Markets just closed for Thursday. CNBC reports with glee that the Dow Jones surrendered a "big chunk" of Wednesday's gains. They could've said that the two-day gain in the Dow netted investors a 1,948-point surge in value. Both assessments are correct, but the media always aims to reduce the psychological edge that any good news may provide to Donald Trump.
Congratulations to Mr. Shallhoob for sounding the alarm regarding local inaction by our elected officials. Clearly, the BOS and respective City Councils have taxpaying property and business owners as being way down on their priority list. Ironic, given we pay the majority of taxes paid to city and county coffers. Typically, those representing the homeless, illegal migrants, renter unions, bike lobbyists, environmentalists, LGBTQ activists and public unions seem to get the majority of our elected officials attention.
Enough already!
Our Congressman, Salud Carbajal has recently made a series of videos posted on social media. Repeatedly, I have asked him “what are you doing for homeowners, small business owners and taxpayers?”
Pull up chair, or maybe even put in some tent stakes because, if you're waiting for Garbajal (yes, Garbajal...Garbage-jal), you'll be waiting a while. The only thing he knows how to do is waste our money, time, and resources.
Re Jerry Shalhoob: You're right, Jerry, Bonnie Donovan is a local treasure. There's another thing your own wonderful business does which is respect your customers and listen to them. Our City Council Members show zero respect in that regard.
Re: Harold J. Baer: The Democrats aren't just ignoring their duty to stop violence, they're calling for violence against Trump and Musk and in the most disgusting way. James Carville says that Trump supporters shouldn't be treated like Nazi collaborators were, but *could* be treated that way. Gee, Carville, what a noble distinction.
Re: Jeff Barton: Beautiful. My question: have you ever had a near-death experience? It's wonderful - provided you survive and get good therapy for PTSD :-). But it does put everything in perspective. Before I had a near-death experience I thought facing my own mortality would make me regret things I'd done badly, or not done well enough. But no. All I feel every moment, even the most annoying or boring moments is Wow! I'm alive! Fantastic!
Re: J. Livingston: Long-term thinking is not a part of TDS. The people I know who have TDS don't care about long-term finance, or long-term progress of any sort or long-term relationships and are willing to sacrifice everything to maintain the one long-term thing that holds them together - their hatred of Trump.
As usual you nailed it, especially with regard to the incompetence and denial with people who have TDS. It is, sadly, a real mental disorder. Sometimes I actually feel bad for these people.
I guess you haven’t heard TDS is what maga republicans are infected with. That’s why they act the way they do. It’s in the first two words “trump derangement”. You’re right it’s a real mental disorder and we do feel sorry for the maga republicans that are infected as there doesn’t seem to be a cure. The maga’s believe every dangerous lie and comment trump and his administration spew, they take it as gospel, without question.
Hey now, Julia, I have always been very respectful with you, even though we had some words a few months back. I have refrained from commenting negatively in response to some of your comments, even though I felt they were disrespectful to others. Please share the same respect with me and avoid being snarky when I'm not even speaking with you. I don't appreciate your response and you know full well that TDS does not refer to Republicans, regardless of how conservative they are. You know that the term TDS is the opposite.
"A bill was recently introduced to the Minnesota legislature to categorize 'Trump derangement syndrome' as a mental illness. The proposed bill defines the syndrome as characterised by 'verbal expressions of intense hostility toward' Donald Trump and 'overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting [Trump] or anything that symbolizes [Trump].'”
I don't know if I actually even support this bill. I think there is enough hostility in the political warfare we have had going on for the past decade that I don't believe adding a mental disorder to the DSM-5-TR is beneficial to either party or any human being.
But Julia, it has to start with us. We are clearly on opposite sides, but we can still treat each other with respect even though we don't agree with one another. I hope you feel the same way and, if not, we can still agree to disagree.
No didrespect intended. I was expressing my right to free speech. Is this not allowed here any longer? I didn’t curse which I don’t normally do anyway. What you call snarky I call sarcasm or humor, although not a lot of people get my humor. magas don’t seem to have a sense of humor. Also, I do distinguish between maga republicans and conservatives Republicans, the GOP. Remember, when they were the grand old party? Well, Maga killed it off.
If I offend anyone they’re welcome to let me know. I don’t mean when I disagree with someone, that’s not offensive that’s just a difference of opinion. I do agree to disagree.
I know about the legislation in Minnesota. I couldn’t believe it when I first heard it on the news. In fact, there’s a lot of politicians, trying to get their bills passed with regards to some of trumps ridiculous ideas, to get in trumps good graces trying to gain favor. If, by some reason it passes, can you imagine the court cases? There would be so many defamation and slander cases in the courts that they wouldn’t be able to take care of real legal cases. Do you think insurance companies would cover this?
Do you remember the word “Woke”? It started out as a very positive word meaning you were informed and you knew what you were talking about and what was going on in the world. Remember, when the magas and Fox Entertainment gave it a completely different meaning? Well, turnabout is fair play, don’t you agree! So to me someone with TDS means they are in trumps cult of Irrational thinking and actions.
Thank you Mrs. D. You are right, it is a real mental disorder. I'm not as good a person as you are, though, because I only feel sorry for myself for having to del with them.
Haven't had time to read the comments today, but here is something that I think all patriots should know about the UNconstitutional, Illegal, tRUMP administration:
Citizens for Ethics & Responsibility in Washington
On February 10th, a federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration failed to comply with the “plain text” of his ruling.
On March 13th, a federal judge ordered federal agencies to offer reinstatement to fired federal employees—which the White House press secretary called “absurd” and “unconstitutional.”
In March of last year, JD Vance said he thought the president should defy the Supreme Court if they tried to stop him from firing federal employees.
