Sunday Night

Rock on.

Popularity

For reasons I don't understand, Dems decided, after the election, that Trump was YUGELY popular and many of them decided to cozy up to him. Many more decided that fighting him was pointless.

Trump's average Gallup popularity was lower in his first term than Biden's. Trump's 2nd post-election/early presidential popularity was lower than similar for all modern presidents except... Trump I.

Who are they listening to?

Seems Bad

Suspect it wasn't Gaza protesters.

An arsonist set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion in Harrisburg early Sunday morning causing “a significant amount of damage,” according to state police.

Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were uninjured. Shapiro, who is Jewish, posted a photo Saturday evening of his family’s Passover dinner at the governor’s residence.

Sunday Lunch

enjoy ...lol:

Breaking: A senior Wall Street executive w ties to the Trump White House described @howardlutnick’s comments about the temporary nature of the tariff exemptions as “off message. Now the market will open way down again since it appears the administration is totally confused. Susie…

— Charles Gasparino (@CGasparino) April 13, 2025

...lololol:

Clown Car Keeps Going

Amazing.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday that the administration's decision Friday night to exempt a range of electronic devices from tariffs implemented earlier this month was only a temporary reprieve, with the secretary announcing that those items would be subject to "semiconductor tariffs" that will likely come in "a month or two."

Killing Your Own Doodz

Even if this were true (it is not), I am curious about what % of Americans - and MAGAs - look at themselves in the mirror, consider their lifetyles, and imagine that they are of the healthy class of people who are immune from infectious disease.

RFK: If you are healthy, it’s almost impossible for you to be killed by an infectious disease in modern times because we have nutrition, because we have access to medicines. It’s very, very difficult for any infectious disease to kill a healthy human being.

Morning

Sunday funday

Saturday Night

Rock on.

Saturday Afternoon

Slacker Saturday

Sure Why Not

The China SUPERTARIFF excludes cell phones and various computer things.

Magic Words

Poorly trained CBP workers who have clearly been given incentives to cause problems for people (therefore it doesn't matter if they have been trained) will react like this if they decide you word choice is poor.

Jonathan says the official suggested he was carrying human remains and sent for Centers for Disease Control agents to assess the empty ashes urn. He says when he explained he had been living in the US for more than five years, he was asked: “Oh you live here, do you?”

Jonathan says: “Then he told me I didn’t have the right visa – apparently saying I lived there showed that I had intent to stay and not leave.”

He says his visa was still valid for more than 12 months and he had left and re-entered the US without any problems about 20 times holding the same class of visa.

Saying you live somewhere is not communicating that you intend to overstay your visa. Similarly, saying you are in the US for "work" often means you are there for a conference or for meetings - all fine with a tourist visa! - but the border guy might decide you should have an actual work visa.

At some point other countries will engage in retaliatory measures towards American visitors/workers, which is usually how they respond to the US being jerks about such things.

Morning

Glorious as always.

Friday Night

Rock on

Happy Hour

 Get happ.y

Xi Calls Me Crying, Begging For A Deal

The stock market is up because dumb rich guys believe that is going to happen.

Trump Take Mortgage

 Ah well.

The average rate on the popular 30-year fixed mortgage surged 13 basis points Friday to 7.1%, according to Mortgage News Daily. That’s the highest rate since mid-February.

America's Most Ridiculous Dem Senator

Elissa Slotkin.

Everything Is Computer

Some thing are a bit complicated and don't work at the speed of the whims of the Mad King.

In a sign that the federal government’s technology is struggling to keep up with President Trump’s tariffs, Customs and Border Protection acknowledged on Friday that importers had not been able to submit a tariff on certain goods. The glitch appeared to be preventing importers from applying a lower tariff rate on goods that were in transit to the United States before some of Mr. Trump’s tariffs took effect. Customs and Border Protection said it was releasing the goods and allowing importers to submit their customs duties later.

Lunch

 eat

Stay Away

I feel horrible for any noncitizen living in the US right now as their options are more constrained, but certainly no one else should plan on coming.

He says that over a series of short interviews amounting to about half an hour, the official told him his visa had been cancelled and that he was banned from entering the US for five years, including as a transit passenger. He was told he would be placed on a flight to Australia and was handed a document informing him that he was an “immigrant not in possession of a valid unexpired immigrant visa” as required by the Immigration and Nationality Act. He says he felt he had no choice but to sign the document, which Guardian Australia has seen.

He says the official then told him: “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.”