Thursday, November 20, 2025
Donald Trump's Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate for September 2025 was 37.56%, higher than his first term average when he averaged 96.4 million eating but not working
The Trump I Dumb Ass Unemployment Rate averaged 37.35% 2017-2020 inclusive.
Through three quarters of 2025 an average of 102.67 million are eating but not working.
I don't make the rules. Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump made the rule.
Not the greatest economy ever, not by a long shot: Full time jobs in Sep 2025 moved sideways with just 49.48% of the population working at one
The data was delayed by the federal government shutdown.
The current level is little better than Sep 2016 at 49.08%.
The rotten apple doesn't fall far from the Alcee Hastings tree, Democrat representing majority-black precincts of Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach under investigation since at least May 2024 finally charged
A federal grand jury charged U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., with stealing $5 million in Covid-19 disaster funds — a chunk of which was then illegally contributed to her 2021 congressional campaign, the Department of Justice said Wednesday. ...
Cherfilus-McCormick joined the House in 2022 after winning a special election that January to fill late Rep. Alcee Hastings’ seat representing Florida’s 20th Congressional District. ...
Cherfilus-McCormick has been under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, the panel revealed in late May.
The Office of Congressional Conduct sent a referral to that committee in May 2024, laying out a number of possible violations. Cherfilus-McCormick “may have requested community project funding that would be directed to a for-profit entity,” the office said in that referral. ...
Perfidious Mad King Ludwig has continued to work behind the scenes with Russia and without Ukraine and the Europeans on a Ukrainian capitulation plan
... Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War said that if the
reports are true, the 28-peace plan would amount to “Ukraine’s full
capitulation and would set conditions for renewed Russian aggression
against Ukraine.”
“The reported proposed peace plan would deprive Ukraine of critical defensive positions and capabilities necessary to defend against future Russian aggression, apparently in exchange for nothing,” the ISW analysts said Wednesday.
They noted it would “give this significant land to Russia — apparently for no specified compromise — sparing Russia the time, effort, and manpower that it could use elsewhere in Ukraine during renewed aggression.”
The ISW concluded that the plan, if verified, showed Russia’s maximalist territorial demands on Ukraine had essentially not changed since the initial invasion in 2022. “This reported peace plan is fundamentally the same as Russia’s 2022 Istanbul demands, which Russia presented to Ukraine when the circumstances on the battlefield appeared to favor Russia more heavily.”
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Megyn Kelly's attempt to soften Jeffrey Epstein's pedophile status is about as advisable as Todd Akin's attempts were to highlight the phony rape claims of women
It's not exactly a politically winning message, even though 34 states in America allow minors to marry with parental and/or court consent, and four set no minimum age by law.
Google AI estimates there were fewer than 2,500 minor marriages in 2018, mostly involving girls.
Epstein liked 'em young too, but he wasn't trying to marry any of them for crying out loud. He isn't called a predator for nothing.
Meanwhile, marriage under the age of 18 is banned without exception in only 16 states and DC, mostly in the northeast with Missouri and Virginia being notable exceptions in the near south.
Is Megyn just doing this for the clicks, or is it symptomatic of having a tin ear?
Why not both?
At any rate, the woman who once confronted Trump in 2015 sure has changed her spots since then.
The guy on the left beheaded a record high 345 people, mostly for non-violent drug offenses, in Saudi Arabia in 2024, but he says he still feels pain for the 9/11 families of America
Trump, Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman brush off criticism of Khashoggi killing
... On Tuesday, bin Salman said, “You know, I feel painful about, you know, families of 9/11 in America. But, you know, we have to focus on reality.”
“Reality based in CIA documents, and based on a lot of documents that Osama bin Laden used Saudi people in that event, for one main purpose, is to destroy this [relationship], to destroy the American-Saudi relation,” bin Salman said.
“It’s really painful to hear .... anyone that been losing his life for you know, no real purpose or ... not in a legal way,” bin Salman said, referring to Khashoggi.
