Althouse: Sunrise

14 सितंबर 2025

Sunrise — 6:33.

Talk about whatever you want in the comments.

92 टिप्‍पणियां:

rehajm ने कहा…: While the women here were yesterday pumping up the 50 year old single woman with two kids looking for love, tonite Jennifer Coolidge just handed Jean Smart a best actress Emmy. I’m old enough to remember when old actresses were extinct….the last you’ll hear of it prolly since none of us watch tv anymore…; 14/9/25, 8:20 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: This pics fun…something evocative of the lone pine on Monterey…; 14/9/25, 8:21 pm
Iman ने कहा…: That is a beautiful spot you’ve highlighted with that photo!; 14/9/25, 8:22 pm
rehajm ने कहा…: Hummingbirds still here. I’m running out of sugar…; 14/9/25, 8:26 pm
DINKY DAU 45 ने कहा…: What’s Crushing U.S. Farmers in 2025? Why are they whining now?
1. No Buyers for Crops
China, historically the biggest buyer of U.S. soybeans, has placed zero orders this season.
That’s a gut punch—25% of U.S. soybeans usually go to China. Now? Nada.
2. Commodity Prices in the Basement
Soybeans dropped to ~$10/bushel, below the $11.03 it costs to grow them.
Corn and wheat prices also tanked, leaving farmers selling at a loss.
3. Skyrocketing Input Costs
Fertilizer, fuel, seed, and machinery prices are up across the board.
Labor costs are brutal too—immigration raids have slashed the farm workforce by 400,000 jobs.
4. Weather Wipeouts
Floods in April killed crops and caused $78M in damage.
Delayed planting and nutrient loss from heavy rains wrecked yields.
5. Debt and Bankruptcies
Farm debt is projected to hit $561.8 billion this year.
Chapter 12 bankruptcies nearly doubled in Q1. Some regions are seeing one-third of farms on the brink3.
🧠 Farmer Sentiment: “Hanging On”
Even with record corn yields, farmers say they’re staring at literal piles of unsold crops. One farmer in Arkansas said, “There’s no optimism, no way to look at a profit”3. Another in Kentucky is facing $750K in losses.

🏛️ What’s Being Done?
Farmers are pleading for federal emergency aid. (SOCIALISM?)
Some are restructuring, downsizing, or turning to direct-to-consumer sales.
But many say without a trade resolution or serious help, they’re planting crops they know will lose money. Didnt this happen when trump came in before and we had to bail them out then?; 14/9/25, 8:37 pm
Paddy O ने कहा…: Althouse, I don't know if you saw the comments in the President rhetoric thread. The first quote from Adams posted is fake, made up by AI. Googling that phrase (in quotes) returns 2 links, both from that post of yours. Without quotes it turned up a few more, but those didn't have to do with the quote posted.

I didn't check the other quotes in that list..; 14/9/25, 8:46 pm
DINKY DAU 45 ने कहा…: You think if they didnt hire a knucklehead who has no idea of how to govern a country we wouldnt have to bail out frmers again? What Tariffs Are Doing to U.S. Farmers in 2025
1. China’s Retaliation
Trump imposed sweeping tariffs—including a 145% tariff on Chinese imports.
China hit back with a 125% tariff on U.S. farm goods.
Result? China stopped buying U.S. soybeans entirely this season—first time in 20 years.
2. Export Collapse
U.S. agricultural exports dropped 15% this year.
Soybeans, corn, and wheat are sitting unsold in silos while Brazil and Argentina scoop up China’s business.
3. Input Costs Skyrocketing
Tariffs on steel, machinery, and fertilizers raised costs:
Fertilizer: +$100/ton
Tractors & parts: way up due to steel tariffs
Farmers can’t afford to upgrade gear or repair aging equipment.
4. Trade War Uncertainty
Farmers say they’re planting crops with no buyers and no price guarantees.
One Iowa farmer said: “Our yields, crops and weather are pretty good—but our markets are on a low”.
Tariffs were meant to protect domestic producers, but they’ve triggered a global game of economic dodgeball. Farmers are stuck in the middle—higher costs, fewer buyers, and no clear end in sight. Even those loyal to Trump are pleading for emergency aid just to survive the year. All this slides under the table as trump does"look over here" at invading states with military and guards,talks junk about cultural issues to take away from the inner workings of governing a country. This guy is too senille and too old for this position,send him packing hes grifted enough and crashed everything,, in a short 7 months,Prices arent down,debt is expanding,wars are worse since he is been in office ,he doidnt solve anything except how to grift most $$$ he can. WAKE UP WAKE UP.. BEAUCOUP DINKY DAU 45/47 pretty obvious..to at least 1/2 the country,all the sidebars are just "look over heres"; 14/9/25, 8:46 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: ↑Tariffs → inflation → reduced demand → job losses → further demand reduction … enter the doom loop.

