…I’m trying not to let this all sound like the world will end today…but if it does…maybe don’t underestimate how much of that is bleed-over from the fact that my favorite coffee mug is no more?
Your daily reminder that wars begin at the instigation of one party, but usually require mutual consent to end.
Less than a year ago, @jjschroden.bsky.social wrote this important article:"A Strait Comparison: Lessons from the Dardanelles for a Strait of Hormuz Closure"warontherocks.com/2025/06/a-st…
i don’t want to do Ameriposting, but i drove about 2.6x the length of Ireland in the past five days on a not very unusual trip to visit my parents, and there is no other way to get there — and it is over the Cascades, where a passenger railroad would be somewhat impractical.
This is an insanely inefficient way to live and I hope the Trump oil shock kills it.
i do not know how to explain to a people who have genocidal ethnic grudges against people within two days’ walk that sometimes there are not any people at all within two days’ walk.
at one point in the drive you have to get gas not because you are out of gas but because the nearest settlement of more than 300 people is an hour away.
It is 2008. Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding.It is 2020. Democratic politicians are greatly underestimating the size of the bag the next president will be left holding.It is 2026. Democratic politicians are greatly—
This is a very bad plan for the captains but it also seems like a pretty bad plan for everyone else, unless you want your narrow, critical seaway in the middle of a war zone blocked by a burning hulk the size of a skycraper
…this stuff would be crazy-making if I weren’t mad already?
So let me get this straight …1. US bombs Iran2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil
…don’t you make it the old books’ fault you little shite…they didn’t make your ass this kinda dumb
I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But……maybe there wasn't much planning?
I'm doing a chunk of work on security of supply chains at the moment and every few days I have to rachet up the descriptions I'm writing of current and potential global instability. It's really not great for my state of mind.
I have a bunch of “important work” to do – but in the grand scheme of things, how important is it? I’m struggling to gain any kind of focus because of overload of “wtf?” It’ snot possible to continue living like this.
Depends, is it “find a wonder fuel to replace oil”?
Is it "find a convincing argument why Badenoch and Farage are still opposed to net zero, and in favour of exposing the UK to energy shocks?"
Honestly still think it was an underrated response from most markets that have closed.The massive drops still assume this is wrapped up in a month…What if it isn't?
Weird that the capitalist world was asleep at the wheel. They've been so confident that moving right will keep things nice for billionaires, capitalists & tax exiles.Now maybe they too are discovering that they depend on rules, regulation, international agreements, a social contract, & socialism.
Middle east countries will soon need to sell US equities to fund day to day spending. They are already pausing investments. If they withdraw them altogether it will create a domino effect that will bring the entire AI tech boom crashing down.
I sometimes wonder if we just named "soft power" something like "tall turgid thrusting power" would these guys have been more in favour of it and thereby less self undermining.
And yet all the British media (including Chris Mason & Nick Robinson from the BBC) are focussing on is the "special relationship" with Trump & whether *Starmer* has ruined it with his decisions…Be interesting to see the public polling on this & whether it's swayed the public to this POV.
A whole lot of US political commentators really do seem to believe in a kind of MAGA Ephemeralism – nothing Trump does truly matters, because he’ll chicken out, and there will be no consequences. And it led them to treat “murdering the whole leadership of a large nation” as another empty spasm.
The consequences of this war for Americans will be bleak and take decades to unfold, but it will impoverish and provincialize them in ways that would have been unimaginable ten years ago
The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American
“I didn’t vote for THIS,” say the manosphere podcasters who simply had no way of knowing that Trump would lie about being a populist to get into office and then govern like a autocratic lunatic once in power, other than the fact that he did it for 4 entire years before that.
…I know it’s the coffee mug thing that has me seething…so…I dunno…maybe I could be approaching this differently…but…I don’t know if I’d sound less like I’m about to start breaking shit?
Stuff like this gets mega-reach on here but “oil is back below $100” 8 hours later…not so much. This dynamic is why you should absolutely not be trading actively unless you have a high risk tolerance and capital to burn.
It's fascinating how Starmer talks about hard choices, not offering the politics of easy answers, will shroud-wave when it is *not* true, but is clearly incapable of delivering a serious 'so, the global backdrop has got much much worse' speech.
Going to be a big summer for middle aged men with heat pumps and solar panels.
