Take on the joy of flying

I work up for a flight to Asia this morning at 3:45. Was at the airport before 5am and ready to board my connecting flight when I got notification that although our first leg was on time, the connecting flight would be delayed by 4.5 hours. Delta suggests I reroute through Atlanta which I did. I spoke with the gate agent and they assured me that although the connection in Atlanta was 2 hours, id be fine. I wait around for the new flight but as I approached my gate, I see them making an announcement. My assumption is they are boarding active military members but instead we are told our 7am flight has been delayed to 9:20am meaning we will miss the connection. I frantically run to the other gate where a nearly full flight to Atlanta was taking off but couldn't get on. The agent gets me onto another flight saying that because of all the trouble, they can offer me a direct flight on United. I take the option which sounds lovely.

Till I show up at the gate and told that I'll be sitting in the back of the plane in the middle row.

Try to get back on a flight to Atlanta but that has already left and there are no seats to Detroit so I can't get there to catch that flight either.

14 hours like this is going to be absolute hell

Take on the Elon Musk battle

Is it ok to buy a Tesla again?? I don't know what it about Trump but as soon as you are his enemy, I like you slightly more. Like Rand Paul the guy who a cross between a pubic haired Brillo pad and Carrot Top who has gone from completely punchable to not totally awful purely due to the fact he isn't a MAGA sheep.

Anyway, I guess I'm rooting for Elon if for no other reason than he might be the one guy who can dethrone the big sloppy one.

Take on the blind leading the blind.

Americans continue to prove that they are imbeciles when it comes to understanding who will pay for things. These are the same people that max our credit card, drive nearly $100k pickup trucks and claim a billionaire is looking out for them.
Well Trump has convinced them that Mexico was going to pay for the wall and now that China will pay the tariffs.

Which is funny way of te explain it since I keep getting a bill.

Take on the Emailed newsletter

I know the entire concept for websites is engagements and finding people to click on links etc but there has never been a time when I've signed up for a newsletter and felt like it wasn't a regrettable act minutes later. I know we want passive information but any website that is asking me to sign up for more of their stuff will only wind up annoying me when my inbox is bombarded with junk.

Take on the flasher

Standing in a T-Mobile store the other day, I found myself waiting behind one dude. I had some time to kill, so it wasn't killing me but the note and more I waited, the further and further this dude's pants fell off. I'm not saying he was trying to channel some 90's rapper but he seemed completely unconcerned that his belt line as now even with his knees. I realize that it's not a Toys R Us but it's still supposed to be a family friendly establishment and this dude basically flashing his junk was maybe friendly but far from family friendly.

Take on white trash

I never got the guys who put the scrotum at the back of their trucks but those guys are sort of classy when compared to the guy driving the Soce Ram with the sign
Dodge the father
Ram the daughter

In this back window. Really class people.

Take on TMobile customer service

I try to cancel my T-Mobile home internet today, I wasn't getting rid of it entirely just adding it to another account but canceling it basically required an act of god. I spoke to three people in order to cancel this thing including a supervisor and it took a total of 26 minutes in order to do so. It's time to let AI cancel this stuff cause this is insane.

Take on even more tariffs

Trump was handed an much needed off-ramp the other day to walkout of the tariffs by being able to blame radical judges for stopping his policy while secretly cheering the ability to get out of this mess mostly politically unscathed. Instead he didn't just avoid that but all doubled down on more tariffs, the only thing that has proven to sink his economy.

The on Bernie Kerik

When a headline caught my periphery, with the name Bernard Kerik in it, I was sure it was because Trump pardoned him. Then I realized that anybody who has worked for Rudy is kind of persona non grata around Trump as he finds Giuliani completely disgusting

Can't totally blame him there

Take on the tariff ruling

The courts finally did something right. We know it likely won't stand on appeal but the fact that somebody stood up to Trump and his ludicrous assertion that he was imposing these tariffs under some kind of made up national emergency. This was always some weird concocted reasoning which took away the ability to authorize taxation from congress and just handed it to the executive. I'm guessing that the GOP wouldn't be thrilled with the next president used that same rationale to take away high capacity magazines.

Take on corrupt Trump

I know you are all sick of the Trump centric TOR's but when the corruption is so blatant and so in the open, I can't help it. Every day we have an other scandal that should rock a free nation to its core and every day the scandal goes away. Today we leaned that Trump will pardon a couple of reality television stars and also some other tax cheat whose mothers the fed some million dollar dinner. This doesn't even make a wave anymore because we all expect him to be absolutely on the take.

take on blame CNN news

I know it's a slow news day (sort of) but CNN really has to up their game. Today's big headline is about snooze alarms leading to more disjointed sleep. This is the most painfully obvious analysis I've ever seen and I have to say that between these medical study clickbait's and those horrible "she met him on a train between Barcelona and Madrid 40 years ago and finally found his name on a credit card receipt" crap they publish, the entire place has gone to hell.

