Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, waive to that co-worker, and enjoy another beautiful day of the links!
Budget Office Debunks Biden’s Claim He ‘Reduced’ The Deficit
Did Manchin and Schumer Successfully Trick McConnell and Senate Republicans?
U.S. debt will nearly double GDP within 30 years, Feds say
DOJ May Have Obstructed Important Biden Corruption Investigations Out Of Pittsburgh And Delaware
17 Times Joe Biden Got Involved in the Family Business
DC mayor requests National Guard activation to deal with flood of illegal immigrants in city
LA County ditches plans to instate universal indoor mask mandate
Gender clinic for kids to shut down after report shows it is not ‘safe or viable’
Texas declares pre-Roe abortion ban now in effect, new law effective Aug. 25
It Took Months For The Media To State The Obvious About Monkeypox
JetBlue Strikes Deal to Buy Spirit Airlines
DC police arrest protesters at Congressional baseball game: GOP beat Democrats 10-0
That’s all I got for today, I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“U.S. debt will nearly double GDP within 30 years, Feds say”
That’s an awfully far off prediction.
I’m betting we can do it in twenty.
Yeah, if the crew of the sinking ship U.S.S.
TitanicAmerica gets it way, they will keep the passengers distracted with a lot of bullshit shows on the port deck, while they loot all the valuables on the ship and load the starboard life rafts to save themselves while letting everyone else drown, and make tat all happen a lot faster than that 2030….2022 + 30 = 2052
We could be ruled by apes by then.
Would likely be an improvement over the current coulrocracy.
“”In the last month, however, the pace of arriving buses and the volume of arrivals have reached tipping points,” the letter stated.
“Our collective response and service efforts have now become overwhelmed: the regional welcome center we helped establish in Montgomery County, Maryland is at capacity; our homeless services system is already under great strain; and tragically, many families arrive in Washington, DC with nowhere to go, or they remain in limbo seeking onward destinations across the United States.””
DC has over 700K. Not nearly as much as NYC, but still many times most border towns.
Also, for all the money spent on climate change and Ukraine, they could have built the wall — out of gold.
The rest of the country, but especially the border states pull out their entire stock of tiny, tiny violins and play them just for DC and NYC.
See also: “Now do you get what we’re talking about, you jerks?”
We brought the border to you Kamala.
Her reign as czarina of the border was as lengthy as it was effective.
Czarinx
eXcellent
Good one, Rat. Good one.
Curious how Dem mayors didn’t have anything to say when it was Biden flying illegals around the country but mostly to places like NYC for months on end.
That was different!
Why does she need soldiers?
She heard they’re voting for Republicans now.
the regional welcome center we helped establish in Montgomery County, Maryland
Oh, that’s delicious. For those of you not familiar with the DC area, MoCo (aka “monkey county”) is the rich Maryland county bordering DC.
Appears to be this place.
What has the response been in pig county?
BUILD BACK BETTER! SNORT SNORT SQUEAL!
I thought DC was one of those sanctuary cities. Was I wrong?
From the CBO / deficit link:
Ugh. 20% of the entire economy — straight to the Fed. Then consider how much the state leeches, local / city insist on… insanity. Hardly surprising they see the nation as tax cattle to milk and render as needed.
Fuck you, cut spending assholes.
*grabs machete*
An ever increasing majority is just transfer payments with the middlemen taking a cut.
How do you buy votes, pay off your donors, and make yourself rich doing what’s right for the country, huh?
The past keeps looking better.
Hell, only a tenth? I would be thrilled.
If we are talking total taxes, 20% would be a reduction.
That phrasing is timeless.
As hard as they try, they’ve never been able to move that needle much. I think the high was around 23%.
As such, you would think 20% of the economy would be a hard spending limit for them.
The revenue has been remarkably stable since WWII. The low was like 15% back during the Eisenhower era and the high was something like 20% in 1999 or 2000 – ln other words the tax collections from a dot-com bubble that created a lot of wealthy people overnight and burst a year later.
Amazing how stable that is given that there were eras of high tax rates, low tax rates, various combinations of house/senate/presidency, times of war, times of peace, etc.
That’s revenue, not spending. Even more of the economy is government than that.
“DC police arrest protesters at Congressional baseball game: GOP beat Democrats 10-0”
If you listen to their speeches, the Democrats should have more stolen bases.
LOL @ that big cop in a big Chad moment.
Team Blue rhetoric puts Rickey Henderson to shame.
Tilt the playing field that far and they would have to play the game on the face of El Capitan in Yosemite.
Wow, Hunter did business with Carlos Slim? I wonder how much money the Bidens have squirrelled away.
Not much…
Hunters parmesan cheese and hooker habits cost a shit-ton of money.
Good Morning Banjos. I’ve got to jet to an early meeting. For anybody wondering why the market rallied yesterday this is a good explaination.
The Fed vowed to crush inflation with higher rates. Then the stock market rallied. Here’s why. (It’s not good news.)
Right now the crooks are waving glow sticks and spewing out smoke, to crappy music of all things, while trying to keep the usual dumbass distracted from the damage caused by the steps taken to further their agenda, so they can stave off the inevitable ass kicking in November. But have no doubt that as soon as they get past the elections, they will double down on the destructive…
The global elite have a timetable, and the longer their plans are delayed, the more likely it is they will get caught and/or their plans derailed..
Yeah, I think people rallying know are wrong. The chart the author used for the market expectation of inflation clearly doesn’t have a good track record ( it never got above 4%, meanwhile inflation had been 8-10% over the last year). This might be a dead cat bounce.
Good article, got to the end and he more or less conceded that rates are extremely likely to be hiked higher at a significant rate, for multiple years.
“DOJ May Have Obstructed Important Biden Corruption Investigations Out Of Pittsburgh And Delaware”
May?
Are people still this dumb and uninformed? Have they not yet realized you can’t trust any of the 3 letter agencies after Obama weaponized them by putting the most venal and scummy of pro team blue agenda douchebags in charge of all of them – especially when it relates to holding team blue crime syndicate members accountable for their plethora of criminal activity – to help with the global reset campaign?
The massive opposition to Trump. despite what the never-Trumpers especially, and the team blue idiots in particular, tell you, was that it threatened the corruptocracy’s agenda started under Clinton and expedited under Obama so the queen of criminals – Hillary, could conclude the selling out of America to the global community.
