In this crazy world where YouTube influencers apparently do whatever they need to do to stay relevant and support the current thing to maintain their viewer count. What does one do when they have kids watching Mr. Beast’s sidekick turn himself into a girl to do it? Forbid Mr. Beast?
Nope. I am going to pretend he’s cool to make him lame. I bought a shitload of these:
Which kind of sucks because the ingredient list suggests its made without poison. Oh well.
¡Enlaces!
Team Brandon sanctions a timeshare company for its ties to drug cartels.
Whoa. A politician charged with a crime? I don’t know what to believe anymore.
Due to an increase in demand from the US, not occurring in the past couple of weeks, Constellation Brands (Groupo Modelo) announces a sizable investment in breweries to expand production.
I’d say its just Paraguay but there aren’t too many countries left that will openly say Taiwan is a thing.
When your problem is you don’t have enough access to US Dollars.
I wonder if anyone in the state department is beginning to regret installing this communist yet. In related news, a NSFW depiction of “Happy Lula” dropped.
Today is a good day for something a bit different. Have a great Tuesday!
HAPPY STEVE SMITH DAY!!!
Is it? I better get the penetration-proof trousers on!
That just ends up with a lot of penetration-proof material shoved up your ass.
“It’s Tax Day… which means scammers are out to steal your money. Here’s how to spot fake IRS calls, texts and emails”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11987279/Its-Tax-Day-scammers-steal-money-Heres-spot-fake-IRS-messages.html
Well, the IRS always opens with a letter, so it’s pretty easy, really.
I’m going to go out on a limb and guess the article fails to point out that the IRS are actually the scammers most likely to rob you.
EVERY DAY STEVE SMITH DAY. HIM DANCE. DO MASH POTATO.
“What does one do when they have kids watching Mr. Beast’s sidekick turn himself into a girl to do it? Forbid Mr. Beast?”
I think it’s how if at all, they present it.
Clickbait headline followed by giving kids a reason to say Deez Nutz?
I feel like this story should have a tie in joke to STEVE SMITH day. There’s a Mr. Beast and someone getting a ripped a new hole….I just can’t quite make the connection…
“but there aren’t too many countries left that will openly say Taiwan is a thing”
Which is complete horseshit. If it’s not a country, then what is it?
According to U.S. policy since the 70s, it is part of China.
Can we call it Free China
It’s an island.
I know.
In fact, Radio Taiwan International used to be the Voice of Free China.
According to most international organizations, too.
But for some reason we are planning on starting WW III over an internal (according to our official policy) Chinese dispute.
In a sane world, everybody would be able to admit that there are in fact two Chinas. It sucks that both of them want to bend the rest of the world’s opinion to their view that there’s only one China and they’re the authentic China.
“It’s an idea.”
-Nadler
Occupied Formosa? Give it back the the Austronesians!
A snafu, a clusterfuck, a war waiting to happen… something like that.
The China Superior position.
A vassal state of the American Empire.
Or part of China.
Pick your poison. Taiwan is not a sovereign country.
I call China “Mainland Taiwan”.
I like Modelo Negra.
Me encanta. ¡Muy rica! 🍻
#metoo
👍
Me too
What’s a Mr Beast?
Isn’t he one of the X-Men…blue guy, lots of fur?
Blue is a common mutation: Beast, Nightcrawler, Mystique.
Beast didn’t turn blue until he tried to ‘fix’ his mutation and then a coloring error by the printers.
Nightcrawler is the son of Mystique.
/Geek off.
They aren’t naturally blue, but do you know how hard it is to get laid when you are a mutant? After a while you just end up way beyond blue balls.
I envisioned a head canon called The Blueniverse which just had all the blue people from whatever franchises I was familiar with. Bolians, Kree, blue X-men, Blue Man Group, Andorians, Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze, the Smurfs…
Frasier?
He’s an extremely successful YouTuber. I’ve never seen any of his videos, but I severely doubt he needs his “right hand man” to transition to feminine to stay relevant and maintain his viewer count.
