Kevin Hassett on Greenland: "The president is the person who wrote 'The Art of the Deal' because he's so good at dealmaking, so I think right now it's a good time for cooler heads to prevail and for us to disregard the rhetoric and get to the table."
Kevin needs to pull his head out of his Hassett. It is well known that Orange Turd did not write the book. He had a ghost writer and instead of paying a fixed fee of about $13,000 which was customary at the time, the great negotiator gave the ghost writer a percentage of the sales. It was enough that it allowed the Ghostwriter to retire on that alone. Trump literally left millions of dollars on the table in that deal.
This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913. Teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the American Federation of Teachers a few years later and moved forward American teacher unionism significantly!!!
I have a huge task starting tomorrow morning at 07:00. Day shift supervisor is on vacation and plant scheduler will be covering 2nd shift. Boss is out of state, so I am Boss, and Me and Scheduler and Dayshift Supervisor and a 16 point lockout / tagout to get done.
fuck it, I wrote up all the tags Friday before I got out of here, collected all the locks, filled out the logs and got the permits together.
today, I came in and completed the lockout / tagout in about fifteen minutes, and I am completing all the permits now.
other than getting out of bed tomorrow, it should be a breeze!!
Well, off to get my day started, I need my hippy speedball (coffee + pot), and some breakfast. When I get home, I'll start a fire in the fire place and finish creating the next issue of Catzeine. I'll scan and print this week and assemble next weekend. You can get the next issue by sending me your address (diane@catzeine.com). I'm only producing 60 copies, so get them while they are hot! $2!
BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - German industry reacted with anger on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump's planned use of tariffs to crank up the pressure on Denmark to sell Greenland, calling on Europe not to cave in to his demands.
LMAO! This reminds me of the local sociopath who headed up an organization I was involved in for almost 15 years. They didn't get the awards they thought they deserved so they started their own awards thing.
Pathetic fucking sociopath malignant narcissist. I suffered at his hands for like 10 years before Trump even came along with the exact same locutions, swagger, manner of talking, and manipulation of people.
It reminds me of that H.G. Wells (??) story about a league of peace or league of nations that ensures peace by flying a nuclear bomb around and threatening to drop it on those who are not peaceful.
I think he even wrote it before there were nuclear weapons.
So, last night I had to go visit a patient who lives a little off the beaten track. snowy, icy, hilly roads, navigated past a truck that had run off the road into the guardrails, and some yahoo with his snowblower out in the middle of the road, all to see a patient who didn't *really* have an issue, really just needed reassurance (this is at least 50% of my 'emergency' afterhours visits. I'm happy to do it, it is a necessary part of the job. But maybe not so much in actual inclement weather.) Their driveway wasn't plowed, so I parked my car just off the road and hiked through the snow to their garage.
When I was finishing up, their plow guy showed up. I told him I'd move my car, so he could plow the driveway. He said 'No problem'. Then he said, "Are you a Hospice nurse? Thank you for everything you do." Turns out I'd taken care of HIS grandfather last year at the end of his life. Small damn world.
That's beautiful. When Occupy Wall Street was having a big march, I went downtown and there were SO many people that I couldn't find any of the groups that had invited me (mostly environmental orgs). The nurses invited me to march with them, and since nursing is one of my very favorite professions, I did. They gave me a whistle on a lanyard; I probably still have it somewhere.
Wow. And "Aw" in a sad way. You are one of the strongest persons I know, even if you have to be not that person sometimes. I like that you can do both here.
There's a story floating around that the Ukrainians passed phony intel to the U.S., then watched it get dutifully handed to Russia . . .
Hey, who TF knows if it's true, but I would be totally unsurprised if it is . . . after what's transpired in the past year, I know I would have tried the same thing 🙄 . . .
Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen
BREAKING: A French media report says Ukrainian intelligence stopped sharing high-value intelligence with the U.S. after concluding American leaks were reaching Moscow, citing a severe breakdown of trust during the Trump administration. The claim is attributed to senior Ukrainian intelligence leaders.
Between this and the Greenland mess, can we just impeach Trump already?
