379 Comments

  1. Yusef drives a Kia

    Damn nature! Wrecking my plans for world domination

    • AlexinCT

      Me two. Yusef.

      How are they hanging?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Quiet and peaceful

      • SDF-7

        Thank you for not asking that on Wednesday. I dread to think of the threads that could spawn between that question and Joemala, etc.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Or the tectonic plates, that would hurt

  2. Rat on a train

    Probe confirms Capitol Police, feds had intel on Jan. 6 threat but failed to adapt security
    They needed a Reichstag fire.

    • AlexinCT

      You assume that the “failure” was not actually exactly what was planned because they needed a shitshow…

      • SDF-7

        I don’t think it was, actually — I think they expected / wanted it to be much worse so they could really go to town.

      • AlexinCT

        Oh, they wanted worse. That’s what the Fed and Antifa plants were supposed to do once the people were let in. That part of the plan failed miserable and was why they needed a reality Tee-Vee like shitshow of made up crap. That’s also why they are furious all Carlson got the 41K hours of video. Cause people will now see the shit on J6 was not just grossly exaggerated, but an outright setup.

        Ray Epps was not there by accident.

      • SDF-7

        Yup. That’s my impression as well.

      • waffles

        That’s the only reason why I can think they’re so upset at the footage being released. It’s all about narrative control.

      • Michael Malaise

        “got the 41K hours of video”

        He did, but he didn’t.

  3. R C Dean

    Oh, I disagree that the feds failed to adapt their security on Jan. 6. They got exactly what they not only hoped for, but worked to arrange. Remember, the crowd was salted with government security agents – that was an adaptation, no? – who instigated the break-in to the Capitol. The Capitol Police were instructed to let the protestors in and opened the doors for them – that was an adaptation.

    So, they “adapted”, and succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

    • AlexinCT

      You see Wray’s non-answer answer when he was asked how the fucking FBI was able to track down and haul in a whole bunch of people whose only crime was to like the guy the deep state hates to hold for 2 years without any legal recourse, followed by show trials, but never discovered a single thing about the J5 pipe bomber guy? Wray danced like a prima ballerina and praised the fact the FBI was used as a Gestapo force against political enemies while completely avoiding the bomber. We have nothing on that bomber on a city with cameras everywhere. think about that.

      My take: That guy was also a Fed on a mission to help create a reichstag event, in case the people didn’t do what the mandarinate needed/wanted. Once he the fake bomb thing was no longer needed, these fucks just went into memory-hole-it mode.

    • mindyourbusiness

      Ashes from the Reichstag fire.

  4. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    If the Dems are defecting on spending, we may actually have a chance. That’s a white pill for today.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Its just a clever ruse me boy,

      • AlexinCT

        ^^^THIS^^^

        They just want to piss away the money elsewhere.

    • R C Dean

      I eagerly await the “compromise” to come on raising the debt ceiling.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Can I raise my credit card limit?
        Just asking

    • Sean

      “Let’s send more money to Ukraine!”

      • TARDis

        And pay off student loans.

      • AlexinCT

        One allows them to steal piles of tax payer money to then funnel into funding their campaigns. The other allows them to directly buy votes from a demographic that has a hard time showing up to vote. The problem with the later is that if they actually do it, they can only use it once, so there is a disincentive from toing it for real (letting Congress do the work).

      • TARDis

        They can always move on to UBI to buy votes, I guess.

    • SDF-7

      Don’t care to look up districts — but my money would be that they’re in contested districts, know it is a safe vote (because even if it passes the Senate, there’s nowhere near a veto-proof majority and PPP has already said he’ll veto the hell out of it). So now they get to run campaign ads about how they’re fighting to keep government spending down and prevent inflation in 2024.

    • Michael Malaise

      Yeah, I thought it was a Bee link or something.

      Other White Pills:

      1) Success of Hogwart’s Legacy
      2) Declassification of Lab Leak info

  5. R C Dean

    I can’t think of a worse idea than a trillion dollar federal “investment fund”. What a festival of corruption, abuse, and ideological arm-twisting that would be.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      ESG on steroids

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Hey, its an investment in themselves, cut em some slack
      🙄

    • AlexinCT

      Inept quasi marxism has made making money from normal business processes too difficult, so rackets where government puts out piles of money for shit where crooks can get at a huge chunk of it, is basically the only way for these people to keep getting richer.

      • juris imprudent

        You can call it Marxist, I’ll call it fascist: everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

      • SDF-7

        International versus national socialism.

      • Swiss Servator

        This would be National, aye?

    • SDF-7

      I think the CFPB was a worse idea, but I’ll agree with you that this is likely a terrible idea.

    • Rat on a train

      Buy controlling share in social media companies then silence opposition. “It’s a private company.”

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Think of it as a bundle of sticks….

      • Rat on a train

        There would have to be limits like the maximum percent of stock the government could own in a company and other prohibitions making them a silent investor.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Says who?

      • Rat on a train

        wishful thinkers

      • Not Adahn

        A fagot?

      • juris imprudent

        Ah, should’ve scrolled down.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      The Liberals here created the ‘Canada Growth Fund’ to fund green initiatives under their ‘Just Transition’ racket. When grilled in commission hearings, that wicked witch with the insufferable voice and uncontrollable facial ticks Chrystia Freeland couldn’t explain what the $2 billion was for since there were no registered companies in the fund to speak of. So the question was ‘where is this money going?” The Liberals are so out of control they can’t even bother to pretend to grift right or come up with creative names. Recently, the Ethics Commissioner after sanctioning TWO more Liberal MPs for ethics violations, mandated Liberals take ethics courses and then promptly retired. He was exhausted at how many violations.

      https://thedeepdive.ca/chrystia-freeland-wants-2-billion-for-non-existent-green-corporation/

      • juris imprudent

        What’s the fun in fishing in a barrel?

    • Ted S.

      I can: a $2 trillion government investment fund.

  6. Grumbletarian

    Sure, raise the SS retirement age to 70, and then lover the maximum age one can run for federal office to the same number.

    • Michael Malaise

      The good news is that the retirement age is still whatever you want it to be.

  7. SDF-7

    Morning Banjos — some classic songs there, like the tennis squirrel.

    Sure looks like parts of FedGov are shifting into cover-your-butts mode and trying to put the mask back on at least a little. Not terribly sure why they’d bother given Congress is almost certainly just going to keep funding them anyway like idiots. (And on the executive orders front, especially any dealing with spending — I find it more than a little odd that the veto still gets to enter into it… for the Legislative branch not to be able to tell the Executive branch to stay in its lane and out of their explicit domain without the Executive Branch’s permission is kind of dumb… of course, if it were a veto-proof majority it would be a different story, but tribalism won’t allow that these days…)

    Looks like we’re on track for 30-year-old me (and frankly still current me)’s expectations that Social Security will be dead (or I will be) by the time I qualify for it. Really wish a politician 20 or 30 years ago when it was obvious had been able to push through sunsetting it since I don’t think I was alone in GenX for thinking that way. Yeah, some ads may have given Boomers the vapors (because some people apparently believe anything), but I still think it could have been pushed through. Ah well.

