TL;DR: Markets may rally briefly, but Fed rate cuts won’t fix the long slide in U.S. manufacturing. IPO hype won’t close the China gap. Learning collectives could.
Modest Rally – But Then?
We anticipate a modest rally today. Not likely to last, though. That’s because a week from Wednesday the Fed will likely drop rates a bit. Maybe a quarter, possibly a half.
Either way, it will be wrong.
See, American manufacturing jobs have been in free-fall since 1992, or so. The “big crossover” was around 1998 – that’s when things went from bad to worse.
Going into the recession 1990-1991, America had about 18-million people employed in Manufacturing. Today, that number (green above) is just over 12-million. Industrial production, meanwhile, rose about 56 percent on an indexed scale, topping 100 percent – knocked back by COVID-19, but coming on fast. In our view, too fast.
When you crank in population change, it’s even worse. For context, the employment-to-population ratio reached a record high of 64.7% in April 2000 and a record low of 51.2% in April 2020 during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As should be clear, the Fed FOMC has two ways to look at rates now: In one scenario, we roll with lower rates – anticipating an AI bubble – like the Internet Bubble 1999-2000, and that will be “good for business. If a collapse happens – as it did during the Internet Bubble burst, what looks in retrospect like “a mass-hiring event” (9/11) might be coincidentally-timed to take the heat. In the end, the rich will get richer and the poor? Well, must be their own fault, right?
The other side is more convincing to us: We already know there’s a list of “hot IPOs in the wings.” This fall’s IPO calendar is stacked with names across fintech, crypto, tech, and consumer brands—Klarna is lining up a New York debut aiming for a $14 billion valuation, Via Transportation is pitching a $3.5 billion transit-tech raise, blockchain lender Figure and crypto exchange Gemini are both set for Nasdaq listings, energy-services firm Legence is targeting a $700 million haul, and Black Rock Coffee Bar is brewing a near-$900 million offering—altogether signaling a broad reopening of the IPO market with billions in play.
We’re pretty sure none of these will come anywhere near closing the gap between Chinese manufacturing and how America has fallen behind. Clearly, the Fed has to place a bet – the word “judgment” will no doubt be bandied about, but let’s call it what it is.
We don’t need more drivers and baristas. We need factories. To us? With memories still intact? Arthur Laffer’s trickle-down economics argues that cutting taxes on businesses and the wealthy spurs investment and growth that eventually benefits the broader economy. Seems to us the Administration’s still pushing “Laffer-bull” economics.
A little rally today? Maybe. Bank Settlement Day Wednesday. But the crystal ball hints Thursday’s Consumer Prices Report will come in stronger than wish-n-whispers. That will drive the market down ahead of the Fed. Which will likely lower anyway.
Politics being what it is: power that insulates the citizens who ceded it. We may not have factories, but by-God we have fairytales.
Futures Whispering
Gold early was trying to pop back today – after a smooth drop for the charts last week. That’s just one of the indicators of future.
We really like the FinViz.com presentation board as a before-the-open cheat sheet.
We like looking at the numbers and going through the “self-talk” – building a trader’s narrative which balances news versus the reality of cash. Take today, for example:
“Hmm…lumber isn’t popping – so whatever the Fed does isn’t likely to turn on home building in a big way. Good time to get that new deck built? Oil’s still holding, but firm – so maybe that’s whispering about inflation numbers to come. You know, with gold holding…yeah. Copper? Under $5 bucks – that rolls with sluggish home building (wire needs) and quiet, for now, on the “wars involving the West in a back way” front…”
You, of course, get to roll your own. But it helps to take some of the edge off.
Press Coaster Headlines!
Hang on, buddy – this won’t hurt…much…
The Good news? Not just Mexican workers being targeted. The bad? South Korea to fly detained workers back as US vows more raids on employers,
So, you thought gold was a slow game before? Carlos Alcaraz wins his 2nd U.S. Open at match delayed by Trump’s attendance .
War Notes: European leaders to visit US to discuss ending Ukraine war, says Trump.
Roping China into the Euro-War? Is this the smoking gun footage that PROVES China’s role in Ukraine war? Bombshell drone vid reveals Chinese ‘factory’.
Hows that real estate/land clearing project? Still slow? Israel Warns Hamas to Surrender or Face ‘Annihilation’.
Wait…You mean divorcing for dollars may go out of style??? Divorce Plunged in Kentucky. Equal Custody for Fathers Is a Big Reason Why. – WSJ. (Remember, I lost a cool mill in RE equality from the Big D years back…so we do watch the front lines.)
What Monday is complete without more dismal news on vaccine lies and misdirection? THE MASSIVE COVID VACCINE DECEPTION – The Burning Platform
PLUS: we have the low-down on the blow-down, of course:
The Day On Deck:
- Consumer Debt report due out an hour before the close today. If this key Fed number is weak, it might spin the markets one way, or the other. Remember, if the consumer starts to “vote with their wallet” politicians begin to remember who put them in office. Odd how that works…
- Bank Settlement Day Wednesday: Plan extra Maalox a day or so either side of it. Great time to be looking at left field (for events).
Around the Ranch: Learning Collectives – An Alt. to AI?
Say you don’t like AI? Afraid are you? Or, are you just holding on to living in the dark?
Humans already have a workable alternative to AI and it is hiding in plain sight. Call them learning collectives. These are groups of people who gather online in a purposeful way to solve both the world’s problems and their own. The difference between this and the current landscape of social media is the intent. Streaming video devolved into porn-land, and platforms like Facebook or X turned into hangouts for whiners and dopamine junkies. They are tools of distraction rather than collaboration.
The core idea of a learning collective is to reclaim those same digital pipes and redirect them toward coordinated problem-solving. It doesn’t require new tech—Zoom, comment sections, even Discord servers are enough. What matters is building an environment where insight is shared, curated, and applied rather than drowned in noise.
Our own comments section is a half-step in this direction. It proves that even in a modest format, real collaboration can surface.
Take “Out of Work Steve,” who recently dropped a gem of cultural diagnosis. He reminded us that Iron Eyes Cody, the “crying Indian” from the 1970s pollution PSA, was not a Native American at all but an Italian-American actor who lived his whole career behind a false mask. The fact that this symbol of American conscience was itself a scam tells you a lot about where we live. Steve pushed the point further with the modern example of Publishers Clearing House. Oregonians won “$5,000 a week forever,” only to watch the company go bankrupt and erase those promises. Bankruptcy records now show at least ten winners may never collect millions they were led to believe was guaranteed. Scam Nation, right there in black and white.
A learning collective would not just share such stories. It would analyze the patterns underneath them. Why do scams flourish? How does advertising colonize conscience? What makes people fall for promises of “forever money”?
Once you have a critical mass of voices, the collective begins to function as a distributed brain. It can spot blind spots, connect historical dots, and propose countermeasures. That’s where the human edge lies. AI is good at pattern-matching within a box, but collectives can change the box itself. They can call BS on a false narrative, reveal hidden motives, and generate strategies that are rooted in lived experience. The wisdom of crowds is not automatic, though—it takes cultivation. You need moderators, context, and a willingness to push beyond entertainment.
Historical Learning Collectives Aren’t “New”
History shows that learning collectives are not new—they’ve just been institutionalized under banners like government, religion, or empire. The Athenian agora functioned as a collective where citizens debated policy, law, and philosophy, shaping the earliest experiments in democracy.
Medieval monasteries became learning engines, copying texts, preserving knowledge, and exchanging agricultural and medical insights across Europe. The Islamic Golden Age revolved around Baghdad’s House of Wisdom, where scholars pooled knowledge from Greek, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources to advance science and mathematics.
Even empires understood the leverage: Rome built roads not just for legions but for moving ideas, while China’s dynastic courts institutionalized collective scholarship in civil service exams. These were all proto-learning collectives, but they were tightly ensconced within hierarchies of power—sustained by political authority, clerical structures, or imperial might.
What’s different today is the possibility of forming them outside those gatekeepers, using the same networks that usually sell us scams and distractions.
Carpe Diem for Learning Collectives?
If humanity wants to keep its seat at the table, additional input and control while building out more collaboration with AI – like I write about on the Hidden Guild website – learning collectives are the way.
They are cheaper than AI, more transparent than algorithms, and—done right—more creative.
The challenge is cultural. We need to steer our digital lives away from passive consumption and toward active engagement.
