Althouse: At the Monday Night Café...

February 3, 2025

At the Monday Night Café...

... you can talk all night.

99 comments:

rhhardin said...: I wish institutions holding 401(K)s would stop changing their names and addresses every year so that last year's 1099R form would be the same in Turbotax from year to year.; 2/3/25, 6:09 PM
rehajm said...: A single leftie Senator claims he will hold up Trump’s cabinet nominees until USAID is restored. What’s the point of winning if you need permission from all of your opponents to accomplish anything?

…never mind. I know…; 2/3/25, 6:19 PM
MadisonMan said...: I think his intransigence only means that the nominees aren't approved smoothly or quickly.; 2/3/25, 6:20 PM
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narciso said...: https://x.com/chrispavlovski/status/1886547061010584031; 2/3/25, 6:23 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/nicksortor/status/1886554104333210062 oh; 2/3/25, 6:32 PM
narciso said...: https://nypost.com/2025/02/03/us-news/nj-gov-phil-murphys-claim-hes-protecting-migrant-at-his-home-wasmisinterpreted-rep-insists/; 2/3/25, 6:35 PM
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gadfly said...: Surely you remember Tommy Tuberville?

https://apnews.com/article/senate-military-nominations-holds-tommy-tuberville-e38d853526de044ac59338d32d7a0e10; 2/3/25, 6:41 PM
boatbuilder said...: So now everybody knows who is in favor of USAID, and who isn't.

Has the American public ever been given the opportunity to let their elected officials know how they feel about USAID funding?

Now they can do that. Perhaps the Democrats will get the message.; 2/3/25, 6:42 PM
boatbuilder said...: +++; 2/3/25, 6:46 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: C'mon man. Don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. :-); 2/3/25, 6:49 PM
Mr. T. said...: Scotland's far left SNP (P stans for their trans pedos) wishes to return to the good old days when bubonic plague ruled Europe by banning feral and domestic cats.; 2/3/25, 6:54 PM
Jim at said...: A single leftie Senator claims he will hold up Trump’s cabinet nominees until USAID is restored.

Apparently that senator failed math.; 2/3/25, 6:54 PM
Original Mike said...: "I'll pay $10 a f**ing egg to keep watching DJT take a blow torch to this whole diseased temple of thieves, traitors & pedos, burn it to the ground and piss on the ashes...”

I'll pay $20!; 2/3/25, 6:55 PM
wildswan said...: The California High-Speed rail project is widely recognized as a doomed tangle of conflicting progressive requirements which will never straighten out into rails. But taxpayer dollars ars still being awarded - $ 6,120,913,307.00 in grants according to datarepublicans data base. https://datarepublican.com/award_search/ (keyword: FJW5LSYDQLF3). It's pretty sobering to think that if this high-speed rail project were discontinued the six-billion-dollar savings would only be a day and half of the Doge Boys quota. That's what a trillion dollars means. But this project will be around for a long time, I expect. It seems to be like the Hotel California - you can start it "but you can never leave."; 2/3/25, 7:01 PM
Peachy said...: Agree.; 2/3/25, 7:04 PM
Peachy said...: "Criticizing Musk for wanting to protect taxes is like crying because someone shut off your corruption tap."

X; 2/3/25, 7:08 PM
Dave Begley said...: Brian Schatz of HI can’t stop confirmation process. He doesn’t have the votes.; 2/3/25, 7:23 PM
Dave Begley said...: Trump’s second term is 100x better than his first term. He learned.; 2/3/25, 7:24 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: If a Turkey runs away, does that make it a chicken?; 2/3/25, 7:31 PM
RCOCEAN II said...: If you dream of being a vinyl record,
Does that make you groovy?; 2/3/25, 7:32 PM
john mosby said...: On Morning Schmoe today, they highlighted the strange case of Fr Calvin Robinson, a biracial English priest of the Anglican Catholic Church, associated with the Utrecht communion of Old Catholics and suchlike. He hangs out with Laurence Fox (DS Hathaway on Inspector Lewis) and decries the decline of British civilization. This brought him to the attention of an ACC parish in Grand Rapids MI, which hired him.

