Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! It’s that wonderful time again to sit down, sip that coffee, bitch about traffic to your coworker and enjoy another incredible day and the links!
Hunter Biden pleads ‘not guilty’ as plea deal falls apart during Delaware court appearance
Fed approves hike that takes interest rates to highest level in more than 22 years
Fed Chair Predicts Inflation Will Be With Us For Years
Swiss study: heart injuries from COVID vaccine 3000x higher than thought
Whistleblower tells Congress the US is concealing ‘multi-decade’ program that captures UFOs, UFO news always reminds me of this
Anheuser-Busch Lays Off Hundreds of Workers amid Bud Light Boycott
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
So, our next “Crisis” will be Space Aliens to distract us from Illegal Aliens?
Beats a Crisis where the Antimatter universe is trying to wipe ours out, I suppose.
Morning, Banjos — be glad you’re with Sloopy now. After the main page image, I’d be humming “Iguana hold your haaaand…” all day at you.
We already have an Antiamerica trying to wipe ours out.
How did the wings turn out?
I’m going to cook them today.
You tease.
literally a cock tease…
The official update has two parts.
1: The cord on the fryer is so short that it can’t even use an outlet that’s at the left hand side of the appliance. (got an extension cord, so that’s fixed)
2: Life decided to flip me the brid on the chicken, so that is unsuitable to be cooked and eaten now. I’d have to buy more, but have to conduct an interview before I can put it on.
#2 wasn’t meant to sound like I was interviewing the chicken… “Where do you see yourself in half an hour? What is your best seasoning style? Do you have any culinary experience?”
You probably know this already, but just in case, you should only use a heavy duty extension cord for the air fryer.
The funny thing is, the cord connected to the appliance looks too thin.
Why is everyone deadnaming Shuhada’ Davitt?
/Yusuf Islam hardest hit.
Oh, my. I didn’t know (or forgot about) about that little detour she took.
Her life was a series of train wrecks.
This. It’s unreal.
Shuhada’ Sadaqat you bigot.
All this disrespect of people’s parents by discarding the names they gave.
*shakes head*
What kind of screening loophole lets someone that crazypants to get that close to congresscritters?
Asking for
a friendidle curiosity with absolutely no intent of using that information to formulate a plan of action.Haven’t seen anyone comment on it, but thought the “register with / keep tabs with” probation officer in the Central District of California (I’m assuming around LA, presuming that’s his formal residence) was interesting given how much he’s supposedly been staying at the White House or flying around with PPP. If they really hold him too that, I imagine that’s going to be cutting into his grifting time. Sucks to be him.
And the drug testing… mwa ha ha ha ha….
I’m now waiting for the Democrats to start pushing against mandatory drug tests for…
Nope. Can’t do it. They’ll just say it’s wrong in this case, because Hunter is trying hard.
I will punch someone that says that. I just won’t be able to refrain.
Yeah, it’s going to be interesting to see whether Pretrial Services treats him the same as anyone else. Remember that Pretrial Services is part of the federal courts, not the DOJ. But the terms of his pretrial release will have to be signed-off on by the judge but they generally just rubberstamp what the DOJ says.
With the amount of special treatment he’s already gotten? No way they treat him as just another criminal defendant.
Sure, DOJ is corrupt, but as you note, the court still has the last say. And the court has just played along with the obvious corruption. Until yesterday. And I get the impression that she would have signed off if the lawyers hadn’t gotten into a public squabble in her court about the deal.
I’m betting she was also not happy with bullshit from the defense with the court clerk’s office about the amicus brief.
That’s got to be one of the stupidest trial related shenanigans I’ve ever heard of. He was 100% free and clear, why take such a stupid risk?
His whole life has been stupid risks.
I’m sure there are celebs that could hire them on as domestic staff.
Moon Bears for the WIN! Thanks, Banjos.
OT- Morning Tonio – I’ve got a piece that’s good to go for the site. Would you mind giving it a once over?
Hai! Arrigato.
Speaking of bears,
https://twitter.com/TansuYegen/status/1682676321187426304
On the one hand, that would be really cool. OTOH, I’d have to carry a Ruger Alaskan with me around the house which would be awkward.
You made me check it out. I wasn’t familiar with it, but had an idea given the context.
Only 3.5 lbs…
I was watching some review of some absurdly heavy handgun. The reviewer said “that’s a Glock more than a Shadow 2!”
I never got the point of a Redhawk. You don’t need/want DA for hunting, and it’s too big for carry.
You’re gonna want to skip the lunchtime post on the 3rd.
I’m almost never here for the lunchtime posts.
Potatoes should avoid hungry people.
The restructuring eliminated corporate and marketing roles at major U.S. offices, including St. Louis, New York and Los Angeles.
In rare restructuring they actually took out the people that inflicted the damage on organization. This could be a first. Where is Bro?
Oh I think that has happened before – it’s just been a very long time.
So…. 2001? I don’t remember that being that onerous (1970s / early 80s rates I dimly remember were… interesting…). And given all the years of 0 interest savings and effectively negative rates to banks, I’m really in the “much needed correction” camp. I wonder what the financial markets would look like without all the thumbs on the scale… but I’m no economist. Not even one with enough screwed up thoughts to be heckled by Winston’s Mom or anything.
Oddly enough the interest rate on my bank account has not been going up.
The S&L debacle was driven by financial institutions trying to keep savings yields current with inflation. Apparently they did learn from that.
Oddly enough, the interest rate still doesn’t make up for the inflation.
There are now some high yield savings accounts with rates around 4.5%. They’ll go up a bit with the Fed move.
I see 12 month CDs offered at our credit union that pay over 5%. I’ve been thinking about doing some laddering with money from our savings but haven’t yet.
I used to invest in CDs a while back, but then my broker (Columbia House) became insolvent.
At least you got something to hang from your rear view mirror.
10 CDs for a penny?
That’s how the bastards get you.
Put your $ into a money market fund with check writing privileges. The monthly dividends (comparable to what bank interest should be) has been ratcheting up steadily every month.
You know what else happened in 2001…
AI Killed a bunch of astronauts?
Some people did some stuff or something?
A lot of COBOL programmers went back into retirement?
A mortgage banker I worked with many years ago felt that somewhere between 5-7 percent for a home mortgage was where things would land without the fuckery by the government, but there is always fuckery by the government.
1975, first house, I was paying 8.5 with a 1/4 point rebate for an auto pay. Inflation was unreal but my pay lagged inflation a little, soon I was doubling then tripling, quadrupling payments on the principle. Took care of a 30 year mortgage in 8 years. What a great feeling and made my life a lot different.
The real headline is that May sales were reported at 763k when they really were 715k. So overstated by 7% for May.
