Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! Grab that coffee, wave to that co-worker, and enjoy another amazing day and the links!
Saudi Arabia Considers Global Trade in Non-Dollar Currencies
Alec Baldwin to be charged with involuntary manslaughter in fatal Rust shooting
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy officially ends proxy voting
Supreme Court Report Fails to Identify Leaker of Roe v. Wade Draft Opinion
Trump ‘probably coming back to Twitter’: GOP source
Google parent company Alphabet to eliminate 12,000 jobs
Hollywood Lost Over $500 Billion in Market Value in 2022
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Supreme Court Report Fails to Identify Leaker of Roe v. Wade Draft Opinion”
Lame.
I’m sure they could if they wanted to, but they prefer to just have it go away.
They can identify every granny who toured the Capital building a couple of years ago, but this remains a mystery.
So much this.
Just another reminder of who the rules are really for.
^this.
+1 Seth Rich murderer
We should start a pool on the next draft opinion to be leaked. Because Dobbs won’t be the last one, now that the clerks (I still think it was a clerk) know that the Court doesn’t really mind. I, for one, will have zero sympathy for any Justice who complains the next time(s) it happens.
It still boggles my mind that:
1. It took this long to get the report. That is some serious milking, wonder how much it cost to accomplish nothing.
2. They didn’t even find out who dun it.
This single line reveals a lot though: ‘Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley’s Report’
This person’s background doesn’t make you very confident anything would come of the report. As far as I can tell her background isn’t really in investigations and law enforcement.
It was one of the three liberal justices. And that is why it will not be revealed.
Agreed.
*adjusts tin foil hat*
Saudi Arabia Considers Global Trade in Non-Dollar Currencies – make it Lei
shooting rust is a bad idea I am sure there are better ways to remove rust.
Lasers.
nice
How bad must the rest of the world be for the dollar to be strong right now?
Bad. The dollar is fighting to be the best looking turd in the punchbowl.
At issue is the offshore dollar market. If those bucks ever start coming home (ie if the Bretton Woods agreement completely fails) we are fuuuucked.
It seems Powell gets that and is trying to shore up the dollar by raising rates, but there are a lot of interested and well-heeled parties that don’t want him to do that. Count your lucky stars Yellen isn’t Fed Chairperson right now.
The wild card is China. It’s heavily rumored that they are sitting on 30,000 tons of gold. If they were to announce that, it would be like dropping a nuke on our economy.
Their currency is even more heavily manipulated than ours!
Like I said, it’s a rumor. If they did announce that, it wouldn’t be a bed of roses for them either. Imagine the massive increase in value of the renminbi and what that would do to their manufacturing base.
Last thing they’d want is a currency runup that kills their exports. That would do more damage to their economy than ours.
They’d have to prove they had it I hope. Like give it more scrutiny than the search for WMDs in Iraq.
We could send Geraldo over there to find it.
Nah he is better at reporting troop locations
Is that really worth so much?
30,000 ounces per ton, times $2,000 per oz is only $1.8 trillion.
The US government spends the value of all the gold (190,000 tons) in the world every 2 years or so.
Trump ‘probably coming back to Twitter’: GOP source
GOP source. lol. Huge if true.
“who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity”
That’s reliable.
Trump should post on Twitter if he’s running for President. Hillary should have gone on Fox.
I think Trump should quit though.
Trump’s ego will not allow him to quit.
Yes. I think the Left may have finally figured him out. Now they can play him with rope-a-dope.
As someone else here pointed out, all the Dems had to was flatter Trump and stroke his ego, and they could have gotten him to go along with all kinds of shit. He’s a 90s Democrat after all. But no, they had to go all batshit insane ORANGEMANBAD instead.
So true.
Well when you’ve compared Romney to Hitler, is it really all that far of a fall for slobbering-TDS? They’re already warming up for DeSantis.
You misspelled DeSatan.
I thought it was XiSantis?
I actually heard somebody use “DeSatan” in the wild a couple of months ago. Thought I knew the guy reasonably well, guess not.
Any non-ironic use of those sorts of stupid nicknames is just cringe.
Except for Block Insane Yo-mama, of course. That’s just straight out of the Algonquin Roundtable
We’ve had Zion Don. Get ready for Zion Ron!
I thought it was DeathSantis.
It was Deathsantis, until the numbers came in and he wasn’t any worse than the double mask lockdown passport fanatics.
Actually, the numbers in Florida are very favorable, once you account for the demographics (lots of oldies).
Not quite on-topic, but your comment just reminded me of something: The yoots at work (like 22-35), who are actually bright, good Engineers who I like a lot, know NOTHING about any political relations earlier than yesterday. When one of us more-seasoned folks says that the best way to describe Trump is as a “Clinton Democrat”, they literally can’t process that. All they get is current proggie-infested TEAM crap, even the ones who are more on the right side of that. The only thing that comes close to historical understanding is a reflexive “oh yeah the parties switched” to hand-wave away any historical Donk evils. NPC really is the right descriptor for them all.
The really sad part is that they have the fucking internet. The Clinton speeches, articles of the events of the day, and policy positions are at their fingertips. A similar kid pre-1995 that was trying to assess whether George HW Bush was really like LBJ would have had to spend weeks at a library to do the kind of search that can be done in minutes today.
Gnats have a longer attention span.
Their constant outrage at the *insert undesirable here* is what fuels their existence. They don’t have anything else.
Hillary should have gone on Fox.
And give legitimacy to the deplorables?
Hollywood Lost Over $500 Billion in Market Value in 2022
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“Woke politics in entertainment and artistic interference from foreign regimes like communist China have taken a toll on viewership, creativity, and finances.”
Objection, Speculation.
Overruled.
All those people who sais they hated She Hulk, Velma, etc. were just Russian bots.
And so were all those people who went to see Top Gun: Maverick.
I think the pre-release story of how he kept the Taiwan flag on his jacket (thus thumbing his nose at the ChiComs) did not hurt the American box office at all.
I told my boomer-con mother that the military helped pay to produce that movie, and she said “oh I bet that’s why it was so good.”
Lol, damnit Barbara.
