I have all along sensed that there was very significant and distinct line of conflict between Martin/Pulke and Bribe Me Barbie. Martin is an unrestrained cowboy operating on his own , and it seems that he does shit without co-ordinating with Bondi. Seems like they were competing for attention. Martin is a real bad guy. He actually should be disbarred.
I had a funny Wankpanzer moment yesterday. My wife bought a chair from IKEA, and I had to go pick it up.
I drive a Honda Fit. If I fold down the back seat, I can get a pretty large thing in there quite easily. In other countries where most cars are smaller, the Honda Fit is classified as a mini-van (emphasis on "mini").
So the IKEA guy and I just slid in this box about 3'x3'x4' no problem, and closed the hatch and off I went.
Meanwhile, the guy next to me with the Wankpanzer had a pickup-truck box, but a hard stainless steel lid on it. He was having all kinds of trouble getting a smaller container into his vehicle, that's supposed to be for hauling shit, right?
I paid $12,000 for my little car which is a very useful implement for getting things done in a city. That guy might have paid 10x as much for a huge thing that doesn't seem to fulfill any purpose at all.
If I could buy an all-electric version of the Honda Fit, I'd be done buying cars.
Nobody can tell what the "safe haven" is, is what it looks like to me.
There's always push/pull between "safe havens" and profit opportunities. Usually professional traders know which is which, so when money moves out of one thing into another, it indicates which way traders think things in general are going.
This action over the past week, actually a couple months, is not that. You just don't see huge moves in precious metals, bonds, large-cap stocks; not when people have any idea which end is up.
So it looks to me as if professional traders can't tell which end is up, and are now moving money around without much of a plan.
And that's potentially very bad. Even if things do just settle down, there are repercussions of this kind of total uncertainty. Usually people have a pretty good sense of what's likely and what's simply not gonna happen, and act accordingly. If they can't tell, then almost anything could happen. And then long-term interests are completely neglected, with all that comes with that.
The safe haven is ask Trump what he's going to do to fuck up the markets over the next couple of days and invest accordingly. I'm 107% confident that he and a few of his co-polyps just happen to be making major bank off of the market's instability.
We can guess that just like Trump is afraid that when he loses the midterms that he will be held accountable, these regime sanctioned criminals know it is in their best interest to obstruct elections, and they will undoubtedly cause violence around voting sites.
I mean, yeah, I guess on balance I’m pretty much in favour of Nazis being bad at Nazi-ing. But yeah there is something pretty sad/weaksauce about this.
I'm forever amazed when my fellow Americans seem shocked by this sort of thing. As if they hadn't ever known what the US Government does all the time, and has always done.
Of course, my upbringing seems to have not been typical.
My father was an outspoken, if obscure, opponent of the Vietnam War. Our house was under surveillance from the mid-60s until the mid-70s. As a toddler, I used to go talk to the FBI guys sitting in the car out on the street, why not? Our telephone always hissed and cracked and echoed and popped, until the Church Committee hearings; then it was all of a sudden clear. Our mail was often delivered having obviously been opened. My dad got audited by the IRS annually, and all he ever had was a W2 and dependent exemptions.
Dad was the kind of "popular" professor who would have Senior Seminar classes at our house. Our home was always filled with college students. House rules were pretty simple. No weed, no advocating of violence. Students who broke those rules were escorted out. I learned, before being of school age, how to spot an FBI informant who was looking to provoke something the FBI could use to get a warrant.
I guess most people didn't learn this and are now quite unhappy to understand how things really work in America.
When they know that they won’t get any intel off of their phone taps, they turn the taps into a psychological weapon to let you know that they are tapping your phone. This applies to all law enforcement.
In the land line days, if they want to fuck with you, they would call you thru the phone tap. You could tell that is what it was, because the phone did not make a normal ring sound. It would be some kind of weird buzz. They usually wouldn’t say anything, but I would just go off on them , tearing them a new asshole. Some of them I knew a bit about them, so it got personal. There was a scene in Stallone’s movie “Demolition Man” , which was this activity. Another of their fuck with you tricks is to call your phone, and say a couple of words or make a noise , which to the normal world, makes no sense, but is a direct mockery of something which was in a phone conversation you had.
We moved around a lot, not settling into MN until I was about 4; in later 1970. A career as a Professor is nomadic until one either gets the lifetime gig, or gets into a backwater they can't get out of. Dad did the latter, in the early '70s.
So that stuff started in Bloomington, IN; Lexington KY; Blacksburg VA; Youngstown OH; and then in rural MN. All college towns, for those who don't know.