Take on Rand

You just know the GOP has gone off the deep end with this Big Beautiful Bullshit Bill when you find yourself on the same side as Rand Paul. I get that he's coming at it from another perspective but at least he seems sensible about this. The entire concept of hugs tax cuts in the back of adding trillion to the debt seems like the thing every mainstream republics should be against, but they are all just way too afraid of Daddy Trump.

Take on inflation

When you pay more for groceries, blame Trump. When you pay more for clothes, blame Trump. When you play more for electronics, blame Trump. Realize that the cost of things will rise because Trump admit that his own interests don't align with that of our country or its citizens. But mainly rich people don't see inflation as earth shattering. They don't like paying more but it's not devastating so for them it's a buccaneer not a lifestyle change. Trump will bring inflation for no other reason than his own egotistical decisions.

Take on Trump's Apple policy.

Trump's tariff policy continue to baffle the mind. When he went after Apple today for rerouting their overseas manufacturing from China to India to avoid the Chinese tariffs, Trump threatened tariffs because he wants us to start assembling these things. Obviously that's a non starter but more than that, how the hell can you tariff a single company?? Republican complain that government should the picking winners and losers but this seems like an obvious attempt to put a thumb on the scale.

Take on the latest attack on Harvard.

I'm loving Trump's attack on Harvard and his latest attempt to bankrupt them by trying to make it illegal for them to admit foreign students. I'm not for this because I want Harvard to suffer although I can admit is a nice side effect.

I want Trump to win because it will force a battle to the Supreme court and it's the only place we have left that may still stand a chance for saving our country

Take on Olympic flag football

There is no worse idea than having NFL players participate in the Olympics weeks before training camp starts. I get that they want to grow the game but nobody cares about flag football, especially not when the US will dominate this like no other sport I can think of. But forget the imbalance, we all know some player will tear an ACL and the entire thing will be canned forever.

Take on the Kia symbol

Every time I see a Kia in my rearview mirror, I'm thinking I need to start blasting Head like a Hole. It's the oddest thing but the font they used looks suspiciously like the NIN logo and I can't quite unsee it. The most ridiculous thing is it's mostly suburban parents driving these things to soccer practice or dance recitals, Trent must be turning over in his grave.

Take on Little Donnie Trump

There is no bigger piece of dog shit than little Donald Trump. Not only has this loser made a career about trolling while looking like a complete molester, he dates heinously ugly chicks and has that hive like he can't trusted around young kids. Other than that, he looks like he smells is own farts, picks his toes and puts ketchup on a hot dog

Take on Rand

I despise Rand Paul but when you hear him talk and everything he says makes sense, it feel silence like we have entered the upside down. I'm not sure if he's changed m, we've changed or just the country has changed few with the election of the orange jubilee

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Take on the NJ Transit engineers strike

Ok not anti union but when public servants strike and impacting the ability for me to get to work, you've lost my support. I am fine with the concept of strikes when it comes to private companies but when your job is to make sure our kids are being educated, our streets are being sweep or we are all just trying to make a living, I'm done.

Take on the Royal Rumble

We are a sick country. When did we say it was OK to have a Running Man esque TV contest to let migrants fight for their lives to become a citizen. I get the Appeal but if becoming a citizen can be done with either gold car or a gladiator style match, I'm not sure in that interesting.

Take on the Military Parade in Capital on Trump’s Birthday

Nothing seems like a bigger waste of money than that stupid military parade that Trump is planning on his own birthday. The irony of private bone spur getting honored by anything remotely ceremonious is insane

Plus this thing is going to cost like $45M and I'm calling it now, the damage those tanks will do on the street will double that number

Take on the Cybertruck

I'm not sure where it will go down I. History but the idea that Tesla's board allowed Musk to go all in on the Cybertruck is corporate espionage. We don't know what it takes to get that proof of concept off the ground but whosever allowed Musk to gamble the entire company on that riding bread box deserves what is coming for them

Take on the rigged draft

The NBA lottery has been ridged since the Knicks pulled the frozen envelope and they don't even try to hide it any lore. Whenever something catastrophic happens to a franchise, they are rewarded with a top pick. This could due to a trade (Luka) or an injury (David Robinson) or whatever. But we know they are always there to protect their bottom line e

Take on the Afrikaans

White South Africans are getting refugee status while anybody with a milligram of skin pigment is getting sent to El Salvador. I am not sure why Trump feels that the sons of apartheid need special status other than for the very obvious reasons. I am sick and tired of Elon and his boys getting their way with Trump. The corruption level has surpassed East European level circa 1985.

