Yes, I did watch the video of Mike’s interview with Clavicular. He said he welcomed advice on how to improve his podcast and you really did try to get him to discuss topics other than changing someone’s looks to succeed. I don’t really think he’s ready to be a spokesperson for young men on any other areas of the life. I also think he was getting ready for a party and didn’t want you to see, I don’t think permanently inking your eyebrows and eyelashes is a great idea because we do all age. And he pushes quite a lot of supplements also.
As far as politics, I’m sure we’ll hear all about Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, August 4. Good, bad or indifferent. But as an Ohioan in Ne Ohio I think Democrats need to start getting meaner and louder. I know the Republican are getting way more money to campaign, but we need to keep these AssHats out of our public offices. I just looked and although Ohio doesn’t register by party the primary records show 31% Democrat, 31% Republican and 37% Independent plus 0.1% other. Forty- four percent voted for Kamala. And I also read only 55% of Ohio Republicans claim to be MAGA. We really need to wake some people up.
The farmers across the state really need to wake up as well. I’m in NE Ohio in a fairly big farming area across several counties. Most fields didn’t start getting planted till around July 4 and almost till the end of July. They usually start by early May. It wasn’t just weather this year but the crops do seem to be catching up because we have had some good rains here and there when it’s usually dry in July. But the weather has nothing to do with climate change. That’s what All the MAGA nuts I know scream. WE had a huge snowstorm in February with well below freezing temps so where is climate change? Gas was also around $3.79 or maybe a little less close to July 4 and yesterday July 31 it was $4.29. So farmers need to realize /trump and MAGA hasn’t done anything to help them after getting their votes. Farm Bureau gave money to 60+% of Republicans and only 30+% of Democrats and before 2008 they didn’t give any to Dems. Too many of these people are still Asshiles about loving Trump, loving MAGA, loving ICE, loving anything that keeps Democrats from being able to vote. I’ve lived here almost my whole life and Ohio has way too much to lose.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson otes that Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reported that a new CNN poll conducted by the public opinion research firm SSRS found that 70 per cent of adult Americans disapprove of the way President Donald Trump is handling the economy while only 30 per cent approve. A whopping 75 per cent disapprove of how Trump is handling inflation, while only 25 per cent approve. When it comes to gas prices, the numbers are even worse for the president: 79 p center cent disapprove while only 21 per cent approve. Sixty-five percent think Trump’s own economic policies have hurt the country, while only 22 per think those policies have improved the economy.
Seventy-three percent of those polled said Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, while 27 per cent said he has the right priorities. Sixty-six percent agreed that Trump puts his own gain over the good of the country; 34 per cent agreed that he does not. Only 43 per cent of those polled thought Trump 'has the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively as president', while 57 per cent did not agree with that statement.
As Edwards-Levy notes, Trump’s overall approval rating in the new CNN poll matches his rating just after the 6 January 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol—his lowest ever—at 34 per cent. The number of those who strongly disapprove of him is 50 per cent, a new high, while only 15 per cent strongly support him, a record low.
Edwards-Levy points out that people polled aren’t keen on the way Trump’s handling the situation in Iran: 72 per cent disapprove while only 28 per approve. Sixty-seven percent think his actions there have hurt the US, while only 21 per cent think those actions have helped the US So, as she puts it: 'Just 28 per cent approve of his handling of the situation in Iran, 25 per cent on inflation and 21 per cent on gas prices, with significant pockets of disapproval even among his supporters'.
Americans unhappy with Trump’s war on Iran are unlikely to be cheered by the news from that conflict over the past few days.
Andrew Egger wrote in The Bulwark about how the Trump administration seems stuck in a loop, 'orbiting hopelessly around two demonstrably failed positions: If we bomb the hell out of them, they’ll give us what we want. If we stop bombing them, they’ll give us what we want'. Adina Renner of the New York Times today called this 'The Whiplash War' and provided charts of attacks showing what this looping looks like on a daily basis. Meanwhile, Iranian negotiators have made their demands quite clear: sanctions removed, troops out, no more discussion of nuclear weapons, and Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Laura Wise, a scholar of peace and conflict resolution at the University of Edinburgh, told Renner that the process of ending the war has been complicated by the fact American negotiators seem focused on 'getting a deal rather than making peace'.
Davis Winkie of CNN reported that the Pentagon changed the way it was accounting for military personnel injured in the Iran war. After the removal from Defense Casualty Analysis System of four service members killed by Iranian strikes in Jordan and Iraq last week created an outcry and brought renewed attention to accusations the Pentagon was not being transparent about the human toll of the war, the Pentagon added more than 140 additional soldiers to the database and restored the four missing soldiers.
