The plain unfrosted cake donut is the best donut. From the 3am places that still make them from scratch, they are legit culinary greatness It is the Har Gow of dim sum or the French omelette to test the skill of the shop.

Trump lecturing the bureaucrat class is the best Trump.

Tamago Sando

We are in a Golden Age. So Manufacturing output is in a huge upsurge as just announced. Productivity in manufacturing is increasing faster than we thought. Durable goods outputs are closing in on 10% increases which are crazy. Job growth from manufacturing multiple quarters now. This is crap we haven’t seen for 30 years and you normally only see coming out of recessions. New Factory orders are spiking. Factory Index is growing for 8 straight periods. And now a huge push with Foundry School just announced to nationally train high tech and high manufacturing jobs.

Nice to see if you are a migrant coming to Europe looking for accommodations, you can filter by a special rate.

My daughter asked what she should do for her friends at another school if they don’t get sorority bid they want… I said Apocalypse Now directors cut and a 70s bottle of Martell works for many. “I will ask mom” was her response.

The most USA thing ever. We don’t need no stinkin FIFA licensing. World Cup permission my sweet Yankee a** …you euro bureaucrats

Does any of the NYC crap surprise anyone? For the last 20 years the democrats have been flirting with Marxism. They used the victim/oppressor method to gain voters. Tale as old as time. This person is bad and you are entitled to justice so vote for us. For the last decade they ramped up the hate the “oppressor” narrative. Hate Trump, hate this group, hate that group. And it worked. We saw the raw TDS, we saw them burning Teslas, we saw the assassinations. They were able to form the weak into a mob for power. And created some true believers. Now the Marxists have taken control of the party. This isn’t a surprise. You invite hate with a foundation of evil into your party it will consume and take over. They unleashed the power of Cain in their party to gain power and spoils, and it conquered them. They aren’t equipped to put this genie back in the bottle. Lenin to Mao to Mayor Z all the same. We now have two political parties in the US, the Marxists and Non-Marxists. Choose wisely.

In the category of can’t build a better mouse trap. The iron stovetop waffle maker. You can get it to the 550-600f for a proper waffle. It isn’t the $2k commercial unit or fake $300 unit that due to heat will fail(won’t reach 425f even) And it lasts forever.

The ratings for the Spanish broadcast of the World Cup are going to be thru the roof compared to the English broadcast on Fox. Why? Cause everyone is too cheap to pay for Fox Streaming and already has Peacock for free via other memberships. And because the tone and volume of the announcers increase when something exciting happens, so perfect to have on in the background, and you look up for scoring chances.

Finally 250th USA starting to appear. The Gen X kid in me always got excited over the normal CPG summer promos and radio and amusement park tie ins and movies stuff that you saw trickling in at the start of June. It meant school was over and summer was here.

You know you are getting old when you start to really appreciate a good ham.

It has dawned on me that a reason for our current state, is we have a segment of youth that has never had the following in their hands or used them… A shovel, a frying pan, a rifle, a baby, a wrench, a clipboard, a hammer, dirt, a steering wheel, etc. In others words they have not experienced real life. And the randomness and interactions of living. They have had placement into private schools or expensive suburban schools , AP classes, SAT tests, upper class colleges with their first taste of disappointment not getting into their first choice, easy university grades, etc. Extended artificial adolescence. So to them everything was just jump through a hoop and be praised and then the next hoop. And then you become landed gentry with a peerage. But life doesn’t work like that. They are now bitter and self righteousness cause they were trained to take tests and get a placement in the court of the noble classes…and they didn’t get it. They see people with second homes their age and nice cars and job titles they felt entitled to. Now they are becoming the martyrs and true believers of the resentful…doing the bidding of the elite they wanted to be. So we either get back to teaching our youth truth and sacrifice and what real life is…or we will keep supplying the useful idiots that turn into martyrs for the cause.

One of the things we did to teach our kids honor and conscientiousness is when walking in a parking lot… pay attention. Not so much for being hit by a car, but always scanning and looking, head on a swivel. But also the ground. See that screw or nail not in your path but off to the side, it might even be a small detour. You pick it up and dispose of it. It wasn’t going to affect you at all. But it could cause a major problem for somebody. No money for a new tire, late for work or to grab a kid, old person stranded, someone who has never changed a tire on the side of the road in danger. You now have the honor of preventing a problem. This is what a high trust society is.

Parents teach your children and especially young men to make eye contact with people when passing, with the small head nod and/good-morning, etc. I know awareness of self and others is on the decline, but conscientiousness is a trait that is more important then IQ…this helps develop it. Doesn’t matter if it is the Walmart greeter or country club locker room. Or a crosswalk and somebody letting you pass in front. Or holding the door for a person with takeaway food. It shows awareness of surroundings and a confidence, and acknowledges the other person, and sets a proper tone. And it is also the secret guy code of letting others know, if stuff goes sideways…you are part of “Team run to danger and help”.