Well…after the months of lies by the idiot trump that hundreds of companies are building factories here because of his stupid tariffs, there is still not one that is even planning to do anything here…they really do hate uncertainty and with idiot boy in charge, that’s all they’ll get…so now, another handful of economists have come out to say that their projections are that the US will not have any growth this year after idiot boy inherited an economy that was humming along at a 3% growth rate…and my dire warnings that the rest of the world is going to go on without the US because of the tariffs and the idiot’s belligerence to the rest of the world are coming true…and Morgan Stanley just projected that these tariffs are going to cost millions of jobs and once the rest of the world re-aligns without us, those jobs are not coming back…and the same thing is happening in the vital area of diplomacy that trump has just thrown away and we have far less influence than we have ever had…and it’s all because the repubs won’t do anything to reign in the idiot…the rest of the world has already stopped taking calls from the US and presto, they found out that they don’t need a US run by incompetents…good job maga…geez..
All posts by James DeVol
April 16th
Well…I sure as hell don’t want to be up at 5:21 but that is what happened this morning…and my mouth hurts again but not too bad so I hope the tylenol will work…I really do need to figure out how to stop grinding my teeth or the pain is going to continue forever…damn…I did sleep okay so I guess that’s something…and I have another day of taking it easy where I’ll finish up the last book and hit the library tomorrow…but I need to start weaning myself off of reading so much so I’ll have time to do the rest of the things I need to do…it’s been a good run of 4 books a week for months now but I am running out of authors like I ran out of shows to watch…I guess it’s just something new that I have to deal with but I’m getting tired of having to do that…hell, I’m getting tired of everything…I remember having days where I didn’t do anything but that was so long ago that it is fading from my memory….man, that would be such a luxury and I wonder why I just can’t do that anymore? Oh, well…need to get moving and get on the bike by 7am so that gives me time to have one more cup of coffee….more later….
Seeds are planted…
Well…man, it’s been a long day today but I only rode twice so I feel pretty guilty about that…but I had other things to do…I did get the seeds planted in the buckets downstairs and I have enough of them to plant the garden, too so I am going to give that a try after I get plants up and growing enough where I know they will survive…didn’t drill drain holes in the buckets so I’ll just move them under the little roof over the back door when it’s going to rain a lot…and with only having 4, they will all fit and still leave enough room to walk out the door…it looks like I’ll be able to do two outdoor rides Thursday when it’s going to be over 60 here…I did do the grocery run this morning but didn’t have much to buy…I did get another ham but I’m not going to cook it til the weekend so I can use some fish that I have in the freezer…and just one more meal off the first ham and I’ll be freezing the bone and the rest of the ham to make soup in a couple of weeks…so I probably should take out one more container of soup so I’ll have room for the new batch…okay, tv time…
90 billion down the drain…
Well…with the idiot trumps goons arresting people who are here in the US legally say for tourism as one Canadian woman found out (she was locked up in prison for three weeks)…no one should travel to the US for any reason…and the rest of the world is following Canada by putting travel warnings out about that travel…Canadian bookings for travel here are down by 70%…travel from the EU is down almost 30% and if this keeps up businesses in the US stand to lose over 90 billion dollars…how many people are going to lose their jobs just because idiot boy is a petulant asshole? Oh, and liar…just yesterday the idiot was bleating that Honda is in talks to move manufacturing to the US from Mexico and Canada…the only problem with that is that Honda has no clue what the hell he’s talking about and there are no talks and no plans to move anything to the US since they already have unused capacity in the US…and with the reciprocal tariffs that other countries have put on US made goods, there is no business sense trying to export from the US…what a frickin idiot…geez…
April 15th
Well…up early today at a little after 5:30 and I know that is going to hurt later…and I ground my teeth last night and my whole face hurts from it…need to get moving and do the grocery run today and I’m not sure if I’m going to get another ham or a turkey breast for 1.29 a pound…it’s going to be cold today, only in the 40′s and I am so tired of it…we’re in the middle of April and it should be in the 70′s by now…oh, well…need to go down and get a ride in before I head out but need to decide if I’m going to get one more bucket for the garden this year…this is a brand new way of thinking about the garden and really would like to have some tomatoes this year…need to get the outside faucet turned on but it’s still going to be below freezing for the next week and that will ruin the plastic valve I use to turn it on and off…did I say I hate this frickin cold weather? Yeah, I do…it’s going to be a chore to get moving today and I’m pretty damn tired…going to have to mow the lawn later this week and I’m not ready for that…and I need to hit the lawn with weed killer but that means I really do need to open up the outdoor tap…more later…
