Tucker's SCARY SCARY Fable

 We're half-fans of Tucker Carlson.  His interviews of certified Crazies are.....not a good thing.

Nor is this silliness:

 

Americans’ collective credit card debt soared to yet another record high on Tuesday, climbing 4.2% from last year to $1.29 trillion in total, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s latest household debt report.

The average credit card balance per consumer now stands at $6,678, up 2.4% year over year, a separate quarterly credit industry insights report from TransUnion found. The number of people with credit cards also rose 2% to 178 million, and the average interest rate on a new credit card is 24%, according to LendingTree data....

 

OMG!!!  CALL OUT THE ARMY!!!!  DOOM!  DOOM!!!! DOOM!!!!!!

 

Careful readers will note that inflation over the last year has been about 4%, meaning that the DOOM DEBT INCREASE Tucker writes about is..............nothing at all--and the "average" debt is LESS than inflation for the same period--which, to anyone with common sense, is good news.

We are NOT fans of credit cards.  But they can be useful.  Tucker's silliness?  Not always useful. 

Hey, David!! Governing Is Hard!!

David Crowley is going to find out that governing is a lot harder than throwing bullshit at the plebes.

 More from Crowley on doing away with the Electoral College: “This is an opportunity for us to get with it to the times of where we are, to where if you win the popular vote, if you win the majority of those votes, it should go towards that individual who won that state.”  --Scott Bauer

 So Crowley appears--APPEARS--to be saying that he does NOT support doing away with the Electoral College.

Unfortunately for Crowley, both his Ass'y and Senate leaders (vicious women, by the way), think exactly the opposite.  And one of them let him know, in no uncertain terms, that he should STFU, Sit the F Down, and let HER tell HIM how things are going to go.

Maybe the best thing Crowley will get from his election is a better job for his wife. 

Shakespeare Coulda Told You About Barnes' Suit

This will be a pleasant diversion before the (D) quad-fecta (Ass'y, Senate, Gov, and SCOWI) completely demolishes the State of Wisconsin....

 A former candidate for Wisconsin governor filed a defamation lawsuit against Journal Sentinel, Inc. on Tuesday, Nov. 10.

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes is disputing the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's reporting in two articles published on July 30, the same day he dropped out of the race for governor....

 Hmmmm.  Why would the J-S defame a Lefty?  They're on the same side of EVERY policy matter, right?

 ...The lawsuit also indicates a Journal Sentinel political reporter had previously been involved with Barnes. When the campaign discovered this, it was disclosed to The Journal Sentinel and acknowledged. The journalist was removed from the story, and the lawsuit states that they were told other reporters would "re-report" portions of the story. The lawsuit states it was published later that day.

"The Journal Sentinel did not disclose the conflict to its readers. The public was not told that a reporter who participated in reporting on Barnes’s sexual relationships had herself maintained a sexual relationship with him," according to the lawsuit....

Cosgrove, and later, Shakespeare:

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

It is absolutely delicious to see the J-S taken down on a maxim written in 1697. 

 

Our Democrat-Bishop-Warmongers (!!)

A story you did NOT learn in your US History classes.

Yes, you knew that Wilson double-crossed the voters (just as Trump did) about WWI.  Here's the part you didn't learn:

... After the election, Cardinal Gibbons ignored the pleas of Pope Benedict XV to bring an early end to the European war. Instead, the Primate of America threw his support, and that of the American Catholic hierarchy, behind Woodrow Wilson’s war to “make the world safe for democracy.”...

 The Democrats have been perverting "safe for democracy" since 1916--and the US Bishops have been perverting the Faith to support Democrats ever since.

Great. 

Bones of St Nicholas (Santa Claus) Destroyed. Hmmmm.

Not widely reported in the USA, for some reason or another.....

 

French police have arrested a suspect who allegedly stole and burned the bones of St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, from a basilica in Lorraine on Oct. 28....

 ...The police immediately opened an investigation into the incident. The alleged theft occurred at the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in the Meurthe-et-Moselle department of Lorraine, according to the Brussels Signal.

French police identified the suspect, who has not publicly been named...

Not named by the utterly-PC French cops.

That raises...........suspicions..........right?

St Nick is also known as Santa Claus. 