So Fr Calvin spoke at the March for Life (abortion is one of the issues that spawned the ACC’s breakaway from the mainstream Anglican communion), gave a rah-rah speech, and closed by jokingly giving the Musk salute. The audience got the joke and laughed uproariously. Well, Fr Calvin’s ACC bishop did not get the joke, and revoked his license to preach and do sacraments. His parish apparently will keep him - once you’re a breakaway, further breaks dont take much effort.

Why Schmoe and Mika wanted to highlight this, I have no idea. Probably a thousand people know who Fr Calvin is. Now all the Morning Toe viewers do, too. This guy definitely belongs to the school of no such thing as bad publicity.

(Yes, yes. Insert obvious joke about how it’s now 2 thousand….)

JSM; 2/3/25, 7:32 PM
Mason G said...: "and piss on the ashes..."

Trump could balance the budget if he charged an admission fee so others could do likewise.; 2/3/25, 7:33 PM
Mason G said...: "It's pretty sobering to think that if this high-speed rail project were discontinued the six-billion-dollar savings would only be a day and half of the Doge Boys quota. That's what a trillion dollars means."

You've got to start somewhere.; 2/3/25, 7:34 PM
Kakistocracy said...: A counter argument here is that Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been a complete fiasco that have generated a strong backlash from all corners of the US electorate and have served to focus the economic spotlight on the downsides of tariffs, from lost jobs and business to higher prices. They've also shown how interdependent the North American economy is, while also demonstrating that there is such a thing as retaliatory tariffs as well.

On the campaign trail, Trump presented tariffs as a tax that other countries would pay, rather than the reality of them being a tax that importers pay and pass on to consumers, causing inflation and often lost US jobs and growth as higher prices often lead to lower sales. There was no mention of retaliatory tariffs targeting American exports either.

Politically, Republicans know their states will be targeted and therefore suffer the most economically, which will make them unlikely to remain loyal to Trump on this issue, and perhaps others as well as his popularity takes a hit.

Overall, Trump's tariff fiasco and the immediate backlash may serve as a cautionary tale against repeating it. Trump himself seemed more than ready to use any excuse to pause the tariffs in talking with Mexican president Sheinbaum and will probably do the same with Trudeau when they talk. I'm sure the message to Trump from all corners of the political spectrum is to end the tariffs with some token gesture from Canada and Mexico, move on, and refrain from repetition of another tariff fiasco with allies in the future.; 2/3/25, 7:47 PM
Deep State Reformer said...: Joe Biden Signs With Talent Agency CCA

What talent does JFB have other than bald-face lying?; 2/3/25, 7:51 PM
Leland said...: Disinformation bot doing his thing.

In the real world: https://issuesinsights.com/2025/01/29/americans-embrace-trump-tariffs-see-foreign-investment-boost-in-u-s-as-likely-result-ii-tipp-poll/
"Americans Embrace Trump Tariffs, See Foreign Investment Boost In U.S. As Likely Result: I&I/TIPP Poll"

"A strong plurality of 49% answered that they supported tariffs either “strongly” (20%) or “somewhat” (29%), while 34% responded that they opposed the move “somewhat” (16%) or “strongly” (18%). "

I did read some old media polls showing results for polls with the leading question "Do you support tariffs if they would increase the price of goods?" I suspect if they did that, then people might be inclined to not like them. So far, they have got better passage for all vessels through the Panama Canal. Columbia to take back murderers and rapists on their own dime. Venezuela to take back gang bangers. Mexico to put troops on the border to stop human trafficking and illegal drug trade.

Oh Canada, a country whose GDP per capita is lower than Mississippi, will retaliate with a tariff on US goods.; 2/3/25, 8:05 PM
Leland said...: Nope, Canada gave in too, with offers to also stop human trafficking and illegal drug trade.; 2/3/25, 8:07 PM
Aggie said...: Has anybody heard what USAID's annual budgetary outlay is?; 2/3/25, 8:07 PM
Kakistocracy said...: What’s the difference between this agreement and the $1.3 bn border security spending package Canada announced in December?; 2/3/25, 8:11 PM
Peachy said...: Perhaps Schatz and Schitt and meet in the outhouse after school?; 2/3/25, 8:12 PM
Kakistocracy said...: I really think Treasury Secretary Bessent worked Trump over this weekend, which is why we didn't see the Saturday implementation that Trump desperately wanted to do on Friday.

The problem is, I don't know how much personal capital he used up in the process. He's gonna need more.; 2/3/25, 8:12 PM
Enigma said...: Here's a big issue:

* 71.6 million people received social security benefits in 2023
* $1.39 trillion was spent in benefits in 2023
* 72.9 million received benefits in December 2024
...

One trillion: $1,000,000,000,000

https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/chartbooks/fast_facts/2024/fast_facts24.html
https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfacts/stat_snapshot/; 2/3/25, 8:27 PM
Scott Patton said...: Scott Adams said there's absolutely no upside to being able to smell. (Apparently he's experienced both states - I missed the beginning of the story); 2/3/25, 8:29 PM
FullMoon said...: Selena Gomez is getting a bad rap.; 2/3/25, 8:29 PM
Enigma said...: With hindsight, Trump survived his first term only because the Deep State players toyed with him as a cat toys with a mouse. Otherwise there would have been assassination attempts (or success) back then. Only after Jan 6 did that take him seriously and get physical, per the Mar-a-Lago raid.; 2/3/25, 8:31 PM
robother said...: In the Eighth Air Force, they knew that taking flak meant that you were over the target. Nothing's changed. What I have learned the last week is that the grants and other money flowing to the NGOs is even more important than the US Gov't employees in this fight. QED.; 2/3/25, 8:40 PM
Mason G said...: If you want to avoid eating something that's spoiled, being able to smell helps.; 2/3/25, 8:41 PM
Enigma said...: His main talent is to find ways to receive payments for services that are arbitrary and hard to value, and his second talent is to avoid prosecution. See his history of pay-to-play in Delaware. Also see the profitability of the books and art and TV shows of Hunter, Obama, the Clintons, the convicted former mayor of Baltimore, etc.; 2/3/25, 8:48 PM
Original Mike said...: "A counter argument here is that Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been a complete fiasco that have generated a strong backlash from all corners of the US electorate and have served to focus the economic spotlight on the downsides of tariffs, from lost jobs and business to higher prices. They've also shown how interdependent the North American economy is, while also demonstrating that there is such a thing as retaliatory tariffs as well."

All that in one day? Sure…; 2/3/25, 8:57 PM
Original Mike said...: I believe it's $50B, but don't quote me on that.; 2/3/25, 8:58 PM
FullMoon said...: Great news. Hopefully Bianca's outfit will start a trend with the attractive female celebs. Oscars next?

"Kanye West claimed Don Lemon “started the rumor” that his wife, Bianca Censori, was kicked out of the Grammys 2025 for her revealing look.

“This the goofball that started the rumor that me and my wife got kicked out the Grammies [sic],” he captioned a photo via Instagram of Lemon smiling Monday.

“3 decades of innovating music and they always KOONS like this.”; 2/3/25, 8:59 PM
planetgeo said...: Trump's accomplishments are so spectacular, and their pace is so incredible that I can see a point coming soon where the left's humiliation and complete despair at seeing their entire vision of fundamental transformation being dismantled before their eyes that they go DEFCON 3 and turn their imported insurrectionists loose on us before we deport too many of them.; 2/3/25, 9:00 PM
FullMoon said...: (Don Lemon. 10
Lemon later shared a video on Instagram, saying that the Grammy winner and Censori were not kicked out of the award show and were invited. ); 2/3/25, 9:05 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: It's excellent now that Elon. Musk⅚ has keys to the payment mechanism of thevtreasury', your SS. Numbers and all the vitals AND who got the nuclear codes? Did you see em at Mar a Logo and musk has all his business $$ in tight with China an d oh it's getting good now Hey elected a criminal and why all the hair on fire of course he's gonna hire criminals and do criminal things! Beautiful! Hey you never know get the brown ones out maybe the Germans next and of course any foreigners with funny names!They got the info now lookout baby you may e getting a visit. Best deals ever made with Canada and Mexico and now he says who the he'll made those deals.Too many hamburgers the brain is melting.We are a nation of laws! April fools; 2/3/25, 9:14 PM
Ampersand said...: Yes. He'll take this information to his secret lair, and use it to get rich beyond his wildest dreams. Scary.; 2/3/25, 9:20 PM
Aggie said...: Yeah, good one. Totally not gibberish at all, STINKY. By the way it's 45 & 47 now, and who knows?; 2/3/25, 9:20 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Let's see... oil prices up, US stock market down. Inflation up, employment down. Trump, once again, proves he's as incompetent at government as he was at business.

I'll give it til the first round of US inflation data that includes the impact of this. Doubt it will last a year.; 2/3/25, 9:41 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I don't know anything about economics. But maybe somebody here can answer this for me. Why would... knowledgeable people compare the economy of the Great Depression with the economy of 2025, one hundred years later? Call me crazy, but maybe, just maybe, the fundamentals are a bit different?

Like I said. I really don't know.; 2/3/25, 9:42 PM
Jamie said...: A counter argument here is that Trump's tariffs on Mexico and Canada have been a complete fiasco that have generated a strong backlash from all corners of the US electorate and have served to focus the economic spotlight on the downsides of tariffs, from lost jobs and business to higher prices. They've also shown how interdependent the North American economy is, while also demonstrating that there is such a thing as retaliatory tariffs as well.

A counter to your counter-argument is that the speed with which our neighbors negotiated delays to the tariffs that were going to hurt them a whole lot more than they would hurt us has demonstrated to the American public that we have tools other than our military to use in order to further our interests.

And... retaliatory tariffs? I understand Canada's tariff on dairy coming from outside their country, for instance, has been something like 150-400% (depending on the source - I gather we were and are in the 200% range?) for some time now. So who was retaliating? We or Canada?; 2/3/25, 9:53 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: I mean just the culinary variety today compared to 100 years ago. You don't think if Mexico and Canada aren't around nobody else is going to step in?

And even then. If nobody was smart enough to figure how to make money, Mexican food and derivates are just one of a myriad of choices Americans have in abundance.; 2/3/25, 10:00 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Mexicans and Canadians know what they stand to lose better than our so-called experts.; 2/3/25, 10:02 PM
Narayanan said...: because it is D talking point and pride that FDR saved USA!!; 2/3/25, 10:11 PM
Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Omg. How did I miss the "conflu" pun? It's hilarious.

I'm just hearing about it now on this new Matt Orfalea video .

I'm still out of the loop, all these years later.; 2/3/25, 10:24 PM
Mr. T. said...: Stock market is doing fine, Bidenflation is down.

Might want to try some basic math and economics next time.

Oh that's right!
Your side thinks math is toxic masculinity or toxic colonial heteronormity.

Or something...; 2/3/25, 11:24 PM
Big Mike said...: Six countries — Columbia, Denmark, Panama, China, Mexico, and Canada -/ have made noises about resisting Trump. Four of them capitulated within a day of being shown consequences. China will be next to capitulate, and I think he will get what he wants with regards to Greenland.; 2/4/25, 2:52 AM
wendybar said...: "When you sum up the Democrat party today, it screams narcissism. That is why Democrats do not change, but will always double down on their agenda. Narcissism is almost impossible to change or treat. We all who have known narcissists know this to be true.

Some of the traits of narcissism are widely published and accepted.

