Monday Afternoon Links

by | May 8, 2023 | Daily Links | 194 comments

Happy Monday afternoon everyone. I’m experimenting with a new mouse and keyboard, and there is a lag on the keyboard that is murdering my soul. It’s like its reading and judging my output piece by piece. Please excuse me if I am terse today

Why 4 arms? You only need one for the beer and one for the onboard, joystick. The other two are just wasted.

Oh great, now my Congresscritter is going to want to take maternity leave.

Damn, if we want an uprising, maybe we should advocate for phone confiscation.

Lol. Kamala’s “image problem” is that she keeps talking in front of microphones.

 

Speaking of hoisting the black flag

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194 Comments

  1. Sean

    Poor CommaLa.

    • Tonio

      You only hate her because some right-wing echo chamber told you to hate her. I actually heard that floated by the legacy media the other day. Just like they told us Hillary wasn’t really unlikeable…

      • Sean

        😂🤣

      • KSuellington

        The woman has never actually had to really engage with constituents much. She was appointed to her first positions (ahem) by SF Slick Willie and then was anointed the Senate job without having to really work her way up the chain. She hasn’t had to do much retail politicking.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        But she’s a black Indian woman. That should be enough squares on the bingo card. If you don’t vote for her, you’re racist.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        This. And this is also why you need to learn a job like politics. Now the D’s are saddled with her, and she is a horse you cannot ride at this point.

      • juris imprudent

        If you don’t vote for her, you’re racist.

        Even if you ARE a Democrat!

    • Sensei

      For more than two years, Republicans had been trying to paint Harris as incompetent. And yet, the strategists found, the White House was still developing its strategy for how to combat the ruthless assault against the first Black and Asian American woman to hold the vice presidency.

      It’s all because she is black and nothing to do with competency.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Woman too!

      • rhywun

        I’m swooning from all the checkmarks!

      • R C Dean

        Don’t forget Asian!

      • juris imprudent

        If only she were trans.

      • R C Dean

        Give her time, ji. Give her time.

      • juris imprudent

        Kamala taTurk!

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        They’re “still developing a strategy” because her results speak for themselves. If she had competent results, they wouldn’t need a strategy to disprove claims of incompetency.

      • Fatty Bolger

        That’s a non-opinion piece by USA Today’s white house correspondent. No bias for Democrats in the mainstream media, nope, none at all.

      • Chafed

        It’s funny you say that. I had to scroll back up to the top of the article to see if it was an opinion piece. Nope. That’s just straight political news.

      • rhywun

        The section title at the top, “CLIMATE CHANGE: Where it’s worst” caught my eye.

        I’d guess the entire outfit is biased from top to bottom.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        She pulled out of the primaries before Iowa because of the mean Republicans.

      • Bobarian LMD

        The mean democrats who didn’t vote for her get a pass.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        That wouldn’t be the first time she pulled on something.

      • Michael Malaise

        “ruthless”

        If there’s one word to describe beltway Republicans, it’s ruthless.

      • juris imprudent

        Actual LOL.

  2. Drake

    One for Toobin, one for blocking the camera?

  3. SDF-7

    Why 4 arms? You only need one for the beer and one for the onboard, joystick. The other two are just wasted.

    Halfway to terrorizing Spider-Man, obviously. Priorities, man.

    And bluetooth/wireless combo, I assume? If you’re getting lag on a USB keyboard, replace the piece of junk. (And frankly, this sort of crap is why I stick with wired peripherals… that and security — not really that paranoid, but why tempt fate?)

    Re: Kamala… not like she rose to prominence using her mouth for talking, after all. Bless her heart.

    • rhywun

      why I stick with wired peripherals

      This. I went back to wired mouse and keyboard and I love the not having to fiddle with connections and charging and shit.

      I do want a wireless headset for work, though.

      • Sensei

        If you’ve got Bluetooth on the PC/Laptop just use a a phone earpiece.

      • rhywun

        Hm. 🤔

        I guess I could try that but I doubt the sound quality would be tolerable through hours of meetings.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I use either my gym headphones or the AirPods…good quality for the most part.

      • rhywun

        Never even occurred to me to try. I’ll give my AirPods a shot next time.

      • slumbrew

        I use my Jabra Elites all day for work stuff. Air Pods should work just as well.

