Now that California’s (and “Biden”’s) billions upon billions of dollars of grift have been exposed and cut off (though there’s most likely a lot still left to uncover), we know that Newsom must be hurting enormously.
Gotta get that money back somehow, I guess…(IOW by any and every means necessary.)
How did Rosalia Shikhberg become Karen Jones? After Ms. Shikhberg was shot in the Bondi Beach massacre, the Sydney hospital that admitted her redacted her religion from the entry file and gave her an alias. She was told this was to protect her from the media, but she believes “they were afraid of staff, not media.” She recalled that two Australian nurses publicly stated last year that rather than treat Israeli patients if they came to their hospital, they would kill them. What those nurses said was terrifying; that they felt empowered to say it publicly is even more so. What has happened to Western civilization?
Apropos to the previous “what is Trump doing with Iran?” The opportune moment may be coming.
physicsguy, I can recommend a listen to H. Hewitt’s conversation with retired Adm. Mark Montgomery for a reasonably synoptic view of probable actions to come. It’s the best brief statement I’ve come across so far (though a liberal use of the youtube slider bar to skip Hewitt’s intro blather helps)
Of course that means that they’ll probably impeach him for ICE or something stupid and political.
Anyway, I’m curious to know what the regulars think of Trump’s crypto business.
@Bauxite:If they’re smart they’ll impeach him for this:
I doubt they would try to impeach Trump for the same kind of thing they themselves are all doing, they and their presidents.
CC™ cites Not Relevant (NR) because The Great Orange Whale.
So sad.
How’s that 100% crow diet working out CC™?
What!?
No comments about the video?
For my money, Grace Kelly was the most beautiful woman in the video. Not even close.
All of those actresses are beautiful. I think Elizabeth Taylor’s beauty was somewhat obscured in this video because of the Cleopatra make-up; I think she was most beautiful in the movie Ivanhoe, at age 20.
Yes, Liz Taylor had many roles when she was younger than the Cleopatra role, and gorgeous. And really, how can you skip past the young Ingrid Bergman? Wow.
Grace K is terrific, for sure.
It’s interesting that there is a little more focus on the death of these stars, than you might expect.
It reminds me slightly of a now older TV series called “Six Feet Under.” It was an HBO drama about a family that ran a funeral home. Each episode began with a quick thumbnail video of a death, and then an intake at the funeral home.
The series ran for a number of seasons and was quite good. But it came to an end, of course; and how did they write that last episode? I’ll spoil it, won’t I? Death was involved. There…, go watch it, if you don’t mind dark drama.
Bauxite:
Remember when Trump and his family were debanked?
The Trumps are on record as saying they got into crypto because they realized their money wasn’t safe in the banking system. See this:
“Every major banking institution, the people that, two weeks before we were debanked, we could’ve called and gotten a loan in five seconds. They disappeared. We were left high and dry,” he said.
“Basically, during the first term, certainly after the…let’s call it January 6… all the nonsense, it got significantly worse,” he said …
“We weren’t even early crypto guys, but we figured, if they can debank the Trump Organization, if they can debank us, who can’t they go after? And more importantly, who won’t they go after?” he continued.
Trump Jr. said that instead of going home and “go cry in a corner,” they decided to launch World Liberty Financial, which he described as the future of banking.
Read the whole article. One of the most interesting aspects of it is that, although it was written in the summer of 2025 when the facts of J6 were well known, it repeats these lies, including calling the mob on J6 “deadly”:
Five people, including one police officer, died and several more were injured when the pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building.
The police officer, Sicknick, didn’t “die when the pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building.” I’ve written many times about what really happened. Another was killed by the deadly Capitol Police, Of the other three, two died of heart attacks and one of those wasn’t ever at the Capitol but merely at the earlier rally. The third person of those who died, Rosanne Boyland, was reported variously to have been beaten to death by police, to have been trampled in the crowd, and on autopsy to have died of an overdose. So the article is purposely misleading; what else is new?
