Good morning one and all to another beautiful day! The birds are chirping, the sun is rising, and the links are fresh and ready for consumption!
Biden Endorses $2 Trillion Tax Hike
Supreme Court Likely to Send Trump Immunity Case Back to District Court: Experts
Stocks Tank After Disastrous First Quarter GDP Report
Trump Cheered by NYC Union Workers, Union Official Reveals Why Biden Is In Big Trouble
Red states rush to resist Biden’s Title IX changes, setting up legal showdown
A TikTok Ban Is Looking More Likely Than a Divestment
Ford Takes $1.3 Billion Loss on Electric Vehicles
Metaverse Loses $4 Billion, Facebook Stock Tumbles
New York’s highest court overturns Weinstein rape conviction
Adam Schiff Forced To Give Big Talk Suitless After Luggage Stolen In San Francisco
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
Tax hike…in an election year.
I remember Biden saying something to the effect of ‘ it doesnt matter, we have a vote cheating scheme that is the strongest in history’
I dont remember the context exactly but it does mean they think they can do whatever they want and legit votes dont mean shit.
This seems to bear that out.
The goal is to destroy the middle class. The idiots don’t realize these tax proposals are to make it even harder for anyone else to make money and get rich. These fuckers are protecting/defending the corruptocracy that wants to rig the game so that they stay on top when the destruction and havoc their marxist “social justice” policies have caused inevitably lead to a global economic collapse happening.
Oh, they realize it. That’s the whole point.
We kulaks must be destroyed as a class!
We are in the way of the noble cause of creating heaven on earth by the idiots that always instead pave the road to hell for the people they deceive.
You fail to grasp how many people in this country believe that stealing other people’s money is perfectly acceptable, as long as it isn’t theirs, and the theft benefits them by spending on things that placate their consciences.
That old joke about how people will basically accept the government fucking them over hard, just because they have convinced themselves their neighbors will be fucked harder, seems to not be so much a joke and more akin to the real deal…
Who ever said that was a joke? It never has been one.
To me it always was. My brain simply can’t go there. I used to laugh real hard at the joke about the guy that found a lamp, got a genie, then was told he had three wishes but whatever he asked for his ex would get twice as much, then asking to be beaten half to death for his third wish.
Personally I would never care what others got or not when something benefitted me too. Conversely, I never agreed with things that hurt me just because it hurt others – even others I disliked – more. Not wired that way.
Saddens me to find out so many people are wired that way.
Couldn’t have happened to a bigger asshole!
Weinstein, Zuck, Biden, Schiff?
Yes?
Embrace the power of and, and, and and.
“And, And, fookin’ And?”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101605/quotes/?item=qt0310982
Buon Giorno, fellow Glibronis.
Anche per te amico!
The early bear catches the… ???
The early bear catches Fire.
The idiots that think you can pet dangerous predator animals because their sole exposure to how nature works came from dumbass Disney movies?
Someone’s in a good mood…
(morning Tonio)
The differences in a nutshell….
Thanks to my inflation, you are all millionaires. Now you owe the millionaire tax.
Inflation is without a doubt the most onerous tax a government can impose on its people. That’s because it disproportionally and most brutally impacts those with the least ability to absorb that tax: those that are not part of the top men…
I want to say the politicians pushing through the policies/laws that result in inflation really don’t know what it’s doing to us in the middle class, but I think that they do know and just don’t give a fuck.
What politician really gives a fuck about any of us anyway?
Maybe Maddie and Rand Paul.
Maddie. Stupid fat finger at 5:30 am.
Twice! I was going to say Massie, but people who believe government should help them, think otherwise.
Stupid autocorrect I guess because I definitely typed Massiie that time.
And again it changed it AFTER I hit enter for another line. Boo, Safari!
See how easy it is to answer – because they are so few.
And the CIA always has the ability to make sure if they get any real power to make sure they understand they will change their spots/stripes and play along, or else….
Anyone think Mike Johnson was not either shown or told something to the tune that if he didn’t play along he or his family was going to have a real unfortunate accident?
I thought getting fucked was supposed to feel good.
Maybe we should adopt “getting ass raped” as a more accurate term.
