Good morning one and all to another fine day!
Karine Jean-Pierre faces press grilling after Biden pardons son Hunter
Ninth Circuit rules in favor of federal deportation
SCOTUS to Hear Arguments in Landmark Case Regarding Trans Procedures for Minors
Elon Musk asks court to block OpenAI from converting to a for-profit
ESG firms invested in coal industry they tried to reduce, while reaping big profits, lawsuit alleges
US Manufacturing Sees Hopeful Turn as New Orders Expand for 1st Time in 8 Months
Mentally ill women are self sterilizing
Ontario Town Fined For Refusing To Celebrate Pride Month
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
At issue is an April 2019 executive order issued by King County Executive Dow Constantine, which directed county officials to prohibit fixed base operators on a county airfield near Seattle from servicing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charter flights used to deport illegal foreign nationals.
Y’know, if you obstruct local law enforcement when they’re investigating a traffic accident or something, you usually get a ride to jail for your trouble. Do it to the feds, however, and crickets.
Maybe Dow Constantine needs a 5 AM raid on his house and a few million in legal bills to get his mind right.
I have a strong feeling that all of King County Executive Dow Constantine’s extensive blather about how “inclusive” and “affordable” they are is the exact opposite of the truth.
^^^THIS^^^
“For me it was a call to action. A need to get this locked in so I don’t have to live in fear that at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life,” Ixora said.
“For me the idea of getting pregnant is worse than death. I’m doing what I can to protect my right to choose. I am choosing me,” she added.
If only there were ubiquitous, nearly-free methods of preventing pregnancy.
To avoid pregnancy, I would think inaction would work a little better.
You paused to think, she chose action.
I doubt she is seeing much action anyway. That door closed sometime in the past.
A woman can have as much action as she wants, there are always very indiscriminate men available.
The news fell for her monetization of her speech and she just got nationwide attention for something she is not going to do.
Yep. Any advertising and all that.
DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND??? PREGNANCY IS A DISEASE!!!
Like when you get hit by a bus?
I can think of one universally available, completely free method of preventing pregnancy.
Throwing herself off a cliff?
Also, that.
If guys would take our advice and stop sticking it in crazy, this wouldn’t be an issue.
Is she talking about rape? Like some random guy can rape her and she’d be forced to carry a baby? That almost makes sense, if you hit yourself in the head with a hammer enough times.
She has that Handmaid fantasy in her head. A hammer might be the only way to get rid of it.
I am choosing me
Yes, yes you are. And under these circumstances that’s a good thing.
This is another one of my “briar patch” stories. We should be encouraging this behavior.
Certainly raises the question of whether there was some trailblazing into new lands there…..
Sure, Jan. 🙄
NPR has a rare moment of dead air.
The local weekly “journalists forum” on WAMC is all-in on government funding to “keep independent media alive.”
What percentage of those “omnibus” budgets go to fund off the books shit like this? While I’m hopeful DOGE can unearth some things, I’m expecting them to find a lot of holes where money has disappeared.
Some of those holes are so big, getting near them might be a form of suicide.
A lot of dark money that very bad people are dependent on.
I’d settle for just divesting most of the Federal jobs… deporting them seems a bit much.
(/sarc off) Nice to see the Ninth can recognize the obvious ones… interesting timing on that ruling, I have to say. I can’t really imagine it was planned per se (given how long it takes such cases to wind through the system and all) — but it preemptively takes the wind out of “sanctuary” pols in advance, doesn’t it?
Interesting given that the 9th was the one pre-emptively blocking the “muslim ban” in 2016/2017. Didn’t think the membership had shifted that much the past few years.
You can probably thank the Federalist Society and Cocaine Mitch for that.
They basically overturned their own idiotic Boise ruling this past year.
The industry has also faced federal pressure attacking both supply and demand. The EPA’s power plant rule that was finalized in April requires carbon capture on all existing and new coal plants, but the agency’s own modeling showed that these technologies wouldn’t be deployed on any new plants and only one existing one through 2055.
Sounds like the EPA is ripe for some more Chevron non-deference.