Who knew? On yeah, it is in any Economics 101 textbook.
Turns out that incoherent policies, lurching from one bad decision to another, isn't great for the economy.; 14/9/25, 8:51 pm
Ann Althouse ने कहा…: @Paddy O yes I saw that I’m going add a notation of some kind. I was going to check them at the time to verify, but obviously I didn’t.; 14/9/25, 8:55 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports

"US exports of goods and services rose by $0.8 billion to $280.5 billion in July 2025, the highest in three months despite ongoing trade policy uncertainty. Goods exports increased by $0.2 billion, led by stronger sales of capital goods such as computer accessories and civilian aircraft, as well as trucks, buses, and special-purpose vehicles. These gains were partly offset by declines in exports of industrial supplies and materials, and other goods. Meanwhile, services exports climbed by $0.6 billion, supported by higher receipts from transport, charges for the use of intellectual property, and government goods and services."; 14/9/25, 8:55 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: The West is a civilizational construct describing a web of commonalities across a group of nations. There has been the rise of the West for over 500 years if the advent of the era of long distance overseas trade is the marker. This definition rests on the economics of trade-expanding political economic power as the engine of precedence and prominence. This global expanding power was later supercharged by the rise of industrial capitalism and mass production and distribution of goods.

Since 1989, the countries of the West have all been democratically free and the 40 nations comprising the advanced economy nexus span Europe, the Americas, and the Far East. These countries are politically democratic capitalist economies that are almost all secular and pluralistic to some degree. Their population totals about 20 percent of humanity. That means there is also a lot of "other" out there organized into different nations with other civilizational-style norms and practices. How does one say "decline" when the group has never been overall predominant to begin with?

Economic operation is not civilizational specific but rather has universal applicability wherever and however nations decide to organize their economies. Therefore quasi-democratic India and single-party state capitalist China both use capital, markets, trade, and investment to advance their development. They are gaining relative influence.

What we see is the American Nationalists are pulling back from the leadership of the globe spanning advanced democratic nexus. Culture seems to be the wedge that is separating the parochial American Nationalists (Heartlanders all) from the leadership of the cosmopolitan democratic alliance.

The American Heartlanders are not cosmopolitan at all and reject its precepts and values rather completely. The American Heartlanders see economic strength coming from national autarky rather than from the comparative advantage of an international trading system.; 14/9/25, 9:02 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: Buwaya is referring to a report in July 2025.

What he failed to include from his link:
US Exports Fall to 5-Month Low in August 2025
/Exports of goods and services from the United States decreased 0.5% to $277.3 billion in June 2025, the lowest in five months. Goods exports decreased $1.2 billion to $179.1 billion, due to lower sales of finished metal shapes (down $4.6 billion), nonmonetary gold (down $2.0 billion), and computer accessories (down $1.2 billion). On the other hand, exports rose for excavating machinery (up $1.6 billion), civilian aircraft (up $0.8 billion) and pharmaceutical preparations (up $1.6 billion). Exports of services decreased $0.2 billion to $98.2 billion, including travel (down $0.2 billion)./

Also worth mentioning that thousands of US farmers are getting killed and losing a ton of market share with soy beans and corn.

Trump counted on the farmers for votes but they are losing real money because of the tariffs. Brazil in particular is eating their lunch.

Trump bailed out agriculture to the tune of 28bn during his previous term as a result of his trade policies.

Expect more of the same...; 14/9/25, 9:11 pm
Achilles ने कहा…: It is fun to watch democrats suddenly get upset when billionaires are forced to pay more taxes.; 14/9/25, 9:12 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: China is annoying everyone else (and I mean beyond "The West") by playing rough in attempting to hog the business of exports. Part of playing rough is trying tomprevent flight of industry to, say, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines.
The reason why can be seen in Chinas recent FDI
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/BX.KLT.DINV.CD.WD?locations=CN
This Foreign Direct Investment was principally foreigners setting up manufacturing there. No longer. Not easy to travk is capital flight from China, which is locals declining to invest in their own country.; 14/9/25, 9:15 pm
buwaya ने कहा…: Chinese Capital Flows
Another reason Xi is cranky.
This is only part of the story of capital flight.
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/capital-flows; 14/9/25, 9:32 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: Looks like an order has gone out to the “influencers” to post certain talking points. Hey, we all gotta eat.; 14/9/25, 9:40 pm
john mosby ने कहा…: Another story that has been pushed to the back burner by the Kirk (z''l) assassination: the Naval Academy lockdown and shooting on Thursday.

