Debt Rattle May 10 2025
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May 10, 2025 at 10:04 am #187769
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterSamuel Peploe Beach scene 1907 • America Humbled (Arthur Schaper) • Hyperbole, Lies, and Delusions (Richard Porter) • Trump Says “80% Tariffs O
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 10 2025]May 10, 2025 at 10:52 am #187771Topcat
ParticipantMerkel is a Witch an a Bitch
Germany deserves her.
A Communist has been injecting Germany with a toxic cocktail of fanatic Islam.
Like any work of culture, Germany was like a fine piece of Dresden china that took untold hours of skill and energy and sacrifice to make after rising from the rumble of WWII.
Dropping it on the floor and shattering it took little skill but will take decades, again, to repair in the de-industrialized, de-energized hellscape of collapsing Europe, the inflamed hemorrhoid of Western Euasia.
May 10, 2025 at 10:55 am #187772Topcat
ParticipantThe answer to apologists for Islam
May 10, 2025 at 11:06 am #187773Topcat
Participant• UK Hits Russia With ‘Largest Ever’ Sanctions Package (RT)
The UK took Orwell’s book as manuals, not warnings.
The UK a retarded organ grinder monkey throwing it’s poop at the blackboard, hoping the has-been Empire will rise like a rotting corpse to make England great again…….MEGA
Truly, historically pathetic
May 10, 2025 at 12:02 pm #187774Germ
ParticipantGood morning :-))
It’s 2025, and the rat juice is still flowing!
Get injected, get infected – clown world indeed!
Flu, COVID-19 vaccines now mandatory for Singapore Haj pilgrims
TVASSF – you just can’t make this shit up.
May 10, 2025 at 12:10 pm #187775Topcat
ParticipantBREAKING: COVID-19 mRNA Shots Destroy Over 60% of Women’s Non-Renewable Egg Supply
The baby replacement rate is so low already in the ‘developed’ parts of the world that this headline is like an oak stake to the heart for future ‘consumption’ driven economic systems that live or die on the model of an expanding economy.
Stick a fork in it.
Plus very few women statistically want more than 2 kids nowadays.
So you’re not gonna fix this dilemma by having fewer fertile women make up the low numbers by having 6 or more kids, you know, like the ‘good old days of yore’
The Future is in Your Hands
Your move ladies….
May 10, 2025 at 12:13 pm #187776aspnaz
ParticipantI don’t read all of TAE, I just look at the Calvin cartoon, then I read a few of the comments. Some, like Dr D and John Day, are way too long and boring with nothing of interest to add to my daily scan, so I skip those. It still amazes me that anyone understands what Dr D is really trying to say, gibberish on steroids?
The news these days is like watching flying foxes, in queensland, shit on your car; it is a fascinating business, each ff wants you to look at his turd, but you actually aren’t interested in any one turd, you just enjoy the pitter patter of turds as they land on your car and you think about how long it will take you to clean it. Each landing turd destroys your memory of the previous turd. But now I am bored of flying turds, and my interest in news sites, such as TAE, is declining to zero.
Why read a bunch of comments when you can brew a beer, ride the waves on a windsurfing board, or ignore Trump the idiot? The western internet is like a 20 meter diameter pipeline full of shite, mostly from the USA. Who gives a fuck what these idiots think or do? I have finally realised that ignoring idiots is a healthy option, ignoring everybody else is an even healthier option. It is as if the internet is designed to steal your day with worthless bullshit; I am only writing this because my wife is cooking dinner and I am trying to pass the time; the internet offers very good “pass the time” content, everything else is trying to manipulate you into buying something.
May 10, 2025 at 12:35 pm #187777Dr. D
ParticipantPepe Escobar: Trump in DEEP Trouble as China’s BRICS Power Move Kills His Tariff War
Danny HaiphongTriumphalism x DonaldTelepathy. Trump already won. They’re already settled 18 treaties. China is already negotiating in Switzerland.
Look, a lot of times I don’t like things either, but I don’t lie about it.
Stocks: He will lose a lot of credibility, especially with this, so I expect this is true. Again, if he gets over the edge for capital flows to the U.S. )(From Europe) that’s entirely possible. And Crypto went from all-tech warnings to +20% overnight (ETH). …As it does. Saying, if you’re looking for fast money flows to somewhere, you just saw them. We’re at a $3T market (industry) cap over there now. That’s like a high in money and the price hasn’t followed yet.