Boxwine Jeanine Pirro says 'no guns in D.C. or you going to jail, bub'
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jeanine-pirro-dc-guns-rcna257230
So, you can tell who are the tRumpers because they no longer wear American Flag lapel pins and instead lapel pins of notzee era eagles?
they reach levels of incompetence I didn't know existed, so we got that going for us...
I have all along sensed that there was very significant and distinct line of conflict between Martin/Pulke and Bribe Me Barbie. Martin is an unrestrained cowboy operating on his own , and it seems that he does shit without co-ordinating with Bondi. Seems like they were competing for attention. Martin is a real bad guy. He actually should be disbarred.
Bondi's a chick. Ed doesn't need to report nothing to her.
"Todd Blanche ... supposedly loathes Martin"
I am sorry to learn that I agree with Todd Blanche about a thing.
Bondi might have a heart attack or complete mental and emotional breakdown and turn into a zombie like Mel
Second paragraph: chef's kiss, no notes.
I like your handle.
I tell my grandson to write down the SAT words I use.
He says when I do, he will.
Smart Ass. I dunno where he gets it.
Did he lose his law license, and is he going to spend the next 10+ years in a cage? If not, then there is no justice.
He isn't being invited to the cool kids' parties.
I suppose being branded a loser might have some impact on his relationships. Yes, I am grasping at straws.
Just because he’s immune from criminal prosecution doesn’t mean you can’t sue to recover the bribes he’s taken, because those funds belong to the USG.
Bad Bunny and the NFL's grand latinization strategy
https://theconversation.com/bad-bunnys-super-bowl-show-is-part-of-long-play-drawn-up-by-nfl-to-score-with-latin-america-271068
Orange Pooper is afraid Puerto Rico will get all the attention. Again! Then we gotta feed them, rebuild houses and shit.
But worse yet, then they will want MORE to be a state.
Silly Latinos not happy with paper towels.
Couldn't they just change the name of the sport from football to fútbol if they want to score with Latin America?
I say call it "Foohbaw" like everyone on ESPN does.
The Spanish name they are going with is, in fact, fútbol Americano
So it’s watered-down fútbol for those who can’t handle the full espresso version?
While American futbol has a lot of down time between plays, I find actual futbol boring as hell between bouts of "action."
Everybody the Weaponization Wankpanzer group is about to investigate can hop on Trevor Noah's Ark.... :)
I had a funny Wankpanzer moment yesterday. My wife bought a chair from IKEA, and I had to go pick it up.
I drive a Honda Fit. If I fold down the back seat, I can get a pretty large thing in there quite easily. In other countries where most cars are smaller, the Honda Fit is classified as a mini-van (emphasis on "mini").
So the IKEA guy and I just slid in this box about 3'x3'x4' no problem, and closed the hatch and off I went.
Meanwhile, the guy next to me with the Wankpanzer had a pickup-truck box, but a hard stainless steel lid on it. He was having all kinds of trouble getting a smaller container into his vehicle, that's supposed to be for hauling shit, right?
I paid $12,000 for my little car which is a very useful implement for getting things done in a city. That guy might have paid 10x as much for a huge thing that doesn't seem to fulfill any purpose at all.
If I could buy an all-electric version of the Honda Fit, I'd be done buying cars.
"a huge thing that doesn't seem to fulfill any purpose at all."
It's a Little Man Penis Enhancer. It's right there, out on the street, so everyone can see it.
The Fit is a nice little car and fun to drive as well.
And mine came with the American Anti-Theft System, so I don't even have to lock it.
Six-speed manual.
Oh , I thought you meant a midget with an AR-15….
I prefer passive security.
"...producing results in the next two months.”
So, never.
Ah, come on, AC! Surely it'll happen right after Infrastructure Week and/or rollout of the ACA replacement plan.
OT
A lot losing their shirt today but not all.
Odd Couple Walmart and Gold doing well.
Who da thunk it?
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-nasdaq-sp-500-fall-as-investors-digest-flood-of-tech-earnings-partial-government-shutdown-143614421.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/walmart-joins-1-trillion-club-145237206.html
"Tech stocks got a boost after Palantir's (PLTR) surprisingly strong quarterly results signaled the AI trade has room to run."
Tell me you write financial news without a clue about the real world.
Palantir is up because of huge government largess and ICE wilding out on the civilian population.
This is so weird.
Nobody can tell what the "safe haven" is, is what it looks like to me.
There's always push/pull between "safe havens" and profit opportunities. Usually professional traders know which is which, so when money moves out of one thing into another, it indicates which way traders think things in general are going.
This action over the past week, actually a couple months, is not that. You just don't see huge moves in precious metals, bonds, large-cap stocks; not when people have any idea which end is up.