I mean... I seriously do not get why anyone buys that the russian asset/collusion stuff is debunked... looking at a lot of "leftists" that really don't get geopolitics here. The idea that there's no there there is laughable.
This is the classic method of finding out whether or not there's a leak, and who the leaker is.
It's like tracing underground water flow. Inject some dye, and see where it pops up.
I myself have done it a few times, to see who was spreading malicious rumors. Made up a ridiculous, easily-disproven lie, and told it to the person I suspected. Sure enough, I heard it back from a source I had expected; and then from a person I had not suspected.
There is no way Russia would be doing what they’re doing if agent Krasnov wasn’t the U.S. president (bombing the shit out of civilian infrastructure and threatening to completely cut off their nuclear power plants).
Yep. I saw that. "What Marxist leftist shit is this Sermon on the Mount?"
I was raised with the hippy Jesus of the 70s. Even in a Southern Baptist family, it was hippy Jesus.
Fuck these people. We only have civilization b/c of empathy.
My empathy is the only thing keeping me from going to the nearest MAGA worthless chud I can find and cracking them in the fucking teeth for doing this to us.
Ben-Ghiat comes close to saying the unspeakable when she suggests that progressive faith traditions and labor unions need to coalesce.
The unspeakable is that what is happening has come about because our systems and institutions have already failed. Our economy has stopped focusing on productive enterprise and is now based on extraction and abstract finance, which remove actual value from the economy. The standard of living achievable on one income 50 years ago is now unattainable for many two-income households as a result.
However, it's nearly impossible to analyze and explain what is happening without referring to Marx, or to discussing the much-ridiculed "economic uncertainty" that seems to now be acceptable is called "affordability."
And that's why "centrists" and "institutionalists" are helpless in the current crisis. The crisis is caused by the inadequacy and collapse of the same systems and institutions those people look to for magical rescue. And they hate and fear those who point out systemic failure far more than they fear the Fascists taking advantage.
My parents bought a house in 1974 or so on 2 grocery store clerk salaries. Then got kicked in the teeth when Reagan came around and lost most of what they had worked for.
You will NEVER be able to do that again in this country or any other, likely.
Oh, I agree. The US economy is currently propped up by finance. Finance, when used to foster capital investment, is good. But finance today is simply moving capital from A to B and collecting a vig each time. This is not a macro economic growth strategy, and what we're are experiencing is the gutting of capital investment in actual productive parts of the economy. Think of something like the interstate highway system as an example.
In the mid-'60s, Finance (loosely defined as the trade in buying and selling debt) comprised about 5% of US GDP.
Today it's nearly 50%.
That's unsustainable and always ends in collapse. Finance adds nothing to an economy and its profits have to come at the expense of productive endeavor.
It's always been amazing to me, how many very bright and educated people will decide to believe utter nonsense, when revealed reality threatens their foundational mythology.
I picked up some strawberry balsamic & black pepper jam from murder creek yesterday & its divine. I dont even like jams that much. Im avoiding the news, too.
I have that exact same cutout recipe in my box. That goes way back to the days when it was difficult to find pinhead (aka steel-cut) oats and I had to pick up s bag of Dorsel's at a Kroger when I was in Cincy to visit family..
An interesting detail revealed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections recently.
Most of the "worst of the worst" immigrant criminals ICE has boasted of detaining, were handed over to them by the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Because we had already caught, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned them. Our prison systems send lists of people eligible for deportation to ICE. The state prisons and local sheriffs (who run the jails) have long complained that they tell ICE, and ICE ignores them, so the cost of keeping those people in custody falls on state and local budgets, not the federal ICE budget.
So now they're picking up those people and claiming they caught them because the locals are too incompetent or are actually refusing to enforce the law.
The ONE season of The Apprentice I ever watched was a Celebrity Apprentice that had Garey Busey and I don't remember who all, but one of the challenges was to create an ad for Omaha Steaks (their sponsor).
Busey had this whole idea of having a kite included, so the son and father could fly a kite after eating their steaks and a tear would come down from the father's eye at the end of the commercial.