Apparently an expelled midshipman SWATted the Academy with a threat describing someone dressed as a cop going door to door in Bancroft Hall, the gigantic dorm for all 4,000-some midshipmen.

The Academy put out a lockdown order and the information about a police impersonator going door to door in Bancroft Hall.

The real police simultaneously reacted....by going door to door in Bancroft Hall.

A midshipman, seeing someone matching the description of the threat, reacted by attacking a real cop with his parade rifle - an inert but still deadly 10-pound wood and steel club. The real cop defended himself by shooting the mid with his real gun. Both cop and mid survived.

I hope neither one is in any trouble. This Administration seems like it backs up its cops, and "big wood club = lethal threat" is standard law enforcement doctrine and self-defense law. The Admin also backs up its military members - Trump pardoned Chief Gallagher for slitting a prisoner's throat, so I would think no one in the chain of command is going to prosecute a 20-year-old for making a decision based on the hazy information that same chain of command provided. But stranger things have happened.

Now if the kid disobeyed the lockdown order by going on his own hunt for the active shooter, that might be a reason for some discipline. Even then, there's a tradition that violating orders in a way that exposes you to danger, in an attempt to accomplish the actual mission, isn't heavily punished - especially when, as here, the act was self-punishing.

You never know how Academy people are going to enforce the rules. Some are Pattons, some are Bradleys (sorry, I don't know enough naval history to come up with a Naval analogy). CC, JSM; 14/9/25, 9:42 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: I don’t think that China will sell out Russia in the hope that the crocodile will eat them last, even if it causes them some economic pain. Let’s talk about economic conditions in Europe, or is that too painful a subject?; 14/9/25, 9:44 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: Trump just set impossible conditions for the Europeans in order to crank up sanctions. What are these “impossible conditions”? He said, “you first.”

It’s plain that the Europeans are not willing to pay the price to actually win, they just want to keep the war going, probably for reasons having to do with corruption.; 14/9/25, 9:50 pm
Paddy O ने कहा…: " I was going to check them at the time to verify, but obviously I didn’t."

I hope you don't mind if I use this as an example. I'm attending some discussions on AI in higher ed and church use (separately but similar network). It didn't cross my mind to check them out, but Paul Zrimsek's ability to recognize real from fake Adams shows how knowledge is so helpful and AI is useful but not trustworthy.

I'm valuing how you are making use of AI as I sort out my thoughts, applying it in different ways and showing the strengths and weaknesses has been really useful.; 14/9/25, 9:53 pm
Jaq ने कहा…: AI can only talk about what real humans have already said. If you as AI about, for example, an episode of Seinfeld, it will not have watched the episode, and instead will simply regurgitate what people have written about that episode. Same if you ask it about a famous novel. It’s an illusion. Think of it like this, a scientist walks into a magic show and sees the magician “levitate” his assistant, and he thinks that he now has the basis of an anti-gravity device.; 14/9/25, 10:01 pm
effinayright ने कहा…: Jaq said:

"If you as AI about, for example, an episode of Seinfeld, it will not have watched the episode, and instead will simply regurgitate what people have written about that episode"
*************
It depends what you ask. Just today I asked AI to find a particular "Simpsons" episode involving Marge's sister Selma and the smarmy Troy McClure.

It did. No commentary from others.

I wanted to get the plot's specifics so I could report a couple of lines from it.

Selma discovers Troy married her only to have a "marriage" that might help his flagging career. He asks her to maintain the pretense.

She objects, saying, "I don't think I could live a lie."

Troy replies, "It's REMARKABLY EASY"!!; 14/9/25, 10:23 pm
Eva Marie ने कहा…: There was a bomb found attached to a FOX 13 news vehicle in Salt Lake City. The perps have been arrested.
Someone commented on X:
“Utah being the hotbed center for extremism was not on my September bingo card.”; 14/9/25, 10:33 pm
gadfly ने कहा…: Weird Stephen Miller, Trump's White House Chief of Staff kas been accused of playing with porcelain dolls.

