Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
Cryptic message UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin may have left on bullet casings found at crime scene
Senate Democrats ponder preemptive pardons for Trump’s political foes
Trump has two years to push his biggest policies through and Republicans know it, Gingrich says
Final House race called, Democrat wins, GOP has 220-to-215 seat majority
It’s Official: Kamala Is the First Candidate to Not Flip a Single County Since 1932
Trump Makes Major Move in Crumbling Fani Willis Case
Bitcoin hits $100,000 for the first time ever
Newsweek Reporter Falls For Obvious Parody Twitter Account, Reports on It
Ladies Professional Golf Association Bans Dudes
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Sounds probable that some of yesterday’s theories about a denied claim or loss of coverage were accurate, given the “cryptic” words chosen.
Cryptic; those words are not.
So he used a weak cypher.
At least they aren’t cryptid either. You don’t want to know how STEVE SMITH handles settling all accounts for his Family.
Health insurance and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race?
The government just needs a few more mandates to get things working well.
I think government involvement and it’s prioritization is what makes healthcare shitty. It’s not accidental that government people always exclude themselves from whatever stupidity government imposes on the system.
People seem to be ruling out some sort of would-be-vigilante type.
Batman has a monopoly on Gotham.
A vigilante acting on his own/family behalf or just a random vigilante who thinks some people just need killin’?
Because I’ve seen plenty of people think it’s somebody who he himself was denied coverage or a close family member.
I’m thinking someone who just thinks some people need killing type. Guy who fancies himself The Punisher. Then it’s going to come down to what side of the political spectrum he’s on to determine how he gets covered once caught.
Interesting historical observation, but kinda predictable. I mean, could one expect that there there any counties whose voters said “I voted for Orange Man last time, but the peace and prosperity of the last four years has convinced me I was wrong — so I want four more years of this, only with the DEI hire in charge”?
I have a feeling the data for 2020 is unreliable considering the fortification, and I can for a fact claim that while they tried, they couldn’t “fortify” the 2024 presidential election, but team blue controlled states managed to keep finding and counting suspect ballots until practically every single race went for team blue candidate before they shut counting down, so who knows what Harris actually did.
I wonder if Trump is appointing so many people with Indian descent (Vivek, Tulsi, Kash) as a way to rub it in Kamala’s face
Well, Democrats do hate brown people who
aren’t ondon’t have a reservation.I think you mean ‘plantation’.
I have a feeling Trump doesn’t care much about descent, race, sex, or sexual orientation, as much as he cares about loyalty to him and his agenda, and the competence to do the job. You know, the shit the DEI/CRT asshats hate with a passion.
Biden pardons all Democrats for any crime committed in the last 100 years.
What I find amusing (in a depressing way… depresamusing?) is that this is to “close the chapter” on that part of US politics… but not a word about pardoning the J6 folks to balance things… oh no…. can’t have that. Yeah, maybe the assumption is OMB will do it when he comes in — but it still isn’t really “closing the chapter” then is it, jackass party?
Instead it looks like what it probably is — “Quick! Cover things up so no one can dig into our shenanigans! (Try the $50 appetizer plate… only at Shenanigans this week in DC!)
I would say this is just the rule of law being put out of its misery.
The new standard will be a pardon for family, appointees, and supporters at the end of each administration.
Pretty blatant admission that they’re all criminals.
^^^^THIS^^^
This shit is how they will protect themselves after almost a couple of decades of absolute abuse of power by the criminal cabal weaponized during the “Fundamentally change America” phase of the marxist cultural revolution.
And the UHC CEO shows the other side of the thin veneer of civilization and the tissue thickness of the rule of law.
That is what will happen to that “protection”.
Civil rights era lynch mobs are finally free
I like how what Trump is contemplating is “retribution,” but spending 9 consecutive years with every single arm of the federal intelligence and law enforcement apparatus occupied on wild ass conspiracy theories and witch hunts, sometimes in collaboration with even more wild ass conspiracy theories and even shakier witch hunts in friendly states, was just “accountability.”
Yeah — in other times having the FBI and the rest of the IC purposefully misrepresent evidence to spy on and then impugn an incoming President and his chosen administration spiraling into an impeachment (for asking another nation to look into possible corruption, no less) would be more of a 7 letter word starting with “T” and ending with the death penalty. But it is (D)ifferent and just “no harm, no foul!” now.
