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“Blow Me” Markets: Holidays Do Matter – What Musk Missed

Ah! Here for your “news replacement therapy” are you?

For those asleep at the switch, let’s start with why holiday markets matter here in what looks like terminal bubble behavior.

Markets have already moved from an aggregate high of 65,718.45 down to a recent low of 64,209.31 — roughly a 1,500-point haircut. That is large enough to plausibly count as an Elliott Wave 1 decline, viewed in the context of narrowing breadth, increasingly emotional AI-chasing flows, and the disconnect between real economy friction and market levitation.

Which brings us to now.

There is now a reasonable chance that what we are seeing is the Elliott Wave 2 reflex rally discussed in Wednesday’s Peoplenomics ChartPack before the open. Not confirmed yet. But enough structure is there to keep it on the radar.

And this is where holidays matter.

Holiday trading periods routinely distort markets because participation drops while leverage and narrative concentration rise. Fewer institutional desks fully staffed. What matters now is how many sheep will hang around through Friday. Easier index manipulation. Easier futures and tape painting. Easier “everything’s gonna be fine” optics.

Thin markets are easier to steer.

This is particularly true late in long-cycle speculative phases because large players become highly motivated to preserve:  collateral values, retirement optics, confidence psychology, and political narratives. Midterms are a-coming.

You do not need a grand conspiracy when structural incentives already align. “Stupid” is also a plug-n-play option.  The modern holiday effect is less about retail optimism and more about liquidity geometry.

A market with reduced participation can float far beyond what normal price discovery would allow.

The question is whether the current bounce (going, going…) has enough internal strength to invalidate the idea that the recent 1,500-point decline was the opening fracture in a larger corrective structure. Honestly?

For now, the possibility of an Elliott 2 rally remains alive. The market could still drift higher into the weekend close.  But, the “media machine” takes holiday weekends too – so there’s risk to traverse before Tuesday.

If “no news is good news” and the bubble remains intact into the Friday close? Then a blip up Tuesday to let the commercial hedgers out gracefully before reality settles back in is possible. But terminal bubbles are famous for looking healthiest just before the structural supports begin to fail.

The 1929 Replay Picture

Still alive and kicking. And the waveform blink is concerning.

We will – after we get past the bull’s bed-wetting phase between now and tomorrow’s three day weekend close – watch with the detached view of an epidemiologist logging contagious mental viruses.

The “What next” odds will be found in the PN ChartPack Saturday. Some of us still have to work weekends.

Turdsday Data

With Reality entering the economics-as-scatology zone, let’s begin “Blinking Life” with three snow plow poles.  Philly Fed first:

“The current general business activity diffusion index declined to -0.4 in May from 26.7 in April. 22.5% of the respondents reported an increase in general business activity, and 22.9% reported a decrease from April to May.”

Housing Permits and Starts follows:

And when we counted noses this week at the Unemployment Offices?

What could be more fun than these?  Why that’d be the…

Morning Blink

This is where we skip the celebs and talking heads, the political BS and the high-noise hysteria.

The only question that matters is: what changed overnight that could touch your wallet, your travel, your family, or your weekend risk? We take the top 10 national stories and boil them down to three actionable hedges.

Blink 1: Bonds are now driving the bus.
The bond market is not whispering anymore. Long rates are rising hard enough that even the political class is dancing around it. Reuters notes the 30-year Treasury hit 5.20%, its highest since 2007, while traders have repriced from expecting cuts to pricing meaningful odds of a Fed hike. Translation: mortgages, car loans, credit cards, and business borrowing don’t care what the campaign slogans say. Money is getting tighter. Action: postpone optional borrowing, refinance nothing in haste, and treat debt like it has teeth again.

Blink 2: AI is still the bubble’s oxygen tank, but Nvidia didn’t levitate the room.
Nvidia beat with a strong outlook and announced an $80 billion buyback, but futures were still muted and the stock barely moved premarket. That matters. When the market’s favorite narcotic stops producing a bigger high from the same dose, pay attention. Action: enjoy the rally if it comes, but don’t confuse AI enthusiasm with broad economic health.