And gold $3330 from $3350. $100 moves a day now at this %
Who remembers it at $270? 300% in 10 years.
Btw, the internet is a garbage heap, no wonder people are using AI. Google “100 year gold chart” and nothing. That’s, uh, pretty direct. Very simple. Charts of 10 years, ending in 2012. Time limit: same thing. Scroll down, pictures of cartoons, anime, not “Charts” at all.
Again, this is Internet growth theory: there’s too much to track. But also AI theory: as AI first read humans, who remarkably HAVE some sense in their heads, then reads more and more nonsense until it is gibbering useless and insane.
“James O’Keefe has released footage showing Attorney General Pam Bondi in a restaurant just days ago,”
This is a setup so Bondi can get pressure enough to cut the s—t and put this out. And good on her for it.
“Francis Fukuyama (arrogantly, short-sightedly) prophesied.Of course, history didn’t stop, and we had lessons to learn.”
As everyone in America told them at the time. WHO? Who believed this? We were already collapsing in this period he’s talking about as “That Giant Sucking Sound” was in 1992. It was SUCKING from then (and 1974, actually) every. Single. Day. Until…now when it’s still gutting the U.S. and every working (Union) man.
Ohhhhh, so you mean all YOU morons: reporters, people from Harvard, Congressmen…the PMCs. YOU were all completely wrong and we were right. Now there’s “Exceptionalism” and you blame US for it. Like “We were all this together.” Uh, no: we weren’t.
Oh we had to be humbled? …But we weren’t humbled when wages stagnated for 30 years and food stamps rose to 20% of population, ten millions not in workforce, and a million(s) dead on deaths of despair. That wasn’t the “Being humbled” nope! That didn’t count at all. Only now when the RICHIE Rich, elites, Egos find out, THEN it is “Being humbled.”
“Not a single person receiving Social Security payments legally is losing their government pension.”Yes, but that’s reality and they left that long ago for the Feelz. We’ve tried everything to re-attach to them but nothing has worked.
I’d point out that after years, Prizker is one of the worst cities of the worst states in the Union: totally failed. So if he knew anything, wouldn’t it be working there? If he cared, wouldn’t the caring show there? It’s all those Republicans in “MAGA country”: downtown Chicago.
“And 80 is way down already from 145.
• Trump Says “80% Tariffs On China Seems Right” (ZH)Here he is, doing to big ask, on national TV, day by day, and the reporters STILL don’t get it. The treaties are being signed but “No they aren’t.” That would be Trump winning, so blackout. That would be workers winning and communist organizers hate that more than cancer.
“Major development. Maybe Trump can show that Bibi is not the same as Israel. Bibi stands in the way of peace. Just like Zelensky.”
We’ve seen several layers of Trump mouthing Israel, then ambushing them, (the Gaza solution, x3) then now closing out Yemen and spinning them to the wind. So tough call – and may still be – but looks like I picked that one right. He’s no pal of Bibi, and although we’re not going to invade, we’re going to watch them get strangled and collapse. Best we can do, we’re busy.
“• Germany To Declare Immigration Emergency (RT)
Mother Merkel. Your Mommy. Feminine values!
“The new measures blacklist up to 100 oil tankers that the West claims are part of a Russian “shadow fleet,” older vessels operating outside Western insurance systems”
They were counting on insurance leverage. The End. Insurance now moved out of London and is competitive elsewhere. What sanction?
“• Poetic Justice Came for Letitia James, and It’s Glorious (Margolis)
They don’t pick up the headlines: she set her primary residence in Virginia. Explain, Ms. NY DA? You were commuting? I believe you are required residency in NY to hold your job? And vowed that her father was her husband. Wow, guess who was who just slipped her mind.
“For years now, the hustles and hoaxes have seemed never-ending. I know it is more than a little tiresome to point out that nobody has gone to jail, or even to court, over any of this since 2017. Looks like that lucky streak is coming to an end.”
Uh, yeah, about that. Believe it when I see it.
““[Fetterman]’s someone we can work with, and that makes him MAGA in the eyes of the Left, which is insane.”
Seeing this online. They’re like “He’s unhinged! Secret, unnamed sources suddenly say! They’re reporting what he says in the bedroom to his wife!” Wait: so when he had a stroke and was completely non-verbal, all that was fine, don’t-you-dare-criticize a man who can’t walk, talk, or think, but now that he’s a Congressional MODERATE — as he’s in an in-peril Red district – he’s now a deranged lunatic? A: YES. That is precisely their position.