When I was 8 or 9 I bought a cooler full of sodas and upsold them to people in line to buy gas. I should look into that again, more dignified than lawyering.
How are they defining “the Iranian regime”? When this is all over I’d put the odds of the government having absolutely no institutional connection to the current one at about zero
If you’re interested look at the language of the rules on the Polymarket page — your observation would dovetail with how the Yes is clearly in the ascendancy. I agree with your interpretation. (Not investment advice!)
A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week.Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.
i actually don't think this price action is sustainable based on the fundamentals – currently – and this is just panic // market breakdown. 2-3mon from now, if this isn't resolved, then yes we're absolutely >$115 but right now this just sniffs of everyone panic smashing BID
Really love physical commodities trading like crypto shitcoins, it’s great for economic stability and this new and exciting market dynamic will surely not make economic planning fucking impossible
I remember saying for years that, like any other currency, the value of bitcoin was entirely held up by violent force (in its case that force was coming from organized crime).
Just another lil Cassandra moment for me in 2026 I guess
I remember asking a friend to explain it to me back in 2010 or so and my response was “so the primary use case is for crime?”
…any resemblance to “president”s living or walking-dead is purely coincidental…objects in the rear-view may be closer than they appear…usual terms & conditions apply…all mileage variable
This reminds me of that line I saw someone say once (which rang true) that something that makes Trump uniquely able to connect with low-information voters is that he is a low-information voter.
…back to below $100 for now…$90-odd last I heard…but…again…that…as I understand it…it came into february under $70…had dipped under $60 at one point in december…hadn’t been above $70 since…july/august-ish…but having spent pretty much the tenure of the previous incumbent above that mark…so…kinda like how if he just put all the cash his daddy gave him in a savings account…or government bonds…he’d have been a damn sight richer before he struck the campaign-finance vein to let the people keeping him afloat pump the cash around so his net worth had something that looked like a heartbeat…& it rolled him when he had to follow through…but…they bottled every time they could have made that pay the only coin that could have averted this by formally designating him as ineligible & tarring the whole thing root & branch with the same brush to kill it back so hard it might have gone back to being manageable & allowed for the potential of a baseline of words having meaning somewhere between here & the bill of rights with a view to the constitutional nature of powers plenary…if…&…if…he just… hadn’t…done…this…he could have claimed to have biden beat on the prices at the pumps…in a mid-term year…for all the effort of…not having a war…apparently…true story?
Hey look. I wrote about the reasons for communicating the justifications and goals of wars.othermeans.substack.com/p/why-do-we-…
…of course…before the collapse of demand for the oil that tanked the price in the inverse peak COVID induced…& assuming US presidents get to claim credit for alterations in the global price of oil…whoever it was that the voters were so mad at that they picked the orange option the first time…that shit was upwards of the $100 mark coming out of ’11…&…would you believe it…trended down overall to the point it might have been under $30 in jan of ’16…you know…before “drill, baby drill” turned out to maybe be a typo for “dril baby…DRIL” & we failed to heed the warning
Both sides! BOTH SIDES !!!! BOTH SIIIIIII men with butterfly nets come out and lead me away
Each side in the Iran war seems to have miscalculated how the other would behave, triggering an ever-expanding conflict with few clear ways out in the foreseeable future.
…nobody gonna put it in no newspaper…but…damn it…I *am* mad…&…I might be a little weird in a few ways…sure…but…you know what?
It’s fascinating (in a “this is why we’re fucked” sociological way) that so many people who otherwise wouldn’t have said we should go to war will, now that we’re in war, attach their sense of wellbeing to whether we “lose”.
…I…might not entirely be able to blame this on the passing of my preferred coffee-imbibing instrument
…look…I’m not saying go on ahead & listen to the guy for an hour & change
…but…while this all might be giving life to the last gasp contingent trying to prevent extractive industries & fossil fuels being superseded in at least the ways we can…& the spiralling valuations of the number-havers with the biggest numbers trickling down to feed into all the stuff that used to be so cheap they talked about “an internet of things”…& how much of this stuff is behaving this sort of way because of “GPU”s that…aren’t for processing graphics…that…aren’t gonna get you that G being for “general”…on account of being for a purpose so specific you pretty much can’t use ’em for anything else…&…that degrade when used for their only purpose on a timeline that…ironically…most gamers would probably get to feel pretty good about *their* upgrade/replacement hardware cycle…particularly given how that been going for…going on a long time now…what with the market for cards that could handle graphics that way having been over-run by demand predicated on the non-graphical uses that track back to the one about “so the prime use case is crime, then?” thing
…so…another over-priced coffee mug that still costs less than the shipping to get it to me…sure…that’s the sort of thing nelson from the simpsons would bust out the “ha ha” finger to point at…but…it was a damn fine mug…it was the right size…it was the right shape…it…did *exactly* the thing…it’s gonna piss me off at least some every time that isn’t what my coffee is in…&…to me…all the “excess” costs of getting back to that status quo…amount to a small price to pay
On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.
