zmgentry.bsky.social
@zmgentry.bsky.social
Catholic. Married with kids. Centrist.
How does this deal even make a bit of sense? A failed media company and crypto hedge fund? You know that the DoE is probably about 2 months away from making fusion energy the next big thing, so of course #DJT finds a way to invest in it.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-m...
Trump Media bets on fusion energy with $6 billion TAE deal
U.S. President Donald Trump is getting into the fusion power business through a $6 billion merger of his social media firm and Google-backed TAE technologies, just days after industry ​representatives...
finance.yahoo.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Don't let anybody tell you that tariffs don't impact economic activity in the U.S. Construction project abandonments are up 41%. Cheap money will not make this problem go away.
www.bisnow.com/national/new...
Tariff Woes Drive 41% Increase In Construction Project Abandonments
ConstructConnect found a sharp increase in developers delaying and abandoning projects last month, attributing it to the impact of tariffs on building costs.
www.bisnow.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Reposted
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Realize that if the stock market tanks, there will be no thing that #DJT can point to to suggest he's done anything for the economy. The likelihood that a major correction will occur over the AI bubble is high. The only question is when.
November 20, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Has anybody done a forensic accounting of #DJT? It is amazing to me that a company that loses $60M a year and has done so since its inception is still valued at $3 B.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 PM
If the plan was to fold, why not fold on day one. If the plan was to fight, what happened today to stop fighting?
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I am still sort of shocked how unconcerned the national media seems to be about the destruction of the East Wing of the White House. What more do you need to see? We're lazily watching the replacement of our consitution with an oligarchy.
October 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
As a mostly conservative former Republican, I endorse the next candidate who promises to aggressively and mercilessly root out all of the corruption and lawlessness wrought by Trump.
October 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Do you trust this new company is going to "restore election integrity?" And, how does a former election official buy a company that is in receipt of $1 billion judgment?

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...
Former GOP election official buys Dominion Voting Systems, says he’ll push for paper ballots | CNN Politics
Dominion Voting Systems, the election vendor that was falsely accused of rigging the 2020 election, is being sold and rebranded as Liberty Vote effective immediately.
www.cnn.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This can't be happening.. and yet it is. There is no clearer sign of our cultural demise than the devaluation of the Kennedy Center and the elevation of Fight Night on the White House lawn.

www.dezeen.com/2025/09/23/w...
UFC reveals design of arena to be built on White House lawn
The UFC has released renderings of a potential mixed martial arts arena to be built on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC.
www.dezeen.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Today, Stephen Miran will lie to Congress about his views of Central Bank independence. Republicans will call him qualified and he will be appointed as Governor of FRB with the goal of weakening the dollar and damaging international trade. Somehow, this will not make the news.
September 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
There is almost nothing more scammy than this. A new blank-check company that owns nothing more than a treasury of vapor.

finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-f...
Trump family crypto empire expands with Crypto.com partnership
President Donald Trump’s personal crypto ventures are expanding again, this time with plans for a digital asset treasury company that holds an alternative cryptocurrency. Trump Media and Technology G...
finance.yahoo.com
August 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I am curious whether anybody remembers when conspiracy nuts like Alex Jones warned of FEMA camps: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZbp...

Then, he supported building them...
FEMA Camps in America: Alex Jones Tv Sunday Edition w/ EXTRAS
YouTube video by CacaponMntMan
www.youtube.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
To be clear about Trumpanomics - we're headed toward a downturn, but Trump will use this as an opportunity to blame Powell. Like, if we just had lower interest rates, all the other bad decisions will go away. It is worth pointing this out so that we aren't surprised in Q4 when this happens.
August 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Some MAGA are likely to say at some point that DJT finally has succumbed to the swamp... to the "deep state" ...ruined by DC. The reality is that he has brought corruption to new levels by his own hand and that was his intention from the beginning.
July 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I just read on Yahoo!Finance that Trump is considering "firing" Powell and hiring Kevin Hassett at Fed Chair. This cannot be real can it?
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
As a student of Russian history, we sort of assumed that Tsarist brutality made communist terror palitable - that Russia was alway going to be "that way." Putin confirmed it. But the U.S. was suppose to be Tocquevillian, washed in unmitigated freedom. And we are now giving all that up for that guy?
July 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A serious question for those that are counting on the "Freedom" Caucus to stop this bill. What do you think they want? They want it to be even MORE draconian.

Be careful what you wish for.
July 3, 2025 at 5:31 PM
It is hard for me to believe that red states want this. It is basically a sale of their hiking, hunting and fishing places to development. Are we such an impoverished country that no place is safe from development?

www.fastcompany.com/91354978/map...
Map: All 250 million acres of public land the Trump budget bill would sell off
The Senate's reconciliation bill would mandate the sale of at least 2 million acres of public lands. See where they are.
www.fastcompany.com
June 24, 2025 at 2:57 PM
China is working to dry up the supply chain to the U.S. and find new markets for its goods.

The U.S. is not only attacking China in its trade war but also EU, LATAM and Canada - essentially all our partners.

Who do you think will break first, China or Trump? The answer here is obvious.
April 28, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I am going offline for Lent, and I would recommend the same to my fellow Catholics. To those who support Trump, I would ask that you look hard at Jesus' teachings. Are they reflected in your support? To those who don't, has your anger poisoned him or you? Reflect. Repent.
March 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
My fellow Americans, today we are not great. We are not good. We are not ethical, not upright, not justified. We are so wrong that we cannot even be shamed by our own moral depravity. Come what may.
February 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
A useful summary of some ways that Trump is currently using the White House for enrichment: www.startribune.com/coins-watche...

Note that payment is for the most part in bitcoin, in other words, not easily traceable.

My fellow countrymen, how are we allowing this to happen?
Coins, watches and more: A look at Trump's crypto-related ventures, by the numbers
Donald Trump has leaned into his unofficial role as the '' crypto president '' in ways that can both help the crypto industry and enrich himself and his family.
www.startribune.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:08 PM
If you connect our Russian capitulation to aggressiveness toward neighbors in our own hemisphere, you are left with the sense that what we are probably witnessing is less the breakdown of old alliances and actually the beginning of an new Axis of Evil.

I pray that isn't our endgame.
February 18, 2025 at 5:14 PM
There is zero in common between the society being crafted by Trump/Musk & the ideals espoused by Russell Kirk. It stands athwart tradition & disregards convention. It is a permanent class of property-holders with their hands on the levers of government. It is the death of human potential.
February 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM