I had a LOT of issues with my NFL subscription on YouTube. It was expensive and didn’t cover a lot of games. It would black out any game that was on broadcast TV anywhere from Elmira to Buffalo (which I do not have). Blacked out any game with Buffalo. Blacked out other desirable games for no discernable reason. So I could see maybe 1/4 of the games I was interested in. But that’s who NFL’s contract is with, so I didn’t have much in the way of alternatives. In order to actually get all the games I want, I apparently have to subscribe to several other services as well. It’s a mess.
Spud, of course, had an answer: “You need to subscribe to NFLHD. They get ALL the games and it’s only $50.”
“No way that’s real.”
“It absolutely is, ” and proceeded to log into it to show me all the games he was getting.
“It can’t be legit.”
“It is absolutely legit.”
After a few rounds back and forth, he finally convinced me to try it. And damn, he was right, every game, and it seemed to work absolutely fine. Until, inevitably…
This does not look like Ravens-Chargers, just sayin’. And now I have no idea how I will see my beloved Ravens today. Panic attack! Look what the Feds took from us!
(Why this relates to Homeland Security is far beyond my comprehension, and for the millionth time, fuck Bush for creating that monster)
They can’t take away birthdays, though, and today’s include a guy who was arguably the father of modern thought; one of the first people to royally fuck up California; the most non-political of American presidents; the artistic version of Robert Reich; a true rags-to-riches story; a guy who knew how to win friends; easily the most interesting and diverse guy to ever write science fiction; a guy who could not unclench his teeth or resist taking a punch at commies; the biggest supporter of Jim Jones (maybe he had stock in Flavor-Ade?); a guy who missed it by thaaaaaat much; a seemingly nice and good-looking young fella; Number Three Son; and a stunning actress with really bad business judgment.
So the reason for the season is Links, and without further ado…
There is nothing in the article that ISN’T shocking. Negotiations? Because the beggars are offering what, exactly? And the recipients are howling that they want more more more. Get us the fuck out of this. “Hey, I have an idea. If you’re unhappy about euchring $300B, how about, I dunno, zero?”
Well, this had to be a bit of a surprise all around.
“Hey, I’m an orthodox Jew. I think I’ll go live in… Abu Dhabi.” Whoops.
Speaking of which, “Embrace the Swamp.”
The unasked question: What is it he has to say anyway?
Well, this is a kink I had never heard of before.
If you don’t love this, you have no soul.
COP29
Funny in the sense that any deal reached is going to be heavily reliant on funding from the good old US of A and for the near to midterm at least they’re going to be fucked on that front. I just don’t see Trump, Vance, and the rest of the drill baby drill crowd forking over the dough.
Happy birthday Jacques Derrida?
Happy birthday Jerry Brown?
Karma was a real bitch with the birthday boy.
I thought Frank Sinatra; he was in both From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running.
You misspelled Pelosi.
Derrida summed up in one joke; When is a door not a door? When it is a table!
(soooooo pissed off my post-structuralist girlfriend with that one.)
Happy birthday Thomas Matthew Crooks?
Just like the soccer world. Remember, the move to “stream everything” was done for the good of customers and no other reason.
Divide, conquer, and drain their wallets…may as well just subscribe to a cable package at this point.
You can’t even get every NFL game live on the NFL app. They black them out there just as randomly/stupidly as they do on YouTube.
The app does have one nice feature, though. You can stream games after they are over, and after a little while (an hour or so?), most of the commercials are gone.
Baseball is just as bad with blackouts. Fortunately I only have to miss about 7-10 games a year because of it, but still. It’s bullshit.
In Japan, I’ve been using nfl-video dot com. It works for me because of the time differences. Monday morning I can watch the game without commercials. All I have to do is avoid any site that might tell me the score.
OK. I admit it. I’ve been weak. This year I’ll watch the Vikes start out strong. Then they start trying to throw the game and I’ll go check the final to see if I should keep watching.
Why do you hate Massie so much that you would wish him into Trump’s cabinet in a shit role?
Massie actually said he wanted it.
Yeah…I thought he had been nominated for something originally. (Not sure why I was thinking Sec Ag was different from USDA) …may have been another food oriented agency mentioned, but nothing comes to mind now…
Maybe he was announced for FDA initially?
Hmm, maybe he’s tired of DC life and wanted to use that as an out from Congress?
I’m not familiar with all of Trump’s cabinet nominees to be honest. Are there none that are libertarianish meaning appear to be libertarians to nonlibertarians? I’d argue that Gaetz would have fit that bill (is AG considered to be a cabinet position?) but he was also a bit too libertine unfortunately.
