Bobi e-mailed to announce she'd "finally managed a
frittata -- I know, I know, I'm about three decades behind. But it gave
me the courage to try a quiche. My aunt used to make those every Sunday
and take it to Grandma's and I always wanted to make one but when we
start talking crusts or too many ingredients, I get nervous. Budget
Bytes is one of the outlets you highlight so I went there and found the recipe for Easy Quiche Lorraine and it was easy for me and turned out perfect."
Ingredients
1 sheet puff pastry ($3.12)
4 strips bacon ($1.54)
1 yellow onion, diced ($0.70)
1 clove garlic, minced ($0.04)
4 oz cream cheese ($0.96)
1/4 cup heavy cream, plus more for brushing crust edges ($0.30)
1/4 cup milk ($0.05)
5 eggs, lightly beaten ($3.04)
2 cups shredded Swiss cheese ($4.43)
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg ($0.03)
1/2 tsp salt ($0.04)
1/4 tsp Freshly cracked black pepper ($0.04)
2 Tbsp chopped fresh Italian parsley for garnish (optional) ($0.10)
Instructions
Set
a rack in the middle of your oven and preheat it to 425°F. Next, roll
the puff pastry into an 11-inch square and transfer it to a 9-inch
diameter pie plate. Then puncture the bottom of the puff pastry a few
times with a fork and trim the edges.
Cover the puff pastry
with a sheet of parchment paper and add a pound of dry beans or pie
weights. Then, cover the edges of the pastry with a pie shield or ring
made of aluminum foil to prevent them from burning. Bake for fifteen
minutes.
While the puff pastry par-bakes set a heavy-bottomed
skillet over medium heat. Add the bacon strips and cook until crispy.
Next, chop the bacon into bits. Set aside the chopped bacon and reserve
the drippings.
Remove the puff pastry from the oven. Carefully
remove the pie shield. Then carefully remove the parchment paper with
the beans or pie weights.*
Cook the onion in the bacon
drippings until translucent (about 2 minutes). Next, add the garlic
clove and cook until fragrant (about 1 minute).
In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese, heavy cream, and milk until smooth.
Add
the beaten eggs, shredded Swiss cheese, cooked onions and garlic,
nutmeg, salt, and freshly ground pepper. Finally, set aside 2
tablespoons of chopped bacon for garnish and add the rest to the
filling. Stir well.
Pour the filling into the prebaked crust. Brush the crust with 1 teaspoon of heavy cream.
Cover
the edges of the quiche with a pie shield or aluminum foil ring. Bake
until the crust is golden brown and the filling sets, about 25 minutes.
Remove the pie shield and cool the quiche for 10 minutes before serving.
Finally, garnish with remaining bacon bits and chopped Italian parsley
And that's the great thing about cooking. You learn, you gain confidence, you increase the number of recipes you can master. Good job, Bobi.
President
Donald Trump's trade war is already impacting the American economy, and
one Democratic strategist expects part of his 2024 coalition of voters
to falter.
A Democratic and Republican strategist agreed on MSNBC that the Trump tariffs add costs to American livelihoods.
Speaking
on Wednesday, host Ana Cabrera said that she remembered speaking with a
lot of voters who were on the fence, but ultimately decided to vote for
Trump over the economy.
"Now
we have a new Reuters poll showing 73% of Americans expect a price surge
because of the tariffs, only 39% support them," Cabrera said. "Yes,
Trump supporters say they're willing to give the president time, but I
do wonder, you know, where is that threshold, where — what happens when
Americans start personally feeling the pain in their pocketbook?"
Democratic
analyst Tara Dowdell and Republican strategist Dusan Del Percio agreed
that there are two types of voters. There are the MAGA loyalists, who
treat Trump like a "televangelist." The others are those who supported
Democrats like Barack Obama or Joe Biden in the past, but flipped
because they bought into the GOP's economic message.
Wednesday, April 8, 2025. The economy's tanking, unemployment's
increasing, a big strong man needs 20 agents to protect him, Propaganda
Pig continues her attempts to obscure reality while Zac and Cody
re-enlist in their attacks on a Black woman..
