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...But there is truth, and then there is bullshit. "Deep State," anyone? QAnon, anyone? Ya, there have been plenty who hitched onto that junk. Imagine being so pathetic that you gaslight yourself???
* I was actually able to tune into PBS later in the day. I was concerned because it's been reported that uncle Orange was seeing to it that investigations would be undertaken into those bastions of woke-dom and general harm to the public. Sieg Heil.
progtard NPR will be crippled or killed soon, so enough of that kind of woke reporting
I just attempted to watch, as I do every day, the PBS News Hour. For the first time: "Something went wrong. Please try later, or call PBS Support."
Did the Oran…
Yup. Readable.
Conclusion: "My single biggest worry about all of this is that the entire operation could be like a freight train that starts picking up more and more speed and becomes harder and harder to stop, so that even if somebody — the courts…
Yes. I'm reading that Canada and Mexico are already doing what they promised to do, to get the upcoming tariffs removed (paused.)
Trouble with Mexico is described by Richard Fischer, very tactfully. The gummint there does not really have control of…
Like I said: lie, mischaracterize, misconstrue.
When I was involved in Community Organizing, we learned that the first job is to define the turf, the environment. Get people to think in terms of the way you are framing the issues, and you've won. T…
Rick, Thanks.
Q is the old MAGA which is now consigned to the role of useful enablers. Current GOP is run by the new MAGA. I was going to call it Grand Billionaires’ Party but that confuses with the pre-Trump era. I will have to wait for someo…
1984 double-speak. Oceania has ALWAYS been at war with East Asia! (Right?) This "Administration" is deliberately destroying trust in US institutions. Lie, deceive, dissemble, mischaracterize, misconstrue. This is heinous criminal junk. Do ya really …
We are, as has been said repeatedly here, living through a coup. I've heard that lawyers will be working overtime to stop it. But that takes time. And someone else told me: you have to be savvy enough to know where, before which judge, to lodge a su…
Ya, that's appalling privacy invasion. Rather like Google, Apple and the rest. Privacy is dead. We are living in the midst of a world, all together, in which Big Brother knows all. Big Brother knows when you take a leak. But Money is the Altar to w…
As of Friday evening, the Acting US Attorney for Washington, D.C., fired about 30 US Attorneys who prosecuted January 6 insurrectionists. See Politico, DOJ fires dozens of prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases. Think about that for a moment: The conv…
Under the new Editors Law of October 4, 1933, the association kept registries of “racially pure” editors and journalists, and excluded Jews and those married to Jews from the profession. Propaganda Ministry officials expected editors and journalists…
Just wondering if you meant NY Crude rather than NY Cruse or something altogether different.
Crude, of course. At least I wasn't the person who typed 'Tittok' on Fox News TV chyron the other day!!!
Covfefe!!!!!!!!!!
CBC: (Interesting, the way Canadians are able to name appointed US cabinet officials. How many Yanks know the names of those counterparts?)
Canada is already expecting Recession, big jump in unemployment, a hit to the Loonie. Featured here are: con…
...We are talking about tens of thousands of job losses and an economic shock likely to lead to a recession....
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/call-it-by-its-name-a-coup?r=y0bp&triedRedirect=true
Ya, there's the rub: if others depend upon you. Protesting and civil disobedience was much easier for me as a younger man. Add to that, age requires daily maintenance prescriptions.
But, who was it said this? "If you've not found something worth d…
With all the craziness happening these past two weeks, I had intended to move a significant percentage of equities to our mmkt acct on Friday, but chose to wait and see at the last moment. Sheesh! Foolish me!
I'm less than half now in stocks. A bit …
Just manage to get enough blithering doinks to vote you into office, and all legal trouble vanishes. The DOJ policy surely never anticipated such a childish, impulsive, amoral criminal who behaves like he has nothing to lose.
In my denomination's r…
I like the M* Portf. Manager because I can self-construct a list the way I want to see it. And you can create several lists, if you want that. I've taken to comparing what M* displays against my Schwab account, after log-in. The Schwab stuff is upda…
Recession will start this month in Canada and Mexico, causing USD to strengthen. Our neighbors will be buying fewer American goods with their weak currency.
Ya, a nutjob is in charge, but the US holds the stronger hand.
B.C. is removing U.S. Red State Liquor from shelves. All U.S. alcohol is not being sold in N.S. provincially-run stores. Also, I read that N.S. is doubling tolls on commercial vehicles entering from the USA. That makes no sense. It is N.B. which bor…
Ben Carlson on Bluesky:
If social media sentiment translated into market moves we would see a 1987-like crash on Monday
I hope everything is a giant overreaction but I can't wait to see how the markets digest the tariffs
It does feel like an airpo…
Late December, bought into Panamanian Exchange Bank. BLX. I'm waiting and seeing. I'm a little itchy. The Orange Fool is indeed dismantling the gov't. It is a coup d'etat. No one can tell me he's not following Project 2025 playbook. Monday will be a…
