Here’s the clip of this week’s episode of The Bryan Hyde Show; we got into Trump’s hinting he might temporarily rescind the 18 cents or so federal gas tax to placate Americans who are furious about paying close to $5 for a gallon of gas, because of the stupid, evil war that Trump started:
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Off topic…
Really weird, Twilight Zone episode meets Forrest Gump BS shit kids……
Sitrep …..Ides of March 2001…
Discussion follows..
Hey Suzie are you doing anything this Fall?..
No why?…..
Let’s do one of those one way-ticket Kool lonely planet “Bug Out’s ” Whadda ya say??…
Sounds good
Where do you want to go?
Got a good price on tickets to Santiago Chile…We’ll figure out how to get back later…
“Book it Danno” ..okey dookie…
The ticket was booked for ..
OCTOBER 8, 2001……
Checking out Santiago on arrival….
We saunter about Plaza De Armas…..Guess what kids..
There is a
“headstone”?? mentioning an event which happened in the country on……..
SEPT 11 1973….HELLO PINOCHET KIDS ….NO SHIT…
Once upon a time…on the Big Blue Marble…..Stranger than fiction???
Who is keeping Trump’s stupid, evil war going? Repugniclowns … plus ‘Fetterman’:
‘Senate Republicans on Wednesday again blocked Democratic legislation that would halt President Donald Trumpās war with Iran, but the number of GOP senators voting against the war grew.
‘Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted against the war for the first time since it began at the end of February. Two other Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Rand Paul of Kentucky, also voted against the war, as they had done previously.
‘The war powers legislation ultimately failed to advance 49-50, with Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania the only Democrat to oppose it, yet the close tally reflected growing unease with Trumpās war. Several other Republican senators have signaled they want Congress to weigh in on the direction of the conflict.
āThere will be a day ā and it might be soon, I believe ā where this Senate will say to the president, āStop this war,āā Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia, who has spearheaded his partyās tactic of forcing repeated votes on the war, said before the vote.’
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-congress-lisa-murkowski-3efd8b6bc1834a66eca8526a0a9b3ffe
Screw the stinking war.
Jeff Rense radio live right now @7:30 PST, “45 refineries sabotaged in the last 6 weeks”.
I googled it and found this:
Worldās Oil Refineries SABOTAGED: 45 Attacks in 45 Days Trigger US War Economy AND MASS DRAFT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOmY8SITNmg
Morning, Jim –
Fetterman is a deteriorated special (per Phillip Dick) who ought to be in a care facility. Yet – like the Dirty Turtle – he is in a position of consequential authority. It’s a sad – and sick – clown show, isn’t it?
‘Care facility’ … ‘Fetterman’ shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near a car!
Down ‘n out in Washington DeeCee:
‘At a Capitol Hill restaurant Tuesday, [Senator Rand Paul’s son] William Paul went on to tell Rep. Mike Lawler [R-NY] he āneeds to watch more Tucker Carlson.ā He also said that Rep. Thomas Massie and Paul’s father, Sen. Rand Paul, were the only lawmakers who care about the U.S.
‘Lawler tried to end the conversation and said, āWell, you just seem to hate Jews, so thereās no point arguing anymore.ā
‘Paul then shoved his finger in Lawlerās face, saying, āDonāt put words in my mouth, Mike Lawler, I never said that.ā
‘He then began to complain about Lawlerās push to raise the SALT cap in last yearās reconciliation bill. When Lawler said, āPlease leave us alone,ā Paul turned around and flipped off Lawler.
āDid you just give me the middle finger?ā Lawler asked.
āIām sorry, yeah, I did. Iām just really drunk. Iām going to leave,ā Paul said.
‘He then paid his tab and started to walk away. On his way out, he knocked his barstool down and tripped over it.’
https://www.notus.org/congress/william-paul-mike-lawler-confrontation-antisemitism
I got swinging doors
A jukebox
And a barstool
And my new home has a flashing neon sign
Stop by and see me
Anytime you want to
‘Cause I’m always here at home, ’till closing time
— Merle Haggard, Swinging Doors
Having lived dirt poor for much of my life, I have learned how to penny pinch. One thing Eric could do to save his way of life from the upcoming financial armageddon caused by Orangeturd and his war on Iran for Israel is to aggressively change his car inventory to a car he can actually afford to drive.
