Althouse: Sunrise — 6:18, 6:32, 6:45.

November 6, 2025

Sunrise — 6:18, 6:32, 6:45.

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94 comments:

Beasts of England said...: Purples are unusual to capture - fine work in the top photo!; 11/6/25, 5:33 PM
tcrosse said...: I like the photos where the capitol dome is still lit: The Pearl of the Prairie.; 11/6/25, 5:48 PM
narciso said...: That is a great palate; 11/6/25, 5:51 PM
TickTock1948 said...: Good for Elon. I wish him every success.; 11/6/25, 5:56 PM
boatbuilder said...: I share the concern that if the Republicans nuke the filibuster, the Dems will run wild when they get back in power. And yes, I agree that they will probably do it anyway.

What the Republicans should do right now is bring back the speaking filibuster requirement. Let the public know that the reason that planes aren't flying and SNAP benefits aren't getting paid is because THIS POLITICIAN is making endless nonsense speeches to prevent a vote on a continuing resolution to keep funding government. Because THIS POLITICIAN'S PARTY wants Trillions of dollars to pay for health benefits for illegals.

Right now all everyone seems to believe is that Donald Trump has shut down the government. Which is 100 percent false.; 11/6/25, 6:30 PM
Josephbleau said...: According to my calcs, March 20, 2026 is the next time when the sunrise will shine thru the east facing windows of the rotunda and illuminate the capitol when viewed from the fire pit at picnic point. This also happens at the autumnal equinox in sept. 22 23 each year.

In Olin park the sun sets behind the capitol on equinoxes.

Did you know that the Capitol is 2984.37 meters, or 1.8551 miles from the fire pit at picnic point? Using the haversine formula.; 11/6/25, 6:33 PM
narciso said...: Yeah work at it; 11/6/25, 6:33 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/SonnyBunch/status/1986505575664931205; 11/6/25, 6:41 PM
Big Mike said...: Because THIS POLITICIAN'S PARTY wants Trillions of dollars to pay for health benefits for illegals.

That’s not really correct. The Democrats only want a couple hundred billion dollars for heath benefits for illegals, and a couple hundred billion to use general funds to keep Obamacare from falling apart. Basically they want $1.5 trillion to cover those two items and the rest — over a trillion dollars — more or less to play with.

You can look it up. You’ll see I’m right.; 11/6/25, 7:03 PM
narciso said...: Which would make things more expensive; 11/6/25, 7:14 PM
n.n said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/6/25, 7:15 PM
n.n said...: A literal NYzi was elected mayor of the rotting apple.; 11/6/25, 7:18 PM
Josephbleau said...: On March 20, 2026 the sunrise when viewed from picnic point at 6:50:00 am will show the sun perfectly framed between the east wing columns and the whole damn thing will be golden.

The capitol is made of Barre Granite, a Devonian pluton located in Vermont, even though there are many good granites in Wisconsin, it was probably cheaper to buy than open a new pit.

The Barre granite is not really granite, it is a granodiorite, and has a high quartz content, so hopefully it is extra sparkally. Perhaps I will be there on that day at sunrise, to see the firey but peaceful dome, from picnic point.; 11/6/25, 7:25 PM
Original Mike said...: I've always thought filibusters should require the speechifying spectacle.; 11/6/25, 7:38 PM
Original Mike said...: "The capitol is made of Barre Granite, a Devonian pluton located in Vermont, even though there are many good granites in Wisconsin, it was probably cheaper to buy than open a new pit.

The Barre granite is not really granite, it is a granodiorite, and has a high quartz content,"

Thanks for that!; 11/6/25, 7:41 PM
Narr said...: Filibusterbots.; 11/6/25, 7:43 PM
Jamie said...: If memory serves, pretty much the entire Sierra Nevada (the igneous parts, that is) is granodiorite - can be spectacular when the sun is at the right angle.

