Good morning one and all to another lovely day and to the morning links!
Initial Employment Reports Overstated Job Growth by 439,000 in 2023
Hunter Biden Faces Contempt of Congress
House, Senate release bipartisan agreement on government funding as shutdown deadlines loom
Total number of Texas counties that have declared invasion reaches 50
Massive Brawl Ensues In NYC As Over 400 Migrants Seek Shelter Before Snowstorm: Report
Biden admin appears to fabricate paper trail in pursuit of major chemical plant shutdown: court docs
Biden’s National Park Service to Remove William Penn Statue from Philadelphia
MSNBC Host Tries to Not Cry During Jan 6 Segment
‘Existential Crisis’ as Woke Hollywood Loses 20% of Moviegoers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
This is my shocked face. Bidenomics (as I recall, this was a staple of Obama government reporting too… funny, that…)
Morning, Banjos. Morning, all.
Mornin’
False news on front page. Corrections buried next to personal advertisements.
Lonely Conspiracy Theorist seeks accurate data.
Best. Comment. Ever.
You can bet in an election year it will all be bullshit intended on overriding people’s personal experience shit is bad in favor of democrats….
Now would you ever expect to see this shit if the other side was in power? Not a chance. That should tell you how reliable both government and media numbers and claims are.
All together now… “And nothing else happened.” Garland’s DOJ going to move on it? Ha!
I’m a pretty big meh on being held in contempt of Congress. I am contemptuous of Congress myself.
You
Are
Not
Alone
It doesn’t stop at Congress, the letter agencies qualify as well.
Kind of makes me like him. Cracky must finally be steering him in the right direction.
Garland has an entire office staffed by crickets to handle this type of situation.
Mostly paywalled (thanks, Fox — no, I’m not paying for your lousy reporting and don’t think I’ve forgotten the contempt you hold a lot of your viewers in) — but from the comments looks like this is the only plant in the US for some chemical. So either Brandon is paying back his Pooh-bribes some more or it is just the left wing zealots in his admin that are anti-growth / anti-industry / kill all humans.
My money is on the latter — I don’t think Brandon picks his own socks out these days, much less directs something like this.
I think it’s the latter too. There are some evil left wing fucks working in the shadows on their pet projects like this, and they’ve got an incompetent old man to run interference for them. If the backlash gets too bad they can easily throw him under the bus.
This is the 3rd Obama administration. And since Obama no longer has to worry about his fake image of being a great guy, he is doing what he wanted to do to fundamentally change America, but couldn’t before now tat they can blame others. And it shows…
I think you just have to use an email. I didn’t have to pay for it.
I thought the Oscar nominations already happened… He’s not going to be remembered for the next round, so this was poor planning on his part.
Queue up the old punchline: “A good start”. Talk about an industry that could use a good metaphorical cleansing fire to allow fresh ideas and fresh companies….
It looked like the phone pictured was in a case — if it was an Otter or whatnot, that’s some gold marketing material there, Jerry!
I have mine in an Otter box and ran it over with a customer’s car after using the flashlight function to look at something. It was center tire over the phone and had a tire track across the protective screen. Nothing happened to the phone. The protective screen was cracked and the case seemed ‘smooshed’ but the phone was fine.
After Wednesday’s ER visit against my wishes, I’m going back to Outpatient today. Theoretically for Group Therapy, and that is not a good idea. Best way to explain my tremors/symptoms that day is it was like a panic attack. Calming that person down is good. I have a legit phobia and detest hospitals, which made a 20 min ‘Reset Period’ and turned it into a seven hour ordeal I’m not ‘through’ yet.
I’m being driven there, because symptoms are going to get worse as I get closer to them. Departure in 35 min. This is an important step. I want to remain calm. Thankfully, and I’ll hang my hat and confidence on this: Work does NOT begin again until tomorrow. Verified yesterday. So only one big step today as opposed to medical AND professional stress flowing in at once. That makes me feel better. I needed anything positive to bolster me.
Thank you all. This… will be interesting. One way or infinite others, I can’t imagine how it could, or even SHOULD, be a stress-free encounter. Well. Let’s eat first. Glad I saved this Reuben to snack on. Be well, all. Cheers.
Get better. And stay away from drugs/booze.
Reality is a bitch. Good advice, RJ.
Concur.
Breath exercises/meditation may help.
I had no idea that song was Jackson Browne.
👍
Enemy of the [deep] state.
“You’re either with us or against us”.
It’s getting harder to make a distinction between the alleged good guys and the supposedly bad guys.
They finished up the Confederates and are now coming for the rest of our history.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/01/07/bidens-national-park-service-to-remove-william-penn-statue-from-philadelphia/
“If you like your culture, you can keep your culture!”
– Chairman Mao
I guess we know who reads the links. :-p
Ha! I saw the article link while reading the Hollywood flop story.
There goes the details I learned in junior high. Determined to change the history as it was taught 70 years ago. I’m being re-educated. It’s one way to destroy the culture.
