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March 26, 2026
Fires in the Flint Hills of Kansas and Oklahoma polluted the Madison, Wisconsin sunrise.
It was quite lovely:
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https://x.com/i/status/2036901377935294950
Spectacular photos!
Donald Trump extends Iran talks deadline after sell-off on Wall Street ~ FT
The stock, bond and crude oil markets spooked him. That's all there is to it.
IMO, the imminent nature of the potential attack weighed on the market. So Trump tries to take off the immediate market pressure while the military preps the operation. Then he can claim the Iranians somehow "violated" the fake negotiations as a pretext to go in before the new deadline. The problem, of course, is he's like the boy who cried wolf, and the market isn't taking him at face value any more.
A 61 year old woman was found murdered in a parking ramp in Madison earlier this week.She was murdered by a co-worker because of her support of Donald Trump. We all knew political violence would rear its ugly head in Madison at some point.
Little Excursion: Trumpco has been running a number of these stock manipulation scams that are the opposite of a pump and dump. Melania needs new shoes.
https://youtu.be/jKkpCnZs_Xc?si=VH-osvMM4HxA3PZf
Good discussion about the Iran War and the limits of air power with General McCrystal.
Gorgeous - especially #2 & 3!
Trump can stay irrational longer than Americans can stay solvent.
Outstanding pics!!!
Wall Street Apes
@WallStreetApes
HOLY CR*P 🚨 Minnesota Rep Krista Knudsen says they just found out the state TURNED OFF tracking for money being sent overseas.
They turned it on for 2 weeks. Saw all the money leaving, and Democrats quickly SHUT OFF TRACKING to allow it to keep happening.
READ THAT AGAIN
“Today in the fraud committee, the Department of Human Services testified that they haven't been tracking the IP addresses of money that's being literally flown out of our state and where it's going.
They did turn on that reporting for 2 weeks, and they found that yes, a lot of those IP addresses were tied to overseas computers, and then they quickly shut it off after just 2 weeks of seeing where this money is actually going”
“Every time we turn around, it's just more and more fraud scandals in our state”
Howard writes: "Trumpco has been running a number of these stock manipulation scams that are the opposite of a pump and dump."
Turns out energy markets are a bit harder to master than insider trading.
I was corrected yesterday- sort of, but not really. There's attention to detail- and attention to detail, and they're not the same thing. As pointed out to me,, you can take below 83 IQ people and set them to do a simple repetitive task, over and over again, hour after hour, and they'll happily continue to do so, especially if you're paying them. In today's world you'll only hire them to do that if it's cheaper then automating the task... And normal intelligence people if they see any other option will quit within a week. And if they do take on the job will make many more errors. But it definitely is attention to detail. I recall a similar task that used to be trained for- I don't know if it still is anywhere- boiler checkman. If the automatic level control valve on a boiler failed- someone would be assigned to man a valve and stare at the boiler sightglass. Turning it one way of the level went up, the other way if it went down. It was both physically and mentally exhausting. So much so that the maximum amount of time assigned to the task was 2 hours- and that time limit was emphasized in both supervisor and worker training.
That's a totally different kind of attention to detail then knowing if the specs say use a silicon O-ring, not Viton or the buna-N in the average O-ring kit- it means- USE A SILICON O-RING. There's a reason it was specified.
Had a flexible gear type coupling fail once. I was assigned to investigate and repair. There were two basic types of grease used on most everything- red or brown. (there's also blue grease for a few things) Took the cover off, and all the gear teeth were floating around in the brown grease. The maintenance instructions specified the red grease. (by mil-spec, not red or brown). There were repercussions about that. Not paying attention to detail caused what could have been a major problem- if the failure occurred a few weeks later.
So even if you have people who should know better, sometimes they screw up. If you try to fill the jobs with people who don't know better, well, bad things happen more often. Attention to detail would have prevented that failure. If someone screws up that kind of thing once, it hopefully becomes an object lesson. A second time means they need to be removed from their job.
Over 500,000 acres of Nebraska burned.
Very good discussion on Iran and Israel.
