Good mornings my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a lovely day it always is!
Stop stealing my medication!
Biden has told Obama he’s running again…and that the Easter Bunny is trying to control him.
Biden administration will appeal ruling that lifted Covid mask mandate on travel
Democrats lose Hispanic and blue-collar voters at same time
DeSantis says Florida looking into pension plan to divest from Twitter
Erroneous Payments In New York Medicaid Program Just Shy Of $1 Billion
Secret Service seizes more than $102 million in crypto assets
New Virginia law prohibits arrest quotas
Elon Musk said to be willing to invest $15 billion of his own money to buy Twitter
Netflix stock plummets roughly 25% following report of 200,000 lost subscribers
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
I guess we now know where Pie went.
By the way, this brings up a concern that the permanence of the blockchain means that transactions are on record forever, eliminating privacy and making government surveillance easier than cash. I brought this up during a crypto panel at the Florida LP convention recently. They mentioned converting your currency into Monero and back again, which somehow is harder to track, and also just occasionally creating a new crypto wallet and abandoning the old one.
The complications that come with crypto are numerous. It’s why I have a hard time seeing how it can replace cash. Large financial transfers are a different story.
He’s living like a king in Patagonia by now.
I thought he was being transported to Carfax Abbey via a ghost ship.
Real story is, Professor Abronsius caught up with Pie.
Whycome it sleeting?
And happy 4/20 everybody!
Still winter for another 10 days. That’s why.
Maybe Lily likes sleet.
She seems to completely ignore precipitation in any form. She does like sub-freezing temperatures.
Does she run when you look away?
Happy 4/20 indeed!
Ah, good old 4/20. 10 years ago today I was in a work meeting when I got the call that my divorce was finalized.
Ha! That avatar.
*NEO* confederate?
What gives you the idea I ever reconstructed, you idjit Yankee?
Thanks. The only other response I ever got about the avatar was a rant about how I must be a racist (from Playa Manhattan, IIRC).
Good luck with that.
Just because their credibility is at negative numbers?
Watching shitty corporations fail is almost as good as a deep dish Hawaiian pizza.
Why do you love shitty corporations?
They have the best Mongolian beef?
Damn Mongorians!
How many times has Sugarfree watched this trailer?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrd8biRzhSo
“If CDC concludes that a mandatory order remains necessary for the public’s health after that assessment, the Department of Justice will appeal the district court’s decision,” the DOJ said.
So the DOJ files an appeal, but doesn’t ask for the judge’s order to be stayed. This mollifies the mask dead-enders. Meanwhile, the amended mask order expires in May, the CDC decides that masks aren’t needed anymore, and the appeal is very quietly dropped as moot. Thus the administration shuts up
the covid craziestheir base, while not further pissing off the normies. Not a bad plan, actually.I see this as them hating to lose any powers. I’m not optimistic about the outcome of an appeal.
They don’t care about the actual mask wearing, but the ability to enforce bullshit rules is important.
I hadn’t really considered that angle. You may be right.
He is.
/Loser at all appellate levels in IL
They hate to lose power, but they also desperately need this situation to end. They have saved face by saying they plan to appeal, but their ace in the hole is the CDC. If the CDC conveniently decides masking is no longer needed the whole question becomes moot. The ruling said that CDC did not jump through the right administrative hoops, so they could issue future rulings if they went through the proper motions (pun intended).
If the proper motions by the CDC are gutting and examining the entrails of Fauci, I’d be happy to reinstate the mask mandate for another two weeks.
I suspect they will soon ditch Fauci, probably by forcing him into retirement. I expect right now that there are people auditing every expense report and purchase order he’s signed off on.
Well except those grants he approved to the Wuhan lab. Those won’t be looked at even a bit.
It will be funny when the MSM gets outraged because Fauci rented a full size car one time at a conference 15 years ago when govt guidelines said he only should have gotten the economy car. And that will be the basis for running him out on a rail.
I’m expecting it too.
their ace in the hole is the CDC. If the CDC conveniently decides masking is no longer needed the whole question becomes moot.
I’ve noticed that every article I’ve read so far on the government’s announcement has the headline saying the government will appeal, but the text says the government will appeal if the CDC thinks the mandate is needed.
but the ability to enforce bullshit rules is important
You will wear your shame muzzle and like it,
subjectcitizen.Except for the looming violent backlash and harassment against mask wearers. (Paging Winston’s Mom…)
Laughing and pointing is violence.
Mask wearers are entitled to the same consideration that people who previously didn’t mask got.
Then we need stores to put up signs saying “Do Not Enter with a Mask.”
We need state governments to pass regulations threatening arrest and fines for wearing masks in public.
We need nosy Karen’s peeping through their curtains and tattling on people who wear masks in their houses.
Do Eyes Wide Shut style masks count?
Creosote Achilles will need to explain why the cannister style as mask is so popular in the fetish community.
Only if your pets are wearing them.
Groomers in DC hardest hit.
Then we need stores to put up signs saying “Do Not Enter with a Mask.”
A gun store near me did just that, and did it when the governor’s mask order was in place.
The state AG’s goons showed up. From I heard, the gun store owner had a long conversation with them about his security concerns over people wearing a mask entering his store. I know the owner was anti-mask and anti-Lil Rona Panic orders, but when he talked to the goons he stuck simply to security concerns.
Interestingly, to the best of my knowledge, nothing else happened.
And an addendum. A bit I remembered as I hit the “post comment” button.
According to the owner, the state AG’s goons were concerned that people wearing masks would not be able to shop at his store. The state AG did absolutely nothing about stores not allowing non-mask wearers claiming exemptions from the governor’s orders into the store. Their reasoning when called on this? “It’s a private business that can do whatever it wants.”
SO MUCH THIS.
Coworker got back from some Easter travel and said that a guy in the row ahead of him got up from the middle seat to let another traveler in. Then when he was in the aisle he scooted back to tell the stewardess that his new seat mate hadn’t pulled up his mask all the way over his nose.
I’m proud of my coworker for calling him out as a rat. Once the narc had sat down again the coworker told his new seat mate that he had tattled on him. According to the story, the jackass turned red and mumbled something about it was the rules.
The stew never did show up to admonish him.
As much as I hate Krugman, I can’t stand the current trend of Twitter-screenshots-as-journalism.
To be fair, I think that’s pretty much all “Twitchy” does. There are other sites under the TownHall banner that actually write more than a few comments linked with the Tweets. Twitchy’s just kind of the immediate reaction site for their brand.
But yes — when it seems like the three options are “Repackage Twitter”, “Repackage AP article” or “Be a raging advocate of REEEEEEE!” you do wish the Journalism Schools would actually go back to teaching journalism, because they obviously gave up on it a while back.
Twitchy was founded by Michelle Malkin. She was never known for being a deep thinker,
Would, though.
No, that’s your side’s game, asshole.
Assholes will be assholes.
I dropped my car off a couple minutes go at the dealership. One old dude was wearing a N95, no one cared. No one else was masked.