“And it’s been painful for us in Saudi Arabia,” the prince said. “We did all the right steps of investigation ... in Saudi Arabia, and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that. And it’s painful, and it’s a huge mistake, and we are doing our best that this still doesn’t happen.” ...
Trump threatens ABC after reporter Mary Bruce exposes the kabuki dance around the Epstein files
President Donald Trump on Tuesday called for ABC’s broadcast license to be revoked as he angrily lashed out at a reporter from the network who asked why he has not released files on notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his former friend.
“I think you are a terrible reporter,” Trump told ABC News White House correspondent Mary Bruce.
The president said he did not like Bruce’s “attitude.” ...
Trump’s tirade came shortly before the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill to compel the Department of Justice to release all of its records on Epstein.
The DOJ earlier this year refused to release those documents, despite prior promises by Attorney General Pam Bondi and other Trump administration officials.
Trump does not need to wait for Congress to pass a bill. He could order the DOJ to release more Epstein files.
“Why wait for Congress to release the Epstein files?” Bruce asked the president. “Why not just do it now?” ...
Trump has repeatedly called the Epstein matter a “hoax” created by Democrats, even though members of Trump’s Make America Great Again movement were leading advocates for releasing the files. ...
Last week, the House Oversight Committee released emails showing Epstein discussing Trump.
In one email from 2019, Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.”
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
The US House and Senate wanted this Epstein business out of their hands so fast it makes your head spin
So the legislative branch is ordering the executive branch to D O S O M E T H I N G.
The legislative branch ordered TikTok to do something by last January, you'll recall, but the executive and its Department of Justice found a way around that.
They'll find a way around this, too.
The foxes remain in charge of the henhouse.
Monday, November 17, 2025
The fix is in on the Epstein files vote: MoveOn in action
Trump last night reversed himself and said the House should vote to release the Epstein files.
Vote they will, except Speaker Johnson has rigged it so that the vote will be under suspension of the rules.
Which means they don't need a mere majority to pass it. They'll need 2/3 . . . of those present.
It's a 219 GOP to 214 Dem U. S. House.
If they all show up the bill needs 286 Yeas to pass.
Good luck with that.
"See, we voted. But aw shucks, it didn't get enough votes to pass. Oh well, time to move on as Trump said."
Paid liar for DHS Tricia McLaughlin reportedly has a husband who was awarded a megamultimilliondollar no-bid government marketing contract for . . . DHS!
I guess you can watch the propaganda films on Newsmax, which can't spell Affairs lol.
There is so much money to be made in government service with deals like this. It's why the politicians want to win. It's a giant skimming operation which enriches their appointees. No lasting policy achievements are necessary.
The period is also marked by the phony utopianism of the libertarian Americanists who exalt the individual and deny that there are any limits
In their idealism they are little different than Zohran Mamdani.
... The United States is undeniably the beacon of hope for the world because it’s founded on the value of the individual and the ideals articulated in the Declaration of Independence. We believe every person should have an equal opportunity to pursue their dreams and determine their destiny.
For free people, there is truly no problem too big or care too small. Free people don’t wait on a government middleman to solve their problems or redefine what’s possible. ...
More.
The choice isn't between this Americanism and Zohran Mamdani. They aren't really competing visions.
On the contrary, both are impotent in the face of intractable problems.
New York City, with an annual budget of in excess of $100 billion, needs to spend well in excess of $50 billion to fix its water and sewer systems which limit population growth and drive up rents. The place is already $125 billion in debt. In his wildest dreams Mamdani will increase taxes "only" $10 billion, about which they are having a fit.
The so-called free people of the United States also have met problems which are truly too big for them, one in the Black Sea, one in the Red Sea, and one in the South China Sea, about which $38 trillion in national debt keeps them from doing very much.
Every person should have opportunity to determine their destiny, they prattle on, except for the people of Ukraine, of Israel, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, and Taiwan, who will just have to do it themselves. How long does this list have to get before it includes you, too? Or are you on it already?
Their self-indicting answer?