But my favorite rock is blueschist, a high pressure, low temperature metamorphic that you can find around where the Russian River flows into the Pacific on the northern CA coast. The geological environment, so to speak, is a subduction zone - where a continental tectonic plate dives under an oceanic plate; therefore, high pressure from the subduction, low temperature (relatively) from the influence of seawater. Sometimes it contains garnets of an unusual golden color - I can't remember the name of the garnet (it's been a LONG time since I was actually a geologist). Polish a face of it and it looks like the night sky. Beautiful!; 11/6/25, 7:53 PM
narciso said...: That is fascinating; 11/6/25, 7:55 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I like the middle one best.; 11/6/25, 7:58 PM
tcrosse said...: We're glad to get our rocks off.; 11/6/25, 7:58 PM
narciso said...: Phrasing; 11/6/25, 8:01 PM
john mosby said...: Jamie: "But my favorite rock is blueschist,"

This is now my go-to euphemism. Especially useful when yelling at MSNBC: "Blueschist!" CC, JSM; 11/6/25, 8:04 PM
Original Mike said...: I'm a big fan of schist. In New Zealand, there's a big region of tors made of schist. I always come back with samples. Particularly like green schist. They build the most fabulous walls from schist in the region around Queenstown.

In northern Wisconsin, there's a schist formation formed from the 2Gyr Animikie Basin sediments. Garnets galore.; 11/6/25, 8:06 PM
boatbuilder said...: Big Mike--well, that's like, your opinion, man.; 11/6/25, 8:15 PM
Howard said...: The blueschist is part of the Franciscan formation.

The Franciscan Complex (often referred to as the Franciscan Formation) was formed from oceanic rocks and sediments that were scraped off a subducting oceanic plate and accreted (added) to the North American continental margin. This process occurred at an ancient subduction zone that existed along the west coast of North America during the Mesozoic Era (roughly 200 to 80 million years ago), before the development of the modern San Andreas Fault system.
🌎 Formation Process
Subduction: The Farallon oceanic plate was moving eastward and sinking (subducting) beneath the North American continental plate.
Accretionary Wedge: As the Farallon plate descended, the overlying sediments and portions of the oceanic crust (such as basalt, chert, and mudstone/graywacke) were too buoyant to be carried down into the mantle. Instead, they were scraped off and accumulated in a jumbled mass, forming a large wedge of material known as an accretionary wedge or accretionary prism.
Mélange: The intense tectonic deformation, shearing, and mixing of different rock types in this environment created a chaotic mixture of rocks called mélange.
Metamorphism: The immense pressure and relatively low temperature conditions deep within the subduction zone caused some of these rocks to metamorphose into unique high-pressure, low-temperature minerals, such as blueschist and eclogite, which are characteristic of the Franciscan Complex.
The Franciscan Complex is a classic example of an ancient accretionary wedge and is widely distributed throughout the California Coast Ranges.; 11/6/25, 8:18 PM
Mark said...: Weather in Madison is picking up in front of the big polar air this weekend. Snow!; 11/6/25, 8:19 PM
Jamie said...: Howard! ❤️!; 11/6/25, 8:23 PM
Jersey Fled said...: I just bet Grok a billion zillion dollars Mamdani wouldn’t deliver on his promise of free groceries for everybody on day one. Don’t tell Grok, but if I lose I’m paying off with Mamdani Bucks, which like his promises are worthless.; 11/6/25, 8:36 PM
wildswan said...: In the Wisconsin Baraboo hills on Route 12 behind Madison, you can see rocks with strange thin wavy lines through them. That was caused by the pressures at the edge of the North American continent, said edge being half-way up Wisconsin only 1.7 billion years ago. And if you look in old time gardens in places like Milwaukee you can see that people collected those rocks and others from Lake Superior and the Coulees on the MIssissippi and used them to edge their gardens. Probably were doing that only 100 years ago but it almost feels Precambrian, culturally.; 11/6/25, 8:51 PM
Inga said...: In 2024 Trump discovered a new word no one ever heard before, groceries. In 2025 he’s discovered another new word, affordability.