A world of scammy distractions has lulled us into thinking the only options are to be amused, outraged, or sold to. But when people assemble with intent, even in a simple comment thread, something different happens. New ideas surface, hidden truths get validated, and solutions start to form. That is not a dream; it’s a design choice. The alternative to AI doesn’t need to be built. It already exists in us—waiting to be used.
We’d sure like the web protected so that more “learning collectives” could spring up. Software that would better facilitate research and public consensus-building. Outside of the (scammy) political processes and the marketing-oriented “special people.”
Thinking more like small public think tanks – and maybe with the same immunity from lawsuits that Social Media has grabbed.
Oh, wait…that can’t happen? AI is a hot-new monetization and social media is a lash on the backs of working people to lead them where the meme bosses (intel and political class) want.
Yeah, forget I mentioned it. Living in the dark is so much less work, right?
Wine Time Outlook
By know, you may know that Elaine and I pause every afternoon at 4 PM sharp for a glass of wine, or an ice-cold beer. Three days a week we also have my buddy The Major on speakerphone. Today’s “field report” should be special. Because the Major got to spend some time this weekend with Jerry Boykin. Not familiar? William Gerald “Jerry” Boykin was the head of Delta Force for 13-years. As President G.W. Bush’s undersecretary of defense for intelligence, there are probably few people alive who have clear-cut vision on “where America’s at.”
This weekend, Boykin was speaking at a church up in the Gig Harbor area west of Tacoma, WA. Looking forward to the HUMINT on this and if able, I’ll pass along anything useful. Wine time is prime time around here.
ShopTalk Sunday is here if you missed it. New paper on the Mind Amplifiers website and one on the Hidden Guild site, as well. Yes, the old man’s been busy on the keys…
Scribe when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Ok……about three weeks ago now.. the wife asked if I spilled a little water..nope.. what it was was a leak under the floor..the two young boys that are neighbours are journeyman plumbers ..one was like a grandson..calls me grandpa and has for years..I asked for help..the plumber that ran the original INE didn’t put the copper in a conduit.. it was a week of hell for them to drag a new line under the slab floor..his girlfriend a single mother of two.. well the little ones call me grandpa and she and the boy that calls me grandpa like wine..needless to say they get a bottle once in a while..to say I was greatfull..is beyond words.. grandma and I have the floor fixed and water is running great..what would have cost me a lot only cost me materials and a few bucks..but.. he asked me.. grandpa do you know how mead is made? is the pope catholic or does a bear toilet in the woods..you know I actually do..similar to the wine beer of Adam and Eve or the beer of king tut..yup.. well he had always wanted to try it so this grateful grandpa set out to make the kids some ancient Viking mead..
15 pounds of honey…( I had to use clover honey)
1 cup of juniper berries
1 ounce meadow sweet flowers
1/2 ounce Yarrow
1/2 cup of hibiscus flowers
5 gallons of water
1/4 cup of grapes ( for the wild yeast) or I packet of yeast…
now.. I had missed feelings about this would it taste like a pine tree in a cup.. nope.. I had gotten some nice Stone ware bottles a while back for the mead of king tut.. so I wanted these boys to get Something that would be a memory… from one grateful grandpa..
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851476745/antique-stoneware-bottle-with-ceramic?
my thought was to make a mold of the bottle then cast my own bottles for future use.. ( you never told my mother ..I’m bored.. she had me in making pottery one year as a boy.. so.. why not bottles I made just about everything else.. )
Yesterday…it was done.. cold crashed and it was time..I sterilized the bottles and filled them..got a big glass of it for myself and going to sit on the porch..got one for my other grandson that fixed my floor a few months ago..and the wife..what did the Vikings drink to celebrate.. Dam… I think personally that its actually better than anything sold today on the market.. I will make more..a little expensive.. fifteen pounds of honey came out to just shy fifty bucks.. making Viking mead one of the most expensive brews I’ve made to date..
anyway he’s now interested in making wine and beer his fiancee loves the homemade wine the friend was amazed at the cacao wine and amature vintners hobbies is born..
I have always hekld a good neighbor is who who pitches in at your moment of mead….. (rim shot)
Lol lol..that’s some good stuff to..even the boss loved it..
A honey of a tale, proving that a friend with mead is a friend indeed!
(the puns drive me to drink around here – and here and here and…)
Good ideas about learning collectives, but were you typing this with your mouth full?: “Laffer-bull” economics”
re: The Triple Alliance Cast
feat: coffee liquor
Folks,
Fans of Meso-America perhaps think themselves indebted to the Tetzcoco branch and learning center of the Aztec Triple Alliance for kahlua. It seems in fact their tributes are due to a quartet of modern-day Mexican conquistadores dating from 1936.
Meanwhile in East Texas, Café Americana Cast promises a strong brew perhaps with a Ure’s Major and A-list guest in the blend. The trio launch their ground game planning fully three hours before ManningCast gets out of the ESPN2 gate in Chicago with the Vikings at the Bears tilt.
Surely it beggars human imagination how whiteboard-at-the-ready Peyton (“Fighting Man’s Estate”) and quick-quip Elie (“The Lord is My God”) have nursed the covid19-born ManningCast along to see kickoff of a fifth season. Best order up a tall one and batten down the longships because the pair and their guest likely won’t be talking Bulls tonight.
Regarding happy hour on deck, the “BBC” has noted the removal by missile of roofing over offices in Kyiv of the Ukrainian cabinet and the Prime Minister. The “Beeb” further informs that the alleged Russian strike may have been a result of a bungled Ukrainian defensive battery effort. There is no update about the matter thus far from the Presidential social media account. However it does sport an image gallery drop of award presentations made to military members on the occasion of yesterday’s Military Intelligence Day.
Separately within its report, the state-run “BBC” noted a missile strike upon the Kyiv home of a 23 year old Ukrainian football (soccer) player. Thankfully the military-aged gentleman finds himself ensconced on a battle pitch with top-tier Team Benfica whose nicknames include “The Eagles” and “The Glorious One”. The team takes shelter at Estádio da Luz (“Stadium of Light”) in Lisbon, Portugal. Benfica’s crest features a golden eagle perched atop a motto declaring “E Pluribus Unum”.
Finally Ukraine’s “Interfax” brings positive sentiments from The State Service of Ukraine on Food Safety and Consumer Protection. Two million hryvna (~us$58,000) in fines have been issued in the first half of 2025 against violators of anti-smoking laws. Furthermore 64,000 hryvna (~us$1,500) “has been collected forcibly” according to the agency Deputy Head. (The means of collection were not disclosed.)
(“To us? With memories still intact? Arthur Laffer’s trickle-down economics argues that cutting taxes on businesses and the wealthy spurs investment and growth that eventually benefits the broader economy. Seems to us the Administration’s still pushing “Laffer-bull” economics.”)
or LOOBs noodle nomics lol..the velocity of money..The economy, like a pot of pasta, depends on the right balance of liquidity and structure moving. to much water and the noodles turn to mush, too little and they tear apart before reaching the plate. In today’s system, outsourcing industry and flooding markets with easy credit have done both simultaneously… hollowing out the productive core while drowning the consumer in debt. The velocity of money—the rate at which cash moves through local hands—is what gives the noodle its strength, its chew, its purpose. But when wealth is siphoned upward to stuff the pockets of big-buck billies, the noodle stalls mid-table, limp and lifeless. True reinvestment in community is the heat that keeps the meal moving.the modern economic system has lost its balance—oversaturated with easy credit and hollowed out by outsourced industry. The velocity of money, once the lifeblood of local communities, has slowed to a trickle as capital is siphoned into offshore accounts and phantom investments. These financial havens, designed to shield wealth from taxation and accountability, serve as the gilded bowls where the elite feast while the rest scrape for scraps while they only see success in numbers the effects on society is shielded from their view by the gated communities..a realtor in San Fran didn’t even know about the issues rotting on the sidewalks of his own community..it didn’t exist. Instead of reinvesting in the communities that produce real value, the system rewards those who extract and conceal, filling the pockets of the few while the noodle—the working economy—tears apart. It’s not just extremely bad policy; it’s a betrayal of the social contract to the citizens of any civilization, where the table is set but only the powerful are served. Old industrialists still advanced they seen the catastrophic results so the designed work familirs you were a member of a family by reinvesting in their workers. my fathers multi national company CEO knew each of us kids..he had tens of thousands of employees..he invested in them todays ceos dont even know the name of the guy dumping the trash in their office they are worthless to them. cuts from the foundations of corporate america to give lavish benefits and bonuses to the to execs.. healthcare system so badly broken that its destroying the population.. grid and infrastructure vulnerable to any minor assault because it doesnt benefit the business !odel…If you read any of the old books it comes back over and over..Throughout history, advanced civilizations have collapsed not from lack of innovation or military might, but from the slow rot of economic imbalance—when the scales tip too far in favor of the elite. Empires like Rome, the Maya, and even the Han Dynasty fell into decline as wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, leaving the broader population overburdened, underfed, and increasingly disconnected from power. A NASA-funded study found that overconsumption and economic stratification were the two most consistent factors in societal collapse. When business models prioritize profit for the wealthiest—outsourcing labor, hoarding capital, and neglecting reinvestment in local communities—the velocity of money slows, social cohesion fractures, and the working class becomes expendable. The result isn’t just economic decay—it’s civilizational unraveling, where the infrastructure of care and continuity erodes until the society can no longer sustain itself.