Let's start with Madonna.
Little girl don't run away so fast
I think you forgot to kiss, kiss her goodbye
Will she see me cry when I stumble and fall
Does she hear my voice in the night when I call
Wipe away all your tears, it's gonna be all right
I fought to be so strong, I guess you knew
I was afraid you'd go away, too
Little girl you've got to forget the past
And learn to forgive me
I promise to try, but it feels like a lie
Don't let memory play games with your mind
She's a faded smile frozen in time
I'm still hanging on, but I'm doing it wrong
Can't kiss her goodbye, but I promise to try
-- "Promise To Try," written by Madonna and Patrick Leonard, first appears on Madonna's LIKE A PRAYER.
Little girl . . . That one goes out to the little sensitive cupcake in the Chump administration. And which one would that be?
The
MAGA podcaster who was tapped to be the FBI’s second in command has
chosen to be protected by as many as 20 agents—while his predecessors
have often had no security detail at all, NBC News reported.
Last
week, the agency put out a call for agents willing to sign up to
abandon their ordinary duties and protect Deputy Director Dan Bongino 24
hours a day for month-long stints, unnamed FBI officials told NBC.
Oh, look at the sweet princess who needs "as many as 20 agents" to feel safe. Back to the article:
While
it’s typical for FBI directors to have a security team made up of
agents, deputy directors have typically not had one. Former and current
officials told NBC that Bongino’s predecessor, Paul Abbate, was only
assigned one agent for protection. He carried a service weapon and only
had a full detail when he traveled overseas.
But Paul Abbate wasn't a weak sister the way little girl Dan is.
20 agents? He needs 20 agents protecting him in order to feel safe.
Promise to try, Dan, promise to try. You're still hanging on, but you're doing it wrong
Does he need the 20 agents to also check under the bed each night for monsters?
Republicans
are growing restless and frustrated over President Donald Trump's
escalating trade war — and some strategists are warning he's set to
trigger a dangerous backlash, Politico reported on Tuesday.
Trump's
"Liberation Day" tariffs, dubbed a "reciprocal" scheme even though the
tariffs are in most cases far higher than those imposed on U.S. products
by foreign countries, impose duties of 10 to 49 percent on virtually
all foreign goods. The list of tariffs even singles out remote,
uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica that have no trade with the
U.S.
The result has been a
panicked selloff in the stock market and forecasts of a likely imminent
recession — which, GOP officials say, are not what their voters wanted.
The
president "won in November because many voters saw him as an antidote
to their economic malaise; as a candidate, he frequently promised to
lower Americans’ everyday prices," noted Adam Cancryn and Myah Ward.
"But
as president, he has chosen instead to plunge the country into fresh
financial chaos, while insisting the market losses as a result of his
tariffs are 'medicine' Americans need to take."
Whit
Ayres, who polls for Republicans, said, “Trump was elected in part to
lower inflation and juice the economy. Higher prices and slower growth
are exactly the opposite of what Americans voted for.”
"The
economic turbulence unleashed by the White House’s blanket tariffs is
sending shudders through every level of the Republican Party. Alarmed
officials worry the administration is driving the U.S. toward recession
and dooming the GOP’s midterm chances — yet they have no idea what will
convince Trump to change course," noted the report.
Who's
fault is the tanking economy? We all know and so does Chump. But if
he's struggling to own his failure, let's help him out by noting this from Brad Reed (RAW STORY):
CNN's
Stephen Collinson believes that there is no easy way out for President
Donald Trump when it comes to his trade war — and that means the
American economy is headed for what he describes as an "ugly endgame."
In
his latest analysis, Collinson makes the case that Trump has backed
himself into a corner by refusing to budge from his trade wars with
nearly every nation on the planet, including a remote island that is
primarily populated by penguins.
"A president who
believes he enjoys almost absolute power and who has torn off the
constraints of his first term is not looking for an off-ramp," Collinson
warns. "And his zeal for confrontation and sense of mission may also
have implications beyond the economy and for other policy areas — such
as his expansionist designs on Greenland and Canada, his mass migrant
deportations and cultural warfare."