Sure. Except here in mask loving metro NYC my train this morning into the city was 70% plus mask wearing.
Same in the supermarket. Go elsewhere in the People’s Republic of NJ (i.e. south and west) and it is very rare to see mask.
Pretty deep look into his psychology. Just like thieves think everyone is stealing from them, authoritarians think they’re about to get the boy to head combo they do wish to apply to others.
I don’t doubt we will soon see such stories. Probably all made up.
Boot to head?
Yeah, I’m a master at proof reading before hitting submit.
You missed.
You too shall have the honor of experiencing more of Tae Kwan Leap….
The tweet that predicted a juicy smolay fake news event is spot on.
It’s goofy, but at least a KN-95 or higher is sort of* doing something. The cloth and surgical maskers at this point are more of a problem.
*sort of*
Better analysis here
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-administration-weighs-next-steps-after-judge-throws-out-transportation-mask-mandate-11650394275?st=2kgxw8cqbhyamv4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Essentially if this gets appealed it goes to the 11th which is right leaning. So the conflict here is appeal it so that they can add this “tool” back into their toolbox or risk being completely shut down with the mask crap if the 11th puts a stop to it.
The default for federal appeals is to have the case heard by a three-judge panel, selected at random. The Biden administration might get a lucky panel, but won’t know that until the day of oral argument. The other option is to request that the appeal be heard en banc (by the entire court, which they can do either at the beginning, or after a ruling by the panel.
Governor Accident hardest hit. New York seems to be the lone hold-out and they don’t want to let go.
Bwahahaha – Trump spend HIS money, on someone else? Wrong billionaire politician-wannabe.
Ya have to wonder, does Joe think he’s up for re-election this November?
Considering his rate of cognitive decline, he should be downright batty during the campaign season 2 years from now.
I would love to have seen the look on Obama’s face after Joe told him he’s running in 2024.
He’s not southern enough to say “well bless your heart.”
I was wondering. Just because he says he’s running again, os he automatically in as the candidate? Or do they still have primaries?
I remember the Republicans still held a primary for 2020, even though it was mostly a formality. The Democrats might have different bylaws regarding this. Not that that matters, they’ll do what they want because their base won’t hold them accountable.
In the past, I remember Democrats holding primaries/caucuses, and they were basically formalities.
In 1980 Teddy Kennedy ran a spirited campaign against the incumbent Jimmy Carter. Carter prevailed but it was a question for multiple months. In the 42 years since, nope.
In that Hill puff-piece masquerading as a news article, Joe and others in his admin claim he is the only one that can beat Trump.
Biden administration will appeal ruling that lifted Covid mask mandate on travel
Biden administration still incredibly stupid. All they had to do was nothing, and then opponents are happy the masking is done, and they don’t have to take the blame for removing it from the lefty idiots running the Democrat party. But nope, had to go and fuck it up.
I think shpip called it, above.
Yeah, probably right. Sean, too.
The Administration is fighting against ending the mask mandate on air travel, but plans to lift Title 42 that keeps infected illegal immigrants from entering the country. Jen will be spinning like a top to square that circle.
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/title-42-could-be-lifted-in-coming-weeks-some-fear-migrant-surges-at-border
Meh, she has no problem telling obvious lies and making contradictory statements.
I’ve concluded that Psaki is a soulless automaton.
Well, she is a red head.
That only applies to Hispanic Catholics. White Catholics are totally anti-LGBT+++ bigots.
Yep, it’s a messaging failure, not that the left has gone insane and has actively alienated blue collar workers in favor of sexually mutilated teenagers.
Particularly in a community that traditionally celebrates the quinceañera.
Except for half or more of the Vatican according to certain reports. Sigh.
The elephant in the room is that Catholics tend to be anti-abortion and progs offer them nothing on that issue.
Hispanics are conducting an inquisition into progressive policies. Nobody expected this.
“You missed your arrest quota for the third week in a row.”
“Nobody’s committing any crimes! It’s not my fault!”
“I want results, not excuses!”
“Did you just threaten a police officer?”
I suspect that any quotas that exist are not on actual arrests but on identifying people to run for warrants. This is why police are so quick to ask for ID, even going so far as to arrest those that won’t provide it. Every audit video you watch will have the cop “requesting” ID before they even know what the situation is.
Strange how human rights abuses in India start hitting the presses as soon as India doesn’t go along with US foreign policy goals.
https://thelibertyloft.com/2022/04/20/the-us-has-been-monitoring-the-alleged-rise-in-human-rights-abuses-in-india/
The idea that the US government has the moral authority to critique anyone’s values is absurd. And the last line you quoted proves what it’s really about. So it’s just the state dept bullying other governments into participating in our evil proxy war, using the cover of moral outrage. The obvious result will be no one listening when human rights abuses are brought up.
I don’t know how I didn’t notice before that the “human rights” accusations always seem to crop up when there are other policy goals at play. I suppose like everything else, it’s just gotten so blatant that it can’t be missed anymore.
When the nightly catalogue of Russian atrocities consisting of bombed-out buildings and dead civilians came on last night, my wife started in on how horrible the Russians are. I said to her, do you have any idea what we did to Iraq, never mind Germany and Japan when we were at war with them?
I don’t have exact numbers, and probably no one does yet, but it’s been pointed out by several pundits that the civilian death toll in Ukraine is quite a bit lower than in US wars, given our tactic of “shock and awe” bombing which includes civilian targets at the start of the campaign, and drone strikes of suspects in civilian areas. It’s an obvious and often-stated point, but if the media depicted civilian casualties in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc the way they are covering Ukraine, public perception would have been much different. Hell, a lot of voters probably don’t even know about several of those.
Ima need you to leave your whataboutism at the door. Hating on the Ruskies is the current thing.
Odd, I spent a good year in Iraq, and didn’t hear much about us killing lots of civilians. Link (other than the Lancet, plz).
Would you accept Oxfam?
/jk
It’s hard to find any non-slippery numbers, but it seems pretty obvious that attacks on cities and infrastructure killed at least several thousands of civilians.
So I suppose it depends on the definition of “lots”. I’m not criticizing the soldiers in the field here, just pointing out that in any war, buildings and infrastructure are going to be destroyed and civilians are going to be killed in significant numbers. Which of course is why war should absolutely only be a last resort when all other options are clearly worse. And it goes back to the point, which is that if the media depicted civilian casualties in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, etc. the way they are covering Ukraine, public perception would have been much different.
“Modi’s government is criticized heavily by the DC foreign policy blob for its nationalist leanings. Ever since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in the 2014 Indian general election, Modi’s government and state governments controlled by the BJP have pushed Hindutva, a controversial strain of Indian nationalism.
Back in 2019, the Indian government received international criticism for passing a law that barred Muslim migrants from neighboring countries from attaining Indian citizenship. Critics argued that this law was an affront to India’s constitution which purportedly protects religious freedom.”