Take on the accepted luxury jet from Qatar

The grifting has become so blatant that they don't even try to hide it anymore. We knew Trump was compromised but the fact he's now openly courting foreign countries and accepting massive gift speaks to the ridiculous level of corruption we are seeing. These are the same people who told us about the Biden crime family, but here they are stealing and scamming with no regard to morality.

Take on Trump’s negotiating strategy with chjna

Trump's strangely with negotiations is to go really high and then negotiate with himself till he gets to a place that might be worse off than the stance beige he went into this mess. What he doesn't understand is that the pain and financial hardship put upon American companies was so devastating and costly. But he never cares as is obvious with this years roller coaster ride and he will ended up with that same deal aa we had before. What a stable genius

Take on flights

I'm at a point where even I'm starting to get a bit nervous about flying. I've been a million lied for years and have dealt with my share of missed connections, delays and crazy flights but I have still never felt afraid to fly. But when Newark airport has 90 second outages in consecutive weeks while they are severely understaffed. I get a bit worried

Not sure how to fix this as throwing money at it won't get capable trained people there tomorrow, but the fact that we are flying blind seems less that optimal.

Take on the slightly wet iPhone screen

I'm walking in the rain today and I still can't understand how we can connect to a Mars rover for like a decade but we can't figure out how to type when it's drizzling. The second there is one drop of water on the screen, the words you type nigh as well be in Swahili. I can't believe that nobody can figure this out

Take on the foot massage after The Great Saunter

After I completed The Great Saunter, I sat down at a foot massage place and when I put my feet up the Chinese woman visibly winched. Obviously after 32 miles, anybody will have some damaged dogs but when she saw mine the poor lady looked like she was going to be totally ill. I can't completely blame her but the next time she could be a little nice about it than saying "your toes are very stinky".

Take on Rudy's chubby kid

Fighter jets are falling out of the sky, great institutions are cutting their research budgets, Americans are about to pay a whole lot more for diapers and formula but Donald Duck is focusing on getting Rudy Guiliani's fat kid a job. I don't know anything about this pudgy fucker but I will say the fact he gets any attention during this time tells you he's just a large mass being used as a human shield.

Take on the Newark airport delays

We're at a point in our country where it's become increasingly obvious that our country is all too often held together with rubber bands So much of our infrastructure hasn't been upgraded in decades and with every failure it's becoming obvious we are the laughing stock. Whether it's our subways which work on some analog system from the 1900's or our air control towers working with technology from the 1960's, the first person who would run a presidential campaign on actually fixing this stuff should win in a landslide.

Take on trade

Nobody understands trade less than the president who is destroying our economy. He has imposed crippling tariffs which he thinks will help China from stealing from us. He doesn't understand that trade deficits are a natural occurrence especially if you only look at manufactured goods and don't take into consideration things like software

Takeout the empty holster



I'm convinced that when the shelves at Target and Walmart start emptying on the west coast in the next few weeks, we will finally get the uproar these tariffs deserve. There hasn't been a good argument for these tariffs as they seem to be there just to stroke Trump's ego. What he doesn't get is that XI Jingpeng is not going to back down, he's not going to fold. Trump has already shot his load with his 145% tariffs. He's dropped trade but what he doesn't get is that China can wait him out. They shut down cities for a month if there was a single case of Covid while we can't convince somebody who is coughing up a lung to put on a mask on a bus.
In China when they protect, it's in front of a tank.

Take on Pope Trump

Donald Trump is trying to add pope to his list of titles which include wannabe tyrant, lame duck, bankrupt-y, felon, adulterer and sexual predator. I'm sure this is just an off her troll but the far the probably diddled a few minors, makes the entire thing entirely reasonable.

Take on Mike Waltz

Mike Waltz was fired from his gig as national security adviser and then sent to purgatory as the new UN ambassador. I have no love for Mike Waltz but the fact he's going to take the fall for adding a reporter to Pistol Pete's Signal chat. It's shocking that at the end of the day this jackass will have to pay for Hegseth's complete disregard of national security.

Take on Trump's market

A few months ago Trump took credit for the stock market to only blame Biden for it today. We know Trump will never take any responsibility for anything that goes wrong and finds any way to blame
Sleepy Joe. Of course this is all
Ludicrous and even spending five minutes blogging about it is a waste of time but I feel like we must keep the drumbeat going.