Yeah, it seems legit, and not a stunt. The transitioning friend didn’t even say anything about it until people started noticing the changes from the hormones.
I just want to have the silence in my house broken by my son blasting some retard on YouTube on his tablet, to stop.
There is a “Mr. Beast Burger” in Dallas. It’s absolutely shit. Once that expands, get that to show how cool you are and let your kids try it. That will be the final nail in the coffin.
https://www.dallasnews.com/food/restaurant-news/2020/12/21/youtuber-mrbeast-brings-delivery-only-burger-chain-to-north-texas-and-business-has-been-crazy/
We have one here too. It’s absolute shit.
How badly can they fuck up a hamburger?
The Thurmanator
It’s too f-ing big.
“The scene:”
And I’m out.
Easy. McDs does it millions of times a day.
Tiny bun (like slider size), malformed patty overhanding the bun, crap wilted vegetation. I apologized to my wife for it when it arrived. It will never be ordered again. I suppose he could have shit in it to make it worse. But it was completely unacceptable for a place like DFW.
I don’t think anyone is making that argument. Its just a weird U-turn for a guy who never seemed feminine in anyway until a year or two ago, who is also abandoning his wife and kid to make this change.
Also, while not a stunt, still awkward for Mr. Beast who has so far avoided stepping on any political landmines.
“who is also abandoning his wife and kid to make this change”
If true, that’s the part that’s wrong.
Definitely divorcing. I could be wrong about still being an involved parent. At least they are saying they are.
Don’t worry about it.
This is the correct answer. I will merrily continue my life forgetting who that is.
I have to say though, the chocolate is not that good.
“When your problem is you don’t have enough access to US Dollars.”
I think almost everyone in Latin America is familiar with that problem.
what many called an “economic miracle” amid strong growth, record exports, low inflation, a fixed exchange rate and subsidized gasoline.
haha, suckers!
Just think. Constellation Brands could have just bought another craft brewery.
$1B? I didnt realize Ballast Point was that big.
I can’t find their volume, but back in my day, which is 8 years out of date at this point, a rough valuation estimate was $400 per bbl of production. I don’t think they are 2.5MM bbls per year. But I am sure it is higher than $400 now.
Just checked, Sam Adams is at about $650 per bbl. They are public, so relatively easy to figure out.
That would still put Ballast Point at about 1.5MM, and unless I am horribly wrong, they aren’t in that ballpark. They must have got a heck of a valuation.
It was an insane amount of money. It was right when AB-InBev had been snapping up breweries, and Constellation seemed to decide they had to be a part of that. At the time Ballast Point was looking at doing an IPO (or was seeking private equity), from memory, they were looking for $150-$200 million to expand. When they got the $1 billion offer, they took it, and I don’t blame them in the least.
The initial acquisition took place in 2015, and since then Constellation has sold off Ballast Point at a substantial loss.
2015 aligns with my old $400 knowledge.
According to that article, they peaked at 431k bbls in 2016, so were probably worth about $170MM.
They have since dropped to 200k bbls at resale in 2019, for supposedly less than $100MM. Assuming $500-600 makes more sense then, they were a little bit of a discount, but close to right.
So Constellation way overpaid and the new owners paid something reasonable.
The landlocked South American country also exports minerals and agricultural products, including soybeans, and has recently seen a surge in gold sales abroad.
“Agricultural products”
A sure fire way to replenish their supply of dollar. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
Bolivian Marching Agricultural Products.
Re: Bolivia
The country’s revenues tripled with the nationalization of hydrocarbon resources in 2006, but the sector stagnated due to a lack of investment, and the country went from being an exporter to an importer of hydrocarbons in 2022, according to the National Statistics Institute.
Where have we seen this before? Some other South American country, if memory serves me right….
Some North American country, too.
I thought Bolivia’s main exports were watches?
Rolex is based in Switzerland.
Yes, but what bezel color?
(Wants, but won’t pay for the “Pepsi” style.)
