Yes, as they said in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Don’t Panic.
The modern left is built on hysteria from climate change to Covid to gender ideology to whatever gets the their masses riled up.
I have actually enjoyed seeing all the Canadian politicians from left to right freak out about Trump and the tariffs. The only exception has been Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Love to see the bums that continually give themselves pay raises sweat a bit. Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) have had pay increases from 2020 to 2024. My provincial politicians just gave themselves a big pay raise. Yet, regular Canadians: stupid hosers!
Agree somewhat. In the 1980s and 1990s I found many on the right very disagreeable and nutty. Fast forward to the last 15 years and it is the left. Not true for every person from left to right during the last 40 plus years.
I feel the same but with the caveat being the nutty context that the left and right are an illusion, a fantasy conduit of manipulation for the purpose of inequality-inducing profit.
In other news Taiibi showed he at least still is a student of no holdsbarred financial vehicles in conversation with Matt Stoller. We were worried after a spate of tribal shitposting by Walter Kirn at Whitney Webb. She was causing cognitive dissonance among us oldsters looking for a mcdonalds that still allows those coffee klatches of the 2000's, at least 'leave us alone in our public access livingroom shows!".
Webb has made a 10 years' living by simply tracking those corporate board structures as implicit payment structures of whatever is as good as cash in the circles the 1 percent runs. Be it said, we used to take some news from Frontline documentaries? And I will venture the guesstimated reason now that we donot: will be that somewhere near 2008 Frontline's lawyers forbade their use of those corporate board structures. Look before you will find them, after none.
I'm not that familiar with her. All I've seen is a good job of following the money and who sits on what board and who is related to whom and such. Like Nathan said, stuff that Frontline did decades ago.
I do not watch much financial stuff. Any time I have seen her, like on Joe Rogan or Jimmy Dorr, she is practically shaking with TDS. Seems to me, anyway. I tend to skip over anything where she appears, not because I like Trump, but because TDS is tedious.
Wonderful, yet effing depressing compendium! Except for the dog, which is happy days!
So, if and when Congress does not confirm RFK Jr., Tulsi, and Kash Patel, do you think Congress will be forced to not take any recesses, so Trump cannot make recess appointments? Stay in session for four years, out of spite and revenge? Bwahahaha!
I have seen memes of Bernie in a onesie, and cannot ever unsee them. What a pathetic way to end a career. Warren did not surprise me, she was exactly as she really is. Bernie sure was desperate to not let RFK Jr say how much Bernie got from Pharma.
The horrible crash of the medevac plane in Philadelphia - evidently the Learjet was taking a little girl and her mother to Tajuana, and there were four crew members. Left from a Shriner's Hospital. The company had a similar crash in 2023. I wonder if flying will start to seem iffy.
As a very shallow aside -for some reason, as a person born in Philadelphia, and who lived there until I was twenty years old - annoys me when folks who were NOT born in Philadelphia refer to it as "Philly". Someone would have to pronounce "Schuylkill" correctly on the first try to earn that. Humph. Everybody get off my lawn.
I will file that with not needing to see movies about singers that I grew up with. I am not interested in Timothy Chalamet's version of Bob Dylan, I still have Bob Dylan. Maybe it is the singing that bugs me. And I still love Ray Charles too much to consider watching Jamie Fox act and sing like him.
Some murderous and way too open idiot in Europe is calling for a plan to murder Putin, saying that every EU citizen should be told how murdering Putin would benefit them individually. Masks and
gloves off time, eh? I am a bit worried that Trump is going to wildly overreact to not having Putin and BRICS and China bend the knee. If Trump is so interested in trade, maybe he could drop all the sanctions and see what happens.
Also, in case anyone does not know, Rubio hates Cuba. He is a warmonger. Also, he wrote a book and said his parents "escaped" Cuba. Nope. They merely came here to start a business. No escaping involved. The Cuban community that did escape knows that. So now his parents left Cuba to pursue the American Dream. IMO, Rubio is Trump's worst pick. My hope is that he messes up sooner rather than later, gets dismissed, and has to work for a living because his Senator slot is
gone.
Lovely list, just the right amount of satire, thanks!
My grandson told me that much of the Geneva Convention was based on how nasty Canada was in WWII. Have to look that up.
It's just a feeling, but I think it possible that Trump may have his Only Nixon Can Go To China moment, and actually accomplish something positive with Russia and/or China.
He is doing a good job right now of at least doing SOMETHING to fulfill a bunch of campaign promises, even if sometimes that something will get shot down in flames by the courts or oligarchical interests.
