The 51st state. Annexing Canada is the same playbook move as invading Ukraine. I wonder if Trump will try to get ICE or PMCs onboard for that. We've already passed of Mexico 🇲🇽
irreparably. Will the Gulf of St.Lawrence suddenly be officially named The Gulf of Upper New England ?!
Yeah, usually so. BTW, we lost a son to a tonsillectomy, another to an opioid addiction following a back surgery. Look up definition of "iatrogenic", the 3rd cause of death in the US.
When I was being taught, there was a guy in a Corvette. He was lovely - really nice guy.
He's teaching me at Thunderhill. Turn 8. You need to touch the brakes before you go in.
It's an uphill sweeper. Lovely corner. You have to utterly nail the line through this - it's after a long straight so you're going fast.
I did it a few times and thought to myself "I don't need to brake".
So I tried it. Nearly full speed. Did drop the the throttle a little before turn in. No braking.
Then I did it at full speed. Oh the car was wiggly on exit, but it did it. 115mph through the corner. Road cars struggle to do it at 60. Fancy cars like Lamborghinis struggle at 90.
Yeah. My little $30K track monster just showed you how it's done.
The ceremony to honor Pope Leo XIV in the Peruvian city where he served as bishop for roughly eight years began on Saturday night with a procession of altar boys and priests. It ended long past dark with dancers in devil costumes swirling on the steps of his former church.
In between, there was a Mass, communion, many hymns, a student band, a chorus, fireworks, a musical performance by one of the priests — cheered like a rock star in a white robe — and chant after chant about the “papa Chiclayano,” the pope from Chiclayo...
The swirling dancers — performing the “dance of the little devils of Túcume,” a nearby region — were the capstone event. Fireworks shot out of a headdress worn by the principal devil, who fought an angel. Several who were present called the dance a representation of the battle between good and evil...
I know dude is American and all, but his duel citizenship and his work has been in South America, which makes it back to back South American popes, which is where all the solidarity is.
Hopeful sign. He's an Auggie, not a Jesuit, though.
So yesterday for dia la madre, we went to the botanical garden, which I had not been to before even when we lived down there because it costs money. It was gorgeous, like a gigantic park, with all the plants and flowers and ducks and turtles and birds and butterflies oh my. The Azaleas were past peak and the conservatory was closed off for renovation, but the rose garden was on.
Holy heck was it on XD Walking past it left the fragrance everywhere. You could smell it from around the bend even. The entire place was lovely, shady nooks, a lake, a play area for kids, but that rainbow of roses, man, each cultivar carefully named, was very sublime.
Then we had diner and I got my yearly frozen strawberry margarita, and then my very thoughtful family got me presents even: Hubby gave me a new bamboo wind chime (if you do not haz, get one, hang not far from your bedroom window. Such a lovely sound) and eldest got me a metal and glass cardinal one (they did not coordinate! Both of them had the same thought!) and youngest got me a new floppy hat because they know me so well XD
There are reports that Russian troops in Ukraine are moving to 'technicals' - civilian cars and vans in an effort to avoid drone strikes, as well as using motorcycles to increase mobility.
Daily Kos has a daily update on some of these Russian experiments. It’s unbelievably cruel and barbaric what they have their soldiers trying to do with motorcycles, cars, even electric scooters. I swear to God it’s fucking bizarre. I recommend watching them, but prepare, if not for bodies, but for knowing that each of those explosions involve one or multiple people. Real people, forced to war, a thing we’re very good at reinventing in the worst way. Hard to imagine anyone would want to be like Russia.
There was a video purporting to show a Ukrainian special forces raid that netted six Russian prisoners. They seemed pretty eager to give up rather than be smoked out of their hole.
So it looks like it was a rear downforce failure. That's what the bodywork dude says. Hard to diagnose because the rear wing was wrecked in the crash.
Over about 70mph the SR1 starts generating some serious downforce. It has a huge rear wing and the front is designed to produce downforce as well.
I have the telemetry. The rear brakes suddenly lose pressure compared to the front and then the car is just gone. Why? Could be two things. A bump in the track or we just lost the rear downforce. I think the wing moved. We weren't too good at tightening it each session, so I reckon it was that now.