“The country’s revenues tripled with the nationalization of hydrocarbon resources”
I think they mean the government’s revenues. I have a hard time believing sales tripled after nationalization.
“People are buying dollars due to uncertainty, but those dollars don’t return to the market, they stay under the mattress.”
That’s okay, those dollars will be back in circulation by the time Team Brandon gets through with their Zimbabwean Monetary Theory.
The Vatican does, but the ROC diplomatic mission to The Holy See is actually located in Rome, in a country that doesn’t recognise Taiwan.
Not so interesting facts.
That’s probably true of most countries given the Vatican is about the size of two city blocks.
That is the reason, yes.
Years ago I obtained a Taiwanese visa in the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Boston.
What were you doing in Real China?
After a trip to Beijing, I got impressed with Chinese culture. So I visited the National Palace Museum in Taipei where all the treasures from the Forbidden City are actually stored.
How do you know they were real and not just Chinese knockoffs?
That’s cool. I would like to remind the most boneheaded China-hawks (not among us I trust) that the CCP is not China. They’re just a bunch of thugs and their sycophants who have been running the place at the expense of it’s people for the past 70 years or so. China was around long before them, and it will be around long after they’re gone, hopefully with much of it’s millennia of culture, art, history etc intact.
I thought most of them had been looted by the Brits during the Opium Wars.
Today is a good day for something a bit different
Yes! Good call, Señor!
I don’t hate Modelo. Corona still sucks.
Good timing on the brewery expansion, though. I doubt demand here is going anywhere but up.
I knew someone would appreciate Danzig.
I’m mildly irritated that I’m going to miss Danzig Sings Elvis when I’m out in Vegas.
Oh damn, that would be amazing!
It’s on May 12th, and he is planning on having some more shows doing it as well. I brought it up to the girlfriend, so then I had to play a song for her from that album, from his solo band, and from the Misfits. She couldn’t tell them apart…
And yet you remain a couple. Now, who is at fault?
That may be my favorite Danzig song. How hot is it in Arizona that you chose it today, MS?
Comer says ‘6 or 7 Biden family members’ may have been involved in overseas business schemes
Comer says ‘6 or 7 Biden family members’ may have been involved in overs…
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer believes that more than half a dozen members of the Biden clan machine.
And in addition to influence peddling, Senate report links Hunter Biden to ‘prostitution or human trafficking ring’
Human trafficking and (forced?) prostitution. Senate report links Hunter Biden to ‘prostitution or human trafficking reports.
Hunter Biden allegedly sent “thousands of dollars” to people who appear to be involved in the sex industry, accord to a Wednesday report by Senate Republicans
https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/james-comer-believes-6-to-7-biden-family-members-involved-in-overseas-dealings/
https://nypost.com/2020/09/23/senate-report-links-hunter-biden-to-trafficking-ring/
Now, imagine if it were Trump’s family.
You couldn’t get away from the news about it if you went to the remote regions of the Amazon if it were the Trump family.
That said, I would take with a grain of salt any stories about human trafficking considering human trafficking has had it’s definition stretched beyond its common meaning. I think he sent thousand of dollars to people in the sex industry in the normal manner.
By modern political standards, it was perfectly cromulent. See CP above you.
And nothing else happened. But we have a report on file.
And then nothing happened.
I need to scroll down.
Never!
The original Mexicali plant was canceled in the fallout of a 2018 water rights dispute, in which Constellation was accused of siphoning off scarce water resources in the northern state of Baja California to brew beer for the U.S. market. The federal government eventually revoked permission to construct the new plant.
Modern day “Mexicali Blues”.
Needs more Calexico:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK5HLz0J-Es
“ Efraín Alegre of the more centrist Authentic Radical Liberal Party”
You should see the other guys!
But what about the Radical Party of Authentic Liberals ?
They got skinsuited and the authentic Radical Liberals formed the Famous Authentic Radical Liberal Party.
Rainbow Reload comes to NH
One of the founders of Rainbow Reload, a New Hampshire-based group of LGBTQ people who teach others how to defend themselves with firearms, scoffs at the idea the organization is dangerous.