Heh.
Some of you have gotten so wrapped up in this seconding business that you’ve forgotten the taste of a real First!
BRICS and the planned destruction of the petro-dollar is the biggest story that nobody is reporting, Instead of trying to avoid it, our State Department just keeps breaking agreements while bullying and preaching.
It’s just lucky that the adults are in charge!
This is why I’ve come to agree with Tom Luongo that the neocons are useful idiots.
The neocons sole redeeming feature was they hated Communism – because they had believed in it and it failed them.
I’m starting to think that after the Trotsky purge, they really hated Russians and just blamed it on communism. With communism gone, their hatred is still just as strong.
“Why do you hate American leadership in the world?!”
I agree with you, of course. I honestly think our leadership has developed a God complex.
If you haven’t listened to the Sam Harris and DeGrasse Tyson interviews from this past week, you really should.
The megalomania is palpable. They’re absolutely and completely motivated by a fear of losing their perceived authority and social status. Harris is particularly terrifying.
Well, you know they’re special people with an almost extraterrestrial insight into how the world should be told to obey. Horse Face said so.
I liked Rev Al Gore’s fire and brimstone sermon better.
Repent all you sinners. The end is nigh. Gore did come out of the Baptist faith. He just repurposed apocalyptic scripture for climate change using the same cadences and imagery.
Just to add he’s running into the same problem the apocalyptic preachers have of the predictions of doom never seeming to arrive.
He’s not running into problems. ICE’s have been banned on the west coast within a decade. No plan to replace the dams that are being taken down with nukes or anything else. He gets a prime slot at Davos and doesn’t get laughed out of the room.
Nice work if you can get it.
Who is Horse Face?
https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2023/01/17/an-almost-extraterrestrial-plan-climate-lunatic-john-kerry-offers-his-most-ridiculous-take-yet-n689993
I heard snippets of their interviews on Liberty Lockdown and Part of the Problem, respectively, but I didn’t hear the full interviews. Honestly, I think I’d bust an artery in rage if I did.
I think selling your soul is only useful if people will pretend you didn’t sell your soul. Harris and DeGrasse Tyson both sold their souls. And people are increasingly not pretending otherwise.
Harris is particularly terrifying.
To be fair to him, it’s got to be potentially devastating to his ego to even entertain the possibility that a bunch of MAGA-hat-wearing Christian fundamentalists proved to be smarter and more sensible about the pandemic than him.
The masks are off and you can see them for what they truly are now. And it’s not pretty.
Anyone who believes in the supposed capabilities and benevolence of the technocratic state needs to watch those interviews. Harris and Tyson are not outliers, they’re just more vocal.
‘To be fair to him’
You know, I don’t have any particular need to ‘be fair’ to someone who openly calls for silencing people telling the truth.
Oh, so a couple of Cardinals of the Church during the Reformation?
Referring to Dave Smith’s podcast? Sam Harris takes the cake if Tyson, somehow, with this quote: “in some ways we were unlucky that COVID turned out to be so benign.”
Btw, did they stop putting PotP on Spotify, or is something buggy with my app? I’m not seeing any new uploads since the Michael Knowles episode in mid December.
did they stop putting PotP on Spotify
I’m seeing all the episodes. “The return of our favorite little piggy” – heh. But I’m not using the app, this is direct through browser on my desktop.
App is working fine for me.
Do you have a link?
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mePntOX5DzYg5HvkoTFkd?si=Bv__f_RwS3SEo4AQYpD8Eg&utm_source=copy-link
They’re so arrogant they probably think they can remove those leaders as easily as they removed Gaddafi.
Crosby, singing
Re: Crosby – I recall reading or hearing that years ago, before Crosby went in for some surgery or another, Graham Nash told him something to the effect of “Don’t you go dying and leaving me alone here with Stills.”
I’ve always been a sucker for beautiful vocal harmonies, so I do mourn the loss of his “part.”
I was surprised he was only 81. One of those guys who looked 80 when he was 45.
You have a point there
My guess is that they didn’t find the SCOTUS leaker because they didn’t want to find the SCOTUS leaker. Most likely it was someone in one of the Justices’ orbits and Roberts wants to kick the can down the street. Roberts has earned himself a reputation of having no backbone (going back to the penaltax claim in the Obamacare decision). And the Court will pay the price for his weakness.
Roberts is a world class pussy.
Or maybe the mandarinate has something on him, who knows.
Francis Urquhart from the original House of Cards had a line that I think summarizes Roberts: His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait, that… in a spaniel or a whore, not, I think, in a Prime Minister (or in this case Chief Justice)
I’d go beyond “orbits” and believe it’s likely to have been driven by one of the Justices. And yes Roberts is Roberts, but the Court won’t pay the price, the country will. Just like permanently delegitimizing the elections, doing the same to the Court is not going to be a good thing.
The Court was delegitimized long before Roberts. The Taney Court at the latest. Holmes was never CJ, but he did far more damage to the Court than Roberts has (or will).
Well sure, but you know perfectly well what one means about the turn that started with Robert and the penaltax. For anyone in living memory, the SC was still generally treated (by the vast majority of the population) as above the normal day-to-day politics – not perfect but still something stable and close to reasonable. Now NOBODY thinks that.
This is your comment, about da yoots at work, just slightly reworked.
But what law did the leaker break? If it was, in my opinion, one of the liberal justices’ then they cannot do a damn thing, as they aren’t fireable. At that point, the best thing might be to keep it in-house.
I would love to live in the alternate reality where W had had the balls to nominate Janice Rogers Brown as the Chief justice instead of Roberts.
Zelensky making friends and influencing people who could help him. This is how you get your country partitioned.
I sympathize with the Ukrainians in a way but they do seem to have a pretty vicious streak of xenophobia that goes beyond rhetoric. If they had been able to put that aside they wouldn’t be in the spot they’re in now.
Well, they do have a vicious streak of Nazism in them.
Shhh. Don’t tell Chrystia Freeland who marched with protestors wearing Above Battalion scarves.
Had the Nazis not been total idiots, the Ukrainians would’ve gladly marched with them to kill Bolsheviks.