…Actually, I can’t even tell what brought this on as his politics seem about the same as ever.
If I ask the people posting this? Slander, rumors, innuendo. They are all the feminine, and none of it is required to be substantiated in the slightest if it is salacious. “Salacious” FEEEEEELZ so good, so right, so true! Therefore it is. You are ALWAYS guilty until proven innocent, if I say so. Facts are whatever I make up in my head!
“So, what we’re gonna say at the Kennedy Center, first of all, we gotta clean up the financial situation. We have to do the big productions that the masses and the public want to see.”Codependent marriage. You see this in NYC: the Left gives everything, trashes everything, stops everything. Then Daddy gets in, from nothing working, all scandals, makes everyone take their medicine, do hard work, be the bad guy, then wanders off again and it defaults to the Left to be reckless, trash, and waste everything again. Over and over. This wouldn’t be so bad if you were the HERO for fixing this steaming wreck, but instead are criticized with the most sissy-girl screaming anyone has ever seen every time.
He assaulted me! I knew it! Ohhhhhoohhhh! I’m melting! Melting away!
“The 402 acre site would governed by SHARIA LAW. We’re not doing this crap in America.”
What is with UK on the same thing? How about this: they’re broke, owe bonds toSaudi, who said “We promise not to sell if you turn the UK into an Islamic caliphate.” How do you do that? I don’t care, but importing muslims of any type seems to accomplish the goal. Denying Nigerian Christians would make it too obvious, but you’re just going to lose on the numbers.
Oh and PS, we can’t a have a Shiria city, but we can have a SpaceX city? What’s the difference?
“putting rooftop solar on *every roof in the world* could reduce global warming by up to 0.13°C “
No it wouldn’t. Because producing and disposing the panels would raise it 0.2C
Was watching “The Punisher”. Wow, what good scriptwriting. And the women characters. So we have the gurl boss, but she has CONSEQUENCES, being hard like that COSTS her. She is One way, but not the other, as no one can be both at the same time. And then has a story-arc to overcome. Another plays the feminine power card. Karen, and her actress is a very unique, raw sense. Even being in NYC, she can’t avoid being emotional, caring, raw, as a personality. So it’s her CARING that causes all the actions, bends all the characters and action around her. This is that subtle/powerful thing we never see as feminine energy, it has been entirely vaporized on the surface of the planet, and they only sort of sneak it in here sideways. So she seems “weak” and is constantly a hero for facing up her fears and challenges — much more so than the actual punching heroes. Same with Foggy in a different show, as he has no abilities whatsoever, and is entirely at risk. But because he TRIES, and acts anyway, his heroism has real danger, real consequences and is much more heart-felt and compelling than, say Daredevil or the Punisher.
So now note there are problems, but they could write incredible scripts in only 2019. No problem with fans. No problems with women representation. No problem with girl bosses. No problems making government the hero or enemy without seeming political. Then, one minute later, nothing. Everyone FORGOT what being a “Human being” was like, how they operate, fear, are motivated, etc.
Compare with “Last of Us.” Where a teeny-tiny gurl character is of course kicking 300lb weightlifter soldiers, on a lifelong vendetta, that has no impact on her psychology, so of course she’s joking and kissing the first girl she sees in lesbian foreplay…as one does when they’re shattered by trauma on a death-march vendetta, duh. So she’s the hard/soft, big/small, out/in, hero/villain, girl/boy character. What’s not to like? She both has no story arc and nothing to learn, AND is wandering around AS IF she has a story arc and her actions mean something because she has something to learn. And of course everyone’s favorite:
Because who doesn’t want to see gay sex? 99% of the population, I’d think.
“This show is not for you”. Sold!
May 10, 2025 at 12:39 pm #187778Dr. D
ParticipantAspnaz, I think everyone has arc’ed into that conclusion, including myself. Must be astrology or something. Thank God.
Compare with this TV thing: 2019, everyone…just went insane. No reason. Look back, you’re like “Wow, psychotic break” So we only have to go back a year or two to be “Normal” again? Okay, that sounds easy. And we become “Normal” by logging off?
What a timesave! Shut up and take my money!
May 10, 2025 at 12:52 pm #187779zerosum
ParticipantControl – Complexities characterizes the behavior of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules
Projection/forecast requires accurate data points.