Best of all no one called anyone an anti Semite, anti American, sellout, loser, etc.
pro-war pro-Israel Coleman Hughes
anti-war anti-Israel Glen Greenwald
consensus in the comments is (what I read of them) that Greenwald smoked Hughes. Not sure that’s correct. It’s a 2 hour discussion which you can speed up if you want.
https://youtu.be/AEvJQoowZUI?si=OAf3oHz8Psmhcpw0
These are amazing. Number three is beautiful.
It's wild to me that we can't get DHS funded during a time of conflict with a terrorist country. If we get a major terror incident, all hell is going to break loose. And given the fact that we had 4 years of basically unfettered immigration, I fear that possibility is much more likely. Hope I'm wrong!
The credentialed class is really down on Markwayne Mullin. And beginning to get under the skin of the non-credentialed class, especially the successful members of that class.
My grandfather and his 3 brothers who survived to adulthood all tan away from home at age 16. Apparently great-grandfather wasn't a really nice guy... All went to sea- something that could be done by 16 year olds at the time. By the time the WWI expansion of the USN was happening they were all Chief or first engineers aboard merchant vessels. All 4 were drafted AND commissioned as Navy officers and assigned as Chief Engineers aboard Navy ships. Without even a HS diploma. As were many others from the merchant marine to fill officer roles in both deck and engineering departments alongside USNA grads and other college graduates. Weapons department, OTOH, was staffed by college grads who went through a training pipeline to get there.
And it's pointed out- AOC graduated with honors! And what has she accomplished? Well, nothing besides being elected to office. That degree with honors apparently qualified her to be a bartender and nothing more. Markwayne Mullin took over a small company, turned it into a much larger company, employed people, and had real accomplishments. Actually, sort of similar to Trump who did have a bachelors degree in Economics and took a big company and made it even bigger. And the Trump organization which he heads consists of over 500 companies, and along the way he's had a whopping total of 4 Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
There is no one else in the Congress or the Senate with either Markwayne's or Donald's record of business world success. There are a few high ranking military officers- who achieved success in navigating a bureaucracy, which is not even close to the same thing.
A different kind of success is those who survived medical training to become physicians. 20 of them in congress and the senate altogether, 14 D, 6 R. Surprised, aren't you? The 4 in the Senate are all R. https://patientsactionnetwork.com/physicians-119th-congress
A couple of videos on the quadruple amputee arrested for murder.
This is a short documentary on Dayton Webber’s life:
https://youtu.be/lOz6saFH7vw?
si=9MBT44TKQswutl3F
Here is Dayton Webber shooting a gun:
https://youtube.com/shorts/0QmPjTkX70Q?si=_sLXFLlZ1bnfU1MV
I read Ann's post on "swinging d's...." and what I noticed was the NY Times headline framed it as a "Threat to Democracy." I have seen that this leftist phrase is used frequently when it is their only argument left when they disagree. Thus, it should be a new tag in her blog.
So I do a round-trip to Seattle this morning to do some errands and stock up on Good Husband Points. Just in case they might be needed at a later date.
As I’m driving the USB connector in the car’s dash bites the dust, so I am half-listening to Nostalgia Radio, DJ’ed by Martha Quinn. Forty years later she is still quite perky, it seems.
Somewhere after an Ace of Base song comes a public-health ad from the Washington State Government: Washington State Government wants you to be healthy. And for you Nostalgia Radio Martha Quinn fans to be healthy, that means they want to give you some tips for using fentanyl.
Tip One: try not to be alone when taking your fentanyl. Because when you OD there is then someone there who could call for help, before emptying your pockets and leaving you unconscious by the dumpster behind the Panda Express.
Tip Two: make sure you leave access for people to get to you in case you need assistance. So I guess don’t blockade yourself with 50-gallon barrels of used cooking-oil behind that Panda Express dumpster.
Tip Three: and this is a direct quote: “go low and slow.”
I heard the ad THREE times in my back-and-forth from Seattle.
So it’s gonna be OK, you Nostalgia Radio Martha Quinn fans — try out some fentanyl: Washington State has your back.
I'm now patiently waiting on the Washington State Government Public Health Radio Announcements on how to be a better pimp.
I mean: I know the basics, but...
I am Laslo.
