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Perhaps a little reminder is in order. Nope, no smoke here: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/assault-allegations-donald-trump-recapped

You shouldn’t hang me on a hook, Johnny. My grandmother hung me on a hook once. Once!

Trump and Vance are not even the head of the snake. This entire rotten, anti-American, fascist movement needs to be wiped out in its entirety.

This is most likely part of Peter Thiel’s Palantir system designed to centralize a data base on Americans comprised of systems across a myriad federal agencies with the SSA and IRS among them. Peter Thiel is a fascist who favors a dictatorship as opposed to a democracy as he freely admits and is good friends with Vance. This is all public record.

Media spin or not, routine crossings or not, extra questions or not, Sabre fans or not, the fact remains that Canadian visits dropped by 37% in July compared to 2024. This has hurt businesses on the border that have long depended on those Canadian customers.

Getting minutes in games is only part of the equation in terms of development as practicing with major leaguers lends a certain level of development as well. Not to mention the other ancillary aspects of being in the show.

I don’t disagree in general and as you say, it depends on the player. Benson has more hockey sense and skill than half of the older players on the team. He certainly has more heart and hustle as well. Instead of his development being stunted by not returning to juniors, his development has been accelerated by having to acclimate to the NHL early on. He will be that much more developed when he reaches the age he would have been by waiting. Perhaps a season or two in the A would have been beneficial but imo, additional time in juniors would have been of little to no benefit to his development. He had already surpassed that level of play.

This notion that an 18 year old right out of juniors can’t develop in the NHL is absurd.

Fascism 101: use the military to police the citizenry: check; defy the judiciary: check; seek to control financial institutions: check; use armed, masked police force to arrest and detain people in “concentration camps”: check; target & harass political enemies: check Need I go on? What will it take for his supporters to say he’s gone too far?

“A lot of people” means his big donor and Vance best friend, Peter Thiel, who flat out says we need to get over our fear of dictators. A lot of other billionaire donors feel the same way. Curtis Yarvin is another right wing nut job advocating for the end of democracy as well.

It isn’t so much the who as it is the what, but Putin and the Russian army and their entire propaganda campaign for starters. That’s our flag for our military to fly and it has no business being flown by another military; especially by a dictator-led, corrupt, adversarial country like Russia.

This is beyond disgusting: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/russian-state-media-shares-video-of-vehicle-flying-u-s-and-russian-flags-in-ukraine-245202501997

Ironic coming from the party always pissing and moaning about how the left always wants to change history by removing statues. Never mind that those statues honor traitors to our country which is another irony in itself.

My original OP was a reference to the increase in the wholesale price of vegetables specifically. The article I linked discussed other aspects of the PPI. I wasn’t trying to mislead anyone. Regardless, the rise in wholesale prices is a cause for concern by those who monitor these matrices as my second linked article indicated.

Yep. Trump got owned in another propaganda win for Putin as evidenced by the news today that Trump has moved off his calls for a ceasefire. Summits like this are measured by an important metric: what did our president gain for the American people? Nothing.

Only the most dangerous my a$$. The lack of humanity and common decency is astounding. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-14/an-l-a-area-high-school-senior-was-walking-his-dog-then-ice-agents-grabbed-him

The DC sandwich guy: While seemingly humorous, the fact he’s being charged with the highest possible crime allowed for assaulting a federal officer brings to light another thing I can’t stand about Trump; his hypocrisy. When the rioters of January 6th beat a capitol police officer with an American flag, stomped on him, and caused brain damage, President Francisco Franco Jr. saw fit to pardon them. But throw a sandwich at a cop and you face the maximum charge and sentence possible. Gimme a phucking break. Fortunately (and much to the chagrin of our Mussolini wannabe), the judge saw fit to release him without bail on his own recognizance.

… was a total clown show.

The PPI total output, while certainly important overall, is not the only number that matters. What matters most is the inflation seen in various sectors. A large increase in wholesale produce prices is concerning because it is a harbinger for businesses who resell to other consumers. If grocery stores and restaurants have to pay 39% more for their products, what kind of increase does that represent for consumers? Looks like that rate cut by the fed may be in question as a result: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-hotter-than-expected-wholesale-prices-make-the-feds-september-rate-cut-decision-harder-155711746.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIGTbFaW7YhsAlLpoctw0cGI_Dq-2B613Nc3llUzBb9hdWBINh14dNc0su2q6kyGlY53eNZIi94XbRX1Nzg0Qb4DQ9ZndNLuEOAVx0LFuZSQ85JiRn9XqBZTZIftDViPMF7GnadhuJy9xCdFvp3BhdpnL2FkM38jzXWOJ6EQm4XB

Wholesale vegetable prices rose 38.9% in July. Well done, President Moron. https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/inflation-vegetables-ppi

Yet another example. Erase and re-write history. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/white-house-reviewing-smithsonian-exhibits-make-sure-align-trumps-visi-rcna224588

This is disgusting, but par for course for Trump, this convicted felon and sexual abuser. Saw a clip from 2020 where a now deceased Epstein victim gave an interview in which she said Maxwell was even worse than Epstein. So lets reward this convicted sex trafficker and child predator by putting her in a country club jail instead of serving her 20 years in a prison that suits her evil crimes. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-privately-dismissed-epstein-victims-democrats-1235407549/

Nope, no time honored fascist tactics here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/14/trump-data-misinformation/

What you take as hyperbolic fear mongering being funny, I take as a clear warning sign of where we are as an American democracy. I suspect other societies in the throes of fascist authoritarian takeovers in the past thought similar warnings were mere hyperbolic fear mongering as well. Only to be left wondering how it all happened when it was too late.

I don’t understand @Hank’s laughing response to this post. Given what we’ve seen so far, there’s no telling who this scumbag will target next. Societies who have had their democracies taken over by fascist authoritarians have always had those who pooh-pooh the mere suggestion that something like that could ever happen to them. As the old saying goes, we ignore history at our own peril. And if these aren’t perilous times, then I don’t know what is. Cue the “typical leftist overreaction” crap. Another thing that occurs to me is that these fascists need to foment violence in the streets as it seems to be their plan to respond by declaring martial law and having that crazy orange madman attempt to cancel elections.