…and understandably so.
And like the Finns, they would’ve been condemned for throwing in their lot with the wrong bad guys.
Hungary has been sticking its dick in other countries where there’s an ethnic Hungarian minority too. They’re not completely innocent here.
https://www.bbc.com/news/10166610
Is a story about trying Hungary trying to fuck over Slovakia.
Hungary has been doing shit in Romania as well, but it is innefectual so fuck em. That being said, Ukraine was not exactly great in treatment of the significant Romanian minority in the border regions. It has been a bone of contention before the war, like Snake Island and water management in the Danube delta.
Ethnocentrism is a vicious cycle. For all involved. Once a neighboring country leverages its ethnic cohort in your country to carve off a chunk of your country, it should be no surprise that other ethnic minorities are treated with suspicion.
You sound like you live in a border state 😉
That used to belong to the other country!
Or a country with borders arbitrarily draw up by a drunk peasant like Khrushchev.
As opposed to how the drunk aristocrats in the UK and elsewhere carved up other areas throughout time.
The fact is there were rarely nicely homogeneous areas in the premodern times, outside of the heartlands of peoples and even then, that was usually the result of ancient ethnic cleansing.
“Border State” = MO, KY, MD, DE…
In March 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that Riyadh was mulling over a plan to price its crude sales to Beijing in the Chinese yuan. The newspaper noted that the kingdom had become increasingly frustrated over U.S. President Joe Biden and his administration, and it was looking to shift its focus to more amenable Asian markets, including China.
But Joe Biden is the best President ever.
When you weaponize your own monetary and transactional systems other countries are going to want to bail.
Our ruling class is so damn arrogant they think everyone inside and outside the country will just fall in line forever. Eventually someone’s going to get tired of their shit.
Debt ceiling: America’s budget crisis of its own creation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64341875
“First, a bit of context. The US government is in the enviable position of being able to issue new debt pretty much whenever it wants. American Treasury securities have been viewed for as one of the safest, most stable investments in the modern world. In times of economic turbulence, US debt is a harbour in the storm.
If the US issues new government debt in the form of Treasury bonds, bills, notes and securities, there will be investors, both in the US and abroad, who are interested buyers.
While the current figures for the US debt – $31tn (£25tn) and growing – are astounding in both numerical and comparative terms, they do not represent an impending crisis.
The US debt-to-gross-domestic-product ratio, typically a more illuminating measure of a nation ability to manage its debt, sits at 121%.
This is lower than dozens of countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia and Greece.”
Do these people really believe endless debt is never a problem?
Greece? The “completely bankrupt / IMF stepping in / debts are out of control” poster child from a few years back?
That says a lot more of how close to the cliff the US, UK, Germany and Australia are than anything else.
There’s enough whistling past the graveyard to raise all of the dead.
Of course they don’t see anything wrong, they’re not going to have to foot the bill, and can leech off the waste.
They’re not out of money, they still have plenty of checks!
I ‘member when a trillion dollar coin was considered a big deal.
They don’t explain why it isn’t an issue beyond that other countries are worse off. It used to be a pretty big deal if you had a debt larger than your GDP. Some European countries floated with it, but even under George The Lesser America was well off from that.
Yea, 121% is awful. And there aint much flexibility there if shit does hit the fan. You keep spending every year like it’s an emergency, and when the real one comes like say a war and you are done.
‘Orning ‘ordles — back to “Blech”, back to reality…
Daily Duotrigordle #324
Guesses: 34/37
Time: 05:31.48
https://duotrigordle.com/
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Brain dead.
You people are getting worse and worse with practice
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Saudi Arabia Considers Global Trade in Non-Dollar Currencies
Once the petro-dollar is no more, US dominance and the economy is no more*.
I’ve heard the argument about “enforcement” via military means, but I have zero faith in our woke and ‘vaccine’ poisoned military.
Oh noes – how will the world ever survive without DC calling the shots in every corner?
Oh noes – our national dick will shrink, we won’t impress people waving it around! END OF THE WORLD
It’s just winter penis.
Old guy winter penis.
Anyone who’s blood pressure is too low this morning. Maddening and inhuman are the only two words that leap to mind for me reading that.
I had to stop reading that.
*shudders*
To get the procedure, both he and his wife would have to get COVID shots – no exceptions.
Everyone knows it is a good idea to mandate a fake vaccine that causes cardiovascular issues, especially with people suffering from cardiovascular issues.
Not to mention i always get a flu shot while I have the flu. It’s just good medical practice.
That’s the other thing. It used to be considered poor practice (because it can kill you) to be inoculated for something you’ve already had.
Gpatz linked to Gallup last night showing “A majority of Americans rate healthcare in the United States as substandard for the first time”. I wonder what could have contributed?
Oh, I know this one!
Trump, right?
Seems very anecdotal.
Not with the leaders we have.
Yep, our elite believes accountability is only for little people. The elite don’t have accountability.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy officially ends proxy voting
Demonstrating that Republican “extremism” knows no bounds.
“Divine justice! Thief is stabbed by angel statue’s sword after trying to steal it from Mexican church and tripping over”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11657355/Thief-stabbed-angel-statues-sword-trying-steal-Mexican-church.html
Do not be afraid.
Don’t blink.
When I was younger someone robbed my parish’s church at ~4AM while all the grandmothers were praying and beat up the priest.
The church started to lock its doors. You used to be able to come and pray any time of the day, the doors were always unlocked. After that it was locked outside of specified mass/event times.
Anyone targeting a church is evil.
The ATF is on a roll with the pistol / SBR thing that will create a couple hundred thousand new felons.
Now they may be coming for pistol grip shotguns like the Benelli M4 or bullpups.
2A is clear. This entire agency is unconstitutional and needs to be disbanded along with 90% of the federal government.
And isn’t there something about ex post facto laws that ought to apply?
Why should that part matter anymore than the rest?
The ATF is on a roll with the pistol / SBR thing that will create a couple hundred thousand new felons.
The estimates I’ve seen are closer to 10-40 million new felons.
Washington Gun Law and Armed Attorneys on Youtube are worth checking out for firearm legislation and news. Found them a few months ago.
