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mdruber.bsky.social
Husband, Father, Financial Advisor, Foodie, Keen Observer of and Commenter on the Human Condition
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The port of Long Beach is empty. The busiest west coast import destination sent dock workers home for the week due to lack of anything to do. This 90 day tariff freeze isn't going to accomplish shit.

Steelhead trout topped with smoked mussels in cream

Fuck You Elmo

Thank You Sen Booker.

Yeah. I stayed up past midnight for this. #gocubsgo

Someone stuffed a sample edition of the Moonies newspaper into my mail slot. DTR. Direct To Recycling

A few days ago the Defense Department and the Justice Department announced investigations into national security leaks. Meanwhile Trump's deputies were inadvertently leaking to Jeffrey Goldberg...

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Sculpture and acrobatics in Viejo Vallarta

Yesterday, Trump did an informercial for Tesla on the White House lawn and even announced a personal purchase. Meanwhile last week several Tesla board members (including Elon's brother Kimball) collectively dumped over $100 million worth of shares in the company they govern.

Holy shit! Was that the NASDAQ or a SpaceX rocket?

I am outraged! I just read on the internet that "they" have an orchestra made up entirely of Trans Siberians!

My thoughts on the last 3 days

The US is now a laughing stock of the world...

Trump keeps bringing up Hunter Biden's Laptop in the same way Walter Sobchak kept bringing up 'Nam in The Big Lebowski

Lutnick is fast proving himself to be the biggest sycophant ball gargler in the new administration

New plates day! Just in time for the new season. #Let'sGoCubbies

#IFTYS

Wondering when DOGE will get around to examining Trumps golf outings. First term he played over 180 rounds and billed taxpayers about $151M for secret service use of golf carts, food & lodging at rack rate. If you're not proficient at math, that works out to about $840k/round.

What a cluster fvk

Well looky here

My latest.

Maple, brown butter cornbread

This is the very definition of Fascism

The markets certainly did not take kindly to the tariff announcement. #IFTYS

Ugly loss by the Fright'ning Illini to a really bad Nebraska team. Though it went into overtime, I knew from 5 minutes into the game they would lose. Extremely talented athletes but a very immature team.

Meta gives $25M to Trump to settle a merit less lawsuit. Zuck the Cuck. Indeed

Absolute Power

My latest thoughts

Spaghetti al puttanesca

New season, new shirt. #let'sgoCubbies

Got us a new tiny swivel chair for the Tinyhouse

Welcome to the Pentagon Secretary Drunky McRapeface

Shit, that Illini home court loss was embarrassing and has me rethinking their tournament prospects.

I'm on Substack as well mdruber.substack.com/p/why-did-we...

IFTYS