As for the article you linked, about the UAE – I’m not the least bit in favor of that sort of thing. At the very least, it gives the appearance of corruption and certainly might be true corruption. However, I also agree with the writer of this comment at the article:
What [Andrew C. McCarthy, the piece’s author] fails to understand is the potential behind WLF. It very well could become the first crypto bank, which is more and more likely to be the future of currency. I’d also add that when you have lots of money to throw around…you throw it around. Maybe it’s for favor later or just to perhaps get lucky and make more money off the next big thing. There are also a lot of assumptions in this piece. For instance, the not naming of the UAE reps. on the board is supposedly for nefarious reasons – to hide them. OR, in typical Trump style, he wants his name on almost everything and doesn’t want others to get the credit. While I say all this, aren’t most big business and political dealings suspect at best? I feel like this is just how the world works these days…
And also this one:
It’s nice to have a leader who wants us to be proud of our country rather than ashamed of our past. I’m not at all surprised that he’s acting as one of the elite. He’s been one of the elite his entire life. He joins the ranks of Pelosi, Omar, Biden (and pretty much every other politician) in enriching himself through his position.
The UAE is actually one of the best of the Arab countries in terms of reforming the hatred it used to teach, by the way. Also, here’s a not-all-that-bad article in, of all places the Guardian. Excerpt:
Documents seen by the Journal indicate that Tahnoon paid the Trump family and entities affiliated with Steve Witkoff, co-founder of World Liberty and Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, half of the investment up front, with $187m going to Trump entities, and $31m going to Witkoff’s. The payment came from Aryam Investment, a Tahnoon-backed company.
A White House official said the president was “not involved in running his businesses and has turned them over to his children, so these business endeavors do not involve him”.
Claims that the president had breached the constitution’s federal emoluments clause, designed to safeguard against corruption, are “bogus and irrelevant”, the official argued. “Mere appearances of business deals with which he has no involvement plainly cannot violate the Emoluments clause.”
In a statement, the White House counsel, David Warrington, added: “President Trump performs his constitutional duties in an ethically sound manner and to suggest so otherwise is either ill-informed or malicious.”
Government ethics experts have long been alarmed over the way that Trump and his family structured his companies before he started his second term. Typically, a president puts his assets into a blind trust overseen by an independent third party. But Trump handed over control to two of his sons, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump.
While it’s no different from how Trump structured his companies during his first term, Trump spent the years after he left the White House expanding his family business. Now Trump entities are dabbling in social media, streaming platforms, nuclear fusion, financial services and, through World Liberty, crypto. …
The Guardian has not identified evidence of the president explicitly offering the chip exports in exchange for the investment in his family’s crypto venture.
Richard Briffault, a law professor at Columbia, said while there was no direct allegation of a quid pro quo, “the situation of a major investment by a foreign power in a major company that the president has a major stake in, that creates a structural conflict of interest”.
“The concern is that we can never be sure why certain decisions are being made,” Briffault said. When Trump allowed the UAE to import AI chips, “it could have been a shrewd geopolitical move, or it could have been influenced by the fact that the country has a major investment in a Trump family business. We just can’t know for sure.”
Indeed. That’s why I believe the entire Trump family should have avoided even the appearance of corruption.
But it surprises me not at all that they have plunged into it. It’s one of the things I don’t like about Trump; there are others. But they are overshadowed by how much worse the Democrats are for the country (and the world) as a whole.
By the way, Bauxite – what do you think about the debanking against Trump and family? Or the lawfare against Trump and family?
Anyway, I’m curious to know what the regulars think of Trump’s crypto business.
==
I don’t work there, so I do not have an opinion about it. I’m vague as to what cryptocurrency actually is or how it is generated. I do know an investment professional who categorically avoids it for his clients.
==
Among those who have been debanked in recent years have been Nigel Farage and the wife of Gen. Michael Flynn.
By the way, Bauxite – what do you think about the debanking against Trump and family? Or the lawfare against Trump and family?
==
Mona Charen is all for it.
He will pursue
The Great Orange Whale
to his dying day
long after Trump has
passed away.
neo on February 10, 2026 at 3:04 pm said:
Debanking: There is a lot that goes on in our banking industry that would surprise or shock people if they knew. Banks as a whole lose a lot of money every year to various types of fraud, some of them rather large amounts in a single instance. These get reported to the FBI and everyone keeps it very hush hush.
Bank panics are a real thing, and lots of secrecy is routine in the biz. We all have to support those losses in addition to the profitability of any bank. (I don’t have a problem with businesses making profits, but fraud is different. I’d probably go for stiffer fraud penalties.)