What new and amazing words.; 11/6/25, 8:55 PM
Michael Fitzgerald said...: I just finished reading The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. Great read, excellent writing, terrific story, a real page-turner, I highly recommend it. And, yes, the movie was better!!! John Huston wrote a script that was an improvement on the original story by streamlining plot twists, cutting out some ancillary characters, honing Hammett's hard-boiled dialogue to perfection, and adding his own inspired and memorable speeches and phrases. Great book, even greater movie.; 11/6/25, 8:58 PM
Aggie said...: Following Howard's sarcastic comment this morning, I began watching Joe Rogan / Ken Burns and found it mildly interesting, but more interesting: Ken Burns documentary on Huey Long, about 1½ hours, quite good. Too many parallels to current events though, especially hearing the 1983 establishment types recounting the fashionable assassination porn of the time during Long's rise. Very much worth watching.; 11/6/25, 9:02 PM
Peachy+2 said...: Affordability is the left's buzzword/ flavor of their Bs moment.
Oh noez - how dare anyone steal it!
to the left - affordability means robbing someone - so someone else can benefit.; 11/6/25, 9:07 PM
wildswan said...: I listened to Mamdani's election night speech with great interest. I saw an unsmiling demagogue. I noted that he did not appeal to the whites, the blacks, the Jews or the indigenous. He appealed to the immigrants. "We are doing the work and now we are running the government!!!" Oh, ah, indeed? The foreign born make up 36% of NYC so there's a group there. But why did they come here? Was it to be a dot in a Mamdani crowd? Tune in again for the next exciting installment.; 11/6/25, 9:14 PM
Iman said...: The price of nearly anything is not something you want to touch, igna, being a Biden Booster and all…; 11/6/25, 9:18 PM
Mark said...: Wildswan, my Mom gifted me one of those ultra smooth stones from my E Wis grandmother's garden walll, likely carried by a glacier from Canada given its unusual composition and incredible smoothness.; 11/6/25, 9:28 PM
Kakistocracy said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/6/25, 9:32 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Iman -- please tell everyone about the massive tax cut for the wealthy paid for by cutting Medicaid and closing rural hospitals.

And while you’re at it don’t forget to declare victory over high prices.; 11/6/25, 9:34 PM
Josephbleau said...: This reminds me of the conviction and imprisonment of Blogoyavitch, Resko giving Obama free land, and Valery Jarret the Chicago slum lord from Iran that moved in with Obama in colorma dc and was his advisor. And how Obama contracted to give Chicago $450 mil to get land for his library but he has given them zero and is in violation but No one cares because he is a saint.; 11/6/25, 9:36 PM
Josephbleau said...: There were no democrats that I heard of who criticized Biden’s economic policy. But inflation was higher on average under Biden than Trump. Does anyone here disagree?; 11/6/25, 9:42 PM
LibertarianLeisure said...: First one with purple is lovely. A cool way to look at a sunset, ( since a teen, sporadically, have done this when inspired to,) ... is to look at the sunset UPSIDE DOWN! The colors really pop!; 11/6/25, 9:51 PM
Kakistocracy said...: For all the usual suspects who think they can sue over "fake news".

Lawsuit against former pollster Ann Selzer dismissed by federal judge ~ CBS; 11/6/25, 9:52 PM
Prof. M. Drout said...: What has been entirely missing from all the commentary on the NYC election is an explanation, for those of us who weren't following at the time because we didn't care, of how Andrew "Granny-killer" Cuomo ended up as one of the two finalists for the Dem primary. Was that also engineered by the Soros people who are behind the oily weasel? Was there not a single other Democrat available who wasn't responsible for the death of several thousand people?; 11/6/25, 9:56 PM
Hassayamper said...: In Olin park the sun sets behind the capitol on equinoxes.

On equinoxes, the sun is in alignment with any building, road, or other object that is squarely oriented to true East or true West. This is true regardless of latitude.; 11/6/25, 9:56 PM
Original Mike said...: Smooth, polished stones are usually river stones.; 11/6/25, 9:56 PM
Original Mike said...: Or beach stones.; 11/6/25, 9:57 PM
Jim at said...: where a continental tectonic plate dives under an oceanic plate

You sure the continental plate goes under the oceanic plate? :); 11/6/25, 10:09 PM
Iman said...: Good stuff!

https://x.com/barrycunningham/status/1986180083061583973; 11/6/25, 10:21 PM
Yancey Ward said...: "I've always thought filibusters should require the speechifying spectacle."

