The House Republicans have begun announcing committee assignments today. Of course, the Really Big Announcement was that McCarthy has assigned Marjorie Traitor Goon to the Homeland Security Committee. Talk about welcoming the fox into the henhouse! Why not have an actual National Threat guide the committee tasked with defending the country? Maybe they’ll finally find out how George Soros launched those Jewish Space Lasers into orbit and what new nefarious attacks from the Soros Space Force we can expect. Yes, that sounds (deliberately) loony - do you think it’s too loony for everybody’s favorite Confederate Potato Face? We can now expect the impeachment of Secretary Mayorkas any week.
The Gang of 8--the House and Senate leaders, intelligence, and foreign relations chairs (and maybe I'm missing some) get intelligence briefings from the administration. I would refuse to give briefings with republicans in the room.
Yes. I've been thinking more about this. Biden could just order all reports to be scrubbed clean of anything that, if shared with TFG or Putin (one and the same) might put our country at risk, and instead only report on white supremacists and domestic terrorism. He could ask that anything that would endanger national security be classified at such a high level, none of the seditionists on those committees would ever have access to it.
Here’s another one, TC.Santos has been appointed to the House, Science and Space Tech Committee. Perhaps because his “biz” is located (and recently relocated from a penthouse condo in my neighborhood to a mail-services store )here on the Space Coast??
Oh! Santos was put on the Science and Space Tech Committee because of his PhD in astrophysics from Stanford that he just plumb forgot to include in his resume.
Spoiler Alert. I feel like I'm watching a poorly reenacted, "Don't Look Up." On the bright side, Shortly after landing on a habitable planet, an Alien will eat M. T. Green.
Using the legal system to demolish the legal system is just as stupid as cooking the middle class goose that laid the economic golden egg that made the 1% rich. They have made
piracy on land legal. It's time to put up an offence and de- fang these over grown three year olds and leave them to rot on their pirate islands.
Frequent and strong. Just reading in researching my next book how the escort carrier Chenango, carrying 77 P-40s of the 33rd Fighter Group to North Africa for Operation Torch, went through "bad weather" crossing the Atlantic and came within 3 degrees of the capsizing point one night. Twice.
We definitely want to do what diarist 2nd Lt Jim Reed said he did: "I tied myself into my rack."
Yipes! Any thoughts on buying US Treasury bonds, backed by "the full faith and credit of the US Government"? I-Series bonds are earning 6.89% and would seem to be inflation-proof.
I think I would wait. there is word that the Biden Administration is talking to the 18 Republicans elected from Biden-win districts about not trashing their reputations right out of the chute.
I didn't think it was a risk to buy my second one at the beginning of the year. But I'm now hoping that wasn't a mistake. You can't beat the interest anywhere, though.
if I'd had the brains to hang onto my UFT TDA instead of spending it while I waited for my pension to come through, I'd still be earning better than 7%.
We who have any sense at all knew this session would be horrific and it is being proved each day. Infuriating. But more than that - dangerous to democracy any way you look at it. I wish I knew the answer for the sickness, nee the virus that has infected the body politic. Gingrich awakened it back in the 90's but it has been there a very long time. Kind of like herpes - it shows up and you know it's coming because first there's a fever, then there's itching, then . . . well, then you need medicine.
I’ve been wondering the same thing Victoria. I’m close to retirement and have my 403b through work to count on. Kind of unsettling right now if everything tanks.
Bank accounts won't tank, but Wall Street based retirement accounts are at risk in the fallout. but they already were. Jurate's 401-k from ABC News is all Disney stock, which has dropped 45% (and dropped 3% of that after Iger came back) since December 2021.
Yes mine has dropped too. It’s supposed to be in a low risk investment category based on my years to retirement. Which I hoped were fewer than it looks like they are. With these current idiots holding the nation’s purse I’m tempted to take it all out and take the tax hit. It very well could be less than if the market crashes if they default
Be careful. That "tax hit" can be hard. Jurate took out a bunch of hers to buy the house in Oregon we'll never live in, and got hit really hard by the IRS. I'm trying to dig her out of that hole now.
I get it. But it seems to be a potential catch 22. A definite hit if I withdraw it and an even bigger hit IF the market tanks. The key word if. I have weathered these before but wasn’t as old and close to retirement as I am now. Where in Oregon did Jurate buy the house? Just curious since I live in Oregon
While your timing is unfortunate, I don't recommend selling anything now. Many of us got beat up in 2008. But those who hung on and actually started buying in early 2009 did very well.