Florida Derby Saturday Grade 1 1 1/8 race and the Derby has been a high predictor of winning runners for 1st Saturday in May. If I can get minimum 3-1 on NEARLY it will be $250 to Win and top and bottom with CHIEF WALLABEE (Mott runner) and COMMANDMENT recent Fountain of Youth winner Grade 11 race in back and forth $40 exacta. It is going to be hard to get good price with these 3 beautiful runners. If NEARLY gets bet below 3-1 I will shift win bet to COMMANDMENT akthough I'll keep dopingthe form and watching the race reruns to see what I see.(last race was hard and back in a month?) Good top shelf races coming up now Grade 1's with th top point winners and runners PALADIN(DERBY favorite willl train up to race and not competititons before so have to go back and rewatch his previous efforts. Open the gates... Louisianna couldnt bet as odds dropped to low and my flyer gave in at top of the stretch for $60 win bet as a flyer.
a public-health ad from the Washington State Government: Washington State Government wants you to be healthy. And for you Nostalgia Radio Martha Quinn fans to be healthy, that means they want to give you some tips for using fentanyl.
My blood pressure jumps 40 points every time I hear that ad and know I'm paying for it.
The Washington state Department of Health. Shutting down the entire, fucking state for two years because of Covid but making sure our drug addicts have all the tools they need to continue being ... drug addicts.
Photos. Just WOW! Great collection tonite
Dramatic pictures tonight. I'm very sorry about the fires to the south, but it makes one wonder what the sunrises and sunsets were like after Krakatoa (sp?) erupted.
Speaking to Gospace's first comment, when I was a kid, 65 years ago, my father told me about a Swiss watchmaker who, in an effort to increase productivity and reduce mistakes, hired only high IQ individuals for the assembly line. Things quickly went to hell as the assembly line workers got bored, screwed up and turnover really ticked up. So they tried the other direction and replaced the smart assembly line workers with below average IQ employees, and quality, productivity and worker satisfaction quickly turned around.
It was a signature sunrise.
Speaking of signature. The news says Trump is going to put his on some of the US currency, commemorating Americas 250th Anniversary.
Clay Travis
@ClayTravis
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Erika Kirk’s husband was assassinated in September. It’s March & a black comedian is putting on white face & mocking her in a video. Honest question, if a prominent black leader had been assassinated & a white comedian put on blackface & mocked his widow, what would happen?
https://x.com/ClayTravis/status/2037211462867861967?s=20
I'm getting Rothko vibes from this series of pictures.
How, and why should we coexist with these idiots??
Riley Gaines
@Riley_Gaines_
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Mar 25
And to think we have an entire political party who won't recognize people like this as a threat to our national security
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End Wokeness
@EndWokeness
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Mar 25
Applause line at protest in Philly: "For every US soldier who comes back in casket, we cheer!"
https://x.com/Riley_Gaines_/status/2036946250239508874?s=20
And every week there are more murders. Just slap their wrists and let them go, so you aren't a racist. Nuts.
Kevin Sorbo
@ksorbs
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Mar 25
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: “We cannot put people in jail anymore. It’s racist.”
I can't believe this is real
https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/2037173576508256497?s=20
"Over 500,000 acres of Nebraska burned."
I know and my first guess was that we were getting Nebraska smoke from those fires, but my research said it was not from Nebraska but from the Flint Hills. I think they can see the path of the various plume of smoke.
"I think they can see the path of the various plume of smoke."
Yes, and there's several plume prediction websites I use for planning my observing sessions. Smoke is a killer for astronomical observing.
I've come back just to look at those pictures again a few times this morning. These were some of the best!!! Thanks for getting out early and sharing!!
There were 50-people at the Philly rally and about 7 of them were golf clapping in response to the potential destruction of US military bases and dead soldiers.
Hardly a threat to our national security, but I would support a Trump EO allowing citizens to take batting practice on these filthy scum.
‘tracking’ money I have no idea how that could be ‘turned off’. Moving funds leaves transactions, out from one account into another. Without cooperation I suppose the ability of Americans to see transactions in another jurisdiction is compromised…I guess the government agency making the distributions could try to obscure where they were sending….
The exact same election rules that were in place when Republicans won the presidency, the House, and the Senate in 2024 are now suddenly deemed insufficient.
According to critics, Republicans can no longer win future elections without the SAVE Act—because, they claim, widespread cheating has become the norm.