The bureaucracy still considers that success.
Ontario Town Fined For Refusing To Celebrate Pride Month
You will wear the ribbon!!
Who doesn’t want to wear the ribbon?!
While OCCRP says it was initially funded in 2007
Ah, W‘s State Department and then Obama and Trump. Not to mention it was Congress appropriating all of those funds.
We don’t mention Congress’ role…ever.
You can’t expect them to actually read and understand whatever appropriations bill they’re voting for!
Nope, we just expect a strongman presidency to roll right over Congress. That will set right everything wrong!!!
Very good news.
Wait, I know this one: “And nothing will happen.”
That was my experience 10 plus years ago pointing out I had never made a political donation, let alone some serious money to a bunch of democrats not in my state.. The records disappeared and the usual team blue crooks told me to go away.
From ESPN inadvertently giving insight into the doom of Britain…
and
Doomed, DOOMED I say.
Good speech is mandatory; bad speech is forbidden. In less enlightened times we tried free speech, but some people ruined it by saying things that are bad and refusing to say the good things. Now we can really create the New ,
Soviet ManBritish Person of Some Gender Identity!https://news.sky.com/story/ipswich-town-defend-decision-of-captain-sam-morsy-not-to-wear-rainbow-armband-in-support-of-lgbtq-inclusion-13265450
Apparently two PL players actually have some balls.
Morsy is a Muslim. Guéhi isn’t
I don’t know what the third guy chanted.
Wow
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cn38321180et
South Korean president declares martial law
Sigh. What did PopeJimbo do now?
My first thought.
He’s in Japan, not South Korea!
Evan, on the other hand… we’re not sure what kind of sleeper cells he left behind.
More like sleeper kidney stones.
Fear not: My seed is strong. (I will ask remaining agents what’s up.)
Korea’s response to COVID was utterly fucked and predictable. Will never forget scores of scooter drivers frenetically wheeling about, often on the sidewalk for deliveries, going whatever speed they like … while wearing masks but no helmet.) Folk there will go along with whatever Daddy Gov’t says, frankly. –> US pols dream of having a NoKo neighbor: Just lock up shop and everyone will do what you say out of fear. Once The People are used to it, it becomes the entrenched base state. Ride along for the Greater Good. (Bit Americans won’t ever understand: South Korea is about 95% pure Korean, a homogeneity that kinda-sorta allows for a stronger central government. (Also helps SoKo has 55M people in the size of Indiana. I admit I miss such population density and 24/7/365 stores every 50 feet. Well. I have a car again, so THERE, SoKo.)
Dammit, Ted. Don’t reveal my party trick just yet.
My sleepers lie in wait. Amongst you. Within you. Extraction remains secret.
He did vacation over on Jeju.
“People Power Party”
That sounds sinister.
Sounds like an opening act on a Parliament Funkadelic tour.
I thought we were the People’s Party of Power?
SPLITTER!!
I saw that and have no idea who is doing what or why.
Funny how all this is happening during the alme duck period. Syria heating up, color revolution in Georgia, and now this.
Korean president is also a lame duck. Lost the election and apparently just vetoing everything the opposition has passed – won’t pass a budget and now arbitrarily wants martial law that the opposition also opposes.
Not the old standard students rioting in the streets and cops shooting them that we had back in the 80s.
Not the old standard students rioting in the streets and cops shooting them that we had back in the 80s.
Ah, the good ole days!
Mornin’ Banjos!
Stop that.
Minors are not “transgender” and what’s being done to them is not “care”.
If you translate, as I do, “transgender” to “fake” (as in “transgender woman” = “fake woman”), then it works. Better, anyway.
The pedo movement is strong.
Yes.
There’s no such thing as a trans-kid. That’s an abused kid with parents who should be jailed.
Random thought: Wife watching Harry Potter last night. The scene where the master wizard dies has Harry Potter over his body while everyone else, students and teachers standing back respectfully watching Harry mourn. Give him some room, give him this special moment etc.