    And nice to know someone who almost made it on the Supreme Court is stymied by criminal activity taking place when it is dark. :eyeroll:

    • rhywun

      Garland might be the biggest bullet ever dodged of all time.

      • AlexinCT

        I say that honor goes to Hillary Clinton. Maybe even that lunatic Al Gore. But yes, Garland would have been disastrous.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I’d go with Hillary too. She would have appointed at least 2 to the court, probably including Garland, and that would have been disastrous.

    • Rat on a train

      Gen X is too small a cohort to drive policy. I remember the fear mongering that drove older generations to reject calls to partially privatize SS.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve already seen the headlines talking about how the Boomers have hurt the Millenials and Gen Z with their spending habits. Leaving Gen X out entirely, which is cool man. But at least just leave us alone all the time then.

      • AlexinCT

        Heh, the plan is to make you whipper-snappers pay for all the spending…

        NOW GET OFF MY LAWN!

      • Rat on a train

        Gen X will get blame for not changing things even though we didn’t have the power to.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Can see the headlines “You can thank your Gen X grandparents for failing to fix the Baby Boomer screw ups of the 20th and 21st century”

  8. rhywun

    Canadian trans teacher with giant prosthetic breasts reportedly put on leave after parents slam school board

    Oh come on, Fox. That is not a “trans” person.

    • AlexinCT

      Agreed Rhywun, I am now sure this guy was just trolling.

      • SDF-7

        Future Legal Block Problems.

      • Pope Jimbo

        *snort* Q will appreciate that

      • Fatty Bolger

        He was only wearing them in class, purely for shock value.

      • Compelled Speechless

        If true, this guy wins the Andy Kaufman award for commitment to a bit. The best satire is the kind where you can’t tell if it’s a joke.

    • Not Adahn

      HOW DARE YOU!!! IT’S MA’AM!!!!!

  9. AlexinCT

    Merrick Garland Reveals Why The DOJ Prosecutes Pro-Lifers More Often Than Pro-Abortionists

    TL:DR.

    My synopsis: the mandarinate needs these people broken so the globalist takeover agenda can proceed as planned with minimal resistance.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Jesus, you sound like the voice in my head,😜

      • AlexinCT

        The voice in your head sure as fuck is wise and well informed, sir…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Great minds👍

      • Ted S.

        Is it saying “don’t look back; you can never look back”?

      • AlexinCT

        Was that in response to some Deadhead sticker seen on a Cadillac?

      • Tres Cool

        The Ataris did a great cover of that song.

      • Sean

        Yes!

      • Bones

        +1 Black Flag sticker

      • mock-star

        I was never a big Ataris fan, but I did see them when they headlined a punk rock show that was held at the Bedford County Elks Lodge in the 90s. Obviously this was before they did that cover. At the time, I think their biggest hit was “San Dimas High School Football Rules.” They co-headlined with Beefcake of “I Wanna be a Proctologist” fame.

    • R C Dean

      My take:

      Because the pro-choice/abortionists are deeply intertwined with the Dem Party, and the pro-lifers with the Repub Party. I don’t think it’s any more complicated than that.

      The Deep State is not happy that part of the Repub’s base doesn’t want to be ruled by globalist corruptocrat freakshows, so the Repubs need to be brought back in line as controlled opposition. On the one hand, lunatic persecution of J6ers and pro-lifers, on the other free rein given to antifa and pro-lifers. It couldn’t be more obvious that the LEO-American community is all in on fundamentally transforming America.

      • WTF

        It’s just incredible to me that so many still refuse to see it. They aren’t even really trying to hide it anymore.

      • AlexinCT

        I see your problem. The others are not refusing to see it at all. They clearly see it but cheer it on because it benefits their team. When it turns against them – and history shows us this is inevitable – they will squeal loud and hard all the way to the gallows.

      • SDF-7

        Dammit… don’t put this back in my mental playlist today, man!

      • rhywun

        “Free shit” is a more compelling vote-getter, it seems.

      • juris imprudent

        Yay democracy!

      • Swiss Servator

        The Free Shit Army is always on the march!

    • Pope Jimbo

      His whole “they are easy to prosecute” excuse makes no sense.

      If these people who commit crimes in daylight and on camera are easy to prosecute, doesn’t that mean you have more resources to devote to tracking down the cowards who firebomb pregnancy centers in the night?

      The fact that people are attacking pregnancy centers shows that it is really about hating people on the other side of an issue, not about the issue itself. If you simply cared about abortion, why would you care if some women decided not to abort their baby?

      • DrOtto

        They want us all dead?

      • Ownbestenemy

        They are FedGov…do you expect them to put some real effort into it? Daylight – people just sitting there and probably gave their name while praying = easy caseload. Night – they have masks and stuff and I would have to cross-reference with our known asset list, local smokies, etc and then actually try and build a case and don’t you know I have a cocktail to drink and a wife to beat too?

  10. Drake

    “California wildfires of 2020 created enough carbon emissions to offset 16 years of reductions”

    Now do the Nordsteam pipeline.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thats keeping it real, pure,methane

    • Fourscore

      Good show, PJ. Sometime I’ll tell you about the janitor from Buhl.

  11. Rufus the Monocled

    Re that mentally ill guy with the big fake tits. Parents have been fighting – even protesting in the streets – the school since last year. This is in a very wealthy suburb so they were having none of it.

    Honestly, I don’t know what’s going on anymore for a school board to think it was ok to let this guy teach. He needs help.

    • AlexinCT

      What will Emperor Trudeau’s take be on this?

      • UnCivilServant

        Please, Trudy’s no Emperor. He’s not even autonomous

      • WTF

        The Twink in the North!

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Naked Emperor Jerk Off has a bigger problem than those breasts.

      • Pine_Tree

        *Castreau

    • R.J.

      I get it. That should have been over the same day he showed up.

    • rhywun

      I still think it’s a long con. He is exposing just how ridiculous we have become. It’s come out that he only dresses up for school and for the paparazzi, so he had to go out on tour with this ridiculous tale to keep the game going.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That has been my take too. I think he is pulling an Alinsky trick out of the bag and making them play by their own rules. Shows how stupid the rules are.

        His mistake was thinking that they’d be shamed out of their rules when they were exposed for being ridiculous.

      • rhywun

        He’ll have to kick it up a notch now. It should be fun to see where this goes.

      • R.J.

        GIANT fake camel toe.

      • Swiss Servator

        Thanks for that…you tryin’ to give SugarFree a run for his money?

      • Certified Public Asshat

        He’s currently on paid leave. This is what he wanted all along.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      I lost a job opportunity over that bullshit recently, fuck them all.

