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Trump emerges as dealmaker-in-chief in potential US Steel deal President Donald Trump said Friday that Nippon Steel will drop its $14.1 billion bid to acquire U.S. Steel and instead invest heavily in the iconic American company without taking a majority stake. Nippon Steel "is going to be doing something very exciting about US Steel," Trump said with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba by his side. "They'll be looking at an investment rather than a purchase. "U.S. Steel is a very important company to us. It was the greatest company in the world for years, many years ago, 80 years ago. And we didn't want to see that leave. And it wouldn't actually leave. But the concept, psychologically, was not good. So they've agreed to invest heavily in U.S. Steel as opposed to own it, and that sounds very exciting." [...] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3314686/trump-emerges-as-dealmaker-in-chief-in-potential-us-steel-deal/

Think of the improvement if they ALL did that.

Thrilling Saturday report, see man: Mama T-B. turned Many -- si man, MANY -- years old today, even-more-senior she man man. We called her rather early to recognize this, dutiful descendant we man. Mama T-B. thanked us and then went aysheep about CDs again, man. We should be thankful that she's not a vegetable in a nursing home, perspective man. Got late start because of scheduling with the DR, Diminutive Rubia man. Hit only the Many (2+1) ESs per Saturday GS/ES report, oh well man. Groceried at Aldi for remainder of Two Guys Week stuff, grocery we man. Breakfast/lunch (at half-past 2 p.m.) was onebag of nuked Aldi mixed vegetables, ingest we man. It did not help our "we're starving" headache from hours before, no man. The DR (who lives Many -- si man, MANY -- miles away) strove for arrival by Many p.m., intrepid DR she man. We strove for a siesta, too bad a headache man. Even a mega-Tylenol later didn't help much, bummer man. Din-din was the onecan of pinto beans from today's ES, ingest financially savvy we man. The DR spent 2 hours + half an hour trying to make it to our casa, intrepid DR she man. She was prettier but somewhat thicker than we'd envisioned from fotos, oh well man. Miu was quite gregarious and investigatory, curious miu man. Conversation was great despite some tangential whackadoo ideas, converse we and DR she man man. Her body language was positive and she even held our hand, si man. Other stuff eventuated, won't squeal we man. She had to go to be home by Many p.m., unfortunately man. The DR is probably not wife material but should be an excellent girlfriend, intuit we man. And, she is a natural rubia, take THAT Bro G. man. Din-din #2 was toucans of Chef B. lasagna, ingest we man. Sunday plans are to lawn-mow, conquer one LL, and prep for Mini-B.'s arrival, conclude we man. The Stupor Bowl will apparently be on, prefer AFV instead (if on) we man. This week will bring the verdict on our A1c level, out-sweating this we man. And that was/is our thrilling Saturday, report we man.

Saturday GS/ES report, see man: We got a late start and de-itineraried all but Many (2+1) ESs, slice-&-dice we man. The Many'rd ES yielded the take, see man: -- Sears bath towel, zipper bank bag, onecan low-sodium pinto beans = $Many ($2+1), deal man Total = $Many ($2+1)

Our POTS* income is for our future, see and so there man. *buy yours today, si man We have a DR (Diminutive** Rubia) on her way to meet us right now, report later we man man. **only Many feet Many inches, way down there man

Democrats Assure Americans The Millions In USAID They Gave Hamas Was Just For Gay Stuff WASHINGTON, D.C. — Amid the new heightened scrutiny on government spending, Democrats assured Americans that the millions of dollars in USAID funding that they gave to the terrorist group Hamas was only going toward promoting gay stuff. "Yes, we know it looks bad giving millions of dollars to known terrorists with no accountability," said Senator Chris Van Hollen. "But we calculated that the risk involved in giving terrorists a bunch of cash was worth it if only it meant that one poor Palestinian kid might question their gender identity or sexuality someday." [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-assure-americans-the-millions-in-usaid-they-gave-hamas-was-just-for-gay-stuff

Americans Start Stockpiling Moose Ahead Of Tariffs WASHINGTON—Rushing to purchase the hoofed mammals before the Trump administration's tariffs on Canadian imports went into effect, Americans across the country were reportedly stockpiling moose on Monday. "Prices of moose are already high, and I'm worried with these tariffs, they could surge even higher," said 43-year-old Iowa City, IA resident Zachary Beattie, who was just one [...] https://theonion.com/americans-start-stockpiling-moose-ahead-of-tariffs/

The news in this article (beyond the headline) will leave you agape. Every time there's "too much winning," we get even more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Did the Art of the Deal Just Save US Steel? Donald Trump Thinks So Shortly after meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, President Donald Trump announced that Nippon Steel would be dropping its 14.1 billion dollar bid to acquire United States Steel and would instead 'heavily invest' in the ailing American steel company without taking a majority stake. [...] https://twitchy.com/eric-v/2025/02/08/did-the-art-of-the-deal-just-save-us-steel-donald-trump-thinks-so-n2408020

