343 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    A New York grand jury will hear a final surprise witness on Monday and won’t vote on Trump indictment until it’s over

    if you strike me down I will become more powerful than you can imagine…

    /Obi Wan.

  2. Count Potato

    “A New York grand jury will hear a final surprise witness on Monday and won’t vote on Trump indictment until it’s over”

    Oooh, look a squirrel!

    • AlexinCT

      They need to prevent this guy from running cause they will have to blatantly steal another election to keep him out, and they are going to be in trouble either way. Fuck the globalists and their criminality.

      • juris imprudent

        Not really, they managed just fine while he was in office. Another 4 years wouldn’t change a damn thing. It isn’t like Trump’s administration showed a great capacity to change the trajectory we are on.

      • AlexinCT

        Yeah, the difference is that we don’t know how bad these agencies were back when. Now we all do. If Trump ordered full house cleaning, the angry reaction from the left would fall on deaf ears. Sure they might do a lot of “mostly peaceful protesting”, but this time around people would know kicking their ass for doing it was the right response too.

      • juris imprudent

        Who knows all that — This little bubble here? The 3-percenters and/or OathKeepers? The greater American electorate?

        Without active support from Congress, no administration is going to raze any part of the federal behemoth.

      • AlexinCT

        For one, Trump will.

      • Shirley Knott

        Pfft. He couldn’t even get the troops out of Syria.

      • juris imprudent

        You would think for a guy that likes to boss people around, he’d figure out how to actually issue an order.

      • AlexinCT

        If your assumption was people would obey your orders, why would you, busy dealing with a ton of shit, be checking up on them? At least, one would assume now that the corruption and criminality is no longer in doubt, Trump will be dissuaded from that belief people would just do what he says, and this time he would personally or trusted people, check what he says is done and if not, hold people accountable.

      • Nephilium

        Just like he pardoned the 1/6 “insurgents”.

      • Lackadaisical

        Alex, your way too optimistic.

        Trump had 4 years to figure all that out, and didn’t learn or implement his learning.

        I still think he’s way better than most the alternatives, but I see no reason to believe he will do any better than his first term.

      • Sean

        but I see no reason to believe he will do any better than his first term.

        2017/2018/2019 were great times.

        2020, not so much. That’s when the commie rat fuckers kicked it into high gear.

      • juris imprudent

        2017/2018/2019 were great times

        As soon as he accepted the royal scepter, the skies cleared. C’mon man. I’ll give him credit for what his administration did right; there just wasn’t that much.

      • Lackadaisical

        Trump tax cuts were great. Generally slowing the advance of the progs I count as a good in and of itself, Afghan withdrawal would never have happened without him.

        I think there is a lot of good there.

        Spending of course was bad and bump stock ban was just????

        COVID sucked, but could have been a lot worse, as evidenced immediately upon Biden taking the reins.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, most of the progs I know are still all in on bureaucracy. The new trend seems to be that, IF Fauci et al lied, they did so because Trump’s obstinance forced them into a noble lie.

      • SDF-7

        They’d be much better off leaving him alone. Trump was happily shooting himself firmly in the foot trying to get DeSantis — and a whole lot of his former supporters haven’t forgotten he still loves Operation Warp Speed (because he initiated it, and his ego makes sure he can’t say anything he did was a terrible, horrible no-good idea). I seriously doubt he would have won the primary, much less the general (regardless of the Dems propping up their version of a taxidermy squirrel most likely) with those tactics.

        If he gets indicted? Won’t change my mind personally… but the rumbling sure is that it would rile up enough “Frack you, Left” to get him at least through the primary. :shrug: We’ll see.

      • Pope Jimbo

        How many votes would DeSantis get by promising to pardon Trump from an obvious political hack job?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The conspiratorial view is that they’re trying to make sure Trump gets the nomination as they think they can beat him and not DeSantis.

      • Count Potato

        That’s what they did when Hillary was running.

      • Rebel Scum

        ^

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m going to start referring to the Democrats as “The Party of Trump”. They are far more obsessed with him than anyone else. He’s all they ever talk about.

    • SDF-7

      Oooh, look a squirrel!

      But of course! It is a Banjos link day, and she always provides! 😉 (Morning, Banjos… morning, all!)

      • Count Potato

        They are trying to distract us from all the Biden family corruption.

      • SDF-7

        I don’t think Banjos is. 😉 (And what corruption? Most transparent, honest, wonderful unicorn administration in history! Just ask them!)

      • rhywun

        There’s so much corruption I can’t imagine trying to wade through it all.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Maybe that is what this is all about?

        Prosecute Trump and after the huge uproar back off and establish a new “norm” that you can’t go after ex-presidents. Then Joe and his family will be able to point at that when more evidence surfaces about his grifting.

  3. AlexinCT

    Midsize U.S. banks reportedly ask the FDIC to insure all deposits for two years

    You know why us tax payers will be made to accept this? Because the people asking were forced by government to do woke shit government wanted. The same sort of woke fuckers that back when accepted government decrees they should give mortgages to people they knew couldn’t and wouldn’t pay them back – leading to the 2008 housing collapse that cost tax payers over a trillion dollars – again went along with fucking same group of scumbags now printing money like it was growing on trees. The fucking banks went and bought government securities that they clearly saw would tank in a time where interest were going to HAVE to be driven up, because said government said the rate hikes were transitory and these fucks went along with the liars.

    So government will HAVE to protect the entities that do its dirty work and then are blamed for the fallout from said dirty work under the lie that they are saving the common man. They are not. they are saving their donor class.

    • Nephilium

      I’ve already seen a couple of stories in my newsfeed from financial rags warning about staying in cash, and how dangerous it is now. So instead, here’s our top tips to invest that money.

    • Sean

      My credit union sent out an email the other day saying “Don’t worry about us! We’re all good”.

      • juris imprudent

        The banking system, just like the money system underlying it, RELIES on people having confidence in it.

      • SDF-7

        Someone should tell them that extreme royal fuck-ups (with little to no consequences to the morons in charge) every 7 or 8 years doesn’t help that.

      • juris imprudent

        Has anyone at the top admitted error? Then there have been no mistakes, so I can’t possibly know what you are talking about.

      • slumbrew

        The Fifth Column podcast had economist Allison Schrager on and she dropped this tidbit:

        The Fed’s stress-tests didn’t include a scenario where interest rates rose substantially.

        Everyone was on the “low interest rates, forever” train.

        People are crying for “moar regulation!” but what we had was laughably incompetent.

      • juris imprudent

        The fed zero-rates were just a temporary govt program!

      • AlexinCT

        Wait. So both the inflation and the zero-rate program are transitory? But they kept doing things they knew would destroy us all when the transitory thing happened….

      • Lackadaisical

        With tests like that, your practically pushing banks into whatever risks you’re not accounting for. I’m this case the risks involved in rising rates is exactly what they would have incentivized banks to do.

      • waffles

        Those emails never fill me with confidence. We’re just getting started. I have zero faith in the people in power.

  4. Rebel Scum

    A New York grand jury will hear a final surprise witness on Monday and won’t vote on Trump indictment until it’s over

    I hope the Dems go through with this, even so far as to frog walk him. ///MakePoliticalPersecutionGreatAgain

    • Rat on a train

      We need to grow more bananas.

