Not a great comparison as the Trump tower is one building while the Obama Library is an entire complex.

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OK, what point are you trying to make? The discussion I was having is about when people go into a grocery store and fill up their cart with expensive items that they can resell, and then walk out. Then they go and sell them for cash. Saying that malnutrition has increased is in no way connecting those two things.

When people are hungry I would think they would steal food and eat it, not go sell it. I suppose they could steal expensive items and sell them for cash and then go buy less expensive food? Not even sure if that’s what you’re trying to say. I don’t think we’re discussing the same thing.

People steal and make money on the black market whether the economy is good or bad. Crime like that goes up in dire economic times, but it’s not even remotely exclusive to dire economic times. Stealing meat and selling it is much more about funding drug habits than staving off starvation.

Some Businesses do buy stolen meat or supplies. There just has to be a crooked kitchen manager or owner who knows a guy. Of course they’d like to save 50%.

Being paid $17.7 million in a single year is absurd, considering that $10 million is still enough to make a person with reasonable spending habits comfortable for life. But that’s not nearly enough for the average CEO. They want 10 times as much.

Vital living infrastructure isn’t going anywhere: stuff like plumbing or electrical construction, repair and maintenance, whether on a single family home scale, apartments, hotels, or municipal.

They did get a second chance. The same people voted for him again.

It was incredibly obvious in 2015 that trump was a complete piece of shit who would make a completely awful president.

Check out people like Dana White. Does he seem even remotely trustworthy?

I guess it depends what the court wants to believe, which could be based on case law/precedent or expert testimony. It seems likely to me that an insanity defense being presented would increase the scrutiny the judge would apply to the defendant’s competence to represent themselves. It is required that a judge establish that a defendant seeking to go Pro Se is making an informed and rational decision.

A person who is severely mentally ill may be barred from representing themselves if they would not be able to do a competent job.

See https://www.floridabar.org/the-florida-bar-news/court-amends-rule-dealing-with-the-right-to-self-representation/

My thoughts on that is tbh at if a defendant was coherently and effectively serving as their own attorney in court, that would indicate to the court that they are not severely mentally ill. Or if they produced evidence like expert testimony saying they were, it could disqualify them from self representing.

“Just asking questions”, huh?

Pretty obviously you were implying that it was not due to her husband’s health, but rather that Trump wanted her out, as the supposed insider said. Sure, I believe that. I’d even go further and ask who gave this probable Russian agent’s husband rare bone cancer.

That just links to an archive.today of it. I tried doing it myself on that site before posting that, and it kept trying and didn’t work. I checked that site also and they didn’t have any other solutions. I guess someone got it to work.

Do you really think I’m not aware of the implications here and the fact that president and every member of his admin are chronically dishonest? All I’ve done is note what different outlets are reporting. Thanks though, I’ll try to “use my brain”.

Well, there’s the answer as to why Reuters is reporting that?

A Reuters article I read did not say that. It claimed troomp said she “did a great job”.

Mediaite reports Reuters said that: https://www.mediaite.com/media/reuters-reports-wh-forced-gabbard-to-resign-despite-her-citing-husbands-cancer-battle/

As does this

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/reuters-reports-wh-forced-gabbard-194248000.html

But perhaps Reuters changed their tune? Unfortunately I don’t know a way to get around the paywall here, but it seemed to be the same as other articles (Reuter reports that Fox reports…)

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gabbard-resigns-trumps-national-intelligence-director-fox-news-digital-reports-2026-05-22/

here’s the text of that one…

WASHINGTON, May 22 (Reuters) - Tulsi Gabbard said on Friday she is resigning from her job as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying her ​husband had been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer and that she was stepping away from her role to help ‌him. Gabbard advised Trump of her intention to step down during an Oval Office meeting on Friday, Fox News Digital reported earlier. The resignation is effective June 30, it said.

A source familiar with the matter said that Gabbard had been forced out by the White House. Davis Ingle, a White House spokesperson, said on X that Gabbard was stepping aside in light ​of her husband’s diagnosis. “Tulsi Gabbard is an America First patriot who has served this country faithfully and extremely well over the last 16 months,” ​Ingle said. In her resignation letter posted on X, Gabbard told Trump she was “deeply grateful for the trust you placed in ⁠me and for the opportunity to lead the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for the last year and a half.” She cited her husband Abraham Williams’ ​recent diagnosis with a rare form of bone cancer. “I cannot in good conscience ask him to face this fight alone while I continue in this demanding ​and time-consuming post,” she said. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump said the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lukas, would serve as acting director of national intelligence. He said Gabbard had done “a great job” but with her husband diagnosed with bone cancer, “she, rightfully, wants to be with him, bringing him back to good health as they currently fight a ​tough battle together.” Trump has hinted in the past at differences with Gabbard on their approach to Iran, saying in March that she was “softer” than him on curbing Tehran’s nuclear ​ambitions.

In April, several sources told Reuters that Gabbard could lose her role in a broader cabinet shakeup. A senior White House official said then that Trump had expressed displeasure with Gabbard in ‌recent months. ⁠Another source with direct knowledge of the matter said the president had asked allies for their thoughts on potential replacements for his intelligence chief. ‘PUSHED OUT’ Signs of the White House displeasure have included Gabbard’s absence from deliberations between Trump and his top national security advisers on the U.S. military operation that deposed former Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, the Iran war and Cuba. “She was pushed out by the White House,” a source familiar with Gabbard’s departure told Reuters. “The White House has been unhappy with ​her for quite some time.” The person ​said among other reasons for the ⁠displeasure with Gabbard were the activities of her taskforce known as the Director’s Initiatives Group. Among other activities, it has worked to declassify documents related to the death of former President John F. Kennedy, investigate the security of election machines, ​and probe the origins of COVID-19. Another source of friction, the person said, was Gabbard’s revocation last August of the ​security clearances of 37 ⁠current and former U.S. officials that exposed the name of an intelligence officer serving undercover overseas. Gabbard led several initiatives aimed at rooting out politicization from the intelligence community and approved the stripping of security clearances from former intelligence officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, told ⁠reporters after ​a Friday event in Manassas, Virginia, that Gabbard’s job itself had become too politicized. “This position now ​more than ever needs to be an independent, experienced intelligence professional,” Warner said. The next leader should understand the “Director of National Intelligence should be focusing on foreign intelligence and not involving himself or herself ​in domestic election incidents,” he said.

If you look at basic descriptions like this,

https://www.federalreserve.gov/economy-at-a-glance-inflation-pce.htm

it only mentions Personal Consumption Expenditures and Consumer Price Index.

I get what you’re saying, but it’s a fact that official inflation numbers are based on the consumer price index, which is about retail prices. Of course that affects business’ bottom line and profitability? Not giving a fuck about consumers being happy is one thing but that’s not the point when it’s about companies making money. They have to sell it to a consumer to make money in the end.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/economy_14419.htm

This states they pay attention to multiple measures of costs for individuals as well as producers.