Sunday, October 26, 2025
The president's tariff retaliation against Canada is purely out of personal pique and is a tyrannical abuse of power
The Congress has the tariff authority, not the president, according to the constitution, and needs to reign in the powers it has delegated to the executive if it cares what is good for the country.
65% of the country disapproves of the GOP-controlled Congress.
Saturday, October 25, 2025
As Mad King Ludwig speeds a carrier strike group from the Med to the Caribbean, American failure to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea is highlighted by the latest Suez Canal navigation report for 3Q2025
It's a picture of dismal failure.
The U.S. Navy has not made the Red Sea safe for free trade.
The Houthis remain a potent threat to shipping.
3Q2025 statistics compared with 3Q2023 show the number of ships transiting the Suez Canal down 49.8%.
Net tons passing through is down 65.8%.
Incompetent ICE is full of sound and fury, signifying nothing: DHS estimates only 600,000 to be deported by the end of Trump II's first year, and even some of that is phony
They're wasting their time, energy, and taxpayer billion$ tracking down individuals when they should be cracking down on the employers, but that would take a native intelligence which Trump administration morons like Stephen Miller do not possess.
They're also alienating and energizing the opposition at the grass roots all across the country to turn out and vote against them in November 2026, which is one of the most politically stupid moves of these dunderheads to date.
It's almost like they're being paid by George Soros to do it.
Reported here:
... The Department of Homeland Security says that it has deported more than 400,000 people since Mr. Trump took office, and that it expects to deport 600,000 in total by the end of Mr. Trump’s first year in office.
Still, those numbers are slightly misleading. The Trump administration counts people who are turned back at the border and other ports of entry as “deportations,” even though they have never lived inside the United States.
Earlier this year, Stephen Miller, Mr. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, met with senior ICE leaders in Washington and discussed ways to pick up the pace of enforcement. Soon after, he appeared on Fox News and said the agency would try to hit a goal of 3,000 arrests a day.
Since the summer, the agency has typically arrested more than 1,000 people a day. ...
Three more years of 1,000 people a day would amount to just over 1 million deportees, out of 11 million or more illegals in country.
Friday, October 24, 2025
Lying Trump will never rise to the level of Reagan, let alone of any other president
If Reagan were alive today, he'd reject Donald Trump and his trade war against the whole world, including and especially against our friends and allies in Canada.
Reagan's full remarks from April 1987, excerpted by Doug Ford in the ad, are shown below.
One man is about to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Venezuela
The more the Uniparty changes, the more it stays the same.
Bush invades Iraq. Putin invades Ukraine. Trump invades Venezuela.
Expect Xi to invade Taiwan at any minute.
One big happy family of invaders, carving up the world.
90% of all stocks are owned by the top 10% by wealth in America, so naturally the market is setting new records on persistently higher inflation
They make their money raising prices on the 90% beneath them, who MUST be fed the narrative that inflation is "mild".
Wouldn't want to tell the truth and start a revolution or anything.
Stonks been bery bery good to Chico.
Core cpi inflation year over year in September 2025 coming in right between volatile food and energy is not comforting
Core cpi inflation year over year in September 2025 was 3.0%, a rate 52% higher than the 1.97% average rate under Trump I.
Food yoy was 3.1% and energy yoy was 2.8%.
None of this is good news!
The energy inflation rate year over year under Trump I averaged 1.2%, under Trump II in September 2025 it is 2.8% or 133% higher
It averaged nearly 10% under Joe Biden, so there's that, but prices are still rising off that!
I hope you didn't leave the lights on at home, because the electricity will cost you 38% more in September 2025 than it did under Trump I
Electricity averaged $0.136 per kWh under Trump I.
And that stop for gasoline on the way to work is going to cost you 34% more than under Trump I
Gasoline used to average $2.49 per gallon under Trump I.
Under Trump II in September 2025 it's $3.34, 34% more.
Don't forget to turn down the thermostat before you leave for work after your 66% more expensive Trump breakfast
Piped utility gas used to average $1.04 per therm under Trump I.
Under Trump II it's $1.61 in September 2025, 55% more.
Can you afford even to wake up to Trump?
Coffee hits new all time high in September 2025 of $9.14 per pound, 111% higher than it used to be.
Coffee averaged $4.33 per pound under Trump I.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
National Debt hits $38 trillion
Nov 21, 2024: $36.034T
July 4, 2025 ONE BIG UGLY BILL
Aug 11, 2025: $37.004 T
Oct 21, 2025: $38.019 T
Obamacare's chickens have come home to roost!
David Dayen should have entitled this The Planned Failure of Obamacare Is Now Upon Us.
The Health Insurance Cost Crisis Is Now Upon Us
... We should be clear that this premium apocalypse is a function of returning Obamacare subsidies to where they were in the original version of the law. That was poorly designed to target the middle class with bearing the bloat in the health care system, and no work was done on basic health plans or other public options at the state level. (A federal public option was stripped from the legislation by the threat of that exemplary moderate, Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman, to withhold his support unless it was dropped.) Now, Democrats are effectively warning that a return to their original vision of Obamacare spells doom. (And what we’re really talking about is how much the government should send to private insurance companies, a horribly inefficient way of ensuring health for American citizens.) ... The ACA was seen as a “starter home” that could be built on, and Democrats built on it. It’s Republican neglect that is taking the wrecking ball to it, with all the political fallout on their backs. ...
