HardleeRic

Spotted in Asheville, NC for the G20 finance meeting.

🎵 won't make my mama proud it's gonna cause a scene she sees her baby girl i know she's gonna scream "Gawd, what have you done? become a thief in the night become a dog on the run" oh mama Iiiiiiiii just helped myself just a mouthful of bread now they've murdered Valjean 🎶

Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

Puppy got nice comments from everyone on Mount Mitchell today because he looks like a snack.

163 days between Zohran Mamdani taking office and the Knicks winning the finals. Damn he works quick.

Oh. So there’s no deal.

Peace largely in our time.

Hang on, the WHAT? The fucking WHAT report?

The year is 2041 and you only have ten payments left on your 2024 Nissan Juke that stopped running 8 years ago. You have paid $40,000 in interest charges.

Wondering if it’s possible to lose an election by more than 100%.

Asheville, NC

No Kings Asheville, NC

Damn this guy’s so effing good.

“Police have not confirmed a motive, but said scratchings at the scene tested positive for wokeness and ‘probably, I dunno, DEI maybe?’ according to one investigator.”

“Until it is corrected, BLS should suspend issuing the monthly job reports but keep publishing the more accurate, though less timely, quarterly data.” - Trump BLS nominee EJ Antoni on Fox Business yesterday

Conservatives are well on their way to adopting the name “Nazi”. It’ll be ironic at first and then sincere. Either this year or next.

Omg hahahahahahaha.

This is a tough morning for everyone who already beat their swords into plowshares yesterday.

Me when my son asks what we’re doing to celebrate May The Fourth:

HAPPY UN-LIBERATION DAY!

Jeez, now the stock market, measles virus and tornados have Trump Derangement Syndrome too?

The “secondary” tariffs on countries that buy oil from Venezuela give away the game on Part 2 of this fiasco: countries that band together (like China & Japan) to work around the U.S. tariff regime will come up for another round of even harder (and more U.S. isolating) tariffs.

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A “TRADE DEFICIT”—IT’S JUST CALLED “BUYING THINGS.” YOU DO NOT HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT WITH YOUR DENTIST JUST BECAUSE HE NEVER BUYS ANYTHING FROM YOU.

Tariffs are ivermectin for the economy.

Here’s one: of the people mentioned in We Didn’t Start the Fire, how many are still alive?

Wondering how much to talk about #SignalGate? Trump talked about Hillary’s emails literally every day 2015-16 and is in fact still talking about them. That’s how much you have to talk about something to make it A Thing. It will feel stupid and gauche but that’s the job.

Woof, here we go.

Did we get them? The ones eating the cats and dogs?

Not sure why everyone isn’t talking about this: DC police wanted to arrest this GOP Rep for assaulting a non-spouse woman, but US Atty Ed Martin’s (“Trumps’ lawyer”) office won’t sign the warrant.

“Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats’ when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary” and “if people want to understand Trump, they should read the 2006 book Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work.” #ncpol

The wealthy experience amusement and indignities on vast scales we regular people can’t imagine.

A month ago this National Park Service website for *Stonewall* said “LGBTQ+,” then it said “LGBQ+,” and now it just says “LGB.” It’s like that poem about them coming for you in real time.

Some trees and water and lights I like.

Today’s lake.