Warnock has/had a shithead driver that gets him at the airport. One morning I pull up to the curb and he pulls in inches behind my rear door sonI couldn’t open it. I waited until he got out of his rig then pulled up and ran to the rear door and opened it before he could get back to his car. He never said a word until I began to drive away when he shouted something I could see him in the mirror. I had a Sig cap so that may have given him pause. I hope he and his boss get their comeuppance…
The French authorities had required people to register online and to wear a QR code in order to watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs Élysées..But they walked that back, possibly in the spirit of the Révolution.
An American transsexual man who applied for asylum in the Netherlands due to “oppression in Trump’s America” has been placed in the infamous asylum center Ter Apel famous for Islamist extremists and knife violence.
I'm seeing the advance publicity for a movie called 'Digger' with Tom Cruise and John Goodman. Cruise plays an oil baron and Goodman plays The President (of the USA), heroically and comedically fighting some kind of disastrous climate change, caused of course by the oilman .
It's billed as a comedy / satire, but the tone from the trailer is purely awful to me, i.e. strongly playing to a partisan Progressive audience and their idea of what a satirical comedy might look like - in other words, strident and unfunny for the unpartisan or opposite political valence. I'm biased in this, of course.
The last time I saw Goodman in an interview, he was struggling to formulate thoughts and express himself, and his former co-stars were helping him out. It looked like one of those cases of years of the Hollywood high life catching up and accelerating old age decline, but who knows.
The trailer is out for those interested. It feels like someone with funding and woke sensibilities decided to confect what they think is a homage to Dr. Strangelove.
This guy... Shocking to see Trump give up on that fully thought through 20% toll idea. You could wade through Trump’s deepest thoughts and only get your ankles wet.
Looking forward to Trump's rant on Thursday evening. I'm sure it will be as credible as the slashes in the reflecting pool. This will be perhaps the most insane address to the nation that has ever been given by an American president.
Something weird goin' on with Mitch McConnell. Released a statement and a photo to "prove" he's not dead or a vegetable. But why go through all that? Why not just call up a WaPo reporter and say "Hey, I'm in recovery. Getting better". Or just take a 1 minute cellphone video and say "Hi I'm getting better. thanks for your concern".
McConnell's wife and his staff could be telling the truth. I mean its possible.
Grassley also just released documents showing Jack Smith was illegally reading emails from all sorts of Congressional Republicans. Including Grassleys. This after saying he NEVER read their emails while testifying to Congress.
Expected Result? Some Senate R 'outrage' - then zero. As usual.
"...Released a statement and a photo to "prove" he's not dead or a vegetable...."
It's not that. What he released is a straight-up 'Proof of life' hostage photo. All that's missing is the kidnapping note made out of cut-up magazine letters.
Today was a good day. Nothing happened. I was sitting in the left turn lane when a semi rolled up to turn right, onto my street. From my vantage point I could see what the driver couldn’t: a young woman stepping off the curb on her green light, earbuds in, eyes on her phone. The cab sat really high. The driver had no idea she was there. The timing couldn’t have been worse. I hit the horn. A young man on the sidewalk ran to the side of the cab, and jumped up and down, waving his hands. The semi braked. (It had been taking the turn very slowly.) The woman never broke stride. The young man watched her go, waiting for a thank-you that never came. I rolled down my window. “You saved her life.” He shrugged, glanced once more at her retreating back, and walked on. It could have been a disaster. Or it could have been a meet-cute. A phone and a pair of earbuds were in the way.
What a great story, Eva marie. What hooked me was “today was a good day. Nothing happened .” The older I get, the more I a, thankful for such simple, tender mercies. I take nothing for granted. This afternoon, we thought my 14 month old grandson swallowed a couple of magnets that flew off a broken magna tile that his older brothers were playing with. Mom took him to the emergency room. My son prayed with the brothers, and they found the missing magnet pieces. X-ray was clean, all is well. I am so very thankful for this day on which “nothing” happened.
Trump is preparing a prime time address to announce that Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff weren't really elected in 2020. The two men should do the honorable thing and resign while an investigation plays out.