What makes Harry so special? He is the protagonist. He is the character the target audience is supposed to sympathize with, the character members of the audience would be if they were in the story. Harry is special. He is more special than any of the other students. The teachers are there for Harry. I get it, it is a common story telling technique. What struck me were the teachers. Why would they stand back and give Harry that special moment? They have much longer friendships and deeper relationships with the dead wizard. He was their friend and colleague more so than Harrys.
It had such a strong flavor of “Everything is all about me” that it left a bad taste in my mouth.
I mention this because that seems to be at the root of all of the virtue signaling, the tranny lunacy, women self-sterilizing etc on the left. It makes me think that martyrs are really all about themselves. One of the symptoms I noticed about mentally ill people, no matter what flavor of crazy they are they are every one of them completely self-absorbed. So much so that it burns out people that are really very sympathetic to the mentally ill.
Women self-sterilizing huh? They aren’t doing that over Trump. They are doing it so that they can be the center of everyone’s attention. I am like…Pontius Pilate? One of the Caesar’s? I forgot who said it – *facepalm* “There is nothing so tiresome as a martyr”.
We are stuck with at least two generations of Harry Potter’s. God save us.
“What makes Harry so special?”
The author of that drivel, J. K. Rowling, making it so..
I have nothing against that lady finding a whole bunch of people that think those books of hers are great (even though she never does the R.R. Martin and endlessly describe people’s cocks as South Park immortalized), and respect the supposed joy she brought to many, but I always thought that crap to be lame and trite. They needed some banter about selling Dwarf cocks and having an economy that had a cock merchant.
It was a big deal when the house elf was given clothes. You just have to read more carefully.
This take is almost as weird as those who are obsessed with everything Harry Potter.
It’s just as nutty as the Star Wars obsession that some people who are a little older have.
It’s could be the result of us living in a decadent society where our basic needs are met and there is no great cause to throw our energy into, so people identify with literary heroes to feel a sense of purpose.
Or it could be that these same people would be burning people at the stake for witchcraft 400 years ago because they need to feel useful and heroic.
We’ve had literary heroes for a lot longer than the modern, decadent West. Jesus is a literary hero, FFS.
To be fair, IIRC Harry rejected the idea that he was “special” many times throughout the series.
I don’t know if rejected is the right term. I think he never understood why he was special and didn’t feel special in some way.
“Female Miami cop claims chief destroyed her career after she refused to ‘tone down’ her hairstyle”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14151589/Weslyne-Lewis-Francois-Miami-police-commander-harassment-lawsuit.html
Doesn’t seem to mention what the rules for whit women’s hair are.
Weslyne should have offered to tone down her hair, right after the assistant chief tones down his waistline…
“Liberal Women Are Undergoing Sterilization and Blaming Trump: ‘Election Tied My Hands’”
More like “Election Tied My Tubes”.
Hunter Biden rented a place in Venice Beach. Didn’t pay rent, changed the locks, and had the Secret Service run off the landlord. Pardoned for that too?
Turns out it was a big Dem donor who changed his mind this time.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/absolute-sht-bag-venice-beach-landlord-claims-hunter/
Nope. That is not a Federal crime so Papa biden’s pardon does not apply. The state of Cali can go after him. (Can, but won’t.)
dbleagle – the Franchise Tax Board will, unless Greaseball reels them in.
Hey TOK, I came up with a new name for your sled team. The Black Hocks! As in Hockey!
Have a picture of a big, black puck on your jerseys, or, get this, an Oreo. People can call you the Black Honks then!
Another good one. We had discussed this one as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EYSL-3sFmE
Solid. I love the idea of a logo with a grizzled player hockin’ a loogie with his stick on the ice. Just add some spit squiggles out of the dude’s mouth.
“Three women gave evidence at trial of being invited back to an Airbnb the Hawell brothers, David and others were staying at before being sexually assaulted by multiple men in a dark bedroom.
The incidents took place over two nights the Sydney-based friends stayed in Newcastle, with a jury finding two women were raped on the first evening and another on the second.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14151325/maurice-hawell-gang-rape.html
Why didn’t they just leave?
Because it only became rape after they were exposed as sluts?
