The brewing storm
All hell is breaking loose in DC. Trump and his cadre of billionaire ghouls are creating havoc in the halls of power, sometimes called the swamp, blob, deep state, or shadow government.
Whole agencies are being exposed as corrupt tax wasting parasites on the rump of America, where they cannot be seen but painfully felt.
Yesterday, Trump sicced his attack dogs on the Dept. of Education and indicated the Pentagon would be next.
Eventually, he will get to the CIA. I know they see him coming.
Will they dodge? Start shredding papers now? Or preemptive strike.
His orders to flatten Iran should anything happen to him is monumentally stupid. How many entities around the world would benefit a false flag assassination that would be blamed on Iran?
How many of the 17 US intelligence agencies would like to keep their operations hidden from oversite?
Is Israel better off with him dead or alive?
Is Russia? IMHO Putin sees Trump as a man who knows he has a losing hand in Ukraine, and is ready to leave town before sundown and take his quickdraw show to China and try to bluff them into folding their hand. This would throw the entire ruling class into chaos and distraction.
The chances of getting through the first 100 days without triggering WW3 are looking better though.
A storm brewing off the west coast is threatening freezing rain and snow mid week with temps down into the teens.
So both coasts are gonna get it.
Need moar popcorn!
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In times like these
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A well proportioned mix of a dark and stormy beverage
is in order. Ginger beer, dark rum and a squirt of lime in
a mug with a good bunch of ice cubicles works well.
Try a bit of ginger for that full spectrum dominance.
A splash of bitters for the brave, home of the free.
About 5" of snow frozen to the ground here. Moar on
tap later in the week. Yee haw. Watch the DC blob implode!
Thanks for the OT.
question everything
Mmmm! Sounds good
But it's 23° here right now. I'm going to need something warm and cuddly. My go to is a big oug of coffee with generous portions of Baileys Irish Cream and Kailua. Topped with a mountain of whipped cream and a dash of nutmeg around the candied cherry on top.
With a paper straw, of course.
Good morning to you, Capt'n.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
@QMS The Dark and Stormy is my
The Dark and Stormy is my new favorite. I like Reed's Extra Ginger Brew.
Getting a little
snow here, currently 8degF. Low tonight into Wednesday is supposed to get down to -2 or so. Our snowyest months are March and April, so this is just a warmup, so to speak.
We were in the 60s last week, and we'll be there again next week, most likely. Swings of 60-70degF in 24 hours are fairly common around here, and we've even had one 85degF swing (from 65degF down to -20degF overnight, in about 2006). Now, that one was pretty brutal.
I think that the folks in Washington are experiencing the political equivalent of that cold front. All we can do is watch what happens next.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
LOL
Our swings here go from like 30° to 40°, even with the sunshine.
And here comes another stormfront heading east. Should reach you in a couple of days. Cheers.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
And speaking of storms-
the Senate just voted to invoke cloture on the Tulsi Gabbard nomination, and are preparing to vote on her confirmation.
There is no way that the outcome of her confirmation will be anything but a storm- and if she is confirmed, this one will be of positively Biblical heft.
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
I agree
She will join in on the carnage in the blob. It is she that the 17 Intel agencies fear the most, not Trump.
I liked her as a Dem but warming up to her dressed as a Repub.
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Good morning e1. Mid thirties here, but storms are coming.
finished both inside and outside morning chores and now off to the dentist, costco, maybe home depot, and staples. Probably hit a regular grocery store and the bank too, then hunker down from the incoming.
For us, the winter prophylactic is rich hot-chocolate with brandy, and the cold medicine for after that fails is hot water, lemon juice, a touch of sugar and brandy. Seems thematic:
back (much) later
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hey, EL!
For that common-cold toddy recipe, try replacing the sugar with honey- it has some decent antibacterial qualities, and does a *great* job of coating a sore throat to boot. This hack brought to you courtesy of my wife, the recovering Sweet Adeline barbershopper...
And it that doesn't work, amp up the brandy, of course. That hack brought to you courtesy of myself, the recovering Sweet Adeline spouse. (;-)
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Yeah, I got sum errands
before the ice storm hits.
Gotta go git my Lipitor refill and stop off at the Sees candy store an pick up a Valentine card.
Looks like we will be socked in for V-Day.