“The dildo of government is never lubed.”
Slight adaptation.
Cutest music video ever.
“Devastating Poll for Joe Biden Shows Shocking Shift in Views on Illegal Immigration, Even Among Democrats”
If you needed any serious proof our elected leaders represent some other entity than the people that elected them, just look at the current illegal criminal invasion. Polls keep coming out saying a vast majority of Americans do not support this, sometimes with margins as high as 3 in 4 people, and yet, they feel no fear of continuing this crap despite that ominous warning. The real scary thing is that they obviously believe they can get away with it because they plan to rig, erm I mean “fortify”, another election.
Everyone will vote for the correct label (D’s for D, R’s for R), they won’t pay half as much attention to any issue as that.
I’ve got to jump to a meeting so apologies for an early link. “Who’s the U-Boat commander?”
Roughly $430k special edition 911 with the temp tags still on it.
https://imgur.com/gallery/yDjh4lT
One of the best lines from an ’80s movie.
Trying to correctly corner in a 911 is counter-intuitive: you need to give it more gas as you turn, so as to keep the ass down. Otherwise it will swing out on you, and you get what we have here today.
Some men you cannot teach.
Add to that the proposals to jack the capital gains tax rate and the death tax. No pretending this is about revenue, this is a clear play to stunt generational transfers of wealth, forcing every generation to start over and play the game to barely scrape by. And only do so due to the benevolence of Uncle Sugar.
Generational transfers of wealth are racist – the magic word that keeps on giving (them everything they want).
Look, fat, you gotta pay your fair share to cover the student loans of young communists and the luxury hotel upkeep of the hundreds of thousands of “migrants” who’ve been imported to “fundamentally” transform the USA.
Not something the most liberal of national candidates would say in an election year before the elections were rigged.
Why not? Over half the country pays virtually no income tax – why would they care?
Because they THINK they do.
Are you talking the people that can’t even differentiate SocSec from income tax?
If they get a smaller refund they think the government screwed them.
Despite all the bullshit and whitewashing by the usual propaganda machines desperate to convince the people that the disastrous effects of Obamanomics 3.0/Bidenomics are awesome, and that people should stop believing their own lying eyes, we now get report after report that companies in America are all falling short. If the same pattern government has followed of publishing false rosy numbers for headlines from the propagandists, only to later in the dark of night have the numbers revised to disastrous ones, then these companies are also lying about how bad things are.
We are truly run by the incompetent credentialed moronic college indoctrinated marxist class, and they will never, ever be able to admit the idiotic luxury beliefs they have coupled with their ineptitude and evil are never going to do anything but burn it all down. And who now feels that is not the end goal?
As long as there is money to skim off the top, nothing changes.
The difference is, there are no consequences for government people who lie about economic performance. Do that at a company, though, and you can go to jail or have your assets strip mined by the government. So I think the business results are much more likely to be accurate the first time.
Got a call last night for the first time in more than a year from “Michelle” with a thick south Indian accent to tell me she was from Microsoft tech support and that my computer operating Windows was detected as having viruses on it that she could help me fix. Since I was doing nothing I led her along and had fun with her for almost 20 minutes as she became more and more frustrated that I wouldn’t allow her to remote to the device to “fix” the issue. I guess she caught on when I told her casually I was actually running Linux on the computer she was asking me to give her access to, and after cursing me out in Indian hung up.
Ah, the joys of being tech savvy and old when idiots try to scam you…
“Funny, I didn’t pay for remote support. I don’t even have my machines networked. Can you give me the interface GUID of the module which dent this information to you? I have to remove it, probably with a soldering iron. Hello…?”
The last time someone tried this crap with me more than a year ago, I gave them access to an isolated partition then accessed their computer (they were that dumb) and told started a DOS reformat.
[standing ovation]
I usually tell them I’m with the CIA and if they will stay on the line a little longer we can get their position and a drone will be on its way.
Does she really have a leg to stand on?
The results of DoD pushing we are a humanitarian force, not a fighting force.
I know many wounded veterans who have lost a limb or two. They are given the option to stay in the military. Some for a desk job, but there are others who are drill sergeants and things like that. Some single amps can continue to function at a high level physically.