People that don’t know who they are or came from are easier to control and force to go along with seriously evil shit. Paraphrasing, the asshats like Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castros, Kims, Macusa, and so forth. You first have to destroy the past to make up a fake future.
You know, The Great Prophet Donald J. Trump warned us this would happen way back in the Charlottesville days. It’s like he has a direct line to God or something.
*snort*
This is just a prelude to Summer of Love S02.
Remember during the first season the left’s stormtroopers were tearing down statues left and right regardless of who they were. Frederick Douglass rolled into the Genesee River, for example.
Oh please let Biden just do an EO and change the name.
Floydsylvania?
MOVEland.org
Bitch – those were interlopers. This is Lenapia.
Initial Employment Reports Overstated Job Growth by 439,000 in 2023
Listen, Jack. You gotta report it the right way.
Ain’t it bizarre how the mistakes and misinterpretations of the numbers always go in the Dem’s favor? Funny that…
I get revision, its the whitewashing by the media that will always bug me. Report the good, bury the bad; switch the two depending on party politics.
“Asked if she’s planning to take extra precautions now while filming her OnlyFans, Tasha admitted she’s not going to change anything, despite the pregnancy. “I won’t be doing anything further than what was already doing,” she said. “I naturally track my cycle but had knowingly had sex while i was fertile and took the risk.””
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/real-life/i-pregnant-filming-sexy-content-31812065?int_source=nba
Ummm… wut? You’re a porn star and you’re not on birth control? Clearly there was an element of self-destruction and/or wanting to get pregnant; a welder not using a visor because it’s inconvenient on some level wants to go blind.
Huh. Who woulda thought that porn stars make poor life choices.
The real victim here is the poor soul who knocked this ho up.
Or the soon to be born kid.
Hunter Biden Faces Contempt of Congress
*yawn*
Mammary Monday and we’re having a blizzard! Happy 2024!
https://archive.is/YvdAI
So… you’re pitching snowy mounds at us?
House, Senate release bipartisan agreement on government funding as shutdown deadlines loom
So it will be extra financially destructive then.
1.6 T is wash machine change, just enough to tide us over ’til we can skip making a budget to ignore.
All 50 county resolutions cite the invasion clauses of the U.S. Constitution, Articles IV, Section 4, which require the federal government to protect states from an invasion.
How quaint.
Nothing gets people on your side than desecrating a cemetery. My dad and grandpa are buried there.
I’m sick of the word “protestors” being bandied about for this kind of stuff. The “protesting” stopped when the spray paint came out.
When the apparatchiks of the left controlled government riot and destroy shit, it is protests. It does not mater how much shit they destroy, how many people are hurt or killed, and more importantly, if they destroy government or private property, cause it is for a good cause. But when the machine’s enemies protest, that is a riot and even an insurrection!
‘The government quietly erased 439,000 jobs through November 2023, a closer look at the numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows.
That means its initial jobs results were inflated by 439,000 positions, and the job market is not as healthy as the government suggests.’
Well knock me over with a feather. When ISN’T the job growth numbers over inflated?
Spin, spin, sugar…
Almost all the “growth” has been in the parasite class as well. Which probably isn’t surprising since they need to ramp up processing and services for the “undocumented” given the massive intake. Gee… what a strange coincidence of a development there….
Not only are they only creating jobs that are a negative on the economy, but they then lie to you about how many there are, because they do not want you to hold them responsible. I wonder how many of the people that have TDS and got rid of him over the mean tweets and the 365/24/7 screeching by the harpies in the lame stream media that were convinced returning to normalcy meant putting idiot DEI/CRT driven collectivists in charge of shit are having second thoughts but can’t even admit it to themselves cause it would both make it obvious they were idiots that got played and that their religion is pure evil shit.
When the wrong sort is in office. That’s when.
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You are NOT the father!
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/25266916/cheated-ex-now-pregnant/
What a fucking (literally) idiot.
I would like to see the outcome of that DNA check….
“First of all, you need to decide if you want to continue with this pregnancy before you think about sharing your concerns with either your boyfriend or father-in-law.”
???
Christ, Deidre is an asshole.
“If you are determined to go ahead, you can have a DNA test done after the baby is born to establish who the dad is.”
You can test this well in advance of birth, no need to keep everyone in suspense. But then again, it is the UK, maybe science is illegal too.
MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart got weepy during a segment featuring a former member of the Capitol Hill Police Department who served during the Jan. 6, 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol.
Capehart was interviewing former officer Michael Fanone about this book, “Hold the Line,” that details Fanone’s experience on the day of the riot.
Pussy. And so is that lying cop.
However, he also owned slaves, which has led to the removal of his name from some historic sites.
Everyone of prominence owned slaves. Guess you better change the name of PA because it’s a racism or something.
Everyone and everything done by a human prior to 1865 should be memory-holed just to be safe.
That way they can do it to us again cause nobody will know better?
A boot on a human face, forever.