The next step will be for Adolf Gandhi to fire up the giant tandoor.
I imagine “the DC foreign policy blob” has no memory, institutional or personal, of 1947 and how brutal and violent partition was and why that might have had some influence on modern Hindu politics.
I don’t think they care unless it serves their current hegemonic interests.
Either that, or they want to keep info about the US involvement in the partition a secret.
Even if the info wouldn’t really raise any eyebrows or cause any concerns, secrecy seems to be the default mode. They would rather tell a lie that damages their agenda than tell a truth that advances it.
‘ United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the US government was investigating alleged cases of human rights abuses taking place in India.’
What business is this of ours? Bah.
Where oh where is Shikha now to tell us all about it?
Biden has told Obama he’s running again
At his age he is not running anywhere. ///BidenShuffle
As JI noted above, he may think he’s running this November.
Biden has told Obama he’s running again
Someone should tell Biden that Obama is term limited out of contention. Or is that not what the idiot who wrote that headline meant?
For some reason, your comment reminded me of this
recent meme of Will Smith’s slapping power.
The Biden administration said Tuesday it will likely appeal a federal judge’s ruling that struck down Covid-19 mask mandates on planes and other forms of public transportation.
“The Department of Justice and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) disagree with the district court’s decision and will appeal,” the DOJ said in a statement, “subject to CDC’s conclusion that the order remains necessary for public health.”
It will eventually reach scotus and Barrett/Kavanaugh will save the day…for the regime.
Democrats lose Hispanic and blue-collar voters at same time
I saw that college “educated” women have gone the other way a few points since 2018 while men of all demographics trended toward GOP. Make of that what you will.
Best known for protecting presidents, the Secret Service also conducts financial and cybercrime investigations.
Perhaps they will mission creep their way into the Biden family finances.
Only to get a share.
How did they expand their remit from counterfeiting to financial crime/cybercrime?
From the Money laundering?
They added Presidential protection services because most US currency bears the image of some President or other. True fact.
Competing currency is the same as counterfeit currency. This is known.
CNN+ looks doomed
Couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
Anew law signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin will prevent police departments from enacting arrest quotas, which one sponsor believes will ensure police arrest people for the right reasons.
And the dark night of fascism falls on the commonwealth.
How the hell are municipalities supposed to generate all that revenue now? Just have to raise taxes, I guess.
Traffic quotas are still legal.
Of course they are.
police arrest people for the right reasons
Because they resist Democracy?
When I first saw this I thought, “the Democrat did something good for once,” but then I remembered Youngkin is a Republican. Is this one of those bipartisan reforms?
Don’t the Republicans also have a majority in both houses of the legislature in VA?
In Minnesoda there are no quotas for the hiway patrol. However, they do collect and publish how many tickets the average trooper wrote (and how much $$ they were for). You wouldn’t want to be below average would you?
A few decades ago a university named its library after a prominent writer – well, not exactly a writer, but he wrote the classic lines “pay to the order of Fresno state University library, 5.2 million dollars.” That’s literary enough for them!
He also donated his papers to the library. Lately they made an unfortunate discovery – in one letter he said that “men have penises.” Just kidding, it wasn’t that bad, but he did say nazis were good and Jews were bad.
So now they’re thinking of renaming the building the Assata Shakur Liberation Library. Again, I’m kidding (so far as I know), but they’re thinking about changing the name.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/namesake-of-fresno-states-madden-library-showed-no-remorse-for-pro-nazi-racism-report-says/ar-AAWlUnY
“Showed no remorse”
Henry Madden? He dead.
Meanwhile, the university is quite happy to accept millions of dollars from an Indian casino. Perhaps those in glass academic buildings and all that..
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I’d be very interested to see quordle flag letters where the available info precludes that letter from being in that spot. I’d guess that those who do really well with few letters (l0b0t, Teðş, etc.) have very few of those wasted letters.
I’m terrible at word games.
My scores started improving when I wouldn’t make guesses that couldn’t work in order to glean more letters for later.
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Gee, and people wonder why unions aren’t more attractive?
Does fedgov have authority under the constitution to force union membership? Other than the FYTW clause, of course.
If they can force you to join the army, they can force you to join a Union. It’s for “national security” after all. You don’t want to be working beside a domestic terrorist, do you? The Union will make certain your workplace is a safe place.
There was a Supreme Court ruling against that in recent times. I cannot look up the link this morning.
Janus v. AFCSME, 2018.
Freedom of association necessarily implies freedom of forced association.
Well, the “public accommodation” bullshit of the civil rights act killed that some time ago.
Zelensky’s got ’em on the run. TW: RT
The second phase of the Russian offensive in Ukraine and the Donbass has started, President Volodymyr Zelensky and his advisers claimed on Monday evening. Kiev said there were reports of heavy fighting on the Donetsk, Lugansk, and Kharkov fronts, and that Ukrainian troops were holding the line.
“We can now confirm that Russian troops have begun the battle for the Donbass, which they have been preparing for a long time,” Zelensky said in a video posted on Telegram on Monday evening.
“A large part of the Russian army is now dedicated to this offensive,” he added.
His chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, said earlier that the “second phase of the war” had started in the east, but urged Ukrainians to “believe in our army, it is very strong.”
Russian forces are attacking “along almost the entire front line,” said Alexey Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council. “Fortunately, our military is holding on.”
It seems as if Key-ev was a diversion from the primary goals in the east and south.
I have heard claims that the Russians sent I. Their “B Team” first, to get them some XP before the real army showed up.
It’s more likely that the Russians are holding the bulk of their forces on the border as a deterrent to Poland/NATO getting involved.
That would be a very Russian thing to do. Fight the conscripts until you are hungry, exhausted, and low on ammo – then all of a sudden your find yourself facing fresh paratroopers and Spetsnaz.
I thought the Russian thing to do was get all your well trained troops encircled, then draft every able bodies male and throw them into the meat grinder until you outnumber your foes 3:1.
Bonus points if you ‘liberate’ your POWs to the gulag during the war.
Not believing that was a 4D chess move. When’s the last time a military offensive was based on something other than direct, immediate, overwhelming force?
Midway and Yamamoto’s cunning plan to coerce the Pacific Fleet carriers out from Pearl by dispersing his forces so widely leaps to mind.
Or did you mean *successful* military offensive? 😉
No, that’s fine — having to reach back 80 years would illustrate the point nicely.
Yamamoto had more carriers and more experienced pilots. The US won on superior US intelligence, inferior Japanese damage control, Japanese tactical mistakes and luck.
Definitely agree with the intelligence (that was really the key factor in a lot of ways), but disagree on the more carriers when you account for the Yorktown class larger air group and include Midway’s contributions. Not that Midway’s succeeded in doing much damage (don’t get me started on ranting about Hornet as long as we’re talking about non-contributions to the battle), but number wise, it was closer to parity than it should have been. Definitely damage control lessons learned after Coral Sea from Lexington and Yorktown versus not learned after Shokaku and Zuikaku mattered, no argument there.