Anyone I know from hockey said screw it, they make more money being retired.
The difference is someone who lost a limb on active duty is already trained and has shown their value. New recruit candidates have none of those advantages, plus can’t be put in a lot of roles.
Some get jobs as history teachers – at least until the war with the bugs needs them to get back into action.
Army tinkering with force structure, again, but here’s the real punchline:
If ya’ll remember there was some uproar about this a year or two back about this new designation – intended to cut flows of information. Except of course it didn’t fall under the Natl Sec Act of 1947, so there are no real penalties.
Controlled Unclassified Information consolidated a bunch of agency specific dissemination markings for unclassified information.
Someone please paste a “Ray of Hope” article!
OH NOES! Politico capitulates and sadly admits that the racket is not gonna work……..
Ok I’ll do it even though some of you already saw it.
https://twitter.com/jameslucasit/status/1781011789137740176?s=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbm5Q2ccu8E
I appreciate the morning links, Sloopy, Banjos and all the Glibs that inform us. But lately, I haven’t commented much due to the fact that most of my comments would be expletive filled rants. I am approaching black pill and I don’t like it. What is going on now in the US (and other countries) astounds me with government stupidity.
But, I do appreciate the Morning Links.
The glibification is nearly complete.
“most of my comments would be expletive filled rants”
How is that different than anyone else?
And I wouldn’t call them rants; more like perfunctory pontifications.
I would prefer not to post in anger (regarding the links, not other commenters). I type it out, look at it, and I feel smaller for letting anger get to me.
But I will snark if the moment arises.
Don’t be scared, let the hate flow through you.
Emperor Palpatine? Is that you?
Stoic comedy?
My comments are always insightful and brilliant, often tinged with my unique brand of self-depreciating humour.
For me, glibs is a nice bourbon. If I chugged it, I’d get too much of the current events tannins and ruin the experience. By sipping it, I get all the nice notes of snark and awareness without the faceslap of black pilled doom.
Yes, let the hate flow through you. – Grandaddy Palps
Sam Brinton stole Adam Schiff’s luggage?
My thought too.
Unlikely. It was men’s clothing.
Are you sure?
Fair question. Although the missing suit suggests at least some of it was. I really don’t want to think about the rest, having survived Wednesday noon…
Bwahahahaha
The goal seems to be to have Kiev fall after the election, when – if their efforts to fortify it fall short – they can add it to the pile of shit they will accuse/blame Trump for.
The Dems will blame the Repubs no matter when the Ukes lose. When it happens this summer, the Dems will say the Repub delay in approving the bloated funding package was what done it.
Query: why do we need to appropriate more money to replenish our own supplies? Didn’t (a) Ukraine buy stuff from us or (b) we already appropriated money to give stuff to Ukraine? I don’t see why we need to spend more money now, for stuff that has already been paid for.
More than 90% of this money is going to the US military-industrial complex, so it is basically fluffing the little manufacturing left in America. The rest, and we are still talking about billions, especially when it comes to Ukraine, will end up going to spurious causes that allow the Uke government types to larder their “retirement” accounts and also funnel a real large chunk back to the US campaign coffers of team blue pols that made this happen. At least that’s how this sending money to Ukraine racket has worked since the CIA instigated color revolution of 2012/2013. Not sure if the Israel/Taiwan money follow the same pattern, since right now Israel’s government sees team blue as an enemy and Taiwan would prefer to get someone not from the existing corrupt machine in power because the CCP owns them all.
Let me give a made-up example:
We spent a billion dollars to send Patriot missiles to Ukraine. That money bought a billion dollars of Patriot missiles. Where did those missiles come from/go? If they were new ones, they didn’t come out of our stockpiles, so our stockpiles weren’t depleted. If they came out of our stockpiles, didn’t we already buy a billion dollars of Patriot missiles to replenish our stockpiles? Why do we need to spend another billion dollars if the first billion went to missiles that didn’t come out of our stockpiles, or already replenished our stockpiles?
How many times are we going to buy the same missiles?