The quorum rules require the majority (those in favor of moving to a vote) to maintain the quorum- else the chamber can be forced into adjournment. So, if a filibuster has, let's say, 4 members, they can trade off speaking while all who support them can just go home for the night. As soon as the majority sends too many members home for the night, the filibusterer can ask for a quorum call and if there aren't enough members to meet it, the chamber is automatically adjourned.; 11/6/25, 10:21 PM
wildswan said...: Mt field theory of Mamdani sudden evolution into nasty demagogue is that he is channeling his inner Idi Amin only he is reworking his parents trauma so that the Idi Amin figure acknowledges the immigrants as the ones who built up the city. Mamdani parents were Indian-Ugandans and that group dominated the economic life of Uganda till Idi Amin kicked them all out. Mamdani's parents came to NYC and did well. And now their son is being a demagogue on behalf of the immigrants who built NYC. It's like dream reworking of that trauma. Only the category of "the immigrants who built NYC" doesn't include the Irish or the Italians who did build it. Or the Jews and blacks who built the entertainment world. Instead "the immigrants who built NYC" in Mamdani's version of history were the last to arrive - the Nigerians and other Africans, the South and East Asians, the Muslims - so I'm not sure how the timeline is supposed to work. Well, as I say, tune in next week for another exciting episode in Idi Mamdani's Excellent Adventure.; 11/6/25, 10:23 PM
Yancey Ward said...: You might make the filibuster harder by passing a rule that limits each Senator one time at the lectern for a given bill- he/she can speak as long as they want for that one turn. It would take a while but you would eventually run out of speakers.; 11/6/25, 10:26 PM
Yancey Ward said...: In my entire life, leftists have made literally zero things more affordable. Sure, they mandate lots of free things but then the supply of those free things completely vanishes.; 11/6/25, 10:29 PM
Brylinski said...: Kak forgot to tell us that the judge that dismissed the complaint against Ann Selzer was Obama-appointed Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger!; 11/6/25, 10:32 PM
Josephbleau said...: “On equinoxes, the sun is in alignment with any building, road, or other object that is squarely oriented to true East or true West. This is true regardless of latitude.“

Yes the random position of the park aligned probabilistically with the capitol dome naturally put the azimuth from park to dome at 270. There is just a line between the park and the capitol dome. The date that the sun will fall on this line (of infinite length) is pre-determined with uncertainty.; 11/6/25, 10:39 PM
Mason G said...: "Sure, they mandate lots of free things but then the supply of those free things completely vanishes."

The left prioritizes intentions over results. And then blames the right when their batshit crazy ideas crash and burn.; 11/6/25, 10:40 PM
Jim at said...: And then blames the right when their batshit crazy ideas crash and burn.

I don't know if they specifically blame us when those ideas crash and burn, but they certainly do for not fixing them. See: Obamacare; 11/6/25, 10:43 PM
Big Mike said...: @boatbuilder, go research it yourself.; 11/6/25, 11:23 PM
rhhardin said...: Old topic. My gov 101 term paper topic (chosen from among alternatives) decades ago was Should Rule 22 Be Changed? which referred to the filibuster. Eternal standard fare.; 11/7/25, 3:57 AM
gadfly said...: Big Mike: Republicans cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is the largest health care cut in U.S. history.

Suck up unnecessary increases in military/ICE spending, and keep tax rates the same for billionaires. The world could become normal again.; 11/7/25, 4:38 AM
john mosby said...: Gadfly: "Suck up unnecessary increases in military/ICE spending, and keep tax rates the same for billionaires. The world could become normal again."

Do we really need to go through the arithmetic? If you outright confiscated all the wealth of US billionaires, let alone taxed them, it comes out to something like a hundred bucks per person for the rest of us. And the next year, there'd be nothing. And entitlements dwarf military, law enforcement, and all other discretionary spending. We could fire every gun-toting US employee and auction off all their hardware, and again have no effect on our finances.

At least until we got invaded for real and our budget got rewritten in RMB or Isis dinars....CC, JSM; 11/7/25, 4:52 AM
Breezy said...: “Republicans cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which is the largest health care cut in U.S. history.“

They also cut out millions of illegal recipients of those benefits, so it all works out.; 11/7/25, 5:01 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Iman @ 10:23...
That was HILARIOUS!
Accurate too.; 11/7/25, 5:27 AM
tim maguire said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 11/7/25, 5:28 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Iman @ 11/6/25, 10:21 PM - My bad.; 11/7/25, 5:28 AM
rehajm said...: I remember when Obamacare was the solution. Now nobody seems to be happy about how that money was being spent so best to cut if off…; 11/7/25, 5:37 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: "Is it really the President’s job to make stuff cheaper?"
H/T Coffee and Covid; 11/7/25, 6:15 AM
Big Mike said...: @gadfly, it’s called “eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.” Do try to keep up.; 11/7/25, 6:39 AM
narciso said...: https://cryptoleaks.info/case-no-12; 11/7/25, 6:57 AM
Jamie said...: You sure the continental plate goes under the oceanic plate? :)

