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November 15, 2025
There was once a time in this country that this would be a scandal and their would be repercussions. But we are no longer that country.
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-dhs-ad-campaign-strategy-groupThe Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret, records and interviews show: a Republican consulting firm with long-standing personal and business ties to Noem and her senior aides at DHS. The company running the Mount Rushmore shoot, called the Strategy Group, does not appear on public documents about the contract. The main recipient listed on the contracts is a mysterious Delaware company, which was created days before the deal was finalized.
No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation than the Strategy Group. It played a central role in her 2022 South Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top adviser at DHS, has worked extensively with the firm. And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin.
No firm has closer ties to Noem’s political operation than the Strategy Group. It played a central role in her 2022 South Dakota gubernatorial campaign. Corey Lewandowski, her top adviser at DHS, has worked extensively with the firm. And the company’s CEO is married to Noem’s chief spokesperson at DHS, Tricia McLaughlin.
There was once a time in this country that this would be a scandal and their would be repercussions. But we are no longer that country.
November 13, 2025
Dow down 800 points today
Well 797.
Did Trump's refusal to release October economic data, including the Jobs Report finally wake up the fools on Wall Street that he is crashing the Economy?
November 13, 2025
Besides protecting the Pedophile in Chief?
What are the excuses the Repugs are giving for opposing the release of the Epstein files.
To be clear, I am not talking about the real reasons they are blocking it. we KNOW why, because it is bad for Trump.
But what reasons are they publicly giving to to excuse this loathsome obstruction.
November 9, 2025
Trump has two motivations
Greed and personal grievance.
He doesn't care about Republicans losing, or what he can or can't accomplished. He knows he is in office for three more years and can continue his graft and revenge. That people still think what happens to the country matters to him shows how little the discussion about Trump is based on reality.
November 9, 2025
It's the Epstein files
Why does the Press continue to portray this as some in the weeds policy disagreement?
November 8, 2025
Did Trump have a mini stroke?
I grabbed this photo from another thread on DU. Look at the droop on the right side of his mouth, our left.
November 8, 2025
Forget Tesla's terribly overinflated stock with a price to earnings at 400x.
Here are some links about Tesla's income.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-income
https://www.alphaquery.com/stock/TSLA/earnings-history
Tesla income is actually declining. The Cybertruck is one of the biggest failures in car history, Tesla AI is a poor wannabe, and his driverless robotaxi is another promise that will take forever to get to market, if it ever does (he promissed driverless cars by 2020).
Tesla's best year was profits of $ 15 billion, now down to under $10. So with a car brand that is being shunned globally, and products that may never reach market. Tesla has to grow it's sales over 40x for Musk to earn this ridiculous pay out.
Tesla's best year was under 2 million cars sold worldwide. Does anybody see them reaching sales of automakers like Toyota or Honda?
For Tesla to reach the Market Cap in the goals it's current stock price of around $400 would have to reach almost $2000.
Tesla currently has a Price to Earnings ratio of over 300. In comparison, almost all other car makers have a PE of around 10. Nvidia, the AI Chip maker and darling of the stock market has one of around 50. So Tesla's stock price is predicated that it will grow 6 times more than Nvidia, who is actually making something people are buying.
All this money is predicated on a stock price that is based on a cult of personality and the foolishness of the investor class. The real numbers for Tesla income show a different picture.
Given Musk's track record of failed promises, empty concepts and actual failures. I don't see where Tesla pays him a trillion $.
*This is just a general overall view and not a in depth analysis. So my numbers could be off somewhat, but not enough to change my conclusions.
Why Musk will never get his trillion $
These are the goals he must meet;
The pay package stands to give the CEO the control he sought, with as much as a 25% stake in the company. Unlocking all 12 tranches of Tesla stock, for the largest possible financial reward, will require the company's market cap to reach at least $8.5 trillion and profits of $400 billion, and for the company to meet product goals including 20 million car deliveries, 1 million robots sold, and 1 million robotaxis in operation. (Tesla's market cap is around $1.3 trillion currently and it reported $4.2 billion in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization for the third quarter.34)
Forget Tesla's terribly overinflated stock with a price to earnings at 400x.
Here are some links about Tesla's income.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/net-income
https://www.alphaquery.com/stock/TSLA/earnings-history
Tesla income is actually declining. The Cybertruck is one of the biggest failures in car history, Tesla AI is a poor wannabe, and his driverless robotaxi is another promise that will take forever to get to market, if it ever does (he promissed driverless cars by 2020).
Tesla's best year was profits of $ 15 billion, now down to under $10. So with a car brand that is being shunned globally, and products that may never reach market. Tesla has to grow it's sales over 40x for Musk to earn this ridiculous pay out.
Tesla's best year was under 2 million cars sold worldwide. Does anybody see them reaching sales of automakers like Toyota or Honda?
For Tesla to reach the Market Cap in the goals it's current stock price of around $400 would have to reach almost $2000.
Tesla currently has a Price to Earnings ratio of over 300. In comparison, almost all other car makers have a PE of around 10. Nvidia, the AI Chip maker and darling of the stock market has one of around 50. So Tesla's stock price is predicated that it will grow 6 times more than Nvidia, who is actually making something people are buying.
All this money is predicated on a stock price that is based on a cult of personality and the foolishness of the investor class. The real numbers for Tesla income show a different picture.
Given Musk's track record of failed promises, empty concepts and actual failures. I don't see where Tesla pays him a trillion $.
*This is just a general overall view and not a in depth analysis. So my numbers could be off somewhat, but not enough to change my conclusions.
November 7, 2025
Elise Stefanik, staunch Trump ally, launches bid for New York governor
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elise-stefanik-staunch-trump-ally-launches-bid-new-york-governor-2025-11-07/
November 5, 2025
Yet in Nassau county, Long Island, NY
they re-elected their MAGA County Executive to continue to turn it into a garbage dump.
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