He also apparently let the American Federation of Teachers pick the new Labor Secretary, too.
If he was going to cozy up to a union boss for delivering the blue collar vote, of all the fucking people, why the teacher’s union? The Teamsters may have voted for you, bud, but the teachers damn sure did not.
And again…this is where Advise & Consent must come in. Absolutely cannot let nutjobs like this close to positions of influence. It wasn’t necessarily a good idea to have the UAW pres speak at the convention either. The rank and file are voting for trump – the leadership – definitely not.
We’ll see if those shitbags at the ports go on strike again in Jan after a massive pay raise – need to shut that stuff down ASAP.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/11/what-trump-should-do-if-the-dockworkers-go-back-on-strike/
….
….
🙄🙄🙄
I hope he was lying.
We should just destroy all forklifts and go back to stevedores shifting cargo by hand. That’ll really boost union membership.
go back to stevedores shifting cargo by hand
Hold on there cowboy – do you mean actually work? What the hell do you think a union is for?
Trump and the R’s worked overtime to pick up the Labor vote, so of course he is gonna go with all things labor.
Again, Libertarians (large L) fucked the dog on this, and get no seat at the table.
They coulda been a contenda!
(Chavez Di Remer was my rep, and she wasn’t half bad, considering her territory was half of Portland and she was an R.)
Another one who didn’t want to go back to
PocatelloHappy Valley.Utah Valley is Happy Valley. Did all the ex-Provoites move up there?
Nope, Realtors®
(Reference for original quote https://www.biblio.com/book/never-go-back-pocatello-selected-essays/d/397426490)
I can’t wait for the UAW to strike and the press conference that will follow.
Reporter:”What is the administration’s position on ending the strike?”
Press secretary: “Buy a Tesla”.
Why does Abu Dhabi need an Israeli emissary?
a guy who knew how to win friends
Happy birthday David Schwimmer!
You know what the NFL really hated – all the years there was no team in L.A. and that they couldn’t fuck over the locals there.
Eeeew. Old people sex.
Relevant
I’d say Jerry Pournelle is probably one of the wildest SF writers I’ve come across in terms of actual life experiences.
The wiki doesn’t go into that much detail but the “Best of Jerry Pournelle” actually includes a lot of great remembrances and attributions written about him by friends and other writers and folks who worked with him that fill out a lot of the gaps.
(keeping in mind that the SF conventions referenced and paired writer characters that show up in Footfall were based on him and Larry Niven’s actual experiences)
“It is my Great Honor to nominate Brooke L. Rollins, from the Great State of Texas, to serve as the 33rd United States Secretary of Agriculture,” Trump said in a statement. “Brooke was on my 2016 Economic Advisory Council, and did an incredible job during my First Term as the Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Director of the Office of American Innovation, and Assistant to the President for Strategic Initiatives.”
What do you expect? Massie is just a third rate grandstander according to Trump.
Massie does much better representing the people of his KY district (and us oddballs scattered around the country) then anything he could’ve possibly done running Dept of Ag.
Yeah, I’d hate to see Massie out of the House unless it’s to go to the Senate. Pres would be nice too but let’s be realistic.
I know.
German pumpgun song
I am saving that one.
It’s starting to look like the deal Trump cut was “OK, I’ll pull Gaetz from my cabinet, but only if you promise to approve any dyed-in-the-wool swampers I nominate.”
Trump Depression Syndrome sets in.
In retrospect, the ending of TGTBATU is somewhat defused. Blondie knew the name of Arch Stanton. Where else could the money have been buried when it wasn’t found in Stanton’s grave?
It doesn’t affect the plot, they’d still have had to earn the two hundred thousand dollars, I get it. “Writing” the name on the rock was a contrivance, and ultimately unimportant.
I DO love this morning’s Old Man Music, but I AM a ginger, so…..? 🤔
How can someone not like music played by a guy known as Gatemouth?
And yet, I, also a ginger, don’t.
Thus proving I have
decent taste in musicno soul.TT & I used to include it in one of our often improbable medleys, in this case with “Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades” and a similarly up-tempo original ditty. Good times.
That song gives me Getting Over It With Bennett Foddy PTSD.
Pointless trivia: Bennett Foddy, before he was a sadistic game dev and amateur philosopher, played bass with Cut Copy.
I have no idea who that is but I like the band.