ONE Cardinal Has--ahhhhhh---Manhood

 This Cardinal has been through the ChiCom mill, so he has courage.  No Fear!

 Cardinal Joseph Zen, bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, in a blog post last week, reflecting on the fruits of the Second Vatican Council, called on Pope Leo XIV to put a stop to the Synod on Synodality and condemned the initiative’s “hidden agendas” on LGBT ideology, female “ordination,” and clerical celibacy.

In his blog post, translated into English on November 6, Zen argued that the Second Vatican Council has not been sufficiently fruitful, namely because it is under “constant attack” by those trying to use it to justify reforms contrary to the faith....

 ...Zen called on Pope Leo to put an end to the Synod on Synodality and these hidden agendas, as well as sending Cardinal Mario Grech, the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, and Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., who was the General Relator of the Synod, on a “long vacation,” and remove Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández as prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith....

Sharp contrast to some other Cardinals (one from the USA) who make ineffective legalistic bleating noises while collecting gifts from the Faithful who hope to see orthodoxy restored in Rome.

Pray for Cdl. Zen.  The ChiComs are not his only enemy, and the enemies in Rome are actually more deadly. 

JDVance the Evil Evil??

Harsanyi's bafflegab about JDVance's economics is--fortunately--contradicted by all the major economic indicators.  The principal problem with the Trump economy is Bidenflation, combined with Trump's penchant for deficit spending--and The Wars.

The Wars are exactly why Harsanyi is compelled to harm Vance.  Harsanyi is a Russia-hater (see the first war) and he is a special pleader for the country benefiting from Trump's second war.  Vance was an early opponent of the War on Persia, and remains so today.

You need look no further than the masthead on his publisher to know about Harsanyi, but knowing that he was a GWB Administration figure helps.

But for real economic facts--including the SUCCESS of the tariffs in re-shoring industry to the US--look at the body of work of Tonelson.  It is noteworthy that Tonelson shares Harsanyi's like for the War on Persia--but Tonelson will not make up lies about Vance

Medicare For All.....and National Bankruptcy, Too!!

 Ticker 's been foaming at the mouth about this forever.  But he's been right about it forever, too.

.... Last fiscal year (ending September 30th) CMS spent $2.733 trillion, up 9.98% (there's that 10% number!) from last year.  Prescription drug spending was up an astounding 22%.  Physicians are whining that their payments are actually down in inflation-adjusted funds which may be true but physician spending in Medicare was up 6.99% last fiscal year which is wildly higher than published inflation.  So who's stealing the money?  The government is spending it and the doctors are not getting it -- someone is stealing it.

Medicaid spend was up 8.2% -- again, wildly above inflation.  That's only part of it since Medicaid pays roughly half at the federal level with the states having to post up the rest.  Who is stealing the money?

This is the very same "Medicare for all" provider set and government funding set that the Democrats will now put forward as "the answer" and try to find a way to force into law.  But doing so will take the balance of the roughly $5.5 trillion in medical spend last fiscal year, the $3 trillion of it that is not currently federal, and force it onto the federal balance sheet.

May I remind you that the additional $3 trillion will all be deficit spending because that is more than all personal income taxes and eight times the total of corporate income tax.  In other words no, "tax the rich" is a lie unless you intend to more than double the current tax rates.

Now perhaps you can try that, but if you don't manage to pull that off then you have an immediate 13% inflation rate....

 Watch this play out.  Democrats will enact "Medicare for All" and are likely to corral the votes necessary to override Trump's veto. BUT....they will not enact it until very late in Trump's term, meaning that they get to brag right through the '28 Presidential election (assuring a (D) President's election" before the roof collapses and the whole cabin goes down the river in the flood.

It's gonna be very ugly. 

To The Screechers.....

Yes, the "righty" screechers.  You know who you are.

 

A Warning About Social Media

If you think that a nom-de-plume like "Dad29" is a cover, put that out of your high-trust mind right now.

Also, if you think that, since you do NOT use social media for political rants, but you did purchase a MAGA hat, you are in the clear, put THAT out of your high-trust mind right now because you are one of 640,000 peeps on whom Jack Smith has 'the goods,' and Jack Smith does not have the only copy of that spreadsheet.