A big part of me does want him to just focus on the now, put this behind us and let them simmer in the voters seeing through it.
But honestly — there does need to be some consequences or they’ll do it again and worse at the next opportunity. Problem is, the judges and juries they’d likely go through (as J6 showed us) are so biased to the Leviathan that the odds of actual consequences going through and sticking are minimal. Yay.
And maybe another part of me can learn to close an em tag…. Seems I’m just wistfully dreaming on many fronts this morning.
STEVE SMITH HALP!
I seem to recall the screaming presstitute class clamoring on and spilling metric tons of ink on Trump contemplating preemptive pardons.
Yep. “We distracted him the first two years of his term with a ‘Russian Collusion Scandal’ made up of whole cloth, then distracted him the second two years of his term with a sham impeachment, then turfed him out with ginned-up ballots in key cities. Who knew he’d get elected again and come for us with vengeance on his mind?”
One of my favorite musicals — nicely nicely done, Banjos… thank you.
Everybody seems to universally hate Gingrich, but I think he was an effective speaker and competent parliamentarian. Say what you will, but he got more done with a hostile president than any subsequent heffalump house speaker has with their own party in the white house.
Well, Pelosi was a competent parliamentarian, too. The biggest point in Newts favor was a less divided house on his side of the aisle (which Nancy also had in spades).
Newt was very effective in running the House, and probably had more to do with the successes of the Clinton years than Clinton did.
But he also created the current pay-for-play deal that caused Congress to degenerate to the point of almost complete uselessness.
If Macron won’t resign, he should suck on a shotgun barrel.
That is hardly the French Way.
Based on my limited exposure to French cinema — with all their arguing and screaming at each other, one will finally get physical and then they’ll break down into each other’s arms and consummate their passions.
I’m trying to remember how the sadsack offed himself in Manon du Source. I don’t think it was shotgun though.
The retarded one hung himself.
Ben Rhodes was right when he said ” The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
Odds that the reporter in question has a masters degree in journalism from Columbia?
Just like the same journalist that ran their ‘big’ story on Daddy Bush pardoning his son. Basically the old media business model is to just now generate clicks on bad reporting.
Shot
Chaser
Modern “journalists” repackaging tweets as articles make coders trolling StackOverflow look erudite.
Here are some social media responses to something somebody said. Where’s my paycheck?
That was literally the method of journalism before Elon bought Twitter.
For Gingrich, Time Magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1995 and a well-established “policy wonk” and former history professor, the two-year window applies not just to Republicans in Washington, but to those in state and local posts, who face the same election pressures to bolster the Republican record with tangible wins for voters.
“We have to deliver at every level. We have to deliver better jobs, lower taxes, better government, more safety, less crime,” he added. “We have to do it fast enough that in 2026 people decide they want us to stay in charge.”
Gingrich is right. I have a feeling the Republicans won’t do so hot at the Federal level in 2026, but we’ll see. Lots can happen in two years.
I think it depends on if this
politicalconstituency realignment is actual or not.Yeah, I wouldn’t think anyone could disagree with that. As far as I know — no one really thinks the economy wasn’t first and foremost on everyone’s mind. Getting energy prices down should be job 1 (as that’s the foundation). Getting onerous regulations (like the “contractors must be treated as full time workers!”) need to be cut down where they can be at the Federal and State level. The tax cuts from the prior administration need to be extended or made permanent, or that’s a huge huge hit to everyone this tax year — which would be remembered next year, etc. etc.
And all that against the headwind of the Donkeys fighting in Congress (some because they honestly disagree on tax policy, some just because they don’t want OMB to succeed), the lawsuits that will inevitably be filed (you can’t revoke this regulation! argle bargle blargh!).
Buckle up… it is going to be a bumpy couple of years — but I hope they can make some headway. Bonus points if we can get a budget and major bonus points if we can get a fiscal plan to get rid of the deficit soon and start working on the debt. I expect that to happen right after the Magical Unicorn I ordered gets here, obviously.
I’ll have what SDF-7 is smoking.