    • WTF

      They are determined to follow in the footsteps of Walter Duranty.

      • AlexinCT

        While many demanded that Pulitzer prize good ole’ Uncle Joe’s buddy Walter was given for his pro soviet propaganda be revoked, they never did that…

        That’s because they liked what he was did.

        The same sort of people that loved & protected the marxist body making machine of the USSR, China, Cambodia, Korea, Cuba, and Africa 7 South America then, are back in control of the propaganda. Only today the marxist revolution is called the great global reset.

    • R C Dean

      If I still worked with the Narrative Liberals at my old job, I would have a hard time keeping my mouth shut.

  12. SDF-7

    ‘Orning ‘ordles — Trying to march away from the Month of Meh… but still bogged down in the muddy trenches of mediocrity.

    Daily Duotrigordle #365
    Guesses: 37/37
    Time: 05:01.08
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 402
    5️⃣3️⃣
    7️⃣4️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 402
      6️⃣4️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Cowboy

      Daily Quordle 402
      6️⃣5️⃣
      7️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 402
      7️⃣8️⃣
      6️⃣🟥

      Whoops

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 402
      3️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣5️⃣

      nailed it

  13. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Early morning Tall Cans!
      🍻🍻🥏😎

  14. Rufus the Monocled

    Are you guys paying attention to the latest Trudeau scandal? It’s a doozy.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Nah, too Canadian

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Fair enough.

        Drink!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Cheers!🍻

      • Rat on a train

        We have our own shitshow. We don’t need to import.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Yeh well, your shitshow is having a DIRECT impact on affairs here. It’s pretty clear the Democrats and Liberals are coordinating closely.

      • Sean

        Maybe it’s the million bucks from the ChiComs?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Oh, I don’t know. Only the national security apparatus declared war on Justin. Turns out China interfered in our elections. Not only that, they’ve indeed been courting Justin since 2015. They donated $1 million dollars to his father’s alma mater at the University of Montreal and donated 200k to the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation. CSIS – the spy agency – had been warning the Liberals China is way too embedded in our affairs. Naturally, Justin ignored it. 11 MPs (9 Liberals and 2 Conservatives) are said to have been compromised. What gave this story legs is the fact Global News and the Globe and Mail reported it and are all over it. They’re sinking their teeth into Justin and not letting go. This is a scandal of epic proportions. We all suspected he was a puppet of China but to see the mounting evidence is stunning nonetheless. He’s a traitor.

        Worst part? There’s still a lot more to this apparently.

      • Not Adahn

        Ummm, sweaty? not only is it racist to complain about China, all educated people know that there has NEVER been any election interference except TrumPutin, and saying otherwise is the Goebbels Big Lie.

        you Nazi.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        By the way, he actually said that. It’s ‘anti-Asian’ to question China’s influence in our affairs.

      • juris imprudent

        And yet, there are still so many voters in love with him. Never, ever ask me why I am a misanthrope.

      • AlexinCT

        Is that like being a mendicant?

      • DrOtto

        Fidel Castro went to the University of Montreal?

    • WTF

      You know, I just googled “latest Trudeau scandal”, and the most recent stuff I’m getting is from 2022. I guess maybe it’s being suppressed in the search engines?

    • AlexinCT

      Did they catch him trying to do stuff to some duct taped animals?

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Why do you wrap hamsters in duct tape?

      • Tres Cool

        Easier insertion?

      • Ownbestenemy

        So it doesn’t explode all over the place when you fuck it.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Bingo!

      • Ownbestenemy

        An old crusty 1st Shirt told that joke while teaching us radar theory….

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Yeh. Of Mao. Lol.

      • Sensei

        He was such a nice and gentle person…

      • Tres Cool

        But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao you aint gonna make it with anyone anyhow.

      • Michael Malaise

        Those subversive Beatles. Now play Tax Man!

      • AlexinCT

        It is a travesty that Mao, by virtue that he got anywhere from 50 to 75 million people killed gets the top title. What was that number as a percentage of the population of China at the time? 5-7%?

        The real champ was Pol Pot. Killing 34% of your people – 2 million out of a population of 6 million – THAT’s how you prog hard.

      • Brawndo

        If there’s any justice in the universe, a bird will build it’s nest on the Map statue’s head.

      • Brawndo

        *Mao. Godam Chinese autocorrect.

  15. Sensei

    Good job WSJ

    On a recent week in Ithaca, three of Mr. LaMorte’s employees were installing a heat pump for Matthew Minnig, a 40-year old engineer who lives with his wife in a four-bedroom house. Mr. Minnig hopes to use the heat pump—which moves air heat between the inside and outside of a home—to replace a natural-gas boiler for heat in the winter and add air conditioning in the summer.

    America Is Trying to Electrify. There Aren’t Enough Electricians.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Electricians don’t install heat pumps either, that’s my job,
      /Idiots

      • Sensei

        Here in NJ you’d need a licensed electrician to run the power and install the service disconnect. HVAC guy brings the “whip” and installs from there.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Fuck unions, I do it all,

      • pistoffnick

        Yes, fuck unions.

        My first real job out of college, I got yelled at by an electrician for opening an electrical cabinet. “You touch anything else electrical, I’m gonna call my union steward!”

      • Tres Cool

        Ah, I remember my 1st grievance. We were working at a Navistar plant, measuring VOC emissions from their paint lines.
        Naturally, scaffolding was needed to get to the top of the vent stacks. That a union labor job. We had all our shit on the roof and waited. And waited. A couple hours had passed- we were told they were in training. Finally, after waiting all morning it was getting close to lunch, and I told my co-worker “Fuck this- lets do it ourselves’. At that very moment, right as I had my hand on a piece of scaffold, here they come. Almost marching in file.
        I heard, “YOU CANT TOUCH THAT! YOURE TAKING WORK AWAY FROM US!” I said “If you’d been here at 8 like we needed, we’d all be done by now.” Head labor guy mumbled something about training, breaks, personnel….

        It took them all of 15 minutes.

      • juris imprudent

        Union thug: you won’t do much work with two broken legs.

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s when you stab the union thug in the throat.

        He won’t make any more threats with a severed larynx.

      • juris imprudent

        And run up against federal hate crime charges brought by Garland hisself?

      • Michael Malaise

        Yusef Does It All

        I sense a new username. Or a memoir.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Or a porno movie.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I know a newly out of work Canadian school teacher with an epic rack that might be interested in a supporting role.

      • Sensei

        Why it costs New York FIVE TIMES what other cities pay to install a toilet

        Whether you are New York or Seattle, the company that makes them, Madden Fabrication, sells them for about $185,000 apiece: $185,000 times five is $925,000.

        Meaning we’re spending nearly $4.4 million on … what? How do we get to $875,000 apiece just to install a single toilet, after the toilet’s physical cost?