The numbers now show 18 troops dead and another 624 wounded since 28 February, when Trump began strikes against Iran.
Over the weekend, military strikes in the region paused as Trump decided against an escalation. According to U.S. officials who spoke to Eric Schmitt and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times, that decision came in part because the U.S. military is running low on Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air defense munitions necessary to shoot down Iranian missiles.
The journalists reported that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine had warned that further combat would “dangerously deplete” interceptors, a leak that suggests real dissent within the White House over the execution of the war. On Meet the Press on Sunday, U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz told host Kristen Welker that any problems with munitions were former President Joe Biden’s fault but added that the U.S. has 'everything that it needs to conduct this campaign…and…the people who are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail'.
Top advisors also expressed concern over a widening war and the economic crunch caused by the crisis.
But yesterday, U.S. Central Command posted that forces from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had launched missiles 'in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces'. Jared Malsin and Suha Ma’ayeh of the Wall Street Journal noted that this surprise attack is the first in which the Iranians have gone on offense. Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow specializing in Iran at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told the journalists that this shift indicates Iranian officials 'see themselves as having the upper hand. It was a signal of a sort of calibrated escalation'.
They might have increased confidence because, as John Irish and Jonathan Saul of Reuters reported, they are expecting a shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air defense missile launchers within weeks.
U.S. Central Command said all of last night’s Iranian missiles were intercepted. Trump nonetheless took the attacks poorly, telling the Fox News Channel: 'We are going to beat the f*cking sh*t out of them. We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating'. US and Saudi Arabian forces struck against an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq.
Oil prices rose with the news of renewed strikes. Despite concerns about rising inflation, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to hold interest rates steady; the three dissenting regional Fed bank presidents voted to raise interest rates. Concern over inflation and uncertainty about the economy sent the stock market plunging today in its worst day since April 2025, when Trump announced his 'Liberation Day' tariffs.
And so, Republicans are devoting themselves to serving red meat to their MAGA base, ginning up sound bites for distribution on social media.
Yes, I did watch the video of Mike’s interview with Clavicular. He said he welcomed advice on how to improve his podcast and you really did try to get him to discuss topics other than changing someone’s looks to succeed. I don’t really think he’s ready to be a spokesperson for young men on any other areas of the life. I also think he was getting ready for a party and didn’t want you to see, I don’t think permanently inking your eyebrows and eyelashes is a great idea because we do all age. And he pushes quite a lot of supplements also.
As far as politics, I’m sure we’ll hear all about Mitch McConnell on Tuesday, August 4. Good, bad or indifferent. But as an Ohioan in Ne Ohio I think Democrats need to start getting meaner and louder. I know the Republican are getting way more money to campaign, but we need to keep these AssHats out of our public offices. I just looked and although Ohio doesn’t register by party the primary records show 31% Democrat, 31% Republican and 37% Independent plus 0.1% other. Forty- four percent voted for Kamala. And I also read only 55% of Ohio Republicans claim to be MAGA. We really need to wake some people up.
The farmers across the state really need to wake up as well. I’m in NE Ohio in a fairly big farming area across several counties. Most fields didn’t start getting planted till around July 4 and almost till the end of July. They usually start by early May. It wasn’t just weather this year but the crops do seem to be catching up because we have had some good rains here and there when it’s usually dry in July. But the weather has nothing to do with climate change. That’s what All the MAGA nuts I know scream. WE had a huge snowstorm in February with well below freezing temps so where is climate change? Gas was also around $3.79 or maybe a little less close to July 4 and yesterday July 31 it was $4.29. So farmers need to realize /trump and MAGA hasn’t done anything to help them after getting their votes. Farm Bureau gave money to 60+% of Republicans and only 30+% of Democrats and before 2008 they didn’t give any to Dems. Too many of these people are still Asshiles about loving Trump, loving MAGA, loving ICE, loving anything that keeps Democrats from being able to vote. I’ve lived here almost my whole life and Ohio has way too much to lose.
Historian Heather Cox Richardson otes that Ariel Edwards-Levy of CNN reported that a new CNN poll conducted by the public opinion research firm SSRS found that 70 per cent of adult Americans disapprove of the way President Donald Trump is handling the economy while only 30 per cent approve. A whopping 75 per cent disapprove of how Trump is handling inflation, while only 25 per cent approve. When it comes to gas prices, the numbers are even worse for the president: 79 p center cent disapprove while only 21 per cent approve. Sixty-five percent think Trump’s own economic policies have hurt the country, while only 22 per think those policies have improved the economy.