The lefties are always trying to debank anyone involved in firearms businesses. Including disallowing the use of credit cards for individuals purchasing firearms, in some cases.
One of the overarching issues in all of this, is that the whole industry is highly regulated by a raft of overlapping government regulators.
We’re not investing in crypto, ourselves. But I can see why people with a whole lot more money than we have, such as the Trump family, might do so. If it works out, they’ll make a lot of money, and there’s the history of being treated wrongly by banks.
With the frenetic pace of Trump’s activities as president, it’s hard to imagine how he could also be running the family business rather than his elder sons.
Is YouTube freezing on you? It’s freezing on me, and with ever-increasing frequency. I’ve Googled the problem but none of the remedies work. Any suggestions would be welcome.
“No comments about the video?“
Um, no.
(Except, perhaps, to say that at first I thought it was “kinda cool”…
…but that changed pretty quickly to “…just a tad too creepy”…well, for me at least.)
To be sure, Elizabeth Taylor was looking rather ravishingly owlish, though certainly not as owlish as The Wise Owlita(TM). In any event a lot better than she looked after she—and I—was through with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”…
File under: He was for it before he was against it…
Thanks for the response neo.
Re: Debanking – I’m completely opposed. It strikes me as a way for the government to punish its enemies without due process, notice, or even any specific, documented decision against a particular individual that can be appealed. It’s the antithesis of the rule of law. Even if you look at it from the perspective of the establishment, its stupidity on stilts. Yes, they get to punish those they consider undesirable, but they also drive those undesirables outside of the existing institutions, which is more or less what they did to the Trumps. I can completely understand why the Trumps would use crypto given the way that the Biden administration abused the banking regs to de-bank its enemies.
Re: Trump’s Crypto – The Guardian article that you linked tracks McCarthy’s reporting at NR pretty closely.
I was willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he and his family were dealing with their core businesses. There was a lot of noise about the emoluments clause during the first term because foreigners were staying in Trump’s hotels or Trump’s kids were working on plans to develop real estate overseas. Eh. Trump can’t control who stays in his hotels and I don’t think he should have to turn people away. The new development was on the edge to me, but I can’t get that worked up about it. He is a real estate developer. The only way to avoid those kinds of conflicts of interest would be for Trump to either liquidate his businesses or shutter them while he is in office, which I think would have been an unreasonable ask.
The crypto transactions, however, are a different kind of thing. They set up that business right before Trump became president again, and then all of the sudden the UAE and Binance are interested in handing over billions of dollars? Is there any reasonable argument that the UAE would have made the same “investments” in a months-old company if Trump wasn’t president and wasn’t able to give the UAE the chips it wanted and give Binance the pardon that it’s founder wanted? I doubt it.
I think you get the problem when you say you don’t like it when Trump does this. But I’m not sure how this is better. It’s very much the same sort of thing that Joe and Hunter were pulling, except that Trump’s crypto play is pulling in about two orders of magnitude more money.
It’s also worth pointing out that there is a difference between holding assets in crypto and being a crypto issuer. The matter here isn’t that Trump holds assets in crypto. It is that he started a company that issued its own crypto, and it sure looks like the UAE has spent about $2B propping up the value of that crypto.
IIRC, the UAE had intended to send the money to the Clinton Foundation but some Sheikh-in-training transferred it to the wrong account. Could happen to anybody…keeping in mind that too much arak’ll might’ve been the culprit…if, in fact, that’s what it was…
(Then again, my memory ain’t what it used to be…)
So CC™ now goes even lower than his usual by bringing in a comparison to FJB and The Crackhead Son.
“Superintendent Su said that she and her bargaining team are working hard to come to an agreement, but are working under constraints.
“The San Francisco Unified School District does not have unlimited funds,” Dr. Su said. “We are managing a structural deficit, and we are currently still under state oversight. These realities shape every decision that we have to make.”
How can one choose among these women, they are all beautiful? The exception is Judy Garland who was good looking, not beautiful, but with that voice who could care.
Billie Eilish they ain’t, none of them, all very attractive.
As Kate noted, Billie has dead eyes, and wouldn’t launch a single coracle.
