Friday, March 6, 2026
How come there are still 5.75 million more foreign born in the United States in Feb 2026 than when Trump was president the first time?
I used peak ! foreign born under Trump I in Mar 2019 just to be fair!
Thursday, March 5, 2026
GOP-controlled US House and Senate both cede war power to the president, shirking their constitutional duty
Republicans claim to be against more wars, but they let them happen anyway.
House rejects war powers resolution to rein in Trump on Iran
... The vote was 212-219, with four Democrats joining Republicans to torpedo the measure and two Republicans joining Democrats in voting for the measure. The Senate shot down a similar measure on Wednesday. ...
War powers vote fails in the Senate, allowing Trump to continue Iran strikes
... The measure, brought by Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and Rand Paul, R-Ky.,
faced steep odds and was largely symbolic even if it passed — Trump is
almost certain to veto any bill aimed at decreasing his authority to use
the military. The vote was 47-53, under the 50-vote threshold needed to
advance the resolution. ...
Speaking of crazies from Texas, Republican Representative Dan Crenshaw has lost his primary and ain't comin' back
Dan has public opinions about what are the worst features of contemporary Christianity, which I imagine have not endeared him to the anti-woke warriors of recent ascendancy.
Texas Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico thinks the constitution's main features are bugs and imagines a past which never existed
James also believes in 6 genders and abortion rights for trannies, among other lunatic things.
Kristi Noem fired, replaced by a plumber lol
Trump says he will replace DHS Secretary Kristi Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin
Now he's poaching from the thin Republican majority in the U.S. Senate. Brilliant. Just Brilliant.
Jobless claims continue at the four year lows in 2026, at 216k on average in February
Claims have averaged between 216k and 224k on an annual basis starting in 2022.
We haven't had a monthly average number at or above 300k since Jan 2022.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Private payrolls in Feb 2026 continue an anemic trend
The additions in the last year average just 26,500 per month.
The U.S. and Israel pulled the Iran war trigger when they did because intelligence revealed the opportunity to decapitate the regime in one fell swoop
Let's hope that this time they are successful in eliminating Iran's nuclear capabilities once and for all.
Last Monday [Feb 23], Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called President Trump
with a stunning tip: Iran's supreme leader and his top advisers were
all set to meet at one location in Tehran on Saturday morning [Feb 28].
They could all be killed in a single devastating airstrike, Netanyahu told Trump and his team, according to three sources briefed on the discussion. ... The Feb. 23 call — held from the White House Situation Room and unreported until now — was a pivotal moment that set the Iran war in motion. ...
On Friday at 3:38 p.m. EST, [Trump] gave the final order. Eleven hours later, bombs fell on Tehran, Khamenei was killed and the war had begun. ...
... According to a Financial Times report, almost all of the Iranian capital’s traffic cameras were secretly tapped. ...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Keystone Kash strikes again
... The removals have cost the Justice Department and FBI decades of combined experience in identifying the types of threats that sources say could appear in the wake of Operation Epic Fury. ...
Former Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein says he is worried about hidden secret leverage in the nearly $2 trillion shadow banking market after Blue Owl shut a fund and MFS collapsed
... “One has to worry about opaque assets where there’s illiquidity,” he told Bloomberg in a separate interview. “We’re getting close to the end of late stages of cycles on this and we’re due for a kind of a reckoning.” ...
China expected to expand submarine fleet to 80 by 2035, up to half nuclear-powered, from 60 now, more than half of which are diesel-powered
... Brookes cited a Pentagon projection that China’s submarine force will reach 80 vessels by 2035, about half of them nuclear-powered—up from the current estimated fleet of more than 60 subs, most of which are less capable diesel-powered vessels that have a shorter range of movement and must surface more frequently than nuclear-powered ones. This projection has appeared in past Pentagon annual reports on China’s military power. ...
Monday, March 2, 2026
COVID-19 infection peaks in the U.S. overall have been trending steadily less severe since Jan 2024, with the last two only in the high, not the very high, range
The regional data taken individually is more erratic.
Ruh-roh, sign of a top
Since 2020, the number of low- and moderate-income investors has
increased 2.7 times, or 167%, according to new research from the
BlackRock Foundation and Commonwealth.
In that time, factors including increased access to investment
information and additional cash through Covid-19 stimulus packages
helped those individuals to invest. ...
