Gotta love affordability is a hoax… not sure how what I see on my receipt is a hoax. But foreclosures up 20% YoY and credit card debt up 50% since 2020, sounds like not a hoax to me
Maybe that’s what we should tell the credit card companies when they call asking for payment. This is a hoax. And when they say it’s not, that we owe them x amount, we scream “fake news” and hang up. I wonder how well that would work out for us! (It would be hilarious to do it, though.)
The second most shocking thing is the utter nonsense that comes out of that boy's mouth. He opens it, and he'll say absolutely any crazy thing there is. The most shocking thing is the poor, dumb, brain dead, dimwit suckers who adopt his patent idiocy as true, as proven by the fact that he said it.
I don’t know that anything will ever be more astounding to me—people so blind to what’s so plain, right before their very eyes. How Orwellian, the way they’ve willingly, voluntarily rejected the evidence of their eyes and ears.
When will you get around to telling us what you truly think, Chris? 😅 I look so forward to your take politically, and though it’s spot on, it provides a bit of levity (unfortunately at your expense). Take a few deep breaths before you begin tomorrow’s rundown - I’m concerned about your blood pressure. 🫶🏼
I enjoy these the most when I hold nothing back. I’m not (yet) on blood pressure meds, but this serves as my daily catharsis. Blowing off steam this way has to do something positive for my blood pressure, right? :)
Did Hitler extravagantly pre-fund his brown shirts as well as the Gestapo? And did he supply them with chemical weapons and missiles? Well this is, after all a modern, digital and well regulated secret police.
The modern, digital parts are what scare me the most. We, or in this case, they, have access to some very sophisticated tools, which, for dissenters, puts us at quite a disadvantage and in a great deal of danger.
Chris, has anyone ever told you you deserve an A++? I'm reserving A+++ for Trygve. You guys really make it around here. There are some other excellents, and a number of very, very goods, but you and Trygve are it, style-wise, and content-wise.
Fred, I'm humbled by your kindness. Thank you. No, I've never been told that before, but it's great to hear. Likewise, I wasn't familiar with Trygve. You mentioning him here caused me to look him up, and now I'm following his work too, so thanks as well for pointing me in his direction.
Chris, it's not a matter of kindness. You and I are, in a peculiar way, friends. We have interacted here enough that I think of you as a friend I've never personally met, and almost assuredly never will. But be that as it may, I treat you as I would treat a friend, whether it's responding to your request for some support by becoming a paying subscriber, or making sure you receive a very well-deserved compliment. I'm not blowing smoke. I'm telling you you have a unique way of processing and delivering this material, and you're very good at it. I've never met Trygve, either, and I'm completely confident I never will. But I've written to him, as I'm writing to you, to tell him he's the best writer on Substack. I like Trygve, as much as you can like someone you've never met, and I greatly respect him, but I don't have the same kind of interaction with him that I have with you. Perhaps I might wish to think of Trygve as a friend. It just never got there with him, which is fine, because, as I said, there's no place for it to go. But I do feel that way about you. And it started out in a funny way with our talking about your last name, and my telling you I "met" on the telephone an actual cousin of Jaco Pastorius. I worried about you when you needed time off, because you were stressed or ill with something. And I was glad when you became your good old sharp-tongued, piss and vinegar, very smart self again.
I read my share of Substack posts from several or more authors. Mark Mansour occupies the same sort of peak as do you and Trygve. I've told him that when he and his wife need to escape the cold, I have a guest room waiting for them in Miami. It's yours, too. Lucas Kunce is a favorite. Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman are lots of fun. Julie Roginsky and Liz Oyer are highly valued. Jim Acosta does great presentations. Brian Bengs does great posts, but he doesn't interact in a way that feels personal. I like him. I value him tremendously. But it doesn't feel remotely like a friendship. Which is fine. I read his stuff, and I'll never meet him, either. I used to feel more connected to Qasim Rashid than I do now. But I don't have the same feeling and emotional reaction to any of them, even the ones I like a lot, as I do to you. Well, maybe Mark. And do you know whose phone numbers and personal e-mail addresses I have from all of those people? None. Oh, I made a mistake. I do have Mark's personal e-mail address. And he has mine.