Plan on starting a roaring fire and settle in and binge-watch some series. E2 has not seen "A handmaid tale" yet and I would love to see it again. But they want a hundred bucks to stream it!
I'll look around for a bootleg.
Love that tune, but can never remember the Looking Glass
Thanks for the post.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
I have an infusion on valentines day, BUT, bu long
tradition we go out and have a sumptious brunch on the nearest sunday, set up and financed in alternation, and it's her turn. Friday, since it is my week to cook, we will probably hit up a local Mexican restaurant that we like after I get home from my infusion.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Since the news sucks
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Let’s have something uplifting.
I just wish I had this talent. Even seeing the possibility of creating something different from what’s there.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
You create something unique and resonating
....everyday in this community. Thank you for that, Dawg.
Thank you for saying that
I appreciate it.
I appreciate most art and I think I have an eye for it, but I’m limited to taking photos and not being able to draw which I’d love to do. Even bought a step by step tutorial for drawing, but there’s something in my brain that keeps me from getting any good at it. Plus it makes my brain feel uncomfortable. Can’t explain how tho. Poems and math/numbers do the same.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Awesome video
A grand illustration of thinking outside the box.
Thanks for that.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
It strikes me that
for all the nazi comments thrown around, this whole Trump thing reminds me more of Maos Cultural Revolution than anything. Canada plays the part of Taiwan, Mexico the Philippines. But with all this bust up and fear there is something wistful for the sight of the Clintons, Rahm, Summers and most of the past useless dems being led out to the town square, heaped with garbage and beaten with a switch. Then sent out to hoe gardens and toil all the day, after re-education. Don't get me wrong, I hate Trump even more than I hate Clinton. Sadly, I can't see how to get rid of the republican parasite class. They're all going to self deport to New Zealand or Mars with their bags of money anyway.
Thanks for the OT!
not sure money bags can extricate quick enough
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maybe their bags will be lighter
question everything
Last I heard
New Zealand imposed a moratorium on new immigration. Seems they don't want to make a nuclear target of themselves.
So Mars it is.
Thanks for stopping by, snode.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Smooth countdown for SpaceX
About 30 min to scheduled launch time. Doesn't Elon have to put SpaceX into a blind trust or something?
語必忠信 行必正直
last time was in the Nasa space center
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there was a huge amount of building going on
around the space x foothold, nothing else but tourists.
Got to watch one of their Dragon rockets blast-off.
Pretty cool what they can do while NASA becomes a
foot note in government ambitions.
question everything
It's mostly cloudy here now
So I'm probably not going to be able to see it. Visibility is 9 mile reportedly. Had a lot of fog every morning lately. High humidity. I've seen a couple of these launches from the neighborhood. The booster landing is amazing to watch. Saw one on video.
語必忠信 行必正直
Jordan has folded to Trump’s threats
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Just in news conference with King of Jordan stating that it will accept injured Palestinian children and who knows what else he agreed to. Trump threatened to cut off all aid to Egypt and Jordan if they don’t accept to help ethnically cleanse Palestinians.
Ambassador Freeman says that is a violation of the Camp David accord.
At the end of the video.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Home grown regime change
coming to Jordan in 4-3-2-
It's gonna git bloody!
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Jordan caves and Egypt is next.
Also too:
No surprise that Mahmoud Abbas lives to the ripe old age of 89.
I see three Arab leaders
who's days are numbered.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
The Palestinian Prez
is a chicken shit, no good....Well, you know.
Losing pennies is a warm up, a conditioning, coinage is bad, and how soon before paper money is a waste of trees? Why not be proud that we are gonna take the lead in digital money?
It is gonna be near freezing for a few days. And rainy. I am 20 minutes from closing for the day, and it just now started to pour.
Thanks for the OT, friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Abbas….
He must have some damn good security for him to still be alive after his decades of selling out his own people.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Is the Camp David Accord some exceptionally super
special agreement/treaty that we are really expected to abide by? How so?
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Another cloud
joins the gathering storm- this one from Zerohedge:
Time to buy some more popcorn. Only time will tell what might come of this. Could be nothing, but it could also be Ugly-with-a-capital-U...
https://archive.ph/iKfNv
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
My two cents
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....I don't think the agencies being closed are worth fretting over. No doubt Trump's excuse is reasonable — they are riddled with corruption. I don't think they have nearly the hideous levels of corruption that the US House and Senate do — with their institutionalized insider trading and Play-for-Pay vote peddling.