“Why do we need to spend another billion dollars if the first billion went to missiles that didn’t come out of our stockpiles, or already replenished our stockpiles?,/em>”
The weapons and weapon systems we are sending to Ukraine ARE coming out of our and our allies stockpiles. This is money to replace the stuff we sent to Ukraine (with newer and in some cases more advanced hardware) for ourselves or allies that send stuff.
Note that we are supposedly also sending billions to pay for Ukraine’s government employees and that end up in NGOs that supposedly are helping Ukrainians but really just send the money back through shell corps to team blue coffers. One of the reasons Sam Bankman-Fried kept having charges dropped was that he used his corporation as a vehicle to help these NGOs send money to US politicians and their campaigns.
Ukraine has been a place where the crooks in charge have laundered tax payer money now for over a decade. Mostly for the intel orgs whom paid off the political class by letting them steal a chunk of it for their own campaigns.
“The weapons and weapon systems we are sending to Ukraine ARE coming out of our and our allies stockpiles.”
Didn’t we already appropriate the money to replace them? What were those multi-billion dollar military aid packages about the past few years?
The pivot to the Pacific, now that our elites have realized the CCP played them for suckers, drives most of the new weapon purchases. Because of the WoT priorities, the focus was on platforms and weapon systems that served ground forces in low intensity conflicts. In the mean time, the hardware needed to deal with two, let alone one, near peer competitor was ignored for decades and is now sorely lacking. This stockpile – new stealth bombers, next gen fighters & ships/subs, expensive stealth long range standoff weapons, electronic warfare capabilities, SAM systems, hypersonics, and space weapons – is what they are trying to replenish, and replenish fast, in the hopes it dissuades the CCP from military adventurism.
The US and their NATO allies are giving Ukraine mostly the older stuff, and at least in the US, then adding more purchase capability with the additional funding to the Ukes/Israel/Taiwan to the already appropriated defense spending money from congress for expedited new purchases. But telling the American people this is what they are doing would make it brutally obvious they are idiots and evil.
Remember you are talking about a DOD that can’t pass an audit.
Yeah, that passing an audit shit doesn’t fly with me. If you really believe they paid $1600 for toilet seats, $20k for a bag of nuts, or don’t know where most of the money went, you are the one being played.
It’s called black projects, and it dates back to WWII’s nuclear project. The easiest way for your enemies to know what you are spending your money on is to take a good look at your accounting. If you don’t want them to know you are developing stealth capabilities, Star Wars capabilities, new drones and anti drone weapons, and so forth, you hide the money by claiming you paid $1600 for toilet seats, $20k for a bag of nuts, and that you can’t make your accounting work.
Now does that mean that all the money is going to legit and required/wanted black programs/projects, and otherwise to some other intelligence organization’s fever dream? That I can’t be certain of. I wouldn’t be surprised our craven and corrupt government bureaucracy was using or trying to use that to do things that have everything to do with fucking over the will of the American voters.
That money’s already been spent, we need to spend new money to boost the economy.
In the article, they basically mention that the US and its useless allies in Europe basically lack the manufacturing capability to keep up with demand. So we are sending our stockpiles and ordering more, but there’s no real manufacturing base to provide it all.
So, as it becomes more and more obvious Ivy League schools are a massive racket where idiots basically are fleeced to be turned even dumber but given access to the cabal of such indoctrinated idiots that then move to run all the failing institutions of this country and even the world, are we going to actually do anything about this stupid shit?
I was relieved when my son told me he was skipping college because he wanted to own his own car mechanic garage one day and he was starting with a trade school almost a decade ago, and now basically told him that unless he could get a cheap associate from some online school or some other state entity, he was going to be fleeced. He agreed.
I feel bad for parents that still believed these expensive colleges, even for degrees that are not just studies or BA ones which limit your career options to mediocre pay, are the gateway to anything but hell.
Shrug, it’s all colleges and it’s being sponsored by Soros and friends.
“Don’t let a good education stand in your way for success” an old friend told me.
The Ivy League is about networking not education.
+1 George Carlin bit about the club you aren’t are part of
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Over achievers are not welcome here. We need to get back to the basics of life.
Thanks, Jimbo
I think I know that doggie…
Forget “Assistant Branch Manager”— that doggo has C Suite full Branch Manager skills!!