I can’t wait for the breathless headlines comparing this to excluding blacks from the sport as late as the ’90s when Tiger Woods was coming up.
Golf is natural TERF territory.
I swear, it’s like the current administration said “I know, let’s act just like degenerate aristocrats totally removed from the people we rule! That would never end with guillotines on the National Mall!”
https://x.com/FLOTUS/status/1735074586721468855
Ya I remember that from last year.
I don’t know how twitter works, but if her handle is @FLOTUS, does Melania get control of the account in January?
Someone should suggest to Elon that the handles be mandated for political offices like that as @OFFICE_NN where NN is the numbering (so @FLOTUS46 for HERR DOKTOR and @FLOTUS47 for The Secret of Nymph). Obviates all these questions and keeps past conversations sorted so you can do searching without worrying/wondering about transition times.
Yes, I believe so. That account I would assume is only accessible via a GFE phone or computer.
It’s a grey check so I believe it is a government account.
Rat on a Train:
I thought a grey check indicated that they were interested in elderly people.
I thought it meant the check hadn’t cleared and they needed to pay their bill.
guillotines are not fashionable no more.
Bring them back into fashion then, I say.
They’re messy, for one thing.
Democrats and tap-dancing negroes.
A match made in heaven.
Democrats and tap-dancing negroes.
Hey, there a couple of tap-dancing white gays in there.
Really makes one wonder how they came up with the crazy stuff in the Capitol District in the Hunger Games.
“Trump has two years to push his biggest policies through and Republicans know it, Gingrich says”
Republicans know they only have to stymie him for two years, and are confident they are up to the job?
Pen and phone, bro. Pen and phone.
/sarc
Gingrich – that guy that was gonna blow up the government back in the 90s?
The president should be able to give a pardon covering every single American citizen not currently in jail or on trial. That will solve everything
He can’t do that because while they planted one — the American public never promised him a Rose Garden.
Smart People Are Especially Prone to Tribalism, Dogmatism and Virtue Signaling
The symbolic professions aggressively select for those who are highly educated and cognitively sophisticated. This is a key source of their dysfunction.
Symbolic capitalists – people who work in fields like education, consulting, finance, science and technology, arts and entertainment, media, law, human resources and so on – tend to have unusual political preferences and dispositions compared to most other Americans.
https://musaalgharbi.substack.com/p/smart-people-are-especially-prone
Musa al-Gharbi
@Musa_alGharbi.
tldr
One thing that’s critical for understanding how intelligence and education relate to political beliefs and behaviors is to recognize that our cognitive and perceptual systems are wired primarily to help us enhance our status and further our goals. We perceive and think about the world in fundamentally self-interested ways
The tendencies to perceive and think about the world in ways that flatter our self interest, further our goals, and so on — these are not necessarily “bad.” In most circumstances, they are “life enhancing” in Nietzchean terms, but they do regularly cause problems in the context of knowledge and cultural production:
One might think that highly educated and cognitively sophisticated are less prone to tribalism, bias, motivated reasoning, etc. In fact, they seem to be more susceptible to all these tendencies. If our cognitive systems are fundamentally geared towards coalitional struggles, flattering our self-image and furthering our goals, then we might expect smart people to be more likely to perceive and think about the world in these ways than most. And in fact, there is lots of empirical evidence pointing in this direction
Worse, many of the systems and institutions designed to help symbolic capitalists overcome their biases often serve to exacerbate and reinforce them instead. These systems only work as intended in the presence of substantive diversity of values, backgrounds, interests, perspectives, and so on… which the symbolic professions tend to lack, more than most other spheres of society:
As a consequence of who the symbolic professions draw in and how they are structured, they tend to be dominated by people who strike extreme and unusual views that are extraordinarily resistant to change or counterevidence — often to the detriment of the knowledge and cultural outputs we produce, and in ways that often undermine trust in, and the legitimacy of, our institutions.
Much more in the full piece
enhance our status
I know I’m a defective human, because I detest status and status games. But status is an entirely normal human thing, even if I don’t understand it and don’t give a shit about it.
Status gets you laid.
If you’re single I guess.
If you ain’t first, you’re last…
I am with Juris on this one.