Got some work done…
Well…it was kind of a busy day today with getting three rides in to start and then raking the leaves from the fence lines…putting weed killer on the front part of the lawn, and then getting the potting soil downstairs and filling the buckets…and that worked out perfectly with each 5 gallon bucket filled by one bag…that cost me 28 bucks but it is going to be convenient to be able to just plant the seeds and then not have to replant them in the garden…it will be a small garden but if I get some tomatoes, cukes, and peppers I’ll be happy…might even buy one more bucket to do some beans and peas…even if it doesn’t work, I’ll have lots of nice buckets…the first boat showed up in one of the marinas on the route today so it is officially “first boat day” and I saw the first freighter of the year on Muskegon Lake so it was a two fer…and I saw Stupid again standing right on the center line of the street stopping traffic both ways…what a weird assed bird…more reading…
China cuts us off…
Well…I’d like to see what the idiot’s response is going to be to China cutting the US off from the rare earth elements that are used in just about everything…and here’s the thing, China spent the last 4 years studying and preparing for the tariffs the idiot boy has imposed and now they have struck back with a blow that can cripple our economy…and what about the repub “leadership”…they are just perfectly fine with ceding world leadership just to keep idiot boy from being mean to them….so as the idiot stumbles around, he has started to lower some tariffs quietly to try to get China to negotiate and they have told him to go to hell…by these stupid tariffs, idiot boy has strengthened China, and the EU and made the US just another country who has lost it’s power to influence the world…and it’s trump’s fault…geez…
April 14th
Well…damn, up way too early this morning and I can’t figure out how I didn’t set anything up last night…forgot to make coffee or put my BP meds out and it’s a bit much to have to do that first thing today…need to start planning meals again today after having the BAH for the past week…I mean do I buy another ham at 89 cents a pound or do I try something else? Pretty easy to get into a rut and just keep eating ham but I’m not sure I want to…my mouth is not hurting as much today and I am going to try to not take anything for it….I sure hope it’s healing finally and I can move on from this debacle…felt pretty good yesterday but I’m not sure about today do far…can’t taste the coffee at all and I noticed the same thing with the bag of Gardettos I bought last week…used to just frickin love that stuff but what’s the point if I can’t taste it? Going to do the two rides indoors today since the wind is going to be pretty nuts at 15-25 and gusts to 40…I do need to get outdoors and work on the yard today and get my veggie seeds planted in the buckets downstairs…but right now I need more coffee and to sit for a bit…being up at 5:04 is no fun….more later….
Too many races…
Well…had really planned on getting something done today but the races started at 11 and the only gave me time to get the three rides in before the F1 race started…then it was into Moto GP, Nascar, and now NHRA drag races that are still on now at 7:30…so another day of nothing done but tomorrow I’ll get started on the lawn and planting some of the veggie seeds in the 5 gallon buckets I’m using this year…so all that work is going to cut into my reading time but I don’t really have to do 4 books a week…they were using a barge crane to put in the new docks at the boat launch today but there still are no boats in any of the marinas…should be at least one by the end of the week…so now I’m going to sit here for a bit and watch more drag races til 8….
It’s always the repubs…
Well…I really don’t get why the public thinks repubs are better on the economy than the dems when, for the past century +, every damn recession happened when the repubs were in control…and the deficit always explodes under these incompetents and the deficit is exploding under the idiot trump all the way to 1.8 trillion dollars and counting…so tell me again why this is? Yeah, we all know why…the media is now run by billionaire oligarchs who will not let the truth be printed anymore, going so far as ordering their staffs to only report right wing talking points even though they are all lies…so, again, I’ll keep going on about the media until we take back congress and pass laws that reverses the consolidation that has left all media in the hands of right wing billionaires…geez…