Why, no I am not! 🙄😂

Thanks! Continental crust is less dense than oceanic crust - of course it's the oceanic plate that gets subducted! I can't believe I did that...; 11/7/25, 7:00 AM
Jamie said...: "Affordability" also seems to mean "managing the decline." Forcing prices lower (temporarily), "capping energy prices" (looking at you, NJ), making things "free" - supposedly in pursuit of the Great Keynesian Multiplier that never materializes. Or, as it's long been known, the Broken Window Fallacy. Nothing they do results in greater productivity or more prosperity - just a temporary period of more or cheaper stuff followed by inflation, shortages, and decline.; 11/7/25, 7:08 AM
Kai Akker said...: IXI
$DJUSSV
MSFT
VGK
MCD & S&P Restaurants Ind Grp

Some charts that seem to be speaking loudly here. He who has ears to hear, ....; 11/7/25, 7:16 AM
Kai Akker said...: DJX could well be DJT's biggest domestic enemy.; 11/7/25, 7:18 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Josephbleau said...
“There were no democrats that I heard of who criticized Biden’s economic policy. But inflation was higher on average under Biden than Trump. Does anyone here disagree?”

While there is a kernel of truth in that statement, only the most gullible of the goobers would proudly accept such an ignorant and sophomoric spin and declare that kernel as some gold standard. It’s akin to the insistence from several tribe members here that the shutdown is about Democrats wanting healthcare for illegals. Both, utter nonsense.

I don’t think anyone denies that inflation rose under Biden — it absolutely did, just as it did across nearly every developed nation after the global pandemic.

Biden’s economic policy didn’t create inflation; it inherited a supply chain collapse, labor shortages, and massive global disruptions. The U.S. actually recovered faster and maintained lower unemployment than most countries. And if you look at the actual numbers (which I’m sure you don’t want to do) under Biden and Democrats policies and legislation, inflation largely cooled while wages continued to rise— meaning workers finally gained ground again.

Even many economists who were critical early on now say the U.S. recovery turned out stronger than expected. So yes, global inflation was higher and the U.S. was not immune. Biden addressed it with wage growth, job creation, and consumer spending.

Trump’s policies on both immigration and tariffs, like it or not and regardless of what he and his propagandists groomers tell you, is sending prices through the roof.; 11/7/25, 8:11 AM
Iman said...: Good job, NYC voters! When the mayor-elect moves the mayor’s office under the Children’s Hospital, you’ll find out what’s affordable and what’s not.; 11/7/25, 8:48 AM
Leland said...: Well said Josephbleau. Using CPI data; average inflation in Trump's first term was 2.06%. So far in Trump's second term, inflation is trending 2.68%. Under Biden; inflation averaged 5.36%. Even looking at Biden's last 2 years, inflation averaged over 3.83%. Yet notice how people pretend Biden had nothing to do with the economy in his 4 years of office in order to explain how high inflation was under Biden.; 11/7/25, 8:52 AM
Jamie said...: people pretend Biden had nothing to do with the economy in his 4 years of office in order to explain how high inflation was under Biden.

He "inherited" the problem, you see, through the magic of COVID! And then did a lot of things with his "inheritance" to make things worse - a lot worse, in the name of never letting a crisis go to waste.

Just like now. Democrats are taking full advantage of the crisis they created - and because they still control the means of narrative production, they'll probably get away with it. In the most recent* All-In Podcast, with Elon Musk, they discuss former Twitter shadow banning, which former Twitter executives insisted they weren't doing but of course they provably were. Musk said that, once he released the Twitter Files, the other social media providers found a bit of spine and conscience - but also that they're still doing it, just not as much (and, he implied, not at the behest of the government, just on their own recognizance).

He cited the old joke about the best place to hide a body - on the second page of the Google results.

