Donald J. Trump, who fancies himself a Wile E. Coyote level genius, is a graduate of the Wharton School of Business.
It certainly doesn't show, or Wharton isn't all it has been cracked up to be.
Having gotten the United States into an illegal war as Bibi Netanyahu talked him into it, Donny appears to have been taken off guard that Iran could and would close the Straits of Hormuz, hit tankers, and hit oil and gas facilities throughout the Middle East.
Why wouldn't they?
Perhaps if Melania lets Barron go see his father over Spring Break, assuming they're not perusing travel brochures entitled "where we can go to live after Don dies where people won't know we're Trumps", and assuming that Barron isn't doing the right thing and enlisting in the United States Marine Corps, they can break out some hex and counter games and play Naval based Superpower v. Land based regional power" and see how that works out.
Anyhow, Donny Trump (did we mention that he fancies himself a Wile E. Coyote level genius?) has lifted sanctions on already loaded oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, which means that Iran now has a source of cash it didn't before the war started.
So, we didn't wipe out their nuclear capabilities in the Twelve Day War, their government hasn't fallen in this one, people have not risen up to toss out the Iranian government, the Straits of Hormuz are closed, we didn't stockpile oil before the war, the price of oil has skyrocketed, and now the Iranians can legally transport some oil
Assuming that Trump isn't secretly trying to destroy the American economy and benefit Iran (and Russia), it's hard to see the smarts in any of that.
Petroleum is back up over $100/bbl, basically because King Donny is a liar.
March 26, 2026
And the war inflation hits packages:
U.S. Postal Service Announces Transportation-Related, Time-Limited Price Change
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service filed notice today with the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) regarding a time-limited price change to better align its costs of transportation with the market. This temporary price adjustment will provide needed flexibility for the Postal Service by helping to ensure that the actual costs of doing business are covered, as required by Congress.
While this price increase is a time-limited adjustment, it will provide a necessary bridge to a permanent mechanism to reflect market conditions in prices for competitive products that can support the Postal Service’s ability to achieve the universal service obligation in a more financially sustainable manner going forward.
The planned price change, which was approved by the Governors of the Postal Service on March 24, is an 8 percent increase that would affect base postage prices on the following retail and commercial domestic competitive products: Priority Mail Express, Priority Mail, USPS Ground Advantage, and Parcel Select. No other products or services would be affected, including First-Class Stamps. Pending favorable review by the PRC, the price change would go into effect at midnight Central Time on April 26 and would remain in place until midnight Central Time on Jan. 17, 2027. At that time, the Postal Service can determine if a different long-term approach is needed.
Transportation costs have been increasing, and our competitors have reacted with a number of surcharges. We have steadfastly avoided surcharges and this charge is less than one-third of what our competitors charge for fuel alone, so even with this change, the Postal Service continues to offer great value in shipping with some of the lowest rates in the industrialized world.
The time-limited price change is consistent with industry practices and will support the Postal Service’s ability to continue achieving its public service mission — providing a nationwide, integrated network for the delivery of mail and packages at least six days a week — in a cost-effective and financially sustainable manner over the long term, just as the U.S. Congress has intended.
The PRC will review the proposed price change before it is scheduled to take effect on April 26. Complete USPS price filings, with prices for all products, can be found on the PRC website’s Daily Listings section at prc.arkcase.com/portal/filings. Price tables are also available on the Postal Explorer website at pe.usps.com/PriceChange/Index.
"Chemtrails" for those who are unfamiliar with this, is a conspiracy theory. As Wikipedia summarizes it:
The chemtrail conspiracy theory /ˈkɛmtreɪl/ is the erroneous belief that long-lasting condensation trails left in the sky by high-flying aircraft are actually "chemtrails" consisting of chemical or biological agents, sprayed for nefarious purposes undisclosed to the general public. Believers in this conspiracy theory say that while normal contrails dissipate relatively quickly, contrails that linger must contain additional substances. Those who subscribe to the theory speculate that the purpose of the chemical release may be solar radiation management, weather modification, psychological manipulation, human population control, biological or chemical warfare, or testing of biological or chemical agents on a population, and that the trails are causing respiratory illnesses and other health problems.
Uff.
The fact that this passed committee suggest that every member of this committee needs to return to kindergarten save for Barry Crago and Karlee Provenza
So who is on it?
Bob Ide
Barry Crago (voted no).
Taft Love
Troy McKeown
Laura Pearson
John Winter
Dalton Banks
Bob Davis
John Eklund
Steve Johnson
Pepper Ottman
Karlee Provenza (voted no).
Mike Schmid
Tomi Strock
Apparently global warming coming up with some blaming that on chemtrails. How ignorant can a person be? It's amazing that they actually will acknowledge that its occuring, and man made, but has to be caused by some bat shit crazy conspiracy theory.
Don't vote for anyone on this list after this, save for Provenza and Crago. You can judge them on their merits otherwise, but they didn't fall for this whacky shit or tolerate it.
Simply amazing, and depressing.
November 7, 2025
We've dropped the infertility drugs to make lots of Trump babies I'm hoping by the midterms.
Dr. "Oz".
What the crap?
Also, at this event an unidentified man collapsed beside President Donald Trump.
Dr. Oz, did go to help the man, while Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran away from the scene. The video of Kennedy's hasty departure is impressive.
November 19, 2025
Esquire, which I don't read, but whose cover I saw declares this to be "The Age of Stupid and openly wonders if the US will survive it. It further declares that the US went from anti-intellectual, to anti-intellect.
That seems pretty correct to me.
The Atlantic has an article entitled Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid, noting "Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid. It's actually from 2022, and compares the US to the Biblical Babel.