Getting Over It is a thrown together game made from pre-created assets in which you must climb up an increasingly complex mountain whilst seated in a cauldron, using only a hammer, with very funky mouse physics, such that no two movements usually ever execute exactly the same way. And if you happen to fall, 8 times out of 10, you will fall all the way to the very bottom and have to start from scratch. No save points. It was a huge meme many years ago. There’s a speedrunning community for the game, where dudes will play through in like 1-2 minutes (I gave up after about 15 hours and haven’t revisited the game in years; it’s still on my to-do list eventually).
Cut Copy released several good albums though, including after Foddy left the group.
Yep, I have several of them.
I skip games marked “Difficult” in Steam – been burned too many times and I got tired of wasting my time and money.
The new Trump presidency is looking to be a lot like the first. I wonder if his near death experience will change how he executes this time.
I guess we will see.
On another note.
Born Touluse Lautrec
https://youtu.be/NNrLJYWeWwE
A complete disappointment where he tries to make nice and gets repeatedly stabbed in the back for his trouble? Let’s hope not, no sense getting too down in the dumps just yet though.
That’s even better – Trump Disappointment Syndrome.
I don’t think it’s Trump being nice, as much as he wants his ego stroked.
That’s even better – Trump Disappointment Syndrome.
Yes. I like it.
I don’t think it’s Trump being nice, as much as he wants his ego stroked.
Scuttlebutt in NH during the presidential primary is that while the GOP Establishment really wanted Haley, they were OK with Trump because they figured they could get at least some of what they wanted by flattering Tump’s ego.
So Bondi stroked his “ego”?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Hell, I could that.
Hilarious. Our last dog was similarly a fan, albeit not quite so enthusiastic.
Adorable.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1860591666941558854
2025 is gonna be so much fun. (Unless we get blown up, of course)
I like that Milo Manara was used in a meme.
Heavy Metal magazine was my introduction to his work.
Climate thing: There is nothing shocking about the story. In the same way that compulsive gamblers can turn anything imaginable into a bet, grifters can craft a con out of any conceivable situation, real or imagined.
It helps when the target is so easily guilt-tripped into throwing money at you.
If you can make a person feel guilt, you have a great lever to manipulate them. Almost as good as fear.
I’m sure all that money sent to third-world shitholes will help to improve the lives of the poorest and help them adapt to climate change and totally won’t be siphoned off to enrich the politically connected.
The good news is no one will be talking about climate change in 20 years.
Remember the famous Sowell quote about foreign aid: “Taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.”
It will improve their lives as much as all of the foreign aid and peace corps workers have for the last 100 years.
You know what really improved the lives of people in 3rd world shitholes? Colonialism.
Harris has all but disappeared from the public eye, jetting off to Hawaii after a few scarce appearances around Washington following her massive loss on Nov. 5.
Somebody didn’t get the new talking points. Her loss wasn’t “massive”. It was really a tie. Barely a whisker, and certainly not anything which would indicate a mandate for change.
As for Joe, that bunker will come in handy as he forges his legacy as a wartime President.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS4LPNxJtFI
I thought Frank Sinatra; he was in both From Here to Eternity and Some Came Running.
Speaking of Sinatra, I watched Suddenly the other night. I hadn’t seen it for a long time. Bueno.
We’re you able to find a good print?
“We’re”
*chef’s kiss*
From Ted’S, yet!
We’re you able to find a good print?
Yes- on Prime.
It must’ve been some other timeline, but I recall hearing a lot about how we didn’t care about the NFL anymore – between the players kneeling and the owners groveling.
Now we get the Trump dance in the endzone.
Which is very, very concerning. 🙄
Mahomes got fined ~$14,000 for finger guns after a Bills touchdown.
The Monday morning fines are just a cash grab.
They’re all really into the CFL now.
Well, just from teams from the Niagara Falls area, you don’t know them.
I’m good for about 3 games a year since 2020, and haven’t missed it.
Pre-Covid, I was an avid fan for north of 20 years and mild fan the 10 years before that. During the 20 years, I tried not to miss a game for my team on TV, listened to the talking heads on sports radio frequently during the commute, followed the trades, playoff scenarios, etc.
Then I went cold turkey and haven’t given a rats ass.
I have a Gatemouth Brown song in my hard drive somewhere. Can’t remember what it is, and I even went looking for it!
Slutty Sunday babes that are manifestly too classy for us.
https://archive.is/c2wdr
“We began incorporating the iodine into our foreplay.”
It wasn’t easy, but I managed to fap to this.
