{"id":176393,"date":"2025-11-18T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=176393"},"modified":"2025-11-17T13:52:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T18:52:37","slug":"tuesday-tidbits-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=176393","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Tidbits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Let’s lead off with an attention-grabbing headline about Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell. A former Epstein Girl has dropped a very specific allegation about Donald Trump:<\/p>\n

Anouska De Georgiou was a friend of the late Virginia Giuffre. It\u2019s alleged that Virginia was trafficked by late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. According to Anouska, another victim of Jeffrey\u2019s tracking, that was the intention for his close friend and partner, Ghislaine Maxwell when she introduced her to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

In an interview with BBC Newsnight, Anouska says she was introduced to Donald with the \u201cclear message of my being with him.\u201d She adds that her introduction to him was for the \u201csame way she (Ghislaine) had trafficked.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding how Donald behaved, she says he had no \u201cimpropriety with me.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Reality Tea<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

All the hoopla, all the hysterics – and it keeps on being a nothing-burger. You would think by now they would give up on trying to shame Trump on this – as we say around here, that dog won’t hunt.<\/p>\n

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And we have the dollar coin hoopla. Several folks have floated a whatever-you-call-it commemorative bicentennial-and-a-half dollar coin with images of President Trump on both sides. One draft is shown above. The prevailing sentiment with the sycophants seems to be having Trump’s image on both sides of the coin, a break with long-standing tradition. Some opponents cite US Code<\/a> which dictates what shall be on each side of a coin (which that design violates) and that a coin shall not be issued with the image of a living\u00a0 President.<\/p>\n

Regulations also state there must be a two-year period after the death of a former or current president before issuing currency with their likeness.\u00a0\u00a0CBS<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

However, if this is classed a commemorative and not a general circulation coin, many of these restrictions become don’t necessarily apply – and Congress passed a bill submitted by Barbara Lee (D, CA) in 2021 under President Biden\u00a0HR1923<\/a> for a commemorative semiquincentennial dollar coin. (You knew I’d have to get it in there somehow, eh?)<\/p>\n

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Moving to the media – MSNBC has officially changed their name. MS NOW is the new moniker.<\/p>\n

MSNBC, which stands for Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company, was launched in 1996 under a partnership with Microsoft and NBC, according to Reuters. Though Microsoft pulled out of the joint venture that owned MSNBC in 2012, the name was not changed, until now.<\/p>\n

MS NOW stands for “My Source for News, Opinion, and the World,” according to a press release by the channel.\u00a0\u00a0USA Today<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Like the gun control groups who have constantly changed their names thinking they can dupe the public about what they’re really all about, (“oh, no, it’s gun SAFETY”!)\u00a0 this change evokes another set of initials:\u00a0 \u00a0SSDD. I’m gonna assume I don’t need to explain that one.<\/p>\n

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Last, Trump has reduced tariffs on beef, bananas, tomatoes, and coffee to reduce prices which rose with tariffs.\u00a0 So does this mean prices rose with tariffs like many predicted would happen?<\/p>\n

President Trump has signed an order reducing tariffs on goods including beef, tomatoes, coffee and bananas, to lower costs on some everyday goods as consumers grapple with price struggles.\u00a0\u00a0Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or do tariffs actually work as a speedbump, disturbing markets and pricing that they actually slow the economy as one researcher claims?<\/p>\n

But if the study\u2019s finding are correct, Trump may eventually be able to point to better inflation numbers, assuming he can stomach a weaker economy and labor market.<\/p>\n

In a working paper published on Thursday, San Francisco Fed researchers R\u00e9gis Barnichon and Aayush Singh said higher tariffs lead to reduced economic activity, higher unemployment and lower inflation in the short term.\u00a0\u00a0Fortune<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not sure anyone knows. Like the man said, no matter how gilt-edged and revered an economist is, you can easily find another to call him a diamond studded liar.<\/p>\n

Regardless, remember how the massive tariff income was supposed to reduce the national debt?<\/p>\n

Trump has also in recent days floated the possibility of a tariff “dividend” for many Americans in the form of a $2,000 check. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News on Sunday that that plan would need congressional approval, saying “working families” would be the target for the rebates.\u00a0 Yahoo Finance<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t decide whether “bait and switch” or “buying votes” fits better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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