Blink 3: Oil, Iran, and Hormuz remain the weekend fuse.
Crude eased on talk hopes, but Reuters still has Brent around $104 and says lack of meaningful progress on reopening Hormuz is feeding inflation worries. That is your holiday-weekend risk packet: thin markets, media slowdown, oil headlines, and bond pressure. Action: top off vehicles, avoid market heroics before the long weekend, and keep a little cash/liquidity buffer because “no news” can become “oh hell” before Tuesday. Especially because Trump and Benji don’t seem to be besties, here lately.

Regional Blink Map — Before Calling the Kids This Weekend

Northeast: Heavy rain and localized flooding risk from Pennsylvania into New England. Travel delays possible around Boston and NYC corridors. Tell the kids not to trust GPS around flooded underpasses. Don’t trust anyone, in fact.

Southeast: Early heat and humidity building across Florida and Gulf states. Storm cells fast-growing by afternoon. Hydrate before yard work — not after.

Midwest: Air quality alerts and temperature swings continue in parts of the Upper Midwest. Corn belt looking decent, but nerves about moisture timing remain under the surface. Drought map in a sec.

Texas/South Plains: Grid holding so far, but heat from hell season will load in after a cool holiday. Keep vehicles fueled and check A/C before the first real triple-digit push arrives. Mowing right after showers keeps the dust and pollen down, minimizes clean-up.

Mountain West: Fire season creep continues. Dry fuels plus wind equals “one spark becomes county news.” Ranchers already watching grass conditions carefully. Skip the media bullshit at InciWeb the Incident Information System. You’ll miss the ads and stand-up hotties but own the signal.

Pacific Northwest: Cooler pattern helping for now, but allergy and mold complaints rising after moisture swings. Rivers still running cold and dangerous despite warmer air. WA state gets 1-6 hantavirus exposures per year from all that wheat farming, in E-WA, did you know?

California: Insurance, power, and water remain the hidden story even when headlines wander elsewhere. Coastal economy fine on surface; interior stress continues building. Hormuz matters to California.

Great Lakes: Manufacturing softness still visible beneath official optimism. People working, but fewer feeling prosperous. Watch trucking and warehouse chatter for the real economy tell. Insulate now; winter will be along soon enough.

Appalachia: Quietly becoming a relocation corridor for people escaping cost and density elsewhere. Infrastructure lagging population movement in some counties. Smart people getting off the Titanic.

National Meta-Blink: Holiday weekends suppress attention spans. That means real developments often hide in the barbecue smoke and celebrity noise. Keep one eye on oil, bonds, and shipping lanes while everyone else watches ballgames. The Benji and Don dance could matter in a flash.

About a Drought

Map it:

Year to date we’re at 10.42″ inches.  May last year had  26.58″ and in 2024?  38.57 inches. Under a third of a high rainfall year.

Found out – looking at flower pictures – that I have planted a short row of cucumbers in the lean-to grow room.  Judging by the flower count on them now, we could have dozens.  Time to buy pickle brine? Being hopelessly lazy efficient, and all…

More proof that people will buy anything.  Like plant labeling systems.  Why label things?  If you can’t see the difference between a yellow squash and a cuke when they grow up, you should put down the hoe and go back to school.

If the plant grows, you’ll figure out what it is. And if it fails badly? Labeling won’t have helped. I know – “George don’t diss the label industry!” (But, it is a scam…)

Around the Ranch:  What Musk Missed

Reader Ray picked up an X-post about Elon Musk which was disappointing.  Especially the part where he’s alleged to have said:

“The universe is the answer. What is the question? Or what are the questions?”

“The more we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, the better we can understand what questions to ask about the answer that is the universe”

“The more we can expand consciousness, become a multi-planet species, ultimately a multi-stellar species, we have a chance of figuring out what the hell’s going on”

“This is why I think we should have more humans and more digital, both biological and digital consciousness”

My disappointment? Once you become self-aware, the first task (which almost no one completes) is “figuring out the game”.  All you need to do is a personal time and awareness map and it’s right there, staring you in the face.