Then you have an 85kg driver on the right hand side of a 500kg car. Front downforce is still working at 115 so where does it pivot? It pivots on the front right tire. You've lost rear downforce and the car is under heavy braking. So it rotates around the front right, which is exactly what it did. And hits a wall. Hard.
I miss that little fucker. It's going to take a while to fix it.
You ever lost control of a car at 120 or so? It's very scary indeed. Mostly the SR1 doesn't do that. My most scary moments are at about 40 and I enter the corkscrew at Laguna and come over the top and realize I've fucked it up and my line is all wrong. You have milliseconds to wonder how to defuck yourself.
My 1964 VW on a black ice road at 35. A 720 without the benefit of professional judging. I gave it a 9.5 out of 10. Then, changed my pants when I got home.
1964 & 1/2. Mid year release. Big turn signals, rear lights, big rear windscreen and the T-handle for the hood. Antenna on the right. 40HP, yes 1300cc, IIRC.
The slow speeds are often scarier. I really was most scared when I knew I'd fucked up at Laguna.
I drove the old Autoclub Speedway in Fontana near LA. Damn that was crazy. You knew you had aero so you just hold the throttle to the floor and go into the huge banked corner and hold it down. You had to be spot on with the steering to get it through and come out the other side next to the wall.
I could feel the car slipping a little because I'd let off the throttle. Back on. Trust the aero. Then you're a foot from the concrete wall on exit.
I believe Winston said something of the exhilaration of “being fired on without consequence.” Covers a lot of similar such events. It’s what rural Americans refer to as “pucker power”.
I just need to know. Physics is a swine. Sometimes it's your friend, like when you go in to corner faster than you think is even possible, and Mr Physics and Mr Downforce join hands and celebrate your stupidity.
I've broken myself with that comment. I've got huge deja entendu. I swear I knew I'd write that comment back in 2002 or thereabouts. OK. I'm going to have a beer and cigarette now.
The ending of 2023's 'Spies Are Like Daffodils,' and the villain gets his comeuppance:
________________________________
His failure had repercussions, and he had been immediately recalled to Tsarogorod to face his fate head-on.
Upon his arrival, he was met by a quartet of uniformed wolves who bundled him into a car, blindfolded him, and insisted that he drive. After some discussion, they drove him to a nondescript building somewhere in the capital city. He had been led in, placed in a chair, and the blindfold had been removed.
Leaving von Fecklessenburg confronted by the commanding officers of the two secret police organizations he belonged to.
The schnauzer’s debriefing had been short and merciless, and he braced himself as they told him his fate.
He would not be executed. Let the Americans bleat about their justice. He would not be demoted. He still had his place in the Table of Ranks, with the right to be referred to as Your High Well-Born. Facing demotion or a trial would imply that the Tsar (and his Regent, the Grand Duchess) was fallible or had made a mistake.
However, he would be relegated to the National Police.
Traffic Division.
Now, at a small apartment in the city, Igor Fedorovich von Fecklessenburg, having made certain that he was not being watched, broke down and wept in shame.
At length, he dried his tears and blew his nose, and with a trembling paw reached for his new meter maid’s uniform.
For today ... let's see what happens when grampy wakes up all angry about something. Or is this just another insider trading deal like *last* time for his rich buddies?
Even if this deal is real, it's still a worse trading position than we had before Trump started his bullshit, and one that will still mean major price increases for everyone.
Raise your [free] hand .if you support the F[irst Amendmen
Zionism promotes Fascism, not heroism.
The 51st state. Annexing Canada is the same playbook move as invading Ukraine. I wonder if Trump will try to get ICE or PMCs onboard for that. We've already passed of Mexico 🇲🇽
irreparably. Will the Gulf of St.Lawrence suddenly be officially named The Gulf of Upper New England ?!
Yeah, usually so. BTW, we lost a son to a tonsillectomy, another to an opioid addiction following a back surgery. Look up definition of "iatrogenic", the 3rd cause of death in the US.
https://beautyshared.org/rodins-fallen-caryatid/
and not going uphill, I have an early 72 super B, just got complete engine rebuild, blast to drive, sopped up go carts!
Last boring car comment.
When I was being taught, there was a guy in a Corvette. He was lovely - really nice guy.
He's teaching me at Thunderhill. Turn 8. You need to touch the brakes before you go in.
It's an uphill sweeper. Lovely corner. You have to utterly nail the line through this - it's after a long straight so you're going fast.