But if Yamamoto wasn’t so preoccupied with being coy with his forces and “coercing” a “hesitant” US Fleet to the rescue of Midway he most certainly could have unified his light carriers wtih at least the Invasion Force if not off of Kido Butai proper, and kept the Invasion Force within supporting range until Kido Butai had reduced Midway / assured they had local superiority. Just having the light carriers amping up the CAP would have helped.
And (big time) if they really wanted to hold to the “direct, immediate, overwhelming force” they would have realized their doctrine was holding them back and moved Shokaku’s air group to Zuikaku and had a fifth carrier at least in Kido Butai.
And of course, not doing Operation AL concurrently (or at all, talk about pointless…) and bringing those units in as well.
Intelligence was the key factor. The Japanese assumed the US only had two operational heavy carriers that wouldn’t be able to engage until after the Midway airfields had been destroyed.
I think there is a middle ground between the two descriptions. Consider that modern military doctrine instructs that attackers must outnumber defenders 3:1 to be successful. The Russians sent a few tens of thousands (I’ve seen numbers between 40k and 70k) toward Kiev, a city of over 3 million. Just as in chess you put a king in check not as an attempt to take the piece but to force the other player to react, that amount of troops would tie up enemy resources that would be deployed to the east if it was clear from the beginning the Donbas was the only objective.
I don’t think the Russians planned for urban warfare in Kiev, because they have just been surrounding cities rather than attacking them and allowing corridors for civilians and surrendering soldiers to escape (with the obvious exception of Mariupol). I do think they probably intended to scare the shit out of Zelensky and other regime members who were there in Kiev, and possibly also hoped that they could seize initiative and maybe catch the Ukrainians off guard and make their way to the capitol or important military headquarters, which obviously didn’t happen given the level of resistance.
^This is a good take on it. There is a big difference between planned withdrawal and retreat as well. BBC ran an interesting article the other day focusing a woman who Kiev who said it just suddenly became quiet and the Russians were just gone. That’s a sharp contrast to the other articles, including on BBC, about how the Ukraine army has been retaking ground from the retreating Russians.
Afghanistan is a good example of where a planned withdrawal became a retreat. Haven’t seen anything like that in Ukraine.
Feinted Maine landings during gulf war 1?
Did they actually do anything?
It’s been a long time, but from memory, GWI was like:
First five minutes: Launch ALL the cruise missiles.
Minutes 6-15: take out ground based air defenses
Minutes 16-20: eradicate the IAF
Minute 21: Knock out the power distribution stations
Minute 22- next few weeks: leisurely bomb shit and laugh at the news conferences.
At some point, give the armored divisions some amphetamines, roll over the entire country in less than four days, and dump all the DU that’s been sitting on the shelf gathering dust.
Dunno, I was four. Might have just been an intelligence operation, point being even when having massive technological superiority deception is still useful in war.
It would comport to what Putin said were the goals at the outset of hostilities.
Eradicating Ukraine, eliminating the entire political class, 25 year denazification of the populace.
eliminating the entire political class
Can Putin invade America too?
I recall only the last part being included. There was also demilitarization, grantee to not join NATO and recognition of the DPR and LPR.
Me, I think “denazification” can be easily used to eliminate all opposition to Russian rule.
I am curious as to how Russia has any claim to demand that a sovereign nation, especially one that has never attacked Russia (well, before the current war), must demilitarize. Or how Russia has any standing to demand that a sovereign nation cede any of it territory.
Maybe I’m just stuck on the fact that, whatever Ukraine has done, it was Russian tanks that have crossed the border, repeatedly, not Ukrainian tanks.
Who the fuck has defended Putin? It’s on him.
But to act like we haven’t had a role in the nightmare is absurd. And I think you are forgetting that Crimea went without a fight. And the Donbas people overwhelmingly voted to hang with Russia. And have been shelled by Ukraine ever since.
It doesn’t matter – we don’t belong in this fucking fight, regardless of what we contributed to it.
It doesn’t matter – we don’t belong in this fucking fight, regardless of what we contributed to it.
That we agree on. I just think that its naive to think that Russia’s invasion has any justification at all, or that it had limited objectives. I didn’t really read any of that as “defending” Putin. I’m just sharing my view on why you shouldn’t take Russian press releases at face value. I think Crimea was absolutely taken over militarily by Russia following Putin’s announcement it should be reintegrated with Russia – the fact that the “militias” who took control didn’t wear Russian uniforms, and that the Ukrainians didn’t mount a military defense, doesn’t change that. I count that as invasion number 1.
Similarly with Donbas, which I count as invasion number 2. As to the “elections”, give me a break. Nobody has a clue what an honest referendum on which country to belong to would show.
The whole mess does pose the question: what, if anything, should other countries do when somebody kicks off a war of aggression and expansion?
Not so much a diversion as a planned operation to pin Ukrainian forces in place and destroy their capacity to maneuver and/or to resupply the army trapped in the east. With that done, they can turn their attention to methodically destroying the eastern “cauldron”.
The western media idiots keep assuming that the Russians want Kiev.
Western media are ignorant and stupid.
Putin has repeatedly talked about the “integration” of Russia and Ukraine, and how they’re one nation.
But ignore that because it doesn’t allow you to get your hate on toward the US Establishment.
allow you to get your hate on toward the US Establishment.
Russia is not my enemy. The US establishment is.
Yesterday was the anniversary of Waco.
You really think I need this fuckery in Ukraine to hate the establishment?
Or this.
I hate them, Ted.
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, the Paramount miniseries on Waco is excellent and infuriating.
IIRC Tundra is the one who mentioned it on here and got me to watch it.
Maybe I’ll write a post, but based on what we know (a weak foundation, indeed), I believe Kiev was the goal of their initial schwerpunkt, which failed, that this invasion has not even close to run to plan (otherwise, why so many high-ranking generals and intelligence goons put out to pasture?), and that regardless of his press releases, Putin absolutely wants all of Ukraine, not just the Donbas.
And that he will eventually win the war, although it will be a Pyrrhic victory.
In mind-blowing numbers this morning, I read that total margin debt on the US stock markets is over $800B and recently peaked at $900B.
For reference, it peaked at $400B just before 2008 and $300B just before the dotcom bust.,
That’s not at all reassuring
QE FTW!
Oh we’re so fucked
Food prices going up, stocks prices going down.
Winning!
We are going to make it up in volume?
Market cap has tripled since then, so as a fraction of the total it’s not that different.
In Liars Are Gonna Lie news; Washington Post released a statement that they did not publish personal info of the LibsOfTikTok person…after they stealth edited an article to remove link to her real estate license.
That’s not a lie, it’s a “goodfact.”
Is this the “misinformation” that outfits like WaPo are so eager to censor?
Someone shared this last night: https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2071b261-8728-47af-a900-c373cd240c39_1271x1266.png
By the way, I mentioned above attending the Florida Libertarian Party convention. I’ll give a brief report in case anyone is interested. Whack the space bar if you dgaf about nerd fights.