The DOJ at this point is nothing but the Democrats Praetorian Guard.
Not just the DOJ: the court system (in D.C. in particular) , the FBI, the DHS, the CIA, the NSA, and what passes for the old legacy media all are functioning in that capacity after Obama admin’s criminal behavior put people loyal t their crime syndicate in all the key positions of control.
Why do you think they are having such a fucking meltdown about the SCOTUS? The plan was to have that one also completely corrupted, but that orange asshole wrecked that for them.
🙄
So gay men will be mandated to use condoms, or abstain. Spread of the virus to other communities is unacceptable so behaviors must be controlled. Freedom and lifestyle choices must be curtailed to protect the vulnerable. These behaviors must be labeled as selfish and destructive to society. The government will be consistent in their messaging!!!
First thing I thought as well.
Roperites never consider the logical and foreseeable consequences of their own actions.
People who buy the propaganda have done so to the point where they don’t require consistency.
^^^^^
They were having the time of their lives tuning into the the daily Cuomo sermons to found out how the science changed since the day before and what their new marching orders would be. No regard whatsoever for whether the new info was contradictory.
(Keep in it your pants for) two weeks to flatten the curve.
No jab without the bag!
And they have to shut down the super-spreader events.
Seriously, it took this far to get to a super spreader joke?
Do you want goatse.cx links? Because that’s how you get goatse.cx links.
Or, maybe just avoid multi-thousand participant international body fluid swap meets.
https://apnews.com/article/monkeypox-explained-health-72a9efaaf5b55ace396398b839847505
“DOJ May Have Obstructed Important Biden Corruption Investigations Out Of Pittsburgh And Delaware”
I read that and now I have a headache.
“Amazon records $3.9 billion loss on Rivian investment, bringing markdown for the year to $11.5 billion”
Green tech is mostly a racket that only survives because of government picking it to win when otherwise it would immediately be seen by anyone that had to piss away their own money as a bad investment and tech that goes nowhere serious.
And I am certain that they made bank with this shit. They not only get to write it off, but I am sure real money made it into the pocket of the right people despite the fact this company went tits up. See Solindra for the details.
I saw a Rivian truck in my city once. I was surprised. I thought they were completely fictional.
I never saw a cylindrical solar generator. The idea seems kind of stupid in retrospect.
Budget Office Debunks Biden’s Claim He ‘Reduced’ The Deficit
That’s only if words mean things.
If only the MSM had the same curiosity as Alice.
“Oregon school district admin expressed reluctance to return to in-person learning until ‘equity’ agenda implemented
McCreery said he was “worried” that the school district would “miss an opportunity to enact change during this (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime moment.”
“I’m feeling concerned about our district making efforts to re-open schools in a way that feels like a big hurry to get back to what we knew and were comfortable with prior to COVID,” McCreery wrote in the January 2021 email. He went on to lament that the district was not waiting to implement “the re-visioning and transformation of the structures and practices that we know inhibit equity.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/oregon-school-district-admin-expressed-reluctance-to-return-to-in-person-learning-until-equity-agenda-implemented
Never let a made up crisis go to waste?
The poor kids are better off dead than back in school.
That is some quality gibberish.
Actually it is brilliant distraction and pablum put out to give what amounts to evil criminal activity a veneer of legitimacy in the minds of idiots that are driven by emotions.
You talk purty.
Uh oh — if Tonio starts pulling out a banjo, I’d run AlexinCT….
GULP!
I WANT A PAID VACATION UNTIL I RETIRE!
Tantrum-throwing children in adult bodies.
I absolutely despise those “I teach, what’s your superpower?” Lawn signs teachers put up in their yards.
I pay your salary.
We all teach. When I worked in the grocery store as a high school kid, I taught the new hire kids the store’s protocol for a variety of things, from cleaning up in aisle 7 to cart wrangling.
“It Took Months For The Media To State The Obvious About Monkeypox”
I am surprised they ever did…
See recent hoaxes like Russia collusion=, two trump impeachments, the J6 shitshow, and especially the chicanery around their need to censor anyone questioning the 2020 election.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jul/23/i-literally-screamed-out-loud-in-pain-my-two-weeks-of-monkeypox-hell
They are stating the obvious because everyone else already knows it.
He was aware of the disease striking promiscuous gay men and he chose to be a promiscuous gay man anyway. Sheesh.
Yeah, apparently after that slutty weekend he got monkeypox AND gonorrhoea. And he knows better but refuses to take any personal responsibility:
This whole thing just feels like a huge failure that should not have been allowed to happen, especially not two and half months into the outbreak. If someone like me, who has worked in sexual health for a long time, had such a hard time navigating care, I can’t imagine other people doing it.
Was he on PrEP at least?
One would hope, but I didn’t see that mentioned. I’m unclear on whether or not a condom will prevent monkeypox, or is it transmitted by skin? His lesions were all over the body.
I believe it’s skin contact, condoms only work if you’re in a gimp suit or glory holing or equivalent.
Hmm. Go on…
FWIW, I’ve heard that monkeypox was/is often mis-diagnosed as gonorrhea.
First, I took a Covid self-test: negative.
Apparently covid too.
Someone who has “worked in sexual health a long time” is out participating in orgies?
In other words, an idiot.
Can we let him die?
Would you say that he, ‘Fucked around and found out?’
*ducks and runs like hell*
It’s my understanding he works for one of George Soros’ subsidiaries.
Perfect fit for him.
The Schumer-Manchin Bill Will Ease Inflation and Climate Change
Paywalled… Probably a good thing. Is the WSJ trying to chase off what remains of it’s paying base? There is no argument to support the moronic idea that this will reduce inflation. Also piss off on the climate change bullshit the government isn’t going to stop anything they’re just taking our money and giving it to their cronies.
Inflationary spending and higher corporate taxes reduce inflation now.
Do you need to visit Room 101, Winston?
Free link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-manchin-schumer-bill-will-ease-inflation-and-climate-change-reduction-act-tax-increases-credits-health-insurance-deficit-investment-11659029296?st=s15fckfnmgtkqe3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
See my comment about how they no longer really deal with anything and just tell people to solipsize the problems they keep creating away.
Yup. Agreed.
It’s editorial and the often present opposing points of view.