Reminds me of this:
We’ve always been at war with Dixie.
That’s coming next…
That will be an epic battle in not only State congress’ but also US Congress and eventually US Supreme Court.
If by epic, you mean changing the name and nobody caring, then yes.
John Adams didnt.
He is an example that you can’t just say, “it was the culture people didn’t know better” because he was making a moral argument against slavery. And he was loud, so it wasn’t like he wasn’t being heard.
I haven’t dug into Penn’s life all that much — but I’m more than a little surprised he did or that he didn’t emancipate them. I thought Quakers were part of the genesis of the abolition movement, after all.
Penn and his successors were a rather complex bunch. Franklin was greatly at odds with them in the late colonial era.
Yeah, but he was white and benefited from the power structure of a slavist society, so he’s going down the memory hole.
Mike, you dishonest cunte.
Just over three years since rioters stormed the Capitol and targeted him, former Vice President Mike Pence pushed back against the theory popularized by former President Donald Trump and members of his MAGA base that the FBI was responsible for the Jan. 6 insurrection.
“I’ve heard the many repeated assurances from the FBI that they were not involved, and I take them at their word,” Pence said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sunday.
If only saying it would make it so.
During his own tenure as VP, the FBI was covering up unauthorized surveillance on not only the American people, but his own campaign along with Trump, Waco, Ruby Ridge, files maintained on American’s….yep, a whole lot of trust going on there.
Add in the above linked surveillance of the members of the Intelligence Committees of Congress that are supposed to oversee them (gee… not like blackmail so they can get away with crap would ever occur to our upstanding IC… oh, no… never!) and he’s either a complete tool and moron or just compromised like the rest of DC. Don’t really care which.
Liar,hopelessly stupid, or both.
I wonder what they’re dangling over his head.
His life for when, not if, we make the plunge for a good ol’ fashioned purge of the deplorables.
He once shared a meal with a woman who wasn’t his wife.
Jinx!
He had dinner with a woman not his wife.
There’s a difference between “responsible for” and “involved”.
https://nypost.com/2023/09/19/fbi-lost-count-of-number-of-informants-at-capitol-on-jan-6-ex-official/
Crying News Anchor Etiquette Inquiry: If I were to decide to fap to this set on a loop would it be appropriate to use petroleum jelly or should I go upscale with some kind of upscale personal lubricant?
Petroleum so that Big Oil gets involved too.
Who among us does not hold Congress in contempt?
Probably Mike Pence apparently.
Heh.
Happy J6th to everyone losing their minds. I’ve had sex more violent than this insurrection. Y’all are ridiculous for trying to take Trump off the ballot for this.
As someone that knows about running/setting up insurrections due to government training, I can tell you that J6 was not one. Not only that., J6 was a government op by a cabal that has had an agenda from the getgo from making sure the plebes don’t ruing the work they have been doing over the last couple of decades to destroy American sovereignty and stick us in the new global order as a bunch of serfs..
There you go again. Trying to fool me with evidence.
Though I do wish I’d had sex a little more violent than the video.
It’s not clear to me.
Former federal judge Michael Luttig argued Saturday that former President Trump’s violation of the 14th Amendment “couldn’t be any clearer.”
“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment simply could not be any clearer that the former president is disqualified from the presidency as the Colorado Supreme Court held,” Luttig told MSNBC’s Ali Velshi on Saturday, the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
His argument comes just one day after the Supreme Court decided it would look into the Colorado decision on whether Trump could be disqualified from appearing on the state’s primary ballot for his actions related to the insurrection.
When did you stop beating your wife?
They are jumping the gun. An Atlanta kangaroo court will convict him soon enough and the GOP will fall over itself to get him off every ballot in the country.
The Republican Party committing hari-kari like that would not necessarily be a bad thing.
The uniparty might allow a pretend opposition candidate like neo-con Nikki to win.
They’ll never allow a real opposition party.
What people would support one? Seriously? A couple of hundred like us? A couple of thousand? Even a couple of million?
A viable for-real populist reform party would replace the Republican Party as fast as the Republicans replaced the Whigs, if allowed. The normal conservative types I run into in my red state are highly frustrated with the whole thing and have begun to recognize what a farce the Republican Party is.
I can guarantee you that inside of 10 minutes they’ll come up with a party plank that we here would have objections to. Hell, we couldn’t even form a party of just the regulars here.
Probably wouldn’t be hari kari. Whichever party manages to get rid of their geriatric loser first wins the next election.
They’re just framing the narrative for it being overturned and the narrative is that the only people who don’t plainly see that what he says is the case are insurrectionists themselves, SC justices included, and therefore they should be excluded from the political process or even jailed as well.
“This is why we need to pack the court!” I can see 2024 if Dems gain back the House and more seats in the Senate they will move to impeach judges. Making the call today.
This. They are giving themselves an “out” for failure to win, that will also give themselves more hate juice.