Mark was stressed out about some things at one point, and I reached out to him, too. I would with Lucas. Or Trygve. We're all in this (seemingly sinking) ship together. I have one life vest, and I'll share it with certain people. At this moment, you, Mark, Trygve, and Lucas are at the top of the list. I even have Substack "friends" who don't post. We read and respond to each other's comments. We have long conversations that way. And you can feel the connection. VEE LAVALLEE, who I think lives in Ireland or somewhere, is at about the top of that list.
Linda, things like what you said here really impact me positively. We went on a journey together—from smiling to laughing, but becoming informed along the way, hence the rage building. Since starting Gonzo Report, I’ve had this internal struggle, not to find my voice—that’s been there all along—but to become comfortable and confident enough to use it without second-guessing myself, feeling that I shouldn’t write something because it doesn’t sound “traditionally journalistic,” if you know what I mean. It’s hearing from others that something worked—that you were moved to smile or laugh, but were also informed, which empowers you as a reader—that has shown me that those times I just write whatever comes naturally, letting me be me, not censoring myself, those are the times I will be most proud of the work I’ve done. Thank you for that. 🖤
I just subscribed and this is the first post of yours I've read. It may have felt like a root canal to you, but I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to reading you on the future. God help us!
Joelle, what an incredibly kind comment. Thank you for this! I'm so happy to have you here, and I also look forward to hearing from you on future posts! I'm working on a new one tonight that should be published in a few hours. God help us, indeed—things have gone from bad to worse to the lowest pit of hell in seemingly no time. Sadly, 2026 will not be anything to look forward to. But we have community here, and that's how we're going to get through it. Together.
Gotta love affordability is a hoax… not sure how what I see on my receipt is a hoax. But foreclosures up 20% YoY and credit card debt up 50% since 2020, sounds like not a hoax to me
Maybe that’s what we should tell the credit card companies when they call asking for payment. This is a hoax. And when they say it’s not, that we owe them x amount, we scream “fake news” and hang up. I wonder how well that would work out for us! (It would be hilarious to do it, though.)
The second most shocking thing is the utter nonsense that comes out of that boy's mouth. He opens it, and he'll say absolutely any crazy thing there is. The most shocking thing is the poor, dumb, brain dead, dimwit suckers who adopt his patent idiocy as true, as proven by the fact that he said it.
I don’t know that anything will ever be more astounding to me—people so blind to what’s so plain, right before their very eyes. How Orwellian, the way they’ve willingly, voluntarily rejected the evidence of their eyes and ears.
When will you get around to telling us what you truly think, Chris? 😅 I look so forward to your take politically, and though it’s spot on, it provides a bit of levity (unfortunately at your expense). Take a few deep breaths before you begin tomorrow’s rundown - I’m concerned about your blood pressure. 🫶🏼
I enjoy these the most when I hold nothing back. I’m not (yet) on blood pressure meds, but this serves as my daily catharsis. Blowing off steam this way has to do something positive for my blood pressure, right? :)
Did Hitler extravagantly pre-fund his brown shirts as well as the Gestapo? And did he supply them with chemical weapons and missiles? Well this is, after all a modern, digital and well regulated secret police.
The modern, digital parts are what scare me the most. We, or in this case, they, have access to some very sophisticated tools, which, for dissenters, puts us at quite a disadvantage and in a great deal of danger.
Yeah but digital parts can't haul you off to a concentration camp- today
Chris, has anyone ever told you you deserve an A++? I'm reserving A+++ for Trygve. You guys really make it around here. There are some other excellents, and a number of very, very goods, but you and Trygve are it, style-wise, and content-wise.
Fred, I'm humbled by your kindness. Thank you. No, I've never been told that before, but it's great to hear. Likewise, I wasn't familiar with Trygve. You mentioning him here caused me to look him up, and now I'm following his work too, so thanks as well for pointing me in his direction.