  • Born – memory wiped
  • Raised – local knowledge maps installed
  • Educated – figuring out the maps are mostly wrong
  • Growing Up – Moving into adventurer and explorer mode
  • [Dying:  Playback of game film]

As you go along, you get to try on whatever thought-models seem to fit your “moment.”  I stumbled into “spiritual amusement park ride” as a paradigm about 1982, or so.  Hasn’t failed me yet.  Still riding, still watching what’s going on out on the planet’s surface. It’s wildly amusing and will make a dandy game film to review.

Then there’s the smorgasbord model, too.  Earth as a spiritual buffet diner.

How come this is so tough for people?

Poker Story

If you have read the latest poker story from three-piece, you are missing a classic.  Click over here to read it.

I’m pushing him to write a book – with lots of sidebars explaining at the competent player level how some of the best moves are made.

This is why I write here.  We all share a “window on the world.”  We see the real doers and we watch their moves.  Musk seems to be stuck at the money table at the smorgasbord.  Three-piece is thinking about which next course would please him.

I enjoy watching it all – camera running.  Might be able to pick up some moves for my own game film. Now, when I look in the mirror I ask “Are you playing the money table, or learning the game?”

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. ayy nah thats enough . relex rally wave 2 elliot . look whatever you reckon . everything is crazy mixed up now . whatever . preposterous.. its actually funny now . AI ehh , spike protein everywhere

    • Come on ya greedy bastard, wheres all the Gold you were gonna short the guts out of ?

      All Bluster, and No Muster ?

      You been pissing on on our legs, while telling us its Raining.

      Inflation is hear now, and his close personal friend, Runaway, is right around the corner hiding behind orange man bad butt buddy Bessent.
      If there is one thing in the World I want to own in the face of runaway inflation, would be GOLD & Silver. Real Estate would be a close second.

      Aint no sunshine when she’s gone..GOLD that is -https://www.tiktok.com/@itsbetterlive/video/7265539086805568814

      • got your quotes wrong, “pissing down my back and telling me that it’s raining”. The other is ” this is what business men do to other business men” , while holding a gun on him and pissing on his legs.

      • im shorting gold yah brain dead faeces? i have sold gold stocks for 7 months not one buy . still got some but now the windows closed . you are a fool . king turd from the isle of muck . i got other things to short the guts out of and things to go long . typical yank

  3. Action – “top off vehicles” – yeah if ya got spare Benjamin or two.

    Hmm current status will Not last much longer, in fact the Worm has already turned.

    4 youse all need to remember back to the 70’s when G-Pops was Streaking the local Seattle High School Friday night Football games..”look at him go!, yeah they call him the Streak”.
    Back then a strange thing happened to American Cars with big gas guzzling V8 engines, overnight they they were Parked and or Sold. Once sold/traded in, they sat around forever with no one wanting to put Gas in an engine that only got 12 MPG.

    All those big ass pieces of Iron, like my 72 Pontiac Grand Prix, with a Hearst Duel Gate Shifter (Factory) on top o the GM Small block V8 mated to turbo 400 tranny, got idled over night. No more backing out of parents driveway, slapping shifter into 1st, and burying the gas pedal into floor of Car. Smoke from the burning rubber would billow into car, making hard to both breathe and See. That iron was so heavy Oak trees and telephone poles feared me driving by. Replaced that beast with with nice little Mustang, Straight 6, T-Tops, hatchback. Compared to the GrandPrix, she was a Gas Sipper. A few years later I was exposed to Japanese 4 cylinder in a Corolla w/5 speed overdrive on the floor.

    Now look at my dumb ass – another 6 cylinder SUV and gas about to blow past $5.00 a Gallon (Philly mkt). Thinking maybe VW turbo diesel..like that will be easy to find..F me running. Orange moron gonna down as worst president in 100 years..Is there ANYTHING in danald jeffery tRUMPs life that he hasnt ruined and BANKRUPTED ? No really anything ?

    Come on, one thing is all Im asking, just ONE.

    Just another enslaved warpig, Same Shit, Differnt Day.

