The Morning Report

The Morning Report — 5/3/24

Good morning, kids. It certainly looks as if Netanyahu has indeed had enough of Biden, Blinken and the jug-eared dog-eating closet queen from Kalorama and has told them to go piss up a rope insofar as an insane ceasefire. Considering the mass slaughter and savagery perpetrated by these subhuman Islamic monsters and the fact that the hostages are likely dead or, at this point praying for death, a ceasefire right now, with the IDF poised to wipe out Hamas' last redoubt, is akin to Curtis LeMay giving Tojo the atomic bombs and letting the Japanese nuke America.

I can't read Netanyahu's mind, but perhaps after years of living in denial about the United States insofar as the desperate desire to maintain the illusion of America as Israel's most steadfast ally, regardless of who's in charge, he's finally realized that given who's in charge now, the America government today is at best no longer an ally and should likely be considered firmly in the enemy camp if not an actual enemy.

That statement now applies to the American citizenry and its relationship with the Junta. As horrific as the pogrom unleashed on Israel last October was, the reaction to it by the alleged civilized world and here at home by the Democrat-Left, from a political standpoint, has been gold delivered to us on a silver platter.

Remember that Joe Biden, as horrendous an example of a human being to have ever obtained political office in this country, just behind the Clintons and Kennedys, was deliberately chosen by Obama because his veneer of being an alleged moderate of the old school gave Obama the cover, on top of his mulatto melanin, to unleash his radical Maoism on America with impunity.

Now as his puppet, with the disaster of the past three years exploding that myth to all but the truest of true believer leftists, the pre-planned explosion of campus Jew-hate that dates back to shortly after the IDF began its retaliatory war on Hamas in Gaza, is likely the nail in their coffin as far as this November goes. Election fraud, the kangaroo court Trump show trials, and perhaps mass rioting this summer in Chicago and Milwaukee and all over the place as the pretext for martial law and another CIA/DOJ/State Dept. color revolution right here notwithstanding.

With that, Biden is caught between having to appease his radical base and not totally turning off not just Jewish voters but anyone who has eyes to see what the hell is going on both here and abroad. Hence his latest clumsy attempt to equivocate Israel and "Palestine" while then going on to say he is not wavering in his support for Israel, phony as that surely is.

On top of that was his calling Japan, as well as India and China "xenophobic" for not committing cultural suicide via mass immigration. Like we are. It's like the left hand doesn't know what the far left hand is doing.

Regardless of the gaffes, the little-girl-groping, the stumbling and shambling, the lying, the raging against Americans for not praising his destroying their life savings, and his impotent raging at Trump, his venality and corruption is amplified by those to whom he has whored himself.

On March 1, 2018, Joe Biden got a $200,000 check. The story of where that check came from involves everything from “bloodstained currency” to smuggled gold bars to ‘The Exorcist’. But above all else it involves an enemy Muslim tyranny with ties to 9/11 and Hamas.
When I first broke the story a week before Election Day, it was about how hospital patients in smaller poorer hospitals, including one that had inspired ‘The Exorcist’, had suffered because of the corrupt greed of the Biden family. But even then there was a strange element which led to one of the key figures in the case receiving “blood-stained currency from a Middle Eastern country” and a “torture ticket” after suing James Biden: Joe’s brother.
Four years later, in the midst of the Hamas war, the identity of the “Middle Eastern country” behind the Biden business takes on new importance because it is a state sponsor of Hamas. And congressional investigators and investigative journalists have also traced a trail from Qatar, through James’ health care business to that $200,000 check he sent to Joe Biden.
The health care business that brought together the Biden family and an Islamic terror state had targeted stricken rural hospitals in Kentucky, Missouri and Pennsylvania. . .
. . . Qatar’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood (the parent organization of Hamas) and Iran had led to an embargo by its neighbors. And Qatar’s ties to terrorists, including to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, who hid out there until he was allegedly tipped off by a member of the Islamic tyranny’s royal family that America was coming to get him, may have complicated the proposed investment funding mechanisms.
The next stage of the plan involved James Biden becoming the “chief global banking emissary” for Billerfy which processed payments for a cryptocurrency exchange known as Quadriga that traded money for crypto. Later that year, Billerfy’s accounts were frozen and millions were found in a personal account. Six days later, Quadriga’s 30-year-old CEO suddenly died in India, locking up $70 million in cash and $191 million in crypto. Another co-founder, Michael Patry, whose real name turned out to be Omar was raided and authorities discovered gold bars in a vault. The whole operation was then exposed as a massive ponzi scheme.
But by then James Biden had already benefited from $600,000 in “personal loans” from the health care company. On March 1, 2018, Americore wired $200,000 to James and he wrote a $200,000 check to Joe. But the loans, according to bankruptcy court documents were conditioned based on “representations that his last name, ‘Biden,’ could ‘open doors’ and that he could “obtain a large investment from the Middle East based on his political connections.”
. . . Even while undermining the sitting [Trump] administration, Biden’s brother was offering the services of his family to an enemy nation. This has wider implications beyond Qatar’s role backing Hamas. Qatar was also the central intermediary in the Taliban “deal” and had formed an alliance with Iran. It is difficult to know whether the “Biden family” relationship with Qatar played any role in the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan and in the sanctions relief offered to Iran.
We do know there was a relationship between the Biden family and a state sponsor of Hamas, which Joe Biden profited from, and that has disturbing implications for our national security.
“We’ve got people all around the world who want to invest in Joe Biden,” James Biden once bragged. One of those investors had ties to Iran, Al Qaeda, Iran and Hamas.

If the dimwits of "the Squad," in Dearbornistan and on college campuses nationwide only opened their eyes a little bit, they'd understand that Joey Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants, with or without the string-pulling of Obama, has done more to further their twin causes of destroying Israel and destroying America than they could have ever dreamed.

And yet, they're sliming him as "genocide Joe" because they think he supports Israel? Biden may have dementia, but these assholes are just plain stupid to not see the taqqiya sunrise sundowning in the Oval Office actually making their dreams come true.

That might be just the edge we need to at least squeak by in 2024. Of course, with the CIA, DOJ, the flag officer corps and JCS and the rest of the Deep State on their side, it's going to be a very long hot summer, perhaps extending well into autumn and, God forbid, beyond.

Have a good weekend.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY

Ann Coulter: “This is why the Proud Boys had to be made Public Enemy No. 1: They protected conservatives from violent leftists.”
Hate Watchdogs Need Glasses
"Multiculturalism does not work, and Europe's recent experience is instructive."
Multiculti Chaos
Horowitz & Greenfield: "It’s time to call the enemy by its true name."
The Neo-Nazi Left

ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS

Daniel Greenfield: "Bloodstained currency, smuggled gold bars and a $200,000 check."
How Hamas Bought Joe Biden
PM Netanyahu’s office: “The Rafah operation does not depend on anything.”
Netanyahu to Blinken: Israel Will Not End War on Terror Group Hamas in Return For Hostage Deal
"Most of the hostages — including most of the 100 or so still thought to be alive — would remain in Hamas' hands. Terrorists would also have a strong incentive to kidnap Israelis — and Americans — in future, and will try to do so. Israeli politicians, from left to right, understand exactly what the country is facing. Left-wing protesters chanted Thursday that Israel must choose between 'Rafah' — i.e. winning the war — and releasing some of the hostages."
Biden, Blinken Push Israel to Lose War — for a Fraction of the Hostages
"It all comes down to Nov. 5 and the Big Backfire. . . So now poor SecState Blinken — never the sharpest penny in the pantry — finds himself tasked with the impossible: applying pressure he doesn't have to wrangle a ceasefire out of Israel that Hamas won't agree to, or his boss will lose Michigan and the Campus Commies that make up an increasing (and increasingly virulent) portion of the Democrat base."
Antony Blinken's Big, Stupid Middle East Trip
"The precedent of the ICC indicting Netanyahu and members of his government over the Israel-Gaza War could easily be used by U.S. adversaries to seek indictments against Biden officials." (At least someone would be - jjs)
The Biden Junta Must Denounce the International Criminal Court’s Plan to Indict Netanyahu (Denounce it? They're behind it! - jjs)
"Hamas has a new friend in communist guerrilla-turned-president Petro, and that’s no shock to me."
Colombia and Israel Break Up (Columbia, Colombia . . . let's call the whole thing off - jjs)
"The US can't even handle the flood of migrants it's already dealing with."
Hey, Joe, Why Not Send the First "Palestinian" Refugees To Scranton?
"Israel’s enemies are charging the world’s only Jewish nation with committing genocide. This is a lie."
Is Israel Guilty of Genocide?

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"Across the country, anti-Israel protesters have set up encampments on college campuses, some have overtaken buildings, refused to comply with trespassing violations and replaced the American flag with the 'Palestinian' flag. Biden addressed the protests for the first time in nine days, in unplanned remarks, condemning violent and unlawful protests, but adding that the National Guard shouldn’t intervene."
Biden Says States Shouldn’t Deploy National Guard Against Anti-Israel Protests
Notably, the first protests, which sprouted at Columbia University, began before Biden signed a $95 billion foreign aid package that allocates $26 billion in aid for Israel, including billions in military aid, on April 24. (He loves billionaire Jewish lucre but can't piss off the Marxist/Muslim maniacs - jjs)
Joe Biden to Anti-Israel Protesters: You Have Failed, Have Not Forced Me to Reconsider Policies
"But they are still silent about condemning them."
Dems Worried About College Protests Galvanizing Americans to Vote for Trump: Report
“Ayers was hunted by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the 1970 bombing of the New York City Police Department headquarters, 1971 bombing of the United States Capitol building and the 1972 bombing of the Pentagon.”
Obama’s Domestic Terror Buddy Bill Ayers Shows Up to Support Campus Occupiers at U. Chicago
The GOP presidential candidate, who has defined himself as the law and order candidate this election, ended, “These are radical left lunatics, and they gotta be stopped now because it’s gonna go on and on, and it’s gonna get worse and worse, And, you know, they take over countries, okay, and we’re not letting them take over the USA. We’re not letting the radical left morons take over this country.”
Trump: Pro-Hamas Anti-Semites are "Radical Left Lunatics" (But he repeats himself - jjs)
Naomi Wolf: "Are American students walking into a terrifying trap? . . . The war waged on US college campuses today is ultimately not about 'Palestine' or Israel at all. It is a war against America — and especially against America’s next generation."
U.S. Campus Chaos: A New Oct 7 on the Way?
Robert Spencer: "This is not a spontaneous phenomenon."
Why is the Pro-"Palestinian" Encampment Craze Sweeping Our Colleges?
Douglas Murray: ". . . although youth and ignorance aren’t any real excuse, perhaps I can educate these students about what they are actually calling for. I invite them to 'do the work' of understanding what it means when people call for 'Intifada' and what it actually means." (You're pissing in the wind, Douglas - jjs)
College Idiots Calling for "Intifada" Have No Idea How Many Innocents Have Died From That Word
"'This is Philadelphia, we don’t have to do stupid like they did at Columbia,' Larry Krasner says during visit to UPenn encampment." (Wilson Good and MOVE would like a word with you, schmuck - jjs)
Philly's Soros-Backed DA Calls NYPD Arrests of Columbia Rioters 'Stupid'

