September 2024

Both Sides Are Bad

That’s a nicer than saying they’re both stupid.

After bailing on Trump’s interview with Sharyl Atkisson after hearing again, nothing worthwhile, I stumbled across Neil Cavuto interviewed Mark Cuban about his support for Kamala

They had a back-and-forth about Trump’s bad monetary policy…..without any mention of how really bad Biden/Harris have been.
Both candidate are relying upon just ungodly amounts of circulating money. Nobody ever expects that the spigot will ever close.

But it will. It has to. The maths don’t work otherwise.

Trump came out either yesterday or the day before with a proposal to limit credit card interest rates to 10%. Much like his pitches for no taxes on tips, and Social Security Income sounds good at initial listening, but they don’t fix anything.

Stop taxing tips? The deficit in Social Security gets worse; the “trust fund.” (That doesn’t exist because no politician has been willing to raise the retirement age even though life expectancy is now probably close to twenty years more than it was they bumped it the last time…) Social Security Retirement is out of money, and there’ll be mandatory cuts very soon, now. Taking off contributions on tips.

Meanwhile, nobody is willing to actually reduce spending, raise taxes, and raise interest rates.

No, NeoHips, the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!!1! didn’t have a damned thing to do with every single TSA agent being a Federal employee.

But Kamala, and Alsobrooks are going to make sure grocers don’t soak consumers in pursuit of their 1% margins.

Nobody has a plan. That’s worse than it’s ever been.

Digging For Topics

It’s a Wednesday night, and I’m trying to figure out what I’d like to write about in November.

I should be figuring out what to do with lining up various medical appointments. Or fixing this NetBSD host. Or…

I did try to watch another interview with Trump, and failed to get through it.

I was very interested in this today. All sorts of interesting implications regarding law. The treaties, including Trump’s NAFTA replacement, all rely on Mexico having an independent judiciary. The changes being made right now really call that into question. Do the treaties still apply if the other country isn’t keeping up its end of the bargain?

It also speaks to treaties with the former USSR. Do they matter?

I’ve come to think, lately, that there needs to be more temporality to basically every single law/treaty/regulation.

Hmm.

Don’t Push Me

Because I’m close to the edge.

Of the weekend.

So many more things happened this week that I’m just letting slide by.

In the WTF Substack group, saw a link to this.

There’s interesting parallels with what’s happened recently in the LP.

In fact, there’s even some of the same participants.

Reason’s hit before “the takeover” is still very accurate.

Still keep having Johnny Sunshine by Liz Phair floating through my scarred brain.

You left me nothing

Oh well.

Less busy week ahead, I think. We’ll see. Maybe I’ll have some time to write.

I do need to corral some topics for November.

Another Saturday

I’m bothered this morning by people for whom love for Officer Harris has become the new faith.

That’s almost as bad as the people praying outside abortion clinics.

Ofc. Harris will fix it all

—– *OMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM* —–

Excuse my skepticism.

But there is a pang of sympathy to Rex Kramer in the video, there.

I don’t want your promo for the Party of the Klan. Really. You’ve done nothing to convince me.

Other stuff….

Different frustrations with work. I don’t even know what to say at this point.

I kind of would like to go see this. I don’t know if I can juggle the schedule enough to make it happen. Kind of a significant event the day before. Lots of stuff with work around that time. Then PCP appointment the next week.

Starting Sunday

The NFL came back on Thursday night. Very good game, and my strategy for my primary fantasy team worked very well.

I actually, kind of by accident, ended up drafting bth Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes.

The latter ended up getting traded for a couple of wide receivers who may provide good numbers for the year.

The Ravens-Chiefs game Thursday night was very good. I wrote last time about the situation with the game in Brazil.

I’d considered scribbling down the names of the companies that supported the debacle, but why? I don;’t care about either of the teams, and, probably most of the companies advertising aren’t things I’d typically buy, anyway.

Still, if you think what’s going on in Brazil is a good thing, or any of the stuff they’re doing, I really don’t want anything to do with you.

If you’re a politician who speaks out in favor of ~~penalizing~~ ~~jailing~~ murdering people who disagree with you, there is absolutely zero chance I’ll ever vote for you.

Sorry, Officer Harris.

Sorry WLAF Commissioner Walt.

So. What’s on tap for the week?

Probably a ton of work. No medical stuff, thankfully, though things start again in earnest next week.

~~Com~~Xfinity has an AI app I can use. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to make it work for Fantasy Football.