By the way, this is why everone is looking for a 9-0 SCOTUS decision about this. That would take away most, not all but most, of the lefts bitching and moaning about it. But, I fear Affirmative Action Jackson will scotch that.
As noted on The Fifth Column, if it’s a split decision, either way, it will lead to calls of a stolen election.
(Obviously, it should be 9-0 shutting this nonsense down).
Due process is only for the innocent.
And they get to decide who is innocent (meaning only themselves?).
The SC needs to slap down this lawfare bullshit once and for all. In a bout of insomnia I had the following thoughts.
1. The 14th Amendment specifically addressed the civil war. States seceded from the US and engaged in a shooting war. This is nothing like what Trump did.
2. Trump wasn’t convicted of anything. So this sets a precedent that a state can just “declare” an action as “insurrection” and remove someone from their ballot. Texas can declare Biden’s open border policy an insurrection, and Indiana can declare the online censorship an insurrection, and then remove Biden from their ballots.
What was the Red Queen’s shtick – punishment first, then trial?
“Sentence first – verdict afterwards”
He will be convicted long before the convention.
The dissent in CO said exactly what you said in your last sentence in #2. They were all D appointees. The whole CO supremes are. They made the “you today, me tomorrow” argument for their dissent. I could see a 9-0 or 8-1 SCOTUS result citing their dissent.
Everyone forgets that in Bush v. Gore, SCotUS cited the dissent of the Chief Justice of the Florida SC and ruled 9-0 against that decision. It was the remedy that split 5-4.
Insurrection is a federal crime. States can’t judge if somebody has committed a federal crime.
They want the Nazghul to slap it down, then they get to slap down the Nazghul.
I guess we need to listen to the Judge, as he is obviously an expert on the Constitution. I’ll just have to blame Cato Institute for falsely adding words to their pocket copy of the Const.’s 14th amendment: “But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House remove such disability.” Is there no “journalist” sharp enough to spot this sentence in the 14th and have the balls to ask people such as the Judge what it means??
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Well the guy in me instantly thought the salesman was probably hoping for some MILF sex. The human in me thinks it is dusty in here.
lol. Those were exactly the same two things I thought of too.
Looks like a new store, needs/gets some great publicity.
The curmudgeon in me always thinks the worst. The guy is probably entertaining thoughts about the young girl.
I’ve definitely been watching too many short documentaries – I had the same first thought.
Like pr0nhub ?
I’m not sure what you’re referring to, good sir.
Although I understand there are a variety of short documentary sites out there.
World’s richest dope fiend
The report by the Journal — which said Musk has used LSD, cocaine, ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, often at private parties — isn’t even the Tesla board’s first brush with drug-related issues. Weeks after the New York Times reported in August 2018 that directors had expressed concern about Musk’s use of Ambien, he puffed a blunt containing marijuana on comedian Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Tesla’s board took minimal action in the wake of those episodes. It replaced Musk as chairman and named two new independent directors as required by the settlement of fraud charges brought by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. It could face more litigation over its handling of Musk’s drug use, said Stephen Diamond, who teaches courses on corporate governance at Santa Clara University’s School of Law.
“This will give ammunition to class-action lawyers on behalf of disgruntled shareholders at Tesla, if they can tie evidence of drug use to his actual role as an executive,” Diamond said. “The Tesla board has an obligation to discern what’s going on here.”
Will Letitia James swoop in to seek restitution for the state of New York?
Punishment for exposing the backchannels to the IC
This.
…which was entirely hear-say.
Reporting about what was reported – this is modern journalism. And exactly why it is so useless.
Man does this guy scare and piss them off that they have to resort to this shit…
Speaking of which. Does anyone else notice the cabal of idiots in charge are so inept and stupid that all they have is efforts to affect public opinion through bullshit? Cause they are not running on anything they have accomplished unless you count basically accusing their opposition as enemies of freedom so they can abuse power to deny the people the freedom to choose…
Does Musk peddle smut too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxeBFaWskFs
(NSFW)
Theme music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4zr3ZPSDac
We are having an insanely warm winter. Of course the Climate Warriors are making hay while the sun shines (literally)
I guess that those climate scientists must have just learned how to link weather to climate this year. Our last two winters were below normal cold and snowy, but they didn’t say anything about them. If anyone pointed out that there was a conspicuous lack of warming, the Climate Warriors would sniff about the difference between weather and climate.
Back in 1970, when they were worried about Global Cooling?
Ignore the fact that in the 1970s we were still in the process of warming up coming out of the Little Ice Age.
Yep, the equation remains the same:
Warming = climate change
Cooling = weather
Also, it’s totally the hottest ever even though it’s not as hot as the 1930’s, or the medieval warm period, or the last interglacial maximum, or the vast majority of Earth’s history…
The last 2 winters saw the chimney on my garage get taken off by the heavy snow. Insurance company not thrilled about paying the same claim 2 years in a row.
Happy to see this winter of no snow so far, don’t want to deal with USAA again so soon.