There was a really good deal and my mom has complained about every steak we have had for the last 2 years. Everything we buy at grocery stores, Costco or the local frou frou meat market is "tough and chewy" for her, so I decided to try the "certified tender" Omaha Steaks and they are tender. XD
I got a really good deal. 50% off the Christmas deal and then another $40 off from my Sirius/XM coupon code.
we gots a really good local butchery... Tillman's Meats and Country Store. We got some steaks there and they were AWESOME.... prolly on par with Omaha regarding price, but they were freshly cut and great on the grill.
It was good and we haven't even actually eaten the steaks yet. We had the steak tips (which were super tender and good) last week and then some hamburgers and hotdogs last night.
Maybe we could start a thing where people just drop cheap trophies off at the front gate of the White House?
Here you go. I saw this yesterday:
https://substack.com/@mysterysurf/note/c-201203552
#1 Worst Dad Mug
The Biggest Loser Award
World's Worst Cheater Trophy
Waste of Air Trophy
the convicted felon would receive the first ever waste of vacuum award.
The internet is on it.
https://bsky.app/profile/coloalice.bsky.social/post/3mcnpql6uwc2k
There are a lot of memes floating around of Trump accepting awards. Here is a reel with many of them.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTn86ggjVwN/?igsh=MWN0aG50aWNpbzd0aw==
That's brilliant. With an engraving designating Trump as the winner of some dubious award.
Donald J Trump,
"Winner of the 2026 Pancake Makeup Award for Attempted Coverups"
Trump should be "blessed" with an inanimate carbon rod.
"Oooh, I'll show him 'inanimate'!!"
All awards must include the Latin name of some bodily part or function.
I like it! I nominate 'Digitus medius perexiguus'. Can we have a mole in the Oval Office acting as his Latin interpreter?
Any award with Turnip's name on it is dubious.
This guy looks like ... hmmm ... the ignorant smirk ...
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcpj77y3hv2w
Kevin Hassett on Greenland: "The president is the person who wrote 'The Art of the Deal' because he's so good at dealmaking, so I think right now it's a good time for cooler heads to prevail and for us to disregard the rhetoric and get to the table."
Get to the table and negotiate so that some asshole doesn't invade? That's how Hitler did it then invaded anyway.
Kevin needs to pull his head out of his Hassett. It is well known that Orange Turd did not write the book. He had a ghost writer and instead of paying a fixed fee of about $13,000 which was customary at the time, the great negotiator gave the ghost writer a percentage of the sales. It was enough that it allowed the Ghostwriter to retire on that alone. Trump literally left millions of dollars on the table in that deal.
I think they keep this guy around just because his smug grin instantly infuriates anyone who is even slightly decent.
What table? And why?
Only the table is a torture rack.
And of course she won't call him on him not writing it.
https://bsky.app/profile/erikloomis.bsky.social/post/3mcpj6oi25c2d
This Day in Labor History: January 18, 1913. Teachers in New York City held the first meeting of what would become the Teachers League in New York. This would spur the creation of the American Federation of Teachers a few years later and moved forward American teacher unionism significantly!!!
We're going to lose Alaska and Hawaii over this Greenland shit.
I have a huge task starting tomorrow morning at 07:00. Day shift supervisor is on vacation and plant scheduler will be covering 2nd shift. Boss is out of state, so I am Boss, and Me and Scheduler and Dayshift Supervisor and a 16 point lockout / tagout to get done.
fuck it, I wrote up all the tags Friday before I got out of here, collected all the locks, filled out the logs and got the permits together.
today, I came in and completed the lockout / tagout in about fifteen minutes, and I am completing all the permits now.
other than getting out of bed tomorrow, it should be a breeze!!
Well, off to get my day started, I need my hippy speedball (coffee + pot), and some breakfast. When I get home, I'll start a fire in the fire place and finish creating the next issue of Catzeine. I'll scan and print this week and assemble next weekend. You can get the next issue by sending me your address (diane@catzeine.com). I'm only producing 60 copies, so get them while they are hot! $2!
Are the people who bought Issue 1 still getting Issue 2 or do I need to send you $2?
ETA - I just Cash-App'd you $2. To help with copying and printing costs and postage.