Trump forced them to stay.
Maybe their
tubeshands were tied?The party wasn’t over?
FFS (from embedded link)
Oh yeah, totally normal reaction to rape.
Rape, like racist, is basically a meaningless word at this point.
How democrats win elections, even in places they are not the majority: you keep “finding” and counting ballots till team blue wins…
“In Orange County, California, after weeks of counting, the conservative county ended up with five Democrats and one Republican winning US Congress seats.”
That delayed counting shit is a feature of the election rigging machine.
Meanwhile, Ireland held its election with a complicated system of ranked-choice voting and multi-member districts, and got all its counting done in three days.
JI should be along any minute to tell you how this was completely legit and it’s that the Dems had more voters.
Everyone knows there’s no cheating in US elections.
California is perfecting the Chicago model.
What conservatives live in Orange County anymore? I mean, sure it used to be that, but then California also elected Reagan, twice.
Seems pretty conservative still from listening to Will Swaim and David Bahnsen on Radio Free California – maybe not as much as some of the other surrounding cities. Given that it’s such a large county – I think there are some disparities.
Well, it was conservative (and expensive) enough to drive my niece and her husband to move back to Ohio after a year or so.
Not the weather?
Blah blah blah Supreme Court “trans rights” case!
Jayziss. You’d think fifty million lives are on the line.
DOZENS!
In Romanian election drama no one cares about, after calling for a recount the Constitutional Court decided to let the second round of the presidential election to go on as is on Sunday.
The parliament is a mess with the “nationalist” parties having 32%, the old guard parties having some 37%, center right reformists 13%, Hungarians 7% and other minorities the rest.
If anyone feels like reading this is the manifesto of the leading candidate
https://docs.google.com/file/d/1Q6D0xrJ0_zB_T8JjwheJ_-K4SCvF2e1x/edit?filetype=msword&pli=1
TL/DR: Kill, Blood, Bats, night.
the progressive party of gay ecosocialism missed the threshold for parliament to the sadness of its supporters.
“An Ohio woman who ate a cat in a viral video that fueled rumors of Haitian migrants eating pets was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday, as a judge hit out at her for the gruesome act.
Allexis Ferrell, 27, was arrested at a housing complex in Canton on August 16, when she was caught on police body camera footage crouching on all fours and biting into a cat.
Police later determined that Ferrell had smashed the cat’s head with her foot and then began to eat it, according to a police report obtained by the Canton Repository.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14151249/Allexis-Ferrell-ate-cat-Springfield-Haitian-rumors-sentenced.html
She didn’t even skin and cook it?
It’s actually a bit of a travesty that she was sentenced to jail. A mental institution is what’s called for here.
You mean one more contained than Ohio?
Is that illegal? And what drugs were involved?
Must’ve been catnip.
Ohio Criminalizes Eating Pussy: News at 11.
Oh man, you’re going down!
I see we have a pair of cunning linguists here.
“She told the outlet she is making plans to have a bilateral salpingectomy, which is a procedure to have both of her fallopian tubes removed.”
She has to destroy her reproductive freedom in order to save it. Hope you don’t regret it when the clock really starts ticking and the realization sets in that pets ain’t quite kids.
Ladies there is nothing wrong with anal as contraception. No need to be rash.
What’s the difference between a microwave and anal sex?
The microwave does not brown your meat.
has to destroy her reproductive freedom
It was the Democratic party running Viet Nam in the time of “we had to destroy this village to save it”, and they’ve been running with destroying democracy to save it, so this is just personalizing the political.
“AI risk” is a leftist issue, because the moral childishness is exactly the same as “climate risk”: AI superintelligence is SO dangerous we need to shut down the tech industry, but not dangerous enough to do anything rude to Chinese spies
https://x.com/QuasLacrimas/status/1863190873900507455
People keep thinking this was about protecting the Biden crime family. It goes much, much higher and is about protecting team blue and the Obama legacy and “scandal free” administration lie the media peddled. These fucks hate Biden again. But he won’t go down alone. I do not think this works out as they hoped for.
Meee meee meee!