Insanity: Democrat State Rep. Sterilizes Herself Because She Hates Trump Leftism is a death cult. Abortion. Sterilization and mutilation of children. Euthanasia. Sterilizing yourself over politics. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/06/insanity-democrat-sterilizes-herself-because-she-hates-trump-n3799563

I think that whoever at USAID allocated these funds should be prosecuted as a terrorist agent. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ USAID Helped Fund Hamas Tunnel System If you've seen all those videos of Hamas' underground cities in which they plan and prepare for their urban warfare against Israelis, you will notice a lot of interesting things. One of them is that they are all lined with massive amounts of concrete. There are miles and miles of these tunnels and bunkers, and most of the destruction in Northern Gaza is the result of Israel systematically destroying the UNDERGROUND city that Hamas built. The bombs fall to destroy those bunker-like tunnels, and the result is that the buildings above also get flattened. So where did all that concrete come from, you might ask... It turns out that USAID helped build the cement factory with hundreds of millions of dollars in aid money and pays the company for whom we built the factory for the products, giving them a steady source of funds. [...] https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/02/07/usaid-helped-fund-hamas-tunnel-system-n3799587

USAID Has Its Office Lease Terminated and You Won't Believe the New Tenant https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/07/usaid-has-its-office-lease-terminated-and-you-wont-believe-the-new-tenant-n2185353

Wow! ~~~~ Trump Imposes Sanctions on South Africa Over Racist Law and Encourages Afrikaners to Immigrate to America [...] For decades, White farmers have been subjected to ambushes and organized attacks on their farms. Hundreds, along with their families, have been killed in what appears to be organized, or at least as organized as the South African government is capable of, ethnic cleansing by murder and terrorism. One might have thought that the end of apartheid might have brought with it some revulsion at laws encouraging racial discrimination, but you'd be wrong. Of the 313 racially discriminatory laws adopted by South Africa since independence, 116 (37 percent) have been passed since the end of White rule. Making matters worse, the all-time popular singalong "Kill the Boer" is a staple at political rallies. [...] https://redstate.com/streiff/2025/02/07/trump-imposes-sanctions-on-south-africa-over-racist-law-and-encourages-afrikaners-to-immigrate-to-america-n2185352

Joe Biden's Fake Job Numbers Scandal Just Got Worse [...] On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the latest jobs report, and in addition to reporting a slowdown in job growth during Biden's final month in office, there was a scandalous downward revision to the jobs numbers that were reported during President Biden's final year in office. According to the report, the BLS has adjusted its previous estimates, revealing that on average, the Biden administration overestimated the monthly employment numbers by an average of roughly 626,000. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/07/joe-bidens-fake-job-numbers-scandal-just-got-worse-n4936786

We are cheap, get that straight man! We sometimes are just going to bed at Many a.m., wimpy you man. And it is NOT "Many" a.m. CST, or maybe it is, flexible definition of Many man.

Gracias, D ma'am, but the bad ones are ALL there are, reality man. We lost our entire Friday and $Many in Uber fares, we man! And what are YOU doing up past sunset, huh huh huh man?

Thrilling (?) Friday report, see man: Put off absolutely everything in anticipation of FJC rendezvous, needed every minute man. (FJC wanted to come directly to the casa rather than to a neutral meeting-site, hmm man.) We up-cleaned everything that we could while dealing with Mama T-B.'s demands, si man. We exhausted ourself, hard to recover man. Lunch was 2 turkey-&-cheese sandwiches, hastily ingest we man. The FJC arrived precisely on time, Uber that we paid for man. She was average-looking facially, oh well man. Her body was totally hot, major plus man. Her nails rated 1 or 0, yuck man. The FJC had a thick French accent, oui man. She sat far from us with leg crossed away from us, not a good sign man. She has overstayed her ESTA or B-2, illegal man. We chatted quite amicably and nicely with her for half an hour, positive and pleasant man. However, she wanted no further interaction and claimed that she had to go, "puppy left at home" man. We paid her return Uber, man. So we paid $Many for half an hour of fruitless nice conversation, man. We wore the same shirt that we'd worn when seeing the WPOR, previous disaster man. We're tempted to ceremonially burn this shirt, but too-cheap-to-do-so we man. We took our disgusted self to Costco, rush-hour traffic man. We got Many items, Many of which were on sale, financially savvy we man. We now have all din-dins for Two Guys week, professionally organized we man. Din-din was the Costco hot dog + (diet) Pepsi, ingest we man. We are now back down to zero rubias and non-rubias, scrape-barreling we man. We're tempted to pursue Ontarklar's northern-Canadian old married nonrelocatable rubia, eh man. We have itineraried Many (2+2) ESs and 1 GS for Saturday, itinerary we man. No party with the rubias tonight, no cavort disgusted we man. And that was/is our thrilling Friday, report we man.

, our response man. We ended up losing a pound-plus overnight without gastrointestinal issues, so si man. We watched it some time ago, man! Mini-B.'s nose was buried in his phone, we man. Non non, see below man. Consider the alternative, si man.

We need more threads like this. Lots of thoughtful input here.