      • Not Adahn

        Thy could be grown in east Atlanta, or even Alabama.

    • juris imprudent

      We need a pool on the surprise witness. I say Michael Avenetti – hopefully in his prison togs.

      • Not Adahn

        Nah, according to NPR, it’s one of the lesser Trump lawyers… who is going to say that Cohen is a lying bitchweasel and his testimony shouldn’t be relied on.

      • Drake

        That’s old news.

      • Compelled Speechless

        It’s all lying bitchweasels as far as the eye can see. There isn’t a single person involved in either side of this that should ever be trusted to do anything more than say whatever they need to say to get their way. Despite the fact that Trump is probably about as dishonest and backhanded as anyone here, it doesn’t change the fact that this entire shitshow is an obvious banana republic show trial.

  5. AlexinCT

    Biden DOJ Asks Supreme Court to Fast-Track Case That Could Reinstate Federal Gun Ban

    Somebody make sure one of the weaponized three letter agencies have not created a deep fake of conservatives – like Alito fucking rabbits wrapped in duct tape while screaming racial slurs – and are using that to skew the vote in favor of the gun grabbers!

  6. Count Potato

    “In the most famous case, Sen. John Edwards was criminally charged in 2011 with disguising payments from campaign donors to keep quiet during his 2008 presidential campaign the fact that he had a long-running affair with a mistress with whom he fathered a child in 2007 as his wife Elizabeth battled fatal breast cancer.”

    That sounds way worse than banging some porn star.

    • AlexinCT

      Now do the Clintons paying off one of the many women Bill actually raped.

  7. AlexinCT

    The Disney cull begins: First wave of 4,000 employees set to be laid off within weeks

    The tragedy in this is that the people that really need to be thrown out on the street, Disney’s leadership, will still remain in place and able to do more evil shit that will turn off Americans that once might have paid them for their services. I for one avoid anything Disney like the plague and have been doing so for over a decade.

    • Lackadaisical

      Didn’t the head of Disney get kicked out a month or two back in favor of the previous CEO?

      • Michael Malaise

        Yes. But the new boss is the same as the old boss (i.e, he started Disney on this path prior)

      • Lackadaisical

        Right, if anything he was more all in on the woke shit. Just pointing out that someone did in fact lose their job at the top.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        I think he legit believed that the woke train would be a money train.

        Some signs point towards him not really believing that anymore. The culling of obviously woke Star Wars shows was one move that signified this.

  8. Count Potato

    “We are also encouraged by the new functionality in the CBP One mobile application, which has provided migrants the ability to safely and easily schedule an appointment at a Port of Entry to request a humanitarian exception to the Title 42 public health order. The app cuts out the smugglers and decreases migrant exploitation. CBP continues to make improvements to the app to address feedback we have received from stakeholders.”

    Get them to install Tik Tok, then the Chinese can keep track of them.

  9. Lackadaisical

    “Almost 200 US Banks Are at Risk of Silicon Valley Bank-Like Collapse”

    I don’t know how many banks there are, but shouldn’t it be close to 100%?

    Their whole business model is fractional reserve banking so that they can make loans and investments.

    • SDF-7

      I’m sure BoA knows it has a fast track to the money printing presses, hence no risk. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      I think SVB was taken out, as was Signature, Silvergate, and FTX.

      It’s not a coincidence that all four were heavy into crypto, particularly stablecoins, and very politically connected.

      • Lackadaisical

        “very politically connected.”

        If so, then who is taking them out?

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        The Fed, along with the big NY banks.

        The key issue here is that up until Powell’s first interest rate hike, the Fed, the ECB, the BOJ, and the COE were all coordinating policy, as they had been since 2011. That’s over.

        It’s now open warfare between the central banks. LIBOR is going away and the Fed’s draining the leveraged eurodollar markets.

      • Count Potato

        Hold on gosh darn minute. You’re thinking of this place all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The, the money’s not here. Well, your money’s in Joe’s crypto. Joe, you had one of those Potter monkeys, didn’t you? Well, have you forgotten? Have you forgotten what he charged for that crummy cartoon ape??

  10. Rebel Scum

    Midsize U.S. banks reportedly ask the FDIC to insure all deposits for two years

    Gotta have them big donor connections.

  11. Rebel Scum

    Almost 200 US Banks Are at Risk of Silicon Valley Bank-Like Collapse

    This is fine.

  12. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    I called off work last night, and slept for about 14 hours. I feel like I could go back to bed.

    • AlexinCT

      You sick or hung over?

      • Lackadaisical

        Why not both?

      • Tres Cool

        Pretty sure it was an acute case of rectal glaucoma. I just couldnt see my ass going in to work.

    • WTF

      Super Pigs
      So….pigs can fly?

      • Tres Cool
      • Not Adahn

        Since pigs and humans are genetically similar, I’m just hoping to have that invincibility gene implanted, assuming it’s confirmed.

      • The Last American Hero

        Do you want an orc army? Because this is how you get an orc army.

      • Not Adahn

        Zug zug?

    • Drake

      So we’ll have bacon during the rapidly approaching collapse? Nice.

  13. SDF-7

    On a surprisingly positive note for a change: ‘Orning ‘Ordles. (aka a day when I managed to not completely suck…. not a “Throw a parade it was so wonderful!” day either, of course… but I’ll take it).

    Daily Duotrigordle #383
    Guesses: 35/37
    Time: 03:45.12
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 420
    4️⃣6️⃣
    5️⃣3️⃣
    m-w.com/games/quordle

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 420
      5️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣7️⃣
      m-w.com/games/quordle

      Blossom Puzzle, March 20
      Letters: A E F I L N R
      My score: 145 points
      My longest word: 8 letters
      🌸 💮 🌼 🌹 💐 🌷 🌺 🏵

      Play Blossom:
      https://www.merriam-webster.com/games/blossom-word-game

      Meh.

    • rhywun

      Daily Quordle 420
      3️⃣4️⃣
      5️⃣6️⃣

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 420
      5️⃣4️⃣
      6️⃣7️⃣

    • Lackadaisical

      You do have to be skeptical of cherry picking with any data presented.

      Better to see a graph of the past 50 years and also to scale it to population.

    • juris imprudent

      I get the impression that you are more concerned with the total number than the headline case, you merciless bigot.

  14. Rebel Scum

    “The gun lobby saw Bruen as a landmark win, but it is a significant challenge for police, law enforcement, and the population of America when it comes to public safety,” Durbin said.

    Go fuck yourself.

    “Whether analyzed through the lens of Supreme Court precedent, or of the text, history, and tradition of the Second Amendment, that statute is constitutional. Accordingly, the Department will seek further review of the Fifth Circuit’s contrary decision.”

    Because obviously denying a right without even so much as a conviction of a crime is perfectly constitutional…

    • Rat on a train

      Well, the government can seize other property without a conviction.

      • WTF

        I wish a civil forfeiture case would get in front the current SCOTUS, since they seem to tend more toward what the constitution actually says.

      • juris imprudent

        One word – Kelo. That’s still precedent. I don’t trust this court any more than any other.

      • Raven Nation

        I thought SCOTUS had been declining to take civil forfeiture cases?