Also, summer is the busy real estate moving time so families can be settled before school starts. If the numbers are not good now, wait until things cool off in the fall.
Hunter Biden pleads ‘not guilty’ as plea deal falls apart during Delaware court appearance
Strange since he was all lined up to plead guilty.
Pretty sure the guilty plea was tied to the deal that fell apart. So naturally, as any American should, you plead not guilty.
Guilty of petty charges, not those real fucking ones.
At least Hunter hasn’t committed any serious offenses, like that monster Trump!
Fed Chair Predicts Inflation Will Be With Us For Years
Because they facilitate it.
The more people who fall out of the middle class, the more people who fall out of the self-supporting lower income brackets, the more support for “safety net” programs and more taxes on the rich who will be defined downward.
Democrats call the a virtuous spiral.
No question they did.
I think one reason that Powell is saying we’re going to have (too much) inflation for years is he is in the process of repatriating a lot of dollars (and by extension, dollar equivalents) from overseas. Among the other things this will do is give control of the volume of dollars back to the Fed, prevent hyperinflation via abrupt dumping of (formerly?) reserve currency dollars and, yes, cause some level of inflation here as those dollars are added to the pool in use in the US.
Or something. This kind of high finance is mostly a complete mystery to me.
Makes sense. Bringing “foreign” dollars back to the states on your own terms seems preferable to inevitably reaching the tipping point where the rest of the world decides to stop using dollars.
That alternative would be Michael Bay economics!
Look forward to this immediately if the House flips with Newsome in the WH.
Schumer’s $2.4 Trillion Tax Increase
In my fantasy world, we’d figure out small modular nuclear and transmission lines would be less loaded / less important.
This world is even less likely than PPP being impeached or someone’s unicorn farm of rainbow poop mentioned in yesterday’s thread.
I would contribute to Manchin’s defense if he strangled that shitbird.
The Green New Deal is the trillions of dollars we set on fire and throw out the window together.
Do better, flyover country.
The Green New Deal has already been passed into law.
That’s mostly what the “Inflation Reduction Act” was. The fact that AOC and the hard-left Squad managed to get a multi-trillion program passed from positions of little apparent seniority or power should scare the shit out of people.
For me it’s better to think in terms of man-lives of labor.
1,200,000,000,000 dollars/70,000 dollars/year/75 years=228,571 lives
(I am averaging out gdp per Capita across the while lifespan here)
I live in a mid-sized state with 6 nuclear power stations. Schumer can fuck off with his green bs.
Swiss study: heart injuries from COVID vaccine 3000x higher than thought
Nothing to see here. Move along.
Not even any puns.
I didn’t ant to give Swiss the heartache.
want*, even.
This is the kind of crap that worries me. Because you know we’d all be on some list eventually around here…. and society is structured to make cash only rather difficult these days.
Has begun? Oh yeah, that whole “Operation Chokepoint” thing was just a Qanon conspiracy theory.
Yeah, this has been going on strong since at least 2008-9.
Small bright spot: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/rick-moran/2023/07/26/british-bank-ceo-fired-after-revelations-tied-to-canceling-nigel-farages-bank-accounts-n1713737
I get the impression the firing is more “How dare you say the quiet part out loud!” than anything else.
I did qualify it as “small”.
Yup, I gotta get off Chase.
Don’t tell Chase, but they let me buy Academy gift cards with their points, which I then use to buy ammo.
Whistleblower tells Congress the US is concealing ‘multi-decade’ program that captures UFOs
*yawn*
This is a distraction.
I’m holding out for aura-enhanced photos.
I’m sure the Biden administration is doing as well capturing illegal ET’s as they do illegal aliens.
Good point. Besides Hunter, what other fuckery are they up to and don’t want us to notice?
This is why zoning laws are important!
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/26/neighbors-angry-at-man-raising-cows-on-apartment-building-balcony.html
Oddly enough, I don’t remember this happening when I lived in Houston.
Given the quality and supervision of Chinese construction I’m sure that it will be able to handle the load with no issues.
Seems udderly exhausting to me. I suppose the neighbors could chip in and spring for a mooving company for the guy… they certainly have enough at steak. No bull.
That’s a helluva balcony to support that weight.
Why not just let them wander the streets? Afraid they may fall into a bad crowd?
Biden admin forces family of soldier killed in Afghanistan withdrawal to pay $60,000 to transport her body to Arlington National Cemetery
What the actual fuck? Talk about adding insult to injury.
Yeah, we discussed that yesterday.
Ignoring the government fuckery which we thought awful, we all agreed that you should be able to get a body from CA to VA for less than $60k.
But the Ebay add on fees are a killer.
eBay? OK boomer, it was probably an Uber, Lyft, or DoorDash.
we all agreed that you should be able to get a body from CA to VA for less than $60k
Haven’t read the story, but I’m guessing ridiculous regulations for interstate transport of deceased are the primary cost driver? I’d also guess those same regulations are waived for cadavers going to gov-approved chop shops.
Reminds me of the scene in Little Miss Sunshine where the family kidnaps the body from the hospital to transport themselves rather than deal with all of the regulation.
It’s some military / government thing. that was not described in either article.
Animal noted it was about $1k to transport a deceased civilian relative across the US.
Could be a little of burying one of the last 13 Americans killed in Afghanistan in Arlington could cause improper reflection on the war, the withdrawal, the service and the administration. Let’s see if we can convince them not to.
I believe it stated that her body was flown by private jet. That might explain part of it.
Let me try ease the pain from the private sector.
The Gary Sinise Foundation builds a house for wounded Capt. Jason Church.
Gary Sinise, that guy fucks ammirite?
That is a great foundation. Through hockey I know someone who had an accessible house built, and I know two more people who work as ambassadors for the foundation.
And no BS. Sure they have to advertise and fund raise, but I’ve never seen anything I consider execessive.
I’m too lazy to look up what their administrative expenses to charitable spend looks like, but I’d bet it’s way better than something like the American Red Cross.
I got curious if the new to me “Charity Navigator” is to be believed and pulled its data from public filings:
Gary Sinise Foundation $0.03 spent per $1 of fundraising.
American Red Cross $0.19 spent per $1 of fundraising.
https://www.charitynavigator.org/ein/800587086
I’m surprised. I was sure the red cross had passed the 50% overhead mark.
Generally I think Charity Navigator is legit.
The filings are standardized. So assuming no funny business and standard metrics it should be perfectly fine.
I’ve used similar services in the for profit world for decades. They are useful for first passes on a large universe of companies, but type of business and specific circumstances can wildly distort analysis both good and bad.
The next step would be to read their actual filings.
I see Gary Sinise Foundation spending over 85% on programs. 5% on fundraising, 10% on administration.
Those are good numbers.