So it looks to me as if professional traders can't tell which end is up, and are now moving money around without much of a plan.
And that's potentially very bad. Even if things do just settle down, there are repercussions of this kind of total uncertainty. Usually people have a pretty good sense of what's likely and what's simply not gonna happen, and act accordingly. If they can't tell, then almost anything could happen. And then long-term interests are completely neglected, with all that comes with that.
The safe haven is ask Trump what he's going to do to fuck up the markets over the next couple of days and invest accordingly. I'm 107% confident that he and a few of his co-polyps just happen to be making major bank off of the market's instability.
Oh yeah, I totally agree.
Throw in oil and soybeans and Vegas looks like a decent enough hedge.
No kidding. What's a safe place to put a large amount of money?
That's not really a problem I have, but still, what would I do? I've already paid off my house, that was the obvious move. But now, having done that?
Well, when you have a syphilitic monkey interfering with economic policy, you can’t expect coherence.
Do you get it now, Democrats? These criminals are ignoring COURT ORDERS. FIX THIS!
https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3mdxswzbp6c2r
This is insane. ICE is out of control here, still. They must leave.
DOJ needs to be cleaned up first, otherwise the lawlessness will continue. Impeach Bondi now*!
*yeah I know that ain't happening. But it's what SHOULD happen.
Dem Rep: "We will get right on it with 2, no 3, interns and an aide.
Right after coffee.
Hey, isn't the Superb Owl this week ?
Do we have tickets? "
Repub Rep: "Yeah WE got tickets. For US. "
We can guess that just like Trump is afraid that when he loses the midterms that he will be held accountable, these regime sanctioned criminals know it is in their best interest to obstruct elections, and they will undoubtedly cause violence around voting sites.
One false move and *blammo*!
Oh, you mean the ones in Congress. I think there are some Republicans in there, too...
Mixed feelings, really...
I mean, yeah, I guess on balance I’m pretty much in favour of Nazis being bad at Nazi-ing. But yeah there is something pretty sad/weaksauce about this.
? Should there be a worthy adversary instead? I do find the dumb tedious though.
I'm pissed off that morons get to rule our lives.
I kinda suspect it’s always like this. The assholes in armbands the same kids you knew ate paste in grade school.
You're not wrong. My primary emotion besides fury is feeling offended and contemptuous. (i.e., How dare you?! Who the hell do you think you are?)
Roy Cohn indeed...(gift link, long read and quite disturbing).
https://wapo.st/4rtfCw8
That is definitely creepy as hell.
I'm forever amazed when my fellow Americans seem shocked by this sort of thing. As if they hadn't ever known what the US Government does all the time, and has always done.
Of course, my upbringing seems to have not been typical.
My father was an outspoken, if obscure, opponent of the Vietnam War. Our house was under surveillance from the mid-60s until the mid-70s. As a toddler, I used to go talk to the FBI guys sitting in the car out on the street, why not? Our telephone always hissed and cracked and echoed and popped, until the Church Committee hearings; then it was all of a sudden clear. Our mail was often delivered having obviously been opened. My dad got audited by the IRS annually, and all he ever had was a W2 and dependent exemptions.
Dad was the kind of "popular" professor who would have Senior Seminar classes at our house. Our home was always filled with college students. House rules were pretty simple. No weed, no advocating of violence. Students who broke those rules were escorted out. I learned, before being of school age, how to spot an FBI informant who was looking to provoke something the FBI could use to get a warrant.
I guess most people didn't learn this and are now quite unhappy to understand how things really work in America.
When they know that they won’t get any intel off of their phone taps, they turn the taps into a psychological weapon to let you know that they are tapping your phone. This applies to all law enforcement.
In the land line days, if they want to fuck with you, they would call you thru the phone tap. You could tell that is what it was, because the phone did not make a normal ring sound. It would be some kind of weird buzz. They usually wouldn’t say anything, but I would just go off on them , tearing them a new asshole. Some of them I knew a bit about them, so it got personal. There was a scene in Stallone’s movie “Demolition Man” , which was this activity. Another of their fuck with you tricks is to call your phone, and say a couple of words or make a noise , which to the normal world, makes no sense, but is a direct mockery of something which was in a phone conversation you had.
Wow, that's quite a story of your upbringing! Were you in MN back then?
We moved around a lot, not settling into MN until I was about 4; in later 1970. A career as a Professor is nomadic until one either gets the lifetime gig, or gets into a backwater they can't get out of. Dad did the latter, in the early '70s.
So that stuff started in Bloomington, IN; Lexington KY; Blacksburg VA; Youngstown OH; and then in rural MN. All college towns, for those who don't know.