I did it a few times and thought to myself "I don't need to brake".
So I tried it. Nearly full speed. Did drop the the throttle a little before turn in. No braking.
Then I did it at full speed. Oh the car was wiggly on exit, but it did it. 115mph through the corner. Road cars struggle to do it at 60. Fancy cars like Lamborghinis struggle at 90.
Yeah. My little $30K track monster just showed you how it's done.
When an LMP3 driver told me "I couldn't keep up with you" I knew I was getting it.
Good thing we have responsible adults in charge..
𝐺𝑂𝑃 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝’𝑠 2017 𝑡𝑎𝑥 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛’𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑑𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 $5 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑔, 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑠 @𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛.𝑏𝑠𝑘𝑦.𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑑𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑡𝑠—𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑘𝑦 𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑎𝑝𝑠𝑒
Please. They know precisely how they want to cover it. By cutting all services.
They just cannot figure out how to do that without making their own howlers shoot them in the streets.
There are not trillions in services to cut. Fraudulent accounting must be used.
"Well, we'll have to tax them. Better than eating the rich, I suppose."
Caturday on Monday!
𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝗽𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗿’𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗔𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗖𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/watch-shopkeepers-chaotic-attempt-to-wrangle-kittens-into-their-cage-in-hilarious-surveillance-video/
Lock them up!
Just need to disguise it as an empty cardboard box.
𝗖𝗵𝗲𝗲𝗿𝘀, 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮 ‘𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗹𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹𝘀’ 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘂
The ceremony to honor Pope Leo XIV in the Peruvian city where he served as bishop for roughly eight years began on Saturday night with a procession of altar boys and priests. It ended long past dark with dancers in devil costumes swirling on the steps of his former church.
In between, there was a Mass, communion, many hymns, a student band, a chorus, fireworks, a musical performance by one of the priests — cheered like a rock star in a white robe — and chant after chant about the “papa Chiclayano,” the pope from Chiclayo...
The swirling dancers — performing the “dance of the little devils of Túcume,” a nearby region — were the capstone event. Fireworks shot out of a headdress worn by the principal devil, who fought an angel. Several who were present called the dance a representation of the battle between good and evil...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/europe/pope-leo-peru.html
I know dude is American and all, but his duel citizenship and his work has been in South America, which makes it back to back South American popes, which is where all the solidarity is.
Hopeful sign. He's an Auggie, not a Jesuit, though.
Bets on DHS arresting and deporting him if he comes to the USA on tour?
He's not a brown person, so 50/50 chance.
Dual citizen with Peru, woke Marxist . . .
Haitian ancestry, too, it seems.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/11/pope-leo-xiv-family-history
By my estimate, he has even more black ancestry than Patrick Francis Healy, known as the "second founder" of Georgetown University: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Francis_Healy
The usual suspects have kept their mouths shut about his ancestry.
I read that his ancestry was Creole.
Trifecta of wokity woke!
Better an Augustinian than one of those MAGA crackpots from the US Conference of Catholic Bishops.
I will bet you money that one or two of those crack pots are also Auggies XD
Probably not Fransiscans tho. Saint "don't ever kill anything and oh by the way, ownership is a sin" is not right popular among that crowd
So yesterday for dia la madre, we went to the botanical garden, which I had not been to before even when we lived down there because it costs money. It was gorgeous, like a gigantic park, with all the plants and flowers and ducks and turtles and birds and butterflies oh my. The Azaleas were past peak and the conservatory was closed off for renovation, but the rose garden was on.
https://substack.com/@wonkjen/note/c-116470417?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=3rfyy
Holy heck was it on XD Walking past it left the fragrance everywhere. You could smell it from around the bend even. The entire place was lovely, shady nooks, a lake, a play area for kids, but that rainbow of roses, man, each cultivar carefully named, was very sublime.
Then we had diner and I got my yearly frozen strawberry margarita, and then my very thoughtful family got me presents even: Hubby gave me a new bamboo wind chime (if you do not haz, get one, hang not far from your bedroom window. Such a lovely sound) and eldest got me a metal and glass cardinal one (they did not coordinate! Both of them had the same thought!) and youngest got me a new floppy hat because they know me so well XD
10/10, would have spawn again
"You got her a wind chime? But I got her a wind chime!"
"You've got to be kidding me. Tell me yours isn't bamboo, at lea-"
"Oh, shit. You think I've got time to return it?"