The timeline they point to is:
2016: Trump wins — no significant cheating alleged.
2020: Trump loses — massive voter fraud claimed, despite no changes to voting rules.
2024: Trump wins — completely fair elections, with no changes to voting rules.
Yet now, without the SAVE Act, the midterms (and future elections) will supposedly be plagued by massive fraud.
Google Maps shows no hills In Flint Hills with terrain designated as flat. Montgomery County, KS is largely undeveloped. This area of tallgrass prairie is home to bison and the greater prairie chicken (sometimes called a boomer, it is a large bird in the grouse family}.
Ruy Teixeira is giving up on his attempt to pull the Democrats back from the wildest Progressive positions.
If Democrats go away the democracy will stay up and running with just the Republicans, panicked because they realize they have to try and govern…
More golf clapping for the Chicago Mayor. I might agree that the over-incarceration of non-violent crime is racist and at the same time creates more violent criminals inside prisons and jails as defacto gang recruiting and training institutions.
However, once a dog goes rabid by no fault of their own, they need to be put down. Once a petty criminal evolves into a violent thug, even if it's the systems fault, needs to be isolated from society.
Until the Democrats can recognize that zero tolerance for violence is appropriate, MAGA will remain a successful political power to do whatever they want.
used to floor me to walk by the the newly refurbished BPL and see the odd mix of addicts, lefite political lackeys standing with I guess RNs and DRs handing out needles, nerds on their laptops stealing the wifi, all ten feet from the entrance directly in front of the glass PBS or NPR or whatever TV studio doing national broadcasts. Like a zombie apocalypse NBC Today Show starring Mayor Menino as J Fred Muggs…
“2020: Trump loses — massive voter fraud claimed, despite no changes to voting rules.“
Lest we forget - COVID era mail-in voting kinda sorta was a massive known fraud-susceptible voting rule change.
rehajm: the Democrats planned their own destruction when they started calling those people "clients". Death by euphemism.
Good morning people! Have a wonderful joyful day. No matter how much dire and gloomy filth the algorithm shits on us, we still live and thrive in the greatest country in the history of the world.
2020: Trump loses — massive voter fraud claimed, despite no changes to voting rules
…no changes? Holy carp how soon they want us to forget. Covid? Mail-in voting? Drop boxes? Good lord that’s dumb…
Wow!! Outstanding. And Eerie.
“ I'm getting Rothko vibes from this series of pictures.”
Oh yeah.
Regarding stock market volatility:
1. This is a discount period if you are a long-term investor. Look 3-5 years into the future, and keep your short-term spending money in a savings account (be very careful with bonds; they have the risks of stocks with the return of savings accounts).
2. This period is confirming a general rotation out of technology stocks -- I'd be trimming the Mag 7 if that's all one owns.
3. Volatility during tense political and economic periods is routine and expected. While the long-term investors tend to ignore it, the short-term traders love to push it up and then push it down. During the bottom of the 2008-2009 meltdown, stocks went up 1,000, down 1,000, and again and again. The traders win through both short sales and gains. Feel free to ignore that crowd. It's just noise for a long term investor.
4. Insider trading -- Let's get Pelosi and her super genius husband on a leash. Maybe claw back all those ill-gotten gains. Maybe claw back her vault of luxury ice cream -- It's surely worth millions! Power corrupts. It corrupts and transforms most everyone in D.C. after 5 or 10 years.
…anyone who’s lived north of San Fran and east of the Cascades knows what those sunrises mean. Beautiful doesn’t describe it…
I watched the video of Philly DA Larry Krastner threatening federal government employees, that would be ICE agents, with jail for doing their jobs. Trump should test Krastner in a large way.
Senate Votes to Fund Most of D.H.S. in Bid to End Partial Shutdown ~ FOX News
"The bill excludes funding for ICE and the Border Patrol but restores it for federal airport security workers. The House could consider the package on Friday. Mr. Trump had been expected to use funds from that legislation to pay T.S.A. agents, though it was unclear why he waited more than five weeks after the shutdown began"
Simple explanation: incompetence.
Hump: "I watched the video of Philly DA Larry Krastner threatening federal government employees, that would be ICE agents, with jail for doing their jobs. Trump should test Krastner in a large way."
