Good news everybody – prison terms have dropped to just 12 months for every $1 billion you steal!Photo above - Hiding in plain sight. Bitcoin hacker Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife "Razzlekhan", a TikTok personality and rapper, pose for posterity before being sentenced. Ilya Lichtenstein. Remember that name. He’s the guy who stole 120,000... See More » (1)
Boston spends $1 billion on illegal immigrants annually. Welcome to your $300 a night hotel room?Photo above - Migrants in Boston are being housed in $300 per night hotel rooms. Here they await their next meal, which the state also pays for at $64 per person. I get the impression at least SOME blue states are secretly cheering the... See More » (1)
Hey, Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth . . . I just found something you can cut in the Pentagon budget.Photo above - World War 2 ends with Japan's surrender on a US battleship. The US is now bringing back a pair of 1940's era battleships to bolster our nation's defenses. Not a joke . . . for real. Isn’t it enough that we have ELEVEN aircraft... See More » (1)
What does it cost to purchase 4 year around the world cruise, and escape the new administration?Photo above - This is what an affordable cabin on the 4 year "avoid trump" cruise trip will look like. I've seen bigger Motel 6 rooms. Ones that didn't have the toilet in sight of the bed, either. Hey – progressive millionaires: If you DON’T... See More » (1)
That was fast! Economists are already screaming inflation was “never licked” and the national debt is an existential threat.Photo above - What is Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers whispering to President Clinton? And why is Clinton cracking up? Probably nothing to do with the national debt and housing costs which are driving our nation to ruin. The election has been... See More » (1)
The Federal Reserve was created in 1913. The US dollar has lost 94% of it’s value since then.Photo above -Elon Musk has proposed abolishing the Federal Reserve. And putting all your money into Shiba Inu cryptocurrency. Really, he did. Wait . . . a 1913 dollar is worth only 4 cents today? That’s an inflation rate of . . . (ka-ching) . .... See More » (1)
Trump vowed to halt new offshore wind farms. Will that cost America billions, or save billions?Photo above - ALL ENGINES HALT. Asteroid field ahead. Mr. Chekov . . . can you plot a course for the Enterprise around this thing? First off, I have no personal animosity toward wind turbines. But then again, I don’t live near one. The current... See More » (1)
News alert. Housing still unaffordable. Powell asserts he won’t quit, and can’t be fired.[i]Photo above - when I see a bureaucrat posing in front of a giant wall of flags, I always suspect skullduggery might be at work. And notice the official Federal Reserve pennant (blue), which is being flown at the same height as the stars and... See More » (1)
Hello, $97,695 Jeep Wrangler. Meet 1,100 laid off assembly line workers.Photo above – this probably is NOT the most expensive Jeep Wrangler in America. However, it’s the most expensive one I could find in 30 seconds. $97,695, including delivery and dealer installed options. Tax, title and tags extra. If you’ve... See More » (1)
Pollsters were wrong. AGAIN. Please explain why.I can only think of two reasons why a predicted Kamala grand slam instead became a hat trick for Republicans (they now control the white house, senate, and house of representatives). First possibility : millions of people lied to pollsters. 2nd... See More » (1)
Top 10 things overhead in the White House west wing at 4am, Wednesday November 6th . . .[i]Photo above - Candidate Kamala yuks it up on SNL, trolling for laughs. Loses every battleground state on Tuesday because her campaign staff thought people still watched SNL. Top 10 White House comments this morning, as told to me by sources... See More » (1)
Ford sold 70,000 EVs so far in 2024. It lost $3.7 billion – over $50,000 per vehiclePhoto above - Ford can't touch this. A $1,200 eBike which could become everyone's second car. Yes, it's made in China, not on a US assembly line where union members earn $140,000 a year. When I vote tomorrow, I won’t be driving an EV. Not that I... See More » (1)