Depends. I’m sure most for profit companies would love to have 85% gross margin.
Charity navigator is bullshit. Kind of like the notion that nonprofit organizations shouldn’t have overhead.
I don’t read that from my brief use. It doesn’t seem like it expects that.
It’s taking public filings and making ratios and comparing them to other charities and those same ratios.
Can you explain more?
I’ve worked with nonprofit finance for 25 years. Charity navigator likes to take M&G and Fundraising and divide by total costs, compare it to a metric (usually the 10–25% figure that United Way pulled out of their rectum several decades ago) and give it a star rating.
Example of bullshit – nonprofit social service organization, poorly run, the year is 2004. They are operating with 1 overstressed and wildly unqualified accountant, an accounting clerk with no formal training, an executive director doing that role for the first time, and a development director that was barely bringing in enough money to cover his salary. But your sacred M&GA is low, so 4 stars, despite auditor internal control letters noting major adjustments required to the books to get them to resemble reality and the general ineffectiveness of the organization.
Fast forward 2 years later. They hired an actual director and development guy, a qualified accountant and got the poor soul a legit clerk, cleaned house of dead wood at multiple locations. But your M&G doubled to nearly (gasp) 18%. 2 stars.
Which year would you feel better making a donation to? The mismanaged 4 star or the properly managed 2 star?
Further rant – if you want an organization to run well, you have to pay people. Yes, people working for NFP’s don’t expect to get the same wage as their friends at Amazon or General Motors. But the notion that a quality executive leading an organization with 300 employees and 150 volunteers should be making 50k a year is horseshit. But groups like Charity Navigator put relentless pressure on board and management to underinvest in the infrastructure needed to run an organization.
Also, using the same metrics for an affordable housing group operating 50 buildings that you use for a soup kitchen, a private school, a health clinic, a substance abuse counseling center, and a cancer research group is just plain dumb. What about a local charity I worked with that employs over 3,000 people? I guess the Exec should make 75k, huh. How’s that going to work out long-term.
Nonprofits operate in a variety of industries/areas and the cost structure will vary greatly based on size and sub industry. They also measure success in terms of addicts treated, homeless housed, diseases cured, children educated, and not based on net income, ROI, gross revenue. Finance is important so the organization can continue to work on the mission, but it takes a bit more of getting to know and understand the organization and applying crude metrics and slapping stars on an organization.
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Thank LAH.
That’s the same issue I run into with these services on for profit companies. You can use them as a screen, but you need to figure out where and why ratios will go out of whack.
I’ve no problem with reasonable salaries for executives and I can see the where you get that conflict. For example somebody that made his or her money and now runs a non-profit at little or no salary versus a not-for profit that has fully professional management.
Those are stellar numbers. Good for them.
Better rated than St. Jude.
The American Red Cross is barely better than the US government
That poor Charger.
A video showing a trio of female shoplifters targeting a Burlington store in California is gaining attention after highlighting their slow-motion getaway.
The brazen heist unfolded on Saturday at the discount retailer’s North Freeway Boulevard location in Sacramento, where the three women were caught on camera trudging away with shopping carts loaded with stolen goods.
‘D**n look at these people stealing! Say hi to the camera!’ the bystander filming the incident can be heard saying, as alarms blared and the shoplifters piled mounds of clothing and shoes into the trunk of a red Dodge Charger.
Is that fat sticking out of the back of her knee? I’ve never seen day accumulate in that spot on a human before.
They can afford food I see.
Avoid whatever food they’ve been eating.
Merchandise stuffed down the pants?
https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/GDslzhkvFyuuENEmTfWAuw–/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTcwNTtoPTQ3Mi4zNQ–/https://media.zenfs.com/en/la_times_articles_853/14acd8e074dc0c6119675b50ee80d902
I dunno, I’ve seen some people who look like this before. Maybe they were stealing also, dunno.
Behind the knee fat is the hardest to get rid of.
But it’s the sweetest cut.
lolbarf
And people think the Dodge Charger is incapable of hauling ass.
Oh, this should be tons of fun for the next news cycle. I can’t wait for the usual talking heads.
Hedge Funds Seek to Cut Off $1 Billion Meant for Opioid Victims
People who chose to abuse opiods and state and local governments should not be getting paid anything.
The company agreed to it already though. They shouldnt be paying taxes either, but tax leins are senior debt.
Simple solution, the bankruptcy court makes the payments the senior debt over the hedge fund investors.
I would think that would generally be the case for court ordered payments. I know its a settlement, but I dont see how its any different than tax leins, which would be senior to other loans.
Mendacious cuntes.
States without renewable mandates such as Arkansas, West Virginia and Tennessee don’t want or need heavily subsidized green energy from other states, which could drive their own baseload fossil-fuel and nuclear plants out of business. They also don’t want to pay for new transmission lines whose sole purpose is to help other states meet their renewable mandates.
No matter. Mr. Schumer writes that FERC should order states that “act as free riders” to pay for transmission upgrades. He also wants FERC to clarify its “backstop authority” to issue permits when states won’t. In other words, if West Virginians don’t want to pay for connecting New Jersey offshore wind farms to the grid, FERC should mandate that they pay anyway.
Democrats in Congress are refusing to consider permitting reform that doesn’t socialize the costs of their green energy build-out, which Republicans won’t abide. So Mr. Schumer is directing FERC to do an end-run around Congress. “The success or failure of this commission will be defined by how they address these critical transmission rules,” he says.
I’d say it’s about time for a good, old fashioned American secession.
Remain calm. All is well.
How Bad Is China’s Economy? Millions of Young People Are Unemployed and Disillusioned
I guess WoW gold farming is a thing of the past?
People still play that game?
I’ve been clean for years now. I think Mists of Pandaria is where I checked out.
I realized I wasn’t having fun. At level 65, the quests were the same as at level 5, and was just as devoid of substance. I should have left so much sooner.
Not sure what you mean by “devoid of substance.” The storylines in WoW are much more involved than anything put out by Bethesda. And the narrative-critical locations are very well done (again, especially in comparison with Skyrim/Oblivion/etc.)
Those components were such a small part of the game. And often were gated behind being social.
It was so rife with “Collect five animal liver” quests.
Not to mention only 20% of animals had livers
Again, not sure what you mean. The main point of a MMO is to be in the game’s environment. (This is the sole reason for LOTRO). The narrative/storyline is what gives you something “worthwhile” to do in the environment, and the specific quests get you into specific locations.
Go here/kill that/get this is universal in the genre. You could (correctly) say that WoW has more of those quests than Skyrim, but that’s also because WoW has vastly more quests in total than Skyrim.
What I mean is I was FUCKING BORED playing the repeditive gameplay loop in uninspired new zones doing the exact same crap as I’d been doing for sixty levels already.
