“The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2025 is -2.8 percent on March 3, down from -1.5 percent on February 28. After this morning’s releases from the US Census Bureau and the Institute for Supply Management, the nowcast of first-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and real private fixed investment growth fell from 1.3 percent and 3.5 percent, respectively, to 0.0 percent and 0.1 percent,” says the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank in a forecast update.

It’s not clear yet when DOGE will order the bureaucrats who wrote this be fired and placed under criminal investigation for spreading hateful lies contradicting the new Golden Age of America.

“Texas has about 12.2 million head of cattle, the most in America. I met with the Texas Cattle Feeders and Cattle Raisers this week. Out of curiosity, I asked each of them their favorite cut of meat. A few said New York Strip. I asked why we didn’t call it a ‘Texas Strip’ because New York has mostly dairy cows. Just because a New York restaurant named Texas beef a New York Strip in the 19th century doesn’t mean we need to keep doing that. The Texas Senate will file a concurrent resolution to officially change the name of the New York Strip to the ‘Texas Strip’ in the Lone Star State. We ask restaurants to change the name of this strip of meat the next time they reprint their menus, and grocery stores to do the same. We want this to catch on across the country and around the globe. In a world filled with serious issues that we address every day at the Texas Capitol, this simple resolution will help better market Texas beef. That’s good for the Texas cattle industry.”

“The Cattle Associations sure liked the idea. Liberal New York shouldn’t get the credit for our hard-working ranchers. We promote the Texas brand on everything made or grown in Texas because it benefits our economy and jobs. After session ends this summer, I might take a short cruise across the Gulf of America and have a juicy medium-rare Texas Strip,” wrote Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick in a lengthy tweet on Friday, taking the lead on addressing an important matter for his state.

Interviewed Monday by that Limey on Fox Business News, Florida MAGA Congressman Carlos Giminez was pissed at the “Democrats” for denying “Donald Trump a huge win” by somehow encouraging Volodymyr Zelensky to back out of the minerals deal, with Varney citing a Saturday New York Post piece the chyron indicated was “reporting” but the main screen labeled accurately as “opinion”: “Disaster in the Oval Office: Dems lead Zelensky, Ukraine off a cliff with pressure to reject mineral deal.” In it, Post opinion columnist schmuck Michael Godwin cites a tweet by Dem Connecticut Senator Chris Murphy saying “Just finished a meeting with President Zelensky here in Washington. He confirmed that the Ukrainian people will not support a fake peace agreement where Putin gets everything he wants and there are no security arrangements for Ukraine.”

Evidently Godwin’s interpretation of Murphy’s tweet means to Varney and Giminez that “Democrats” had demanded Zelensky deny Trump a win. Thus it’s “outrageous” and horrible.

Later in the segment Varney informed Giminez that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth had ordered an end to all cyber operations against Russia. Giminez was unaware and was furious with Hegseth.

“The Treasury Department is announcing today that, with respect to the Corporate Transparency Act, not only will it not enforce any penalties or fines associated with the beneficial ownership information reporting rule under the existing regulatory deadlines, but it will further not enforce any penalties or fines against US citizens or domestic reporting companies or their beneficial owners after the forthcoming rule changes take effect either. The Treasury Department will further be issuing a proposed rulemaking that will narrow the scope of the rule to foreign reporting companies only. Treasury takes this step in the interest of supporting hard-working American taxpayers and small businesses and ensuring that the rule is appropriately tailored to advance the public interest.”

“‘This is a victory for common sense,’ said US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent. ‘Today’s action is part of President Trump’s bold agenda to unleash American prosperity by reining in burdensome regulations, in particular for small businesses that are the backbone of the American economy,'” says the Treasury Department in a Sunday press release. The word “money laundering” wasn’t mentioned, probably because it sounds too “dirty,” but per Reuters, that’s Bessent’s aim here.

“Paid ‘troublemakers’ are attending Republican Town Hall Meetings. It is all part of the game for the Democrats, but just like our big LANDSLIDE ELECTION, it’s not going to work for them!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday, finally getting around to sharing that lame-ass excuse for his loyal sycophants acting like total pussies when faced with outraged constituents.