When he worked as a communications aide in the office of Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions during the Obama years, he was so widely disliked by his colleagues on Capitol Hill that Republican staff in other offices would spread malicious rumors about Miller, such as that he liked to play with porcelain dolls.

And nothing really ever changes, since White House staffers continue to hate his guts.; 14/9/25, 10:48 pm
Quaestor ने कहा…: "...sorry, I don't know enough naval history to come up with a Naval analogy."

Here's one: Admiral Wm. F. Halsey, Jr.

On 25 October 1944, Halsey acted with violent impetuosity when he abandoned his position blocking the San Bernardino Strait to attack Jisaburō Ozawa's Northern Force off Cape Engaño. Halsey lunged with his entire command, including 10 carriers and six modern fast battleships armed with nine 16-inch guns apiece. Ozawa's force was a hollow shell of virtually helpless carriers with barely a hundred planes between them, flown by barely trained pilots facing nearly a thousand warplanes flown by razor-sharp professionals -- Ozawa was merely bait, a decoy running interference for Admiral Takeo Kuita's task force of battleships, cruisers, and destroyers.

Halsey fell like a ton of bricks for Ozawa's deception, much like that midshipman and his parade rifle. Halsey's carriers decimated Ozawa's force, sinking four IJN carriers, including the last survivor of Nagumo's First Air Fleet, and damaging many more, entirely by carrier airpower, before Ozawa's remnant limped away into a storm front.

Halsey's battle line never got within range. Meanwhile Kurta tangled with Task Unit 77.4.3 ("Taffy 3"), primarily an anti-submarine guard force consisting of a handful of escort carriers and destroyers, and then retreated. If you want to feel enormous pride in being American rather than the shame of being fellow citizens with the likes of bloodstained monsters such as Tyler Robinson, Kak, and Inga, read about the exploits of USS Johnston and USS Samuel B. Roberts.; 14/9/25, 10:58 pm
Dr Weevil ने कहा…: Accusations? Anyone can make accusations about anyone. I could make up a dozen accusations against gadfly that are far nastier than playing with porcelain dolls, and chances are more than one of them would be true. But why bother? What we see him doing here is nasty enough.; 14/9/25, 11:18 pm
TickTock1948 ने कहा…: Jaq, Its hard to keep up with AI as the pace of improvement is so rapid. But the more recent and powerful LLMs can now do much, much more than than talk about what other humans have said. They pattern match and can match obscure patterns in ways not done before. Their chains of thought, testing of conclusions, and other techniques are now well beyond simple statistical predictions of the next token/word. I am no AI researcher, but I do follow developments closely and use the advanced models on an almost daily basis. I wouldn't discount what is occurring based on using ChatGPT 4 on some simple requests and seeing low quality responses and hallucinations. I think you, and many others would be surprised. Correction. Will be surprised. If you have the inclination and are willing to spend a few $$, ask ChatGPT 5 pro a sophisticated question, using a fair amount of context in a domain you know something about.; 14/9/25, 11:33 pm
Lem Vibe Bandit ने कहा…: Is the fog still there? —,Google Maps; 15/9/25, 1:10 am
rehajm ने कहा…: …current GDPNow is 3.1 percent for real growth in Q3. Amazingly, people consensus forecast is just over one percent. They won’t both be correct or theu could both be very wrong but it sounds like a bunch of Kaks are part of the consensus forecast…; 15/9/25, 2:16 am
Ralph L ने कहा…: I asked Grok for the title of a Saki short story with a very specific plot, and it gave me 4 wrong answer in a row. Someone entered only a few of his more famous stories, and it just pretended the plot fit.; 15/9/25, 4:00 am
Humperdink ने कहा…: There’s a reason why the A in AI stands for artificial.

When I see a post that starts with “I asked AI” I generally skip it.; 15/9/25, 5:07 am
Jim at ने कहा…: Weird Stephen Miller, Trump's White House Chief of Staff kas been accused of playing with porcelain dolls.

Susie Wiles is Trump's White House Chief of Staff ... you stupid fuck.; 15/9/25, 5:25 am
Jaq ने कहा…: I use the latest version of Chat daily, it’s improving, but I have discussed many specific works with it, and you soon come to recognize its limitations, but I would not use it every day if I didn’t find it very useful.