————–Trump’s tariff salvo last month has disrupted supply chains, unsettled financial markets and stoked fears of a sharp downturn in global growth.
Traditional approach of working out the details first before the leaders sign any deal
• Hyperbole, Lies, and Delusions (Richard Porter)
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The celebrations in Moscow, including the military parade on Red Square, were attended by upwards of 30 foreign leaders.On Friday, during his speech at the annual military parade in Moscow, Putin stressed that Russia remembers the lessons of World War II and “will never accept the distortion of its events.”
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You must also imagine that in his 100-plus days as Interim US Attorney for DC, Mr. Martin assembled quite a portfolio of evidence around the manifold blob wrong-doings of the past decade, but especially the treachery of the J-6 / 2021 blob operation at the US Capitol, and the ensuing cover-up of all that, including the intel community’s role in it, the perfidy and perjuries of Chris Wray, Merrick Garland, Nancy Pelosi and others, and the gong show of lies and villainy that was the House J-6 committee chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), (with remedial support from Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Jamie Raskin, and, backstage as always, lawfare ninjas Norm Eisen, Mary McCord, Marc Elias, Ben Wittes, and Andrew Weissmann).• Going Around. . . Coming Back Around (James Howard Kunstler)
In theory, Mr. Trump can appoint a new Interim US Attorney every 120 days, and keep rotating them until the cows come home — each successive one with the same support staff of assistant US attorneys underneath, the same cases ongoing, and the same trove of evidence catalogued.
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30-Day Ceasefire?
Russians Push Forward, Prep ‘Oreshnik’Strike
Military Summary For 2025.05.10
———-May 10, 2025 at 1:00 pm #187780May 10, 2025 at 1:01 pm #187781Michael Reid
ParticipantMay 10, 2025 at 1:37 pm #187782Michael Reid
ParticipantThe Georgia Guidestones,
a granite monument near Elberton, Georgia,
featured a set of ten guidelines
inscribed in eight modern languages and four ancient ones.The text in English, which is one of the modern languages, reads as follows:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
2. Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally, resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
10. Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.They are working on 1.
May 10, 2025 at 1:42 pm #187783Tree Frog
ParticipantJust about every day I read TEA.
Just about every day I read TEA I read Dr. D – not always all, but always much – because he’s taught me to think more broadly and more critically than I had. Look that gift horse in the mouth! Is it a horse? Is it a mouth? Could be the butt end of an aged trollop – or not! Think about it.
May 10, 2025 at 2:03 pm #187784Topcat
ParticipantTAE comment section
It’s like Charlie & Marylin’s love child
Have some sympathy
May 10, 2025 at 2:04 pm #187785Topcat
ParticipantMay 10, 2025 at 3:06 pm #187787my parents said know
ParticipantPope Joan II?
May 10, 2025 at 4:26 pm #187788zerosum
Participanthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
Trump derangement syndrome (TDS) is a pejorative term used to describe negative reactions to US President Donald Trump that are perceived to be irrational and to have little regard for Trump’s actual policy positions.[1]
The term has mainly been used by Trump supporters to discredit criticism of him, as a way of reframing the discussion by suggesting that his opponents are incapable of accurately perceiving the world.[2][3] Some journalists have used the term to call for restraint when judging Trump’s statements and actions.[4][5][6]
The term has also come to be used to describe the nature of Trump supporters in their unwavering support of the president.[7][8][9]According to The Independent, “the highly-politicized term” was coined to dismiss criticism of Trump in his first term as liberal hysteria, suggesting that people abandon all logic and reason due to their dislike of the president.[15]
Fareed Zakaria defined the term as “hatred of President Trump so intense that it impairs people’s judgment”.[4][16]
In July 2018, Jeanine Pirro was a guest on The View to promote her newly published book. While she was responding to a question about how the “deep state” really works, she accused co-host Whoopi Goldberg of suffering from Trump derangement syndrome.[35]
May 10, 2025 at 4:34 pm #187789Topcat
ParticipantKilling Democracy To Save ‘Democracy’
“Britain started arresting people for tweeting unapproved things, and France decided to arrest its leading opposition politician, so what happened in Germany was not a surprise.After all, Germans are the best at fascism.”
The Germans are actively proud of their speech suppression, proving once and for all that Morgenthau was right.
