thank and highlight for my own audience the brave House members I saw champion this measure to defund NED. They are fighters, and this long-term fight is still far from over -- @RepEliCrane, @RepLuna, @RepKeithSelf, @RepMichaelCloud, @chiproytx, @RepThomasMassie,…

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) January 14, 2026

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Don't know Mike Benz

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THE GREAT HEALTHCARE PLAN.

President Donald J. Trump unveils the Great Healthcare Plan to lower costs and deliver money directly to the American people. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/VWtNZzNbQC

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) January 15, 2026

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Let's see how far the price transparency goes. It needs to go very far in the case of hospitals and surgery centers.

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It should work sooo much better than BarryCare which has been a disaster since the moment it started. They will be able to get insurance competing with each other.

Now if he can do something about auto insurance...

Meanwhile.....Trump just gave ANOTHER $3.3 BILLION of your tax dollars to Israel...... pic.twitter.com/KrNL6bRled

— ThePatrioticBlonde🇺🇸 (@ImBreckWorsham) January 15, 2026

RFK Jr...WTH?

New -2028 GOP Primary - X poll @PpollingNumbers

🔴 Rubio 45%
🔴 Vance 31%
🔴 DeSantis 15%
🔴 RFK Jr 9% pic.twitter.com/twmO6jD8Gs

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) January 15, 2026

Our GOP is compromised.

— Gunther Eagleman™ (@GuntherEagleman) January 15, 2026

Making America Affordable Again 💸 pic.twitter.com/jdw2DaBqai

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 14, 2026

FOX BUSINESS: What can we anticipate from Trump's Davos speech?

HASSETT: There's gonna be some look at the new world order that President Trump is creating pic.twitter.com/vD7xdyyz7y

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 15, 2026

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Making America Affordable Again 💸 pic.twitter.com/jdw2DaBqai

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) January 14, 2026

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Keyword "wants"

I question the execution

Employees are worried as 2026 takes hold, and a new report around worker expectations and economic signals indicates why. https://t.co/guhxkiQLMV

— Silicon Valley Business Journal (@svbizjournal) January 15, 2026

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Q: "Would you pull the U.S. out of NATO?"

Trump: "Maybe. NATO would be upset if I did it…I just wonder whether or not if we needed NATO, would they be there for us? I'm not sure they would."
pic.twitter.com/O6Pliq37eD

— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) January 12, 2026

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NATO should have been disbanded 30 years ago.
US troops should have been removed from South Korea 20 years ago.

US strategic interests should be focused on central and South America.

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There are 0 military threats to our South. We could take all of South and Central America in a matter of days.

South Korea/Japan act as a check on China/Russia.

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Respectfully disagree.

The single biggest threat to the people of United States are the drug cartels in Columbia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua and especially……MEXICO.

If Europe and South Korea cannot defend themselves after over SEVENTY years of US aid and protection…..that is their problem .

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Those are not military threats and, with all due respect, if drug addicts can't stop themselves after 70 years of warnings that is their problem.

But seriously none of those countries have the ability to start a world war. China does.

The minute you leave South Korea and Japan China will take Taiwan regardless of the costs to them (which would be insanely high and incredibly difficult).

Our main disagreement is probably the mission of military. Stopping the inflow of drugs is not a military problem to me. It's a problem for the alphabet agencies.

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Here's the problem with your analysis: It presumes that armed invasion by a peer competitor is our only risk.

Not so......

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Never did I say that. I said drugs and prostitution are not the job of the military. And for all of recorded time that has been true.

Personally, neither of those pose a risk to me.

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Whoosh again.

It does become a military threat when hookers and drug dealers are running entire countries as a base of operations for unconventional warfare against us in concert with peer competitors. US courts can't fix that. Constrictive diplomacy rarely works in such situations. That leaves us with no option but to either endure the situation or use the military to persuade a "Hookers & Drugs" regime to change policy.

Queue the adage - "warfare is the continuation of policy by other means."

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This spin is insane. Venezuela isn't even the world's worst culprit in this. Drugs and the sex trade are the result of insatiable vices of Americans. When is the war on demand going to happen?

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the obtusity is outrageous.

It's one thing to have cartels south of our border smuggling drugs into the country. It's quite another for those cartels to influence/control a government and gain statehood status with ability to conduct diplomatic relationships. That's how you end up with Iranian drones being smuggled inside a Venezuelan tanker headed for Russia.....Iranian drones made with the acquiesance of the Venezuelan government, which of course puts the Panama canal under the umbrella of hostile powers. (and that's just one of tentacles of this particular octopus.)

Frigging amazing that you would reduce what's happening in Venezuela to law enforcement overreach.
TDS has fried your brain, friend.

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I just can't…That's an absurd take. If the swift removal of Maduro proved anything, it's just how overstated the threat actually was. Furthermore, the "narco-terror" state angle is becoming laughable as Maduro's second in command appears to be the preferred choice of the Trump Administration for Venezuela.

BTW, how are we feeling about there not being an Aircraft carrier group in the Middle East for the first time in half a century, thus limiting our Iranian strike options?

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RFK Jr...WTH?

New -2028 GOP Primary - X poll @PpollingNumbers

🔴 Rubio 45%
🔴 Vance 31%
🔴 DeSantis 15%
🔴 RFK Jr 9% pic.twitter.com/twmO6jD8Gs

— Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) January 15, 2026

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Rubio could win the general election in 2028.

Vance ....very unlikely.