      • R.J.

        I use a round Jabra speaker instead. Hooks to the pc. Stunning sound and microphone. And I can get up and walk around with no microphone degradation.

  4. kinnath

    Thanks for the tune

  5. Sensei

    Why 4 arms? You only need one for the beer and one for the onboard, joystick. The other two are just wasted.

    The company name means freely or at will + foot or leg.

    But from the picture I reminded of this mythological creature, the Jorōgumo

    Jorōgumo (Japanese: 絡新婦 (kanji), じょろうぐも (hiragana)) is a type of yōkai, a creature of Japanese folklore. It can shapeshift into a beautiful woman, so the kanji that represent its actual meaning are 女郎蜘蛛 (lit. ’woman-spider’); the kanji which are used to write it instead, 絡新婦 (lit. ’entangling newlywed woman’) have a jukujikun pronunciation that is related to the meaning, but not the sound of the word. In Toriyama Sekien’s Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, it is depicted as a spider woman manipulating small fire-breathing spiders.

  6. Muzzled Woodchipper

    Damn, if we want an uprising, maybe we should advocate for phone confiscation.

    Seriously, that a student could possibly think this is okay is beyond my comprehension.

    How about a firm no phones rule in all schools?

    • EvilSheldon

      Try to comprehend a ‘student’ who was raised in a culture where, ‘Get yours!’ is the dominant philosophy.

      I can go on at length on this topic, but it’s really too depressing for a Monday.

      • Sean

        *pours ES some single malt*

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Try to comprehend a student who has been raised in a Do Everything On Your Phone culture, and see what happens.

        I can go on at length on this topic, but it’s really too depressing for a Monday.

    • Drake

      Mandatory attendance… Way back when I was in school, they’d just throw a rotten kid out. Go get a job or go to reform school, whatever, you can’t come back here.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Same. If you misbehaved like this, you’d be sent to reform school. If you misbehaved there, you were expelled once you were 16.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        It was called “opportunity” school for us.

        This was in a California college town, of course.

    • rhywun

      How about a firm no phones rule in all schools?

      I would have assumed schools do this routinely. Maybe you can bring one but keep it in your locker.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Most gave up, they couldn’t keep the tide back because they aren’t allowed to punish students.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM

        Cell phone jammer in each classroom. Portable, if necessary (teachers keep ’em on their person).

      • Gustave Lytton

        Teachers fucking off on their phone would end this before the FCC got involved.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Destroying all smart phones would do this also, but, alas.

      • Michael Malaise

        It’s a class-by-class policy in our schools.

    • R C Dean

      She sprayed him, demanded her phone, when she didn’t get it, she sprayed him again and demanded her phone again.

      Why she isn’t in jail, I have no clue. That’s multiple felony assaults. And I’m sure something else for bringing pepper spray to a school.

      I would have laughed if the teacher started to give her the phone, then “accidentally” dropped it.

      And I guarantee you that any attempt to ban students from having phones in school would be killed by the parents demanding that they be able to contact their little munchkin, or vice versa, at all times.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Have you seen or heard the term anarcho-tyranny going around. I think it’s the best descriptor of what’s going on. It’s the worst of all worlds. A government that still taxes at higher and higher rates and enforces ever more petty rules against the pacified masses, all while completely ignoring their most basic duties that they claim are their domain like policing theft and assaults and the most basic civil duties like road maintenance and education. All the energy of the people who are in charge goes to propagandizing, grifting and keeping people scared enough to think that we need to shovel money at them for a bunch of things they never intend to actually do.

        Is someone robbing you? We can’t be bothered to stop them, but if you dare to protect yourself, you’ll never see the light of day again. The dystopia in A Clockwork Orange predicted something to this effect.

  7. The Other Kevin

    Of course it’s an image problem. Dems never do anything wrong, it’s just that us idiots haven’t had things properly explained to us.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Rule 1: When you don’t have competent results to use as an argument for competency, spin the messaging to make even recognizing the lack of competent results a racist/misogynist/anti-trans act.

      This is their only play in the book.

  8. Stinky Wizzleteats

    I know what I’d do with those two extra arms but it can’t be articulated in polite company.

    • Bobarian LMD

      If articulation is a problem, maybe you should go with tentacles.