Being a millionaire used to mean something. I have a few rural friends that drifted into that by virtue of having some low quality acreage that keeps being assessed at higher and higher values. It used to be called cow pasture, now it would be retirement homesteads. The property taxes reflect the new “value”.
+ 1 highest and best use
Did you Glibronis discuss the age of AI fakes to make more racism evidence, yet?
Isn’t the real question how did a Baltimore school have a white principal in the first place?
He used his Honkey privilege?
I was reading a datasheet as part of project brainstorming, and came across this pin definition:
Now I want to know what happens if that pin is tied to ground.
The magic smoke escapes?
Touch it and see
HAH HAH HAH!
Usually random stuff. Things won’t trigger properly. or stay triggered.
Call it the “progressive pin”!
SMOD, I hope.
How would a FRAM chip cause that?
Probably just stop functionality
If it didn’t have a real function, the pin should be Not Connected, not “Must hold high”. There has to be something under the hood that a low activates that is not part of standard operation.
Most like some internal test for the manufacturer?
VW designed chip?
So that’s the “Turbo” setting where it violates EPA standards?
“Dear Penthouse, I never thought this would happen to me…”
This is likely a test pin or a pin or for a function that is not specified on this product’s datasheet. They likely have a product that uses this pin and it is specified on another datasheet. It might be safer than relying on tying it to ground to disable the function. Having some voltage present either by floating or tying to Vdd is less risky. If the the function or test mode is disabled by a GND it can possibly activate if the GND is shifted in some transient conditions. Requiring GND along with another pin signal to enable the function or test mode is less problematic.
While I’d started looking at them as part of a pipe dream regarding maybe eventually building a Z80-based computer, I actually thought of a project where I could try working with the FRAM chips. The next project being a thermometer, logging of previous temperatures would be a possibility, since they are just nonvolatile storage.
UCS,
I finished Prince of the North Tower really enjoyed it.
😀👍
I am glad you liked it.
If I could impose on you I do ask that people recommend it to anyone else who might like it as well. I don’t really have an advertising budget.
I would, but nobody I know in real life is much of a reader.
I tried to leave a review on Amazon, but I don’t see that option.
Last I saw the “Leave a Product Review” option, it was on your orders page near where you’d find the “Track Package” button when it’s in transit.
Peak engineering right there.
The Gaza floating peer design. Can’t see how this is in any way a soft target.
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/u-s-to-begin-construction-of-gaza-pier-as-rafah-invasion-looms-df1368b6?st=kjzzmbzkw8e5kkp&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
(Design is in the middle of the article.)
Didn’t the peace-loving Palis already lob mortars at this effort?
Yes. It will be gone in a week.
— U.S. Army General Officer
So routes are open…then why are we doing this? Only thing to me that comes to mind is displaying a proof of concept for the brass back at the Pentagon.
Off the top of my head – that’s not nearly enough to support a population of this size. It’s not producing much food at this point and the food it produces has no way to be distributed.
The Luftwaffe is totally going to fully supply the encircled soldiers at Stalingrad.
I believe this is a dare. The Palis destroy it and then we put boots on the ground.
Granted most leadership in the military has been replaced with rainbow clown wig wearing morons, so maybe they actually think the Palis want our help.
We should give that guy in a dress a rifle and send him in to take on the evil of that region?
You laugh, but with all the absurdities going on, an all-tranny peacekeeping force in Palestine could happen.
Will YouTube ban that video? Cause in addition to being a giant shitshow, it will get bloody…
The Nazi wing of the Democrats would go ballistic.
I’m sorry… why are we aiding Hamas here?
See above. I have ideas.
romanian off grid living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSxx_F1SZzE
i occasionally like watching this but would not want to live like that
I’m with you. I would imagine Romanian winters are absolutely brutal.
We haven’t had a real one in 4 years.
Texas has been stealing it. You can have it back.
