Trump’s at it again. Every time somebody from the peanut gallery pipes up, Trump puts them in their place. They’re even targeting Barron, and he’s keeping a low profile these days. The whole media hates him, for some unknown reason. They particularly hate his hair.

The wars rage on. Zelensky fired deep into Russia and did some damage. He better be careful he doesn’t make Putin mad. He may already have. This is a dangerous war to not be involved in. Good as we have it, and a veritable champion we have as President, you wonder if things might turn south. I’m not worried too much. We have a lot to be happy about. Mainly that we’re not anywhere else in the world.

Pete Hegseth, president? The internet says he’s weighing a run. He better get Trump’s endorsement. In fact any Republican better have it, and hope Trump doesn’t change his mind. We’ll probably see a host of Trump aids running for president, and he won’t dare tip his hat. I don’t know what’s going to happen, but I think Trump will have a hand. Maybe he’ll be an advisor. Then again maybe nobody will want his advice. I think he’ll throw his weight behind some who does.

In the Reno airport they’ve got poster sized images from Burning Man, and if that doesn’t ruin your appetite, there are plenty of places you can get a bite to eat. But on the way to your gate, they’ve got images, bigger than life, all over the walls. It’s a lot cleaner than the real thing. But this year they’ve got fires around Lake Tahoe. I hope it doesn’t interfere with our Feast. But it’s only a month away! The partyers will all be gone by then.

Mamdani is an idiot. He thinks if we’d just install communist ideals we’d be a whole lot better off. He’s engineering a disaster, and he doesn’t even know it. Wouldn’t it be great if we just didn’t have to pay for anything? There wouldn’t be anything available! Hasn’t he traveled?

We’re going to hear some bad news along the way. The media is doing everything it can to try to turn us against Trump. We’re not going to be swayed by a bad hair-do in the wind. 

Mark

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The United Arab Emirates, which serves as Tehran’s largest supplier of goods, suspended all trade with the Iran over the weekend — nixing $6 billion in cash that went to the regime from exports, as well as access to vital supplies from the outside world.

Dubai — the UAE’s thriving commercial hub — is by far Iran’s largest supplier of goods. The Emirati government finally got fed up with Iran following repeated missile attacks that triggered evacuations for the first time during the war.

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Now the news is trying to make something of Trump’s relationship with his aide, Natalie Harp.  If you were married to Melania, I don’t think Natalie Harp would spark an interest.  I hope there’s nothing to it. If he allowed the media to break up his marriage and there wasn’t anything to it, it would be a sad day indeed. They’re printing Natalie’s letters, but who knows what goes through the head of a beautiful woman.  She certainly takes her job seriously.  

We’re at war, and we hardly know it.  We have to consult the news to find out what’s going on, and even then we’re not sure. The Strait of Hormuz is in the news again. Donald Trump claims we are policing the narrow gap, and the media is making the most of our vulnerabilities.

To be clear, I thought the war with Iran would be over by now, but those wily suckers refuse to give up. It’s like the Old Testament. Sooner or later they’ll be forced to reveal the obvious. But for now they’ve got unexpended drones. This is why we didn’t pull the trigger before. One thing about people from that region, they won’t admit defeat. Trump’s advisors should have told him that. They talk big. Too big.

 With all their “Save the Planet” jargon, they’re about to destroy California, if the job hasn’t been already done. I don’t know what the situation is now, so I’m avoiding California. I’d love to go back, but things are never as you left them.  

We’re playing mind games over Taiwan. Would the Chinese dare attack?  If they did, it would have an impact. We couldn’t afford gadgets anymore. But Trump is trying to repatriate these industries so we won’t worry.  But if China attacked Taiwan it might escalate.  That’s what we have to worry about.  Most of the world’s concerns are much more immediate.

Post apocalyptic movies are making a comeback.  There’s one candidate from Colorado claiming, forget the claims, we don’t want to know.  Resist the Devil and he will flee from you.

Mark

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Romania spotted the threat around Neptun Deep and quickly sent out F-16 jets to blast away the drone as officials accused Russia of being behind the dangerous act.

The drone got within a few hundred meters from the platform before it was targeted.

Defence Minister Radu Miruta said they had no choice but to intercept the drone “in order to protect the lives of the several hundred people working on the platform”.

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The milestone figure was recorded just five months after the U.S. hit a record $39 trillion debt in March. It reached $38 trillion five months before that, in October.

The unprecedented $40 trillion figure highlights competing administration priorities, from boosting defense spending that the U.S. relies on to carry out President Donald Trump’s almost-6-month-old war in Iran to lowering the cost of gas and groceries.

Kush Desai, a White House spokesman, said the Trump administration “has been focused on slashing waste, fraud, and abuse in federal spending while accelerating economic growth to get America’s debt-to-GDP ratio trending in the right direction.”

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The Treasury responded on Wednesday to U.S. long-bond yields hitting the highest level since 2007 by doubling ‌long-end buybacks to at least $4 billion per operation.

The move, after a sharp selloff in long-duration debt, provided instant relief to a market that has been under pressure from concerns about ‌fiscal debt, inflation and competition from huge AI-related borrowing.

Investors, however, said they wanted the Treasury to take steps that would provide more lasting support — and they worried about the market distortions the move could create.

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Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/bonds-bounce-us-buybacks-relief-may-be-brief-2026-08-20/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT62-ZwZG9mAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6wYWtAJdLjRULGZyqwcbIPqIk_HXmCqB-MYYWCKFDH7LW_zSyY4N3paHl2rQ_aem_EXJNWinyt_Icn2258UpKXw

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David Morens, who had worked under Fauci as a ‌senior official at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the pandemic, entered his plea to a conspiracy charge ​during a hearing in federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland.

He faces up to five years in prison when he is sentenced on November ‌12.

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In the biggest internal challenge to President Volodymyr Zelensky since the war began in 2022, Fedorov said in a video address on YouTube that ‘democracy cannot be held hostage by Russia’.

The 35-year-old was a longtime ally of Zelensky’s until his unexpected firing from the Defence Ministry in July, just six months after he had been appointed, vowing sweeping reforms.

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WASHINGTON, Aug 17 (Reuters) – A day after he ordered the United States to ⁠scale ⁠back military exercises with South Korea and called North ⁠Korea “unthreatening and respectful,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had responded to his outreach.

Trump’s relationship ​with Kim has received less White House emphasis than it did in his first term, when the two men met and exchanged letters, but the U.S. president has repeatedly signaled interest in reviving direct diplomacy ‌with the North Korean leader.

Asked by a reporter in ‌the Oval Office why Kim had not responded to his efforts to reengage, Trump responded, “he has.” He did not provide further details.

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