I was not going to pay moth over month to be bored. I can do that for free.
I can’t remember the specific debate this point details because I quit back in college. All I was left with was the memory of an unfun grind cycle where the story beats are long gone from my recall.
That I can understand.
If you don’t like the activity of pushing the buttons and seeing your character’s animation as you kill mobs, it’s not going to be a fun time.
I can also understand not enjoying the experience of not enjoying particular environments, and in particular not liking the Outland zone.
Grizzly Hills and (especially) Storm Peak in the next xpac OTOH were pretty boss.
I have the same issue with LOTRO — the first expansion is all within Khazad-Dum, which is a dark, claustrophobic mazey sone. I’m never taking a second character through that.
I will give credit where it is due, it was a vast improvement over FFXI, where most of my time was spent LFG because it was impossible to do anything solo in between bouts of dealing with internet randos.
Yes. Yes they do.
I seem to recall reading a headline in my newsfeed that Blizzard had also made gold farming a part of the game (by having in game items that you could redeem for a one month subscription that could be traded/sold).
I would probably still play it if my gaming rig hadn’t died. And if I hadn’t gotten Lily.
I bought the expansion after WoD, it’s sitting on my closet shelf uninstalled. I think there’s been at least one more expansion since then.
They all moved onto Eve for PLEX and ISK farming which is highly encouraged in the in-game economy.
I thought they all moved to T’Rain.
That seems odd given Zeihan’s accounts of Chinese demographics – there shouldn’t be an excess of labor in that group.
Haven’t watched yet, but he had a problem with China’s youth video out yesterday. I like to get his take but take it w/ a pinch of salt.
link?
https://youtu.be/lhVU6Gi9OX4
Thanks.
He can be interesting but does he actually have a reputation for being accurate?
“Nation needs workers, but college graduates shun low-skill work; many opt out of job market, ‘lying flat’”
Sounds familiar.
Thanks JD! I was thinking the same thing.
Glad that I’m not the only one wondering how the two narratives fit together.
There’s no logical contradiction between “There’s a lot fewer young people” and “A lot of the young people that there are, are opting out of the economy”.
But both at the same time needs some ‘splainin’.
Isn’t 20% really high, even for that demographic?
Not sure the ‘not participating’ makes sense. About half of 16-24 year old should be in School anyway, right?
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Volokh has an amusing account of a libel action between two authors in the paranormal romance sub-genre.
Any volunteers to give a couple of book reviews?
I am disappointed that MoJo didnt tip us off to this fight as it was happening.
Given the overall toxic nature of the online community as previously described, there are probably thousands of such spats going on at any given time, they just don’t go to court.
I don’t hang out in Bookville anymore. As UCS notes, it’s way too toxic for my blood.
Book Twitter: What tropes don’t you like in books?
Also book Twitter: WE HATE FUCKING EVERYTHING STOP DOING THAT
This book seems right up at least three Glibs’ alleys:
No. Just … no.
LOL, I was so looking forward to your reaction.
The View does The View things.
Basically “Biden good, Drumpf bad.”
“From the start, the judge seemed highly skeptical of the unusual deal — which offered Hunter Biden broad immunity from prosecution in perpetuity, questioning why it had been filed under a provision that gave her no legal authority to reject it.”
So this was beyond a sweetheart deal, it was a Get Out of Jail Free card that never expired. Good for the judge, at lease someone in the legal system has a shred of integrity left.
But if it was filed under a provision that didn’t allow her to reject it, how did she reject it?
Why is there even such a provision
rejecting and refusing to sign off are different things?
By putting awkward answers on the record forcing the govt to deny the backroom deal part they cannot say aloud.
Full English Breakfast Croissant with Bacon, Sausage, Cheese, Baked Beans and a Fried Egg (year unknown)
https://twitter.com/shitbritishpics/status/1684220315570786304
The brits do knife-and-fork sammys?
Well, I hope the egg is from the same year.
What’s with the beans? Take those off and it’s perfect.
Why do they have ruin every dish with beans? 🤢🤮
They* sure do like them.
https://y.yarn.co/2f63f18c-24c1-49f4-81be-4ac6d61c88c4_screenshot.jpg
https://media.tenor.com/images/c1ffcbadb560d4ac0c87ebae1ce4e4e2/tenor.gif
*as illustrated by two Yanks
British baked beans aren’t as sweet as American baked beans. Baked beans on toast is actually good.
Spaghetti on toast I never understood.
Or cold spaghetti sandwiches.
Ugh, never heard of that.
They’re still beans. 🤨
Cry me a river
I’m not bitching because the underage potheads were supposed to get a free pass, I’m complaining because the underage drinkers aren’t getting the same free pass.
They keep calling it a Bud Light boycott, and while I think that’s how it started, I suspect most consumers simply moved on rather than drink a sub-par product that decided to align itself with a not necessarily popular fringe of mental illness that probably turned off a great deal of not mentally ill customers who didn’t want to be associated with that. Chalk it up to politics ruins everything it touches.
I think it’s still a boycott even if the reason for not drinking it is you don’t want your friends to think you are ghey.
What if the reason for not drinking is because you never did so?
It was already #1 without you.
I’ve been boycotting it for 42 years. Now they’re on double-secret boycott.
I’d guess most customers moved on because they had at least one friend in their drinking group that made fun of them for drinking tranny fluid. No faster way to kill a brand than that.
I think the bigger issue was when the marketing person came out and said they did the promotion to try to rid Bud Light of the “fratty” and “jock” image to become “more accessible”. That, and the fact it was commodity beer is why the boycott has had the legs it does (to the point normies were looking up who owns what). Getting someone to switch from “their brand” when it comes to the general consumer of the standard American Light Lager is the hard part. Once they try something else, and have any reason (no matter how small) to stay away from one brand, that’s the game.
The rise in Modelo is odd to me. I’ve never had it and never even thought to buy it, but good for them for not doing anything and picking up market share.
I think the Modelo rise is more due to immigration and the like. I did see a headline that was saying the Miller Lite is the new “cheap drunk king”, but I wasn’t going to click through to read that.
I’ll say that Yuengling and MillerCoors have been doing quite well in staying out of it (even after Miller did a commercial about turning the old “misogynistic” ads and prints into compost). They didn’t say anything about it, didn’t defend it, and just let it blow over. The ad also ran before the Bud Light Dylan situation blew up.
Beast Light shall always and forever be the cheap drunk king.
Modelo is increasingly popular in Mexican food restaurants. There is most definitely an increase in those up North. The South is pretty well saturated with them and Tex-Mex places. Modelo Negro is good on cooler days. New immigrants drink whatever is cheap and comes in a 24 pack. That is not Modelo.