The Armed Attorneys’ take on the Houston shooting (both former prosecutors) was pretty good. “Last shot probably wasn’t kosher under the letter of the law, but there’ll probably be enough people on the jury who’ll land on some people just need killing”.
While the world has been focused on Saudi Arabia’s ambitious (and outrageous) Line & Neom proposals for new cities, they’re quietly building another sort of city, with its foundations firmly planted in Arabic tradition.
Diriyah Gate is a $20B project on the outskirts of Riyadh
https://twitter.com/Cobylefko/status/1615825745552580628
I’m pretty sure I’ve been to that part of EPCOT.
How bad must the rest of the world be for the dollar to be strong right now?
I don’t know where it is right now, but the Euro fell all the way to par with the dollar, not long ago.
It would have fallen farther, but something happened to stabilize it. Don’t know what though.
If it were to fall to $0.70, the nukes might start flying so maybe it wasn’t a completely bad thing.
The strange death of Jeremy Clarkson’s England
The raucous national culture which made him is fading
https://unherd.com/2023/01/the-strange-death-of-clarksons-england/
Yes, the English have decided to become thoroughly cucked. Sad really. Could be worse though, like the Scots and the Irish.
Supreme Court Report Fails to Identify Leaker of Roe v. Wade Draft Opinion
I suppose the FBI is too busy persecuting dissidents of the regime to find out something that they and scotus already know.
If the US issues new government debt in the form of Treasury bonds, bills, notes and securities, there will be investors, both in the US and abroad, who are interested buyers.
While the current figures for the US debt – $31tn (£25tn) and growing – are astounding in both numerical and comparative terms, they do not represent an impending crisis.
The Federal Reserve Bank has been propping up the bond market for a long time, and people are starting to wonder how much longer it can go on.
Hollywood Lost Over $500 Billion in Market Value in 2022
Good.
It lost money because everyone is a racist intolerant transphobic bigot. I’ll bet.
More preaching – that’s what those people need. And we’ll give it to ’em, good and hard!
They should learn from the Christians. For millennium the greatest works of art in all forms was religiously inspired. Christian music and movies today are insipid preaching. I love God. God loves me. Yeah God. For a century liberal Hollywood put its progressive messages in great stories without the preaching. Now Hollywood movies are insipid preaching of the MESSAGE. It’s a horrible mistake on their part.
No, no, believers KNOW they have The Truth, and you must know it too. We’ll keep telling you until you agree! And of course the more you resist, the more you notice how we don’t actually live what we preach, all of that just means you aren’t being preached at hard enough.
Klan again targets Loudoun with racist flyers
It’s as intimidating as a chihuahua. It would be different if it was Antifa/BLM.
“50 flyers wrapped in plastic bags with birdseed”
Can anyone explain the birdseed to me?
Probably to weigh down the bags.
Yup. The lawn services around here weight business cards in plastic bags with small rocks – cheaper than birdseed, I’m sure.
That or the teamed up with the Audubon Society.
Definitely it was the Klan. It was not some random crazy progressive who cosplays. Because that never happens. Also 50 bags? That’s one person. Not a group.
The Ku Ku Klan
The Cathedral is doing its damned to drive recruitment up so they can finally have the race war they’ve been itching for.
The gaslighting here is breathtaking.
The demand for white supremacists will eventually call forth a supply of them – demand always creates supply.
I guarantee that this is a false flag op.
Loudoun is ground zero in the culture wars right now and the Left will do anything to shore up sentiment.
the group has about 100 members and is the largest and most active of 35 to 40 groups in the KKK
So there are around 2,000 people that are alleged white-supremes and their biggest crime is littering…
Sounds like white-supremacy is the greatest threat to the country. Someone get the FBI on it.
FBI responds – we’re doing our best to grow this threat, but we need more time.
Half of their membership is probably FBI already
So the math from that quote gets you to the whole KKK being maybe 2300-2700 people, if we assume an average group size is (generously) about 2/3 of the largest group.
And the “most active” group is …. tossing legal flyers with bags of birdseed on driveways.
I seriously doubt it was the KKK who distributed those flyers.
Oh I agree with you. My point is that the article basically proves that EVEN IF IT WAS, they’re cartoonishly small and impotent relative to the menacing image.
10 people could easily leave 2,500 flyers in an hour or so’s work. Fake.
The scary Klan managed to pass out 50 flyers. 50. So the Klan’s big push was roughly equivalent to 30 minutes work by a 12 year old earning candy money.
STOP DEFLATING THE FEAR!!!
Why Brendan Fraser skipped the Golden Globes: ‘My mother didn’t raise a hypocrite’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUMyFaLvR6o
Jeremy Corbyn
@jeremycorbyn
As billionaires meet atop their mountain in Davos, 800 million people across the globe are going to bed hungry.
It’s time for a new economic model that redistributes wealth, ownership and power from those who wield it to those who need it.
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1615999723705335810
Deep. No go to africa and asia and explain that to the oligarch class. I said before that english are cucked, but the fact that this worthless sack of shit is admired by a good number of them confirms it. Then again you lot with your Bernie Sanders aint much better. Here at least we know every single politician is a crook.
As if Corbyn wouldn’t be attending WEF if he were PM
It appears as if courts are useless for redress.
A federal judge on Thursday imposed nearly $1 million in sanctions on former President Donald Trump and his lawyer for filing a since-dismissed “frivolous” lawsuit against Hillary Clinton and many others, which had claimed they tried to rig the 2016 presidential election in her favor by smearing Trump.
“We are confronted with a lawsuit that should never have been filed, which was completely frivolous, both factually and legally, and which was brought in bad faith for an improper purpose,” wrote Judge John Middlebrooks in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in his order sanctioning Trump and his attorney Alina Habba.
Trump’s suit, which sought $70 million in damages, accused Clinton and 30 other defendants of conspiring to “weave a false narrative” during the 2016 election that Trump and his campaign were colluding with Russia in their efforts to win the race.
This is literally, factually, patently true.
We knew that. The courts will not save us.
