Mexico has lifted 8.3 MILLION people out of poverty since 2022.

+ Trump: “There’s no inflation.”

+ The consumer price index rose in August at a 2.9 percent annual rate, up from July. Weekly jobless claims rose to the highest level since 2021.

+ Fox’s Jesse Watters: “Prices are still high. Can’t Trump just bring in some corporate executives and just say guys, there’s going to be a socialist revolution in this country if you don’t do something, please do something?”

+ The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. Their wealth grew by $1.2 trillion in the past year.

+ Computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton: “AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer.” 

+ Mexico has lifted 8.3 MILLION people out of poverty since 2022.

There was some real Nazi crosstalk on Fox’s morning show on Friday morning before the big reveal of Kirk’s murderer, not even Neo-, but the real OG Nazi. What does it do to the viewer’s mind who gets up in the morning, takes a sip of coffee and listens to three knuckleheads talk about giving the homeless and the mentally ill…”involuntary lethal injections”?

Lawrence Jones: “They’ve given literally billions of dollars for mental health and the homeless population. A lot of them don’t want to take the program. A lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary. You can’t give them a choice. Either you take the resources that are given you, or you’re going to be locked up in a mental institution. That’s the way I see it.”

Brian Kilmeade: “Or involuntary lethal injection or something. Just kill them.”

Jones: “Yep.”

+ Even as Trump is doing everything he can to shut it down, congestion pricing in NYC has succeeded in reducing vehicle traffic into Manhattan by 12%, meaning almost 18 million fewer vehicles trips since it went into effect.

+ Rand Paul on JD Vance and the US Navy droning that dinghy, assassinating 11 people: “What really ticked me off and got me going was for somebody [Vance] to glorify the idea of killing people without any due process and saying he just didn’t give a shit … That, to me, was a disdain for human life and a disdain for our process.”

+ An investigation by the government of Venezuela determined that the 11 people the US droned in the Caribbean weren’t members of the Tren de Aragua gang and a Pentagon briefing to Congress said that the boat appeared to be turning around when it was bombed, so the small vessel posed no threat to the US or US ships in the area, eliminating the last thinly possible legal excuse for the lethal airstrike.

+ Paula White, Trump’s spiritual advisor: “To say no to President Trump would be saying no to God.”

+ Molly Knight: “What a humiliating way for Don Jr. to find out that his dad sends birthday cards.”

Prem Thakker: “We’re releasing the Files. There are no Files. This video shows it’s a hoax. Ok, we edited it. Democrats made the Files. They’re real. Trump’s in them because he was an informant. Ok he wasnt I just mean he wanted to take Epstein down. That note to Epstein isn’t Trump. Ok, it is but…”

+ Jeffrey Sachs: “We all need to accept that the President probably raped kids and that’s not going to cost him his job.”

+ Rep. Jared Moskowitz on Mike Johnson’s now retracted assertion that Trump was a confidential informant against Epstein for the FBI: “If he was lying then, is he lying now?  I don’t think in the history of this country we’ve had a Speaker of the House say the president was an FBI informant. We need to hear from the FBI.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/roaming-charges-the-broken-jaws-of-our-lost-kingdom/