One thing that I noticed was that you could ask it to read a public domain book to answer specific questions, which is actually amazing, but it is not the same thing as if it independently analyzed it.; 15/9/25, 5:28 am
Humperdink ने कहा…: Guess who won an Emmy last night? None other than Stephen Colbert (pronounced Ko Bare).; 15/9/25, 5:35 am
rehajm ने कहा…: Guess who won an Emmy last night? None other than Stephen Colbert

quel suprise- for best political commentary?; 15/9/25, 5:40 am
rehajm ने कहा…: I mean they always pass out the awards to try and legitimize the propaganda and the people who propagate it. Did those places what were supposedly duped return their Pulitzers?; 15/9/25, 5:42 am
Jim at ने कहा…: I apologize for the name-calling, but Gadfly's takes are so far off the mark ... it's easy to think he's a parody.

He's obviously not.

What would you call him?; 15/9/25, 5:43 am
Political Junkie ने कहा…: Jim at 543 - Call him gagonfly; 15/9/25, 5:48 am
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said: “For every John Deere we have companies who are telling us: ‘The tariffs have helped our business, we’re increasing Capex and we’re going to increase employment’.”

It should be noted that tariffs don't necessarily affect overall employment. But they do have the effect of attracting resources from the efficient, competitive sectors to less efficient, less competitive sectors (needing protection). As such, while overall employment may remain the same, economic output and incomes are reduced as the economy becomes less efficient. It's quite insidious, and Bessent knows better. He is just trying to please the boss.; 15/9/25, 5:51 am
Marcus Bressler ने कहा…: I have to laugh at the constant attempts by the lefties here to post doom and gloom stories, accusations, and criticisms about our finest president. I don't take them seriously. The Left has ZERO credibility.; 15/9/25, 6:00 am
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: The Trump administration believes:

tariffs → increased prices on imported goods → larger demand for domestic production of similar goods → job gains → wage increases → spending power stabilization

I don't think this has ever been done though.

Some presidents go through a state of believing that the laws of basic economics are being rewritten by them every 10 or 12 years. And then the bubble bursts. Dot com era. 2008 crash. Savings and loan debacle. And now we have the magical thinking around tariffs and re-shoring of inefficient industries.; 15/9/25, 6:01 am
Humperdink ने कहा…: Think the Commie lefties are sick? It was reported on many news sites, including the Toronto Star, that a teacher (later described as a staff member) showed the Charlie Kirk assassination video to a 5/6 grade class.

I watched that video. It was horrifying. I cannot get it out of my mind. What impact will it have on these young people?; 15/9/25, 6:01 am
Jaq ने कहा…: Is John Deere choking on hiring American workers? You mean that the ceo is not going to be able to buy his granddaughter a pony by shipping jobs overseas?; 15/9/25, 6:05 am
Dave Begley ने कहा…: I saw that Toronto story. I think the kids had to watch it repeatedly.

I hope the kids shut their eyes.

That teacher should be arrested. There has to be a crime for that.; 15/9/25, 6:08 am
Humperdink ने कहा…: Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law professor emeritus, has posted that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was Ultra-MAGA. Prior to his retirement, Tribe molded young skulls full of mush. Comforting isn’t it?; 15/9/25, 6:09 am
Humperdink ने कहा…: Kaks on tariffs this morning. Must have run out of gas on Epstein.; 15/9/25, 6:12 am
Scott Patton ने कहा…: Got a Pixel 10 Pro Friday to replace my aging Samsung S9+. Every day I'm getting closer to returning it and eating the $50 restocking fee and getting a Samsung. two missing features.. No configurable contact group ringtone. No notification indicator LED . Can't tell I have a missed call from across the room. What are they thinking? Apparently there are apps to somehow replace the the feature.
The question is, how many good features have Samsung decided to remove over the last 6 years.; 15/9/25, 6:25 am
The Vault Dweller ने कहा…: That Toronto story is absolutely horrendous behavior. Surely the teacher will be fired and drummed out of the profession completely.; 15/9/25, 6:30 am
gadfly ने कहा…: "Bella Ciao has become the anthem of the anti-fascist and anti-Nazi resistance, a song that we sing every April 25, celebrating the liberation from fascism and Nazism," he said. "And I'm not sure that we're going to be able to sing that song again in the same way with this shadow hanging over us." ~Prof. Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University; 15/9/25, 6:47 am
Leland ने कहा…: Maybe the real anti-fascist should have policed the definition of fascism a bit more, so that people who claimed solidarity to their cause wouldn’t go off killing people who really were not fascist at all?; 15/9/25, 6:54 am
Lawnerd ने कहा…: @Jim- Gadfly = Troll. Simple as.; 15/9/25, 6:55 am
lonejustice ने कहा…: More than 30 states have already banned TikTok from state-issued devices amid national security and privacy concerns about the Chinese Communist Party's use of the app to monitor and collect information. Congress also banned the download or use of the app through any federally issued device or network in December 2022 because of monitoring done by the CCP.

