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Democrats trying to figure out a way to complain about President Trump cutting the price of pharmaceuticals for Americans.

MolotovCocktail says

Democrats trying to figure out a way to complain about President Trump cutting the price of pharmaceuticals for Americans.

Easy prediction. The Dems will just lie about lower pharma costs then insinuate Trump is making money with TrumpRX.

Soft lo-fi Christmas Music to go with lists of Trump accomplishments, direct from the White House Account.

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ypKdqvgdbvGW

Trump continues to use every power he has to reduce H1Bs:
Social Media screening for H1B and other Visa applicants now mandatory.



Only Congress can kill the program or reduce the raw numbers permitted. Only Congress.

Dept of Energy returning $13B in unspent funds - mostly from the New Green Scam - to the General Treasury

Trump announcing new class of 30-40k ton Battleships with Big Guns, Electric Rail Guns, Lasers, and heavy armor resistant to multiple missile and torpedo hits.

"USS Defiant" is the proposed name of the first ship of the Class

Trump - With modern technology, guns can be as accurate and far cheaper than many missiles

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2003227207414743063?s=20

Addendum as this continues:

Also discussing how builders and design contractors are going to be responsible for cost overruns; new contracting standards.

Trump is planning to restore America's MERCHANT MARINE. Long overdue!

$3000 Special Christmas Bonus to self-Deport!

AmenCorner_AntiPanican says

Trump announcing new class of 30-40k ton Battleships with Big Guns, Electric Rail Guns, Lasers, and heavy armor resistant to multiple missile and torpedo hits.

"USS Defiant" is the proposed name of the first ship of the Class

Trump - With modern technology, guns can be as accurate and far cheaper than many missiles

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2003227207414743063?s=20

Addendum as this continues:

Also discussing how builders and design contractors are going to be responsible for cost overruns; new contracting standards.

Trump is planning to restore America's MERCHANT MARINE. Long overdue!

Never going to happen. They are just humoring him as they wait out his term.

5 EU Censors banned from USA due to their anti-human rights agenda.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/zombie-rules-tuesday-december-23

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Trump Administration Orders Nearly 30 U.S. Ambassadors to Leave Their Posts.” The Times had no idea why Trump did it, but even without any inkling, still found the reassignments intolerably cruel. Oh, it had some idea: “They are all foreign service officers who had been appointed to their positions by the Biden administration.” ...

Take a deep breath. They aren’t fired. The ambassadors were just recalled to the states, albeit quickly (within the next few weeks). Still, that’s enough to produce progressive hysteria these days. Whatever Trump does is terrible.

Out here in the real world, we plebeians work “at will,” which means we can be fired or reassigned for any reason or no reason at all (apart from race, sex, age, or disability). Our bosses can order us to report to any office they need or want, and if we don’t like it, we can quit and find a new job. But Democrats seem to have built themselves a neat little utopia —tenured federal jobs without bosses— and they don’t like it when anybody messes with the formula.

Well, I like it. I think elite federal workers should work under the same rules as the rest of us. And I love what this ‘mass recall’ suggests about Trump’s 2026 plans, which once again, he’s keeping under his Santa hat and not previewing to the corrupt media.

What a difference an Administration without leaks makes.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/zombie-rules-tuesday-december-23

Nothing has annoyed the DC elite more than Trump’s project to rebrand the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Yesterday, local Washington affiliate NBC-4 ran a decidedly non-jolly story headlined, “Protest held against renaming Kennedy Center after Trump in DC.”

Lawsuits are already underway to stop President Trump from adding his name to the iconic arts venue. But the signage was already installed before they even knew it was coming:




What they hate even more than Trump’s name being affixed to the historic building is the change in the Center’s programming. The Center’s new president, Rick Grenell, announced at the beginning of the month that Jesus would be front and center for the December programming. A live nativity has been installed there ever since, which is literally the worst thing the libs can imagine, apart from the gas station clerk rudely wishing them “Merry Christmas.”

For decades, Democrats have enjoyed the Kennedy Center’s relentlessly woke, secular holiday programming, which is focused more on sexual diversity than the reason for the season. That has now ended, with progressives gritting their teeth and aiming to wait out the Trump term till they can get back to the type of entertainment they love most: transgender midgets in cross-dressing elf costumes. But with Trump applying his name right to the building, he’s telling them the changes are here to stay, an very unmerry insult added to their terrible injuries.