America the Crippled
Watching American Idol and the majority of ads are for various pharmaceuticals—for Alzheimer’s, for obscure neurological conditions, for a whole bunch of illnesses and, if this was your reference point to judge the human race, you’d think that we were all shuffling along, heads bowed, half dead.
Epstein Update – Turns out Trump called Palm Beach Police on Epstein in 2006
@Snow on Pine:you’d think that we were all shuffling along, heads bowed, half dead.
Relax, you’re just watching a show that old people watch.
You can learn a lot from the ads. The ads for the shows I watch are for very expensive pet food, completely unnecessary supplements, and various cleaning supplies, all apparently purchased by households headed by black lesbians.
“Why can’t the US be more like Sweden?”…continued:
“How Sweden defied liberal outrage to crush the gang violence epidemic;
“Introduction of safe zones, wiretapping and changes to the law have helped government reduce gun violence and crime involving children”— https://archive.ph/1Aqe6
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Opening grafs:
Famed for its openness and slower pace of life, Sweden is one of the last places you might expect to see children being pulled off the streets and searched without a warrant, or having their phones spied on by detectives.
But after four years of gang violence that has seen children as young as 12 recruited on social media to carry out hit jobs against rival gangsters, police say it has become a grim but necessary reality….
+Bonus:
“US hits Hezbollah’s gold exchange and financial network with sanctions;
“US Treasury sanctions Hezbollah’s gold exchange Jood SARL and its financial network, targeting key Hezbollah operations funding terrorism and destabilizing Lebanon.”— https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422247
Merely the next stage following the festivities in that South American, Hezbullah/Iranian terror hub (AKA Venezuela)…AND…a “message” to The Islamic “Republic” of Iran—that lovely “Hey-We’re-Gonna-Destroy-You-But-Let’s-Talk-Anyways” country…who, alas are not all that talented when it comes to hearing “messages”…
To which the only credible response is something along the lines of “Yeah, OK, but Biden won so everything’s hunky dory.”…
Besides, “…Fulton County admitted it lacks scanned images of all 528,777 ballots counted during the initial count and of the 527,925 ballots tallied during the state’s first recount…” BUT Joe Biden won the state by a whopping just-under-12,000 votes so there’s clearly nuthin’ to see here, folks. Nuthin’ at all…”
Besides, those numbers are trivial and wouldn’t have made any difference anyways.
Besides, those evil Republicans are pouncing again.
Besides, all this is water under the bridge so those FASCISTS should really, REALLY get over it….
Besides, there’s absolutely NOTHING they can do about it.
Besides, Trump is Hitler….
We’ve all heard of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Seems we now have on our hands, Massie v. SomethingMuchMuchBigger…unless the following article is totally nuts, which is entirely possible (along with Massie being devestatingly irresponsible)…since EVERYTHING would appear to hinge on DEFINITIONS, DEFINITIONS, DEFINITIONS…along with more than a bit of NUANCE. (But that’s just it, isn’t it?—the “nuance”…)
Or…potentially, a “The-Hell-With-the-Country” moment, otherwise known as “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Sane”.
(Or maybe it’s a matter of where one stands on the “Justice”-“Mercy” continuum… or maybe it’s “merely” political murder-suicide…)
“Massie Exposes Les Wexner As Epstein Co-Conspirator”
Massie reminds me of Schumer, lies easily. We will see.
Just a few small kinks to work out, no doubt…
(Bit of a strange idea from the get-go, though; unless it’s the next best thing, just introduced too early.)
OTOH, maybe AI has been programmed with a basic sense of humor that AI itself is now toying with…and tweaking!
If it keeps up, best to stay out of the hospital, if possible.
Grok:
The FAA issued a NOTAM closing airspace over El Paso, TX, and parts of NM for 10 days (Feb 11-20, 2026) due to special security concerns tied to national defense. It states the US may use deadly force against violating aircraft if they pose an imminent threat. No further public details on the cause are available.
Per Fox Business, just now: Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace. DoW took action. No further risk to commercial air traffic.
Re the Epstein files, let the chips fall where they may. No more special treatment for anyone!
Sir Mick Jagger’s fiancée Melanie Hamrick has revealed she was ‘physically attacked’ and mugged in the upmarket London district of Mayfair. The ballerina, 38, took to Instagram on Wednesday morning to detail what had happened to her, saying two muggers grabbed her from behind – leaving her ‘shaken’ and ‘heartbroken’. Melanie wrote: ‘This is incredibly hard to share, but I was physically attacked at Annabels Mayfair tonight. ‘I’m so thankful to my friends for protecting me. Two people grabbed me from behind and thank god for good people who stepped in to help me.