Biden Signs With Talent Agency, Lands Role As Corpse On 'CSI' LOS ANGELES, CA — Questions about his future after leaving the White House were apparently answered this week, as Joe Biden announced that he had signed with a talent agency and immediately landed a role as a corpse on CSI:Vegas. The former president successfully made his transition from the Oval Office to Hollywood, inking a deal with industry powerhouse Creative Artists Agency, which quickly found a highly sought-after role of a lifeless body on the popular CBS television series. "We've never seen someone more perfect to play this part," said [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-signs-with-talent-agency-lands-role-as-corpse-on-csi

Archaeologists Discover Sodom And Gomorrah Was Funded By USAID JORDAN — Newly translated clay tablets unearthed near the Dead Sea indicate that Sodom and Gomorrah was originally funded by USAID. The records, which were unearthed and translated by a crack team of archaeologists from the University of Chicago, seem to indicate that the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah were funded by American tax shekels until God poured fire and brimstone down on their heads, ending the agency's assistance to the cities. "It was pretty standard USAID stuff," says Jackson Haviland, the lead archeologist on the dig. [...] https://babylonbee.com/news/archaeologists-discover-sodom-and-gomorrah-was-funded-by-usaid

Bombshell Report Links USAID to Trump's Impeachment You've probably noticed that Democrats are having a huge hissy fit over the dismantling of USAID. The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is set to shut down on Friday, with most employees furloughed as it merges into the State Department. This drastic move follows an investigation led by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, which revealed extensive corruption, waste, and fraud within the agency that essentially turned it into a slush fund for leftist causes. One of those causes appears to have been the impeachment of Donald Trump. How, you ask? Well, independent journalists Michael Shellenberger and Alex Gutentag have discovered that USAID [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/06/heres-how-usaid-was-behind-trumps-impeachment-n4936726

Thoughts on this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Could We Be Witnessing the End of Liberal Media? For years, the liberal media has been a dominant force in shaping public opinion; whether parroting the Democratic Party's talking points, attacking conservative figures, or downplaying major scandals that could harm their favored candidates, they had a virtual monopoly in the field of journalism. Things have changed. From the rise of conservative networks and independent journalists, people have more choices now, and it could spell the end of the liberal media. It's not just me saying it. Jim VandeHei, the co-founder of the USAID-funded Politico, also believes the heyday of left-wing media might finally be over. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/02/06/could-we-be-witnessing-the-end-of-liberal-media-n4936759

Fascinating article. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ America's Air-Traffic Control System: An International Disgrace We still don't know how many mistakes led to the collision of a helicopter with an American Airlines passenger jet making its descent at Reagan National Airport last week. But one thing has been clear for decades: America's air-traffic control system, once the world's most advanced, has become an international disgrace. Long before the Obama and Biden administrations' quest to diversify staff in control towers, the system was already one of the worst in the developed world. The recent rash of near-collisions is the result of chronic mismanagement that has left the system with too few controllers using absurdly antiquated technology. The problems were obvious 20 years ago, when I visited control towers in both Canada and the United States. The Canadians sat in front of sleek computer screens that instantly handled tasks like transferring the oversight of a plane from one controller to another. The Americans were still using pieces of paper called flight strips. After a plane took off, the controller in charge of the local airspace had to carry that plane's flight strip over to the desk of the controller overseeing the regional airspace. [...] https://www.city-journal.org/article/reagan-national-airport-crash-faa-air-traffic-control?skip=1

Scintillating Thursday repartee, yawn man. ----- Thrilling Thursday report, see man: We awoke long before the alarm and even before sunrise, appalling state of affairs man. We gave up re-zzz-ing and eventually got up, surrender we man. We went to Dollar Tree, purchase stuff we man. We were near a Chinese buffet, proximal we man. Breakfast/lunch/din-din was Many (2+1) plates heaped with hibachi steak, ingest we man. Instead of an immediate siesta, we went to check out Uncle T-B.'s swollen leg, check we man senior he man. We then delivered some D. Tree goodies to Mama T-B., deliver we man. Mama T-B. yelled at us for going to D. Tree without first informing her, upset senior she man. She also yelled at us for sharing CDs with Uncle T-B. that she wanted us to share with her, too much for FDIC coverage man. We retrieved 2 desserts earmarked for Mini-B., generous senior she toward wee man man. We managed to get out in time for a siesta, best-laid plans of mice and men man. Yard crews immediately began doing small park across the street, split-earing man. Ex-Mrs. T-B. then texted twice to ensure our incipient de-skooling of Mini-B., man. Siesta was obviously hosed, no zzz for we man man. Convinced Mini-B. to din-din on onecan of S+Ms plus Mama T-B.'s desserts, agree wee man man. Played backyard football, ghastly performances by each of Two Guys man. Movie night was The Mask, quite excellent man. Many (2+2) bowls of Costco popcorn were consumed, ingest Two Guys man. These will be pre-applied to next week's quota, good start man. We are Many% hopeful of a Friday rendezvous with a FJC (French Junior Chica), hope we man. We will report on the fruition or nonfruition of this event, report we man. Cannot itinerary ESs until Friday morning, addresses concealed till then man. No party with the rubias tonight, exhausted we man. And that was/is our thrilling Thursday, report we man.