    • Rebel Scum

      It’s bad enough that we have had to subjected to Hunter’s dick.

      • Lackadaisical

        We were?

        Somehow I missed that.

    • Lackadaisical

      Look fat, my interest in Trump’s penis is entirely heterosexual.

  15. Rebel Scum

    Dollar Tree has pulled eggs from store shelves over prices skyrocketing

    I didn’t know they sold eggs.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      For $1.25 it must have been a two pack.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        The last dozen eggs I bought at a grocery store (last week) were $2.11. Are they still elevated everywhere else?

      • R C Dean

        $3.60/dozen at CostCo last week.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Ok, damn.

        *runs to grocery store to buy more eggs at $2.11*

      • rhywun

        The selection changes every week – yesterday they had Land ‘o’ Lakes (?!) eggs for 3.49.

        Every other brand was over $4.50.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      I just looked into adding a few more chicks to my upcoming poultry order. There doesn’t appear to be a single straight run or female chick still available for the rest of this year. At least from this hatchery, which is a very large one.

      Been ordering there for years and have never seen anything like it. Reminds me of seeing the swept clean gun shelves right before the 2012 (re)election.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Bought by people who will soon realize that raising chickens for eggs is many orders of magnitude more expensive than buying even expensive eggs.

  16. juris imprudent

    Cue up Cat’s in the Cradle…

    TW: Frum, Atlantic and what passes for thinking from him is almost as shambolic as Biden’s.

    The United States went to war to build a democracy in Iraq. That did not work well either. Iraq does have elections, but the governments produced by those elections have been frail, unstable, and corrupt.

    They deluded themselves.

    Yes David, they did, and so are you still.

    • Rat on a train

      Iraq does have elections, but the governments produced by those elections have been frail, unstable, and corrupt.
      They need a stable, corrupt government like the US.
      democracy != liberty

      • AlexinCT

        What Iraqis need is people to “fortify” their elections as well to make sure the right people win those…

      • The Last American Hero

        I thought that’s what the thousands of well armed diplomats from Blackwater were for.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      The United States went to war to build a democracy in Iraq.

      Besides being wholly untrue, it’s not even what the war was sold on. Frum can’t keep his lies consistent.

      • Lackadaisical

        That was my first reaction. That was the aftermath justification when weapons of mead destruction stopped being a useful message.

      • juris imprudent

        Kinnath hit hardest.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve been known as a weapon of mead destruction at several fests.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      A major part of Frum’s role in the buildup to the Iraq War was to attack the dissident right.

      https://www.nationalreview.com/2003/03/unpatriotic-conservatives-david-frum/

      You may know the names of these antiwar conservatives. Some are famous: Patrick Buchanan and Robert Novak. Others are not: Llewellyn Rockwell, Samuel Francis, Thomas Fleming, Scott McConnell, Justin Raimondo, Joe Sobran, Charley Reese, Jude Wanniski, Eric Margolis, and Taki Theodoracopulos.

      The antiwar conservatives aren’t satisfied merely to question the wisdom of an Iraq war. Questions are perfectly reasonable, indeed valuable. There is more than one way to wage the war on terror, and thoughtful people will naturally disagree about how best to do it, whether to focus on terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda and Hezbollah or on states like Iraq and Iran; and if states, then which state first?

      The whole thing is worth a read to remind yourself of how Frum is nothing more than a shit-flinging monkey.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        America has social problems; the American family is genuinely troubled. The conservatism of the future must be a social as well as an economic conservatism. But after the heroism and patriotism of 9/11 it must also be an optimistic conservatism.

        There is, however, a fringe attached to the conservative world that cannot overcome its despair and alienation. The resentments are too intense, the bitterness too unappeasable. Only the boldest of them as yet explicitly acknowledge their wish to see the United States defeated in the War on Terror. But they are thinking about defeat, and wishing for it, and they will take pleasure in it if it should happen.

        They began by hating the neoconservatives. They came to hate their party and this president. They have finished by hating their country.

        War is a great clarifier. It forces people to take sides. The paleoconservatives have chosen — and the rest of us must choose too. In a time of danger, they have turned their backs on their country. Now we turn our backs on them.

        In a just world, Frum would be hand delivered to ISIS.

      • Bob Boberson

        At the very least he, Bill Krystal and the rest of their ilk shouldn’t be able to walk out in public without being spat on. Who listens to/reads these r-tards?

      • rhywun

        the war on terror

        Ah, a golden oldie.

        MIC like it’s 2001 again!

  17. Rebel Scum

    Trump doesn’t have Democrat/Establishment privilege.

    Last year, the Federal Election Commission fined Hillary Clinton for misreporting payments made to a law firm during the 2016 campaign to hide spending. The law firm in question was Perkins Coie, which hired Fusion GPS to conduct research that resulted in the Steele Dossier, which was later used by Congress to impeach Trump. Clinton classified these expenses as “legal services” and was fined $113,000 for the misrepresentation.

    “By intentionally obscuring their payments through Perkins Coie and failing to publicly disclose the true purpose of those payments,” Hillary’s presidential campaign and DNC “were able to avoid publicly reporting on their statutorily required FEC disclosure forms the fact that they were paying Fusion GPS to perform opposition research on Trump with the intent of influencing the outcome of the 2016 presidential election,” the initial complaint read per the Associated Press.

    In contrast, Trump is currently facing potential felony charges for recording alleged payments made to his attorney, who then allegedly used the money to pay off porn star Stormy Daniels. These payments were originally classified as legal fees, and the legal fallout from them could be severe, despite the fact that both he and Clinton are essentially being accused of the same crime.

    • WTF

      Some animals are more equal than others.

  18. Shpip

    Something I was unaware of until this morning:

    Traute Lafrenz, a member of the White Rose resistance to Germany’s Nazis, passed away at 103 years old. She was the last known living member of the doomed group of idealistic students.

    In a world like our own it is important to remember that resistance to evil is possible — and essential. Traute Lafrenz imbued and exuded that spirit, risking everything in the fight against Nazi rule in Germany. She and her friends succeeded even as they appeared to fail, with many of them paying with their lives. Thankfully she survived. Decades ago she demonstrated uncommon courage. She deserves to be remembered for doing what so many other Germans did not: count the cost and take a stand.

    • R C Dean

      “Many Soviets and Chinese died as a result of horrendous policies which caused, but may not have intended, mass starvation.”

      The Soviets absolutely intended mass starvation. Get rid of the kulaks, ethnic cleansing to clear the way for mass re-settlement of Russians in good farmland (especially in Ukraine). The CCP? Couldn’t say.

      It’s amazing how successful leftist apologetics for Communism has been.

      • juris imprudent

        When you control the medium, you control the message.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Apologetics is the right word. Communism is the most successful religion started in the 19th century. Their missionaries have been such a success that it makes other religions blush.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Amazing and sickening.

  19. Stinky Wizzleteats

    The prosecution’s star witness is Michael fucking Cohen? Lord have mercy…

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Will this be the point where it switches from Clown World to Killer Maniacal Clown World?

  20. Not Adahn

    TPTB:

    On my last post, was there no featured image or was there a problem with it? I’ve noticed a couple of times that the image I thought I uploaded (in this case IFLA fish sticks.jpg) wasn’t there.