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Wonder if the Democrats’ll try t’impeach DJT for THIS…
“WHEN NARRATIVES FAIL…”
https://instapundit.com/775369/
(Actually, maybe the question really oughta be, why is THIS only comin’ out NOW??)
+ Bonus:
Aaand he’s back! And shiftier than ever!!
(Not that he’s ever been missed…)
“Schiff: Trump planning to ‘subvert’ midterms”—
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5729500-schiff-warns-trump-voter-suppression/amp/
Now that California’s (and “Biden”’s) billions upon billions of dollars of grift have been exposed and cut off (though there’s most likely a lot still left to uncover), we know that Newsom must be hurting enormously.
Gotta get that money back somehow, I guess…(IOW by any and every means necessary.)
“Sam Darnold Won The Super Bowl — But Lost Money Due To The Jock Tax”—
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathangoldman/2026/02/10/sam-darnold-won-the-super-bowl—but-lost-money-due-to-the-jock-tax/
The best thing I’ve read in a while, and no surprise it’s from Gary Saul Morson.
Hamas’s Boasting Indicts the West
https://archive.fo/nZaU7
Opening paragraph:
Apropos to the previous “what is Trump doing with Iran?” The opportune moment may be coming.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/least-112-usaf-c-17-aircraft-headed-middle-east-desert-storm-levels
physicsguy, I can recommend a listen to H. Hewitt’s conversation with retired Adm. Mark Montgomery for a reasonably synoptic view of probable actions to come. It’s the best brief statement I’ve come across so far (though a liberal use of the youtube slider bar to skip Hewitt’s intro blather helps)
https://youtu.be/u-7vciJGAiM
…As the Democrats send a whole bevy of their awesome “heavy hitters” to Arizona.
(Sadly—hilariously? tragically?—you can’t make this up.)
“Democrats to swarm Arizona in major push at start of early voting”—
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/democrats-swarm-arizona-major-push-start-early-voting
Something for owl lovers…
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2026/02/10/wtf-5019/
Looks like Fidelity Investments might have to think about changing their corporate moniker…or, at least, affix an asterisk to it…
“Money Laundering: Fidelity Charitable Fund Funneled Millions to Dem Dark Money Group”–
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/02/10/money-laundering-fidelity-donor-advised-fund-funneled-money-to-dem-dark-money-pac-n3811743
Barry Meislin- Nah. If they’re smart they’ll impeach him for this:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/the-uae-quietly-poured-a-half-billion-dollars-into-trumps-crypto-venture-four-days-before-inauguration/
Of course that means that they’ll probably impeach him for ICE or something stupid and political.
Anyway, I’m curious to know what the regulars think of Trump’s crypto business.
@Bauxite:If they’re smart they’ll impeach him for this:
I doubt they would try to impeach Trump for the same kind of thing they themselves are all doing, they and their presidents.
CC™ cites Not Relevant (NR) because The Great Orange Whale.
So sad.
How’s that 100% crow diet working out CC™?
What!?
No comments about the video?
For my money, Grace Kelly was the most beautiful woman in the video. Not even close.
All of those actresses are beautiful. I think Elizabeth Taylor’s beauty was somewhat obscured in this video because of the Cleopatra make-up; I think she was most beautiful in the movie Ivanhoe, at age 20.
Yes, Liz Taylor had many roles when she was younger than the Cleopatra role, and gorgeous. And really, how can you skip past the young Ingrid Bergman? Wow.
Grace K is terrific, for sure.
It’s interesting that there is a little more focus on the death of these stars, than you might expect.
It reminds me slightly of a now older TV series called “Six Feet Under.” It was an HBO drama about a family that ran a funeral home. Each episode began with a quick thumbnail video of a death, and then an intake at the funeral home.
The series ran for a number of seasons and was quite good. But it came to an end, of course; and how did they write that last episode? I’ll spoil it, won’t I? Death was involved. There…, go watch it, if you don’t mind dark drama.
Bauxite:
Remember when Trump and his family were debanked?
