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Bite Me, Bessent!

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It isn’t often you see someone like me who can manage to be tense at a dog park, but I was.

In the midst of dozens of big canines galumphing around, my arms were crossed, my eyes were downcast, and I felt like a tight bundle of nerves, and it was all the fault of the power bottom shown in the illustration below (the one clenching his whitened teeth).

Because God has a soft spot in his divine heart for his favorite chartist, however, the entirety of the /ZB rally that Bessent’s $100 billion announcement yesterday produced has already been LAID WASTE.

To put it another way, in exchange for our failing nation to commit to countless billions of dollars to purchase its own securities in a desperate attempt to curry political favor, Bessent has achieved precisely DICK (which might, on reflection, have a certain appeal to the chap without the unclenched teeth).

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