Now that The Orange One is in office, he just doesn’t give a fuck. Honor fallen soldiers? Not when the golf course is beckoning. (BTW, he seems to think that everyone plays golf.)

Those mystery science characters have more sense than most of us apparently. A buddy says he is down a quarter million already. I got mostly out of the stock market when the pumpkin head was elected.

Ah…but the leopards are just chowing on faces.

Fellow Unbelievers,

Their ultimate Trump references were when they riffed on the character Trumpy in the movie Pod People. The Trumpy of today is certainly just as voracious and chaotic:

Fellow Unbelievers,

Here is a good place to showcase the humorous, even very prescient, refereces to Donald J. Trump on Mystery Science Theater 3000

TheEncogitationer wrote:
And, of course, the part of Donald Trump’s brain that pauses between thought and speech and speech and action doesn’t work at all.

This is spot on, of course. But I’m worried, in spite of the obvious harm of Project 2025 (“P2025”) as it is executed, that perhaps irrepairable harm is the goal of wannabee oligarchs. Or, may…[Read more]

Reg,

David McWilliams is right…up to the last sentence.

Interdependence of trade in all areas of the world will always exist due to comparative advantage that everyone has on certain products and services. Detroit cannot grow bananas as good as New Guinea and the Czech Republic can’t make coffee as good as Columbia.

But dependence on the…[Read more]

This is published by David McWilliams in an Irish broadsheet on Jan 4th 2025:

A country can threaten tariffs and talk tough when it is owed money. When it owes money, that’s a different story.

We are heading into a trade war. That’s what the United States wants and that’s what the world will get.

In 2025 it will become increasingly obvio…[Read more]