He was a high school biology teacher in Tucson, Ariz. and his students’ near-constant smartphone use was taking a toll on his well-being. So when summer rolled around after his eleventh year in the classroom — he quit.
“I came to realize that the phone addiction that the students were struggling with was causing severe mental health problems for me, preventing me from being a good husband,” Rutherford said.
He’s helpless. Helpless, I tell you!
That really is NPR’s shtick isn’t it – it is all about learned helplessness.
Discussion on Maidan 2.0 being run in Georgia. As it is a rerun, people in charge seem to know the scam.
https://rumble.com/v5vl7aq-eus-georgia-regime-change-operation-enters-final-month.html
My boyfriend’s fashion (which I carefully curate) just got endorsed by the absolute GOAT of menswear @dieworkwear
.
Feeling validated! Here are more of the fits I’ve styled for him:
https://x.com/zeldapoem/status/1863701338019782810
I like that she refers to it as a fun hobby. Strikes me as a healthy outlook on a fashion.
Are you now, or have you ever been…
He continued to promote Trump’s stolen election theory in the years afterward despite Trump Attorney General William Barr’s assurances that the Justice Department could not find any evidence of widespread fraud claimed by Trump and his allies.
Patel has called for closing the FBI’s headquarters in Washington, DC, and firing its top ranks. He would transfer the bureau’s leadership authority to FBI outposts in other parts of the country.
Padilla says those views cross a red line for him.
“I know how I’m going to vote for someone who believes in conspiracy theories, denies the results of the 2020 election, and then says, ‘I’m going to run the FBI by shutting down FBI headquarters.’ Are you kidding me?” he said.
Who knows what that guy might investigate?
Oh, suddenly the standard is “widespread” fraud? Because I’m sure it was “there was no fraud”.
“There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none…”
Just like there are no illegals registered to vote or actually vote. Oh whoops, there are and they did.
These people don’t realize how fortunate they are. If Trump were as much of a dictator as they say, he’d set up his own Disinformation Board to censor lefty social media and “news”, and send the FBI after the clearly corrupt Democrat party.
Bwahahahaha – so everything I said means jackshit because there was never any chance I would vote to affirm ANY Trump appointee.
Yeah. None of this outcry is news. None of them were gonna vote to confirm any of them to begin with. You know….for (D)emocracy!
I see the Dems are continuing the gaslighting. Now their position is “The Federal government is super effective, efficient, nonpartisan, and not wasting any money.” Once again, we are called upon to not believe our own eyes.
Israel has obliterated the mausoleum of Simon Peter, the Apostle of Christ, in Shama, southern Lebanon.
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/1863303879560933815
I thought he was buried in the Vatican?
So I’m guessing the rest of that post is also bullshit.
St. Peter’s tomb is under St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City.
That aside, I’d like to hear the Israeli version of events. “Israel has obliterated” could just as easily be read as “Israel blew up the munitions we were storing…”
As said before, in hte Vatican.
Now available via virtual tour!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPr0vVVD5VM
The Incoherence Of Wifeguy Radicalism
Bourgeois domesticity is fine, but it isn’t a revolution against the system
https://www.highly-respected.com/p/the-incoherence-of-wifeguy-radicalism
“Behold the Hundreds of Crimes for Which Hunter Biden Just Got Pardoned
The laptop report’s author, Garret Ziegler, who the Bidens are now suing, lists in a grid more than 53 business crimes from 2011 to 2018. He includes who’s involved, accomplices, venue, and the U.S. statutes broken and which federal law enforcement ignored.
The laptop lists 40 of the shell companies believed to have been created through which the Biden family and Hunter’s partner received and disbursed money.
There are multiple Suspicious Activity Reports (SARS) reports from 2011 in which millions of dollars were red-flagged by JP Morgan Chase Bank to the feds because the series of transactions (some to foreign prostitutes) smacked of money laundering or other illegal activity.
Hunter’s laptop showed he had violated federal human trafficking laws for transporting hookers across state lines for the purpose of having sex….”
https://pjmedia.com/victoria-taft/2024/12/02/what-crimes-did-hunter-biden-get-aw-n4934767
Cocaine is a helluva drug.