I assume that he will also demand that the eight GOP congressman that were seated on the exact same ballot also be removed.
Okay, seriously....Warnock's not currently serving due to that 2020 election; he was reelected in 2022, and that election hasn't been questioned (because Trump wasn't in it).
From Politico: Smith has previously defended the investigative tactics used by his office, telling lawmakers earlier this year that obtaining phone records complied with Justice Department policy and was necessary to investigate alleged efforts to interfere with the transfer of presidential power.
“Apparently when the Trump DOJ does it, it’s nothing new; when Jack Smith does it, it’s a modern Watergate,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights. “With Patel, it’s obvious why Jack Smith was looking at him.”
It's strange to read the comments here, and then see one plagiarized word for word from the comments section of another forum (that I had just finished reading). For example, a comment here at 9:17 on the Spain/France game that was stolen verbatim from yesterdays Financial Times.
@Money Manager What are you talking about? You're smearing somebody else, but when I searched for the verbatim quote, in quotation marks, I got zero hits. "Spain made France look how France made Morocco look." Nothing. If it's not verbatim, don't say verbatim. Also, if it's not verbatim, it's such a banal observation that multiple people making it over the same highly conspicuous event is meaningless. You've got a low standard for what is "strange." I don't think it's strange. I think it's dull.
"I think it's dull." I mean, I absolutely do not care about soccer. I think the whole thing is boring, other than that it's nice that children have a game they can easily play. I was more interested in the All Star Game, and I basically think the All Star Game is an annoying interference with the baseball season, but at least it's baseball.
You should take up a sport yourself, ann. A team sport. Use your own body to compete...
You have too much competitive juice just to have the hubby photogragh you running or walking to catch the sun...
Pickleball? Anything physical you can score... Winning and losing to others, even only women, will open your eyes to life.... look at you here: you are fighting with old men about your silly OPINIONS. At least you're done warmongering or publicly supporting Israel, eh?
…easy there gunner. not all comment sections are crawled and searchable- forums with a login, platforms more rickety than blogger…YouTube comments aren’t searchable.
Ann, I read the FT, among other things before I check your site each morning. In the comments section there (on a World Cup story by J Noble), posted at 6PM, that was word-for-word the comment I referenced here. Maybe it is the same commentor repeating the point, maybe it was lifted.
This is not the first time I've seen this happen. I found it strange.
Here's an interesting statement on exactly how much "influencers" get oaid during a social media campaign. It comes from the Times of Israel, a lefty Israeli pnline newspaper. "... other social media campaigns, where users were offered “a base payment of $2,250, plus $1 for every 1,000 views, up to 2 million views — allowing influencers to earn as much as $4,250 per post.” I have never seen anything so specific on how that whole system works. I used to wonder why there were so many exciting headlines above articles which simply rehashed some earlier news story. (One reason I like this site is that its posts are not the reheated pizza you get on influencer sites.) Now if I could just find out how paid commenters get paid I'd feel I had completely grasped the new world of digital influencing. I'd understand Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, et al. And I'd understand the shallow part of the rise of the Nazi Communists. In itself Nazi Communist is a contradiction but in our time a contradicton can be resolved on the surface as an inclusive identity and the surface is where the piece-work talkers are clustered, influencing at so much an attention moment. Or babbling contradictory nonsense, as we curmudgeons see it.
Thx Caroline. I’m glad your grandson is ok - that nothing happened. I thought of that young woman all day. She came so close to either death or terrible injury and she will never know how a stranger saved her. On the one hand I’m so glad nothing happened and on the other hand I’m also so glad for me. I would have forever wondered if I could have done more than sit there and honk while this awful thing happened in front of me. Everything happened so quickly - realistically there was nothing more I could have done. But I would forever be second guessing my actions. And that’s the part I find a little disturbing. That some of my relief is just relief that my day wasn’t ruined.
Money Manager, I wouldn’t be surprised if the bot is simply scouring the web and repeating stolen content here. As Althouse notes, it is boring, because the bot never provides any original insight. Also, great to see the Americans rout the National(ists). Who would have predicted that with the regular season win-loss statistics?