https://www.space.com/25160-nasa-statement-civilization-collapse-study.html
Here’s a report explaining the study..
https://www.mic.com/articles/85541/nasa-study-concludes-when-civilization-will-end-and-it-s-not-looking-good-for-us
Anyway that’s my view from the bottom of the shit pile of society an unedjumicated man that is totally one of the Expendables the disposable people in life..
The health of a nation is reflected not just in its hospitals, but in how it treats the vulnerable—and by that measure, the U.S. healthcare system is in a state of moral collapse. Insurance giants reap trillions while patients drown in paperwork, premiums, and denial letters. Hospitals, once places of healing, now employ collection agents to pursue the sick, turning recovery into financial ruin. Pharmaceutical companies, funded by public dollars for research, charge astronomical prices for life-saving treatments—forcing those who paid for the cure to beg for access. Meanwhile, the infrastructure meant to support care is crumbling, designed not for resilience but for profit extraction. The grid, the supply chains, the emergency systems—all optimized for shareholders, not citizens. From the bottom of society, it appears not just broken, but absurd—a system so detached from compassion that one must ask: who, if anyone, is truly in control? most obviously no one cares.. crime is rampant corruption..
“most obviously no one cares..”
A Bronx Tale (1993)
Sonny: Mickey Mantle? Is that what you’re upset about? Mickey Mantle makes $100,000 a year. How much does your father make? You don’t know? Well, see if your father can’t pay the rent go ask Mickey Mantle and see what he tells you. Mickey Mantle don’t care about you, so why should you care about him? Nobody cares.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFHO18vFc8o
That’s a good movie…I remember meeting the colonel the first time.. I just turned five.. I went with dad while he did is books the colonel was visiting the warehouse..dad was a delivery boy.. he asked me and I told him its my birthday.. he laughed and opened the sample room what do you like ..hey days..he gave me a case.. the next time I seen him the drivers would hire kids to offload the semi..he was walking around seen me took of his suit coat stepped in and by hand we unloaded the trailer while the driver slept.all while visiting..I couldn’t get a job there because family couldn’t work in the same facility..but it was my parents year to restate their vows during their fifty fifth anniversary.. the company was being sold and I was sacking groceries at a local market dad was planning his retirement and The colonel was tough g the local stores to show how their sales staff displayed products locally.. he seen me and again he took off his suit coat stood next to me and sacked groceries telling me he was not going to be able to attend the anniversary of my parents and to convey his well wishes..all while asking me about my sibblings..dad was at the bottom of the barrel in the company..worked there over fifty years..he took care of all his family.. I would get a big tickle at picking up moms meds..twenty cents lol they always did a double take.. no !ore than two hundred out pay per year..it always amazed me..then there was the window and doorcompany..when the old man owned it..he noticed single parents missed more time..kids day care and sick kids.. he took care of it.. all in house.. he and his wife got a big screen tv..loved it everyone got one..the grocery store..( I still shop tbere) all the perks meant for executives was gathered cruises cars hang gliders etc etc..the one I wanted was the Totinto’s Surrey..
https://internationalsurreyco.com/product/2-person-bike/
anyway during the Christmas party they drew from the perks..everyone got some..I got the team coat from the cowboys football team..now..there’s still one that remembers those days..its no longer like that..healthcare that once was available to everyone is no longeravailable..one kid yesterday was telling what they get and how much it cost them its a joke..he had it only because without it you cannot see a doctor in a clinic .. ( this is a medical facility he just got his PhD and is in his getting settled as a physician..) the wing I was working on was cut of floor staff so severely that there’s not enough to do the work adequately.. just to make sure the top can continue to make their incomes..old story been down that road fifty years..
what I see is its so badly broken and neglected that its to late to turn it around..we have to ride the correction.. Weimar , Zimbabwe Argentina here we come..
the only ones that can’t visualize it are the ones that it isn’t affecting ..to them its a completely different world..it doesn’t exist The United States stands at the edge of a correction so profound it may feel instantaneous when it hits. Beneath the surface of daily life, the economy has entered what analysts call a “stall state,” with recession risks climbing and job growth quietly flatlining. Consumer confidence is eroding, bankruptcies are rising, and the velocity of money—the life blood of local economies—is slowing to a crawl. Yet for those insulated by wealth or status, the warning signs remain invisible, like tremors beneath polished marble. When the flip comes, it won’t be gradual—it will be sudden, like the shuttering of Epstein’s files or the vanishing of truth behind bureaucratic curtains. History shows that when denial runs deep, collapse feels like lightning. And for those already living in the margins, it’s not a future event—it’s the present, unfolding quietly while the rest of the nation sleeps.
just another fake Indian,,,, Liz Warren anybody? those that know.
The news media , which is paid for by the advertisers, controls what u see,,,
“74,221 AP articles about George Floyd
0 AP articles about Iryna Zarutska”
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1964798655732556133
how many readers here have heard of Iryna Zarutska?
a murder victim in the US from Ukrainehttps://search.brave.com/search?q=Iryna+Zarutska&summary=1&conversation=5159db8487d654f7ec0463
social =bad?
but lame stream media is good??? both contain a combination of garbage and useful info
give and take Mr Ure, there is good and bad in both, oh the duality of life,
birth/ death model, as dLynn posted about a last drink with an old friend,,,
we celebrate a new life and mourn/miss the passing of the old guard
we wonder why WE ARE/I AM
How much have u read about Tina Peters? do some research, where has the media been on her case and protection of our VOTES, stolen by the existing powers in Colorado,,, fucking liberals, lie cheat and steal.
Liberal judges and prosecutors let criminals go to repeat violent transgressions,
I have read much about Tina in the social platforms of X and Truth, but not much in the main stream controlled information
FREE TINA PETERS
but my monkey brain goes back in infinity and wonders if an much more advanced AI has been around for a long time, in this multi-galactic universe/multiverse, playing with humans like a couple of young boys with shovels, gasoline, matches and an ant hill
I don’t know why…but watching the news of today..brings st. alto wow pancake breakfast to mind…
https://youtu.be/yzfzsKENCbU?si=pKArg7-KqEJgBY9F
https://youtu.be/IobtCDkJKDc?si=R5BA2MejuH9u4Bob
Don’t crush the dwarf…hand me the pliers
https://youtu.be/t8drMsE224Y?si=hPUbvjkdfE3qsQc0…
or drift back to the dark side of the moon..
https://youtu.be/DLOth-BuCNY?si=4IUje5iUrDnXqOOJ
the one group you neglected to mention is the jury. peters was convicted by a jury of her peers. what peters did was try to game the election. peters opened up access to the secure voting system to the my pillow guy. you’re sympathetic because you support trump.
“Peters, 68, helped breach Mesa County’s election computer systems and allowed an unauthorised individual to access voting equipment and election records. She carried out the breach amid unsubstantiated claims that mass voter fraud had caused former President Donald Trump to lose the White House in the last presidential election.
State District Court Judge Matthew Barrett told Peters on Thursday: “You are no hero. You’re a charlatan who used and is still using your prior position in office to peddle a snake oil that’s been proven to be junk time and time again.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr75mpkm7nro
it was the judge,, for what was allowed and not allowed to be presented as evidence, she was railroaded
Tina is innocent, but I would not expect YOU to see that, as you
as you post an article that misrepresnts facts.