If i was Eric I would immediately sell my Trans Am and Nissan PU and any other bike or car I am not using daily. That would immediately solve the problem of paying the VA gov’t parasites registration and insurance. Why pay if you no drive it?
I would keep a motor bike which gets 75 mpg, or even get a little Honda that gets over 100 mpg. The Honda Super Cub with a 125cc can get over 150 mpg. It was the most produced vehicle ever, beating even the Corolla.
I would get a fuel injected CB175-225 or something like it. Kawasaki’s got a 233 cc KLX that has a 6 speed (nobody wants them and they go for half price).
After selling my older fuel guzzling cars because I have mastered my emotional attachments to things I had in the past, I would buy a used in mint condition “Prius C” like these found on Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, or Auto trader:
https://richmond.craigslist.org/search/cta?query=%22prius%20c%22#search=2~gallery~3
Those Prius C’s in Virginia are dirt cheap compared to Oregun prices.
I would learn how to hypermile, I would frequent Darin’s ecomodder website and learn how to eek out 90 mpg in my Prius C using pulse and glide. It will be no problem because soon most people will not even be driving and you’ll own the road and be able to do shit you never could before, like drive way the fuck lower than the posted speed. Soon you’ll be singing “I can’t drive 55” because gas is $8 a gallon.
Hi Jack,
Selling the TA would be akin to selling a child, for me. Not going to happen. It’s paid for and doesn’t cost me much to just keep it. I have motorcycles that get 60 MPG and may buy one that can get more than 100. That’s the ticket!
Orange Golem says āI Donāt Think About Americansā Financial Situationā
https://www.renegadetribune.com/trump-i-dont-think-about-americans-financial-situation/
Trump also says Iran can not have a nuclear weapon. That is a false statement, all nations can have nuclear weapons, that is their sovereign right.
Experts say Iran probably did 90% enrichment already and probably already have 10 nukes by now.
Trump is way behind the curve, by attacking Iran and killing Ayatollah Khameni, he killed the mullah who prohibited nukes with a fatwa. When the mullah dies, the fatwa is no longer valid. Thus the hard liners, the military in Iran, would have instantly made nukes – and they had all the parts ready to assemble in their underground lairs.
Trump is a stupid dumbass, why even listen to him?
Netanyahu dis not want Iran to have nukes and thwart Greater Israel plans. He lobbied for decades for the USA to attack Iran. He finally got his man, the Orange Golem to do his dirty work. Since Trumpenstein was installed the 2nd time, Trump has attacked Iran several times. He killed the top religious leader who prohibited nukes.
Now Iran is free of the fatwas stopping Iran from defending itself. North Korea, China, and Russia are helping Iran build a solid defense system.
IMO, Iran now has nukes. Trump inadvertently caused Iran to get nukes.
“how long would it take Iran to enrich uranium to 90% and assemble tactical nuclear weapons”
AI Overview
Iran could likely produce enough 90% enriched, weapons-grade uranium (WGU) for its first nuclear bomb in just a few days to a week, with enough for several more bombs in about 3 to 4 weeks, according to assessments from May 2026.
Assembling a functional nuclear weapon (weaponization) is estimated to take several more months.
Enrichment Timeline (60% to 90%): Because Iran already has significant stockpiles of 60% enriched uranium, transitioning to 90% is much faster than starting from lower levels. It takes roughly 500 SWUs (Separative Work Units) to bridge the gap from 60% to 90%, which is achievable in 4-5 weeks, or only days for a single device.
Weaponization Timeline: While the fissile material can be produced quickly, fabricating, testing, and integrating the explosive components into a deliverable weapon (e.g., a missile warhead) is estimated to take months.
Capacity: Iran has advanced centrifuge models (IR-6) installed at deeply buried facilities like Fordow; these allow for accelerated enrichment, potentially enabling enough material for 9 or 10 bombs within 3-4 weeks.
Good news earthlings, Trump will eventually die and this crisis will pass like water under a bridge, and you will be able to tell tall tales to your grandkids some day about how a nation was seduced by an Orange con artist, who promised us the moon and delivered us into hell.
