| second: On Wall Street, TACO — Trump Always Chickens Out — has abruptly been replaced as a favorite meme by NACHO — Not a Chance Hormuz Opens. As a result, oil futures have soared.
I never bought into the TACO meme, which was initially about tariffs: Trump did not, in fact, reverse his destructive tariff policy, although he blinked in his confrontation with China. But NACHO looks right. Hormuz won’t open until the economic damage to the US from its closure becomes much more severe. More at: [go to link] |
| THG: lifted from SECONDS post; I've seen like 50 of these GOP Senators say they're working on a ballroom bill. Not a single one working towards stuff normal people care about. |
| second: Senator Rand Paul @SenRandPaul tweeted "I'm dropping a bill tomorrow. Let's build the [Trump] Ballroom."
[go to link] I've seen like 50 of these GOP Senators say they're working on a ballroom bill. Not a single one working towards stuff normal people care about. Cheaper healthcare? Not in a million years. By the way, improvement would be easy because the U.S. healthcare system is a extreme global outlier, spending roughly $14,885 per person (2024), nearly double the cost of the next highest-spending country, Switzerland. While the U.S. pays significantly more, this high spending does not result in better outcomes, often trailing other wealthy nations in life expectancy and disease prevention. [go to link] |
| second: "You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." – Marcus Aurelius
“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.” – Seneca
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.” – Epictetus
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
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6ixStringJack: Wow, Brenda. You were publicly acknowledged by the most important man alive in Second's universe! All it took was me telling you that you would be ignored and he sure proved me wrong again!  |
| second: Trump has long compared himself to America’s two greatest presidents. But recently he told two people who are in a position to know such things—a senior administration official and a longtime Trump confidant—that he is now greater than George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
“He’s been talking recently about how he is the most powerful person to ever live,” the confidant told us. “He wants to be remembered as the one who did things that other people couldn’t do, because of his sheer power and force of will.”
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| second: Brenda wrote: "I said I will be ignored." You weren't ignored and now you have been publicly acknowledged. |
| second: Federal appeals court won’t rehear Trump’s appeal of E Jean Carroll’s $83 million jury award. In 2023, a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll. Onward to the Supreme Court. [go to link] |
| Brenda: No worries SIX. Just thought you didn't realize it was me. Oh, I know about their behaviors and that is why I said I will be ignored. Which is cool with me. |
6ixStringJack: Oh.... sorry, Brenda. I was referring to both Ted and Second and their odd tag behaviors again. I just assumed that you'd be ignored by both of them. They're only interested in arguing.  |
| Brenda: Hey, I just posted something to Second which will be soundly ignored. |
| 6ixStringJack: Look at you two... |
| Brenda: I know a hockey audience once say America's national anthem after a mic cut out. Don't remember who was playing but it was a good thing to see. |
| second: Trump lawyers twist Senator Mark Kelly's words in bid to reverse court loss because, hey!, why wouldn't a Trumptard lie? What would stop them? They have Trump's ongoing example of saying anything to get what he wants and nothing has ever stopped him, except when he is under oath and subject to punishment for perjury: [go to link] |
| THG:
Trump's Hypocrisy Reaches New Heights
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| second: I've been thinking about how best to characterize what the United States is doing to itself. I think superpower suicide is probably the best term.
We're fighting a war for a reason nobody can specify, and we're losing it. And the President of the United States is glossing it regularly with genocidal rhetoric. This is all bad enough, but I think it's symptomatic of something deeper. And with superpower suicide, I'm giving a name to that. Why am I thinking of suicide?
Because I think these are things we’ve chosen to do. These are choices that we've made. More about those choices at: [go to link] |
| THG: This is what Americans are about Jack. Not your hateful bullshit
Sabres Fans Sing O Canada After Mic Cuts Out
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| second: Trump Is Going After Birth Control. Here’s Why. The administration’s move signals a major transformation in America’s culture war: Contraception has gone from being politically untouchable to a real target on the right. [go to link] |
| second: The Evolution of Trump’s Corruption.
Trump is even suing his own government, hoping to get the Justice Department—led for now by his former personal attorney—to pay him $230 million for investigating him, and the IRS to pay him $10 billion for mishandling his tax information. [go to link] |
| second: Is this too egotistical? New US passports feature Trump’s portrait from his second inauguration on the inside cover with his signature in gold lettering at the bottom: [go to link] I'm feeling that nothing goes too far for Trump. What next? Put up a monument to himself bigger than the Lincoln Memorial? Oops! It is in the planning stage. As of April 2026, plans for a 250-foot "Trump Triumphal Arch" are being proposed near the Arlington Memorial Bridge in Washington, D.C. |