Phil

Writing is my cathartic release. Multi-track minded. Religion, politics, sports, finance, economics, and pop culture. Here to offer common sense

[Phil @philyourday]

So many people don’t get it

They don’t get math

Thirty seven trillion dollars in debt

Adding one trillion every hundred days

Current deficit is multi trillion

We are beyond broke

A new term is needed to describe the immense nature of our debt problem

Dire isn’t sufficient

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Another White Lotus episode down, and sheesh it was horrible. This season is moving at a snail pace. Pretty bad so far.

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Hulu are you kidding me
Like this is next level idiocy
Give me my money back you clowns @hulu @hulu_support

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My Oscars broadcast just cut out for the night
wtf

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@ZelenskyyUa He can probably afford a bankroll your endless war to nowhere you ungrateful grift.

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Still feels super weird that we’re basically 20 years removed from Wicked but
Hollywood was so out of ideas that they had to make a movie and it was so “good” that it’s Oscar worthy. Aka it shows how bad the movies are these days. Zero creativity.

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Also. These nails are beyond excessive

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Feels like Ariana is missing the regular notes imo

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@Nithya_Shrii Let’s take out money and add in God

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Seen nearly every Oscars “best picture” since 1939. I’ve watched practically every film on any “top 100” left aka AFI, etc.
It’s hard to actually state just how bad the slate of films are this year. It’s a very sad reality that Hollywood has officially lost creativity.

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How many idiots at the Oscars are going to say stupid sh*t about Ukraine tonight as if people there are watching this horrible slate of films this year?

I’ll let the over/under at 3.5

Taking the over

PS …
I’m sure folks in Kyiv really care about Wicked 🤣

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@PeterSchiff @realDonaldTrump You mad you were all in on gold and didn’t buy the dip?

[Jillian Michaels @JillianMichaels]

It appears that major food corporations are now attempting to engineer their products in ways that circumvent the effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists, effectively counteracting the appetite-suppressing mechanisms of these widely used weight-loss medications. No good will come of this ongoing strategic interplay between the food and pharmaceutical industries. We need to continue fighting back against this madness personally and politically - don't get complacent simply because we got @RobertKennedyJr confirmed.

[Jeff Sunday @TheDegenWeekly]

This might be the best SNL skit in the last 20 years

[Mollie @MZHemingway]

Yesterday, Susan Rice said of the Trump-Zelensky meeting, "There is no question this was a set up." She revealed full knowledge of the mineral agreement, complained that it didn't include "concrete" security agrees (meaning, apparently, commitment of US troops on the ground if conditions merit), and then mischaracterized Trump's behavior, counting on most Americans to not have watched what transpired over the entire hour in the Oval Office.

You can look at this and dismiss it as typical Democrat talking points, but you could also view it as almost a confession, one that includes details about the current "Get Trump" effort.

Yes, Trump won the popular vote against unbelievable odds, but if you think Team Obama is being any less involved in quiet insurrections than they were during the first Trump administration (Russia collusion, Ukraine impeachment, etc.), you're clueless. I'll remind you that Susan Rice was in the small Jan. 5, 2017 meeting in the WH with other key Russia collusion hoax perpetrators.

Zelensky repeatedly declined opportunities to sign the deal in Kyiv and Munich, and requested the meeting at the White House. It later came out that Rice and Tony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, and Alexander Vindman may have been personally advising Zelensky to do this meeting in the way he did -- that they recommended him to be hostile and to try to goad Trump into blowing up. Even though he didn't, and even though Zelensky's actions horrified many normal Americans, the Obama team went on the airwaves to falsely characterize what happened.

I think their goal was to have a wonderful performance by Zelensky, an angry Trump appearing to scuttle the deal, and the support of the neocon portion of the GOP to start applying pressure on Trump to have US Troop commitments as part of the "security guarantee." It was a set-up, in Susan Rice's interesting choice of words.

Instead, Zelensky had one of the worst stage performances of his acting career, and Trump was statesmanlike (against all odds) throughout. Zelensky followed Team Obama's advice to be hostile to a tee, but it didn't land how they thought it would. Surprisingly, one of the most important aspects of it not working out might have been Lindsay Graham's reaction. Had he and other neocons thought Zelensky was being reasonable, Trump would be having to fight (even moreso) the neocon portion of the GOP in addition to Team Obama's dirty tricks. Even the "conservative" neocon pundits on TV last night were admitting Zelensky had royally messed up.

As you can see from the hostility of the bureaucracy to any Republican oversight, no matter how reasonable or minor it may be, the entrenched bureaucracy and permanent DC apparatus is quite active. That goes quadruple for the deep state in the Intelligence Community. I'd expect more and more shenanigans and to be prepared so that you don't fall for the next information operation. The post-WWII architecture in Europe and the US needs this war to continue or be settled on "US troops on the ground" type guarantees, even though that's not what Americans want.

Things will heat up here, and it's a very dangerous time.

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@ShamsCharania Send him to the G league.

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Beyond over Zelensky
Beyond over Ukraine

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@yashar Good, they can start allowing all of their tax dollars from here on out

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

That was the most incredible thing I’ve ever seen. He got bitch slapped for

a) having a poor hand
b) for pushing the world to the brink of WW3
c) for not saying thank you for billions in aid
d) for campaigning against the President and helping his opponent in the election

And in front of the media for every American to see in real time.

[Phil @philyourday]

Real talk if folks like Kinzinger and Vindman are seriously still this pro-Ukraine at this point after Zelensky acted like that in Oval Office they should move to Ukraine and abandon their USA citizenship. Get out. What an ungrateful POS. Arrogant little teenage girl.

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Apparently everyone X are the people who are stashing $7 trillion in Money Markets because they are salivating at a downturn in any and every market. It’s honestly borderline psychotic how much some of these accounts cheerlead demise.