On Threads I asked 'Tell us what the PedoFelon has done to improve anyone's life but his own.'

Because someone had posted this -
Another poster wrote - 'This whole list is totally delusional. Trump did more for our country his first day as president than Obama did in eight years.'
That was when I posted: 'Tell us what the PedoFelon has done to improve anyone’s life but his own'.

And this was the response I got back.
Where have u been living the past 6years? lol are u aware of the US debt? Are u aware of black colleges having permanent funding now? Are u aware of no tax on tips, overtime, & social security… lol are u aware the value of the dollar bill is high again?… lol are u aware of the pledge of allegiance being implemented? I can keep going & going… are u aware that every president since Clinton been talking about Iran & only person to do something about it is Trump… lol are u aware of that?


I know that it's a lot of half truths and posturing, but I'm at a loss how to answer it concisely in about 250 characters.

Spirit Airlines is not just a canary in a coal mine. It's part of a pile of dead birds.

This from a Facebook friend, who has allowed it to be shared in full.
If you're on there, seek out Eric Gubelman, also Jim Wright on Threads aka Stone Kettle.

The Soviet Union didn’t collapse because it ran out of tanks. It collapsed because it couldn’t keep bread cheap.
There’s an old Soviet joke: They pretend to pay us, and we pretend to work—but the bread must always be there. It wasn’t clever so much as true. You could fake production quotas, falsify reports, misallocate entire sectors of the economy—but you could not fake the one thing people touched every day. When bread became scarce or expensive, the system stopped being theoretical. It became real, and people stopped believing it.
There’s always a number a system cannot afford to let move. For the Soviets, it was bread. You could botch five-year plans, mismanage industry, lie about harvests—but if bread slipped, the entire fiction came under pressure.
In the United States, that number isn’t bread. It’s fuel—not just gasoline at the pump, but diesel, jet fuel, the entire invisible layer that moves everything else. When that number spikes, the system stops performing and starts revealing.
Today, the revelation came in the form of Spirit Airlines. Not a beloved institution, not a national champion—just a budget airline built on thin margins, tight timing, and a model that works only as long as the inputs behave. Which is exactly the point. Fragile systems don’t break first; fragile components do.
Spirit didn’t collapse because of one bad quarter or one bad executive decision. It collapsed because a business designed to operate at the edge met a shock it could not absorb. And that shock wasn’t random. Fuel prices don’t double because of mood swings. They double because something in the world breaks.
We’ve seen the pattern before. In 2022, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy markets into panic. Prices surged—not because a president controls oil, but because war rewrites supply, risk, and expectation all at once. That’s the baseline reality: presidents don’t set prices. But they shape the conditions under which shocks happen, and how large they are when they arrive.
The confrontation with Iran didn’t emerge from nowhere. It followed the dismantling of the Iran nuclear deal—an imperfect but functioning framework that constrained escalation. That structure was abandoned and replaced with pressure, then improvisation, and eventually force. Once you remove structure, the only tool left is escalation. And escalation has a cost—not in rhetoric, but in markets, in shipping lanes, in insurance, in fuel.
That’s how a geopolitical decision moves. Not in a straight line, but through a chain: instability to risk, risk to price, price to exposure. By the time it reaches something like Spirit Airlines, it doesn’t look like foreign policy anymore. It looks like a business failure. But it’s the system telling the truth about itself.
Ultra-low-cost carriers live on the edge by design. They expand access and suppress prices, but they do it without cushion. When fuel doubles, they don’t bend; they go first. You can call that market discipline. You can call it bad luck. But you can’t call it disconnected.
Presidents don’t control the price of oil. But they are not spectators to the conditions that send it soaring. When stability is treated as optional—when alliances are discarded without replacement, when strategy gives way to impulse—the next shock is more likely, and more violent when it comes.
You don’t feel that all at once. You feel it at the margins. A budget airline disappears. A route vanishes. A price ticks upward. The system becomes a little less forgiving.
And then, gradually and without announcement, the margin is where you live.

In celebration of International Workers Day, here's Billy Bragg singing The Internationale!

Happy May Day to all!

A clip of John Denver singing about the Klan.

Don't be put off by the title.

When That Man Is Dead and Gone

Democrats Abroad No Tyrants manifestation in Aix-en-Provence today.

Around 75 people showed up in front of the tourist office, equipped with signs, and sign up sheets for voter registration.
We had full-time residents from as far away as Avignon and Toulon, plus some people who are here on holiday.
A friendly reception from the French people passing by, though there were one or two who disapproved. And there was a northern Irish guy who thinks Felon47 is doing a good job.











The Felon47 fan.



Mrs GoS

Caption contest! Because satire is a powerful weapon against fascism.

Personally, I'd be fine with MAFA.

A touch of France -

Outside of Les Deux Garcons - Aix en Provence



Dedicated followers of fashion



Winter contemplation - Then and now - Fontaine de la Rotonde - Aix-en-Provence

In response to Felon47's racist video

Just seen on FB -