The Germans are de-industrializing just fine. Give them a little more rope and they will indeed hang themselves

The Morgenthau Plan was a proposal to weaken Germany following World War II by eliminating its arms industry and removing or destroying other key industries basic to military strength. This included the removal or destruction of all industrial plants and equipment in the Ruhr. It was first proposed by United States Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. in a 1944 memorandum entitled Suggested Post-Surrender Program for Germany
“Oh the Humanity!”
The many faces of “fascism”
May 10, 2025 at 5:31 pm #187795tboc
Participantplease forgive my inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires, i could not resist
“it rhymes” Twain
it is understandable that most have not read about the casino like atmosphere around the stock market during the 1920’s, our attention has been drawn to FDR and The New Deal. The sense of euphoria and the idea the market could only go up was to be blunt, every bit as addicting as opium on the streets of The United States. The dust of The Dustbowl obscured the reality that margin driven excesses of the years that led up to the Great Depression were a national moral failing. This of course hides the fact that the dustbowl itself was due to a total feeling of irreverance toward the land and indifference to the natural system that had created the topsoil soon be meet oblivion. The Steinbeck’s and Guthries are no more. I can understand that all of these things are less than a passing fancy to most.
The era of The Dot Com is not as distant as the year 1929 yet there appears to be an equal disinterest in emotional and intellectual realities of the time. A similiar set of circumstances that did indeed rhyme with the earlier epoch.
The international pandemic shenanagins have been cleverly instigated to hide the lingering realities of the Sub-Prime rape of all discipline, honor and justice. We are lying to ourselves and we know we are lying to ourselves about the economy that has emerged from the public financing and rewarding of that very rape of society.
Does anyone even look at the level of debt being carried by households today? Just how would the average 150 thousand a year family invest in the stock market considering the obligations they carry? On the margin of course on the margin. This fictional family would then be competing with international investment as The U.S economy is being sold as The Safe Haven. Pick the name of your favorite fund or hedge fund and ask what limits to ensure sound judgement would be in place. What mechanism is to be inplace to bring discovery into the process? Would not a bubble be the only possible outcome based on a century of experience?
“Let me tell you this. This country will be like a rocket ship that goes straight up. This is going to be numbers that nobody’s ever seen before.”
uttering that phrase to human beings who have placed their hope, their faith, and their trust in you is the greatest betrayal and proof of amorality to date. it is the 20’s after all, only 4 years till October 2029
May 10, 2025 at 5:53 pm #187796Dr D Rich
Participant“Trump is fed up with Netanyahu”
((((War with Iran and final dissolution of The Palestinians must be soon to follow such a lame, insincere, useless disclosure that benefits whom???)))I like the word ‘credulousness’ because it takes so long say and sounds opposite of what it means.
Edentulous is good too. When I hear the word ‘edentulous’ miker and dbs come to mind since D lost his way.“D doesn’t lie” but a couple folk here claim to deduce his tea leaves and chicken bones.
Shit, the performative art is getting chin deep today. Carry on….
May 10, 2025 at 6:11 pm #187797jb-hb
ParticipantOnce I realized that the Wokeists (socialists, marxists, neo-marxists, communists, whatever you want) are waiting on the edge of their seat to meatsuit the Palestinian issue with hundreds of billions of dollars backing them, I said fine, it’s yours. Take it.
But I will not lend a calorie of my effort to your meatsuit. And your cockblock of actual peace efforts is on YOUR heads. YOU thought it was better to “capture the energy” and make the answer MOAR socialism, moar intersectionalism, critical theory, etc. Instead of actual, real things that matter.
I’ll wait until they disavow and put humanitarian concerns as top priority or until they are removed as a major force in the public sphere. In the meantime there will be crocodile tears, pearl-clutching, hand-wringing, nagging, browbeating from the very people cynically leveraging the suffering of others for something else.
What was it socialists were totally retardedly saying about insurance “profiting about the suffering of others”? EVERY TIME, socialists do EXACTLY THAT. “Leverage” issues for moar socialism and make problems WORSE for socialism, not fixing things, not helping. Is a century and a half of making things WORSE for the working class, treating the working class as stupid dumb animal deplorable patsys, rubes, useful idiots who ought to “rise up” against their best interests, is that too long of PROFITING OFF THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS, socialists?
Maybe like medieval monks making a vow of chastity, you could make a vow of HANDS OFF (you like Hands Off, right?) and just stay fucking SILENT on Gaza, stop with the paid agitators etc, just let people with an actual conscience decide things? Just this one time, this one thing, for decency’s sake?