Now I’m permanently stained.
This better not awaken anything in me…
[fixed]
Borked…
Low trust all around
The Teamsters ultimately declined to endorse either Trump, the former president, or Harris, the vice president, though leader Sean O’Brien had a prominent speaking slot at the Republican National Convention.
Kara Deniz, a Teamsters spokesperson, told the Associated Press that O’Brien met with more than a dozen House Republicans this past week to lobby on behalf of Chavez-DeRemer. “Chavez-DeRemer would be an excellent choice for labor secretary and has his backing,” Deniz said.
The work of the Labor Department affects workers’ wages, health and safety, ability to unionize, and employers’ rights to fire employers, among other responsibilities.
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AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler welcomed the choice while taking care to note Trump’s history of opposing polices that support unions.
“It remains to be seen what she will be permitted to do as secretary of labor in an administration with a dramatically anti-worker agenda,” Shuler said.
Anti-union not same as anti-worker. We’ll just have to wait and see, won’t we?
Also, most workers voted for Trump.
Is everyone aware there is a social media site called “Bluesky”?
In case you didn’t, the MSM really wants you to know. And it’s growing! They need more capacity!
It’s amazing how much they hate X and really don’t want to be on it, but have no choice. To the point that they will write as many puff pieces as they can as free advertising for a competitor.
But not Parler. That needed to be hounded off the internet.
THaT’s DiFFeReNT!
The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
The X exodus is weakening a way for conservatives to speak to the masses.
/ignore that the X-odus is the progressives flouncing off
Like Drumpf and Elon
And when it becomes a tightly enclosed bubble of nothing but good-think it can be the Bluesky of Death.
BlueSky?
Blue sky.
Doesn’t Bluesky already have a pedophile problem?
Yes, and their attempts at policing it look like the end of the movie “Hackers”.
“So much for Trump’s promise to appoint a libertarian to his cabinet. It’s as good as all his other promises.”
I’m reserving judgement until I see if he makes good on his promise to pardon Ross.
Zero chance.
There’s nothing in it for him now.
Zero chance
Sounds like more wager fodder….
I think I can avoid Trump disappointment syndrome easily enough. He has never been accused of being libertarian but he is no commie slaver. All he has to do is not sell out to the globalist commies and you wont see me crying.
Pretty much this. It looks like this go round we are possibly gonna get a few more things we want, but he isn’t a libertarian. The Libertarians had a chance to get more of what they wanted with him, and as usual, fucked it up. It’s easy not to have Trump Disappointment Syndrome if you have never viewed him as some type of saviour.
Bingo.
Electing Trump wasn’t a means to bring libertopia. It was a means to stop the woke tsunami.
CNN Headline
Obligatory:
Reelin’ In The Years
I bet they can’t name a single thing they have a rational fear of.
They might claim that violent crimes against transgender people are rising, ignoring the fact that these crimes aren’t committed because they are transgender, but rather because they are mentally unstable and mentally unstable people tend to be on the receiving end of violence.
You left out who is committing those crimes.
Fear isn’t generally rational.
In order to have a rational fear they would have to be rational.
One wonders how Delaware’s transgender community made it through the dark years of 2016 – 2020.
“She admitted she doesn’t date very often and needs to have a strong emotional connection with someone before she will consider getting intimate with them.”
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tv/im-celebs-tulisa-admits-shes-34148679
So she’s like ~90% of the female population?
By “strong intimate connection” she means dudes that are 666.
Just like 90 percent of the female population.
I was in the Zoom a couple weeks back and Malört was discussed. An interesting drink with an interesting story.
The other day, just for laughs, I was looking at “kit houses” on Amazon? The pictures looked interesting (mostly stock container houses), but holy shit what sort of deranged fool would order something like that from Amazon? The descriptions are pure gibberish, worse than the usual Chinese-to-pidgin-English gobbledygook. A couple of them claim the thing could be assembled by four or five people in an hour or so. Maybe it was a dog house, and I misread.
Never fear some “influencer” will soon buy one and share his or her experience online along with a few words from his or her many sponsors.
Well, I mean, Sears did it.
We considered buying a bit of land and putting a prefab house on it. I started watching a Youtube channel from some Canadian guy who reviews small prefab homes. I don’t think I’d order one from Amazon though.
We’ll all have plenty of time to be bitterly disappointed, but Trump doesn’t even have the car keys yet.
Well wrong thinkers are either going to be in camps or it will be business as usual.
Indeed. Stock up on Malort and prepare to hate-drink.