Trump's first couple of weeks stand in sharp contrast to both Obama's and Biden's, where they didn't do much. I remember being disappointed by Obama, and completely unsurprised by Biden. Anyway, it's good politics on his part if nothing else.
Owning the libs is always great for a poll boost. Funny the libs can't figure out it's because most people despise them more than they like Trump.
I quite agree. I am just worried he will bombast himself into a corner that Putin or Xi will not let him get out of with all of his pride intact. And he becomes a loose cannon, with Rubio egging him on. I am actually hoping quite a lot that BRICS does not back down. Part of BRICS' rules is not going along with the thousands of sanctions, I think. Also think it is dangerous to let the dollar run the world, and that is what the US wants and needs, because the US has overextended itself, to put it mildly.
Little Greenland story - in the late 90s, I taught a couple of classes in Aarhus, Denmark, and a woman who kind of looked like she was related to the Inuit (she was) told me at lunch break that Denmark did not really care for the indigenous people of Greenland.
I did not spend much time in Denmark, but I learned a bit about Greenland, a bit about Denmark keeping their own currency because they distrusted Merkel, and saw what a big fat liar CNN is, with my own two eyes. Travel really can be broadening!
The Chinese already made the first move; it was the Deep Seek release. When Xinhua says that the Chinese Premier(not Xi, some other dude) met with the Deep Six CEO to congratulate him, it's a clue.
They wiped out $1.2 trillion in American Big Tech stock in a DAY. The message to Trump is clear: Oh! Look what we just did! Imagine what else we might be able to do. Are you SURE about those tariffs, because we're sure of what we can do. Do you feel lucky, punk?
I think Trump still feels lucky--I mean he's having a great time right now scaring the shit out of Colombia, Canada, and all of those wimpy European countries, not to mention owning the libs--but another attack like that should get through even his thick skull, and those of a few powerful oilygarchs.
We're not done with the hysterics and Trump's enjoyment of them yet.
Yes, as they said in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Don’t Panic.
The modern left is built on hysteria from climate change to Covid to gender ideology to whatever gets the their masses riled up.
I have actually enjoyed seeing all the Canadian politicians from left to right freak out about Trump and the tariffs. The only exception has been Alberta Premier Danielle Smith. Love to see the bums that continually give themselves pay raises sweat a bit. Canadian Members of Parliament (MPs) have had pay increases from 2020 to 2024. My provincial politicians just gave themselves a big pay raise. Yet, regular Canadians: stupid hosers!
The right isn't better than the left, just in a different package.
Agree somewhat. In the 1980s and 1990s I found many on the right very disagreeable and nutty. Fast forward to the last 15 years and it is the left. Not true for every person from left to right during the last 40 plus years.
I feel the same but with the caveat being the nutty context that the left and right are an illusion, a fantasy conduit of manipulation for the purpose of inequality-inducing profit.
In other news Taiibi showed he at least still is a student of no holdsbarred financial vehicles in conversation with Matt Stoller. We were worried after a spate of tribal shitposting by Walter Kirn at Whitney Webb. She was causing cognitive dissonance among us oldsters looking for a mcdonalds that still allows those coffee klatches of the 2000's, at least 'leave us alone in our public access livingroom shows!".
I got the impression that Whitney Webb has a most serious case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Webb has made a 10 years' living by simply tracking those corporate board structures as implicit payment structures of whatever is as good as cash in the circles the 1 percent runs. Be it said, we used to take some news from Frontline documentaries? And I will venture the guesstimated reason now that we donot: will be that somewhere near 2008 Frontline's lawyers forbade their use of those corporate board structures. Look before you will find them, after none.
I'm not that familiar with her. All I've seen is a good job of following the money and who sits on what board and who is related to whom and such. Like Nathan said, stuff that Frontline did decades ago.
I do not watch much financial stuff. Any time I have seen her, like on Joe Rogan or Jimmy Dorr, she is practically shaking with TDS. Seems to me, anyway. I tend to skip over anything where she appears, not because I like Trump, but because TDS is tedious.
She's far bigger than that. None touches her work on Epstein, and her latest work has been following the power of the technocrats.
https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/these-guys-are-the-real-criminals-bitcoin
Love her. Smart lass who keeps her eye on the real levers of power.
Well done!
Wonderful, yet effing depressing compendium! Except for the dog, which is happy days!