“A recent National Bureau of Economic Research study found that the Americans most prone to zero-sum thinking included people who lived in cities, those who have especially low or high levels of income, people who identify as strong Democrats, and those who possess postgraduate degrees.”
That’s a long-winded way of saying “People who don’t actually produce anything”.
Great meme on our current budget.
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/1864584198180176335
If you love Putin so much why don’t you marry him?
Delay Deny Defend?
https://a.co/d/dKUHCYe
Every insurance company lives by the credo “we collect premiums; we don’t pay claims.”
Still amazing how badly medical insurance was fucked up by Obama and Pelosi.
24 years ago I had a cheap HMO that covered everything. Walked out of the hospital with our newborn owing a token copay of $20.
The sad truth is that if insurance companies paid out every claim with a possibility of being legit, nobody would be able to afford insurance. So they raised the barriers, then realized it was a great way to make money, and started abusing it.
That and the fact that we tend to call things insurance that can’t function, from an actuarial perspective, as insurance. The whole medical insurance/ACF/O-care is a prime example.
I had that argument with someone back when O-care as pushed through – “But that is not insurance, you can’t call it that” – “We can call it anything we want”…..
OK, you can can call it insurance or a magic-pink-minature-butt-plug, but don’t expect it to function as either and if you try to treat it legally and financially as such, you’re just going to ruin it.
“We can call it anything we want”
So, reading about Rousseau (from Nisbet’s writing) – one of his most clever things was to twist the meaning of freedom, into something you might be FORCED to be (and doesn’t mean freedom as we think of it of course).
What if we add a bunch of coverage mandates and prohibit risk pools?
“We can call it anything we want”
“into something you might be FORCED to be”
In the case I’m talking about, this was a very smart person, I mean legit smart – in physics at least. I suspect Rousseau was also ‘legit smart’.
But a lot of very smart people seem to think you can apply a word to entirely different concepts, perhaps orthogonal to the original, and maintain the underlying structure that word is representing by simply naming it as such. It’s sort of like ‘retard’ – OK, we can’t call people retards anymore. But did the underlying concept go away? Did the reason (drink) ‘retard’ became a pejorative or the motivation of those who use it as such change? No – the underlying concept/reality still needs expression and it will manifest elsewhere. You’ve accomplished nothing real by ‘banning’ the word. Similarly, you accomplished nothing real by calling pre-paid medical care ‘insurance’ or slavery freedom. I suppose in the former case you’ve accomplished destroying the systems built around the underlying reality that was represented by the word insurance. And similarly for freedom.
I haven’t fully developed it internally – and I’m sure someone else has in some dusty tome – but the idea that man can be evolved socially by constraining/directing their words seems to be part and parcel of the thought commonly thought of as progressive/enlightenment. If you can’t say ‘retard’ you will suddenly become tolerant and supportive of the mentally deficient. If freedom means slavery, you will be happy with slavery. You can be nudged (or worse) into being the New Soviet Man. Or some sort of Gnostic “Eat the flesh of gods, become one of them”, we are perfectible, just need the right framework. We can change reality by the power of our words – not connecting that the words are imperfect reflections of underlying reality. If you keep fucking with words to suit your needs, you don’t change the underlying reality, you just fuck-up people ability to have any insight into it.
Now, for the meaning of the words “wall of text” and “excess verbosity”….
PM
I can distill it down for you — sell people on the redemption of man (individually and/or collectively). I promise you redemption and you buy that, you’re buying into the biggest blank check ever written.
If I say there is no redemption, people will recoil from that in horror. It’s one of the deepest values we have, that we can be redeemed. And sheer terror at the loss of it.
This may have been the message on the casings. The article has “Depose” instead of “Delay”.
Might be hard to read the writing on a shell case.
Interesting that he chose a book on Personal Lines. I got my start in P&C at a claims business.
Certain carriers do treat claimants fairly and others most certainly do not. On the healthcare side there are far fewer choices. And you don’t generally get to pick, your employer does.
People justifiably don’t like them and it’s understandable.
Today is my little sister’s 50th birthday. She’s the last of my siblings to hit the half century mark. She’s lucky to share a birthday with Walt Disney. Too bad this wasn’t a Saturday, Old Man would have a great time with today’s birthday list.
