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This is Trump's America now!
-- Patrick Egan/2025 MAWA

The world is not linear.
-- Dr. McElhone/1974

Instead of taxing our citizens to enrich other countries, we will tariff and tax foreign countries to enrich our citizens. It will be massive amounts of money pouring into our Treasury coming from foreign sources.
-- Batshit J. Moron/2025 [then show us just one wire transfer from Beijing or Mexico City]

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.
-- Verbal Kint/1995

I don't know if the bird flu will become a pandemic, but if it does, we are screwed.
-- Angela Rasmussen/2024 [Bonzai!!>
The United States has recorded its first fatal case of H5N1 bird flu...
-- Helen Branswell/2025 [bring out your dead]

The DOGE personnel wanted to gain access to USAID security systems and personnel files. ... DOGE personnel wanted access to classified information, which only those with security clearances and a specific need to know are able to access.
-- Jennifer Hansler, et al/2025 [the Stasi are here; you can thank the Gang of Six]

As mass production has to be accompanied by mass consumption; mass consumption, in turn, implies a distribution of wealth -- not of existing wealth, but of wealth as it is currently produced -- to provide men with buying power equal to the amount of goods and services offered by the nation's economic machinery.

-- Marriner Eccles/1951

This Week's thought

Any assistant U.S. attorney would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials, in this way. If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
-- Hagan Scotten/2025

See you next week in a brand new show^{©Heckle and Jeckle}

28 October 2023

I Told You So - 28 October 2023

It has happened again!! Earlier this month, was this missive which posited that Vlad, per usual, is the net winner in the Hamas-Israel fiasco. Here's this guest pundit from the NYT.

Russia is emerging as a major beneficiary of the war. With minimal effort, Moscow is reaping the benefits from the regional chaos that threatens Israelis and Palestinians with devastation and desolation.

QED

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