Meanwhile, Trump plans to extend the deadline for the 4th time for TikTok to be sold to an American company or be banned. Trump, despite security issues, regularly uses TikTok.; 15/9/25, 6:57 am
Leland ने कहा…: What would you call him?

Botfly, because all he does is post news clips like some Congressional staffer than flies away rather than engage in debate, primarily because his comments are hollow, if even accurate, and thus indefensible. Most of the time, he is just plain ignorant of the topic.; 15/9/25, 6:57 am
wendybar ने कहा…: adfly said...
"Bella Ciao has become the anthem of the anti-fascist and anti-Nazi resistance, a song that we sing every April 25, celebrating the liberation from fascism and Nazism," he said. "And I'm not sure that we're going to be able to sing that song again in the same way with this shadow hanging over us." ~Prof. Stanislao Pugliese, Hofstra University

9/15/25, 6:47 AM
And NYU protesting Antifa's were singing it at the top of their lungs at the vigil for Charlie Kirk because they are okay with assassinating people you disagree with. Little antifas in America are terrorists. They all need to be rounded up https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1967545014059249747; 15/9/25, 7:03 am
BUMBLE BEE ने कहा…: Doesn't matter what the trolls type here, Chorus pays.
Just sayin.; 15/9/25, 7:03 am
BUMBLE BEE ने कहा…: They dilute the value of the blog. It's just a job they do.; 15/9/25, 7:05 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Gadfly, we’re not allowed to raise our hand because lefties say it’s the Nazi salute, we’re not allowed to signal “ok” because lefties have invented some sort of sinister meaning regarding it and you are complaining about a song whose words an assassin etched on a bullet that was aimed at a young father in front of his wife and children? You think that song should be sung to protest people mourning the death of Charlie Kirk?
You’re crying that lefties should show some tiny bit of human decency? Here’s an idea. Act as if you were a decent person. Maybe you’ll become one.; 15/9/25, 7:38 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: On a happier note: Facebook has this “reels” feature. Kind of like an imitation TikTok. So many wonderful videos from the London march; 15/9/25, 7:49 am
Achilles ने कहा…: Kakistocracy said...
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent said: “For every John Deere we have companies who are telling us: ‘The tariffs have helped our business, we’re increasing Capex and we’re going to increase employment’.”

It should be noted that tariffs don't necessarily affect overall employment. But they do have the effect of attracting resources from the efficient, competitive sectors to less efficient, less competitive sectors (needing protection).

When Americans pay taxes they are paying their fair share.

When giant multinational corporations pay taxes it is inefficient.

Chuck only cares about the giant corporation profits.; 15/9/25, 7:54 am
boatbuilder ने कहा…: 5. Debt and Bankruptcies
Farm debt is projected to hit $561.8 billion this year.
Chapter 12 bankruptcies nearly doubled in Q1. Some regions are seeing one-third of farms on the brink3.

Q1. As in The First Quarter of 2025. Trump became President on January 21, 2025. Perhaps tariffs aren't the only issue. What happened leading up to Q1? Who was President for the 4 years before Q1?; 15/9/25, 7:55 am
Peachy ने कहा…: The Democratic Party is the party of assassination; 15/9/25, 7:59 am
Achilles ने कहा…: Democrat mayors and other assorted shitheads are ordering flags to full staff today.

I think this is going to work out really well.

These people aren't just vicious insects. They are also very stupid.; 15/9/25, 8:02 am
mongo ने कहा…: Someone created a website to doxx the people who celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. It's called charlies murderers or charlie's murderers, something like that. I fed both spellings into my browser and in both cases Microsoft said "hmm...can't reach this page." Are they censoring it?; 15/9/25, 8:04 am
Peachy ने कहा…: "They never hated him.
They hated the version of him
the algorithm fed them.

They didn’t research.
They regurgitated.
They didn’t question.
They performed.

The same voices who scream for tolerance
celebrated a man’s death
because their feed told them he was the villain.

They don’t debate.
They download.
And when the truth resurfaces,
they won’t apologize.
They’ll glitch.

Because admitting the lie
means admitting they were never awake.

