He coulda been a contenda.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FOMC lowers the Funds Rate 0.25 to 4.25 on a vote of 11-1
Trump's new cry baby appointee Stephen Miran voted against it because he wanted a cut of 0.5 instead lol.
Only "one official did not want any cuts, including Wednesday’s."
Story here.
Biden gutted the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by 200k barrels over 12 months in 2022, Trump's been in office 8 months and has done BUPKIS to refill it
Spot WTI averaged nearly $95/barrel in 2022.
In 1H2025 it averaged $68.
The price fell again in August to an average just under $65, too.
Trump could be refilling at cheap prices, but he's too busy with nonsense.
The Dominionist wackos in MAGA allied with Peter Thiel continue to spew falsehood
... Trae Stephens, a Thiel ally and self-proclaimed “arms dealer” who co-founded the drone warfare company Anduril (another warped Lord of the Rings reference), frames his work as part of a quest to “carry out God’s command to bring his Kingdom to earth as it is in Heaven.” Stephens’s wife, Michelle, co-founded ACTS 17 Collective (Acknowledging Christ in Technology and Society), which evangelizes to tech workers and is hosting Thiel’s Antichrist lectures. ...
More.
There is no such command.
Some Christians still understand that:
[Turning Point USA speaker] Leigh-Allyn Baker rallied her fellow parishioners at Conduit Church in Franklin, Tennessee, 20 miles south of the capital, to not let Charlie Kirk’s death be in vain.
In a video the church played for a service Sept. 14, Baker encouraged the audience to speak more boldly and publicly for their conservative values than ever before. ...
Conduit congregants welcomed Baker’s video with whoops, shouts and tears, signaling a shared grief. Among those congregants, one person wore a hat that read: “Pray hard, lift heavy, stay deadly.”
But Christians who are angry over Kirk’s death cannot be violent or retaliatory, [Conduit pastor Darren] Tyler said in his sermon.
“Some of you are angry. Some of you want revenge,” Tyler said. “The Bible speaks very clearly: ‘Vengeance is mine, says the Lord,’” Tyler said. “If you’re thinking about it, I’m rebuking you right now. We do not make Jesus king by force.” ...
Look who's blaming the victims again!
These guys slapped ginormous tariffs on China and now complain China is straining relations.
They also blamed Ukraine for starting the war with Russia.
The chutzpah.
They're painting the left as terrorists for a reason, but they don't have the courage to name them . . . yet
Designated terror organizations can be legally attacked using the US military. They'll do the designating, and then they'll do the attacking.
That's why they are doing this.
That's why they are fascists.
Stop Left-Wing Terror Networks and Their Funding
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Trump is not faithfully executing the April 2024 law which required TikTok to be divested from Chicom ByteDance or be shut down in the United States by January 19, 2025
Biden signs Israel, Ukraine, TikTok bill into law
Oracle and Silver Lake part of TikTok investor group as Trump extends deal deadline [for the fourth time]
Impeach the bastard.
So Tyler Robinson admitted to his trans roommate in text messages revealed today that he used his grandfather's rifle, and that he committed the crime because he had had enough of Charlie Kirk's hatred
Can we move on now from all the broad-brush-stroking, conspiracy theories, and hysteria?
... Several of the messages, which were detailed in charging documents shared with CNBC later Tuesday, contained romantic sentiments.
The roommate told police that, on the day of the shooting, Robinson texted, “Drop what you’re doing. Look under my keyboard,” the documents alleged.
The roommate looked and found a note stating, “I had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I’m going to take it.”
After reading the note, the roommate texted Robinson, “What?????????????? You’re joking, right????”
Robinson replied that, “To be honest I had hoped to keep this secret till I died of old age. I am sorry to involve you.”
The roommate asked, “you weren’t the one who did it right????”
Robinson wrote back, “I am, I’m sorry.”
When the roommate asked why Robinson did it, he replied, “I had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out.”
Robinson also texted that he had been planning the shooting for “a bit over a week,” according to the charging documents.
And he discussed dropping a firearm at the university after fleeing, texting the roommate, “If I am able to grab my rifle unseen, I will have left no evidence.”
He added: “I’m wishing I had circled back and grabbed it as soon as I got to my vehicle, I’m worried what my old man would do if I didn’t bring back grandpa’s rifle.” ...
If you paid attention to NeverTrump, you knew Charlie Kirk was a phony ten years ago, which is why he promoted fellow phony J. D. Vance to be VP
Kirk hated Trump but saw an opportunity, claims ex-employee...
Well no shit.
The GOP today is riddled with sycophants who formerly opposed Trump but support him now. Those of us who supported Trump in 2015-2016 took great pleasure in pointing it out as they came crawling back.
Many who changed their minds about supporting Trump defend themselves today by saying they changed their minds because they were persuaded by reflection on the Trumpist agenda, but none of that is becoming the law of the land today through the GOP Congress. It's all by executive order and lawfare. None of this will last, except for the ka-ching ka-ching.
In Charlie Kirk's case, flipping to Trump has been bery bery good for Turning Point USA, which went from a lousy little $2 million operation in 2015 to an $80 million one by 2022.
I mean, how many dollars will it take before we actually get some of that fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government which it is supposed to promote, seeing that we're headed for a $2 TRILLION deficit by September 30th?
Considering how awful Trump is now on just about everything compared with his first term, it must be that they all flipflopped only for the money, the power, and the influence.
Democratic Socialists of America conduct first poll, find 74% of likely Democrat voters agree with higher taxes, more regulation, and more public ownership of industry
Socialism going mainstream? New poll suggests might be...
... This survey marks the first formal poll the DSA Fund has released — the latest example of the left seeking to professionalize its operations and create infrastructure to build on its recent electoral victories. The organization said it plans to share its findings with hundreds of socialists elected around the country. ...
In the poll, democratic socialists were defined as believing “that the government should take a more active role to improve Americans’ lives. They generally support higher taxes on corporations and high-income earners, support regulations that protect workers and consumers, and want more public ownership of key industries like housing, health care and utilities.” ...
74 percent of likely Democratic voters said democratic socialism comes closest to their viewpoint, while 16 percent said the same of capitalism. A plurality of independent voters and a majority of Republicans said they preferred capitalism.
The survey of 1,257 likely voters nationwide, conducted from Aug. 22 to 24 using web panel respondents, had a 3-point margin of error.
Do you not see what's happening here? The Trump administration is declaring everything it doesn't like to be terrorism in order to justify autocratic repression of it using the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force
The run of the mill narco smugglers from Venezuela suddenly are terrorists under Trump, so they blow them up.
Suddenly the left wing Charlie Kirk critics are being transformed into terrorists, too, so they say they will also destroy them.
Who's next? Where will it end?
J. D. Vance once wanted to stop this underlying basis for neo-con adventurism. Now the chameleon is part of its expansion to include unconstitutional domestic repression.
These people must be stopped.
Monday, September 15, 2025
It's remarkable how quickly people on the right have 86ed the fact that a right wing nut assassinated the top Democrat in the Minnesota House just a few months ago
And I can't find any record of The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan wringing her hands in a column over the dire implications of this assassination for the country like she did for Charlie Kirk's. In June and July Peggy was all about thinking, not emoting. In September she's losing her shit.
A nut killing some Democrats is no reason to lose your head, I guess, but killing a Republican, now that's different.
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