    • TBS
      Can you not remember just 3 years ago? Or 4?
      The only thing near it I can remember was when I was in school and this so-called “Nuclear Engineer” (Navy trained ship reactor operator) becamse president.
      14% mortgages.
      25% Credit Cards.
      19.9% Car Loans
      Gas went from 65 cents to $1.65 (in 1978 money)
      Hamburger went from 75cents a pound to $2.75.
      FJB was worse they just quit putting “food and energy” in the calculation.
      Is that really better than what we have now?
      I am Very Pissed that what we have with this was has cut my IRA in half (AGAIN!) and raised gas to $4.009 here in Alabama (in todays dollars)_ but
      when I look back at waiting 10 years to buy a hous so the mortgage finally fell to 9.9%, I will take what I got.
      I just wish He would shut up and keep more secret instead of telling everyone what he thinks.

      • I went to a city council meeting the other night and they were discussing raising water and garbage rates by 8 to 9 percent a year for four years. People were questioning why so much when the government cost of living rates are 3 percent. I didn’t have the heart to tell them the government is lying to them about inflation.

        • Yes they raise ours often..the big thing is the town council didn’t put anything away for over a hundred years..when we first moved here monthly water sewer and garbage was$15.00 a month in winter $20.00 in summer..the cheapest the water bill is is $165.00 a month.. every time the town needs a federal grant ..they have to raise the water and sewer garbage is separate…
          and each year they end up having to increase the bill..lol lol lol they laid the orange barrel signs on our street.. when I did the driveway..lol lol lol I was concerned that heavier vehicles.. so I put a little bit..dug u set the road and put rebar and screen four yards if concrete..my father inlaw use to tease me about the foundation beneath the street..lol so when they go to do the road my plan is to sit in a Lou be chair with a bottle of adult beverage and watch them ..lol lol lol
          my guess is there could be the reason they are going to raise it might be tied into some government grant for road repairs. each time they raise it here is about the same percentage..

        • (“In defense of the Jimmy, that one assignment gives him an engineering hall of fame slot in my book. He was too good and selfless a man to be effective as a US President. An economist he wasn’t.”)

          working in the viper pit….Seriously though… I believe….IS…that America didn’t end up in economic chaos because of one president. Instead we got here because we abandoned the very principles we claimed to believe in — balanced budgets, shared responsibility, and long?term planning.

          Jimmy Carter pushed for fiscal discipline, energy independence, and a tax structure that treated every income level fairly. Instead, Congress threw him under the bus. They shifted the burden onto the middle class, opened the door to double digit inflation, and then acted shocked when the economy started to buckle. Jimmy took all the blame over what congress did..then gave all of themselves a raise…heck did it they even get caught writing bad checks on the bank for their personal needs..The Rubbergate scandal..lol lol

          The recession that followed wasn’t an accident. It was the predictable result of policies that rewarded the top, squeezed the center, and told working families to “wait for it to trickle down.” that never did.
          What did happen was outsourcing putting mom into the workforce and ignoring the needs of the children.., wage stagnation and the death of the single working parent home, along with the rise of a new class of Americans I used to see firsthand — people living in expensive houses with almost no furniture, juggling debt, projecting success while barely staying afloat. The “struggling wealthy.”

          Then came the era of “too big to fail,” where institutions got rescued and ordinary people got lectured about responsibility. Tax rebates were handed out like band aids that was spent immediately by those who needed them, saved by those who didn’t. None of it addressed the structural problems created when we abandoned balanced budgets and shifted the tax load downward while giving cuts at the top…

          I believe when they hollowed out the middle class , they hollowed out the country. When you reward speculation over production, you weaken the foundation. And when you ignore the long term in favor of short term political wins and financial gains , you end up exactly where we are now — divided, indebted, and wondering how it all went wrong and the noodle is cracking..

          Seriously though it didn’t have to be this way. We had a chance to choose stability over shortcuts. We didn’t take it.once the people at the top realized how fast their balances could rise and the get it now rather than tomorrow , the whole system tilted like a Jenga tower pulled from the bottom…

          Deregulation of essential services didn’t create efficiency Either — it created pressure reduced industry and created a consumer country the buy it instead of repair it..It put pressure on the families who could least absorb it. Pressure on the workers who watched their wages stagnate while costs soared and jobs outsourced.. it put the pressure on the middle class that became the shock absorber for every bad policy experiment.

          By the time the 2000s rolled around, the cracks were obvious. What pushed Barack Obama into office wasn’t some abstract political wave — it was the basic need for healthcare that didn’t bankrupt families.