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"Lawsuit seeks damages from groups driving campus protest movement."
Israeli Terror Victims Sue Anti-Semitic Campus Groups for Aiding Hamas
Hilariously, during a “press conference” the day after the Tuesday night kerfuffle, protesters released a “statement” calling the melee a “life threatening assault” and an “act of terror” - ironic, coming from Hamas apologists. “Law enforcement simply stood at the edge of the lawn and refused to budge as we screamed for their help,” one protester claimed.
Protesters Who Called For Abolishing the Police Complain Cops Didn't Protect Them Enough
"Maria Ressa's publication accused Israel of 'targeting' news reporters in 'unprecedented attack on journalist safety.'"
Harvard Commencement Speaker Published Editorial Likening Israel to Hitler
“Throw ’em a rager.”
Over $350,000 Raised to Thank UNC Pi Kappa Phi Brothers for Defending Flag Against Pro-Hamas Mob
Robert Zimmerman: "Why not use these funds instead to create a database that identifies every single one of the Hamas protesters who attempted to take over the UNC campus so that future employees will have a resource when it comes time to hire graduates?"
Pro-American UNC frat boys: Don’t hold a party, use the money more effectively!
So's his boyfriend - jjs
Scumbag Dimwit "5-Alarm" Bowman: "So-Called Pro-Israel Students" Told Me Antisemitism at Columbia "Overblown"
Andrew Dudum, the "Palestinian"-American CEO of Hims, a telehealth and online pharmacy known for its suggestive New York City subway ads, shared a link to current openings and encouraged the student protesters to apply. “Moral courage > College degree,” he wrote on X.
CEO of Male Hair Loss and ED Treatment Brand is "Eager" to Hire Anti-Israel Protesters
Considering the blood, much of it Jewish, he has on his hands, this is hilarious in its chutzpocrisy, as well as telling insofar as they must be shitting their Depends about it vis a vis the election- jjs
Sharpton: Democrats Losing [illusion of] "Moral High Ground" by Not Condemning Protests
WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM
"But is she wrong?"
Canada: Oakville School Suspends, Investigates Teacher for Saying "Keffiyeh Reminds Her of a Terrorist"
OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY
"You're the last person who should be quoting Scripture" . . . “Your prayer will soon be answered when we vote Trump back into the White House.”
Biden Roasted for National Day of Prayer Message
"Houses of worship can take several steps to harden their facilities against attack—but ultimately, security cannot be left solely to the professionals."
Keep Congregations Safe
"BIDEN BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY
The resolution begins with a line that says Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas “created the worst border crisis in the Nation’s history.” What follows are dozens of critiques of the administration’s record, including the “mass release of millions of illegal aliens into United States communities” and language that highlights the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley allegedly by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant.
13 House Dems Back Latest Rebuke Of Biden’s Immigration Policies
"The last thing the communist stronghold city of Chicago needs is yet another crime wave, but thanks to Democrats, globalists, and most importantly, the voters, the Windy City has a brand new problem."
Wait Until You See How Many Venezuelans Were Arrested in Chicago This Year
SHAMPEACHMENTS, 2016 CLINTON/OBAMA COUP, CONGRESSIONAL PERSECUTION, SPYGATE, DEEP STATE, MUELLER DECEPTION
"In a never-before-seen video of Pomerantz during a Congressional deposition last summer, the former Manhattan D.A. employee pleaded the fifth to a series of probing questions from Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL)."
WATCH: Manhattan DA Attorney REFUSES To Deny Breaking the Law While Investigating Trump
"Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg asked Merchan to punish Trump for four comments concerning Michael Cohen and David Pecker, the former publisher of the National Enquirer. Merchan is considering the request."
Greasy Hack-in-Black Scumbag Juan Merchan Weighs Punishing Donald Trump a Second Time for Allegedly Violating Gag Order
"Defense attorney Todd Blanche said Thursday that the gag order prevented former President Donald Trump from responding to political attacks not only by witnesses, but also recent comments made by [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Joe Biden."
Defense Attorney Tells Judge Gag Order Prevented Trump From Responding to Biden’s Comments on Trial
“The gag order says it applies to the president himself, and then it prevents him from instructing or ordering anybody else to do it. So, legally, that basically applies to anybody who works for him. And since he is considered basically the chairman of the campaign or the top dog on the campaign, the campaign applies to everybody who is on campaign staff.”
‘Election Interference’: Bragg Case Gag Order Puts Unprecedented Limitations On Trump Campaign
For starters, Davidson argued that the $130,000 payment to Daniels should not be construed as "hush money" but rather as a legitimate "consideration" payment. If that wasn't bad enough, Davidson also testified that Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was "despondent" when he didn't get a White House job after Trump won the presidency in 2016.
Stormy Daniels’ Lawyer Just Destroyed Bragg’s Case Against Trump
"The litigious left has run into some problems trying to sell its legally flawed narrative that alternate electors for Trump tried to overthrow the 2020 election."
The Left’s Phony ‘Fake Electors’ Crusade Ramps Up As 2024 Election Draws Closer
CIVIL WAR 2.0: J-6 FBI FALSE FLAG "RIOT" & AFTERMATH, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION
"Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is now calling on the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government to investigate."
O’Keefe Media Group Exposes Alleged CIA Plot Against Trump
David Harsanyi: "Sure, Clarke lies. But she has also weaponized the DOJ."
Kristen Clarke Allegedly Knifed Her Ex And Lied About It — But It’s Not The Worst Thing She’s Done
"The country is more divided than ever, but it may not be as divided as the pro-Hamas, anti-American protesters hope."
America Is Headed For A Civil War . . . Maybe
"Leftists who slander patriotic Americans of faith as ‘white Christian nationalists’ are missing something significant."
Black Christian Nationalism?
FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH
The survey results corroborate the findings of another poll released by Gallup last fall, which revealed American trust in the media at a new low. According to Gallup, 39 percent of Americans rated their level of confidence in mass media at “none at all,” marking an all-time high since 1972 when the pollster first asked the question. 29 percent said they had “not very much trust” in media, and only about 3 in 10 reported any confidence.
Poll: More Than 8 In 10 Americans Don’t Trust Corporate Media To Report Facts
Lloyd Billingsley: "Regulations for net 'neutrality' stifle choice and innovation."
Biden FCC Threatens Free Speech by Restoring Internet Regulations
"Let's hope it's true!"
Scum Media Head Reportedly Urged Staff To Publish Barron Trump Story They Couldn’t Verify
"In a 2005 speech where he also openly insulted 'red state' voters, RFK can be clearly heard defending the corporate media apparatus in the United States, already whittled down to just a handful of left-liberal leaning firms by then."
WATCH: RFK Defends Fake News, Arguing, "There is No Such Thing as Liberal Media"
“The Committee has concerns about the direction in which NPR may be headed under past and present leadership. As a taxpayer funded, public radio organization, NPR should focus on fair and objective news reporting that both considers and reflects the views of the larger U.S. population and not just a niche audience,” the letter said. (How about just abolishing NPR? - jjs)
House Republicans Seek NPR CEO Testimony About Liberal Bias Allegations
"The neo-Nazi Left eats its own."
Anti-Censorship Group Canceled by Pro-Hamas Authors
THE ECONOMY, STUPID
"Drafting the U.S. dollar, America’s long-dominant global reserve currency, into foreign military service over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a fateful decision."
Boosting Dedollarization — From Within
"The Biden [junta] continues with its union-backed plan to ban most types of freelancing — despite the dire evidence from California."
GOP Fights Biden for Independent Contractors
"It’s time to cancel 'Joe’s ‘70s Show' and reboot 'Morning in America.'”
Stagflation Stages a Comeback
"With Peloton stock down approximately 92 percent from its high in 2020, the latest downsizing comes as a bitter pill to swallow, as it directly contradicts the assurances made by outgoing CEO Barry McCarthy during Peloton’s Q1 2023 earnings call, where he stated that the company was done with layoffs and that the 'ship was turning.' McCarthy, a former executive at Spotify and Netflix, took the helm from founder John Foley just over two years ago, with the aim of steering Peloton through its turbulent times. He is now leaving the company after presiding over the company’s massive loss of share value."
Spinning Wheels: Peloton CEO Steps Down amid More Layoffs, 92% Drop in Stock Price
"It would not eliminate the shortfall but would crowd out other priorities."
Raising the Tax Cap Cannot Save Social Security
"The IRS will reportedly be using funds allotted to it under the Inflation Reduction Act, which [so-called quote-unquote "president"] Biden signed into law in 2022."
IRS to Increase Audit Rates of Wealthy Taxpayers by 50 Percent
RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS, JUNK SCIENCE, LYSENKOISM
Haaland suggested that there is local support for the project, but she did not name a single entity or individual supporting the project in response to multiple inquiries from [ID Sen Jim] Risch.
‘I Don’t Have A Number’: Biden Interior Sec Left Tongue-Tied When Asked To Name Supporters Of Major Wind Project
The CRA is a longshot, having only been successful 20 times since 1996, and Republicans can also try legal action if the CRA doesn’t pan out. But Sullivan believes that he can get some Democrats on board in the Senate. “[Sen. Joe] Manchin [D-W.Va.] is fully supportive, and I think it’s likely we’ll get other Democrats to support this because they’re hearing from their constituents,” Sullivan said at a press conference. “Then we’ll see if Joe Biden vetoes what the vast majority of the members of the House and Senate want.”
Congressional Republicans Take Aim at Biden’s Electric Truck Rule
Maybe the money will come pouring back in as Washington and various state governments continue to subsidize and mandate the ever-loving heck out of "clean" energy boondoggles and EVs. But at least for now, the smart money is going elsewhere.
Are Americans Finally Done With the 'Sustainability' Scam?
"The EPA shouldn’t impose on the rest of us one state’s demands and ambitions."
Will California Hobble the US Railroad Industry?
"Fighting for the truth about climate hysteria."
Prager U Video: "Climate Scientists Can’t Intimidate Me"
AMERICA AND THE WORLD IMPRISONED: CHINESE CORONAVIRUS FICTIONS AND FACTS
"Here are the five biggest takeaways from Peter Daszak’s testimony about EcoHealth Alliance’s funding of gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China."
5 Takeaways From Peter Daszak’s Testimony On U.S.-Funded Coronavirus Research
EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT
"Editors say the ‘violence’ has left them upset and ‘unable to focus.’"
‘Irrevocably Shaken’: Editors of Columbia Law Review Demand Cancellation of Exams, Citing Trauma Caused by Police Presence on Campus
"If you as an author are unhappy that elementary school aged children cannot freely check out from the school library illustrated depictions of homosexual sex, you might be a pervert."
No, your book wasn’t banned; you’re just a pervert (and a narcissist)
ABORTION
The Act makes it so that babies at around six-weeks gestation, when heartbeats are generally detectable, cannot be aborted. According to Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, it has the potential to protect roughly 50,000 lives annually. The law, however, does leave exceptions for cases where a mother’s life is at risk, when a fatal prenatal diagnosis occurs, and in cases of rape, incest or human trafficking.
Fla. Heartbeat Act Goes Into Effect: Pro-Lifers Rejoice, Pro-Aborts Cry
THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH
"Republicans everywhere should realize: this is a national, all-hands-on-deck emergency. The future of America may, and probably does, depend on limiting this election to Americans."
American Elections for American Citizens: Does Anybody Care?
"Fairness advocates are working in 15 states to preserve American citizens’ exclusive right to vote—and that’s just the start of this new effort that’s showing a path to victory."
Inside the Battle to Keep Only Citizens Voting
"[Hansjörg] Wyss is one of the best-connected mega-donors on the left. He’s a member of the Democracy Alliance, a cabal of the rich and powerful that meets regularly to strategize funding to leftist activists."
Meet the ‘New George Soros’ Using Front Groups To Influence Elections
POLITICS
"This is not a great moment for America, but it is an illuminating one, clearly showing the two diverging worldviews, which makes it a huge winner for Republicans."
SHOT: Pro-Hamas Blue State Campuses are a Gift to the GOP
"The events, hours after Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) announced they would force a vote to expel Johnson, do little to show Johnson has a firm hand on the wheel."
CHASER: Johnson’s Incompetence Continues as He Screws Up Anti-Semitism Resolution; Then Democrats Embarrass Him on Procedural Vote
"Corners of America that normally would vote Democrat have turned away."
While Beltway Media Fawn, Biden’s Poll Numbers Freefall
"Will Gabbard help Trump more in 2024 than Pence did in 2016? I think the answer is an unequivocal yes." (And then what happens after they win? - jjs)
Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump’s Best Choice as a Running Mate
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL
“That is why his staff doesn’t want him speaking without those note cards,” [Sen Marco] Rubio quipped on X, alluding to concerns about Biden’s mental state as he runs for a second term in this year’s presidential election.
Biden Labels Japan "Xenophobic" for Not Following His Lead In Importing Hordes of Third Worlders
Doug Bandow: "Convincing Beijing that conflict is unnecessary is more effective than beating the drums of war."
How to Deter a War with China Over Taiwan
BIDEN AFGHANISTAN BUG-OUT DISASTER AFTERMATH
"The revelations are coupled with warnings from SIGAR that Afghanistan is reemerging as a hotspot for terrorist activities and the spending of taxpayer’s money on weapons removal may inadvertently be benefiting the Taliban. The removal efforts are part of the U.S.’ $17 billion investment in post-withdrawal Afghanistan, which according to SIGAR, remains somewhat unmonitored due to limited government cooperation."
Guess How Much Biden Recently Funneled to the Taliban?
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE
"Joshua Dean lost his life after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection, the Seattle Times reports. He was aged 45 and reportedly in good health before his sudden demise after a two week fight for life in hospital."
Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Suddenly
I don't know the secret to a long life, but I can tell you how to "die suddenly." Point a finger at Boeing.
Boeing, Boeing, GONE: Another Whistleblower Has 'Died Suddenly'
". . . rather than the company being humbled by its recent string of disasters, Boeing executives seem cartoonishly dedicated to the aims of the WEF – aims far afield of manufacturing excellence or aviation safety."
Boeing: From Aviation Excellence to ESG Disaster
"Illinois had the fifth-highest unemployment rate out of any other state in March at 4.8%, along with one of the nation’s highest tax burdens, and has only added 26,100 net jobs in the last year while adding 30,100 government positions, according to data from the Illinois Department of Employment Security. At the same time, residents are fleeing Illinois in droves as the state grapples with some of the largest pension debt in the country."
Forget California: There Might Be a New Contender for the Most Dysfunctional State
HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE
"Science should be judged on its merits, not on its funders."
Medscape Gets Smoked
ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY
"The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical." (Hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit
FEMINAZISM, TRANSGENDER PSYCHOSIS, HOMOSEXUALIZATION, WAR ON MASCULINITY/NORMALCY
"Sanders says Biden's order 'redefines 'sex' to fit its own absurd political ideology.'"
Sarah Sanders Orders Arkansas To Follow State Law Over Biden’s ‘Plainly Ridiculous’ Title IX Rules
REDUXX revealed the male volunteers for a “hotline specialized in topics relating to female health and pregnancy.”
Male, 31, Competing With U. Michigan in National Women’s Water Polo Championship for Second Time
“Now, there’s lots of things not normal, doesn’t mean you have to hate something that isn’t normal. But if my children are taught that there’s – whatever the current vogue number is – 76 or 97 or whatever the number of purported genders that exist, I don’t want my children taught that,’ Galloway said in an interview with Novara Media. (George Galloway is virtually a hardcore Muslim, so QED - jjs)
Far-Left Politician Admits Gay Relationships ‘Not Normal’, ‘Not Equal’ to Traditional Families
"How Catholic higher ed should respond to the Biden [junta's] new regulations on gender identity."
Title IX vs. Pope "Fiction" Francis
CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE
Christian Toto: "Harrowing Oct. 7 doc is available for free – so where are the reviews?"
Are Film Critics Avoiding Screams Before Silence?
Considering Cleese made his bones ripping Judeo-Christian culture to shreds, this is kind of rich - jjs
John Cleese: People Shouldn’t Be Scared To Acknowledge "Some Cultures Are Superior To Others"
"Is the BBC series the feminist masterpiece critics claim it to be?"
Fleabag
HITHER & YON
The iconic guitarist renowned for his influential electric twang passed away at 86 due to cancer, according to THR. Eddy’s career spanned several decades and he became famous for his instrumental hits like “Rebel Rouser” and “Peter Gunn.” His music sold over 100 million records globally. He revolutionized the rock ‘n’ roll genre, influencing legends such as George Harrison and Bruce Springsteen.
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Duane Eddy Dies at 86
"The films shaped my childhood."
Film Noir Made Me Conservative

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2 Thank you, JJ!

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3 It's flapjack Friday!

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4
g'mornin' again, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 03, 2024 07:34 AM (bEb2S)

5 Thanks for the Morning Report JJ and hope you're doing well.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 07:34 AM (8quvU)

6 It's Friday! Thank God!

Oh, good morning horde.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 07:35 AM (U7wke)

7 "CEO of male hair loss and ED treatment brand is ‘eager’ to hire anti-Israel student protesters.

“If you’re currently protesting against the genocide of the Palestinian people & for your university’s divestment from Israel, keep going. It’s working,” Hims CEO Andrew Dudum tweeted."

I knew that company was full of lefty homos from the first time I heard of it. Stupid gay name.

Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 07:35 AM (vFG9F)

8
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Duane Eddy Dies at 86

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 03, 2024 07:36 AM (bEb2S)

9 JJ, thank you so much! You are a true blessing. I have a question though.
Do the people of Israel and Palestine, actually the mid East, share a language? I'm know East Europeans are able to understand their neighbors language ( my parents were immigrants), but I don't know about the mid East.

Posted by: Chillin the most at May 03, 2024 07:36 AM (0uQp2)

10 Yonder Horde

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2024 07:37 AM (Q4IgG)

11 Every one of those 'protestors' should be shown this, and then shuttled off to jail. Female protestors should be given extended sentences:

https://tinyurl.com/mswm5rnj

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead...Wearing Pants and Working at May 03, 2024 07:38 AM (DIB8X)

12 Good morning again dear horde and happy birthday JJ you are a light in the darkness

I have been pushing hard on fellow joos but it is hard to use reason when people let their emotions rule.

The best I can do is point out that all those hoodlums out there are Biden voters. That seems to bring it home to them.

It is hard to overcome the programming.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

13 Thanks JJ and happy Friday

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 07:39 AM (xT8gx)

14 G'morning, J.J. Thank you, as always.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 03, 2024 07:39 AM (O7YUW)

15 Good day for where I work. The CEO driving away customers is leaving and the owner I used to work for is back in charge. Staff meeting this morning.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at May 03, 2024 07:40 AM (yeEu9)

16 "The best I can do is point out that all those hoodlums out there are Biden voters. That seems to bring it home to them."

My guess is less than 1% are Trump supporters. Communists seem to have an aversion to DJT.

Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 07:41 AM (vFG9F)

17 Moronin', Hourde!

Posted by: Hans O'lo at May 03, 2024 07:41 AM (1yY5C)

18 Good morning JJ and horde

Posted by: Skip at May 03, 2024 07:42 AM (73cfy)

19 Morning again, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 03, 2024 07:42 AM (ju2Fy)

20 Posted by: Lost in Space at May 03, 2024 07:02 AM (hqGCh)

No...Arabic and Hebrew are distinct languages. They have some overlap so that it is marginally easier for a native speaker of one to learn the other.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 03, 2024 07:42 AM (ozna+)

21 As I’m sure y’all did, I saw a photo taken on one of these crazy campuses showing a guy wearing a green Hamas headband (and a mask… of course). On an American campus!! The mind reels and the blood boils….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 07:42 AM (xT8gx)

22 Baton Rouge/St George...

End Wokeness @EndWokeness
"F*ck white people. Stop gentrifying our neighborhood. Get out."

Wealthy neighborhood in Baton Rouge:
"Fine. We'll just create our own town."

"How dare you!! We need your taxes!!"

https://tinyurl.com/ys2j2s22
1:53 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:45 AM (vtyCZ)

23 After the successful anti-whitey rioting of the recent past, the pivot to anti-Israel rioting this election season is puzzling.

Posted by: davidt at May 03, 2024 07:46 AM (SYTee)

24 I still doubt Trump will win.

If he wins, there will be both bureaucratic and violent resistance. They have already shown how willing they are to dispense with civil procedure or anything resembling legality. If you think the masks have been dropping just wait.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

25 Ugh! AP/CP...

Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Yeoh, Michael Bloomberg among those to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom today. The Medal of Freedom is highest civilian honour in the U.S., winners awarded for shaping America for the better.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:46 AM (vtyCZ)

26 100,000 'immigrants' who were brought to the U.S. as children expected to enroll in "Obamacare" next year.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:47 AM (vtyCZ)

27 If a Hamas headband is socially acceptable now on campus, then so are swastikas? Godwin’s Law notwithstanding, it’s a fair question, no?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 07:47 AM (xT8gx)

28 Morning JJ and great take!

And let's not forget the sniveling coward clowns of comity, the Republicans, who could have taken a stand and stopped the steal in 2020, thus saving us from this disaster.
I still look at them with utter contempt and wish political death on their party. So many of them, like a great number of Democrats, need to be in jail for the crimes committed against the U.S. and that they've all profited from in cash and other perks.
I can't wait to vote for the REAL nation's president again in 2024 - Donald Trump - and against the (R) party the rest of the way down the list. Fuck that party for what they allowed to happen to this country, especially that bastard McConnell!

Posted by: Tracy at May 03, 2024 07:48 AM (i+CFv)

29
Note to the world: if you do not allow Antony Blinken into your country, then tou never have to fret about when he's leaving.

Think about it.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2024 07:48 AM (xG4kz)

30 I just saw Eva Vlaadingerbroek at CPAC in Hungary on utube. I just wanna snuggle up to her neck and take a deep sniff of her beautiful blonde hair.

Posted by: Joe from Scranton at May 03, 2024 07:50 AM (fs1hN)

31 If Javier Milei was running he would get my vote

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:50 AM (RIvkX)

32 Boker Tov Patriots

Posted by: Nevergiveup at May 03, 2024 07:50 AM (pVWRI)

33 Note to the world: if you do not allow Antony Blinken into your country, then tou never have to fret about when he's leaving.

Think about it.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 03, 2024 07:48 AM (xG4kz)
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It's just a shame that *we* have to allow him back into the U.S.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 03, 2024 07:50 AM (7fElN)

34 I still doubt Trump will win.

If he wins, there will be both bureaucratic and violent resistance. They have already shown how willing they are to dispense with civil procedure or anything resembling legality. If you think the masks have been dropping just wait.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

I’m all over the map in my mind. I absolutely believe Trump wins easily if the election is a fair one with only minimal cheating. I just can’t predict how far TPTB may be willing to go. For them I think their Trump hatred is competing with rational thought. If logic wins they’ll let him win; if emotion wins they’ll produce 100 million votes for lettuce head

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 07:51 AM (xT8gx)

35 If Eva was running she would get my vote too

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:51 AM (RIvkX)

36 "If he wins, there will be both bureaucratic and violent resistance."

Trump reminds me of that guy in Tiananmen Square who stood in front of a tank and wouldn't move out of the way.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 03, 2024 07:52 AM (Gse2f)

37 If Javier Milei was running he would get my vote
Posted by: San Franpsycho

If Eva was running she would get my vote too
Posted by: San Franpsycho

California, where voting more than once is the norm.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 07:53 AM (8quvU)

38 Good morning, J.J.
Good morning, Horde.

Posted by: Inogame at May 03, 2024 07:53 AM (53oGX)

39 NEXTA @nexta_tv
A girl complained to her parents for months that there were monsters in her bedroom walls. It turned out that there was a hive of 60,000 bees.
https://tinyurl.com/23kd3sks
photo

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:53 AM (vtyCZ)

40 The so-called "far left" (or as I call them the "left") yelling that Biden supports Israel too hard - while he clearly is doing the bidding of Israel's enemies - is mental mindfuckery designed to keep the Jews and "moderate Democrats" on side.

Posted by: ... at May 03, 2024 07:53 AM (lX8VI)

41 NEXTA @nexta_tv
Boston Dynamics showed off a fluffy costume for their robot dog Spot for World Dance Day

https://tinyurl.com/243x66zw
42 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:54 AM (vtyCZ)

42 California, where voting more than once is the norm.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 07:53 AM (8quvU)

===
No love for Ranked Choice Voting?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:54 AM (RIvkX)

43 Remember that Joe Biden, as horrendous an example of a human being to have ever obtained political office in this country, just behind the Clintons and Kennedys
_______
I'd put him lower. They at least waited until the girls were past puberty. And to the best of my knowledge, didn't mess with their own daughters. (Though Nat Lamp did imply that in the Kennedy issue.)

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 07:54 AM (1bNHn)

44 NEXTA @nexta_tv
A mini cop has been spotted in Amsterdam, and it's a cat. It is not very clear why he was given a police uniform, but he seems to be very good at patrolling the streets.

The cop we deserve 🐱
https://tinyurl.com/mvc8fh82
two videos -- both 50 seconds

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:55 AM (vtyCZ)

45 Until leftards become untarded they will never vote conservative and only until after they have become conservative can they become untarded.

It's a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a bleached white by the sun pile of dog mess.

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 03, 2024 07:56 AM (4a+k3)

46 The so-called "far left" (or as I call them the "left") yelling that Biden supports Israel too hard - while he clearly is doing the bidding of Israel's enemies - is mental mindfuckery designed to keep the Jews and "moderate Democrats" on side.
Posted by: ... at May 03, 2024 07:53 AM (lX8VI)
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I have not thought about this, but the empirical evidence supports your hypothesis.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:56 AM (RIvkX)

47 horning horde. and happy fricken friday. covfefe is ready and i'm off to the big apple this weekend for the 5 boro bike ride.

this could be very interesting this year... -_-

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 03, 2024 07:56 AM (UCRjB)

48 "Greasy Hack-in-Black Scumbag Juan Merchan Weighs Punishing Donald Trump a Second Time for Allegedly Violating Gag Order"

Put him in jail, you pussy. Do it.

Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

49 A list of desired donations was circulated online by protesters on Thursday, under a heading that read: “Please ensure the donations are BDS [boycott, divestment, sanctions] compliant”. It was said to have been issued by the Students for Justice in Palestine movement manning the barricades at the University of California, Los Angeles, and whoever wrote it was firm: they wanted hot food for lunch (stressing the importance of this in capital letters), and they wanted vegan and gluten-free choices. This being California, they wanted ice. And they did not, on any account, want packaged food, coffee, bananas, nuts – or bagels.
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So lox are right out then??

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 07:57 AM (vtyCZ)

50 horning horde.
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Very interestink.

Posted by: zombie sigmund freud at May 03, 2024 07:58 AM (vtyCZ)

51 9 JJ, thank you so much! You are a true blessing. I have a question though.
Do the people of Israel and Palestine, actually the mid East, share a language? I'm know East Europeans are able to understand their neighbors language ( my parents were immigrants), but I don't know about the mid East.
Posted by: Chillin the most at May 03, 2024 07:36 AM (0uQp2)

No. Hebrew, various dialects of Arabic, Berber, and Farsi, if Iran is considered Middle and not Near East.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 07:58 AM (x0n13)

52 "So lox are right out then??
Posted by: andycanuck"

I'm surprised weed was not on the list.

Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

53 Biden, Blinken Push Israel to Lose War — for a Fraction of the Hostages
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At least we can't accuse them of hypocrisy here. They'd do the same for America.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 07:59 AM (1bNHn)

54 Posted by: SturmToddler at May 03, 2024 07:56 AM (UCRjB)

A fellow conservative I know is doing that ride as well. God bless you and the other participants!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 08:00 AM (OFt8U)

55 No love for Ranked Choice Voting?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You mean a method of guaranteeing the least qualified lib winning elections?
Absolutely not.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:00 AM (8quvU)

56 55 No love for Ranked Choice Voting?
Posted by: San Franpsycho

You mean a method of guaranteeing the least qualified lib winning elections?
Absolutely not.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:00 AM (8quvU)

Agreed - ranked choice voting is awful...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 03, 2024 08:00 AM (exHjb)

57 Mornin’, All. Happy Friday.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:02 AM (9yWhg)

58 Breaking911 @Breaking911
PICTURED: Booking photos of demonstrators arrested for trespassing at UT Dallas

https://is.gd/V5PgBq
photo montage
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Very studenty.
/sarc

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 08:02 AM (vtyCZ)

59 I'm surprised weed was not on the list.
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That they brought.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 08:02 AM (vtyCZ)

60
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

In March 2007, after being subjected to torture during interrogations, Mohammed confessed to masterminding the 11 September attacks; the Richard Reid shoe bombing attempt to blow up an airliner; the 2002 Bali bombings in Indonesia; the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the murder of Daniel Pearl and various foiled attacks as well as numerous other crimes.

I didn't know the 9/11 part, but knew his name from the first world trade center bombing.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 08:03 AM (RKVpM)

61 Dems Worried About College Protests Galvanizing Americans to Vote for Trump: Report
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For once I cannot dismiss, out of hand, something that looks good for us. For years I've had trouble getting my wife to see that Trump is right, despite his personality.

Now, this s**t has made her sound like MTG.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:03 AM (1bNHn)

62 * Puts "HIMS" on the growing list of businesses that do not desire to receive my money.*

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:03 AM (a1415)

63 That they brought.
Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 08:02 AM (vtyCZ)
=====

HA!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 08:03 AM (RIvkX)

64 Breaking911 @Breaking911 May 2
BREAKING: Russian troops enter base housing US military in Niger, US official says; US troops told to withdraw - Reuters

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 08:04 AM (vtyCZ)

65 This being California, they wanted ice. And they did not, on any account, want packaged food, coffee, bananas, nuts – or bagels.
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So lox are right out then??
Posted by: andycanuck

Donuts, granola, peanut butter, banana bread, and whole milk.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:04 AM (8quvU)

66 "So lox are right out then??
Posted by: andycanuck"

I'm surprised weed was not on the list.
Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 07:58 AM (vFG9F)

did you also see the wanted boards and gas masks and poles and other items that pretty much are ONLY used to fend off or battle police in a situation like that?

pretty ballsy in a way.

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 03, 2024 08:06 AM (UCRjB)

67 Got Pookette sent off on her first ever band trip. It's also the first time she'll be away from almost her whole family (her cousin is going too). But she's sitting with her best friend on the bus and her chaperone is her Sunday School teacher as well as the father of her good friend. (He's also the guy I'd pick to loom over my daughter in a public crowd to keep trouble away.)

Still worried cuz I'm a mom. :S

Posted by: pookysgirl, trying to rest at May 03, 2024 08:06 AM (dtlDP)

68 Breaking911 @Breaking911
COWARD: Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson flees from reporters when asked about the murder of Officer Luis Huesca.

https://is.gd/kAtO2s
27 seconds; runs is right.

Posted by: andycanuck (vtyCZ) at May 03, 2024 08:07 AM (vtyCZ)

69 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 03, 2024 08:07 AM (dg+HA)

70
Still worried cuz I'm a mom. :S
Posted by: pookysgirl

Amended to read "loving, and caring mom".

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:08 AM (8quvU)

71 61 Dems Worried About College Protests Galvanizing Americans to Vote for Trump: Report
______
For once I cannot dismiss, out of hand, something that looks good for us. For years I've had trouble getting my wife to see that Trump is right, despite his personality.

Now, this s**t has made her sound like MTG.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:03 AM (1bNHn)

It's gonna piss off 18-25 voters, too, if it's on your campus. It's no surprise DC has decided to not raid the GW event (b/c they are waiting to disperse til Trump's trial is over - bet on it), so that no one in NoVa gets disturbed at their campuses (apparently, 7 campuses have come together for that protest - most of the DC ones, and then almost certainly GMU)...if you lose votes in NoVa, you put VA in play, and they don't want VA in play...

Posted by: Nova Local at May 03, 2024 08:08 AM (exHjb)

72 "Good morning, kids. It certainly looks as if Netanyahu has indeed had enough of Biden, Blinken and the jug-eared dog-eating closet queen from Kalorama..."

Good morning, JJ & the Gang. Only read the first sentence so far, but off to a good start.

Overcast and 60° in Green Country, Oklahoma, this morning. Also off to a good start.

On to the news, and the day. ...

🌅

Posted by: mindful webworker - walking the dog at May 03, 2024 08:08 AM (zyjKZ)

73 67 Good luck to Pookette on her trip. Hope she has a great time.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:08 AM (9yWhg)

74 The country of Iran has apparently offered scholarships to any college protesters who have been expelled over their anti-Israel protests.

We should hope that at least some of these students take them up on the offer. It would be truly educational.

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 08:08 AM (bXr3y)

75 Posted by: SturmToddler at May 03, 2024 07:56 AM (UCRjB)

A fellow conservative I know is doing that ride as well. God bless you and the other participants!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 08:00 AM (OFt8U).

thanks Fen, appreciate it. it was enjoyable last year. hoping the rain isn't too bad.

and hopefully it'll keep any protesters off the streets and out our damn way

Posted by: SturmToddler at May 03, 2024 08:10 AM (UCRjB)

76 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

No birds yet, it's still dark out there.
We put 2 out on the ground and the javalina come in every, or every other night and empty them.
Saw a coyote at one of them yesterday during daylight which is rare.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:10 AM (8quvU)

77 The Boston district attorney’s office has announced there will not be any charges filed over the four dead babies found in a woman’s freezer in 2022.

… and here i thought you could go to jail for “dead baby” jokes

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 08:10 AM (bXr3y)

78 J.J., I love it! "...[O]n top of his mulatto melanin."

What a hoot!

Posted by: Close The Fed at May 03, 2024 08:11 AM (LeNk3)

79 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Serving customers.