So I’ve never gone to any LP event before. I did become a member about 10 years ago but I didn’t know what that entailed. More recently I heard Dave Smith talk about this Mises Caucus thing and how much Bill Weld et al suck. When he started getting attacked by the squishiest blue-pilled “libertarians” I suspected he was on the right track so I signed up.
The event was held at a Holiday Inn conference center. It was surprisingly small. I was the only person from my region (group of several counties). The people there were as colorful and autistic as you would predict. There were hippies, nerds, gun nuts, little kids running around, and a girl with a giant domesticated rabbit on a leash. Watching people use Roberts Rules of Order rules to debate was an eye opener. I was made fun of in school for being a nerd, and some of these people made me feel like Tom Brady. It was pretty orderly, though. Long story short, the Mises Caucus won. The last item voted on was to include a plank in the party platform about Florida seceding from the Union. Typically the longtime LP types were against it. During the debate on the matter I got a bunch of laughs by sending out to the MC discord the line “libertarians who are afraid to say the word ‘secession’ wear Covid masks when they have sex”. A bunch of passionate speeches were given by MC people and it won.
The last night Dave Smith did his standup act. I was so bombed on whisky shots I don’t remember anything but the first 5 minutes of the set. Clint Russell, Joshua Smith, Ashton Birdie (who wears designer fashion and was openly tongue-kissing and getting pawed by Clint Russell), and a bunch of surprisingly attractive female hangers-on showed up out of the woodwork, none of whom were voting delegates or involved or present for the actual business meetings.
So, hoors?
Nice
OK, I’ll bite – what would an independent Florida do for liberty? Or is this one of those “right to secede if we want but right now we don’t want” things?
Establishing a right of secession would help reduce the power of the central government, since it put a limit on how fat FTYW can go.
OK, I see the force of that argument, and I’ve even heard the argument that it worked that way before the Late Unpleasantness. But as the Late Unpleasantness indicates, it could be a giant game of chicken.
Also it could get bogged down in the details. How much of the U. S. national debt does Florida assume? How many nukes does it get? etc.
It’s assured that Florida would receive the bulk of the gator, meth-head, and manatee shock troops in a split, and thus they would be undefeatable.
Florida’s keys previously were fully blockaded by a Republican President due to immigration concerns. As such they chose to secede and become a micro-nation. Was it tongue and cheek, as Wikipedia would lead you to believe? That has been the one modern attempt to secede.
https://conchrepublic.com/
I was there! I still have my passport around here somewhere. We sailed from Marathon down to Key West and threw loaves of stale Cuban bread at the Coast Guard station. Then we went to Duval street for a giant party. This was a formative moment in my political journey.
That is the coolest thing ever. Thanks to both of you.
You should write that up as a post. What an awesome piece of history experience!
Well, there’s laboratories of democracies, and all of that. For example, we got lucky that our governor isn’t into forcing masks and vaccines and lockdowns on us as much as other governors.
But also consider that most of what the Feds do is wars, bank bailouts, and racking up astronomical debt on entitlement programs. We could just back out of all of that shit.
The NH secession bill went nowhere. The Free Staters that showed up to testify in favor of it were not the Free State Project’s best.
Having said that, one thing that came up often was having a place not underneath the Federal government’s thumb with respect to paying for foreign wars, Covid madness, and taxes.
Rabbit girl must be queuing up a run for President. “My bunny tells me what to do all year long!”
The Florida LP has groupies? I don’t know whether to think that’s great or just sad.
No, they only showed up for the Dave Smith show and were sitting by Clint Russell and his girlfriend, all of whom have some level of internet notoriety. They weren’t there for any of the LP stuff. Famewhoring is something I’ll never understand the inner workings of.
However there were some libertarian females (I know, even harder to believe) participating in the Mises Caucus who were not terrible looking.
Famewhoring has a business model all its own. They work at it.
Nostalgia attention whoring
I wanted to go but didn’t have enough notice and time to plan it.
Next year we could form a glib caucus.
Thanks for the report.
It was a halfway decent time. riveruntomypeople at google’s email service, holla at me
Sent.
The folks at CNN+ should be praying for a second Cartoon Villain Presidential campaign. Otherwise, they’re toast.
SJWednesday: Ted S Exposed
We shouldn’t want to be understandable, because that interferes in our ability to say we mean the opposite of what we said — for example, “Defund the Police” can mean “Don’t Defund the Police” the instant we need it to.
Just a long winded way of presenting the Humpty Dumpty argument:
“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean − neither more nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to be master − that’s all.”
LOL
Elon Musk should buy
About the author…
Because of course.
… mentally ill…
Well, there you go.
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WTF? Isn’t that a Federal offense? Is she fat shaming?
As educated (and – okay – snarky) activists, we’re quick to respond to “According to the dictionary” arguments with “Who wrote the dictionary, though?”
We understand that a reference guide created by a white supremacist, heteropatriarchal system does nothing but uphold that status quo.
“Stay away from me and my family, you lunatic!”
Seriously, why would anybody debate a person like this? Shut the conversation down after the first question. If they won’t take the hint, excise them from your life. If they persist in harassing you, treat it as if they were a drugged out homeless person doing the same. The druggie bum is less of a threat to you and your family than these lunatics.
If you feel that using proper English gives you an advantage, why wouldn’t you just use it and gain that advantage?
Because, according to liberals, minorities aren’t capable enough.
You know, like when they say that honors classes are racist because not enough blacks are in them, or when they say requiring ID to vote is racist because blacks simply don’t know how to get an ID. Too hard for them.
“You little brown people cant possibly understand English. White savior is here to dumb things fown for you!”
God i hate these people so much
“I can’t have a discussion with you because we don’t speak the same language. I speak English. I’m not sure what language you are speaking; the words sound like English, but have different meanings. How silly of me to try to explain this to you in English, I guess I’m hoping you understand it even if you don’t speak it. Have a nice day.”
My reply (never out loud)
“Everything you say is wrong.
Everything you believe is wrong.
You are unfit for rational discourse.”
My out-loud response:
“That’s an interesting point of view. I hope you have a nice day.”
They cannot allow their opponents to win even the smallest victory.
If you need a predictive model for our leadership class in this country, begin with the assumption that every decision is motivated by the desire to increase and maintain their power over individuals. You will be right most of the time. Usually that model will only fail when you have assumed a slightly weak or extremely strong propensity for this, but the direction on the vector is always the same.
I am hoping it’s a face saving move but people at this point should realize that the mask doesn’t need to go back on.
It’s not like they are simply promoting gender-bending children and drag-queen story hour.
Carville: These are people who talk about testicle tanning… By and large, a large part of the Republican Party is out-and-out weird. Look at Peter Navarro… You’re telling me he’s a normal human being?!? No. And he’s not even among the worst
The Human Scarecrow calling anyone else abnormal is rich.
Say what you want, but he worked for the most normal centrist Dems that the world has ever seen.