It looks like the administration is laying the groundwork to flout court orders—but the mere question of whether it will is testing our constitutional order. If the administration follows through on these threats, then the judicial branch and the public must hold them accountable.
You mean “locked up” like in your 5150/Lefty crew? Yep, totally unhinged bc Doge has exposed what grifters the left is! Now y’all are all butt-hurt cuz you got busted and the jig is up!
MTN: Trump Caves (CAVES) on Tariff Policy, Announces 90-Day Pause After Market Rout
In a major policy reversal (that is...he lied), Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping reciprocal tariff plan following a steep market decline and mounting investor concerns. The sudden shift comes after days of economic turbulence, with stocks plunging and fears of a broader slowdown intensifying.
WaPo: As egg prices soared at supermarkets, so did producer profits.
The numbers: The nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine, announced quarterly profits of $509 million yesterday. In 2021, before the avian flu outbreak, it averaged $5 million per quarter.
Why? The company more than tripled its prices, while receiving tens of millions of dollars in government relief for bird flu. Smaller farms have struggled.
And what is the tRUMP administration doing about this after his bold claim that "egg prices and GROWsirEEEEEEE prices would come down on day one? The moron lies to his MAGAT cult and they just lap it up.
Mr. Buckley, are you saying that God is on our side? I'm gun-shy of attributing celestial intervention in terrestrial matters. Who's responsible for the 45% give-back today? The Lord's mysterious ways often come with a lot of twists and turns we're not aware of except down the road in retrospect. Life and religion overtime has taught me that God is in His heavens, all is right with the world - in "good" times as well as "bad" times.
Well what's so good about Wall Street? What has it done other than serve mammon? Has Wall Street created a more moral and just society? Or does it simply fill the coffers of the elites whilr producing nothing of value.
WaPo: After Trump self-congratulates on lowering egg prices, eggflation soars!!
Despite Trump’s chest-thumping, egg prices averaged around $6.23 in March.
What did you MAGAT cult members expect? That trump would keep his promise of lowering GROWsirEEEEEE prices on day one??! LOL at you fools who just can't get your noses out of this fat man's ass.
Harry Baer doesn’t seem to be pleased that the Democrats are not speaking out about poor Elon and his Teslas and the violence against them. So he would like for all these people causing violence to Elon and his Teslas be rounded up, arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced?
Why? They did that with the violencec caused by the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists, what good did that do? Will Trump come in and just wipe all that out and release them and pardon them? Probably not since those perks are only for magas not Democrats. So like I said, it would be a waste of time.
Let's take time out to answer this cultish weirdo.....
Julian Ciaha
So you are pissed off that Trump/Musk have been transparent and have eliminated alot of corruption and wasteful spending of your tax dollars by the federal government?? You would have prefered if a CIA cut out like USAID was allowed to continue to waste tens of billions of your tax dollars on dubious projects that bring no b enefits to the USA or end up going missing like the 100 billion dollars USAID gave Ukraine? Or scam projects that have made certain well connected Democrats, their families and close friends millions of dollars via kickbacks and money laundering of your tax dollars? You would prefer that going on? Do you actually believe that the US federal government was not bloated and corrupt and wasteful?
My reply to the MAGAT cult member Julie Ann:
LOL Julie Ann! Have you seen the lies Doge has tried to put in front of the public to make it look like they are saving us money? One huge lie that I really enjoyed was when they came out and said that, by eliminating some agency, they saved us 8 BILLION dollars. Ooooops, it was only 8 million dollars dog gone it. And if you think that was just a tiny, inadvertent oversight, well then you are just an inadvertent Putin-Loving, Traitor-Loving, democracy-hating fool. You think these assholes are transparent?? LOL!!!
What Doge (Doggie) is doing is cutting the heart out of America. You don’t fire those in charge of our nuclear arsenals right genius? You don’t fire the shit out of the VA or the Department of Education, right genius? You don’t fire AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL employees so that as many planes as possible will fall from the sky, idiot. And only a heartless, sick, twisted, piece of trash, vermin would smile with glee at the cuts made to USAID.
Let me guess…from reading your post, I betcha anything that you think disinfectant injections cure COVID and that Ukraine started the war with Russia and that trump only hires the very best people. One thing I will give you…and that’s that trump DOES INDEED understand the word GROWsirEEEEEeeeezzzzzzz far better than the Dems.
I also will bet you that you got all moist and horny when The Mango Mussolini gave his microphone a blowjob after ranting on and on about Arnold Palmer’s massive penis size, right? GROWsirEEEEz…duh…er….uh…..DOI….It’s sorta like the word “us” and the abbreviation “U.S.”….get it? See one is a word that sorta means “all of us” and “U.S.” means like uh….well the United States WHICH IS all of US!!!! Get it? I didn’t know that before. Isn’t it strange? I bet you didn’t know that, right? And though it is so strange…. at the same time it is sorta beautiful. So simple…so old fashioned….god I love myself!
Hey I got an idea! Let’s help trump sell his bibles made in China, his stupid trading cards, his ripped up suit, and then support dozens more TesleR commercials on the White House Lawn!! And after that we should all meet up and reminisce over how this ASSHOLE incited an angry mob to raid the Capitol where they wanted to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, injure or kill as many officers as was necessary to gain entrance into the voting arena, steal an election won by Joe BIDEN and LOST by the LOSER Turd Magoo, cause as much damage as possible, and smear their feces all over the walls of the halls of Congress. Are you up for that? Can you bring the popcorn??
