"I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now." Early retiree. JD, CFA, CFP. Now hoping to find some path to permanent residency (not citizenship) outside the U.S. I am done with this country; it can fall into the pit. Ich kann Deutsch. 🏳️🌈
I've said it for a while now: The rehabilitation of Trump's legacy (not in 2029, but around 2059) will be precisely this: He was a well-intentioned former genius who became addled by age & dementia and was manipulated & exploited by the "real" villains (Miller, Vought, techno-billionaires etc.).
Aaron Ruparthis is elder abuse
--Railroads / AI --Rothschilds / Techno-Billionaires --Franco-Prussian War / Ukraine --Dysfunctional Austria & Ottoman Empires / Dysfunctional U.S. & UK & Germany --Bismarck / Trump --Panic of 1873 / Panic of Sooner or Even Sooner than That talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ai-an...
AI and Bubbles All the Way DownLike many others, I continue to be baffled and unnerved at how...talkingpointsmemo.comThis is Michigan ... Michigan! ... and they can't (or can't bother to) find a single token black to pay to sit in the peanut gallery like they usually do.
Aaron RuparTrump: "No transgender surgery and the mutilization of your children. They mutilize your children. So ladies and gentlemen of Michigan, the golden age of American is upon us. We're in the golden age."
Biden has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the fact that Harris is a poor politician and the worst possible option for 2028. She has no particular expertise in...anything, her eloquence is mediocre, she has no deep roots in the Senate, she doesn't deliver a swing state. It's utterly farcical.
It's not market manipulation, it's never been market manipulation. Don't you dare suggest it's market manipulation! (And no doubt the TACO tariff announcement will soon hit at the proper, strictly coincidental moment...) www.npr.org/2026/07/26/g...
U.S. pauses attacks on Iran for a second straight day and Tehran does tooThe United States paused attacks on Iran for a second straight day Sunday and Tehran said it had done so too, as efforts continued to bring the countries back to negotiations on an interim ceasefire.www.npr.orgOne more time: Do NOT tell me that I must try to find "common ground" with cretinous shitz who would gladly kill me if they they thought they could get away with it (and then, after, brag that they were doing God's work, or making America great again, or whatever). www.dw.com/en/berlin-cs...
Berlin: 1 dead after vehicle drives into CSD Pride eventPolice said around 15 people were injured, some seriously, and a manhunt was underway after a vehicle struck several people in central Berlin during Pride celebrations, known locally as Christopher St...www.dw.comThey surely picked the right partner, since the FANS... will GO... away. (Get it? 🦗) (And no mention of B2 or the Pokal...) www.dw.com/en/new-bunde...
New Bundesliga TV deal in US prioritizes reach over moneyThe Bundesliga has a new home on American screens after Germany's top football league left ESPN. The new deal is a sign of the times.www.dw.comJens Spahn is such a total asshole, it's amazing he was never elected governor of Texas or senator from Florida. (You realize that if the scandal had happened in the U.S., it surely would have been called "SURROW-GAIT." Get it? "Surrow-gate..."? 🦗) www.bbc.com/news/article...
German politician resigns over surrogacy child controversyJens Spahn faced criticism over his use of a surrogate, a ban on which he previously backed.www.bbc.com