¡Viva Tecate!
Excuse me, that’s Modelo Strong Black Woman!
Oh come on, that’s easy. It’s the cheap high they get from saying “negro” in public in a perfectly benign way without anybody looking sideways at them.
This is how I see the reality of the Glibs Cruise
Does the boat have a helipad and submarine dock?
LOL and the music!
Warby delivers again on the Transcult. No teaser, the whole read is worth it.
Great read and lots of good quotes to pull. My favorite “A meat-lego, processed person, to be kept afloat on hormones for life.”
One of the money shots –
“A Marxist is someone for whom no level of mass murder, no succession of tyrannies, shakes his faith. Faith is grounded in his future vision, a realm from which there is no information. Any Marxist revolution that fails to fulfil that vision is, by definition, not authentic Marxism. Because, if it were authentic Marxism, it would have worked.”
Yeah, and you can blame Hegel for that, but it goes deeper. All the way back to fucking Plato.
We just keep failing our philosopher kings.
More about his conceit of the perfect, the realm of ideals.
Seems legit.
Received this from a follower in Washington. This pediatric clinic revokes parents’ access to their kid’s medical records when the kid turns 13, and says kids can make their own medical decisions.
So they drop off insurance at 13 right?
Looks like a website
Easy to set up the ‘child’ account yourself
What is worse than finding a snake in your toilet?
Finding a snake in your toilet after you just finished sitting down on the toilet and peeing on it
Did she tell the snake it was raining?
Don’t kink shame the snake.
Nonpoisonous so not terrifying…get back to me when it’s a cobra.
Live fox squirrel, required a broom handle to drown the critter
“NBC is slammed for report about black people needing ‘safe spaces’ to camp to avoid ‘trauma’ from white people who might have Trump flags”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12342489/NBC-slammed-black-people-safe-spaces-camp.html
How about separate water fountains?
Is that wrong?
Do black folks ride Amtrak or city buses? Maybe they need separate safe places there too. And imagine getting trapped for three hours in an aluminum tube 35,000 ft. in the air with someone who may have voted for Republicans.
Just add registered Republicans to the no-fly list. Problem solved.
With the affirmative action pilot program and the TSA, I’m surprised anyone flies anymore.
It’s a massive pain in the ass. Flights are getting cancelled and delayed like nothing it seems. Almost took as long for my wife to get from Maine to Florida as it would have taken to drive it (non stop).
Right now, I won’t fly if I have any choice.
GDP is up. Yay, Brandon.
As usual, I am left wondering how much of that (if any) is actual increased productivity and how much is just inflation.
You left out cooking the books.
“It Sure Looks Like Hunter Biden and the DOJ Were Trying to Pull a Fast One on the Judge During Plea Hearing”
Since Biden was very concerned about corrupt protectors, like that guy in Ukraine, I’m sure this one will be losing his job as well. Right?
Heck, he even has the built in excuse of the guy being a “Trump appointee”. We know in general how competent Trump’s appointments were.
“Swiss study shows heart injury from vaccine x3000 higher than thought.”
Well, they said there were no downsides to taking it, so 3000×0 is still 0
Just another day in San Fran.
Naked woman shoots at cars near the Bay Bridge toll plaza yesterday. More lawlessness and danger in the San Francisco Bay Area.
“Michigan teen, 19, who killed her dad by dousing him in drain cleaner sobs as she walks free from court after getting one year sentence with credit for time served
Megan Imirowicz, 19, could have faced a life sentence over the death of her 64-year-old father, Konrad, with whom she was angry because he was too drunk to take her to a hair appointment.
Instead, she received a year in prison with credit for time served and five years of probation during her sentencing hearing.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12342793/Michigan-teen-Megan-Imirowicz-19-sobs-court-shes-sentenced-one-year-prison-credit-time-served-killing-father-dousing-drain-cleaner-later-says-shes-excited-home.html
Life too much, time served not enough-the guy died a slow and very painful death. The criminal court system in too many places has lost its damn mind.
I dunno. That one’s getting into death penalty territory for me. I’m a lot less opposed to the death penalty than a lot of people here, I know.
She denies responsibility, and even had the stones to basically plead for mercy because her father was dead.
“He had suffered significant injuries, including chemical burns to the head, torso and ‘extremities’.
While in hospital, Konrad had his legs amputated, endured multiple infections, a tracheotomy, skin grafts and kidney dialysis, “
Nobody who commits a brutal murder should walk out of court on probation.
Agreed, this is just ducking futs.
I’m inclined towards death penalty, assuming they have the evidence to convict.
“The Oakland County Jury had also convicted her of a misdemeanor domestic violence, but that charge was dropped during her sentencing hearing. ”
????
What the efff. You can get convicted, and then the charges dropped before getting sentenced? How is that not totally subverting the role of the jury?
In order to have an equitable society we sometimes have to let daughters painfully murder their fathers and get off with a relative slap on the wrist it seems.
There already is a demonstrated difference between the sentences for the two sexes, definitely don’t need the numbers to favor females more than they already do.
“pussy pass”
I’d be more supportive of the death penalty if – IF – the prosecutor and police would be subject to it for falsely convicting someone. Fuck your immunity.
I’ll 3rd the death penalty. A person that would do this, especially to her own father, is an ever-present danger to society and I see no reason why money should be taken from me to keep her alive in prison.
Yeah, maybe it’s just stuff she was told to say, but she sounds like a little psychopath to me.
Imirowicz has continuously denied that she was responsible for the death of her dad.
The lye just dropped out of the sky after she stormed off because she couldn’t get her hair done.
The Caustic Substance Fairies did it.
She was 17 when she committed the crime – like or not, that matters.
They can and have tried younger teens as adults.
If you’re murdering people at that age, I see no reason for leniency.
Well, that’s one life altering decision she was old enough to make, I guess.
I’m old enough to remember when Schiff lied for years about Trump/Russia collusion and fabricated the contents of trump call with Zelensky during a sham impeachment.
Adam Schiff claims we don’t have the evidence to impeach Biden.
Whatever Schiff has to say is of absolutely no value.
Look there are texts, emails, written testimonies, evidence of payments and tax evasion for those payments, but other than that there’s zero evidence. Zero!
Oh, sure there’s all that, but Joe says he wasn’t involved. Now, which are you going to believe? If you’re a good member of the Party, you know which one.
The next Senator from California.
Simple paper shuffling
Hunter Biden failed to pay between $1.1 million and $1.5 million in federal taxes before the legal deadlines and was set to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors with prosecutors agreeing to recommend a sentence of probation. The deal was also meant to resolve a federal firearms offense.
Just a bit of housekeeping, really. Nothing worthy of particular notice.