Take on the twerp and the jerk

Nobody's a more spineless twerp than Jeff Bezos. We know this douchebag has shown no courage and has spent ungodly amount of money to send his girlfriend to low-orbit. But what was most disappointing was that Bezos folded to Trump who called him to complaint that some Amazon sites were going to break out the tariff cost. For a guy who claims that the tariffs will be such a positive for Americans, he certainly seems to be running from it. Be caved on iPhones, he caved on cars and he will likely cave on a bunch of other items where his pockets are being greased.

Take on sleepy Don

The photo of Trump sleeping during the funeral of the Pope is the image FoxNews would have plastered 24/7 had it happened to Sleepy Joe. Of course they won't say anything now which is par for the course. But at this point we are looking at a senile old man who has oatmeal for breakfast and jello for dinner, drooling on his suit.

Take on the port explosion

The chances this port explosion in Iran being bad luck seems more than a bit unlikely. We know one thing for sure, when Iran starts getting a bit out of line, Israel puts an immediate stop to it and it may never be something they admit to. I can't imagine what else caused this but this can't just be a coincidence.

Take on the bored fat lazy president

I really don't get why Trump went to the funeral. He looked bored and fat and spent most of the time dead scrolling through his phone. His wife looked awful and he wore that same stupid blue suit he wears whenever he's got the depends on.
He doesn't represent himself, he represents all of us. And he looks like a pile of dog crap.

Take on work travel

Whenever I explain to somebody that I'm traveling, they assume it's some kind of vacation. I'm not complaining about the work travel as it's more good than bad but I will say that being in four countries in five days, isn't exactly easy either. Between the time zones, the jet lag, the spotty services and the disconnect from home, it's way more difficult than you'd think. But nothing is worse than being stuck in row 23B without legs pressed against the back of 22B Pressed in between the cologne of 22A and the gut of 22C

The on the poll numbers

For a guy who loves hearing about his numbers, Trump is going really badly when it comes to his job approval after 100 days. He's even below Donald Trump 1 which was territory I didn't think we'd see again. But I guess when you are an absolutely horrible human and an equality shitty president, this is what you get.

Take on Heineken

I can't explain it but Heineken just tastes differently when you drink it in holland. Maybe it's the water, maybe it's the hops or maybe it's something else but where American Heineken tastes like warm horse piss, the one you get the a bar in Amsterdam is delicious and refreshing. I'm not sure what it is but there is definitely something different

Take on Heineken

I can't explain it but Heineken just tastes differently when you drink it in holland. Maybe it's the water, maybe it's the hops or maybe it's something else but where American Heineken tastes like warm horse piss, the one you get the a bar in Amsterdam is delicious and refreshing. I'm not sure what it is but there is definitely something different

Take on Elon the destroyer

Maybe the drop the Tesla share price will mean Elon drops this DOGE nonsense and get back to his day job.
I'm totally convinced that he's used Neurolink to clone himself already but like Multiplicity told us, each copy of a copy becomes less clear. A hundred Elon's can explain howhe's able to destroy so many institutions and companies at the same exact time.


With that said, we can't root against Tesla because all of our 401K's are heavily invested, so it's like we should all root on a total lunatic.

Take on the Dow tumble

I'm not sure if my 401k can take it but I'm much more worried about the greater expectation. Our country is falling alert under the great emergency that Trump has created.
We are half way through this month which has just spent all week trying to figure out what the hell is going on and I don't think anybody really knows within his orbit and certainly don't care

Take on Terminal 1

Dante describes the 9 circles of hell, which sounded terrifying but they still pale in comparison to Terminal 1 at JFK. Somehow this terminal has never moved from 1970. I'm not saying that it's classic and sort of nostalgic, this terminal hasn't had a splash of paint put on its walls over the last 55 years. The place is dark, stuffy and feels like a porn set. The security line is like being herded like cattle, with the entire place smelling like they let a herd of cattle hang out there for a week.
Once you get through security, it's no better. Every store is ludicrously expensive, there isn't a decent restaurant and the lounges feel like you are sitting in purgatory.

Other than that, it's great

Take on the new Lab Leak White House website

Five years after we shut the world down, the White House decided that while we were in an economic spiral, this would be the time to change the official position of our government on how COVID started. I've always assumed it to be a lab leak, so that part doesn't bother me but what does is that the way they mock the entire pandemic is awful.

People's lives were foreverchanged, we had thousands dead and we became more divided by it, yet our president thinks that playing it off as just an inconvenience is what this country needs.