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Chapter 1: What triggered massive protests in Salt Lake City against Trump?
Look what you did there, Donald. That's in Salt Lake City, Utah, where 20,000 people or 10% of the people in the city showed up to protest you to fight the oligarchy and rally behind Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman AOC on Sunday. The people across the country are fed up and pissed off at you and Musk. You're deranged. and dangerous behavior.
Chapter 2: Why is Donald Trump suing 60 Minutes over the Kamala Harris interview?
Like last night, Donald Trump was posting this while that event was taking place in Salt Lake City. He goes, almost every week, 60 Minutes, which is being sued for billions of dollars for the fraud they committed in the 2024 presidential election with their interview of failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris, mentions the name Trump in a derogatory interview.
and defamatory way, but this weekend's broadcast tops them all. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. This goes on with an alternation between all caps and lowercase and incoherent sentences. But then at the end of Donald Trump's post, he goes, they, being CBS and 60 Minutes, should lose their license.
Hopefully, the Federal Communications Commission, FCC, as headed by its highly respected chairman, Brendan Carr, will impose the maximum fines and punishment, which is substantial for their unlawful and illegal behavior.
That's what Donald Trump is doing on Sunday, engaging in his authoritarian fantasies on social media and directing his FCC commissioner to attack 60 Minutes, who, by the way, Donald Trump sued in the Northern District of Texas with Ronny Jackson because they claimed they were consumers
Chapter 3: How are Trump’s social media posts reflecting his authoritarian style?
who were injured by the way 60 Minutes interviewed former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election because Trump didn't like the way it was edited because they took out some of her ums and ahs when Trump was too afraid to show up for that interview himself. And only former Vice President Kamala Harris did the interview.
So Donald Trump and Ronnie Jackson, the pathetic fools they are, are suing 60 Minutes, guess this, for about $20 to $25 billion because they say their feelings were hurt from the 2024 election. And that's why Donald Trump is whining this evening, by the way, or last night, as he's imploding the bond markets as the 5, 10, 30-year treasury yields are reaching heights, demonstrative of this.
genuine and real chaos in the United States markets in an unprecedented way. Let me just share with you that crowd size one more time so you can see what 20,000 people in Salt Lake City rising up to fight the oligarchy looks like. Play this clip. And by the way, here was Senator Bernie Sanders the day before. First, he spoke in front of a huge crowd in Los Angeles, 36,000 people.
Then he gave a speech at Coachella in front of 125,000 to 150,000 people. Let me show you a short clip of Bernie Sanders in Coachella. But take a look at this photo of him staring at a crowd of 125,000 to 150,000 people on the main stage. Now we got a president of the United States who...
I agree.
Yes, people are livid at the oligarchs at the Trump regime, which has destroyed democracy. We're past the constitutional crisis phase. I mean, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate who gave Donald Trump all of their authority as well. Trump is ruling like an authoritarian, like a dictator, a deranged one.
one that's even weirder and more dangerous than a Kim Jong-un, a pariah state. The United States has become alienated and isolated from our allies and the rest of the world who are forming alliances with themselves and leaving the United States and saying, what the heck is this mess? As Donald Trump puts tariffs on, then exemptions, more tariffs, no tariffs, yes tariffs, no tariffs.
The insanity, the delusions, The ranting and ravings of a madman. This is what Donald Trump was posting yesterday as well. Letitia James, this is what Trump posts. A totally corrupt politician should resign from her position as New York State Attorney General immediately. Everyone is trying to make New York great again, and it can never be done with this wacky crook in office.
And then after that, Donald Trump posts a torture video of people unlawfully being sent to El Salvador, migrants who the Trump regime made disappear from the United States without due process, threw them in concentration camps in El Salvador. And now Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, is visiting Donald Trump today and this week.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump’s defiance of the Supreme Court in the Abrego Garcia case?
And remember how it was reported this weekend that the Trump regime was going to provide exemptions to the tariffs as it relates to electronics, laptops, semiconductors, and iPhones. Then Trump posts, nobody is getting off the hook. for the unfair trade balances and non-monetary tariff barriers that other countries have used against us, especially China.
There was no tariff exception on Sunday or Friday. These products are subject to the 20% fentanyl tariffs. So just in case you're losing track, there were reciprocal tariffs, but actually not reciprocal tariffs on everyone but Russia. Then the tariffs went down to 10% on everyone but China for 90 days.
except actually 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada, then 50% more tariffs on China, then 50% even more tariffs on China, but not computers and electronics, but maybe on computers and electronics. Also due to a system glitch, a lot of the tariffs haven't been collected at all. Also separate other tariffs on steel pharmaceuticals and semiconductors maybe will be happening.
Chapter 5: How is Trump’s behavior affecting U.S. financial and constitutional stability?
Efron wrote a really good one right there. Also, there's this post right here of Donald Trump waiting for Xi Jinping to give him a call. But Xi Jinping of China is not giving him a call. Also, if you go on TikTok, you have all of these Chinese influencers who are just mocking the United States and MAGA and Trump's behavior. And they're like, oh, you're calling us peasants? Really?