Julie Ann…in conclusion….all I wonder is how can you support a rapist, racist, SERIAL LYING, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, democracy-hating, constitution-hating, Putin-Loving, Un-Loving, Orban-Loving, Xi-Loving, Musk-Loving, ALLY-HATING, wounded vet hating, suckers and losers hating, narcissistic, deep pile of dung traitor?
Well little Jeffie Barfton....the real problem is with the parents like you who neglect their own kids and leave it up to the teachers to do their job. You, in particular, are quite pathetic and any kid that has to have you for a parent is going to be very disadvantaged. One thing I will give you and that is this: At least YOU don't want to have sex with your daughter like the Fat Fuck Trump.
Harv, been hitting the sauce again? Inspired by Harris? Shouldn’t drink and post. When you read this stuff in the morning you may be embarrassed. From this day forth I will call you Harvey Wallbanger.
Well, Little Jeffie PukeBoy, since we know that SuperMAGAT Peter Hegseth is the only sick, twisted, drunkard around here, clearly there would be no booze left for me to even drink, right?
And holy fuck...how embarrassing is your last dumb-as-a-rock sentence? I'd say shame on you, but sociopaths don't feel shame. Are you 8 yet?
Amazing what a moron you are Harv. Seriously, you are a Teacher? With our kids? No wonder our kids are hurting so bad, ya having an ideological wack job like you…what could go wrong?
Fascist Trump TDS cult members like you LT are a curse on America. Why do you hate democracy? (Is LT short for LitTle?)
By the way...I teach your kids because parents like you ignore them or worse, fuck them up so badly with trumpian style double-speak. How wonderful America would be without you and your Putin-Loving, insurrectionist-Loving, MAGAT cult sycophants.
I have a request: Would you consider going to DC and turn yourself in as a gang member (even though you aren't) so you could be deported to an El Salvadoran gulag to be tortured for the rest of your miserable life? Don't worry...we will try to get you back (just kidding, our racist hands are tied...sorry)...
You don’t know me or my kids, idiot. Seriously, does the parents of your students know what an unhinged pervert you come off as? SBUSD know? Oh that’s right, they promote and give cover to loser trash like you.
Of course I know you and your kids. You are a MAGAT sycophant with no morals and your kids are seriously disadvantaged to have someone like you who loves a racist, rapist, serial lying president who hates democracy. Will you raise your kids in Russia since you are so much in love with their murderous dictator while hating our ally Ukraine?
I really hope none of your kids get kidnapped by a trumpian ICE POS and taken to an El Salvadoran gulag to be tortured for the rest of his/her life because of some ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR. Ya see, people like you claim to be decent...but you are merely BenedictDonald treasonous lap dogs. Maybe it's past your jail time so why don't you just say "good night" because you are far too stupid to keep up with someone who received an education in logic, reasoning, mathematics, and political science and so can ferret out any anti-democracy, America hating fool like you in a heartbeat....... (Recall, trump LOVES the uneducated!)
Stop the press! LT actually spelled "Ummm" correctly! With your minute understanding of the English language and your recent lobotomy...THAT is some accomplishment, son.
"Trump opponents were quietly wishing for a robust 'sell-America' rout in hopes of embarrassing the administration and pressuring him to choose between Wall Street or his program touting (economic) regime change. They were actively hoping for a liquidity crunch which would lead to a Federal Reserve intervention not to Trump's liking."
No not at all. I'm into the stock market and would have to be as crazy as a cult member if I wanted a sell-off. All Felon Trump's opponents want is for the Constitution and the Rule of Law to be followed by this illegal administration. Trump is traitor among other things (like rapist, racist, SERIAL liar, disinfectant injection promoting, pussy grabbing, double-fisted-insane-psycho-sickening-masterbation-FREAK dancing Moron etc etc etc etc.)
See, all we want is for anybody engaging in insurrection to be kicked out of office as we canNOT have a leader of our democracy who tried to overthrow our democracy. Trump is an adjudicated rapist AND insurrectionist. We should all be thanking Jessica Denson for her tireless work in getting donOLD trump's illegal and unconstitutional butt out of office . (BTW, have you noticed that the cult is no longer discussing how awful it is to have an ancient man in the White House? Why is that? We all clearly see that the babbling word salad puke in the White House now is clearly on an exponential trip down Sundowning Street.)
So...no....trump's criminality doesn't have anything to do with market sell offs etc (well, unless he is doing some insider trading on HIS economic decisions. And knowing this cheating bastard, I have no doubt he is probably doing just that). His criminality is, of course, demonstrated in the 4 slam dunk criminal cases he would have been easily found guilty of in a heartbeat, but he lucked out and had less than half the country thinking he was ACTUALLY their LORD (sent by GOD!)..... ....Translation....about half this country, for some reason, ended up voting for a Putin-Loving, All Dictator-Loving, insurrectionist loving ("Those Patriots were just VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE who love America and were just peacefully protesting in a LOVE FEST where they were led into the Capitol by very loving police officers"), gay hating, trans hating, democracy hating, double-fisted-masterbation-freak-dance-loving, vaccination hating, serial lying, moron whose most important agenda items included the very very necessary, costly, stupid renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, the dumping of the Department of Education (he insists he loves the UNeducated of the U.S.), hiring a stooge to cut funding from children's cancer research, cut the VA, cut environmental protection agencies while racing at top speed out of the Paris Accord ASAP, and to gut Medicaid, Social Security, and any regulation put on business to STOP their polluting.
Of course MelonHeadMusk had to lie about saving 8 BILLION when it was only 8 million, but anybody associated with trump are abject liars to the core. Rudy Giuliani, James Comer, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Traitor Greene, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Kash Patel, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, TUCKER CARLSON, (ick), Spineless Mike Johnson, Jellyfish Jim Jordan, couch fucking, childless cat lady, and dog and cat eating JP Mandel, etc etc are detestable people who, if left unchecked, WILL destroy this once great country.
