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Tariffs & Crashing the Stock Market By Design
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Getting a lot of press today, that the Good Emperor Trump has put a 90 day hiatus on Tariffs, this the media is framing variously as "He's come to his senses" or "he's made his point", etc, etc.
Naturally, in this time of Global Uncertainty, all induced by a certain orange melon, following this announcement the markets rebounded. And a certain Bluesky user by the name of "Unusual Whales" noted that margins trading begun before the announcement, with some users seeing 2100% gains in a matter of a couple of hours.
Now given the downward trending of the market, due in no doubt to Trumps unpredictable tariffs and changing his mind; and looking at how this volatility is benefitting his cronies, it seems fair to say that all this is by design. This collapsing of the markets and global uncertainty is being done to benefit those closest to him in the administration, via offshore and shell accounts.
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/unusualwhales.bsky.social
What is remarkable is how few of the new agencies are willing to confront this, although - as well by design, he keeps them busy with sooooo many other things, like illegal deportations, arrests, gutting infrastructure, etc.
This does recall that bit in Brexit where Nigel Farage shorted the British Pound, in effect betraying the entire nation and lying to them about the benefits of Brexit so that he could profit from it. (
Many of the same tactics were on display, the Xenophobia, bring the jobs home, etc. And while Britain has to some extent recovered from this, and never prosecuted Farage, I doubt very much the USA will ever recover from Trump
USA. The new Hungary, Old Romania.
A book by it's cover
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So for a laugh I tried to read the last book I posted ... I couldn't make it past 50 pages. I mean, this guy, he could give out his own "Bulwer-Lytton" prize. And I don't know what this prestigious literary award is about, presumably everyone who can write a book receives at least 3...
Anyhow, here's a fair sampling of his prose:
"A west bound train approaching the bridge on the other side began howling like a wolf looking for a bitch in heat. Its black metal sides had just been washed by hostlers in the C.P.R. Roundhouse at Nelson and it had a sleek, sweaty shimmer as it led a small following of faithful cars. Large drive rods jerked swiftly up, down and around, masturbating clouds of steam and white smoke to seed the sky. As it came onto the bridge the noise was deafening and the belching smoke tangled in steel bridge girders. The engine drove swiftly past, vibrating the earth's foundation and rumbling the span violently. High above them the engineer waved and blew the whistle shrilly, orgiastically."
I want you to know I embellished nothing.
Or this, when he's mudding out his mine:
"The muddy mixture went clattering down the slope and lay on the white surface like excrement from a dinosaur with diarrhea"
From here we get to the love scenes...and I won't do that you. I couldn't do it to myself.
Anyways, a fair sample, I scanned ahead in it, my god what drivel!! I can't finish it.
Trading Cards
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Not my thing, but a couple of diverging articles on the net the past week have somewhat amused me.
The first, a small town in Japan has made trading cards out of the middle aged men that live there, highlighting their roles in the community and volunteer efforts. This, in an effort to connect the generations, apparently it's proven highly successful and made celebrities of the men profiled.
Link: https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/middle-aged-man-trading-cards-go-viral-in-japan/
The second, I'm presuming, is an American who's created a 54 card deck entitled "Enemies of Democracy", by Todd Alcott, a sanguine look at American Politics...
Link: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHy-T35ySq4/?img_index=2
Different nations, different cultural values and priorities...
The Glory Hole - Wallace Pond
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Found this in the thrift shop the other day and had to share:
They say "don't judge a book by it's cover" but in this instance the title was enough. Imagine how pleased I was to flip it and find out it was a local historical novel?!
It's actually signed inside by the author, whom Google could tell me nothing about (a search found a similar book by a different author, found the same book but ascribed a different author to it, so...?? How does this even happen nowadays?)
Anyways, if the title and blurb on the back didn't tell me all I need to know, to go farther down this road would be cruel.
Fun, but cruel. I might give it a read but I doubt I'll be reviewing it anytime soon...
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