Wait … It’s not saturday?
That would explain why I’m listening to a change management meeting. I’d prefer not to.
Alright Bartleby.
Tell me you would prefer to listen in on a change management meeting just in case one of the dozens of changes applies to you.
And don’t lie.
UCS:
Considering the number of late night calls and outages I’ve been involved in due to unannounced (or uncommunicated) changes, yes. I would rather listen to a change management call than get a call in the middle of the night.
Note to self, set up autodialers to call Mr Ilium in the middle of the night.
Note to self that’s too much work.
These changes don’t impact me. They’re doing power maintenance in Syracuse – no impact. Turning off old domain controllers – different agency’s users are in the corssfire. Etc.
Same. I have three hot projects and impossible deadlines all colliding right now. Would much rather listen to a call.
I would rather work my projects in that circumstance than waste my time.
Myself I would rather win the lottery and not work. To each his own.
EU orders TikTok to preserve Romanian election data amid suspicion of Russian interference
If it’s TikTok, it’s Chinese interference, and they won’t give you the evidence.
China is asshole
I wonder what the CCP did to “China is asshole” man.
I doubt it can be used to overturn elections…
Joe Rogan and Mike Benz
Between listening to this (and I am listening to the whole podcast right now), and reading Robert Nisbet’s The Quest for Community which has the deepest discussion of the nation-state (sovereignty – which I wrote about elsewhere) I’ve ever been exposed to, I am reaching beyond being black-pilled.
Then again, I’m a defective human, so humanity will march merrily along its way, and I can just fall by the wayside.
Wow, that’s a weird stray tag.
Mike Benz seems credible, he does bring the receipts. But listening to him freaks me out beyond being black-pilled.
Finding out how bad things have become because of the things done over the last 7 or 8 decades by the people that thought they could deliver government controlled heaven on earth, is going to freak out the normies.
Shit that reaches back to Wilson really. But, this is as natural an outcome as should be expected from nation-state shenanigans. What you do to foreign countries is always bound to rebound back to domestic operations.
I have it in the queue, but now I’m uncertain.
Oh, it’s good. And goes to this point as well.
Razing the NED and all the other NGOs would give me a boner that would last for months.
All right, I’ll listen.
Yeah, I’m going to have to write up a summary of The Quest for Community and why we are where we are. But no one is going to like it.
No way!
Man… outfits I’ve never even heard of have been skin-suited.
Those outfits were created fully skinsuited. They were always hard left.
Just finished the Andreessen ‘conversation’ last night. Looking forward (?) to the Benz one. Though I understand avoiding the black pill – sometimes it’s just to much to hear what’s really going on and calmly just go on with your life; “Is this the Solzhenitsyn ‘if only we had known at the time’ moment?”
The NED article was an interesting read. Now I am curious how many other hybrid Govt agencies we (taxpayers) are funding.
“it is set up as a private, tax-exempt organization with its own employees and board of directors, rather than as an official government agency staffed by federal employees who might have to be phased out or reassigned. Though it is a private operation, the NED operates on the basis of an annual appropriation—in 2023, $315 million—from Congress funneled through the State Department.”
NGOs are far more harmful than any agency. Look at every single problem we have and there are a flock of NGOs there, hoovering up money and exacerbating whatever problem they were ostensible
The FedGov loves them because they can break every rule, invisibly, and do what the Feds would never get away with. Absolute evil.
Raze them all and salt the earth.
Those outfits were created fully skinsuited. They were always hard left.
See, this is the blindness that is so seductive.
NED was a Reagan era cut-out for the CIA to sanitize it’s propaganda. It never served you or me, it was always about serving the State (i.e. power). It isn’t about it being “hard left” – it’s our fucking enemy from day one.
Is this the Solzhenitsyn ‘if only we had known at the time’ moment?
Nisbet’s book I’m reading was written in the early 50s. de Toqueville’s book was written almost two centuries ago.
The warnings have been there for a long time. We just never paid attention to them (or we were diverted from even being aware of them).
Hand waving away irrelevant warnings. Where’s my SS check?
GL +1 Huxley quote about the greater part of the population
Fixed it.