Ann, You know search engines don't immediately turn up something someone wrote in a comments section somewhere out there, right? You put all your faith in the machines thinking for you, but they fu a lot... haven't you caught that enought to consider there is something your machines might be missing...?
Assume it's true, written "in good faith." You don't care if others are using your blog to try and influence so long as they hit your tip jar and let the lady present her opinions as supreme here, nttawwt? You're paying for the platform...
Also, do you think Messi and all the world's men who play soccer are children? You're huffing your own farts writing that, maam.
@Money Manger Thanks for your response. Do you think the commenter we're talking about is "in bad faith"? Some kind of bot? I do have some things I can do to defend this space.
That take on the France v Spain game has been repeated all over. If that kind of comment deserves censorship then the GOP talking points repeated here regularly also need to go.
The censorship would be for "bad faith": "We do delete some comments, but not for viewpoint... for bad faith."
That is, are you someone who is not really in the role of a commenter participating in a comments section but something else, for example a bot, but also someone whose aim is to ruin this forum. That would include going off topic on a post that isn't an open discussion like this one. I don't censor for point of view or just for the foible of being unoriginal or boring.
I will say this about soccer. Its incredibly astoundingly boring on the radio. I was driving around trying to listen to spain v. france and i just turned it off. Baseball is actually better on the radio. Probably because you can visualize almost everything.
Plus USA TV announcers for the world cup are incredibly bad, have to watch the sport with sound off.
@Ann, I doubt it was a bot. The aptness of comments repeated are too apt to be machine-driven. I assumed it's just someone finding content elsewhere and wanting to sound clever here, but I'm not sure. For example, I'd ask the poster above : SpaceX '56s are trading around 90. Some of the drop is due to spread widening, some to higher treasury rates. Could you expand ?...
SpaceX '56s at ~90 reflect a combo of higher Treasury yields (30y near 5.1%) and material spread widening (long end +20-30+ bps since the 1.75% issue spread). Long duration amplifies the move amid capex/AI spend concerns, though the debut deal was heavily oversubscribed. Typical rate + credit repricing in the new issue.
Maybe you can appreciate the satire in this article from Alphaville.
The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley ~ FT https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/519203ca-d0fd-45d0-9097-5a5c2f2339ba
“ Even the Chinese are losing patience with the Iranians. On Friday, their Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the Iranians to knock off the attacks on international shipping and get back to the MOU. Sounds like the Chinese prefer secure oil supplies to chaos and the Imam Mahdi.”
American Greatness essay: https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/15/the-trump-trap/
Big news in the Badger State: A bipartisan panel of Wisconsin election officials voted to refer Elon Musk for criminal prosecution for attempting to bribe voters in advance of the 2025 Supreme Court race.
Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, which can choose to bring criminal charges over violating the state law against election bribery. Prosecutors have 40 days to report back to the commission.
The complaints, which are confidential under state law, were brought by voters in Milwaukee and Green Bay, which is in Brown County. Musk handed out checks at a rally there just days before the election.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, consisting of three Democrats and three Republicans, voted 5-1 in closed session on Thursday to refer the complaints to the district attorney, the commission’s spokesperson, Emilee Miklas, said.
Brown County District Attorney David Lasee, a Republican, did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
The motion approved by the elections commission said it found probable cause that Musk broke Wisconsin law by making a social media post offering $1 million to people who voted in the Supreme Court election “in order to induce them to vote in that election.”
So, Democrats in Winsconsin are doing "Lawfare" to destroy their "enemies" by any means neccessary.
And D's think that's great. what are we supposed to do with these sort of people. Start a civil war? Kill them? what you want motherfuckers? Tell me. You want Spain 1936?
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…anyone need to come clean before the President’s news? Last chance…
Those clouds got some curves.
Warnock has/had a shithead driver that gets him at the airport. One morning I pull up to the curb and he pulls in inches behind my rear door sonI couldn’t open it. I waited until he got out of his rig then pulled up and ran to the rear door and opened it before he could get back to his car. He never said a word until I began to drive away when he shouted something I could see him in the mirror. I had a Sig cap so that may have given him pause. I hope he and his boss get their comeuppance…
…and the horses they rode in on…
Ummm KKKak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetrollextended<mainekampfplatnerexcurison(TM).....