Sunday, March 1, 2026
Saturday, February 28, 2026
SPX return since August 2000 vs. Jan 1871-Jul 1982
Aug 2000-Jan 2026: 8.19% pa / 5.53% real
Jan 1871-Jul 1982: 8.15% pa / 6.18% real
Jul 1982-Aug 2000: 18.99% pa / 15.28% real
Friday, February 27, 2026
Oh Gee, who could have predicted another hot inflation number?
Core wholesale prices rose 0.8% in January, much more than expected
The not-seasonally-adjusted increase in Jan 2026 was 3.58% year over year and a whopping 1.037% on a monthly basis.
Wholesale prices climbed at an average rate of 3.3% in 2025 under Trump, higher than either 2023 or 2024 under Biden, with no let up in sight.
Totalitarian DHS wants total information awareness about you, and got it illegally 42,695 times from the IRS
How many violent criminals and terrorists do you think file tax returns, vote, and collect welfare?
Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data
... DHS officials have defended the data-sharing agreement as necessary to crack down on illegal immigration. “Information sharing across agencies is essential to identify who is in our country, including violent criminals, determine what public safety and terror threats may exist so we can neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter rolls, and identify what public benefits these aliens are using at taxpayer expense,” DHS said in a prior statement. ...
Just wait until Democrats run this operation against gun owners and see how you like it.
CNBC doesn't mention that the dollar rallied in the last month along with bonds and gold
Gold heads for seventh straight monthly gain on safe-haven demand
... The metal has climbed 6.5% so far in February, bringing gains for the seven months to a whopping 58%. ... The benchmark 10-year yield fell to a three-month low on the day, decreasing the opportunity cost of holding non-interest-paying gold. ...
Let me fix that for you: Incompetent U.S. military under cowboy Pete Hegseth shoots down our own Border Protection drone in Texas BY accident
Why do Reuters and CNBC bend over backwards to obscure who did what to whom?
U.S. military shoots down government drone in Texas accident, Reuters sources say
The U.S. military shot down a government drone with a laser-based anti-drone system, an accident that prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to bar flights on Thursday in an area around Fort Hancock, Texas, congressional aides told Reuters.
Congressional aides told Reuters the Pentagon used the high-energy laser system to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone near the Mexican border, in an area that often has incursions from Mexican drones used by drug cartels.
The Pentagon, Federal Aviation Administration and Customs and Border Protection issued a statement saying the military used a “counter-unmanned aircraft system ... to mitigate a seemingly threatening unmanned aerial system operating within military airspace.” ...
CBP deployed the laser technology this month to reportedly take down four suspected cartel drones, despite warnings from the FAA that the technology had not been deemed safe to use in the same vicinity as commercial flights, an aide told Reuters, adding agencies told them the laser had never before been deployed domestically.
Two weeks ago the military used this laser, and missed!
US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say
Thursday, February 26, 2026
The stupid maggots are all up in arms at Senate Majority Leader John Thune as if he's responsible for stopping the Save Act when it's four Republican senators who have effectively killed it
Trump did not win a mandate in 2024, otherwise we wouldn't have this constant recourse to gimmicks to pass things by razor thin margins.
It's as obvious as the nose on your face to everyone except Trumpist dunderheads.
Thune declares ‘talking filibuster’ dead
Of course Democrats weren't going to stand up for Trump
As if Democrats are supposed to step and fetch it.
Trump desperately wanted that photo, and didn't get it.
Miranda is such a ding dong.
Meanwhile among those who actually watched the speech, this SOTU had the lowest percentage rating it very positively of any of Trump's previous SOTU addresses.
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
It's only a matter of time before Mexican drug cartels attack north of the border with drones
How cartel members are getting drone training in Ukraine
... Some cartels have turned to drones to help strike rival compounds, and even dropped grenades on other drug strongholds in the country. ...
The 2026 US Men's Olympic hockey team had a combined 2025-2026 income of $226.5 million because they were all NHL professionals
Team Canada had a combined income of $221.1 million.
The 1980 US Men's Miracle on Ice team had a combined income of $0, because they were all amateurs.
Connor Hellebuyck made over $8.25 million this season. Trump's gonna give that guy a medal.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Trump real GDP 2017-2025 underperforms 1929-1984, which includes The Great Depression, by 30.4%
GDPCA CAGR
1929-1984: 3.569%
2017-2025: 2.483%
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