Yes, my "Imagine Jim Crow" catchphrase comes in handy here. Imagine some sweaty 1950s southern county prosecutor yelling at FBI agents and Marshals that he's going to arrest them and put them in the Podunk County Jail if they try to pull stuff in his county like they did in Mississippi. That would last about five minutes. CC, JSM
Gadfly, are you okay? Is the Grail in the Castle of Aaaaaaaaaaaaggggghhhh.....? CC, JSM
Lem: "Trump is going to put his on some of the US currency, commemorating Americas 250th Anniversary."
I would advise him against this. If we have inflation, the left will constantly refer to his personally-printed imaginary money. If we have deflation, it will be "You don't have a job because Trump is taking too long personally signing these bills." Just no-win. CC, JSM
But maybe it will be like when the Roosevelt dime first came out, and his enemies will refuse to accept the bills. If they want to inconvenience themselves, that's great. CC, JSM
Krasner to ICE agent: "What're you doing on this terrazzo, boy?"
ICE agent: "Um, I'm holding a post on the exit lane, so people don't come in the wrong way and compromise the sterility of the gate area. And by doing this, I free up a TSA officer to search people and bags so the line moves faster."
Krasner: "Harrumph. Well, don't think you can be shootin no lady drivers in my airport."
ICE: "Sir, we're 100 yards inside the airport building, which is surrounded by bollards and other barriers to vehicle entry. I highly doubt any drivers, lady or otherwise, are going to approach this post. If one does, I bet you'll be the first person screaming for me to shoot them."
Krasner: "Harrumph." CC, JSM
Not quite sure on Trump’s thinking of putting his name on the currency. The Commies will cry out that Trump has found Biden’s autopen.
"Red sky at night, sailor's delight; red sky in the morning, sailor's take warning"
Well...maybe not with forest fires in the middle of a continent...
The Fixx (1982):
Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Should have taken warning, it's just
People mourning
Running, hiding, lost
You can't find, find a place to go, so it's
Red skies at night
Red skies at night
Israel and the US are bombing garbage trucks, parking lots full of cars, dropping mines in villages, and the plan is to knock out the entire electricity grid of a country of 92 million people, which means that the water treatment and sewage treatments plants will all be disabled.
Go ahead and defend it, I want more votes to get rid of Trump, so let everybody know how you sickos who support him think.
@imTay meant to write:
Palestinians and Iran are bombing garbage trucks, parking lots full of cars, dropping mines in villages, and the plan is to kill every Jew from the river to the sea in the country, which means that the space will soon be empty and then repopulated by a pool of future terrorists 5x larger than before.
Go head, say bad things about Greta Thunberg, but I think she's kind of cute and her autism is very attractive.
@the man with a dozen names: Trump bombing garbage trucks? Why don’t you team up with The View and file war crimes charges? Joe Kent will be a signatory.
Bombing garbage trucks? Maybe Iran wasn’t recycling.
There is an irrationality to the market that ignores fundamentals which is concerning
There is an irrationality to the market that ignores fundamentals which is concerning
Most people don't realize how much the colors of our beautiful sunrises and sunsets are due to pollution. It makes me feel sorry for the ancients who had to make due with their clean air.
Hey Begley - I was going to say Nebraska goes down in flames, but now it looks like its going up in flames.
Im just guessing they fill up the trucks with c4 and then detonate them
Little Excursion™️: "2016: Trump wins — no significant cheating alleged."
LOL
Eva Marie said...Very good discussion on Iran and Israel.
Best of all no one called anyone an anti Semite, anti American, sellout, loser, etc.
How is that possible? I can't read more than a couple sentences of Greenwald's Jew hatred without thinking "antisemite." I used to respect him as the rare person on the left who is willing to call bullshit on his own side, but since Oct 7, he's been insufferable to the point of being evil.
"tim maguire said...
Most people don't realize how much the colors of our beautiful sunrises and sunsets are due to pollution. It makes me feel sorry for the ancients who had to make due with their clean air."
You think they didn't have fires back then? Or dust storms.