* At least I think it's the latest.; 11/7/25, 9:08 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Jamie et al, how the tribe people have been groomed is indeed a phenomenal thing but let’s stroll down memory lane a bit.

Trump 45 left us in the throes of a historic downturn. Unemployment was 6.3%, GDP had just contracted by 3.4% (the worst since WWII), and millions of small businesses had closed. The CPI was low not because things were “good,” but because demand had collapsed — people weren’t traveling, buying cars, or going out.

Biden inherited an economy in ashes from Trump 45 and had to restart, handing Trump 47 an economic success where inflation had cooled, unemployment near record lows, wage growth outpacing prices again, and manufacturing investment is at a multi-decade high. The U.S., under Biden, avoided the recession nearly every major economist predicted.

But there’s really nothing new here. Hoover crashed the economy and Roosevelt and Dems rebuilt it. Obama and Dems lifted us from the ashes of the GOP & GWB crash and burn. Biden and Dems simply followed historic norms- Republicans ruin the economy and Democrats rebuild it.

But this time seems different. It’s as if Trump’s intentionally sabotaging it to the point where no one can ever fix it again. But I did predict when he was elected that the game plan would be to flood the zone with shit while the billionaires go for the jugular- at all cost.; 11/7/25, 9:30 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Sounds to me like the Trump and Walmart Thanksgiving message is;

“We wish all Americans a very Happy Thanksgiving.
In these challenging economic times, we’ve teamed up to offer a simple solution to the high cost of your Thanksgiving dinner.

Just eat less.”

(Well… not all Americans.)

Thank you — or rather, thank us.; 11/7/25, 9:54 AM
boatbuilder said...: Ronald you lying bastard. Talking about the economy in 2020 without mentioning Covid is about as fundamentally dishonest as it gets.

Also tell me what those things are for which the prices are "through the roof".; 11/7/25, 11:02 AM
boatbuilder said...: Hey, Big Mike--it was a rant, and then a joke. I believe you.
My point was that the voters should be able to see the heroic Democrats who are shutting down the government filibustering in support of their "principles."; 11/7/25, 11:06 AM
Ronald J. Ward said...: Pound sand all you want Boatbuilder but the failure to blame Biden’s economy on COVID and then going into a name calling fit because I did the same with Trump is mighty rich.

Covid aside, economic alarms were sounding in 2019. Banks were tightening on mortgage loans, manufacturing jobs were hemorrhaging in September, Oct, Nov, and Dec, and debt warnings were sounding. Covid flipped that apple cart.; 11/7/25, 11:25 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Subduction continues—north of Cape Mendocino in NW California, extending along the Pacific coast north to SW British Columbia—due to the continuing collision of the Gorda and Juan de Fuca plates with the North American plate.

Subducting plates such as these can drive very substantial earthquakes, not to speak of their offspring, tsunamis, as well as more distant relations, the volcanoes of the Cascade Range (which begin with Mount Lassen opposite Cape Mendocino in Calif., which is no coincidence, and end in the North Cascades of British Columbia, also no coincidence).; 11/7/25, 11:28 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Last night:
Lady Friend: The rich need to pay more in taxes!
Me: Why?
Lady Friend: Because they can afford it!
Me: So you actually think because they have more money, they should pay more?
Lady: Yes! Why should I pay more than the rich?
Me: You. Don't. Pay. Any. Income. Taxes.
(It was a long night, ending with her ranting about genocide of babies in Gaza, starving of babies on SNAP, and the end of her health care due to the cancellation of ACA subsidies for COVID.) She's 35 and hard left.; 11/7/25, 11:36 AM
Marcus Bressler said...: Lastly: We argued about the true definition of socialism right before I told her I did not care what happened to the people of Gaza after their Hamas murdered 1200 Jews on Oct 7 and put babies in ovens.; 11/7/25, 11:38 AM
Leland said...: Other failures not mentioned boatbuilder is that Covid was a worldwide economic disaster created in China. That despite this, the US economy was recovery in the final months of Trump's Administration, and in fact, inflation was less than 2% in the first 3 months of Biden's Administration. However, after that, inflation jumped to 5% by May and continue to rise reaching 7% by November. And the reasons are quite obvious and authoritarian. Oh, and about job growth, here is what BLS had to say: "Nonfarm employment continued the largest job recovery and expansion in U.S. history in 2019."; 11/7/25, 11:53 AM
narciso said...: https://notthebee.com/article/mexican-president-says-she-will-not-go-to-war-with-cartels-because-its-authoritarian-fascist; 11/7/25, 11:55 AM
Michael McNeil said...: Thus, only about 60 miles east of where we now live in far northern Calif. (Siskiyou County) reposes the great stratovolcano Mount Shasta (14,169 ft.—tallest and bulkiest in the Cascades), while only another 40 or so miles further lies the great shield volcano Medicine Lake (largest shield volcano in the Cascades—far bulkier than Shasta—volcanic source for Lava Beds National Monument).