Inflation dropped to lowest since he were all subjected to Bidenflation.
Gas prices are down
Please tell us again when the economy is suppose to crash again.
Hello? KKKak? Hello? Hello hello? Anyone home??
kak-ah kak-ah…
The French authorities had required people to register online and to wear a QR code in order to watch the Bastille Day parade on the Champs Élysées..But they walked that back, possibly in the spirit of the Révolution.
An American transsexual man who applied for asylum in the Netherlands due to “oppression in Trump’s America” has been placed in the infamous asylum center Ter Apel famous for Islamist extremists and knife violence.
He says he regrets his decision…
https://x.com/visegrad24/status/2077023859299979439
Runner's World: "New Broadcast Guidelines for Track and Field Want Less ‘Sexualization’—and More Focus on Performance"
"The 23-page document calls out low angles, tight shots, and replays that add little beyond making competitors feel exposed."
Watch for the articles.
I'm seeing the advance publicity for a movie called 'Digger' with Tom Cruise and John Goodman. Cruise plays an oil baron and Goodman plays The President (of the USA), heroically and comedically fighting some kind of disastrous climate change, caused of course by the oilman .
It's billed as a comedy / satire, but the tone from the trailer is purely awful to me, i.e. strongly playing to a partisan Progressive audience and their idea of what a satirical comedy might look like - in other words, strident and unfunny for the unpartisan or opposite political valence. I'm biased in this, of course.
The last time I saw Goodman in an interview, he was struggling to formulate thoughts and express himself, and his former co-stars were helping him out. It looked like one of those cases of years of the Hollywood high life catching up and accelerating old age decline, but who knows.
The trailer is out for those interested. It feels like someone with funding and woke sensibilities decided to confect what they think is a homage to Dr. Strangelove.
Oh good grief cruise looks terrible
This guy...
Shocking to see Trump give up on that fully thought through 20% toll idea. You could wade through Trump’s deepest thoughts and only get your ankles wet.
Looking forward to Trump's rant on Thursday evening. I'm sure it will be as credible as the slashes in the reflecting pool. This will be perhaps the most insane address to the nation that has ever been given by an American president.
Something weird goin' on with Mitch McConnell. Released a statement and a photo to "prove" he's not dead or a vegetable. But why go through all that? Why not just call up a WaPo reporter and say "Hey, I'm in recovery. Getting better". Or just take a 1 minute cellphone video and say "Hi I'm getting better. thanks for your concern".
McConnell's wife and his staff could be telling the truth. I mean its possible.
Digger the movie:
In the comments: “Finally, Tom Cruise without any make up. So brave.” lolol
Grassley also just released documents showing Jack Smith was illegally reading emails from all sorts of Congressional Republicans. Including Grassleys. This after saying he NEVER read their emails while testifying to Congress.
Expected Result? Some Senate R 'outrage' - then zero. As usual.
Best thing today was Spain beating France. Now, for the biggest match of the Cup England v. Argentina.
Aa barely disguished joel silver it worked here not so much
"...Released a statement and a photo to "prove" he's not dead or a vegetable...."
It's not that. What he released is a straight-up 'Proof of life' hostage photo. All that's missing is the kidnapping note made out of cut-up magazine letters.
Spain made France look how France made Morocco look. Feel free to rephrase this more elegantly.
My guess is McConnell's speech is compromised.
This will be perhaps the most insane address to the nation that has ever been given by an American president.
Bookmarked. You are out on a long skinny limb here.
Today was a good day. Nothing happened.
I was sitting in the left turn lane when a semi rolled up to turn right, onto my street. From my vantage point I could see what the driver couldn’t: a young woman stepping off the curb on her green light, earbuds in, eyes on her phone. The cab sat really high. The driver had no idea she was there. The timing couldn’t have been worse.
