Schnipp'sQuips
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Dad, Mets fan, Cornell alum, ink-stained wretch, night stalker, sleepwalker, failed poet. Suddenly a CNBC Pro editor. Opinions mine alone/RTs unendorsed.
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When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?
December 3, 2025 at 1:19 AM
When Trump calls Somalis “garbage,” I respond: how many Somalis are in the Epstein files?
Not following U.S. policy vis a vis “narco-terrorism” and drug interdiction and protecting the citizenry here.
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Not following U.S. policy vis a vis “narco-terrorism” and drug interdiction and protecting the citizenry here.
Wow. I guess this scarf is old. Really old.
November 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Wow. I guess this scarf is old. Really old.
Now you too are free to run for elected office and after the votes are tallied ask the Secretary of State to "find" 12,000 ballots for you, in order to overturn the outcome -- AND IT'S ALL LEGAL!
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Now you too are free to run for elected office and after the votes are tallied ask the Secretary of State to "find" 12,000 ballots for you, in order to overturn the outcome -- AND IT'S ALL LEGAL!
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
Go ahead. Tell 'em Georgia sent ya.
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I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
November 25, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
"The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video."
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
November 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"The President directing the FBI to target us is exactly why we made this video."
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
-- Senator Elissa Slotkin, former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who served three tours in Iraq with the CIA
The apparent strategy in Nov. 2025 is to just kill off MAGA voters, although it's unclear how that game plan wins you more votes.
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDC’s No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The apparent strategy in Nov. 2025 is to just kill off MAGA voters, although it's unclear how that game plan wins you more votes.
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
NB: "The nation’s top public health agency currently has no permanent director, and Abraham would essentially be running the agency."
I have bad news for America. Prices don't come down.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
The Middle Class Is Buckling Under Almost Five Years of Persistent Inflation
Workers are growing tired of an economy in which everything seems to get more expensive.
www.wsj.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I have bad news for America. Prices don't come down.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
The best you can hope for is that they stabilize at a higher level (stop rising) and your income grows to catch up and, if you're lucky, surpass the prevailing price level. No one anywhere is lowering prices.
"Of the more than one million people under Temporary Protected Status in the U.S. this year, 705 are from Somalia."
#CrueltyisthePoint
#CrueltyisthePoint
Trump Plans to End Immigration Protections for Some Somalis in Minnesota
President alleged Somali gangs are “terrorizing” people in the Midwestern state.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:15 PM
"Of the more than one million people under Temporary Protected Status in the U.S. this year, 705 are from Somalia."
#CrueltyisthePoint
#CrueltyisthePoint
“At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
Opinion | The Thucydides Trap Is Coming for America
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
“At the world’s summit, America is overthrowing America.”
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
(Spoiler alert: This won’t end well.)
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
November 20, 2025 at 11:13 PM
USA! USA! USA!
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Making the world safe for swastikas and noose symbols, which are now "potentially divisive."
Saw Bernard Bailyn on on Burns' et al's The American Revolutionlast night and thought, "Is he still with us? He must be ancient."
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
Bernard Bailyn - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Saw Bernard Bailyn on on Burns' et al's The American Revolutionlast night and thought, "Is he still with us? He must be ancient."
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
Died in the summer of 2020, age 97.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard...
The torch has been passed. I know longer recognize any of the prominent (living) historians!
“America First” didn’t work out too well then either,
November 12, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“America First” didn’t work out too well then either,
The President and CEO of USAA has a few choices words to the Commander in Chief who desecrated Arlington National Cemetery with a partisan, narcissistic campaign rally on #VeteransDay today.
November 12, 2025 at 12:51 AM
The President and CEO of USAA has a few choices words to the Commander in Chief who desecrated Arlington National Cemetery with a partisan, narcissistic campaign rally on #VeteransDay today.
I had a brief rainbow on my ceiling earlier. Never saw it before. It was like Stonehenge!
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I had a brief rainbow on my ceiling earlier. Never saw it before. It was like Stonehenge!
How would he know how much anything costs, much less a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread or a monthly insurance premium? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Trump Dismisses Affordability Concerns, Insists Prices Are Coming Down
The president said the notion that the GOP performed poorly in the recent elections because of the cost of living is a Democratic “con job.”
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
How would he know how much anything costs, much less a gallon of milk, a loaf of bread or a monthly insurance premium? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
From courtroom testimony:
“I had mustard and condiments on my uniform, and an onion hanging from my radio antenna that night,” the agent said.
What a snowflake! Glad HE wasn't ever responsible for defending the United States Capitol.
“I had mustard and condiments on my uniform, and an onion hanging from my radio antenna that night,” the agent said.
What a snowflake! Glad HE wasn't ever responsible for defending the United States Capitol.
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
From courtroom testimony:
“I had mustard and condiments on my uniform, and an onion hanging from my radio antenna that night,” the agent said.
What a snowflake! Glad HE wasn't ever responsible for defending the United States Capitol.
“I had mustard and condiments on my uniform, and an onion hanging from my radio antenna that night,” the agent said.
What a snowflake! Glad HE wasn't ever responsible for defending the United States Capitol.
This is so true. If Jimmy Carter had ever proposed a tenth of this circa '77-79, he'd have been hoisted by his own peanut petard.
"The GOP has embraced protectionism and industrial policy with a fervor that would make 1970s Democrats blush."
"The GOP has embraced protectionism and industrial policy with a fervor that would make 1970s Democrats blush."
Opinion | The great GOP migration has begun
The midterms promise a reality check — and growing defections from disastrous MAGA orthodoxy.
wapo.st
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
This is so true. If Jimmy Carter had ever proposed a tenth of this circa '77-79, he'd have been hoisted by his own peanut petard.
"The GOP has embraced protectionism and industrial policy with a fervor that would make 1970s Democrats blush."
"The GOP has embraced protectionism and industrial policy with a fervor that would make 1970s Democrats blush."
Sandwich Man is Exonerated.
Subway and Jersey Mike's could introduce a special Anti-ICE sandwich. Or make a dirt sandwich to throw at ICE.
Subway and Jersey Mike's could introduce a special Anti-ICE sandwich. Or make a dirt sandwich to throw at ICE.
November 6, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Sandwich Man is Exonerated.
Subway and Jersey Mike's could introduce a special Anti-ICE sandwich. Or make a dirt sandwich to throw at ICE.
Subway and Jersey Mike's could introduce a special Anti-ICE sandwich. Or make a dirt sandwich to throw at ICE.
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Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
November 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Hi, I’m God.
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
Jesus and I agree that starving the poor so you can build yourself golden bathrooms and golden ballrooms is evil. Anyone who does that shall burn for eternity. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Thanks,
God
One thing #NewJersey can do in 2026: Mimic Texas and Ohio and Missouri and Indiana — and gerrymander the #TomKean and #JeffVanDrew Congressional seats away from the GOP.
November 5, 2025 at 3:42 AM
One thing #NewJersey can do in 2026: Mimic Texas and Ohio and Missouri and Indiana — and gerrymander the #TomKean and #JeffVanDrew Congressional seats away from the GOP.
OMG. Josh Lyman is in #theDiplomat and is married to CJ Gregg.
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 AM
OMG. Josh Lyman is in #theDiplomat and is married to CJ Gregg.
The Blue Jays are to Trump in 2025 what Jesse Owens was to Hitler in 1936.
So #GoBlueJays and #OCanada
So #GoBlueJays and #OCanada
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The Blue Jays are to Trump in 2025 what Jesse Owens was to Hitler in 1936.
So #GoBlueJays and #OCanada
So #GoBlueJays and #OCanada