Cocaine is a helluva drug. – also expensive if you want the good stuff. As are the young ladies of negotiable affection. It does not do for a Biden to get low quality cooch. So money be needed.
Hunter’s landlord wants to know if his back rent was pardoned.
https://x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1863442352456491202
The good new is “no” – the pardon doesn’t cover civil lawsuits.
Isn’t the pardon for anything between 2014-2024? 2011 would be outside of that unless the statute of limitations expired.
Daniel Hannan
@DanielJHannan
Your regular reminder that, had the world followed France and built nuclear reactors half a century ago, there would now be no rows about decarbonisation, no IPCC, no Greta Thunberg marches.
The whole problem was created by the green movement.
https://x.com/DanielJHannan/status/1863927963814666406
Oh, there would still be Greta Thunberg marches. They would just be about something else.
“The transgender surgery industry is projected to reach a $5 billion value by the end of the decade, and the medical industry doesn’t want to give up that cash cow, no matter how harmful the “treatments” are. Unfortunately, at least 16 states (including some that are considered red) are ready and willing to lavish taxpayer money on the trans-ing of youth, encouraging the woke fantasy that a person can alter his biological sex through medications and genital mutilation. Under the Biden-Harris administration, transgender “interventions” went up 60% across 15 states.
The Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) filed public records requests and on Dec. 2 revealed their findings — namely, that 16 states spent over $165 million on “gender transition services” through medical assistance and state insurance programs. Disturbingly, a whopping $45 million of that was spent on transitioning minors 17 years old or younger. How is that not government-funded grooming and child abuse?
Among the “treatments” covered by the states were puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries to remove or “add” body parts. The records DCNF obtained covered the time period between January 2018 and September 2023. Among the state programs that covered the “treatments” is the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which receives Medicaid —i.e., federal and state — funding. DCNF used International Classification of Diseases codes to identify the funding of transgender procedures….”
https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2024/12/02/states-spent-45m-on-trans-ing-minors-2018-2023-n4934773
Not included is all the money schools and NGO’s spend.
Heinlein’s Crazy Years are coming I can feel it
That’s an awful lot of money to spend on procedures that are not at all effective.
It may postpone the suicide (due to untreated mental illness).
In most of these cases, suicide is just a bullshit scare tactic.
Given the suicide rate of post-treatment people, it is arguable that the treatment is worse than the ‘disease’.
Make California Great Again
Opening day ceremonies at the Capitol, marked by celebratory galas and oaths of office, shifted to announcements of legislation to fund future lawsuits against the Trump administration and protect abortion access. But humbled by the results of the November election, in which Republicans made small gains in both houses of the legislature, Democratic leaders vowed to renew their focus on increasing affordability.
“Our constituents told us two very important things in November,” Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas (D-Hollister) said.
“First, they continue to believe deeply in California’s values of tolerance, of equality and of human rights,” said Rivas, who was reelected on a party-line vote to the Assembly’s top post. “But second, our constituents — they don’t feel that the state of California is working for them.”
Rivas pushed lawmakers to focus their energy on ideas to reduce the price of housing, household goods, and the cost of starting a business. The speaker said he would enforce that focus by limiting the number of bills each member is allowed to introduce over the course of the two-year session from 50 to 35.
“Our task this session is urgent, and it’s clear: we must chart a new path forward and renew the California Dream by focusing on affordability,” Rivas said.
Try repealing two laws for every new law proposed.
But California has this HUGE base of conservatives being kept down!11!
There were some twitter posts showing maps how gerrymandering has broken up a few conservative majority areas and weakening some pretty large areas.
Not surprising. A lot of politicians are chameleon opportunists. If the GOP is the route to power, they’ll be the staunchest Republican. If it’s a Democrat district, likewise. If it changes, they switch parties.
I mostly go by the fact that California has spent years, maybe even decades, hollowing out the middle class in the state.
