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My sister told me that demonstrators were “well paid” to attend the Hands Off rally. Puke!
If you haven't seen it yet, do yourself a favor. The "infiltrator" videos on X of the "Hands Off" George Soros Astroturf rallies were great. It's fun to watch these idiots being interviewed about what their sign means, or which rights has Literally Hitler revoked so far.
It's not that they can't answer. It's that they don't even realize they are being punked. Many are simply asked what their signs mean and they have no idea. They are literal imbeciles. Very close to retarded people, in the scientific measurement sense.
Former Law Clerk said...
"It's not that they can't answer. It's that they don't even realize they are being punked. Many are simply asked what their signs mean and they have no idea...."
Public school education will do that.
They may be imbeciles, but I'll say it again: Republicans ignore or scoff at these efforts at their peril. There are plenty of voters out there that are influenced by pictures of crowds, who easily identify with them. The election we just had was a solid 'win', beyond the margin of fraud, but it wasn't a 'landslide' by any stretch, and the margins in the House are a long way from comfort - well within RINO 'squish' room.
Note:
“Congress has passed all of its required appropriations measures on time only four times [in] fiscal 1977, 1989, 1995, and 1997.” The last time Congress completed all bills on time was in 1996...... Congress only adopted seven budgets in the previous fiscal years, in 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2016.
Is our Republican Congress confused about the budget process? Or are they just not taking the Leader of the Republican Party and their President seriously?
Did Obama break with tradition, taking a microphone in front of cameras slamming President Trump? I haven't watched any clips. But, what else would Obama do with a microphone in front of cameras?
“But, what else would Obama do with a microphone in front of cameras?”
Oh, I’ve got a few suggestions of what he should do with that microphone.
NY Post: "Jim Cramer warns of ‘Black Monday’ market crash over Trump tariffs rivaling record 1987 collapse"
That guy has been wrong about everything.
(weasel words free zone)
I’m old enough to remember when it was considered irresponsible journalism to encourage market panics. That was long before get Trump…
"The Age of Slop" is trending online. "Slop" apparently is what we are calling the AI-generated images (and text) that have taken over the country in just a few months. Human beings are capable of creating trash and garbage too, but the idea is that the prevalence of crude and trashy AI images is going to have a major cultural impact. It's also possible that by the time the phrase "Age of Slop" fully catches on, AI will have advanced far beyond its current state.
Also trending, "hypnocracy." The idea is that our authoritarian autocrats aren't censuring the media or putting out propaganda. Rather they are dazzling and dazing us into quiescent somnolence and numbing our critical faculties with the sheer volume of information and images we are exposed to every day. To save freedom and democracy from the hypnocrats, it seems that we have to censure social media and make sure that people aren't overloaded with sensory inputs and hear only the authorized truth.
Take a deep breath and brace yourselves as America discovers the poetry of Val Kilmer.
https://lithub.com/a-close-reading-of-the-poetry-of-val-kilmer/
Times like these journolists like to describe the DJIA in points not percentages. Black Monday in 1987 was an over 500 point drop, or over 20 percent but HOLY COW futures are of 900 POINTS!!
Sometimes classic therapeutic psychology has a point: Trump's reflexes seem those of a dysfunctional son put in a dysfunctional boarding school where he perfected the art of bullying.
He has traces of all kind of trainings in the arts of manipulation but none in the needed art of creating consensus, coalitions and constructiveness — that what you need to lead a great nation
One thing for certain, that tariff chart will be part of his epitaph. Trump’s “mission accomplished” moment.
From Senator Rand Paul:
Speaking of which, buried in the foreign aid reports last year, l discovered something — we give foreign aid to China. So government is so dumb, it is literally borrowing money from China, to give it back to China, while paying interest on it.
Yes, our government really has been that stupid. I wonder under whose administration this practice of sending aid to China began. Nixon? Carter? Probably not Reagan? One of the Bushes? Obama? Surely it would have started before Joe Biden took office, right?
Employment is up. Inflation has dropped to 1.22%. I got my money out of stocks in time. Outfits like Black Rock, which pushed ESG on corporations, are taking a bath. Life is good.
Former Law Clerk: "It's not that they can't answer. It's that they don't even realize they are being punked. Many are simply asked what their signs mean and they have no idea. They are literal imbeciles. Very close to retarded people, in the scientific measurement sense."
Its very similar to reading every single LLR-democratical Rich post.
I wasn’t calling my sister a puke. I was just disgusted by her cravenness. She went to eat at the best steak house in town.
I think the whole world should realize this whole tariff thing was war gamed by super computers by the WH.
And on CNN’s “State of the Union” Jake Tapper asked Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Agriculture, how long the “tariff chaos”would last. In her answer she described the left as being his side.