…but…that’s *my* money…& it solves *my* problem…& it doesn’t cause any for anyone else that isn’t me…&…if I do the thing…the result is the one I was aiming for
Hey @officialgrammarly.bsky.social we're gonna need to know the full list of identities you have stolen here as well as clear info on how to opt-outtechcrunch.com/2026/03/07/g…
This is nuts, and I didn’t know it was happening. You may remember that Alina Habba, Trump’s personal lawyer who lost the E Jean Carroll case, was made USAttorney for NJ without Senate confirmation. A Judge ruled that she wasn’t duly appointed, and put prosecutions in jeopardy, so she resigned.
…their favorite mug is fucking crack-pipe dream…& even if someone fucking made the thing you wouldn’t get a new one doing…any of this shit
Beginning to suspect this war of choice was not burdened by analysis
I think people who say things like this, especially prominent people with power, should be shamed and shunned and reviled — cancelled, if you will.“Free speech culture” disapproves of that sentiment — says that it’s worse than what Ogles said.Judge it thus.
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3330):
11 hours later:No public statements from any House Republican leaders on Ogles' post. No denunciation from any House Republicans.No responses to any of my requests for comment from House Republican leaders, U.S. senators from Tennessee, the Tennessee Republican Party or Ogles' office.
Full disclosure: I met with the minority staffers and helped strategize and explained the history. Ilan is taking his historical fiction on the road. It’s amazing what sloppy and methodless historical scholarship can do for one’s career.
a heavily slurring Trump: "We're achieving major strides toward completing our military objective. Some people could say they're pretty well complete."
Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones.We’re barely a week into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in.Everything is for sale.
In the 60s it was “suppose they gave a war and nobody came.” Now it’s “suppose we did a war and then said that we didn’t do a war and also we already won the war and we beat you shut up”
…congrats…you…might have made russia functionally fiscally viable without having to give up playing meat-grinder games in ukraine while you deplete the shit out of the stuff that was your big stick when you weren’t in the cupboard-bare-ing game…& your immaculate understanding of the mechanics of society & international trade & commerce have utterly vindicated your belief in the magical realism of a tariff based suite of personal superpowers…aren’t you fucking clever?
…if I remember right…this guy is a JAG guy…not a jagoff…even if I don’t know but think maybe the JAG part isn’t what he’s “in” these days?
…anyway
…if I’m lucky I find time for tunes & manage not to take my frustrations out on stuff that can’t help being less-than-best until I don’t have any mugs at all…but…at least your fortunes are looking up now I’m outta time & maybe even gonna call it quits for this one?
i can see how we walk backwards, stupidly, into a de facto ceasefire but uhhhhhhhhhhh that is not a given
My 2-cent take — he’ll try to jawbone to keep oil below $100, but he won’t deescalate to bring oil below $80 (to the extent he’s really in control here anyway). And the oil floor probably keeps going up while SoH flows are impaired.
If you want historical wormhole to crawl into, try the history of Iran. It goes back about 7000 years, but the decade before the 1953 coup by the US/UK is wild. Reza Shah, the father of the Shah from 1953-'79, sided with the Germans after the USSR was invaded, and was thrown out by the US/UK in 1941
also something happening here (you can see it w/ the price of oil today) that ties into my larger feeling of *too much happening and too fast.* struggling to explain it but it feels like the dynamics of the physical world have been replaced by online ones. you get trump trying to ctrl-z the economy
this entire paragraph is going to give me a stroke in how wrong it is
chat is that true
you fucking moron: FDR was doing illegal schemes to aid the Spanish Republic among other things – the electorate as a whole refused to take the threat of fascism seriously until Pearl Harbour and the fall of France
the Thomas Schelling understander has logged on
one of these is not like the others
i have many questions
…you & me both
this isn't a meme stock economy, it's something much dumbera rational calculation of the net present value of future cash flows of American corporations must incorporate as one of its major inputs an estimate of the likelihood the dotard president breaks the worldthis is the market *working*
I don’t know what the U.S. objective is, but this take is spot on. Iran can’t use the Strait of Hormuz as well, which means it too is suffering from it (as mentioned in the thread). Given the destruction wreaked on it: its costs from closure are way worse than the U.S., Israel, and the Gulf states’.