Specifically on social media:  

...What I discovered in this experience was that DHS, and by extension DOJ/FBI and the January 6 investigators, had direct administrative level backdoors into all social media platforms.

Overlay the Twitter files now, and then expand your thinking….

In their quest to prove that I owned a Red Ferrari, traveled to Michigan and had a hit-and-run accident, these investigators outlined to me how the United States Government, through their DHS authority, has employees, agents and contractors with open portals into all social media platforms.

Yes, the federal government is inside the mechanics of the systems (Twitter, Facebook, Meta, Instagram, Google, YouTube, WhatsApp, Zello, etc) and they have administrative access in real time to monitor, review, extract and evaluate everything, soup-to-nuts....

There is a 99/99% chance that those permissions remain active today; and a 99.5% chance that the information will be fed (by a friendly) to some Congressional committee run by DSA types.  The Deep State people never changed stripes just because Trump was elected three times.

Watch your 6.  We'll watch it for you when we can.  Share eyeballs. 

Dems to Voters: "Please Hold...."

 There's a reason for this statement.

 On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Cuomo,” Rep. Johnny Olszewski (D-MD) said that he “would much rather be focused on lowering the cost of living, addressing those pocketbook issues”, but they’ll take up articles of impeachment against Secretary Pete Hegseth if he doesn’t resign or get fired....

The reason for that prioritization?

The Democrats have No Friggin' Idea HOW to "address pocketbook issues."  None. 

THE Political Maxim and Suzie Wiles

Discussing the firing of Suzie Wiles, the Treehouse reminds us of Politics 101:

 ...We said from the outset Wiles would likely be a problem because she’s donor-centric, a typical Republican.  Democrats chase power, Republicans chase money.  Democrats use money to get power; Republicans use power to get money....

Look at Wisconsin.  Tiffany had $bazillions (as did Michels in the past) and had Republican majorities; Crowley had some money, but not much.  In the end, Crowley got what the Democrats want:  power.  They will be collecting money for the next four + years. 

...The Wiles Inc. focus on money, including direct benefits to her family, is now the weapon DSA congressional committees will use to target Trump.  Every financial angle used to attack Trump tracks to the poor decision-making of Susie Wiles. However, at the end of the accountability path – the buck stops with President Trump....

Treehouse also reports that Bongino lost the battle with Wiles over the Epstein stuff, and Tulsi had to be very, very, very circumspect around that woman. 

Justice Thomas Speaks

 

Government Work: Watching OnlyFans

Apparently Trump's purge of Federal "workers" is not nearly enough.

 

People in Washington, D.C., consume pornography on OnlyFans at high rates during the workday, according to Max Anderson, CEO of OnlyFinder, whose company published a report on OnlyFans spending....

 ...“People who work in D.C. are heavily using OnlyFans inside the boundaries of the District of Columbia during the workday, and then their usage drops off a cliff when they go home to the suburbs at night,” Anderson told the DCNF.

“The data certainly supports that D.C. workers are heavily using OnlyFans during the workday,” Anderson told the DCNF....

Well, OK.  Perhaps another group of users are the lawyers who infest that town like lice.

Would you be surprised?? 

For Moron With Bad AI "Skillz"

 Some twit claimed that PMI variances are significant from month to month, therefore Trumponomics was sketchy.

Here's a graf which is NOT monthly, but which demonstrates that m-t-m variances are not significant at all.

 

Does DeSantis Care About H-1B?

 DeSantis says the H-1B imports are part of the reason for the Blue Bomb.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, whose state largely was impacted only nominally by Democrat and Democrat Socialist gains in the 2026 midterms, says the problem was that Republican senators wouldn't act.

He specifically cited their refusal to address concerns about the H-1B visa program. That was set up ostensibly to allow foreign workers into the U.S. if there was no one available domestically with a particular expertise.

In reality it is a pathway for huge corporations to hire tens of thousands of foreigners to work at lower wages and replace American workers....

Maybe DeSantis actually cares.

But, for those of you who are newbies (or just dense), it is commonplace for politicians to borrow a line from The Godfather:  "Nice place you have here.  It would be too bad if......"

So maybe DeSantis is looking for some of that sweet, sweet, Microsoft/Google/Oracle campaign money.

Keep your eyes open. 