Pull the other one.
“At issue is Tavistock’s use of puberty blockers, which Tavistock has been accused of rushing to prescribe to children. The drug, brand name Lupron, is used to treat prostate cancer, endometriosis, and precocious puberty, and is not meant for long-term use. Once prescribed to children and teens, the drug can cause sterility and other life-changing, far-reaching side effects.”
It’s also used to chemically castrate sex offenders.
“In 2021, Tavistock was found to have a waiting list of nearly 5,000 children who were seeking access to gender treatment. Wait times were over two eyars for an appointment, and the clinic was reportedly “facing a crisis of capacity.” Girls make up the majority of those referred for gender services.”
That’s just a big bowl of wrong.
We must get them in now while the emotions are running high. The longer they wait the more likely they will back out.
it’s a big bowl of evil
Birth rates are down by double digit percentages in countries that took the mRNA vaccine (coincidentally), and now we’re chemically castrating tomboys.
Not even tomboys in many cases.
Remember when it was a scandal what happened to the East German women’s Olympic teams? Wondering how many of these girls are gymnasts…
We live in a world where the people in charge address issues, concerns, and problems, by gaslighting the people into believing these don’t exist or, failing to do that, tat they have fixed or are fixing it. And they do it all with support from old legacy media and social media. The sad thing is that the majority of the people are just tat dumb that this works.
What recession are you talking about, Willis?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
That dog knows if she stays in a bad mood she will make his existence unbearable…
My late dog, circa 1985, would get all excited if one of the kids pretended to be hurt, physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually. She worked full time as a home grief counselor. No appointments.
Thanks, Jimbo
That was my old mutt too. If one of the kids was having a bad day, they would be huddled up somewhere with the dog.
Every kid needs a dog for that very reason. Even moms will sometime get mad at a kid. But the dog? Never.
If anyone is interested in how the Abe’s assassin created his homemade pistol this has been the best article I’ve read.
Shinzo Abe Killing Suspect Wanted Revenge—Against His Mother’s Church
https://www.wsj.com/articles/shinzo-abe-killing-suspect-wanted-revengeagainst-his-mothers-church-11659096001?st=u3rnzhf6eumfrar&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Yeah, the Republicans were “tricked” alright…more like they provided cover. Either that or they’re too damn stupid to run a lemonade stand much less be senators.
More like they are in the minority and trying to throw sand in the gears, but don’t have a lot of leverage in the negotiation.
https://twitter.com/dailyinstavids/status/1552072232834301952
Few have the intelligence to think of something that stupid.
Does social media make people stupid, or are stupid people attracted to social media?
Yes
I’ve apparently been neglecting my duties as Benevolent Dictator For Life of Chumptown and my staff have called me in repeatedly this week.
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Crappy day at Globle as well, I’m not even going to tri Duotrigordle.
6 guesses and 5 stars today.
#winning
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Typical seed words really sucking it today.
Yeah. Close one:
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Is this why she wants to flee to Taiwan?
Nah, I think congress is exempt from insider trading laws.
Did Manchin and Schumer Successfully Trick McConnell and Senate Republicans?
He wants to have his cake and eat it too. WV voters should take note.
NPR this morning called it a tax cut and climate change bill.
Doesn’t it raise taxes, spend money?
Oh, fuck you, cut spending
It’s a tax cut for people that don’t pay taxes…
Fighting fire with fire.
This is why nobody that isn’t a total idiot no longer takes these fucking people seriously..
Make 1984 fiction again, please!
Well ain’t that some shit? What a crock.
For the record, this is how it looks now, with a warning about ‘current events’ and ‘if you’ve seen a screenshot, don’t jump to conclusions’
“Although the definition of a recession varies between different countries and scholars, two consecutive quarters of decline in a country’s real gross domestic product is commonly used as a practical definition of a recession.”
To be fair, the left took over Wikipedia like five microseconds after its first appearance. Those are the only people who have time to sit in their basement stamping out wrongthink all day.
I guess it pays to have an army of unemployable idiots…
It doesn’t matter what the Federal Reserve does, if Congress and the President are shoveling money into the fire as fast as they can conjure it up.
Federal debt will nearly double the nation’s Gross Domestic Product by 2052 if it continues on its current trajectory, the U.S. Congressional Budget Office says in its economic and debt forecast released Wednesday.
Perfectly sustainable.
More than two months after the ongoing global monkeypox outbreak began, corporate media outlets are finally addressing the fact that gay men are most at risk of contracting the virus.
///Pridepox
I like the proposed “Schlong COVID”.
Mexico City residents angered by influx of Americans speaking English, gentrifying area: report
We will respect your immigration laws if you wish to change them.
I’m as amused by this story as anyone — but at this point, drug cartels are starting to fall out of people’s butts here. 😉
I kinda doubt there are enough Cali expats to make a difference in a city of 10 megafolk.
Wow, so much insanity and delusion packed into just two sentences.
Being Hispanic is worth fewer victim points than being black so it isn’t punching down. After all some Hispanics are white.
“being neurotic in America is exhausting”
fixed it for ya
Being a racist is a mark of pride.
The markdowns don’t impact the Amazon’s operations or cash position, and just reflect the massive gyrations in the market since late last year. The investment could become problematic if Rivian’s nascent business hits a snag or runs low on cash, hampering the company’s ability to manufacture delivery vehicles at the speed it promised Amazon.
Amazon said last week it’s beginning to roll out some of the electric delivery vans that it developed with Rivian. Amazon said it expects to have thousands of Rivian vans in more than 100 cities by the end of this year, the first step toward its goal of having 100,000 electric delivery vehicles on the road in the U.S. by 2030.
Keep clapping, audience. Tinkerbell might hit some turbulence.
Seems legit.
Triathlete, 27, becomes 5th GTA doctor to die in July …
The 27-year-old, who was a resident doctor at McMaster Children Hospital in Hamilton, collapsed while swimming as she competed in a triathlon on Sunday. She subsequently died on Thursday. …
Trillium Partners staff physicians Dr. Jakub Sawicki, Dr. Stephen McKenzie and Dr. Lorne Segall died last week, just days after the tragic death of North York General Hospital’s Dr. Paul Hannam, an Olympian who died during a run at 50 years old.