Just remember when trump mocked a disabled reporter, ridiculed the 5 Star family of a deceased soldier, was disgusted having to be on stage with a disabled veteran, not showing up to a veterans cemetery because he didn't want his hair messed up and besides, these buried brave vets were just suckers and losers to this Captain BoneSpurs, draft dodging, waste of flesh. This paragraph would be 2 miles long if I continued on this path so let's move on....
The most important thing to the MAGAT crew these days is that awful Zelensky, who is fighting like hell to save his people who are getting bombed by THE INVADER Putin, DARING not to grovel and give thanks (for the 233rd time) to the Sociopath and his VP JP Mandel AND.....gasp......NOT WEARING A SUIT!!!!!! (You know...just like Kid Rock and Elon Musk always wear the proper attire while in the White House). The entire cult is a gaggle of hypocrites. <-----Sweet Mustard Loving Jesus....do NOT get me started on their hypocrisy or we'll be here all year.
And, before those in the MAGAT population start labeling me as having TDS, you need to understand that the only people who have TDS are those who raided our Capitol, hit cops on the head with fire extinguishers, punctured them with sharpened flag poles, tried to hang Mike Pence and murder Nancy Pelosi and who shit all over the walls of the halls of Congress. Are we clear on that? Now...what many of you are, indeed, afflicted with is TTTDS (Total Traitor Trump DEVOTION Syndrome) which is, unfortunately, incurable EVEN with daily disinfectant injections. Sorry....
When you mentioned in Bonnie's article about the "number of 'days off' council members enjoy," reminds me of a lot of past observations of some engineers. I made it a work hobby of observing engineers in the area of (1) making progress or lack of any progress, (2) the level of enthusiasm, (3) the display of self-importance vs. actual work results performed and so on and so forth. One thought that entered my mind during my observations was what appeared at times the possibility of an innate human property ... and that is doing as little as possible to just get by.
I have to hand it to many city workers to take in the maximum amount of pay with the least amount of work. City political hacks compared to any other workers I've observed are a sort of minimalists. I understand why they frustrate me because I feel I'm opposite, wanting to do the best I can no matter what I'm paid. Very different mindset involved between "them" and us. I very much believe why the do-little-as-possible Dems are flustered with Trump is because of what I call the "Trump Dynamic." Dems in DC have never experienced a high-level go-getter such as Trump, a successful businessman. Trump is the solo-guy getting things done while the Dems sit in committees getting nothing done. Someone like Bernie Sanders, a truly empty vessel, has to be incredibly intimidated by the Trump/Musk go-getters. Bernie can't stand to compare himself against achievers, the achievers make him feel worthless. Bernie backs the non-achievers such as himself, the innate non-performers out there.
Bill, speaking of days off, were you aware that the number of days trump has been in office, 1/3 of those days have been spent on the golf course, love how he works so hard for us. Everyone loves the economy and they are over joyed about the stock market.
Keep in mind Julia, especially presuming you might be a creative type like Trump, it doesn't matter where he thinks up stuff. When I worked at Litton Aero Products, I worked at home except for Fridays ... picked up my paycheck and I liked to let others know I was still alive. My company didn't care where I physically worked as long as I was cranking out circuits. The VP of engineering figured I was getting three times the amount of work done at home. Where you work means absolutely nothing, unless you happen to have to be flipping burgers at McDonald's for a living. Someone with a "brain job" is another story. I doubled my salary at Litton Aero Products in five years, plus got a few "toys" for hanging around.
One other note, Bill Foley which I believe is still a resident of Hope Ranch, works out business dealings on the golf course. His net worth is now $2.7B, started bigtime by receiving a company (Fidelity National Title) for payment of his legal services. Tell your kids to be a lawyer.
Bill, Why do you assume they’re not? FYI, don’t worry about trump not getting days off to relax. He also has time to attend UFC events. He knows what’s important to him. Oh, he’s also working on that shower head low flow problem. Once he fixes those showerheads, our economy will be great and inflation will be down. He shouldn’t be saying America first, with him. It’s trump first.
LOL, Julia about the showerheads. What your concern should be is how Trump is going to have America make all the parts for things that China is producing. Now there's a good question I'd like to have an answer to. Don't you find it interesting for decades China, and enemy, has produced about everything we use in our daily lives? China loves our dependency on them. Better stock up on appliances, such as washers and dryers. Home Depot limits the purchase of two of the same appliances per person. It will soon be the manufacture of wash boards and the use of clotheslines for drying. Oh darn, the rope for the clothesline is made in China!
The Fed employees seem to operate as if they were working in a bank. The Fed money needs to be separated from the workers as much as possible ... starting with a dedicated building which controls the money supply.
Markets just closed for Thursday. CNBC reports with glee that the Dow Jones surrendered a "big chunk" of Wednesday's gains. They could've said that the two-day gain in the Dow netted investors a 1,948-point surge in value. Both assessments are correct, but the media always aims to reduce the psychological edge that any good news may provide to Donald Trump.
Congratulations to Mr. Shallhoob for sounding the alarm regarding local inaction by our elected officials. Clearly, the BOS and respective City Councils have taxpaying property and business owners as being way down on their priority list. Ironic, given we pay the majority of taxes paid to city and county coffers. Typically, those representing the homeless, illegal migrants, renter unions, bike lobbyists, environmentalists, LGBTQ activists and public unions seem to get the majority of our elected officials attention.
Enough already!
Our Congressman, Salud Carbajal has recently made a series of videos posted on social media. Repeatedly, I have asked him “what are you doing for homeowners, small business owners and taxpayers?”