“All Rainbow Reload does is train, explain how guns work, and we make sure there is no political activity,” said Finn Sicaria, who uses the pronouns they/their. “We make sure it stays a comfortable space that everyone can access.”
It is part of the national movement “pink pistol” movement that can be traced back to an article at Salon.com by Jonathan Rauch.
Angered by violence against the LGBT community, Rauch wrote, “The gay movement often portrays homosexuals as helpless victims. Here’s an alternative: Arm them… If it became widely known that homosexuals carry guns and know how to use them, not many bullets would need to be fired.”
Sicaria is a pseudonym used while they sort out their gender identity transition. The 33-year-old says they moved to southern New Hampshire several years ago to get away from violence directed at queer people and to get away from local governments that restrict the right to bear arms.
“I’m never leaving,” Sicaria said.
Everyone should have guns and know how to use them.
Progressives seem to think that 2A advocates would be angry/scared that groups of ostensibly marginalized people are arming themselves. They are genuinely puzzled when the reaction from gun nuts isn’t for them to reverse their position, but instead to congratulate their new gun nut friends into the fold.
It’s probably been 20 years since I went to a gun show in the Twin Cities. There was a Pink Pistols table there. They had a good crowd, mostly, I suspect, straight-arrow gun nuts being friendly.
Absolutely. If we have to have public schools, all kids should be taught to shoot on a variety of guns – revolvers, semi-autos, rifles, pistols. It should be a skill like learning English or Math. Guns are the great equalizer. That is why leftists fear them.
Got no issue with it.
“ Angered by violence against the LGBT community”
Sure, whatever…. go shoot up an elementary school if it makes you feel better.
Should I start looking for other Scruffyy quotes in upcoming shooter manifestos?
Maybe, but you’ll never see the manifesto anyway.
Not true. If it’s a right-wing white dude, the entire thing will appear completely unedited on the main page of every corporate news site. Some may even be accidentally published a couple of hours before the shooting occurs and need to get pulled down.
Two things jumped out at me when I read that article.
I remember all sorts of articles about how militia-types in the 90s were arming themselves was a bad thing.
I also noted later in the article about Sicaria talking about providing security at protests. I thought to myself, “Antifa’s foot soldier”.
As per usual, when the Left talks about self-defense, they mean silencing dissent.
Yup. When disagreement, even silence, “is violence”, the battlespace is being prepped, and the slope is being greased for extra slipperiness.
“I’m never leaving,” Sicaria said.
The problem with the Free State Project right there. You have people coming for the freedom and then staying to impose their own progressive ideas.
Possibly, but wanting to have gun for self-defense is hardly progressive.
I’d want to know more about the “violence against the LGBT” community before I sign off on this being “self-defense”.
I don’t think anyone needs to know anything about it. People have a right to self-defense regardless.
Although, I do remember a few years ago there were a bunch of stories where blacks were attacking gays in NYC, and the media avoiding mentioning the assailants were black. (There was similar coverage over the attacks on asians.)
Nancy Pelosi assured me that the attacks on Asians were due to white supremacy.
People have a right to self-defense, true. But when you cross the line to saying dissent, or even silence, is violence, you’re not talking about self-defense (as you and I mean it) any more.
Everything in the political sphere comes down to dishonest word games now. Most people are sold a premise without being told that the definitions of words in the premise have been deliberately changed. Why we’ve become such a low trust society is such a noodle-scratcher.
I don’t think anyone needs to know anything about it. People have a right to self-defense regardless.
Sure.
I highly doubt Sicaria is actually interested in self-defense. I suspect, based on some of the article, that he (it?) is an Antifa footsoldier.
Me too. There’s nothing wrong with them protecting themselves if they are on the receiving end of a beatdown. However, too many seem to think that a different opinion is violence.
“All Rainbow Reload does is train, explain how guns work, and we make sure there is no political activity”
Except for the part where everything is political. “The personal is political”, remember?