Amazing there isn’t musings about who paid the $2M tax bill of Hunter’s…
https://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-lawyer-helped-hunter-biden-pay-off-tax-bill-nyt-2022-5
Also…which again raises no eyebrows apparently
I know, anonymous sources…
He’s just the front for laundering even more bribes to the Bidens.
I like that the $2MM was a “loan”, so Hunter doesn’t have to recognize it as income and pay taxes on it.
You’d think someone with that kind of money could afford a nicer bong.
I don’t want to wish ill upon anyone, but…..
BwaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaa
Oh and he is claiming that his infection turned into Long Covid.
It is really good to see that Osterholm, although nearly crippled by long covid, still has the strength to power.
Seriously, that interview is priceless. A bitter man clinging to the pandemic because the world moved on and he is again going to be left behind screaming at the clouds.
the lessons we should have learned from this pandemic
Don’t trust the government, especially government doctors.
And he’s completely oblivious to the idea that the clawback is due to those institutions destroying their own credibility. If they had done a great job, I doubt people would have a problem keeping them funded.
And you are surprised?
“I don’t want to wish ill upon anyone, ”
Dunno, some bad people deserve it, right?
Naked woman shoots at cars near the Bay Bridge toll plaza yesterday.
Was she hot?
Nope, she’s also lucky someone didn’t take it upon themselves to flatten her.
Worse, it was an “assault” woman, based on that little thing in front that flips up.
Are you saying she was trans?
Her bare feet were probably hot on the pavement.
Most people do this every night.
Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) decided to go on a food and water strike on the steps of the Capitol building to call on President Joe Biden to implement a federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) heat protection standard that includes water breaks.
“Today I’m on a thirst strike on the steps of the U.S. Capitol—not drinking water or taking breaks, through rain or shine, in solidarity with our nation’s workers. Currently there are NO federal protections for workers exposed to heat,” Casar said.
In total, Casar went for over 8 hours before breaking his strike.
Are there companies deliberately trying to kill their workers?
When I was a framing carpenter in Florida, we were about as far from OSHA approved as you could get, but we always had a cooler of ice water and no one ever passed out or had any heat related issues.
If FedGov doesn’t specify everything that must be done for worker safety the greedy corporations won’t do any of it.
Agreed. That guy is a loser.
Mexicans don’t know how to deal with hot weather without Daddy fedgov helping them. /s
We were getting paid cash under the table, and my buddy was a Mexican.
He invited me to his trailer for dinner and at the end of the meal, I wanted to marry his wife.
That lady could cook.
Ugh.
All the overlapping meetings are starting.
Today is going to suck.
Let’s burn some giant stacks of cash- that should help cool things off
With millions of Americans facing broiling heat across the Southwest, President Joe Biden on Thursday plans to announce new steps to protect workers, improve weather forecasts and make drinking water more accessible, the White House says.
The announcement comes as nearly 40% of the U.S. population faces heat advisories, according to the National Weather Service, and high temperatures are expected to spread in the coming days to Midwest and Northeast.
Biden will be joined by the leaders of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre described the heat wave as “a difficult time” and said Biden was treating climate change with “the urgency it requires.”
Maybe we should lock everybody in their homes when the temperature goes over 90.
Only the government will have AC…that is how I read that.
Nope. They’re giving away window air conditioners to the poor.
Who probably cannot afford their electric bill. “Hey! Let’s subsidize that too!”
Wasn’t it just a week ago we saw stories about Biden’s war on AC?
“make drinking water more accessible”
What country does he think this is?
Yeah. Even our remote sites we pass by at minimum, 50 gas stations/convenient stores/stores/fast food joints/little water kiosks/etc. “More accessible” == “Free”
Well California could use some nudging in that direction
We get it: it’s hot. It’s the middle of fucking July for chrissakes.
I’m surprised trans is even a thing in Russia.
President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a controversial law that bans legal and surgical sex changes, a move that deprives transgender Russians of the right to access gender-affirming services.
The law, which makes “medical interventions aimed at changing the sex of a person” and “the state registration of a change of gender without an operation” illegal, was swiftly passed by both houses of the Russian parliament earlier this month.
The law also bans individuals who have undergone gender reassignment from adopting children and annuls marriages in which one of the partners is transgender.
It enters into force immediately.
It probably isn’t. That’s a publicity move.
If Russia gets rid of the trans, who will run that Siberian railroad?
We’re going to see major layoffs in public health agencies all across the country at federal, state and local levels.
*dabs tear*
OH THE HUGE MANATEE
Local NPR affiliate had astory about how NYC is going to run out of power in two years. The best part is they now have a way to blame the lack of solar power on global warming! You see, global warming causes wildfires, and wildfire smoke blocks sunlight!
The unhealthy air from Canadian wildfires has driven more people indoors this summer, making increased use of electric appliances, computers, televisions, and air conditioning more likely. That puts a greater drain on the grid. In addition, solar panels used to generate green-sourced energy work less efficiently in the hazy air.
Covid lockdowns never happened.
Fix education- fix it good
“This majority has repeatedly shown a willingness to throw precedent out the window,” Cardona said at the Education Department’s headquarters during its National Summit on Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. “Now, we’re faced with a decision that threatens to take us backwards.”
The secretary added that colleges “have lost the most effective tool they ever had for building diverse campus communities” and the decision “feels like a new low point” for higher education.
In response to the high court’s decision to end race-conscious admissions, Cardona announced the start of a $45 million postsecondary student success competition to boost strategies that help underrepresented students graduate from college.
He also pitched reimagining how colleges recruit students and connect with K-12, expanding need-based aid, increasing applications from underrepresented communities, expanding career and technical education and dual enrollment programs and resolving credit transfer issues.
Cardona also called on college leaders to make their presence known on K-12 campuses, build a culture of belonging on campus and increase their enrollment number of Pell-eligible students.
The secretary, during his Wednesday speech, also admonished elite colleges.
“I also want to see more of our elite institutions with incredibly high graduation rates step up their enrollment of Pell Grant recipients… College rankings be damned,” Cardona said. “Do admissions practices that benefit the wealthy and well-connected reflect your values?”
Get that piece of paper. After that, you’re on your own. As for admissions standards… they’re racist.
He is LITERALLY calling for more students who can’t graduate to be admitted. Because the only thing better than going into debt for a college degree is going into debt and NOT having a college degree?
How about, let’s improve our K-12 schools and make sure more kids are more prepared to go to college, regardless of their race? I know, crazy idea.
Prepared to go to college? Meh.
Prepared to be functional adults would be more my goal.
race-conscious admissions
The Klan is not racist, it’s race-conscious.
“He also pitched reimagining how colleges recruit students”
Reimagine is a word I could do without.