      • Count Potato

        I was doing research!

  9. Lackadaisical

    Oh great, now my Congresscritter is going to want to take maternity leave.

    Certainly not ideal, since we’re told this is super important work, but whatever, I’m happy for her.

    • R C Dean

      It could be worse. Your Congresser could be a completely useless nullify, like mine (Raul Grijalva).

      • Rat on a train

        I want my old, low key critter back. At least this time I didn’t get gerrymandered into Elijah Cummings’ district.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Who?

        Mine has fully latched onto the CHINAWAR wagon, cunt that he is.

  10. The Late P Brooks

    Genuine human-generated nonsensical babble

    Sounding the alarm on risks posed by AI is nothing new – academics have issued warnings about the risks of superintelligent machines for decades now. There is still no consensus about the likelihood of creating artificial general intelligence, autonomous AI systems that match or exceed humans at most economically valuable tasks. However, it is clear that current AI systems already pose plenty of dangers, from racial bias in facial recognition technology to the increased threat of misinformation and student cheating.

    While the letter calls for industry and policymakers to cooperate, there is currently no mechanism to enforce such a pause. As a philosopher who studies technology ethics, I’ve noticed that AI research exemplifies the “free rider problem.” I’d argue that this should guide how societies respond to its risks – and that good intentions won’t be enough.

    ——-

    Philosophers tend to argue that it is unethical to “free ride,” since free riders fail to reciprocate others’ paying their fair share. Many philosophers also argue that free riders fail in their responsibilities as part of the social contract, the collectively agreed-upon cooperative principles that govern a society. In other words, they fail to uphold their duty to be contributing members of society.

    ——-

    Decades of social science research on collective action problems has shown that where trust and goodwill are insufficient to avoid free riders, regulation is often the only alternative. Voluntary compliance is the key factor that creates free-rider scenarios – and government action is at times the way to nip it in the bud.

    Further, such regulations must be enforceable. After all, would-be subway riders might be unlikely to pay the fare unless there were a threat of punishment.

    Take one of the most dramatic free-rider problems in the world today: climate change. As a planet, we all have a high-stakes interest in maintaining a habitable environment. In a system that allows free riders, though, the incentives for any one country to actually follow greener guidelines are slim.

    You can force everyone to ride the subway at gunpoint, and make them pay. You can destroy the energy economy and impose crippling costs on consumers.

    Why can’t you forcibly nationalize the tech sector and let the government decide what constitutes legitimate artificial intelligence and the uses to which it may be put?

  11. KSuellington

    I like that the Knopfler song is subtitled in Portuguese. He’s got a pretty big Brazilian fan base I know.

      • KSuellington

        Brazilians produced a shit ton of awesome music and are great fans of lots of North American and European bands. They are a highly sophisticated musical bunch down there.

      • The Last American Hero

        There was a thriving bootleg business in Brazil where you would buy a recording and the store would dub a tape or cd. The record company didn’t know how popular some bands were due to black market records.

  12. Sensei

    An interesting study in NYC rent control. There are no heroes here. Tenant knew that he was in a rent controlled apartment and landlord by not acting likely has little recourse at this point. However, it also looks like the landlord decided to play fast and loose with tenant too,

    A Refugee From Another Time Gets an Eviction Notice

    Non-paywall – https://archive.fo/bP3K7

    • rhywun

      as thousands of migrants from Central and South America came to escape crime and economic uncertainty

      Refreshingly honest from the NYT. Readers might even be scratching themselves in the head wondering why they are being taxed to pay for free hotel rooms for them.

      • Sensei

        One of many hotels in the city currently housing the “undocumented”.

        Every day to work I get to run the gauntlet of all of them outside socializing on the city’s increasingly narrow sidewalks.

    • rhywun

      I am looking to move – don’t know where I’ll land but no way in hell I’m paying extra to subsidize other people’s controlled rents ever again.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Come to California. We’re going to need all the help we can get paying reparations to people who were never slaves in a state that never had slavery. Well, maybe some of the Indians had it, but let’s not talk about that.

      • rhywun

        Come to California.

        Pass.

      • juris imprudent

        The politics and cost of living would make you feel right at home, but the weather is so much better.

      • Tundra

        I improved quite a bit, but the property tax fuckery will probably wipe out the gains.