Listened to it yesterday. Engrossing and horrifying. Rogan said very little during the entire interview. His contributions were mostly “oh my God’s”
Just finishing it now – first time I’ve ever sat thru a whole JRE.
“The math that we were using was wrong,” says Birdwell. “And not only that, the math that everybody was using was wrong. And then as I started to correct it I realised just how bad it was… and then I fixed it and suddenly everything looked great!
“I had to go tell the hardware guys, the people who made hardware accelerators, that fundamentally the math was wrong on their cards. That took about two-and-a-half years. I could not convince the guys, finally we hired Gary McTaggart [from 3DFX] and Charlie Brown and those guys had enough pull and enough… I have a fine arts major, nobody’s gonna listen to me.”
A Valve engineer fixed 3D lighting so hard he had to tell all the graphics card manufacturers their math was wrong, and the reaction was: ‘I hate you’
https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/a-valve-engineer-fixed-3d-lighting-so-hard-he-had-to-tell-all-the-graphics-card-manufacturers-their-math-was-wrong-and-the-reaction-was-i-hate-you/
Not a well written article, but it would appear the math functions implemented in hardware was wrong on the earlier accelerator cards.
Interesting article.
The PC gaming icon that is Half-Life 2 recently celebrated its 20th anniversary, and Valve pulled out all the stops with a major new update integrating the game with its episodes and adding a commentary track.
How about Episode 3, you cockgobblers? No? Then why do I care about Half-Life?
Valve can’t count to Three, Silly.
Besides, with Steam just printing money, why would they need to take the risk of making a game?
NEWS: Valve’s Game Bewell Announce Half-Life Episode 3…
Much more in the full piece
Pass.
Good morning!
Hockey guys will enjoy this:
https://x.com/NHL_On_TNT/status/1864469739017240846
That was fun and kept going all night.
Marchand promptly scores 2 of the 4 goals in the game & Bruins social media gets in on the action:
https://x.com/NHLBruins/status/1864505646248231098
OMG. See, this is why hockey is the best sport.
So on the preemptive pardon stuff: Couldn’t they haul them in on a factfinding investigation because they can’t plead the fifth, put them under oath, hopefully get the truth, and slap them with a perjury charge if they throw out a bunch of bullshit? Now I know the Reps are a bunch of wussies and they won’t but they could, right?
Strip them of pensions the moment they don’t fully cooperate.
They could (and should) still investigate this as systemic corruption with an eye on what could be done to discourage such behavior in the future. And besides what Drake said, ban certain people from working in/with the government if necessary.
I’m just here wondering how it’s legal to offer these sorts of pardons. How do you pardon someone for a crime someone” may have committed” during an arbitrary time period.
Is there a way to challenge this sort of shit legally? I get that the president has pardon powers. I get he may pardon anyone of his choosing for any federal crime. That’s a power given to the president in the constitution. But how does that translate to unknown crimes, or those which haven’t yet been adjudicated?
The year is 2028. Dems control the House for the last 2 years and have impeached Trump twice on bs charges. Big Gretch cruised to victory after late night vote dumps in PA, AZ, and WI.
Given that the first act she did as governor was prosecute Snyder for being the only Republican involved in the Flint water scandal, she is naturally vowing to throw the entire Trump family and anyone associated with DOGE in fuck me in the ass prison for life.
On his way out the door, Trump blanket pardons everyone under threat.
So how long before it becomes illegal to the plebes to own bitcoin? If more countries start buying bitcoin on their own it maybe be a defacto impossibility for the common rube to own any. Strange fate for something that was intended to work around government.
The UC Berkeley Project That Is the AI Industry’s Obsession
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-uc-berkeley-project-that-is-the-ai-industrys-obsession-bc68b3e3?st=3LRvdX&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
What’s interesting for me is that this gives (a random of course) access to AI that you would normally need to pay to use. So perhaps more useful than the free AI.
Welp. Officially an old out of touch uncle now. I almost bought one of my nephews the same book I bought him in a previous year.
In my defense, it’s a really good book…
At least name the book.
Guards, Guards by PTerry. First book of the Guards cycle, which is my second favorite of the Discworld cycles, but is a better first story than Mort (the first book of the Death cycle, which is my favorite). Considering Moist only has two books, I find it hard to call it a full cycle.
