... 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.
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
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.
Saturday, October 18, 2025
Right, right, there's absolutely no reason to think of Trump as king, none whatsoever
Even when his A.I. & Crypto Czar trolls you today, or Trump does in September, or The White House does in February.
This is all nothing more than a joke they keep on telling.
People are right to doubt government data when Trump's Treasury Department under Scott Bessent leads off with this chart crime of September 2025 federal outlays
You can access the Treasury's Monthly Treasury Statement here to see for yourself.
The OUTLAYS BY FUNCTION for September 2025 in the Figure 1 graphic DO NOT ADD UP TO $346 BILLION, as stated.
They add up to $560 billion.
The receipts DO ADD UP, almost, to $543 billion.
That the graphic indicates $544 billion, not $543 billion, is another clue that the entire thing is a tendentiously fabricated interpretation of the data from within the report, obviously.
Well duh.
Meanwhile that "Other" category isn't a Red Flag for nothing!
"Hello! Hey! Yes, you! We're about to pull a fast one! Pay Attention!"
In the end outlays of $560 billion minus receipts of $543 billion = a September DEFICIT of $17 billion, NOT A F^@KING SURPLUS OF $198 BILLION.
They are asking you to deny the evidence of your own eyes, and they know it.
It's a total lie, as in Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
When you can't trust the U.S. Treasury Department, who can you trust?
The upshot is that Fiscal Year 2025 ends with a deficit of $1.973 trillion, far worse than FY 2024's $1.816 trillion . . . by 8.6%.
But the Trump Regime wants you to think the deficit is smaller than in 2024, at $1.775 trillion, that they're cutting spending by closing agencies and departments and firing federal employees, and increasing revenues through tariffs, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and that the Big Ugly Bill is working.
LIES, DAMN LIES, I tell you.
Friday, October 17, 2025
New record highs for gold and silver: $4,378.69 and $54.47
... Spot gold was down 2.2% to $4,228.89 per ounce, after scaling an all-time high of $4,378.69 earlier in the session. ... Spot silver fell 4.1% to $51.99 per ounce, after hitting a record high of $54.47 ...
-- CNBC
Thursday, October 16, 2025
Not sure exactly how high, but gold was higher lol, so was silver
. . . Spot gold was gained [sic] 0.4% per ounce to $4,343.63 per ounce Thursday evening, after bullion touched a record high of $4,330.42 [what?!]. ... Spot silver rose 1.8% to $54.04 per ounce, after hitting a record high of $54.15 earlier in the session. ...
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Updated lol:
Treasury Secretary Bessent says we have to stop the rigged Chicom economy by abandoning free market principles just like them
Trump administration will set price floors across range of industries to combat China, Bessent says
... “When you are facing a nonmarket economy like China, then you have to exercise industrial policy,” Bessent told Sara Eisen at CNBC’s Invest in America Forum in Washington, D.C.
“So we’re going to set price floors and the forward buying to make sure that this doesn’t happen again and we’re going to do it across a range of industries,” the Treasury secretary said, without naming specific industries the administration was looking at beyond rare earths. ...
“I wouldn’t be surprised,” the Treasury secretary said when asked about additional equity stakes. “When we get an announcement like this week with China on the rare earths, you realize we have to be self-sufficient, or we have to be sufficient with our allies.”
The Trump administration will not take stakes in nonstrategic industries, Bessent said. “We do have to be very careful not to overreach,” he said. ...
Equity performance relative to gold in 2025 is seventh worst of all time but notably unique
2025, 2008, 2002, 1979, 1977, 1974, 1973.
... all the other instances of gold outperformance happened in bear markets for stocks or during major economic crises. ...
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