average hourly wages, adjusted for inflation, were unchanged in May from a year earlier, even as nominal pay accelerated to a 2.7 percent annual gain from 2.6 percent in April. For production and nonsupervisory workers, real average hourly earnings fell 0.1 percent from a year earlier.

pacino wrote:fwiw, we had a great agreement with a country that was on the road to nuclearization and we and our allies negotiated a strong, smart agreement that derailed their program for at least ten years. Trump just went out of that one! perhaps this is why people don't believe the guy.

thephan wrote:I am not sure where I saw it, but over the last few days there was an interview about DJT habit of tearing things up when he is done with them. They think it is his way of organizing. If it is ripped up, then it was dealt with. Easy enough. Unfortunately he is tearing things up that are supposed to be preserved as presidential record to the archive. He is making the conservators and librarians crazy.

thephan wrote:I am not sure where I saw it, but over the last few days there was an interview about DJT habit of tearing things up when he is done with them. They think it is his way of organizing. If it is ripped up, then it was dealt with. Easy enough. Unfortunately he is tearing things up that are supposed to be preserved as presidential record to the archive. He is making the conservators and librarians crazy.

Monkeyboy wrote:I know we often say that the GOP is craven and will not stand up to Trump, but eventually they will have to do something, right? I mean, this is way the Hell out of hand at this point.

TenuredVulture wrote:I'm no expert, but it seems to me giving up joint exercise with S. Korea is a pretty bad idea. Seems like this is not just to the benefit of N. Korea, but also China and Russia.

thephan wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:I know we often say that the GOP is craven and will not stand up to Trump, but eventually they will have to do something, right? I mean, this is way the Hell out of hand at this point.

There is a special place in Hell for @Monkeyboy

Monkeyboy wrote:Am I the only one who found this week jarring? He's literally trying to tear down these alliances and disrupt our standing in the world. He's systematically lessening our ability to react quickly to global problems and at the same time China and Russia are being benefitted, often directly. We are so #$!&@ if Congress doesn't act soon. He's realigning the US on the world stage. The world will swing hard towards authoritarianism, and with present day technologies, that will be a hard thing to change once it solidifies.

Am I overreacting here? Really, this seems pretty #$!&@ bad.

White House trade adviser Peter Navarro on Tuesday walked back his comments over the weekend saying that there was a "special place in hell" for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, acknowledging that his language was "inappropriate."

"Let me correct a mistake I made," Navarro said at a conference in Washington hosted by The Wall Street Journal's CFO Network.

“My mission was to send a strong signal of strength,” he said. “The problem is that in conveying that message I used language that was inappropriate.”

Monkeyboy wrote:Am I the only one who found this week jarring? He's literally trying to tear down these alliances and disrupt our standing in the world. He's systematically lessening our ability to react quickly to global problems and at the same time China and Russia are being benefitted, often directly. We are so fucked if Congress doesn't act soon. He's realigning the US on the world stage. The world will swing hard towards authoritarianism, and with present day technologies, that will be a hard thing to change once it solidifies.

Am I overreacting here? Really, this seems pretty fucking bad.

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