You're calling us peasants when we hold your debt? I mean, you think about it. China holds what? Close to a trillion dollars in treasury notes of the United States. What if they just start dumping those as well? and the rest of the world does. You know what that's going to do to the bond market here in the United States?
Chapter 6: What is the significance of Trump’s connections with international figures like Nayib Bukele and Vladimir Putin?
Chapter 7: How are opposition figures like Bernie Sanders mobilizing large crowds against Trump?
Then he gave a speech at Coachella in front of 125,000 to 150,000 people. Let me show you a short clip of Bernie Sanders in Coachella. But take a look at this photo of him staring at a crowd of 125,000 to 150,000 people on the main stage. Now we got a president of the United States who...
I agree.
Yes, people are livid at the oligarchs at the Trump regime, which has destroyed democracy. We're past the constitutional crisis phase. I mean, Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate who gave Donald Trump all of their authority as well. Trump is ruling like an authoritarian, like a dictator, a deranged one.
one that's even weirder and more dangerous than a Kim Jong-un, a pariah state. The United States has become alienated and isolated from our allies and the rest of the world who are forming alliances with themselves and leaving the United States and saying, what the heck is this mess? As Donald Trump puts tariffs on, then exemptions, more tariffs, no tariffs, yes tariffs, no tariffs.
The insanity, the delusions, The ranting and ravings of a madman. This is what Donald Trump was posting yesterday as well. Letitia James, this is what Trump posts. A totally corrupt politician should resign from her position as New York State Attorney General immediately. Everyone is trying to make New York great again, and it can never be done with this wacky crook in office.
And then after that, Donald Trump posts a torture video of people unlawfully being sent to El Salvador, migrants who the Trump regime made disappear from the United States without due process, threw them in concentration camps in El Salvador. And now Nayib Bukele, the authoritarian leader of El Salvador, is visiting Donald Trump today and this week.
And then Donald Trump posts a torture video, an ISIS-style torture video being posted by the leader of the United States. I wonder why people from other countries are not visiting the United States anymore. I wonder why tourism from Canada, Europe, Australia, and elsewhere is dropping 30%, 50%, 75%. Maybe people don't want to be disappeared to concentration camps.
and ICE detention centers and then have ISIS style videos made about them and posted by a deranged lunatic leader of the United States. Donald Trump posts the following. We look forward to seeing President Bukele of El Salvador tomorrow in the White House is what he posted last night, along with this torture video. It should be noted.
that even though the Supreme Court ruled 9-0 against Donald Trump in connection with the Abrego Garcia case where Trump disappeared Garcia, a El Salvador individual who was living, a migrant who was living in Maryland, and he sent him to El Salvador despite the fact that he had protected status and was not giving due process and Trump threw him in a concentration camp and the Supreme Court ordered Abrego Garcia be returned and that Trump facilitate the return of
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Chapter 8: What kind of content is Trump and MAGA supporters sharing on social media over the weekend?
Let me leave you with this right here. This is Ray Dalio. He predicted the Great Recession. In 2008, he's a billionaire investor. This is not a liberal guy by any stretch of the imagination. It's not a lefty by any stretch of the imagination. I mean, this is, in my view of Ray, he's a right-leaning financial guy. He goes, I'm worried about something much worse than a recession.
He's referring to a depression. He's saying that Donald Trump is bringing us into a depression right now.
And if you look at what Trump is doing to the bond markets, if you look at the 5, 10, 20, 30-year treasury yields right now that are skyrocketing, which they're not supposed to, if you look at mortgage rates going up to about 7%, if you look at the fact that the American bond market's imploding, The conditions are here.
The issue is going to be which entity, which institution is going to now default. And will that create a domino effect?
Because that's the type of downward pressures that the Trump regime is putting on the economy here in the United States, not just with the tariffs themselves, but with the chaos and the volatility that on the whims of an authoritarian leader in the United States, all of a sudden there's fundamental shifts and changes in the economy. based on his tweets or social media posts. Here's Dalio.
Play this clip. I think that right now we are at a decision-making point and very close to a recession. And I'm worried about something worse than a recession if this isn't handled well. A recession is two negative quarters of GDP, and whether it goes slightly there, we always have those things. We have something that's much more profound. We have a breaking down of the monetary order.
We are going to change the monetary order because we cannot spend the amounts of money. So we have that problem. And when we talk about the dollar and we talk about tariffs, we have that. We are having profound changes in our domestic order. how ruling is existing. And we're having profound changes in the world order. Such times are very much like the 1930s.
I've studied history, and this repeats over and over again. So if you take tariffs, if you take debt, if you take the rising power challenging the existing power, if you take those factors and look at the factors, Those changes in the orders, the systems, are very, very disruptive. How that's handled could produce something that is much worse than a recession.
Well, there you have it, folks. A lot left, a lot of other things to report as well. But you do have Republicans worried about the wipeout. You do have people standing up in Salt Lake City. You have Donald Trump, a deranged, lunatic, sexual abuser, sexual predator, felon, fraud, engaging in this horrific conduct. And then you have the MAGA Republicans basically saying, what can we do?
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