Seventy-three percent of those polled said Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems, while 27 per cent said he has the right priorities. Sixty-six percent agreed that Trump puts his own gain over the good of the country; 34 per cent agreed that he does not. Only 43 per cent of those polled thought Trump 'has the stamina and sharpness to serve effectively as president', while 57 per cent did not agree with that statement.
As Edwards-Levy notes, Trump’s overall approval rating in the new CNN poll matches his rating just after the 6 January 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol—his lowest ever—at 34 per cent. The number of those who strongly disapprove of him is 50 per cent, a new high, while only 15 per cent strongly support him, a record low.
Edwards-Levy points out that people polled aren’t keen on the way Trump’s handling the situation in Iran: 72 per cent disapprove while only 28 per approve. Sixty-seven percent think his actions there have hurt the US, while only 21 per cent think those actions have helped the US So, as she puts it: 'Just 28 per cent approve of his handling of the situation in Iran, 25 per cent on inflation and 21 per cent on gas prices, with significant pockets of disapproval even among his supporters'.
Americans unhappy with Trump’s war on Iran are unlikely to be cheered by the news from that conflict over the past few days.
Andrew Egger wrote in The Bulwark about how the Trump administration seems stuck in a loop, 'orbiting hopelessly around two demonstrably failed positions: If we bomb the hell out of them, they’ll give us what we want. If we stop bombing them, they’ll give us what we want'. Adina Renner of the New York Times today called this 'The Whiplash War' and provided charts of attacks showing what this looping looks like on a daily basis. Meanwhile, Iranian negotiators have made their demands quite clear: sanctions removed, troops out, no more discussion of nuclear weapons, and Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Laura Wise, a scholar of peace and conflict resolution at the University of Edinburgh, told Renner that the process of ending the war has been complicated by the fact American negotiators seem focused on 'getting a deal rather than making peace'.
Davis Winkie of CNN reported that the Pentagon changed the way it was accounting for military personnel injured in the Iran war. After the removal from Defense Casualty Analysis System of four service members killed by Iranian strikes in Jordan and Iraq last week created an outcry and brought renewed attention to accusations the Pentagon was not being transparent about the human toll of the war, the Pentagon added more than 140 additional soldiers to the database and restored the four missing soldiers.
The numbers now show 18 troops dead and another 624 wounded since 28 February, when Trump began strikes against Iran.
Over the weekend, military strikes in the region paused as Trump decided against an escalation. According to U.S. officials who spoke to Eric Schmitt and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times, that decision came in part because the U.S. military is running low on Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air defense munitions necessary to shoot down Iranian missiles.
The journalists reported that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine had warned that further combat would “dangerously deplete” interceptors, a leak that suggests real dissent within the White House over the execution of the war. On Meet the Press on Sunday, U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz told host Kristen Welker that any problems with munitions were former President Joe Biden’s fault but added that the U.S. has 'everything that it needs to conduct this campaign…and…the people who are leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail'.
Top advisors also expressed concern over a widening war and the economic crunch caused by the crisis.
But yesterday, U.S. Central Command posted that forces from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had launched missiles 'in an attempted surprise attack on U.S. forces'. Jared Malsin and Suha Ma’ayeh of the Wall Street Journal noted that this surprise attack is the first in which the Iranians have gone on offense. Hamidreza Azizi, a visiting fellow specializing in Iran at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, told the journalists that this shift indicates Iranian officials 'see themselves as having the upper hand. It was a signal of a sort of calibrated escalation'.
They might have increased confidence because, as John Irish and Jonathan Saul of Reuters reported, they are expecting a shipment of up to 400 Chinese-made shoulder-fired air defense missile launchers within weeks.
U.S. Central Command said all of last night’s Iranian missiles were intercepted. Trump nonetheless took the attacks poorly, telling the Fox News Channel: 'We are going to beat the f*cking sh*t out of them. We’ll be hitting them hard. They’re going to get a beating'. US and Saudi Arabian forces struck against an Iranian-backed militia in Iraq.
Oil prices rose with the news of renewed strikes. Despite concerns about rising inflation, the Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to hold interest rates steady; the three dissenting regional Fed bank presidents voted to raise interest rates. Concern over inflation and uncertainty about the economy sent the stock market plunging today in its worst day since April 2025, when Trump announced his 'Liberation Day' tariffs.
And so, Republicans are devoting themselves to serving red meat to their MAGA base, ginning up sound bites for distribution on social media.
Didn't like Clavicular.
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