          But instead of a system built around patients, we got a system written by the very industries it was supposed to restrain.. my wife as a nurse made $4.50 an hour. Then pharmaceutical companies and insurance saw an opportunity , and Americans ended up paying thousands of percent more for the same medications and health insurance that a few years prior sold cheaply started to inflate.. I remember the year when nurses were bitching and moaning about wages.. the company said no so the Administrator split her yearly bonus to give the nurses the wage increase that she promised.. it was $0.01 per hour..( you should seen that one lol)

          It is what it is now..I see either a Weimar depression..or a financial system similar to Zimbabwe.. one realistic look at housing costs..and the average wage…a house that sold less than twenty years ago for $37,000.00 that now sold for $500,000.00… any CPA can tell you someone making twenty dollars an hour absolutely cannot afford..tHe typical buyer in the U.S. today usually needs to earn roughly $45 – $60 per hour (about $95,000–$125,000 per year) depending on interest rates, taxes, insurance, and down payment size and half of that in an apartment rental..and that doesn’t even cover the other costs of daily living ….

        • What once was a middle class house hold is now considered the struggling poor living on easy credit..and pay day to pay day living..as an employers expenses increase he either has to raise product prices or cut the hours worked..in the nursing home one bed down isn’t going to effect wages..two beds down..everyone loses a half hour of time..people are sent home early.. three to four beds down… everyone loses a hour a day pay… five beds down.. someone’s going home…the fall is usually the time for the annual witch hunt..they let go those that aren’t quite vested that make a higher wage than taking in a new or part time employee …seen that for fifty years..up until the nineties..they had volunteers from the psychiatric hospital..( got some hilarious stories about that one ) and the prison system.. ( another hilarious story about an aid and the Texas rangers and a prison escapee lol )
          the healthcare system is the land of short shifts where there’s more work than workers..the desk anchors putting their licenses on the line..
          one nurse I know nice girl smart dedicated to her profession.. took a job in the correction facility for minors..it was an extremely hot day and part of their punishment was running..one young person complained of a headache..she called the top dog to see what she should do.. ( instead of referring to the rule everyone is taught…S.T.P. #stabilize and transport patient…the the one making the money make that million dollar decision) the Administrator said..they’re faking it keep them running.. the kid died..the hospital system that had the contract and told the nurse we have malpractice insurance.
          she never even considered the fact that that is the hospitals policy not hers..the cost.. she got I believe twenty years at the concrete resort..lost her license.. seven million dollars to the family of the child..I ran into her at a gas station..she said yes they went after her for not doing her job and listening to what was referred to as a glorified clerk typist….
          one of the men that lived in our spare room.. what having a breathing issue ..the doctor came out and asked me why I brought him in..heck doc.. let the guy making the money make the million dollar decision..
          See IF she had called the ambulance for the girl and the administrator turned it away..he would have taken on the responsibility of the event..
          she would have done her job..

      • (“Gas went from 65 cents to $1.65 (in 1978 money)
        Hamburger went from 75cents a pound to $2.75.”)

        I remember the night I was tired..worked in auto shop painting..it was a busy day..needed gas 65.9….nothing spectacular there… a week before there was a gas war and gas was forty cents..so I thought back ill go home eat supper and fuel up the next morning..
        we had Goulash.. sitting with the news in..the president gets on saying he deregulated fuel..that the oil companies could charge you less by making it competitive..lol lol the next morning the price was $1.09.9 a gallon and it hasn’t gone down since…they did the same thing on other essential services to. it always depends on the business model..
        in 75 you could get a months groceries for four people for 75.00 today its ten ti.as that plus..a few years ago a two cheeseburger meal at McDonald’s was 4.99 today add six bucks to that plus the drink..
        house payment was 50.00 a month electricity under ten bucks…. in the early eighties hamburger .65 a pound.. ( I still payed 2.45 a pound last year.. roasts hamburger etc.. but I have a farmer raise it for us.. it would live to die from old age if I raised it..) I just gave someone struggling yesterday ten pounds of hamburger a prime rib roast and another sirloin and one more I didn’t look at what it was..
        at the store its five bucks a pound..