Yeah, that is true. I think I’d refuse to pay.
which sought $70 million in damages
For what exactly? Butthurt? Doesn’t matter that the charges are all true – what is the tort?
Defamation. Arguably defamation per se, since what he was falsely accused of is a crime (treason).
[via link in original]
I didn’t know that RICO was even available as a civil tort. If it hadn’t been used, then that’s a pretty good reason to dismiss with prejudice.
I don’t know if you can leverage a civil claim into a RICO claim, either, but I wouldn’t think so.
Just sayin’, there is a tort claim available. Whether he made it or not, don’t know. Don’t really care – even if it is 100% legit, our courts will never allow it.
If we had loser pays, then sanctions really wouldn’t be necessary to deter frivolous litigation.
The lines are being drawn in public now. First Dimon in Congress, now Gorman in an interview.
https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/morgan-stanley-ceo-says-inflation-clearly-peaked-decries-davos-echo-chamber
It’s the NY banks against Davos and their backers (Bank of London et al).
Hounded by the ignorant rabble
On Thursday, the prime minister said abuse or threats to her and her family had not been a decisive factor in her decision to resign, and that she simply “no longer [had] enough in the tank to do it justice”.
Prominent New Zealand political leaders and public figures, however, say that “constant vilification,” abuse and personal attacks have contributed to that burnout – with some MPs saying the prime minister was “driven from office”, and calling for New Zealand to reexamine its political culture.
“It is a sad day for politics where an outstanding leader has been driven from office for constant personalisation and vilification,” Māori party co-leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer said in the wake of Ardern’s surprise resignation on Thursday.
“Her whānau [family] have withstood the ugliest attacks over the last two years with what we believe to be the most demeaning form of politics we have ever seen”.
Former prime minister Helen Clark, New Zealand’s first female elected leader, said that Ardern had faced “unprecedented” attacks during her tenure.
Whycome them peeples not just OBEY?
with some MPs saying the prime minister was “driven from office”
Good. She’s getting off lightly.
driven from office for constant personalisation and vilification
Maybe don’t be a tyrannical cunte. What you deserve is far worse than being allowed to resign in peace.
Wonder what position she’ll jockey for next.
Give her a break. Being an authoritarian is exhausting.
How them sanctions working out?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-remains-top-seaborne-oil-supplier-europe-despite-sanctions
Meanwhile I had to resort to international wire transfer to a bank in Tbilisi to buy a fucking modular synth module from a Russian maker who’s been shut out of international banking and commerce.
I fucking hate our overlords.
I never liked him and always considered him a fraud, but man is Sam Harris fucked in the head.
I think he’s a straight up idiot. Maybe smart in one area but I certainly haven’t seen it.
Evil is a more apt term.
He certainly doesn’t think so, but neither has any other monster of history.
“The pressures on prime ministers are always great, but in this era of social media, clickbait and 24/7 media cycles, Jacinda has faced a level of hatred and vitriol which in my experience is unprecedented in our country,” she said. “Our society could now usefully reflect on whether it wants to continue to tolerate the excessive polarisation which is making politics an increasingly unattractive calling.”
In 2022, New Zealand police reported that threats against the prime minister had nearly tripled over three years. While police could not determine motives for every individual threat, documents they released showed anti-vaccination sentiment was a driving force of a number of threats, and opposition to legislation to regulate firearms after the 15 March mass shooting in Christchurch was another factor.
Bizarre, inexplicable sourceless antipathy toward this kind, decent, generous, nurturing woman…
The gas is lamps are turned up so high we’re all in danger of asphyxia.
You’d think they’d be concerned with the emissions.
“In 2022, New Zealand police reported that threats against the prime minister had nearly tripled over three years.”
So, deplorable invasion from the mainland or the sheep have finally risen up to prove that some animals are more equal?
“kind, decent, generous, nurturing woman…”
Yeah, I can’t even…
kind, decent, etc: What a strange misspelling of authoritarian bitch. Whoever wrote that should get his dyslexia addressed.
Fuck her and the person who rode in on her.
Kate Hannah, director of the Disinformation Project which monitors online extremism at research centre Te Pūnaha Matatini, said the program had seen a significant increase in abusive, threatening material directed at Ardern, and believed it had likely contributed to her leaving the role.
“The scope of what we’ve observed over the last three years is such that there’s no way it could not have been a contributing factor – for any person,” she said.
“What we see now is absolutely normative, extremely vulgar and violent slurs … incredibly violent use of imagery around death threats.”
Politicians should never face consequences for their actions. Not even so much as a cross word. Not the good politicians, anyway.
incredibly violent use of imagery around death threats.
To say nothing of her threats against Kiwi citizens. “If you don’t get yourself teested, you’ll remain in camp. It’s a good incentive I think.”
“Supreme Court Report Fails to Identify Leaker of Roe v. Wade Draft Opinion”
The call is coming from inside the house!
Biden declared Greatest POTUS of all time
Well, not really.
“Biden is the most destructive president in American history”
OK, we’re getting closer!
I still don’t get why libertarianish people don’t like Tucker.
Ripping off the Bee, that would be one reason.
I still don’t get why libertarianish people don’t like Tucker.
I do. He’s been on point lately.
I’m sure I don’t agree with him on many issues, but I like him, too – due in no small part to lines like this:
From my admittedly limited experience watching/listening to/reading him, I get the impression he has what I call a “good bad attitude.”
The Rightful Ruler – the world would all be wonderful if only the Rightful Ruler sat in the White House!
No Tucker, the problem is just as much in a Congress that is only concerned with partisan intrigue, or to put it another way is about as functional as a junior high school cafeteria. The problem is in a bureaucracy that Congress punts decision-making to, and that the President doesn’t really run. But that’s a little too hard to focus on, so let’s just talk about the President – because that’s good copy.
I like him enough, but I refuse to watch Fox News.
#MeToo. I just click on internet links instead.
I saw that last night – he went to places with the deep state I never thought I’d hear on TV.
Insufficient purity?
He’s not terrible. I watched that segment.