“I’m not on the left,” Tapper angrily lied, and she just laughed in his face. I like this woman.
@le Douanier, my portfolio is both balanced and (like me) very conservative. Why do you care?
Sunday night, Wolf Hall on Masterpiece. Season Two has contrived to include quite a few black characters, but I guess we are not supposed to notice, because never is it explained how these unicorns of Tudor society came to be. The sister of Jane Seymour, now Queen, black. Cromwell’s squire. A lady in waiting. A dude on the King’s council. And various townspeople. One wonders what else the writers have lied about, so not a great baseline for a historical drama.
Any chance the people celebrating the market selloff now will admit they were wrong when it inevitably recovers?
Yeah. I know. Good one.
There are other pressures beyond tariffs. If Trump's tariffs trigger a recession, high corporate and public debts will become more difficult to manage, especially in a stagflationary environment where the Fed's ability to lower interest rates is constrained. The commercial real estate market is still exposed in the U.S. as well.
Liquidity, not valuation is always the determining factor when there is stress in the system. Trump's team don't seem up for the challenge and I'm not sure they even recognize it. Bessent sounds like a Fox News hack, Lutnick is a carnival barker. Strap in.
“Any chance the people celebrating the market selloff now will admit they were wrong when it inevitably recovers?”
What people are celebrating the market sell off? Are you serious? You think people who aren’t Trump cultists are happy about the damage that Trump has done to the US and world economy even if it mean we can say WE TOLD YOU SO, YOU IDIOTS.
I am disappointed to see so many craft brewers moving from bottles to cans. Oh, well- nothing lasts forever.
I think the market will recover because the fact that the US is working on its deficit in several ways (Doge, correcting trade imbalances, developing the energy sector, attracting manufacturing) will ultimately mean more than uncertainty about who in whole global economy going to get a good deal.
“Any chance the people celebrating the market selloff now will admit they were wrong when it inevitably recovers?”
What people are celebrating the market sell off? Are you serious? People who aren’t Trump cultists are not happy to see the upheaval of the US and the worl’d’s economy even if it lets us say WE TOLD YOU SO, YOU IDIOTS. None of us are going to celebrate recession, price increases, job layoffs. Unfortunately we who didn’t vote for Trump’s insane policies will have to suffer right along with you who should’ve known better.
All of Val Kilmer’s movies are streaming for free if you have Amazon prime.
Thought the Ego Nwodim segment on SNL Weekend update was the funniest thing I have seen I a long time. At least on SNL. Try to find the uncensored version.
As people across the country assembled Saturday to tell the Trump regime to keep their “Hands off!”, a protest occured in the tiny town of Sackets Harbor, NY. A worker on a local dairy farm who had no criminal record and was awaiting legal immigration proceedings was disappeared late last month by ICE along with her three children. Agents were executing a search warrant for an unrelated suspected criminal who lived on the same block, and somehow the family was swept up and whisked away to Texas.
Border Czar Tom Homan lives in Sackets Harbor. His cell phone is ringing off the hook but he has nary a word to say to upset neighbors who know that ICE screwed up again.
Hands Off in Madison.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/302c4e1afd176f817c61b54c9bcad936895b72353ae03d3da30331265b1a7bec.jpg?w=800&h=979
Great morning photos! We've had two vibrant orange sunsets in a row. The seedlings are poking through. Life is good!
Caroline, ref blacks in Wolf Hall: Yes, the BBC calls it race-blind casting or something like that. One of the characters played by an Afro-Brit was historically black: a trumpeter in Henry's court. The rest were not. I think the point is that period pieces, such a big part of the Brit acting industry, should not be categorically closed off to minority actors. But it does torpedo the willing suspension of disbelief.
(And nobody's claiming that it's being done to help British POC's feel part of a common cultural heritage. Because no one would believe that.)
And it lessens the impact when the BBC really wants to do historical dramas that deal with racial issues. If you're used to seeing POCs in codpieces and corsets, you may not understand when suddenly there's a period piece with blacks, Indians, etc, being oppressed.
A few years ago, the BBC did The Hollow Crown, a production of all Shakespeare's history plays in a row. It was a full-employment project for the whole British acting industry, including POC's. Sophie Okonedo and Paterson Joseph turned in some great performances. This production worked because you watch Shakespeare for the words. You know going in that even the history plays are Tudor propaganda pieces, and Will's going to play fast and loose with the facts. You want to see how a given actor is going to do the Sceptered Isle speech or whatever. So you don't really care if the Duke of York, a Plantagenet war hero, is played by a black guy, as long as he does the words justice.