  16. Pope Jimbo

    The grift that keeps on giving. More money to “study” a plan to cover a stretch of I-94 between St. Paul and Minneapolis.

    The reason? It will bring back the Rondo neighborhood. Rondo was a historically black neighborhood that was split when they build I-94. All because of racism. Or the fact that it was right between the two downtowns.

    These studies have been going on forever. The Feds always have a couple million every session of Congress to throw at the idea. The local grifters will create a slide deck, do a press tour and then apply for another grant.

    The only good thing you can say about the plan is that it is better than the other plan which is to fill in the freeway completely and just get rid of a major freeway.

    ReConnect Rondo envisions building a roughly 20-acre lid over the freeway, to create space for new homes, parks and commercial spaces, and even re-link some of the street network of the old Rondo neighborhood.

    The organization’s executive director, Keith Baker, sees the project — with a total sticker price of up to $454 million — as the heart of a revitalized “African American cultural enterprise district,” creating new economic activity that benefits the people displaced by I-94’s construction, their descendants and current residents.

    • Fourscore

      …and here I thought the idea was to teach AAs how to farm and get out of the inner cities… I can’t keep up anymore.

    • The Last American Hero

      Ah, yes the Detroit I-375 Grift. They very roads are racist. Also, not building a freeway makes people not go downtown where the minorities live, which is also racist.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Funny how exactly the same thing is happening in Portland. “Historically” black neighborhood* torn apart by freeway construction, reparations and capping I-5 are proposed solution.**

      *Albina and North Portland were “black” neighborhoods for only about 40-50 years, after the vanport floods and before changing economics/generational turnover/other factors changed the demographics.
      **fuck the other neighborhoods that got stiffed for freeways growth back in the day like the South Auditorium, those poors weren’t the right color.

  17. AlexinCT

    I am going to go out on a limb, and say this is just for show. The only reason these people, bought & paid for by the CCP, are doing this now is that they have been given orders to change the narrative.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Hows your game?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Gathering dust in my closet. I’ve been working a lot the past few months, not much opportunity to skip out early and hit the course.

        How’s yours going?

      • R.J.

        We should hit the course. Mine are gathering dust in the trunk of the car.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Lucky guys, I did get to play with Mike S though, we had a blast

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Most excellent, Im playing in the MAO 50+ division of the pdga now, not winning yet but fun.

    • dorvinion

      Russia Russia Russia is dying
      Got to stoke the fires somehow

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        So long as the money is spent. They have to force the Fed to monetize the debt. War, pandemic, student loans, doesn’t matter.. just spend it and break the dollar’s back and along with it the commercial banking system. Trotskyites infest DC.

      • Bob Boberson

        Yep. I think the point is to tank the dollar so they can pivot to a digital currency. No need to send in the Jack-boots when they can just turn off your ability to transact for getting uppity.

      • juris imprudent

        Trotskyites infest DC.

        Exactly what Peter Hitchens argues. I thought it a little strange, but it makes sense, and it does explain how American exceptionalism became so warped.

  18. Pope Jimbo

    This is actually a decent idea in theory. In practice, I’m sure they will make sure to spin it so that it teaches the kids how The Man is screwing them over and only Socialism can fix things.

    There’s an interesting idea floating around the state capitol, requiring all high school students in Minnesota to take a personal finance class before graduation.

    That idea was presented twice during the Senate Education Policy Committee meeting Wednesday afternoon.

    “I think this is a top priority. I hope you guys can help me work on this,” Senator Rich Draheim (R-Madison Lake) said while presenting his bill.

    Draheim’s bill would require all high school students to take an online financial literacy class in order to graduate high school.

    • The Other Kevin

      My kids had to take something like that. I have to say, in Indiana they do try to make kids financially literate. Unfortunately it only stuck with the youngest.

    • rhywun

      Great… am I going to have to stock up on toilet paper again?

      • Bob Boberson

        You will wipe your ass with nothing and you’ll love it.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        $10k Japanese toilets for all.

      • Bob Boberson

        After a trip to Korea I considered buying a toilet seat bidet. They are several hundred dollars but well worth it. Hot water, blow dry, etc. Alas, most houses don’t have an electrical outlet anywhere near the base of the toilet.

      • Gustave Lytton

        At this point, if there wasn’t a nearby outlet, I’d hire an electrician to put another outlet in.

      • Bob Boberson

        #rentingsucks

      • pistoffnick

        Sear’s doesn’t even send out catalogs anymore.

        My Grandma used to rip out the ladie’s underwear and swimsuit sections of the JC Penny catalog lest my brother and I get lusty thoughts.

      • Bob Boberson

        While 13 yo me would have found the Sears lingerie section great bathroom reading material, I cannot imagine wiping one’s ass with color catalog paper being at all effective. Plus I imagine it would be pretty hard on the plumbing.

      • UnCivilServant

        The dual-purpose catalog days were when the paper was black and white on regular non-gloss paper, with a privvy, typically outdoor.

      • Sean

        LOL

      • Ownbestenemy

        Montgomery Wards here

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Shocking how many of you savages have not upgraded to a bidet.

      • SDF-7

        Avatar extra apt, you fancy fancy posterior.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        If your monocle is dirty, do you use dry paper to clean it or do you also use liquid?

      • SDF-7

        As long as the orphans get it done, I don’t micromanage.

      • Not Adahn

        Panda cub belly fur, ‘natch.

      • UnCivilServant

        So, you just walk out of there with a wet ass?

      • Bob Boberson

        You haven’t truly lived until you’ve experienced what Japanese technology can do for your butthole.

      • SDF-7

        I’ve seen some of their animated guides — those girls didn’t look to be enjoying it all that much. Plus it seemed to apply to every orifice…

      • DrOtto

        STEVE SMITH HAVE TREAT FOR BUTTHOLE

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I mean yes, you use tp to dry off.

        In a real tp shortage, would you rather have a dirty ass or a wet clean one (that you could still dry in other ways).

      • Gustave Lytton

        Not unless you want to, there’s a dryer too.

        The cleaning is superior. I used to roll my eyes until using one and then putting one in our home. I wouldn’t go back. I hate using toilets at work or on the road.

        And the heated seat in the middle of winter…

      • UnCivilServant

        You people are degenerates.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Sez the guy with a dirty backside…

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        No shit….

      • The Last American Hero

        No. You conserve.

        1) Tear off 1 square.
        2) Punch a hole with your finger in the middle.
        3) Insert finger
        4) Wipe backside primarily using finger
        5) Gently remove paper from finger, scraping feces off with the square of paper.

        I’m using only about 1-2 rolls a year with this method.

      • Pope Jimbo

        You could conserve even more, if you flipped the square over and used it again the next day.

      • rhywun

        You can’t spare a square?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wasn’t this the Sheryl Crow method?

    • R C Dean

      Apparently, China’s export market is crashing, which probably a lot of it.

      And there are a lot of companies looking to exit China.

      • UnCivilServant

        Good.

