jerrymahoney

Quelle surprise

Rush Limbaugh was Trump before Trump The trailblazing conservative radio icon, who died Wednesday, spent decades perfecting smash mouth and scorched-earth politics and building the angry Republican base that powered the 45th President to the White House. Without Limbaugh, Fox News may never have found a foothold either — he basically invented the right-wing propagandizing that now fills the network’s evening schedule. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/02/19/world/meanwhile-in-america-february-18-intl/index.html

This briefly from a 2021 NYTimes article following the death of Rush Limbaugh: Mr. Limbaugh almost single-handedly created a right-wing mass-media universe — with its kneejerk hatred of Democrats, mocking nicknames and own-the-libs glee — that allowed him to imprint his grievances and goals on the national debate. About 15 million people a week tuned in for his daily three-hour program. So that attitude has been around since the 1990's.

Stevie Cohen manages his own stocks and accounts. He has about 2800 employees to help him do it.

NYTimes headline March3, 2025: - Struggling With Errors, DOGE Deletes Billions More From List of Savings - For the second time in a week, Elon Musk’s government overhaul effort updated its “wall of receipts” to remove mistakes that inflated its success.

And some are just the top responder to their own started topics

Reading a lot of stuff on the Soapbox reminds me of why I enjoy spending my time in Thailand as a recluse.

The Trump/Vance DOGE/Musk effort makes me think of this:

well, it seems to be working. NYTimes headline today: Musk and Republican Lawmakers Pressure Judges with Impeachment Threats

From James Carville but I've sorta been doing this since the election: With no clear leader to voice our opposition and no control in any branch of government, it’s time for Democrats to embark on the most daring political maneuver in the history of our party: ROLL OVER AND PLAY DEAD. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us. Only until the Trump administration has spiraled into the low 40s or high 30s in public approval polling percentages should we make like a pack of hyenas and go for the jugular. Until then, I’m calling for a strategic political retreat. https://archive.ph/3LRpF#selection-943.0-943.547

I know this is a serious topic but, for one who only knows BYD is an electric car that competes with Tesla, I kept wondering why there is an ongoing topic about the seals/gaskets going bad on the BYD cars. Mea culpa.

Exclusive: Trump's 3,500 lawsuits unprecedented for a presidential nominee June1, 2016 Donald Trump is a fighter, famous for legal skirmishes over everything from his golf courses to his tax bills to Trump University. But until now, it hasn’t been clear precisely how litigious he is and what that might portend for a Trump presidency. An exclusive USA TODAY analysis of legal filings across the United States finds that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and his businesses have been involved in at least 3,500 legal actions in federal and state courts during the past three decades. They range from skirmishes with casino patrons to million-dollar real estate suits to personal defamation lawsuits. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/06/01/donald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles/84995854/

Anyone like this: SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in San Francisco on Thursday found that the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful, granting temporary relief to a coalition of labor unions and organizations that has sued to stop the Trump administration’s massive dismantling of the federal workforce.

And man-farang is potato but 'potato eater' is old slang for Irish

Clever, those Russians.

As I see it 'farang' is just a corruption of the Thai word for French because, if you met a white person in SE Asia 100+ years ago, he was, on most occasions, French. I have sometimes told Thai persons that -- although I do not care about the word 'farang' -- there are a lot of farangs out there who do.

Agreed. I prefer Honkie.

The White House says it ‘will determine’ which news outlets cover Trump, rotating traditional ones White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the changes would rotate traditional outlets from the group and include some streaming services. Leavitt cast the change as a modernization of the press pool, saying the move would be more inclusive and restore “access back to the American people” who elected Trump https://apnews.com/article/trump-ap-news-outlets-ban-gulf-mexico-25c77f617418dd3ca2791af90b263a59 I guess Ms. Leavitt forgot to mention that the press overhaul was also to improve the economy.

From the Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index:

As noted in an earlier topic this forum, AA Brokers will now only offer Thai issued policies.

FYI https://www.trustpilot.com/review/aiasia.net

We have an English Bulldog across the street -- always penned but when left alone every day, the dog lets loose an existential howl if left alone too long. The neighbors have to listen to the dog, but the owners are spared. In USofA Denver there is a story now of 2 English Bulldog puppies being stolen from a pet store -- valued at $4300 EACH.

NY Times?? You drank the Kool-Aid and what about Hunter's laptop? from the NYT archive link: “There’s more uncertainty than I think is widely appreciated,” said Michael Strain, an economist at the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “All the uncertainty around trade policy, uncertainty around some of the things that the Department of Government Efficiency is doing, I think will have a chilling effect on investment plans and expansion plans.”

Speculation is on carbon monoxide poisoning but that presumes there was some kind of gas hookup to the house.

OK. I lost track of who said what. So he was an obnoxious democrat before he became an obnoxious republican.