Excluded Evidence in the Tina Peters TrialDuring the 2024 trial of former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters in Colorado’s 21st Judicial District Court, Judge Matthew Barrett made several pretrial rulings to limit the scope of admissible evidence. The trial focused narrowly on whether Peters committed specific crimes—such as attempting to influence public servants, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, and official misconduct—by allowing unauthorized access to election equipment during a secure software update in May 2021. Barrett explicitly ruled that the trial was not about broader claims of election fraud, Dominion Voting Systems vulnerabilities, or the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. He stated: “This trial is not about whether Dominion and the secretary of state conspired to cover up vulnerabilities in the voting process. The jury will not be tasked with deciding any of those issues.”
These rulings were intended to prevent jury confusion and ensure relevance, but Peters and her supporters argued they prevented a full defense, portraying her actions as a legitimate whistleblower effort to preserve records and expose fraud.
Tina preserved voting records that the cheaters wanted erased, she wasn’t gaming the system she was saving the data as reQuired by LAW
More BS from the mind of “truth” . Of course you get your info from the bbc. Bring up some info from U.S. sources. Oh , that’s right, there is none. You still dreaming about having obozo and pedo joe ruling over and destroying America.
i’m super confused, are you saying you don’t believe that peters was convicted because the BBC reported it? as for biden and obama (grow up, stop the 13 year old name calling) compare the data/numbers.
you want an US source, you could use google “tina peters conviction”, but here’s the SoS CO. “Denver, October 3, 2024 – Today former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison and six months in jail for her role in the breach of her own election equipment in 2021. Secretary of State Jena Griswold has issued the following statement:
“Tina Peters has been sentenced to nine years of incarceration for her dangerous attempts to break into her own election equipment to prove Trump’s ‘Big Lie.’ We will not allow anyone to threaten our elections.
“Colorado’s elections are the nation’s gold standard. I am proud of how we have responded to the first insider elections breach in the nation, and look forward to another secure and successful election in November.”
On August 12, Tina Peters was found guilty by a jury of her peers on four felonies and three misdemeanors, including three counts of attempts to influence a public servant, one count of conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, one count of first degree official misconduct, one count of violation of duty, and one count of failure to comply with requirements of the Secretary of State.
In 2021, Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters compromised her county’s voting equipment trying to prove conspiracies. Secretary Griswold took swift action when discovering the incident, including decertifying the county’s voting equipment, working with Mesa County commissioners to remove Peters of election oversight, appointing a former Republican Secretary of State to oversee the election, and then leading the nation’s first law on insider threats.
Peters’ actions cost Mesa County nearly one million dollars in replacement equipment.” https://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/newsRoom/pressReleases/2024/PR20241003Peters.html
Not gonna touch the “another wonderful secret” tween pedo Bro’s, huh ?
rut – row Wraggy, rut row.
complete and utter BS, huh?
expect anything less from a redshield stooge ?
orange jesus bee Controlled, and We be F’d with a capital T .
Let me introduce to you, the one and only Mr Apocalypse, and man can this Cat dance..
https://youtu.be/FTjG-Aux_yQ?si=CL7yrrcMcZXvGEnc
Morning your Ure-ness!
So, taking on 80s guru Arthur B. this morning to weave into Fed spec? My read (since days of Reagan) is many go full malaprop on success or failure of doctrine. The principals worked in core, then less so at frayed ends. No matter, the much touted / despised Laffer Curve is a truism.
https://laffercenter.org/about/arthur-laffer/
Make income less hated, more wanted (so treated well under the tax code) and … they will do more of it. Result : more tax to Treasury, not less as was widely feared.
Make income evil, less wanted (so treated harshly under the tax code) and … they will do less of it. Result : less tax to Treasury.
Peeling the onion of intent and outcome is a pop. pass-time. Guess I don’t have time for it? I saw it, watched it and played along as a young business owner / operator. My fam. was full of self made men who created and ran businesses, including hands on manufacturing. Customer list had loads of big names (ex : AMC, Hummer, Wheel Horse Tractors, etc., etc.).
Guess I have owned (3) while playing a part in at least (6) with Dad / Grandfather (indentured slave / crack foreman / GC, etc. Lots of people start concerns of one type or another. Most who succeed can at least do ordinary math and won’t work harder for less. There are vagaries in the code that punish instead of reward additional effort. That … is the core of Laffer. Encourage production.
Or, we can just sit back and natter with a silicone based non human as advisor, assistant, author, coordinator. “… Say you don’t like AI? Afraid are you? Or, are you just holding on to living in the dark? …” Oh puhleeze George. Afraid? Hardly. Wary? Yes. Rushing to be a first adopter is for kids. Nope. I’m old matey.
I will go to my (watery) grave knowing people who read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four whinging about coming of Big Brother then volunteered all their Info, ad nauseum should ask for a refund. Don’t volunteer the information to the Borg. Don’t feed the thing. Let it paint pretty pictures or tell you stories but, the less you volunteer, the better.
Recently you said, in an aside, you could use AI to reformat your Estate Documents. Hello? Look people, don’t volunteer _anything_ about your legal affairs, your financial affairs or … any affairs (eek). At the least wall off parts of life you wouldn’t post on a billboard downtown.
Very techy bud (who, at seventy-two got offered too much to say no so is stepping in overseeing build out of a battery plant) related getting lost after following an AI guided route from A to B. AI? You mean you completed a voice activated navigation tool. That’s AI? Piffle.
IPOs? They come and go. Plenty have already crossed the tape and more are in the line. It’s orchestrated FBO the VCs and Angels wanting to ring the register. This guy has been thumping the table to get tech since the Comp went sub 3,000. Now, the whole enchilada hangs on tech. And we get served piffle.
Best Regards,
Egor
(“Make income evil, less wanted (so treated harshly under the tax code) and … they will do less of it. Result : less tax to Treasury.”)
Carter had it right—restrain spending, simplify taxation, and avoid the trap of needless wars. His instincts echoed the ancient wisdom of Sun Tzu, who warned that prolonged conflict and overextension are the death knell of empires. Yet today, the U.S. finds itself entangled in endless military commitments and a tax system riddled with loopholes that favor the wealthy, while the working class bears the burden. The business model of modern governance seems built not on stewardship, but on extraction—draining resources from the many to enrich the few. Like empires before us, we’ve ignored the warning signs: bloated budgets, hollowed industries, and a population increasingly alienated from power. The correction won’t be gentle—it will be swift, as history always is when pride outruns prudence.
Dam egor… saint alfonzos pancake breakfast and don’t eat the yellow snow is running through my mind again lol
Lootb : now there’s ^ a visual :0) ahem, iksnay on the “s” word, referring to yellow or otherwise. Hanging onto summer here! BR, Egor
Lol lol
Saint Alfonzo’s Pancake Breakfast !?!?
What the What ?!? Loob ? Is that You?
Ni ni nu nu – back to the 70’s..
– when I was just a wee Teen. Seems my best buds dad was CotB at a big oil company. He had 4 tickets right behind the home bench for Flyers games. (Yerp – I was token poor white kid in my group) Anyway we would sell 2 tickets before every game we went to and use the $$ to buy party supplies (Beer&Weed). He had the same seats for Concerts (4th row) – and we just happened to go see Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention.
So of course we scored some 4-way blotter acid – and ingested it all prior to hopping on the El evated train for South Philly from center city/city hall.
We were tripping ballz so bad we went the wrong way – and ended up in North Phila..”The Badlands”. 2 Philly Cops spotted us right away and we both got jacked up against the wall – then read the riot act for White Boys being in the roughest neighborhood in Philly. Cops escorted us onto the southbound train – we could not stop laughing the whole time – it was truly a mess. Anyway I was not very familiar with Zappas’ music beyond “Watch out Where Those Huskys Go”.
We walked into concert LATE, tripping balls, and they are playing….Saint Alpohonsos’ Pancake Breakfast. The speakers were covered in red leather and big rivets..I think.
Will never forget that or the song.
* Kid I was with had open heart surgery the following year, after substitute Doctor doing physical heard a murmur. Dude died on the TRW production in Exton, PA from aneurism years later – which I found out from an old neighbor, who had taken his position after the aneurism.
Zappa – https://youtu.be/4Yngc8DB86U?si=fUdkoVOPruFueo36
“Ure pluking me too hard!”
ole yeller snow,,,
neighbor knocked on the door ,,,complaining to the guy, about his son’s name written in the front yard snow,, when the boys father noticed, it was the complainer’s daughter’s handwriting,,,
Lol lol lol lol lol …at least he didn’t put a star wars costume on it.. you know one of those little bridges guys.. she’s just helping a soldier dad..