I am still waiting for a response.
Pull up chair, or maybe even put in some tent stakes because, if you're waiting for Garbajal (yes, Garbajal...Garbage-jal), you'll be waiting a while. The only thing he knows how to do is waste our money, time, and resources.
Re Jerry Shalhoob: You're right, Jerry, Bonnie Donovan is a local treasure. There's another thing your own wonderful business does which is respect your customers and listen to them. Our City Council Members show zero respect in that regard.
Re: Harold J. Baer: The Democrats aren't just ignoring their duty to stop violence, they're calling for violence against Trump and Musk and in the most disgusting way. James Carville says that Trump supporters shouldn't be treated like Nazi collaborators were, but *could* be treated that way. Gee, Carville, what a noble distinction.
Re: Jeff Barton: Beautiful. My question: have you ever had a near-death experience? It's wonderful - provided you survive and get good therapy for PTSD :-). But it does put everything in perspective. Before I had a near-death experience I thought facing my own mortality would make me regret things I'd done badly, or not done well enough. But no. All I feel every moment, even the most annoying or boring moments is Wow! I'm alive! Fantastic!
Re: J. Livingston: Long-term thinking is not a part of TDS. The people I know who have TDS don't care about long-term finance, or long-term progress of any sort or long-term relationships and are willing to sacrifice everything to maintain the one long-term thing that holds them together - their hatred of Trump.
As usual you nailed it, especially with regard to the incompetence and denial with people who have TDS. It is, sadly, a real mental disorder. Sometimes I actually feel bad for these people.
Mrs. D
I guess you haven’t heard TDS is what maga republicans are infected with. That’s why they act the way they do. It’s in the first two words “trump derangement”. You’re right it’s a real mental disorder and we do feel sorry for the maga republicans that are infected as there doesn’t seem to be a cure. The maga’s believe every dangerous lie and comment trump and his administration spew, they take it as gospel, without question.
Hey now, Julia, I have always been very respectful with you, even though we had some words a few months back. I have refrained from commenting negatively in response to some of your comments, even though I felt they were disrespectful to others. Please share the same respect with me and avoid being snarky when I'm not even speaking with you. I don't appreciate your response and you know full well that TDS does not refer to Republicans, regardless of how conservative they are. You know that the term TDS is the opposite.
"A bill was recently introduced to the Minnesota legislature to categorize 'Trump derangement syndrome' as a mental illness. The proposed bill defines the syndrome as characterised by 'verbal expressions of intense hostility toward' Donald Trump and 'overt acts of aggression and violence against anyone supporting [Trump] or anything that symbolizes [Trump].'”
I don't know if I actually even support this bill. I think there is enough hostility in the political warfare we have had going on for the past decade that I don't believe adding a mental disorder to the DSM-5-TR is beneficial to either party or any human being.
But Julia, it has to start with us. We are clearly on opposite sides, but we can still treat each other with respect even though we don't agree with one another. I hope you feel the same way and, if not, we can still agree to disagree.
Mrs. D
No didrespect intended. I was expressing my right to free speech. Is this not allowed here any longer? I didn’t curse which I don’t normally do anyway. What you call snarky I call sarcasm or humor, although not a lot of people get my humor. magas don’t seem to have a sense of humor. Also, I do distinguish between maga republicans and conservatives Republicans, the GOP. Remember, when they were the grand old party? Well, Maga killed it off.
If I offend anyone they’re welcome to let me know. I don’t mean when I disagree with someone, that’s not offensive that’s just a difference of opinion. I do agree to disagree.
I know about the legislation in Minnesota. I couldn’t believe it when I first heard it on the news. In fact, there’s a lot of politicians, trying to get their bills passed with regards to some of trumps ridiculous ideas, to get in trumps good graces trying to gain favor. If, by some reason it passes, can you imagine the court cases? There would be so many defamation and slander cases in the courts that they wouldn’t be able to take care of real legal cases. Do you think insurance companies would cover this?
Do you remember the word “Woke”? It started out as a very positive word meaning you were informed and you knew what you were talking about and what was going on in the world. Remember, when the magas and Fox Entertainment gave it a completely different meaning? Well, turnabout is fair play, don’t you agree! So to me someone with TDS means they are in trumps cult of Irrational thinking and actions.
I still think we need to be respectful toward each other. So I will leave it at, we agree to disagree here.
Mrs. D, I will try my hardest to be on my best behavior.
Thank you Mrs. D. You are right, it is a real mental disorder. I'm not as good a person as you are, though, because I only feel sorry for myself for having to del with them.
😂😂 you got me there! It's harder sometimes than other times for sure!
Re: Jerry Shalhoob’s counter to News Media’s distortion of facts.
What a breath of fresh air among the never ending smokescreen of Big News Media’s prejudiced blather.
Thanks a bunch! Buddy 👍
Thank you Joan, for your intelligent, insightful comments,
Haven't had time to read the comments today, but here is something that I think all patriots should know about the UNconstitutional, Illegal, tRUMP administration:
Citizens for Ethics & Responsibility in Washington
On February 10th, a federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration failed to comply with the “plain text” of his ruling.
On March 13th, a federal judge ordered federal agencies to offer reinstatement to fired federal employees—which the White House press secretary called “absurd” and “unconstitutional.”
In March of last year, JD Vance said he thought the president should defy the Supreme Court if they tried to stop him from firing federal employees.
It looks like the administration is laying the groundwork to flout court orders—but the mere question of whether it will is testing our constitutional order. If the administration follows through on these threats, then the judicial branch and the public must hold them accountable.
Court orders are not optional. It’s that simple.