::Intro Music::
Less Technology
::mouses over video progress bar::
Intro Drone Footage
Colorado Ranch For Sale – Homewood Ranch – Four Seasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gawkGGGJmsk
Homewood Ranch lies on 2,024± deeded acres in southwestern Colorado. The ranch is currently being surveyed, and the deeded acreage may need to be adjusted, slightly, per outcome of the survey. Just over 17 miles to Telluride Ski Resort and Mountain Village, Homewood Ranch offers incredible views in every direction, including astonishing 13,000 and 14,000-foot peaks and even as far as the La Salle Mountains in Utah. Telluride’s Mountain Village and Telluride Ski Resort are less than a 30-minute drive away. The ranch sits between 9,000 and 10,080 feet in elevation. The highest point on the ranch is known as Diamond Hill, which is scattered with naturally occurring multi-faceted crystals. The ranch is covered with about 25 percent oak brush, pine forests, and Douglas fir and 75 percent open and undulating pastureland. The fully fenced ranch is home to herds of resident and migratory elk who share grazing rights with 150-head of mother cows and calves for a portion of the year. Bear, mountain lion, coyote, and a variety of small game and bird species have been spotted here. A modest two-bedroom, two-bathroom cabin was built on the property in 1971. This region is known nationwide for its unparalleled recreational opportunities, including hiking, mountain biking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, horseback riding, hunting, and more. Homewood Ranch represents an untouched haven in Colorado’s San Juans, where a future owner has the opportunity to enjoy one of the last remaining undeveloped tracts of land in the region. Winter snow removal and maintenance will need to be provided by the landowner to access the Homewood Ranch, where San Miguel County stops winter plowing and Ptarmigan Ranch maintains winter access privately.
$67,750,000
2022 property taxes were $2,280
I wonder how the tax i for a similar priced penthouse in Manhattan…
Going to guess there are all kinds of tax breaks for unimproved or open-space land. As soon as you build a house or fence any of it, taxes go way up.
Perfectly reasonable and proper
“Contrary to the defendant’s arguments, Ms. Carroll’s compensatory damages were not awarded solely for her emotional distress; they were not for garden variety harms; and they were not excessive,” Judge Lewis Kaplan wrote.
“Mr. Trump’s malicious and unceasing attacks on Ms. Carroll were disseminated to more than 100 million people,” he added. “They included public threats and personal attacks, and they endangered Ms. Carroll’s health and safety.”
Robbie Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, celebrated the ruling.
“We are pleased with though not surprised by the Court’s decision today denying Donald Trump’s motions for a new trial and judgment as a matter of law,” she said in a statement. “As the Court explained, it was entirely reasonable for the jury to award E. Jean Carroll $83 million in damages given Donald Trump’s continued defamation of Ms. Carroll during the trial itself, as well as his conduct in the courtroom where his ‘hatred and disdain [were] on full display.'”
Justice has prevailed. Bad Orange Jumpsuit Man got what was coming to him.
Are you fucking kidding me?
No, they are definitely not kidding around.
Good ole working class Joe from Scranton is raising taxes on retirement and now he’s planning on eliminating all coal for power generation. A real champion of the people, that one. What a POS.
Good ole working class Joe from Scranton is raising taxes on retirement and now he’s planning on eliminating all coal for power generation. A real champion of the people, that one. What a POS.
He’s going to drag people like you, kicking and screaming, into a brighter, cleaner world. Why do you hate progress?
But I already know how to code!
But do you know how to wind mill Quixote?
I played https://squaredle.com/xp 04/26:
*22/22 words (+8 bonus words)
📖 In the top 7% by bonus words
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🔥 Solve streak: 280
Noted expert criminologist
Kim Kardashian marshaled her celebrity in one administration to spotlight criminal justice reform — and she’s doing it again in the next.
The reality TV star and entrepreneur joined Vice President Kamala Harris on Thursday for a roundtable highlighting the administration’s efforts on criminal justice reform and how President Joe Biden has used his clemency powers, particularly on those convicted of non-violent drug offenses who faced significantly longer sentences than they would under current laws.
Kardashian was a regular presence at the White House during the Trump administration after striking up a partnership with the then-president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, who had taken on criminal justice issues as part of his portfolio, and leveraging her celebrity to help secure clemency for those she felt were unjustly imprisoned.
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Harris, a former prosecutor, told the group that she is a “big believer in the power of redemption.”
And then they all had a good laugh.
Her dad was OJ’s primary defense attorney, and was one of the top criminal defense attorneys in LA for much of his career. So she might know a thing or two about the subject.