In all four cases, their hospitals made it clear their deaths “were not related to the COVID-19 vaccine.”
The cause of death in Dr. Nayman’s case has not been released.
I’m not exaggerating when I state that I want people to hang over this, publicly.
Saw this about a video game I play the other day, and it made me wonder:
‘Hell Let Loose’ producer James Light dies aged 28
Young, physically fit doctors have always died suddenly. Just like children have always had strokes.
Speaking of monkeypox… Factcheckers insist its emergence has nothing to do with its recent study at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Factually inaccurate: In the cited study, the researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology assembled less than a third of the whole monkeypox genome. Their research therefore didn’t produce a complete virus as claimed.
Flawed reasoning: The genetic sequence used as template by the researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the monkeypox virus responsible for the 2022 outbreak come from two, genetically distinct, monkeypox subgroups. Suggestions that the published research from the Wuhan Institute of Virology could be linked to the 2022 monkeypox outbreak are thus baseless.
They said the same things about Covid, so their credibility at this point is at zero.
Like Krugman, I just assume the opposite of what they say is true.
“Tucker Carlson pushes to rename monkeypox ‘SCHLONG COVID’ after woke New York City official asked WHO to change ‘racist’ title – as San Francisco declares public health emergency over virus”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11060439/Tucker-Carlson-pushes-rename-monkeypox-Schlong-COVID.html
worth reposting
Tucker’s getting his edgelord on lately.
Adam Schiffilis was my favorite.
An influx of Californians and other Americans has made its way to Mexico City, angering some locals who say they are gentrifying the area, according to a report
Mexico City, by all accounts, is a congested, polluted shithole. Who the fuck would move to Mexico City of their own volition?
I thought Quito was a pretty cool place, but there’s absolutely no way I’d live there.
Sounds like San Fransicko
Why would people live in Chicago, San Fran, NYC?
I was thinking the other day how no one disputes at all the fact that escapees from California are bringing their culture and way of life to the places that they flee to. And that it is having negative impacts on those places.
Yet, you are a horrible person if you make the same statement about the illegals pouring across the border.
You can’t make this shit up…
I would like to see the logic of how they came to this conclusion and recommendation, because, I bet, it will be something sane people will see as the real homophobic behavior…
“Naomi Campbell, 51,reportedly only easts once a day to keep thin, and bathes in kosher salt and vinegar daily”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10692615/How-90s-supermodels-holding-years.html
salt and vinegar?
Body douche…
Kosher salt and vinegar, it’s important.
Look when you find a world class (((pussy eater))) you do what you have to do.
Sour cream and onion didn’t work?
Why in the world would she do that? Its quite a pickle….
Don’t be a sourpuss.
Don’t feel bad, she’s doing just brine
So, she’s a chippy then?
*golf clap*
I clicked through and those typos were in the original. Daily Fail. Also, black don’t crack.
So she will go east more than once a day?
Almost certainly.
Ew.
The correct answer is “who gives a shit?”
When they say “fix it” do they mean get rid of it for the plebes?
Interesting tech. I can see some potential there.
At least they’re not talking about getting rid of air conditioning writ large like the rest of the elitist asshats out there.
Yeah — I’m seriously wondering what kind of efficiency/storage they’d actually get with a salt solution at that little (relatively) of a temperature delta. And what maintenance on the heat exchangers would be like. The latter (issues with the primary loops) is part of what keeps molten salt reactors from taking off, so it springs to mind. (Yes, this would be much cooler and less likely to have radioactivity — but the corrosion / reactions would still be a problem presumably).
Plus — if you use salt to dehumidify, where’s the water go and how do you re-extract it efficiently?
If it works, more power to ’em — but a lot of questions there to me.
They seem to understand the problem. Revolutionary tech tends to have low adoption rates. Evolutionary almost always wins.
If the problem is freon, ammonia refrigerators are very mature technology.
At some point pitchforks become relevant.
The mother of a 13 year-old student at Barack Obama Academy is filing a lawsuit against the Los Angeles School District after her son was vaccinated against COVID without her consent and suffered side effects as a result. Her son was offered pizza and then coerced into forging his mom’s signature.
Immediately after getting the vaccine, Duarte said her son started experiencing Symptoms. The family’s attorney says they are filing a lawsuit after a damage claim was ignored by both the school and the district.
That’s a “take them to the ditch and put a bullet in the back of their heads” type of offense.
Lamp post, rope, assembly required.
As an example to others.
Did she have a choice as to where her son could go to school? Because that has to be a huge warning sign.
DYNF
Yeah, this gets us into “what did you think was going to happen?” territory.
Possible sympathy for the minor, but not the mom. If you’re dumb/evil enough to have your kid in a place called that, then don’t come to me looking for anything.
A quick search says it’s just an “alternative” middle school in the LA system that renamed itself after Chocolate Jesus.
“Barack Obama Academy”
You know what tickles me? That our office of “Diversity, Equity & Inclusion” doesn’t know how to make handicap-accessible documents.
That’s… given it’s government,,, expected.
Reminds me of when the ADA passed Congress exempted itself.
Congress exempts themselves from every onerous law they pass.
Rules are for the serfs.
This is the result of the accessibility check I just ran. On a document that CAME FROM THE OFFICE OF DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION. It’s literally the worst accessibility result I’ve ever seen.
https://ibb.co/0VydGV1
However, optimism has rebounded some in the third quarter. The stock is up about 29% since the end of June. It got an added boost on Wednesday after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., said they’ve reached a deal on what would be the most ambitious climate spending package in U.S. history.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 includes $369 billion for clean energy provisions. Rivian rose about 3%, joining a broader rally in solar and alternative energy stocks.
How did Caterpillar do? Those rare earth metals don’t grow on trees.
*searches for “Treasure Bath!” clip from HotWpI*
Those rare earths don’t get mined in America either thanks to the enviros.
I dunno, I’m okay with it, considering what we’d have to do to mine a significant amount of them.
It’s comforting to know how widely they’re spreading the graft around.
“$369 billion for clean energy provisions”
OFFS!!!
The hero we need. And has anyone seen Brett ?
Florida man drives stolen truck to Space Force base to warn of battle between aliens, dragons: reports
His D&D campaign must be one heck of a doozy…
Bullshit. There are no dragons in Expedition to the Barrier Peaks.