“Trump ‘probably coming back to Twitter’: GOP source”
I just heard from a trusted media source that there will only be 420 people left on Twitter and Musk is going to be broke and in prison.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/01/20/oops-faa-admits-unintentionally-deleted-files-caused-jan-11-mass-system-failure-nationwide-flight-chaos/
Honk honk.
So careless. So for reference, in my system, a cronjob runs an incremental backup nightly and a full backup weekly. On top of that, I do a manual backup to keep ‘off site’. Then…anytime I start something where I will be modifying any files, I do a backup.
These dolts give me a bad fucking name.
*puts on IT hat*
Do you periodically do a test restore with those backups?
Yes, when we do a new adaptation a backup is created and then restored to the system since that is the new ‘baseline’
👍
Just shows they need more money.
The curse of complex systems.
And they think they the global economy can be managed.
Good morning, Reprobates! I’m starting another (not) sunny day here in Everett, WA.
It’s been quite a trip. Toured some really wonderful laboratories yesterday, and am going to the Boeing “Future of Flight” museum tonight. Should be a hoot.
KK, I will try to get some pics for you!
Have a great day, everyone!
Glibs travel article?
Have fun ‘splosives!
Wave hi to my kid for me!
In San Francisco, it is now illegal to wash the shit off the sidewalk
Police have arrested a San Francisco art gallery owner who was caught on video spraying a homeless woman with a water hose.
Collier Gwin, 71, is facing a charge of misdemeanor battery after his Wednesday arrest. In a tweet, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said that Gwin intentionally and unlawfully sprayed water on a homeless woman, who has not been publicly identified, sitting on a sidewalk outside his gallery on Jan. 9.
Jenkins’ office said it issued an arrest warrant for Gwin after reviewing evidence from an investigation conducted by the San Francisco Police Department. He was subsequently booked at a county jail. The case remains an open investigation, the San Francisco Police Department said in a statement.
“The alleged battery of an unhoused member of our community is completely unacceptable. Mr. Gwin will face appropriate consequences for his actions,” Jenkins said on Twitter.
That poor defenseless woman. She’s a victim of circumstance.
Good. Fuck that citizen good and hard. Show them what The State is really all about.
San Francisco needs a city-wide colonic – not to cleanse out the homeless, but those who are in charge and their supporters.
👆👆
There are no non-progs left in SF and the progs that do live there deserve to get what they support good and hard.
KSuell hardest hit.
Heheh, thanks slum. Depending on how you define prog I’d say somewhere between 20-30% of the population here would fit. Of course in the political and government/NGO class that figure would skyrocket. Libertarian types could learn a few things from them about seizing power, although of course they have a natural advantage in being inherently drawn to government. They have been doing it here for decades now, and we are presently at late stage progressivism. SF has one of the highest percentages of college degree holders in the country, and the massive migration of fresh out of university types has helped to make it progtown. I’m just trying to amass enough money here to escape and be near the family before it comes completely crashing down. Hopefully I can beat it.
San Francisco needs a city-wide colonic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubkDO_XJmPM
What was the other store owner thinking? A fellow business owner is at his breaking point and instead of siding with him they release the video?
Progs gotta prog.
Pot of crabs come to mind?
Don’t worry. You can still steal five or six cars in San Fran and be released on no bond each time.
I’m entirely tired of this softening of language to elicit specific reactions….
“An unhoused member of our community.” Homeless. That woman isn’t a “member of your community.” Communities are voluntary, and clearly she’s not welcome on the doorstep of a business. She’s a homeless woman living in SF, not a “member of the community.”
“Documents with classified markings.” Gee, why not use the term that’s been used forever, right up until Sleepy Joe got caught with them? Those are not “DWCM.” They’re classified documents.
Our press is not only disappointing, but they think we’re every bit as dumb as they are.
I hope you selfish miscreants are happy. Without giving the government the power to spend unlimited amounts of money it doesn’t have, the entire country is going to come to a stop, and many of us will die.
You first, I’m not going anywhere,
Morning folks!
I already died twice from Net Neutrality.
Meh, I died from second hand smoke, before there was even a Net that wasn’t neutralized.
I already died due to COVID, capitalism, climate change, the lack of net neutrality, …
Net Neutrality already kilt me.
Boeing “Future of Flight” museum tonight. Should be a hoot.
The Boeing “Past of Flight” museum (King Field?) is well worth the price of admission.
It was 25 or 30 years ago.
Supreme Court Report
FailsDecides Not to Identify Leaker of Roe v. Wade Draft OpinionFIFT.
No fucking way they don’t know who did it. I guarantee whoever did it is not smart enough to completely erase their digital and forensic footprint. The only question I have now is: was it a politically connected clerk whose benefactor called in a favor, or was it one of the Justices (which if so, we were never going to find out either way)?
What difference, at this time, does it make? The big SCOTUS blunder was agreeing to rule on Roe v. Wade before the midterm elections rather than after. While the leak gave the pro-choice a month or so head start, the actual ruling was released in plenty of time to gin up the angry single woman vote that went most heavily for Ds in November.
What? Are you suggesting that policy should be hidden to minimize electoral damage? When our glorious policy is KNOWN to be wildly popular?
I don’t think a clerk would have high enough IT access to cover up their trail even if they knew how.
The only way I can think of to do this without leaving a trail would be to take photos of each page off the monitor and then recreate the document later on a private computer.
I have my doubts their audit trails are that strong. I imagine it’s mostly the honor system.
I dunno. Based on my non-IT experience with document discovery, ordinary software programs (I’m thinking MS Office) generate data that can easily be used as an audit trail. Of course, a document that you have good reason to be in won’t necessarily raise any red flags, but copying that document should at least raise some eyebrows.
My understanding is that their investigation amounted to little more than asking everybody to confess, and when nobody did, welp . . . .
I read a bit of the report. It suggests that there was basically no IT security, especially because everyone was working form home (COVID) meaning they don’t even know who had access, hard copies could have been made without their knowledge, etc.
Basically a total cockup from the security standards they should have had. aka ‘honor system’
Why is it that again and again the highest levels (Trump, Hillary, Biden, the SC) have no problem circumventing the systems that all the plebs have to struggle through.