I am old enough to remember seeing 25 cent gasoline price war in Wisconsin one summer as a wee lad. Back then $35 a gal was the normal price, so 25 cents was a real bargain.
I lived through multiple oil shocks, each time my budget got squeezed forcing me to change my ways. Back in the 2000’s, gas got expensive enough for me to buy my first Geo Metro, a 1992 which only weighed 1700 lbs. The lady who sold it to me said it got 52 mpg, which I doubted. It got 52 mpg, I was saved by the lightweight little car. I paid $800 cash.
https://www.macrotrends.net/4453/us-gasoline-prices
The problem for me now, with gas at $5, I need a car that gets better fuel economy than a Geo Metro and there ain’t none. I need a car that gets 100 mpg to have the same purchasing power parity. All cars got a lot heavier, and all the fuel got watered down with ethanol.
We are totally screwed until we can buy itsy bitsy little cars from Mexico, Brazil, Japan, or China.
All of you who drive those huge 6,000 lb trucks, plan on being parked for most of the time. Orange cock sucker really screwed us all. He refuses to resign even though he is being blackmailed, Trump is not a decent man, he is a monster.
If gas goes to $6 then to $7 then to $10, what the hell are we going to do? And who is going to buy all those pickups on the lot, when most of them are 70k and up?
Hi Jack!
For me, the metric is what it costs to fill up my Trans-Am. I have owned this car for more than 30 years and when I bought it back in the ’90s, It took about $20 to fill it up. I could afford to drive a car like this regularly. Today, it takes almost $100 to fill it up, which is why I can only drive it sporadically. The depressing thing is I ought to be more able to afford to drive the thing today. Yet I was better-off, financially, when I was still in my 20s and making much less money.
I’ve mentioned this before, but it bears re-mentioning: Around the same time, I bought my first house, in Northern Va. – for about $155k. That same house is now a $650k house. The world turn’d upside down…
Yep, which is why I made the crack that once you got your classic pet car fixed so you could drive it, it would sit in your garage as a spare gas tank. I was not trying to be cruel or a smart ass, I know exactly what was going to happen because I owned a 1965 W200 Power Wagon (318 wide block) which got 8 mpg on a good day. I used it for wood cutting. I would get my yearly loads of red fir off the mountain with that truck – I would drive up in 4th gear empty, then only use the engine to get over humps, etc and coast back to town coasting with the engine off (no power steering or brakes).
By only using the truck for that single purpose, it would only cost be $40 a year to fuel it.
Here is another story unfolding right now. I have a 2007 civic lx. 5 spd 1.8 liter. It weighs 2700 lbs, a 1,000 more than a metro. It is parked. I am riding my moto bike. I have cut my car driving back so that my weekly fuel cost stays the same. I am being militant about not getting screwed by the Orange Golem.
If I drive 5th gear around 40 mph I can milk over 50 mpg. On some legs I even get it over 60 mpg. I coast in idle on the hills. Not safe to coast engine off in this car.
The Civic is the most coasting car I have ever owned, I have the tires inflated to 50psi and they are nearly bald. Makes a big difference if your tires are overinflated and low tread. BIG INCREASE.
Driving slow really boosts the fuel economy. Here is the chart that proves it:
https://ecomodder.com/forum/showthread.php/15-mods-15-mpg-improvement-b-test-2007-a-30111.html
Eric, I do not know if you have covered the topic of the devaluation of vehicles across the board during this run up of gas/diesel prices. You did talk about majors going bankrupt.
What’s your trade in worth when there’s no buying?
All across the nation, in every lot, are unsold trucks. If gas keeps going up, sales will drop to near zero. That means they are worth far less and only can be sold at huge discounts. The dealer is not going to want to buy any big truck, they will be in complete desperation to unload what they have and tell Ford don’t send any more.
Add to that all the cars privately owned, who will be able to sell their cars and trucks which get less than 20 mpg? Tens of millions of vehicles, which owners think are worth such and such are not. Who is going to buy these vehicles if push comes to shove?
What is happening is a mass decrease in wealth nationwide. Net worth’s are shrinking. If gas goes to $10 a gallon, there would be a catastrophic loss of personal wealth, most people car’s are there 2nd biggest financial asset.