“Whatever I’m doing, I should obviously keep doing it!” Musk posted on X, citing Tesla and SpaceX being the world’s most valuable car and space companies. “If drugs actually helped improve my net productivity over time, I would definitely take them!”
Find a magic productivity cocktail and put it in the water fountains.
Modafinil in the water? I’ll drink to that!
(wonderful, wonderful stuff)
I had to see what that was. Now Im gonna ask my doc for some.
As awake as Adderall with none of the jitteryness, incredible focus, and even a feeling of contentment and all being right with the world but not in a euphoric way. Best drug I’ve ever taken and if you have to work nights (you do don’t you?) you have an official indication if it bothers you.
Everyone in Silicon Valley does micro dosing of LSD and things like that. You’d never get a clean drug test out of any of them.
Maybe the VCs and the C-suite. There are a shitload of engineers (me technically included though I’ve gone remote) that damned well don’t use anything but caffeine.
No one on Wall Street has ever done cocaine.
No one in the White House has ever done cocaine either.
*faints*
In the three years to the day since the insurrection at the US Capitol, great strides have been made in shoring up American democracy: hundreds of rioters have been prosecuted, legislation has been passed to bolster electoral safeguards and Donald Trump has been charged over his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
But as the country marks the third anniversary of one of its darkest days in modern times, a pall hangs in the air. It comes from Trump himself and his promise, growing steadily louder as the 2024 presidential election approaches, that if he wins he will pardon those convicted of acts of violence, obstructing Congress and seditious conspiracy on 6 January 2021.
The scope of Trump’s pardon pledge is astonishing both for its quantity and quality. The former president has made clear that – should he be confirmed as the Republican presidential candidate and go on to triumph in the November election – he would contemplate pardoning every one of those prosecuted for their participation in the insurrection.
Last May he reposted on his Truth Social platform the slogan: “Free all J-6 political prisoners”. A few months earlier he told a rightwing website that “we’ll be looking very, very seriously at full pardons”.
Go fuck yourself, you dishonest piece of shit.
Turgid prose is turgid.
“legislation has been passed to bolster electoral safeguards”
Are there any listed? I can’t think of a single one.
I’m assuming that’s referring to Dem plots to make fortification easier.
Wasn’t there a federal piece buried in Build Back Bitter / Infrastructure that changed the rules for Congresscritters disputing the results?
Ok… part of a “spending compromise” but still: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/22/1139951463/electoral-count-act-reform-passes
Musk’s reported drug use may temporarily hit Tesla’s shares, said Gene Munster, a managing partner at Deepwater Asset Management. But those who’ve held on through the CEO’s antics have been rewarded — the stock has soared 1,168% since Musk’s marijuana toke in September 2018.
“A small percentage of investors will sell their stock over the next week and put some pressure on shares,” Munster said Sunday. “Most investors won’t care, because it falls into the category that if you want to profit from Elon, you have to put up with his controversies.”
Results oriented investing is white supremacy.
Maybe some fretful pussies will bail but Musk and his companies will do just fine without them.
Investors will be too busy running away from Boeing.
Since Sloopy isn’t here to dole out sports linx (and I really hope I’m not stepping on a link he had planned for tomorrow) Minnesoda’s Professional Women’s Hockey League team sets attendance record!!!
* It doesn’t appear that any of the teams in this league have team names.
Was it topless hockey?
Topless fan night..
Everyone loves those hotdish ladies!
Each game takes about 84 weeks (three periods) so attending that game is a big committment.
Are there that many lesbians in Minnesoda?
From my experience visiting, Minneapolis has a far above average number of clam munchers.
*narrator*: Alex got shot down in a lot of Minneapolis bars during his visit.
It is all the flannel, makes them look like dykes.
Heh, I wish..
I know better than to hit on butch looking, flannel wearing, chubby women. My experience was based on how many people I met that told me they were lesbians. Some were not thrilled when I pointed out we had a lot in common because I identified as a lesbian trapped in a mans body. especially since most of them wanted them some of that girl I was dating. On her street block, six out of the 20 houses had lesbians and one a gay dude couple they all picked on for some reason (I met them and thought they were col as hit all things considered).
Besides, when I go to a bar in Minnesoda it is to win a meat raffle that isn’t of the human variety…
Meat raffle, gay guys are cool. There are some signs here. NTTAWWT.
Back when they were funny…
So Fox news now requires registration? I’m noticing a bit of a trend, right of center or relatively neutral news sources (X, National Review, WSJ) are being “paywalled”, while anyone can still read lefty news sources (CNN, MSNBC). This isn’t good for the normies.
It’s an attempt at replacing the ad revenue that constantly gets hammered by lefty boycotts and the like: Bring ‘em in, get ‘em hooked, eventually move to a subscriber model.
What lefty boycotts?
Given Townhall and the like’s spiel for why they pitch VIP, have to wonder if it is tied to advertising demonetization targeting those outside of Good Speech ™… so they have to go paywall to keep the lights on. Pure conjecture, granted.