there is a very good chance that Iran backs off the strait if Trump backs off the bombing.
"iran is going to keep trying to close the strait [which will drive insurance costs to unsustainable levels]" versus "no they aren't"
what would be Iran's most effective route for getting trump to psychologically associate being dog-walked by Israel into strikes like this with negative consequences?
Indeed, assuming this represents current policy, it is an open admission that the regime change effort has failed, de-nuclearization is likewise impossible or impractical and the only objective that remains is to extricate from a costly failure.
This is the ultimate manifestation of Trumps "try and bullshit reality" approach to governance. Things are going how he'd like so he thinks that saying a thing that is actively still happening is in fact over will take care of it.
“Subordinating the political point of view to the military would be absurd, for it is policy that has created war. Policy is the guiding intelligence and war only the instrument, not vice versa. No other possibility exists, then, than to subordinate the military point of view to the political” -Carl
And I do not think this is exactly what is happening, but when the objectives of a mission are framed entirely in military terms, the political perspective has effectively been subordinated to the military one
And this is the current dilemma the only people providing “strategy” (which is just tactics) is the military, so invariably when there is an absence of policy, tactics become policies which is why the Secretary of State is talking about “destroying” Iran’s navy
…uhhh…pretty sure nobody needs to tell that account about either…but…your boy sun tzu?
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory.
…uh huh…but…”strategy” (which is just tactics)…that…uhh…sounds like…the other thing?
Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat
…&…maybe I admit defeat before I find the whole other thread where someone despaired at it ever being worth the time to try to get people to understand the shipping & maritime aspects of how international trade & commerce function…again?
if he's worried about PRC ascendancy he should ask pete why we are taking assets from USINDOPACOM and sending them to the USCENTCOM AORif he's mad because "beautiful wasian lady not submissive enough" he should go to fucking therapy
1. Is Lindsey Graham the U.S. Secretary of State now?Is he coordinating these threats against a U.S. ally with the White House?Now he is demanding that a top U.S. ally enter a regime-change war?And then threatening, “Hopefully this changes soon… if not, consequences will follow.”
these people do not seem to grasp, like, commodities are a physical thing and not just floating abstractions trapped in spreadsheets or lines in graphs.
I am not certain of the war’s outcome except that it will be some version of this.
an untenable and tense situation in which everybody loses? in the Middle East??!!
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1. We mourn your cup, RIP. Now go buy another one.
2. Is anyone else struck by the incongruity of sending a gay man to negotiate in the Middle East?
3. I was Trump’s latest grift targets America’s 250th birthdaybemused by Whiskey Pete blowing through all our munitions and then I saw the thing about Trump sons investing in weapons. Okay, now I get it. Which brings me to …
4. Trump’s latest grift targets America’s 250th birthday
1. …appreciated
2. …if it’s a binary question the answer is yes…can’t speak to median answers, though
3. …I was, too…but…considering how well the one dipshit seems to understand how the input side of the re-arming/procurement thing that’s…I dunno…only the mere military-industrial complex of myth & legend the physics-defying economies of which are popularly well understood in some fairly fundamental ways by even the most batshit caucus of his zombie “political” party stable…first we tariff our costs for most-to-all required raw material input…then we turbofuck the economy by blowing up the gulf region with the most expensive makes-you-feel-big-&-strong devices available so we turbofuck the supply chain for the bulk of the rest of the places left that aren’t…uhhh…so…hi, there…canada…did I tell you how much I love my girlfriend-you-wouldn’t-know-you-never-met-her-she-lives-in-canada…I love canada…like I love steel & aluminium when I have to re-up the billion dollar burn rate I got going over there that’s even bigger than altman’s…uhhh…yeah…letting the hairslick go all “sears weapons catalogue: weapons for all occasions”…like an unknowing homage to bill hicks…because he has “forever ammo”…like a fucking infinite-reload hack in a shoot ’em up video game…that you can play on an Xbox controller from nevada…yeah…bemusing…is a surprisingly polite term for that…but then…you’re a mug up on muggins over here?