Legislation announced Monday would ready the state for potential legal battles with the federal government over issues such as immigration, reproductive rights and environmental regulations by setting aside $25 million for anticipated legal costs. A companion measure would allocate $500,000 for lawyers to immediately begin preparing cases.
“While we always hope to collaborate with our federal partners, California will be ready to vigorously defend our interests and values from any unlawful action by the incoming Trump Administration,” said Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), who authored both bills.
Immediately begin preparing cases? Based on what? rumors and speculation? Gavin’s poll numbers?
Immediately begin preparing cases? Based on what? – $500,000. have you not payed attention?
“Payed”.
You’re doing this on purpose, just because you know it grinds my gears, aren’t you?
Fucking Reddit grammar.
You gotta love how actually enforcing federal law becomes “unlawful action”. It’s just lies and gaslighting all the way down.
This is not surprising, but I wonder if Team Blue won this would have happened.
GM to Exit Michigan EV Battery Plant
Automaker plans to sell its stake to joint-venture partner LG Energy, the latest pullback in its electric-car investments
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/gm-to-exit-michigan-ev-battery-plant-c113676c?st=GBfvPM&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
where does LG stand on the South Korean martial law?
X vs Bluesky: The economics of the social media war
I have never been on Bluesky, but I already hate it. The fast growth of this new social media platform seems to be primarily driven by the most annoying and irritating characters on X. But that is also precisely the reason why I believe that Bluesky is more than a passing fad: it has the potential to lastingly change the social media landscape, and even if Bluesky itself does not do that, a platform quite like it will.
Let’s remember how, a little over two years ago, Elon Musk’s takeover of X (formerly Twitter) triggered a debate about the market power of social media platforms, and the appropriate policy responses. Musk’s critics argued that social media platforms were essentially the public square of the 2020s, and that they should be run accordingly – not as the personal plaything or vanity project of a billionaire. They should, at the very least, be heavily regulated by the state, and better still, taken into public ownership.
https://capx.co/x-vs-bluesky-the-economics-of-the-social-media-war/
Blue Sky is X for the pedo community.
“They should, at the very least, be heavily regulated by the state, and better still, taken into public ownership.”
No.
How will Blue Sky resist bloating their offices with DEI groups and avoid the fate of Twitter pre-Musk?
Some fodder for later:
https://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/canton/cat-killer-plea-720634
Revised numbers
President-elect Donald Trump got very close to a majority of the vote in this presidential election, but not quite. It is not exactly the “unprecedented and powerful mandate” Trump claimed on election night.
In fact, this year’s popular-vote margin is the second-closest since 1968 and still tightening. It shows just how closely divided the country is politically, and that any shift to the right is marginal.
Every vote is sacred.
It is not exactly the “unprecedented and powerful mandate” Trump claimed on election night.
Which just shows how empty and worthless that statement was, is and ever will be.
Whew, that was a close one. Now we can keep pushing the narrative that a small percentage of white supremacists usurped the government against the will of the majority.
I mean, does anyone really believe any of the numbers posted since the day after the election?
“…and still tightening.”
The election was a fucking month ago.
With 96% of the vote in, Trump has, according to the Associated Press, 49.97% to Vice President Harris’ 48.36%, or 76.9 million votes to 74.4 million. (The U.S. Election Atlas has a higher raw vote total and a slightly narrower margin, 49.78% to 48.23, or 77.1 million votes to 74.7 million.)
It’s the highest percentage Trump has received in his three runs at the presidency. (He got just less than 46% in 2016 and less than 47% in 2020.) Votes are still being counted, including provisional and overseas ballots across the country.
The 2000 election was decided by just 0.51 percentage points with then-Vice President Al Gore winning the popular vote but losing in the Electoral College to George W. Bush. The 2024 margin may very well get slightly closer, as the provisional ballots have favored Harris and they are coming from blue states like California, Oregon and New York.
It ain’t over until the fat lady votes. They’ll drag Harris to the finish line or bust a gut trying.
It appears Pakistan consulted with the state of CA for how destroy electricity markets.