Collinson
thinks that it will be hard for America's trade partners to actually
negotiate with Trump give his beliefs about basic economic concepts such
as trade deficits, which Trump has insisted that other countries
eliminate as a precondition before he'll consider lowering his tariffs.
The tariffs have brought out the worst in the administration. Even Alien Musk and Peter Navarro are at each other's throats. John L. Dorman and Alice Tecotzky (BUSINESS INSIDER) report on Propaganda Pig Karoline Leavitt's role in the mud:
White
House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Tuesday seemingly brushed
aside any concerns regarding the public fight between Tesla CEO Elon
Musk and top Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro.
"These
are obviously two individuals who have very different views on trade
and on tariffs," she said during a briefing at the White House. "Boys
will be boys, and we will let their public sparring continue."
The
bimbo grows ever more stupid with each passing day. Peter Navarro is
75 years old. Alien Musk is 53 years old. Neither man is a boy. One
is an elderly man, the other is middle aged man. Propaganda Pig has
Daddy issues which is why she married someone 32 years older than she is
but those are issues for her to work through in much needed therapy not
in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
Last
night on THE 11TH HOUR WITH STEPHANIE RUHLE, Stephanie and her guests
discussed the tariffs and the claims and counter claims Chump and the
administration keep putting out there.
Small-business owners are already feeling the effects of Donald
Trump’s tariff scheme that he claims will boost American manufacturing
and bring jobs back to the United States.
Many have flocked to Reddit to share their struggles, desperately searching for advice amid fears of losing their livelihoods.
“Any
other small shops trying to figure out what to do? I’ve single handedly
created and ran my small business for almost three years. I sell bamboo
clothing and bedding, and now with this tariff I’ll likely have to
close,” one user posted on the r/smallbusiness board.
On “Liberation Day,”
Trump implemented tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 60 percent on
imports from about 90 countries, which he claims will eliminate the
trade deficit between the U.S. and other countries (economic experts
have scoffed
at the far-fetched assertion). China will see the worst of it all; the
country faces a new 34 percent reciprocal tariff, along with a
previously announced 20 percent tariff. On Monday, Trump threatened to increase the rate to 104 percent if China did not rescind its retaliatory tariffs.
One
Reddit user received an email from their Chinese distributor informing
them that it will no longer distribute their products in the United
States. “I planned for so many different things over the past few months
which should allow us to weather the storm for the next year or so, but
I didn’t expect our largest supplier to back out of the U.S. market
entirely,” the user wrote.
He
is wrecking the economy. He does not know what he's doing. He's
surrounded by con artists and idiots. Peter Navarro is an idiot. DOGE
has fired over 200,000 workers already. Now small businesses are
struggling to stay open and, if they can't, that's even more people
added to the unemployment rolls. Extremists -- right wing or left wing
-- only know how to tear apart, not how to build. (Ask poor Jeffrey
Bowman what it's like when DSA turns on you and works to get you kicked
out of Congress.) It's The Politics of Destruction and it's all they
know and it's all they do.
Senator Maria Cantwell's office issued the following:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Maria
Cantwell (D-WA), senior member of the Senate Finance Committee and
ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and
Transportation, pressed United States Trade Representative Jamieson
Greer on the administration’s slapdash implementation of sweeping
tariffs without sufficient input or accountability to Congress.
Prior to President Trump’s implementation of the tariffs, there was
no formal bipartisan briefing of Congress detailing how the tariff rates
were set, analyzing on how they might impact the American economy, or
even communicating what the White House was aiming to accomplish.
“What did the Trump administration do to prepare [Congress],
to communicate with us, to tell us about findings as it relates to these
emergency orders by the President?” Sen. Cantwell asked during a hearing today in the Senate Finance Committee.
“Our staff, the USTR staff, in the in the past two months
that we've been in office, have had over 200 formal engagements with
staff on the Hill,” Greer responded. “We also had the
President issue very publicly his America First trade policy memorandum,
which specifically said that he was going to look into the trade
deficit and the possibilities of tariffs.”