But apparently nothing about Harris’ record as a prosecutor or Joe’s refusal to reschedule MJ.
Did she threaten to kill the Vice President?
A U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to Vice President Kamala Harris exhibited “distressing behavior” Monday morning at Joint Base Andrews and was hospitalized, authorities said. Harris was not present at the airbase at the time.
In a statement provided to CBS News, the U.S. Secret Service said that at about 9 a.m. local time Monday, the agent “began displaying behavior their colleagues found distressing. The agent was removed from their assignment while medical personnel were summoned.”
Two sources briefed on the situation told CBS News the agent spouted gibberish, was speaking incoherently and provoked another officer physically.
Gibberish. Like, “I wish Trump was President”?
If that had been what she said, they would have imprisoned her, not hospitalized.
The claim was she freaked out at a coworker, but I wouldn’t be surprised she had enough and wanted to take out the Cackler in Chief…
Pentecostals have become violent.
Impersonating Joe Biden? or just being around Kamala too much?
The agent was immediately handcuffed and detained by other Secret Service agents who intervened, sources said, and ambulances were called to the scene.
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The USSS remains in a temporary holding pattern until further information becomes available, the sources said. After the agent receives additional medical attention and further evaluation, it will be determined if they can return to work. An internal review will be conducted and the USSS will assess if the agent’s top secret security clearance will be removed for medical or disciplinary reasons, sources explained.
Multiple personality disorder?
My bet? DEI hire.
Her dad was OJ’s primary defense attorney, and was one of the top criminal defense attorneys in LA for much of his career. So she might know a thing or two about the subject.
As I recall, she was not exactly renowned for her kind hearted sympathy as attorney general.
Her dad was OJ’s primary defense attorney,
Kardashian
The judge is a Clinton appointee in NY, and OMB is the presumptive Republican nominee. Of course this happened.
… in the Carroll trial appeal. I would have been shocked if the judge had ruled that an $83 million penalty for asserting your innocence is unlawful.
Did Papua-New Guinea declare war on us yet because of the accusation they ate uncle Brossie?
End of my first week of working in my remote office! Which is the closet of my bedroom! I live a very Harry Potter life. The first book came out when I was 10, same as Harry. That lasted for the first three books. I am literally the HP generation.
And I am the only one around me willing to say Voldemort. I even used that as an example to my K-5 kids referring to ‘Dirty Words.’ At that school, ‘ball’ and ‘pregnant’ were occasionally seen as ‘dirty.’ Jesus. My generation is fucked and I am swamped amongst them. (Problem is, I kinda want to date, fuck, and spend my life with at least a few of ’em. Hrm.) Well. Actually having a ‘full’ time job is a damn-good start, Ev.
Having a purpose is necessary for mental and physical health. A job tends to be a great form of purpose.
The rest can then fall into place.
Not having a job was always depressing. Working with Manpower was waaaay better than being unemployed
Yep. It’s a huge step for me. This is bigbig in my smallsmall life.
Onward. Upward, Always. Each step matters.
Thinking out loud?
Former President Donald Trump’s political operatives are putting together a plan that would give him unprecedented influence over the Federal Reserve, including a provision that could make him an “acting” central bank board member, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
That plan, which the Journal report described as highly secretive, is part of a 10-page document that suggests Trump — if elected — would be consulted on interest rate decisions. In addition, the Treasury Department would be used as an added check and balance to oversee the Fed’s bond-buying activities.
Along with those proposals, the draft contends that Trump could remove current Fed Chair Jerome Powell from office and require that Fed policy be aligned with the administration’s goals. While in office, Trump harshly criticized Powell and his fellow central bankers as they were raising interest rates and reportedly considered ousting him.
Trump campaign officials told the Journal that the draft proposals shouldn’t be considered “official.”
No President ever wanted to tell the Fed what to do, before Trump. Biden and Yellin are probably pissed they didn’t think of it first.
The U.S. central bank has NEVER been a controversy in this country! /CNN, at al
Just ignore the Washington through Jackson administrations and history of the First and Second U.S. Banks, never mind the machinations to establish the FRS.