Yes he has
One recalls when he was sockpuppeting in support of gitmo detainees
Are there that many pollutants in midwestern skies
I remember when the good prosecutor wasnt a slorr or was at least pretending
Pointing out disruption in the markets and spikes in oil prices is an argument for gaining control of the Stait of Hormuz. It's an argument for taking taking away the Mullahs' ability to project power and destruction beyond their own borders. It's an argument for helping the Iranian people take control of their government if possible.
Advances in hypersonic missiles and drones have changed the calculus. Ask yourself what would happen to markets and prices if the Mullahs could close the Strait at will and the US Navy couldn't do anything about it. The "turmoil" we're seeing now is on our terms...to some degree at least.
The ancients had plenty of wildfires and global volcanic events -- resulting in little Ice Age periods. They had nice sunsets.
https://x.com/TheIranWatcher/status/2037172505337610640
The turmoil is overstated, however the irgc should be able to play pirste
Krasner the Clown-Tyrant. Be proud, Philly.
Rocky balboa should have some words
“There is an irrationality to the market that ignores fundamentals which is concerning“
The markets are applying all the negotiation pressure on Trump they need.
Another commenter brought up the SAVE Act. Like Reese's Cups, this collided with the Krasner threats, and I thought of something.
People like Krasner and Jabba the Pritzker threatening to lock up feds don't really care about a few shot Karens.
They care very deeply about their election fraud getting disrupted.
So they are trying to scare feds away from any sort of election supervision (completely legal under the Reconstruction Amendments, VRA, and other law) Trump might be planning for the fall.
Even if the election supervision works and Dems can't print up enough blue-city ballots to put their people in governors' mansions and Senate seats, the Dems do win their blue cities honestly. At least in terms of D vs R - D primaries are another story.
So there will be Dem mayors, police chiefs, sheriffs, and county prosecutors available in 2027 and 2029 to try to prosecute Trump's minions for 'election interference.'
And of course if Jabba and co can spread panic, leading Karens to run over feds at the polling places and get shot, double bubble. CC, JSM
Heck, a corrupt D primary in a blue city takes the vote away from descendants of enslaved Americans. The Reconstruction Amendments and VRA are squarely on point - no need for even the simple backflip of saying "'on account of color' doesn't specify which color." CC, JSM
“Regarding stock market volatility:”
Turns out energy markets are a bit harder to master than insider trading.
Trump starts a war based on a gut feeling, evidence to the contrary notwithstanding. Has no clearly defined objectives or exit strategy. Messaging is contradictory and inconsistent. And yet, the financial markets now refuse to give him the benefit of the doubt. Weird
Furthermore — has anyone tracked where the tankers whose passage through the strait Iran allegedly "gifted" to Trump are headed?
Australia is about to descend into fuel chaos. Years ago they closed most of their refineries. They now import their jet fuel from China, who has suspended exports. The Aussies are about to ration gasoline.
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/26/you-can-still-hum-leavin-on-a-jet-plane-from-anywherebut-australia-n3813294
Yeah a little taste of mad max
@Little E: The cure for high prices is high prices.
Every single day of Gulf conflict is another day closer to (1) greater oil production in the MANY places that now produce oil, and (2) the development of pipelines that render the Gulf irrrelevant. This isn't 1973.
As COVID forced everyone to pay attention to food and goods supply chains, this event stands to prod long overdue changes.
With Saudi Arabia and other Arab states welcoming the attack on Iran -- opposite day has occurred. The Jews and (some peaceful) Arabs are making nice against the long-hated violent Persian element.
Of course the mad max series doesnt make sense
It seems that the founding fathers may have made a mistake including a Congress in The Constitution.
Stocks and bonds slump in tandem as Iran shock leaves investors ‘nowhere to hide’ ~ FT
“Wall Street stocks extended losses on Friday after US President Donald Trump failed to reassure investors by extending his deadline for attacks on Iranian energy infrastructure”
The gravity of the situation is finally sinking in…
Well the senate was picked by the state legislatures
If the oil fields dried up, where did they get the gas
@Little E: Your bias is astounding! The gravity of state debt became obvious in 2022 with Bidenflation!
Bonds started to correlate with stocks and many people pared bond exposure back then. Bonds suffered their worst year in decades and decades. Creating synthetic bonds by combing cash/money market with targeted stock categories became a common thing. Years ago.
Bonds are a marginally functional investing category. They mainly serve as a holding pen for state debt.
