Pooky

Segregation and perpetuating is the end goal of the Democrat Party. If people are actually allowed to look past their differences, far more similarities appear, which would deprive those divisive politicians of their whole raison d’etre.

And yet the Democrats, their affiliate and their donors are the only party in this country actively seeking to divide its citizens along racial, political and religious lines. Funny that. 😒

I never took Mark Cuban as a fool before his latest pronouncements. Sleepy Joe is indeed a traditional politician. On the world stage and in domestic politics, that makes him predictable, which keeps the political class and world leaders comfortable that things will continue along a path that can be relied upon. DJT is not a traditional politician. He is a disruptor, working in a transactional world. That takes away the predictability and prevents an adversary preempting his moves. In the current, finance and trade-heavy world market, the transactional has the advantage over the traditional. For all the bleating over oil sanctions against Russia, their income is still booming. When DJT sank oil prices below $0 a barrel, Vlad the Imputint was terrified as their major source of revenue evaporated. Everyone bleated about the compensatory measures needed to mitigate the trade tariffs imposed against China. No-one noticed the imbalance in the return tariffs from the Chinese, who understood they were going to take a kicking. No-one mentioned the repatriation of manufacturing by other nations (I was in Japan at the time and it was big news there) out of China, knocking their domestic growth down by between 2 and 3% even as the measures were ramping up. Cuban, as a businessman, should be in a prime position to note things like this. It lessens my opinion of him that he doesn’t.

Doesn’t skipping take longer than driving? 🤔

All of them did. In a unanimous opinion, SCOTUS agreed that Democrats and Never-Trumpers, in their bid to preserve Democracy and prevent the presumed wannabe Dictator from even getting on the primary ballot, were, in fact, acting in a pseudo-dictatorial manner themselves and attempting to destroy Democracy. ☠️ Oh, the irony.

Because on the Western side, there are no roads, spaces for roads, or even things like trails and whatnot. There are trees. And undergrowth. And Meese. And Bears. Maine is also the only state in the U.S. with a land border ton only one other U.S. state - New Hampshire.

If I had to choose an actual State, it would have to be Maine. Lived there for a while, the people are great, the pace of life suits me (after a stint working in Manhattan), the food is good, you can go swimming in the Atlantic last week in August and first week in September and not get frostbite and it’s still mainly too cold for Great White Sharks. The only downside is that I never found where they hid the Red October. 🤔

Happiest state in the U.S.? Inebriation Closely followed by … Obliviousness

The world’s most popular airliner is in trouble again. After Alaska Flight 1282 on Jan 5th lost a “permanently” secured exit hatch on climb out, a number of airlines are grounding the type again due to safety concerns Watch: Inside Alaska Airlines plane after part blows off mid-air https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67900834 Thankfully this time the flight was still in its initial climb-out, low enough to avoid explosive decompression, with all passengers seated and belted in. Boeing must be thanking their lucky stars this didn’t happen at 38,000 ft. The continuing quality control issues at Boeing must be making the execs at Airbus more than a little happy right now.