        It will hurt short term, but be better in the long term.

      • AlexinCT

        The CCP is not our friend. And the people that thought they could convert the CCP away from totalitarianism thought that they would be the devil in the old saying that “When you dance with the devil, the devil changes you.” The CCP showed them how wrong they were….

      • The Last American Hero

        It wasn’t a crazy notion. We saw people behind the iron curtain in embrace blue jeans and McDonald’s, and South Korea and Japan embraced a lot of what the West had to offer.

        Apparently the Chinese are inscrutable.

      • AlexinCT

        Do not conflate the people of a nation, and the things they want and pine for, with the leadership of said nation and what they want. The Chinese people like order which is why they end with totalitarians in charge too often, but I am sure they would prefer freedom. The CCP however isn’t about anything but power, for themselves, and how to become the top dog (of the world) at any cost.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        My thoughts, preach it Alex

      • Cowboy

        To further this point, i think a lot of Chinese people (at least the ones I interacted with in the cities I lived in), already consider themselves free in the ways that matter to most of them.

        There is job mobility, entrepreneurship is encouraged, freedom to travel, have their “own property”, they have careers, families, and entertainment. For the most part, the loftier more totalitarian aspects of the government are far out of their minds. That is to say, they live their lives and the government does its thing, and they dont have much to do with that. They understand that theres corruption, but corruption is everywhere, its the way of the world.

        Its an illusion, of course, and you see it collapse with things like the Uyghers or the covid response. But for quite a few Chinese, thats something that happens somewhere else, to other people, and what can you do, anyway? Better to keep your head down and live your life and enjoy what you have. I did not see a strong rebellious streak or any sort of individualistic “come and take it” attitude anywhere in my travels and time spent there.

        Now, granted, I was in a wealthy, metropolitan college city, and China is beyond massive. Even though I travelled as much as I could, Im sure there are aspects of the culture or people I didnt see.

      • juris imprudent

        Seems to be a point Zeihan has right – deglobalization.

      • Swiss Servator

        Most are not “deglobalizing” – they are moving to India or Vietnam.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., blamed the higher costs faced by millions of Americans on COVID and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

    “The global spike in inflation has been caused by food and fuel disruptions resulting from the illegal and unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as auto part supply shortages connected to the COVID-19 pandemic,” she said in Tuesday debate. “There is no evidence that government spending or executive orders by President Biden have increased inflation.”

    And they will do anything they possibly can to prevent anyone from providing that evidence.

    • Ownbestenemy

      However, she continued “The spending and executive orders by President Trump have increased inflation”. We as a paper have no curiosity or intellectual forethought to confirm this information and we present it to you as is.

    • Bob Boberson

      If anyone every really thought so I have some oceanfront property they might be interested in…..

      • Rufus the Monocled

        “On top of that, it seems that the new Congress is positioning itself only to investigate the gain of function versus lab leak scenarios, but not the origin of the information operations and very oddly timed coincidences that resulted in full blown Covid hysteria. They’re signaling that people like Fauci, Bill Gates, and Big Pharma are going to be let entirely off the hook, which is quite unfortunate.

        Unsurprisingly, this is a signal that Congress is not very serious about the real origin story of Covid, and never will be.”

        Womp.womp.

      • juris imprudent

        Anyone expecting Congress to be serious is a fool of a voter.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      We’re just switching narratives again. Noticeably, the narratives involve any accountability for our masters here.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        the narratives never involve

    • The Last American Hero

      I suspect that with Team Red in charge and Desantis on the rise, there are a few principled people in the agencies that are willing to provide whatever documentation is necessary and the bosses need to pivot – fast.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    Draheim’s bill would require all high school students to take an online financial literacy class in order to graduate high school.

    And the curriculum will be created by the cfpb and various nonpfit “consumer advocacy” groups.

    • AlexinCT

      Don’t forget the part of how it will impact your government social ESG score if you don’t hold the right beliefs…

  21. Not Adahn

    My MFCs from Voegtlin arrived. One thing about the Swiss: all of their shipments are very nicely packaged.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    “Because of the American Rescue Plan and the actual Inflation Reduction Act that Democrats passed last year, our country’s inflation rate is now lower than in the U.K., Canada, and 20 other European Union member states,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.

    Yeah, that’s it.

    • Bob Boberson

      /read in valley girl voice:

      “So, like, we totally just print and spend more money and that, like, totally makes the inflation go away, or something”

      AOC the serious economist

    • The Other Kevin

      Well it says right in the name that it reduces inflation. Duh.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’ve said it before, but squirrel is one the tastiest game animals.

      I love them. The Altar Boys like them too. But Mrs. Holiness and the Altar Girl won’t touch them.

      When the Altar Girl was visiting the grandparents as a kid, they made “Chinese Chicken” and she loved it. When we went to pick her up she told us to get the recipe. Turned out it was squirrels. When she learned about the trick, she went back to not touching squirrels or Chinese chicken.

      • Sensei

        But Mrs. Holiness and the Altar Girl won’t touch them.

        You tell me she’s Korean, but I find this hard to believe…

  23. Sensei

    I’m shocked…

    Yet approval remains uncertain, in part because of doubts about anti-fossil-fuel Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. Within minutes of her own BLM scientists issuing their favorable environment review last month, Interior issued a statement citing “substantial concerns” with Willow, with references to climate and subsistence hunting. Ms. Haaland has also stiff-armed a delegation of pro-Willow Alaskan Natives seeking a meeting.

    The Willow Oil Test for Biden

    Conoco bought its first lease in 1999 and here we are. Almost 24 years later and still nothing.

    • The Last American Hero

      Black Lives Matter has scientists?

      • AlexinCT

        They received honorary science degrees to complement their studies ones….

        So yeah, scientists…

    • PieInTheSky

      how shocked are you really?

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      See! Oil companies are just sitting on all their leases!

    • PieInTheSky

      bigot

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Thicc?

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Just make sure we get the key to the back door

    The White House released its long-awaited National Cyber Strategy on Thursday, providing a road map for how the Biden administration aims to defend the U.S. from a rapidly growing number of online threats.

    A key element of the new framework involves shifting the burden of cybersecurity from individuals, small businesses and local governments and putting responsibility in the hands of software developers and other institutions with the requisite resources and expertise.

    “The president’s strategy fundamentally reimagines America’s cyber social contract,” Acting National Cyber Director Kemba Walden said during a press briefing on Wednesday. “It will rebalance the responsibility for managing cyber risk onto those who are most able to bear it.”

    Walden added, “the biggest, most capable and best-positioned actors in our digital ecosystem can and should shoulder a greater share of the burden for managing cyber risk and keeping us all safe.” She said that laying responsibility on individuals and groups who lack the resources to protect themselves is both “unfair” and “ineffective.”

    We wouldn’t want some sort of wild west encryption to interfere with our total information awareness program.