Shield volcanoes (though on earth they typically don't grow as high as stratovolcanoes) include both the tallest mountain on earth—that is, the Big Island of Hawaii (more than twice as tall as Mount Everest)—as well as the tallest mountain in the solar system—i.e., Olympus Mons on Mars.; 11/7/25, 12:05 PM
boatbuilder said...: Pound sand all you want Boatbuilder but the failure to blame Biden’s economy on COVID and then going into a name calling fit because I did the same with Trump is mighty rich.
Haven't you been telling us how wonderful Biden's economy was?; 11/7/25, 12:11 PM
Leland said...: I'm getting a little concerned by the FBI's hyping information about the J6 pipe bomber. They really have a poor track record of claiming big things are coming only for small things to come.; 11/7/25, 12:28 PM
Ronald J. Ward said...: What I’ve been saying Boatbuilder is that Biden walked into an economic mess and turned it around, which is true. Obama had to fix the GWB crash and Roosevelt pulled us out of Hoover’s disaster. Republicans screw it up and Democrats put it back together. It’s been going on for years.; 11/7/25, 2:22 PM
Leland said...: Kinda of sophomoric to claim Biden turned the economy around when his first act was to shutdown business as they were reopening. He then got Congress to spend billions of an Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs Act; which wasted lots of money yet failed to deliver on promises such as no rural internet and no EV charging stations, and that's before we get into stuff like California's train to nowhere that began under Obama and received even more funds under Biden. But besides that big economic blunder, there were all the Presidential EOs that Biden signed the caused, as previously cited with sources, inflation to double immediately and eventually triple from what it was when Biden took office.

In fact, there are direct correlation to Biden's actions early in his office and a worsening economy.

I mean, let us look at the US Fed on GDP. What do we see? -28% decrease in 2Q2020 as Covid was announced. This was followed by a 34.9% increase in 3Q2020, as Trump managed the US economy despite an epidemic. But things weren't to remain that high. GDP drop to as low 3% growth per quarter from 4Q2020 to 4Q2021, a period that some claim was a bad economy. Yet in 1Q2022 GDP went negative at -1%. A full year after Biden being in office and the US economy that was growing during a pandemic was now contracting after it ended. It did get better in 2Q2021 with only 0.6% growth. After 1Q2021, US GDP growth never grew as fast as 4Q2020 (9 months into the pandemic) under Biden. In fact, in 1Q of this year, it was back to -0.6% growth (talk about getting a bad economy from a predecessor!). However, with a full quarter under Trump, GDP is back up to 3.8% growth.

Of course, it easy to make rebuttals when all you have are bad faith insults and no evidence. Anybody can do that all day long.; 11/7/25, 2:43 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: The President of the United States of America is APPEALING a judges order forcing him to fully fund SNAP.
Yes — DJT is appealing a ruling telling him to NOT starve his own people. Lets see if he offers his crooked pal from Hungary and $$$ or backing you know like Argentina, AMERICAN 1ST RIGHT? Fuk his own Appalachian and vicinity people Supplemental Nutritional Assistance. The REDS will still sing his praises. Beautiful Get a freakin job you RED STATERS!; 11/7/25, 4:00 PM
Leland said...: POTUS is slapping a Judge for not understanding that the Executive Branch does not have the authority to appropriate funds not approved by Congress.; 11/7/25, 5:04 PM
Rusty said...: Wow. I guess rising inflation and the poor market performance under Biden are just a figment of my imagination.
Why do people who don't know shit about how a market works or where things come from insist on lecturing me as if they do?; 11/7/25, 8:38 PM