J. Livingston continues to be a local treasure with her honesty, wit and brilliance!
LT
Aren’t treasures meant to be kept on the shelf behind glass, or under lock and key? Asking for a friend.
Jules,
You mean “locked up” like in your 5150/Lefty crew? Yep, totally unhinged bc Doge has exposed what grifters the left is! Now y’all are all butt-hurt cuz you got busted and the jig is up!
MTN: Trump Caves (CAVES) on Tariff Policy, Announces 90-Day Pause After Market Rout
In a major policy reversal (that is...he lied), Donald Trump has announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping reciprocal tariff plan following a steep market decline and mounting investor concerns. The sudden shift comes after days of economic turbulence, with stocks plunging and fears of a broader slowdown intensifying.
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WaPo: As egg prices soared at supermarkets, so did producer profits.
The numbers: The nation’s largest egg producer, Cal-Maine, announced quarterly profits of $509 million yesterday. In 2021, before the avian flu outbreak, it averaged $5 million per quarter.
Why? The company more than tripled its prices, while receiving tens of millions of dollars in government relief for bird flu. Smaller farms have struggled.
And what is the tRUMP administration doing about this after his bold claim that "egg prices and GROWsirEEEEEEE prices would come down on day one? The moron lies to his MAGAT cult and they just lap it up.
Mr. Buckley, are you saying that God is on our side? I'm gun-shy of attributing celestial intervention in terrestrial matters. Who's responsible for the 45% give-back today? The Lord's mysterious ways often come with a lot of twists and turns we're not aware of except down the road in retrospect. Life and religion overtime has taught me that God is in His heavens, all is right with the world - in "good" times as well as "bad" times.
David,
Well, it has more to do with "God" avoiding the complete disaster Kamala would have been than supporting Trump. That's working in "mysterious" ways.
...More like "miraculous" ways!
"The Left vilifies Wall Street and “corporations”
Well what's so good about Wall Street? What has it done other than serve mammon? Has Wall Street created a more moral and just society? Or does it simply fill the coffers of the elites whilr producing nothing of value.
For once I agree with you, Theo.
WaPo: After Trump self-congratulates on lowering egg prices, eggflation soars!!
Despite Trump’s chest-thumping, egg prices averaged around $6.23 in March.
What did you MAGAT cult members expect? That trump would keep his promise of lowering GROWsirEEEEEE prices on day one??! LOL at you fools who just can't get your noses out of this fat man's ass.
Harry Baer doesn’t seem to be pleased that the Democrats are not speaking out about poor Elon and his Teslas and the violence against them. So he would like for all these people causing violence to Elon and his Teslas be rounded up, arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced?
Why? They did that with the violencec caused by the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists, what good did that do? Will Trump come in and just wipe all that out and release them and pardon them? Probably not since those perks are only for magas not Democrats. So like I said, it would be a waste of time.
Let's take time out to answer this cultish weirdo.....
Julian Ciaha
So you are pissed off that Trump/Musk have been transparent and have eliminated alot of corruption and wasteful spending of your tax dollars by the federal government?? You would have prefered if a CIA cut out like USAID was allowed to continue to waste tens of billions of your tax dollars on dubious projects that bring no b enefits to the USA or end up going missing like the 100 billion dollars USAID gave Ukraine? Or scam projects that have made certain well connected Democrats, their families and close friends millions of dollars via kickbacks and money laundering of your tax dollars? You would prefer that going on? Do you actually believe that the US federal government was not bloated and corrupt and wasteful?
My reply to the MAGAT cult member Julie Ann:
LOL Julie Ann! Have you seen the lies Doge has tried to put in front of the public to make it look like they are saving us money? One huge lie that I really enjoyed was when they came out and said that, by eliminating some agency, they saved us 8 BILLION dollars. Ooooops, it was only 8 million dollars dog gone it. And if you think that was just a tiny, inadvertent oversight, well then you are just an inadvertent Putin-Loving, Traitor-Loving, democracy-hating fool. You think these assholes are transparent?? LOL!!!
What Doge (Doggie) is doing is cutting the heart out of America. You don’t fire those in charge of our nuclear arsenals right genius? You don’t fire the shit out of the VA or the Department of Education, right genius? You don’t fire AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL employees so that as many planes as possible will fall from the sky, idiot. And only a heartless, sick, twisted, piece of trash, vermin would smile with glee at the cuts made to USAID.
Let me guess…from reading your post, I betcha anything that you think disinfectant injections cure COVID and that Ukraine started the war with Russia and that trump only hires the very best people. One thing I will give you…and that’s that trump DOES INDEED understand the word GROWsirEEEEEeeeezzzzzzz far better than the Dems.
I also will bet you that you got all moist and horny when The Mango Mussolini gave his microphone a blowjob after ranting on and on about Arnold Palmer’s massive penis size, right? GROWsirEEEEz…duh…er….uh…..DOI….It’s sorta like the word “us” and the abbreviation “U.S.”….get it? See one is a word that sorta means “all of us” and “U.S.” means like uh….well the United States WHICH IS all of US!!!! Get it? I didn’t know that before. Isn’t it strange? I bet you didn’t know that, right? And though it is so strange…. at the same time it is sorta beautiful. So simple…so old fashioned….god I love myself!
Hey I got an idea! Let’s help trump sell his bibles made in China, his stupid trading cards, his ripped up suit, and then support dozens more TesleR commercials on the White House Lawn!! And after that we should all meet up and reminisce over how this ASSHOLE incited an angry mob to raid the Capitol where they wanted to hang Mike Pence, murder Nancy Pelosi, injure or kill as many officers as was necessary to gain entrance into the voting arena, steal an election won by Joe BIDEN and LOST by the LOSER Turd Magoo, cause as much damage as possible, and smear their feces all over the walls of the halls of Congress. Are you up for that? Can you bring the popcorn??