Example:
A self-inflated sense of importance -- They refuse to debate issues. This is why they ignored the concerns of the American people and lost the 2024 election. They had their own agenda but the American people did not like it. The Democrat party did not care."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/02/the_democrat_party_is_the_definition_of_narcissism.html; 2/4/25, 3:52 AM
Jaq said...: Opening up the payment system is kind of like when the Russians opened the Soviet archives. Wow. Obama Administration (Fauci) had sent $40 million dollars to Dr "Patient Zero" in Wuhan to whip up COVID in his CRISPR machine. Remember the news stories at the time about how snippets of the AIDS virus had been sewn into it? They don't sound so far fetched anymore.; 2/4/25, 4:15 AM
Jaq said...: I don't remember voting for "cheaper eggs" if the cost was the continued flow of fentanyl and cheap illegal labor (to fight the wage/price spiral —their words) and the shipment of more manufacturing overseas to avoid the economic inefficiency of paying US workers higher wages to do the work.; 2/4/25, 4:19 AM
Jaq said...: Remember., in 2020, how the FDA delayed approval of the COVID vaccine until after the election. They froze the samples that ultimately met the approval criteria and suspended testing until the day after the election. This is the deep state that the Democrats assembled over the years, and the RINOs went along with.; 2/4/25, 4:24 AM
Jaq said...: Scott is trying to reassure himself that being uploaded to a server is the same as having an immortal soul, and he won't miss his body. This is what psychedelic mushrooms can do to an intellect, stretch the boundaries on reality, sure, but maybe too far.; 2/4/25, 4:40 AM
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Breezy said...: Elon looking at Dept of Education now…. This will be very interesting.; 2/4/25, 4:59 AM
Ralph L said...: "in 2020, how the FDA delayed approval of the COVID vaccine"
No, that was Pfizer who delayed checking or announcing their test results.; 2/4/25, 5:01 AM
gadfly said...: "I understand why many Americans are hesitant to accept what’s happening—acknowledging the reality of a coup in progress is frightening. But we must confront the facts before us with clear eyes: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government’s machinery through plainly illegal means. They violate civil service protections established by law, shuttering congressionally mandated agencies without authority, and subjecting career public servants to ideological purges."

"The government machinery—the actual systems and institutions through which public authority flows—is being captured by private interests operating outside constitutional constraints. This is precisely what the Civil Service Reform Act was designed to prevent. These aren’t abstract concerns about democratic norms—these are absolutely concrete violations of specific laws written to disallow this authoritarian capture of government functions." ~Mike Brock at Techdirt; 2/4/25, 5:03 AM
Jaq said...: "the actual systems and institutions through which public authority flows—is being captured by private interests operating outside constitutional constraints"

I don't remember you complaining in 2020 when Mark Zuckerberg's people had read/write access to to Wisconsins official voter rolls, and a mandate to win the state for Biden.; 2/4/25, 5:15 AM
Breezy said...: “I understand why many Americans are hesitant to accept what’s happening—acknowledging the reality of a coup in progress is frightening. But we must confront the facts before us with clear eyes: Donald Trump and Elon Musk are systematically seizing control of the federal government’s machinery through plainly illegal means“

We voted for this to happen. We need it to happen. It’s not a coup and it’s not illegal for the President to review government spending.; 2/4/25, 5:22 AM
Jaq said...: Four four years we had people whose names we did not know making decisions and placing papers under the hand of a senile old man who, at one point said that he had been lied to about the contents of one executive order that he had signed, the one cutting off sales of LNG to Europe, and our deep state propaganda bot assured us that the only decent thing to do was to vote the vegetable in for another four years.

Now he wants us to believe him on this matter.; 2/4/25, 5:32 AM
Mark said...: "
Has the American public ever been given the opportunity to let their elected officials know how they feel about USAID funding?"

Yes, every Congressional election.; 2/4/25, 5:37 AM
Leland said...: Announcement of a plan isn’t action. It is not even like spending $7.5 billion on EV charging stations. It is just an announcement.

The difference is now there is an incentive to get the work done.; 2/4/25, 5:52 AM
Kakistocracy said...: China Hits Back at Trump With New U.S. Penalties ~ WSJ

As with Canada and Mexico -- this will fizzle into nothing. They are meeting in a week -- Trump will then announce he has negotiated an incredible deal with China -- the most beautiful incredible deal anyone has ever seen and tariff threats will be withdrawn. Another victory for Tariff Man.; 2/4/25, 5:52 AM
Iman said...: The weak-minded we will always have with us, but we will not always have Kak the Weakest.; 2/4/25, 6:10 AM
Enigma said...: With the exception of China, all of those countries have military strength equal to a good college football team. Combined. Spending decades in NATO and/or relying on the Pax Americana softened them. Some focused on social benefit programs and paying retirement benefits, plus allowing internal terrorism or the utopian entry of terroristic immigrants (i.e., Denmark and Canada -- but not nearly as bad as Sweden).

