Key US yields at 5% and rising.All those folks out there supporting the Iran war have got it coming. It's going to be a double whammy when the stock market tanks. You lose your life-savings as the debt noose tightens around your neck keeping it shut like the Strait of Hormuz.... See More »
Swirlie, are you there? We have to continue chatting here.I saved your post and post it here below. swirlie · 31-35, F @sree251 If you look at life more spiritually (not religiously), within the universe Proper there is no such thing as gain and loss. Such concepts simply do not exist, no different than... See More »
Marco Rubio to visit Rome to ‘thaw’ US relations with Pope.Rubio is scheduled to be in the Italian capital on Thursday and Friday to pay a call on Pope Leo, the first US-born pontiff. The Secretary of State is an emissary from Trump in this world. The Holy Father is the representative of God in the next.... See More »
Trump wants America to pay him billions. And he has all the cards.Of all the ways President Trump has pushed the boundaries of executive power, one stands out to lawyers and watchdogs. Trump has filed multiple claims arguing he's been hurt by Justice Department investigations of him. One of which is the leak of... See More »
Baby boomers are destroying America.Boomers, representing 22% of the population, owned 42% of homes causing a "bottleneck" that limits housing for younger generations. Boomers supported policies that increased the national debt to over $30 trillion while eroding the middle class.... See More »
I need a break from Trump and his Iran War.This Saturday, May 2, is the 2026 Kentucky Derby. Which is your pick? I am going to bet on So Happy. American democracy is a disease, and war is America's need to mestastasize. We are a cancer, a pathogenic agent now spreading from the primary site... See More »
The British have come again 212 years after burning the White House.The King has come to visit. The aristocrat and the classless bum. Thank God the Queen is dead but she is probably turning in her grave. His mother, the late Queen, met 13 presidents and steered the transatlantic relationship from the Second World... See More »
The U.S. military’s reliance on Chinese suppliers.The diminished US munitions stockpiles due to the Iran war have created a near-term risk. A war against a capable peer competitor like China will consume munitions at greater rates than in this war. Prewar inventories were already insufficient; the... See More »
Iran offers to open Straits of Hormuz if US ends blockade. Trump says no.If the condition of giving up Iran's enriched uranium is the big deal breaker, why don't Russia, China, or North Korea arm Iran with nuclear warheads? This would end the US reason for the war and everybody can go home. This US war with Iran is a... See More »
America's national development at the expense of the people.Is America a nation not for the people? Or is it a corporate entity called the USA enslaving its human shareholders? Archbald, a northeastern Pennsylvania town of 7,000 people tucked in a valley near the Pocono Mountains. It sits beneath a major... See More »
The moon race between the tortoise (China) and the hare (USA).The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. It doesn’t matter who gets to the moon next. It matters who gets to... See More »
Two ways of calculating drug prices: Trump way or the highway.Trump, who helped push the term “ fake news ” into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math. Announcing a deal with drugmaker Regeneron to lower the cost of its pharmaceutical products, Trump defended his past claims that... See More »
The Gaza massacre is worse than the ongoing bloodbath in Morocco.Blood splattered across the streets, spent shell casings were scattered in the grass, and armed men piled into vehicles all over the city of Nador, Morocco. They are accused of carrying out mass killings of stray dogs ahead of the 2030 World Cup. The... See More »
Dumb Trump lives in a bubble of American might. US is more exposed to the Iran war than we realize.Asia’s spiraling supply shock is coming for America. About half the stuff Americans buy comes from Asia. In Asia, gas stations are rationing fuel. Hospitals are running out of medical supplies. People are hoarding plastic bags, and factories face... See More »
U.S. sailor en route to Strait of Hormuz sidelined by monkey attack.A U.S. Navy sailor assigned to a minesweeping ship that's headed to the Strait of Hormuz was medically evacuated to his home port after he was scratched by an Asian monkey while ashore in Thailand, officials say. During a stopover in Phuket,... See More » (1)
I voted for Donald Trump. Like Tucker Carlson, I will be tormented by that decision forevermore.“It’s not enough to say, ‘Well I changed my mind,’ or like, ‘Oh this is bad, I’m out.’ It’s like in very small ways, but in real ways, you and me and millions of people like us are the reason this is happening right now,” said Carlson. How many of... See More »
Thanks to Trump, the US President of peace, the nuclear arms race is on.The world is at risk of a fresh nuclear arms race, the head of the United Nations’ atomic agency has warned. Rafael Grossi said rising conflict and instability could lead to a “crack in the system” of non-proliferation and a domino effect in which... See More »
Disturbing image shows IDF soldier smashing Jesus statue with axe in Lebanon.An Israeli soldier's horrific act of destroying a Jesus Christ statue in southern Lebanon has been confirmed by the Israeli Defense Forces. The IDF wrote on X that it “views the incident with great severity and emphasizes that the soldier’s conduct... See More »
Trump wartime funding strategies are bad news for U.S.’s mounting national debt.For WW1, President Woodrow Wilson espoused a “conscription of wealth,” telling Americans that just as the U.S. drafted young men to fight the war, it would also draft the wealth of America. In the throes of the Korean War, President Harry Truman gav... See More »
Trump yanks millions from Catholic Charities amid Pope feud.The Trump administration has abruptly canceled a multimillion-dollar contract with a Catholic charity that houses and cares for migrant children amid the president’s feud with Pope Leo XIV. Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Miami has helped p... See More »
Vance issues warning to Pope Leo. Vance said it was wrong for the Pope to criticize those who wield the sword.In sparring with Pope Leo on theology, Vance said it was wrong to criticize those who wield the sword because Europe would never have been liberated during WWII without the U.S. military. Does anyone, especially a practicing Christian, thinks this... See More »
China sells everything from t-shirts to in-orbit satellites targeting US assets in the Middle East.Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) acquired a Chinese Earth-observation satellite in late 2024 after it was already launched into space from China, in what was called an “in-orbit delivery” deal. This gave Iran the ability to capture... See More »
Trump's war in Iran is going to sweep us all into the gutter.Oil prices have started to come down for a worrisome reason. It's like the tide going out along the seashore, an ominous phenomenon heralding the approach of a tsunami that wipes out everything. The aftermath will be a global economic wasteland.... See More »
"Pope should 'stick to matters concerning the Catholic Church," said JD Vance.What matters concern the Catholic Church?? The Pope is the vicar of Christ whose kingdom is not of this world. Does the US Vice President have a point?