Vassal
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos spoke optimistically of President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday at The New York Times’ DealBook Summit, saying he expects a more friendly regulatory environment in the upcoming administration.
“I’m actually very optimistic this time around,” Bezos said on stage. “He seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. If I can help do that, I’m going to help him.”
——-
The animosity between the two preceded Trump’s time in the White House.
Prior to the 2016 election, Bezos criticized Trump’s behavior, saying it “erodes our democracy.” After the then-Republican candidate accused Bezos of using the Post as a “tax shelter,” Bezos, who also owns the Blue Origin space company, in a tweet offered to send Trump into space on one of his rockets.
See how he fawns and genuflects before the tyrant king? What a turncoat coward.
Is it true that Pierre Delicto has told people he is leaving politics?
Hallelujah!
It is true.
Bezos also publicly declared shortly before the election that The Washington Post would not be endorsing a candidate, breaking with decades of tradition. Editorial page staffers had drafted an endorsement of Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over Trump in the election, before Bezos killed the plan in late October.
“We knew there would be blowback and we did the right thing anyway,” Bezos said on Wednesday, acknowledging the criticism that followed. He called the move “far from cowardly.”
He sold out.
https://x.com/AuxGod_/status/1864382263477325856
Lord have mercy.
Oh, my
(not in a gay George Takei way)
Damn good genes (and some high-quality work, I’m sure)
Yep..not gonna kick her out for it either. Marisa Tomei always had an area of my brain on lock down.
I still watch My Cousin Vinny solely because of her.
Insert candle joke
Cuba said it was generating only enough electricity to cover about 1/6th of peak demand late on Wednesday, hours after its national grid collapsed leaving millions without power.
The National Electric Union (UNE) said it was producing 533 MW of electricity by evening, still just a fraction of typical dinnertime demand of between 3,000 and 3,200 megawatts, leaving a majority of Cubans in the dark as night fell across the Caribbean island.
California furiously taking notes.
You no take candle!
I could use some government efficiency for scheduling tours in DC. For my son’s 13th birthday we’re going to spend a few days in DC. I just got the White House tour confirmation which is an hour and 15 minutes after the start of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing tour. Or maybe that is efficiency.
That does not sound like enough time to visit Engraving and Printing and make it over to the white house.
Yup. Of course I can’t do anything without going through my idiot congressman’s office.
Yeah, my White House tour was scheduled to conflict with my Congress tour. Fortunately, Congress tours are running all the time and the conflict might have prevented me from meeting Swalwell, so there was a silver lining.
If you’re not doing anything wrong…
A federal judge in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of an anti-money laundering law that requires corporate entities to disclose to the U.S. Treasury Department the identities of their real beneficial owners.
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Supporters of the legislation said it was designed to address the country’s growing popularity as a venue for criminals to launder illicit funds by setting up entities like limited liability companies under state laws without disclosing their involvement.
Under the law, corporations and LLCs were required to report information concerning their beneficial owners to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which collects and analyzes information about financial transactions to combat money laundering and other crimes.
The lawsuit was filed in May by lawyers at the Center for Individual Rights on behalf of five small entities and the National Federation of Independent Business, a 300,000-member trade group that represents small businesses.
Common sense anonymity regulations.
Govt is in the business of tributes. Every transaction no matter how small or large they are going to get their beak wet, at the point of a gun if they must.
I dreamt my dead dad, my dead supervisor, and dead OJ Simpson were having dinner and Rosella was telling my dad all the bad things I said about him. He would NEVER countenance anything bad being said about him, especially his by kids, so he was PISSED. When I went to pick him up from dinner, he demanded I account for myself.
… OJ?
I mean, everything else in that dream has a direct personal connection to you. The celebrety cameo is the odd thing out.
I got nuthin
Maybe Mojeaux *does* have a personal connection to OJ.
Mojeaux is the real killer! Connect the dots, people!
*Alex Jones has entered the chat*
Just what the real killer would say.
A guilt dream about Dad, with OJ.
Had a dream about dinner with some departed relatives last week. I’m sure because I missed them at Thanksgiving. No celebrity cameos that I can recall.
Freud would have a field day.
“I am reaching beyond being black-pilled.”