If Elon Musk is a utopian of the right, Zohran Mamdani is one of the left
Musk's is technocratic utopianism warmed over for the chip revolution, Mamdani's is old-fashioned statism:
“New York, tonight you have delivered a mandate for change,” Mamdani said. “A mandate for a new kind of politics. A mandate for a city we can afford and a mandate for a government that delivers exactly that.”
“We will prove there is no problem too large for government to solve and no problem too small for it to care about,” he added.
More.
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
-- Ecclesiastes 1:9
Sunday, November 16, 2025
Saturday, November 15, 2025
Trump hits new second term low -17 in Rasmussen Reports Trump Approval Index
It's been a story of a bad week just getting worse every day in this Trump-friendly poll.
People are in a foul mood in the aftermath of the government shutdown, which ended on Wednesday.
But it could be a lot worse.
Trump's all time low in this poll was -26 on 3 August 2017, after the U.S. Senate had just days earlier failed to overturn Obamacare and then recessed for August without one legislative accomplishment in Trump's first year in office to date.
Still, Democrats this week failed to get what they wanted from the shutdown on the Obamacare tax credits, which is a victory for Trump and should be showing up more positively in this poll, but it is not.
Trump has been his own worst enemy this week, AGAIN!, defending H-1B visas because America doesn't have enough talent in his opinion, defending foreigners and especially Chinese taking up seats in America's college classrooms, gaslighting about consumer inflation coming down, and handing out bonus money like water to air traffic controllers and DHS employees who kept working during the shutdown.
But Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, now on Trump's shit list, caused an uproar this week because she said the increases in Obamacare premiums in 2026 are going to wreak havoc on her constituents. Trump promptly kicked her off the plantation after she appeared on The View to talk about it.
Maybe the politics of Obamacare tax credits have flipped for the GOP rank and file and Trump and the Republican elites are going to be the last to know about it.
Owner-occupied housing is in short supply, in part because of pandemic-related panic-buying by 5.4 million in 2020, not because of a post-pandemic illegal alien surge under Joe Biden
... we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens ... Under the Biden administration, the price of a new home literally doubled in four years. ...
-- The ever-ridiculous J. D. Vance, here
Hysteria is everywhere on this issue.
Owner-occupied housing is hardly higher today than it was at the 2020 peak.
Buyers became hysterical in 2020, seeking isolation. Vance is hysterical in 2025, playing immigration politics. The Fed went hysterical in 2008 slashing interest rates, and it took fourteen years and pandemic-related inflation just to get them to snap out of it.
The Fed's ZIRP after the Great Recession drove down mortgage interest rates to sub-five percent, averaging less than three by 2021.
As everyone knows, when you lower the long term price of a mortgage, you can "buy more house".
That's the major culprit driving prices higher, making housing more expensive, that and the 2-year rule. It took more than a decade of zero interest rate policy to bring us to this pass. It has not been and will not be remedied overnight, especially by its new cheerleaders in the Trump administration.
Cutting interest rates will only make housing more expensive.
New housing is indeed soaring, but people need to get a grip. The median sales price of all housing in the United States is up 30% since 2020, not 50% like it was in the five or six years right after 2008.
A better government tax policy on housing is called for. The biggest problem is that the mere 2-year owner-occupancy requirement for capital gains tax exclusion has turned housing into a commodity since 1997. It was a big mistake to make housing so fungible. The answer lies in applying the brakes to that, so that the emphasis is on housing as a home as opposed to as a speculative investment driving prices for all types of homes irrationally higher.
The old policy allowed the exclusion only once in a lifetime. You sold your house when you retired and enjoyed life living off the proceeds mostly tax-free, usually in a down-sized arrangement or as a renter. Otherwise during your working life, when you had to sell to move, you had to purchase at least sideways, or up in price so that your gains went into the new place, not into your pocket. That's how housing became such a tempting source of pent-up capital in the first place. There was an incentive to maintain a ladder of housing values upon which people could move more freely, mostly up but also down.
We need to go back to some form of that arrangement.
But our leaders seem to have no imagination for it. They can't see that what we did in 1997 was a revolution. A bad revolution.
Sad!
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