Wow. Now that’s a line from a true student of the game.
Big surprise here in Minnesoda. Brother Keith will not appeal recent court decisions that removed the few abortion restrictions we had in the state. Who’d a thunk that?
If I was a legislator, I would propose a bill that linked firearm waiting periods with abortion waiting periods.
That’s why you are a genius your highness…
The Bee drains another 3-pointer.
“FORT FARRAKHAN” nearly made me spit my beverage.
Ooorah!
his rainbow flag lapel pin
The Army has awarded the rainbow ribbon since 1981.
You mean QUILTBAG appropriated an Army symbol?
Good morning Banjos and the rest of you wonderful Glibs!
Apparently there are no ordinances where I live against flying a crop duster over people’s houses at 6:30am.
Joe Biden has always exaggerated when he wasn’t flat out lying. This is nothing new. Now that he’s beaten Trump at COVID, we should move on to the cognitive test.
Interesting how the WEF types never suggest reducing the use of technology to reduce carbon emissions. I’ll bet shutting down Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the NSA’s server farms would save the earth. But it’s not about saving the earth.
👆
I didn’t think you lived in my neighborhood, TOK!
(Alternate response: Burn the land, boil the sea — you can’t take the sky from them….)
They “floated” this idea, which would probably trigger a new ice age and the mass extinction they so desperately want.
https://thecountersignal.com/wef-suggests-blotting-out-the-sun-to-fight-climate-change/
Wil they launch the rockets with the curtains they plan to use to do this blotting at night to make sure the heat doesn’t burn them before they get there?
Just like alcohol they are the cause, and the solution, to all of life’s problems.
Apparently there are no ordinances where I live against flying a crop duster over people’s houses at 6:30am.
You don’t want crop dusting at 6am? Maybe don’t serve your wife your 5 alarm chili just before bed time.
I have a lock on that type of crop dusting at my house.
Now that you’ve survived the crop duster, are you going too make your way to My. Rushmore woth a pretty blonde in tow?
Mexico City, by all accounts, is a congested, polluted shithole. Who the fuck would move to Mexico City of their own volition?
Californian hipsters. They are already used to congestion, pollution, and human waste. At least in Mexico City these things are affordable.
Besides, there’s less virtue signaling competition in Mexico City. It’s easier to excel in this regard among your peers and neighbors.
It’s just too damn hard to keep up in San Fran anymore.
Mexico City may actually be less disgusting than San Francisco these days.
I was in Mexico City in 2019 and before that in 2011. It was quite pleasant. Not a shithole.
Good money chasing after bad.
CDC has spent $16,000 on Walensky’s media training
You buried the lede.
It’s not about communication, it’s about political propaganda.
We are rapidly approaching the end-point of narrative over reality.
Reality doesn’t seem to be cooperating and won’t go away no matter how many people refuse to believe in it.
YEs. Their propaganda skills have exceeded any other skillset they may or may not have. That can only last for so long before it falls apart.
The Bee is good because they make fun of everyone. Even clearly superior libertarians. I’m sure they meant this article for the Reasonites and not us: 11 Pick Up Lines For Libertarians To Use If They Ever Meet A Girl
My favorite.
I had (maybe still have) “no Podcast” in my Twitter bio
Also talk to your kids about Sowell before it is too late
I attended a few Libertarian Club meetings in college. I am antisocial and awkward, but man I felt like I had Jamie Foxx levels of charm compared to most of them.
I loved “I don’t believe in big government, but it should be illegal to look that good”.
I’d probably do the inflagrante delicto with a dude who said that to me.
Clear-eyed? Biden doesn’t even blink.
President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping spoke Thursday amid growing tensions between the two countries around Taiwan, the economy and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The call, Biden’s fifth with Xi, lasted over two hours, though past calls have lasted around as long because the conversations need to be translated. The two leaders discussed a number of issues hanging over both Biden and Xi at home and abroad, including the economic slowdowns facing both countries, the effects of Russia’s invasion and the continuing Covid pandemic. …
The Chinese had stronger language in their summary of the call when it comes to the issue of Taiwan.
“Those who play with fire will perish by it,” the Chinese said in a statement. “It is hoped that the U.S. will be clear-eyed about this.”
There was a call between Biden and Putin back on December 30th, 2021. Apparently, Biden made a verbal promise to keep Ukraine out of NATO to Putin. But State promptly ignored it at meetings in Geneva a week later and refused to even discuss it with the Russian delegation.
Biden is not in charge of jack-shit and it has become apparent to other world leaders that they cannot trust anything he says, or for that matter, anything that comes out of DC. As such, they’re resorting to alternative solutions.
The call, Biden’s fifth with Xi, lasted over two hours,
Anyone really believe Biden is capable of keeping it together for two hours?
That’s just how long it takes for Joe to download his instruction package over an ISDN line…
The whole Taiwan is not a country thing is just nonsense.
I can’t fathom what the US can possibly gain by provoking Russia and China in Ukraine and Taiwan. There is no possible win for us as a country. I guessing lining the pockets of the politicians with looted billions from American taxpayers is worth risking nuclear war to them. China made clear yesterday that Pelosi going to Taiwan would be crossing a red line.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/07/provoking-beijing.html
“This mom is training her 6 year old twins, one of whom she claims is “non-binary,” to use they/them pronouns even though the child who she says is non-binary doesn’t want to. She uses a “nonbinary doll” and candy rewards for accurate pronoun use.”
https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1552715083297333248
“Totally accepting of her 2 kids with trans identities but the skepticism is reserved for the “cis” child.”
https://twitter.com/buttonslives/status/1552466896108371968
I’ve seen hundreds of examples by now. What can be done about these parents?
The kids might do something about it later in life.
That’s not a good solution.
No, it isn’t.
Social shaming is probably about it when it comes to that type of abuse. Limiting access to permanently damaging medical treatments will help the most extreme cases.
“Limiting access to permanently damaging medical treatments will help the most extreme cases.”
I’ve reached the point where I think that might have to be the law.
Shaming them out of civil society is probably about it.
Sadly, the nature of the parent/child relationship makes it really easy to psychologically torture your kids. I don’t think there’s a cure that’s not worse than the disease.
Maybe it just comes down to providing plenty of support (physical, emotional, and financial) for children who get fed up with this shit and want to cut contact with their trendy asshole parents…
Munchhausen by proxy, right?