This isn’t political.
It’s spiritual.
You either repent for what the spell made you do
or you reload the next target."; 15/9/25, 8:08 am
Peachy ने कहा…: gadfly buys his leftist algorithm. Keep gadfly away from guns.; 15/9/25, 8:10 am
The Vault Dweller ने कहा…: @Achilles This is President's Trump directive regarding flags being flown at half staff to honor Kirk.

"I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, September 14, 2025. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations."

If Democrats are raising them to full staff today they are matching the length of time directed by President Trump.; 15/9/25, 8:11 am
Aggie ने कहा…: @mongo, it's call https://www.charliesmurderers.com/. It's not coming up on Firefox right now, I'm getting a 'Server Not Found' error message - so the site might have been pulled, because, you know, we can't be embarrassing the people that endorse the idea of political assassination, it might affect their children. I haven't tried any other browsers, and can't tell if it's being blocked, if it's taken down, if it's just being hammered by a Denial-of-Service attack, or just being overloaded by curious people or outraged ones wanting to add to the database. But there is such a site. You might try Tor. There were over 30,000 names when I looked a couple of days ago.; 15/9/25, 8:13 am
Humperdink ने कहा…: The Babylon Bee has a suggestion for the Commie left. It may be helpful to stop using the words an assassin writes on his bullets.; 15/9/25, 8:15 am
Rusty ने कहा…: Getting lectured by two of the most economically stupid people on this site. Priceless. At least Mark has the decency to not to show up when he's wrong. Rich. Tesla. 165.00 dollars a share over what I paid. All on your recommendation to sell Tesla because it was tanking.
You have got to be the worlds biggest idiot.; 15/9/25, 8:32 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: @mongo- can’t get it using Safari; 15/9/25, 8:36 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: charliesmurderers.com is officially dead (for now). domain no longer resolves and i just got confirmation that their @SimpleLogin email account has been suspended; 15/9/25, 8:38 am
Peachy ने कहा…: Don't mean to be crude but -
His bullet casings were covering leftist memes.

Now the desperate left are now using grandma. Grandma Robinson never knew that her grandson was a radicalized lie-pimped Reddit leftist or that he was getting sucked-off by a furry all day.; 15/9/25, 8:39 am
Rusty ने कहा…: Lovely photo. I went to flicker and looked closely for poison ivy. I didn't see any. To my wife any plant with three leaves is poison ivy.; 15/9/25, 8:40 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: इस टिप्पणी को लेखक द्वारा हटा दिया गया है.; 15/9/25, 8:40 am
Aggie ने कहा…: @Eva Marie, I wonder. It certainly looks similar, but it's not allowing access to any of the data - it's just wanting you to provide your email address in case 'Big Data' starts doing bad things to them. I wonder if this could be a crafted counter-attack to phish people's information.; 15/9/25, 8:46 am
Jersey Fled ने कहा…: Just had an interesting discussion about political violence with Grok. Grok claimed that right wing groups are responsible for more violent events than left group groups.

I challenged Grok to give me two violent attacks by right wing attackers or those associated with right wing causes against Democrat officials in the last 10 years. Grok cited the Gabby Gifford shooting and the attack on Paul Pelosi.

I replied that neither were tied conclusively the right wing groups or people identified as being associated with them. Grok agreed.

Now I asked Grok to do the same for left wing groups or people associated with left wing ideology against Republicans. He came back with one attack: the murder of Charley Kirk.

He forgot the two assassination attacks against President Trump.

Grok acknowledged the omission.

That’s a pretty big miss. I’ve noted several similar “omissions” over the last month or so.

I’m done with Grok.; 15/9/25, 9:01 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: Aggie you might be right.; 15/9/25, 9:02 am
Eva Marie ने कहा…: I deleted the comment with the supposed new name. Thank you Aggie.; 15/9/25, 9:05 am
The Vault Dweller ने कहा…: "I’m done with Grok."

I get this reaction but it is the wrong position to take. Certainly don't trust the results of Grok or any AI, but you educating Grok helps make it better down the road. Elon has said he is prioritizing making Grok a Truth Seeking AI regardless of political correct or incorrect takes. So your efforts could likely bear fruit. And while it is smart to not implicitly trust Grok or any AI, many people will so your corrective efforts can lead those people to actual facts and truth. For what it is worth I think the typical Lefty response to AI or any source of information, (I'm looking at you Wikipedia) is to try and control it and shape it to give information that they want other people to believe regardless of it's ultimate veracity if they think that information will make society better.; 15/9/25, 9:18 am
Iman ने कहा…: Buzz on back to your home turd, ‘fly.; 15/9/25, 9:38 am
Candide ने कहा…: This photo is one of the best; 15/9/25, 11:39 am
FullMoon ने कहा…: "Humperdink said...
Laurence Tribe, Harvard Law professor emeritus, has posted that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was Ultra-MAGA."