“Angered by violence against the LGBT community”
I could use a few examples, because nothing comes to mind.
LOL!
Uh… could I hang out with your wife?
Or your daughter?
Oy…
She is a smoke show. She got all of her mother’s beauty.
Thanks, I’m going to use that template for whenever someone emails me.
Tundra: Hey Kevin, when are you coming back to Denver?
Kevin: Let’s get to know each other better, I’ve attached a form for you to join my fan club.
*fills out form*
Remember, that all he needs is the filled out form to be returned. No need to slip in any of your “candid” shots so you can be extra special friends.
Excellent reminder. Thanks!
Damn, now I have to do a photo shoot so I can get you that poster.
You better have the hair.
And the medallions.
When Wayne is found robbed and scalped in his home, are the two of you in any way legally culpable?
His flow isn’t quite what it was.
I love this site!
Modern day “Mexicali Blues”.
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Wow. I haven’t heard that in a long time. Bueno.
Somehow Hamill’s haircut and beard work quite well with the flag in the background.
https://twitter.com/U24_gov_ua/status/1646863764334018560
Hamill is a perennial frontrunner for worst celebrity political takes. That’s pretty incredible when you consider the competition.
Tis the world we live in.
“Shut up and entertain me “ is a lost concept.
She spoke her truth
The woman who leveled sexual assault charges against her uncle said she won in the end, though a Hillsborough County jury found him not guilty on Thursday.
“I actually won because I was able to stand up there in front of everybody and speak my truth,” the woman said the day after the verdict.
She asked that her name not be used.
On Thursday, a jury found Thomas Jarvis, 45, not guilty of two felony sexual assault charges.
The jury deliberated for about two hours. During a three-day trial in Hillsborough County Superior Court, Jarvis took the stand and denied any sexual contact with the girl.
If you run into a paywall when trying to read that article, try this link.
“She asked that her name not be used.”
That’s bullshit.
And no journalo should respect her decision. In fact the headline should include her name and “LIAR”.
Couldn’t convince the jury it was the truth, though.
And, yeah, anonymous accusations are bullshit. One of the things that put me off on TOS was their refusal to name the lying POS frat gang rape accuser, even after it was crystal clear she was a lying POS.
Jackie Coakley?
Almost as much a scumbag as Martha Coakley.
That’s a high bar to clear.
Almost. But not quite.
Pet peeve. There is no “my truth”. There is the truth, which is often hard to find, but my truth doesn’t exist.
“My truth” is in her case what reality calls a lie.
.
They debated for two hours on a felony conviction? Wow, why am I thinking ‘bunch of woke bullshit’.
Que?
A push is underway to unionize the Ben and Jerry’s scoop shop on Church Street in downtown Burlington.
The ice cream maker’s flagship shop is the first of the chain to form a union organizing committee.
A union organizer said last summer employees found someone unconscious in the bathroom from a suspected overdose. Workers want fair compensation for dealing with the epidemic.
“I think it would be nice to have better training for how to deal with situations that come up from the opioid epidemic and just the unhoused community around here. I think sometimes we are just thrown into stressful situations and expected to think on our feet and that can be a little scary,” said Josie Clark, a shift manager at Ben and Jerry’s.
Needz moar safe spaces.
I love my new job but I cant stand south Carolina,
Everything moves sooooo slow, I need to get back to the big city,
Tall Cans!
Where in SC?
I have to consciously tell myself to be patient while driving because they really are not in a hurry.
Fort mill right on the border, they people are very nice but I left MI partially due to small townitis.
Yet here I am til Saturday, then I come home and run San Diego county. Lowes, Target, bev mo, total wine and more much fun ahead.
Congratulations on your new job.
Thanks, this one looks like a winner.
Don’t fuck iit up!
No kidding
They’re slow because they’re all waiting on Graham to come out of the closet.
Who else but congenitally slow people would elect Graham?
Descendants of William Faulkner?
Isn’t that what Pope Jimbo said already?