This occurred to me yesterday: if Trump is elected in ’24, the Democrats will sue to prevent him from taking office on 22nd Amendment grounds.
I’m not convinced Biden will or should concede if he loses. I mean, if Trump poses the greatest threat this nation has faced since WWII, what reasonable person would concede?
since WWII
Don’t you mean since we broke from England – that font of goodly government?
The left only knows WWIi, and even that bit of history is essentially a racist regime in Germany, internment camps in the USA and dropping a bombs on Japan because racism.
That would just make his VEEP president. It wouldn’t go back to Biden.
So they plan to do an actual insurrection to prevent the voters from doing something they don’t want, huh?
I was already going to vote for Trump. You don’t have to sell it to me.
Speaking to a room full of Dartmouth College students, Cheney expressed her conviction that former President Donald Trump would refuse to hand over the reins of power if elected to a second term.
“He won’t leave office,” Cheney said. “He already tried not to leave office once. So I think there’s a lot of living in a fantasy world that’s going on with Republicans telling themselves, ‘Look, we’ll vote for him, it won’t be so bad.’ It may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast. It will be that bad.”
What’s more, Cheney looks at her former colleagues in Congress and sees a group of enablers who would happily acquiesce to Trump’s designs and help muscle him back to power if the 2024 election result is in doubt.
I need to give Liz a call. If she’s that great at seeing the future, I’d love her to look into her crystal ball and give me some stock tips. Maybe some winning lottery numbers.
Why, yes. There is.
The first time I ever read a case of the breathless “they’ll refuse to leave office” vapors was on the blog of an ornithologist I used to follow, since he was studying some possible IBWO sightings. He was completely convinced that GWB and Cheney (ha ha) were plotting to hold onto office forever.
“It may well be the last real vote you ever get to cast. It will be that bad”
She needs that frog dick bad.
“‘I didn’t let them think I was in pain’: Brave Iranian woman describes being lashed 74 times in ‘medieval torture chamber’ for refusing to wear hijab – and how she tore off her headscarf in court after brutal punishment”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12937841/Iranian-woman-33-whipped-74-times-leaving-gruesome-injuries-charged-encouraging-permissiveness-refusing-wear-hijab-Tehran-streets.html
Religion of Peace
If those “smash the patriarchy” dumbasses would spend 5 minutes looking around the world, they would realize there is in fact, nothing resembling “the patriarchy” in the countries in which they reside.
This patriarchy can be pussy-whipped – those other ones mean business.
Exactly. It is easy to look brave and like you are sticking it to the man when you bully a wimp to at best will roll over rand play dead. Fucking with someone that will knock your teeth out, ain’t.
Hardball
Berkshire Hathaway
settled a billion-dollar lawsuit with the Haslam family over how Berkshire accounted for the value of Pilot Travel Centers, which would affect the price paid in a forced buyout of the family’s remaining stake in that truck-stop giant, both sides said Sunday night.
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The Haslam family and its Pilot Corp. in the suit filed this fall alleged that Berkshire Hathaway improperly adopted a form of accounting of the value of Pilot Travel Centers that would have led to a sharply lower price Berkshire would pay to acquire the family’s remaining 20% stake in PTC.
Berkshire in turn had accused Cleveland Browns owner Jimmy Haslam of offering payments to PTC executives to boost the value of the company so that his family would get a bigger buyout from Berkshire, which controls PTC.
Last month, it was reported that federal prosecutors in New York were investigating Berkshire’s allegations about Jimmy Haslam. The Haslam family and Pilot Corp. strongly denied those claims.
Kindly Old Grandpa Buffett just wants everybody to be happy.
Having worked for a wholy owned Berkshire subsidiary, what you want is to be a big company that they own 20% of, not a small company that they own 100% of (or 80% in the case of Pilot).
He bought Fruit of the Loom in bankruptcy court. I started there 10-15 years later, and we were running about 12% margins and that was considered a poor result by BRK. Cost cutting was constant. 15% was minimal acceptable and 20% was expected. The problem was Fruit got from negative to 12% via cost cutting with zero growth on the top line. Revenue was stagnant. I got axed when they outsourced (almost) all of IT to India (except a few managers, most of whom didnt stay around long after).
I’m not convinced Biden will or should concede if he loses. I mean, if Trump poses the greatest threat this nation has faced since WWII, what reasonable person would concede?
Exactly. A Trump win would be proof positive the election process was corrupt. Nullify the results and throw him in jail. The preservation of democracy is paramount.
Please stop encouraging them.
Encouraging?
Based on the things they have and keep doing, it is obvious this is exactly the plan. We plan to bring you tyranny because we want to save democracy!
Imma just gonna remind everyone of that Franklin quote I’m fond of about the government devolving into despotism because the people are incapable of any other.
They are incorrigible, after all.
We have to destroy the republic in order to save it. Give Biden some emergency powers to enable him.
Thomas Massie on why I can’t bring myself to care much about Trump. He walked into every rake.