      • Rumor has it the compression gasoline engine will get combined mileage in the low 40’s. The Mazda salesman don’t or won’t speculate on the roll-out in 2027, but that is the web rumor. Also rumored is it will be a mild hybrid format only. With the now-lengthened cargo area, and a hybrid camping mode, some towing capacity and a plug-in, the sucker might be a world-class econo-camper, with vans running 50K plus.

    • Trump said gasoline prices are peanuts. Big Grocery has roasted peanuts @ $2.49/lb. Hamburger is $7.00/lb. Trump is right. Think of the long, 4D plan.

      • The thing is…in his social class the price is peanuts..the things that effect the average homeowner and families simply doesn’t exist..they live in a sheltered bubble..it didn’t even dawn on me until I took a vacation last year..in that neighborhood the real world trials simply wasn’t there..I couldn’t believe it..and yes I didn’t want to leave it either..going from the world of no drama to be concerned over back to the world I live in..was hard..look at any riot or dramatic event..they happen in the neighborhoods of the poor..you dont see any riots or marches in the Hamilton’s or Martha’s vineyard..to them its not real..it happens to someone else and isn’t anything to be concerned over..
        so yes..to trump in his social class…it truly isn’t anything to be concerned over..

  4. “Thin markets are easier to steer.”

    If markets can be steered there are no markets.

    .gov ballroom funding went bust. Perhaps Trump can auction off the Boeing 747-8 jet, valued at roughly $400 million, Qatar gifted America. Or Trump pulls loot from the $1.7+ billion “anti-weaponization fund” since clearly Republicans are using the funding as a weapon.

  5. Darius is doing the WW2 jitter bug dance. Idea is no finances, no build back better, no oil, no friends as post WW2 goodwill gone, no tech as everyone has everything under Global trade and penny savings, health care not issue in China (die baby die) so Darius is stuck with treaties and commitments he can’t really pay for. No one buys US bonds unless terror provokes… Oil and Israeli are British innovations to create defense funds for government overdrafts. In WW2 Germany inflation 10% was fine… full employment. Negotiations are full left full right and influence by bombs

  6. Aint no one talking in LSM anywheres, nobody in current butt pirate administration is talking, so I have to point out the obvious threat to all our LIVES – RUSSIAN NUCLEAR DRILLS – On-Going as I peck & hunt.

    Ruskies & Belarusians are drilling with at least 8 LIVE Nuke Missiles this week – Sea, Air and Land (mobile tracked & wheeled vehicles, trains). Did I mention anything about Practice ?

    Like how you practice is how you Fight ?

    What does NATO have ?

    All I know about are the conventional types of low and slow nukes. Tomahawks ? puhlease. I got no eye deer how US/nato would/could counter Russian Hypersonic Missiles stocks.
    They have been ramping up manufacture of all things WEAPONS, including newly this week released SU-57 twin seater, OG SU57 is single seater.
    That badboy is impressive enough, but after Iran softens us up a little more, think Russia will be poised for A KILL SHOT. Hopefully they take it at DC, then everybody can Win..or not.

    BB – Natasha, we must destroy the fetid swamp that is DC.
    NB – When Boris my darlink, when ?
    BB – Patience is virtue my luv, we must wait 4 delivery of the Shia “meat tenderizer” ..apparently DC has just ordered desert from Iran.
    NB- but Boris my dear, Dessert is spelled with 2 S’s, and a dry Desert is spelled with 1 S.
    BB- Prezactly my love – the Swamp will be vaporized, water boiled off, leaving the capital hot and dry.
    NB – then let us celebrate my luv, let us celebrate…Na-zdorovie(to your health).

  7. GU : “… Once you become self-aware, the first task (which almost no one completes) is “figuring out the game” …”

    Gunga galunga…gunga — gunga lagunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he’s gonna stiff me. And I say, “Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.” And he says, “Oh, uh, there won’t be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.”

    Caddyshack (1980)
    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080487/quotes/

    I am in no rush. Truly, it seems quite a lot makes sense now.
    But, I am now officially Grandpa v2, little girl on deck.
    9lbs 2 oz at 21″ – we got a volleyball recruit.

    E2 is 6’2″ shorted by my Mom (5’2″) through me. Dad was 6’3″
    DIL is a Scandinavian Amazonian MN tribe.
    Tall drinks ‘o water all round.