The Trumps are on record as saying they got into crypto because they realized their money wasn’t safe in the banking system. See this:
Read the whole article. One of the most interesting aspects of it is that, although it was written in the summer of 2025 when the facts of J6 were well known, it repeats these lies, including calling the mob on J6 “deadly”:
The police officer, Sicknick, didn’t “die when the pro-Trump mob breached the Capitol building.” I’ve written many times about what really happened. Another was killed by the deadly Capitol Police, Of the other three, two died of heart attacks and one of those wasn’t ever at the Capitol but merely at the earlier rally. The third person of those who died, Rosanne Boyland, was reported variously to have been beaten to death by police, to have been trampled in the crowd, and on autopsy to have died of an overdose. So the article is purposely misleading; what else is new?
As for the article you linked, about the UAE – I’m not the least bit in favor of that sort of thing. At the very least, it gives the appearance of corruption and certainly might be true corruption. However, I also agree with the writer of this comment at the article:
And also this one:
The UAE is actually one of the best of the Arab countries in terms of reforming the hatred it used to teach, by the way. Also, here’s a not-all-that-bad article in, of all places the Guardian. Excerpt:
Indeed. That’s why I believe the entire Trump family should have avoided even the appearance of corruption.
But it surprises me not at all that they have plunged into it. It’s one of the things I don’t like about Trump; there are others. But they are overshadowed by how much worse the Democrats are for the country (and the world) as a whole.
By the way, Bauxite – what do you think about the debanking against Trump and family? Or the lawfare against Trump and family?
Anyway, I’m curious to know what the regulars think of Trump’s crypto business.
==
I don’t work there, so I do not have an opinion about it. I’m vague as to what cryptocurrency actually is or how it is generated. I do know an investment professional who categorically avoids it for his clients.
==
Among those who have been debanked in recent years have been Nigel Farage and the wife of Gen. Michael Flynn.
By the way, Bauxite – what do you think about the debanking against Trump and family? Or the lawfare against Trump and family?
==
Mona Charen is all for it.
He will pursue
The Great Orange Whale
to his dying day
long after Trump has
passed away.
neo on February 10, 2026 at 3:04 pm said:
Debanking: There is a lot that goes on in our banking industry that would surprise or shock people if they knew. Banks as a whole lose a lot of money every year to various types of fraud, some of them rather large amounts in a single instance. These get reported to the FBI and everyone keeps it very hush hush.
Bank panics are a real thing, and lots of secrecy is routine in the biz. We all have to support those losses in addition to the profitability of any bank. (I don’t have a problem with businesses making profits, but fraud is different. I’d probably go for stiffer fraud penalties.)
The lefties are always trying to debank anyone involved in firearms businesses. Including disallowing the use of credit cards for individuals purchasing firearms, in some cases.
One of the overarching issues in all of this, is that the whole industry is highly regulated by a raft of overlapping government regulators.
We’re not investing in crypto, ourselves. But I can see why people with a whole lot more money than we have, such as the Trump family, might do so. If it works out, they’ll make a lot of money, and there’s the history of being treated wrongly by banks.
With the frenetic pace of Trump’s activities as president, it’s hard to imagine how he could also be running the family business rather than his elder sons.
I put up this post about Trump and crypto.
Question for neo and the commentariat here:
Is YouTube freezing on you? It’s freezing on me, and with ever-increasing frequency. I’ve Googled the problem but none of the remedies work. Any suggestions would be welcome.
“No comments about the video?“
Um, no.
(Except, perhaps, to say that at first I thought it was “kinda cool”…
…but that changed pretty quickly to “…just a tad too creepy”…well, for me at least.)
To be sure, Elizabeth Taylor was looking rather ravishingly owlish, though certainly not as owlish as The Wise Owlita(TM). In any event a lot better than she looked after she—and I—was through with “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf”…
File under: He was for it before he was against it…
Thanks for the response neo.
Re: Debanking – I’m completely opposed. It strikes me as a way for the government to punish its enemies without due process, notice, or even any specific, documented decision against a particular individual that can be appealed. It’s the antithesis of the rule of law. Even if you look at it from the perspective of the establishment, its stupidity on stilts. Yes, they get to punish those they consider undesirable, but they also drive those undesirables outside of the existing institutions, which is more or less what they did to the Trumps. I can completely understand why the Trumps would use crypto given the way that the Biden administration abused the banking regs to de-bank its enemies.
