10 April, 2025

One for the money, two for the refund, three for the price-cuts, now go cat go! I can finally afford some blue suede shoes!

Helicopter Splits in Half and Crashes into the Hudson River, Killing All Six Aboard
April 10, 2025

□ [“'This Is a Great Time to Buy' – Trump’s Truth Social Post Was Solid Advice, Not Insider Trading"]

But Democrats are looking to investigate that anyway.  This just looks like an obvious trap, DOGE has gone through the IRS to see how many members of Congress and their relatives are getting rich off this stuff.  Just last year, Mr. Nancy Pelosi made a lot of money selling stock for a company that was going to be investigated by the DoJ and Democrats are suddenly saying that's illegal *now*?

The Pelosis are the most obvious suspects - why was their rich house in a private neighborhood so easy for an obese idiot to break into in the middle of the night? - but the rest of Congress will have the same problems.  They're all being watched, especially now as the stock market bounces up and down.  They probably don't have any overarching plan, everyone is just going for the best advice they can get from their respective connections.

It's said that prices are going down and hopefully that's true, but it's only being reported by the government.  There's no reason to believe them just because of Trump.  But I would otherwise assume that the economy is going to continue breaking down.  I'd like to think it will just be the leftist illusions that are falling away, but we can't assume that's the case.

American Airlines Plane Clips Plane Carrying Several Members of Congress at Reagan Airport
April 10, 2025

□ [“DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud"]

It's really just one finding with a few details.  Since 2020, Unemployment Insurance claims have provide $382 million in benefits to 24,500 people over 115 years old, 28,000 people under age 5 and 9,700 people with birth dates over 15 years in the future.  We'll have to see if there's just a lot of hustlers trying this scheme or if it's a larger group funneling money.  I'm guessing the latter but the former is certainly a possibility.

I might be wrong but I don't think we've any similar claims about Social Security being abused.  We know Democrats are very worried about that and we've definitely heard rumors of this sort of fraud.  This would provide more evidence of an overall conspiracy, although it's still an open question whether Democrats were doing it to get themselves more money or if they just knew that this sort of thing would happen and it's some other group doing the actual fraud.

But liberals are unanimously opposed to even looking into this.  They would rather protect those who steal taxpayer money than the taxpayer himself.  It's also quite possible this money goes to illegal immigrants, as a way to make sure they vote Democrat.  It would be really nice if someone starts getting arrested for doing this but that hasn't happened so far.

Trump EO Reviews Pentagon’s Weapons Acquisition – Any Project 15% Over Budget or Behind Schedule Faces Cancellation
March 10, 2025

□ [“Anderson Cooper Humiliated On-Air for Misgendering Civil Rights Attorney"]

It's an interview on CNN with Bernie Sanders.  A woman has a question, Cooper introduces her as the "civil rights attorney."  She corrects him with her actual pronouns, he complies with "ok," and then she goes on to ask why men are abandoning the Democratic Party.  She singles out a gender and doesn't even ask for consent, how oppressive can you be?

The response seems to be that Democrats need to keep doing this.  The analogy is that Trump just needs to pick issues divided by 80-20, and go with the side that's 80%.  Democrats will *always* pick the opposing side, guaranteeing they remain in the vast minority for the foreseeable future.  The set-up of this question was the point, so I haven't found what Bernie's answer was, but he may be one of the few people who see this as a problem.

Then again, Bernie also saw Cooper's immediate compliance, so he's probably used to that too.  It's not like he's going to defend Cooper who had no clue what pronouns this chick was demanding.  There's just basic simplicity, if you aren't wearing a T-shirt that says what genders you demand to be, nobody else is under any obligation to use those specific genders for you.  If you aren't willing to do the work, neither is anybody else.

I'm sure this event won't be relevant, but there's a regular stream of events like this which show how the left is completely missing the point, in ways that's obvious to everybody who isn't leftist.  The question was why men are leaving the Democratic Party and the answer is right there, because it demands things like this.  The closest they have to men are Cooper and Bernie which won't work at all.

Female U.S. Space Force Base Commander in Greenland Undermined Trump in Email to Troops After V.P. Vance Visit
April 10, 2025

□ [“House Passes Trump-Backed Budget Resolution 216-214 – Two Republicans Voted 'No'"]

Hard as it may be to believe, Congress is trying to do something.  Or at least the House.  This is about simplifying things, spending less money and making at least some of the DOGE cuts permanent.  The House has also passed a bill - only one Republican voted 'no' - to reign in activist judges.  There's also a House bill underway to stop Chinese-owned businesses from operating on military bases.

Now we'll see what the Senate does.  In theory, these bills should pass the same way.  The former as a step to lower the waste of money, that's fine, but the latter will actually be in place to limit the judges trying to go after Trump.  If it passes the Senate, that's two branches of the government uniting on a decision, so the Supreme Court will have little leeway to shoot it down, especially given the help of their other verdicts this week.  So how can the Senate screw this up?

Technically the Senate is supposed to be more thoughtful than the House, that's why their terms are so much longer.  It's also why they used to be appointed by state governors, not a practice I want to get back to although I wouldn't fight that hard to stop it if everyone else wants that.  Something about the Senate also seems to be more like a cult, which is probably why so many of them think they can be POTUS or at least Veep.

Vance was in the Senate, as was Biden, Harris, Obama, McCain, Hillary, Kerry, Gore, and that's just the competitors from this century.  Mitt Romney was also in the Senate but after his POTUS run.  There's the point that most of these contenders lost, but there's still the question, why are Senator the ones doing this, not Congressmen or Governors?  I think it has to do with the institution itself, so it's not all that reliable, but we'll see how it goes.

Chinese Yuan Falls to Lowest Level Since 2007 After Trump Tariffs Kicked In
April 10, 2025

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