A hungry man is an angry man.
--Bob Marley

Here in Ohio they declared a sales tax holiday for the next week, certainly not because of the tariffs, but for some other reason ...

I wonder if they will get 40 hours a week out of her, while she is sober ...

This will be paid a couple of weeks after flying pigs become widely used as mass transit vehicles in our country's largest cities...

Nope--those aren't payables to the vendors involved, they are donations from those vendors to the Musk cause. Go ahead and sue Leon, who will gladly spend about 90% of what he owes on legal fees, just to grind it out in court until the vendors capitulate because of their cost to fight the world's richest man. A wine for the ketamine fiend...

Wait. Der Dotard is SCREAMING that the US economy is doing great, AND interest rates must come down--at the same time. Strong economic activity means there is greater competition for capital, which drives UP interest rates. Weak economic activity means rates should come DOWN, to create greater demand for capital for growth opportunities. Saying both at once is a clear indication of (a) Der Dotard does not understand macroeconomics, or (b) he knows that his tariff moves and firings of hundreds of thousands of government employees are actually bad for the economy so rates should come down pre-emptively to cushion the economy.

Mark your calendars for 8:30am EDT on September 5, which is when the next unemployment numbers come out. The numbers will be VERY closely scrutinized. If something seems very much off, US and world markets will realize that the Trump Administration is openly monkeying with the numbers, and slow-rolling economic chaos will result. If the numbers accurately reflect and confirm previous numbers released, Trump will show himself again to be a dangerous, unhinged liar who is actively crashing the US economy, for his own purposes...

But they wrote some awesome code, Scooter, Biff and Stinky got high level government jobs where they can live in their offices, Leon got a bunch of -------' contracts for fat stacks, and the DOGE guys even met some women who had to be nice to them because they are all employees now...

Hey black Americans: you now have the answer to the question of what have you got to lose?' Enjoy the back of the bus, or being underneath it ...

This is not a problem. The result will be rising rates of death among those on the American right, for which they can easily blame someone else ...
-Chas. Darwin

Little Stevie Miller, clone of Joseph Goebbels, could use some of that high-test weed in his shredded wheat each morning. That or a morning hummer and noon wanking each day ...

No word yet on his inclusion in the Pantheon of Predators...

As I've written, the 'easy' oil and gas was long ago developed. What is being developed now is much more expensive, and requires higher gasoline and natural gas prices. Energy developers will idle rigs rather than extract at a loss. You cannot make a losing proposition profitable through more volume produced.

The EU has pledged to buy more US natural gas, and that presents one problem: the US isn't producing all the gas that the EU pledged to buy. The EU isn't going to buy US gas at a price higher than the then-current market price, no matter how much they get screamed at by an old, badly dressed, fat orange criminal insurrectionist and golf cheat...

Well, I guess the sale of CBS is now off, and Colbert's job is safe again...

Going after that marginalized Gay vote, eh? Funny, that guy looks less of a queen than Miss Lindsey. There will be purses swinging, claws out, and hair mussed up soon enough when these two get to brawling...

In Okiehomie this is considered a public service. Governor Brownshoes Stitt, enemy of his Cherokee tribe, has stated publicly that more guns makes the Sooner or Later State a more polite place. In other words, watch your tone or someone will pop a cap in you...

Wait. I'm confused. I though all those Gazan folks were Hamas terrorists, women and children included. Now we want to feed them? And be upset with our Israeli pals? And how much will this cost the US, who could be feeding foreigners at the expense of hungry Americans? My mind is spinning.

This is the problem of being an absolutist in a world of coloring and shading. Der Dotard has attacked various universities for 'anti-Semitism' and protests against Israeli action, but now appears to be in agreement with a central tenet of the protesters, i.e., that Israel is committing human rights violations, using hunger as a weapon, and is coming close to committing genocide. Meanwhile people are dying and Der Dotard wants to be thanked for food aid that amounts to a drop in a bucket...

ICE is acting a bit like the SA did in 1930's Germany. Things didn't end well for those folks--a cautionary tale for the ICE guys...

Good.
The Trump crowd is well known to over-reach, grasping at straws and for as much as they can get away with. These people are also known to get spanked in the courts, and SCOTUS cannot hear appeals on EVERY case, because that would interfere with time on private yachts, private planes and donated RVs. As for a 'bias monitor', that's Trump himself, who struggles between TV time and golf. Imagine if that guy had to work...

I know little about this guy other than he brings the perspective of a new generation, and that's good...

Sen. Plumberbutt is mad at the folks in OKC for leaving him off the list for the state's next governor. This guys is a moron, who made a lot of money selling his plumbing and HVAC company to someone else, yet requiring the buyer to use the "Mullin" name in their TV ads. Believe me--most Okies think that Sen. Mullin is working full time selling plumbing services and air conditioners, and that this Senate thing is only a part-time gig. Why, you may ask? Because the commercials with his name are on the TV...

Don't worry--almost all will back down. They would rather face voters and explain away their orange god's predilections toward teen girls than criticize said fat, orange golf cheat and face the prospect of being 'primaried'...

The guy shot 66 without hitting the ball out of his shadow...

This will make a great hospital plane for some aid organization come about, oh, say 2029...

The stories of his jailhouse sex will be some compelling fiction. No self respecting con wants to be with this prancing queen, and his weird visitors will be worse"Mattie the teen seeking missile, Madge the bleach blonde butch, and Barkeep Barbie are all worse ...

Drinky Pete could throw an axe at someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose his job ...