For those of you who didn't see Issue 1, it was cute.
Yes, you will get Issue 2!
How do we get the $$ to you? I don't have Venmo or anything.
Www.catzeine.com has instructions. Do you have paypal?
How many pages? Are you even making any money at all at that price, with printing prices?
It's 6 pages. I print it myself. I break even with them.
That'd incredibly sweet of you. Soon as I can, I'm gonna subscribe too!
yay CATZEINE!!
Tee hee! I'll be following you in a few minutes out to have some of the cannabuses! With my coffee. XD
Or as donnie calls it, the art of the steal.
BERLIN, Jan 18 (Reuters) - German industry reacted with anger on Sunday to U.S. President Donald Trump's planned use of tariffs to crank up the pressure on Denmark to sell Greenland, calling on Europe not to cave in to his demands.
Europe cut off its own energy supply to enrich America, which is now straight up robbing them. They'll be lucky to keep their heads.
Isn't a Mercedes expensive enough?
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗪𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝘆 $𝟭 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝗮𝗿𝗱
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-wants-nations-pay-1-215228202.html
Critics are worried that Trump is trying to build an alternative, or rival, to the United Nations, which he has long criticized.
He can invite Russia, North Korea, and Turkmenistan.
"That's a really nice peace board you got there. It will be a shame if something were to happen to it"
LMAO! This reminds me of the local sociopath who headed up an organization I was involved in for almost 15 years. They didn't get the awards they thought they deserved so they started their own awards thing.
Pathetic fucking sociopath malignant narcissist. I suffered at his hands for like 10 years before Trump even came along with the exact same locutions, swagger, manner of talking, and manipulation of people.
The residential construction business is replett with second generation fail-sons fitting that profile. My dad knew how to deal with them.
Peace Bored. The whole concept triggers my narcolepsy.
I wish I could join you.
Dr. Simba says "Hang in there."
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jAEn!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F3a518187-d40e-42ca-b0d8-377e3489b49b%2F90be5158-46a3-4afe-84db-bec9139eb07c.jpeg
Doctor! Doctor! Give me the news! I've got a bad case of sneezing now. Jerk.
Oh come on. Bribe him to get some of that sweet, sweet, post-genocide beach front.
It's so far beyond satire now. Fuck everything.
Yesterday I looked at google maps images of Gaza and would not recommend.
Sold genocide for a dime, just one dime.
For Israel it was free, we paid for all those bombs.
he couldn't be more cartoonishly villainous if he were a cartoon supervillain.
Everything is a fucking racket.
He needs one upside the head.
Where is that asteroid when we need it??
Who is going to sign on for this nonsense?
Any nation that needs to launder money to FOTUS or through the US.
Not likely. They don't get anything from it.
League of Doom is more like it.
It reminds me of that H.G. Wells (??) story about a league of peace or league of nations that ensures peace by flying a nuclear bomb around and threatening to drop it on those who are not peaceful.
I think he even wrote it before there were nuclear weapons.
C'mon donnie, open it!
https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:iwqdab3ifz6ooighwhslpiiz/bafkreiebdhrpulclghj6cibkuapv6pnxlilzmpgrxreopocjdfmo6rpcyq@jpeg
Tell him there's a Golden Master Shit Eater's Prize inside.
I'd pay ten grand to see Pabs face melt.
I dunno, though; when he starts melting it might start a grease fire.
"Now *that's* cookin' with grease!"
So he should open it at MAL.
I was expecting a xenomorph egg.
So, last night I had to go visit a patient who lives a little off the beaten track. snowy, icy, hilly roads, navigated past a truck that had run off the road into the guardrails, and some yahoo with his snowblower out in the middle of the road, all to see a patient who didn't *really* have an issue, really just needed reassurance (this is at least 50% of my 'emergency' afterhours visits. I'm happy to do it, it is a necessary part of the job. But maybe not so much in actual inclement weather.) Their driveway wasn't plowed, so I parked my car just off the road and hiked through the snow to their garage.