Detroit economist Patrick Anderson tells Bloomberg he expects the average cost of a new vehicle to go up by $12,000 after convicted felon President Trump’s tariffs sink in. “That kind of cost increase will lead directly – and I expect almost immediately – to a decline in sales of the models that have the biggest trade impacts,” Anderson said of the anticipated effects the fat bastard’s planned 25 percent levies will inflict on the auto industry’s complex cross-border manufacturing chain.

Where is the lie?

Everyone with an ounce of integrity in their body knows I’m right.

Blondi is an embarrassment to President Trump.

I hope Trump fires her. pic.twitter.com/ozNRZ4gUqk

— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) March 3, 2025

In an article titled “Trump Has Glossed Over High Prices. Republicans Worry It Will Cost Them,” the Wall Street Journal quotes from several members of the MAGA party expressing said worries – with varying degrees of alarm – over the future political impact of the fat fuck thus far having indeed largely “glossed over” the issue after a campaign largely focused on making it sound like the Biden Administration had deliberately inflicted increased costs on the American people.

There was something of a noticeable dispositive difference in the level of unease, perhaps speaking to the also steadily rising political price of pointing out that the party ruled with a flabby fist by the Orange Overlord better figure it out sooner rather than later. On one end there were Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, who said he doesn’t “feel like people are blaming him on that yet, but I think that’s a risk you get three, six months down the road. It’s a risk for any politician,” and “moderate” Nebraska Congressman Don Bacon, who told the Journal he thinks “it’s too early to say if the president has acted on inflation,” adding “it may take a while for tangible results to be seen.”

On the other was longtime MAGA economic douchebag Stephen Moore, who definitely sounds like he’s pissing himself. “The Trump administration needs to keep its eye on what’s happening with prices. It should be a top priority. The trend is a little bit troubling.” However, none seemed more freaked out than Virginia GOP chairman Rich Anderson, whose state party are potentially staring down the barrel of a fucking massacre in November with inflation icing on the cake of the DOGE shitshow, putting it very bluntly with “There will be a penalty to pay if there is a failure to deliver.”

The Orange Fuhrer on Monday ordered all citizens to ignore the lugenpresse, posting “The only President who gave none of Ukraine’s land to Putin’s Russia is President Donald J Trump. Remember that when the weak and ineffective Democrat’s criticize, and the Fake News gladly puts out anything they say!” on his lame Twitter clone, the fucking stupid misplaced apostrophe for the true fans.

Still some pretty textbook execution of bad faith horseshit. You can say correctly that Bill Clinton and George W Bush never “gave” any Ukrainian territory to Russia, that it’s an extremely bitchy way of describing what happened when Russia invaded Ukraine during Joe Biden’s administration, that obviously the fanboys would’ve lost their shit if Obama had ordered military strikes against Russia to stop the 2014 incursions, and that Trump is trying to actually “give” the currently occupied regions over to Vlad. None of that matters because the cult has been ordered to ignore it.

All about the Dons: House GOP bill would put Trump's face on $100 note https://t.co/E3p2FhdfqB

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 3, 2025

Wazzup crackaz? Check dis bling-blingin’ Fox Newzizzle headline wit tha word “Benjamins” from Puff Daddy’z 1997 track replaced wit “Dons”! That a fly-ass funny reference, ain’t it, dawg?!?

“House Democrats are committed to funding the government in a manner that promotes the economic well-being, health and safety of everyday Americans. The top Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, Rosa DeLauro, remains ready, willing and able to talk with our Republican colleagues, but there has been zero outreach from the Trump administration and House Republicans have walked away from the negotiating table. As the recent budget resolution vote made clear, there will be no support for partisan legislation that fails to protect the quality of life of the American people, most importantly with respect to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”

“Unfortunately, it appears that Republicans, who control the House, the Senate and the presidency, are once again determined to shut the government down and hurt everyday Americans,” said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries in a statement on Sunday as the March 14th deadline approaches.