Cantwell responded: “So, we've wreaked havoc on the economy
by having one of the largest drops of the market. We have people's
401(k)s, in panic. We have retail organizations, like the retail
industry, National Retail Federation, American Apparel Industry, Outdoor
Association, Consumer Technology, Computer and Communications Industry,
Main Street Alliance, Small Business Majority, all anxious, asking us
to do something. And you're saying, ‘Well, some people have passed some
notes to staff.’”
She continued: “We should be building alliances as a way to
counter China, but the alliance building process now will become harder,
and people are going to wonder, well, is the United States going to
pull another fast one again and just wreak havoc?”
Greer said the United States has seen “many times in past decades
when we have had real robust trade disputes with our partners.”
Sen. Cantwell responded: “I'm for trade. I represent trade. I
represent a trade economy. I represent the success of what innovation
and trade gets you. But you're coming here this morning with this, not
only tanking of the market and 401(k)s, now you're coming here telling
me that tariff is the tool. And I'm telling you -- innovation is the
tool!”
In addition, a bipartisan group has introduced a companion version of
Sen. Cantwell’s legislation in the House of Representatives, also
cosponsored by equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats.
The bill restores Congress’ authority and responsibility over tariffs
as outlined in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution by placing the
following limits on the president’s power to impose tariffs:
To enact a new tariff, the president must notify Congress of the imposition of (or increase in) the tariff within 48 hours.
The Congressional notification must include an explanation of the president’s reasoning for imposing or raising the tariff, and
Provide analysis of potential impact on American businesses and consumers.
Within 60 days, Congress must pass a joint resolution of approval on
the new tariff, otherwise all new tariffs on imports expire after that
deadline.
Under the bill, Congress has the ability to end tariffs at any time by passing a resolution of disapproval.
Anti-dumping and countervailing duties are excluded.
For the past three months, President Trump has been sowing economic
chaos across the country with unpredictable and ever-changing tariff
announcements. His back-and-forth announcements and actions, which have
whipsawed American businesses and consumers, as well as close neighbors
and allies, include:
On January 31 – citing punishment for failing to crack down on fentanyl trafficking -- the Trump administration announced plans to
impose a 25% tax on many goods imported into the U.S. from Canada and
Mexico and a 10% tax on goods imported from China, then abruptly
postponed those tariffs.
In February, he doubled down, announcing an additional 25% tax on all steel and aluminum imports.
At 12:01 a.m. ET on March 4, President Trump’s long-promised 25%
tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada and 10% tariff increase on goods
from China took effect, causing stock prices in the United States to plummet.
Then, on March 5, he announced that automobiles from Canada and Mexico would be exempt from his tariffs for one month.
The morning of March 6, he announced that he would suspend the
tariffs for some products from Mexico. Then, later that same afternoon,
he announced he was suspending most new tariffs on products from both
Mexico and Canada until April 2.
On March 11, Trump threatened to double tariffs on Canadian steel
and aluminum – increasing them to 50% – before reversing himself later
the same day.
On March 13, he threatened 200% tariffs on alcoholic products from the European Union, including all wine and Champagne.
On March 27, he announced plans to impose a 25% tax on all imported
sedans, SUVs, crossovers, minivans, cargo vans, and light trucks, as
well as some auto parts, beginning on April 2.
On April 2, he announced a “National Economic Emergency,” and signed
an executive order declaring a 10% minimum baseline tariff on all
countries as well as additional tariffs on nearly 60 countries.
On April 7, he threatened to impose an additional 50% tariff on China.
Video of Sen. Cantwell’s Q&A with Greer today is available HERE; audio is HERE; and a transcript is HERE.
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Chump is wrecking the economy, he is wrecking democracy, he is wrecking people's lives.
Let's turn to the topic of immigration.
Lives are being destroyed.
Idiot
Tim Waltz is back, if you missed it. VANGUARD boys were lapping his
nuts like crazy yesterday because he's White and he's a Socialist and
he's a liar and he was attacking Kamala Harris.
If
you've forgotten, Tim's a damn loser. Almost immediately upon being
announced as Kamala's running mate, Tim told one lie after another and
got caught over and over and over.
