Wednesday, May 20, 2026

It's hard to keep up with Trump cratering in the polls as he makes another new record low for approval and another new record high for disapproval in the average of the polls at Real Clear Politics

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 39.6% approve 57.8% disapprove  

No Jeff, the bottom 80% should pay zero in income taxes, the top 20% should pay 100% of the income taxes

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  Jeff Bezos says bottom half of earners should pay zero in income taxes The top 20% receive income in excess of $10 trillion. Taxed at 50% ...

Pure market manipulation

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  U.S. crude oil falls below $100 per barrel after Trump says Iran talks in final stages The only thing surprising about any of this is the ...

Trump approval falls again, to another new record low 39.8%

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Hey look, a shot across his bow

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  Trump's Slush Fund Is No Better Than Obama's Washington Examiner   President Donald Trump’s $1.8 billio...

Tom Bevan of Real Clear Politics spews nonsense about Michigan's U.S. Senate contest

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  A 2010-Style Disaster Brewing for Dems in Michigan Tom Bevan, RealClearPolitics   He thinks the Democrat candida...

Jonah Goldberg: Impeachment is still an available political remedy for Trump's serious abuses

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 ... Contrary to thousands of hours of impeachment legal punditry going back to the Nixon administration, a president doesn’t have to commi...

Ann Coulter's favorite candidate to defeat Mitch McConnell six years ago loses again lol

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 Booker defeats McGrath in Kentucky Democratic Senate primary  Charles Booker is projected to win the Kentucky Democratic Senate primary on ...

Elections have consequences as Mad King Ludwig eats his own narrow majority in the U.S. Senate and further alienates it

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   Trump's self-destructive alcoholic personality will only make him more legislatively unsuccessful this year than he has been already....
Tuesday, May 19, 2026

Attention all you weak dollar lunatics

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 Nominal broad dollar index average values Obama II, first year // 1Q second year // April 2014: 92.75 / 94.51 / 93.99 Trump II, first year ...

The total value of all foreign-owned U.S. Treasury securities is up 3.25% year over year in March 2026, and CNBC says Japan and China retreat from owning them

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The big retreat was actually in the BRICS.  The value of Japanese-owned UST is up 5.4% year over year in March, lol. Meanwhile the value of ...
Monday, May 18, 2026

From JMIC Update 46 for Middle East tanker transits May 10-16, 2026: SoH 2.71 per day, BAM 13.57 per day

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Senate Parliamentarian won't let Republicans spend $1 billion through phony reconciliation interpretation to rebuild East Wing destroyed by the MAGA drone in the Oval Office

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    Trump ballroom money in question after Senate parliamentarian rules. Thune says GOP will persist ... Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonoug...

Mein Führer . . . I CAN WALK !!

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   Elon Musk compares his company’s work to that of Jesus ... “It has enabled people who have completely lost their brain-body connection t...

Sheriff says not to worry because no one has told him that he should . . . ROFLMAO

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Florida Keys sheriff urges calm following report Cuban drones could hit Key West   ...  Cuba has acquired 300 military drones ...   ... thou...

A Blue Wave is building in the 2026 Generic Congressional Vote with Democrats now +7.2 points

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As usual politics at the extremes is less about voting for someone and more about voting against someone. All you have to do most of the tim...

Trump Job Approval falls below 40% in RCP Average for first time in 2nd term to 39.9%

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  Trump Job Approval:  Falls Below 40% in RCP Average for First Time in 2nd Term  
Sunday, May 17, 2026

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson (LA-4) was for the ban on insider stock trading in Congress before he was against it

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 My favorite part about his new position is that if we don't allow our representatives to make money somehow, we'll stop attracting ...

The ever-amazing Mr. Trump makes yet another new low in his approval rating in the Real Clear Politics average: 40.1%

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Severe economic contraction incoming

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