1983: housing crash and prime rate to 17%. A mortgage at 17% is not a good first half-decade, Meg!

Totally okay with disappearing legal immigrants and citizens until it affects their morning muffin?

These people were conservatives before they realized.

“I told you so”? okay.

“As defendants acknowledge, they had no legal authority to arrest him, no justification to detain him, and no grounds to send him to El Salvador — let alone deliver him into one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere,” Xinis wrote.

His family is gonna sue for oh, SO much. I hope the entirety of the administration is mentioned individually on the suit.

throws

Throes? Bone apple tea!

That, and an apology to each journo who wants one, should eventually stop the wife-beater druggy allusions in every mention.

China: “good idea. 104% it is!”

And then don’t pick up the phone for a day.

The prices are the same.

You understand that a tariff isn’t a price increase, right; that you pay the vendor the same amount? The American importer, though, also pays the gov the assigned tariff.

So you’d pay the supplier, and then you’d pay the gov.

Yeah, but we all understand that. So I’m thinking things are really just gonna … Stop.

funny is if the market drops so fast that the ‘circuit breakers’ get triggered.

One of them already popped. I think it was the Nikkei.

Residents are gonna learn a lot about who pays for roads and pipes and wires and hospitals and fireman and popo and …

I’m concerned, for sure.

It’s time to recall all citizens in the terrorist regime and send messengers from the Secure Air Shipping for those missing.

Yeah. To the exact extent and for the same reasons.

BOTH SIDES, GUYS! I’M SO EDGY!

you guys can retire at FIFTY FOUR?

My cousin retired 2 years ago at 48.

Stock market whiz? Nah: union.

He started working at a local mechanic in high-school, as engines were interesting; just sweeping up. He asked questions. He applied for his apprenticeship and the school district moved him to the ‘trade’ oriented school where the rough kids seemed to end up completely randomly when catchment overlapped. Did metal shop in his final year and found a funding programme to get through his first courses. Displayed a natural talent for adequate work and straightforward math that was apparently everything people needed when paired with his indomitable spirit and happier-than-sadder mood profile. In short: he hustled, he did his fucking work and he was a net-positive to work with.

Now we fast-forward. The union was good to him, and he moved into jobs where his 5’8 size, nimble fingers and “yeah, I’ll crawl in the slushy muck” attitude got him as many opportunities as his quick wit got him out of shitty politics. He went to a place we call Fort McMoney and was able to exercise his options when bosses were dinks; and he did so very quickly and openly, explaining what’s happening on the way out – “We agreed on this vacation time, but you broke that agreement. I’m still getting on the plane tonight. I got a job with the guy down the road, so that’s why I’m clearing out. I’m sorry it went this way, but we both get to learn from this. Good luck, and have a great weekend.”

At 48 he’d done his 25-plus years at one career and many shops, and the half-pay-for-life union retirement kicked in.

He now rides his donorcycle with his adorable wife or they take the little car on trips to climb mountains or see a lake or something. He got a shitty place in a nice place, made some friends and some of them knew how to fix up his place and needed his own skills, and his easygoing attitude provided the glue to get everything fixed everywhere, and he’s kinda set.

He touches grass and trees a lot, and the pics he posts on his cell phone show some great locations and his beaming face in the dawn light. He’s fucking winning so hard and I’m half jealous and intensely proud of him because he is actually an absolute sweetie and a great and caring guy.

Guys, build better unions or build better labour code. Focus on getting into a work arrangement with a group that pretends to like you better than at-will dot-com fat-cat “we’re a family” pizza-party dickheads think they’re pretending.

Lawsuits are neat.

Hard stop

This is rapidly becoming its own red flag.

It’s like “literally” was in the 1900s

the savings reached by dismantling the government

As I understand that’s also not showing the results they’d hoped to see based on calculations they were and are pulling directly out their asses.

Like Russia on Ukraine, they don’t want the people; just the land.

another Geneva convention

I’m told that Israel may have violated the normal Geneva convention once or twice already (or more). If you believe the ICJ, anyway.

What will another Geneva convention do if the first one carries no penalty for violation?

You … know why rome fell?

(It was money)

Will it be California first? Or maybe Alaska? Hawaii? We know one’s gonna try and split, just not which.