Don’t crush that dwarf lol lol
so since wages are taxed at a higher rate than unearned i guess working is more evil than cashing a dividend check? or corporate taxes, a worker that earns a little over $47,000 is taxed at a higher rate than a corporation that makes billions. so again, working is more evil than running a corp.
some companies, Tesla for one, get away with paying nothing, while musk’s pay package reaches $1,000,000,000,000.
https://fortune.com/2024/03/15/tesla-netflix-ford-tax-ceo-pay/
or a simple thing would be to compare the deficit and the tax rates since the 1950s. CBO projections for republicans BBB explain how the deficit is going to soar because of the BBB. by now it should be axiomatic that cutting taxes increases the deficit. i find it funny that people are nostalgic for the 1950s-60s. well the tax rates were much higher then and the country, judging by the nostalgia, was doing just fine.
here’s a simple graph: https://www.partnersfinancial.com/media/2pcl1ikw/history-of-taxes-vs-debt.pdf
truth : one is projections per your agenda / the other historic observable outcomes. Please drill into better data base info vs. recant something from agenda against the BBB.
Taxes collected continue to make highs. We don’t have a tax problem we have a spending problem. Absent appetite for reducing spending the _only_ possible out is create more.
Or, you can chew on ends of political slant.
I wouldn’t though (just me).
Tastes bitter.
E
i thought you wanted to make working less evil. yeah, my agenda, political slant – unearned income should never be taxed at a lower rate than wages. i’m such a socialcommunlibrulhippiefag.
compare the tax rate to the deficit over 50 years, do the homework and report back please!!
cutting taxes increases the deficit. it’s simple. axiomatic. and no we can’t cut spending our way out of this.
“The total effects reported in this analysis for the 2026–2034 period include the following:
• An increase in the federal deficit of $3.8 trillion attributable to tax changes, including extending provisions of the 2017 tax act, which includes revenues and outlays for refundable credits.
• $698 billion less in federal subsidies from changes to the Medicaid program.
• $267 billion less in federal spending for SNAP.
• $64 billion less in spending, on net, for all other purposes. That includes increases in outlays for defense, immigration enforcement, and homeland security. Those are offset by reductions in federal pensions, receipts from spectrum auctions, and changes in receipts and outlays associated with changes to emissions regulations.
• $78 billion in additional state spending, on net, accounting for changes in state contributions to SNAP and Medicaid and for state tax and spending policies necessary to finance additional spending.”
https://www.cbo.gov/system/files/2025-05/61422-Reconciliation-Distributional-Analysis.pdf
for truth, in reply “… compare the tax rate to the deficit over 50 years, do the homework and report back please!!…”
I have been teaching people about economics since dirt was new (it wasn’t even dirty). Here ya go son : add spending into the equation to find an answer.
Typical leftist bent exposed … you can’t just compare taxes to the deficit young fella. What caused those deficits? Profligate spending. There ya go.
Not that you’ll benefit from it.
Pay attention pls!
Egor
Well said, professor-admiral. thank you
Yes, but just like musk bankrolled all his coin into Tesla to make that what it is today, I posit that Elon has that number in mind as the cost to develop his Mars program. Zero noise all signal.
My wife just asked me,what I was saying..I read it to her and she said..your spreading joy and cheer today..In a world that prefers comfort over confrontation, speaking What i see as truth feels like a kind of exile and how fast those run away from the conversations.. I think because its truly futile subjects and no one can change any of it. So here I am—just a nobody, as I told my wife—spreading joy and cheer in the form of conversations of death, money, and the slow eclipse of a country that once promised more. Like kids who don’t yet see the storm but are starting to feel the wind shift, most people avoid these subjects because they sting, because they demand reflection. But I speak them anyway—not to depress, but hopefully to illuminate and show what I see as the catfish of the pond. Because someone has to discuss what’s unraveling in our country as politicians race off to their next day off avoiding the mount Everest of issues we are facing, even if it’s just by my being the nag whining voice or a quiet voice in the corner, ranting while the rest of the room hums along to denial. I may not be able to fix it, but I can bear witness to what I see happening. And sometimes, bearing witness is the most radical act of care left.
supply side economics has lead to a $50 Trillion transfer of wealth from workers to the rich over the past 50 years. how long is it going to take, and how many chances are we going to allow, for the rich, powerful and well connected to trickle on us??
“How big is this elephant? A staggering $50 trillion. That is how much the upward redistribution of income has cost American workers over the past several decades.
This is not some back-of-the-napkin approximation. According to a groundbreaking new working paper by Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, had the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady, the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion higher in the year 2018 alone. That is an amount equal to nearly 12 percent of GDP—enough to more than double median income—enough to pay every single working American in the bottom nine deciles an additional $1,144 a month. Every month. Every single year.
Price and Edwards calculate that the cumulative tab for our four-decade-long experiment in radical inequality had grown to over $47 trillion from 1975 through 2018. At a recent pace of about $2.5 trillion a year, that number we estimate crossed the $50 trillion mark by early 2020. That’s $50 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of working Americans had inequality held constant—$50 trillion that would have built a far larger and more prosperous economy.”
https://time.com/5888024/50-trillion-income-inequality-america/
Its to late.. once it flips the numbers then like the Weimar the numbers will will be worthless .. my guess is war will happen because war is usually the thing that review empires if your the winner.. what isn’t being considered is the industrial angle..we outsource everything.It’s too late to reverse the course—what lies ahead is the correction, and it will come fast, like a snap in the dark. Once the numbers flip, as they did in Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, and Argentina, currency will lose meaning, and the illusion of stability will vanish overnight. War often follows such collapse, not just as chaos but as a desperate attempt to revive empire—yet what’s overlooked is the industrial backbone required to sustain that effort. The U.S. has outsourced its manufacturing, hollowed out its supply chains, and traded resilience for cheap labor and quarterly profits. When the correction hits, there will be no arsenal to awaken, no factories to retool—just a brittle shell of dependency. And the only ones who can’t see it coming are those it hasn’t touched yet, living in a parallel reality that will shatter in an instant. The flip won’t be gradual—it will be lightning, and by then, the silence will be deafening.
Oh brother LOOB – it has hit, it is slow, and will not speed up until the very last moment. Just because the News doesnt cover it, doesnt mean it happening in the world.
BRICS are and have been buying F- Tons of GOLD – all day, everyday since the Russian assets were stolen from Mother Russia and her People. Actually had started prior to, but redoubled efforts afterwards.
BRICS have been De-Dollarizing, and blowing out UST’s..SOLD!
UST’s ARE NO LONGER RISK FREE.
Screwed the pooch on that one they did..duh-ooh!
Silver and Gold – India/RUssia/China have been massive buyers. Crypto as well is being stuffed into Sovereign Wealth Funds, and Corporate Treasuries…
hmmmmmmm One wonders
“If ya wanna way out…Silver & Gold” – https://youtu.be/b7jPiAYFUgU?si=ZW__RC6u3eA-P2dx
In a world where fiat currencies are backed by nothing but the collective hallucination of stability, the wealthy have turned gold into a fashion statement and silver into hubcaps—because nothing says “economic wisdom” like driving a car made of precious metals through a collapsing infrastructure flaunting the optics.. that’s one reason why high end cars usually end up the cheapest on the car lot lineup. the average cannot afford to maintain it the wealthy would rather die than own a used high end car its the optics. They are only collecting the gold because shallow ham sees it as true value rather than study back and discover its just an ornament. China buys gold by the ton, not because they believe in its magic, but because they know the shallow-minded still do. It’s the ultimate performance…the optics.. flaunting elemental wealth to pacify a system built on IOUs and influencer endorsements. Meanwhile, the rest of us are left watching billionaires buy cartilage and roll routes like Monopoly pieces, wondering if the real currency is just status itself—shiny, hollow, and utterly useless when the lights go out and the pantry o… George has listed it over and over..what would you need..Strip away the noise of empires, markets, and spectacle, and what remains are the elemental truths every prophet, philosopher, and elder has echoed across millennia food, water, shelter, warmth, communication, family, friends, Knowledge and faith. These are not luxuries—they’re the architecture of a meaningful Quality of life. They don’t fluctuate with markets or collapse with currencies. They endure. And yet, in a world obsessed with status and spectacle, we’ve traded these essentials for illusions—gold-plated distractions and digital validations. But when the lights flicker and the systems fail, it won’t be the hubcaps or hedge funds that matter. It’ll be the bread shared, the roof offered, the fire tended, and the voice that says, “You’re not alone.” That’s the true wealth they use to call it…community a tribe or family.. that crazy grandpa that makes things out of crap..beer mead or wine to share… fixes a child’s bike.