It’s unclear what authority the president would have to take such bold steps on a Fed that traditionally has sought to insulate its activities from outside political pressure.
No shit, Shirley?
Good morning all!
Trying to think of something cheerful and positive to say, but man, the newsies make it difficult…
Probably about time for another backpacking trip. There’s one good one out in Shenandoah National Forest that goes right past the Devil’s Backbone brewery – that could be a hoot…
We have a rail trail just west of us, with three breweries and a winery tasting room either smack on it, or quite close.
Talking points, ho!
Several people who have spoken with Trump about the Fed said he appears to want someone in charge of the institution who will, in effect, treat the president as an ex officio member of the central bank’s rate-setting committee. Under such an approach, the chair would regularly seek Trump’s views on interest-rate policy and then negotiate with the committee to steer policy on the president’s behalf. Some of the former president’s advisers have discussed requiring that candidates for Fed chair privately agree to consult informally with Trump on the central bank’s decisions, the people familiar with the matter said.
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The danger of such an arrangement would be compounded by the fact that Trump is contemplating an inflationary agenda during a second term. His major domestic priorities include a broad-based tariff, which would raise the price of goods, another upper-class tax cut, and another middle-class tax cut, to wash away the nasty political aftertaste of giving the rich a tax cut.
All these prospective moves would put more pressure on the Fed to tamp down inflation than existed during Trump’s first term, when inflation was continuing the low trajectory that had remained in place since the Clinton era. The Fed’s autonomy would have greater importance, which explains why Trump’s advisers are especially determined to curtail it.
Bidenomics is working. The cartoon villain will make everything worse. Stick with the proven loser.
In happy news, I think I can attend my 8:15 meeting without vomiting this morning!
I’m going to survive!
Well, that’s good!
Although I gotta say, temporarily pausing a meeting to go puke, then starting it back up again like nothing happened… That’s quite a power move.
Almost as good as pulling your own tooth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6J_32cDk9Y
“You people make me sick!”
lol. That would be funny.
Especially if I could do it “What We Do in the Shadows” style.
With the amount of typos and odd verbiage choices I use, I expected to hear “You make me sic.”
And of course, the broader context is that a prospective second Trump administration will be designed to break through the guardrails that held him back the first time. Unlike Republican traditionalists and many voters, Trump considers his first term a failure and blames the disloyalty of his appointees.
That is why conservative groups are devising plans for him to shake up the federal bureaucracy. It’s why his sons Eric and Don are acting as loyalty czars to vet potential appointees. And that is why Trump continues to elevate January 6 as a campaign theme — he is forcing the party to supply total loyalty to even his wildest lies and most authoritarian ambitions.
This time his Fourth Reich fantasies will be fulfilled.
It’s good that Donny and I are in agreement regarding his first term. But if he somehow manages a second term, I see no reason to think that he wouldn’t get steamrolled by the bureaucracy again.
I don’t buy for one second that Trump thinks his administration was a failure. He might blame OTHER people for both what he himself did or didn’t do, but the idea that he really learned from it is laughable.
I’m kinda hoping he does or at the least comes back feeling really punitive. Crossing fingers he’s riled up enough to come in and actually gut the three letters.
I wish he would be vindictive and slash something.
At best, they will slow roll anything he attempts while they fortify the next elections stronger.
I finished Fallout yesterday. I was generally entertained. I look forward to future seasons.
https://nypost.com/2024/04/25/opinion/harvards-sprinkler-protest-sabotage-signifies-the-culture-is-changing-post-gay/
This demands a gif of a cheering crowd . . . . .
Or at least a “Mark, park your car at Harvard Yard”.
Living in the past
Google’s forceful response to the most recent protests raises questions about the extent to which employees are protected when they bring political dissent into the workplace. For the private sector workers who are employed by Google, the short answer is: not much.
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“People really can’t wrap their minds around this idea that you don’t have rights in the workplace,” says Creighton, who used to work at the National Labor Relations Board and found that private sector employees who called the agency often didn’t understand the limits of their workplace protections. “You’re allowed to be fired for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason,” she says. “You could be fired for wearing purple socks. There’s nothing illegal about that.”
What rock has she been hiding under?