Re: Trump’s Crypto – The Guardian article that you linked tracks McCarthy’s reporting at NR pretty closely.
I was willing to give Trump the benefit of the doubt when he and his family were dealing with their core businesses. There was a lot of noise about the emoluments clause during the first term because foreigners were staying in Trump’s hotels or Trump’s kids were working on plans to develop real estate overseas. Eh. Trump can’t control who stays in his hotels and I don’t think he should have to turn people away. The new development was on the edge to me, but I can’t get that worked up about it. He is a real estate developer. The only way to avoid those kinds of conflicts of interest would be for Trump to either liquidate his businesses or shutter them while he is in office, which I think would have been an unreasonable ask.
The crypto transactions, however, are a different kind of thing. They set up that business right before Trump became president again, and then all of the sudden the UAE and Binance are interested in handing over billions of dollars? Is there any reasonable argument that the UAE would have made the same “investments” in a months-old company if Trump wasn’t president and wasn’t able to give the UAE the chips it wanted and give Binance the pardon that it’s founder wanted? I doubt it.
I think you get the problem when you say you don’t like it when Trump does this. But I’m not sure how this is better. It’s very much the same sort of thing that Joe and Hunter were pulling, except that Trump’s crypto play is pulling in about two orders of magnitude more money.
It’s also worth pointing out that there is a difference between holding assets in crypto and being a crypto issuer. The matter here isn’t that Trump holds assets in crypto. It is that he started a company that issued its own crypto, and it sure looks like the UAE has spent about $2B propping up the value of that crypto.
IIRC, the UAE had intended to send the money to the Clinton Foundation but some Sheikh-in-training transferred it to the wrong account. Could happen to anybody…keeping in mind that too much arak’ll might’ve been the culprit…if, in fact, that’s what it was…
(Then again, my memory ain’t what it used to be…)
So CC™ now goes even lower than his usual by bringing in a comparison to FJB and The Crackhead Son.
Do you floss with the black feathers CC™?
IMO, Olivia de Havilland and Maureen O’Hara belong on that list.
https://i1.wp.com/www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Olivia-de-Havilland-.jpg
https://www.fineartstorehouse.com/p/629/maureen-ohara-39117599.jpg.webp
“I doubt they would try to impeach Trump for the same kind of thing they themselves are all doing, they and their presidents.” Niketas Choniates
No doubt Marine Le Pen would argue otherwise.
The Frisco school strike continues. This is looking bad for the union.
https://abc7news.com/post/san-francisco-unified-schools-closed-monday-teachers-begin-1st-strike-47-years/18572559/
“Superintendent Su said that she and her bargaining team are working hard to come to an agreement, but are working under constraints.
“The San Francisco Unified School District does not have unlimited funds,” Dr. Su said. “We are managing a structural deficit, and we are currently still under state oversight. These realities shape every decision that we have to make.”
How can one choose among these women, they are all beautiful? The exception is Judy Garland who was good looking, not beautiful, but with that voice who could care.
Billie Eilish they ain’t, none of them, all very attractive.
As Kate noted, Billie has dead eyes, and wouldn’t launch a single coracle.
America the Crippled
Watching American Idol and the majority of ads are for various pharmaceuticals—for Alzheimer’s, for obscure neurological conditions, for a whole bunch of illnesses and, if this was your reference point to judge the human race, you’d think that we were all shuffling along, heads bowed, half dead.
Epstein Update – Turns out Trump called Palm Beach Police on Epstein in 2006
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2026/02/epstein-update-turns-out-trump-called.html
@Snow on Pine:you’d think that we were all shuffling along, heads bowed, half dead.
Relax, you’re just watching a show that old people watch.
You can learn a lot from the ads. The ads for the shows I watch are for very expensive pet food, completely unnecessary supplements, and various cleaning supplies, all apparently purchased by households headed by black lesbians.
“Why can’t the US be more like Sweden?”…continued:
“How Sweden defied liberal outrage to crush the gang violence epidemic;
“Introduction of safe zones, wiretapping and changes to the law have helped government reduce gun violence and crime involving children”—
https://archive.ph/1Aqe6
H/T Blazingcatfur blog.