So, if and when Congress does not confirm RFK Jr., Tulsi, and Kash Patel, do you think Congress will be forced to not take any recesses, so Trump cannot make recess appointments? Stay in session for four years, out of spite and revenge? Bwahahaha!
I have seen memes of Bernie in a onesie, and cannot ever unsee them. What a pathetic way to end a career. Warren did not surprise me, she was exactly as she really is. Bernie sure was desperate to not let RFK Jr say how much Bernie got from Pharma.
The horrible crash of the medevac plane in Philadelphia - evidently the Learjet was taking a little girl and her mother to Tajuana, and there were four crew members. Left from a Shriner's Hospital. The company had a similar crash in 2023. I wonder if flying will start to seem iffy.
As a very shallow aside -for some reason, as a person born in Philadelphia, and who lived there until I was twenty years old - annoys me when folks who were NOT born in Philadelphia refer to it as "Philly". Someone would have to pronounce "Schuylkill" correctly on the first try to earn that. Humph. Everybody get off my lawn.
I will file that with not needing to see movies about singers that I grew up with. I am not interested in Timothy Chalamet's version of Bob Dylan, I still have Bob Dylan. Maybe it is the singing that bugs me. And I still love Ray Charles too much to consider watching Jamie Fox act and sing like him.
Some murderous and way too open idiot in Europe is calling for a plan to murder Putin, saying that every EU citizen should be told how murdering Putin would benefit them individually. Masks and
gloves off time, eh? I am a bit worried that Trump is going to wildly overreact to not having Putin and BRICS and China bend the knee. If Trump is so interested in trade, maybe he could drop all the sanctions and see what happens.
Also, in case anyone does not know, Rubio hates Cuba. He is a warmonger. Also, he wrote a book and said his parents "escaped" Cuba. Nope. They merely came here to start a business. No escaping involved. The Cuban community that did escape knows that. So now his parents left Cuba to pursue the American Dream. IMO, Rubio is Trump's worst pick. My hope is that he messes up sooner rather than later, gets dismissed, and has to work for a living because his Senator slot is
gone.
Lovely list, just the right amount of satire, thanks!
My grandson told me that much of the Geneva Convention was based on how nasty Canada was in WWII. Have to look that up.
It's just a feeling, but I think it possible that Trump may have his Only Nixon Can Go To China moment, and actually accomplish something positive with Russia and/or China.
He is doing a good job right now of at least doing SOMETHING to fulfill a bunch of campaign promises, even if sometimes that something will get shot down in flames by the courts or oligarchical interests.
Trump's first couple of weeks stand in sharp contrast to both Obama's and Biden's, where they didn't do much. I remember being disappointed by Obama, and completely unsurprised by Biden. Anyway, it's good politics on his part if nothing else.
Owning the libs is always great for a poll boost. Funny the libs can't figure out it's because most people despise them more than they like Trump.
I quite agree. I am just worried he will bombast himself into a corner that Putin or Xi will not let him get out of with all of his pride intact. And he becomes a loose cannon, with Rubio egging him on. I am actually hoping quite a lot that BRICS does not back down. Part of BRICS' rules is not going along with the thousands of sanctions, I think. Also think it is dangerous to let the dollar run the world, and that is what the US wants and needs, because the US has overextended itself, to put it mildly.
Little Greenland story - in the late 90s, I taught a couple of classes in Aarhus, Denmark, and a woman who kind of looked like she was related to the Inuit (she was) told me at lunch break that Denmark did not really care for the indigenous people of Greenland.
I did not spend much time in Denmark, but I learned a bit about Greenland, a bit about Denmark keeping their own currency because they distrusted Merkel, and saw what a big fat liar CNN is, with my own two eyes. Travel really can be broadening!
The Chinese already made the first move; it was the Deep Seek release. When Xinhua says that the Chinese Premier(not Xi, some other dude) met with the Deep Six CEO to congratulate him, it's a clue.
They wiped out $1.2 trillion in American Big Tech stock in a DAY. The message to Trump is clear: Oh! Look what we just did! Imagine what else we might be able to do. Are you SURE about those tariffs, because we're sure of what we can do. Do you feel lucky, punk?
I think Trump still feels lucky--I mean he's having a great time right now scaring the shit out of Colombia, Canada, and all of those wimpy European countries, not to mention owning the libs--but another attack like that should get through even his thick skull, and those of a few powerful oilygarchs.
We're not done with the hysterics and Trump's enjoyment of them yet.
Do you not see Trump as a proxy for the folks behind Project 2025?
Didn’t think that Trump 2.0 would be this fun!