Yes, Obamacare was the enemy of the middle class, making it "bear the bloat". Communists have always hated the middle class because the middle class stands in the way of the revolution. Obamacare was designed this way on purpose, by Democrats and Obama who were the communists we always said they were. Senator Max Baucus rightly called it what it was, income redistribution.
Premiums have steadily risen along with deductibles, to the point that everyone pays their premium, then pays out of pocket, no one ever reaches their deductible, and the plan never pays anything. Most people never reap any benefit under Obamacare. Now premiums will explode without the subsidies, making dropping it more attractive than ever.
And No, Republicans had no duty to "build" on Obamacare. It was rammed down their throats in the first place. No Republicans ever voted for this goddamn commie boondoggle.
The best thing which could happen right now is for the millions imprisoned in this system to opt out of it and let Obamacare implode. That would force the Congress back into the corner it was in in 2009.
Not one more penny should be spent to prop up this system which benefits only the insurance companies. Can you say Luigi Mangione?
Obamacare should be repealed, and nothing done to replace it. It would be painful, but it is the only way.
In the aftermath, someone will start to sell real insurance again out of the ashes, and the current greedy bastards of the insurance industry will scramble to follow them as they lose business and market share. That, the capitalist option, is the only public option which makes any sense, but currently that is against the law.
Just repeal it.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
The presidency is reduced to a mere product under Trump
GOP senators have lunch with the president at The White House and leave with swag.
One nutball era takes over where one left off: Trump's big ugly bill had no money in it to replenish the Strategic Oil Reserve gutted by Joe Biden, at a time when WTI is half the price it was in 2022
US seeks 1 million barrels of oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve
... The
previous administration of former President Joe Biden sold record
amounts of oil from the SPR, including a 180-million-barrel sale after
Russia, one of the world's top oil producers, invaded Ukraine in 2022.
The reserve, which has about a 700-million-barrel capacity, is now
holding nearly 409 million barrels. ...
Trump's tax and spending bill included about $171 million for the SPR oil purchases and maintenance, much less
than the $1.3 billion that had originally been in the legislation.
Buying more oil for the SPR will likely require the passage of new
legislation. ...
Buying a million barrels is a drop in the bucket. Maintenance costs are eating up most of the $171 million. Joe Biden reduced the reserve by 244 million barrels during his tenure.
A reserve of 600 million barrels would run the country for only 30 days in a real emergency, max.
We are governed by imbeciles, who think we currently have about 50 national emergencies.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Gold and silver sell off after gold scaled an all-time peak of $4,381.21 on Monday
... Spot gold was down 5.5% to a one-week low of $4,115.26 per ounce as of 01:45 a.m. EDT (1745 GMT), its steepest fall since August 2020. ... Spot silver dropped 7.6% to $48.49 per ounce. ...
Story here.
These two pixies John J. Waters and Adam Ellwanger can't point to one thing which Democrats have achieved which Donald Trump has permanently reversed or topped
... By the time Obama secured his second term as president, the Democratic party (and the shadow groups that swim in its wake) had won the day on virtually every issue that mattered. This victory was largely due to their focus on doing and creating things rather than thinking about them. ...
Democrats owned the world of things and the real-world effects of their policies – however incoherent – were evident to all. An underlying premise of the Trump campaign was a return to things. To infrastructure. To clean streets and safe cities. To American-made products. And to historic landmarks and monuments that memorialize America’s greatness for future generations. Trump recognized that conservative ideas are meaningless until we rebuild the material conditions where they can be achieved. ...
More.
There isn't one thing in the room with us right now, and there won't be.
We are three weeks into a government shutdown and Congressional Republicans are completely OK with these precious legislative days just thrown into the dumpster of history without accomplishing anything.
The US House isn't even in session, and hasn't been in session now but for 3 of the last 16 weeks, and this will likely extend to 17, 18, who knows how many weeks. Some people are predicting to Thanksgiving.
The GOP won't swear in Democrat Adelita Grijalva, elected on September 23rd, because they fear Republican Thomas Massie's Epstein gambit.
Donald Trump's GOP is a farce.
Monday, October 20, 2025
Health experts and recent research agree that standard time with its earlier sunrises and sunsets is better for numerous aspects of health
Story here.
Daylight saving time ends Nov 2 and begins again on Mar 8, 2026.
In your guts you know he's nuts
Here.
And no, we're not afraid of him. We just loathe him, that's all. He's not one of us.
If we have to vote Democrat for the first time in our lives to stop him, we will. If Russell Kirk could do it in 1976, so can we. William F. Buckley Jr championed Democrat Joe Lieberman in 1988. If Gavin Newsom can support Thomas Massie in 2025, we can also be tactical in 2026. It doesn't mean we're getting married. Dividing political power intentionally is the genius of America. It's only ideologues who think you are who you vote for.
That others saw through this fraud long before us is to their credit. We should learn from them. It is no shame to be mistaken, only not to learn from one's mistakes.
The country is only marginally in Trump's hands. He can be defeated easily a year from now, and he must be.
Conservatism has always been counter-revolutionary.
After a phone call with Putin, Mad King Ludwig is back to his crazy self and again wants Ukraine to surrender to the Russian invader
Trump is a disgrace.
His administration can't end soon enough.
Sunday, October 19, 2025
Since the ceasefire, Hamas has killed at least 32 fellow Gazans who do not support them
. . . Since the ceasefire took hold, Hamas has killed at least 32 people in a wave of killings meant to target anti-Hamas clans that had surged in the Strip.
More.
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