Shucks, Bill and Hillary are just like us.
Oh you know how much Skeletor wanted He-man to jump his bones.
SJWednesday: The WNBA Wants You To Believe
Sigh, after the T-Woofs stole Game 1 of their playoff opener (in the playoffs for the first time in a decade or so), the local sportswriter spent more than half his column talking about the how Mpls should be a b-ball town because of the Lynx and the women’s Final Four, etc.
Couldn’t be happy that for once the Woofs are semi-competent. Not without a good dose of whataboutism talking about women’s hoops.
Mpls was a contender, when the Lake(r)s were there.
Mikan, Pollard, Vern Mikkelson out of Hamline U, Slater Martin and of course Gopher Bud Grant understood winning was the only thing.
I was at the game when Pollard punched out an opposing player, our seats were so high up in the Auditorium the tickets came with a box of Kleenex.
Figure skating and skeet shooting prove that women would dominate in all sports, you sexist. By the way, she is an “Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Injury Prevention in the Department for Health at the University of Bath”.
In the US, those are two different titles. Or is she actually a lecturer pretending to be an assistant professor?
Send the women’s rugby team at Bath to play the men’s team. They can show their superiority then.
I read that as women’s ugly team and thought, “This guy gets it”
Maybe she secretly wants that because the demand for lectures on injury prevention will go through the roof.
https://boysvswomen.com/
‘Let’s unpack this’
Hope you know the next several utterances will be full of bad faith mind reading and lies.
She seems to be saying: “Don’t believe the actual stats or your lying eyes, women are physically superior to men!”
And people actually take this shit seriously.
In 1920 Brits were watching women’s soccer because the men were off fighting in WWI. Ergo, women’s sports is popular and awesome and a threat to male dominance in sports..
There are some sports where women can compete against the men. She mentioned shooting as an example. Ultra marathons seem to be another. I used to sail competitively and in classes of boats where being light was an advantage, women won a pretty high percentage of races. But in any sport where size and strength is an advantage, forget about it.
But in any sport where size and strength is an advantage, forget about it.
I would speed, as well.
Plainly unqualified
US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle has been serving as a federal judge in Florida for more than a year. Notably, the Senate vote confirming her to the lifetime appointment came in mid-November 2020, after the presidential election. She had been given a “not qualified” rating by the American Bar Association, based on her limited amount of experience post-law school.
Born in Lakeland, Florida, in 1987, Mizelle graduated in 2012 with a law degree from University of Florida Levin College of Law, after earning her undergraduate degree at Covenant College, a Christian liberal arts college in Georgia.
Before becoming a judge, she was an associate with the law firm Jones Day in Washington, DC, and an adjunct law professor at her alma mater. Mizelle held four federal clerkships throughout her career, including one with US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from 2018 to 2019.
From 2017 to 2018, she was counsel to one of the third-ranking officials at the Justice Department, then-Associate Attorney General Rachel Brand, where she oversaw the Tax Division and led the administration’s efforts to promote free speech on college campuses.
She spent about three years as a trial attorney for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, where she prosecuted white-collar crimes, and before that was a special assistant US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for a year, she told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
According to the American Bar Association, the two cases she had tried to verdict were when she said she was a certified legal intern for Florida’s state attorney’s office and still in law school.
A member of the Federalist Society, Mizelle, then 33, was nominated by Trump in early September 2020, in a confirmation without any support by Senate Democrats, who were in the minority at the time.
She didn’t even go to an Ivy League law school. How dare she second guess elite Washington bureaucrats?
The ABA is just about as partial as the SPLC.
an adjunct law professor at her alma mater
Well she should’ve been president then and not merely a judge.
A rebuke from the ABA should be taken as compliment
CNN is just upset because they want to date her.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
Brings a fond memory tear to an old man’s eye, JImbo.
It’s always projection
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2022/apr/17/wa-insurance-chief-mike-kreidler-accused-of-using-/
His first question was whether her great-grandparents came over to Hawaii to work on sugar plantations or pineapple plantations, said the job applicant.
Three former employees recounted how Kreidler, 78, used a racial slur referring to Mexican Americans in a staff meeting when telling a story from decades ago about a friend’s racist reaction to Kreidler’s soon-to-be wife, who is Mexican American.
In another group meeting, Kreidler described a neighborhood in Tacoma by using another ethnic slur referring to Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese-speaking people, which he said was a common nickname. In other instances, people heard Kreidler describe an old friend as a “Chinaman” and transgender people as “men with (breasts).”
Kreidler has been part of the waprog machine for decades. He can suck it while they eat their own.
Heh…
Reporter: was that an airstrike?
Nance: yes–came from a ship
500 lb bomb
*smells air*
came from the southeast
fired from 173 degree azimuth
*tastes dirt*
by a guy named Greg
*squints*
wife just left him
Pretty funny. Any random Ukrainian on the street knows far more about the war than the idiot reporter.
Their reaction dispels the narrative that civilians are being targeted. They seem to know that the Russians are hitting the depots where we are delivering weapons and supplies. And they also seem to know that the Russians are being very accurate – so they just ignore it and continue walking down the street.
That’s hilarious. I’ve never heard of the guy but he’s a decent actor. He’s getting dragged on Twitter, which is exactly why the powerful don’t want free speech on the platform.
https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1516237732481159170
Let’s go, Brandeau.
Trudeau gets a warm welcome in Halifax
Mizelle was confirmed by the Senate in a 49-41 party-line vote in November 2020. She was later sworn in by Thomas.
what further evidence do we need? She should be removed from the bench before she can do any more damage to DEMOCRACY!
Hmm, when Politico won’t carry your water. I’m assuming that all of these investigations involve one side of the aisle, since they never mention otherwise. And the USCP report to the Speaker.
Ideologically purifying organizations in a collapsing world empire, scary stuff.
I have returned from Vegas, breathing freely on an airplane without a mask yesterday.
I assume I’ll be dead by dawn from the ‘vid.
Did I miss anything important (other then the pinned post).
You are already dead, you just haven’t realized it yet.
Welcome to PoundTown! Seriously though, I thought it was sign for a UK dollar store.
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I think I saw a meme that said UKs version of the Dollar Store was Pound Town.
God damn it that was the joke wasn’t it…..I’m lagging today
£ –Land or –Stretcher, seriously.
I was thinking of Poundland – https://www.poundland.co.uk/
Remember when they were 5 cent stores, then they became five and dimes (I miss you Eagle Army Navy), then dime stores (I had a jr. high job at Neisner’s that then became McCrory’s.)
Was your boss Mr. McGee?
Sigh… we had a lunch counter and everything. Those grilled cheese sammiches, patty melts, and omelets were awesome.
There was a toy store when I was a kid that took over an old style pharmacy in a strip mall. They had a lunch counter where you could get fries and a soda. Maybe other stuff, but I thought being able to eat fries while picking out TMNT figures or a supersoaker made it the greatest place ever when I was 5 or so.