Yeah. Although he’ll still probably win I am hoping he loses the nomination.
Actually one of the laziest human beings ever who just gets credit for saying stuff on twitter.
“There’s too many people, and there’s not a lot of opportunities for us here. And [the city] treats us like animals,” Hernandez added, according to the New York Post. ”
Spread the word- no point coming north of the border.
Clearly what we need is thousands more political prisoners to prove how hard we democracy.
DC U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves is making clear that the DOJ is now going to target Americans who were around the Capitol on J6 but did not enter the building
The FBI headquarters is pretty close – arrest everyone there.
Making bigger circles. Eventually anyone who ever registered Republican will be caught in the dragnet.
“Oh, come on. I don’t even think about — I have no idea,” Biden said when asked whether he’ll be facing off against Trump. “I have no idea if there will be a Republican Party. Do you?”
Truly, the only way to save the people’s ability to choose is to take it away from people who would make bad choices.
If we assume there are no principles involved here, Is this a sign that the Dems think their base is wavering or they think this is an argument for the 20% in the middle? Or maybe “soft” Republicans?
Could they be reassuring their supporters? I mean, I have some leftist friends who were breathlessly posting on social media over the weekend that the Jan 6 people “killed” (active voice) police officers (plural). Given how firmly you have to be in the left camp to believe that, do you have to keep prosecuting Jan 6 people to keep the base happy?
Note: these same people were dumping on the NYT for not being a reliable news source because it didn’t run front-page articles commemorating the third anniversary.
Snowpocalypse is coming for us!
I predict it will be a big fat nothingburger.
It’s wintery mix here right now. The ambient temp is in the mid 30s, so everything is melting as it hits the ground. If it keeps snowing here and drops our temp enough to start sticking, we’re in for some real fun. It was supposed to be 100% rain for us until the back end of the storm swung around.
The city’s case is weaker than weak — as shown by the fact the court filing must stretch back to 1832 to explain how it wants the law enforced.
Rather inconveniently, nearly a century later, in 1941, the Supreme Court declared a near-identical California law unconstitutional, in violation of the interstate-commerce clause.
Adams’ lame lawsuit against bus firms ignores the migrant crisis’ real roots
https://nypost.com/2024/01/07/opinion/adams-lame-lawsuit-against-bus-firms-ignores-the-migrant-crisis-real-roots/
Blocking traffic in support of a cause – yea or nay?
If you want to make me hate your cause and fight against it, block the traffic please.
Nay. You could argue false imprisonment (cars blocked with nowhere to go without running over the “protestors”), reckless endangerment (blocking emergency services, etc.) — probably more that wiser minds than I could spool up. I don’t think it is “free speech” when you’re a mob surrounding someone and not letting them leave.
Not false imprisonment — I consider it kidnapping or hostage-taking for political purposes. We call that terrorism.
Depends if its a cause I agree with. Even then, likely neigh.
I mean, you’re potentially holding up ambulances and emergency services. Commerce like w/e I ordered from Amazon and Im waiting on.
Not to mention people just trying to get their ass to work.
Accelerate.
People die from that shit.
Interesting responses. Even if you vehemently agree with the cause, it’s still not acceptable?
Nope. Throng the sides of the roads, hold signs visible — but allow other people free movement or you’re an asshole regardless of cause, imho.
You can use the public right of way for your demonstrations, but you cannot prevent others from also using the public right of way. Make a fucking path.
The Bee with the answer.
What about if you had an absolute shitton of people at your road-blocking protest instead of just a dozen or so? Would that make a difference?
The first time I ever read a case of the breathless “they’ll refuse to leave office” vapors was on the blog of an ornithologist I used to follow, since he was studying some possible IBWO sightings. He was completely convinced that GWB and Cheney (ha ha) were plotting to hold onto office forever.
I’ll be perfectly honest. There was a point where I seriously wondered if Booosh would try to concoct some bullshit terrorism threat and claim a transfer of power would make us too vulnerable to attack, in order to “postpone” the election.
But then I thought, “They managed to hold a Presidential election during the Civil War, didn’t they?”
Now, I’m back to wondering. Plenty of people would be in favor of cancelling a Biden vs Trump election.
The longer you delay an election, the better the chance that Joe kicks it and we get Pres. Kamala.
Think it would be hard to keep her off the ticket now as VP if Joe dropped out? Think how much harder it would be if she were the sitting president.
Ain’t it something that a country that came into being because its people rebelled against the authority of an abusive and tyrannical government entity (King George), today has a cabal of shitbags trying to convince you that those that have come to realize the people in charge are just as bad as that government we rebelled against back when, are a threat to democracy (in a republic of all things)?
I would be laughing my ass off at this irony were it not that we are heading for some real scary shit because of this crap.
Ah that’s the joke though – we didn’t rebel because of what George III did, it was Parliament we had beefs with. Jefferson finessed that in the Declaration – the greatest rhetorical slight of hand ever pulled. You see, we have our own bullshit history we believe.