Canada took an important step toward reinvigorating its ties with China, as Beijing seeks to woo U.S. allies who have grown frustrated with American protectionism https://t.co/vOC9mcUr6H

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 15, 2026

JUST IN: 🇨🇦🇨🇳 Prime Minister Carney says Canada's partnership with China "sets us up well for the new world order." pic.twitter.com/f1iYZvdGFS

— BRICS News (@BRICSinfo) January 15, 2026

lol ok buddy (not directed at you. Directed at Canada)

BREAKING: President Trump has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado in the Oval Office. pic.twitter.com/dosALXwrzt

— Leading Report (@LeadingReport) January 16, 2026

I am traveling to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team at this crucial time in the history of the Middle East.

The goal is to build on the historic opportunities created by President Trump’s unprecedented leadership, to stand up to evil, and to…

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 15, 2026

Monetary policy should be on hold until the 12% additional inflation we've had since January 2020 above the 2% trendline is erased. There's no point in having an inflation target if you're not going to adhere to it. The Fed should not be cutting rates at all this year. pic.twitter.com/QrEbh5nq9h

— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) January 14, 2026

The bill passed 341-79. Here are the no votes: pic.twitter.com/PKv2UuDeN3

— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) January 15, 2026

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Monetary policy should be on hold until the 12% additional inflation we've had since January 2020 above the 2% trendline is erased. There's no point in having an inflation target if you're not going to adhere to it. The Fed should not be cutting rates at all this year. pic.twitter.com/QrEbh5nq9h

— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) January 14, 2026

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very stupid..........

kill the economy so we can have lower inflation.....

dumb.

- UF

D!

input costs are falling -

{ sipping coffee }

{ eating muffin }

Bald Wemby agrees!!

The President and his cabinet let this happen.

All we needed to get unanimous disapproval of NED funding by House republicans was a statement from the President.

This isn’t 4D chess. We’re losing a game of checkers. https://t.co/DUjpEzrSZZ

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) January 16, 2026

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I am traveling to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team at this crucial time in the history of the Middle East.

The goal is to build on the historic opportunities created by President Trump’s unprecedented leadership, to stand up to evil, and to…

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 15, 2026

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So wish Graham would lose his next primary.

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Monetary policy should be on hold until the 12% additional inflation we've had since January 2020 above the 2% trendline is erased. There's no point in having an inflation target if you're not going to adhere to it. The Fed should not be cutting rates at all this year. pic.twitter.com/QrEbh5nq9h

— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) January 14, 2026

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It's weird. All these so-called experts have been totally wrong about macroeconomics since Trump and Bessent took over. Hard to know what to buy into

Canada agrees to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower duties on Canadian farm products, in a break with the US, per AP.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 16, 2026

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Canada agrees to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower duties on Canadian farm products, in a break with the US, per AP.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 16, 2026

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Canada is grasping at straws. They are incredibly weak and this proves it.

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Canada agrees to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower duties on Canadian farm products, in a break with the US, per AP.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 16, 2026

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I'm sure this will make Alberta and Saskatchewan even happier.

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Canada agrees to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower duties on Canadian farm products, in a break with the US, per AP.

— unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) January 16, 2026

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might be time for an invasion.........

LIBERATE ALBERTA!!

Free The Saskatoons!!!!

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https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-says-may-slap-tariffs-on-nations-that-don-t-back-his-greenland-plans-43ae05a4

Putting tariffs on the entire planet because they don't support invading our ally. Brilliant

Trump does 'Chair Macarena' during Friday meeting!

developing!!!



Fred's News Service (Huaco, Tx)......

<story to follow as Trump flouts convention yet again>

I just landed in Israel, the one and only Jewish State, and America’s strongest ally and friend since its founding.
 
If you think I flew all the way to Israel after having not slept much in days to make sure we do not hold the ayatollah’s murderous regime accountable for the…

— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 16, 2026

Yeah... unless I am missing something I don't see how this is a good idea. It's just shifting your own money somewhere else.

It helps on the down payment, but it doesn’t fix supply. More buyers with extra cash usually means prices adjust first. And since 401(k)s are the main retirement pool for most people, pulling from them just shifts the trade-off from housing stress now to less compounding later.

— Troy | Following Capital (@TroyOnCapital) January 16, 2026

American mother says her daughter is 1 of only 4 children in her entire math class that speaks English

“She doesn't get to learn math because there's 20 plus other kids who don't know English and the teacher has to accommodate them”

“Why am I paying property taxes? Why am I… pic.twitter.com/GRmOC81HfX

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 15, 2026

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Yeah... unless I am missing something I don't see how this is a good idea. It's just shifting your own money somewhere else.

It helps on the down payment, but it doesn’t fix supply. More buyers with extra cash usually means prices adjust first. And since 401(k)s are the main retirement pool for most people, pulling from them just shifts the trade-off from housing stress now to less compounding later.

— Troy | Following Capital (@TroyOnCapital) January 16, 2026

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It's the worst solution because you're taking pennys on the dollars as well.

$1 invested in the S&P500 in 1996 is worth $7-$8 now and compounding gets larger as the amount gets larger. $100 invested would be around $1900 now.

So if you're taking $30,000 in 1996 you really took $569,000. It's possible that, if you stayed in that home, it's worth $569,000 now but that assumes you never put a single dollar into it which is unlikely.

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American mother says her daughter is 1 of only 4 children in her entire math class that speaks English

“She doesn't get to learn math because there's 20 plus other kids who don't know English and the teacher has to accommodate them”

“Why am I paying property taxes? Why am I… pic.twitter.com/GRmOC81HfX

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) January 15, 2026

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Sounds like the school counselor did a crappy job in class assignments.