May 10, 2025 at 6:42 pm #187798those darned kids
Participant“Trump now knows his limits, and he knows what he can—and must—do. That is true humility.”
what utter crap. mr trump is a baby murderer.
May 10, 2025 at 6:46 pm #187799jb-hb
ParticipantBut you’re pArT oF a sYsTeM, so you’re a baby murderer too, after all, Collective Guilt. You benefit from The System. Ergo Complicit. Ergo murderer, murderer.
May 10, 2025 at 6:56 pm #187800jb-hb
ParticipantYou made clear yesterday anybody who eats a banana is guilty of overthrowing countries and causing the suffering and injustice towards millions. If eating a banana does THAT… I mean, it’s no big deal, I’m just CURIOUS…
Since you KNOW you are part of a system and therefore benefit and are therefore complicit and are therefore guilty of baby murdering, I’m just wondering if you’ve turned yourself over to the authorities yet.
And if the authorities expressed incomprehension, what have you done personally to see that justice is done? Have you imprisoned yourself for 20-25 years or perhaps opted for the death penalty? …because you seem to be posting to the internet and jail cells and the afterlife don’t have internet access to my knowledge.
May 10, 2025 at 7:03 pm #187801Michael Reid
ParticipantMay 10, 2025 at 7:04 pm #187802those darned kids
Participantdenser than a white dwarf..
i never said, “collective guilt” and blah, blah.
i don’t speak in clichés.
i made a comment obliquely remarking that all of us do benefit from the horrors of empire.
may i recommend reading the works of mr vonnegut.
May 10, 2025 at 8:23 pm #187804jb-hb
ParticipantThis is one of those Critical Theory things – every interaction has an oppressor and a victim.
To find the oppressor, discover who benefits. That is the one who has Privilege and should be oppressed to Make It Fair.
Decades of pounding in The Message means that someone can practically say “I call a #3!” and assume the other party must accept all of the givens underlying it.
all of us do benefit from the horrors of empire
You just argued Collective Guilt again while going “Ho-HO I never said it. I never SAID…”
Yes exactly, you are being oblique.
And you’re discussing with someone who owns every book by Vonnegut and has read them all multiple times. Sirens of Titan is my favorite. Fates Worse Than Death is underappreciated. My taste for Vonnegut is predictable, actually – in line with my Atheism towards Christianity, Socialism, and all other mystical superstitions.
I had an accounting class in which the teacher recounted a difficulty he had with a boss. Boss kept giving him bad reviews based on the balance sheet for his department.
He had tried earnestly to meet expectations, but eventually realized that most of the things on the report were not under his control.
In exasperation, in a 1 on 1 during another berating, negative review, he said, ok, I’ll make changes right now, let’s discuss them together. Crossed his salary out on the balance sheet, wrote in double the number – “No, you can’ do that!” Okay, so that isn’t a cost I control. Crosses it out.
Goes down the list suggesting reasonable, useful alterations to each line item – no, no, no, no, no. As he hears “no” he crosses them out. Does the math really quick and presents him with a new performance report based on just the things he can control. Basically nothing, but what’s left doesn’t deserve a negative review. Manager lost his shit, of course. Called it insubordinate. The old go-to.
If you made a distinction between The Blob and normal, decent Americans, that would be a totally different thing.
I’ve considered this invitation to feel-along-with, to tear my hair, wear sackcloth and ashes, experience demoralization regarding my nation, culture, civilization, and with QUITE a lot of thought, consideration, knowledge, I am declining the invitation. You can feel it by and for yourself. Own it.
May 10, 2025 at 8:23 pm #187805zerosum
ParticipantRussia has repeatedly said that introducing a prolonged ceasefire depends on establishing mechanisms to monitor and uphold such a move.
I got an idea for a mechanism to determine who shoot first that will eliminate unproven accusations (lies)
At less two spy drone recording and feeding the info to an accepted platform.May 10, 2025 at 8:44 pm #187806those darned kids
Participantawesome, you write 37 words for each one i do.
everything you imagine about me is completely wrong.
your understanding of my beliefs is limited by your own suppositions.
i have to resist pulling you along as it’s karmically dangerous..
May 10, 2025 at 8:51 pm #187807jb-hb
Participantall of us do benefit from the horrors of empire
i never said, “collective guilt”
I’ll allow that it’s possible you’re so broken it’s like the water you swim in, the air you breathe, and you cannot see it, as opposed to it being something you are cynically doing. In which case, I’m trying to help you.