Trump didn’t reassure investors because he keeps changing the story every day. That is not a great confidence builder.
The market finally called BS on Trump.
About time.
“How is that possible? I can't read more than a couple sentences of Greenwald's Jew hatred without thinking "antisemite." I used to respect him as the rare person on the left who is willing to call bullshit on his own side, but since Oct 7, he's been insufferable to the point of being evil.“
1. If you respected him when he was saying things you agreed with, then you should at least give him the benefit of doubt when he says things you disagree with.
2. Evil? So a guy you used to respect, you now consider evil.
Makes you a bad judge of character, don’t you think?
He grants too much good will to our adversaries in gaza yenen et al
Suspicious high-volume trades before major Trump announcements have been a disturbing pattern during the Trump administration.
Monday was no different as nearly half a billion dollars in oil futures trading occurred irregularly just 15 minutes before Trump’s comments pointing to de-escalation in Iran.
Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump’s social media post on Iran talks ~ FT
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/a69da390-c236-4408-9085-295c53b7536f
Thats the most charitable view of him
The presidency is a giant ATM machine for Trump and his family.
@Little E: Take a look at who was pardoned by Biden's autopen and when. Take a look at Biden's "Pay to Play" history as a Delaware Senator and forward. Take a look at the Clinton family net worth in 1991 versus today. Take a look at the Obama family net worth 2007 versus today.
Mainstream media catches on that Trump is timing Iran announcements along stock market’s rhythm.
“I think there are a lot of things that raise eyebrows here about the way the president’s announcing these [decisions] and what the market reaction might be,” Bloomberg correspondent David Gura said in an MS Now (rebranded MSNBC) segment, pointing to FT reporting about “sizable” oil trades done before the president’s Monday morning reversal of threats to attack Iran’s biggest power plant.“
Trump and his cronies profiting from generating chaos in the Middle East? Who would’ve thunk it?
I bet when cholera is widespread in Iran due to Trump's bombing campaign of their entire electrical infrastructure, they will give us their oil then; they will be begging for help then! Begging us to stop the bombing!
Trump is a farking genius! Nobody ever thought of fighting wars like him and Pinocchio "We don't bomb civilians" Keg Breath
“He grants too much good will to our adversaries in gaza yemen et al”
That’s true. But it doesn’t make him evil or a Jew hater or an antisemite.
It reminds me of the racist/sexist accusations.
“If you have X opinion, then you might not even realize it but deep down you are a racist or a sexist and therefore all your opinions are invalid and I can feel free to denounce you.”
Refute the argument, not the person.
https://anasalhajjieoa.substack.com/p/a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words-74c
@Little E sure knows how to destroy his own credibility!
Bloomberg -- Ran as a Democrat for President in 2020; aggressively funded anti-Trump efforts behind the scenes
MSNBC - Funded by lefty Bill Gates and home to the crazy loon Rachel Maddow and her conspiracy theories
FT is a center source and perfectly fine when read in context. Not when filtered through propagandists.
Trump’s recent attempts to calm the markets by making up claims about peace talks remind me of King Canute trying to stop the tide….
It takes a special kind of talent to crash the stock market twice in a 12-month period.
L.E. just assumes that Trump or one of his family members is making money with inside information. Why not someone further down the chain of command, someone with a more urgent need for money? This morning I read on Twitter that a major in the Israeli Defense Forces was arrested for using inside information on upcoming strikes to make sure-fire bets on Polymarket. Commenters seem to think he'll be lucky to get out of jail in less than 20 years.
I was watching the skies yesterday morning as I walked the dog, and caught myself wondering what you would see. Beautiful.
Has imTay inWay ermontVay (the man who put the Pig in Pig Latin) ever heard of graphite bombs? Because I read the more intelligent and well-informed Twitterers like (e.g.) Trent Telenko, I know that the U.S. has weapons that can completely shut down power lines in Iran (or anywhere else) for 24 hours or so without doing permanent damage to them or the power plants. Doing so on a moonless night would give our special forces and their Israeli and Iranian (and maybe GCC) allies, with their night-vision goggles, a huge advantage over the IRGC and Basijis, helping put an end to the continuing slaughter of peacefully-protesting teenagers, without any danger of producing a cholera epidemic.