Brilliant summary of the corner box we have painted ourselves into.
A few months back I posted my “Economic Comparison Statistics” wrt the REAL economy (manufacturing, societal infrastructure, and education) of China vs the US. China in virtually all categories except aviation was beating us in all major categories 8x to 10x (in some cases 100x) across the board.
Quick profits were made by the NY Finance Crowd by outsourcing almost all manufacturing to China and other Asian countries all in the name of so called “Free Trade”. Well now not only are those domestic factories gone but also the institutional memory and engineering expertise needed for all of that varied types of manufacturing is also mostly now gone.
To understand how “Short Sighted” Wall Street is wrt investing for long term in manufacturing look at what they did to Timken Steel!! Talk about RAPING a company that was spending loads of money as it was trying to position itself for the new technology of 7 to 15 years out! Cheaper to buy roller bearings from China, even though they weren’t nearly as good and then do whatever it takes to liquidate parts of the company for CASH TODAY.
Of course the RAPE of Timken Steel was “applauded” on Wall Sttreet as “Good Financial Management” of an old line manufacturing company …. because Wall Steet didn’t and doesn’t give a damn about keeping a manufacturing company alive (and growing) for any more than the 5 years it takes to drain the company of all of it’s quickly liquidatable assets. The Harvard MBA School model that revolves strictly around Finance run amuck!! (the Timken Family formed a solid front across generations and fought back risking their entire family wealth and was able to save part of the company from the Wall Street Greedsters but only part of the company)
OK … off my soap box. I have been talking about this so much for so many years that even to myself I sound like ol “Debbie Downer” from Saturday Night Live.
(“China in virtually all categories except aviation was beating us in all major categories 8x to 10x (in some cases 100x) across the board.”)
consider …SECURITY…While the U.S. has been chasing wars and business models that extract more than they restore, China has quietly outpaced us in nearly every category of infrastructure, resilience, and strategic foresight. They’ve built war shelters, ghost cities ready to activate, distributed power plants across their continent, and launched environmental cleanups that would take us decades to even begin. Meanwhile, we’ve platinum-burdened our citizens—asking them to carry the weight of broken healthcare, brittle grids, and a collapsing social contract by chasing the illusive goose by going to war instead of working right here at home …Instead of handing out grid-tie systems to homeowners, we’ve handed out debt. Instead of building solar towers at substations to act as emergency microgrids, we’ve paved cropland into asphalt jungles. While other nations greenscape their cities and harvest water from the air to replenish aquifers, we poison ours and call it progress. Love Canal wasn’t just a tragedy—it was a warning. And we ignored it.China’s supergrid ambitions, for example, aim to connect renewable energy sources across vast distances, creating a resilient backbone for their future. In contrast, the U.S. grid remains fragmented, vulnerable, and outdated—unable to share power efficiently between regions2. We’ve neglected the home front in pursuit of illusions, and now the cracks are visible from space. what was it my daddy use to tell me” in a world drunk on glitter. “You can’t fix stupid,” —especially when it comes to gold fever, that age-old affliction where people trade reason for shine. It’s not just about the metal.. it’s about the madness. Folks will sell their land, their legacy, even their dignity chasing a shimmer that doesn’t feed them, doesn’t shelter them, doesn’t love them back. And the deeper the fever runs, the harder it is to see that real wealth isn’t mined—it’s made in the quiet acts of care, the food grown, the shelter built, the hands held wisdom gleaned from the past. Gold fever blinds people to the truth “you can’t fix stupid, but you can outlive it with wisdom, grit, and a pantry full of meaning.. family, friends and faith…community the company family looking out for what the people and community needs. while we chase after war to stuff big buck billies pockets forcing our shallow desires on them killing innocent lives looking for the goose for billies pockets.. fighting for what e call peace even though our own country crumbles as those hired to lead us jet off and ignore the needs..keep a weak grid and infrastructiure.. where strengthening it is just the morons view of security of the power needed to continue on.. it just doesn’t fit the business model..even though its the cheaper alternative..
Flour dam auto correct
(“how long is it going to take, and how many chances are we going to allow, for the rich, powerful and well connected to trickle on us??”)
Truth…I actually don’t believe it will be much longer !!
my thought is since Historically, when economic systems begin to fracture, the wealthy and powerful often turn to war as a reset mechanism—a way to bend destruction into opportunity and profit, to rally production, and to reassert control. But in today’s America, that lever has rusted and been outsourced for the business model of stuffing big buck billies pockets. The industrial base that once powered wartime recoveries has been outsourced, dismantled, or sold off for short-term profit the wealthy have been racing to bury the rebuilding of civilization in offshore accounts,and burying it in jars in the backyard..its just a number nothing substantial a figure of stability and security as long as numbers rule as king.. There are no factories waiting to be retooled, no domestic supply chains ready to surge. If war is pursued now, it will not revive the economy—it will expose its hollow core. The attempt will be futile, a theatrical gesture that places the nation directly in the firing line of collapse the optics of success.. homes that sold twenty years ago for thirty grand now sit at a half million all while wages stayed stagnant. Without the muscle of industry, war becomes not a tool of recovery, but a fast-forward button on decline and the fall of civilization as we know it. And those who orchestrate it will be the last to feel its consequences, while those already at the margins will bear the full weight of its failure.
its coming..its that freight train whistle you hear the rumble on the tracks..
https://media.gettyimages.com/id/2167571771/photo/they-are-to-blame-for-our-misery-vote-social-democratic.jpg?s=1024×1024&w=gi&k=20&c=5ccP4oTMvBDeMczdG33E7pd3OnkoRsLL4sJO0crZw5w=
its happened throughout history the same way.. those that could remember have died off..now the new replay history..the new generation walks into the replay with eyes half-closed. The slogans change, the faces change, but the pattern remains. When memory fades, propaganda fills the void. And without the ballast of historical awareness, societies drift into the same storms—believing each time that it’s new, that it’s different, that this time the collapse will be kinder. But history doesn’t forget. It waits. And those who bear witness, like you, become the quiet archivists of truth in a world eager to erase it.
So, roll out your five year plan to redistribute wealth, while creating jobs and improving the standard of living of all. What, no five year plan? Here, let me help:
1. Improve the trade balance; keep American money onshore without sealing the borders. Stiff the billionaires who shipped American industry offshore. How about tariffs that target nations with barriers to US products? Burn globalists burn.
2. Make the streets safe for US citizens to go about their business without fear. LA & DC just got a dose, Chicago is up next.
3. Streamline government. Maybe we shut down give-aways to NGO’s, partisan frauds, and foreign actors. We put a billionaire in charge, then kick him to the curb after he cuts off the freebies, and take away his niche market.
4. Reduce taxes on SS income. Go daddy T.
Hell, that didn’t take 5 years after all. I eagerly await the rebuttal and the 5 year alternative plan from the Stalinist unregistered agents of foreign interests section.
(“So, roll out your five year plan to redistribute wealth, while creating jobs and improving the standard of living of all.”)
seriously…. it can’t be done at this point. it’s one of those things where you take pride in your industry pride in your community and pride of the people that work for you and that is long gone. now it’s the disposables we used to have what four stages of civilization you had the poor and the destitute than you had the poor and you had the middle class the upper class and then the extremes you don’t have that anymore you just have the haves and they have nots. healthcare system that’ll that truly affects every single one of us that is so badly broken that the debts caused by those needing healthcare is passed on to those that are considered elite that will pay for it through their policies insurance companies that reap trillions and benefits in it just can’t be done it’s too late
(“So, roll out your five year plan to redistribute wealth, while creating jobs and improving the standard of living of all.”)
Year 1..if they could do it..Tax Reform: Close loopholes, end preferential treatment for capital gains, and introduce higher brackets for ultra-high earners.
Audit Defense Spending: Begin trimming waste and redirect funds from outdated programs to domestic priorities.
Debt Ceiling Reform Replace the debt ceiling with a more rational fiscal rule to avoid brinkmanship.
year 2 and 3….Entitlement Reform: Gradually raise retirement age and means-test Social Security and Medicare for wealthier recipients.