Consuming 320 kilowatt-hours of electricity in a month in the eastern city of Lahore—enough to power a couple of fans, a handful of lights and a small fridge—costs a household $60, even at the discounted rate charged to low-volume consumers. Pakistan’s per capita income is $125 a month.
https://www.wsj.com/world/asia/pakistan-energy-debt-china-8cfcee3d?st=RADmTf&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Bricktop_NAFO
@Bricktop_NAFO
A-10 Warthogs of the U.S. Air Force have been flying strafing runs against the Iraqi Shia militia columns that entered Syria and were heading toward Damascus to link up with Assad’s forces and fight against Turkish-backed rebels.
Extremely high casualties reported.
eigenrobot
@eigenrobot
i dont think we have any idea what we’re trying to accomplish here but im glad everyone is having fun and no ones getting hurt
https://x.com/eigenrobot/status/1863728695971811768
Although reading more it appears fake. Never mind.
Of course, U.S. presidential elections are not decided by the popular vote; they are decided by the Electoral College. And on that score, Trump had a fairly wide 312 to 226 Electoral College victory, the widest since 2012.
I guess that means Trump won. But that doesn’t mean he gets to do what he wants. That’s not fair.
Anyone looking for another fun time waster on their phone (albeit pretty big), I’m having fun with Girls Frontline 2: Exilium which just opened today. One of those gacha games where each character represents a specific firearm.
Copy nothing except Rolls Royce, Bentley, and then put a Studabaker radiator on the back of the car.
https://x.com/ericgoldenx/status/1863574858333901010
MikeS hardest hit:
https://pjmedia.com/athena-thorne/2024/11/30/is-donald-trump-the-long-awaited-messiah-of-the-band-rush-era-n4934729
I feel like I’m being transported in time back to college…
We went through three receptionists this year. Odd to me. The new one is great (although super young). Maybe because she used to be a resident-advisor at a youth home (read: last chance at independent living for teens who got kicked out of residential foster homes.) Anyhoo, we get a tiny bit of “slow” weeks before the holidays and then it gets really crazy! Like new cases raining from the sky. Which is good (because new $$) but bad because it’s exhausting and overwhelming.
“I want a divorce for Christmas, babe!”
“All I Want for Christmas, is Her”
My favorite (that’s sarcastic) new client calls are the ones made by — not the client — but a parent, sister, or current girlfriend. Ok, let’s start with a big red flag _before_ you even meet an attorney.
Oh boy! That’s like a parent trying to run a kid’s job interview.
I can only imagine. In addition to economic pressures, now you have the return of TDS.
Something something starving children
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Monday lost his bid to get his 2018 CEO pay package reinstated when a Delaware judge upheld her prior ruling that the compensation plan was improperly granted.
The package, worth about $56 billion, was the largest compensation plan in U.S. history for a public company executive. Tesla said in a post on social media platform X, which Musk owns, that it plans to appeal the ruling. Musk, in a separate X post, called the ruling “absolute corruption.”
In January, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick voided the pay plan, ruling that Musk had individually “controlled Tesla” and dictated the terms of his compensation to a board that didn’t fairly negotiate. She called the process leading to approval of that pay plan “deeply flawed.”
It’s good to have a judge decide these things. Otherwise it would be chaos.
Wait, a company he controlled did what he wanted? What a shock.
dictated the terms of his compensation to a board that didn’t fairly negotiate
Now do the Chicago Teachers Association and the new board that Mayor Johnson installed.
“Poetic Justice for Jay Bhattacharya
During the pandemic, the NIH director called for a ‘takedown’ of the Stanford scientist’s ideas. Now he’s poised to run the NIH himself.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/poetic-justice-for-jay-bhattacharya-trump-fauci-nih
Worth reading.
“Even if a stockholder vote could have a ratifying effect, it could not do so here,” McCormick wrote in her opinion Monday. “Were the court to condone the practice of allowing defeated parties to create new facts for the purpose of revising judgments, lawsuits would become interminable.”
As part of Monday’s opinion, McCormick approved a $345 million attorney fee award for the lawyers who successfully sued on behalf of Tesla shareholders in order to void Musk’s pay plan.
Sure, why not? A job well done.