Widespread mockery, since they’re doing it for social approval.
The Dutch are at the front line for freedom.
Dutch farmers’ protest continue day and night unabated. Tonight on the A50 motorway in Apeldoorn. Dutch farmers are not joking. …
Motorway A50 Apeldorn today. Dutch farmers are not joking. ….
A35 motorway blocked in both directions with manure. Dutch farmers are not joking.
I’m on their side, but if I lived there I would be as irritated with them as I would be with the Extinction Rebellion or whatever climate twits block highways.
The only people that own cars there are the seriously well off anyway, and they tend to be those in league with the globalist movement and it’s agenda, so I think it is karmic justice they are the ones most inconvenienced…
“FDA Officials Warn Of Brain Swelling, Vision Loss In Minors Using Puberty Blockers
Officials said a plausible association between using puberty blockers and pseudotumor cerebri, which displays symptoms similar to a brain tumor, was identified in six young girls between the ages of 5 and 12.
“Five were undergoing treatment for central precocious puberty and one for transgender care,” FDA officials report. “The onset of pseudotumor cerebri symptoms ranged from three to 240 days after GnRH agonist initiation.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fda-officials-warn-of-brain-swelling-vision-loss-in-minors-using-puberty-blockers
One wonders if the political masters are getting the message that America is not on board with the trans stuff and are allowing the bureaucracy to do this.
I assume everything is reviewed for political acceptability now.
Most people don’t care one way or another as far as adults are concerned. It’s the Left using it as a political issue and going after kids.
If it just takes the life of one million “trans” children, then the results were worth it.
And if there aren’t one million “trans” children, then by god, they’ll create them first.
Whoever thought fundamentally altering a child’s biochemistry would result in dire consequences? I for one am stumped.
Better living through chemistry strikes again!
Scorn and defiance; slight regard, contempt,
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked prominent figures around the world, including Prince Harry and outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, for speaking out against the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
In what appeared to be his first public comments since the decision was handed down last month, Alito dismissed criticism from the British pair, as well as from French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
It’s an international outrage.
It’s telling of how subservient to and dependent on the US regime those foreign leaders are. They support our establishment politicians unquestioningly and act as their attack dogs on those who would undermine it in any way.
Alito’s grown on me, a helluva lot better than Roberts at least.
That’s one fucking low bar to set there, Stinky..
So aiding US semiconductor makers also means funding ISS.
Congress approves International Space Station extension to 2030
Congress can’t do single-issue bills.
Nope. Although Team Red would likely have approved that as a single issue bill so you can actually reduce the amount of pork in this bill by that amount.
Spreading the NASA lucre across 90% of the states was a brilliant bit of evil politicking.
Constitutional Amendment – every expenditure approved by Congress shall be a distinct piece of legislation and any combination will result in the immediate termination (with extreme prejudice) of the sitting House.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Congress has created the Office of Money in Federal Government, which will set rules on the allocation of expenditures. Future spending bills will merely dictate an amount that is to be spent, and an advisement to the OMFG on the purpose for which those funds are intended. Congressional leaders hail this as a measure to streamline the legislative process.
sin,
post Amendment news
ISS is a total waste at this point.
At least it served some purpose when it encouraged cooperation between us and Russia.
The main purpose of the ISS was to give the space shuttle something to do.
This is a direct subsidy of Elon Musk so he can fuck crazy bitches and bear none of the consequences. I don’t like it.
With all the goings on this weekend, I will not be around to kick off any of the regular Zoom links. I present to you an open Zoom/Happy Hour/Potential drop in link for this weekend. It should be up and running all weekend. I would ask for the link to be shared on later posts, as I will be otherwise engaged.
Zoom is discriminatory and it should be stopped.
Profits are bad, children. Mmmmkay?
ExxonMobil and Chevron both reported record massive profits thanks to record gasoline prices during the quarter.
Exxon’s profit, excluding special items, came to $17.6 billion in the second quarter, nearly double what it made in its very profitable first quarter as oil and gas prices started to soar in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Second-quarter profit was up 273% from the same period a year ago.
Chevron earned $11.4 billion excluding special items, up 74% from the first quarter and 247% from a year ago.
Including one-time items, both earned hundreds of millions more: ExxonMobil’s net income reached $17.9 billion, while Chevron brought in $11.6 billion.
ExxonMobil’s net income came to $2,245.62 every second of every day of the 92-day long quarter. On that basis, Chevron earned $1,462.11 per second.
Since it takes about two minutes to pump 20 gallons of gas, that means between them the two oil giants earned more than $400,000 between them in the time it took you to fill you tank.
Reuters reported that this was a record profit for both companies — though neither mentioned that in their statement, as companies typically do when their earnings reach all-time highs.
Those rotten profiteering bastards. How dare they? They’re Just Putin’s stooges.
*I notice in all this talk about inflation, CNN seems utterly uninterested in providing an inflation-adjusted number for Big Oil’s profits.
Now do Pfizer.
My broker got me into Chevron early in the pandemic.
He does good stuff sometimes.
broker stands for making you more broke right?
You guys have probably already seen that Google’s ranks are filled with CIA agents, but I wonder if it was an actual spook who removed the “Don’t be evil” phrase from their mission statement.
It’s always been mind-boggling to me that the CIA has a venture capital firm.
Well peering into tech IPs requires laws and such but as a VC investing, they get to see the tech….
Scandalous.
Bob Dylan – It Ain’t Me Babe (Official Audio)
Bob Dylan: alleged 1965 sexual assault lawsuit dropped
TO be fair, in the 60s it was fine for singers to fuck young groupies. Then again 12 seems a tad low. 14 I would understand but 12 seems a bit icky.
It was a special move called the Polanski.
I mean when you make quite good movie it is alright I suppose
The US economy has shrunk in size each of the last two quarters, which is a popular shorthand for a recession. Although economists are debating whether or not the economy is already in a recession, or if one lies ahead, many consumers feel like we’re already in an economic downturn. High gas prices are one of the reasons they feel that way.
“Popular shorthand” indeed.
Дефиле Lingerie Show-Forum | Корсетное белье | 20 февраля
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKh6XN5HnaI
I feel guilty because I never know if these are pure Ukrainian women or tainted Russian ones based on the weird squiggly script in the youtube topic. But based on the description where there is a site .ru they are probably ruskies.