Print it out onsite. Photocopy it offsite. Return the original to the workplace, edit it with pens and highlighters. Shred it. When questioned, point to the shredded document that you were being a goodboi.
Printing would be an audit flag. Printing, downloading, emailing, even spending too much time on one page (as if you were typing it out onto another computer).
These are flags that my IT dept looks for.
Yup. If you mark up a copy by hand, then it wouldn’t be hard at all to see if those changes had ever been made on a draft. Or discussed with a colleague.
“everyone was working form home (COVID) meaning they don’t even know who had access“
Logging in should be no different when at home, and should even leave a more of an audit trail because you have to use a VPN (right?). And if you share your credentials with someone else, well, that’s a violation right there.
And if their IT security is so lacking that they don’t even require people to log in and prohibit sharing credentials, well, I would hope that their investigation would flag those and that would change. Obviously if they have a pure honor system, it has failed.
They just don’t really want to know. They care more about protecting their inner circle (which apparently includes the clerks) than the credibility and legitimacy of the Court. Although they have undoubtedly convinced themselves that sweeping it under the rug is how they protect the Court as an institution.
Friday Funbags does whatever the fuck it wants.
https://archive.ph/xN8XI
No shit: BREAKING ATF NEWS! Gun Owners of America Uncovers Fatal Flaw In Pistol Brace Rule…IT’S A TRAP!!!
The feds are not your friends. The federal government is not legitimate. A good, old fashioned secession is in order.
I dunno about breaking news. I was seeing that line of thinking ever since the rule was released, or even before.
Do you mind giving a quick explanation?
The ATF changed their interpretation of existing law, meaning there’s no grandfathering and all current braces are illegal under the current law. If you admit you’re in possession and send them proof, they’ll process it just like a regular SBR application*.
*Although it sounds now like their purported waiver is just for the brace itself and not a full tax stamp that would allow you to place a non-brace stock on the pistol.
Thanks.
Then they kick the doors down, I assume?
Hide your dog.
Pray they don’t alter the deal further.
Bonus points for states like NY and CA where it’s illegal to own anything on the ATF registry.
“Private citizens”
The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled a new program to allow groups of private citizens to sponsor refugees from around the world to live in the United States.
The program, called the Welcome Corps, was billed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken as “the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades.”
Under the program, groups of at least five individuals can apply to sponsor refugees and help them acclimate to life in the US, with the help of a consortium of non-profit resettlement organizations.
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Julieta Valls Noyes, the assistant secretary of state for population, refugees and migration, said that the program requires groups of at least five people, rather than one person who might be able to raise the minimum amount, because the work to help the sponsored refugees is “a lot more than what the average American can do” alone.
“It’s not about money. It’s about commitment. It’s about the community. It’s about bringing people together and forming a group so that the refugees have more than one person that they can refer to and can work with,” she said at a State Department briefing Thursday.
“It’s a lot of work involved in sponsoring a refugee – finding schools, helping them find affordable housing, getting their kids signed up for school, helping them find jobs, showing them where the pharmacy is, what bus to take. It’s a lot more than what the average American can do. And so we think that providing a group of five or more Americans is more likely to be successful,” Valls Noyes said.
She said the groups could be “from all walks of life, including community volunteers, faith and civic groups, veterans, diaspora communities, businesses, colleges, universities.”
Another backdoor scam in partnership with the ngo/nonprofit underworld.
“It’s not about money. It’s about commitment. It’s about the community. It’s about bringing people together and forming a group so that the refugees have more than one person that they can refer to and can work with,” she said at a State Department briefing Thursday.
It’s about creating an underclass of docile laborers that will support the regime.
I’ll guess that the dead may participate in this, just like the way they vote.
“It’s about the community.”
Not the community of citizens and legal residents, it’s not.
Go fuck yourself.
.@Siemens Chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe at #wef23: “If a billion people stop eating meat, it will have a big impact … I predict we will have proteins that don’t come from meat in the future, they will probably taste even better … They will be zero carbon and much healthier”
I predict that you stupid cuntes will face consequences when you try to remove meat, coffee, alcohol, etc. from access.
Will it have as much of an impact as the super rich giving up private jets, multiple luxury homes, and $250k a head private conferences?
I don’t care what they announce their theme is. The theme is always “Deciding what sacrifices other, less rich, people have to make.”
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAaaaaaa
The same way massive car batteries are zero-carbon? Windmills are zero-carbon?
Go fuck yourself, you Danish Nazi.
I just watched the world lock down for 2 years with not a peep outside of this forum. I laugh at the notion of some kind of backlash.
I have some protein for him to drink.
USDA has recovered from attrition, but new research staff is less diverse, less experienced
The concerns of racists.
I’m sure people were upset when it was 47% black, since they were wildly overrepresented. Right? Right?
They are too busy protesting racial imbalance in sports.
We just gotta get the Handicapper General on the case.
Blacks do have the most experience with agriculture – it’s in their genes.
*insert gif of Homer backing into bushes here*
FDA meeting.
Looks like black people were over represented in relation to population at both NIFA and ERS and now are still slightly over represented at NIFA and slightly under represented at ERS. So statistically speaking, roughly the national average. Nothing Burger, anyone?
Wonder what comparisons to the demographics of the local hiring area would look like?
Or the demographics of the people who applied for the jobs. That always seems to get lost when the subject of discriminatory hiring practices arises.
shhh
we’re suppose dot just bend over and take it.
Self-selection bias does not exist for progressives.
The US FDA – protecting the stupid from themselves.
Maybe I give people too much credit, but would someone with a peanut allergy really buy anything with peanut butter flavor?
It’s in the name.
“But it said ‘peanut butter,’ not ‘peanuts’!”/swollen, wheezing peanut allergy sufferer
“Of course, peanut butter is butter for buttering poeanuts, not something that contains peanuits. Don’t you know?”
Undeclared Peanuts – I’m thinking folk rock second album?
Charlie Brown’s new Mexican friends.
Just add peanuts to everything like is done for sesame.
Muh-Democracy!
In an interview with Brazilian Playboy magazine in 1979, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva praised Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Ze Dong, and Adolf Hitler as his role models. Hitler had “the courage of proposing to do something and trying to do it,“ Lula said.