The one closure I find regrettable is the one that is rarely mentioned — the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The CFPB was just about to propose legislation that would make 10 percent the highest interest rate hat borrowers are allowed to be charged for a loan. This one closure demonstrates clearly the deplorable standards of Ethics and Morality practiced by the United States of America. )Keep in mind that Islamic banks charge zero interest and are among the most stable banking system in the world.)
I wouldn't be surprised if by this time next year, most Americans are saddled with some form of a Pay-Day loan.... In fact, we already are. It is the American People who are on the hook for the entire US national debt — and not the politicians who spent the money and enriched themselves in the process. Thanks to the strict economic policies of predatory-capitalism in the US — we are the only developed nation with a population whose lifespan is shrinking, year over year. We can afford to eat only half the protein that the Chinese enjoy at every meal.
In any event, I have a hard time pretending that Donald Trump is something other than what the American People deserve for demonstrating that they consent to a Plutocratic government by agreeing to vote in Federal elections.
Besides, we have much more immediate economic problems, thanks to DeepSeek and the soaring price of gold. Today, I walked down the street from my front door to the gold shop on the corner, with three gold Mexican coins in my pocket — just three! I came back with $10,275.00 in my pocket. Thanks, DeepSeek. There are some strange distortions in the fundamentals underlying the US market economy. This is now exacerbated by, and connected to, the surprise emergence of DeepSeek, the Chinese AI breakthrough. And there's a lot of denial about it in the US media.
My two cents isn't worth this much.
Greenwald interviewed Stoller
on the CFPB which Joe posted in the blues tonight.
I can’t agree with this enough!
Obama can walk in public without fear after he bailed out the banks and let people have their homes stolen from them by the banks flush with money that Obama gave them. There’s a diarrhea diary on DK about how Biden was FDR reincarnated that somehow neglects to mention that Biden stopped the social programs that kept people above water and that homelessness went way up during his tenure and not once did democrats even bother to mention it. Even while state after state criminalized it. The duo talks about Obama too.
Neither of the parties bases ever try to hold their representatives accountable for their failures.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
I don't understand those twats at DK
After Hillary's humiliating smackdown in 2016 and the Biden/Harris circus tent burning, how they can still pretend to be even remotely relevant.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
Easy
They blame everything on Russia Russia. Hillary only lost because of Russia and not because people despised her and they saw that she would continue the Obama train wreck after he went 180 on his campaign promises.
lol…the fact that Trump followed both Obama and Biden’s presidency will never be forgotten. It says so much what Americans think about the duo.
But for DK. They believe every theory democrats tell them. Nancy Mace just gave a brave speech in congress about how her ex fiancé and others had been filming their rapes and sexual assaults. She had video evidence of it and she turned it into the South Carolina AG who promptly threatened to arrest her.
If you have the time and stomach to listen to her.
I watched it and I’m impressed that she said what she did in public. Starts off with talking about her faith, but then she gets into the meat of what happened. That the men are still walking free…ugh!
DK wrote about it and it’s just another stinking sewer of blatant misogyny. The believe all women died because DK and others didn’t believe Tara Reide accusing Biden of assaulting her. Pigs.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Good afternoon, Pluto
Yeah, been watching gold climb for weeks now. It's pushin' $3000 an ounce and the coins well over that.
I'm hanging on to what I got as long as it's still going up.
Inflation is still eating away at the greenback.
And I remember back in the 60s California interest was capped at 12%. And any interest paid throughout the year could be deducted from your income taxes.
All designed to hook you on the newest finiancial instrument, the credit card.
Standard bait & switch. Cali used to have a Consumer Protection Agency, but I don't know if it still exists.
Thanks for stopping by.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.
How to find a place to sell gold?
Can someone point me in the right direction to do this? I have tons of gold that I no longer wear.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
If it's gold jewelry
Reputable pawnshop that will resale it. Or, some precious metals dealers will buy it to melt down.
Or ask at a local coin shop.
If it's Placer gold or nuggets, assay office.
Ebay is an option if it's nice jewelry. You will probably get maximum $.
Neither Russia nor China is our enemy.
Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
Cuba is a dead horse, stop beating it.