"Just Spend It!!"--Signed, David Crowley

 The State of Wisconsin's taxpayers are in for a real treat.  /sarc  The new Governor will find a way for the State to pay for this.  Live in Bayfield County?  Suck it up, buttercup.

 Weight loss drugs and who is paying for them took center stage during Milwaukee County's budget battle.

So many employees are taking GLP-1s; it's costing the county millions....

Eleven million dollars is how much Milwaukee County spent this year on employees using GLP-1 medications with insurance....

GLP meds can cost as much as $1,300.00/month.

 ...The rising price tag is prompting leaders to search for ways to lower the cost.

"We cannot let Milwaukee County be financially responsible," Supervisor Shawn Rolland said.

Rolland authored an amendment to increase county employees' copays for GLP-1 medications from $40 to $150, and only offer it to people who have diabetes....

That is to say, if GLP is a medical necessity, the County will pay some of the cost.  If you're a fatty hoping to look good in the bar scene?  Nope.  

... Following an hourslong debate on Thursday, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors voted against the amendment....

..."The amount that we're putting forward to GLP-1 could be paying for our transit system, our park system," Wasserman said.

Wasserman said he expects the county's cost for medication to increase up to $15 million next year...,

Priorities, Dr. Wasserman.  Priorities. 

 

MKE to Spend $1 Million ++. Who Benefits??

 The Democrat Socialist bunch has its own favorite money-receptacles.  You just don't know who they are, yet.  And the DSA's priorities are totally screwed up (surprised????)

A day after Wisconsin regulators approved a sixth rate hike in six years for We Energies customers, the Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously to pay for a study about taking over the utility....

... The Milwaukee Common Council voted unanimously 15 to 0 on Friday, Nov. 6 to allow borrowing for up to $1.35 million for a feasibility study about taking over We Energies....

This is the result of typical hair-on-fire rhetoric totally devoid of reason and logic.  IOW, it's a DSA thaaang.

A couple of rational points here:

1)  Conway, of WE, knows the history of such ideas.

..."In every single situation is these cities, they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. In this case, the City of Milwaukee is looking to spend about $1.3 million to study if they should take over their local utility," Conway said. "And in the end, they're going to find that it's going to probably cost billions and billions of dollars. And then when they go to voters, voters are likely going to reject it." ...

IOW, that $1.3 million of BORROWED money will land in someone's pocket, and they will tell the DSA exactly what the DSA wants to hear.  But the people who have to pay that bill?  They will not be enthused.

2)  Further, and more important:  WE has a lot of customers who do not live in the DSA hell-hole of Milwaukee.  One way or another, they too will have a vote.    

So we repeat:  who are the DSA's favorite money-suckers?  You'll know soon! 

By the way:  if the City is going to borrow $1.3 million, why not spend it on FIRE TRUCKS??? 

Port Washington, MS, and Oracle's Data Center

This will be interesting, since the Mayor of Port Washington basically jammed the monster Oracle data center project down the throats of his voters,.......hmmmmm.

 

Microsoft is ‌winding down an arrangement ​to rent ⁠AI computing from Oracle...

 ...Microsoft has been ‌turning off rented ​computing capacity from Oracle in recent ⁠months after declining to renew the contract, according ‌to the report.

Over time, the computing capacity Microsoft was renting became less valuable as it ‌no longer met the ​company's evolving needs, the report added....

Oracle's bond rating took a hit last summer over its commitments in data centers.

"Developing", as they say. 

The MOST Frightening Result.....

 Democrats have all sorts of 'plans and objectives' for their new-found power.

The most frightening one?

 ...Democrats now control the governor's office and both legislative chambers in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Nevada. Already terrifying, right? If those five states sign on to a deal already on the books in 18 states and Washington, D.C., they would send their electoral votes to whoever wins the nationwide popular vote — even if their own voters chose someone else. 

That deal, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, already covers 222 electoral votes. Axios notes that it “only kicks in when participating states collectively control at least 270 electoral votes,” and that these five new Democratic trifectas “could bring the total to 283.” ...

Practically speaking, that means that New York, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Illinois will elect Presidents.  All the other States, including Wisconsin, can suck wind (or whatever.).

Wisconsin's Ass'y and Senate leadership are radical Leftists--DSA adjacent--and Crowley is a patsy.

Pay attention.  Action will be required.