    I don’t know if it’s a problem on my end or a problem with the image itself (each time it’s happened, it’s been with a file I edited).

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      The acrostic solution was 404 as well.

      • Tonio

        Presumably a different issue, but I’ll pass this on. Thanks.

      • The Hyperbole

        That was probably on me (I draft these up during Wed Zoom time and thus was quite possibly drunk)

    • Tonio

      I opened your article in Block Editor yesterday morning to give it a final read-through and check the settings before scheduling it. The featured image section was blank, like you hadn’t set a featured image, so I set it to the default stock image for your column. I don’t know whether you didn’t save the article after adding the featured image, or whether the antiquated, highly customized WordPress template which Glibs runs on is squirrelly about featured images in the Block Editor. FYI, you are the only writer who uses the new, Block Editor which makes it harder for me to troubleshoot.

      I’ve emailed you several weeks back about an adjacent issue with your articles / featured images / Block Editor before, but perhaps didn’t explain well why that was a BFD and not just a curiosity thing. I’ll resend that, along with some more details. Please work with me on this.

      • Not Adahn

        Roger wilco!

  21. Rebel Scum

    The buzz of racism.

    Two dogs in McAllen, Texas died last week after getting attacked by the Africanized Bee, also known as killer bees, according to reports.

    NBC station KVEO in Brownsville, Texas reported that the dogs died at a McAllen home after getting attacked by bees. …

    Devon Johnson of R9 Hive & Honey told the news station the bees were Africanized honey bees, which are oftentimes misclassified as aggressive, though like regular honey bees, they only get aggressive when threatened.

    She also said the bees have a three-day memory span, so if they get triggered by a lawn mower, they could get aggressive toward something else later.

    Sounds like they are not misclassified.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      Let me guess, calling Africanized bees “aggressive” is racist.

      • AlexinCT

        DUH! You are picking on marginalized Africans!

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      though like regular honey bees, they only get aggressive when threatened.

      The africanized bees define “threatened” very differently than the tame bees. I’ve been stung for walking within 300 ft of an africanized swarm. OTOH, I’ve mowed right in front of regular hives without getting stung.

      • dbleagle

        Plus they use ground level hives as opposed to raised hives. They might have a hive in grass and you won’t know.

        There is a rock climb in Phoenix that is unclimbable because of a hive that set up near it. A number of years ago (10?) a climber died when he was swarm attacked and couldn’t escape mid pitch.

    • The Other Kevin

      Just like sharks, they only bite when you touch their private parts.

      • The Last American Hero

        And just like a stripper, don’t put your private parts in my face if you don’t want them touched.

  22. db

    A New York grand jury will hear a final surprise witness on Monday and won’t vote on Trump indictment until it’s over

    From what I read, the witness ( a former legal adviser to Cohen) will testify as to evidence in his book, directly from Cohen, that has the potential to crush the case. Evidently no one knew about a published book that contains statements by Cohen that refute what he’s said before the Grand Jury recently?

    https://nypost.com/2023/03/19/a-potential-trump-indictment-is-a-sideshow-gift-to-the-biden-family/

    But on Monday the grand jury will hear testimony from Bob Costello, a former legal adviser to Cohen before they fell out, who has acted for Trump’s some time lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and is a former supervisor with the Southern District of New York.

    Costello will cite evidence contained in the 2020 book “The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President” that Cohen keeps changing his story about the Stormy Daniels payments and can’t be trusted.

    Costello knows because he was an on-record source for the book and Cohen granted him a waiver of their attorney-client privilege to reveal what he had told him about his troubles when the feds first came knocking — and it’s nothing like what he’s saying now.

    When prosecutors were told about the book Friday, they knew nothing about it, says a source, which doesn’t say much for their due diligence.

    • juris imprudent

      Oh man, I can’t wait for the Bragg press conference after that.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Why are we even listening to someone named after a totes racist Civil War confederate general? He should be forced to change his name.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s a political hit job so he should indict anyway. I mean why not? His potential voters will consider it a plus regardless and Absolute Immunity bitchezz. There’s zero negative consequences he’ll be met with.

    • R C Dean

      That’s because prosecutors and their lackeys the cops aren’t looking for the truth. They are looking for evidence to convict somebody. Not the same thing.

      • Gustave Lytton

        +15-20 for a ham sandwich

  23. Scruffyy Nerfherder

    It’s that time of year when the economic census harasses me until I submit answers to my interrogation.

    • db

      Tell them there are FOUR LIGHTS

      • juris imprudent

        Damn inflation.

    • Pope Jimbo

      The damn GOP should stop griping about corruption and give Joe his money to hire 86K more census takers!

      I got into it years ago with a census taker who kept coming back and harassing me to take the long form. I told her, I’d do the normal one but that was it. She told me that that was impossible because I was “selected” for the long form and it was my legal duty to fill it out.

      She must have stopped by 10 times. I told her that the fine for not filling it out was a max of $500 and to just start the paperwork to prosecute me, but stop coming by. She eventually stopped but I think it was because she came by while I was on a business trip and my wife complied.

      • slumbrew

        I’ve just filled out the number of adults and left the rest blank the last couple of times.

      • Fourscore

        “Two people live here”

        Repeat it enough times and they finally go away. I throw all the mail stuff in the wood stove, makes good fire starter.
        I thought the fine was $250. One of my neighbors/friends was the census taker, came by, we discussed things and I told him he can fill the form out
        himself, he lives across the road and has known me for 60 years. No idea what he did, never asked.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Live in a rural zip and the USDA farm survey wants their pound of flesh too.

      • Toxteth O'Grady

        I used to get that Community Survey thingy; I just ignored it and they eventually went away. (I did fill out the Nielsen journal assiduously. Five crisp dollar bills…)

      • juris imprudent

        My wife filled out a long form version once – I was furious. Last time, like slumbrew, they got what they are Constitutionally permitted.

    • The Last American Hero

      I fought them tooth and nail the first time and got them to leave me alone.

      Much of the information is publicly available, so I put in website links for the county assessors office and such.

      • Fourscore

        I told them essentially the same thing. The school board, town board, the county, state and fed know those things, unless we count the orphans.

    • db

      Puppy!

    • Gender Traitor

      He wuvs you already! 🐾💕

    • WTF

      AWWWWWWWWW…….

    • Toxteth O'Grady

      Congra– (hic!) Congratulations, Madam. You’re a mother.

      /doffs cap, staggers off

    • Tundra

      So dang cute!

    • Shirley Knott

      Hah! 30 here in mid-Michigan.

  24. robc

    My “flight” from FNL to DEN is delayed due to mechanical problems. Heading to MEM for work, trying the United bus service out of Ft Collins. Better a bus than plane problem, I guess.

    • robc

      Headed out, nice that I dont have to put phone in bus mode.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’ve done that trip a few times. In my experience, it’s very much a non-zero chance that you end up stranded on the side of the road or in traffic fretting about whether you are going to make your flight.

      • robc

        This is my first time on E470. I am too cheap to use it.

        Seems like traffic wouldnt be a problem with avoiding I 270.

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Once again, Men crushing women.

    Leigh Finke is one of USA TODAY’s Women of the Year, a recognition of women who have made a significant impact in their communities and across the country. The program launched in 2022 as a continuation of Women of the Century, which commemorated the 100th anniversary of women gaining the right to vote. Meet this year’s honorees at womenoftheyear.usatoday.com.