It’s already Benjy said before ….
My brother used to work for a railroad tank car company. They sent him all over the country. He hated Louisiana because they did everything so slow and his trips were extremely unproductive. He figured it was the heat.
I used to call it the Memphis Mosey. Guys walking so fucking slow down the road. After a few summers there, though, I came around to their point of view. You have to walk slow so the heat doesn’t kill you (or make you sweat like a pig).
Back when I was a wee tad of a high school student, I worked a big construction site. The contractor was from WI, and they said the same thing – “Everybody is sooo sloooow here.”
Looked to me like everything was getting done, though. I don’t recall any ass-chewings for missing deadlines. Motion =/= progress. I mean, so you walk faster than me and get to the shop 10 seconds sooner. Yay, you?
I wonder what the comparative accident rates on the construction sites were.
My wife is always complaining that I move too slowly. My view is that I move deliberately and think through before proceeding.
I very rarely have accidents. In contrast, in just the past year, my wife has grabbed the buffalo-rated electric fence, gotten wood splinters in her eye from a chainsaw requiring urgent medical attention, sliced a good chunk of her finger off while chopping food too fast, and slipped several times on wet pavement or holes from the dogs.
She thinks these things are unrelated.
My wife particularly hates the part where I say “let’s get started” and proceed to stare at the issue for a while, formulating a plan. That’s why we don’t do projects together.
I love Minnesoda, but the DFL sure seems hell bent on running me out of the state. Their latest efforts.
$17B surplus and they are coming up with new taxes? Just to make the “rich” pay their fair share (and the greedy corporations too).
I’m not even all that rich, but damn I’m getting tired of paying more and more while the car jackers get subsidized.
They could pay off the state debt with that surplus. I’m guessing that hasn’t been suggested by a single Person Who Matters.
Remember when Jesse gave us our money back?
And then took a bunch back for the homeless/criminal transport system?
You know, I’m starting to think that the problem might be government itself!
They’re jealous of everything Newsom has accomplished.
Looks like Straff’s side hustle is starting to take off.
It’s new not used…
“It was definitely a group decision, and I think everyone is excited to work together along with the managers to make sure we have a seat at the table when decisions are being made,” said Jess Schenk, a shift manager at Ben and Jerry’s.
I thought we were an autonomous collective.
They’re about to experience the violence inherent in the system.
Constellation is not Modelo. They hold a license to the name in the US but brew their own inferior product in their own facilities.
Damnit. This shit is confusing as hell.
Similarly, Sapporo, Bass, Newcastle, and Lowenbrau among many others. are name only in the US.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/fox-to-pay-787-million-to-settle-election-suit-dominion-says/ar-AA1a1jdu
787 million bucks. The system is broken.
Whoops
Ooof. That’s a big nut, even for them.
They settled, and did not go to trial. It should have gone to trial. There was no malicious intent by Fox. This was a mistake.
Of course they settled. Fox is Establishment.
Fox is not run by naifs and was lawyered up to the hilt. They weren’t exactly bullied into settlement.
This was a settlement, not the system.
There’s no settlement if the lawsuit is thrown out by the system.
Surprise
U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp’s (LMT.N) first-quarter results surpassed Wall Street targets on Tuesday despite parts and labor shortages, as simmering geopolitical tensions fueled demand from both U.S. and international customers.
Shares of the company rose as much as 3.8% to hit a record high of $508.1 in early trading.
Rising tensions in Europe, the South China Sea and the Indo-Pacific region have translated to more orders for Lockheed’s F-35 fighter aircraft, missiles and other defense equipments, driving quarterly net sales of $15.13 billion above estimates of $15.03 billion.
Is that all?
The real winners in the Biden economy so far are Big Pharma and Big Missile.
Big Missile was my nickname in college.
How cool is that? Big Pharma was mine!
“I actually won because I was able to stand up there in front of everybody and speak my truth,”
And nobody believed you.