Chris, it's not a matter of kindness. You and I are, in a peculiar way, friends. We have interacted here enough that I think of you as a friend I've never personally met, and almost assuredly never will. But be that as it may, I treat you as I would treat a friend, whether it's responding to your request for some support by becoming a paying subscriber, or making sure you receive a very well-deserved compliment. I'm not blowing smoke. I'm telling you you have a unique way of processing and delivering this material, and you're very good at it. I've never met Trygve, either, and I'm completely confident I never will. But I've written to him, as I'm writing to you, to tell him he's the best writer on Substack. I like Trygve, as much as you can like someone you've never met, and I greatly respect him, but I don't have the same kind of interaction with him that I have with you. Perhaps I might wish to think of Trygve as a friend. It just never got there with him, which is fine, because, as I said, there's no place for it to go. But I do feel that way about you. And it started out in a funny way with our talking about your last name, and my telling you I "met" on the telephone an actual cousin of Jaco Pastorius. I worried about you when you needed time off, because you were stressed or ill with something. And I was glad when you became your good old sharp-tongued, piss and vinegar, very smart self again.
I read my share of Substack posts from several or more authors. Mark Mansour occupies the same sort of peak as do you and Trygve. I've told him that when he and his wife need to escape the cold, I have a guest room waiting for them in Miami. It's yours, too. Lucas Kunce is a favorite. Adam Parkhomenko and Sam Youngman are lots of fun. Julie Roginsky and Liz Oyer are highly valued. Jim Acosta does great presentations. Brian Bengs does great posts, but he doesn't interact in a way that feels personal. I like him. I value him tremendously. But it doesn't feel remotely like a friendship. Which is fine. I read his stuff, and I'll never meet him, either. I used to feel more connected to Qasim Rashid than I do now. But I don't have the same feeling and emotional reaction to any of them, even the ones I like a lot, as I do to you. Well, maybe Mark. And do you know whose phone numbers and personal e-mail addresses I have from all of those people? None. Oh, I made a mistake. I do have Mark's personal e-mail address. And he has mine.
Mark was stressed out about some things at one point, and I reached out to him, too. I would with Lucas. Or Trygve. We're all in this (seemingly sinking) ship together. I have one life vest, and I'll share it with certain people. At this moment, you, Mark, Trygve, and Lucas are at the top of the list. I even have Substack "friends" who don't post. We read and respond to each other's comments. We have long conversations that way. And you can feel the connection. VEE LAVALLEE, who I think lives in Ireland or somewhere, is at about the top of that list.
I started smiling with your first sentence, chuckling by the end of the article, while at the same time rage is building up like a pressure cooker.
This president and his sycophantic cabinet are all filth. And the Republicans enablers in Congress who permit this to go on are fucking traitors.
Linda, things like what you said here really impact me positively. We went on a journey together—from smiling to laughing, but becoming informed along the way, hence the rage building. Since starting Gonzo Report, I’ve had this internal struggle, not to find my voice—that’s been there all along—but to become comfortable and confident enough to use it without second-guessing myself, feeling that I shouldn’t write something because it doesn’t sound “traditionally journalistic,” if you know what I mean. It’s hearing from others that something worked—that you were moved to smile or laugh, but were also informed, which empowers you as a reader—that has shown me that those times I just write whatever comes naturally, letting me be me, not censoring myself, those are the times I will be most proud of the work I’ve done. Thank you for that. 🖤
I just subscribed and this is the first post of yours I've read. It may have felt like a root canal to you, but I really enjoyed it, and I'm looking forward to reading you on the future. God help us!
Joelle, what an incredibly kind comment. Thank you for this! I'm so happy to have you here, and I also look forward to hearing from you on future posts! I'm working on a new one tonight that should be published in a few hours. God help us, indeed—things have gone from bad to worse to the lowest pit of hell in seemingly no time. Sadly, 2026 will not be anything to look forward to. But we have community here, and that's how we're going to get through it. Together.