    Leigh Finke has always fought to change the world for the better.

    Growing up in the western suburbs of Minneapolis, Finke was always interested in politics but never planned to be a political candidate herself. In November after her first bid for public office, Finke became the first transgender legislator appointed to the Minnesota House of Representatives after winning 81% of the vote in her district.

    Finke has been an activist for transgender and LGBTQ+ rights, as well as Black Lives Matter, almost her whole life.

    After transitioning in 2017 Finke said politics began hitting “a lot closer to home.” Witnessing national and coordinated attacks against the rights of transgender people and others in her community motivated her to be the representation Minnesota was lacking.

    Finke is USA TODAY’s honoree for Women of the Year for the state of Minnesota.

    I’m too lazy to look it up, but I wonder how many of Time’s Women of the Year are trans.

    • WTF

      attacks against the rights of transgender people

      What “rights”, specifically, are being attacked? This part gets left unsaid.
      I would also like to know who, specifically, is “attacking” these rights.

      • juris imprudent

        The right to be found attractive, the right to be told how brave and wonderful I am…

      • Pope Jimbo

        His tattoo artist should be prosecuted then. No way anyone is going to find xer attractive with that awful ink.

      • Rebel Scum

        The right to be though of as stunning and brave. The right to mutilate and sexually groom children.

      • R C Dean

        I believe it is the right of children to take cross-sex hormones and undergo surgery to remove their genitalia.

    • Fourscore

      “Free at last, free at last”

      /ML King tosses and turns

  26. The Late P Brooks

    Costello will cite evidence contained in the 2020 book “The Fixers: The Bottom-Feeders, Crooked Lawyers, Gossipmongers, and Porn Stars Who Created the 45th President” that Cohen keeps changing his story about the Stormy Daniels payments and can’t be trusted.

    After that, they will introduce as evidence a series of grocery store gossip tabloid headlines.

  27. Pope Jimbo

    This hush money scandal is one of those things that I truly don’t understand. Why is it illegal to pay off someone if you are running for office? I’m assuming that some rando could pay off a bar tramp to keep her from blabbing to his wife?

    Also, does it have to be hush money for sex? Or are there other categories that are also illegal? For example, if I paid my idiot buddies to not tell the press how bad I am at basketball would I be in trouble?

    It just seems crazy to me that it is illegal to make it a bit more difficult for the journalos to dig up dirt.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Also, is it illegal to pay off a doctor to say that everything is just fine? Seems to me that paying off Fetterman’s doctor (or a Biden doc) is worse than paying off a floozie.

      • Lackadaisical

        It’s not illegal to do any of those things.

        It’s illegal to use campaign cash to do it or to classify it as a legal expense when it isn’t.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Thanks. That at least makes a bit of sense. Of course, it is still bullshit.

      • Fourscore

        Never give in to a blackmailer. You get more of what you reward.

  28. Not Adahn

    I watched Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex_2045 (hereafter GitS SAC).

    I liked it.

    Warning: it is an anime. It is also a cyberpunk anime, with all of the tropes contained therein. Aaaaand it is a computer-assisted animation cyberpunk anime.

    On the animation — on one hand, the faces are video game-level animated. Not a fan. Otoh, the bodies are frankly spectacular. The positioning and movement of them is more expressive than the typical hand-drawn. And there are just so many little touches with them that I approve of. For example, the Prime minister of Japan is American (the geopolitical situation is complicated) and he’s always reaching out for a handshake, bringing the left hand up to touch the people he’s talking with, etc. and the animators do a great job of putting in hesitations and flinches on the part of the Japanese exposed to this.

    The plot: this isn’t a sequel to Ghost in the Shell, but is that thing that the Japanese do that we don’t really have a word for, though I guess “reboot” comes closest to it. It’s a future cyberpunk dystopia caused by a global financial collapse resulting in the nations of the world consolidating (the G20 is now the G4) with the American Empire being the biggest swinging dick on the planet. The concept of “ghost hacking” (software being able to rewrite the human brain) along with self-aware AI from the original GitS, are in play with an AI merging with humans resulting in bizarre and ultraviolent behavior. The Section 9 team investigates as to the origin of this AI and the containment of these human-AI hybrids (“posthumans”) going deeper into the rabbit hole. The ending, while not as bizarre as is typical for this sort of thing (see also: Neon Genesis Evangelion, Revolutionary Girl UItena, The Prisoner, Mr. Robot, etc). is sufficiently ambiguous that the world may or may not have been destroyed in a nuclear/biological weapons exchange, and if the world does exist, the human race may or may not have been eradicated.) And all of this is the result of a traumatized middle schooler obsessing over and drawing the completely wrong lessons from 1984, the book which was given to him by an off-grid ex-soldier disillusioned by his government.

    • slumbrew

      How does it related to the SAC series? I watched that on DVD years ago (and still have some Laughing Man stickers floating around here, someplace)

      • Lackadaisical

        Typically with these you remove any actual history from previous versions but retain the same characters

        At least that’s how it seems to me. I can never really wrap my mind around it.

      • Not Adahn

        Yeah, I would hope that some of the Nihon-adjacent glibs could tell us what the term is.

        But it’s “take the same* characters, but tell a different** story.”

        *sometimes the characters are also changed a bit

        **sometimes the story is a variant of the original (like the Rebuild of Evangelion series).

      • Not Adahn

        I never saw that one, so dunno.

      • Lackadaisical

        I’ve seen both and it’s hard to say exactly what’s going on, at least to some extent previous history was retconned. I think it’s best understood on it’s own as there are many inconsistencies otherwise.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    first day of alleged Spring

    That must be why there’s fresh snow on the ground.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    This hush money scandal is one of those things that I truly don’t understand. Why is it illegal to pay off someone if you are running for office? I’m assuming that some rando could pay off a bar tramp to keep her from blabbing to his wife?

    How is it functionally different from court ordered “restitution”?

    For that matter, why isn’t it extortion on the part of the payee?

    • Fourscore

      Telling the truth isn’t extortion, apparently telling lies is OK too, until you get caught.

  31. Rebel Scum

    Yeah, but Orang Man Bad.

    In 2022, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg reduced 52% of all felony charges to a misdemeanor

    Now he’s elevating a misdemeanor to a felony that the feds refused to prosecute to indict President Trump

    Criminals roam free. Political opponents go to jail.

    This is your third world country

    • AlexinCT

      My kind of girl… My fear with these twatters is that if we meet in real life it is a fat guy pretending to be a chick…

  32. Gustave Lytton

    Midsize U.S. banks reportedly ask the FDIC to insure all deposits for two years

    Well no shit, after SVB. If you’re a depositor over $250k, would you leave it in a smaller bank or move it to a too big to fail guaranteed to be bailed out big bank?

    • Drake

      They are going back to cheap money to bail out the banks. The problem is, nobody wants dollars any more so inflation is about to take off like a rocket.

      • juris imprudent

        We’ve been exporting our inflation for years – it’s why we weren’t getting what we should have been, even most recently. That hasn’t dampened the market for dollars overseas.