Posted by: JT at May 03, 2024 08:11 AM (T4tVD)

80 On top of that was his calling Japan, as well as India and China "xenophobic" for not committing cultural suicide via mass immigration. Like we are. It's like the left hand doesn't know what the far left hand is doing.

Imagine that the goal is to weaken and isolate the US. These things aren't accidents and they aren't mistakes. They are steps taken to achieve Obama's goal of destroying the US.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:12 AM (U7wke)

81 Put him in jail, you pussy. Do it.
Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 07:57 AM (vFG9F)

Concur. President Trump should tell the "judge" to shut his filthy pie hole and get off of his dick already.

Stop being nice to these assholes, it does no good.

More coffee..

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 03, 2024 08:12 AM (4a+k3)

82 What we are witnessing is an "educational insurrection." I'd bet not one of the universities or colleges that have been taken over do anything to prohibit this sort of behavior again. In fact, I'm betting a couple of these academic institutions of higher learning still have tent encampments this time next year.

What a shit show.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2024 08:13 AM (Q4IgG)

83
Horrors! The Catholic Church in the US is undergoing revolutionary change as parishes (not Catholic communities) eschew guitar masses, altar girls and feel-good sermons by Father Steve (with special guest, Jesus Christ) for chants, incense, calls to go to Confession from a collar-wearing pastor in a soutane and teaching about the reality of Hell in parochial schools.

https://tinyurl.com/4r6kc8ku

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2024 08:13 AM (MoZTd)

84 In a unanimous ruling, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the Maricopa County Superior Court and Arizona Court of Appeals wrongfully sanctioned the Arizona Republican party in awarding attorney fees against them over a lawsuit challenging Maricopa County’s post-election hand-count audit procedures.

… methinks it was a case of double insanity as opposed to a fit of sanity

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 08:14 AM (bXr3y)

85 ... he's finally realized that given who's in charge now, the America government today is at best no longer an ally ...
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That same sentiment should probably be expanded and applied to everyone. That's quite dangerous.

This country now has *zero* continuity. Things that were supposed to provide intermediate or long term continuity - the balance of power among the branches, treaty requirements (and difficulties), etc. - no longer really apply. US foreign policy can and increasingly does, in its entirety, wildly shift depending on which person is in the Oval.

We're post-treaty now, so Congress - what was supposed to be a stabilizing influence on this phenomenon - no longer matters. Domestic law doesn't matter, either.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:14 AM (HnUIn)

86 It's like the left hand doesn't know what the far left hand is doing
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Yes, except it isn't a mere human. It's one of the seven-armed statues of Shiva, and *none* of the hands know what any of others are doing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:16 AM (HnUIn)

87 We are past the Everything is Broken phase and into the Everything is Falling Apart phase.

Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (QB+5g)

88 Today is Kentucky Oaks Day. 🏇
Tomorrow is The Kentucky Derby! 🏇🏇

Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (NpAcC)

89 And yet, they're sliming him as "genocide Joe" because they think he supports Israel? Biden may have dementia, but these assholes are just plain stupid to not see the taqqiya sunrise sundowning in the Oval Office actually making their dreams come true.
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Some are, to be sure. Maybe even most are. But a fair number aren't retarded but have the same belief, because they are dissatisfied with the speed of progress. Joe Biden hasn't nuked Jerusalem yet, which means he's a Jew-loving monster.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (HnUIn)

90 Robert Zimmerman: "Why not use these funds instead to create a database that identifies every single one of the Hamas protesters who attempted to take over the UNC campus so that future employees will have a resource when it comes time to hire graduates?"
Pro-American UNC frat boys: Don’t hold a party, use the money more effectively!

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oooh, I like that.

Offer up some sort of 4Chan bounty.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (YsjiM)

91 Of course people are for "free Palestine". No one would pay real money - not even at Biden value - for that shithole.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (1bNHn)

92 We are past the Everything is Broken phase and into the Everything is Falling Apart phase.
Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (QB+5g)
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We're in the "loot the empire" stage of things.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:19 AM (HnUIn)

93 This country now has *zero* continuity. Things that were supposed to provide intermediate or long term continuity - the balance of power among the branches, treaty requirements (and difficulties), etc. - no longer really apply. US foreign policy can and increasingly does, in its entirety, wildly shift depending on which person is in the Oval.

We're post-treaty now, so Congress - what was supposed to be a stabilizing influence on this phenomenon - no longer matters. Domestic law doesn't matter, either.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:14 AM (HnUIn)
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Pax Americana is OVER. It's now obvious to any foreign power that America cannot be trusted as an ally. Whatever influence we had on the world stage is GONE.

It will take generations before we can reclaim our former status, if it's even possible.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 03, 2024 08:19 AM (7fElN)

94 Although now that I think about it the database would be used by folks like the hair plug company or NGOs to find employees to pay big money because they know they're Fellow Travelers.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:19 AM (YsjiM)

95 "Tomorrow is The Kentucky Derby! 🏇🏇"

Gotta fire up the smoker later today for 30 pounds of pulled pork at tomorrow's KD party at the farm.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)

96 We're in the "loot the empire" stage of things.

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Strangely enough, that's a predictable stage after a coup.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:20 AM (YsjiM)

97
Andrew Dudum, the "Palestinian"-American CEO of Hims, a telehealth and online pharmacy known for its suggestive New York City subway ads, shared a link to current openings and encouraged the student protesters to apply. “Moral courage > College degree,” he wrote on X.

Added to ever-expanding boycott list.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 08:20 AM (RKVpM)

98 The country of Iran has apparently offered scholarships to any college protesters who have been expelled over their anti-Israel protests.

This is yet another way the Biden junta can get around the SCOTUS slap-down on using US tax dollars to pay for some dead-beat frat-rat's college debt.

Who knew that giving Iran billions in cash and other prizes would come back in the form of student debt "forgiveness"?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 08:21 AM (4HcMG)

99 97
Andrew Dudum, the "Palestinian"-American CEO of Hims, a telehealth and online pharmacy known for its suggestive New York City subway ads, shared a link to current openings and encouraged the student protesters to apply. “Moral courage > College degree,” he wrote on X.

Added to ever-expanding boycott list.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 08:20 AM (RKVpM)

Bald and limp dicked is no way to go thru life.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2024 08:21 AM (ENQN6)

100 100

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2024 08:21 AM (ENQN6)

101 Good morning, JJ! Thanks for another bright ray of happy sunshine today, reminding us that all is just fine and dandy here in the good ol' USA.

Posted by: Doof at May 03, 2024 08:21 AM (3r1VB)

102 That's encouraging to know that your pharmacist was hired because of her moral courage at wanting to kill jew babies and not because she was the most qualified candidate available.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:22 AM (YsjiM)

103 93. Reclaiming our former greatness is not possible as long as a majority of citizens think that voting is the way to do it.

Posted by: Gryph at May 03, 2024 08:22 AM (aCVzN)

104 “Moral courage > College degree,”

A restaurant menu > college degree

Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at May 03, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

105 Free Palestinians...

Collect the entire set!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:23 AM (a1415)

106 "Tomorrow is The Kentucky Derby! 🏇🏇"

Gotta fire up the smoker later today for 30 pounds of pulled pork at tomorrow's KD party at the farm.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)

Mint Juleps!!!

Posted by: Doof at May 03, 2024 08:23 AM (3r1VB)

107 Stop talking Trump! Just stop. You may not campaign!

Posted by: Judge Juan Merchan at May 03, 2024 08:23 AM (vLvKG)

108 There certainly wasn't any sort of continuity under Trump. You'd think having a vegetable in the White House would allow the various government institutions to get things sorted out for themselves.

But they're not. They're fighting amongst each other for supremacy.

I'm content to let them go at it. The country as founded is gone. We're at the burn it to the ground stage.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2024 08:23 AM (Q4IgG)

109 Gotta fire up the smoker later today for 30 pounds of pulled pork at tomorrow's KD party at the farm.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:20 AM (a1415)
******
Don't forget the mint juleps.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 08:23 AM (NpAcC)

110 To wanna hit that UNC party.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:24 AM (tpjlM)

111 “Moral courage > College degree,”
A restaurant menu > college degree
Posted by: Guy who relates everything to a Zappa song at May 03, 2024 08:22 AM (vFG9F)

Hobo's Soiled Undergarment > kollege degree

More coffee...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at May 03, 2024 08:24 AM (4a+k3)

112 The country of Iran has apparently offered scholarships to any college protesters who have been expelled over their anti-Israel protests.

-

Knowing that they won't have to pay for any scholarships because no one will be expelled.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:24 AM (YsjiM)

113 We're in the "loot the empire" stage of things.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:19 AM (HnUIn)

I would say that started in about 84 or 85 when Regan knew SS and Medicare were systemically broken and tried for a real fix only to get a 40 year bandaid.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2024 08:25 AM (ENQN6)

114 ... "Why not use these funds instead to create a database that identifies every single one of the Hamas protesters who attempted to take over the UNC campus so that future employees will have a resource when it comes time to hire graduates?" ...
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:18 AM (YsjiM)
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This *should* be redundant, because arrest records will pop during a background check. But will the background check outfits report it to employers? Dunno. Of course, anyone who *wasn't* arrested won't pop at all.

I've thought of something similar to this, but generalized. A "college risk score." Use AI to consume student newspapers, press releases, newspapers, etc. for every college and college town in the country, plus some of the bigger national newspapers. Look at college developments over time to determine how woke it is, and when it started going woke in earnest. Then determine a wokeness risk score over time for each college.

Employers could then feed a candidate's resume into the system and it can apply a risk rating. "Evergreen State College, attended after 2008: HIGH RISK"

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:25 AM (HnUIn)

115 Hims is a scam company that sells knock off viagra and baldness “cures”. Makes sense it was started by a Pali, lol.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:26 AM (tpjlM)

116 "Mint Juleps!!!"

You know that rolling planter full of mint on our patio?

We're taking the entire planter, so they can clip what they need right there.

And a gallon of simple syrup, and 60 pounds of chewy ice.

Someone else is bringing the Bourbon.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:26 AM (a1415)

117 " We're in the "loot the empire" stage of things."

That has always been going on. People are just more aware now.

Plus, there's just a lot more money around now because it's squirting out of one broken part that used to be controlled by another broken part.

Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 08:26 AM (QB+5g)

118 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2024 08:27 AM (nFo4U)

119 Pax Americana is OVER. It's now obvious to any foreign power that America cannot be trusted as an ally. Whatever influence we had on the world stage is GONE.

It will take generations before we can reclaim our former status, if it's even possible.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 03, 2024 08:19 AM (7fElN)
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If we're talking the scale of generations - and I agree that we are, and if we're to regain hegemonic status, it will take that long - then it's the same as "never." Whichever country - called "The United States of America" or not - manages to achieve that, it is not this country we live in today.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:27 AM (HnUIn)

120 "Mint Juleps!!!"

You know that rolling planter full of mint on our patio?

We're taking the entire planter, so they can clip what they need right there.

And a gallon of simple syrup, and 60 pounds of chewy ice.

Someone else is bringing the Bourbon.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:26 AM (a1415)

Nice! The small bit we stole from you will be put to use tomorrow too.

Posted by: Doof at May 03, 2024 08:27 AM (3r1VB)

121 I'm gonna catch forty winks before The Art Thread.

How did the expression "Forty Winks" come to be ?

Posted by: JT at May 03, 2024 08:28 AM (T4tVD)

122 Scum Media Head Reportedly Urged Staff To Publish Barron Trump Story They Couldn’t Verify
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That they are scum is beyond dispute. But the story above simply says what they published was that he's going to go to NYU. I have trouble seeing that as a big scandal.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:30 AM (1bNHn)

123 Detritus of UCLA protests

x.com/simonateba/status/
1786194360280678519

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 03, 2024 08:30 AM (n/1xr)

124 Prayers and good vibes your way, brother JJ.

"President Trump is a criminal defendant, presumably supposed to defend himself against accusations that are not outlined by any unlawful code violation or illegal activity."

And Xiden breaks laws every day including instructing the National Archives to dump documents at Mar-A-Lago a year in advance.

RON DESANTIS!(who I like by the way...)

Posted by: Danimal28 at May 03, 2024 08:30 AM (ryUqI)

125 Incredible list of links today! Thank you JJS!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2024 08:31 AM (Ayynh)

126 Take a good look at the protesters. They are not just your whitebread, suburban liberals. It's a lot of the middle eastern and Asian immigrants that liberals have loaded into our country. Their intentions are not good and their culture is destructive. They have no desire for liberty, freedom and democracy. That's only something they want to destroy. We are in real trouble if we let this subversion flourish. Time to fight back and stand up if you want to save our country. Challenge them and the subversive Democrats wherever they are.

Posted by: Vengeance at May 03, 2024 08:31 AM (M2R2/)

127 "Nice! The small bit we stole from you will be put to use tomorrow too."

We shall lift a drink together then.

Enjoy it. It's plant based, you know.

Beyond Mint!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 03, 2024 08:31 AM (a1415)

128 That has always been going on. People are just more aware now.

Plus, there's just a lot more money around now because it's squirting out of one broken part that used to be controlled by another broken part.
Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 08:26 AM (QB+5g)
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I disagree. There is always corruption and there is always stealing by the elites at every level. That is a constant reality and no government or system is immune to it. But that is not "loot the empire" stuff, that's normal rake-off. That corruption may *become* "loot the empire," but it isn't that at all times.

The "loot the empire" stage happens when the elites no longer care about even the appearance of moderation, and just try to extract everything possible before the bitch collapses. It happens when the system is so corrupt and so dependent on corruption that reform becomes existentially impossible at scale. No reform can be managed, because even a minor interruption to the flow of theft will cause the power structure to crumble and take them down.

There's less money than before, not more - they're just stealing greater percentages.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:32 AM (HnUIn)

129 A personal story illustrating how everything is falling apart: I’m at a tagup meeting at work yesterday…. It’s just an around the room brief status sort of thing. We come to one lady (who’s always unpredictable) and she just fell apart…. Open weeping and tears in front of everybody complaining how this job has broken her. It was so embarrassing…. In my 30+ years in professional life I’ve never seen anything even close. In a sane world she’d be shuffled off the job… but everyone looks the other way because the company can’t supply a qualified engineering replacement…. Yes she’s young

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (xT8gx)

130 How did the expression "Forty Winks" come to be ?

"Wink" British colloquialism for "brief rest or sleep" + "Forty" being an indefinite quantity.

First introduced in 1821 by Dr. William Kitchiner's self help guide "The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life"

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (4HcMG)

131
How did the expression "Forty Winks" come to be ?
Posted by: JT at May 03, 2024 08:28 AM (T4tVD)

20 winks same as in town, but doubled.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (tpjlM)

132
Hims is a scam company that sells knock off viagra and baldness “cures”. Makes sense it was started by a Pali, lol.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:26 AM

Look in your spam folder and I'd venture a guess they're in there. Amazing how some companies secure email addresses which one provides to only 'trusted' people.