Speaking with Argentina’s La Nación in 2002, Lula’s successor as head of the São Paulo Forum Marco Aurélio Garcia said that Lula would have no interest in preserving democracy once he is in power: “We have to first give the impression that we are democrats, initially; we have to accept certain things. But that won’t last.”
In 2002, French Le Monde wrote that Lula “strongly believes that every election is a farce and a mere step to take power,” Epoch Times reports.
The Democratic Party agrees.
Ricardo Cappelli, Lula-appointed Intervenor of the Federal District, said that Military Police told him the vandals who invaded the governemnt buildings in Brasília, acted as “professionals” and knew the territory of the Chamber of Deputies and the Presidential Palace. “He [the Police officer] stated: ‘We weren’t just facing protesters, these were combat-trained men with knowledge of the territory, knowledge of combat tactics, acting like of professionals. They were miitary professionals among the demonstrators’. This is important testimony. We’re looking into it,” Cappelli said.
Sounds like the “armed insurrection” narrative from the Democrats.
The Traditional Full English Breakfast
https://englishbreakfastsociety.com/full-english-breakfast.html
I predict that you stupid cuntes will face consequences when you try to remove meat, coffee, alcohol, etc. from access.
You haven’t even tried it yet. Here, have a cracker. It’s delicious, and contains all necessary nutrients. What more could you ask for?
Everything the body needs?
I worked with a guy who was exactly like Mouse. Even looked like him.
I have my doubts on any consequences based on the way the vast majority rolled over on Covid.
The sponsors will be screened, vetted and approved through the consortium of non-profits, which is receiving funding from the State Department. The sponsors will have to provide a detailed “welcome plan” laying out how they plan to receive the refugees and connect them to housing, jobs and schools.
“The consortium will also provide training to the sponsors before they begin their sponsorship,” and will “check in regularly” with the sponsors and refugees, the official said.
“There are many, many checkpoints, many, many fail-safes, vetting, all that is part of this program to prevent any abuses. That said I think we’re really excited about the program; we think it’s going to be really successful,” they said.
Victims of capitalism go to the head of the line.
The only words you need to pay attention to.
We’ll end up with a whole wing of Congress for the future Ilhan Omars!
‘consortium of non-profits’
I am dealing with this kind of shit in my present job. It really is a scam.
They put in applications for money that the state collects already, then ‘administer’ the grants to other state and local entities. There should be no such thing as a government grant.
Oh, and the state and local entities spend a lot of time and money competing for those grants.
Its a like if Dante wrote a poem about circle jerks, except you’re wanking the guy next to you in successive layers of hell.
Because the government has done a bang-up job with foster care…I wonder how many cartels are salivating at this
And what percentage of the millions of illegals that have been fed into this system have now vanished from the map already?
What are the penalties for “losing” an illegal that you have been paid to, I guess, “manage”?
To me, this just sounds like setting up the final leg of the cartel’s human trafficking pipeline.
The American version of kafala?
How much do I get a month for each foster refugee?
Asking for a friend.
‘are they hot?’
*Cringe*
Ordered a bacon cheeseburger from a local restaurant yesterday to celebrate over 10 million new small business applications during my presidency.
I may’ve caught Brittany off guard.
I’m sure she was surprised by the camera crew.
Remind me how many businesses closed for good during COVID lockdowns. This is like him touting the drop in gas prices.
Also wonder how many are Gig-economy workers/YouTubers/etc that formed an LLC or corp to protect from his policies…so existing businesses, just formal.
+10 million etsy shops making 600+/year
I thought small business was not well seen on the left these days
The right also…uniparty hates that people might have economic freedom and upward mobility.
That’s 10 million new dreams to squash, what’s not to like?
He ordered one burger by phone and two showed up at his office.
Prepping the battlespace for Baldwin’s trial. Hell, they haven’t even officially charged him yet.
https://news.yahoo.com/why-bold-prosecution-alec-baldwin-200744112.html
the charge is exactly appropriate for the action.
I could be more sympathetic if he shot another actor in scene. Not the way this played out though.
It is so clear that the movie makers didn’t care much about gun safety on their set- getting an inexperienced nepotism hire to do the safety stuff and then Baldwin being so Brazen.
they should probably also be charging whoever hired the ‘armorer’ for negligence as well.
There were so many suspected issues on set (again, I call it all hearsay until it gets to court) that they might as well have all been drunk at a party. So the charges are accurate . There should have been a protective wall between the behind the camera folks and the gun, the gun should have been checked by at least the actor and one other person (such as an armorer) and the armorer may not have been on set, and a gun was used anyway? Who knows what the real truth is right now. I would have thrown charges at the director too.
Agreed. Also, jury makeup won’t really matter. You can throw gun-grabbers with staunch 2A persons in there…they both have a stake in this one. “See guns are bad!”, “See this is why we hammer on safety!”
I still think there’s more than just negligence going on. Whoever set up that gun had to put a live round in the correct position in the cylinder so it would rotate under the hammer when Baldwin cocked it. Plus the fact that there were live rounds on a movie set in the first place.
1/6 chance to put it in the right chamber in the cylinder is within the feasibility of random bad luck. I do agree though with live ammunition on set. I get that you blow off steam at the end of the day, but it sounds like they mixed set firearms with regular firearms and the dummy/live ammo. Hannah is the more likely negligent one in my opinion, but with firearm safety, the person holding the smoking gun is responsible too.
It’s being reported too that Baldwin had a live round in his gun belt.
Prepping the battlespace for Baldwin’s trial.
I still think they have been hammering out a pre-fab plea deal in the back room. He’ll get a slap on the wrist for a lesser charge, and they’ll crucify the girl for putting a loaded gun in his hand.
celebrate over 10 million new small business applications during my presidency.
Applications for what? Did they file for bankruptcy?
Yeah celebrating paperwork is quite the achievement. How many followed through? How many made it passed the first months? It is great that people are looking to create their own wealth, but this one for sure needs a hell of a lot more context.
That was my question. Also, applications to who? The SBA?