        If monetary theory had any validity at all, we would be in hyper-inflation by now.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh hell, I’m stunned that we haven’t had repercussions – yet.

      • Drake

        It will take a while to fully understand the extent of the damage this administration has done in only 2 years.
        Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Russia for 3-day visit, meetings with Putin

        This is the kind of meeting – developing closer trade relations, BRICS currency, and probably a military alliance – that every western diplomat has tried to avoid for 30+ years. Instead, Biden and team couldn’t have tried harder to push them together.

  33. Rebel Scum

    These cuntes need to be forcibly dealt with.

    Conservative judge abused at Stanford Law School say protesters told him they hoped his daughters would be RAPED, as it’s revealed they were angry at him for misgendering transgender pedophile

    Fifth Circuit Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, 51, was asked to give a speech at Stanford, but students and the DEI associate dean interrupted his speech

    Associate Dean Tirien Steinbach asked to speak to students after Duncan requested an administrator and then gave a six-minute prepared speech

    Stanford leaders later apologized to him, but students have since protested against the apology

    • Lackadaisical

      “the judge eventually conceded, saying: ‘I guess I have to let her.’ ”

      Eh, not really, bro.

      “Martinez and Tessier-Lavinge admitted that staff ‘should have enforced university policies’ and had ‘failed’ to do so. They said Steinbach ‘intervened in inappropriate ways that are not aligned with the university’s commitment to free speech.’ ”

      But since they didn’t fire the dean involved or really reprimand the students or professors teaching this, no lessons were learned, except to keep acting like shit flinging baboons at what is allegedly a top notch law school.

      • AlexinCT

        At this point if I was going to school there I would dox these fuckers just to make sure people that hire don’t decide to black ball all students because of these fucking evil marxist freaks and their tantrums…

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        ‘I guess I have to let her.’”

        Just lie back and think of diversity.

    • juris imprudent

      Dear lord, spare me from the tolerant apostles of diversity.

    • Not Adahn

      Just like The Vagina Monologues said, “it was good rape.”

    • rhywun

      More on what Stanford has become.

      TL;DR – don’t send your kids to Stanford.

  34. The Late P Brooks

    Recycled tripe and treacle

    The world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating with international climate goals set to slip out of reach unless immediate and radical action is taken, according to a new UN-backed report.

    “The climate time-bomb is ticking,” said António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a statement to mark the launch of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s synthesis report on Monday. “Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast,” he added.

    The report draws on the findings of hundreds of scientists to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the climate crisis is unfolding.

    The science is not new – the report pulls together what the IPCC has already set out in a cluster of other reports over the last few years – but it paints a very stark picture of where the world is heading.

    Bow down. Appease the gods. Obey the priesthood.

    • Lackadaisical

      Meh, if they’re right then I get closer too the beach. Sounds good.

      • AlexinCT

        Right or not, if this shit isn’t stopped dead in their tracks, we will, sooner than later, be back to cutting people’s beating hearts out of their chests on some temple altar to appease Gaia…

    • rhywun

      Horseshit. Every word of it.

    • Nephilium

      Local news:

      “Cleveland just had one of the mildest winters ever. Is it a fluke or climate change?:

      Cleveland’s winter months have been getting warmer at a faster rate than other times of the year.”

      Article is paywalled, but really, it’s that the lake hasn’t frozen over the past several years (It’s been 4-5 since it really froze over from memory). That’s when we get the really cold winters, with less snow.

    • KSuellington

      I just got back from skiing in the Sierra Nevadas that is presently in one of the biggest snow years in recorded history. I’m old enough to remember when they said snow would soon be a thing of the past there. The ski resorts should be going until June this year.

      • juris imprudent

        Wait for it… one year doesn’t change the direction of climate!

        It will be really fun if you get a second un-natural year; then the story will be see, see how climate changes!

      • Fourscore

        Last year’s snow tore off the snow barrier on my house and the cement block chimney from my garage. The roofer said he never known that to happen. We had a lot of snow last winter but we have more this year. We’ll see what happens, more coming this week.

  35. Rebel Scum

    Respect muh pronouns, bigot.

    The Biden administration is purposefully muddying the waters between mere speech and harassing conduct specifically to force the use of pronouns and gender-affirming language. Under the proposed rule, students and faculty can violate Title IX simply for refusing to use someone else’s “preferred” pronouns.

    Ideally, investigations involving Title IX are mindful of First Amendment protections and proceed according to the American standard of due process that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Title IX has typically been reserved for incidents of sexual assault or harassment. Under the Biden administration, however, students and faculty could be reported for mere speech. By coercing and compelling speech, this administration will set legal precedent ablaze and steamroll arguably our nation’s most foundational principle.

    Henceforth my pronouns shall be Supreme Leader, Sovereign, and Protector of the Realm.

    • CPRM

      So they want more Jordon Petersons?

    • Michael Malaise

      Doesn’t sound very constitutional but maybe there will just be a penaltax for mispronouning someone.

      • PieInTheSky

        Doesn’t sound very constitutional – give it 10 years

    • WTF

      No mention that Title IX speaks to discrimination on the basis of sex, and says nothing about identified genders?

  36. The Late P Brooks

    The impacts of planet-warming pollution are already more severe than expected and we are hurtling towards increasingly dangerous and irreversible consequences

    they claimed, without evidence.

    • Michael Malaise

      The Climate™ is either a tease or lazy.

    • Drake

      Let me know when the Plymouth Rock is underwater. It was below freezing this morning in South Carolina on the first day of Spring.

    • R.J.

      Oh yeah, I felt incredibly warm last week. As did most people. F*ck those hoes. I froze my ass of at a damn beach. Warm this. o^o.

      • Pope Jimbo

        We’re having a top 10 snowiest winter this year. I fully support those assholes who are cutting off catalytic converters. We need to warm this puppy up!

      • Rat on a train

        Someone messed up and sent all our snow to California this year.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Where it melted and ran into the ocean. Too bad Cali didn’t think about building any retainment ponds or reservoirs to capture that water. Oh, wait, they did approve building new reservoirs in 2014 but nothing has been done since.

      • Lackadaisical

        High speed Choo-choos are sexier than water.

      • Fatty Bolger

        That’s so unfair, I mean only 65% of Californians voted for it, and anyway, that stuff takes about 6 years to build so it wouldn’t have fixed anything right away.

      • juris imprudent

        Where my democracy?

    • Pope Jimbo

      Well there would have been evidence, except known climate skeptic Greta deleted the proof.

      * I linked to the Snopes “fact check” because it is so humorous.

      • CPRM

        Don’t believe the quotes Forbes attributed to this Scientalist! Believe the quotes the AP attributes to this Scientalist!

        The Forbes article was the only place in which the content of Anderson’s seminar was reported, but Anderson told The Associated Press that he never made that argument, and that his words were wildly misinterpreted in media reports:

        “That is a complete fabrication of what I said,” Anderson wrote, referring to the claims he said humanity would be wiped out in five years.

        He said that during the seminar, he was displaying the most recent observations of Arctic sea ice volume — specifically the ice floating on the Arctic Ocean — and made the statement that “the current observed rate of floating ice loss volume, there will be no floating ice remaining by 2022.”

        The focus of the statement was on the floating ice volume and the observed rate of disappearance at that time, he said.