      • R C Dean

        That was my experience when I moved to Texas. No income tax, but my property tax bill just about equaled what I paid in income and property tastes in WI. Granted, my house in Texas was more expensive, but still . . . .

      • robc

        I went KY to SC to CO. By that SC is the best, but I prefer CO income tax to SC. And my sales tax was 11%, which was outrageous.

        But yeah, the property tax difference is enormous.

        KY was the worst of the 3, but the sales tax was a flat 6% state-wide. The property tax was in between the other two. The problem was on income tax as KY has a very small standard deduction, so you always end up itemizing. Both SC and CO use the federal deduction. KY has shifted to a CO style flat income tax since I left, but still with the tiny deduction.

  13. The Late P Brooks

    Effective regulation and enforcement of AI would require global collective action and cooperation, just as with climate change. In the U.S., strict enforcement would require federal oversight of research and the ability to impose hefty fines or shut down noncompliant AI experiments to ensure responsible development – whether that be through regulatory oversight boards, whistleblower protections or, in extreme cases, laboratory or research lockdowns and criminal charges.

    Only an iron fisted global socialist dictatorship can save us. Otherwise,the inevitable chaos brought on by nihilistic individualism will destroy us all.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Imagine typing this sentence and not thinking…huh this shit is weird

      All seven (ranging in age from sixth to ninth grade) were first-time campers and had no drag training.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The bio of the author indicates that he’s all in, so to speak.

      • Lackadaisical

        “first-time campers and had no drag training.”

        You always remember your first time.

        What is wrong with parents today?

      • rhywun

        Liberal cred doesn’t come easy – sometimes your kids need to help.

      • Count Potato

        This.

        And at the same time CPS can take away kids over nothing.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        The silver lining is that this wasn’t a school field trip, and the parents are making the decision presumably. But Jeez Louise, those parents are stupid.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Has to be an evolution of the participation generation now being parents.

      • Mojeaux

        Participate in ALL the things!

      • Shirley Knott

        Think how good it will look on their college applications!

  14. Ownbestenemy

    Tipping at a self-checkout?

    • The Other Kevin

      Who are you tipping, yourself?

    • Lackadaisical

      We use square, and couldn’t figure out how to turn the tipping prompts off. I think we got it eventually.

      Anyway, tips always seemed silly to me, more so now that I’m doing most the work wherever I go.

    • robc

      Do these people have that much problem hitting the “no tip” button?

      I mean, it is freakin stupid, and I would prefer going away from tips everywhere, but still, just hit 0 and stop being so whiny.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah the people interviewed claiming ’emotional blackmail’ are interesting. Agreed, you hit zero and move on with your life.

    • rhywun

      Speaking of checkouts, I was at the supermarket earlier today and eggs were less than half what they were a week ago. I thought I was seeing things. But nope, every brand was around $2 a dozen.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Since we are basically now California, nothing is dropping in price here. Gas still above $4/gallon, eggs still $4/dozen, its stupid.

      • rhywun

        Literally everything else is still crazy expensive.

        There must have been a huge chick-boom or something.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM

        Ah, to live in an area where “supply management” isn’t a thing.

        Eggs these days are hovering around $6.50/dozen, give or take. And there are never any sales.

      • rhywun

        Is that CAD? Still, damn.

      • Nephilium

        Just the other day I saw a little grocery store advertising eggs at $0.99/dozen. They were already closed, but I would have gone in to check and buy several dozen.

    • The Other Kevin

      The breathless reporting now is that the guy was a Nazi, with all the tattoos to prove it. Unfortunately none of the photos provided show the person’s face. And those reporting don’t seem to think it’s strange that a Mexican guy would have Nazi tattoos.

      • Drake

        Maurico Garcia – from the Düsseldorf Garcia’s.

      • The Other Kevin

        El Reich Tercero

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I trust Posobiec as much as I trust the media.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Whatcha talking about…he has inside information!

  15. The Late P Brooks

    It’s all because she is black and nothing to do with competency.

    You just want her to sell out and repudiate her culture and act white.

    • juris imprudent

      It worked for Obama?

  16. The Late P Brooks

    How about a firm no phones rule in all schools?

    This reminds me of a story I saw several years ago where a bar owner turned the place into a Faraday Cage so nobody’s cell phones would work (Is that possible? I don’t know.)