I hit the horn. A young man on the sidewalk ran to the side of the cab, and jumped up and down, waving his hands. The semi braked. (It had been taking the turn very slowly.) The woman never broke stride.
The young man watched her go, waiting for a thank-you that never came. I rolled down my window. “You saved her life.”
He shrugged, glanced once more at her retreating back, and walked on.
It could have been a disaster. Or it could have been a meet-cute. A phone and a pair of earbuds were in the way.
McConnell's speech is compromised ....
He should have taken his turn at filibuster.
Reaping karma!!
Perhaps John Fetterman could assist in his therapy.
What a great story, Eva marie. What hooked me was “today was a good day. Nothing happened .” The older I get, the more I a, thankful for such simple, tender mercies. I take nothing for granted. This afternoon, we thought my 14 month old grandson swallowed a couple of magnets that flew off a broken magna tile that his older brothers were playing with. Mom took him to the emergency room. My son prayed with the brothers, and they found the missing magnet pieces. X-ray was clean, all is well. I am so very thankful for this day on which “nothing” happened.
Trump is preparing a prime time address to announce that Rafael Warnock and Jon Ossoff weren't really elected in 2020. The two men should do the honorable thing and resign while an investigation plays out.
I assume that he will also demand that the eight GOP congressman that were seated on the exact same ballot also be removed.
Better than nothing is a high standard.
Okay, seriously....Warnock's not currently serving due to that 2020 election; he was reelected in 2022, and that election hasn't been questioned (because Trump wasn't in it).
*This will be perhaps the most insane address to the nation that has ever been given by an American president.*
Nope. Not even close.
Biden took that honor on September 1, 2022.
All you need to do is look at one picture of his fists clenched, Nazi staging in the background and the spittle flying from his enraged face.
Jim at..
You mean this speech? The Biden Nazi-Marxist-Antifa thug speech
That speech was shocking. It's inexplicable what the Biden administration thought they were doing.
TinyEE®… beaucoup theories, NO EVIDENCE
From Politico:
Smith has previously defended the investigative tactics used by his office, telling lawmakers earlier this year that obtaining phone records complied with Justice Department policy and was necessary to investigate alleged efforts to interfere with the transfer of presidential power.
“Apparently when the Trump DOJ does it, it’s nothing new; when Jack Smith does it, it’s a modern Watergate,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights. “With Patel, it’s obvious why Jack Smith was looking at him.”
It's strange to read the comments here, and then see one plagiarized word for word from the comments section of another forum (that I had just finished reading).
For example, a comment here at 9:17 on the Spain/France game that was stolen verbatim from yesterdays Financial Times.
@Money Manager What are you talking about? You're smearing somebody else, but when I searched for the verbatim quote, in quotation marks, I got zero hits. "Spain made France look how France made Morocco look." Nothing. If it's not verbatim, don't say verbatim. Also, if it's not verbatim, it's such a banal observation that multiple people making it over the same highly conspicuous event is meaningless. You've got a low standard for what is "strange." I don't think it's strange. I think it's dull.
"I think it's dull." I mean, I absolutely do not care about soccer. I think the whole thing is boring, other than that it's nice that children have a game they can easily play. I was more interested in the All Star Game, and I basically think the All Star Game is an annoying interference with the baseball season, but at least it's baseball.
You should take up a sport yourself, ann. A team sport. Use your own body to compete...
You have too much competitive juice just to have the hubby photogragh you running or walking to catch the sun...
Pickleball? Anything physical you can score...
Winning and losing to others, even only women, will open your eyes to life.... look at you here: you are fighting with old men about your silly OPINIONS. At least you're done warmongering or publicly supporting Israel, eh?
…easy there gunner. not all comment sections are crawled and searchable- forums with a login, platforms more rickety than blogger…YouTube comments aren’t searchable.
Ann, I read the FT, among other things before I check your site each morning. In the comments section there (on a World Cup story by J Noble), posted at 6PM, that was word-for-word the comment I referenced here. Maybe it is the same commentor repeating the point, maybe it was lifted.
This is not the first time I've seen this happen. I found it strange.
