A real mongoose vs. creaky cobra moment.

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Most of the world is entirely unprepared for what's coming.

A Quick Note on the AI Bubble Is the market wrong or is arithmetic wrong?

China's leading AI companies sell their AI for less than one-fifth the price of leading U.S. companies. That would seem to be a problem deanbaker22.substack.com/p/a-quick-no...

The adults under Obama spent 20 months carefully negotiating and crafting the Iran deal.

Trump, who has the attention span of a 3 year old, has his VP and son-in-law work one long day on it, and then gets mad that it can’t be fixed quickly.

JD Vance, a disturbed idiot, trying to negotiate with Iran while Trump is at home screaming crazy things about Iran is a great example of how utterly demented American politics have become.

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And probably viewed with suspicion for awhile after that.

MAGAs don't realize that this hurts everyone.

For every American rube who ever argued that instead of statesmen, we should allow a businessman from outside the political sphere to helm our government, here is the internet posting that should make you shut the fuck up and bathe alone in your submoronic ignorance until you wrinkle and die.

Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews · 37m For the same reason. Quote Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski · 3h I understand that Viktor Orban clinging to power in Hungary is so important to Putin that he is doing everything possible to tamper in Hungary’s election, but why is it so important to Trump and Vance? Over an announcement that JD Vance is going to Hungary to support Orban.

Have Trump's tariffs worked? This is where things stand a year after 'Liberation Day' It has been a year since President Trump announced double-digit tariffs on imports from around the world. So far, those levies have not produced the economic boom the president promised.

1-year Anniversary of Liberation Day:

-US foreign direct investment is lower
-US factories employ 89,000 fewer people
-US goods trade deficit is UP 2%
-Treasury collected billions but must return it
-Inflation elevated.
-Every court + SCOTUS found them unconstitutional

www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

Lesson from the Iran War #42,765: Making Enemies Makes Us Poorer Trump is costing us big bucks and doesn't even seem to know it

Trump's war in Iran is costing us far more than all the budget items we have big fights over, like the Obamacare subsidies or funding for childcare deanbaker22.substack.com/p/lesson-fro...

Iran War fiasco kinda reminds me of the failed attempt at Obamacare repeal in that the GOP got the chance to do something that has been on its wishlist for years and it turns out there is no plan, never was a plan, and there is no mechanism in place to formulate and implement a plan.

Martinsville VA.

The world had a plan: don't attack Iran in a way that they feel existentially threatened. One can argue over the merits of that plan, but the US/Israel upended it. Expecting "the world" to take the lead looks more like blame shifting than anything.

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Tom Joseph @TomJChicago · 6h It’s a good bet that the Iran war plans Trump stole at the end of his first term and then sold, ended up in Iranian hands.

Oh yikes, I hadn't even thought of this. I'm guessing Trump didn't either.

Real Christianity is kryptonite to Jesus Freaks.

I live in Appalachia and a young hillbilly told me his grandpapy told him they make a whistle out of it . He called it a Coon prick whistle dick. This was maybe 15 years ago. No lie.

I live in Appalachia and a young hillbilly told me his grandpa told him they make a whistle out of it . He called it a Coon prick whistle dick. That’s what he told me.

Your reminder that John Cena holds the record for granting the most wishes for the Make-a-Wish Foundation by a considerable margin.

Considered? It is.

The Incredible Story of the Cartel Olympics A Mexican athlete said he was kidnapped and forced to compete for his life in a tournament of gangs. But was he actually playing a different game?

This strange story is well worth your time. Have a coffee and sit down with it
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Wife just told me this one:

What’s the difference between Iran and Vietnam?

Trump had a plan to get out of Vietnam.

The Golden Age.

Balloon Juice - Running In Red: A New Series Note from TaMara: A month or so ago (time has no meaning any longer) MazeDancer commented about her niece running for office in a very red district. I said, “hey, what I can I do to help? ” A few emai...

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i think what happened is that Emma was being beaten up by the others and they have a fight or flight response and when she couldn’t get away she started biting.

Bummer. We had a dog that became aggressive. What they say to do if they are fighting, if you have two people, each person grab a dog by the back legs and remove a dog. If you are by yourself tie up one dog with a leash or something and wheelbarrow the other dog away.

Just keep thinking about how the media was totally on board with the buck stopping with Joe Biden when it came to the execution of the Afghanistan withdrawal.