        “Thus the statement was clear to those in attendance that the reference was to floating ice volume in the data shown on the slide, not arctic ice in general,” Anderson clarified, adding, “so, the ‘wiping out of humanity by 2022’ is a total distortion of what I said or meant at the University of Chicago colloquium in 2018. I would never make such a statement.”

      • Pope Jimbo

        Did either the AP or Forbes actually look at the slide deck for his presentation? Or review video of the presentation?

        The guy did claim that there would be no floating ice by 2022 – which turned out to be wildly wrong – so maybe you can’t take him at his word.

    • PieInTheSky

      are already more severe than expected – I thought it was expected that we would all die by 2012. So are things worse than death?

      • Fourscore

        Taxes come due every year, regardless of the weather/climate

  37. Tundra

    Good morning, Banjos!

    *checks*

    Yep. Things are still fucked up.

    But not the Misfits.

    • Rat on a train

      Are they being niggardly with certain attendees?

    • rhywun

      I blame the French.

    • Not Adahn

      Breaking? Hardly. This was known way back in the “‘Baby, it’s Cold Outside’ is rape culture” era.

    • Rebel Scum

      How do we have necessary conversations about language without sounding like the language police?

      You don’t because this horseshit is unnecessary, tedious and tyrannical.

  38. Mojeaux

    My husband and I watched Nightmare Alley last night (remake, not the original) and I must say it was quite good. It was a noir film, a little light on the psychothriller part, but still good.

    • Nephilium

      It’s been on my list. I need to block out some time to watch it. Finally got the girlfriend to sit down and finish Reacher season 1 yesterday. Once she got into it I wasn’t allowed to stop it this time (I think it was episode 4/5 that got her truly hooked).

    • CPRM

      I enjoyed it. But then again, I seem to have very similar tastes to the director, Guillermo Del Toro, as I have enjoyed most of the films he has made.

      • Nephilium

        Only one that he’s made that I didn’t really care for (that I’ve seen) was The Shape of Water. I still need to watch his stop action Pinocchio movie as well.

      • CPRM

        I didn’t love the story of The Shape of Water, but I loved the visuals. I have not watched the Pinocchio.

  39. PieInTheSky

    Politics is complicated . Did you know many suffragettes marched with Oswald Mosley on his anti Jewish march – Mosley who supported & was friends with the actual Hitler and Goebals.

    https://twitter.com/TracyAnnO/status/1637743901527232512

    • kinnath

      Down in that thread

      Dog Power

      • Fourscore

        Dogs are boss. Hope there’s no tunnels along the way.

    • Nephilium

      Not that surprising, both were progressive, as were the prohibitionists.

    • kinnath

      two

      MySpace and AOL

      • Pope Jimbo

        Those were my two points as well. And not because I wasn’t around, but I had the good sense to miss both of those (CompuServe for the win).

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        CompuServe, now those were the good old days.

      • Nephilium

        I feel like it’s missing having an ICQ account.

      • Tres Cool

        ICQ 21211618.
        HMU yo

      • robc

        Ditto.

      • SDF-7

        One. Myspace. Pretty sure I had an AOL account at some point — and my DSL was tied to yahoo at one point (some unholy AT&T merge) which owned AOL at that point (still?) and gave a default email I never used.

      • WTF

        Same 2 for me.

    • Tundra

      I got 2. No MySpace or AOL.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      2, no MySpace, no AOL

    • Rat on a train

      3

    • Count Potato

      3

    • The Hyperbole

      Would have had 1 but I just created a myspace account so I could be perfect.

      • SDF-7

        I laughed… I’d even say you were First out of the gate on that.

    • The Other Kevin

      I got one, no AOL email.

    • Gender Traitor

      My family had some sort of off-brand encyclopedia when I was a kid, I think. If that counts, then I have… zero points. 😕

    • PieInTheSky

      did you people actually use paper checks?

      • Rat on a train

        I still use them a few times per year.

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        I still use cowry shells.

      • Not Adahn

        Yap coins.

      • SDF-7

        Still do from time to time.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I have a checkbook around here somewhere. More often used to provide a voided check to initiate ACH transactions than to actually pay for something. I and my kids receive paper checks on a regular basis from parents/grandparents on birthdays and holidays.

      • Tres Cool

        Tres Sr. still hands paper checks out, but with mobile depositing from a phone it takes the hassle out of a trip to a bank.

      • Count Potato

        Yes

      • rhywun

        Every month. Landlord requires it.

      • Mojeaux

        Yes. I still have to pay my rent via check.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Same 2, no aol or myspace. Done at least 6 of those things in the last year.

      • Rat on a train

        Four in the last year – check, dictionary, map, CD

      • PieInTheSky

        was the dictionary properly updated with the new meanings of words?

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      2, maybe 3 depending on the definition of boombox. I didn’t have a portable boombox because I had a Walkman.

      Never had MySpace (too young), never had an AOL email (yahoo was my go-to).

    • Pine_Tree

      3 – Walkman, MySpace, AOL

    • Nephilium

      0 points.

    • rhywun

      Paper checks were not a thing in Romania

      How the heck did you pay for stuff like rent or utilities in the old days?

      • Rat on a train

        Skimming by the supe is easier with cash payments.

      • rhywun

        I actually had to pay in cash from ’97 to ’05. Worst house and landlord I’ve ever had. But we were poor and desperate so didn’t have much choice.

      • PieInTheSky

        Cash. Some paper checks were used business to business for large expenses, outside the business world it was cash, until cards came about.

        Rent was always cash so no taxes would be paid.

        In the 90s the utility hired people to go house to house to get the money, and they were often targets for robbery as they had lots of cash.

        Romanian politicians that got rich of corruption were notorious for being robbed when going abroad cause they carried like 10k US dollars in cash in a small bag with them.

      • rhywun

        the utility hired people to go house to house

        Good lord. Yeah, I’m not comfortable handing cash over to some randos showing up at my door all the time.

      • PieInTheSky

        If you missed the utility guy – not at home – you had to go to the headquarters and wait a few hours in line to pay. Still cash.

        It was a great thing when they made a system with the post office and you could pay the utility bulls at the nearest post office. Still cash.

      • Rat on a train

        $2

      • Scruffyy Nerfherder

        Rat wants his $2

    • CPRM

      I have never used a fax machine, but I have handed papers to other people who then sent them through. Does that count or not? Or owned a dictionary or encyclopedia? My parents had both in our house, and I have both in my house now, but the books came with the house I don’t legally own the house…I live in a world of gray space

      • Tres Cool

        Not too long ago I faxed some medical stuff from my VA doc to my “real” doc, since I guess they still consider email not secure enough.
        But I used some intertoobs free faxing thing. Not sure if that counts. I have a couple of multi-function doodads here that print/scan/fax but I dont know if the house VOIP line would deal with such.

    • Not Adahn

      0.

      This means I’m more experienced, wiser, and more likely to be correct than you limited people.

    • Tres Cool

      I got 1
      Never had AOL

    • Rebel Scum

      Never sent a postcard or had an AOL address.

    • Grummun

      2. Never had a MySpace account or an AOL email addy. I did have a Yahoo addy for a long time that I kept as a garbage catcher/emergency address.

    • Banjos

      1, never had an AOL email.