When I was finishing up, their plow guy showed up. I told him I'd move my car, so he could plow the driveway. He said 'No problem'. Then he said, "Are you a Hospice nurse? Thank you for everything you do." Turns out I'd taken care of HIS grandfather last year at the end of his life. Small damn world.
That's beautiful. When Occupy Wall Street was having a big march, I went downtown and there were SO many people that I couldn't find any of the groups that had invited me (mostly environmental orgs). The nurses invited me to march with them, and since nursing is one of my very favorite professions, I did. They gave me a whistle on a lanyard; I probably still have it somewhere.
I’m really glad that the plow driver got to run into you—it meant a lot to be able to thank you.
As always, thank you, nurse!
Wow. And "Aw" in a sad way. You are one of the strongest persons I know, even if you have to be not that person sometimes. I like that you can do both here.
thank you
You'd never pay for a drink, or a hug, if we met.
Sometimes when you just plow ahead in life, good things happen.
There's a story floating around that the Ukrainians passed phony intel to the U.S., then watched it get dutifully handed to Russia . . .
Hey, who TF knows if it's true, but I would be totally unsurprised if it is . . . after what's transpired in the past year, I know I would have tried the same thing 🙄 . . .
Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen
BREAKING: A French media report says Ukrainian intelligence stopped sharing high-value intelligence with the U.S. after concluding American leaks were reaching Moscow, citing a severe breakdown of trust during the Trump administration. The claim is attributed to senior Ukrainian intelligence leaders.
Between this and the Greenland mess, can we just impeach Trump already?
1:33 / 1:33
9:16 AM · Jan 18, 2026
https://xcancel.com/EdKrassen/status/2012891977646301506
It would be really great if the US press picked up on this story.
Too bad they'll bury it.
I mean... I seriously do not get why anyone buys that the russian asset/collusion stuff is debunked... looking at a lot of "leftists" that really don't get geopolitics here. The idea that there's no there there is laughable.
They'd be idiots not to assume this, and they're not idiots.
On a lighter variation of the same theme, look up the Wagatha Christie case
This is the classic method of finding out whether or not there's a leak, and who the leaker is.
It's like tracing underground water flow. Inject some dye, and see where it pops up.
I myself have done it a few times, to see who was spreading malicious rumors. Made up a ridiculous, easily-disproven lie, and told it to the person I suspected. Sure enough, I heard it back from a source I had expected; and then from a person I had not suspected.
That was a valuable exercise for me.
I used that method, too, and have cut off the bitch who was supposed to be my "friend" but was spreading rumours around at work about me.
A 50something year old woman.
Get a fucking life.
Have done the same at work, and it was helpful.
Paris Hilton uses this method.
He's actually smarter than she lets on. There are benefits to playing dumb blonde in a patriarchal society.
There is no way Russia would be doing what they’re doing if agent Krasnov wasn’t the U.S. president (bombing the shit out of civilian infrastructure and threatening to completely cut off their nuclear power plants).
WTF?
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗢𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀 𝗧𝗼 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝗺𝘆-𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘆 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝘆 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗯𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲𝘀
https://www.joemygod.com/2026/01/trump-orders-networks-to-protect-army-navy-game-from-competition-by-other-college-football-games/
If I ran a network, I would re-run a superb owl game at the same time.
It turns out that day is also National Ding-a-ling Day. No kidding.
Are there any other games at that same time? I didn’t think so?
The halftime show will be a marching band simulation of the Naval blockade of Venezuela and the Army kidnapping of Nicholas Maduro.
They should send him the bill.
This is starting to be some North Korea fucking bullshit.
That ring was made for kissing
and that's just what you'll do
He missed his true calling of being a sleazy producer.
BTW, does anyone even watch the army/navy game?
Yes, we always do.
But still, we’re not weird about it.
Dump doesn't even have to have a magic wand, for he is a GOD. His word becomes manifest.
Fucker's running the whole damn show isn't he?
Well, he *thinks* he is.
lol
You want your mergers, media corporations? Then you got to keep the senile old fucker happy!
"and there should be an army-navy parade afterwards that is mandatory viewing!"