    You couldn’t do that in a school anyway, because the teachers wouldn’t stand for it.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I just went to an HOA meeting that was hosted by my local middle school. I tried to text my wife and realized that my phone signal was being blocked. I suspect they block the cell signal and give the teachers a closed wifi network to run their phones on.

    • robc

      I have thought movie theatres should do that. If you are a doctor on call, you could leave your pager with an attendant who will come get you in an emergency.

    • slumbrew

      A local bar is effectively a no cell-phone zone – deep downstairs and tin ceilings. No TVs, either.

      I love it.

      • Nephilium

        There’s a couple of bars like that here, one is annoying since it’s a beer bar and they put their menu up on Untappd.

        There is a restaurant here that’s in an old bank. If you reserve it early enough, you can dine in the vault. Pretty sure that will mean a quiet meal.

  17. Ownbestenemy

    I see that John Kerry found his medals that he supposedly ‘gave back’ in his Vietnam protests and adorned himself at the coronation. What a fucking putz but good indication of our Banana Republic status.

    • Sensei

      I’m sure he flew coach over there on his quest to save the planet.

    • rhywun

      AYFKM? What an ass.

    • slumbrew

      ISTR he admitted years later he threw some other medals over the fence. Putz, indeed.

  18. The Late P Brooks

    A couple of extra arms would come in handy for drilling and riveting. No more “Drill a hole. Put the drill down. pick up the riveter. Find a rivet. Install the rivet. Put the riveter down. Find the drill. And so on.”

    • slumbrew

      Man, these euphemisms…

      • Ownbestenemy

        It was the most roundabout way to say “easier to masturbate”

      • Compelled Speechless

        I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s brain immediately put it that way.

  19. robc

    Following up from last thread, Nottingham Forest 4-3 Southampton.

    And with that, we can say goodbye to Soton (even if not technically mathematically yet).

    21 goals in three games today. They weren’t messing around today.

    • rhywun

      10 minutes overtime WTF. They’re really getting carried away with the added time this year.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    The end of easy money?


    It was already difficult for businesses and households to borrow money earlier this year — but after the collapse of three US regional banks and a cascade of rate hikes by the Federal Reserve, getting money has become a little harder.

    More lenders have stiffened their standards in the wake of increasing turmoil within the banking sector, according to the Federal Reserve’s quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) released Monday.

    Survey respondents attributed the changes in lending standards to economic uncertainty, a reduced appetite for risk, deterioration in collateral values and broader concerns about banks’ funding costs and liquidity positions, according to the Fed report. Additionally, lenders reported that they expect to tighten standards across all loan categories for the remainder of this year, citing the above concerns as well as customer withdrawals.

    Oh, no. Turn the money spigot back on, before it’s too late.

  21. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    I now have full lounging capabilities – two outdoor recliners and a hammock

    • Ownbestenemy

      Excellent, just in time to be eaten alive by the bugs!

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        Bugs aren’t too bad at my location, at least the pesky ones. Mostly bees, wasps, and dragonflies

    • Gender Traitor

      In case you have the SiriusXM – or might be inclined to see about a “free trial” thing – they’ve launched a limited run Duran Duran channel. Started a few days ago and runs through June 2.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee said in an interview with Yahoo! Finance on Monday that “the credit crunch, or at least a credit squeeze, is beginning” and that it should be something Fed officials should strongly consider when deciding interest rates.

    Fed officials, including Chair Powell, have previously noted that credit tightening could act similarly to a rate hike.

    “You do not land the plane nose down, so we want to just make sure that these bank stresses — I don’t know if it’s full blown credit crunch, but it’s certainly credit tightening,” Goolsbee said. “You see from talking to the lending officers or business contacts out here in the Midwest, that will slow the economy and we absolutely should take that into account when we’re setting monetary policy.”

    He added that industries that are more dependent on credit to carry out their operations would be “more directly affected.”

    The man is a genius.

    • Bobarian LMD

      “You do not land the plane nose down…”

      When you are already at the bottom of a smoking crater, the attitude of the plane does not make much difference.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Goolsbee wants Powell to pivot.

      He can fuck off.

  23. Count Potato

    “Oh great, now my Congresscritter is going to want to take maternity leave.”