Healthcare Cost Controls…god how I’d like to see this i n year 1 Negotiate drug prices, expand preventive care, and reduce administrative bloat. give access to all..
Revenue Expansion: Introduce carbon pricing or financial transaction taxes to diversify revenue streams.
year 4….Infrastructure & Education: Invest in long-term growth drivers like broadband, clean energy, and vocational training.
R&D Boost: Increase funding for innovation in AI, biotech, and climate resilience to stimulate productivity.
year 5…Balanced Budget Targets..Cap discretionary spending growth and set debt-to-GDP ratio goals.stop spending on never ending wars..we are not the worlds police department
Interest Cost Management..Use surplus revenue to pay down high-interest portions of the debt.
the debt is growing exponentially—what used to be a trillion-dollar deficit every six months is now happening every three.next year it will be every six weeks at the rate its going now..
But here’s the thing: the math still works if the politics do. Seven major think tanks from across the spectrum have shown that it’s possible to reduce the debt-to-GDP ratio by a third and save trillions in interest over 30 years. The problem isn’t technical—it’s political will. First. our political leaders would actually have to work..punch a time clock actually read this crap..that they force down everyone’s throats.. encourage industry to retool and hire local.. quit tossing perks to the top be percent and stop legalized corruption in politics.. stop lobbyists from buying votes and writing the policies that are designed to stop them from actually reading them. force congress to write the policies the do exactly what we teach our children is done.. go through the bills page by page.. discuss what’s in it erase what they don’t agree on and insert what all parties can agree on and then vote their conscience.. yea or nae..doesn’t matter..
personally I truly believe its to late. The costs of daily operation is to high..placing the burden on the backs of the needy. food stamp cuts..ok.. big business uses food stamps and social programs as a wage equalization unit placing the burden on the community to support while they receive their huge wages.The daily cost of survival in America has become a cruel arithmetic—one where the poor are asked to carry burdens that billion-dollar corporations shrug off with bonuses. Food stamp cuts aren’t just budget decisions; they’re quiet amputations of dignity, made while companies use those same programs to subsidize their refusal to pay living wages. In 2008, failed executives walked away with stimulus-funded windfalls, while the working poor lost the hundred dollars that kept their lights on. When the economy tightens, corporations cut from the bottom to preserve the inflated wages at the top, and the healthcare system—already broken—becomes a trap, where even the insured are hunted by collectors. Once, a good year meant a Christmas bonus for the whole crew. Now, it’s reserved for the C-suite, while the rest are left with federal holidays and a VA system that runs more like a DMV than a place of healing. The math may say recovery is possible, but the reality is a slow bleed—and the ones doing the bleeding are the ones who’ve always carried the weight. with that being said..the correction will happen. look at past civilizations that have deteriorated and fallen using the same business model..by the time those that lead get their heads out of their asses it will be to late. Heck its already to late..
The Burning Platform?? Straight outta the echo chamber:
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-burning-platform-bias-and-credibility/
Try some fact checking next time, skip the Fear Mongerer of Spamalot:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/5/fact-checking-robert-f-kennedys-statements-to-senate-on-covid-vaccines
I wrote of covid as a bio weapon within the first month. Did that make me a questionable source?
That would make you a and Urban Survivor George
Clearly it means YOU should have been BANNED from posting!!
Even though the last 1000 years of Chinese History does not show any infection like Covid 19 occuring, though the bats involved haven’t changed during that 1000 years, shouldn’t raise in any person a questioning of the Official Story.
The fact that a Chinese research facility just a few miles away was doing Gain Of Function work on bat viruses of the Covid 19 type (reasearch banned by the US Congress) is just an irrelevant distraction. FOCUS … FOCUS on “The Science!”
Clearly one needed to “Follow The Science” and “The PROVEN Science” per the top research scientists in the world, (who just happened to be breaking US law wrt their Bat Virus work) was that it was a Bat Virus from the Wet Market that caused the disease!
Who are other scientists and the uneducated public to question the work of such luminaries, even if they were breaking US Law by funding and doing that type of work just down the road?
BELIEVE the Official Story … or be BANNED!! The only proper way to handle such heretical thoughts such as you had /have.
“Fact Checking” from Al Jazeera?! ROFL! They spout the approved party line to conflict with RFK. No independent thought or research there.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/4-fact-checks-from-robert-f-kennedy-jr-s-senate-testimony-over-covid-19-vaccines-cdc
‘Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., asked Kennedy whether he accepts that “a million Americans died from COVID.”
“I don’t know how many died,” Kennedy said.’
Obvious that RFK Jr can’t handle math, unvaccinated died at 2.46X rate of vaccinated!
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10492612/
‘A total of seven studies with 21,618,297 COVID-19 patients were included in the meta-analysis. The odds ratio (OR) for mortality among unvaccinated patients compared to vaccinated patients was 2.46 (95% CI: 1.71-3.53), indicating that unvaccinated patients were 2.46 times more likely to die from COVID-19.’
HIH & others, your bone-headed rejection of facts speaks loudly, your echo chamber fog is quite thick…PBS is a bad guy (lefty pejoratives) that can’t be trusted either, right lol??
I ask Grok if PBS does positve stories about Pres Trump and his cabinet?
“Yes, PBS has done some positive or neutral-to-positive stories on President Trump and his cabinet, though they are relatively rare compared to critical coverage.”
funny thing is how the flu deaths disappeared when covid hit, numbers don’t lie but how the numbers are amassed, is where the liars show up
That is not a particularly attractive survival rate in either case, c. You also forget to include any information on mortality rate demographics based on age, gender, ethnic population, etc, to back up your rant, and continue to sell the one-size-fits-all idiots playing omnipotent immunologist spin that characterized the leftist media of the Covid pandemic era.
Natural immunity is more effective. Once you have had a case of Covid, there is no reason to keep taking an unapproved, experimental vaccine. I have yet to hear a single leftist talking head instant-expert acknowledge that. The Snake Oil Companies (Pharma) and Big Deep State partnership try to whip up a controlling frenzy narrative each time a new variant surfaces. I’m not buying that narrative. And these pseudo-historical rants by the left are nothing but attempts to paper over gross medical Deep State misconduct during Covid, and set up the next takeover. The Brits have a long history of this sort of activity that dates back to their monarchist roots.
PBS has become BBC-America for the most part. PBS is the British Empire’s propaganda mouthpiece in America. Suppression of free speech is a hallmark of that current Constitutional Stalinist Monarchy. Underlying the lefties public insanity are the Monarchist sponsors, using the Stalinists as an excuse to run wild at home and abroad, once again.
I have gotten 2 ribbons in pie contests this past year with this pie. I think it is too sweet but it is very easy and forgiving to make.
Texas Trash Pie
1 pie crust- can be an unbaked pre-made crust or a Graham cracker pre-made crust- I won a ribbon with both of them.
1 can sweet condensed milk
1/2 cup chocolate chips
1/2 cup chopped pecans
1/2 cup caramel bites or caramel chips -I like the squares you have to unwrap
1/2 cup Graham cracker crumbs or those tiny bear Graham cookies
1/2 cup coconut flakes
1/2 cup pretzels crushed
1/2 cup melted butter
Put all ingredients into the pie crust, mix well, and bake at 350* for 40 minutes.
You can add double of things you like and skip what you don’t have. Measurements don’t have to be exact. Too much stuff, you can just mound it up, and it still works. I like the caramel squares that you unwrap because they melt in a lovely gooey way.
(congrats! All I ever get is a dirty pie pan and a weight change – a ribbon would have been nice…)
aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaa . thats so funny
Dam..another award winner..I’m going to save this recipe thanks for sharing
Thanks, Eleanor, for that wonderful recipe. My rendition would subtract the pretzels and the Graham cracker crumbs and add some cherries and crumbled dark chocolate Oreo cookies minus the cookie filling. Congratulations on the blue ribbons won. Thanks for your posts.
I was just contemplating some of that two hundred dollar Costco rotisserie chicken..dam good.. and.. can I take that deliciousness and make some chicken nuggets?