This too shall pass and after a scary period, greed will overcome fear and a broad based portfolio will be fine.
And then...when nobody is scared anymore and happy days are here again, I will be selling.
half a century or so back, I had a therapist who liked doing dream analysis. many times, I had the experience of writing down a dream that was already unsettling and finding that the more I wrote, the more details would come back to me, and it'd get worse and worse.
I remembered those occasions just now, reading your post. it started like a bad dream and by the time it ended, it felt like the worst nightmare in memory. or even the worst nightmare in history.
holy fuck.
if the Head Putz in Charge is REALLY trying to lock in his shot at achieving the Worst Congress in History (the only way to assure that people will remember his name in, say, twenty years), he could put Santos on Intelligence.
I shouldn't have said that. or thought it.
I'm out of the loop regarding Boebert's "statutory rape" thing and eagerly await enlightenment.
thanks, Tom. I didn't realize it could be considered statutory rape if the older person is shy of 21. but then again, I know it all depends on the state. when my parents met, my father was 20 and my mother was 15, but it stayed chaste for three years during his deployment in England. at least according to my mother, who could sometimes be guilty of providing altogether Too Much Information.
I was hoping Boebert was the elder in the questionable duo because, like most of us, I welcome yet another reason to loathe her.
The Gang of 8--the House and Senate leaders, intelligence, and foreign relations chairs (and maybe I'm missing some) get intelligence briefings from the administration. I would refuse to give briefings with republicans in the room.
I agree. Tell them NOTHING.
Or just feed them crap.
Yes. I've been thinking more about this. Biden could just order all reports to be scrubbed clean of anything that, if shared with TFG or Putin (one and the same) might put our country at risk, and instead only report on white supremacists and domestic terrorism. He could ask that anything that would endanger national security be classified at such a high level, none of the seditionists on those committees would ever have access to it.
Here’s another one, TC.Santos has been appointed to the House, Science and Space Tech Committee. Perhaps because his “biz” is located (and recently relocated from a penthouse condo in my neighborhood to a mail-services store )here on the Space Coast??
All that knowledge and experience he got at Baruch and from working for Goldman-Sachs will be a big win for the committee. (Not!)
Oh! Santos was put on the Science and Space Tech Committee because of his PhD in astrophysics from Stanford that he just plumb forgot to include in his resume.
Thank you. I actually Laughed Out Loud.
Santos appointment is indicative of the Republican disdain for Science.
😠
Because he's spacy.
Nice to get an email from Dr Bob announcing 2024 run !💙
YAYAY!
https://www.uppermichiganssource.com/2023/01/17/bob-lorinser-launches-bid-congress/
Sure does sound like a good one! Hope hes successful this time - for your sake.
We will have to make it happen. Groundwork is laid!
When the foxes are in the hen houses, I would feed the foxes grass and weeds and various other "stuff."
Spoiler Alert. I feel like I'm watching a poorly reenacted, "Don't Look Up." On the bright side, Shortly after landing on a habitable planet, an Alien will eat M. T. Green.
I don't think she's edible, though she may be "consumable."
ew.
And spit it out
Using the legal system to demolish the legal system is just as stupid as cooking the middle class goose that laid the economic golden egg that made the 1% rich. They have made
piracy on land legal. It's time to put up an offence and de- fang these over grown three year olds and leave them to rot on their pirate islands.
Buckle up, Strap in, the wind shears are gonna be frequent
Frequent and strong. Just reading in researching my next book how the escort carrier Chenango, carrying 77 P-40s of the 33rd Fighter Group to North Africa for Operation Torch, went through "bad weather" crossing the Atlantic and came within 3 degrees of the capsizing point one night. Twice.
We definitely want to do what diarist 2nd Lt Jim Reed said he did: "I tied myself into my rack."
Yipes! Any thoughts on buying US Treasury bonds, backed by "the full faith and credit of the US Government"? I-Series bonds are earning 6.89% and would seem to be inflation-proof.
I think I would wait. there is word that the Biden Administration is talking to the 18 Republicans elected from Biden-win districts about not trashing their reputations right out of the chute.
Hopefully a few roadblocks to the McCarthy Plan will value our economy
Like everybody else except the 20 crazies.
I didn't think it was a risk to buy my second one at the beginning of the year. But I'm now hoping that wasn't a mistake. You can't beat the interest anywhere, though.