I wish the Democratic leadership would listen to an actual expert on authoritarianism rather than a bunch useless loser "consultants"
𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗰𝗸
Moral deregulation and moral collapse can inspire a new democratic politics that leads with values of justice, solidarity, equity, and accountability
https://lucid.substack.com/p/we-are-living-through-moral-collapse
Not with the Democrats currently in office, it can't.
They've convinced everyone that empathy and compassion is "weakness" and the downfall of Western Civilization.
Fuck that noize. It is strength and we have ZERO MORALITY without empathy and compassion.
If these fucks can't learn that, then let them be fucking rolled like we should have done back at the end of the Civil War.
They also realllllly hate free will.
Even the evangelical mega-churches are preaching "empathy is bad."
Their Lord and personal savior, ol' JC, was all about empathy. Those folks? Members of those mega-churches? They are all in a cult.
Yep. I saw that. "What Marxist leftist shit is this Sermon on the Mount?"
I was raised with the hippy Jesus of the 70s. Even in a Southern Baptist family, it was hippy Jesus.
Fuck these people. We only have civilization b/c of empathy.
My empathy is the only thing keeping me from going to the nearest MAGA worthless chud I can find and cracking them in the fucking teeth for doing this to us.
He was speaking metaphorically. He meant all dairymen.
Lack of empathy is their idea of real freedom. You don't lose sleep over your evil.
"Not born a psychopath? Here's an easy step to how to become a sociopath".
Ben-Ghiat comes close to saying the unspeakable when she suggests that progressive faith traditions and labor unions need to coalesce.
The unspeakable is that what is happening has come about because our systems and institutions have already failed. Our economy has stopped focusing on productive enterprise and is now based on extraction and abstract finance, which remove actual value from the economy. The standard of living achievable on one income 50 years ago is now unattainable for many two-income households as a result.
However, it's nearly impossible to analyze and explain what is happening without referring to Marx, or to discussing the much-ridiculed "economic uncertainty" that seems to now be acceptable is called "affordability."
And that's why "centrists" and "institutionalists" are helpless in the current crisis. The crisis is caused by the inadequacy and collapse of the same systems and institutions those people look to for magical rescue. And they hate and fear those who point out systemic failure far more than they fear the Fascists taking advantage.
My parents bought a house in 1974 or so on 2 grocery store clerk salaries. Then got kicked in the teeth when Reagan came around and lost most of what they had worked for.
You will NEVER be able to do that again in this country or any other, likely.
Oh, I agree. The US economy is currently propped up by finance. Finance, when used to foster capital investment, is good. But finance today is simply moving capital from A to B and collecting a vig each time. This is not a macro economic growth strategy, and what we're are experiencing is the gutting of capital investment in actual productive parts of the economy. Think of something like the interstate highway system as an example.
In the mid-'60s, Finance (loosely defined as the trade in buying and selling debt) comprised about 5% of US GDP.
Today it's nearly 50%.
That's unsustainable and always ends in collapse. Finance adds nothing to an economy and its profits have to come at the expense of productive endeavor.
Cowards. Weaklings. Not deserving of their positions. Assholes.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it. "
- Upton Sinclair
Then they shouldn't be in a job leading people.
"when his salary depends on bribery"
We need to make stupid people SIT THE FUCK DOWN AND SHUT THEIR DROOLING MOUTHS and listen to experts again.
I fear it's a lot worse than that.
It's always been amazing to me, how many very bright and educated people will decide to believe utter nonsense, when revealed reality threatens their foundational mythology.
Hubris.
I think it all comes down to character.
So, so agreed. Along similar lines:
https://www.salon.com/2026/01/08/america-needs-a-moral-reckoning-in-2026/
At this point, I'm no longer blaming the consultants. This is what the. Dems want.
Completely.
They want to keep the status quo which has, in the past, served them well financially.
That's the whole enchilada right there.
That sounds pretty leftist, though, and that makes centrists cry.
Centrists? You mean non-drooling MAGAs? *Those* centrists?
This right here. Perverse incentives are going to fuck us and destroy this country. :(
One of the biggest perverse incentives is the Presidential pardon. "Go shoot some protestors! I will bail you out!"