May 10, 2025 at 9:08 pm #187808jb-hb
ParticipantDecades of pounding in The Message means that someone can practically say “I call a #3!” and assume the other party must accept all of the givens underlying it.
fast, Robin, use the QuickAmnesia™
you write 37 words for each one i do.
Knowing you were going to say this, I explained it 3-4 times in the past couple days before you did it.
I’m just not willing to accept the underlying givens, axioms, Boomer Truths on which Winning Quips™ are based. You get to reference pages of implicit message and be as oblique as you want and then I get to unpack it.
I don’t know how you win by being oblique – but ok, I’m not arguing with you after all — I’m not missing the mark as far as the point I mean to make unless you go to the trouble to make an argument. So your post made me think of something that interested me – thanks then – uncontested, if I understand that we’re not actually having an argument, right? I argued, made my point, right past you.
Because
everything you imagine about me is completely wrong.
And we both like Vonnegut. Want to dissavow the idea that I’m complicit in the sins of Empire, or what?
May 10, 2025 at 10:14 pm #187809WES
ParticipantDr. D:
I see that some folks just can’t quite catch onto the nuisance of Americans hanging their dirty laundry out for everyone to see.
This Canadian does, so please carry on as before!Trump:
I have noticed a certain pattern of operation, by President Trump, concerning the other 3 legs of the US government, Congress, courts, and Deep State, which he has little to no control over.
Since he can’t stop them, he let’s them run wild the way they want, moar war, for example.
This applies to Ukraine, Israel, Yemen, and Iran.Trump knnows they will run like a herd, and herds tend to think stupid, after running for a while.
Their short sightedness them become glaringly obvious to most observers.While the herd runs wild, Trump then quietly tries to change the background, so the herd looks increasingly out of touch with the situation.
So when Trumpm finally applies the choke chain, stupidity has already lead the herd to jump off the cliff, to their deserved Willie E. Coyote moment.
By then ev,eryone can plainly see the stupidity of the herd.Deep State and Israeli herd stupidity demanded moar war in the Middle East, so Trump let them bomb Yemen like never before.
It didn’t work this time, just as Trump knew it wouldn’t!
Now Trump can say to these herd stupids, see I did exactly what you wanted to do, and it failed miserably, and everyone knows you failed, and you own it 100%, so shut up!Trump is simply letting the herd stupids, publically embarrasse themselves, by failng, so everyone can see their way is totally lacks common sense.
Sadly failure is the only way to stop herd stupidity.
Sometimes stupidity fails quickly, like Yemen, but Ukraine stupidity is taking much longer to play itself out, and fail.
But fail it will.Bombing Iran herd stupidity, played out beautifully live on TV, by Trump, with Mr. Bomb Iran squirming in his seat, as Trump sprung the trap!
What a nice way to set Bibi’s bounderies!May 10, 2025 at 10:23 pm #187810those darned kids
Participantanyhoo,
prep act still in effect..
May 10, 2025 at 10:38 pm #187811zerosum
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Putin to deliver major address after Victory Day diplomatic marathon Midnight Moscow Sat. SuMay 10, 2025 at 10:50 pm #187812Michael Reid
Participant@those darned kids,
try to think positive,
I am having difficulty.
Probably because we are not evil unlike everything seems to be.@ wes,
I hope you are right
I am loosing hope in trump and his gang.
Hopefully they will transform into American patriots before it is too late.May 10, 2025 at 11:04 pm #187813those darned kids
Participanthi, michael reid.
oh, i’m positive in my personal life. you should see the garden!
i just come here to vent about the psychopaths.
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how can you have hope in mr trump – he proved he was evil in his first term.
he should be on monster island, not in a luxury house in washington.
May 10, 2025 at 11:15 pm #187815Michael Reid
ParticipantA final destination of Moonraker is disgusting.
Is the COVID19 destination any better?
We might get past the Georgia Guidestones step 1 with the injections, the damage done, they are dropping like flies here
May 11, 2025 at 12:20 am #187816Michael Reid
Participant@ tdk,
life without hope is not nice.you are closer, what is to be done.
May 11, 2025 at 12:38 am #187817those darned kids
Participanti believe every human must learn to be his or her own government.
government must start in the heart and work outward from there.
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