    • SDF-7

      STEVE SMITH ALWAYS HAVE KEY TO YOUR BACK DOOR.

      AND LET GOOD FRIEND JEFF BEZOS AND ALPHABET CREW TAKE THEIR TURNS TOO. BILL TOO OLD NOW.

      • R.J.

        Bill would use the 1 billion dollar “Cyber Bill” developed for him by Microsoft to penetrate his victims.
        After it does all the software updates, of course. His victim could starve by then.

  25. Count Potato

    The press seems to be ignoring drug cartel interfering in Arizona elections.

  26. Ownbestenemy

    America’s cyber social contract

    Okay….

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      It’s like a EULA that you click through but never read when you download an app.

  27. Sensei

    Right on schedule just about every 5 years.

    North Korea Suffers One of Its Worst Food Shortages in Decades

    I’m sure this will be followed with promises to refrain nuclear and missile testing in exchange for grains. After receipt everything will continue as usual. And the State Department will again be deeply disappointed and utterly surprised.

    • Pope Jimbo

      One of the things my wife liked about Trump was that he didn’t roll over and just send food to Kim. He actually engaged with him.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Thats cause they were closeted lovers duh

      • Swiss Servator

        CPRM and SugarFree have chronicled the whole story.

  28. The Late P Brooks

    The Biden administration said it will explore a national insurance backstop in the case of a catastrophic cyberattack to supplement the existing cyber insurance market. It will also focus on defending critical infrastructure by expanding minimum security requirements in certain sectors and streamlining regulations, and will treat ransomware as a national security threat, not just a criminal issue.

    The strategy also includes an increased focus on incentivizing long-term investments into cybersecurity, even while dealing with urgent threats. The administration said it will prioritize cybersecurity research and development for newer technologies as well as invest in expanding the cyber workforce.

    Hacker gain-of-function labs; what could possibly go wrong?

    • Sensei

      + TRIA

      The “temporary” 20 year old program that isn’t going to ever end.

  29. Certified Public Asshat

    BREAKING: Republicans, who constantly cry about “cancel culture” are now trying to cancel Hersheys chocolate with a #BoycottHersheys campaign, simply because they are putting the face of a trans-"woman" on chocolate bar wrappers. Check out the amazing ad… https://t.co/NY5XA3MGyz— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) March 2, 2023

    There just aren’t enough impressive biological women to put on the wrapper.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I could not imagine having a daughter and having to navigate this part of the cultural war.

      • The Other Kevin

        I have three daughters, and a wife who is into all kinds of sports. It hits home for me. I really feel they are erasing women.

      • Mojeaux

        One of my kids escaped unscathed and quite contemptuous of the trans thing in high school. She and her friends considered it attention whoring.

        Now she’s working on a dock with mostly men, driving a forklift, gunning for management, and happy not to have to deal with it (or bitchy female coworkers, but that’s another story).

      • kinnath

        My granddaughters are not doing well at this point.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        And they live in Iowa?

      • Mojeaux

        I have a hypothesis that the more affluent you/your school is, the more likely this is an issue.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Even Bill Maher asked if the spike in trans is natural why is it regional.

      • Mojeaux

        From what I can tell, he is not on the trans train and he also asked why it was a disproportionate number of girls. He flat-out said it was a social contagion. When he’s right, he’s right.

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I very much doubt there’s a similar explosion of trannies in the hood.

      • AlexinCT

        “Trannies in the hood”

        You trying to give Hollywood ideas for new movie titles?

        I don’t think Ice-T will want to play in this hood flick…

      • Mojeaux

        Bingo.

      • kinnath

        Yes.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        *reaches for black pills*

      • Mojeaux

        My daughter wasn’t in sports, so I was somewhat removed from that.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have a younger niece and she hasn’t really been affected. My grand-niece though, I will break people if they make her feel inferior in any way because she is a natural female.

    • Bob Boberson

      I’ve been boycotting their waxy, shitty chocolate since before they got woke.

      • The Other Kevin

        You should probably put quotes around “chocolate”. I’m a fan of brands like Lindt, Godiva, and Ghirardelli. Marketing those to “regular” people was genius. Hershey bars are for s’mores and that’s it.

      • Gender Traitor

        Lindt extra super dark chocolate is manna from heaven. And good for you. I like to think of it as a dietary supplement.

      • Rat on a train

        ^
        |

      • Certified Public Asshat

        I’m not a chocolate snob, I will crush a few Reese’s*

        *The egg shape being the best shape.

      • Gender Traitor

        And they’re owned by Hershey’s. 😒

        They should secede.

        Independence for Reese’s!!!

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        Justin’s or Trader Joe’s FTW.

      • rhywun

        #metoo

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Also, I love how this guy wrote “woman”

    • R.J.

      I don’t anyone’s face on my chocolate. And that is an ugly face.

    • Michael Malaise

      My daughter bought a rainbow flag to show ‘support for friends’.

      I noticed it’s not the trans one.

  30. Rat on a train

    Today is the birthday of Dr Seuss. The local school is having a dress as a Dr Seuss character day.

    • UnCivilServant

      And here I am all out of japanese caricature costumes.

    • Nephilium

      Please tell me two groups decided to go as sneetches.

      • kinnath

        One person could go as Schrödinger’s sneetch.

      • SDF-7

        They know sneetches get steetches.

  31. juris imprudent

    Since sloopy didn’t have links duty, this is going un-noticed here. FA Cup upset puts 4th-tier team into quarterfinals for first time in 84 years. This was the team where the fans were told to not bring their inflatable fish mascots to the stadium.

    Two penalties netted by Gavan Holohan either side of half-time sealed a 2-1 victory on one of the biggest nights in Grimsby’s history and their reward is a trip to top-flight Brighton and Hove Albion in the last eight — a clash destined to be billed as the Seagulls versus Haddocks.

    • The Other Kevin

      “Draw A Comparison Between Gender Critics And Nazi Germany”
      Groundbreaking. That’s NEVER been done before!

    • Mojeaux

      a game in which players kill women critical of transgender ideology

      Because killing people who don’t agree with you is so anti-fascist.

      Color me TERF.

      • Rat on a train

        antiFA = anti-First Amendment

      • Ownbestenemy

        I read the whole article…I hate myself now.

    • juris imprudent

      Oh yeah, comics and games really should be seriously debated. [eyes roll right out of head and down the hall]

    • Endless Mike

      “Developer” – they scripted a new graphic for he MOB’s in an old editable game – my kids did this with cartoon characters when they were in junior high

      • UnCivilServant

        And here I thought a Developer was someone who worked the photo counter at WalMart

      • Rat on a train

        script kiddies

    • Mojeaux

      So, from what I can gather, either the lines were low enough to snag an 18-wheeler and driver ignored “no trucks” signs, or the lines were low enough to snag an 18-wheeler and the thoroughfare was not marked “no trucks.” With the infor provided, I’m going with NTA.