    On the upside, her tits will get bigger.

    • R C Dean

      See, this is the kind of incisive political commentary I come here for.

      • creech

        Maybe Q will show up tonite with some good stuff like “naked hot Congresswomen?”

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Rosa DeLauro and Maxine Waters say hi.

  24. Ownbestenemy

    I am amazed at all the information flowing about the Texas shooting and how quickly it is being fed to the media.

    https://heavy.com/news/mauricio-garcia/

    Equally amazed at how tight lipped Nashville is

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Apparently saying something anti-Semitic makes one a white supremacist. Al Sharpton hardest hit.

    • rhywun

      All narrative, all the time.

    • Urthona

      Hispanics can be either white or a minority depending on the media’s motives. Quite useful.

    • R C Dean

      “I am amazed at all the information flowing about the Texas shooting”

      I’m wondering how much of it is true.

  25. Count Potato

    https://texasscorecard.com/local/parents-demand-answers-for-alleged-sexual-assault-of-6-year-old-girl-in-plainview-isd/

    https://twitter.com/SarahisCensored/status/1655276216536952835

    Still thinking about this story. Seems very odd a six or seven year-old who can get an erection or has any sex drive would forcibly put his penis in a girl’s mouth. Scruffyyyy suspects he was abused. I’m thinking it might be all these LGBT sex instruction books they are pushing on the kids.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Erections happen since birth and not necessarily tied to a sex drive. I am with either Scruff or your theory, abused and/or the books that promote it at very young age.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m with Scruffy. The show of force and domination is something he learned from personal experience. If there is any need for social services to actually exist, this would be a good circumstance. Go after this kids guardians as hard as you can.

      • Sean

        Same thoughts here.

      • Compelled Speechless

        I think the most disturbing part is actually all the other kids cheering it on. I have a 5 year old and I have to believe she would be horrified. Same for all her friends. There’s no one at home teaching a single one of these kids a moral compass?

      • Tundra

        I think you know the answer to that question.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Apparently some committee is asking the DOJ not to indict until after their report. We have seen this football before so I aint gonna go kick it.

    • rhywun

      I keep hearing they’re gonna float (so to speak) Michelle. It makes sense, really, when it’s going to have to check some boxes, everybody hates Kamala, and who better to pretend to pilot Obama’s 4th term than his wife.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      Gavin Newsom would not be in FL and other states for speaking engagements if Biden were going to run for reelection. Gavin is a good Party stooge, so I’m fairly certain they already know Joe ain’t runnin.

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      When Acosta was banned from the White House it was a direct attack on freedom of the press. What does that make this?

      He ain’t leaving. I’m also guessing he has gathered files on everyone over the years. May not be too many people who want to take that chance of going against him.

      • Tundra

        His numbers are cratering. Hell, RFK2 is gonna catch him before summer. He knows where the bodies are buried, but men tend to fall in line when their families are threatened.

        I’m with KK. Newsome making the rounds is meaningful.

    • Compelled Speechless

      The economic impact of flooding cash into that economic bracket will be felt everywhere nationally. Prices for all homes and high dollar items like cars will spike through the roof immediately. Existing middle class will flee en masse, unable to compete economically. This newly enriched class won’t be working, so the entirety of the productive work force will be gone within a couple of years. All the markets that are already experiencing shortages in housing, groceries and other goods will be made exponentially worse. At that point, all the people who have held the “correct” opinions at no cost to themselves won’t be able to deny how the system really is hopeless for them.

      I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that passing this could very well lead to the end of the union.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        At that point, all the people who have held the “correct” opinions at no cost to themselves won’t be able to deny how the system really is hopeless for them.

        And I will watch them starve with a slight tinge of schadenfreude.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        There is an argument that the Davos/WEF crowd desperately wants the USA to fail and break up so that they can rule like Europe once did.

        With each passing month, I see more and more evidence for that argument and evidence that large swaths of our politicians (particularly Democrats and the Biden administration) are working for them. It’s difficult to otherwise explain how malicious they are towards the economic and cultural future of the USA. They’re openly malevolent in their actions.

      • Tundra

        Lol.

        “It was 1957 — or 58.”