No, you don't 'misspeak' when you say you were at Tiananmen Square when the massacre took place when you were not there
That's not slipping up, that's flat out lying
and he did it over and over. He also lost a debate to JD Vance. How
much of an idiot do you have to be to lose a debate to Miss Sassy? He
lost it. He was sweating like a pig, stumbling around with words and he
lost.
Now maybe you're confused because THE
'PROGRESSIVE' promoted him so heavily. While attacking Kamala over and
over, they promoted him. That was because he was Socialst approved. As
Mike noted earlier this week in "Tim Walz, STFU:"
Can someone tell Tim Walz to shut up? The
only people who ever liked him were Socialists -- he's probably a
Socialist himself. When Kamala announced he was her running mate, DSA
Tweeted that this was a victory for them (DSA). So he's probably a
Socialist. But what he mainly is? A failure. Alex Galbraith (SALON) reports:
Tim Walz isn't laughing.
The
former vice presidential candidate and current governor of Minnesota
stopped by CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, taking a moment to
criticize former running mate Kamala Harris over comments she made last
week.
Speaking at the Leading Women Defined
Summit in California on Thursday, Harris played the role of an
in-the-know adviser whose advice wasn't heeded.
“There
were many things that we knew would happen. I’m not here to say ‘I told
you so,‘” the former vice president said. “I swore I wasn’t going to
say that!”
Speaking to Jake Tapper, Walz let
loose on the former vice president. He noted that she was the face of
the Democratic Party's massive loss, saying she should own up to the
result.
“When I criticize, I’m criticizing
myself,” Walz said. “I own this. I’m part of the ticket, and somebody
has to come up with a strategy.”
When has that loser every criticized himself?
At this rate, Shapiro would have been a better choice.
Tim's announced and we're happy and think he's the real deal -- the DSA applause should have been a clue.
DSA
@DemSocialists
Harris
choosing Walz as a running mate has shown the world that DSA and our
allies on the left are a force that cannot be ignored. Through
collective action, DSA and the US left more broadly have made it clear
that change is needed. DSA members organized in our workplaces and
unions to realign the labor movement to support Palestinian liberation.
4:12 PM · Aug 6, 2024
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7M
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DSA
@DemSocialists
·
Aug 6, 2024
The
Uncommitted movement, in which DSA members played crucial roles
nationally and in multiple states, pressured the Democratic
establishment into choosing a new candidate and backing down from a
potential VP with direct ties to the IDF and who would have ferociously
supported the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
DSA is a rat f**ker that rat f**ked our election.
And
they loved them so Tim Walz. You saw all the closet cases put it out
for Timmy Walz -- including that wretched COMMON DREAMS.
He's not the real deal.
He's a natural born liar. And one lie after another keeps coming from his stupid and uninformed mouth.
He
turned out to be the worst choice for a running mate and yet liars like
Zac and Cody of THE VANGUARD rush to pretend otherwise. On TABITHA
SPEAKS POLITICS yesterday, Tabitha noted these White liars.
She's
exactly right. And if Zac and Cody can't learn to shut their damn
mouths and stop attacking Kamala, they're going to see the crowd size
dwindle. There is no reason for those of us who are Black to take part
in these Hands Off rallies if we're going to be attacked. And that's
all that's happening. White fat ass Tim comes back to attack Kamala and
the White Socialists are all over it yet again.
They've
never apologized for their actions and their lies and working to defeat
Kamala Harris. They've never owned that they put us in the hell that
we are all currently living in.
But damned if they can't make time to yet again attack Kamala while pretending that they didn't do it all along.
Don Lemon brought some honesty yesterday.
It's
what all the White YOUTUBERS have ignored. The anger and the reason
for the anger. They pretend that they care about Black people but they
don't. Like Zac and Cody (I know it's Gavin but they're so immature
they should be Zac and Cody) pretend to care about trans rights but when
their hero Marianne Williamson is talking to Bill Maher? They praised
her for not defending trans rights. They felt that was a rabbit hole
and a distraction.
These are the same crap ass
idiots who think Senator Chuck Schumer should step down from
leadership. When are Zac and Cody going to step down?