EMA SAVAHL 2022 BIKINI COUTURE SHOW / 4K / ft GEORGINA MAZZEO / Miami swim week The Shows
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEHx96I4q9s
see there is nothing more American than Miami Florida so this should compensate the previous
but damn some nice legs on the russkies
Is there really much of a difference?
I cannot say. The predicted (by some people on escort forums) flooding of the Bucharest escort marked by nubile Ukraninas did not materialize. I don;t know why but I expect Russian women give worse blowjobs.
Normally you look for letters that Ukrainian has that Russian doesn’t.
It is all gibberish to me
Ґ ґ, Є є, І і, Ї ї only in Ukrainiain
Ё ё, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Э э only in Russian
you sound like a russian spy to me
St. Paul passed an aggressive rent control ordinance recently. New construction plummeted and now the commie City Council is trying to roll back some parts of it.
Still chock full of landlords needing to fill out approval forms for any rent increases over 3%. I’m sure the commies will be surprised when building still doesn’t pick up.
Look at some point rent control will work. Just because it filed every single time, it does not mean we need to stop trying.
failed goddamnit
Their models say it will work.
Look Fat, you don’t get up to NYC-sized rents without cracking a few eggs.
I am surprised they are not blaming the people that don’t want to piss away money creating new housing in a time of rabid inflation and destructive housing times for the failure and doubling down on demanding even stricter rent control…
To be a collectivist/progressive, you must lack the ability to understand actions/choices have consequences….
Proggie asshat: I want A because I care.
Sane person: yeah, but if you do tat, you are gonna create a shitton of B, C, D, and E, all of them negative and destructive.
Proggie asshat: I want A BECAUSE… I… CARE….
Sane person: I think I see the problem..
Proggie asshat: I WAAAANNNNTT….
I’m glad NJ has no other crime to deal with.
New Jersey Won’t Let You Sell Your Dirty Diesel Truck on Facebook—And Yes, They Know (Updated)
Mind you it is illegal here to modify your emissions equipment and NJ smog checks. However, the big brother aspect here certainly gives one pause.
Not truck, but speaking of sedans and compact cars, i always disliked diesel and feel some sort of schadenfreude when now Europe is putting curbs on diesel cars when back in the day everyone was buying them and bragging about the better mileage (kilometerage seems not to be a thing and anyway in romania we do not think in kilometers per liter but liters per 100 kilometer although it is basically the same thing you just divide by 10). Also writing this i impressed myself by spelling schadenfreude correctly on the first try.
Federal budget experts agree with the CBO’s assessment, going so far as to say the deficit would have dropped the past two years had the president “done nothing.”
Ah, imagine a do-nothing President. What a pleasant dream.
Today’s black pill.
I would think the author has never read The True Believer, for many of his observations would be addressed therein.
Gato Malo is fantastic.
And that was as much a white pill as black.
Why doesn’t the St Paul city council just condemn all the apartment buildings and take them over, to be operated for the benefit of the communitarian collective? Or, better yet, simply award ownership to the tenants.
If every local politician in the country spent a weekend in Utrecht our approach to planning #GentleDensity, streets, transport, parking & street textures would be utterly transformed within 3 months. It really is hard to put into words how beautiful and liveable it is.
It gives Liberty to its residents, all of them old and young rich and poor, in a way that few cities manage.
https://twitter.com/createstreets/status/1552399595795365890
Having just been to Utrecht, I would say a couple of things. One, beautiful is in the eye of the holder of bees and all that, personally I do not like the aesthetic of netherlandish architecture.
Second yes the city is walkable, but the houses pictured there are shit. There are better housing, but I am not a fan of dutchie houses. My friend’s house is worth like 600k euros now and I find it very meh.
To go in a wee bit of detail, I think you Americans overdo it with your 3/4 bedroom houses with 6.5 baths… But on the other hand when my friend bought his house for 400k Euro it had 5 bedrooms and one bathroom. When growing up we had only 1 bathroom for 3 people, my parents and me, and still there were moments when a second one would come in handy. The apartments in those building in the tween are tiny, badly insulated, not made of great materials and few have sufficient bathrooms. If you walk in the right parts of Utrecht, they are similarly walkable livable but there are large detached houses with large yards/. Those are millions and I understand not all people can live like that, but even apartment buildings can be and are made better than the traditional ones in the tweet pics.
If people want to live that way, there is nothing stopping them from doing it right now. Many Americans want a detached house with a yard. Others want a large plot in a rural area. Of course, letting people set their own priorities and preferences is anathema to wannabe urban planner tyrants.
If people want to live that way, there is nothing stopping them from doing it right now – the twitterer is in England where there is plenty of government stopping them.
They need us all corralled in easily identified location so they can better control us… Like you “control” pests…
Others want a large plot in a rural area.
you rang?
but can you walk to a specialty coffee shop or wine bar?
I don’t drink coffee and the cellar is well stocked.
I don’t drink coffee – whats the matter with ya coffee is great
Why would we walk when we can hop in our four wheel drive pickup with a 300 HP V8 engine and drive there?
because there is no where to park there and when you come back home someone took your parking spot.
Also walking is good for you. And you cannot drink and then drive so anyway you cannot drive to a bar
Have you traveled to the US much? We have fairly nice houses but horrible cities.
who are you addressing that question to?
To you. I was on a phone call, and had not refreshed the page, so I didn’t see any of your other replies.
Well I have not traveled at all to the US as is well known 🙂
They can do whatever they want to the cities. I won’t care because I don’t, and will never, live in one. I am a late convert to country life (not even truly rural, more like countryish exurb) and I’ve loved it.
+1 Country living is the life for me
Dahling I love you but give me Park Avenue.
lol! Perfect.
Friday Funbags will pay off the national debt!
https://archive.ph/UmVET
Clearly inflationary!
LADbible
@ladbible
You can only keep three…
https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1552670215019716615
I keep none .
+1
Bourbon or Whiskey.. Fuck that piss in a bottle shit.
Are they free?
Ditto.
What is more fun is to come up with a beer 6-pack.
You are stranded on a desert island for the rest of your life, however, you get a lifetime supply of beer, but can only choose 6 beers. Which 6?