Brian Wilson would be proud of both of you!
lol I would have taken both if they were XD I am for sure in the more is good camp when it comes to certain things.
They were not supposed to get me anything. The trip was my present. But they're sweet jerks like that ^.^
I welcome our new robot overlords.
https://www.techspot.com/news/107856-factory-video-shows-unitree-robot-going-berserk-nearly.html
on second thought...
"nothing can go wrong (click) wrong (click) wrong..."
60 minutes teased their next story last night, all about autonomous war drones who could make decisions without a human because AI.
The AI will know if it is a school bus or a terrorist! The guy said
There are reports that Russian troops in Ukraine are moving to 'technicals' - civilian cars and vans in an effort to avoid drone strikes, as well as using motorcycles to increase mobility.
Daily Kos has a daily update on some of these Russian experiments. It’s unbelievably cruel and barbaric what they have their soldiers trying to do with motorcycles, cars, even electric scooters. I swear to God it’s fucking bizarre. I recommend watching them, but prepare, if not for bodies, but for knowing that each of those explosions involve one or multiple people. Real people, forced to war, a thing we’re very good at reinventing in the worst way. Hard to imagine anyone would want to be like Russia.
There was a video purporting to show a Ukrainian special forces raid that netted six Russian prisoners. They seemed pretty eager to give up rather than be smoked out of their hole.
No potato for their mother
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac0tI_xC0IQ
To avoid drone strikes or cause they ran out of tanks?
Avoid drone strikes. They still have *some* tanks.
From some of the images I've seen, it may be that a minivan is safer than some of their old tanks..
And the "Free Candy" sign on the side just makes it appear more innocent.
AI: "Brown people bad!"
Ain't just whistling dixie. All of that tech has time and time again been proven to have a problem when recognizing brown faces.
It doesn't have to recognize faces ... just all brown people. That should be pretty easy, right?
So it looks like it was a rear downforce failure. That's what the bodywork dude says. Hard to diagnose because the rear wing was wrecked in the crash.
Over about 70mph the SR1 starts generating some serious downforce. It has a huge rear wing and the front is designed to produce downforce as well.
I have the telemetry. The rear brakes suddenly lose pressure compared to the front and then the car is just gone. Why? Could be two things. A bump in the track or we just lost the rear downforce. I think the wing moved. We weren't too good at tightening it each session, so I reckon it was that now.
Then you have an 85kg driver on the right hand side of a 500kg car. Front downforce is still working at 115 so where does it pivot? It pivots on the front right tire. You've lost rear downforce and the car is under heavy braking. So it rotates around the front right, which is exactly what it did. And hits a wall. Hard.
I miss that little fucker. It's going to take a while to fix it.
Lack of imagination. “If you could imagine hitting a wall at 150MPH, you wouldn’t do it.”
You ever lost control of a car at 120 or so? It's very scary indeed. Mostly the SR1 doesn't do that. My most scary moments are at about 40 and I enter the corkscrew at Laguna and come over the top and realize I've fucked it up and my line is all wrong. You have milliseconds to wonder how to defuck yourself.
My 1964 VW on a black ice road at 35. A 720 without the benefit of professional judging. I gave it a 9.5 out of 10. Then, changed my pants when I got home.
1300 cc engine? probably couldn't go over 50 mph?
1964 & 1/2. Mid year release. Big turn signals, rear lights, big rear windscreen and the T-handle for the hood. Antenna on the right. 40HP, yes 1300cc, IIRC.
Top Speed 80MPH, but not on a windy day.
The slow speeds are often scarier. I really was most scared when I knew I'd fucked up at Laguna.
I drove the old Autoclub Speedway in Fontana near LA. Damn that was crazy. You knew you had aero so you just hold the throttle to the floor and go into the huge banked corner and hold it down. You had to be spot on with the steering to get it through and come out the other side next to the wall.
I could feel the car slipping a little because I'd let off the throttle. Back on. Trust the aero. Then you're a foot from the concrete wall on exit.
Shit me you feel alive.
I believe Winston said something of the exhilaration of “being fired on without consequence.” Covers a lot of similar such events. It’s what rural Americans refer to as “pucker power”.
I truly believe I'm an idiot for even trying this stuff. I'm not an expert at it. And yet it's the best hobby ever.