But
wasn't it strange watching the boyz grovel over Mehdi? Didn't it
bother anyone that only months before, Zac and Gavin were pimping Jill
Stein. Just like Kyle had. Yeah, they came on board in a luke warm
manner for Kamala but only after they pimped everyone else. They were
for Cornel West. And then they were for Marianne Williamson. And then
they were for Jill Stein. In less than 18 months, that's what they
served up.
That's how
shallow Zac and Cody are. There is no thought deeper with those two
than one of them burping and the other, after sniffing the air, asking,
"Did you have Mexican?"
Food
and gossip, that's all they can really handle as they veer from one
half-thought to the next trying to recall the words to their bittersweet
nursery rhyme.
Grasp
that Richard Nixon had an enemies' list while Donald Chump works from
an enemies roll -- an enemies' ledger -- yet we've got THE VANGUARD
serving up the 'hot goss' like
they're E! buzz mavens.
The
far left is an embarrassment. They rush to and fro from position to
position with no ethics and a strong hope that you don't remember what
they said two months ago. They lie just like Chump because they are
extremists just like he is.
On February 7, Luz Zambrano gave
birth to her second child, Alana Samantha. She hadn’t expected to do so
without her husband, Julio Zambrano Perez, by her side. But Luz went
into labor only days after US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
detained Zambrano Perez, during a routine check-in appointment. Weeks
later, the Trump administration sent him, along with 237 other
Venezuelan men, to a mega-prison in El Salvador. Luz has been left lost
and confused.
“We don’t even know what to do,” Luz tells me. “We don’t understand
what they are going to do with him. Nobody answers. Not here, not in
Venezuela, not anywhere.”
Zambrano Perez’s family says ICE misidentified him as a gang member
because of two tattoos he has: one of a rose and another of a crown.
(ICE did not respond to a request for comment.) Now, his fate is
uncertain. In the aftermath of his disappearance to a foreign country,
the asylum-seeking family—who was building their lives in a suburb of
North Carolina—has been abruptly torn apart, perhaps indefinitely. As we
speak on the phone, I can hear her infant’s cries in the background.
Luz tells me she just went to the hospital. Her two-month-old baby has the flu.
In mid-March, President Donald Trump quietly signed a proclamation
invoking the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to detain and remove,
without due process, Venezuelans accused of being members of the Tren de
Aragua gang. The administration then swiftly flew three planes to El
Salvador, prompting a judicial clash with a federal judge who
temporarily halted the deportations over whether the White House
disobeyed a court order to return on-air flights to the United States.
(On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can resume removals under the Act.)
As our reporting
revealed, many of the men dispatched to El Salvador without any notice
appear to have been plucked by the US government because of their
tattoos—despite the fact that they had no proven ties to the group. An
analysis by CBS News failed
to find criminal records for 179—or 75 percent—of the Venezuelans. One
man whose loved ones we spoke with, Neri Alvarado Borges, has an autism
awareness tattoo for his 15-year-old brother. Another is a makeup artist whose tattoos on his wrists depict a crown and the words “Mom” and “Dad’ in English.
The Trump White House has admitted
in court filings to have wrongfully sent another man, Kilmar Abrego
Garcia, to El Salvador even though he had been granted protection from
deportation to his native country by an immigration judge. Still, the
administration claims US courts can’t compel them to bring the Maryland
father of three back to the United States. During a district court
hearing last week, a Justice Department attorney, who has since been placed
on leave, acknowledged Abrego Garcia shouldn’t have been removed,
saying the government’s “absence of evidence speaks for itself.”
Some
of us were focused in the lead up to the election. Here we repeatedly
made the point that the deportations Chump was bragging he would do if
elected would (a) lead to profiling, (b) snap up US citizens by mistake
and (c) wrongfully deport immigrants who had committed no crimes. Zac
and Cody were clearly off somewhere getting stoned. Unable to do the
work, they refuse to do it now.
We need something for a smile and this photo Tabitha posted of the morbidly obese Donald Chump might do that.
We're going to wind down with this from THE BLACK COMMENTATOR:
