https://www.wsj.com/world/ukraine-starlink-elon-musk-trump-dbc49193
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
The recovery in road travel from the Great Recession peaked in October 2016, and it's been all downhill from there
The Great American Bond Market has sucked since Trump became a politician, and road travel seems to agree.
The moving 12mo total vehicle miles traveled chart is yoy monthly through August 2026. The 10Y chart is rolling 10Y annualized total returns through September 2026, setting a record low in the entire history of the country.
The average car on the road just keeps getting older, now 12.8 years old, another new record
I bought my newest car 20 years ago this month lol.
Housing starts are not in a new golden age but are still 2018-ish
These are not pictures of an economic boom.
The economic boom in housing of the 1990s started from the vicinity of the current levels.
Monday, October 19, 2026
Real Clear Politics two weeks out: U.S. Senate Dems +3, U.S. House Dems +23
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/senate/2026/toss-up
https://www.realclearpolling.com/maps/house/2026/toss-up
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Actually Abdul was named for Sir Edmund Hillary just like Hillary wasn't
In other words, if he's a lying sack of shit about something like this, he'll lie about anything.
A mighty and a fearful head they are, As ever offered foul play in a state
-- Henry IV, Part 1 (Act 3, Scene 2)
Trump obviously has dual loyalties but Abdul doesn't?
Trump's loyalty to Putin has paved the way for people like Abdul on the other side.
Our politics is in shatters as a result.
Abdul is a missile aimed straight at U.S. support for Israel on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Why is the hopeful first Muslim senator against U.S. support for Israel?
Because he knows that a defenseless Israel is a vulnerable Israel. It's anti-semitism dressed up as Trump's phony America First malarkey.
As of October 11 the Jewish mayor of Lansing still hadn't endorsed Abdul.
Lansing’s mayor still mulling whether to endorse El-Sayed for Senate
Citing concerns about Israel, Lansing Mayor Andy Schor said he was still debating whether to back Abdul E-Sayed for U.S. Senate despite the two Democrats' private meeting on Friday.
... He pointed to two issues that he hopes to hear El-Sayed “expand upon" publicly.
One was El-Sayed's view on Israel’s right to exist, which El-Sayed has stopped short of embracing. The other was his position on U.S. military support to Israel to defend itself, which he emphatically opposes.
Schor said he didn’t know “yet” if he would endorse El-Sayed. ...
Andy McCarthy calls out Mad King Ludwig and his supine Congress
... “Putin’s war of aggression and hoped-for conquest against Ukraine, like his war of aggression and conquest in Georgia (swaths of which he has occupied for nearly two decades), is part of his quest to reconstitute America’s Soviet enemy,” McCarthy wrote. “And President Donald Trump is giving him aid and comfort.”
McCarthy added, “In a properly functioning republic, there would be immediate hearings about this week’s shocking escalation of the Trump–Putin alliance. Since the start of Trump’s second term, it has been excruciating to watch America’s president blame the victim, our ally Ukraine, for Putin’s war of aggression.”
... “This week, in lunatic public statements … the president again blamed Ukraine for the war and gratuitously insulted Zelensky,” McCarthy said.
... “If we … allow common sense to enter the equation, too many dark signs point in the direction of an American administration — at the very moment it was seeking Ukraine’s capitulation and threatening to leave it defenseless by denying intelligence — taking conscious action that left Ukraine exposed to an intense attack, which Russia just happens to have conducted right at the perfect time,” McCarthy wrote. “This is dark. It demands answers. Now.”
Saturday, October 17, 2026
Hypocrite Elon Musk supported Ukraine in 2022, now he works with Trump to throttle its self-defense
Elon Musk and the Jackass he rode in on both need to go.
Hypocrite Donald Trump makes spectacle of Katie Zacharia to distract from Friday night massacre of the Graham Act against Russia which he signed in September
This story wasn't to be found this morning at pro-Trump Real Clear Politics.
https://www.axios.com/2026/10/17/trump-russia-sanctions
Trump waives broad new Russia sanctions and tariffs under Graham Act, citing national interest
Friday, October 16, 2026
The grand total value of U.S. Treasury securities held by foreigners was up 0.9% month over month and up year over year by 0.9% in August 2026 to $9.33 trillion
Some foreign governments have had to sell U.S. Treasury securities to raise hard cash to buy oil and to support their own currencies during the conflict in the Persian Gulf.
The value of Foreign Official holdings is down about $164 billion year over year in August 2026.
Who will be next week's White House press secretary?
This week's is already done.
Katie Zacharia out as Trump’s White House press secretary
... Zacharia lasted one-half of one Scaramucci. ...
As far as I'm concerned this is an unforgiveable moral stain on the GOP for which every Republican down the ticket deserves to lose in November for failing to speak out publicly against Trump
As if what happened to these two weren't enough.
U.S. Starlink curbs embolden Russia to intensify attacks on Ukraine, minister tells CNBC
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