A Punchbowl survey of Congressional staffers found 57 percent saying a shutdown is imminent.

“We should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about migrant rape gangs, drug lords, murderers, and people from mental institutions entering our Country – So that we don’t end up like Europe!” posted convicted felon President Trump, leaning hard into self-satire.

“Gov Henry McMasterbater should immediately go to NorthCarolina and open up the water main, and let the water flow into his dry, starving, burning State, instead of having it go out into the Atlantic Ocean. It ought to be done right now, NO MORE EXCUSES FROM THIS INCOMPETENT GOVERNOR. IT’S ALREADY FAR TOO LATE!” convicted felon President Trump did not post Sunday.

Nevertheless, DEI is out of control in South Carolina and the people there have a responsibility to elect competent leadership. As little sense as any of this makes for “parody” that’s kind of the point as an editorial response to massive wildfires currently prompting evacuations in a Red State.

Bald fucking asshole MAGA Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden was none-too-pleased to be getting a LinkedIn message from Los Angeles-area former Veterans Affairs staffer Tony Ruiz.

“I am a member of Congress on the VA Committee. I have absolutely no say in the employment status of any individual in the executive branch however, I will be referring you to DOGE as it seems that at 13:46 on a Monday you should have been working for veterans, not posting trash about your boss, President Trump. There needs to be accountability. Now,” Van Orden wrote to Ruiz.

Thing is, per Wisconsin station WKOW’s JT Cestkowski Ruiz was let go on February 3rd, meaning it seems that Van Orden was threatening to get the already former employee fired. Cestkowski’s reporting isn’t 100 percent clear on the exact timing but either way that’s how Ruiz understood it, which means it’s contra to what the White House has been saying about DOGE’s firing powers.

Ruiz told Cestkowski that in a subsequent message he asked Van Orden to call him to testify publicly in front of the VA committee. The response he got: “See you at the VA Hearing, Pal.”

Woodstock, Illinois paper straw factory owner Guy Spinelli is a little glum lately, telling the Washington Post that everything was going great for his business until convicted felon President Trump – who Spinelli voted for – signed that executive order banning purchases of the straws by federal government agencies. Even though Spinelli does no business whatsoever with the government, and obviously paper straws are by no means banned for use by private enterprise, his buyers are for whatever reason moving back to plastic. The 75 year-old former paper mill laborer expects to do a tenth of the $800,000 in business he did in 2024, all this after investing over $2 million from his life’s savings into developing the straw and launching the company in 2023.

“Our distributors are saying, ‘Everyone’s going back to plastic now because of the president. The president I voted for, the man who says ‘Let’s make America great again, let’s help small businesses grow,’ that man is going to put me out of business,” Spinelli said, adding “Why doesn’t the president reach out to some of us manufacturers and say, ‘Hey, what’s going on with this straw business?’ I drink the same beverage he does – Diet Coke – and my straw lasts all day long,” as if Trump cares.

Perhaps the cruelest part is that in 2023 none other than Fox News douchebag Jesse Watters gave Spinelli’s brand “Boss Straw” high marks for staying intact in a cup of water for 24 hours.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio was pretty offended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Kyiv-gyonistic and anti-Muscovite attitude during the Oval Office meeting on Friday, accusing Zelensky of “Ukraine-splaining” the situation on the ground to the president and vice president.

Kansas Senator Roger Marshall ran like a bitch from a Saturday town hall at a hospital in the state’s rural western reaches, saying “We don’t have time for everyone to stand up. I do got two more commitments today. I appreciate everybody making the drive out and God bless America,” as he fled from the room, the Lawrence Times reports on yet another act of cowardice.

Western Kansan Rodney Bates complained that too many people from the bluer eastern part of the state had come to the event. “I came because I wanted to see what was affecting nursing homes right now,” Bates told the Times. “Rural hospitals are hurting but all people wanted to do was scream at the senator.” He wasn’t wrong, at least one person, Anne Parelkar, from Overland Park did in fact tell the paper she had traveled to Oakley to confront Marshall to question him about the efficiencies of cutting government workers, to which Marshall told her she’d been fed disinformation.