Homemade crispy fried goetta (Google it) for breakfast, with a side of toast and strawberry jam, also homemade.
Slow food. Yum.
I refuse to check the news. Can I have just one day of peace already.
I picked up some strawberry balsamic & black pepper jam from murder creek yesterday & its divine. I dont even like jams that much. Im avoiding the news, too.
Yum. It reminds me a bit of haggis, which I adore. Anything with oats is delish.
Here's the recipe is you want to try it.
https://jasonsramble.wordpress.com/2015/12/20/homemade-goetta-2/
I have that exact same cutout recipe in my box. That goes way back to the days when it was difficult to find pinhead (aka steel-cut) oats and I had to pick up s bag of Dorsel's at a Kroger when I was in Cincy to visit family..
Sounds delicious! I love scrapple and this would be totally different.
I can taste it in my mind 😋!
Thanks 😊
Thanks. Copied. Unlike haggis, this is actually doable! The oats definitely are what makes this exceptional.
Thank you!
Oh, that was worth the Google.
This sounds kind of like haggis w/o the offal. I would eat the Hell out of that. It sounds delicious.
Great minds. I should have read down.
It is soooo good.
Any decent breakfast place in Cincinnati will have it on the menu.
I need an excuse to go to OH. I've never been. XD
Simba watched the news so that you wouldn't have to.
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Thanks, Simba. I'll take that as advice to maintain my news boycott.
Stop giving this unqualified idiot any airtime.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcphi2oerj2w
BRENNAN: MN's population of illegal immigrants is 2.2%. So how do you say when you have mission accomplished?
KRISTI NOEM: We won't stop until all the dangerous people are picked up, brought to justice, & then deported
B: You don't have a date?
N: We wouldn't be in this situation if Joe Biden...
An interesting detail revealed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections recently.
Most of the "worst of the worst" immigrant criminals ICE has boasted of detaining, were handed over to them by the Minnesota Department of Corrections.
Because we had already caught, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned them. Our prison systems send lists of people eligible for deportation to ICE. The state prisons and local sheriffs (who run the jails) have long complained that they tell ICE, and ICE ignores them, so the cost of keeping those people in custody falls on state and local budgets, not the federal ICE budget.
So now they're picking up those people and claiming they caught them because the locals are too incompetent or are actually refusing to enforce the law.
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...had been re-elected. There, I finished it for her.
…wasn’t so old.
They blamed Clinton until Obama came along and now Joe is the blame of the day.
OK, laugh at me all you want, people, but we bought some Omaha fucking Steaks and they are really good.
Gottdammit!! Now I want an Omaha fucking Steak.
ditto
Even the hotdogs are really fucking good.
I thought people would laugh at me, LOL!
Well, you could have had Trump fucking Steaks.
Actually, funny you mention that.
The ONE season of The Apprentice I ever watched was a Celebrity Apprentice that had Garey Busey and I don't remember who all, but one of the challenges was to create an ad for Omaha Steaks (their sponsor).
Busey had this whole idea of having a kite included, so the son and father could fly a kite after eating their steaks and a tear would come down from the father's eye at the end of the commercial.
LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I can imagine a native american smelling a Trump steak with a sad tear falling down his face at the end of the ad.
We are all that native american.
LMMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *snorts coffee*
Oh yeah, I love their products!
There was a really good deal and my mom has complained about every steak we have had for the last 2 years. Everything we buy at grocery stores, Costco or the local frou frou meat market is "tough and chewy" for her, so I decided to try the "certified tender" Omaha Steaks and they are tender. XD
I got a really good deal. 50% off the Christmas deal and then another $40 off from my Sirius/XM coupon code.
Good meat makes a difference! I love my local butcher, especially bc we have lots of walmarts & ew, not buying their meat.
we gots a really good local butchery... Tillman's Meats and Country Store. We got some steaks there and they were AWESOME.... prolly on par with Omaha regarding price, but they were freshly cut and great on the grill.
Noice!
i ain't laughing.
It was good and we haven't even actually eaten the steaks yet. We had the steak tips (which were super tender and good) last week and then some hamburgers and hotdogs last night.