Then there is the problem for all the people who live far out. Say you live 30 minutes from town, and you drive a Silverado to get to Krogers. People are going to have to car pool in those supercabs just to go grocery shopping.
Eric – I do think $6 gas will be a tipping point. The last two tanks of gas here in SW Oregon, at the discount stations I paid $5.14 then a few days later $5.19. That is almost $6 for 87 octane.
For my XT250 I paid right at $6 for the last several top offs for highest octane, which makes a huge difference for the bike going up the mountain.
Last weekend, one ride I did a fuel economy test. I kept the speed down below 50 mph most of the way and tried never to go past half throttle, and feathered the throttle to minimize the exhaust noise – the best harmonic resonance in the exhaust pipe, which I figured would give me the best mpg? Not sure if that is true.
I went 104.7 miles and averaged 90.1 mpg, which I thought was pretty good for a 250 when I normally get around 75 mpg.
This week I was pleasantly surprised coming south on the I-5, there was about half the normal amount of cars (usually most going way the hell over the speed limit of 65mph) the fact is, your fuel economy go way the hell up when you drive slow
I joke to my friends, another dollar increase in gas and I will have the road all to myself.
Demand destruction is already full on happening. This july summer will be one of no fun. Amos Hochberg says the fuel crisis is going to hit the USA first week of July. He says be prepared to pay mucho shekels.
https://www.newsmax.com/finance/streettalk/amos-hochstein-iran-war/2026/05/07/id/1255503/
About high movie prices – why pay? You can watch any movie shortly after it comes out by using a torrent download engine and Pirate Bay. In the near future, actors will be a thing of the past. Movies will soon be as fake as D.C. politics.
And all that information about you and your preferences at the theater kiosk has been sold and will follow you around the rest of your life. Soon that info will be used against you – to manipulate your choices, etc.
I know, Jack –
But it was Mother’s Day and Dawn asked… how could I refuse?
You can not refuse what p—y wants. LOLROFL I never could. Remember this 1980’s hit song
Robert Palmer – Addicted To Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQBI17lhZws
How about: No man has ever refused his woman without suffering severe consequences?
Women rule. When are men going to notice?
Answer: Never.
Hi Cobblestones,
Well, if she demanded it’d be different. But it was just an ask and this was the first time we’d been out to a movie in about four years. Her friend (and teenaged son) wanted to go, so we all did. The kid brought a pretty impressive telescope to the house and after we got back, we all went out into the field to look at the night sky. We saw the bands on Jupiter – as well as several moons!
A good ask then. I’ve lived with six different women for a period of at least two years or longer each. Every ask had a price, even though some turned out to be worthwhile. YMMV.
Today’s update on the boring bond market. Click on 6 months and 5 years to see how 30 year US Treasuries are about to breakout to new highs:
https://www.barchart.com/stocks/quotes/$TYX/interactive-chart
it’s a big deal when you are 40 trillion in debt, that is such a huge number it is hard to even conceive.
The US gov owes 40,000,000,000,000 bucks and the interest on it is now over a trillion a year, the biggest line item
Yukon Jack says interest rates are going to the moon. Why do I say that, am I completely crazy? I may be, but I have a chart which shows you how bond rates go up and down in huge swings. (I’ve been promoting this chart for 10 years now)
https://i.imgur.com/I6QV5i3.png
People erroneously believe the Federal Reserve and the US Gov are so powerful they control rates. They do not. If they did the chart would be a flat horizontal line.
Jack,
Last week Charlie Bilello published a table showing the date of each trillion-dollar milestone in the $39 trillion federal debt:
https://ibb.co/Df03mkpB
For the last ten milestones from $30 trillion to $39 trillion, the elapsed time averaged 155 days. But it will grow shorter for three reasons:
1. Each new milestone is a smaller percentage rise from the last one.
2. The interest rate on federal borrowing is going up, as you pointed out.
3. In 75 days, the Iran war already cost $30 billion.
As of today, 983 days remain before the next president takes office. Conceivably, with his infallible reverse Midas touch, the Orange Flake can pare the time between trillion-dollar milestones to just 100 days — it’s happened several times before, as Charlie Bilello’s table shows.