Eventually it became a KB Toys and they removed the lunch counter.
There are still five and dime stores.
Everything is 5 or 10 dollars.
Soon to be 50 and 100
Congrats lobot!
Mine was not so purty.
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Just one day after mask-wearing was made optional in Milwaukee Public Schools, the district announced it will return to mandating masks as cases of Covid-19 in the city rise.
MPS initially announced March 24 that masks would become optional in its schools beginning April 18. But on Tuesday, a day after the new policy took effect, MPS informed families masks would again be mandatory, saying the decision was made “after determining a significant transmission of the virus within the city of Milwaukee.”
Since MPS announced the intended end of the mask mandate, the 7-day-average of new cases in Milwaukee about doubled to an average of 47 daily cases on April 15, according to data from the City of Milwaukee Health Department.
So many dead and dying. The streets are littered with corpses. No one has the strength to clear them away.
See, just announcing the end of the mandate doubled cases.
as cases of Covid-19 in the city rise.
The casedemic is real.
So this morning NPR ran a Yay Gaia! story about how they’ve shut down NG service in part of Zurich in favor of hot water being piped into apartment buildings for heating purposes (apparently private homes can’t access this and have to rely on electric heating). Is it just me, or is this the least efficient, most wasteful/lossy way of heating buildings ever?
And how is the water heated?
Unicorn farts, of course!
Heating with electricity is very inefficient and expensive.
Build Back Bureaucracy
The Biden administration is restoring federal regulations that require rigorous environmental review of major infrastructure projects such as highways, pipelines and oil wells — including likely impacts on climate change and nearby communities. The longstanding reviews were scaled back by the Trump administration in a bid to fast-track projects and create jobs.
A rule finalized Tuesday will restore key provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, a bedrock environmental law designed to ensure community safeguards during reviews for a wide range of federal proposals, including roads, bridges and energy projects authorized in the $1 trillion infrastructure law Biden signed last fall, the White House said.
The White House Council on Environmental Quality said the new rule, which takes effect in late May, should resolve challenges created by the Trump-era policy and restore public confidence during environmental reviews.
“Restoring these basic community safeguards will provide regulatory certainty, reduce conflict and help ensure that projects get built right the first time,” said CEQ Chair Brenda Mallory. “Patching these holes in the environmental review process will help projects get built faster, be more resilient and provide greater benefits to people who live nearby.”
They have streamlined the process. They have broken the logjam. Progress is nigh.
‘Patching these holes in the environmental review process will help projects get built faster’
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will help projects get built faster
Nothing say efficiency like red tape and bureaucracy.
Now we can add “why does everything take to long” to “why is everything so expensive”.
We will still be saying the first part along with the second part.
Reading comprehension fail on my part. Carry on.
You can’t have it good, fast or cheap.
Former President Donald Trump overhauled the environmental reviews in 2020 in a bid to accelerate projects he said would boost the economy and provide jobs.
Trump made slashing government regulations a hallmark of his presidency. He and his administration frequently expressed frustration at rules they said unnecessarily slowed approval for interstate oil and gas pipelines and other big projects. The rule change imposed in 2020 restricted the timelines for environmental reviews and public comment and allowed federal officials to disregard a project’s role in cumulative effects, such as climate change.
President Cartoon Villain’s horrifying legacy of death and destruction.
Having trouble linking on my phone, but the Babylon Bee nailed understated sarcasm with “Conservatives Assure Liberals That We’re Only Not Gonna Wear Masks For 2 Weeks to Slow Spread of Tyranny”.
labor enacted
*standing ovation*
lol. We definitely are a hive mind. The most wretched hive mind of scum and villainy.
Enacting prole’s labor: Link
It is a sad day in Glibertopia when we are falling over ourselves to enact others labor
I haz disappoint in youze all.
It was too good to not worry about the risk
Well I trust that there were orphans involved. There were orphans, right?
Followed up with:
“Second-Grade Class Held On Airplane So Kids Won’t Have To Wear Masks”
Another data point in our race to out-do post-apocalyptic dystopian fiction; have we now reached the point where death porn is readily available?
It seems as if footage of actual killings is now all over the place.
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!
Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon has worked something out with LibsOfTikTok and goes after Taylor Lorenz…whose PTSD will be kicking in any minute now, I imagine.
Or wait. Maybe he’s owner, not CEO.
Whatever…the Babylon Bee’s “Top Dog”.
“The Bee is a satire publication. You know, like the Washington Post.”
From the top rope!
I thought he was banned.
The Bee is. I don’t believe any of this individuals connected to it have been.
Whistling past the graveyard
What’s particularly “unusual” about recession talk this time around, Dutta added, is how disconnected it is from the strength in economic data. Many of the most recent U.S. reports have painted a picture of an economy still firing on all cylinders, even as inflation runs at its fastest rate in 40 years. In the labor market, non-farm payrolls have increased by an average of over 550,000 per month in the first quarter this year, following average growth of more than 600,000 per month in the fourth quarter.
“That’s barely consistent with a slowdown, let alone a recession,” Dutta said.
And even consumer sentiment, which has been weighed down this year by rising prices, has shown signs of recovering from a nadir. The University of Michigan’s closely watched Surveys of Consumers index unexpectedly rose to 65.7 in early April, which while still depressed compared to pre-pandemic levels, was up nearly 11%, compared to the prior month’s more than 10-year low.
Some other strategists also suggested the lingering cushion of consumer savings and still-resilient spending would help prop up the U.S. economy.
“I would say it’s probably closer to a coin toss that the economy will be moving into recession by the end of the year,” Vincent Reinhart, Dreyfus and Mellon chief economist and macro strategist, told Yahoo Finance Live.
“By some measures, households have in the neighborhood of $2 trillion of excess savings. They can start working [those] savings down — and they are,” he added. “And that will be an important buffer.”
Biden and Yellin would never allow a recession. Don’t worry, be happy.
Ignore that yield curve inversion, it means nothing.
“That’s barely consistent with a slowdown, let alone a recession,” Dutta said.
So, there is a slowdown then? (Whatever that means)
What? People have excess savings?
Plainly, taxes are too low.
Panic -> Depression -> Recession -> Slowdown
‘”For example, a corporation could fire an employee for getting divorced,” by claiming religious immunity, she said. “And that’s not really the intention of this bill, I hope.”’
The Arizona bill also protects churches against arbitrary closures during “emergencies.”
https://tucson.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/arizona-lawmakers-ok-religious-freedom-bill-despite-discrimination-concerns/article_68086550-c030-11ec-8b8d-d3a2047f2e34.html
Can you still fire an employee for opposing divorce?
If the employee is your spouse
I don’t like that bill because it is still a government deciding what is essential.
Heckling from the sidelines
Twitter’s board (TWTR) is doing a terrible job handling the Elon Musk situation, said former SEC chairman Harvey Pitt.