Daily Quordle 549
9️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🙁
Blossom Puzzle, July 27
Letters: A B C L I S Y
My score: 312 points
My longest word: 12 letters
🌹 🏵 🌻 💐 🌸 🌼 🌷 💮 🌺 🌹 🏵 🌻
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 549
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6️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
Blossom Puzzle, July 27
Letters: A B C L I S Y
My score: 314 points
My longest word: 9 letters
🌺 💮 🏵 🌼 💐 🌻 🌷 🌹 🌸
Play Blossom:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/word-games/blossom-word-game
Daily Quordle 549
8️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
Was CNN at the same trial as the rest of the media?
Takeaways from the stunning Hunter Biden hearing and what happens now
At least here in NJ such pretrial diversion agreements need somebody in a black robe to sign them. I find it hard to believe it isn’t the case in DE despite the fact that the Biden’s pretty much run the place.
“Look, I have nothing against the legacy student who did really well at an elite private school,” he added. “But I am in awe of the straight-A student from a Title I school who spent an hour on a bus every week to take an AP class that wasn’t offered at her school and still found time to contribute to her community — all while having to take care of siblings.”
“We have done everything possible to stamp out initiative and motivation in these people, and yet some still persist in trying to better themselves. It’s baffling.”
“time to contribute to her community ”
Like the colleague’s daughter who showed up for an hour at a Habitat for Humanity project so she could add that to her college application forms.
Teen #2’s SJ LGTBIQA Warrior friend wanted to ‘volunteer’ at my wife’s business for her application. Wife said no but you can clean our garage. So I had a scantly clad teenaged girl cleaning our garage for the day.
Safe!
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has signed two bills banning so-called conversion therapy, a scientifically discredited practice intended to change a person’s sexual orientation, for minors in the state, the governor’s office announced Wednesday.
“As a mom of a member of the community and a proud, lifelong ally, I’m grateful that today we’re banning the horrific practice of conversion therapy in Michigan,” Whitmer wrote on Twitter, which has been rebranded “X.” “In doing so, we are taking action to make Michigan a more welcoming, inclusive place.”
The governor’s approval of the measures makes Michigan the 22nd state to ban “conversion therapy,” according to the Trevor Project, a nonprofit organization focused on suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth.
Thank goodness it will now be impermissible to ask a kid if s/he really understands the consequences of that decision.
So no counseling allowed unless it is to promote the alphabet agenda to groom and mutilate your kids. Got it.
Yeah confused. I get the extremes of conversion therapy, but the State is doing just that by condoning the very shady practices of therapists that are rubber stamping the go-ahead to mutilate children.
*dives in*
I see we’re conflating gay and trans again. No doubt just an oversight.
But
You cannot change sexual orientation with the Jesus.
You can change your gender if you are willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on pharmaceuticals and surgeries.
With this sleight of hand they’re playing here, they’re basically outlawing gender dysphoria therapy. A thousand little Mengeles are sharpening their blades and looking at their bank accounts.
“You can change your gender if you are willing to”
Change your pronouns. That’s all it takes, you know.
Scientifically discredited by public health experts?
Who chooses 17 as number? Like, at work, they have these “goals”. There are 17 of them.
How the FUCK am I supposed to make a nice, symmetrical, centered web page with 17 motherfucking items?
No. Prime. Numbers. EVER!!!
Also, they want the “goals” to display in a 6x6x5 grid. Which would be ok if I can a 7-column layout I could use to center the 5-item row. But no. Max is 6 columns.
So I asked if we could do 5x5x5x2, but they said no.
So I’m spending literal hours trying to make this work, rather than just changing the grid structure
Slip an 18th goal in, see if they notice?
Dunno, make a corporate goals pyramid maybe?
No can do. They want it in a 6x6x5 grid.
Make an 18th spot, and label it “stretch goal”
“Bonus goal?”
*polite applause*
Why bother trying to center the 5-goal row? Put the organization’s logo or other small appropriate graphic in the extra space.
Well 17 is the corporate minimum, do you want to be the type of person who looks like they’re only doing the minimum?
The time’s always right for an Office Space reference.
A 7×1 grid holding 1×6 1×6 1×6 1×6 1×6 1×6 and 1×5 grids?
Have you considered utilizing indigenous paradigms of knowing?
Conjoining triangles of success might be more appropriate
They chose 17 to make work for you in creating this. They chose 17 because they can’t even accomplish 1. There is no meaning at all to the whole exercise.
Not only will they not accomplish these goals, things will be worse.
Ok they caved and let me do the 5-column row aligned left instead of centered
“make drinking water more accessible”
What country does he think this is?
You can’t expect honest hard working folks to drink from the same fountains as white people. That’s disgusting.
The Human Rights Campaign, the country’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization, celebrated the signing of the bill and praised Whitmer as “a champion for LGBTQ+ equality.”
“So called ‘conversion therapy’ is a dangerous and discredited practice that will hopefully never see the light of day again here in Michigan,” Sarah Warbelow, vice president of legal for HRC, said in a statement following the signing.
LGBTQ rights have become a prominent issue in state legislatures nationwide, with Democratic lawmakers in recent months pushing bills to advance protections and Republicans seeking to curtail them.
Absolutely.
Is it a coincidence that the one of the most corrupt NGO grifters in corporate America shares the same initials as Hillary Rodham Clinton?
I think not.
Is there a First Amendment angle to this? Confused teenager wants to talk to yucky, distasteful religious guy about sexuality. It’s now against the law.
This is so blatantly ridiculous in the context of today that it’s hilarious.
https://twitter.com/RepMoskowitz/status/1684264486591397896
I say it all went to Ukraine.
It absolutely did. Advanced tech my ass.
Ukrainian Asset Pilfering
Yeah well, I’m going to have to see it to believe it and even then I’ll have my suspicions.
he has met people with direct knowledge
Then he should name them and have the committee get their testimony.
My default right now is that anonymous sources are, in fact, imaginary.
I see we’re conflating gay and trans again. No doubt just an oversight.
They do that when they think it makes them look somewhat less deranged and fanatical.
The American people need to know where their tax dollars are going.
Wheeeee!
*guffaws, slaps knee*
Symmetrical grids are tools of patriarchal oppression.
“Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been removed from power, according to a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late on Wednesday, hours after the president was held in the presidential palace…
The soldiers warned against any foreign intervention, adding that they will respect Bazoum’s well-being.
The military takeover, which marks the seventh coup in the West and Central Africa region since 2020, could further complicate Western efforts to help countries in the Sahel region fight a jihadist insurgency that has spread from Mali over the past decade.