I gave my email address to the state of Pennsylvania for voter registration and fishing license. Just like that I get emails from sporting goods people and others.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (RKVpM)

133 So, what horse is the favorite at the Kentucky Derby?

Posted by: dantesed at May 03, 2024 08:34 AM (Oy/m2)

134 It's also...
National No Pants Day!

Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 08:34 AM (NpAcC)

135 Here's a suggestion about what to do with a college diploma:

Dummy Up

youtube.com/watch?v=cMo4y1gIz3I

Posted by: fd at May 03, 2024 08:34 AM (vFG9F)

136 The small bit we stole from you will be put to use tomorrow too.
Posted by: Doof

So she agreed to the bit?

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:34 AM (8quvU)

137 Since the frat boi gofundme was set up to fund a party, I think probably legally they are open to lawfare if they use it for anything else?

Maybe they could use it to create an ongoing oarty fund or something.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 03, 2024 08:34 AM (n/1xr)

138 Detritus of UCLA protests

x.com/simonateba/status/
1786194360280678519

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 03, 2024 08:30 AM (n/1xr)
================
Unbelievable. At the very least the arrestees should be made to clean that up.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2024 08:35 AM (Ayynh)

139 . Time to fight back and stand up if you want to save our country. Challenge them and the subversive Democrats wherever they are.

Empty slogans that mean nothing. Anytime there was an honest effort to stop a nation from being destroyed it required deadly violence.

"Fight back"? Really? Argue with invaders intent on destroying your way of life will somehow cause them to have a Damascus Road Experience and repent of their evil ways?

"Challenge"? Again, mere words?

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 08:36 AM (4HcMG)

140 So, what horse is the favorite at the Kentucky Derby?
Posted by: dantesed at May 03, 2024 08:34 AM (Oy/m2)
****
Fierceness.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 08:36 AM (NpAcC)

141 "Tomorrow is The Kentucky Derby!"

Or, as my wife calls it, the start of the high holy days -- the others being the Preakness and the Belmont.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:36 AM (9yWhg)

142 Heck, we're seeing gag orders applied against defendants (I'm told gag orders are generally put in place to protect the defendant's fair trial, not to protect the judge's and other officials' outside businesses) and folks like Epstein and Boeing whistleblowers - two of them now - outright assassinated to stop awkward conversations that might harm the government and Our Betters.

We're way beyond whatever exit we needed to take.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:37 AM (YsjiM)

143 Congressional Republicans Take Aim at Biden’s Electric Truck Rule

The idea that the Executive can pass what is, effectively, law without Congressional approval and make it almost impossible for Congress to prevent is yet another example of stunningly anti-Constitutional action which SCOTUS just ignores like it were nothing.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:37 AM (U7wke)

144 Muslim Brotherhood intifada that poisoned the campuses and led to recent mess, is now infecting high schools. All I can say is that early lessons in life are best, and perhaps will serve as an antidote to the wokism that I am sure all normal students were subject to during their formative years. now they can see first hand who their enemies are.

Posted by: runner at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (V13WU)

145 Democrats are openly panicking over the Supreme Court and the FL case against Trump.

They are blatantly trying to threaten the Court. For example, you know how there used to be this fake concern language, where they pretend to be statesmen?
And then let their radicals and the media run with it to say what they really mean?
Now they're dropping curse words and more of the terrors if they don't get their way.

They are now flat-out admitting they must convict Trump before November.

Which is horrifying.
And amazing: If he isn't immune, if they are legally charging him-- then his election is irrelevant, right?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (yikga)

146 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (xT8gx)

How embarrassing

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (n/1xr)

147 Not only is tomorrow Derby Day it's also Star Wars Day.
So don't overdo it tomorrow night, or else you'll suffer the revenge of the fifth!

Posted by: You've been warned at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (dg+HA)

148 Always back the strong horse.

Posted by: tubal at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (PCK5/)

149 It's also...
National No Pants Day!
Posted by: redridinghood

Good thing the Book Thread isn't 'til Sunday, then.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (9yWhg)

150 I saw Frat Boi Oarty open for Limp Bizkit in Portland,ME circa 1998.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (tpjlM)

151 I think the Derby is going to be wet. It rained last night, it's raining now and the forecast for tomorrow is more rain with about a 50/50 chance of thunderstorms.

So, if you're betting $ take that into consideration.

The track will likely be sloppy. Like 2019.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (Q4IgG)

152 Six Reasons Why Tulsi Gabbard Is Donald Trump’s Best Choice as a Running Mate
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No. Put her in the administration, sure. I like Gabbard. But given the clear assassination risk, we must have someone who will not change course. There were those of us who were Pence-skeptics from the day he was named. We remembered his sell out on RFRA.

Now, Tulsi isn't a sell-out. She's been upfront about her leftist side. But not VP. We need someone we would want as President of something happens.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:39 AM (1bNHn)

153 Open weeping and tears in front of everybody complaining how this job has broken her. It was so embarrassing…. In my 30+ years in professional life I’ve never seen anything even close. In a sane world she’d be shuffled off the job… but everyone looks the other way because the company can’t supply a qualified engineering replacement…. Yes she’s young

--

hahahaha

Congratulations, sugartits. Feeling equal yet?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:39 AM (YsjiM)

154 Today's hair-on-fire freakout is "Campus Radicals".

A total of probably a thousand kids decided to cosplay radical chic and condemn Israel because someone threw some money at a network of assholes.

A Michigan vs. Ohio State number of bloody noses.

Scare the Jews because they are so sensitive.

Media junkies most affected.

Meanwhile in DC.

Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 08:39 AM (QB+5g)

155 The idea that the Executive can pass what is, effectively, law without Congressional approval and make it almost impossible for Congress to prevent is yet another example of stunningly anti-Constitutional action which SCOTUS just ignores like it were nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:37 AM (U7wke)
++++
Congress has spent a century passing enabling acts to cede its responsibilities to the executive.

It could change that and cancel agencies or defund them, but it won't. I suspect some of the reason for that is fear. What if Congress were to pass a bill zeroing or even disestablishing the EPA, only to find that the EPA just shrugged?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:39 AM (HnUIn)

156 Unbelievable. At the very least the arrestees should be made to clean that up.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

Should have their wages garnished (including all grants and money coming from foreign countries) so the crap is cleaned up by professionals.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at May 03, 2024 08:39 AM (8quvU)

157 ’m all over the map in my mind. I absolutely believe Trump wins easily if the election is a fair one with only minimal cheating. I just can’t predict how far TPTB may be willing to go. For them I think their Trump hatred is competing with rational thought. If logic wins they’ll let him win; if emotion wins they’ll produce 100 million votes for lettuce head
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 07:51 AM (xT8gx)
You've made a very fair evaluation. You'd have to think or certainly could think that with all the crimes-- treason does carry terminal penalties-- that the Marxists will shoot their wad and go the '100 million votes for lettuce head route'. That, in its own evil way , is the Marxist rationale for an absolutely, positively irrefutable coup-- to save those guilty asses from prosecution and execution. . The other: figure that prolonged, plodding, glacial paced legal attempts to nail the traitors legally won't conclude in four years or that the next Marxist Ruler will pardon them all regardless.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at May 03, 2024 08:39 AM (GLmqS)

158 The idea that the Executive can pass what is, effectively, law without Congressional approval and make it almost impossible for Congress to prevent is yet another example of stunningly anti-Constitutional action which SCOTUS just ignores like it were nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:37 AM (U7wke)
======================

https://shorturl.at/rERZ5

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 03, 2024 08:40 AM (Ayynh)

159 "Will Gabbard help Trump more in 2024 than Pence did in 2016? I think the answer is an unequivocal yes." (And then what happens after they win? - jjs)

Depends on whether she is more, or less, of a liar than any of the choices from the GOP side of things.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:40 AM (U7wke)

160 No Pants Day pretty much described me from May to September.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:40 AM (tpjlM)

161 "The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical." (Hat tip to commenter MTF - jjs)
NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit
"The slow boil-off of cryogenic propellant in the Starship refueler should raise pressures in the donor tank to help drive methane or liquid oxygen into the recipient vehicle. "
----
The pressure in a vessel containing liquid is the vapor pressure of that liquid, independent of how much liquid is present beyond that necessary to achieve equilibrium. As soon as enough liquid has accumulated in the receiving tank then the pressure will be the same as in the donor tank and flow stops.
Am I wrong or missing something?

Posted by: Ciampino - that's why we weigh propane tanks at May 03, 2024 08:41 AM (qfLjt)

162 Gabbard brings nothing to the table as a VP choice.

Posted by: tubal at May 03, 2024 08:41 AM (PCK5/)

163 ... Open weeping and tears in front of everybody complaining how this job has broken her. It was so embarrassing…. In my 30+ years in professional life I’ve never seen anything even close. In a sane world she’d be shuffled off the job… but everyone looks the other way because the company can’t supply a qualified engineering replacement….
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (xT8gx)
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I've never had that, but I have come close. A very weepy woman coworker for whom I was partially responsible (I recommended hiring her after her interview). She was actually very skilled and very smart, she just couldn't handle a high-pressure environment like ours. It took me about six months to get her on an even keel, and we worked to move her out to a lower-pressure department where her skills would still be useful (my company hated firing people, because they cost a damn fortune to train).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:43 AM (HnUIn)

164 143 Congressional Republicans Take Aim at Biden’s Electric Truck Rule

The idea that the Executive can pass what is, effectively, law without Congressional approval and make it almost impossible for Congress to prevent is yet another example of stunningly anti-Constitutional action which SCOTUS just ignores like it were nothing.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:37 AM (U7wke)

SCOTUS struck down the student loan bailouts and Biden told them to fuck off. What can SCOTUS do? What will it do to reassert it's authority in this instance?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)

165 Title IX vs. Pope "Fiction" Francis
______
Why take a shot at him here, where he's actually right?

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:44 AM (1bNHn)

166 Open weeping and tears in front of everybody complaining how this job has broken her. It was so embarrassing…. In my 30+ years in professional life I’ve never seen anything even close. In a sane world she’d be shuffled off the job… but everyone looks the other way because the company can’t supply a qualified engineering replacement…. Yes she’s young

You work for the Air Force?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 03, 2024 08:44 AM (lTGtQ)

167
In a sane world she’d be shuffled off the job… but everyone looks the other way because the company can’t supply a qualified engineering replacement…. Yes she’s young
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 08:33 AM (xT8gx)

Back when in my world, she'd be sent to a control room, shown the panel and told, "This is your gauge. Watch it carefully."

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at May 03, 2024 08:44 AM (MoZTd)

168 "I think the Derby is going to be wet."

His father was a mudder! His mother was a mudder!!

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 03, 2024 08:45 AM (Gse2f)

169 ...it is hard to use reason when people let their emotions rule.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:39 AM (RIvkX)

Which is precisely why politicians make appeals to emotion and why, when you find yourself becoming emotional on a political topic, you should take a step back until you regain your balance and consider the matter as dispassionately as possible.

Anyone trying to get you stirred up does not have YOUR best interest in mind.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:45 AM (U7wke)

170 SCOTUS struck down the student loan bailouts and Biden told them to fuck off. What can SCOTUS do? What will it do to reassert it's authority in this instance?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)
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Nothing. It can't.

Congress could, or another agency. Impeach and remove Biden. Pass a bill explicitly outlawing the thing he's trying to do. Make arrests of those implementing the scheme.

But they're all in it together.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:45 AM (HnUIn)

171 Morning all, thx JJ. Galloway in the UK was a flaming idiot when he was just a leftist politician, now he's an ultra idiot who's become a Muslim. The Dems who think Islam is a good ally should listen to Galloway's statement and realize Muslims fight for a caliphate, not a Marxist utopia

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 03, 2024 08:45 AM (JfVRc)

172 Seriously though, I feel sorry for that young lady.

Every single thing she has been told since she was a little girl has been a complete and utter lie, and now here she is.

One can't help but wonder if she'd be happier with her little three and five year old son and daughter laughing and playing at the park before going home to nap and make cupcakes for the family.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 08:46 AM (YsjiM)

173 A girl complained to her parents for months that there were monsters in her bedroom walls. It turned out that there was a hive of 60,000 bees.
Posted by: andycanuck

When we got the cupola over our front door replaced many years ago, the company that did it said that the old cupola was full of black widows and bees. Glad we got it replaced.

I wonder what the new one's full of now. Probably don't want to know.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:46 AM (9yWhg)

174 Unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%and the jobs added were 175k, expected to be 225k. Yay Joey

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 03, 2024 08:47 AM (JfVRc)

175 174 Unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%and the jobs added were 175k, expected to be 225k. Yay Joey
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 03, 2024 08:47 AM (JfVRc)

All these numbers are fantasy. Real unemployment rate is in double digits.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:48 AM (tpjlM)

176 I have never liked the taste of mint in any form. Am I a bad person?

I did buy a used Ford Maverick painted in a green named Anti-establishMint, which was a Ford color from 69-72.

Posted by: Go Mintal! at May 03, 2024 08:48 AM (V5BDR)

177 After the successful anti-whitey rioting of the recent past, the pivot to anti-Israel rioting this election season is puzzling.
Posted by: davidt at May 03, 2024 07:46 AM (SYTee)

Not really. Anti-white rioting would have reflected poorly on Biden - or would have needed to be put down which would have alienated key Democrat voting blocks.

Their hope was that by falling back on the age-old othering of Jews, and specifically foreign Jews, they could get their backers stirred up while not having it splash on them.

I'm sure it polled well around the water cooler.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:48 AM (U7wke)

178 30 I just saw Eva Vlaadingerbroek at CPAC in Hungary on utube. I just wanna snuggle up to her neck and take a deep sniff of her beautiful blonde hair.
Posted by: Joe from Scranton at May 03, 2024 07:50 AM (fs1hN)
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For once Joe from Scranton is on the majority side.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 08:49 AM (1bNHn)

179 May the 4th be with you !!

Posted by: runner at May 03, 2024 08:49 AM (V13WU)

180 @93

>>Pax Americana is OVER. It's now obvious to any foreign power that America cannot be trusted as an ally. Whatever influence we had on the world stage is GONE.

Perhaps, but the World Runs On essentially endless US dollars extracted from the treasury and firehosed around the world.

Until some structure or entity is created to film that gap, the US will be that firehose.

I would have thought the EU would have emerged to fill that gap but they're more hung up on persecuting and subjugating their own populations than putting the big boy pants on.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 03, 2024 08:49 AM (XV/Pl)

181 The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) is a female.

Posted by: For what it's worth at May 03, 2024 08:49 AM (dg+HA)

182 Congress shall make no law...

Posted by: Laughing, they made the law at May 03, 2024 08:49 AM (Vf0uo)

183 Interesting factoid about mint: Most species in the mint family have square stems.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (9yWhg)

184 Blinken fucks up everything he goes near.

Trump had a plan to evacuate Afghanistan but Blinken threw it out and started over, because ... Trump! They didn't want Trump to claim that it was he who got us of Afghanistan, you see.

Blinken didn't have the time to make a good plan. So he made obvious mistakes like abandoning the military airport too soon and instead relied on the more vulnerable civilian airport.

And you know that Iran bought weapons left behind in Afghanistan that are now in Gaza and Lebanon, paid for with US dollars that we gave Iran.