    Enjoyed the story there 3-piece (ahem, prefer the old name but).
    Biggest game of life I was at a monied 7-card stud table.
    Vegas VIP room, slowly sending players packin.

    During a streak where I possibly won on bravado, hot cards.
    At card #6 I had a Queen high straight flush. Oh my.
    Table limit each card, weak gone, me ‘n a lady.

    Her hand looked _so_ like a Full House.
    I knew she had it so was all in.
    King high straight flush.

    I still smart from the drubbing.
    Prolly last big game.
    Cancel Lambo.

    I belong at the BlackJack tables but attend in force or not at all.
    I can count lots of deck but now? They are on to me.
    It’s OK, I’m miles ahead of the Fellas.

    Egor

    • Back when., way back when., they dealt from a single deck I was caught counting. Guido.., 6 foot four in every dimension possible came over and leaned into me.
      “I think that was your last hand.” And gave a huge toothy smile.

      I smiled back.., “I think it was.” Collected my chips and scooted on out from the table area. Never went back in that casino.

      • Chuckle. We met the same guy. Three burly good fellas explained my money was no good in their house. I was sorta guided hustled out a secured service door (without having the opportunity to visit the Cashier). They knew I was counting a hand held double deck. I was in no position to argue.

        The _biggest_ bank for me was over 30 years ago. Teammate pal would always each get a room, one downtown, one on the strip. I had a relationship at Golden Nugget so stayed there. We occupied all 7 spots at a double deck table, holding serve for 6-7 hours.

        The fellas that night were all flowers, limos and helos. They wanted their money back. I did give ample play but left Vegas with a stupid wad of bills. The Mrs. and me deposited our pay and used cash for everything, for nigh on 6 months.

        Crazy we now have casinos everywhere. Nah …
        Good Fellas are my mates.
        Egor

  10. The spiritual leanings of Musk:
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/04/24/musk-online-posts-race-whiteness/
    “Whites are a rapidly dying minority,” Musk wrote in January in a post on his social media site X that has garnered more than 17 million views and 150,000 likes. In a February post liked by more than 365,000 accounts, Musk declared that “there has been unrelenting hate and poisonous propaganda in the West against anyone White, straight or male over the past decade or more,” adding, “No more guilt trips. ENOUGH.”

    His spiritual views align with the ‘Great Replacement Theory’ of the San Diego Mosque shooters:
    https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/us/san-diego-mosque-shooting-video-writings-ideology-invs

    https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-musk/elon-musk-grokipedia-wikipedia-neo-nazi-grok-42-encyclopedia-rcna244749
    ‘Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s online encyclopedia, Grokipedia, cites the neo-Nazi website Stormfront as a source 42 times and relies on other websites that experts have shunned as unreliable or hate-filled, according to an analysis by two researchers at Cornell University.’

  11. re: “The Seventh Seal”, 1957
    feat: Janus Films

    The winds of fashion blew into Beijing last week. Mr. Musk deplaned from Air Force One ahead of certain #47 Administration cabinet members. His appearance belied recent eight mile high travels in the shape of upturned shirt collar points. Possibly his points spread measure would be of use to members back home at the club.

    Speaking previously of the late LA Detective Mark Fuhrman’s book touching upon a nephew of RFK Sr., 47’s Deputy Director of National Intelligence, Mrs. Fox-Kennedy, turns out be married to a son of RFK Jr. whom she fortuitously met at a Burning Man festival. Her stepfather is the multi-billionaire owner of Janus Films named after the Roman god who oversees war and peace.

    The Deputy Director and former Twitter product manager’s now deleted interview transcript with the “CBC” in 2019 can be found on “Archive” at their following link:

    https://web.archive.org/web/20230511102351/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-nov-5-2019-1.5348042/former-cia-agent-talks-smuggling-video-out-of-myanmar-and-working-undercover-in-new-memoir-1.5348242

    According to Wikipedia, Mrs. Fox-Kennedy has also served as host of the 2020 Netflix series “The Business of Drugs”. In another life, her cv apparently reflected that of an art dealer although remnants of such engagements are regrettably absent from casual search results.

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