Land-locked Niger, a former French colony, has become a pivotal ally for Western powers seeking to help fight the insurgencies, but they are facing growing acrimony from the new juntas in charge in Mali and Burkina Faso…
Bazoum’s election was the first democratic transition of power in a state that has witnessed four military coups since independence from France in 1960.
The United States says it has spent around $500 million since 2012 to help Niger boost its security.
Germany announced in April that it would take part in a three-year European military mission aimed at improving the country’s military.”
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/niger-president-mohamed-bazoum-government-ousted-by-military/
Huh. I thought everyone liked Bazoums.
*lights Q signal*
Niger, please.
“The United States says it has spent around $500 million since 2012 to help Niger boost its security.
Germany announced in April that it would take part in a three-year European military mission aimed at improving the country’s military.”
Sounds like the military is pretty well boosted now, good work guys.
Has anyone seen Western Sloper recently?
““Nothing I love more than pissing men off and nothing pisses them off more than when you look so good they’re too scared to approach you,” she chuckled in the tutorial. “I think it’s really fun when guys at bars get rejected and then they start questioning their own masculine energy.”
My ‘unapproachable’ makeup look✨ For when you dont have pepper spray
“Not having to worry about guys talking to me or touching me feels awesome,” she said. “There’s [no better feeling than] seeing the look on guys’ faces when they know that can’t approach me.””
https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/gen-z-women-using-unapproachable-makeup-to-reject-men/
I’d bet anything that she is a massive flirt.
I’ve got bad news for you honey. Most guys look at that makeup job and assume you’re a high-maintenance pain in the ass. They’re debating whether you’re worth the one night stand or whether they should just get drunk and play video games.
Yep. Even better, if you don’t want to get picked up, stay away from bars. There is zero chance you’ll get touched by a man or hit on sitting at home. And you don’t waste money on makeup.
Exactly. Sit next to me at a bar (assuming there’s other empty seats), and I’ll probably wind up chatting with you at some point. That goes to a near definite if there’s a game on that I care to watch.
My first impression was also “too much makeup”.
She looks cute without the makeup, and like an alien with it on.
She was flying a UFO?
Ecchhh. Aliens are cuter than that. That’s the Dallasite Chick Makeup for attracting scummy rich guys. A total fail at the intended purpose.
Yesterday she was all in on the UFO bullshit and playing her role as a national actor. Today she’s pushing the boundaries of etiquette at a prayer breakfast.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1684579006967160833
If I had to guess, she’s a pure psychopath. Her fiancé should run for the hills.
…and even not that much more long ago would be gauche to mention your sex life to the public at large regardless of your marital status. Oh wait, it still is gross and no one wants to hear it.
She was my Rep for about 5 minutes. I didnt realize she was the first woman graduate from The Citadel.
She’s been married twice; third time the charm?
Today she’s pushing the boundaries of etiquette at a prayer breakfast.
Once upon a time, it would have been considered poor taste for a woman to talk about waking up in bed with a man she is not married to anywhere, not just at a prayer breakfast. We have come a long way.
Good morning!
Now here’s a nice punch in the nuts
What is this “justice” you speak of?
Just the campaign finance violation ones. Which I suspect are the crimes that would have entangled politicians. You know, so he’s not completely off the hook here.
Those were the biggest and most important. So fucked up.
Those were the ones that could take down politicians. Of course they had to go.
Hold on now.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/27/prosecutors-drop-another-charge-against-ftxs-sam-bankman-fried.html
‘Bankman-Fried still faces multiple wire and securities fraud charges.’
So, it isn’t like he’s walking scot free.
“Prosecutors told Judge Lewis Kaplan on Wednesday that they were dropping the charge of conspiracy to make unlawful campaign contributions because they had failed to obtain permission from the government of the Bahamas for that charge when Bankman-Fried was extradited from the island nation in December.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan previously dropped another charge against him, for violating anti-bribery statutes, on the same grounds.”
The Bahamas wouldn’t approve it, or we just don’t want to go looking at democrats, and they’re providing a nice little excuse for that?
Not as big a nut punch as I thought, but still shady AF, as per usual.
“So, it isn’t like he’s walking scot free.”
Well, not including the no-money-down “personal recognizance bond” and living at home under terms that he is apparently violating.
Funny how all the dropped charges are the ones that implicate politicians, no?
As for the securities law charges, they haven’t been dropped. Yet.
The Bahamians probably got a courtesy call from the Big Guy.
Or they’re smart enough to know what side of the toast their bread is buttered. Either wouldn’t surprise me.
WTF?
“Claire McCaskill told former Biden White House Spokesperson Jen Psaki, “They’re going to keep doing what they’re doing. They’re going to try to indict a father for loving his son who has been addicted to drugs and/or alcohol without evidence of the father doing anything other than loving that son.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/democrat-claire-mccaskill-jen-psaki-theyre-going-try/
CWAC
It was his addiction that caused him to set up shell companies and bank accounts, receive money from foreign nationals, and shuffle money around.
This must be part of that recent “Bidens are all about family” push. He just loves his vulnerable (53-year-old playboy) son too much.
The Mafia is all about family too. Leave them alone!
Keep talking. Show everyone what you are.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan previously dropped another charge against him, for violating anti-bribery statutes, on the same grounds.
The moves narrow the criminal exposure of the former billionaire, who prosecutors allege conspired to defraud investors and customers out of billions. The alleged scheme precipitated the collapse of Bankman-Fried’s FTX and sent shockwaves throughout the crypto industry.
Prosecutors had alleged that Bankman-Fried funneled hundreds of millions of dollars in bipartisan campaign financing through two unnamed co-conspirators to avoid campaign contribution limits. The charge could have added two to five years to Bankman-Fried’s imprisonment if convicted.
That runs counter to the usual “throw the book at ’em” charging policy. But it alleviates the need to name names and make good people uncomfortable for no good reason.
In their letter Wednesday to Kaplan in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, prosecutors wrote, “The Government has been informed that The Bahamas notified the United States earlier today that The Bahamas did not intend to extradite the defendant on the campaign contributions count.”
“Accordingly, in keeping with its treaty obligations to The Bahamas, the Government does not intend to proceed to trial on the campaign contributions count,” prosecutors wrote.
Whoopsie. Gosh, what a silly oversight on our part.
That sound you hear is a huge sigh of relief from Capitol Hill.
“The Bahamas did not intend to extradite the defendant on the campaign contributions count.”
What do we need them to extradite him for? He’s already here. Of course they don’t intend to extradite him. They can’t. He’s not in their custody.
Do we need their permission to try someone under arrest in the US for violating US law?
The did extradite him under charges enumerated by the US gov at that time. The campaign contributions where not enumerated at that time. The Bahamas is bitching about that.
More than likely, it’s al Kabuki arranged in advance to provide cover for dropping charges involving political leaders.