According to my Bloomberg screens this morning:
-10-yr UST yield: 4.995%, up 81bp from 1/2/26
-West Texas Intermediate: $102.34, up 78%
-30-yr average mortgage rate, per BankRate: 6.88%, up 64bp
-Gasoline, AAA average price: $4.33/gallon, up 53.6%
-Diesel, AAA average price: $6.25/gallon, up 76%

Turn on the TV, and you will see all manner of GOP candidates talking about 'working across the aisle', 'getting rid of waste, fraud and abuse', and how they are not 'Washington insiders'. None of them are dressed in red ties, and no one knows who Donald Trump is--they all talk like Diamond Joe Biden is still in office.

American voters: act like Trump is on the ballot, and vote him out with every race where you see a candidate who is a Republican. Do it as soon as you can...

This will not stop here.

Those who can avoid voting by mail should do so, at all costs.

Remember all those photos of folks in other countries standing in line for hours on end, just to vote? I've done that, in Ohiehomie, standing in a line, once in the freezing rain, the other with a thunderstorm bearing down on the polling place, in each case for four hours. Americans should be prepared to vote as early as possible, in as secure a location as possible, e.g., at your local board of elections.

ICE thugs and Proud Boys will be out, causing mischief on election day, attempting to chase folks away and intimidate those who hang around to exercise their rights. And once again, African Americans: get out and vote. This may be the last time in your lives when you are able to do so...

It cannot close. I have tickets for that big Trumpapalooza II, featuring Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, Lara Trump, Lee Greenwood and Carrie Underwood...

On a more serious note, Der Dotard is the chair of the center. I thought he brought nothing but success to all that he touches, so how could the Kennedy Center be struggling? And what about that multi-year renovation that promised to bring gold curtains, a new roof, marble armrests and Diet Coke sold by strolling vendors? Aren't there enough cat jugglers, insult comics, clown bands, theremin players and revivals of "Our American Cousin" to pack the place 350 nights a year?

Young Mr. Trump is a private citizen, and who paid for his wedding is not relevant to politics, the US Government, national security or Russian relations. His father was fully informed, yet knew nothing about this. We all wish the bridal couple the best. Za lyubov!
--Clueless MAGA folk who think DJTJ is certainly not a grifter and would make a good presidential candidate

Sloppy seconds? No! Umar is an old friend...
--Bettina to her new husband, that night

One Atlantic hurricane landing in zip code 33480 will result in the biggest FEMA response ever, with insurance losses of more than $100B reported by one particular house and golf club...

Next Der Dotard will be talking about independence for the Souths--Carolina and Dakota...

No, she died by gunshot. We don't know who the shooter was. No big deal ...
-Heroin Bob, drug-addled lawyer giving health care advice

Say there, Ka$h Machine, whatever happened to that Nancy Guthrie lady? It's been so long I forget all about the perp, his/her trial and the sentence handed down. Could you please update me?

Too bad they didn't let him appear at Ground Zero. His infirmity would have been starkly demonstrated by allowing the other former presidents, to speak, and then welcoming Der Dotard to the podium. Hir red hat horde would have loved it and all others aghast ...

Today, 9/12/26, AAA reports a national average price of $6.16 per gallon of diesel fuel. Der Dotards claim of gas and diesel prices coming down right after the election means about two months of record high prices are dialed into either the market price for food products, or dialed into the losses to be suffered by farmers and shippers nationwide for Q3 and into Q4. With early Xmas shopping coming up soon, consumers will have a lot on their minds when they go to the polls. Oh, and don't forget those thanksgiving day dinners more expensive than ever. And, the Feds Open Market committee meets in the coming week, and the likely result will be a 25bp bump in short rates, on top of a 10yr UST that will hit 5.00% on Monday, September 14.

The only way the Dems will not have a blue wave result in the midterms is for Trump and the GOP to halt the election, which will result in street protesters being shot. Clip and save ...

I'm hungry and I vote ...
-T shirt or bumper sticker coming to a tightly contested election near you

Trump couldn't make friends in Ireland if he gave every adult $5,000 ...

The Fed is going to raise short term rates at its next meeting, less than 60 days before the next election. So long as the Dems don't set themselves on fire before the election there will be either a big change of power or a coup in January, 2027 ...

The point for meaningful negotiations was reached long ago. That's the problem for Americans"they elected a petulant child who thinks bullying is an appropriate approach to complex problems. This mess started when Der Dotard walked from the agreement reached by the Obama administration and its negotiating partners and the present administration will not admit to its mistake. Further, our former allies prefer to suffer a bit and watch the fat orange criminal insurrectionist twist in the wind.

Remember about America First! America Alone! Because that's where we are now thanks, MAGA and GOP toadies in Congress and the Senate ...

All this show about ICE thugs dragging down immigrants and others who get in their way, and nothing about the employers who exploit these workers. Want controlled immigration? Go after the employers ...

At this point, anyone who votes by mail in this coming election should consider the strong likelihood that their votes, if counted at all, will be challenged in court, and could well be thrown out.

Folks, you have to show up and vote in this one...

Sure. Shoot missiles at Chinese data centers. Um--what missiles? they all got used up in our war of choice, you know, the one we have won so many times that we keep shooting at the losers, just to remind them that we've won...

Talarico is not playing fair, and it presents a problem to the GOP in Texas. He is not trading insults back and forth, and all this talk about his service to the voters is the last thing the MAGA crowd expects to hear. Pointing out the flaws and failures of Republicans causes those people to run on their records, which is impossible to do. So long as Talarico talks like he has been, and as long as he replies to the jibes and insults as he has to date, he presents himself as the better person for the job of US Senator. That's a big, big problem for the Red Hat Mob...

That's OK if we don't make money this or next year. We are all in on President Trump's policies, and do not regret voting for him...
--No US Farmer in 2026

Kevin Warsh is screwed. Trump, who projects his sins and crimes onto others, is projecting the problems with the US economy onto the shoulders of the new Fed Chair. The result of the comments made should NOT be a test of policy on the part f the Federal Reserve, yet Warsh now faces that test. Were he to act on Trump's behalf his time at the Fed from here forward would be seen as that of a political toady, unreliable on the world stage. If Warsh ignores Trump (which he should) the calls for his head from 1600 Pennsylvania will commence shortly thereafter, with blame for the state of the economy coming daily.

Warch wanted this job, and he is about to start regretting that he got it...

Who came up with the idea for this fund? You want the truth? It was Joe Biden. There. You can't handle the truth ...
-Todd Blanche, not under oath

No big deal. MAGA folk think that Social Security is their retirement plan and they will live like kings, after retirement from the Amazon distribution center. They don't need that Wall Street talk ...

This young cretin will either be beaten with a pipe by the girls brother or pardoned, before the first day of autumn ...

Lead in drinking water is great! It makes people dumber so they flunk out of school faster, and then join the workforce, shackled to low wage jobs for the rest of their lives. It does come with an increase in violent crime but our prisons are here for them.
-little known part of Project 2025'

This thug life creep will be pardoned before Labor Day ...