You certainly now have reason to contact your congressional representative about what they are going to do, as an "investor in America."
👍
if I'd had the brains to hang onto my UFT TDA instead of spending it while I waited for my pension to come through, I'd still be earning better than 7%.
obviously, I'm an idiot.
I saw Rep.Vern Buchanan's reaction to losing his seat on a committee to one of these yahoos. He was VERY VERY vocal about it.
I hope that kind of attitude moves thru the rest of the Repubs who have been so obedient & such suckups for too long!
We who have any sense at all knew this session would be horrific and it is being proved each day. Infuriating. But more than that - dangerous to democracy any way you look at it. I wish I knew the answer for the sickness, nee the virus that has infected the body politic. Gingrich awakened it back in the 90's but it has been there a very long time. Kind of like herpes - it shows up and you know it's coming because first there's a fever, then there's itching, then . . . well, then you need medicine.
Now THERE is a good comparison! Thanks for the laugh, Linda.
The tsunami is on the horizon and moving …
"Sent in the clowns."
If the "ifs" weren't so frightening, those character names would be laughable....certainly colorful. 😈
Is there a Substack site that starts on January 20, 2025 that I can follow now?
I sure hope it doesnt contain the same issues as this one!
Have been wondering if I should pull
all my savings account $ out and hide it up here on the mountain. I
got badly burned in 2008 with AIG
and I'm not losing again.
Banks are not at risk. The FDIC is already funded and not from congressional appropriation.
What about my bank Visa credit card? My funds are SS retirement
and VA Survivor benefits. If they
slash these, I believe my bank can
take any money in my accounts to
pay the credit card. Yes/no?
Thank you, needed to know that
I’ve been wondering the same thing Victoria. I’m close to retirement and have my 403b through work to count on. Kind of unsettling right now if everything tanks.
Bank accounts won't tank, but Wall Street based retirement accounts are at risk in the fallout. but they already were. Jurate's 401-k from ABC News is all Disney stock, which has dropped 45% (and dropped 3% of that after Iger came back) since December 2021.
Yes mine has dropped too. It’s supposed to be in a low risk investment category based on my years to retirement. Which I hoped were fewer than it looks like they are. With these current idiots holding the nation’s purse I’m tempted to take it all out and take the tax hit. It very well could be less than if the market crashes if they default
Be careful. That "tax hit" can be hard. Jurate took out a bunch of hers to buy the house in Oregon we'll never live in, and got hit really hard by the IRS. I'm trying to dig her out of that hole now.
I get it. But it seems to be a potential catch 22. A definite hit if I withdraw it and an even bigger hit IF the market tanks. The key word if. I have weathered these before but wasn’t as old and close to retirement as I am now. Where in Oregon did Jurate buy the house? Just curious since I live in Oregon
Newport. It would have been great.
While your timing is unfortunate, I don't recommend selling anything now. Many of us got beat up in 2008. But those who hung on and actually started buying in early 2009 did very well.
This too shall pass and after a scary period, greed will overcome fear and a broad based portfolio will be fine.
And then...when nobody is scared anymore and happy days are here again, I will be selling.
Have some cash on hand
half a century or so back, I had a therapist who liked doing dream analysis. many times, I had the experience of writing down a dream that was already unsettling and finding that the more I wrote, the more details would come back to me, and it'd get worse and worse.
I remembered those occasions just now, reading your post. it started like a bad dream and by the time it ended, it felt like the worst nightmare in memory. or even the worst nightmare in history.
holy fuck.
if the Head Putz in Charge is REALLY trying to lock in his shot at achieving the Worst Congress in History (the only way to assure that people will remember his name in, say, twenty years), he could put Santos on Intelligence.
I shouldn't have said that. or thought it.
I'm out of the loop regarding Boebert's "statutory rape" thing and eagerly await enlightenment.
She and her now ex-husband first "got together" when she was 16 and he was 20.
thanks, Tom. I didn't realize it could be considered statutory rape if the older person is shy of 21. but then again, I know it all depends on the state. when my parents met, my father was 20 and my mother was 15, but it stayed chaste for three years during his deployment in England. at least according to my mother, who could sometimes be guilty of providing altogether Too Much Information.
I was hoping Boebert was the elder in the questionable duo because, like most of us, I welcome yet another reason to loathe her.
like I really NEED more reasons, right?