More distressing is Tribe may actually belive it.

Bill Maher interviewed by Megan Kelly couple of months ago actually said police were killed on Jan 6, and he believed it.
Was surprised, but not concerned, when Kelly convinced him otherwise.

After all that time, supposedly well informed intelligent famous talk show host was repeating leftist lie.; 15/9/25, 11:44 am
effinayright ने कहा…: Humperdink said...
There’s a reason why the A in AI stands for artificial.

When I see a post that starts with “I asked AI” I generally skip it.
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Do you do the same when Althouse says, "I asked Grok?; 15/9/25, 12:22 pm
effinayright ने कहा…: mongo said...
Someone created a website to doxx the people who celebrated Charlie Kirk's death. It's called charlies murderers or charlie's murderers, something like that. I fed both spellings into my browser and in both cases Microsoft said "hmm...can't reach this page." Are they censoring it?
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Just yesterday Former Law Clark bragged that he and others were doxxing such folk, with the stated intent to deprive them of employment for the rest of their lives.

Not sure, but that might be the reason Meade banned him.

This website sounds like something FLC would set up. He's crazed with hatred, being every bit as nuts as the far left.; 15/9/25, 12:29 pm
DINKY DAU 45 ने कहा…: Because inflation and faltering economy COLA is now being estimated to be 2.8% with a caveat of Medicare part B going up $21.00 to $206.00 from $185.00. I knew early that trumps fumbling around would bring a bigger COLA then the 2.5 originally projected but the raise in PART B makes it a wash pretty much. If you are the unfortunates that only have SS to live on you'll take a beating. Wait until the BIG BEAUTIFUL bill raises health premiums beyond reach for bulk of people, you wondering why people are shooting each other. Tell your kids ,grand and great grandkids to pay attention, "the times they are a changin" Hang on Sloopy!; 15/9/25, 12:43 pm
Kakistocracy ने कहा…: “Kaks on tariffs this morning. Must have run out of gas on Epstein.”

“The DOJ should release all the Epstein files” ~ Charlie Kirk

Let’s all help Charlie’s wish come true. It’s what he would have wanted.; 15/9/25, 12:47 pm
Humperdink ने कहा…: Hump said:When I see a post that starts with “I asked AI” I generally skip it.
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Effin asked: “Do you do the same when Althouse says, "I asked Grok?”

No, I give her a bit more latitude.; 15/9/25, 1:28 pm
Rusty ने कहा…: DD
The cost of Medicare has nothing to do with inflation DD. The cost of Medicare goes up because the target cohort keeps getting older and not dying. It goes up every year. And no. It's not free I pay for it. Plus a supplement.

"For 2025, the standard Medicare Part B monthly premium is $185.00, an increase of $10.30 from 2024. You may pay more than this amount depending on your income, with premiums adjusted based on your income from two years prior. The annual Part B deductible for 2025 is $257, which is a $17 increase from 2024. " Per the Medicare website

You and dumbass shouldn't post about this stuff because you don't know anything.; 15/9/25, 1:50 pm
narciso ने कहा…: the demons who denounced kirk, revealed themselves, its called consequence culture,; 15/9/25, 3:19 pm
narciso ने कहा…: you can be rest assured they will get everything wrong,; 15/9/25, 3:37 pm
Jersey Fled ने कहा…: “ Certainly don't trust the results of Grok or any AI, but you educating Grok helps make it better down the road.”

I don’t. In fact I find it amusing to catch Grok in errors of the type I mentioned.

Grok has given me the same story that responding as I do improves future results. But frankly I think Grok is getting less reliable, not more.; 15/9/25, 4:35 pm
Marcus Bressler ने कहा…: I stand with Achilles. He's not alone. Perhaps because I am 70 years old, unmarried and not with any minor children depending upon me, I have no problem fighting Leftists and Liberals. You stand in front of my vehicle on my Florida highway in some form of protest, you better get out of the way. If you get in my face and I feel for my personal safety, I have NO hesitation to use deadly force. I don't play by the rules the Left tries to set for me.; 15/9/25, 9:16 pm

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