Wolf Hall, on the other hand, is a historical novel. Hilary Mantel did her research, and tended to keep her fictionalization to filling gaps in the record. The TV show is meant to be realistic: filming on the actual locations, naturalistic light, lots of quiet, not really much action. Shoving in POCs just disrupts it. Like having a 6-foot-5 redheaded Norwegian play a Ming Dynasty official in an otherwise faithful production.
JSM
Trump chaos is alienating Republicans ~ FT
Outside of the Maga ecosystem, bad economic news is starting to cut through
https://www.ft.com/content/26d15d7e-dd36-4ca1-b974-da8a57bce290
Remember when Trump won the “inflation election”, as voters united behind him because they were livid with rising prices?Fast forward a few months and Americans’ inflation expectations are now as high as they were at the peak of Biden-era price rises.
Turgidson:
Mr. President, we are rapidly approaching a moment of truth both for ourselves as human beings and for the life of our nation. Now, the truth is not always a pleasant thing, but it is necessary now make a choice, to choose between two admittedly regrettable, but nevertheless, distinguishable post-war environments: one where you got twenty million people killed, and the other where you got a hundred and fifty million people killed.
Muffley:
You're talking about mass murder, General, not war.
Turgidson:
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say... no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops. Uh... depended on the breaks.
"Public school education will do that."
Half of them probably work(ed) there.
The video of Tim Walz facial expression when Jake tells him the UAW is supporting Trump is a huge tell. Also the widespread ridicule of the retards at the “protests” this weekend where they didn’t even know what their signs said.
Main Street is united and they can communicate with themselves outside the rather insular globalist owned media sphere.
The posts of the common person laughing at Walz crapping his pants on live tv is the anecdote of the current political Overton Window.
Everything changed when Elon bought X and now X is valued higher than when he bought it. X is probably worth more than the top 10 media companies are total and Main Street gets it’s information from there now.
It is over except for the crying.
Another interesting follow up on tariffs from Powerline:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/a-tariff-footnote.php
https://x.com/trumpgirllove/status/1909073539929432410?s=61
Cuba was a thriving country when the Mafia ran it.
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@marcorandazza
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I saw pictures of the crowds in Washington this weekend and I wondered how a city that 85% black managed to have demonstrations with no Black people present.
Cynical Publius
@CynicalPublius
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I've spent the day studying pictures of these "protests" across the nation.
The OP is correct: the median age appears to be about 70, and that's across the entire nation.
I also notice an almost complete lack of black and Latino people.
The Democrat Party may not exist in ten years.
from the Wall Street Journal- [How I Realized AI Was Making Me Stupid—and What I Do Now ] Backers of the new tech say it will free us to be creative, but studies show that avoiding mental effort can cause your brain to atrophy.
Be careful with Grok, Althousians!
LLR-democratical Rich: "Trump chaos is alienating Republicans"
LOL
Nope. No republicans are being alienated. And Main Street is on board. Jobs are up. Inflation is down. Trump is fghting one last great battle to recalibrate and reorient the economy from a Wall Street "rape the nation and sell off its pieces" to protect the middle and working classes.
And this is our last chance before the neo-marxists and WEF fascists complete what they intend to do.
How I Realized AI Was Making Me Stupid
Calculators. Viterbi decoders of massive data sets. Semantic primitives to empathize with Homo sapiens.
That said, Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI) thrives with striving.
"JUST IN - European Union offers the United States to abolish reciprocal tariffs on industrial goods"
We have just spent an entire weekend where LLR-democratical Rich literally called movement like that literally impossible.
I don't know about the rest of you, but most of my stocks have taken a big jump up this morning.
One of my daily reads is Citizen Free Press. I read then, because it works to quickly see headlines without having to scroll through graphics and ads. It is also less annoying that DrudgeReport, which is abysmal. Real Clear Politics is better on the headlines, but too many ads and graphics.
In big red letters, I see Dow loses 1000 points. Which it did at opening. I then click on Trader View for real time quotes, this is just 5 minutes ago, and I watch as the DJIA is now down only 500 points, and then recovers every bit of those loses to be back at even. Now, it is up 700 points. Citizen Free Press still has the red headline.
Good International Beaver Day morning, y'all.
@John Mosby: Buying anytime for the long term wins 100% of the time. Remember, the stock market comes back 100% of the time
I can’t imagine anyone cheering this massive wealth destruction. That said — I’m more than happy to point out it’s entirely self inflicted…..
Dog loves the blues
Liberal wakes up from 4 year coma
The S&P 500 was down 0.23% today.
Unfortunately we who didn’t vote for Trump’s insane policies will have to suffer right along with you who should’ve known better.
I get so sick of you waving your finger of shame as if you're somehow a better person than the rest of us.
You're not.
Fuck off.
U.S. Supreme Court (5-4) VACATED Judge Boasberg's block on Trump using the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal aliens.
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