"Yeah yeah, strap me in to this race car and let me loose at banked corners at full speed. It'll be fine!"
Yeah, I really am a fool. It's so fun though.
Car is wiggly at turn five at Laguna. I should probably go faster.
I don't really know what I'm doing. Just go faster.
physics is a cold master...
I just need to know. Physics is a swine. Sometimes it's your friend, like when you go in to corner faster than you think is even possible, and Mr Physics and Mr Downforce join hands and celebrate your stupidity.
Sometimes they point and laugh.
I've broken myself with that comment. I've got huge deja entendu. I swear I knew I'd write that comment back in 2002 or thereabouts. OK. I'm going to have a beer and cigarette now.
“Let’s push it back uphill and see if it crashes in the same place.”
The ending of 2023's 'Spies Are Like Daffodils,' and the villain gets his comeuppance:
________________________________
His failure had repercussions, and he had been immediately recalled to Tsarogorod to face his fate head-on.
Upon his arrival, he was met by a quartet of uniformed wolves who bundled him into a car, blindfolded him, and insisted that he drive. After some discussion, they drove him to a nondescript building somewhere in the capital city. He had been led in, placed in a chair, and the blindfold had been removed.
Leaving von Fecklessenburg confronted by the commanding officers of the two secret police organizations he belonged to.
The schnauzer’s debriefing had been short and merciless, and he braced himself as they told him his fate.
He would not be executed. Let the Americans bleat about their justice. He would not be demoted. He still had his place in the Table of Ranks, with the right to be referred to as Your High Well-Born. Facing demotion or a trial would imply that the Tsar (and his Regent, the Grand Duchess) was fallible or had made a mistake.
However, he would be relegated to the National Police.
Traffic Division.
Now, at a small apartment in the city, Igor Fedorovich von Fecklessenburg, having made certain that he was not being watched, broke down and wept in shame.
At length, he dried his tears and blew his nose, and with a trembling paw reached for his new meter maid’s uniform.
"Trade wars are easy to win."
𝘗𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘢, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚. 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘵𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 145% 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘧 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢, 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 30%; 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘫𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘱𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 125% 𝘵𝘢𝘹 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜.𝘚., 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘵𝘰 10%.
For today ... let's see what happens when grampy wakes up all angry about something. Or is this just another insider trading deal like *last* time for his rich buddies?
𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗷𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗮𝘀 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝗽𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗳𝘀
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/12/tech-stocks-look-set-to-jump-as-u-s-and-china-pause-reciprocal-tariffs/
So, the short term pain is all the empty shipping and trucking for the next two months until the supply chain resumes. Got it.
What a fucking beta cuck wussy ass motherfucker.
Unique, but oddly accurate, description.
I can hardly wait to hear from the Navarro-Kudlow axis of derp on this..
Ron Vara not weighing in?
Maria Bartiromo: "We have noted analyst Ron Vara on the phone. Ron, what do you make of the latest developments on tariffs?"
Caller: "Bafflegab stroke stroke lie misdirection distortion lie lie fudge fabrication!"
Bartiromo: "Well, that is certainly encouraging. Trump truly is a master negotiator!"
"Bafflegab!"
"Great idea!"
Once again, we are left in a worse position than we would have been if he had not started this bullshit.
"Dumb red states are easy to fool."
U.S. markets: Come for chaos; stay for the instability.
“There’s profit to be had from confusion!” — Uncle Duke
Even if this deal is real, it's still a worse trading position than we had before Trump started his bullshit, and one that will still mean major price increases for everyone.
Don’t tell MAGA.
Go on, tell them. They won't care.
AP: US and China take a step back from sky-high tariffs, agree to pause for 90 days [https://apnews.com/article/china-us-switzerland-tariffs-negotiations-b3f5174d086e39b2522ab848ddad9372]
Cadet Bone Spurs chickens out ... again.
Good to see he's finally taking advice from my box of rocks.
👆🏼 GMTA. Or is this another insider trading deal?
Yeah, but dumb fuck gets to claim “VICTORY” to his mouth breathing supporters.
AND he gets a big new shiny jet!!
A jet powered by beautiful clean coal, I assume.
Flawless victory! Stars trade war, tanks economy, declares ceasefire. Winning!
This is some good news for Turkey-
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czel3ry9x1do
“Ethnic Minority” and Turkey don’t go well together.
A bit more stability would be nice.