4. …it’d only make me sound more like my spirit animal is oscar the grouch…but…this is still the thing I saw lately that does the best “I’ll draw you a picture” of that stuff…I threw it in one of these benighted things sometime recently but the clickthough has images I could have wound up padding out to double the length of any of these…the entire thing is apparently a bid for the fully go-global extrapolation of the concept of a meta-grift
…but…like…someone I know just the other day was observing that it’s chump change compared to running the russian game & sitting down in a room to divvy up the mineral wealth of about a third of the planet among a dozen or three individuals in a hierarchy that kicks back & up like the goodfellas kinda ponzi scheme…kinda the way faust sells his soul & then fails to capitalize on it due to a fundamental failure of imagination…while margarita…well…you know…backwards…in heels…yadda yadda
…shit…TIL they made a movie of the master and margarita…do I dare?
…sigh…the mug is ordered but maybe I don’t watch that until after the thing gets to me…then again…it was made by russians…in ’24…they would have needed less of the flipping to the foot/endnotes appendicies in my copy of that which wasn’t…&…there was apparently a 10 episode one season in ’05, too
…I dunno…it’s giving me sandman vibes…probably best to wait on having a new best-mug to hand before jumping in that deep end?
It was funny to see Pearkes get all huffy on bluesky yesterday over people pointing out how dumb the market appeared to be yesterday. Like yeah, man, hate to break it to you but it’s all meme stocks all the way down, and it’s easily manipulatable in several ways that are not remotely in the ideal of a “free market.”
Fascism is many things but one of the biggest indicators is the business people running the economy to prop themselves and their backers up and GUESS WHAT!?
…another one I couldn’t find again without risking by-catch in the trawl was more or less…yeah, so…when the people in the boring-but-billions industries all start waving around charts & looking & sounding like the climate scientists…I still don’t understand that stuff any better but I feel like maybe I don’t have to before I get that it might mean things ain’t great…or…words to that effect?
I think a lot of people are still catching up to the idea that increasingly, rules don’t really apply in any meaningful way anywhere anymore? Like you talk about finance and yes, there are many and laws and rules and beliefs, etc., but once enough people decide they don’t want any of that, like, there is no higher force that shows up to make it stop? If Manchester City wants to pay off the Premier League and the refs and the media so that they can bring handguns on the pitch, you know what, handguns are just gonna be on the pitch.
In today’s game of Make Millions With Market Manipulation:1. Energy Secretary posts that a tanker has been safely escorted through Hormuz.2. Oil price falls 10%, friends buy.3. Energy Secretary deletes post.4. Oil price rises 12%, friends richer.Thank you for playing, see you all tomorrow.
…wait…the same press briefing he ducked the question about the hit on the girls’ school with some waffle I either misheard or actually included a claim not that none tried harder…the way I think it went in rehearsal or in his head or whatever but not in the delivery…where he seemed to say no armed force in history had ever tried to avoid collateral damage & that stuff will happen but you shouldn’t read anything into it because it can’t be avoided so we’ll look into but you shouldn’t think any of that open source sort of investigating of that sort of thing was as good as the one we can’t tell you anything about but the conclusion we didn’t do a bad because more than that is a risk to national security & a slight against the military might of the war-dawg
…right after he ended his pep rally close-up moment on a fucking “amen”
…I fucking wish you could have made this shit up…maybe then it would be easier to pull off this trick of treating it like make-believe can’t do real-bad-shit?