As JJ would say, a self-gassing Jew

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (Gse2f)

185 123 Detritus of UCLA protests

x.com/simonateba/status/
1786194360280678519

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 03, 2024 08:30 AM (n/1xr)

Detritus is the Latin word for "Detroit."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (x0n13)

186 Ciampino,

The trick is keeping the gas and liquid separate so the gas pressure can displace the liquid where they want it to go.

This is easy when there is gravity.

Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (QB+5g)

187 Stocks up bigly on bad employment data. Bad employment data means more likely for the fed to start cutting. Stock markets lurve cheap money above all else.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (tpjlM)

188 I wonder what the new one's full of now. Probably don't want to know.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:46 AM (9yWhg)
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Bats and penguins

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (7fElN)

189 I still doubt Trump will win.

If he wins, there will be both bureaucratic and violent resistance.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 03, 2024 07:46 AM (RIvkX)

Trump is not the nation's savior and if people treat him that way then we are doomed. He is, at best, a roadblock to give us time to root out more evil... to, hopefully, find uncorrupted people to take their place in DC. My guess is that we're doomed.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (U7wke)

190 Perhaps, but the World Runs On essentially endless US dollars extracted from the treasury and firehosed around the world.

Until some structure or entity is created to film that gap, the US will be that firehose. ...
Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 03, 2024 08:49 AM (XV/Pl)
++++
Two cliches comes immediately to mind:
1. Necessity is the mother of invention
2. That which can't go on, won't

There will be replacements. It's already starting. There won't be "a" replacement - no unitary drop-in replacement for the USD - but there will be many replacements. Countries will work it bilaterally or regionally. The era of a single "reserve currency" is winding down and with its passing comes the end of this country's ability to play games like it has.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:52 AM (HnUIn)

191 US job growth slowed to 175K jobs in April in possible sign of economic slowdown

https://tinyurl.com/2fhbpsha

Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 08:52 AM (NpAcC)

192 Trump won in 2020 and it was then stolen. There is zero evidence that anything has been done in the past 4 years to prevent another theft. Therefore the likelihood of a Trump official win is close to zero.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:53 AM (tpjlM)

193 It took me about six months to get her on an even keel, and we worked to move her out to a lower-pressure department where her skills would still be useful (my company hated firing people, because they cost a damn fortune to train).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:43 AM (HnUIn)

The sad thing, Joe, is this lady is smart… but she’s such an emotional basket case and cannot handle pressure. I’ve seen lots of little panic attacks from her but this was full blown meltdown

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 08:56 AM (xT8gx)

194 So, around here, we have Trump will absolutely win.. and.. no way Trump can win.. gonna be a fraught 6 months at the HQ.

Posted by: tubal at May 03, 2024 08:56 AM (PCK5/)

195 147 Not only is tomorrow Derby Day it's also Star Wars Day.
So don't overdo it tomorrow night, or else you'll suffer the revenge of the fifth!

Posted by: You've been warned at May 03, 2024 08:38 AM (dg+HA)
----
and if you are a filthy raghead - the revenge of the filth.

Posted by: Ciampino - lice, fleas & bedbugs at May 03, 2024 08:56 AM (qfLjt)

196 Antony Blinken's Big, Stupid Middle East Trip
____

I hope he's forced to get the anal swab covid test.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 03, 2024 08:57 AM (2FaHc)

197 183 Interesting factoid about mint: Most species in the mint family have square stems.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (9yWhg)

For the coming burning times, I will remind the horde that Henbit, the cool season "weed" is completely edible from root to flower, tastes good in salads, and also has square stems. It has purple flowers and this is high season for it in the Mid-Atlantic.

Posted by: Munch A Bunch at May 03, 2024 08:58 AM (V5BDR)

198 During his closed-door transcribed interview with the Committees on November 14, 2023, Dr. Daszak made multiple statements inconsistent with documents and evidence reviewed by the Committees. This raises serious questions about the veracity of EcoHealth’s public statements, including its insistence that the research it funded at the WIV could not have caused the pandemic.

The Chairs are calling on Dr. Daszak to address the discrepancies in his testimony and publicly explain EcoHealth’s relationship with the WIV.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 08:58 AM (RHGPo)

199 Router reset???

Posted by: andycanuck at May 03, 2024 08:58 AM (UfUdn)

200 Trump had a plan to evacuate Afghanistan but Blinken threw it out and started over, because ... Trump! They didn't want Trump to claim that it was he who got us of Afghanistan, you see. ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM (Gse2f)
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Blinken doesn't get all the blame. He's a piece of shit, but I think it's wrong to lay this at his feet. The greater responsibility is at the feet of the Pentagon and its permanent executives.

Trump gave them a deadline and told them to get the damn job done. They ignored him and ignored their orders. They didn't want to leave Afghanistan and so just didn't bother preparing to do something they were never going to do anyway. Besides, Trump would be gone and the war would continue.

The Party got rid of Trump, but threw the Pentagon a curveball by holding the line on Afghanistan. The Pentagon was immediately fucked. They pissed away the year they were supposed to be planning and staging, and had to cram the bugout into a few months. Not to mention the politics and all the cooks in the kitchen as everyone tried to get his own piece and exert his own influence.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (HnUIn)

201 Trump is not the nation's savior and if people treat him that way then we are doomed. He is, at best, a roadblock to give us time to root out more evil... to, hopefully, find uncorrupted people to take their place in DC. My guess is that we're doomed.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Then we are doomed. Because until we END the intelligence community, there will be no uncorrupted people in DC.

Blackmail runs Bartertown.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (nFo4U)

202 Yes.

BTW, Bell Canada, You F.U. down!!!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (UfUdn)

203 Unemployment rate ticked up to 3.9%and the jobs added were 175k, expected to be 225k. Yay Joey
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Oops

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (lTGtQ)

204 April Payrolls Unexpectedly Plunge, Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises

.. Bidenomics at work

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (RHGPo)

205 Trump will win.
He won’t win, win.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (tpjlM)

206 Was there a reserve currency before the dollar became on (like the UK pound), or was that something that was just cooked up in the 20th Century?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (9yWhg)

207 Detritus of UCLA protests
__________

The officials should make every protester clean that shit up with their bare hands.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (Q4IgG)

208 The sad thing, Joe, is this lady is smart… but she’s such an emotional basket case and cannot handle pressure. I’ve seen lots of little panic attacks from her but this was full blown meltdown
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 08:56 AM (xT8gx)
++++
This sounds like a very familiar story. Thankfully, my lady's meltdowns - and they did happen - were in private.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (HnUIn)

209 Imagine being a little girl quietly playing with your baby doll and dreaming of being a mommy while your brothers are wrestling and stick-fighting and seeing who can climb highest in the tree, and then you get a little older and you're decently talented at math so you get praised constantly and are pushed to the front of classes and get priority in scholarships to the college of your choice before being hired by one of the dozen companies fighting over the woman who can do math.

And then you get into the world of wrestling and stick fighting and tree climbing, and you go home crying every day, wondering why none of the people who loved you would let you follow YOUR dreams?

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 09:00 AM (IF3vp)

210 Was there a reserve currency before the dollar became on (like the UK pound), or was that something that was just cooked up in the 20th Century?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (9yWhg)

Gold was the reserve currency.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:00 AM (tpjlM)

211 So, around here, we have Trump will absolutely win.. and.. no way Trump can win.. gonna be a fraught 6 months at the HQ.
Posted by: tubal

Six months? I like your optimism!

Posted by: t-bird at May 03, 2024 09:00 AM (iDNwP)

212 For the coming burning times, I will remind the horde that Henbit, the cool season "weed" is completely edible from root to flower, tastes good in salads, and also has square stems. It has purple flowers and this is high season for it in the Mid-Atlantic.
Posted by: Munch A Bunch

Henbit? What about a henway?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2024 09:01 AM (nFo4U)

213 For the coming burning times, I will remind the horde that Henbit, the cool season "weed" is completely edible from root to flower, tastes good in salads, and also has square stems. It has purple flowers and this is high season for it in the Mid-Atlantic.
Posted by: Munch A Bunch

Good to know, thanks. It's all over my and my neighbor's yards at present. And it is, I believe, a member of the mint family.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:01 AM (9yWhg)

214 Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies Suddenly
____

Pretty confident that GAAP allows us to post wetworks done by outside counsel as "Legal Expense"

Posted by: Boeing Accounting at May 03, 2024 09:01 AM (2FaHc)

215 BLS reported that in April the US added just 175K jobs, a nearly 50% drop from the upward revised 315K (was 303K), the lowest print since October 2023

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 09:01 AM (RHGPo)

216 When posting a link as a URL DO INCLUDE the HTTPS:// at the beginning thus making it simple for us to just highlight and open.
Thank you.

Posted by: Ciampino - I am basically lazy at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (qfLjt)

217 Was there a reserve currency before the dollar became on (like the UK pound), or was that something that was just cooked up in the 20th Century?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

Gold was the reserve currency.
Posted by: Montec

For 5,000 years.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (nFo4U)

218 Does Hillary Clinton have a large position on Boeing?

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (tpjlM)

219 Unbelievable. At the very least the arrestees should be made to clean that up.
Posted by: Huck Follywood
_______
Who do you think they are, Tea Party Nazis?

Sincere righteous leftists NEVER clean up.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (1bNHn)

220 Was there a reserve currency before the dollar became on (like the UK pound), or was that something that was just cooked up in the 20th Century?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 08:59 AM (9yWhg)

Gold was the reserve currency.
Posted by: Montec

Duh. I should have thought of that, thanks. So the dollar became the reserve currency when we ditched the gold standard, then?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (9yWhg)

221 The Detroit Detritus would be a good name for an NBA team.

Posted by: Dave Barry at May 03, 2024 09:03 AM (dg+HA)

222 Stocks up bigly on bad employment data. Bad employment data means more likely for the fed to start cutting. Stock markets lurve cheap money above all else.

Posted by: Montec

If they cut, they guarantee stagflation. But, if they don't cut, the bad orange man will win.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 03, 2024 09:03 AM (lTGtQ)

223
Duh. I should have thought of that, thanks. So the dollar became the reserve currency when we ditched the gold standard, then?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (9yWhg)

More or less yeah.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:03 AM (tpjlM)

224 April Payrolls Unexpectedly Plunge, Biggest Miss Since 2021 As Unemployment Rate Rises

Bad Economic Policy Bad For The Economy.

Experts Taken Unawares! (Again)

Posted by: t-bird at May 03, 2024 09:04 AM (iDNwP)

225 Quatloos would be a good alternative to dollars…

Posted by: tubal at May 03, 2024 09:04 AM (PCK5/)

226 "So the dollar became the reserve currency when we ditched the gold standard, then?"

And a whole bunch of stuff happened after that.

Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM (QB+5g)

227 Never even a whisper or an " I wonder" regarding the Obama's cash flow.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * septem miracula at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM (3OJZ3)

228 The idea that the Executive can pass what is, effectively, law without Congressional approval and make it almost impossible for Congress to prevent is yet another example of stunningly anti-Constitutional action which SCOTUS just ignores like it were nothing.

Sooner or later you (and many others) may wake up to the knowledge that we are long past any Constitutional Republic and firmly in a post-Constitutional, single party police state.

Technically, since there are no organizational papers agreed upon (since the Republic was overthrown by the Deep State and kleptoligarchs) there is no "official" office nor branches. SCOTUS is just a bunch of paid hacks to verbalize opinions that can be ignored. Congress exists merely to steal money and enable cronies. The "Executive" is really a Potemkin façade giving the illusion that the Deep State/IC warlords aren't really in charge with their multiple fiefdoms.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM (4HcMG)

229 I’m waiting for National review to explain why fewer jobs is a good thing for the middle class.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM (tpjlM)

230 Time to tap the Strategic Currency Reserve.

Posted by: Get me a bucket at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM (dg+HA)

231 222. Just had this explained to me by hubby nec. What a way to run financial institutions. Don't get me wrong, we own stocks and a part of our income is based on them so we're pleased when the market goes up. How long can a house of cards like this survive?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 03, 2024 09:06 AM (2NHgQ)

232 Blackmail runs Bartertown."

High odds it explains Speaker Johnson's 180.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 03, 2024 09:06 AM (Gse2f)

233 So the dollar became the reserve currency when we ditched the gold standard, then?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

We promised to be the world's policeman if they let us float our currency instead of backing it with gold. They were forced to use dollars. Then, we started printing as fast as we could, and now are pulling back on our police duties.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 03, 2024 09:07 AM (lTGtQ)

234 TGIF, horde!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2024 09:07 AM (cCVOS)

235 The Detroit Detritus would be a good name for an NBA team.
Posted by: Dave Barry

The Cleveland Flames vs The Detroit Detritus at the Cuyahoga Center.

Puck drop at 7:05.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2024 09:07 AM (nFo4U)

236 For some reason all of what is going on makes me think of Claudius, and his constant desire to “ restore the Republic”..

Posted by: tubal at May 03, 2024 09:07 AM (PCK5/)

237 Just had this explained to me by hubby nec. What a way to run financial institutions. Don't get me wrong, we own stocks and a part of our income is based on them so we're pleased when the market goes up. How long can a house of cards like this survive?
Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine

-

They're not going up in any meaningful way. They're just finding the level of inflation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 09:07 AM (IF3vp)

238 229 I’m waiting for National review to explain why fewer jobs is a good thing for the middle class.

We're waiting to hear what TayTay thinks.

Posted by: National Review at May 03, 2024 09:08 AM (dg+HA)

239 >>I’m waiting for National review to explain why fewer jobs is a good thing for the middle class.

It's funny because they've become so irrelevant I'd forgotten they exist.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2024 09:08 AM (cCVOS)

240 Gold was the reserve currency.
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:00 AM (tpjlM)
++++
It didn't have a monopoly, but it was the common one. Commodities are useful for that, and gold is a useful commodity in particular.

The USD was convertible and the reserve currency scheme *was* gold. Using it was "good as gold." Those were the rules laid down at Bretton Woods.

Then we went all Great Society and spent all the money and started printing - but those inflated dollars were still convertible at the treaty rates. We could get away with this as long as nobody converted their dollars en masse.

Well, the French saw what was happening and are not, despite appearances, stupid. France converted more and more and the system started to fail. All of our gold was going to Paris and there was nothing we could do to stop it other than the nuclear option of ending convertibility. So that's what we did.

The only reason we got away with that while retaining reserve and settlement status was that we still had unassailable industrial, technological and military power and so using our money for stuff was still much more useful than any alternative. That era has ended.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:08 AM (HnUIn)

241 So, I've seen this term "rager" used regarding the reward for the frat boys who guarded Old Glory. It's some kind of party? I've never seen it before.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:09 AM (9yWhg)

242 They're not going up in any meaningful way. They're just finding the level of inflation.

Posted by: Moron Robbie

Yes, stocks are valued in dollars, and when the dollar falls, the price of the stock goes up, but it doesn't mean you earned anything.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 03, 2024 09:09 AM (lTGtQ)

243 218 Does Hillary Clinton have a large position on Boeing?
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (tpjlM)

Her ass in seat 1-A on 787.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:09 AM (x0n13)

244 Detritus of UCLA protests
x.com/simonateba/status/1786194360280678519

Nice dorms. How's the food?