So if Trump wins in 2024, anyone want to bet on how big the Dem riots in be for either the Electoral College vote count and/or Inauguration Day?
You know that the riots would make J6 look like a cub scout jamboree.
The riots for his inauguration were worse than J6. Way more violence and destruction. The Women’s March breached the barriers at the Capitol.
And those people went to jail, right? Right?
NOT MY PRESIDENT!
RUSSIAN STOOGE!
WORSE THAN HITLER!
/the people that brought us tyranny and mediocrity
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE US DO!
Blocking traffic in support of a cause – yea or nay?
That depends. Will you be setting yourself on fire?
Id watch that for a dollar.
“Taylor Swift’s cat Olivia Benson ‘has a HIGHER net worth’ than her NFL boyfriend Travis Kelce – with the feline ‘worth a massive $97MILLION’ compared to the Chiefs star’s $40m”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-12939045/Taylor-Swift-cat-Olivia-Benson-Travis-Kelce-Chiefs.html
This shit has gone from silly to straight up retarded.
Kelce better treat the little pussy right.
I’m not sure beating it up will win him any favors.
I’m surprised eating pussy is not on the list of responsible foods like crickets and beyond smeat.
What, does it shit diamonds or something?
Apparently, it’s how much it can make on IG.
It’s pretty sad how many people simp TS’s cat.
I, for one, welcome our new electric robot overlords
The global economy is moving into a new “super cycle,” with artificial intelligence and decarbonization being driving factors, according to Peter Oppenheimer, the head of macro research in Europe at Goldman Sachs.
“We are moving clearly into a different super cycle,” he told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” Monday.
Super cycles are commonly defined as lengthy periods of economic expansion, often accompanied by growing GDP, strong demand for goods leading to higher prices, and high levels of employment.
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In other ways, current shifts can be seen as reflective of changes even further back in history, Oppenheimer explained.
“Because of this tremendous twin shock that we’re likely to see, positive shock of technological innovation at a very rapid pace together with restructuring of economies to move towards decarbonization, I think that’s a period that’s more akin really to what we saw in the late 19th century,” he said.
Bring on the flying (electric) cars.
“Decarbonization,” aka hamstringing the economy. Compelling and subsidizing a massive thing that nobody wants is totally going to propel a market economy to new heights.
The steam engine allowed giant leaps in food production, transport and the ability to produce better tools and equipment.
AI will enable the creation of more and better smartphone games.
The longer you delay an election, the better the chance that Joe kicks it and we get Pres. Kamala.
Do you honestly believe they are capable of thinking that far ahead?
Racists
Calavera, a buzzy yet controversial Mexican restaurant in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood known for its wide assortment of mezcal, toasted chapulines and carnitas tacos, permanently closed on Saturday after just over eight years in business.
“This is not the way we wanted the new year to start, however, we have made the more than difficult decision to shut our doors,” read an Instagram post shared by the restaurant last week. “As you all know, the state of Oakland hasn’t been kind to small businesses—with less foot traffic and severely decreased sales, we cannot continue on.”
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Customers from neighboring suburbs just didn’t feel safe walking in downtown Oakland or taking BART, he explained, and because they were so worried about their cars getting broken into, they’d shell out as much as $60 for an Uber to see a show at the Fox Theater. Then, they’d skip out on dinner altogether because the night out was already so expensive. He added that his own car had been broken into four times, but he worried publicly speaking about it would drive away more potential customers.
“We want them to be safe. We want their cars to be safe. We want them to come back. Our biggest problem right now is our lack of revenue because of people not coming,” he told SFGATE. “Hyping up the crime here scares more people away.”
Good riddance. Now a socially responsible non profit can move into that space.
Democrats are all about the little people.
It continued to draw criticism from some diners, however. On a recent visit, the Chronicle’s associate restaurant critic Cesar Hernandez noted its tumultuous past and questioned its role in the East Bay’s food scene, skewering not only the quality of the dishes, but the taste of “gentrification” they left in his mouth.
“On a brunch-time visit to Calavera, I saw a table of women toasting with $15 June in Tulum cocktails and eating tacos with their forks, scooping up the saucy proteins and leaving behind the stained, limp tortillas,” he wrote. “As I studied the brunch crowd, I was nagged by a central question: Who is this restaurant for? It’s certainly not for me. It’s not for anyone who likes and respects Mexican food. My answer: It’s apparently for diners who confuse cost and ambience for taste.”
Take that, gentrifiers.
“… the taste of “gentrification” they left in his mouth.”
BY GENTRIFICATION MEAN…
Somebody been swallowing his own loads.
CWAA
Maybe diners are staying away because some snooty asshole is staring at them while they eat and sneering when they consume their food wrong.
Look, man, not everyone consumes carbs willy-nilly.
I, for one, look to associate restaurant critics when I’m trying to decide if I’m keeping it real.
On the other hand, women who don’t know how to enjoy a taco?
I have it on good authority that there are a number of women who enjoy a good taco.