China's actions toward Taiwan and its internal Chinese-language politcal rhetoric is not soft or tender. They also went absolutely ballistic against the Uyghurs. China today is not unlike how Japan talked itself into imperialism in the early 20th century following an isolationary period that ended in 1868. They went to war with Russia, China, Korea, and then the US in 1941.; 2/4/25, 6:21 AM
Enigma said...: What convinced me it was a lab leak was that COVID included a DNA sequence in the spike protein that Moderna patented in 2016. This story claims a one-in-three-trillion chance it happened naturally. Then, Moderna made billions with state-mandated "vaccines" with side-effects and that were not actual vaccines. Hang together or hang separately, governments and drug companies said to themselves.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542309/Fresh-lab-leak-fears-study-finds-genetic-code-Covids-spike-protein-linked-Moderna-patent.html; 2/4/25, 6:30 AM
Enigma said...: gadfly: We know you are indeed a gadfly and that you post inflammatory content. Still, did you forget all the evidence that the Obama-Biden clan was doing exactly what this accuses Trump and Musk of doing? Did you forget the Biden family blanket pardons of just 2 weeks ago? Are you suffering from an illness that limits your ability to comprehend language? Do you understand the notion of psychological projection? Denial?; 2/4/25, 6:34 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Trump wants the tariffs. Period. Trump tariffs are fiscal policy and not trade policy. He knows that prices for the American consumer will go up but they will flood the treasury with extra cash, which will give him the means to reduce income taxes. At the end, taxes for the average consumer hidden in increased consumer prices will go up and the taxes for the rich will go down. Historically, income taxes are a relatively new invention and government funded themselves with trade taxes. Tariffs are “beautiful” as a fiscal instrument hiding the tax from the average consumer who ultimately ends up paying the tax by increased consumer prices undeclared at the cash register.; 2/4/25, 6:43 AM
Enigma said...: As the global culture has shifted to smoke-and-mirrors "import" language, I don't think tariffs mean what people think they mean.

- In 2020 Italy had an early outbreak of COVID-19 when many Chinese workers returned to Italy from the Chinese New Year holiday. You see, they import Chinese WORKERS to allow "Made in Italy" badging on luxury clothes and leather goods.

- "Swiss Made" means 60% of the total value of an item comes from Switzerland. So, all those $$$$$$$ Rolex watches can have many parts from China/Taiwan. The fakes are so good that even vendors cannot confidently distinguish between fake and real. See $20K Panerai watches, as popularized by Sylvester Stallone.

- In the US there's a distinction between "Made in USA" and "Built in USA." Various companies have prominent "Built" labels on their products, such as Shinola Watches from Detroit, even as they import complete Chinese parts and merely screw them together in the US.

https://www.watchuseek.com/threads/the-amount-of-fake-or-replica-panerais-worries-me.2153514/

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/ftc-takes-major-action-against-shinola-demands-where-american-is-made-slogan-to-be-dropped-immediately; 2/4/25, 6:43 AM
boatbuilder said...: A rhetorical question, Mark. There's one coming up in 2026. In the meantime, there are things like polls, emails and calls to let said elected officials know how they feel about it.; 2/4/25, 6:59 AM
Jersey Fled said...: When we get to 29% unemployment we can make that comparison. Tell that to your average Democrat or MSNBC commentator.; 2/4/25, 7:17 AM
Leland said...: WTI crude was $78 bbl on Jan 15. It was $77.39 on Jan 20. It closed Monday at $73.16, and down over 2% just today.; 2/4/25, 7:18 AM
boatbuilder said...: You should be VERY WORRIED, DINKY. VERY, VERY WORRIED.; 2/4/25, 7:20 AM
Leland said...: Hahaha, the people that claimed Trump was a threat to Democracy are now claiming his is leading a coup over “The Administrative State”. The existence of an Administrative State that doesn’t have to answer to the voters is the antithesis of Democracy. The coup is being dismantled and power being restored to the American people.; 2/4/25, 7:22 AM
boatbuilder said...: Um, Kak--you also said that Trump knows his tariffs will "fizzle into nothing." About an hour ago on this very thread.