      • Tres Cool

        Don’t discount any paving in the area. Dump truck drivers are notorious for pulling away with the bed raised.

    • Endless Mike

      “Developer” – they scripted a new graphic for he MOB’s in an old editable game – my kids did this with cartoon characters when they were in junior high

      • Endless Mike

        Wrong comment sorry

  32. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe he’s a magician

    A Pennsylvania man faces federal criminal charges after he checked in a suitcase with an explosive device hidden in the lining on a flight to Florida, authorities said Wednesday.

    Marc Muffley, 40, is charged with possessing an explosive in an airport and possessing or attempting to place an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft, according to a criminal complaint.

    ——-

    After an alert during security screening, the bag was examined and found hidden in the lining was a “circular compound” about three inches in diameter encased in a wax-like paper and clear plastic wrap.

    An FBI bomb technician X-rayed the compound and concluded that it contained a granular powder consistent with a “commercial grade firework” and “suspected to be a mixture of flash powder and the dark granulars that are used in commercial grade fireworks.”

    Attached to it was a “quick fuse” similar to a candle wick — apparently part of the original manufacture of the compound — as well as a “hobby fuse” that burns more slowly and appeared to have been added after the manufacture, authorities said.

    Authorities said they concluded that both the black powder and flash powder “are susceptible to ignite from heat and friction and posed a significant risk to the aircraft and passengers,” according to the criminal complaint.

    The baggage also contained “a can of butane, a lighter, a pipe with white powder residue, a wireless drill with cordless batteries, and two GFCI outlets taped together with black tape,” authorities said.

    Who knows what the fuck the guy was up to, but it doesn’t sound like anything capable of blowing a plane out of the sky.

    • R.J.

      Sounds like he was working, doing some drugs, and forgot to empty out his bag.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Stupid fingers.

  34. PieInTheSky

    Senators considering raising retirement age to 70 and a $1.5 trillion investment fund to overhaul Social Security

    Americans are so weak. In France they protested in the streets for an attempt to go from, 62 to 64 . Early retirement with a fat government pension is a basic human right

    • juris imprudent

      There is absolutely no facet of French employment that is not FUBAR.

  35. PieInTheSky

    Study: California Wildfires in One Year Erased 16 Years of Emissions Cuts – but as there were no wildfires before 1950, these are caused by climate change and as such only show more aggressive cuts are needed

    • Gustave Lytton

      no wildfires before 1950

      Wtf?

      • PieInTheSky

        is the sarcasm meter broken at your house son?

      • Gustave Lytton

        I can’t tell anymore! I thought that was quoted from somewhere else not an editorial comment.

  36. PieInTheSky

    Sustaining resilience and renewal in Europe: The facts shaping the way forward

    Debora Revoltella Tessa Bending Laurent Maurin Atanas Kolev /

    1 Mar 2023

    A series of shocks have battered the European economy. At the same time, European countries need to accelerate their response to linked structural challenges, including the climate transition, digitalisation, and competitiveness. This column argues that Europe’s economic future depends on being able to compete internationally based on innovation, particularly in strategic technologies linked to the climate transition. The current macroeconomic and policy environment is making this harder, however, particularly via fiscal consolidation pressures and the impact of uncertainty on private sector investment.

    https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/sustaining-resilience-and-renewal-europe-facts-shaping-way-forward

    I hope “strategic technologies linked to the climate transition” mean nuclear and only nuclear

    • AlexinCT

      If not, get used to candles for light and burning wood for heat… And of course, eating each other for food..

  37. The Late P Brooks

    Given once, it must be given forever

    Food stamp recipients may be in for a shock as temporary pandemic enhancements to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program expire, leading the average person to receive about $90 less in benefits per month.

    “It’s a huge hunger cliff families are facing,” said Poonam Gupta, research associate at the Urban Institute’s Income and Benefits Policy Center.

    As of March, 32 states along with Washington, D.C., Guam and the Virgin Islands will end the emergency allotments that were put in place in response to the Covid-19 pandemic to help individuals and families cope with food insecurity, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

    Congress terminated SNAP’s emergency increases with the December government funding bill. The broader federal public health emergency is scheduled to end May 11.

    The SNAP emergency benefits have already ended in 18 states. For beneficiaries in the remaining locations, the February issuance will be their last with extra pandemic sums.

    Millions will die!

    • AlexinCT

      Funny how quick the takers can become ingrates and bite the hand that feeds them..

      /vote buying corruptocrat

  38. PieInTheSky

    History matters: The ideas of Paul David, 1935-2023

    Timothy Guinnane William A. Sundstrom Gavin Wright /

    2 Mar 2023

    Paul David, who passed away in January 2023, was a major figure in redefining economic history; an early practitioner of cliometrics – exploring historical economies through rigorously specified models and quantitative evidence; and a strong advocate of the view that historical research should be fundamental to the economics discipline – that ‘history matters’. This column, written by a Stanford colleague and two former students, outlines some of his many contributions to our understanding of economic progress, not least the diffusion of new technologies. His account of the persistence of the QWERTY keyboard despite its technical disadvantages is one of the most cited articles in all of economics.

    https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/history-matters-ideas-paul-david-1935-2023

    • juris imprudent

      rigorously specified models

      Also known as – what number am I looking for today?

  39. The Late P Brooks

    So, from what I can gather, either the lines were low enough to snag an 18-wheeler and driver ignored “no trucks” signs, or the lines were low enough to snag an 18-wheeler and the thoroughfare was not marked “no trucks.” With the infor provided, I’m going with NTA.

    That article is impressively devoid of useful information.

  40. waffles

    the public sector is wearing down my will to live. I can’t wait to transfer back to private and get paid for my effort. in this role I feel like I get punished for trying to improve things.

    • waffles

      I think this experience has been enlightening and within a year I will have achieved whatever goal I had going into it.

    • juris imprudent

      After almost 20 years, I’m down to 3 months to go. My only worry is that the financial markets do something they’ve never done before.

      • waffles

        I don’t think the pension is worth it. I just want to get my PE and move to a principal role in a consulting outfit. The experience of having been a pubsec project manager will be an asset there. I think if I stay in this role for 3 years or more it can become a liability. Useful people don’t stick around.

      • juris imprudent

        Well I’ve been a contractor-puke the whole time, so no pension. Even my civil-service peers don’t get a pension anymore, those got phased out years ago. They have a govt-401k they put into.

      • waffles

        but yeah, the lingering thought in the back of my mind is that pubsec is a safe haven in times of economic catastrophe. I can never fully tell if I’m being smart or lazy.

    • AlexinCT

      In a system where your job depends on a problem existing any attempt to improve or fix things threatens that job.. See, if the problem is fixed, the job goes away.

  41. PieInTheSky

    I am hungry. I bought a burger but I need to grill it. Also I need a new grill the current one is barely keeping together.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Cook it in a pan on your gas stove like us white trash Americans do.