This. I know it’s fashionable to pine for Ancapistan but I still see some interesting characters in the mix.
Who knows? Maybe the doomsters will be right but now that the dems are for all intents and purposes dead, maybe it’s time for a little fratricide in team stupid.
Also, I’m very interested to see what this does on a local level. There is a lot of scrutiny on the woke fuckheads and a growing willingness to say no.
The woke bullshit just took a massive hit. The Dems are still in denial, but deep down they know if they don’t sideline the far left nut jobs they will be looking at President Vance before long. Trump is no doubt going to do a bunch of shit that I don’t really want, but if he does a handful of things I do want then that counts as a success to me. It helps to have low expectations in life for things out of your control. He ain’t Kamala fucking Harris, and that is good enough for me.
Any president, no matter who, is going to do things I don’t like, and that is just life. Is Trump going to be more libertarian friendly than Harris? Fuck yes! Is he going to be an actual libertarian? Fuck no. But, as both KSuel and I have said, Libertarians had their chance at bat, and whiffed, badly.
(also, I think Newsome screwed the pooch by trying to spout some @resistance BS, which will go over less and less in the country at large.)
The Denver mayor just invoked Tiananmen Square when he stamped his little feet and said that he was gonna kick any Fed ass who tries to take away his precious.
My unscientific polling suggests that even the libs here are tired of the criminal fucks and giving away metric fuck tons of money to illegals. Good luck, pal.
Oh how I despise the hair gelled fucker. I hope you’re right and this bullshit gets him pushed farther to the side. He is lame ducked and thinks he has nothing to lose by being Opposite Trump Man. I really hope it falls apart for the fuck face. I kno you have previously predicted a pendulum shift in California. I don’t think it’s happening anytime soon, but would love it if it did.
President Vance
[Looks up history of VP’s winning election to replace their President. Chuckles.]
Newsome is the next VP. He will back up Whitmer on the ticket.
Yes, I was wrong about Harris as I seriously underestimated the ability of Team Red to get polling monitors in places that count.
I got a lot of chuckles here as well when I predicted a Trump win over a year ago. I also predicted a Harris VP years before it happened. Still too far out, but Vance win is more than possible.
Never fear some “influencer” will soon buy one and share his or her experience online along with a few words from his or her many sponsors.
You could probably milk plenty of “trials and tribulations” youtube content out of it.
Ask and ye shall receive
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=53vIAXNBc6g
Was that the one where it had no installed electrical sockets?
Those guys were such goobers I couldn’t finish it. Somehow they did get a TV working in it.
They might claim that violent crimes against transgender people are rising, ignoring the fact that these crimes aren’t committed because they are transgender, but rather because they are mentally unstable and mentally unstable people tend to be on the receiving end of violence.
not to mention the fact those “hate crimes” in real numbers barely make it out of the single digits because there just aren’t that many of them.
I’ll likely not get the numbers exactly right, but there were something like 35 murders of trannies nationwide a couple years ago when this was first being panicked about. 35. In a nation of 350MM+. And the kicker was that something like 30 of them were murders of prostitutes.
And of the other 5, I wonder how many were domestic situations?
Good news. In addition to us living in dark cold caves we all need to be thirsty as well.
Earth Has Tilted 31.5 Inches. That Shouldn’t Happen.
When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation.
Additionally, a study documents just how much of an influence groundwater pumping has on climate change.
That is complete horseshit.
Are you suggesting given the amount of water on the earth and the minuscule fraction moved by pumping that this might not be true?
From the abstract – credibility destroyed in the first three words.
“Are you suggesting….”
It crossed my mind, yes.
What does 31.5 inches represent as a fraction of a degree?
If I modeled it correctly, it is 0.00000686 degrees.
Confirmed. We’re all gonna die.
And normal is between 22.1 and 24.5 degrees, so almost 2.5 degrees.
showed that the pumping of as much as
or not as much as? How much is it?
researchers modeled
Let’s talk about the assumptions baked into your models.
Well, we started with 31.5 inches and worked backwards from there…
Indian meteorologists were unavailable for confirmation
This week’s atmospheric river storm smashed some heavy rainfall records in parts of the Bay Area, especially the North Bay, before mostly petering out by Saturday morning. Downtown Santa Rosa received 12.47 inches of rain in a three-day period, the National Weather Service said on social media, breaking a thousand-year record.
How many people will give this a single second of thought?
Oh, you mean the 800 years without any actual measurements?