So maybe, just maybe, the Orange Flake can run up the federal debt to a round $50 trillion by January 2029. At 5 percent, the annual interest service on such a debt pile would be $2.5 trillion, about double what it is now.
Obviously, this is the tertiary stage of empire collapse. The USA could have minded its own damned business, as POTUS-1 George Washington advocated. But Ape Lincoln turned the DC entity into the ‘United State.’ Then Woody Peckerwood Wilson gave us the toxic trifecta of the Federal Reserve, the income tax, and a popularly elected Senate.
Now it’s all over but the crying. We were sold out by fools, scoundrels and traitors, like the treasonous foreign agent who occupies the White House today. š
fully agree, and it took from 1789 to 1982? to get the first trillion. the #1 entry of 12/31/1981 is not correct
I ask Goolag Ai: “what day did the us government public debt reach 1 trillion?”
The United States gross national debt crossed the $1 trillion mark for the first time on October 22, 1981.
source listed is Politico
Hi Jim,
Donāt forget Woodenhead Wilson got the US into WWI, after promising not to. Same as the Orange Douchebag. I personally think Wilson was the tipping point for the USSA and the dystopia we face today, though I know others here would nominate Lincoln or FDR. YMMV.
I’m sorry the critique of Hollywood he quotes rings false on so many levels. I do not see “Marxism” being promoted, but Corporatism, everything is a nonstop advertisement. The scripts are nonexistent and there is nothing but CGI in most movies anymore but the “culture war” complaints are old and tired.
BTW, there were movies made in the Soviet Union that were of a much higher quality than movies in the USSA for the last 30 years.
‘With its eighth straight monthly increase, PPI (Producer Price Index) rose by a massive 1.4% MoM (vs +0.5% MoM exp) – the biggest MoM jump since March 2022. It lifted PPI by a stunning 6.0% YoY (vs 4.8% YoY exp). That is the hottest PPI YoY since Dec 2022.’ — ZeroHedge
Trumpstein: ‘I did that.‘
Revealed — Trump’s strategy to extricate himself from his stupid, evil war:
‘Trump’s plan is to declare victory, evacuate our sailors from the obsolete carriers, convert them into cruise ships, pack them with infected rodents and rabid Israeli settlers, and sail into oblivion. If any rodents manage to survive, we will have a moral duty to rescue them.’
— courtesy of commentator 24th Alabama at unz.com
Israel is our misfortune.
But the world’s smartest man has a Plan B, mind you:
‘The Pentagon is considering renaming the war with Iran from “Operation Epic Fury” to “Operation Sledgehammer” if President Trump orders a renewed full-scale bombing campaign against Iran, according to an NBC News report published Tuesday.
‘The reported name change appears part of the Trump administration’s effort to navigate around the War Powers Resolution, which is the 1973 law designed to limit executive war powers and reinforce Congress’s constitutional authority to declare war.
‘According to NBC, the name change would be to underscore how seriously the administration is considering resuming the war, and could allow Trump to argue that it restarts the 60-day clock that requires congressional authorization for war, by way of the name change loophole.’
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-mulls-operation-sledgehammer-if-iran-ceasefire-collapses-iran-has-re-armed
Laws? He don’t need no stinkin’ laws!
That Trump himself isn’t running this madness is obvious. If he were, the new bimonthly names would be Operation Awesome Epic Fury, Operation Totally Awesome Epic Fury, etc.
I doubt that Trump’s war is over because Trump is the animated Golem operated out of Tel Aviv. Scroll down through my posts until you see the pic of Trump as a whore:
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Yukon+Jack
“Is Trump ruling the world or even in charge of the United States? It may appear Trump is the boss, certainly con artist actor Trump wants you to believe heās the big kahuna. But clearly Trump is not in charge, he is an installed tool controlled by Netanyahu with Epstein files. Trump is an actor playing president. He did not make the āfinalā decision to attack Iran, that was done by Israel, and Trump is simply implementing the Israeli war agenda pretending to be weighing the options. Trump even says he doesnāt know what he is going to do. Bullshit, he is going to do what Netanyahu tells him to do. Trump is gaslighting the world with theatrics ā he is not in charge of jack shit.”
I need to write about that again and again, Trump is not in charge, he is acting, pretending to be in charge. Scum bucket Trump is a pretender, playing POTUS.