Posted by: t-bird at May 03, 2024 09:10 AM (iDNwP)

245
Time to tap the Strategic Currency Reserve.

Posted by: Get me a bucket at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM

Lock box.

Posted by: Al Gore at May 03, 2024 09:10 AM (RKVpM)

246 Sincere righteous leftists NEVER clean up.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (1bNHn)

Yes consider the condition of the National Mall after the Pussy Hat screech out or the Million Man March vs. Tea Party Rallies.

Posted by: National Disgrace at May 03, 2024 09:10 AM (V5BDR)

247 CNBC:
The U.S. economy added fewer jobs than expected in April while the unemployment rate rose, reversing a trend of robust job growth that had kept the Federal Reserve cautious as it looks for signals on when it can start cutting interest rates.

Nonfarm payrolls increased by 175,000 on the month, below the 240,000 estimate from the Dow Jones consensus, the Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. The unemployment rate ticked higher to 3.9% against expectations it would hold steady at 3.8%.

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 09:11 AM (RHGPo)

248 Bernie Sanders is worried that what's happening on college campuses could be Biden's Vietnam.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

249 Trump is not the nation's savior and if people treat him that way then we are doomed.

Trump give people permission to be brave. Trump is exposing the rotten and corrupt government for what it is - an enemy of human flourishing in general and We The People in particular.

As Trump becomes the Mandela of America, it puts vision and a willingness to do something other than be sedated in front of the TV.

Trump isn't the savior, he is the alarm clock that awakens the lions.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 09:12 AM (4HcMG)

250 The dollar as reserve currency has had little competition. Relatively stable currencies like the Swiss franc are from small nations. The EU has problems as bad or worse than ours. The Yuan????

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 03, 2024 09:12 AM (Gse2f)

251 SCOTUS struck down the student loan bailouts and Biden told them to fuck off. What can SCOTUS do? What will it do to reassert it's authority in this instance?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 08:43 AM (x0n13)

I don't know that it can at this point. The left, at the very least, will ignore rulings they don't like. The Senate will not vote to convict a member of their own party during an impeachment trial (unless he's Trump). Voters will cheer on lawless behavior.

The US is gone and it isn't coming back. The collapse of the Roman Empire took centuries. We're seeing it at the micro level.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 09:12 AM (U7wke)

252 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Thanks, Joe. Very interesting.

You're really good at giving understandable analyses of complex issues.

That, AND you post hot chicks.

I always enjoy reading your comments. And looking at your chicks.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:13 AM (9yWhg)

253 Trump makes post court campaing stop at mid-town Manhattan Fire Station to bring firefighters pizza.

Joe shits his diaper.

Again.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 03, 2024 09:13 AM (nFo4U)

254 CDC employees worked to track down information on reported post-vaccination deaths and learned that myocarditis—or heart inflammation, a confirmed side effect of the vaccines—was listed on death certificates and in autopsies for some of the deaths.

The spokeswoman declined to explain why the CDC doesn’t consider autopsies or death certificates as evidence of causality, the criteria that would establish vaccine-caused deaths, or whether the numbers have been updated since 2023.

“They are taking the exact opposite approach to COVID deaths! Every death after a test was a COVID death. No death after a vaccine is a vaccine death!” Dr. Craig said. She questioned what it would take for the CDC to admit that the vaccines have caused some myocarditis-related deaths.

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 09:14 AM (RHGPo)

255 Bernie Sanders is worried that what's happening on college campuses could be Biden's Vietnam.
Posted by: redridinghood at May 03, 2024 09:11 AM (NpAcC)

Oddly he’s not worried that the protestors are calling for him to be gassed. Party first, above all else. Gotta handed to Dems they are devoted.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:14 AM (tpjlM)

256 Bernie Sanders, what an idiot. We aren't at war with hamas, Israel is. We are at war with education indoctrination at every level. It's potatus' chickens coming home to roost.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 03, 2024 09:14 AM (2NHgQ)

257 Sincere righteous leftists NEVER clean up.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (1bNHn)
++++
Oh, bullshit. Did you not see the video? Our peaceful occupation was mercilessly broken by fascist storm-troopers. We were cuffed and marched off to concentration camps to thunderous applause.

There was no way we could clean up the flotsam left behind because it was, get this, left behind. Do you think those jack-booted thugs were going to give us time to take down tents or clean up trash before shoving us into the maw of the prison-industrial complex? Of course not. Their phalanx marched in, beat us, took us captive and interred us. We're ever so sorry that we didn't have to time to do the move-out cleaning as the fascists were assaulting and kidnapping us.

Get real.

Posted by: UCLA Protester at May 03, 2024 09:14 AM (HnUIn)

258 >>The student editors of the Columbia Law Review issued a statement on Wednesday urging Columbia Law School to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."

Tell us you're not capable of operating as an adult in the real world without saying it explicitly.

Apart from the gall of creating the very circumstances you now claim traumatized you, toughen up, buttercups.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2024 09:15 AM (cCVOS)

259 257 There was no way we could clean up the flotsam left behind because it was, get this, left behind. Do you think those jack-booted thugs were going to give us time to take down tents or clean up trash before shoving us into the maw of the prison-industrial complex? Of course not. Their phalanx marched in, beat us, took us captive and interred us. We're ever so sorry that we didn't have to time to do the move-out cleaning as the fascists were assaulting and kidnapping us.

Get real.
Posted by: UCLA Protester at May 03, 2024 09:14 AM (HnUIn)

======

A correct use of the word phalanx.

Satirical fail, Joe. Be better.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:15 AM (GBKbO)

260 Joe Mannix: straightforward analysis, chicks for free.

Posted by: Straight Dire at May 03, 2024 09:15 AM (dg+HA)

261 Eyewitness account of Madison, Wisconsin pro-Hamas thugs. From the usual war chants, to some extreme chants of "Death to Zionists", "Bring back the Final Solution" and "Abolish Israel" And "Abolish the United States" , "Return the American stolen land back to the indigenous peoples." ...a few Jewish students reported being harassed with chants of 'Heil Hitler' shouted at them and "Make the swastika fashionable again!"

It's Magas trying to color the students as pro hamas. I’ve heard in Austin they are out causing trouble.

Most maga are not anti Israel, exact opposite tbh. I live in MAGA country, the majority of them fly Israeli flags , so I'm strongly doubt this

The far right and far left bend and meet at antisemitism. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

Looks like this has Putin's fingerprints all over it. Alt-right anti-Semites have been infiltrating the pro-Palestinian protests the same way they infiltrated the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Same tactics: pretend to march for the same cause as the left wing protesters while at the same time attack only Jews (or black folks 4 years ago).

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 03, 2024 09:16 AM (JCZqz)

262
Yes, stocks are valued in dollars, and when the dollar falls, the price of the stock goes up, but it doesn't mean you earned anything.

Furthermore, I don't know of any 401ks that allow people to short the market, only take long positions - basically a one-way ratchet. Money keeps pouring into retirement accounts and the universe of investments keeps shrinking funneling more money into fewer and fewer entities. Remember, with each corporate merger, there are fewer companies to park your money in.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 09:17 AM (4HcMG)

263 261 Looks like this has Putin's fingerprints all over it. Alt-right anti-Semites have been infiltrating the pro-Palestinian protests the same way they infiltrated the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Same tactics: pretend to march for the same cause as the left wing protesters while at the same time attack only Jews (or black folks 4 years ago).
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 03, 2024 09:16 AM (JCZqz)

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Just wait until they find out who funds the Sierra Club.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:17 AM (GBKbO)

264 Most maga are not anti Israel, exact opposite tbh. I live in MAGA country, the majority of them fly Israeli flags , so I'm strongly doubt this

Wow, somebody at DU gets something right.

Are those pigs I see in the sky?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

265 “How do the Democrats, how do all of us on that side say January 6 was wrong if you can have the same pictures going on on college campuses.”
-- Al Sharpton

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 09:18 AM (RHGPo)

266 The saving grace with the student loan forgiveness is that potatus can only forgive government backed student loans, nothing private. However, I don't know what the breakdown is between the two. I'm guessing there are more government backed than private. Anyone know?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 03, 2024 09:18 AM (2NHgQ)

267 anti-Semites have been infiltrating the pro-Palestinian protests

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[face palm] this is galactic level ignorant and stupid right there

Posted by: runner at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (V13WU)

268
Furthermore, I don't know of any 401ks that allow people to short the market, only take long positions - basically a one-way ratchet

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401k plans generally suck. Only reason to use them is if an employer matches contributions. Otherwise put retirement money in an IRA, SEP or other self managed retirement plans, where you can do whatever you want. Plus no management fees which 401k plans and mutual funds have.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (tpjlM)

269 Good morning everyone. Thank you J.J. and prayers for healing continuing.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (WXNFJ)

270 Given today's jobs report and the ongoing protests , the increasing crime rate (no matter what the left says), the continuing illegal mess, anyone voting for Biden is either a complete idiot (middle class liberals) or a hardcore Marxist

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (JfVRc)

271 264 Most maga are not anti Israel, exact opposite tbh. I live in MAGA country, the majority of them fly Israeli flags , so I'm strongly doubt this

Wow, somebody at DU gets something right.

Are those pigs I see in the sky?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:18 AM (9yWhg)

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Followed up immediately by someone saying that far left and far right meet at antisemitism because neo-Nazi is supposed to be far right.

You know, the far right national socialists.

They literally do believe not only that MAGA is Nazi but that Nazi is far right. These people are horrendously maleducated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

272 ... Looks like this has Putin's fingerprints all over it. Alt-right anti-Semites have been infiltrating the pro-Palestinian protests the same way they infiltrated the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020. Same tactics: pretend to march for the same cause as the left wing protesters while at the same time attack only Jews (or black folks 4 years ago).
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 03, 2024 09:16 AM (JCZqz)
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Is there *anything* Putin can't do?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (HnUIn)

273 When posting a link as a URL DO INCLUDE the HTTPS:// at the beginning thus making it simple for us to just highlight and open.
Thank you.
Posted by: Ciampino - I am basically lazy at May 03, 2024 09:02 AM (qfLjt)

Don't most browsers assume the https? Mine does.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (U7wke)

274 What is the point of some people coming here day after day after day saying, "The USA is done and it's never coming back"? Maybe they need to take a break.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (XkYcA)

275 270 Given today's jobs report and the ongoing protests , the increasing crime rate (no matter what the left says), the continuing illegal mess, anyone voting for Biden is either a complete idiot (middle class liberals) or a hardcore Marxist
Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (JfVRc)

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Democrats cheat because so much of the country is behind them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (GBKbO)

276 Definition of rude awakening: Go expecting a Mannix chick and run into an Ahkbar

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (xT8gx)

277 you can't fix stupid, you really can't !

Posted by: runner at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (V13WU)

278 local ABC in NYC:

Approximately 134 of the 282 people taken into custody at Columbia University and CCNY were not affiliated with either school -- more than 47%...

Investigators are looking at the role of outsiders who were on campus in the days before encampment participants shifted to Hamilton Hall, and whether those people gave the student protesters the idea to take over Hamilton Hall and the tactical knowledge to do it.

The NYPD directed attention to 68-year-old Sami Al-Arian, an accused terrorist deported to Turkey in 2015, who posted a picture of his wife in the tent encampment at Columbia...

Another activist, 63-year-old Lisa Fithian, is one of the people that police say has been escalating student protests. For decades she has been pictured in protests all over the country.

Posted by: SMOD at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (RHGPo)

279 272 Is there *anything* Putin can't do?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (HnUIn)

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Provide pictures of Trump in a bed with hooker pee?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (GBKbO)

280 "the pre-planned explosion of campus Jew-hate that dates back to shortly after the IDF began its retaliatory war on Hamas in Gaza, is likely the nail in their coffin as far as this November goes. Election fraud, the kangaroo court Trump show trials, and perhaps mass rioting this summer in Chicago and Milwaukee and all over the place as the pretext for martial law and another CIA/DOJ/State Dept. color revolution right here notwithstanding."

I know the black polling is tiresome, but I think you underestimate the left's ability to manufacture a win. Ballot harvesting, millions of illegals, and outright fraud will carry the day. They may win back the house as well.

Posted by: InZona at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (qz1Fg)

281 401k plans generally suck. Only reason to use them is if an employer matches contributions. Otherwise put retirement money in an IRA, SEP or other self managed retirement plans, where you can do whatever you want. Plus no management fees which 401k plans and mutual funds have.
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (tpjlM)
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I fund my 401(k) up to the match. I can lose half my portfolio value before it starts losing my money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (HnUIn)

282 MAGA infiltrated the “river to the sea” people. 🤣🤣

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (tpjlM)

283 272 Is there *anything* Putin can't do?
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:19 AM (HnUIn)

Take all of Ukraine in 48 hours.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (x0n13)

284 What is the point of some people coming here day after day after day saying, "The USA is done and it's never coming back"? Maybe they need to take a break.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

They're just killing time while waiting for the boobettes to show up.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (9yWhg)

285 The far right and far left bend and meet at antisemitism. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

Umm... what the..?

Posted by: dantesed at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (Oy/m2)

286 Detritus of UCLA protests ...
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at May 03, 2024 08:30 AM (n/1xr)
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I wonder how much drug detritus is hiding in those piles of trash. I hope the groundskeepers and janitors who will inevitably be assigned to clean it up get hazard pay.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (HnUIn)

287 Yes, stocks are valued in dollars, and when the dollar falls, the price of the stock goes up, but it doesn't mean you earned anything.
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Back in the late 70s I actually heard an argument that stocks are good because they were the only thing not getting more expensive.

Democrats are smart.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (1bNHn)

288 284 They're just killing time while waiting for the boobettes to ~~show up~~ pop out.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (9yWhg)

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Suggested edit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

289 285 The far right and far left bend and meet at antisemitism. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

Umm... what the..?
Posted by: dantesed at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (Oy/m2)

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They think national socialists are far right libertarians.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (GBKbO)

290 Take all of Ukraine in 48 hours.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (x0n13)
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Only because we thankfully got rid of Trump!
-- DU poster, probably

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (HnUIn)

291 Boobettes? Where?

Posted by: Perks Up at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (dg+HA)

292 I fund my 401(k) up to the match. I can lose half my portfolio value before it starts losing my money.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (HnUIn)

Same. I get 50% match up to 6% of my salary. I have it set up to contribute right up to that 6% in 26 equal chunks throughout the year. And then 100% of the funds go to the one and only available index fund. All the other funds are horribly expensive. One of them has a 4% management fee. Which is fucking insane.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (tpjlM)

293 They think national socialists are far right libertarians.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (GBKbO)
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"The Nazis were right-wing" is one of the greatest coordinated lies ever told.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn)

294 So today's "news" feed link from WAPO: "I was at a campus protest and I'm neither a hero nor a villain."

No, maybe not, but you're a jackass who should have been finishing papers and finals. Millions of college students not at far left colleges are doing just that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (XkYcA)

295 280 I know the black polling is tiresome, but I think you underestimate the left's ability to manufacture a win. Ballot harvesting, millions of illegals, and outright fraud will carry the day. They may win back the house as well.
Posted by: InZona at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (qz1Fg)

This time around, so many more people perhaps may not necessarily be voting for Trump as against Biden and the Dems. Eyes have been opened.

