Russ Manheimer

@TheRickWilson If your first instinct is to think the opposite of what Cramer does, you’re well on the way to becoming rich.

Oh shit. DOW going to zero.

@DemocracyDocket When will the people that have the power to stop this realize they’ve ridden this horse far and long enough and have benefited mightily. It’s time to return to more traditional ways of rent seeking.

BREAKING: In an extraordinarily uncommon development, the FBI carried out a court-authorized raid at Fulton County’s main election operations center. The search is part of the Trump admin's probe of the 2020 election in Fulton Co., including a lawsuit demanding access to ballots. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/fb…

@JohnJHarwood Marginally useful idiot.

pitiful toady

Two babies were born in New York within a year of each other soon after WWII. One, Rob Reiner, lived a life of humanity and achievement. He brought us delight and joy. His memory will be a blessing. The other, Donald Trump, will be remembered as an embarrassment to our nation.

Take a few minutes and read some fime journalism. The Exploratorium harvardreview.org/content/the-ex…

Someone just commented, “the Great Fatsby,” and now I can’t stop laughing. 🤣 😅

Ok not the main point of this article but I love this line: “The whole thing is vaguely Augustinian: O Lord, make me sell my Nvidia position and rebalance toward consumer staples, but not yet.”

He's describing the "stag-" part. When the Fed then delivers cheap money to offset the administration's growth-strangling policies - that's how you get the "flation" part.

Will they give up a virtual Sudetenland?

@RnaudBertrand @princessekateri Follow the kompromat.

Fascinating geopolitical analysis by Emmanuel Todd, one of the very few great French intellectuals we have left. I added English subtitles for you. He believes - as I do - that, fundamentally the US is accepting what he calls "defeat" against not only Russia but China as well, and that Trump is effectively trying - clumsily - to manage this defeat and to adapt the US to multipolarity. He says that the US's defeat in Ukraine isn't like Afghanistan or Iraq but that it represents what he calls "America's first major strategic defeat of its history." In the war, he says Russia has become "the shield of all the rest of the world who can't stand US guardianship of global finance [and] the exploitation of the working populations in the rest of the world by Westerners." As he puts it, Russia has demonstrated "that they were able to face the whole West," and with the rise of BRICS financial systems, this represents nothing less than "the end of the American imperium" - a defeat Trump must now manage. With regards to China he says that the US have in fact "given up" trying to contain them because the balance of power now makes it impossible. He points to "Chinese naval production that will soon make the US Navy a dwarf navy", "US aircraft carriers [that] are irrelevant facing hypersonic missiles" and the fact that China managed to "put the Americans under embargo" for rare earth exports. Arguments that undoubtedly will sound very familiar to my readers because I make the same ones in my articles (like this one: arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/has-america-…), which I know Todd reads because, full disclosure, we know each others 😊 In this picture, Todd characterizes (quite rightly) Europeans as "crazy, we are dealing with crazy people" who think they can act as winners and impose conditions despite being the biggest losers of the war. He is particularly virulent against the media and the general intellectual climate in Europe, speaking of a "process of intellectual and moral degeneration" where "all notions of truth, of honor, of reflection" are being lost. He says that the end of the US's global hegemony doesn't mean they won't relinquish control of what they still do control, specifically Europeans 😢 I'll let you watch the whole video for more, including his excellent analogy between Trump and former French 4th Republic President Henri Queuille: quite out-of-the-box comparison but actually not bad! This is part of a longer video (youtube.com/watch?v=Z5FHLc…). They actually have an English version of the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyaBb… dubbed with AI if you prefer to watch it in English.

@alfonslopeztena Of course, if it’s gold (plated).

US cabinet anytime soon

Out all of them.

You are an accessory to mass murder. You are violated every principle you used to profess. You are a disgrace to humanity.

Fixed it for you @nytimes

It’s not going away.

#CNBC Every time I glance up and see Stephen Moore‘s face. I change the channel. Please don’t insult my intelligence.

@RadioFreeTom The two most used words in 2025 are ‘for now’.

I had my concerns

GPT-5 will represent a nearly 25% increase in version number over GPT-4

@Olof_Sputnick Here’s another recent one.

@RussManheimer That is a nice picture, thanks for posting.

Here’s something to brighten your timeline. Photograph taken at this year‘s WoodenBoat show. The boat with the tanbark sail is spartina, our new Swan Point Garvey.

If Orwell was alive he'd be like "nah, this is too on the nose."