  40. The Late P Brooks

    All due respect

    Twitter’s communications team has been effectively silent since November, when it was reportedly decimated in the layoffs that CEO Elon Musk implemented after buying the company.

    That means it hasn’t responded to journalists’ questions about any of the developments that have happened since — from the layoffs and mass resignations themselves to major changes to the user experience to a series of controversies involving Musk and his announcement that he will eventually step down.

    Now the press email address is active again, at least to some extent.

    Going forward it will automatically reply to journalist’s inquiries with a single poop emoji, Musk announced — via tweet, of course — on Sunday.

    Splendid.

    • Lackadaisical

      That is excellent.

  41. Count Potato

    “This could be my favorite part.

    While being surveilled… individuals are targeted as misinformation spreaders for talking about … wait for it… the surveillance state.”

    https://twitter.com/JenniferSey/status/1637594465530413058

    “Sounds like someone who will use a scalpel not a hatchet in evaluating speech w which she disagrees, right? That’s the thing. Disinformation was largely people & positions she disagrees with & press happens to disagree w the same things, so seems fine!”

    https://twitter.com/mkhammer/status/1636791027054043136

  42. creech

    “The source spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge details of the grand jury proceedings.”
    What happens to all these sources who have no authority to leak stuff? Seems that would deserve as much punishment as, say, paying off a hooker to keep quiet about a tryst. I guess if you can leak a Supreme Court decision and get away with it, then you can leak anything to anyone without repercussions.

    • The Other Kevin

      No way that’s right. Way too low.

      • Lackadaisical

        Many undiagnosed, that’s all.

    • AlexinCT

      That number is on the low end based on my experience. And it is over 50% for those over 29 as well… Someone should make a video about hot vs. crazy and call it a matrix.

    • rhywun

      How many of them are actually men?

    • Mojeaux

      I’ll be on my meds till I die, and maybe even after that.

      If I were slaving away out in a garden just to have food to eat for the day or the winter, I probably would just have to tough it out the way women have been doing for millennia. Survival gives you no time to (I won’t say “indulge”) dwell on what’s wrong with you. You just know it’s harder for you than for the lady next door, and you can’t figure out why, and you’re too busy hauling water to dig a well.

      I’ve been in this position, although it wasn’t tending a garden and canning food. You gotta make your rent, make your bills, so you gotta do what you gotta do. For years I have never had just one job, and I don’t know what I’d do with myself now if I had just one job. And they were always wildly disparate. For most of this time, I was battling a very inconvenient health issue that intruded significantly upon my life. Anyhoo, I’m not sure how I got through all that without meds, without knowing I needed meds, and with having doctors who didn’t give a shit about my health issue because I was very obviously poor/broke.

  43. AlexinCT

    I think this revelation is false. What other bank were these green crooks banking with otherwise? That number should be hgher.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      How many banked with Signature?

      Like I said upthread, this seems like a hit on the Dems corrupt money funnels.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The article writer seems to be conflating investing and banking services.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, describes himself as a “free speech absolutist” and framed the takeover in terms of protecting expression.

    But many of his moves in that direction — from weakening its content moderation practices to reinstating accounts that had been suspended for rule violations — have fueled safety and misinformation concerns.

    Musk’s stated commitment to free speech has also been called into question by his treatment of journalists.

    Journalisming = legitimate speech.

    Conspiratorial dogwhistling = hateful lies

    • The Other Kevin

      When the Constitution was written they didn’t expect people to use free speech to say bad stuff.

    • Not Adahn

      This is a CLASSIC NPR construction.

      1. Target’s position “Musk, who bought Twitter for $44 billion in October, describes himself as a “free speech absolutist” and framed the takeover in terms of protecting expression.”

      2. Opposition signifier, they’re about to bring the receipts! “But”

      3. Spring the trap! “many of his moves in that direction — from weakening its content moderation practices to reinstating accounts that had been suspended for rule violations — have fueled safety and misinformation concerns.”

      HAHAHAHAHA! Such a hypocrite! What? What do you mean that 3 doesn’t disprove or even relate to 1?

      many of his moves in that direction — from weakening its content moderation practices to reinstating accounts that had been suspended for rule violations — have fueled safety and misinformation concerns.

      • Nephilium

        Look, free speech absolutist doesn’t mean all speech. HATE SPEECH ISN’T FREE SPEECH!

        /wants to slap anyone who says that

      • The Hyperbole

        That seems rather hateful.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    did you people actually use paper checks?

    What do you mean “did”?

  46. Count Potato

    “White ppl not seasoning their food actually rly is based in racism & classism lol.

    The reason white ppl don’t season food is bc historically, rich white ppl began to think seasoning was for brown ppl who had to season their food bc they couldn’t afford better tasting meat. They also associated unseasoned food w cleanliness & moral purity, calling it “clean” or “simple” eating. In medieval Europe the rich felt that once spices became affordable for everyone instead of just the wealthy, they no longer wanted them.

    So basically white ppl don’t season their food bc their ancestors thought seasoning was for poor ppl & brown ppl. Lol”

    https://twitter.com/TheHoneyMa/status/1637216823698681856

    • PieInTheSky

      Do not lump all white people with UCS please

    • Nephilium

      /looks in my spice cabinet.

      Sure, keep thinking I don’t season or spice my cooking.

    • rhywun

      Like I can’t even with that OMG lol

    • Sean

      I feel othered,

      🙁

    • Not Adahn

      Never read that book.

      • rhywun

        Never heard of it and I like her stuff from that era.

      • Shirley Knott

        It’s a short story and it’s wonderful.

  47. The Late P Brooks

    I guess if you can leak a Supreme Court decision and get away with it, then you can leak anything to anyone without repercussions.

    Only if you did it for the right reasons.

    • Drake

      Julian Assange would like a word.

  48. The Late P Brooks

    Let her who is without sin cast the first stone

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., slammed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in an interview Sunday on NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” saying he “has failed” and shouldn’t be in his role.

    “He has had two jobs. One is to deal with monetary policy. One is to deal with regulation. He has failed at both,” she said.

    “Look, I don’t think he should be chairman of the Federal Reserve. I have said it as publicly as I know how to say it. I’ve said it to everyone,” said Warren, who is on the Senate Banking Committee.

    ——-

    Warren, who has been pressing for stricter banking regulations, said Powell “took a flamethrower to the regulations” when Trump was in office, adding that Trump gave Congress the “authority to lighten the regulations even more.”

    “And then the CEOs of the banks did exactly what we expected. They loaded up on risk that boosted their short-term profits. They gave themselves huge bonuses and salaries and exploded their banks,” Warren said.

    ——-

    Warren urged Powell to recuse himself from an internal probe into SVB last week, saying his actions “directly contributed to these bank failures.”

    “I’ve opposed him because of his views on regulation,” Warren said Sunday on “Meet the Press,” “and what he was already doing to weaken regulation.”

    Wanton government spending played no role, nor did zero interest rate policy.

    It were all that wild west unregulated banking what dunnit.

    • Scruffyy Nerfherder

      They should just file an insurance claim like the shopowners did after the Summer of Love.

    • Tres Cool

      You call yourselves “UpRising Bakery” you cant be to shocked when they rise up against you now can you?