“listening to him freaks me out beyond being black-pilled.”
“…people that thought they could deliver government controlled heaven on earth, is going to freak out the normies.”
Welcome to Carcosa brothers. Pull up a chair. Have a beer.
This should make some CA based engineers heads explode.
OpenAI Enters Silicon Valley’s Hot New Business: War
The leading AI company has agreed to put its powerful tech in Anduril’s drone defense systems
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-enters-silicon-valleys-hot-new-business-war-7beccf6e?st=tznHEk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
oh fer fuck’s sake. The OpenAI crap hallucinates. You can’t give it drone bodies.
They are some of the most unique C-Suite combinations I’ve come across.
Aperol Maker Campari Nominates Simon Hunt as CEO
https://www.wsj.com/business/c-suite/aperol-maker-campari-nominates-simon-hunt-as-ceo-333b15d6?st=xELDz7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Wild Turkey maker Campari doesn’t carry the same impact.
OpenAI Enters Silicon Valley’s Hot New Business: War
Do you want Skynet? Because this is how you get Skynet.
This is the first step for Skynet.
Has anyone else suddenly been inundated with junk mobile calls and texts? Starting Monday, I believe, these scammers have been blowing up my phone! Fortunately, I never answer a call from a number not in my contacts, and I never click on links in mystery texts. I’ve been reporting and blocking texts multiple times a day. 😒
Yes, and they are mostly re-runs. The only new one is Kelly. Apparently we have a scheduled golf lesson session. I.suppose I should get back in touch with her. She is bringing along her friend Lucy. They sent a photo. They are pretty hot.
Well… this may have something to do with it.
I can tell you it’s made my job much more fun this week.
Oh, that’s terrible.
Have you by any chance been dealing with an influx of bot calls, trying to verify customer information?
R.J.:
No. But there’s been several directives about verifying customer contacts are authorized agents on the account.
I screen any calls to my cell from unknown numbers, best they get is that it’s a valid number. On the plus side (unless they’ve changed it), if you flag a phone number as spam in Google Voice, it returns an “unreachable” error message instead of a standard 200 response.
I actually have a marked reduction in said calls post election, which is a relief.
I’ve had far less spamming since the election.
Yu should check and make sure some of your personal information has not landed on the black market. When you suddenly see a jump in the number of scammers trying to get to you, the odds are really high they are doing phishing operations to get more information on you to use to scam you in other ways. Get into a mindset that unless you call them and you know they are legit, you will not even give them your name, let alone any other information or confirmation on information.
And yes, never, ever, click links, download attachments, or call back any phone number in/from any email or text you get. Even the legit ones. Block anything you can as spam.
The words I live by. Believe me, working for a financial institution, I get constant cyber security training (at least once a month.)
He’s coming for you
Elon Musk’s growing criticism of President-elect Trump’s opponents and industry competitors is raising concerns he may use his increasing influence to intimidate adversaries.
These fears are compounded by Trump’s repeated vows for revenge against his perceived enemies, with experts warning Musk could echo and carry out the same rhetoric on his social media platform, X, in the coming months.
“Musk is a good fit for Trump, because Musk clearly enjoys … vengeance and gets off on retribution,” said Matt Dallek, a political historian and professor at George Washington University.
“This is partly, at least, what animates him, maybe even more so at this point than his business enterprises.”
Neither X nor a spokesperson for the Trump transition team responded to The Hill’s request for comment.
Not even a poop emoji? Disappoint.
Trump’s repeated vows for revenge against his perceived enemies
Could we possibly get specifics to back up this assertion? No?
Concerns were amplified last week after Musk went after retired Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who became an outspoken critic of President-elect Trump after testifying in his first impeachment trial.
“Vindman is on the payroll of Ukrainian oligarchs and has committed treason against the United States,” Musk wrote on X, responding to comments Vindman made in an interview about Musk’s reported conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Vindman is a true patriot and a hero.
Strip the citizenship of both Vindeman brothers and deport them so they can fight on the front lines in UKR.
Whoever came up with “Lt. Col. Bearclaw” deserves praise.
Pie mentioned there’s a retired Romanian general who’s chunked up & is referred to as “The Dessert Fox”.
Which is just fantastic.
Lol