13 European nations are “ahead” of the USA. Can you guess why?Photo above - Switzerland was just ranked one of the world's nicest places to live. And the single most expensive. Don't get fooled by the goats. Most people live in Zurich or Geneva where housing prices make the US look affordable. Wow. After I... See More » (1)
Why yes, I DO have $325 billion in cash on hand. What do you suggest that I do with it?Photo above – Warren Buffet plays his ukelele, while playing with his toy trains, while deciding what to do with the $325 billion he’s hoarding after selling a bunch of stocks. In today’s edition of Lives of the Rich and Famous we focus on... See More » (1)
How to lose half a BILLION dollars in 2 weeks.Photo above - American surfer Griffin Colapinto wipes out at the 2024 summer Olympic games. NBC/Peacock was almost wiped out with a $436 loss covering the games. What was your favorite Olympic moment this summer? Yeah . . . me too. I struggle to... See More » (1)
Do you prefer Biden’s 100% tariff on Chinese EVs, or Trump’s 10% tariff on everything?Photo above - The European Parliament, which bears an eerie resemblance to the senate building on Coruscant, where Queen Amidala got screwed out of her entire planet in "The Phantom Menace", over some kind of free trade dispute. We have a choice!... See More » (1)
After a decade of solar and wind turbine subsidies, blue state governors now complain that electricity rates are too high.Photo above - Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, in his 2022 campaign, promised to close electric plants which relied on fossil fuels. On Friday he sent a threatening letter to the electric grid operators because rates have skyrocketed since. Do... See More » (1)
California was the first state to mandate EVs. Will it become the first state to outlaw them?[]Photo above - the genocidal Terminator robot is fueled by something more advanced than rechargeable lithium batteries. We know this because it survived a gasoline tanker truck crash without incinerating itself at 1,000 degrees like a Tesla semi... See More » (1)
Senator with Law Degree apparently confused about how inflation works . . .Photo above - according to Cars.com, the average price of a new pickup truck is now over $60,000. Elizabeth Warren says to ignore that. McDonald's burgers are the worst example inflation. Today’s link (below) is to Elizabeth Warren, who has “Ted... See More » (1)
BRICS surrenders! Abandons dream of replacing the U$D with rubles. Going for the gold instead?Photo above - Putin announces his new plan to dominate the world with . . . GOLD !!!! The Soviet Union (“We will bury you”) collapsed in 1992. So did the Soviet ruble. In 1998 Russia announced it was replacing the old ruble. 1,000 soviet rubles... See More » (1)
21% interest rates? You can only get this one place on earth.Photo above - The Russian central bank recently raised interest rates to 21%. The ruble has lost half it's value since 2022. Wow . . . and I thought WE had it bad when Fed Chairman Jerome Powell raised US interest rates to 5.5%. Everyone thought... See More » (1)
What do you mean you won’t approve my mortgage if I don’t have homeowners' insurance?Photo above - triple threat. Which will happen next: house tumbles into the sea; burns down from a natural gas link, or an earthquake splits it in half? Normally, I diss California politicians as having the attention span of a butterfly, and only... See More » (1)
Did I sell my gold mining stocks too soon?Photo above - environmentally responsible gold mining in Quebec Province, Canada. People want gold because they are afraid of . . . everything. Photo courtesy of Canadian Martic Gold Mines, LLC, a subsidiary of Agnico Eagle mines. “Trees don’t... See More » (1)
How can this be happening, unless we’re already in a recession?Photo above - Elon Musk can build self-driving taxis, but not a restaurant robot? Fish tacos! Who doesn’t hate these abominations? So I don’t actually mourn when a restaurant chain like Rubio’s Coastal Grill suddenly has plywood nailed to the... See More » (1)
Would you spend $2 billion to solve every cold case murder in the USA?Photo above - James Watson and Francis Crick won a Nobel Prize in 1953, and again in 1962, for their work identifying DNA as the key factor in evolution and reproduction. 23 and Me is one of the private sector DNA testing lab/repositories. And... See More » (1)