Shrodinger's Trump.; 2/4/25, 7:33 AM
jaydub said...: For some reason Kak thinks the richest man in the world and the billionaire who hired him are as driven by "tax cuts for the rich," which is supposedly more evil than avoiding taxes altogether like the Biden Crime Family. Must be something in the water on Bainbridge Island.; 2/4/25, 7:37 AM
wendybar said...: Governor Murphy is crying now that his televised comments about harboring an illegal alien from Ice went viral, isn't he?? Wahhhhh...."I was misinterpreted"claims the idiot who blatantly said he was going to house one in his garage attic, and "Good luck to the feds to come and get them???" Okay, it's time to put these law breakers behind bars....; 2/4/25, 7:38 AM
Iman said...: Put teh bottle of Jameson down, ya ruddy-faced leprechaun!; 2/4/25, 7:54 AM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Instead of digging for a pony in a pile of manure, Rich is digging for manure in a pile of ponies.; 2/4/25, 8:30 AM
Jaq said...: I don't remember Kak coming out against sanctions on a major producer of oil and gas, and the major producer of fertilizer, which has all of the knock on effects of tariffs. It's all about whether you care about what is trying to be accomplished with them or not, I guess, and these arguments of his are used or ignored as convenient.; 2/4/25, 8:36 AM
Big Mike said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 2/4/25, 8:43 AM
Big Mike said...: @planetgeo, if the Dumbocrats do start something, I hope they start with my neighborhood. I retired to a development full of young, blue collar couples with small kids — and gun safes that are not empty. There are two houses without guns because the husbands are veterans with severe PTSD. We know who they are and we will look out for them.; 2/4/25, 8:46 AM
Rusty said...: Well, he IS a caprophile.; 2/4/25, 9:01 AM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: A dope will do dopey things,,, another wasteful photo op! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California.
Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, “the water is flowing in California,” and adding the water was “heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles.”
There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season.
“They were holding extra water in those reservoirs because of the risk that it would be a dry summer,” Heather Cooley, director of research for California water policy organization the Pacific Institute. “This puts agriculture at risk of insufficient water during the summer months.”
On Friday, Trump posted that 1.6 billion gallons was being released adding that “in 3 days, it will be 5.2 billion gallons.”
About 2.2 billion gallons were released from Friday to Sunday, local water districts said in a statement released Monday. That water was discharged into the dry lakebed of Tulare Lake, according to a letter from Sen. Alex Padilla to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
“Downstream entities used these releases for limited irrigation demand and groundwater recharge,” the statement said.
“This release is extremely concerning,” Cooley said. “It’s providing zero benefit and putting California farmers at risk of water supply constraints in the coming The orange guy is clueless!; 2/4/25, 9:11 AM
Original Mike said...: "China Hits Back at Trump With New U.S. Penalties ~ WSJ"

Good. China is who we have to reshore our industries from.; 2/4/25, 9:45 AM
Drago said...: LLR-democratical Rich has now staked out about 6 different "interpretations" on Trump's actions and he actually seems to believe thats a great strategy.; 2/4/25, 10:16 AM
effinayright said...: Some sinus issues periodically rob me of my sense of smell.

I like to cook, and let me tell you! When you can't taste what you've spent hours preparing, it's a real bummer.

Or take crackers, for example: if you can't taste them you might as well gnaw at a piece particleboard.
Some sinus issues periodically rob me of my sense of smell.

I like to cook, and let me tell you! When you can't taste what you've spent hours preparing, it's a real bummer.

Or take crackers, for example: if you can't taste them you might as well gnaw at a piece particleboard.

Maybe Scott is happy to dine on wood chips and fried sawdust.; 2/4/25, 11:39 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Blinking — so much blinking. 🇺🇸 He’s not blinking when it comes to dismantling our democracy though.; 2/4/25, 1:07 PM
Drago said...: LOL

Keep trying Abacus Boy!; 2/4/25, 3:49 PM