[TDoS]

That comes from a lifetime of delivering results, and the confidence that comes with it.

Doubtful.  If you didn't drink beer in college, the stick was already up your ass.  I'd bet you were a prick in preschool.

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How wude! I never drank anything. Daddy was a murderous drunk....I didn't need any more examples of what even booze does to people, to think hard drugs were any better.

My prickdom mostly originated in this century. Do you know how affronted PhD's can get when you dismantle their research that has stood for more than a quarter century? But once you pull back the curtain on the Wizard of Oz and his tricks, you do gain quite a bit credibility among the more uppity educated types. Or maybe they just don't want someone putting a laser focus on their fields of study next?

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Self puffery CoC violation.  Cooler.

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[K-Dog]

You have to be high to know it is not a crime.

Do I have to explain myself?

My point is to NOT know that things are completely and totally FUBAR in America at the current time would require being in an ALTERED STATE.

It could be from drugs or a bad childhood or just plain stupidity.  Pick anything, I do not care.  If anybody thinks things are 'normal' today, they have screws loose.  Or screws missing altogether.  Labeling their lack of correct perception beyond anything but a general cognitive impairment does not interest me today.  I do not care how they were broken, that is a personal problem.  The fact that we must suffer the consequences of their broken existence is the issue.

I did not expect to trigger a rant about pharmaceuticals.

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Like El Trumpo even CARES what the courts say?  How will the SCOTUS enforce their rulings, even if they do rule against Trumpolini?  The FBI and all the other 3 letter agencies answer to Trumpovetsky.  Have rulings against deporting people stopped the deportations?  Soon he'll have a Gestapo force of ICE agents 10X the current size.  You think they'll restrict themselves to intimidating immigrants?  You think he'll stop at deploying the National Guard in Chicago & Baltimore?

Will anyone with some money & power grow a pair?  Where are the guys who tried to get Smedley Butler to stage a coup against FDR when we really need them?

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/09/04/trump-tariffs-supreme-court-appeal-column-00543196

Trump Is Trying to Blackmail the Supreme Court

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[K-Dog]

Where are the guys who tried to get Smedley Butler to stage a coup against FDR when we really need them?

Are you sure you want to stick with that analogy? 

The individuals who attempted to recruit General Smedley Butler to lead a coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt were motivated by fascist ideology.

MAGA voted in the coup, just like the Germans voted the NAZIS in.  That was an equally stupid case of mass delusion.  Now fascists are in the White House.

We need a Smedley Butler to do an UNDO !

[TDoS]

I did not expect to trigger a rant about pharmaceuticals.

Some folks might have different experiences when it comes to the consequences of being in proximity to drug users. Might have given them a bad impression as to the general practice.

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Where are the guys who tried to get Smedley Butler to stage a coup against FDR when we really need them?

Are you sure you want to stick with that analogy? 

Yes, I realize the analogy is somewhat flawed.   However in this case, the CURRENT goobermint is fascist, so the coup sponsors would seek a socialist goobermint to replace it.  Wouldn't be the same sponsors of course, since Smedley's backers are all long dead by now.

Not sure who they should install though.  I don't think there's a modern equivalent of Smedley Butler in the military.

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[K-Dog]

What is going on with unemployment.  As Americans we can never know because the numbers and definitions defining it are decided by the deciders and deliberately designed to obfuscate reality from the average guy.



But whatever the upper class number means you can decide which way it points by yourself.  And you can see where it has been going all last year.

Rumor has it the current number is exceptionally divorced from reality.

[TDoS]

What is going on with unemployment.  As Americans we can never know because the numbers and definitions defining it are decided by the deciders and deliberately designed to obfuscate reality from the average guy.

An EXCELLENT turn of phrase. With one change, it ABSOLUTELY fits what I've been watching for more than 20 years now.


What is going on with peak oil. As Americans we can never know because the numbers and definitions defining it are decided by the deciders and deliberately designed to obfuscate reality from the average guy.

Rumor has it the current number is exceptionally divorced from reality.

And the conclusion on the other topic was certainly the same.

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CNBC.COM • 2026-03-23

Volume in stock and oil futures surged minutes before Trump’s market-turning post

At around 6:50 a.m. in New York, S&P 500 e-Mini futures trading on the CME recorded a sharp and isolated jump in volume. A similar pattern was observed in oil markets. Roughly 15 minutes later, at 7:05 a.m., Trump posted a market-moving announcement about Iran on Truth Social.

Add Market Manipulation & Insider Trading to Trumpolini's list of High Crimes & Misdemeanors.

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