BTW, I also found interesting, the lack of comments about the All Star Game. It was such a big deal when I was a kid.
Oh, and once it was a comment that I posted on FT that I found repeated here (not posted by me).
Here's an interesting statement on exactly how much "influencers" get oaid during a social media campaign. It comes from the Times of Israel, a lefty Israeli pnline newspaper. "... other social media campaigns, where users were offered “a base payment of $2,250, plus $1 for every 1,000 views, up to 2 million views — allowing influencers to earn as much as $4,250 per post.” I have never seen anything so specific on how that whole system works. I used to wonder why there were so many exciting headlines above articles which simply rehashed some earlier news story. (One reason I like this site is that its posts are not the reheated pizza you get on influencer sites.) Now if I could just find out how paid commenters get paid I'd feel I had completely grasped the new world of digital influencing. I'd understand Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, et al. And I'd understand the shallow part of the rise of the Nazi Communists. In itself Nazi Communist is a contradiction but in our time a contradicton can be resolved on the surface as an inclusive identity and the surface is where the piece-work talkers are clustered, influencing at so much an attention moment. Or babbling contradictory nonsense, as we curmudgeons see it.
Thx Caroline. I’m glad your grandson is ok - that nothing happened.
I thought of that young woman all day. She came so close to either death or terrible injury and she will never know how a stranger saved her. On the one hand I’m so glad nothing happened and on the other hand I’m also so glad for me. I would have forever wondered if I could have done more than sit there and honk while this awful thing happened in front of me. Everything happened so quickly - realistically there was nothing more I could have done. But I would forever be second guessing my actions. And that’s the part I find a little disturbing. That some of my relief is just relief that my day wasn’t ruined.
Money Manager, I wouldn’t be surprised if the bot is simply scouring the web and repeating stolen content here. As Althouse notes, it is boring, because the bot never provides any original insight. Also, great to see the Americans rout the National(ists). Who would have predicted that with the regular season win-loss statistics?
Ann,
You know search engines don't immediately turn up something someone wrote in a comments section somewhere out there, right? You put all your faith in the machines thinking for you, but they fu a lot... haven't you caught that enought to consider there is something your machines might be missing...?
Assume it's true, written "in good faith."
You don't care if others are using your blog to try and influence so long as they hit your tip jar and let the lady present her opinions as supreme here, nttawwt? You're paying for the platform...
Also, do you think Messi and all the world's men who play soccer are children? You're huffing your own farts writing that, maam.
@Money Manger Thanks for your response. Do you think the commenter we're talking about is "in bad faith"? Some kind of bot? I do have some things I can do to defend this space.
That take on the France v Spain game has been repeated all over. If that kind of comment deserves censorship then the GOP talking points repeated here regularly also need to go.
Like Money Manager, I too have noticed comments copied from other sites but in my naivety I thought that it may be the same person posting here.
"If that kind of comment deserves censorship..."
The censorship would be for "bad faith": "We do delete some comments, but not for viewpoint... for bad faith."
That is, are you someone who is not really in the role of a commenter participating in a comments section but something else, for example a bot, but also someone whose aim is to ruin this forum. That would include going off topic on a post that isn't an open discussion like this one. I don't censor for point of view or just for the foible of being unoriginal or boring.
If you’d been allocated $100mn of the SpaceX 2056 bonds, you’ve turned $100mn into $90.7mn in less than a month.
Around -10% return in a month. If this was a positive number fund managers will be out in force proclaiming the annualized return to be 120%
On $25bn issuance that is a cool -2.5bn loss. Someone somewhere is sitting nursing these losses.
I will say this about soccer. Its incredibly astoundingly boring on the radio. I was driving around trying to listen to spain v. france and i just turned it off. Baseball is actually better on the radio. Probably because you can visualize almost everything.
Plus USA TV announcers for the world cup are incredibly bad, have to watch the sport with sound off.
“ The Chancellor of UC San Francisco testified under oath that a "vast majority of pregnancies are in women." Implying some pregnancies occur in men.
When asked directly whether a non-biological woman has ever had a baby, he refused to answer.”