Opening grafs:
+Bonus:
“US hits Hezbollah’s gold exchange and financial network with sanctions;
“US Treasury sanctions Hezbollah’s gold exchange Jood SARL and its financial network, targeting key Hezbollah operations funding terrorism and destabilizing Lebanon.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/422247
Merely the next stage following the festivities in that South American, Hezbullah/Iranian terror hub (AKA Venezuela)…AND…a “message” to The Islamic “Republic” of Iran—that lovely “Hey-We’re-Gonna-Destroy-You-But-Let’s-Talk-Anyways” country…who, alas are not all that talented when it comes to hearing “messages”…
And from the “Ya’ Don’t Say!” File:
“FBI Confirms Vote-Counting Irregularities In Georgia 2020 Election”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fbi-confirms-vote-counting-irregularities-georgia-2020-election
To which the only credible response is something along the lines of “Yeah, OK, but Biden won so everything’s hunky dory.”…
Besides, “…Fulton County admitted it lacks scanned images of all 528,777 ballots counted during the initial count and of the 527,925 ballots tallied during the state’s first recount…” BUT Joe Biden won the state by a whopping just-under-12,000 votes so there’s clearly nuthin’ to see here, folks. Nuthin’ at all…”
Besides, those numbers are trivial and wouldn’t have made any difference anyways.
Besides, those evil Republicans are pouncing again.
Besides, all this is water under the bridge so those FASCISTS should really, REALLY get over it….
Besides, there’s absolutely NOTHING they can do about it.
Besides, Trump is Hitler….
We’ve all heard of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Seems we now have on our hands, Massie v. SomethingMuchMuchBigger…unless the following article is totally nuts, which is entirely possible (along with Massie being devestatingly irresponsible)…since EVERYTHING would appear to hinge on DEFINITIONS, DEFINITIONS, DEFINITIONS…along with more than a bit of NUANCE. (But that’s just it, isn’t it?—the “nuance”…)
“Massie Exposes Les Wexner As Epstein Co-Conspirator, Opening Door To Criminal Charges Against Kash Patel”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/massie-exposes-les-wexner-epstein-co-conspirator-opening-door-criminal-charges-against
Or…potentially, a “The-Hell-With-the-Country” moment, otherwise known as “The Perfect is the Enemy of the Sane”.
(Or maybe it’s a matter of where one stands on the “Justice”-“Mercy” continuum… or maybe it’s “merely” political murder-suicide…)
“Massie Exposes Les Wexner As Epstein Co-Conspirator”
Massie reminds me of Schumer, lies easily. We will see.
Countdown to…
“Panic Ensues After Trump Orders CIA To Give 2020 Election Intel To ‘Stop The Steal’ Lawyer”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/panic-ensues-after-trump-orders-cia-give-2020-election-intel-stop-steal-lawyer
AI caramba!!
“Botched Surgeries And Misidentified Body Parts”: AI Is Off To An Ugly Start In The Operating Room”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/botched-surgeries-and-misidentified-body-parts-ais-rocky-start-operating-room
Just a few small kinks to work out, no doubt…
(Bit of a strange idea from the get-go, though; unless it’s the next best thing, just introduced too early.)
OTOH, maybe AI has been programmed with a basic sense of humor that AI itself is now toying with…and tweaking!
If it keeps up, best to stay out of the hospital, if possible.
Grok:
https://x.com/i/status/2021572208716403034
Surface to 18,000 ft ceiling at 10 mile radius.
Anybody know what’s going on?
Per Fox Business, just now: Mexican cartel drones breached US airspace. DoW took action. No further risk to commercial air traffic.
Re the Epstein files, let the chips fall where they may. No more special treatment for anyone!
Sir Mick Jagger’s fiancée Melanie Hamrick has revealed she was ‘physically attacked’ and mugged in the upmarket London district of Mayfair. The ballerina, 38, took to Instagram on Wednesday morning to detail what had happened to her, saying two muggers grabbed her from behind – leaving her ‘shaken’ and ‘heartbroken’. Melanie wrote: ‘This is incredibly hard to share, but I was physically attacked at Annabels Mayfair tonight. ‘I’m so thankful to my friends for protecting me. Two people grabbed me from behind and thank god for good people who stepped in to help me.