My information consumption is 1/4 Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1/4 old movies, 1/4 the voices in my head and 1/2 @splinterrip‘s DOTs. Oh, and 1/4 the patterns the birds make in the sky.
also…it is wierd to gift someone shoes right?
i mean…i know its normal enough within the family..especially if its the little ones
but gifting a non family adult with a job presumably paying enough for shoes…shoes…seems deeply fucking wierd
…it was a while ago but there was a whole thing…he dissed someone about their shoes & basically JD went off at some other thing that gave the fat-faced pudding-brained puddle of petulance a mic…& he had a story about how his boss bought him shoes…I think it was JD, anyway…& there was a whole dimension to it that it was hard to call subtext that more or less started to sound like big-shoes=big-dick & little rubio getting stick for his itty-bitty brogues or whatever & das oranjeboomer was all “I’ll hook you up so you aren’t out there representing me & being all bad-shoes-implicitly-dickless-wonder” & all…& then rubio keeps seeming to wear these shoes even after the dieworkwear guy just murdered how bad they don’t fit the first time it was on camera…like…that isn’t/wasn’t 1st-&-only…just…first…because not wearing them might be worse than not saying thank you after you get invaded by russia & we go out of our way to help them & fuck you over
huh…as in donnies boss..bought him shoes?
i mean…im not sure hes ever had a boss…other than his dad…and probably putin and bibi
…i mean….my boss technically bought my shoes…but you know…labour laws kinda require some shit (and technically…he refunded them…as i didnt like the shoes they offered and bought my own)
but hes sure as fuck never worked a job…what would pay for his shoes…
but yeah okay….this all sounds very trump actually
…my bad…no…jd’s boss…that’s marco’s boss…that thinks he’s boss of the world & the world should be as grateful as his two lackeys that he bestowed footleather upon
1. We mourn your cup, RIP. Now go buy another one.
2. Is anyone else struck by the incongruity of sending a gay man to negotiate in the Middle East?
3. I was Trump’s latest grift targets America’s 250th birthdaybemused by Whiskey Pete blowing through all our munitions and then I saw the thing about Trump sons investing in weapons. Okay, now I get it. Which brings me to …
4. Trump’s latest grift targets America’s 250th birthday
Fuck. More coffee. Fortunately my favorite cup is intact.
1. …appreciated
2. …if it’s a binary question the answer is yes…can’t speak to median answers, though
3. …I was, too…but…considering how well the one dipshit seems to understand how the input side of the re-arming/procurement thing that’s…I dunno…only the mere military-industrial complex of myth & legend the physics-defying economies of which are popularly well understood in some fairly fundamental ways by even the most batshit caucus of his zombie “political” party stable…first we tariff our costs for most-to-all required raw material input…then we turbofuck the economy by blowing up the gulf region with the most expensive makes-you-feel-big-&-strong devices available so we turbofuck the supply chain for the bulk of the rest of the places left that aren’t…uhhh…so…hi, there…canada…did I tell you how much I love my girlfriend-you-wouldn’t-know-you-never-met-her-she-lives-in-canada…I love canada…like I love steel & aluminium when I have to re-up the billion dollar burn rate I got going over there that’s even bigger than altman’s…uhhh…yeah…letting the hairslick go all “sears weapons catalogue: weapons for all occasions”…like an unknowing homage to bill hicks…because he has “forever ammo”…like a fucking infinite-reload hack in a shoot ’em up video game…that you can play on an Xbox controller from nevada…yeah…bemusing…is a surprisingly polite term for that…but then…you’re a mug up on muggins over here?
4. …it’d only make me sound more like my spirit animal is oscar the grouch…but…this is still the thing I saw lately that does the best “I’ll draw you a picture” of that stuff…I threw it in one of these benighted things sometime recently but the clickthough has images I could have wound up padding out to double the length of any of these…the entire thing is apparently a bid for the fully go-global extrapolation of the concept of a meta-grift
…but…like…someone I know just the other day was observing that it’s chump change compared to running the russian game & sitting down in a room to divvy up the mineral wealth of about a third of the planet among a dozen or three individuals in a hierarchy that kicks back & up like the goodfellas kinda ponzi scheme…kinda the way faust sells his soul & then fails to capitalize on it due to a fundamental failure of imagination…while margarita…well…you know…backwards…in heels…yadda yadda
https://www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps-money-comes-from-and-other-mysteries/
…shit…TIL they made a movie of the master and margarita…do I dare?
…sigh…the mug is ordered but maybe I don’t watch that until after the thing gets to me…then again…it was made by russians…in ’24…they would have needed less of the flipping to the foot/endnotes appendicies in my copy of that which wasn’t…&…there was apparently a 10 episode one season in ’05, too
…I dunno…it’s giving me sandman vibes…probably best to wait on having a new best-mug to hand before jumping in that deep end?
