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Gatorubet

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  1. They should be making five or six flamingos a day by now and stockpiling them. The amount of damage a flamingo can do (compared to a long range drone) has to be significant. I am waiting for the day that several of them slam into each of all the major oil refineries.
  2. Somebody in Russia or someplace like that really, really wants me to click on the text message from FedEx where they are trying to reach me because they can’t deliver my package.
  3. I listened to the J-Pow speech and question and answer today in Rhode Island. Orange Turd will be unhappy. In the question and answer, he emphasized that the Fed is not political, and does not make decisions to help or hurt any sides’ political positions. He used different verbiage, but he said that people who attacked the Fed for political reasons are stupid dip-shits. Basically, he said there’s just as much risk from inflation as there is from a slowing economy. He says in this environment, there’s nothing the Fed can do that does not have a risk - because there is risk coming from both the need not to have the economy weaken unnecessarily and the need not to provoke an increase in inflation unnecessarily. The Fed is between a rock and a hard place. On the same drive, before the Powell speech, a Bloomberg analyst was saying the biggest problem right now is not tariffs per se, or immigration policy, but that nobody in business has any idea what to do because everything the administration is doing is challenged in court or up to TFG‘s day-to-day whims. He said that business is fine no matter what happens, as they can plan to deal with the current world realities. But as it stands, business can’t take a position or invest money (say - on building a plant in America to avoid tariffs) if three months from now the Supreme Court says that Trump had no authority to implement the tariffs in the first place. Essentially, Trump has kneecapped the world‘s economy through a combination of uncertainty, child-like hubris resulting in changed positions that are not related to actual trade imbalances, and TACO walk backs. The Narcissist in Chief wants everyone to look at him and hang on his every word. They are. The problem is, everyone listening to him inexorably leads to them saying, “Shit, who knows what’s going to happen. Let’s just sit and wait. no need to hire right now and no need to build.”
  4. Dammit! They were my go-to cheap direct flight N’Awlins to Cancun - that got me checked in my room in Isla and then on Playa Norte swallowing a mojito by 1 p.m.
  5. I forgot to point out the “May” in “May face devastating shortage of workers under Trump immigration crack down”. Even though the content of the article says that all of these rock-rib republican business people have concluded that they are fucked right now - and will be fucked for the foreseeable future... ….like, the Bama media can’t cross that line and actually say TFG’s immigration policies are fucking everyone. That would be a bridge too far in Trumplandia.
  6. Link to the article: https://www.al.com/news/2025/09/alabama-construction-industry-may-face-devastating-shortage-of-workers-under-trump-immigration-crackdown.html At least they have Senator Tuberville to use his giant brain to come up with a solution to this problem.
  7. ???? Wait! Do you mean to say that other weapons we used to sell did not have a “turn off its ability to work when I unilaterally decide they are a shit hole country…or Vlad asks” switch?
  8. I believe Moscow is “the Capital”…. of Russia.
  9. To be fair, Trump promised that grocery prices would come down the first day he’s in office. He never did address prices the second day.
  10. “…and you keep promising checks.” This is really what her biggest political issue is…. ”Please stand behind what you say.” Nanette, good news. Your check should be coming in < checks notes > two weeks.
  11. They didn’t listen to you libtards and their Tesla stock is TO THE MOON!! …back to February’s price….finally
  12. That questionnaire seems slanted to me. Almost like it was designed for negativity. If asked a different way, like: “Do you think the loss of your farm and home will free up your available spare time to better monitor the status of trans athletes unfairly competing against your daughters? With 1 being most positive, and 10 being most negative, how would you rate the extra time to ensure that high school athletics remain divided by God’s two sexes?”
  13. I went to the funeral yesterday of a colleague of over 30 years who passed away from lymphoma. She was an extremely talented and accomplished attorney with a national reputation. Fuck cancer.
  14. I am still gob-smacked by this.
  15. This is the fourth time they’ve hit the one in Samara. i’m glad they also took out the main rail transport infrastructure as well.
  16. 18% is likely made up of people who still have their good job and their 401(k)s are doing great. This too shall pass.
  17. Robert Mitchum disagrees…
  18. What if my $3,500 a month was spent on good booze, friendly women and drugs? Or - like - if I said, “thank you!”? That sum is nowhere near the maximum Social Security benefit because… I started drawing it when Trump was in office the first time. I don’t think it will last till 2034 like they say. Which is why I think there is a possibility that a GOP Congress will require Trump hating ex-pats to be cut off Social Security in order to help efforts funding it. TFG will assume many ex-pats hate him. Because that won’t be far from wrong.
  19. I HATE when that happens..,
  20. Well, it was kinda, sorta, meant to be a metaphor for the great depression. As long as some people are doing well, they will not care if others are not. If everyone is going bankrupt, losing their home, becoming unemployed, not having food or healthcare, etc., there is a greater chance that the now-impoverished electorate will see that it as “us versus the oligarchs” than white folks doing well because invisible boot straps versus “the other”. I guess I’m saying people don’t truly ….appreciate….populist ideas when they have self identified themselves as “I’m gonna be richer than I already am!” When everyone is on the metaphorical bread line it is harder for them to identify with the elite making all the coin on the repossessed home. (left column is political control of the House, right is Senate) Black Tuesday was October 29, 1929. The Democrats picked up 52 seats in 1930, one short of control. Republicans passed the Smoot-Hawley tariffs in 1930, further fucking up the economy and intensifying the Great Depression. Those rock-rib Republicans became populist Democrats when they were all starving and screwed by tariffs with massive unemployment. It may not work this time, but like Obi-Wan Kenobi, it’s my only hope.
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