    • KSuellington

      It’s not going to fly, even in California. If passed it will get tied up in lawsuits for years and end up before the Supreme Court. If California had an actual second political party they would be hammering the Dems on it right now, but there are crickets. I can only assume the Dems know this and that’s why they’ve allowed it to get this far. It is highly unpopular save one racial group that is not increasing its population here.

  26. Count Potato

    “Now Biden is going after your DISHWASHERS: Appliances would have 27% less power and 34% less water in new White House crackdown to fight climate change

    Biden’s Department of Energy has already pushed through stricter environmental standards on washing machines and refrigerators that have been described as ‘overregulation on steroids.’

    On his first day in office in January 2021, he signed an executive order telling DoE officials to make ‘major revisions’ to current appliance regulation standards.

    A month later, the agency listed more than a dozen energy efficiency rules, impacting appliances like water heaters, cooking products and lamps, that it would review.

    At the end of last year, the White House released a statement boasting that it had taken action against 110 household appliances to help cut emissions.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12059961/Now-Biden-going-DISHWASHERS-new-rules-fight-climate-change.html

    CWAA

    • Urthona

      The fact he even has this power is the worst thing of all.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Seems like a rush to get in before Chevron is overturned or cemented?

    • Gustave Lytton

      Trump (or another R) repealing those executive orders or issuing ones to dismantle the regulations, otoh, is a violation of the rule making process.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Listen, if you can’t afford a LatinX maid to wash the dishes for you you’re one of the shitpeople and are beneath consideration. Once you’re sucking down cricket paste from a toothpaste tube you won’t need to wash dishes anyway.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that passing this could very well lead to the end of the union.

    Yugoslavia on a truly grand scale.

    • R C Dean

      *Inventories ammo stockpile, places order*

      I wonder where Mrs. Dean will want the pyramid of skulls? I’m thinking out by the road.

    • creech

      I guess you have to read your employment contract more thoroughly before signing it, and take the consequences if you do sign.

    • Count Potato

      Apparently, it severely hurt their ratings.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        But if they have advertisers (like Boeing and Pfizer) who will willingly underwrite a less popular show because they agree with the political content, what does it matter?

        Our economic system is completely fucked up thanks to zero interest rates and it has incentivized some very perverse behavior.

    • KSuellington

      I’d be surprised if he doesn’t have an opt out if he leaves the money on the table. He’d easily get that much or more somewhere else.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        If he doesn’t he needs a new agent and/or lawyer. He could make money that’d make Rogan look like a fry cook at McDonalds.

      • R C Dean

        Generally speaking, employees can quit any time they want. On account of the North winning the Civil War, or something,

        Now, damages for breaching an employment contract are possible, but since Fox took him off the air, they can’t hang their collapsing ratings on him. If he just walked, I’m not seeing damages for Fox.

        Noncompetes are also a thing, of course. But they tend to be disfavored and narrowly applied, if enforced at all. The general rule is that they can’t stop someone from practicing their profession altogether, and it goes downhill for the employer from there.

        I suspect he is in no big hurry at this point. Let things play out, see what comes up. Why not? He’s still cashing phat Fox checks.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      *checks pic*
      Yep, plausible so not guilty. Now stay out of the women’s room you obese fuck.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I…

      Uh….

      I give up.

    • R C Dean

      They need a better proofreader. Should be “he’s too fat for his genitals to be visible”.

    • whiz

      That’s what the women get for going to a YMCA.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Bellingcat is working it?

      JFC, the intelligence agencies and their lackeys need to be put down.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They’re the worst kind of scum: slanderous, murderous, unprincipled sacks of human garbage. WHO is stupid enough to believe this shit? It’s a dark skinned Latino named Mauricio for fuck’s sake.

      • R C Dean

        Because of course a Mexican has an account on a Russian website. Russians are big neo-nazis, too. They are nostalgic, you know, for the brief visit the Third Reich made.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The lies don’t even make a little bit of sense any more.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Chaya Raichak is Jewish. Tim Pool pissed off Kayne (it was admittedly light pushback) on his anti-semitism. I guess Nazis don’t have that many people to look up to.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Abbott can talk the talk but he can’t walk the walk. Also, he’s a squish and a poser.

      • R.J.

        *Nods knowingly

      • R C Dean

        Yeah, his lack of balls was glaringly apparent during the Plague Years.