The real question is, what brand of SUV were they pulling behind a horse a thousand years ago?
tangential
In SF, it’s probably more like 900.
Ask and ye shall receive
Well whaddayaknow? Sign me up.
Those guys were such goobers I couldn’t finish it. Somehow they did get a TV working in it.
I didn’t even make it to the teevee part. Did they get the plumbing hooked up?
I have to say, that thing is a lot more [promising than I expected. I could get two and graft them together.
Probably a lot less trouble to just get a doublewide delivered.
Pure coincidence.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/11/after-watching-ukraine-central-asian-nations-turning-away-from-russia-for-arms-us-officials/
My cabin (about 500 SF) was a kit home, circa 1960. Sold for $1400. Some assembly required.
This is a very long read on the bizarre issues around Matt Gaetz:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1859748387291107797.html
I read that the other day. It’s pretty wild.
Basically, he was honey potted.
Thought the leadership fight was after McCarthy refused to quash the House investigations into the allegations (according to McCarthy).
Also doesn’t mention that Gaetz allegedly made hush money payments to the underage girl afterwards.
When humans pump groundwater, it has a substantial impact on the tilt of Earth’s rotation.
The planet will wobble viciously just like a beach ball with a wheel weight taped to it. We’ll all be flung off into space!
Storms are worse than ever! More than ever! It’s never happened before! DOOM! DOOM I tells ya!
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/cf/96/c1/cf96c143be7bf51b4fabf269a8bd3a4e.jpg
Amazing how they can tell such blatant easily disproved lies and people’s brains freeze up from fear and they just fork over their money and liberty.
Same goes for the groundwater horseshit. Do the math. How much of the earth is crust…how much crust has groundwater…
A decent to-scale representation of the earth’s crust would be a solid ball of iron about the size of a basketball with a single layer of onion skin paper on it for skin. Ground water only goes a small percentage down into that sheet of paper.
Rough numbers – earth’s diameter ~8000 miles, thickness of crust ~10 miles.
10/ 8000 = 0.00125
The groundwater these people are talking about only goes down a fraction of that 0.00125
The proposition is a) unfalsifiable and b) completely absurd. Like the global warming scam you dont really have to go past a). You can shitcan the whole thing right there.
One of the TERFS I follow on Twitter contacts Lyft with regard to their Women Connect program, where only female Lyft drivers are sent to collect female riders. So she contacts Lyft support to confirm that she will be matched with an honest-to-goodness XX (because Lyft does send out dudes-in-dresses in this program).
Lyft suspends her account.
That sounds about as well thought out as gun free zones
Doom and chaos
Donald Trump will trigger a “period of chaos” and sharp price rises if he scraps Joe Biden’s manufacturing tax credits and increases tariffs as planned, the White House’s top economic adviser said.
Lael Brainard, director of the National Economic Council, told the Financial Times that Trump’s plan to gut the Inflation Reduction Act and the Chips and Science Act — President Biden’s signature legislation — would harm US manufacturing capacity.
“What would be very disruptive is if you saw sweeping across-the-board tariffs,” Brainard said in an interview. “We want to strengthen our manufacturers through [the] protection of the credits in the historic investment laws enacted by this administration and not throw us back into a period of chaos and price increases.”
Our national industrial policy is perfect as it is.
Well, honestly, I don’t understand how we can break our addiction cycle to cheap Chinese crap. “Buy American.” We’d love to, thanks! “It’s more expensive.” That’s fine. Fuck yeah ‘Murca! “The quality isn’t any better than cheap Chinese crap.” Um, no. If we’re going to get cheap crap, it might as well be CHEAP cheap crap.
Sewing your own clothes used to be a frugal necessity. Now it’s a luxury hobby, like all the other things poor people had to do until rich white women got their hands on it. Why? Because of the cheap Chinese crap clothes in Walmart and Target.
Hey Old Man, have you tried Fubo? That is the one I use. It’s a sports focused streaming provider. Not cheap, but I get my F1 action, Giants beisbol, and all the NFL games I want to watch along with a bunch of other crap I don’t want to watch.
It’s easy not to have Trump Disappointment Syndrome if you have never viewed him as some type of saviour.
He has already served his purpose by saving us from that walking talking nightmare Harris. Anything else is just whipped cream and a cherry on top.
Yes.
Yep, as noted above. One cannot overstate how bad Harris is but easy to overstate how good Trump is. At least Trump has some good points. Even if it were just one good quality it would be worlds better than the goddamned evil freak show the left tried to force down our throats.
Today’s earworm