If the steal happens again, those who perhaps were too dumb to see it or even cheered it last time, will not be pleased.

It's the sea change beyond elections that will perhaps lead us towards a revolution.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (x0n13)

296
The saving grace with the student loan forgiveness is that potatus can only forgive government backed student loans, nothing private. However, I don't know what the breakdown is between the two. I'm guessing there are more government backed than private. Anyone know?

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at May 03, 2024 09:18 AM

Obama planned ahead for future elections and one of his first term first actions was placing the entire student loan program under the federal umbrella.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (RKVpM)

297 276 Definition of rude awakening: Go expecting a Mannix chick and run into an Ahkbar
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

Now THERE'S an idea!

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (JCZqz)

298 293 They think national socialists are far right libertarians.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (GBKbO)
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"The Nazis were right-wing" is one of the greatest coordinated lies ever told.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (HnUIn)

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I've told this before, but I was living in Rome and a fellow English teacher was a 60ish year old hippie.

I said that I wanted government to do no more than national defense and roads.

He called me a Nazi.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

299 Same. I get 50% match up to 6% of my salary. I have it set up to contribute right up to that 6% in 26 equal chunks throughout the year. And then 100% of the funds go to the one and only available index fund. All the other funds are horribly expensive. One of them has a 4% management fee. Which is fucking insane.
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:22 AM (tpjlM)
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Man, your company hates you. That's insane. I wonder how much your HR drones got as kickbacks in exchange for limiting your options to high-cost options like that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

300 >>Trump makes post court campaing stop at mid-town Manhattan Fire Station to bring firefighters pizza.

Kinda funny that they thought confining Trump to his freakin' home town - the place he's been one of the biggest local celebrities for his entire life - would hinder his ability to connect with voters.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (cCVOS)

301 There was that Babylon Bee headline recently that said something like Nazis and Hamas college protestors try to argue but turns out they agree on everything.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (tpjlM)

302 From which river to which sea? How about clearing everything from the Hudson, east.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (1bNHn)

303 And a whole bunch of stuff happened after that.
Posted by: pawn at May 03, 2024 09:05 AM (QB+5g)

Some people did something

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (ENQN6)

304 295 This time around, so many more people perhaps may not necessarily be voting for Trump as against Biden and the Dems. Eyes have been opened.

If the steal happens again, those who perhaps were too dumb to see it or even cheered it last time, will not be pleased.

It's the sea change beyond elections that will perhaps lead us towards a revolution.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:23 AM (x0n13)

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The cheat will happen. How America reacts is something I have no idea about.

I'm just not terribly hopeful. The cheat in 2020 was out in the open, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (GBKbO)

305 They're just killing time while waiting for the boobettes to show up .Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:21 AM (9yWhg)

. LOL So a perpetually depressed boobbette watcher?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (XkYcA)

306 Boobettes? Where?
Posted by: Perks Up

Many times standing uncomfortably close to Mushbrain while being sniffed.

Poor kids.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (WXNFJ)

307 I've told this before, but I was living in Rome and a fellow English teacher was a 60ish year old hippie.

I said that I wanted government to do no more than national defense and roads.

He called me a Nazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (GBKbO)
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Well, in fairness, you're wrong. Not a Nazi, of course, but wrong.

I think there's a strong argument to made for a state-owned postal service.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

308 282 MAGA infiltrated the “river to the sea” people. 🤣🤣
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:20 AM (tpjlM)

From the liver to the spleen, Epstein . . . did not kill himself.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:25 AM (x0n13)

309 307 Well, in fairness, you're wrong. Not a Nazi, of course, but wrong.

I think there's a strong argument to made for a state-owned postal service.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

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You're such a commie, Joe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:25 AM (GBKbO)

310 301 There was that Babylon Bee headline recently that said something like Nazis and Hamas college protestors try to argue but turns out they agree on everything.
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (tpjlM)

There are many video of racist and progressives arguing over all they things they agree on.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2024 09:25 AM (ENQN6)

311 If you don't have a shemagh in your get home bag you should consider adding one.

Being friend shaped in a crowd of murderous heathen could literally save your life.

Posted by: CZ = FNG, Free Republic of Florida at May 03, 2024 09:25 AM (MkuC5)

312 302 From which river to which sea? How about clearing everything from the Hudson, east.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (1bNHn)

Gowanus Canal.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 03, 2024 09:25 AM (x0n13)

313 >>I've told this before, but I was living in Rome and a fellow English teacher was a 60ish year old hippie.

I said that I wanted government to do no more than national defense and roads. He called me a Nazi.
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I have an uber-Lefty niece from the Boston area. She went off to college in Oregon, where an antifa classmate called her a fascist because she was so "conservative." That was an eye-opener for her, lol.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2024 09:26 AM (cCVOS)

314 He called me a Nazi.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Good thing you didn't tell him your views on Prometheus.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:27 AM (9yWhg)

315 Man, your company hates you. That's insane. I wonder how much your HR drones got as kickbacks in exchange for limiting your options to high-cost options like that.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:24 AM (HnUIn)

Every company I’ve worked for that had a 401k plan was the same. Shitty and expensive options. Unless there was a match I never bothered with 401k plans.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:27 AM (tpjlM)

316 I think there's a strong argument to made for a state-owned postal service.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

How does a place like Australia run their postal service? It would be interesting to see what they do - large distances, first-world (sort of), etc.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 03, 2024 09:27 AM (WXNFJ)

317 I have no idea who is going to ( “win” - funny term “win”, don’t you think? ) in November; but I am pretty certain that there will be capital T trouble, whatever the outcome..

Posted by: tubal at May 03, 2024 09:27 AM (PCK5/)

318 I'll note that the betting odds in Vegas on the Trump victory have him as a slight favorite now, for the first time this cycle. (I checked after Tyrus said he was not on Gutfeld last night, and it'd changed since taping, apparently.)

Posted by: American Hawkman at May 03, 2024 09:28 AM (skAOD)

319
The same people who stuffed ballots at $10 a pop may be a lot more hesitant to do it this time. Just what the hell did it get them in the end?

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 09:28 AM (RKVpM)

320 319
The same people who stuffed ballots at $10 a pop may be a lot more hesitant to do it this time. Just what the hell did it get them in the end?
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 09:28 AM (RKVpM)

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They're getting paid to do it. They'll do it again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:29 AM (GBKbO)

321 The far right and far left bend and meet at antisemitism. Anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

This is what happens when you have a political world-view that is fully incapable of recognizing people of Faith and Character.

To them its just a control knob on your dedication to your team's tyranny.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at May 03, 2024 09:29 AM (4HcMG)

322 Election betting odds is a summary of markets. Shows Biden slightly ahead and Dem slightly ahead of Rep for which party wins. There’s a fair amount of money betting a Democrat other than Biden will win.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:30 AM (tpjlM)

323 The same people who stuffed ballots at $10 a pop may be a lot more hesitant to do it this time. Just what the hell did it get them in the end?
Posted by: Divide by Zero

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$10 a pop.

Heck, if our elected officials will sell us out for $10K or so, it only makes sense that the foot soldiers will be happy as can be with $1500.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men say we like these traits in women, women reply no, you are wrong at May 03, 2024 09:30 AM (IF3vp)

324 >>So today's "news" feed link from WAPO: "I was at a campus protest and I'm neither a hero nor a villain."

No, maybe not, but you're a jackass who should have been finishing papers and finals. Millions of college students not at far left colleges are doing just that.
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Heh, Fen. He/she is an IDIOT. A useful idiot one, at that.
Earlier in the week my kid texted me a couple of protest memes and informed me there were none on his campus (Catholic school, the non-woke kind). Then marveled that kids whose parents have spent so much money, or who have taken out giant loans themselves, would be frittering it away on protests. Phew!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 03, 2024 09:31 AM (cCVOS)

325
A R T

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 03, 2024 09:31 AM (ENQN6)

326
They're getting paid to do it. They'll do it again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 03, 2024 09:29 AM

A very conservative estimate is that inflation has cost each individual a thousand dollars a year for the past three.

That's a lot of ballots to stuff to break even.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 03, 2024 09:31 AM (RKVpM)

327 . LOL So a perpetually depressed boobbette watcher?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen, I've struggled with depression for a long time. And one of the things (well, two, really) that always cheer me up are boobs.

Those and puppies.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

328 I fund my 401(k) up to the match. I can lose half my portfolio value before it starts losing my money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix

Yes, the match is the only guaranteed return, and is literally money on the table, being given by your employer.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 03, 2024 09:32 AM (lTGtQ)

329 UfUdn added

Posted by: andycanuck (UfUdn) at May 03, 2024 09:32 AM (UfUdn)

330 My daughter had to go for yet another surgery. We were hoping (with some good reason) to be discharged today. But before the surgeon could make her rounds, some fucking piece of shit called in a bomb threat, and now the place is locked down. Who knows when/if we'll see her, now. I suspect we're stuck until Monday.

Three days ago someone pulled the fire alarm and they had to evacuate us. I suspect it's the same person.

If they catch this cocksucker, I hope they publicly beat him to death.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2024 09:32 AM (0l8OY)

331 nood

art

Posted by: andycanuck (UfUdn) at May 03, 2024 09:33 AM (UfUdn)

332 Joe Mannix,

if your company matches 50%, you won’t be even if your position falls 50%.It doesn’t math this way, as the kids would say.

Say you invest $1000 and you get $500 match. A 50% drop brings that down to $750. You’re still down 25% of what you contributed.

Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:33 AM (tpjlM)

333 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 03, 2024 09:32 AM (0l8OY)

So sorry for the trouble made by the creep.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 09:35 AM (XkYcA)

334 Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 03, 2024 09:32 AM (9yWhg)

I am sorry for your depression; I have been affected by it for years., but it's better now. Boobies don't do a thing to lift it. Manly pectorals probably wouldn't either, but puppies or kittens would be nice.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 03, 2024 09:37 AM (XkYcA)

335 ... if your company matches 50%, you won’t be even if your position falls 50%.It doesn’t math this way, as the kids would say.

Say you invest $1000 and you get $500 match. A 50% drop brings that down to $750. You’re still down 25% of what you contributed.
Posted by: Montec at May 03, 2024 09:33 AM (tpjlM)
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Right, but my company matches dollar-for-dollar up to 3.5%. So I contribute at 3.5%.

At a 50% match, I'd still do it because I can still take a serious drop before it starts being my money. With no match or a 25% match, I wouldn't.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 03, 2024 09:39 AM (HnUIn)

336 Bats and penguins
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 03, 2024 08:50 AM

The eternal struggle between good and evil.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 03, 2024 09:48 AM (a3Q+t)

337
I lie for a living.

Posted by: Paul banned at May 03, 2024 10:40 AM (eSn0n)

338 I actually read an article...
On the Daily Beast article and Barron Trump:

"Coles told Matt Fuller, the former Washington bureau chief and top politics editor, to leave his job early after he pushed back against her idea to cover who is paying for the campus encampments and learn whether there was an Astroturf” element to the protests, according to the Intelligencer."

This confirms what we already know - the protests are funded and organized by a person, group, or groups with plenty of money. It is a valid angle and if there was push back, its because he knew who is behind it.

Posted by: Jake Speed at May 03, 2024 11:11 AM (Vu1jV)

339 90% of cost is produced as a by product of large scale copper mining
The 10% produced artistically is often THE only way to produce income from extremely poor people. I think they should be able to continue until a better life is available to them

[Kurt is a fan of slave labor so he can continue to live the life as a layabout eunuch supporting his mother's lifestyle - jjs]

Posted by: Paul banned [Kurt sucks Nadler's lap band] at May 03, 2024 11:18 AM (CW7qp)

340 Good morning, all, and thank you, J.J. Happy Friday!

"The health care business that brought together the Biden family and an Islamic terror state had targeted stricken rural hospitals in Kentucky, Missouri and Pennsylvania... "

And if that's not horrifying enough: Politico, Feb 18, 2024 — (In part) "Jim Biden played a major role in a company called Americore, which the government has accused of massive Medicare fraud." The immediate family of the US President & MEDICARE FRAUD in a single sentence!! Not only that, Politico, 03/26/24: 'DOJ looked at transactions linked to Jim Biden as part of criminal investigation'
Cases in both PA and Florida described as engaging in "a brazen scheme."

Based on their positions & the fact that many former & current members of Congress have owned and/or are heavy investors in healthcare, they have a great deal of knowledge of how easy it is to bilk the Executive Branch's Medicare, Medicaid & CHIP programs, and also Obamacare in general, and the slim odds of being caught and convicted.

>KFF dot org: FAQs on Health Spending, the Federal Budget, and Budget Enforcement Tools

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Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 03, 2024 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

341 Cont'd:
In part, "The federal government provides support for health programs and services both through spending on programs and services and through tax expenditures. Federal spending on domestic and global health programs and services accounted for 29% of net federal outlays in fiscal year (FY) 2023 (taking into account offsetting receipts), or $1.9 trillion out of $6.4 trillion (Figure 1). Specifically, Medicare accounted for 13% of the total, Medicaid and CHIP accounted for 10%, other domestic health spending accounted for 4%, hospital and medical care for veterans was 2%, and global health was 0.1%. By comparison, Social Security accounted for 21% of federal outlays in FY 2023, while defense accounted for 13%.

Mandatory spending comprises the majority (88% or $1.6 trillion) of federal spending on health programs and services. Mandatory spending is not subject to annual appropriations votes by Congress but instead mandated by existing laws." (More, not included here. Reading suggested.)

Doubt 22 million illegals have been fully considered in all programs.

Bleeding our coffers dry; ^ future deficient spending.

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Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 03, 2024 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

342 "The Biden Junta Must Denounce the International Criminal Court’s Plan to Indict Netanyahu (Denounce it? They're behind it! - jjs)"

Spot on, again, J.J. An example of the power the Biden (Clinton, Obama) Junta holds: 'Darfur: Joint NGO Letter to US Justice Department Requesting ICC Guidance, April 2024' (CC: Antony Blinken, Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State; Amb. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative, U.S. Mission to the United Nations Tom Perriello, Special Envoy for Sudan, U.S. Department of State)

While we've been distracted by the 'campus unrest' & blatant anti-Semitism, the WEF has been holding a Special Meeting 2024 – Revitalizing Growth, Development and Collaboration Amid Global Fractures.

"RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, 28–29 April 2024: The Special Meeting on Global Collaboration, Growth and Energy for Development, scheduled to take place in Riyadh, will help public and private sector leaders address shared global challenges.

The meeting will also advance key Forum initiatives in the region and beyond. It aims to bridge the growing North-South divide..."

Biden, Blinkin follow its lead. Always.

Standing with Israel, its IDF.

Good weekend! 😉

Posted by: L - If they do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at May 03, 2024 11:24 AM (NFX2v)

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