It was funny to see Pearkes get all huffy on bluesky yesterday over people pointing out how dumb the market appeared to be yesterday. Like yeah, man, hate to break it to you but it’s all meme stocks all the way down, and it’s easily manipulatable in several ways that are not remotely in the ideal of a “free market.”
Fascism is many things but one of the biggest indicators is the business people running the economy to prop themselves and their backers up and GUESS WHAT!?
…another one I couldn’t find again without risking by-catch in the trawl was more or less…yeah, so…when the people in the boring-but-billions industries all start waving around charts & looking & sounding like the climate scientists…I still don’t understand that stuff any better but I feel like maybe I don’t have to before I get that it might mean things ain’t great…or…words to that effect?
I think a lot of people are still catching up to the idea that increasingly, rules don’t really apply in any meaningful way anywhere anymore? Like you talk about finance and yes, there are many and laws and rules and beliefs, etc., but once enough people decide they don’t want any of that, like, there is no higher force that shows up to make it stop? If Manchester City wants to pay off the Premier League and the refs and the media so that they can bring handguns on the pitch, you know what, handguns are just gonna be on the pitch.
…wait…the same press briefing he ducked the question about the hit on the girls’ school with some waffle I either misheard or actually included a claim not that none tried harder…the way I think it went in rehearsal or in his head or whatever but not in the delivery…where he seemed to say no armed force in history had ever tried to avoid collateral damage & that stuff will happen but you shouldn’t read anything into it because it can’t be avoided so we’ll look into but you shouldn’t think any of that open source sort of investigating of that sort of thing was as good as the one we can’t tell you anything about but the conclusion we didn’t do a bad because more than that is a risk to national security & a slight against the military might of the war-dawg
…right after he ended his pep rally close-up moment on a fucking “amen”
…I fucking wish you could have made this shit up…maybe then it would be easier to pull off this trick of treating it like make-believe can’t do real-bad-shit?
My information consumption is 1/4 Old Farmer’s Almanac, 1/4 old movies, 1/4 the voices in my head and 1/2 @splinterrip‘s DOTs. Oh, and 1/4 the patterns the birds make in the sky.
See, the voices in MY head all read the DOT’s too so I feel like that’s all one thing?
welp the usas popularity has hit a new record this side of the pond
course with petrol and diesel now at €2.40 per liter…its not a record high.
also…it is wierd to gift someone shoes right?
i mean…i know its normal enough within the family..especially if its the little ones
but gifting a non family adult with a job presumably paying enough for shoes…shoes…seems deeply fucking wierd
…it’s somehow even weirder?
…it was a while ago but there was a whole thing…he dissed someone about their shoes & basically JD went off at some other thing that gave the fat-faced pudding-brained puddle of petulance a mic…& he had a story about how his boss bought him shoes…I think it was JD, anyway…& there was a whole dimension to it that it was hard to call subtext that more or less started to sound like big-shoes=big-dick & little rubio getting stick for his itty-bitty brogues or whatever & das oranjeboomer was all “I’ll hook you up so you aren’t out there representing me & being all bad-shoes-implicitly-dickless-wonder” & all…& then rubio keeps seeming to wear these shoes even after the dieworkwear guy just murdered how bad they don’t fit the first time it was on camera…like…that isn’t/wasn’t 1st-&-only…just…first…because not wearing them might be worse than not saying thank you after you get invaded by russia & we go out of our way to help them & fuck you over
…or…whatever?
huh…as in donnies boss..bought him shoes?
i mean…im not sure hes ever had a boss…other than his dad…and probably putin and bibi
…i mean….my boss technically bought my shoes…but you know…labour laws kinda require some shit (and technically…he refunded them…as i didnt like the shoes they offered and bought my own)
but hes sure as fuck never worked a job…what would pay for his shoes…
but yeah okay….this all sounds very trump actually
…my bad…no…jd’s boss…that’s marco’s boss…that thinks he’s boss of the world & the world should be as grateful as his two lackeys that he bestowed footleather upon
…but otherwise…pretty much what you said anyway?
kinda feel like someones overlooking the big shoes mean big dick angle only works if you actually fit them in any event
then its still bullshit…but at least makes sense sorta….
kinda feel like wearing shoes too big for you kinda says the opposite?
is like stuffing your undies with socks..and being surprised your dicks still small when you take them off?