Repost from a misthread upthread-Fox has to fork over 787 million bucks to Dominion.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/fox-to-pay-787-million-to-settle-election-suit-dominion-says/ar-AA1a1jdu
That seems nuts.
Well, compared to the half trillion Alex Jones got tagged for, it’s a bargain.
I thought Jones got walloped with a trillion even.
The Pentagon’s $858 billion defense budget for 2023 has also resulted in multiple contract wins for U.S. defense firms such as Lockheed, Raytheon Technologies (RTX.N) and Northrop Grumman Corp (NOC.N), which count the U.S. Department of Defense as their biggest customer.
And here I thought Trump was going to set the world ablaze.
It’s still his fault. Haven’t you been watching the news?
Repost from a misthread upthread-Fox has to fork over 787 million bucks to Dominion.
Based on a little snippet I saw earlier, the judge stacked the deck so effectively there wasn’t any point in Fox even showing up in court, so they settled.
Never forget (although they’d like you too): Judges are also pubsecs, and certainly can be a cog in the Deep State machine.
Govsec.
“Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News reach $787.5 million SETTLEMENT in defamation case”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11986513/Dominions-1-6billion-defamation-trial-against-Fox-News-BEGINS.html
Cat butts might not be the worst punishment (NSFW Maybe)
“Stanford University employee is arraigned on perjury charges after ‘lying she was raped TWICE by co-worker who spurned her romantic advances'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11987111/Stanford-University-employee-arraigned-perjury-charges-lying-viciously-raped.html
Unusual she is being charged.
Except for this one obviously minor, anecdotal exception, I still #believeallwomen.
Especially in Palo Alto, CA.
Maybe she fucked the DA and threatened to do the same thing to him?
The false accusations were NBD. What got her in trouble was…
As always, lie to fuck a fellow human, no prob. Lie to fuck the gov out of a few bucks, big prob.
I watched the new Budweiser ad. My first reaction: “Even the horse is running away from Budweiser”.
Honestly, though, the cherry on top of that steaming pile of desperation was the shout-out to 9/11. I mean, the rest was just blah “patriotic” whatever, but that was just . . . Unnecessary.
Why do you hate first responders?
He wants the terrorists to win.
Worse. He hangs out here. He probably is a terrorist.
Has he been seen at any PTA meetings?
They might be responders, but that does not make them Firsters.
It’s not the first time Budweiser has tried to wrap themselves in the flag. The joke in the craft beer community was that it was cute that a Belgian owned company thought they were American.
They should have gone with this.
Even this would have been better
Oh shit.
This one wins.
Brazilo-Belgian.
InBev was formed from the merger of a Brazilian company and a Belgian company.
In case anyone doesnt know, and assuming I have missed no buyouts, Yuengling is the largest American owned brewery.
If it’s publically traded, I have to assume it’s owned by people who hate me.
Yuengling is privately owned.
I thought the argument could be made for Pabst as well, but they contract everything while Yuengling does brew their own (although I believe they may have contracted some production and distribution with MillerCoors).
Yuengling has partnered with MillerCoors to expand production/distribution. MillerCoors brews and distributes Yuengling in Texas.
🎶 Real American horses 🎶
Motion =/= progress.
*uptwinkles*
Because, unlike another beverage company, their commercials are awesome
Switch to Constellation and pay their licensing fees to AB InBev.
Today, in kkkorporate bullying
In this edition of Eat the Rich Weekly, the President and CEO of MillerKnoll, a company hawking the uninspired and overpriced furniture that likely litters your own place of employment, told staffers inquiring about a bonus via Zoom to “leave pity city.”
Andi Owen, the woman at the helm of MillerKnoll who took home just shy of $5 million (including a $1.2 million bonus) in 2022, hopped on a video call last week to inform employees that from where she’s sitting in Very Bad Person Valley, they have some gall for asking for an acknowledgement of their labor.
Boo fucking hoo. Thank goodness we have snippy bitch “business journalists” to put her in her place.
*Axially, a CEO who barely makes 5 million bucks is practically working for pauper’s wages, in Joe Biden’s America.