But the first problem with Bates’s complaint is that Marshall is a Senator. This isn’t like if libs from Atlanta had rushed Marjorie Taylor Greene’s event. Every Kansan is a constituent and, to that point, it’s no fucking mystery why he held the town hall in a rural hospital cafeteria that the Times says seats 20 people. The second problem is that at least one local, Chuck Nunn, had in fact stood up and called Marshall out, saying federal job cuts affecting veterans were “a damn shame.”

Another man, probably a local, then said “I’m not a Democrat, but I’m worried about the veterans.”

“A new bill would give President Trump a THIRD TERM. We need to hear from you. Are YOU ready to give President Trump a THIRD TERM to truly MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN? Do YOU want to see President Trump get a THIRD TERM?” asks another ridiculous WinRed page sent out this week, this one with the fake, meaningless poll a means of raising cash for the House Conservatives Fund PAC.

The Huffington Post, who found the page from a fundraising text sent out to donors, reports that this specific PAC is tied to the House Republican Study Committee, member-formed caucus that was kind of the Freedom Caucasians before some members decided there RSC was too moderate for their far right extremist proclivities and started the Freedom Caucasians. There’s plenty of overlap between the two groups (it’s estimated that at least 17 House Republicans are members of both). It would seem however that organizationally the RSC might’ve beaten the Caucasians to monetizing dual member MAGA Congressman Andy Ogles’s bill to get the DOJ to drop the federal criminal investigation into him over a campaign fundraising scam proposing an amendment to the constitution allowing convicted felon President Trump to run for a third term in 2028.

A FedEx cargo plane bound for Indianapolis quickly turned around and landed back at Newark International Airport in New Jersey on Saturday morning, minus one engine and at least one local bird minus its life after the hapless beast(s) got sucked into the jet intake, WNBC reports.

Video taken by witnesses shows the flames were quickly extinguished before the plane even touched back down, evidently the result of quick thinking by the pilot who closed off the air intake to the engine or something. The plane, its cargo – which may or may not have included one or more Wilson brand volleyballs and a pair of figure skates – and most importantly its crew then touched down safely. It’s not clear if the pilot was “a DEI hire,” and it probably never will be.

Unless the pilot is Black and/or LGBTQ and ignored warnings about bird activity in the area or something like that. Then it’ll be all over right wing media in a matter of hours.

The trail to Oregon is marked with misery, broken wagon axles, losing days due to heavy fog, Sarah getting shot in a hunting accident, Henry being exhausted, Samuel getting bitten by a snake, and, most famously, Mary contracting dysentery. What the game didn’t tell you however is the harsh reality of this Gateway Pundit article, largely copy-pasted from its upstream source at KOIN:

There’s dysentery in Oregon too. Cases of the horrible bacterial illness recorded by health officials have steadily increased in the Portland metro’s Multnomah County since June 2024 when there were only six to 45 in January 2025. On an annual basis, there were just 19 in 2017, rising to 158 in 2024, a spread mostly connected to the homeless population and drug use as 60 percent of those infected were said to be living on the streets. Noting this, the Gateway Pundit’s article asserts “It doesn’t have to be this way and it’s amazing that the taxpayers of Portland put up with it. There are Third World countries that do a better job preventing the spread of common diseases.”

Funny that, as since January 1st, 2025, the Pundit has printed a grand total of one article containing the word “measles”: a February 19th screed headlined “MIC DROP: Dr Paul Offit’s Attempt to Smear RFK Jr Blows Up on CNN as Calley Means Exposes His Big Pharma Ties – Calley Also Calls Out CNN for Bias.” The article is almost entirely blockquotes copy-pasted from the transcript of the CNN segment and the lone mention of measles outside of which is where the “Pundit,” Jim Hoft fondles himself over how Means “boldly called out CNN for its blatant bias, pointing out that while the network obsesses over a handful of measles cases, it ignores the true epidemic plaguing America: chronic disease fueled by ultra-processed food and overmedication.” Except for lib dysentery.