“I would give Twitter’s board an F,” Pitt said on Yahoo Finance Live. “I believe under the circumstances, they needed to check out whether this was a real bid. If it were a real bid, then they needed to do what was in the best interest of their shareholders. This is a price that hadn’t been seen in quite some time. The number is at least a legitimate frame of reference and the board’s unwillingness to treat it seriously strikes me as worthy of a poor grade.”
Looking at numbers is white supremacy and misogynist oppression. Selling to the highest bidder is just like a slave auction.
DEMOCRACY! hangs in the balance.
The Netflix story highlights what is wrong with the major tech companies. Loss of 0.1% of subscribers with a forecast of 1% loss in the next quarter and the stock drops 25%. And still doesn’t pay a dividend. These high growth rates are not sustainable forever.
This is a redux of the dot-com world – grow and grow and grow with no plan how that ever translates to profit.
All you need is one VC to say you are woth billions. Doesn’t matter if you arent.
Their PE is ‘only’ 30, by comparison, Tesla is 200 (!).
“But Tesla is the future, so a PE of infinity times eleventy isn’t too much when your company is that virtuous and forward and progressive . . .” {prog investor suddenly realizes Elon Musk owns Tesla} ”SELL! SELL ALL THE THINGS!”
There was also the ‘no upper bound’ mindset. This became apparent to me as Qwest was taking over USWest — current growth rates for DSL would continue out for years and years, despite the fact that once you’ve got DSL in all the homes, growth stops. Plus the various other hurdles, like ‘copper from home to the wire center.’ It was not welcome when these challenges were pointed out ;-\
I’d argue that’s a problem with the investors rather than the companies. As JI mentioned, the dot-com bubble was founded on the same silliness. Pushing stock value up or down based on subscriber numbers, rather than fundamental value measures like the P/E ratio is just ridiculous.
Anew law signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin will prevent police departments from enacting arrest quotas, which one sponsor believes will ensure police arrest people for the right reasons.
As long as “he looked at me funny” is an acceptable reason. We wouldn’t want to piss off the police and the police unions, would we?
House Bill 750 and Senate Bill 327, both signed by the governor, will prohibit police departments from establishing formal arrest quotas or maintaining informal arrest quotas. Such quotas would encourage police officers to secure a certain number of arrests in a given timeframe.
So…. places with arrest quotas just need to get more creative.
Man, the incremental payoff for extra strategizing and rotating seed words is really marginal:
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Amazon will conduct a racial-equity audit of its hourly workers after shareholders urged the company to provide more transparency into how its policies affect diversity, equity and workplace inclusion.
The company said in a recent securities filing that the audit will evaluate “any disparate racial impacts on our nearly one million U.S. hourly employees resulting from our policies, programs and practices.” The audit will be led by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, now a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, as well as other attorneys from the firm.
Amazon said it will make the results of the audit public, but didn’t provide a projected completion date.
I can’t wait to hear. The suspense is killing me.
This they’ll waste money on this garbage, but won’t bring back 2 hour delivery? Priorities, Jeff, priorities.
Oooooh! Ooooooh! Teacher! I KNOW THIS ONE! PICK MEEEEEEE!
Could be worse, they could have picked Holden.
But this is still a conclusion looking for data and a hypothesis.
And if the data doesn’t exist, they will create it
“We tortured the data until it confessed.”
I forget where I heard it, but if you torture data enough, it will say anything you want it to.
I like BEAM’s formulation better.
after shareholders urged the company to provide more transparency into how its policies affect diversity, equity and workplace inclusion.
Yes, because Rhonda from Sheboygan is using her 10 shares of Amazon stock in her 401k to push DEI during shareholder meetings.
Oh, these “shareholders” are either activist organizations who have acquired shares of the company specifically to push this bullshit or government pension plans totally not going full on fascist? Where’s my shocked face?
Going public is the stupidest long-term plan for any company.
My company went private after they dumped me a few years ago and before they rehired me in 2020.
I did a little happy dance when I found that out during the interview.
Yeah, I am curious how many shares you need to get something like this instituted.
Yeah, that phrase is absolute bullshit.
“Shareholders urged” my ass.
how its policies affect diversity
Too many whypippo.
shareholders urged the company
Which shareholders? Holding how many shares? Urged the company how, exactly?
Yes, because Rhonda from Sheboygan is using her 10 shares of Amazon stock in her 401k to push DEI during shareholder meetings.
it’s a vast grassroots movement.
Mildly NSFW.
People be weird.
Classy
Penaltax the unclean.
Rhode Island Democrats want to punish the parents of children who refused to submit to the COVID vaccine mandates.
If passed, the bill will financially cripple individuals by doubling their personal income tax and requiring them to pay a monthly fine of $50.
State Senator Samuel Bell is the lead legislator backing the bill, which mandates all Rhode Island residents, workers, and taxpayers receive a COVID-19 vaccine as well as any subsequent boosters that the state’s director of the department of health shall require.
You want to start a civil war? This is how you do it.
Bell better hire more security.
Here’s the little Mengele.
https://www.rilegislature.gov/senators/bell/Pages/Biography.aspx
Oh look, a doctorate in my favorite politicized science degree.
In a healthy society, Senator Bell would be fleeing the state, one step ahead of an angry mob.
Yowza.
DO IT!
Yeah–I imagine this could end in an epic smackdown from the courts
Depends on who the judge is.
Specifically the double their income tax portion
You are more optimistic than me.
Interesting time to float that bill….
Always look on the bright side of life
heh
Progjection.
A prediction about masking: Soon we’ll be seeing many incidents in which those who choose to protect themselves with KN95s etc face harassment, even violence. Because this was never about freedom.
Well, yes. The shame muzzles are about blind obedience and/or virtue signalling.
That was their justification for the mandates.
When I was growing up, I remember we were constantly being encouraged by authority figures to resist peer pressure. Peer pressure was what bad people used to convince you to do something that wasn’t a good idea, and that you knew in your heart was wrong.
Then in 2020, peer pressure became the light and wholesome thing that good people use to help convince their confused friends to do things that are wonderful ideas and only for their own good.
Now, peer pressure is back to being evil? But not in the original sense, certainly.
I wonder how much Paulie Krugnuts would be willing to bet on the prediction? Properly bounded in time and with a minimum number of acts of violence, of course.
And, naturally, some tool posts a completely unsourced graphic claiming masks reduce transmission by 90%.
Tomorrow is my barfday. I shall make a Shirley Temple poke cake.
I never heard of a poke cake, but that looks good.
There are all kinds of poke cakes out there. My next favorite is lemon.
I don’t always eat cake, but when I do, I prefer lemon. mmmmmmm
Many happy returns of the day! Also, poke cake is so very yummy. Yellow cake with lime jello was my fave until I started making them with pudding. Mmm… pistachio pudding filled cake.
“DeSantis says Florida looking into pension plan to divest from Twitter”
I like DeSantis, but I don’t want politicians directing pension plans on what companies the can or cannot invest in. It sucks when CA does it, and it sucks when FL does it too.