The list starts easy for me:
Bell’s Two Hearted
Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
Chimay Blue
Cantillon Gueuze
Then it gets hard, because I have to make tough choices to fill in the last two: Fuller’s ESB, Sam Smith Nut Brown, Hacker-Pshorr Oktoberfest, etc. Getting down to just 6 is hard.
Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen – wheat beer is bad so no
Chimay Blue – meh belgian
Cantillon Gueuze – meh belgian
Bell’s Two Hearted – does not sound bad
I would definitely have pilsner urquell in there
Bell’s Two Hearted is very very good.
For the desert island, give me Two Hearted, Reissdorf Kolsch, Suarez Brewing Kolsch, 2 Silos Cream Ale, Dortmunder Export lager, and Spaten Optimator.
I will die if all I can choose is beer…
Maisel Wiesse Original
Strohs
Old Style
Hofbrau Dunkel
Ayinger Celebrator Doppelbock
Dortmunder Gold
Fat Tire
Miller High Life
Bass Ale
Guiness
End of list
Many Americans want a detached house with a yard. Others want a large plot in a rural area.
But cars!
Not sure what a large plot is but like guns, I know it’s not enough
I love the way those lefty urban planner (is there any other kind?) characterize the automobile as a government plot to destroy the quality of life in America.
The government invented the automobile, and forcibly installed one in every garage. And then concocted suburban sprawl in their secret underground laboratories and turned it loose like a plague.
Fool! You would allow the masses to make their own decisions? What kind of ant-farm would result from that?
To be fair, the government did play a rather large role in plowing freeways through low-income neighborhoods via eminent domain.
sometimes you wake up from a wild night with regrets and have to email @jackboxgames
support to remedy your own foolishness
https://twitter.com/lyds_art/status/1552667763402952704
Stupid is as stupid does…
These researchers hooked a plant up to a lie detector. Asked if it was alive, the plant said “yes” but this was determined to be a lie. https://ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/aetr/2022/00000047/00000002/art00012?crawler=true&mimetype=application/pdf Also there was uranium involved for some reason.
https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic/status/1533031042549956608
Someone needs to hook up the private parts of people that waste tax payer money like this and shock them – repeatedly – until they start speaking in tongues…
Groundhog steals farmer’s crop and eats it in front of his security camera.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1552526767612497920
Groundhog are lovable wacky creatures
I was hoping it would end with a shotgun blast. I hate those things with a passion.
you hate shotguns?
Looks to me like he’s feeding them.
Yes – Jokes on him when it undermines his shed.
Where’s Carl Spackler when you need him?
I see Chunk has gone viral again. The homeowner has been feeding them for years and has a big YouTube following and many upgrades to the cameras & stuff.
One of the babies last year had a problem with its teeth and they took it to a rescue organization
Pay no attention to that trainwreck behind the curtain
President Joe Biden and his administration went all out Thursday to play down a troubling new economic report that added to the evidence of a recession, trying to pull focus instead to major legislative progress on measures to tame inflation, reduce debt and preserve America’s competitive edge.
The desire to accentuate the positive reflected the political tensions that are already playing out in the runup to the midterm elections. Republican lawmakers are sounding the alarm that a downturn has already started, a claim challenged by Biden and his fellow Democrats who wanted the public to instead focus on a pair of likely wins in Congress.
Thursday reflected the constant push-and-pull that has defined the Biden administration, in which any triumph can be overshadowed by a setback and the news cycle moves at a faster pace than victory laps. This created dueling narratives about where the country is.
Muh narrative!
SDL
@SocDoneLeft
prohibition didn’t achieve its goals, but we should seek to slowly reduce drinking as we did with smoking
rising alcohol taxes, state-owned dispensaries, anti-addiction medication, addiction treatment centers
the pro-health & anti-abuse benefits are staggeringly large!
Drew
@onefiftyfivemm
Pictured: social democrats slowly reducing smoking for it’s pro-health and anti-abuse benefits
https://twitter.com/onefiftyfivemm/status/1552734181360144384
That definitely deserves a hearty “Fuck off, slaver”
I encourage them to die on that hill.
Drinking ain’t going away and people will shoot them over it.
Go fuck yourselves you authoritarian monsters.
What if I grow my own tobacco, live alone, and never smoke around another human? Is it still a public health risk?
Meanwhile, when regulating sugar, I’ll consult your carb-heavy “food pyramid”.
The president celebrated congressional passage of a $280 billion bipartisan package to boost the U.S. semiconductor industry and the sudden resurrection of a Democrats-only proposal to lower prescription drug costs, tackle climate change, fund the IRS, establish a minimum corporate tax and cut the deficit.
Other White House officials took Biden’s cue and shrugged off the gross domestic product report showing the economy shrank at an annual rate of 0.9%.
“Where we are right now is we’re on the cusp of doing really historic things that would help move the ball forward on the economy,” Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, told The Associated Press when asked about the troubling GDP report. “That’s our focus.”
In a rare press conference, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen allowed that Americans are fundamentally concerned about inflation, not the back-and-forth between Democrats and Republicans about whether the GDP report shows that the economy has slid into a recession.
“Let’s not bicker about ‘oo killed ‘oo’s economy….”
“we’re on the cusp of doing really historic things that would help move the ball forward on the economy”
Baghdad Bob lives!
To them “move the ball forward” = “impoverishing the peasants in flyover” so they aren’t technically lying…
Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett exposed as racist exploiter
But the settlement conditions — which the Justice Department say amount to its second-largest redlining settlement ever — speak for themselves.
The Buffett-owned company has agreed to invest $20 million to increase credit opportunities in predominantly nonwhite communities cited in the release, to employ at least four loan officers to serve those communities and to pay a $4 million fine.
Yikes.
It seems to me the most favorable reading possible here is that Buffett’s hunger for money led him to create a portfolio so unwieldy he simply couldn’t keep track of all the racism happening within it. In that scenario, Buffett’s compassion ran up against his capitalistic impulses — and lost.
On the other hand, there’s always the possibility he knew about these allegations for years and did nothing about them. Either way, the settlement is an awful look for Buffett and company. And, I hope, a blow to the compassionate billionaire brand.
It’s not fair to lend people money with the express intent of getting it back; with interest.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that this is complete horseshit.
“Redlining” FFS