2 cups shredded Costco rotisserie chicken
1/2 cup of flower
1/2 cup of chicken broth
½ cup breadcrumbs (panko or homemade) to coat the nuggets or chicken pattoes
1 egg
¼ cup grated Parmesan (optional, for richness)
1 tsp garlic powder
½ tsp onion powder
Salt & pepper to taste
Optional: chopped parsley or a dash of paprika
now will they turn out..the blended up batter needs to be thick.. you can use powdered milk to sea binding agent.. blend form and coat with bread crumbs..I like tones spaghetti seasoning added to the bread crumbs….but that’s totally up to you your the boss has f your own flavors when it comes to seasoning..
That Costco chicken is only $4.99… even here in Hawaii! Why mess with it? Slice off a breast, remove skin and slice breast open, fill liberally with real butter and sprinkle coat with ground garlic. Microwave for a couple minutes to melt butter. Garlic-crusted chicken breast!!
Lol lol lol yes it still is… but where they place it.. by the time you get to the chicken..you’ve put two hundred dollars worth of crap in the cart lol lol hence the two hundred dollar rotisserie chicken legend is born lol….
That’s nothing. I have to drive 90 miles each way, over a 6,800 ft mountain pass before I even get to Costco.
The most expensive vehicle to operate is: the Costco shopping cart!
(That’s nothing. I have to drive 90 miles each way, over a 6,800 ft mountain pass before I even get to Costco.)
so the for me two hundred dollar Costco chicken is now the three hundred dollar rotisserie chicken lol lol lol..
I really like Costco though.. its ran the way companies use to operate.. they show great value and consider each employee a member of the family..I was in ours a year ago and corporate was doing a walk through ..the execs took over tills and helped stock..now seriously when do you ever see that in today’s business world.. like never might scuff up those patent leather shoes lol..or break a sweat..the hair dresser her mom works there..their insurance that every member gets is reminiscent of the company my father worked for..
when Wal-Mart first came to the wastelands A young single mom went from the grocery store there because they paid a dollar an hour more.. I seen her several weeks later..nosey me asked so how do you like it.. where she went off on the story about the store manager..he ragged on her butt daily had her in tears one early morning.. the little old guy stocking shelves with her asked her..what’s wrong honey..which is when she told him about how rotten the manager was and vented..the little old man says..oh honey he’s not Wal-Mart quality !! the little old man was SAM the man himself rolled in stepped into the store went to work not telling anyone.. he took care of it and she just retired a year or two ago..the retail store I was janitor in had a CEO the same way each week on a Thursday he would pick a store come in at two am help finish up the work and then sit down and visit..his son that inherited the store chain..one day they were going in..we were out sweeping cigarette butts.. the kid drove up in an expensive show me car.. and the old man lectured him..never drive a car that flaunts your prosperity drive what an employee can afford..when he died the kid came walking down the isle..he could have been a pimp with all the bling on.. the guys and I started talking about it and laughed and said well times are changing lol lol I quit a month later it was painfully obvious what was important to management.. I tell the kids..if your researching an employer..get a cup of coffee ..go to the breakroom.. and find out what the turnover rate is..10-20% is normal..30% is seasonal part time 40-60% you have no value take it until you can find something decent 60-100 % its just a here today gone tomorrow job the only ones that matter is the seven figure employees.. my daughter wanted to work at the hospital I worked at..she was telling me about all the perks and such..her sister inlaw had an executive position …be careful what you wish for..yes in an executive position they do have great benefits a condo to take a vacation at a January company cruise and they get great book uses..what they gave the employees was twenty sheets of sticky back note paper and a cheap pen that didn’t write.. check the break Rome if there’s a folding chair in the employee one and the other appears like a magazine layout..its a sign..
I so.stones buy two or three to put in the freezer just so I don’t have to make the volatile expensive trip down the isles again.. thing is..they have such great deals and some of their sale specials are loss leaders getting you to grab one..at grocery stores they use the same plan..put loss leaders essential items highest priced items at eye level.. one loss leader on one side one on the other side in the middle alternating them.. by the time you walked down the isle you spent x amount to justify the loss leader price.. baby formula is a biggie.. most stores give it away free by selling it for less than what they paid.. one chain had the code heavy stock 0123456789 date ordered cost and date received…. that’s why store chains move crap around to..so the person that only buys what’s on the list has to look for it.. I asked a manager how online shopping had affected them..70% of sales is impulse buying..
[convenient] truth : All numbers which absent cogent thought mean nadda. E
As you might expect… I have severe weather on the Big Island.
Severe Clear, blue sky and severe sunshine! Surf’s up on the east shores. We are expecting the rain bands to hit us tonight and tomorrow. Expecting maybe 2 inches of rain. We need it. Drought conditions here.
I have a Question for You, BCP and the homegamers, George… How many months lead time did the globe have before it was generally leaking into main stream media that the ruble was going to reset, and the actual event horizon? I want to say it was about six months. That would square with appointment of a new Fed chair. Epic.
https://youtu.be/elO9yvYPZ_4
https://www.newsbtc.com/news/us-russia-bitcoin-reserve-race-could-drive-altcoin-markets-to-record-highs-key-tokens-to-watch/
H O D L. Got preps?
All is well with the War in Ukraine.
Driving home a week or so ago NPR said that Ukraine had suffered less than 100,000 dead (and about 300,000 wounded) … but Russia’s death toll was pushing 1,000,0000.
Hallelujah!! Per that esteemed news organization NPR Ukraine has a 10:1 kill ratio of Russians!!
Clearly Ukraine is doing well with it’s War and is not in any need of any outside support. All this talk of other Nato Members going to Ukraine to “help out” is irrelevant since Ukraine is clearly winning this War. Give it another 6 or 7 years and Russia will be out of young men to send to the front and Ukraine will have barely tapped it’s manpower pool
AH … the wrold is great … and Ukraine is on it’s way towards a major WIN.
The CUSIP is dead long live the CUSIP lol.
https://www.youtube.com/live/ObdgvFgrOqw?si=0pPPmTKo69b8ezkq
Got blockchain.
here i go .AI is batsheet dumb . cant think . think about it!!!
Well, that’s not a dump coming IMHO, it’s ETF go time.
https://youtu.be/aRhPzBFU3sY
The container shipping industry faced a challenging second quarter in 2025, recording its third consecutive quarterly decline in earnings.
The industry’s net income fell to $4.4 billion, a 56% drop from the first quarter’s $9.9 billion and a 63.7% decrease from the $12 billion earned in the second quarter of 2024. This decline is attributed largely to the ongoing impacts of tariffs and shifting trade policies, particularly involving the United States
The direct impact of tariffs and USTR ship fees with a decrease in commercial activity that could result in fewer jobs for dockworkers, truck drivers and other positions throughout supply chains. [ How many workers in The LA Basin are directly linked to the container industry?]
The report said that margins in the container shipping sector have notably contracted. The industry’s net income margin dropped to 6.1% in the second quarter, down from 12.5% in the first quarter of 2025.
Go to Finviz.., hold your cursor over the VIX rectangle – currently at 16.40.., is the chart that pops-up not a near perfect ‘stair-step’ down?
“Why do scams flourish?” – That seems pretty easy to answer. Greed. A scam wouldn’t even get off the ground if it wasn’t for people “wantin’ somethin’ for nothin’.”
Trump said this morning that the new round of tariffs would not include gold. Individual investors will not be punished.
Why does that somehow bother me? Get tons more gold within the borders and in individual hands., then ban private ownership? [ or, something like that.] Or, forced into a government buy-out – at a loss?
No idea., but it smells fishy to me.
Onion patties….
these are to be formed a good stiff dough.. in a hamburger press..
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp cornmeal
2½ cups finely chopped onion (yellow or sweet work best)
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt ( adaptable to your taste buds ..also some good shit spice or Joes French fry spice yumm)
¾ cup milk
1 egg (for binding)
2–3 Tbsp cornstarch or potato starch (for firmness and freezer stability)
Optional:
½ cup shredded cheese (cheddar or Swiss for richness)
½ cup mashed potato (for added cohesion and depth)
Dash of paprika or black pepper for warmth
Chopped parsley or chives for brightness I actually like chives
now you can freeze these just like hamburger patties or formed into bites to be deep Fried ..
Ok… the,wife thinks I’m nuts.. I requested Pacific tomato red pepper soup with dumplings ..a little onion In the soup..
https://www.vitacost.com/pacific-foods-gluten-free-organic-soup?
I love that stuff and for dumplings well you can make em but we use biscuits from the store.. back in the day that was a go to meal
Correction if I may….
“We don’t need more drivers and baristas.”
How about…
We don’t need more drivers, baristas and influencers.