Right? If you’re a CEO making $5 mil, you need to crony harder.
Commie journo’s dream: “Okay, I’ll give 100% of my compensation for this year to the bonus pool”
Reality: $5M/8k employees = $625 bonuses for everybody. Whoop de doo. Certainly nothing to sneeze at, but hardly worth getting one’s panties in a bunch over.
Don’t ask commies to math. Literally, their entire worldview would collapse if they were ever successfully balanced an equation.
I not grammar so good. The irony is not lost.
“uninspired”
Makers of the Aeron, one of the most iconic designs of the last few decades. Plus all that boring old Eames stuff.
“I’m going to address this head on,” she continued. “The most important thing we can do right now is focus on the things that we can control. None of us could’ve predicted covid, none of us could’ve predicted supply chain, none of us could’ve predicted bank failures. But what we can do, is stay in front of our customers, provide the best customer service we can, get our orders out our door, treat each other well, be kind, be respectful, focus on the future, because it will be bright.”
If you’re thinking that this simply sounds like some garden variety white woman toxic positivity, you’re right! But as it often does, the veil soon slipped.
“Don’t ask about, ‘What are we going to do if we don’t get a bonus?’ Get the damn $26 million dollars,” Owen demanded, her voice hitting the same octave my mother’s did when I told her forgot to file my taxes until last week. “Spend your time and your effort thinking about the $26 million dollars we need and not thinking about what you’re going to do if you don’t get a bonus. Alright? Can I get some commitment for that?”
“garden variety white woman toxic positivity”- sick burn.
I thought female executives were the cure for every corporate ill. Is that not true?
She’s obviously the woman face of the patriarchy.
Bullshit we couldn’t predict supply chain issues.
Foreseeable consequences are not unintentional.
Another Ray of Sunshine.
“I had an old boss who said, ‘You can visit pity city, but you can’t live there,’” Owen concluded. “So, people, leave pity city! Let’s get it done.” Spoken like a true pink power suit capitalist SheEO—namely one that bought up a lot of shares in her own company’s stock and told the New York Times she often longs for the good old days when she lived in Berkeley where she could “walk down the street and everyone thought the same way.”
There’s no one more despicable than a traitor to her own tribe.
one that bought up a lot of shares in her own company’s stock
Is that a complaint that she bought up shares in the company she runs? How is that bad? She believes in the company enough to buy herself more shares?
Our founder & CEO has (had? I’ll have to check) a standing $1M out-of-pocket buy order every quarter (automated/pre-scheduled, so no insider trading headaches). He believes in this company he built and puts his money where his mouth is.
Stock buybacks are terrible because the money is going to stockholders, not employees.
Dammit, Ted’’s’, don’t make me read the article to see if they’re talking buybacks or personal purchases.
D-bag journolo disapproves either way.
SheEO? Really?
The should be the entrance for Q to say “Welcome to Titty City.”
Murder and mayhem unleashed
Twitter has, once again, quietly updated a significant policy without explanation. The company appears to have changed its hateful conduct policy to remove a section that protected transgender people from misgendering and deadnaming, in a move spotted by GLAAD.
Twitter had originally banned targeted deadnaming and misgendering in 2018. “We prohibit targeting others with repeated slurs, tropes or other content that intends to degrade or reinforce negative or harmful stereotypes about a protected category,” the policy stated. “This includes targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.”
That last sentence has now been removed. Twitter’s policy page indicates it was last updated in “April 2023.” But, as GLAAD points out, a look through the Wayback Machine suggests the change was made April 8th.
Oh
my
GOD!
The intertubes will run red with blood.
Has Bruce Jenner weighed in on it yet?
Yeah, about 180lbs.
210.
Silicone isn’t as dense as muscle.
So… April 8th isn’t part of April 2023?
You mean March 39th?
I don’t get the point either. April 8 is April. What’s the problem?
Maybe they are using the Orthodox calendar.
Jay Leno takes a 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 for a spin.
Cool car.
Thanks, DEG!