Wonder what the polymarket odds are on Trump nuking Iran and who's gonna make billions on it?

Not even sure what to say. This is all so dumb. This is way so many hate us.

What the fuck is a 1794 edition of a pickup truck? Does it come with a damn horse?

This whole story is a tragedy. The blind man was presumably asking for help when cops arrested and beat him, assumedly because he didn't understand them. Then they hold him for a year on bullshit charges. Then drop him off to die in a blizzard..

Wonder if we'll see MAGA calling for justices to step down or court packing because of the tariff ruling?

So GDP is down and tariffs, for now, are over. Two pillars the GOP claimed would offset the debt boost from the tax cuts in the bullshit bill. The COB should do a new analysis on the debt impact of those tax cuts.

Kinda wondering if the AI data center buildout is just capex smoke and mirrors. Sell the massive expenditure on capex to shareholders by promising this incredible whatever from AI. When that bubble pops transition stuff over to more traditional cloud and data center services.

Has anyone looked to see if Bondi is in the files?

The military mistook a balloon for a drone and used a fancy laser to shoot it down, leading to the FAA shutting down airspace abruptly. But sure, let's give the military another half trillion dollars, on top of their egregious budget. What could go wrong?

Tampered with or not I think it's fair to start questioning the accuracy of the initial jobs numbers. Revisions almost wiped out all job gains initially reported in 2025. And now we are expected to believe the economy suddenly added almost as many jobs as all of 2025 in one month?

New CBO report showing higher debt and deficit levels. Sounds like the report and the AP article I read only mention spending and "tax policy." Nothing about the multi trillions in debt driven by tax cuts. Until we recon with the income side of the equation we aren't fixing this problem.

Trump withholding the funds from New York is just so on brand petty. He's not doing it for something he thinks might help people or even something corrupt like getting money for himself or his cronies. Just to get his name on something. What a petty, small bitch. The smallest of dicks energy.

Holy shit this is amazing. We need more of this and a media that will blast it everywhere. Oh, and a populace that gives a shit would be nice but I don't want to get greedy.

I wish I lived in a country where our elected officials in Congress had at least half the balls of E. Jean Carroll, Stormy Daniels, Christine Blasey Ford, Anita Hill, or the Epstein survivors.

What's the price of gold gonna do by the time Trump gets done gilding the Kennedy Center for two years?

Fresh dump of Epstein docs? Wonder what horrible shit they are planning for this weekend? Iran strike at a minimum?

Watching the dollar fall, metals go nuts, and yields rising, and can't help feeling like we will see some crazy inflation in like 6-12 months as the effects work their way through supply chains.

At some point we as a country are going to need to reckon with how our society produces people like this. Trump, Miller, Noem, Bovino, Homan, all the people hired by ICE, etc. If we don't figure it out and fix it, this will all happen again.

Fuck ICE. Fuck CBP. Fuck DHS. Furious, scared, hopeless. Watching what's unfolding from the other side of the country feeling incredibly powerless. Terrified of where this is leading us.

Next time a democrat says they can't do anything because they don't have the votes, point to this and tell them to fuck off. These people chose to fund the American Gestapo. They didn't have to.

Say the supreme court strikes down tariffs and the government has to issue refunds. Are the refunds considered taxable income? Or, if companies don't return the money to consumers does it just become a tax free windfall? Was it a scam all along to fleece the public for profits?

That House of Guinness show is kinda meh, but the music is nothing but bangers. Gonna be a good guide for expanding my music collection.

Fucking hell, are we about to go to war with NATO over Greenland while we have a white supremacist army shooting American citizens? While the government openly uses Nazi slogans and white supremacist messages? This is insane.

It really feels like we are watching the real time break down of law and order. Government officials basically saying "might makes right" and "law enforcement" acting accordingly. Terrifying to consider where that road leads.

I remember hearing years ago that smaller oil companies in the US that use fracking or other difficult processes can't survive under like $60 a barrel. I wonder if flooding the market with Venz. oil is gonna lead to bankruptcy and job loss in some of the highest paying blue collar jobs here?

There's a special place in hell for people that use silicone or other non paintable caulking for indoor trim.

The number of major news outlets that run headlines just repeating what the government says, when that government is shown over and over to just outright lie and massively distort things is just a massive embarrassment. The state of US media is astounding. Google news is almost useless at this point

Question I can't answer. Problem with democracy itself (I'm pro democracy for the record). What do you do if the populace wants violent authoritarians, or is indifferent to it? Say we throw out the current regime, hold new elections, and the voters pick a group just as bad? Then what?

Trump calling for banning stock buybacks and dividends and limiting CEO compensation? Seems awful socialist to me. If Obama or Biden tried this wouldn't the right be screaming bloody murder? Just a shame it's about the defense industry and building more weapons and not about helping Americans.

It boggles my mind that people seem to legitimately think the Maduro kidnapping and the Osama Bin Laden assassination are basically the same thing.

Growing up Norm always had the most tricked out shop. Now going back and watching the first season of New Yankee Workshop on youtube, seeing him using a fucking shopsmith is crazy.

Should this get Trump removed from office? Probably. But being credibly accused of child rape didn't. 34 counts of felony fraud wasn't disqualifying. Trying to overturn an election wasn't. Taking classified docs and obstructing their return wasn't. I'm skeptical this will.

The idea that an indictment in the US gives authority to bomb and kidnap anywhere in the world is insane.

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

Peace prize my ass

Is this invasion and overthrow actually what the oil industry bought when Trump asked for $1 billion?

Forgot to post this. Finished up the sewing box. Couple trays to go in the keyed mitered box. This project was a massive pain in the ass. Turns out bradford pear is also a shitty tree as lumber. At least when thin and fiddly. #woodworking

First of several glue ups for the top of a new #woodworking workbench. Trying to get back to more woodworking and unplug a bit from the horror shows surrounding us.

So many thoughts. Fuck Trump and this attack and kidnapping. I hope things work out well for the Venezuelan people. Given the history of US intervention in Latin and South America I'm skeptical. And all so some fuckers can get rich off oil and continue to boil the planet. Just a sad, angry day.

The pardons at the end of this presidency could be wild. Particularly with how fast people go in and out of favor with Trump, or whoever is running the show then. Could be crazy if he kicks it and Vance takes over too.

Is this not the likely outcome of this Epstein files saga? Now if someone sues the DOJ can stop everything and then it'll get bogged down in the court for a few years and Trump gets to run out the clock.

Conveniently the house is out of town when the administration decides it's just not going to follow the law. Funny how that works. Party of law and order everyone.

So is seizing an oil tanker for no apparent reason considered an act of war? Sure seems like the sort of thing that would start a conflict. Weren't we bombing Yemen for doing something similar not too long ago?

I hate how I spend all day at work thinking about what I would rather be doing and what I want to do when I get home, but once I get home I have neither the physical or mental bandwidth for any of it and end up not doing anything.

First Bessent, now whoever this is. They're just saying it now.

It really is disgusting that Trump can insult, berate, single out, threaten, and demean female reporters on a daily basis for asking fair and legitimate questions and you can’t find a single Republican woman in Congress to say it is inappropriate behavior.

There has never been a clearer example of the fact that we do not have a legislature in the United States right now. Trump tells them to vote no, so they all vote no. Then Trump changes his mind and they all change their votes. That is autocracy. Vote them out!

Getting real tired of not having a vise on my bench. Put together this makeshift one. Looking forward to starting the new bench build and getting a real vise.

Yo, someone needs to make a video game based around those hole digging pressure washer vacuum things.

Hell yeah