Political Current Events March 5-6

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Carolina Fever said:
That doesn't sound good. And he is exactly right about Trump and his "peace negotiations."
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“… deliver a “durable peace” for Ukraine, while warning that Europe needs to be ready for the United States to not “remain by our side.”“
 
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“…The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency Tuesday that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.

That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act.

The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization in August to “resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure.” It also calls for agency officials to work with the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency to “move out aggressively, while taking a pragmatic and disciplined approach” to the Trump administration’s goals. Government Executive first reported on the internal memo.

… The VA last year experienced its highest-ever service levels, reaching enrollment figures to over 9 million veterans and delivering more than 127.5 million health care appointments, according to the agency’s figures.

Michael Missal, who was the VA’s inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month as part of Trump’s sweeping dismissal of independent oversight officials at government agencies, told the AP that the VA is already suffering from a lack of “expertise” as top-level officials either leave or are shuffled around under the president’s plans. …”
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This should make all of the vets that voted for him happy. I'm sure they were looking to have veteran services cut.
 
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nycfan said:


“…The VA’s chief of staff, Christopher Syrek, told top-level officials at the agency Tuesday that it had an objective to cut enough employees to return to 2019 staffing levels of just under 400,000.

That would require terminating tens of thousands of employees after the VA expanded during the Biden administration, as well as to cover veterans impacted by burn pits under the 2022 PACT Act.

The memo instructs top-level staff to prepare for an agency-wide reorganization in August to “resize and tailor the workforce to the mission and revised structure.” It also calls for agency officials to work with the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency to “move out aggressively, while taking a pragmatic and disciplined approach” to the Trump administration’s goals. Government Executive first reported on the internal memo.

… The VA last year experienced its highest-ever service levels, reaching enrollment figures to over 9 million veterans and delivering more than 127.5 million health care appointments, according to the agency’s figures.

Michael Missal, who was the VA’s inspector general for nine years until he was fired last month as part of Trump’s sweeping dismissal of independent oversight officials at government agencies, told the AP that the VA is already suffering from a lack of “expertise” as top-level officials either leave or are shuffled around under the president’s plans. …”
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25% of the VA workforce are veterans.
 
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Trading Volume In This Nasdaq-Listed Firm Soared Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump Were Announced As Board Members—‘Suspicious,’ Experts Say

Before the company announced the president’s sons as investors and advisory board members, trading volume in the Nasdaq-listed stock jumped.
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Between Feb. 12 and Dec. 29, 2024, trading in Dominari Holdings—a Nasdaq-listed firm that specializes in wealth management, investment banking, sales and trading, asset management and capital investment—averaged 11,500 shares a day, never exceeding 71,000 shares, with a price range of $1.10 to $3.20.


On Dec. 30, trading shot up to 358,000 shares, kicking off a surge that saw daily volume average 1.2 million shares a day through Feb. 10, 2025—when it skyrocketed to 23.7 million shares—as the stock price climbed from $0.83 to $6.50.


On Feb. 11, an hour before markets opened, Dominari Holdings announced that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had joined its advisory board and acquired an undisclosed amount of shares in the company, sending the stock to a 52-week high of $11.33.


The price peaked at $13.58 two days later but has since fallen, closing at $6.74 on Tuesday.
 
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Probably step one of his stated desire to take control of governance of DC.
 
altmin said:
www.forbes.com

Trading Volume In This Nasdaq-Listed Firm Soared Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump Were Announced As Board Members—‘Suspicious,’ Experts Say

Before the company announced the president’s sons as investors and advisory board members, trading volume in the Nasdaq-listed stock jumped.
www.forbes.com www.forbes.com

Between Feb. 12 and Dec. 29, 2024, trading in Dominari Holdings—a Nasdaq-listed firm that specializes in wealth management, investment banking, sales and trading, asset management and capital investment—averaged 11,500 shares a day, never exceeding 71,000 shares, with a price range of $1.10 to $3.20.


On Dec. 30, trading shot up to 358,000 shares, kicking off a surge that saw daily volume average 1.2 million shares a day through Feb. 10, 2025—when it skyrocketed to 23.7 million shares—as the stock price climbed from $0.83 to $6.50.


On Feb. 11, an hour before markets opened, Dominari Holdings announced that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had joined its advisory board and acquired an undisclosed amount of shares in the company, sending the stock to a 52-week high of $11.33.


The price peaked at $13.58 two days later but has since fallen, closing at $6.74 on Tuesday.
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Why would anyone invest in a wealth management company that is stupid enough to add trump's kids to the advisory board?

Seems like another scam that made the grifting trump family some money but no one else.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
The stunt Trump pulled with Zelensky really pissed off the Europeans.

This is spectacularly backfiring on Trump and Putin.
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It pissed off the free world.

A Canadian friend I play FFXIV with--her and I talked a bit yesterday, and they're not only pissed at Trump for the tariffs, but basically destabilizing the world. When I tell the few Trumpers I know that the world is going to move on without us, they say it's not possible.

Well, we're going to see. We're actually going to see if they can or not. Because they're going to try.

The move that will signal the end of the US's dominance over the world is when some or some group of nations are brazen enough to move off of using the American dollar as the financial standard around the world. Once that starts en masse, the party is over.
 
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