“If that kind of comment deserves censorship then the GOP talking points repeated here regularly also need to go.“
Seriously! God knows there are no lefty woke socialist DEM talking points repeated here regularly that need to be censored…
"Bookmarked. You are out on a long skinny limb here."
Trump is going to spout some lies with zero evidence. MAGA is going to cheer. Trump’s lawyers will refuse to repeat his claims in court.
Nothing will happen. MAGA will cheer.
@Ann, I doubt it was a bot. The aptness of comments repeated are too apt to be machine-driven. I assumed it's just someone finding content elsewhere and wanting to sound clever here, but I'm not sure.
For example, I'd ask the poster above : SpaceX '56s are trading around 90. Some of the drop is due to spread widening, some to higher treasury rates. Could you expand ?...
SpaceX '56s at ~90 reflect a combo of higher Treasury yields (30y near 5.1%) and material spread widening (long end +20-30+ bps since the 1.75% issue spread). Long duration amplifies the move amid capex/AI spend concerns, though the debut deal was heavily oversubscribed. Typical rate + credit repricing in the new issue.
Maybe you can appreciate the satire in this article from Alphaville.
The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley ~ FT
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/519203ca-d0fd-45d0-9097-5a5c2f2339ba
"I mean, I absolutely do not care about soccer."
We'll get along just fine.
Iran is starting to piss off its few allies:
“ Even the Chinese are losing patience with the Iranians. On Friday, their Foreign Ministry spokesperson told the Iranians to knock off the attacks on international shipping and get back to the MOU. Sounds like the Chinese prefer secure oil supplies to chaos and the Imam Mahdi.”
American Greatness essay: https://amgreatness.com/2026/07/15/the-trump-trap/
What to make of the fact that it's being talked about but doesn't respond? Maybe it *is* a bot.
@IEE, spot on. The '56's came at +175 credit spread and are now trading at +220. 30Y T is up 15-20 bps. You are no bot.
Alphaville is a morning must-read. Sometimes I wonder why I pay for FT since Alphaville is free.
“Iran is starting to piss off its few allies:“
Iran is only a problem, because the U.S. and Israel made it one.
The US needs to accept, whether they like it of not, that, thanks to Trump's actions, Iran now owns the Strait of Hormuz.
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...
“Iran is starting to piss off its few allies:“
"Iran is only a problem, because the U.S. and Israel made it one."
And over again.
"I assume that he will also demand that the eight GOP congressman that were seated on the exact same ballot also be removed."
You don't really understand how elections work, do you?
Here's a hint: "Congressional Districts."
The walls are closing in on Iran. They're finished Dude, Just like Putin.
Big news in the Badger State: A bipartisan panel of Wisconsin election officials voted to refer Elon Musk for criminal prosecution for attempting to bribe voters in advance of the 2025 Supreme Court race.
Billionaire Elon Musk likely broke Wisconsin law when he handed out $1 million checks to voters in the 2025 state Supreme Court election, a bipartisan panel has found.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week referred two complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s office, which can choose to bring criminal charges over violating the state law against election bribery. Prosecutors have 40 days to report back to the commission.
The complaints, which are confidential under state law, were brought by voters in Milwaukee and Green Bay, which is in Brown County. Musk handed out checks at a rally there just days before the election.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, consisting of three Democrats and three Republicans, voted 5-1 in closed session on Thursday to refer the complaints to the district attorney, the commission’s spokesperson, Emilee Miklas, said.
Brown County District Attorney David Lasee, a Republican, did not immediately return a message seeking comment Tuesday.
The motion approved by the elections commission said it found probable cause that Musk broke Wisconsin law by making a social media post offering $1 million to people who voted in the Supreme Court election “in order to induce them to vote in that election.”
So, Democrats in Winsconsin are doing "Lawfare" to destroy their "enemies" by any means neccessary.
And D's think that's great. what are we supposed to do with these sort of people. Start a civil war? Kill them? what you want motherfuckers? Tell me. You want Spain 1936?
Argentina won. Thank God. I want a fun finale. And England would've lost 1-0.
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