So on this topic, I'm not alone.
Trump is spouting stupider and stupider stuff by the day. He insults people throughout every single day.
The country literally can't keep going this way. Stupidity will bring it to ruin, if not the entire globe to ruin.
There is some evidence, albeit not overwhelming, that thinking people have had enough.
Recently I linked in an Ezra Klein episode on Nick Fuentes. It's here:
Well worth listening to, and absolutely frightening.
I'm noting that, as it wasn't until that episode that I appreciated the degree to which the current GOP, and the populist right, is being influenced by incels. Right after that, through synchronicity, it occurred to me recently how many right wing populists are basically misogynistic, racist, losers.
Not all of them by any means. There are many very right wing thinkers out there, and some of them are in the Trump camp.
Not too many of them are really MAGA anymore however.
There are, however, a group that spend all their time hating blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and women, because if all those people, they think, were "in their place", an easy life would be provided to them.
Well, bucko, the world was never like that. Get up, get out, and get a grip.
Trump feeds into these people's sense of worth. They love him, he desires love, and therefore, well . . .therefore.
This was oddly illustrated by this on Twitter, posted by one Richard Cooper, who seems to hate women, but who also, on his Twitter feed, like to demonstrate his hatred for women, by posting pictures of barely clad women.
"Just look at the degree on that chick"
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Well, I don't know what sort of background Cooper has, but in the age of stupid, there are a lot of comments like this out there.
This one, however, actually went viral, as it sparked thousands of degreed women to post their own photos of their graduations with "look at the degree on that chick", including the extremely conservative The Catholic Engineer, whom I follow. I'm a very conservative Catholic, but The Catholic Engineer makes me look like a liberal in comparison. But she's very interesting, very willing to engage in debates, and she also is coincidentally a pretty woman.
Adding this pic to the trend too cause it's cool
They shot Inception over here
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She is some sort of aerospace engineer, which is pretty darned high test.
Anyhow, the entire concept that men don't like intelligent women is complete bs. It's long been established that generally people marry somebody of like IQ, save for the super wealthy who have lost their morals and marry bimbos. I'll note here that it would appear that our nation's (illegitimate) leader, who very clearly isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, doesn't appear to have selected all of his "wives" based on intelligence, which doesn't necessarily mean that they're not intelligent. Only Marla Maples seemed to be an exception, but of course I don't know much about any of the lineup. The current occupant of the lineup might be smart, who knows, but given his wealth and her (then fully on display) looks, it seems to be the classic trophy situation.
That's been one of the things that's been so baffling. Trump's not smart, and he behaves like a wealthy playboy, and that's stupid. There's nothing admirable about that at all, and in no prior era would anyone have thought so.
Anyhow, since the introduction of Trump into politics there's been the rise of basement dwelling incels. No, they don't control everything. There's really mad right wing conservatives who were and are upset with moral decay. There's the illiberal democrats of the National Conservative movement, many of whom are real intellectuals (and probably mostly married to really sharp women). There's the Neo Traditionalist who are trying to grope their way back to an imagined Hilaire Belloc golden age that never really existed, but which they wish did and hope might, again. There's the really scary Evangelicals of the New Apostolic Reformation who seek to make the nation a Calvinist republic. All of these are tied up together in a coalition, now seemingly starting to fray, that has been MAGA.
But an undoubted part of that is the Nick Fuentes group of populists. They're angry, they're nasty, they are anti semitic, anti women, and pretty much opposed to anyone who isn't a basement dweller. They believe the women, Indians, Jews, Blacks and, ironically in the case of Fuentes, Hispanics stole from them simply by being here. Educated women, blacks, Jews, and others have taken their jobs and maybe the girls they would have had, they believe, leaving them with no future. They found a voice in people like Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, and even people like true, but radical, intellectuals from the other camps, like Helen Anderson, who imagines that radical feminizatist still exist and are wiping out society, as she's written about here:
It's a short article. It's also incredibly wrong. I've lived through the era in which law went from mostly male to increasingly female, in terms of lawyer demographics, and it really hasn't made one darned bit of difference in the law.
As noted, things seem to be changing a bit. I'm hearing more and more people who ere MAGA adherents suddenly question it. People as MAGA as Marjorie Taylor Green are now openly at war with a mentally failing Donald Trump. A war is going on inside of MAGA about Tucker Carlson's bromance with Fuentes.
And now this. People reacted heavily to the "look at the degrees on that chick" comment, a comment which suggested, basically, that women had value only for their physical and secual attributes.
I actually went in and liked Turner's Twitter feed, as she's an evolutionary biologist, one of my favorite topics. I'm not exactly threatened by a woman having an advanced degree in that topic.
Indeed, looking back, and I now have a lot of back to look at, in my dating days, there was never one single girl I dated that wasn't really sharp. One went on to be a school teacher. Another I lost track of but she was the valedictorian of her high school class. One was working on a masters degree in geophysics and obtained it. Two were law students. And finally there's my wife, who is pretty darned smart.
Indeed, look at the degrees on those chicks.
But consider the stupidity of the nation right now. It's appalling.
We'll close out this edition of this sad trailing thread here.
December 13, 2025
First it was the screwball chemtrail stupidity, now this:
*I'm using the word Ignoramus in its original English connotation, as derived from the Latin. I.e., an ignorant person.
Not a stupid person.
To willfully believe something stupid is ignorant, particularly when done by intelligent people. Some of these people are undoubtedly highly intelligent, and I don't know that any of them are stupid, but they're willfully voting for something that is just a weird silly conspiracy theory.