Julie Ann…in conclusion….all I wonder is how can you support a rapist, racist, SERIAL LYING, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, democracy-hating, constitution-hating, Putin-Loving, Un-Loving, Orban-Loving, Xi-Loving, Musk-Loving, ALLY-HATING, wounded vet hating, suckers and losers hating, narcissistic, deep pile of dung traitor?
The schools will hire any idiot to teach our children. It is no wonder they can't do math at grade level.
Well little Jeffie Barfton....the real problem is with the parents like you who neglect their own kids and leave it up to the teachers to do their job. You, in particular, are quite pathetic and any kid that has to have you for a parent is going to be very disadvantaged. One thing I will give you and that is this: At least YOU don't want to have sex with your daughter like the Fat Fuck Trump.
Harv, been hitting the sauce again? Inspired by Harris? Shouldn’t drink and post. When you read this stuff in the morning you may be embarrassed. From this day forth I will call you Harvey Wallbanger.
Paging Harvey Wallbanger…last call!
Again...I will give you this LT...At least YOU don't want to have sex with your daughter like the Fat Fuck Trump.
Well, Little Jeffie PukeBoy, since we know that SuperMAGAT Peter Hegseth is the only sick, twisted, drunkard around here, clearly there would be no booze left for me to even drink, right?
And holy fuck...how embarrassing is your last dumb-as-a-rock sentence? I'd say shame on you, but sociopaths don't feel shame. Are you 8 yet?
Amazing what a moron you are Harv. Seriously, you are a Teacher? With our kids? No wonder our kids are hurting so bad, ya having an ideological wack job like you…what could go wrong?
Fascist Trump TDS cult members like you LT are a curse on America. Why do you hate democracy? (Is LT short for LitTle?)
By the way...I teach your kids because parents like you ignore them or worse, fuck them up so badly with trumpian style double-speak. How wonderful America would be without you and your Putin-Loving, insurrectionist-Loving, MAGAT cult sycophants.
I have a request: Would you consider going to DC and turn yourself in as a gang member (even though you aren't) so you could be deported to an El Salvadoran gulag to be tortured for the rest of your miserable life? Don't worry...we will try to get you back (just kidding, our racist hands are tied...sorry)...
You don’t know me or my kids, idiot. Seriously, does the parents of your students know what an unhinged pervert you come off as? SBUSD know? Oh that’s right, they promote and give cover to loser trash like you.
Of course I know you and your kids. You are a MAGAT sycophant with no morals and your kids are seriously disadvantaged to have someone like you who loves a racist, rapist, serial lying president who hates democracy. Will you raise your kids in Russia since you are so much in love with their murderous dictator while hating our ally Ukraine?
I really hope none of your kids get kidnapped by a trumpian ICE POS and taken to an El Salvadoran gulag to be tortured for the rest of his/her life because of some ADMINISTRATIVE ERROR. Ya see, people like you claim to be decent...but you are merely BenedictDonald treasonous lap dogs. Maybe it's past your jail time so why don't you just say "good night" because you are far too stupid to keep up with someone who received an education in logic, reasoning, mathematics, and political science and so can ferret out any anti-democracy, America hating fool like you in a heartbeat....... (Recall, trump LOVES the uneducated!)
Ummm, someone go fetch a butterfly net!
Stop the press! LT actually spelled "Ummm" correctly! With your minute understanding of the English language and your recent lobotomy...THAT is some accomplishment, son.
"Trump opponents were quietly wishing for a robust 'sell-America' rout in hopes of embarrassing the administration and pressuring him to choose between Wall Street or his program touting (economic) regime change. They were actively hoping for a liquidity crunch which would lead to a Federal Reserve intervention not to Trump's liking."
No not at all. I'm into the stock market and would have to be as crazy as a cult member if I wanted a sell-off. All Felon Trump's opponents want is for the Constitution and the Rule of Law to be followed by this illegal administration. Trump is traitor among other things (like rapist, racist, SERIAL liar, disinfectant injection promoting, pussy grabbing, double-fisted-insane-psycho-sickening-masterbation-FREAK dancing Moron etc etc etc etc.)
See, all we want is for anybody engaging in insurrection to be kicked out of office as we canNOT have a leader of our democracy who tried to overthrow our democracy. Trump is an adjudicated rapist AND insurrectionist. We should all be thanking Jessica Denson for her tireless work in getting donOLD trump's illegal and unconstitutional butt out of office . (BTW, have you noticed that the cult is no longer discussing how awful it is to have an ancient man in the White House? Why is that? We all clearly see that the babbling word salad puke in the White House now is clearly on an exponential trip down Sundowning Street.)
So...no....trump's criminality doesn't have anything to do with market sell offs etc (well, unless he is doing some insider trading on HIS economic decisions. And knowing this cheating bastard, I have no doubt he is probably doing just that). His criminality is, of course, demonstrated in the 4 slam dunk criminal cases he would have been easily found guilty of in a heartbeat, but he lucked out and had less than half the country thinking he was ACTUALLY their LORD (sent by GOD!)..... ....Translation....about half this country, for some reason, ended up voting for a Putin-Loving, All Dictator-Loving, insurrectionist loving ("Those Patriots were just VERY SPECIAL PEOPLE who love America and were just peacefully protesting in a LOVE FEST where they were led into the Capitol by very loving police officers"), gay hating, trans hating, democracy hating, double-fisted-masterbation-freak-dance-loving, vaccination hating, serial lying, moron whose most important agenda items included the very very necessary, costly, stupid renaming of the Gulf of Mexico, the dumping of the Department of Education (he insists he loves the UNeducated of the U.S.), hiring a stooge to cut funding from children's cancer research, cut the VA, cut environmental protection agencies while racing at top speed out of the Paris Accord ASAP, and to gut Medicaid, Social Security, and any regulation put on business to STOP their polluting.