I note that igPay inWay ermontVay provides no link to his claim (7:07am) that we're bombing garbage trucks and parking lots and laying mines in villages. I've heard of the last, but note that the mines being laid are anti-tank mines, which are designed to go off only when something as heavy as a tank rolls over them. They are no danger to civilians, even in cars, though I suppose a moving van loaded with books or a truck loaded with cinder blocks might set one off. I say "might" because I believe modern tanks are a lot heavier even than fully-loaded trucks.
Dr Weevil writes, "I suppose a moving van loaded with books or a truck loaded with cinder blocks might set one [AT mine] off."
What about Bookmobiles?
“Advances in hypersonic missiles and drones have changed the calculus.”
Drones, maybe. Small drones have exploded in use in the last year or so. Esp in Ukraine. But they don’t do much good against the US Navy. And the US and Israel do pretty well against them with terrestrial military targets.
Hypersonic missiles are the new Chinese and Iranian Wonder Weapon. But ask yourself why the US hasn’t pursued them? We have been doing Mach 5 SCRAMjet research for decades now. It’s easy to make hypersonic missiles go fast. It’s much harder making them useful.
The first problem is maneuverability. The supersonic SR-71 had a turning radius of over 100 miles. That was primarily due to its control surfaces. It at least had (short stubby) wings. Missiles don’t even have those. Just little tail fins. The faster you are going, the more control surfaces you need to turn it. But large control surfaces heat faster, and slow the aircraft down. Most of the journey of a hypersonic missile is spent ballistic.
Then there is the problem communications problem. Because of the plasma created by hypersonic flight, hypersonic missiles cannot communicate while hypersonic. They can’t receive orders to change course (which they really can’t do anyway) while hypersonic. Nor can they see where they are going. Meanwhile, they are visible to the naked eye, due to the heated atmosphere around them. Which means that whatever maneuvering they are going to do has to wait until they go supersonic, if not subsonic.
Meanwhile, we see them at launch, both from special purpose AWACS type aircraft (which are always the first launched and last recovered by our carriers) and by satellites. They can’t be missed. So, we know where they are going. And our carriers can turn on a dime, and power away in another direction at 35 knots. Meanwhile the carrier battle group has hundreds of supersonic anti air missiles that can be shot at where the hypersonic missile will drop to maneuvering speed. And, of course, the carrier’s aircraft can be vectored into their flight path. Etc.
It turns out that subsonic cruise missiles, wave hopping to hide in the radar clutter, are probably a better way to take out carriers, and other mainline naval vessels.
But make no mistake. We were at the forefront of hypersonic research. We just chose to not go that route, because they were not deemed that effective against our naval assets.
Love the third one. Number three is for me.
@ Bruce
Secretary Hegseth has spoken in dire terms about the threat of China's HGV's to US warships.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/pete-hegseth-is-right-about-chinas-hypersonic-weapons
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-china-hypersonic-missiles/
The US is pursuing hypersonic missiles.
"The United States is currently developing three hypersonic weapons programs: the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS), the Army’s Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW), and the Air Force’s Hypersonic Attack Cruise Missile (HACM)."
https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/2025/12/22/an-overview-of-current-u-s-hypersonic-missile-developments/
"After many decades of conducting basic research, the Department of Defense (DoD) recently increased its spending to develop technology for hypersonic weapons. The Air Force, Army, and Navy all plan to field hypersonic missiles within the next few years."
https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58924
With regard to drone proliferation, drones don't have to be a threat only to ships to change the game. The significance of drones is their low cost and high numbers. They can be used to attack both civilian and military targets all over the region and can allow the Iranians to overwhelm a layered missile defense with sheer numbers, especially if the US Navy component of the layered defense is held off by 1500 miles to stay out of range of HGV's.
The faster you are going, the more control surfaces you need to turn it.
Not necessarily. The Orion launch abort rocket uses small valves on the side of the rocket to release exhaust pressure to steer the rocket. Still, you can only alter the vector so much without exceeding the center of gravity and tumbling.
It's the inlet angle too. Too sharp of a turn can interrupt the flow of air through the turbine and cause a flame out.
I don't think Tim is really concerned about Iranian civilians. He just wants to cast Trump in the worst possible light.
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