By the way, the “protest” mentioned in the article’s headline was only around 100 people, and it was organized by a disgruntled ex-employee, Mallory Miller, who was fired in August. One suspects the small group was all former Kennedy Center staff and their close relatives. They need to move on.

The bottom line: Christmas is back. It is even back in the Nation’s capital, which is looking less and less godless all the time. It’s a true holiday miracle.

WH Christmas stream with claymation Trump reading list of deportees and their crimes.



https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlANjvkNJL?s=20

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/twas-the-k-shape-before-xmas-wednesday

It was a Christmas miracle! This morning, the Wall Street Journal’s lead story was headlined, “The U.S. Economy Keeps Powering Ahead, Defying Dire Predictions.” Here is the Trump 2.0-era media narrative template: First, the media criticizes President Trump for his economic policies, his unprofessional communications style, and exhaling. The media diligently avoids even the appearance of bias by just quoting Scrooge-like ‘financial experts’ who predict that, as a direct result of President Trump’s policies, especially tariffs, ten thousand babies will die horrifically from measles, instead of being aborted first.

But then, disappointment. Babies stubbornly cling to life and Recessions fail to rear their ugly heads. Instead, the economy surges, unexpectedly, and the experts suddenly discover new and even more complicated economic theories proving that the surprisingly strong financial performance is mostly a mirage. “Bah, humbug,” the experts say.

Then, just go back to square one —criticize everything Trump does— and repeat. As Ross Perot used to say, It’s simple! Nothing to it.

The truth is, despite experts’ anti-heroic efforts, we’re outperforming the entire European continent, including Germany, Britain, France, Lithuania, the Maldives, various Christmas markets, and the Rock of Gibraltar. “The U.S. economy continues to power through,” the Journal began, “defying widespread expectations of a slowdown or even a recession, and blowing past other developed countries.”

Whoosh! “What was zat, herr ubergrupenfloffer?” “Zat was America! It blew right past like a rocket-powered zeppelin!” Or something like that.

While ze Germans are burning their yard furniture for heat, Americans are shopping for Christmas gift deals and generally acting like the economy is robust. True, Americans might not like the hangover of Biden’s high prices, but we are powering through and paying them.

“Americans continue to spend,” the story explained simply. And not just a little. And it’s not just consumers. Businesses and investors spent, too. “The mood among the business community and investors is definitely bullish,” said Rebecca Patterson, an economist quoted in a story from yesterday’s New York Times , which was headlined:

U.S. Economic Growth Surged in Third Quarter of 2025
Gross domestic product grew at a 4.3 percent annual rate, faster than the previous three months.

https://worldoil.com/news/2025/12/18/u-s-house-passes-bipartisan-speed-act-advancing-federal-permitting-reform/

Patrick says

It was a Christmas miracle! This morning, the Wall Street Journal’s lead story was headlined, “The U.S. Economy Keeps Powering Ahead, Defying Dire Predictions.”

Dividends from the pile literally tripled over last year. They just came in year end and tallied. I would have to say that it is a 'Trump Effect'.

Ceffer says

Patrick says

It was a Christmas miracle! This morning, the Wall Street Journal’s lead story was headlined, “The U.S. Economy Keeps Powering Ahead, Defying Dire Predictions.”

Dividends from the pile literally tripled over last year. They just came in year end and tallied. I would have to say that it is a 'Trump Effect'.

Whats a good dividend stock now?

I think REITs and utilities are often owned just for the dividends.

The REITs have to pay out some large part of their income as dividends to maintain some special tax status.

And utilities don't really grow because they are already monopolies in their areas, so they pay out excess earnings as dividends.

Patrick says

I think REITs and utilities are often owned just for the dividends.

The REITs have to pay out some large part of their income as dividends to maintain some special tax status.

And utilities don't really grow because they are already monopolies in their areas, so they pay out excess earnings as dividends.

Ah, makes sense. Never owned REITS. I have AT&T and Verizon.

REITS used to be great, like very consistent 10% dividends or more, but then they shut down the world for Fauci's virus and a lot of commercial real estate never recovered. People started working from home and then just kept working from home. Tons of vacant office space now.