Of course MelonHeadMusk had to lie about saving 8 BILLION when it was only 8 million, but anybody associated with trump are abject liars to the core. Rudy Giuliani, James Comer, Lauren Boebert, Marjorie Traitor Greene, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Matt Gaetz, Kash Patel, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, TUCKER CARLSON, (ick), Spineless Mike Johnson, Jellyfish Jim Jordan, couch fucking, childless cat lady, and dog and cat eating JP Mandel, etc etc are detestable people who, if left unchecked, WILL destroy this once great country.
Just remember when trump mocked a disabled reporter, ridiculed the 5 Star family of a deceased soldier, was disgusted having to be on stage with a disabled veteran, not showing up to a veterans cemetery because he didn't want his hair messed up and besides, these buried brave vets were just suckers and losers to this Captain BoneSpurs, draft dodging, waste of flesh. This paragraph would be 2 miles long if I continued on this path so let's move on....
The most important thing to the MAGAT crew these days is that awful Zelensky, who is fighting like hell to save his people who are getting bombed by THE INVADER Putin, DARING not to grovel and give thanks (for the 233rd time) to the Sociopath and his VP JP Mandel AND.....gasp......NOT WEARING A SUIT!!!!!! (You know...just like Kid Rock and Elon Musk always wear the proper attire while in the White House). The entire cult is a gaggle of hypocrites. <-----Sweet Mustard Loving Jesus....do NOT get me started on their hypocrisy or we'll be here all year.
And, before those in the MAGAT population start labeling me as having TDS, you need to understand that the only people who have TDS are those who raided our Capitol, hit cops on the head with fire extinguishers, punctured them with sharpened flag poles, tried to hang Mike Pence and murder Nancy Pelosi and who shit all over the walls of the halls of Congress. Are we clear on that? Now...what many of you are, indeed, afflicted with is TTTDS (Total Traitor Trump DEVOTION Syndrome) which is, unfortunately, incurable EVEN with daily disinfectant injections. Sorry....
When you mentioned in Bonnie's article about the "number of 'days off' council members enjoy," reminds me of a lot of past observations of some engineers. I made it a work hobby of observing engineers in the area of (1) making progress or lack of any progress, (2) the level of enthusiasm, (3) the display of self-importance vs. actual work results performed and so on and so forth. One thought that entered my mind during my observations was what appeared at times the possibility of an innate human property ... and that is doing as little as possible to just get by.
I have to hand it to many city workers to take in the maximum amount of pay with the least amount of work. City political hacks compared to any other workers I've observed are a sort of minimalists. I understand why they frustrate me because I feel I'm opposite, wanting to do the best I can no matter what I'm paid. Very different mindset involved between "them" and us. I very much believe why the do-little-as-possible Dems are flustered with Trump is because of what I call the "Trump Dynamic." Dems in DC have never experienced a high-level go-getter such as Trump, a successful businessman. Trump is the solo-guy getting things done while the Dems sit in committees getting nothing done. Someone like Bernie Sanders, a truly empty vessel, has to be incredibly intimidated by the Trump/Musk go-getters. Bernie can't stand to compare himself against achievers, the achievers make him feel worthless. Bernie backs the non-achievers such as himself, the innate non-performers out there.
Bill, speaking of days off, were you aware that the number of days trump has been in office, 1/3 of those days have been spent on the golf course, love how he works so hard for us. Everyone loves the economy and they are over joyed about the stock market.
Keep in mind Julia, especially presuming you might be a creative type like Trump, it doesn't matter where he thinks up stuff. When I worked at Litton Aero Products, I worked at home except for Fridays ... picked up my paycheck and I liked to let others know I was still alive. My company didn't care where I physically worked as long as I was cranking out circuits. The VP of engineering figured I was getting three times the amount of work done at home. Where you work means absolutely nothing, unless you happen to have to be flipping burgers at McDonald's for a living. Someone with a "brain job" is another story. I doubled my salary at Litton Aero Products in five years, plus got a few "toys" for hanging around.
One other note, Bill Foley which I believe is still a resident of Hope Ranch, works out business dealings on the golf course. His net worth is now $2.7B, started bigtime by receiving a company (Fidelity National Title) for payment of his legal services. Tell your kids to be a lawyer.
Bill, Why do you assume they’re not? FYI, don’t worry about trump not getting days off to relax. He also has time to attend UFC events. He knows what’s important to him. Oh, he’s also working on that shower head low flow problem. Once he fixes those showerheads, our economy will be great and inflation will be down. He shouldn’t be saying America first, with him. It’s trump first.
LOL, Julia about the showerheads. What your concern should be is how Trump is going to have America make all the parts for things that China is producing. Now there's a good question I'd like to have an answer to. Don't you find it interesting for decades China, and enemy, has produced about everything we use in our daily lives? China loves our dependency on them. Better stock up on appliances, such as washers and dryers. Home Depot limits the purchase of two of the same appliances per person. It will soon be the manufacture of wash boards and the use of clotheslines for drying. Oh darn, the rope for the clothesline is made in China!
Just about everything we use has parts made in China. Americans don’t really want to manufacture anything. Prices will rise even more.
Yep, a race to the bottom. Just today it was uncovered children not yet born receiving SSI benefits. This is how the criminal left, Dem machine rolls!
The Fed employees seem to operate as if they were working in a bank. The Fed money needs to be separated from the workers as much as possible ... starting with a dedicated building which controls the money supply.