  42. The Late P Brooks

    Stunning rebuke

    The Senate on Wednesday passed a disapproval resolution, formally killing a Biden administration Department of Labor rule that encourages private retirement plan fiduciaries to consider environment, social and governance (ESG) factors when making investment decisions for over 150 million Americans.

    The measure, which only required a simple majority to pass, passed the threshold in a 50-46 vote. The House of Representatives passed it Tuesday in a 216-204 vote, with only one Democrat voting for the bill.

    Two Democrats voted for the bill in the Senate: Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Jon Tester of Montana.

    “President Biden wants to sacrifice seniors’ retirement savings to fund his political agenda,” Sen. Mike Braun of Indiana, who led the bill, told Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “Both the Senate and the House have now sent powerful, bipartisan rebukes of the Biden ESG agenda. I’m proud to stand up for Americans’ retirement savings to stop this harmful rule.”

    Oh, no. Putting profits before feelings.

    • Rat on a train

      They killed nothing. Biden will veto.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      encourages private retirement plan fiduciaries

      How in the fuck is that legal at all?

      • Rat on a train

        encourages or “Nice business you have. It would be a shame if anything happened to it.”

    • R C Dean

      “The measure, which only required a simple majority to pass, passed the threshold in a 50-46 vote.”

      Well, that’s disturbing. Not the resolution, which is fine. But apparently under Senate rules a majority is a majority of those present, not a majority of Senators. Meaning that 26 votes is all you need, if you have a quorum of 51 present. Because 50 ain’t a majority of 100.

    • Rat on a train

      Syrians are an existential threat to America.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Goatherders everywhere are a threat to America.

      • AlexinCT

        Assad and his allegiance with the Russians is an existential threat to the cabal that wants the Qatar-Turkey pipeline to send natural gas to the Euros. As long as the Russians can keep Assad in power and that pipeline (that would compete with the Russian pipelines to the Euros, which now are reduced in number) that cabal is not making bank. And that means they need American military to try and get Assad.

    • rhywun

      Business Insider covered Greene and Massie voting against the resolution but completely mischaracterized the bill. The report said they voted against “mourning the 50,000 people killed in the deadly earthquakes in Turkey and Syria” and made no mention of the fact that it supported maintaining crushing sanctions on Syria.

      Never change, Business Insider.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        That’s a hot-take worthy of OccupyDemocrats.

      • Bob Boberson

        I’ve noticed Business Insider is more or less Vox in a business suit. I didn’t realize this ( as I just didn’t read the articles) was the case until I read a couple if they’re egregiously dishonest COVID articles cheering all the worst aspects of the vaccine mandates.

  43. The Late P Brooks

    Jackpot

    Workers that aided in the cleanup of the train derailment in Ohio have experienced lingering migraines and nausea, according to a union representative for workers that build and maintain railways for Norfolk Southern.

    Jonathan Long, a union representative for the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, said in a Wednesday letter to Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) that around 40 workers were ordered by Norfolk Southern, which owns the train that derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last month, to clean up the wreckage.

    Long said he had received reports that the workers were not given proper personal protection equipment to help clean up the wreckage, not being offered respirators, eye protection and protective clothing.

    He also said many employees “reported that they continue to experience migraines and nausea, days after the derailment, and they all suspect that they were willingly exposed to these chemicals at the direction of [Norfolk Southern].”

    Norfolk Southern in a statement challenged the claim that proper personal protective equipment was not used at the scene.

    Those guys are set for life.

    • Sean

      Those guys are set for life.

      Which has probably been shortened…

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        👆👆

        The long-term spill effects are probably not horrendous for the environment because vinyl chloride is highly reactive and does not persist.

        But you definitely don’t want to be what it reacts with in the short-term.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      +11

      • pistoffnick

        +1 foil wrapped cucumber

      • Sensei

        + 1 exploding drummer

  44. AlexinCT

    Not just Apple, I hear a lot of US companies are cutting their losses and looking for a way out now that the CCP has really shown its hand.

    All this shit comes a decade too late, unfortunately. And these companies all will incur significant loss for delaying that exit past the point it became obvious the CCP’s priority having them there was to steal IP, especially Ip with military applications, and that that any financial gains they made would always and foremost be viable only as long as the CCP didn’t take it all.

    This exodus is gonna hurt us in the short term, but the Chinese people, now accustomed to rapid growth and modernization in return for compliance and allegiance to the CCP, are about to take it in the rear.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    What difference, at this point, does it make?

    President Joe Biden plans to ask Congress to provide $1.6 billion in new funding to tackle fraud tied to U.S. pandemic relief programs and help victims of identity theft, the White House said.

    The push, led by White House adviser Gene Sperling, will seek to demonstrate renewed toughness on pandemic fraud ahead of promised investigations by House of Representatives Republicans on the trillions of dollars in COVID-19 pandemic aid approved under both former President Donald Trump, a Republican, and Biden, his Democratic successor.

    ——-

    The U.S. is already probing many fraud cases pegged to federal assistance programs, such as the Paycheck Protection Program, unemployment insurance and Medicare.

    The federal government likely awarded about $5.4 billion in COVID aid to people with questionable Social Security numbers, a federal watchdog said in a report last month.

    Sperling, who oversees the COVID aid response for the White House, told reporters the renewed focus on pandemic fraud has nothing to do with coming Republican investigations.

    “We’ve been actively focused on this from day one,” Sperling said.

    Does it really matter who caught the money you threw from the helicopters?

    • The Other Kevin

      So we need to spend billions on a new grift so we can pretend to investigate the old grift. SMDH

  46. Tundra

    El Milagro [The Miracle]

    Terrific little story about how a Mexican mechanic saved Ferarri.

  47. invisible finger

    No comments yet on insulin, but you can already go into any Walmart in the US (except Indiana) and get the old-fashioned prick-your-finger-to-test-then-inject-yourself insulin for $25. But most diabetics prefer the newer technology which is what is 95% of the cost and won’t change with the “new” legislation. So basically they are dressing up a price increase on the old-fashioned kind as some sort of consumer help.

    • Rat on a train

      Force all companies to sell me what I want at the price I want.

    • Mojeaux

      Insulin math is hard.

      /only half joking

      I don’t take insulin. I regularly type up medical reports where the patient is being given 3 different kinds of insulin for 7 different reasons, all requiring a certain dosage at a certain time of day and depending on what their glucose readings are. I’m not certain someone like that would have the slightest clue how to begin to parse how to administer regular insulin.

    • waffles

      that is good news.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Terrific little story about how a Mexican mechanic saved Ferarri.

    Bueno.

  49. AlexinCT

    NO FUCKING WAY..

    There is no more corrupted an entity than any “research efforts” funded by government entities where said government has an agenda. see the AGW agenda and how much money governments control in that grant issuing space, but we keep getting told the real crooks are the fossil fuel companies with a fraction of that money…